skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's almost certainly an introductory rate. Look at the label to see!

Are you talking fiber or cable? I only have access to cable, not fiber.

If you can really get fiber for $30/month non-introductory, I'm jealous -- where I am (I think comcast currently has different eastern and western US prices, but is otherwise standardized), cable broadband the _cheapest_ plan available (without qualifying for income limits on "essentials" plan) is $68/month non-introductory price.

Advertised as "150", but the new lable claims "typical" speeds of 176 down 115 up.. which is... way more "up" than they've ever advertised before, odd.
This sounds suspiciously close to the Anglican Inquisition . . .
Try RustDesk, and evaluate run your own host (two binaries not really documented, that demand a home directory (well, a directory to write their stuff, basically you need hbbs and hbbr, plus a personal key to avoid having a relay open to the world).

It's essentially the very same service visually, but it's semi-FLOSS, multi-platform and self-hosting it with enough bandwidth offer very nice performances.
New paintings found at Pompeii
I wonder if the author of this article would like Norman J. Wildberger's work on rational trigonometry[0], which also argues that angles and unit circles are the wrong starting point for defining triangles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Proportions:_Rational_T...
100% disagree. If you actually look at what is happening in the world.

Firstly all tech companies are doing layoffs, meaning less jobs available -> harder to get jobs -> people are willing to work more/get payed less.

Both US and EU are aggressively pulling in muslim and african immigrants. Again creating pressures to find jobs. This time mainly in blue collar work.

This and cost of living ballooning I don't see how we are going toward 4day anything.

Its the opposite, the employers' position is strengthening and they will be squeezing the employees.
Lighting Facts: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftc-lighting...
About time. I once went to sign up for internet with what looked like a great rate, let’s say $30/month (i don’t remember exactly). After fifteen minutes on the phone as we are wrapping up the agent says “ok, so do you authorize me to charge your credit card 47.99/month?” I reply that i thought it was $30, to which she says taxes (unfortunately it’s standard practice to exclude taxes in US advertised prices, but at least the amount is not under their control) plus a $12/month “delivery fee”, to which I replied that I’d like to pick up my internet access myself thank you , so can we waive that one? I ended up hanging up and just finding a provider with a slightly higher price but no BS.

If you want to charge more for modems and other optional stuff, fine, but when you start adding fees that aren’t really distinguishable from the product itself, you merit this kind of regulation. I pray, please go after car dealerships next.
I thought it was something to do with quantum entanglement, since Alice and Bob are commonly used to explain Bell's theorem. Chris Ferrie even uses them in his book Quantum Entanglement for Babies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
While software engineers have definitely had a few good recent years (especially during the work from home boom during COVID times), I would say it was equally dire around 2009-2012 post-financial crash. And 20 years ago was 2004 - just off the heels of the dot com bust, where the job market was much much worse than today. Anecdotally, from what I hear, I would agree it's not a cake walk anymore like it was in ~2021 but it's also not quite a hopeless situation either.
I - that's a truly stunning mindset I don't have words. Why would you consider the market leader of a market a reliable source for information on the market? Maybe this is obvious to me coming from a world where all banks have their own analysts and all but the idea of trusting a market leader is just insane. Information asymmetry is so important to capitalism he's obviously not going to provide the full picture. There are entire university departments dedicated to coming up with clever estimates for how much drugs cost to develop to justify high prices. This sounds like, would you trust a pharma CEO if they were providing advice on where the pharma market is going? Or a tech CEO on where the tech market is going? Elon is, as you clearly stated, the leader of EVs in the US. Why would you take his advice on the EV market!? The base assumption is that he's going to be quite strongly motivated to stay leader of the EV market, why would you think he cares about giving you accurate advice?
Can't tell if this is sarcastic or not but an entertaining example of everyone going straight to the comments (myself included). (for those who didn't see this is link is the same as the main post these comments are under).
Why are we watching our generations holocaust and standing by doing nothing, except enabling it with our tech and silence?
Corporations get away with so much by hiding the ability to resolve conflicts behind customer service hell.
Would be interesting to see!
Unfortunately have the same "commercial limitation" of TV. RustDesk have none.
SAM is used to segment GUI elements, which are then sent to GPT4-V to be described. We then prompt GPT-4 with the user's actions and the descriptions of the GUI elements to generate new actions to accomplish different behaviors.
Also, switching plans starts a new contract.
Snowflake Copilot
Perceived Adoptability of "Challenging" Dogs (2023)
And this is why you need sales engineers. To look at what was promised, see that it meets the customer's needs, and is doable on your end.

It isn't just about helping sell the customer. It is also about saying no to overeager salespeople.
I do someting like this quite a bit. If I deem it's easier to do it myself than to instruct or supervise someone else doing it, I do it myself. This is quite often the case. I don't see how doing it the harder way would somehow help with not burning out.

Do you think it's easier for your manager that you do the things than that he does them themselves? Have you tought of ways that you would make it easier for them for you to do the things?

Lucily I'm not really manager but I do have some responsibility of projects with other people.
The Burial of Horse-Taming Hektor
"See your boss ferrari? If you work really had he will buy himself a second one"
The author was one of the brains behind the early search engine Inktomi (which was a wild success, until Google came along ...)
With all the news about scraping legality you'd think a multi billion dollar AI company would try to obfuscate their attempts.
Show HN: Laser-Powered Art Destruction for Unique NFTs Creation
I kept trying to figure out what does someone's Local Area Network have to do with this story, but after skimming the article I realized that "My LAN" is the name of the accused.

In my eastern EU country, following the fall of communism, a lot of fraudsters got wealthy over night by selling the state's(the people's) assets and pocketing the money themselves while the common people were wallowing in poverty worse than during communism.

Similarly, they all deserve the death sentence too but most of them haven't even served jail time.
I don't have a link, but a similar story happened on top of a mesa near Moab, Utah, in the 1970s. Local climbers already knew routes to the top and hiked out with whatever they could carry before the feds could fully clear it.
As an aside, a class about fictional legal systems sounds quite fun. Then again, I like conlangs too
I wonder how much the source content is the cause of hallucinations rather than anything inherent to LLMs. I mean if someone posts a question on an internet forum that I don't know the answer to, I'm certainly not going to post "I don't know" since that wouldn't be useful.

In fact, in general, in any non one-on-one conversation the answer "I don't know" is not useful because if you don't know in a group, your silence indicates that.
I had a career transition a few years back where my day to day became exclusively computer work. I don't know if this is exactly what you experience, but I definitely had a problem with eye strain and myopia. I made all sorts of adjustments: dimming the screen, always being in night mode, using computer glasses, and taking regular breaks to look away (actually setting a timer to remind me every 30 minutes). I think those changes greatly improved my symptoms.
No one will ever convince me that running a local IPv6 network is a good idea.

IPv6 from your ISP, fine, but once internal IPv6 is overly complex and unnecessary. Despite the claim to the contrary NAT is a feature, not bug.

The future for IPv6 is that Firewalls/Routers will handle IPv6 for the public addressees, then NAT to internal IPv4's.
A slow stream that never ends?
All my garage would be illegal. Tools have risks, you cant idiot proof everything without making an objectively worse world.
a product that doesnt work but looks cool gets a 4? this is part of the problem. there isnt much more left to be worse
As an implementation? No.

For fundamental understanding of the logical model? That its one big lookup table with a particular form of key nesting is... actually a pretty good model.
Ah the classic case of rounding a two digit number to infinity to make a strawman point?
> It is on the client, and on the server based on headers.

The idea of spam filters is that you don’t get the spam so the client never sees it.

Also running highly specialized spam filters that actually work reliably might be prohibitive for a lot of people.
In this case there are >6bn pages with roughly zero value each. That could eat a substantial amount of time. It's unlikely to entirely trap a crawler, but a dumb crawler (as is implied here) will start crawling more and more pages, becoming very apparent to the operator of this honeypot (and therefore identifying new crawlers), and may take up more and more share of the crawl set.
My assumption is that OpenAI reads the robots.txt, but indexes anyway; they just make a note of what content they weren't supposed to index.
The benefit of PeSC is that it can get into efficiencies higher than 20% (higher than traditional industrial cells which typically top out around 18-19%) but the problem with them to date has been the cost of manufacturing. This article is all about solving the "cost of manufacturing" problem.

If we can get the cost of manufacturing PeSC cells down to the same levels of traditional crystalline silicon PV cells then the old style will become obsolete. It's a simple evolution of photovoltaic technology with PeSC cells being the next generation. Not so different from any tech where it's expensive when first introduced but as mass adoption and manufacturing improvements take place the cost comes down.
A mental health article about the rank & file? Not about bloviators?

> , especially those of us who've taken on the challenge of leadership.

Nope.
T-Mobile is the site I can find the actual nutrition-label-type info. Can we get another website that aggregates all the labels into one explorer?
PeerDB raises $3.6M seed funding to revolutionize data movement for PostgreSQL
Personally, I'd rather vote 120fps and 4k as gimmick. If I had to choose between Raytracing or 120fps? Always Raytracing.
It's a next token prediction library. "Markov chain" basically means finite state machine and is a looser concept. If you want to call the token prediction methodology Markovian you can - sounds cool! The implementation another person linked here ranking words would also qualify any LLM as using Markovian dynamics, but what is the point of calling it something so abstract?
More accurately, it's literally a language model:

{
I: {
want: {
to: {
be: { ... },
know: { ... }
}
},
will: { ... }
},
...
}

Every word of every sentence is modeled and ranked, and there are methods to perform operations on it. If you added a lot more words and phrases to the model, it would be a "large" language model. It also supports non-words though, so it's more accurately a "next token prediction library" that can be used to create language models.
I have neither on mine and still have all my fingers. Weird.
Red-Teaming Language Models with DSPy
According to the article, she is called "Truong My Lan", perhaps the author's muscle memory or autocorrect was kicking in.
> In both mathematics and spirituality, there’s a fascinating echo of balance. The Central Limit Theorem in statistics illustrates how outcomes often converge around the mean, a concept mirrored by regression models emphasizing average relationships. While these mathematical ideas are grounded in data analysis, they metaphorically align with spiritual teachings that advocate for a middle path in life.

That’s begging the question. Regression towards the most likely outcome has nothing to do with balance or this kind of new age pseudo-mystical concept. It’s a direct consequence of the simple existence of a most likely outcome, or at least a local maximum in a probability density.

What this says is that your life will tend to regress to the mean for whatever metric given enough time whether you want it or not (with caveats because not everything has a nice, static probability distribution and one individual is not a great statistical sample).

What this does not say is that there is any moral imperative to try to make this regression faster. The conclusion that “ they metaphorically align with spiritual teachings that advocate for a middle path in life” is a non sequitur.
> The unwritten laws of engineering at Stedi

Unwritten indeed. None are mentioned in the article! :)
A startup that is firing engineers on the spot who dare to disagree probably won't last much longer anyway. Best of luck with their "critical" deadline then...?
Pivotal Tracker does something like this with release markers. You can set markers between any two stories and, optionally, set a date. Tracker does a very simple moving average projection and if the stories before the marker will take too long, it turns bright red.

I found it remarkably effective at getting business folks to actually prioritize. They don't believe you, but they'll believe the computer.
> What? You want to know the fees you ask for the fees. If you are not wise enough to ask maybe you deserve to be scammed by legitimate companies.

This is like walking into a grocery store and no seeing their prices, if you're interested in milk prices, you gotta ask an employee. If you're not wise enough to ask maybe you deserve to be charged extra.
The plans I am looking at are contract-free, but definitely something to be aware of -- and clearly specified on the new labels!

The lower-end cable broadband xfinity plans all seem to be advertised no-contract, it's only once you get to 800mbs down that there is a contract. ($70 month introductory rate, 12 month contract, $110/month non-introductory rate. Funny that they let you out of the contract right when your introductory rate expires?)
Death penalty for corruption? That seems barbaric.

Then I read there are a few countries that impose capital punishment for non-violent crimes: China, Indonesia (some acts of corruption which "damage national economy or finances"), Morocco, Thailand (bribery), Vietnam (bribery).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_non-vio...
Also worth noting there's a long history of companies with deep pockets getting away with murder (sometimes literally) because litigation in a system that costs money to engage with inherently favors the wealthier party.

Also OpenAI's entire business model is relying on generous interpretations of various IP laws, so I suspect they already have a mature legal division to handle these sorts of potential issues.
Ugh. You're just ignoring my entire post except the one part where you (wrongly) think you can correct me?

The code I posted is showing how you can explicitly get the mutable behavior if you want it when the default expressions are evaluated at call time.

That is to say, if you evaluate default expressions at call time, you can get either behavior by being explicit with minimal loss in performance:

def foo(xs = []):
xs.append(1)
print(xs) # always prints [1]

DEFAULT = []
def bar(xs = DEFAULT):
xs.append(1)
print(xs) # prints [1], [1,1], [1,1,1], etc.

To reiterate, the above code is what would happen if default expressions were evaluated at function call time.

You're clearly not as knowledgeable as you think you are on this and you're just cherry picking things you don't understand to feel smart.
We should have nationalized the big ISPs when they stole the billions set aside for rolling out fiber.

If only corporations had repercussions for their malicious behavior. Maybe some day.
Note that she got a death sentence for fraud. It's... rough. (In my opinion.)
I don't know how they can improve the game. Better art and music, but mechanically its already as close to perfect as you can get. I don't think a better balanced and mechanically rich deck builder exists.
My understanding from the article is that correspondents are not encrypting the mail, but that Protonmail is. So unencrypted messages from Fastmail are being encrypted to a key that Protonmail found on a random keyserver when that email hits the Protonmail server.

This is a common feature provided by privacy oriented email providers. The idea is that the provider will only have access to the unencrypted email at entry to the server but not after that. The email of course can't be signed in any meaningful way, but the original unencrypted message wasn't signed either. This strikes me as the sort of thing that you would want the user to specify a particular key for, but I suppose Protonmail is attempting to increase usability by making it as automatic as possible.
Error is "xenova-segment-anything-web.static.hf.space unexpectedly closed the connection."

Works on mobile network, though, so might just be my internet connection.
The New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss? (2012)
I'd really like it if we moved our ways to using lumens more on light bulb packaging instead of "100W" or "60W" on LEDs: I understand why it was done in the past, but we're getting to the point that there's an entire generation of folks who have had no experience with incandescent bulbs.
A Man on a Quest to Document Every Apple in North America (2019)
On one hand it's Vietnam where everyone bribes everyone. (Literally. Stealing country funds is a fact of life.)

On the other hand it's 21 billion.

Still rough.
Any opinions on mozilla's DXR?
> Instead of adding two separate angles α and β, we’ll use θ and −θ.

It's not clear that the geometric proof based on pictures with positive angles α and β also applies to a negative β. I think one should at least provide a separate picture of that case...
It can (and so that's a valuable call out), but I've been able to switch internet service tiers multiple times without a new or extended contract.
Caltrain officials built those for personal benefit. The article here is about a restoration for public good.
It usually works too! Usually.
Yes that appears to be the case. If you run the single file example in the README it will add a directory called "crystalruby" with generated source code in it.

So it looks like you could easily check that in with your gem.

I don't actually see any object code in the directory but this is a new project so they may not cache that yet but I don't see why they couldn't in future. e.g. as a build step when installing a gem.

This seems to be a fantastic bit of work so far with a lot of potential for the future.
App with runtime would probably be around 30 MBs?

dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-x64 -o output -p:PublishTrimmed=true

or 100MB without trimming
No, it's just the silly HN parser that automatically changes the case of some words in titles based on an obscure internal rulebook dictionary and also removes other words that sound click-baity.

I'm still baffled HN hasn't opensourced their stack.
In the same way that any blockchain based system must delete your info after some time...
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Registration & Validation: Users can fill out a form on zkBlind with their ZKP, email suffix (indicating their company), ETH address, and user ID. ZkBlind NextJs will validate the submitted information and register user details in a smart contract upon successful validation.

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The library never claims to be an LLM - it's a next token prediction library that you can use to create LLMs.

Python - one nice thing is all the "keys" retain their primitive type, where as in JS they all turn into strings. If Python wasn't so slow compared to JS that would matter a lot and I might use it, but the speed comparison isn't even close.
That’s a good observation. If LLMs had taken off 15 years ago, maybe they would answer every question with “this has already been asked before. Please use the search function”
BMW replaced
The battery in my 2014 i3 (no rex, pure ev) in 2021 because of a faulty heat pump that let the battery roast in Arizona heat. They paid even though technically out of warranty and shipped the entire battery back to Germany to do forensics, and the work order showed $25k part cost, in summer 2021, that they spent, so that fits.
That's the same sort of argument form as "everything encrypted is what the terrorists and child pornographers would want". Just sayin'.
You think unions would solve this problem? Adding unions would just insert a whole other parallel management team that'll tell you what you can and can't do. They're not going to simplify anything.
Quite a few in that part of the world impose it for international drug smuggling, and we're talking mules rather than kingpins here. And if you really want to be appalled, look at the ones where adultery or homosexuality are potentially capital crimes.
thanks for the clarification. I'm a happy Fastmail user, but I appreciate that other people have different ideas