skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My take is that AI may replace mediocre task taking developers who just write code.

Is there such a job? Even the tinniest bit of code I had to write involved learning about the problem and the platform to come up with the solution. There was some I could hand over to ChatGPT, but it always felt like when somebody gives you their vim or zsh config. You always wonder what's going on here, and you might just as well read the documentation.
Great starting point thanks !
The technical lead has an answer here [0] about this concern. It may not answer all your worries, but it's definitely something they're aware of and planning for.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213336
It is a little unclear from reading the article. Is the claim that their filters were not as effective as N95 masks, or that they were just as effective but did not go through the testing needed to prove it?
Assassin's Creed Mirage Launching on iPhone 15 Pro Models and Select iPads
> I like this last sign best:

After the previous two examples with their somewhat understandable context, the last one comes out of nowhere with no attribution or context. It's clearly a joke but I don't know whose or where they'd hang this. Unless it's original to the blog author, which is unclear to me.

I like the general thrust of the article, I just don't know where the last sign comes from and I'm confused.
You've never met a non-dev who complains about the UX of Outlook, wants to adjust the contents of their Twitter/Facebook feed, or wishes to tweak the styles of their blog?
You joke but emojis should be allowed in password fields.
The article claimed that the fine is 100% of the revenue from the sales of the mislabeled masks:

> The vote approving the complaint and proposed order was passed 3-0, and the FTC will use the $1.1 million sum, equal to revenue generated by the Zephyr, to provide full refunds to customers.
Many things can induce mental illness, but few can so reliably and universally increase such a broad swath of mental illnesses, and they usually aren't literally engineered to be addictive.
Adblock Plus 4.0 released, uses Manifest V3 on Chrome
Yes, but these are two features that have been widely requested and the PR's languishing for years because they competed with Hashicorp's cloud offering.
I do like JavaScript but it strikes a weird balance for me where it's a bit too easy to write and a bit too verbose so I tend to end up with hard to maintain code. Feels good at the start of a project but rarely a few weeks in. Also not a fan of the node ecosystem, I try to use deno where I can (maybe that would be bun these days).
Seems like an interesting generalized mix of something like https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere and Ansible from a glance.

The value add would be unifying provisioning and configuration management in a Python-y experience? The lifecycle of each is distinct and that's traditionally where the headaches of using a single tool for both has come in
Given the respective recividism rates, it seems clear that quite a few can be who aren't in the more punitive systems.
> probably will become very widespread over the next years

Doubt. SATA and SAS is more than enough, cheap (not for the customer) and has 20+ years of experience. What we would see is a clear distinction between 3.5 HDD and whatver SSD storage boxes.

Consumers? 2.5 and M.2 for SSD, 3.5 for HDD. For years.
It's fine, you don't have a use for it so you don't care. I personally don't spend any effort getting to know things that I don't care about and have no use for; but I also don't tell people who use tools for their job or hobby that I don't need how much those tools are useless and how their experience using them is distorted or wrong.
Ah, so this is similar to the Terraform CDK approach?

In Terraform CDK, you use a language like python to compute the set of resources and such you want to have, and then hand that over to the terraform core, which does the usual terraform song and dance to make it happen.

This is actually interesting to me, because we struggle with even the simplest data transformations in ansible so much. Like, as soon as you start thinking about doing a simple list comprehension in python in jinja templating, lots and lots of pain starts. From there, we're really starting to think about templating the inventories in some way because it would be less painful.
Its too bad this went off the rails so bad. I was very interested in the Razer-- despite the RGB it would have been cool to have a silicon sealing mask thats less industrial than a 3m Respirator mask, had a window so you could see someones mouth, and used a fan to help overcome the resistance of the filter element.

If the availability wasn't at "practically unobtainable" levels I probably would have gotten one.
Show HN: I replicated Anthropic's monosemanticity research using just my MacBook
Hi everyone,

I've been working on an open-source implementation of Anthropic's research on monosemanticity ("Towards Monosemanticity"). The problem Anthropic is trying to solve is that language models are hard to interpret because individual neurons can be responsible for multiple different things. The research finds that training a small autoencoder on neuron activations can result in "features" which are much easier to interpret.

When I was reading the original research, I got really excited when I realized that the models they used were really small, and I could probably train them from scratch with just my M3 MBP. My models are somewhat undertrained compared to what Anthropic produced, but I think my results are still very compelling. Let me know what you think!
In every war, there is a collection of individuals that realize they have no other skill so they look to continue the work they did during wartime in other areas. In the past, this was the typical mercenary: a professional soldier that just continued being a soldier.

The War on Terror had a huge influx of intelligence services and thus we now see surveillance service providers, extremist researchers and even disinformation experts in the private sector. I would argue these are fruits of the poison vine grown from the WoT spending that started 20 years ago.
~~Reddit~~ the internet; just look at Facebook and Youtube comment sections, they're full of bots calling each other dear and talking about how powdered elephant tusk cured their migraines and investing in powdered elephant tusk helped them keep their house.
Other criminals can teach him how to not get caught or recruit him into larger organizations. Prison is like a startup incubator for gangs. When you put a bunch of people with similar interests in one place it's a great networking opportunity.
>> Hmm, that seems like a mistake because C allows for instruction compression with low cost to decode that is perfect for embedded use which is a big part of the RISC-V usage now.

It may be low cost to decode a compressed instruction, but having them means regular 32-bit instructions can cross cache lines and page boundaries.

My own thought is that there should be a "next" version or RISC-VI that is mostly assembler-level compatible but changes all the instruction encodings to be more sane. What that means exactly is still a bit fuzzy, but I am a fan of immediate data being stored after the opcode.
https://archive.ph/nntme
I don't get what this means.

I have 7000 token prompts that simple conclude with "Provide the result adhering to <insert schema> with no pretext or posttext" and it has no problem following that.

Even if you want it to "think" before responding you can embed the thinking inside the JSON
Always makes me chuckle when someone complains about an app updating automatically. If you've taken some kind of special steps to keep an app from updating and it still does it, that's one thing. But it's the year 2024, automatic software updates are so common at this point, it just makes me think "what rock have you been living under?"

And here we're talking about an AI project... These products are so new, of course they're updating frequently and automatically. I just don't understand this complaint.
I think there are some education maybe... take for example a gong ringing periodically in the background , this is an example of an external interruption that can be beneficial for addressing internal out of control thinking.

This is getting well outside the initial discussion (in some ways, but not all), but it's interesting.
MicroStrategy Posts Loss on Impairment Charge, Revenue Declines
Opening this page caused my RAM usage of Chrome to skyrocket. Amount of processes doubled.

When looking at Chrome task manager (Windows shortcut Shift+Esc) list, sub-frames popped up I didn't recognize such as:

https://adnxs.com/
https://adsrvr.org/
https://btloader.com/
https://doubleclick.net/
https://gumgum.com/
https://openx.net/
https://smartadserver.com/

And many more. Each taking up RAM.

In incognito mode / without extensions.

Can anyone enlighten me, what's happening?
My SO decided to go freelance but was struggling to actually work on things without some sort of outside force to help her (and me lightly prodding her every day or going on library work dates didn't seem to help).

But after a couple of months she stumbled upon a site that has like virtual coworking segments of time, that they call caves.

Basically she signs up for 4-5 of them a day (I think they're an hour apiece), hops on the video meeting, everyone introduces themselves and hops into a private room and works on things. I don't think it would work that well for me (probably find it too distracting) but she's been doing it for several weeks now and she's been a lot more productive since she started.

I do think for some people there is value in having some outside force pressure them into work, and some people would be willing to pay some money for that.
What's your scissor for determining who is which?
I think the technical reason why the Pencil doesn't work is beside the point here.

Apple is building the hardware, and they decide that the Pencil use-case a iPhone user may have shall not be covered by buying an Apple Pencil, but by buying an iPad (and a Apple Pencil)
This is generally well handled.

https://apnews.com/article/science-norway-europe-oslo-crime-...

> While the maximum prison sentence in Norway is 21 years, the law was amended in 2002 so that, in rare cases, sentences can be extended indefinitely in five-year increments if someone is still considered a danger to the public.
Basic has

on error goto next
The sheer number of RISC-V extensions and the resulting fragmentation is blowing my mind. No wonder they can't provide a single generic kernel.
Temporary central planning in pursuit of a single common goal works at the cost of individual freedoms.

Centrally planning an economy for (hundreds of) millions of free people just going around their lives doesn't. Central planning requires rationality, but people do things just because they feel so.
https://archive.ph/bUceB
Ok, "Context is key".
I just started using Pyinfra to wrangle a bunch of servers and it is a breath of fresh air compared to Ansible. I moved all of my server OS installs to Fedora CoreOS which doesn't ship with Python in the OS and since Pyinfra doesn't need Python on the host node I can kick off tasks in bulk to do server things. It is great. I cannot wait to see where the Pyinfra project goes.

On a side note, one of the most hacky things I came up with to get Ansible working on Fedora CoreOS was to bind mount a container rootfs that had python 3 and then symlink it into the right spots. You can of course add Python in with rpm-ostree if you want but I wanted to avoid layering packages at the time. I wasn't proud of it. But it worked.

https://github.com/forem/selfhost/blob/main/playbooks/templa...
Desire for loud car predicted by being a man: higher psychopathy and sadism
https://archive.ph/AUi19
Expanding out cellphone support for satellite communication makes me way more excited than ludicrously fast data speeds if we can only use that speed by standing outside on a particular spot in the road during a cloudless afternoon every second Tuesday.
Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows
I often found myself searching for that one movie or TV show not currently available in my country. Whether it was on Netflix, Apple TV, HBO, or any other platform, the effort to pinpoint the precise country of streaming availability routinely became a burdensome task.
Realizing the need for a streamlined solution, I created one. Now you can effortlessly find your desired content and simplify your entertainment journey beyond borders.
This is pretty cool. Which extension are you using for this? (Or have you written a custom one?)
Does anyone know anything about 'sustainable aviation fuel' (SAF)? The last time I flew, I was given an option to pay for this, but I don't know what it actually is, how it's made, if it's carbon neutral, or if and in what ways it is 'sustainable'.
I tried out Copilot Workspaces before they fixed the waitlist access check yesterday and it seems to work a lot better by running a multistep process and allowing the user to incrementally modify the plan and rerun code generation.

The UI is similar to the code review interface except the file list on the left is generated from a plan and there's a bullet point list for each file of changes the plan generates. It enables a REPL loop where the AI code gens, the user tests the changes, then updates the file plans and reruns code generation again, creating and adding files as necessary. The end result is a PR with generated description or a commit direct to main.

I'm excited for this next wave of AI coding agents but Amazon seems to have rushed this into production
Nebula LLM by Symbl.ai Beats Claude 3, GPT-4, Llama 3 on Emotional Intelligence
I always took the opposite insight from this. It's easy to find some bit of luck in anyone's trajectory and attribute their position to it. However, it's important to remember that for most, there were millions (or at least thousands) of people with the same economic resources, in the same place at the same time, and they haven't achieved the same position. So it's far more important (and useful) to look at individual actions.

It's interesting that in a way these are meta with some of the Andreessen's (or Thiel's, he had a whole essay about this) beliefs. Mine is a belief in the power of agency. The above, I view as "excusitis". It's always possible to find an excuse...
This truly upstanding citizen is also facing over 5,000 civil suits from the victims of his crimes.
Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers
Hello HN, we’re Ghalib and Nathan from Polytomic. Today we’re launching our second product, Polytomic Connect: https://www.polytomic.com/connect (documentation here: https://apidocs.polytomic.com).

Connect is an API you can use in your own products to either pull your customers’ data into your own systems, or push data from your own systems to your customers’, or both. We have first-class support for data warehouses too. And there's a self-hosted deployment option.

You can set up automatic data syncs in any direction between data warehouses, databases (including CDC streaming), cloud applications (e.g. Salesforce, Zendesk, etc), spreadsheets, cloud storage (S3 etc), and arbitrary APIs and webhooks. We take care of authentication, automatically pushing updates, type conversions, rate limits, scaling to handle large volumes, monitoring, and alerting.

You can also sync updates from custom queries powered by data models you define as well join data across disparate systems (e.g. HubSpot + Stripe + Airtable) to sync fields from them in one payload to any destination.

You can see demo videos and code examples for a small subset of use cases here: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/guides/code-examples/overview.

We’d love to take your comments and feedback! Happy to answer questions too.
Would it be possible to make a Python (without C extensions) that compiles to Go?
A tech company doing sketchy things and skirting regulations? Why I never!
It looks pretty interesting! Definitely something to play around with, but honestly, I'd rather just use Rust (or Gleam if GC is ok).
That sounds less like helping the person overcome their problem and more like secretly demoting them into a figurehead while the devious Grand Vizier actually steers things.

I don't want my tools to work that way. Especially since the not-so-assistant may be making decisions to favor its parent-corporation.

> Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.”

-- Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
There are baseline profiles, like RV23A, that standardize a set of extensions for a class of hardware. Problem right now is that Qualcomm and Si-Five disagree on what extensions should be supported, and there is hardware shipping or in development with two different definitions.
Imagine living in a 4-foot body that doesn't develop chronic diseases
They aren't complaining about the 30% either; they simply want a way to compete with what the App Store charges for. Android provides that, iOS does not.
The generous reading is this. And I don’t exactly blame whoever interpreted the regulations like that.

However, they really should have gotten a lawyer or consultant specializing in health product regulations.
Ssh and its child processes are just another agent. Agents of a model that must be up at time-of-convergence as seen from the coordinator node; a remarkably inflexible arrangement that can only be addressed with additional development not otherwise necessary.

Ruby is far, far preferable to shell for ease of idempotence and implicit convergence.
Close. It’s ANSI/POSIX Environment. It’s been there since Plan 9 second edition. I think it was put there basically for TeX, but don’t quote me on that because I no longer remember where I read that and it isn’t in the original paper.

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/ape
I'm in Canada and have seen this first hand. snug as a bug in a rug even though it was -10C.

admittedly she was bundled up pretty good in the stroller, and it was near her usual naptime, but was totally asleep by the time we got home from the walk.
The problem with the later generation raspberry pi's is that almost everything that made the early generations special have been eroded, to the point where almost every project where the GPIO is required is better served by an mk 2 then an mk 5

The real problem is that where the mk 1 and mk 2 was fully utilized with the mmc/sd cards and usb power supplies people had kicking around in closets and a case made from scrap wood, this slowly stopped being the case with the later models meaning that it was no longer a real alternative to an ESP32 for electronics hobbyist, and that all of those "near mandatory" addons pushes the prices up near that of more powerful N100 based devices.
Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload
I love Go's letter casing. It's such a neat way to remove cruft.
Does OpenTofu have a Terrfaorm Enterprise type system?
Any tips for handling BGA packages? Is it possible for hobbyists?
Fire for Water: A tribe in California is helping to reshape fire management
A broad generalization about a large group of people at an events does not apply to a 1:1 interaction. Your statement is 100% right, but also does not contradict my own.
> Right now, most devices on the market do not support the C extension

This is not true and easily verifiable.

The C extension is defacto required, the only cores that don't support it are special purpose soft cores.

C extension in the smallest IP available core https://github.com/olofk/serv?tab=readme-ov-file

Supports M and C extensions https://github.com/YosysHQ/picorv32

Another sized optimized core with C extension support https://github.com/lowrisc/ibex

C extension in the 10 cent microcontroller https://www.wch-ic.com/products/CH32V003.html

This one should get your goat, it implements as much as it can using only compressed instructions https://github.com/gsmecher/minimax
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
It's the model that trains have been using for a long time now.
I think the person is saying there may be a vast difference between what's marketed and promised, and how projects like these have historically under-delivered or failed.
Because they like go, are making essentially a go extension, and so a lot of their features map directly to go features. No need to re-implement goroutines and channels etc.

The type system lets them reject the programs they want to reject, but if a program is valid in the type system it can, in large part, emit essentially the same go code sans the types. I mean, I'm making some assumptions here, but that's typically the reason.
FYI the Analogue Pocket supports a number of OpenFPGA emulators quite well, I have several carts but also plenty of harder to find NES, SNES and GBA roms loaded right on.
European Commission press release. Doesn't contain much more information (no list of airline names) but it wasn't linked in the article https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
damn down 16% today. All that debt works against it. The latest purchases are underwater. If or when BTC returns to $20k, then ALL its purchases from 2020-2024 will be red, plus a ton new debt. This can end very badly, as in the stock going to zero. If it owned the bitcoin outright it could survive but the debt introduces an absorbing barrier.
It is unnecessary, only branching on expression operator type is strictly necessary. You're trying to abstract too much in your AST which yields an inefficient interpreter. I can invent an inefficient bytecode too, but that wouldn't be a correct evaluation of how fast bytecode interpretation could be when done right.
Well, if they were never tested, then that question would seem impossible to answer.
Yes, that's mostly covered by the companies sponsoring OpenTofu's development: Spacelift[0] (I work here), env0[1], Scalr[2], Harness[3], Gruntworks[4].

[0]: https://spacelift.io

[1]: https://www.env0.com

[2]: https://www.scalr.com

[3]: https://www.harness.io

[4]: https://gruntwork.io
It's a custom extension and actually a number of custom extensions, with quite a few more planned to further enhance the product experience. All extensions work together as a single unit to compose Crunchy Bridge for Analytics, but under the covers lots of building blocks that work together.

Marco and team worked were the architects behind the Citus extension for Postgres and have quite a bit of experience building advanced Postgres extensions. Marco gave a talk at PGConf EU on all the mistakes you can make when building extensions and best practices to follow–so in short quite a bit gone into the quality of this vs. a quick one off. Even in the standup with the team today it was remarked "we haven't even been able to make it segfault yet, which we could pull off quite quickly and commonly with Citus".
I agree, I was only refuting the "more than SLS has managed". The statement surprised me and I had to look it up to check if I was missing something.

Indeed SLS is very inefficient, Starship certainly has more potential and its achievements are more impressive already in terms of innovation, speed of development and costs. But it's not nearly as capable yet, there are still many unknowns.
Is there somewhere I could read more about this? I've always wanted to learn Lisp but lacked a specific need for it.