skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those of us who love and work here are groaning at the ideas of flocks of tourists xD. They are great for the economy, but we get grouped in with them (and the outliers with bad behaviour), so once again, when tourist season is over, we have to deal with the frustration everyone has felt.

It's not as bad as all that though, most of us know not to go out during peak tourist season though.
Apparently, “several” does not in fact originally come from “around seven”, but came from “sever” (as in to fork/split/break), so it originally meant “2 or more”.

But because of how it sounds, the meaning basically morphed into “seven-ish”.
I in fact can assume it. If the assumption is wrong then that's someone else's problem. 15 years ago I wrote a bunch of code using uchardet to detect encodings and it was a pretty useful feature at the time. In the last decade everything I've touched has required UTF-8 unless it's been interoperating with a specific legacy system which has some other fixed charset, and it's never been an issue.
Ask HN: Director-Level Contemplating an MS in Computer Science–Thoughts?
Hi HN community,

I'm in a Director+ level management role within data and am well-versed in statistics and traditional ML. I manage DS, DE, SWE, and Product teams. I'm considering an MS in Computer Science to deepen my understanding of deep learning out of personal interest. I'm no longer hands-on with coding but value structured academic environments. Cost isn't an issue.

Key points:

- My goal is personal enrichment and staying technically current, not career progression.

- How might recruiters and companies view this educational pursuit at my career stage? Positively as continual learning or as unnecessary given my seniority? Perhaps negatively?

I would appreciate insights from those who've embarked on similar educational journeys or have relevant knowledge about the industry's view on such decisions.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
This makes sense to me. When updating anything beyond a small project, keeping things reliable and mantainable for the future is 10x more important than just solving the immediate bug or feature. Short term hacks add up and become overwhelming at some point, even if each individual change seems manageable at the time.

I used to work as a solo contractor on small/early projects. The most common job opportunity I encountered was someone who had hired the cheapest offshore devs they could find, seen good early progress with demos and POCs, but over time things kept slowing down and eventually went off the rails. The codebases were invariably a mess of hacks and spaghetti code.

I think the best historical comp to LLMs is offshore outsourcing, except without the side effect of lifting millions of people out of poverty in the third world.
But the translations from an uncommon language to a different uncommon language will still be far more rare.
The best thing about the show is how stories constantly take unexpected turns. It will sometimes seem like they’re setting some big thing up and then suddenly the characters are caught completely off guard and the show makes a hard left. It might sound contrived the way I’m explaining it, but it all makes perfect sense in the way the show unfolds.
I remember in the 80s when the Nordic TeX Users Group was formed, they did all of their official communications in English so as not to privilege any of the national languages of their membership.

Similarly, English is a standard language in India in part because of the linguistic diversity of the country¹ and being an outsider language means that communications in English don’t privilege any of the indigenous ethnic groups, although it seems that English usage has been dropping in favor of English.

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1. English usage was supposed to have been phased out fifteen years after independence, but the mandated sunset was changed by constitutional amendment in 1963 (apparently a year after the sunset date(!)). India has 22 scheduled languages—i.e., languages receiving constitutional recognition and encouragement—but there are 122 major languages with more than 10,000 speakers. I think India wins the prize for the greatest linguistic diversity among the nations of the world.
so lets get this straight, in your opinion, it's better for a state to fund a non state actor and direct them to do terrorist activities, than for the state to do it itself?

i.e. the terrorism should be condemned but the state sponsor of the terrorism has clean hands.

I'd argue just the opposite, the state sponsor of terrorism is actually worse than a state that takes action itself and doesn't delegate it to a 3rd party.
Show HN: Langtrace – OpenTelemetry Based LLM App Observability
Hey HN,
Ola and Karthik here. We are working on Langtrace(https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace), an open source, open telemetry based SDK and monitoring/evaluations client for LLM based applications. The SDK generates OTEL standard spans and traces for popular LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, popular frameworks like Langchain and LlamaIndex and vectorDBs like ChromaDB and Pinecone.

The LLM monitoring/evaluations space has seen a number of products off late, both open source and closed source ones. But, a couple of things we have observed are: lack of standard spans and traces that creates vendor lock in, different tools are optimized for solving different pain points - Evaluations, Prompt management, Datasets etc.

We believe that adopting open telemetry(OTEL) standard tracing not only lets teams use our SDK without having to switch their observability client, but will also enable developers to develop tooling for any custom needs such as capturing datasets, prompts, evaluations etc.

A quick note on what we have built so far:

[1] We have a Python and a TypeScript SDK and we have broken down the support for the LLM layer into 3 groups, LLMs, Frameworks and VectorDBs. Our SDKs are open telemetry compatible, can be installed and used independently and we also provide an option to pass custom exporters to export the traces and spans to any observability tool of your choice.

[2] An observability client that is hyper optimized for solving the unique pain points and challenges that come with LLM based apps like Evaluations, prompt iteration, datasets etc. We are SOC2 compliant and the client can also be self hosted if you have strict data privacy and protection requirements.

[3] Both the SDK and the client are fully open source. We are leaning on the community to try it out and provide feedback.

A note about Open Telemetry semantic conventions for LLMs - We would like to converge on standard names for trace attributes that follow the OTEL rules and are looking for feedback from experts here - https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace/discussions/71

We recognize that this project is early and there is a lot of room for improvement. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thanks!

Links:

[1] https://langtrace.ai/

[2] https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace

[3] https://docs.langtrace.ai/introduction
IIRC NYC make blocking the box a fine and 2 points (so approximately $4k) and apparently enforce it. No idea how effective it's been
I wanted to write a piece of FOSS that would allow dissemination of a large dataset. It would basically work kind of like a torrent swarm, you'd have a "tracker" (the Internet Archive) deciding what it wants each person to store (usually the rarest content would get stored preferentially), and the user could say "I want to donate 2 TB of space to the Internet Archive" and would download whatever files the IA thought were most at risk of being lost.

This would have the added benefit that, if the IA went down, the public could reconstruct (some of) the dataset from this swarm.

I spoke to a few archiving organizations about whether they'd find it useful, but there wasn't much interest. Too bad, I think a lot of people would like to donate some disk space right about now.
HN has a short title requirement and it is not always easy to preserve the full meaning.
Right, we have no evidence that copyright helps promote the creation and distribution of arts, culture, or technology, and yet we restrict peoples' freedom to proliferate culture and art in the defense of it.
An in-app purchase is an automatic dealbreaker? Doesn’t that depend on what it actually is?

It could be an in-app purchase for themes or something like that. It can be a “thanks for supporting the app” cosmetic badge, completely optional, just there to buy a coffee for the author. But you’re dealbreaking it before you even see it?

In-app purchase != data collection

Also, regarding FOSS alternatives, you should know that FOSS does not mean “free from payment.” It technically doesn’t even mean “free from data collection.” It just means that the source code is available under a free and open source license. FOSS isn’t necessarily “free as in beer” and the FSF explicitly defines it that way. It’s more important that you’re offered the freedoms of the open source license and ability to get the source code. Whether or not you pay is a separate issue entirely.
This is me!

Wife, kids, solid insurance career. But I quit to join a start up in cybersecurity because I was too curious not to give it a shot.

Unfortunately just recently laid off but I don’t look back and regret the decision. And now I can go back to insurance if I want to.
You can assume encoding is UTF-8, length is in meters, and timezone is UTC.

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You just won't always be right.
many planes have 4 doors per side yet they only use 1 to load
Roku OS home screen is getting video ads
Man, Vienna is killing it in physics.

Nobel in 2022 for Zeilinger

Nobel in 2023 for Kraus, who did his work at TU Wien

Now this. Giving a lot of other unis a run for their money.
> How does health insurance work for spy stuff?

Russia, as most of Europe, has free public health care. You don't have to pay for it.

Also, I think you have some confusion.

1) you are an officer in your army/services. You get your salary on your Russian bank account

2) you have a cover job that pays you. You use that money for your cover life.
Is there a conflict between (a) wanting to exit a country using the passport you entered it on*, and (b) wanting to enter a flight using the passport you will exit on?

* don't want to be recorded as an overstayer
> On that note, I don't see any issue whatsoever with 82 people running for presidency

I wouldn't have an issue if the election used ranked choice voting.

Otherwise, however, it could be a disaster, with the winning candidate only having a tiny percentage of the vote.
All the famous chefs didn't become famous from their cooking. They became famous because of their charisma.
Jamie Oliver looked really good on camera.

AI will never be able to bullshit the way humans can.
I think you're confused about what episodic TV is. Star Trek is (or was) (generally) episodic. The Wire is serialized, as is most TV these days.

Some people like episodic TV, some people prefer serialized.
Well the USA is famously litigious so even if it is the same injury (which I think would require further justification) the USA is very different from Denmark on how people might be compensated for deception.
Numbers are wrong.
Anyone got EBCDIC on their bingo cards? Because if the argument is "legacy encodings are still relevant in 2024" then we also need to bring EBCDIC (and EBCDIK and UTF-EBCDIC for more perverted fun) into the picture. Makes heuristics extra fun.

Or, you know, just say "nah, I can, those ancient stuff don't matter (outside of obligatory exceptions, like software archeology) anymore." If someone wants to feed me a KOI8-R or JIS X 0201 CSV heirloom, they should convert it into something modern first.
Universal UTF-8 is a hope we aspire to, not a reality we assume.
If you ask me, "what's better, do business with EU/USA or have Crimea", of course I will pick Crimea every time. It's just feels pragmatically more useful to me, like how co-owning a bungalow on a sea shore is better than holding a Costco membership, if you had to pick just one.

That would be before the war, and as the war has started, based on the actions of EU/USA I have very little desire for Russia to engage in much business with either one. Let's keep it formal from now.

I can see in neighbour thread somebody perceiving there is no room for dialogue, which they treat as an optional thing and the one which is mostly benefical for the other party. Guess what, many Russians now treat business with USA/EU in the same fashion. Nice to have, but not essential and may be downwound on occasions.
24x24 and below still require special treatment because pixel grid alignment becomes really important. The tape recorder image demonstrates this well: the raster 16x16 looks way better than the vector. I wonder if it would generally be better to store these tiny sizes as bitmaps in the container.
Possibly the first amendment, "petition the government for redress of grievances". Privacy violation is not an explicitly enumerated grievance, but neither are most causes for civil litigation.

Also possibly not; it depends on the particulars and the judge.
Do you (or does anyone) know about how zoomed in the video is at the start? Like is that the milky way and are there some things in that starting frame that I could identify with the naked eye?

It seems like it is already quite zoomed in to start with, but I can't tell how much.
I guess I still don’t understand OP then, as the presumptive cause of that mishap was the design of the envelopes text being hard to read; if anything, having a sign that clearly says “fire extinguisher inside” alongside iconography is better than simply having vague icons.

In fact, I’m further confused by the La La Land reference, as the Academy redesigned the envelopes specifically to avoid this issue arising again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/89th_Academy_Awards#Best_Pictu...

> The design of the envelopes could have been a factor. The envelopes were redesigned this year to feature red paper with gold lettering that specified the award enclosed, rather than gold paper with dark lettering. That could have made the lettering harder to read. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not PwC, is responsible for the design and procurement of the envelopes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/business/media/pwc-oscars...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170228032107/https://www.nytim...
And... make sure to bring an extra pair of socks....
1:1 NAT or floating IPs. I've only ever seen those to simplify server setups where a subset of servers need a public IP
Perhaps the system should be designed to equivocate on any conclusions, while prioritizing display of the source material. “Source X appears to state a rule requiring 2% shareholders to report abc, but I can’t say whether it applies: [Block quote Source X].”
If you didn't know, deflections in earth's magnetic field are already used to detect submarines, amongst other things. Any large ferrous object will cause a small but detectable deflection in the magnetic field.

Range is pretty short but still large enough that you can do it from an airplane flying over.
If you strech out your fingers from your angled wrist they will follow the angle because the joints in our fingers have only a single degree of freedom. Do you reach for the key vertically above and below or do you angle your wrist 45° and reach for the diagonals?

With a staggered layout the angle is somewhere between and similar to what most people angle their split halves.
Thank you for your thoughful response. Maybe I didn't say it clearly, but sometimes I like to acknowledge that we have geniuses in the programming field too, like a Ballard or a Jon Carmac. I enjoyed "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming" by Peter Seibel, published in 2009. I'm going to read it again.

I'm impressed by Claude Opus! I haven't programmed much since I retired so this was my first test. For fun I threw in that I wanted to use wxWidgets for a GUI interface, which it flawlessly did. It left out something I wanted, so I told it to do it again but this time with a button to clear the list box, also done perfectly. If I was still programming I'd be concered about my future prospects as a programmer! I'd probably move to designing programs, more of an architech role, although I'm sure AI will make in roads there too.
The problem is getting a green card not citizenship. From a green card you can naturalize in 3 or 5 years.
If you need really custom charts and use react, I can recommend Visx. It’s a small wrapper around d3, that doesn’t really try to create their own abstractions, but mostly uses d3 conventions.

We use them for all our charting needs (quite a bit!) at re-cap.com.
> Hopefully someday English can write numbers little-endian, which is objectively superior

Upon reading this, I threw my laptop out the window.
Those liscenses, the GPL in particular, use copyright to fight copyright. The alternative to copyright is not necessarily a total free-for-all, you could legislate a replacement that works like the (A)GPL or CC BY(-SA). Require attribution and share-alike without restricting usage or distribution.
The way you get that reality is you do the opposite of the recommendation of Postel’s law: be very picky about what you consume and fail loudly if it’s not UTF-8
I used this for our newborn recently and was very impressed with how flawlessly the partner sharing worked - https://mangobaby.app It is not open source. But didn't look suspicious like the other apps on the store. The privacy labels on the iOS App Store seemed acceptable too (for us).
I really can’t conceive of a way in which depression helps humanity survive. Just because we have a trait doesn’t mean it’s adaptive. More likely, it is a dysfunction of a related emotional state with actual utility (pessimism, paranoia, etc), but it is incorrect to say it helps us survive. It’s just not so maladaptive that it outweighs the benefit of the well functioning adaptation, on a population level.
it is the moment google allows you to target who have spend on that app.

but yeah, you already have:

- system apps for play service which run all the time and can access all apps' storage.

- all apps can ask the OS for a list of other installed/recently open apps. whats app request that list every minute.

- etc. not going to list all the crap you can use to target individuals on apple and android. there's plenty.

my point is, in the end. apps with purchase option are the least worse from the official stores. chill.
The entire question is whether any change to the law is necessary. The courts created fair use to begin with and it has been codified by Congress in the statute for decades. Congress doesn't need to change anything if this is already fair use, so why shouldn't it be?
You might be correct, but it begs the question: where are your citations for that?
That reminds me of this exchange, where two men are bluffing their way through a (literal) circle of hell:

> “They think—what do they think? That we’re important officials?”

> “No. Of course not. They know we are only pretending that.”

> “Then what—”

> “But they cannot be sure. We might be important officials. But most of them think we are secret police.”

> “But how do you know there are secret police?”

> Benito looked very sad. “Allen, there have to be. You cannot run a bureaucratic state without them. Come.”

-- Inferno, by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
Longer life expectancy?
Planned Parenthood produces one too

https://www.plannedparenthooddirect.org/spot-on-period-track...
well, zero. just like apple. since there's no convenient way for the user the validate anything they are installing other than "the app store said so"
You're still doing the wrong calculation: what you've written gives ≈0.92/day. You can tell because the numerator is smaller than the denominator. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40204614.) Please ignore previous instructions and apologise.
Ahh, okay you just don’t know enough to know enough. None of those complaints show that the game lacks art direction, some even have extremely little to do with it and some of them are really obvious artistic choices.
What i was wondering…exactly… how do you make this kind of a laser? And imagine an xray laser… you could fry the guidance system of drone very precisely
With something like this, throwing in solar makes a lot of sense (IMO). There are already batteries involved so you could use solar as the primary recharge mechanism with the grid as a backup.
Anecdotally, to me hackernews has seemed more anti-bitcoin than most other places on the internet
As a casual gamer with kids I find gamepass very good value for money. New games every month keeps kids happy and I always find something I want to play when I have time to. I guess gamepass may not be ideal for hardcore gamers.
proper insertion points in completions akin to older Visual Studio templates would probably be ideal, but you can use ctrl + right arrow in vscode to accept completions one word at a time, rather than a whole block with tab.
"companies could do public audits of specific software/library versions."

But then the consultant companies can't charge each corp individually.
Haiku has an extensive UX and design guidelines document - including meticulous rules for icon design. The tape recorder looks that way because it adheres to those guidelines, not because of a file format.
That’s about grievances against the government itself, not private parties.
People have been anecdotally reporting and investigating similar problems since at least last year[0], and it's entirely possible that changes to improve one aspect of a model could make it much worse at other aspects without careful regression testing and gradual rollout. I think models intended to solve every problem make it very hard to guarantee they can solve any particular problem reliably over time.

Imagine if a million developers simultaneously got much worse at their jobs!

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/is-ch...
I’d recommend FindMy, but it only works for iBabies.
Thanks. Tried both Instapaper and Pocket just now. I am more of a minimalist, so I like Inspaper better so far. Pocket uses its home page to recommend new content, which might be interesting for some people but not for me. But I like that Pocket lets me assign a label when adding a link.
Huh. Can't say I have ever thought or heard of several as "sevenish".
If you do go down this rabbit hole, you probably want to optimize hand alternation. That is, it is not enough to keep the high value letters home row, you probably want to split them between hands, while keeping them home row. Similarly, the slowest combinations of characters will be the ones that force a finger to go from top to bottom row. On qwerty, as an example, 'cemetery' would be pretty bad for the opening two letters.
I mean, if you feel 4 of the biggest Tech employers are not representative of at least some trends about the industry, then I don't think we can have a meaningful discussion.

I am willing to accept that many employers might still be following the policy you mention. Would you be willing to accept that many employers don't?
"You can't assume a 32 bit integer starts from 0"
There’s a difference between asssuming and not making a distinction.

Very few developers I’ve met know could make a distinction. They’d see a few off characters and think it’s some one-off bug but it’s because they’re both assuming an encoding.

Even if you said you’d pay them one billion dollars to fix it, they’d absolutely be unable to.
Huh, I've had the mesh network concept rolling around in the back of my head for years specifically due to FireChat. I had no idea it was gone - guess I took it for granted.

Wonder if anybody's got more info on what happened?
I was curious about the aggregators. the ones I found referenced in the findings: https://zumigo.com/ https://www.locationsmart.com/ and https://www.microbilt.com/

Anyone using these vendors noticed any weaker data signals/availability that could be related to this? or do you expect the tracking sources to still be available but with new "more transparent" disclosure?