skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Price of Happiness
Compromise of Sisense Customer Data
>> Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest

Car companies couldn't produce cars between February, 1942 and October, 1945, because the federal government ordered them to produce weapons instead.

There was certainly at least one car company executive that resisted that, he got called a fascist.

Free enterprise was completely suspended. 100%.
> Punishing crimes isn’t about demonstrating authority, it’s about creating incentives against committing those crimes.

Some might believe it is, but at its core society leverages punishment because it's a convenient outlet for socially sanctioned sadism, and it's wired to believe this measured malignance is beneficial in some capacity. Reasons and justifications (pun intended) vary wildly from person to person, implying that it's all post hoc justification. We punish crimes because it's what the people before us did, and they did it because it's what the people before them did, and so on. To say it's about anything is to miss the point, it's pararational monkey behavior. Implying more than that is to give ourselves too much credit, frankly. Or at the very most delves into evopsych sophistry.
NFT bros had their pixel avatars, AI has Stable Diffusion generated avatars :D For some reason you can't use a real photo in either of these fields of work.

What really defines an AI engineer:

A) Already used their $5 on OpenAI API
B) Has llamacpp/ollama etc. in their CLI with a library of models
C) Has 64GB+ VRAM which makes computer extremely loud possibly gas-powered
Alexa's value has been dropping for me a lot lately since they follow nearly every interaction with some sort of commercial. '10 minute timer set, while you wait I can....' This appears to be one more nail in the coffin for something that could be very promising.

I think that for this segment to really take off Amazon/Google/Apple all need to start releasing usable stuff to the open source world. A good open source home server voice based back-end that can control open-source devices will start creating apps and drive exploration the space. Eventually it will find the killer apps that will truly kick-start things. The houses lost to people setting up their own back-end is likely very small and the returns could be very big.
Very likely Overload, yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game)

IMO they nailed the look and feel. I haven't gone too far in the game though, not a whole lot of time or carpal-tunnel-budget left for playing games sadly :|
Oh I do agree that often free markets are excellent at producing wealth. This is generally true but not absolutely. Liberal democracies are the most successful and richest countries partially because regulated free markets are the most efficient resource distribution system. Key word regulated free markets. Because unregulated free markets result in the stereotypical oligarchs and corruption, no social services, unemployment and all those type of bad things. Think post-soviet Russia, Chile under Pinochet and others

None of this changes the fact that much of the historical US national wealth can be see as plunder.
AiMusician
Everyone can become a musician.
> I have en us, because that's the language I want, but I've never been in the US and probably never will.

On my personal laptop, I have en-US, because I don't know why. Maybe it is the default for Chrome?

I have en-AU set on macOS at a system level but Chrome seems to have ignored that.

I just reconfigured Chrome to add en-AU before en-US, so now my Accept-Language header is en-AU,en-US,en

My work laptop has macOS set to en-AU but Chrome set to en-GB. I'm not sure how en-GB happened, possibly something my employer did for whatever reason.
But then how do you get rid of all the foxhounds?

Solid Snakes, maybe? Or Lions?
Is there any E2EE messaging service, or network protocol of any sort, that doesn't suffer from this? If an endpoint is compromised in whatever way, it doesn't matter how encrypted the data is in transit.
If one can't keep up, the other one can't either.

You could use partitions though.
Bpacks unveils bioplastics from bark: 'an underutilized natural resource'
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Surprised to see this game on here. This was the first playstation game my dad bought me and I remember the entire family were watching with awe at the opening sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_JQsmrkXU

Really a terrifying game for kids. I remember I used to get sweaty hands after blowing up the reactor and trying to remember where the exit was with the female computer voice counting down. No help, it was brutal.

The psx version came with :

- dedicated studio produced soundtrack that simply stands the test of time

- voice over FMV sequences with symphony orchestra track

Descent 2 & 3 continued the trend on the playstation with the same formula.

The story also had a nice element of modern realism. You are a cynical mercenary for a major space mining corp with a machiavellian corporate executive just using you. I won't spoil it but one of the best endings ever in a game.

I've also read Peter Telep's novel based on Descent universe. Yeah I'm kinda obsessed with this game.
My dad used to watch me play it when I was growing up, and he could only watch for a couple minutes before he had to go lay down :)

I blame Descent for my good spatial memory. Getting turned around in those levels really challenges how well you remember your location and where to go next.
Quantum ML Handbook
SEC warns Uniswap Labs of potential enforcement action
America is not the only country to use the $ symbol and therefore it is necessary for the purpose of clarity to ensure you demoninate which dollar you are referring too.

The location of the news website is irrelevant.
Was this comment meant as anything more than some kind of weird knock? It was more like "I don't want to interrupt the project I'm in the middle of, drive a few hours, and spend this weekend in the city", but sure. I mentioned the social aspect because to me that is one of the main draws of the movie theater. It's almost as bad as if a record exec said that music piracy kills the demand for live concerts. (Although I do cringe from likening movie theaters to concert venues)
This is the game that started my ongoing penchant for peculiar input devices.
> I have one friend who's simply unable to attend therapy because his insurance is shit and he's in too much debt to take on another.

Most therapists offer sliding scale. Your friend should try that.

> he gets shit from his manager for taking "mental health days" so he doesn't, he just says he has the flu

I do exactly the same, and I recommend it for others. There is still a lot of social stigma around mental health issues. Your boss doesn't need to know why you are sick. One thing I tell myself as I get older: "There is no Academy Award for the fewest number of sick days." It's OK to take a sick day every two months for your mental health.
I've never had my ID checked boarding a domestic flight in the US. ID and sometimes boarding pass are checked at the TSA checkpoint before the gates.
Also: “ In 2023, an estimated 96% of newly installed, utility-scale solar PV and onshore wind capacity had lower generation costs than new coal and natural gas plants. In addition, three-quarters of new wind and solar PV plants offered cheaper power than existing fossil fuel facilities.”
OECD definition

> any chemical with at least a perfluorinated methyl group (–CF3) or a perfluorinated methylene group (–CF2–) is a PFAS

I don’t think that includes any of those, and Xanax is not fluorinated at all. You might have been thinking of Prozac, which I believe does meet those criteria.

It is a broad category with competing definitions, some of which are even broader, though, yes.
DDG got crappier when they stopped indexing the Russian search engine Yandex in my opinion. If there's anything I'm having trouble finding on DDG, I just search for it on Yandex now
Sure, but that's the issue. You have to treat all input as hostile, yet there's no trivial way to sanitize or contain it like is possible with some user provided string for an sql statement. Since a hard/deterministic concept of encapsulation of user input can't really exist with next token prediction, you have to rely on some sort of fine tuning to try to get it to understand the concepts, with that understanding usually being vulnerable to silly reverse psychology.

My question for you is, what is the correct way to use an LLM? How can you accept non trivial user input without the risk of jailbreak?
Inline styles don't work with a strict CSP. Have you ever had to work with such a restriction?
Got my kids dumb phones for basic calls & texts only - their only really meaningful gripe is that sending texts using T9 is very very slow.

I do want them to text friends and us for coordinating. Otherwise, they do feel ostracized for not having a smartphone or Apple Watch.
If governments are bad, people are much worse. How often do you test your food for lead? How often have you “done your own research” on whether your toaster will explode if you plug it into the wall? And what happens if your neighbor doesn’t do their own research and burns both of your houses down?

Unless consumers have the financial means to test everything, it’s not reasonable to expect the burden of consumer protections to fall on consumers. Consumers shouldn’t have to test all of their food for every possible contaminant.

Additionally, this doesn’t address harms which companies know they are creating but consumers don’t. Companies will lie and cover up the damage they cause, and pollute the information ecosystem with propaganda which confuses the issue. People used to think cigarettes were good for them.
This page also has a relatively simple implementation of amb in Scheme[0], though it assumes case insensitivity which is no longer default by the standard.

[0] http://community.schemewiki.org/?amb
“RO” in this context, for anyone who doesn’t care about being known in a relatively obscure Internet forum as someone that knows water filtration jargon, presumably stands for “Reverse Osmosis”
But if you substitute “libraries” for “software supply chain”, don’t you think it’s pretty close to still being true?

Libraries, SDKs, APIs, a framework, a language, a compiler/interpreter, a OS/kernel, testing framework, perf testing, debugger, IDE, version control system, hosting site, documentation site, etc.

Obviously, there are rare instances when there is a mostly standalone app (or some ecosystem that isn’t based on OSS), but those seem to be the rare exceptions, rather than the rule.
> There was certainly at least one car company executive that resisted that, he got called a fascist.

That's not really the whole story, lol.
He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared
> 19-year old making $10,000/month from the Alexa developer incentive program. It's sad that this will be ripped out from him and other developers in a few months.

"Sad" feels a little strong here
173,000 terawatts [1]

So, 1% at 20% capacity is 346 terawatts. That seems like a reasonable upper limit for earth systems.

[1] https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/live-programs/energy-on-a-spher...
The lack of nuance to consider exceptions appears to have been the problem.

Perhaps a lot of products needed bug fix campaigns because most corporations tend to reward SWE productivity based on so-called "evidence" like:

- KLoC

- # of commits

- adding features

- so-called "impact"

, rather than:

- reducing the cost to maintain code

- making code more robust

- making features actually work as users expect

- rip-replacing what shouldn't be salvaged because it's too expensive

So instead of adopting a funny mustache and making inflexible commandments, it would be less disruptive to have targeted bug fix campaigns where needed to boost nonfunctional requirements like quality, reducing support costs, and improving user satisfaction to their desired target levels.
Yeah, I’ve never really heard of “weak etags” before in any sort of common usage of the term. Honestly, most people tend to skip etags by embedding hashes in filenames directly, this way you can avoid any bad proxies serving up stale content or dropping headers. It’s rare these days to be an issue given the use of TLS end-to-end encryption, but I’m sure it still occasionally happens. And yes, the more serious approach to possibly poorly formatted JSON is to “normalize it” into the expected format. It’s less about caching and more about ensuring what you serve to your front end is consistent, even if you are liberal in what inputs you can handle. E.g. if someone gives you XML, rather than write a front end that can handle both XML and JSON, pull the data out of both and make your own JSON later.
He recently did a show in my city. Before the show he visited the art museum where my wife works as a curator. He spent a good amount of time chatting with the staff, and then mentioned how nice the museum was during his show that night.

Completely unrelated, but it was fairly recent and I found it super charming. He’s always been one of those celebrities I want to like.
Don't understand the point. (not bad considering other countries used involuntary workers during that time period)
I consider myself fairly knowledgeable on early SV folklore, but I never heard that Jobs asked people to work for free or even at below market really.

What have I missed?
>Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bennett
I’ve always felt that Crockford Base 32 was very ergonomic. http://www.crockford.com/base32.html
That issue doesn't apply to supercapacitors (nor to any capacitor manufactured in the last 15-20 years, really). It affected some aluminum electrolytic capacitors manufactured with a defective electrolyte in the early 2000s.
Triple clicking has been around for a long-long time, no?
> What, you think you get outside the city and everyone's sitting on their ass in a trailer park collecting welfare and working on their diabetes or something?

You're the one slinging data-defying stereotypes around. Believe it or not, "working in the trades" is something lotsa urban folk get up to, as with hunting and fishing, and boy howdy do urbanites love some huge lawns in their green spaces. Do you think urban grass just mows itself? No, cities hire urbanites for such jobs.

And, real talk. You made haybaling sound tough; I'll grant you that for lack of experience, but I've ridden a damn lawnmower and it's no great workout. And if my rural family is at all typical, mowing a lawn is a net positive in calories because riding a mower is occasion for a beer or six.

But the data says y'all are more sedentary and more obese on average than city dwellers. Now, I'm inclined to blame DDT exposure for the latter statistic, and reliance on cars for the former, but if you want to make some weird judgements about how folks are spending their time, that's on you.
You’re being intentionally obtuse here, we’ve already established that the context is sufficient to make non-USD assumptions absurd and you’re attempting to further the argument by restating points that have already been stated and refuted
This feels... ...ridiculous in this day and age.
Yes, his first sentence is incongruent with the rest. I think he meant to add quotes around it, as it's a stereotypical thing that rural dwellers would say. The rest is an accurate argument, complete with dollar amounts, about why their lifestyle is unsustainable and needs subsidization to continue.
Well besides hospital patients and perhaps orphans, hamas has decided that journalists are the best human shields.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-gaza-t...
I did something similar in a messaging application... We had a data structure consisting of several tables describing various message queues in 4GB of persistent storage. The initialization of those tables was quite regular, as they were just pointers into blocks in the persistent memory. When the application was ported to run on AWS instances, people decided to try to run the application on instances with the crappiest 20MB/s storage. I had specified during implementation that the journalling layer would not work well on crappy storage, as the actual persistent memory the system was originally designed for had gobs of bandwidth (it was supercap backed DRAM on a PCIe card built using an FPGA and a pair of 10Gbps SFP+ ports to mirror to another host -- you had a couple of GB/s of write throughput). Customers ignored the requirement, and opened a bug saying the system couldn't reinitialize the table within the 30 second limit for commands on the CLI. To fix the "bug", I ended up delta encoding the persistent memory tables to make the data more regular, ran it through libz at the lowest compression level, then wrote the compressed data out to disk. 4GB of data ended up taking less than 100MB in the journal. gzip compression on its own was not able to get under the 600MB requirement. It was a total hack, but it worked and took a few hours to implement. Domain specific knowledge really helps improve compression ratios!
I think you're missing the point. He might have a great eye for what he wants, but could be bad at making it happen.. requiring 100+ attempts to get it right.

This is a bit hyperbolic, but in a way I get the point OP was trying to make.
AI makes retinal imaging 100 times faster, compared to manual method
Depends where you work. Code I wrote for the government may live on for far too long…
You can't add RAM to the M series Mac Pro. It's just a Mac Studio with PCI-e slots these days.
I think everything can be on your phone. One thing different about southwest is that you don't have a reserved seat.
I've been saying for ages that HN is full of far-right extremists. It's long been a problem in the tech industry.
> German would be like 3 countries, unless Austria and Schweiz have their own language code.

Officially, we have de-DE for German German, de-AT for Austrian German, de-CH for Swiss German, de-LI for Liechtenstein German – Chrome knows all of those. Plain "de" means German of unknown variant/dialect, but statistically is more likely Germany than any other country.

German is also a secondary official language in Belgium (de-BE), Luxembourg (de-LU), Namibia (de-NA), and also in one region of Italy (de-IT), but software awareness of those German variants is less common (Chrome doesn't know about them, but some other software packages do, e.g. ICU and Microsoft .NET).
The best is a message notification in the bedroom at 2AM, or maybe it’s an update. I’m in the process of replacing it with HA voice with the atom boxes.

It probably won’t be as good, but it’s time to jump ship.
great memories!!!!
A single study, which only studied 61 companies, in only one country, for only half of a year, which was conducted by a biased entity that makes their living by pushing four day work week ideas to companies. That is not "we've tested it". That is "we have one single extremely shaky, if not near worthless, data point".
None of the points listed in the opening here have any real bearing on whether or not an LLM can handle some weird, poorly worded ("we replaced ... by") text substitution problem.
Telegram itself seems like one big honeypot, if people are moving from WhatsApp to Telegram that’s quite a retrograde step.
Yeah. I still find it hard to visualize though.

A 1 meter x 1 meter x 1 meter container full of water would weigh about 1 metric ton. That’s how I usually think of 1 metric ton.

If I saw a 1 meter x 1 meter x 1 meter neatly densely packed bunch of money bills on top of a euro pallet. I would have no idea if I was looking at the equivalent of some hundreds of thousands of dollars, or billions or what.
Pacific castaways' 'HELP' sign sparks rescue mission and family reunion
Is this sponsored by EA?
Chat2DB is a groundbreaking tool that seamlessly integrates artificial intelligence with data management, making data operations smarter and more efficient. With Chat2DB, I can interact with databases using natural language without the need to delve into complex SQL syntax. Even business users who are not proficient in SQL can quickly perform data queries and analysis, significantly enhancing productivity. This allows us to focus more on business issues and data insights, without being bogged down by technical details.
Fine, change Ukrainian to Australian and my point still stands.
I like the redirection strategy. Find something easier to do and convince them it's better. Same strategy works for training dogs.
could it detect a twist instead of a bend?
For iOS, I like Pal Chat: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pal-chat-ai-chat-client/id6447...

For desktop, I've switched to using the playgrounds for each. I haven't found a custom client that's able to keep up with them.
Constrain the output to a known set of responses by adding a translational layer where you write the enum and the LLM picks the value.
I don't understand the hate for the article. The article is written for a layperson audience, where the technical details would absolutely be eye-wateringly boring. Instead, the article (imo, correctly) focuses on the human side of the story: the fact that a highly detail oriented developer, working on unrelated software, stumbled across a small discrepancy in their measurements, triggering a series of events that led to discovering what is arguably one of the biggest attempted supply chain attacks since Solarwinds.

I don't understand what people wanted to be covered in this article? At what point would there be sufficient technical detail to suffice yet still keep the layperson interested enough to read the rest of the article?

On the other hand if you feel somehow slighted by the flippant attitude in the article, give it a rest! Why are you so sensitive? It's not like he's personally insulting you! The tech community is hardly the underdog any longer, so let's just take a joke once in a while, no? As President Eisenhower quoted[0], "Always take your job seriously, never yourself"

[0] https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/w...
Right away the author admits:

"This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the earliest episodes in the peopling of the Americas."

Its easy to find evidence that supports the current assumptions.
Descent is absolutely not a first-person shooter; it is an arcade flight sim.
Better to lead with good news because if you lead with bad there may not be a time for the good.
Which studies? I've checked a few Google results and none of them showed health-care even near the top, which is suspiciously surprising to me.
The Transformation of the Avocado
Close, but Eclipse actually has its own toolkit: SWT.
Very interesting. Why did they not report on the effects of people under the influence of alcohol?
Thanks I was waiting for someone to bring up distillers. I really dont want to keep buying expensive filters. I guess they use power but hoping it costs less?
What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80k Fake Resumes to U.S. Jobs
Microsoft don't require TOTP for access to their corporate e-mail accounts and systems, or do they have an unpatched vulnerability where the requirement for TOTP can be bypassed?
HAM would have worked even better if it had been in the intended hue-saturation-value (HSV) colour space as Jay Miner originally intended. Sadly, HSV support was dropped, but due to schedule constraints, there wasn't enough time to rework the design and remove HAM. I found it fascinating to learn these things long after I was no longer using my Amiga for day to day work.
Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point?
No it doesn’t. Blastdoor is a security mitigation that restricts what iMessage can do in a way that is denied to other third party apps.