skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is no one working on an exclusion algorithm that excludes search results, such as:

- do not show me results that have advertising in it

- do not show me results whose content ranks high on SEO score

- do not show me results content hidden behind paywall or login

This was common during 2001 when toolbar or browser plugins would rerank the results based on several criteria--why is this no longer a thing now?
QEMU Version 9.0.0 Released
Show HN: I just made a free AI tool for bulk image background removal in 2 hours
You can use this tool in e-com for removing distracting backgrounds from product images, Marketing, Photography, etc.

Let me know about your thoughts.
Tell HN: Worst Amazon AWS customer service experience
In short, I spun up some servers to finish an urgent job, and now AWS has frozen access to my data for over 24 hours and it's wrecking my business.

I.e. Spin up servers too quickly? AWS holds your data hostage indefinitely.

Background:

Had an urgent compute job 2 days ago, that I needed finished ASAP. So I thought great, temporarily spinning up a large amount of compute is exactly what AWS was made for.

So, spun up a dozen c6a.48xlarge's, and things were looking great. Looked set to finish the job within 3 days.

Even put in a request with AWS to triple my quota, to finish the job in just 1 day, and was approved.

Then the nightmare began.

Minutes after approval for the quota increase, I got the "[ACTION REQUIRED] - AWS Account Compromise" email.

So, then immediately went through all the outlined steps:

- Reviewing the account activity.
- Adding MFA to the account.
- Going line-by-line through the billing with the chat representative to confirm that yes each was authorized.
- Explaining my situation as I have here.

Did everything possible, until we reached a point where the AWS representative said there was nothing more I could do.

Problem?

Over 24 hours later and AWS still refuses to give me access to the servers, says there is no ETA, and says there no information available at all.

So now I remain completely locked out of my instances, and unable to access the ~$2k of results I'd computed so far.

Now it's looking like I'll have to start the job over from scratch.

IMO Amazon has effectively stolen $2k from me that I'd spent on computing the intermediate results so far, which they now block me from accessing, with zero recourse and no timeline at all.

Worse off, this huge delay puts my job at risk, and likely costing my employer $10's of thousands or more in losses, from this surprise delay that we could not afford to have, all because we'd trusted AWS to never do something like this.

Suppose this is a warning to never trust AWS again.

What can I do?
> Since only debt (= mortgages) creates money

Mortgages aren’t only one among many phyla of dollar-denominated debt, they‘re not even the biggest [1][2]. And fiscal spending can create new money without debt. Debt is the monetary channel’s mechanism.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274636/combined-sum-of-a...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_...
Once my Ford's infotainment system (Microsoft CE, I believe) crashed hard, and I had to open and close the door while I was at a stoplight to get it to reset.

On the other hand, the voice command system works as badly as it did when I got the car, while Siri has gotten worse.
WebLlama: Building agents that can browse the web by following instructions
In downtown St. Louis, ATT tower sold for half of that, right there in the middle of downtown. Sold for 200 million in 2016. So, if we go by office buildings that have sat unoccupied for a while, SF is still maintaining good value.
The thing is that AI is completely unpredictable without human curated results. Stable diffusion made me relent and admit that AI is here now for real, but I no longer think so. It's more like artificial schizophrenia. It does have some results, often plausible seeming results, but it's not real.
The relationship of data is part of the data.

Your visualisation tool may require it in a specific format, but it still about properties of your data.
I got very busy at work, then quit to go on honeymoon, then accidentally started a startup!

I wasn't particularly good at sticking with open source projects like this and pushing them forwards back in 2009. I've since learned how to do that but it took me another decade to get there.
From : https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2024/04/23/how-low-lnr-...

The key thing is that the buyers had already taken on the loan against the building.

Quote :

"The mostly vacant building was auctioned off eight months after Bridgeton Holdings defaulted on a $45 million mortgage loan. The investor bought the tower in 2018 for $62 million, or $685 per square foot.

LNR, a unit of Connecticut-based Starwood Property Trust, had been acting as special servicer for the $45 million loan. The LNR affiliate took over the loan this month from the original lender, Dallas-based LStar Capital.

Bridgeton, which told lenders last summer it would stop payments on the loan, owed more than $47 million by the April 18 auction.

Because it had taken over the loan from LStar, LNR could have simply credited the $6.56 million auction bid against the more than $47 million Bridgeton owed on the building, instead of plunking down cash at auction, according to the Business Times.

"

So really the reduction is vastly less than is stated in the headline.
> would leave you with a ton of cave-like rooms in the interior

I get into this debate every time this comes up, but this was my (illegal) first apartment in New York. It was great. It’s prudish tendencies like outlawing apartments with no windows that force folks like me, who would put black-out curtains anyway, to compete for housing with families who do need natural light. All while an office building lies vacant.
No offense, but I don't think that visualization helps very much.

Here's a visualization of a much larger data set that illustrates what's actually happening with the buckets and the major steps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21jEd1FUiV8
Off-topic, but "imputing" is such a good word.
I'm going to be counting on this to keep up my neuroplasticity.
Middleware, the portability, latest features of native APIs, and nice GPGPU tooling.
The package management story before go.mod was sad but I have to plat devil's advocate and point out that GitHub did have special treatment by go get, you could use any domain name to host your code and you just had serve a <meta name="go-import"> tag in a html file and you could tell go where to fetch your code (several version control tools including Mercurial are supported)
Isn't Tesla way behind Mercedes and Waymo?
The migrations commands and configs are all tied to manage.py, hard to use without setting up the full boilerplate.
Show HN: Running llama3-70B on ruby OpenAI client via Cloudflare worker
hell, even local LLMs are better - and I'm talking original mixral-quality here, not the capable models that were released a few days ago.

My workflow now for "Google-grade" queries is to query a LLM and then use search to verify and look up additional information. DDG-grade queries still get handled by duckduckgo.

Google looks like it's circling the drain from where I'm standing.
Yes, simply rollback habitability requirements for tech workers. What could go wrong?
Ask HN: Best CS refresher material online?
Recently I've been looking for a good "refresher" for the CS theory I learnt at university - in particular the theoretical, slower-changing stuff that we had to learn but rarely apply in a web programming career.

What sparked it was actually an episode of University Challenge where there was a mention of Byzantine Generals - I haven't heard that mentioned in about 18 years!

Though any professional development I get from this is a bonus, my main motivation is just intellectual curiosity & the desire to re-explore these concepts that I slowly forgot through disuse over the years. As a result, material that is captivating and fun is a strong bonus.

Any books, podcasts, youtube channels, online courses HN would recommend?
Anyone else experienced their AWS account being locked indefinitely like this, just because you spun up servers too quickly, and even though everything clearly was authorized by you?
Windows are legally required for safety purposes, not for sunlight
Machine learning models will be used for oppression.

For those with money, it allows them to control the narrative even more.

It will also be used to invade citizens privacy, analyze their views, and inform/take corrective actions.

People will blindly trust the results from these MLM.

People will use it to more effectively control others.

Time to get offline and join a local church.
Is there such a thing as scrap value for a building? If you tear it down are there any materials worth scavenging or is the only real value in the land?
The irony of half world backed by VC money, trying to reinvent Erlang, Java and .NET application servers, while pretending to be innovative.
I'll go pedantic, but ない is technically not an irregular negative form of ある. The negative form of ある is the regular あらぬ/あらない, but it has been substituted with ない, which is an entirely different word. You'll often hear あらへん in Kansai dialect, which is derived from ある.

Edit: there are idioms that use あらず which is also a standard negative form of ある, like なきにしもあらず.
You'd still need a mechanism for persisting separately, or you'd end up with a broken image/"data layer" due to post-crash persists.

It's common to do something similar by writing most of an application as functions over a database and static files, and using scaffolding tools to reinitialise the database when things break.
They are saying that once they worked out a good balance of nutrient rich foods, rather than the pizza/pasta/etc managing weight became easier. i.e. that the body is after nutrient x and will force you to consume as many calories as is necessary to obtain the desired nutrient
The next thing i heard of are deutsche nahns concept of two person cabins.
ByteDance aren't going to give up the juicy algorithm in the deal though, apparently.

It's like buying KFC without the secret recipe.

I love TikTok. After HN, it's the place where I get most of my tech news.
Could you link it please? I have unfortunately no idea what you are referencing
I just shared my opinion, we disagree. I'm okay with this.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have you heard of Tortoise ORM? https://tortoise.github.io/
Or maybe raise the requirements for office buildings so that they’re more easily convertible to housing purposes?
Is there any high quality research into the health effects? I keep hearing about how microplastics spread, but not whether that's demonstrably bad.

I found this (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/) , but it's a wildly broad overview, and includes claims both dubious and entirely believable, buried in tons of uninteresting stuff about how plastic can spread and how common it is.
Ar first glance it seems like a good analogy, but it breaks down quickly.

Fundamentally the reason MD doesn't do that is because they don't have what MD want.

Companies are more than willing to exploit free resources whenever it suits them to do so. Dumping pollutants in air and water springs to mind. Leveraging public infrastructure and so on.

If my factory has a lot of trucks coming and going I don't "donate" extra money for road repair.
Could name the building "Grenfell Tower S.F.".
Sam Altman Has TV Raman of UCLA Stealing Intellectual Property
Bret Victor talk you've never seen [video]
In what way "most powerful"? If you do anything more involved than CRUD it falls apart pretty fast. You can't express most of the things you can do with raw SQL since there is not intermediate DSL like you do with SQLA. You can't hydrate arbitrary object graphs. It's slow, for deep queries building back objects is slower than actual SQL round trip.

It's very easy to use but it's also very limited and i often find myself dropping down to RawSQL or even having SQLA connection in my Django projects.
I thought America believed in capitalism and the free market? This seems to be the opposite of that philosophy.
I’d never heard of milk punch, had to look that up. And now I have my own new rabbit hole! Much thanks!
Yeah, except gaming and porn is the only thing people care about in VR. And Apple doesn’t do either.
I live in one.

I think it's less about the pragmatics of the things you list, and more about the permits.

I could walk into a lot of commercial spaces, including my office and turn it into a code compliant dwelling myself with stuff from Home Depot I can fit in my truck.

I can't get it approved, permitted , by the city of SF, even if I did it by the books.

There are literally people who show up to the permit office with wheelbarrows.

If you want to fix housing in SF, fix the permit office.
Ya, let’s give some blame to Obama as well, and Biden was his vice president. We knew low interest rates for more than 20 years was going to mess things up, cheap money couldn’t last forever.

I wish we could run the economy more like adults, not calling for a Fed ouster when they only cut rates by .25 during what the president at the time was calling the best economy ever.
Right to Repair is a reasonable proxy for this entire topic, and it's overwhelmingly supported - 74.5% of people being in favor, 1.9% opposing. [1] The reason the government is distrusted is specifically because of issues like this. It's good for society, good for the environment, extremely widely supported, but companies like Apple lobby actively and aggressively against such progress. And they generally win. There's been some glacially slow progress at the state level, but Federal support is unsurprisingly nowhere to be seen.

And you're dramatically understating the benefits of modularity. PCs are indeed the perfect example, and no - people are not replacing them every 5 years. You can see a Steam hardware survey here [2]. And that's for gamers, who are going to iterate their hardware faster than average! Even for video cards, one of the most likely to fail and most likely to be upgraded parts, the GTX 1060 (released in 2016) is the 6th most popular card, making up about 4% of all players (contrasted against 7% for the #1 card)! Without planned obsolescence, most things can last for extremely long periods of time. And those that do have, more or less, inescapably high failure rates (like old hard disk drives) can and should be standardized and able to be replaced/upgraded.

[1] - https://www.waveform.com/pages/right-to-repair-april-2020-re...

[2] - https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Man, that tutorial was difficult to read. No images or GIFs?
Depends on how much GB you want to force into users browsers, plan to work around browser blacklists and deep variation in API support, and protect the game code.

There is a reason why in 2024, there is yet to exist a WebGL 2.0 game that can match Infinity Blade from 2011, the game used by Apple to demo iPhone's OpenGL ES 3.0 capabilities.

WebGPU on top of that, is Chrome only for the time being, still years away from a sound 1.0 release on Safari and Firefox.
My understanding is that is the configuration part where the library interacts with tailwind to compile the css.

The way you actually use the ui components is by including html snippets in your page
$40 might be what the OSS developer wants. But the overhead in getting that $40 to them is immense.

Even assuming I can "just spend" that, I need an invoice. It needs to be captured by accounts. I can be quized on it.
Each floor has got to be worth at least a million as one big apartment with its existing office bathrooms, no?
Also isn't there a longstanding way to deal with this : source provided for free, but everything else, in particular binaries and support : paid ?
It's so tiresome. These headlines/tweets are literally written daily, and the trick is always the same.
Declarative in this context means no recursion or infinite loops. So none of these are declarative.
merci infiniment
And in San Francisco, there is also a requirement for new multi-family dwelling to set aside a certain percent for low rent use.

I only know that because it tanked a developer from doing the conversion on a downtown SF property last year, and that made hacker News.
Yes, this is what I meant. After the post above I looked for gist themes for the obvious candidates (jekyll, hugo, mkdocs), but could not find one.
> There are several domestic entities (governmental and non) that I would consider much bigger threats to me

We can address multiple threats at once, and are not compelled to address them in priority order. Any improvement is good.

> if you're not willing to let people read/watch widely and make up their own minds

This seems a very weak argument. Of course nobody wants to make it illegal to see propaganda. But if you think propaganda doesn't work, then I've got a bridge to sell you. Yes, there are lots of kinds and sources and degrees of propaganda, from every side. But it exists on a spectrum - and when it's being controlled by one country, covertly, for the consumption of another country, with whom you have a tense military standoff, then it's a little more insidious than the "let the people decide!" stance you're advocating.
Yup, and the motivation is explicitly to go after unelected “administrative state” technocrats legislating by decree… such as through exactly what they’re doing here.

Unelected technocrats legislating by decree is the purview of the Supreme Court not the FTC, so sayeth the majority of current Supreme Court justices. I imagine a bunch of stuff is about to break since elected officials cannot pass jack shit in this hyper-partisan era.
Yes, there is.

>> For example, the Deutsche Bank Building in New York, demolished in 2011, contained about 40,000 tons of structural steel. At that time, scrap steel prices averaged around $200 per ton, yielding an estimated $8 million from steel alone.
Can you do that on webpages (which is what equinox.space is) without first pushing play or unmuting them? I know on youtube you have to unmute it first. I don't really go to any other music or video websites on my phone, so I'm not sure if they're all like that or not, but in my experience, webpages respect the ringer side button unless something is clicked to override it.
Hey, I may give it a full read later, but so far the abstract seems sound.

>Trade with non-democracies has no impact on either attitudes or institutions.

And actually it’s good that there’s research about it. Different correlations between economic and political attitudes are interesting, I believe that the relation is from the political to the economic side, not otherwise yet, my biggest gripe is, that the idea that markets would result into democracy is a big assertion with shaky foundations.

And I mean, is not like we don’t have history of countries trying to open other’s markets, sometimes even forcefully. I saw the same, now dressed with modern ideologies.
I'm also not a Steve Jobs fan, and this reminds me of how Flash died[1].

The Flash Renaissance was the counter-era to the search despair era we currently find ourselves in.

In the same vein as Kodak, I wonder what the alternate timeline would look like where Adobe cannibalized native apps.

[1] https://youtu.be/65crLKNQR0E?si=mXPgXxlMRxU-xjcu&t=2472
This bit about GPL vs. BSD is interesting:

The GNU General Public License that would create additional legal complications for Beckhoff’s customers as well as force Beckhoff to share their proprietary real-time, TwinCAT, which runs in kernel-mode.

Would they need to share the TwinCAT source code if they were to use Linux? Nvidia gets around this requirement with dynamically loaded binary blobs.

Or to pose a different but related question, do all eBPF programs need to be open-sourced rather than distributed as bytecode only because they run in kernel mode?
For the record, in this context your payout would come from the sweet, sweet pot of funds the lawyers divy up. And it'd be a lot more than your direct monetary damages as the lawsuit would likely impair your ability to later work in the industry.

The "class actions never make money for the plaintiffs" refrain is 99.8% true. The people who get a postcard mailer about their eligibility usually get shit. The 0.2% outlier are the people who put themselves at risk by providing the testimony that wins the case, and they're rewarded for it. And the blood-sucking lawyers of course.
JLC is too cheap now to do this yourself.
The paper (https://static.usenix.org/publications/compsystems/1993/win_... linked to from the page) is well-written and worth reading, iterating over multiple C programs that build up to this sort algorithm and giving a good rationale for each iteration.
Self-reflection and chain-of-thought are different things; CoT is about writing out the intermediate steps to an answer it can't immediately reach.

Self-reflection doesn't work well though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01798
It's on the corner of 6th and market. Kinda scuzzy area unfortunately.
You do not ever, under any circumstances, get to credit yourself for promoting "habitability" in a city where adults routinely need roommates.
I’m not sure young people care who owns it as long as it’s there.
Best exercise bike articles, and such, are what lots of people people actually search for. There is no incentive to provide quality work which answers these queries hence the abundance of spam and ads.

If you want to purchase consumer products at your own expense and offer an impartial opinion on each of them then you will have no problem getting ranked highly on google. You will lose a lot of money doing so, however, and will also be plagiarized to death in a month. The sites you want to be rid of will outrank you for your own content, I have been there and have the t-shirt.
> I got to fluency in Japanese in roughly 6 months to 1 year while living there

Your experience is not the norm, not according to research and not according to most people who've tried learning Japanese. Either you have a talent or you had a more effective method for learning, but it does undermine your judgement as something generalisable to others.

Let's hope it's the method and you share it.
So, is CoreNet the equivalent of Keras, whereas MLX is the Jax/PyTorch equivalent?
Show HN: Just launched the Bento creation tool to rule them all
I’d guess that your preference for windowless rooms is out of the norm, and that most people do want windows. Or at least enough do that it doesn’t make financial sense to convert office buildings.

Or maybe I’m wrong! Maybe the reason that we haven’t seen a rash of converted office buildings is that property owners are holding out hope for return to office, and desperately avoiding writing down their properties. That’s pretty plausible too.
>I would go further and say that it is impossible. Human interests are contextual and change over time, sometimes in the span of minutes.

Theres a general problem in the tech world where people seem to inexplicably disregard the issue of non-reducibility. The point about the algorithm lacking access to necessary external information is good.

A dictionary app obviously can't predict what word I want to look up without simulating my mind-state. A set of probabilistic state transitions is at least a tangible shadow of typical human mind-states who make those transitions.
Every item in my house is produced by this so-called enemy state.
It’s prudish tendencies like outlawing apartments with no windows that force folks like me, who don't care for safety anyway, to compete for housing with families who do need safety.

but unironically; it'd be much safer than the street
There's OSS at the large-scale level (Linux, Firefox, Postgres) where the model is clearly working and sustainable.

There's also OSS at the "one man band has a small project" level, where, IMO, the sustainable model has yet to be figured out.