skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically they don't make you sign a release. That's normally only done if they're interviewing you. I've been recorded in protests, had my picture taken with my name in the caption, and been in newspapers and on the (local) news in numerous occasions where they didn't ask me my permission nor did they ask me to sign anything.

If you're in a public place they have the right to record you. Period. A lot of publications/news sites will blur out people's faces but that's not legally necessary.

I was interviewed by a local news station once and they asked me to sign a generic waver that let them display my likeness for the purpose of reporting the news (i.e. the interview). I read the whole thing and it was very short (as far as legal agreements goes... it was only one page). That's the only time I've ever been asked to sign such a thing despite having my likeness recorded so many times (usually in the background during various events).
AI is coming for the professional class. Expect outrage – and fear
You can't control what other people say to you. You can only control how you react. If obvious trolls like this upset you, then you are guaranteed to be miserable. Worse, if you publish troll emails like this and say that's why you got upset, then you are guaranteed to get many more troll emails.

I'm guessing the maintainer has some other stuff going on in his life and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. I hope he overcomes whatever he's going through and winds up more resilient and more content.
I just wish Terraform would let me be a grown up and see sensitive values in an output without going through so many hoops.
You can thank the Reagan Administration for that one. The Department of Transportation had ideological scruples about mandating airbags, and came up with numbers to indicate that raising the drinking age would decrease automotive fatalities by a comparable rate.

Before that, the drinking age was up to the states.
I saw the faking of emotions, and it's already visible in previous LLM and I find that extremely annoying indeed.
I had that realization when I emailed the creators of Erlang [1]. In my mind they were like these rockstars and I was some plebe groveling at their feet, so I was amazed when they replied back extremely politely, fairly quickly no less.

It made me realize that fundamentally these are just people, people generally are helpful and nice, and they also like hearing positive things said about them. It was a good lesson to learn at a fairly young age.

[1] To be clear I was extremely polite, no criticism was tossed their way!
Fun fact, that quote has been entirely misinterpreted.

> He was writing about a tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar. And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War. And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto. Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it.

> It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it's almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means.

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
I'm going to guess it's about ensuring a good experience. Miracast (and a number of other technologies) have shown how varied the user experience can be if there are many different implementations. It's easier to compete on quality with apple's airplay this way. This isn't to say it's not possible to achieve this via other means, but that's probably more costly with little upside.
I would rather be able to see statistics about the domains of the email I receive instead, to see offenders etc. I already created a lot of filters for that, which helps a lot do some cleanup.

Also, I seem to have a lot of attachments, like a lot, and I can't clean them up, because gmail doesn't let me see the datasize clearly.

I downloaded my mail as an export, I think EML, I wanted to build a mail list myself to see attachments with a python script, but I think gmail doesn't export all the metadata of how mail are chained with each other and such.

Unfortunately, I think your extension cannot really do statistics on an existing mailbox, to see a map of mail counts per domain.
And many people have learned to bypass these filters by renaming extensions. You can always zip things up or just rename foo.py to foo.py.pdf

But I understand that there is still reason to filter filetypes. Apparently some programs will run programs if they see certain filetypes... Here's a recent telegram exploit where the user did have to click on the file https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/telegram-pat...
I feel the same way about this being on the front page of HN as I do about school shootings being a guaranteed front-page event in national news:

It's tragic that things like this happen, but posting and discussing the troll's (fake) name, their tirade, and the terrible impact that they had on a maintainer is not going to make things easier for maintainers. On the contrary, it's just going to give copycat trolls inspiration and something to aspire to, a sort of "victory" end game.

The author of that email doesn't care about LDAP, they don't care about JavaScript libraries, they're just a troll. Rule #1 of the internet is "don't feed the trolls".
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The Photos app does have a special hidden album now, and requires biometrics to unlock (or your password).

You can also ask the app to not showcase certain people or photos in features photos / widgets.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-chil...

> A Texas mother who asked her misbehaving eight-year-old son to walk half a mile home through a quiet suburban neighbourhood says her life was upended after she was charged with child endangerment.
Signal supports SMS as well.
Nothing in life is without risk but children need to learn about the risk and what to do to minimize it.
and the very next sentence Alan Kay said was:

"So, the important thing here is that I have many of the same feelings about Smalltalk

…

Part of the message of OOP was, that as complexity starts becoming more and more important, architecture's always going to dominate material.

…

I have apologized profusely over the past 20 years for making up the term object-oriented because as soon as it started to be misapplied I realized I should have used a much more process-oriented term for it.

…

If you had to pick one cause of both particular difficulty in our field, and also general difficulty in the human race, it's taking single points of view and committing to them like they're religions. This happened with Smalltalk."
How do you resolve the declarations for your particular system? Do you run the preprocessor?
The Small Web and Science
If you ask it to complete a limerick and it finishes it differently from the original, but it still works as a limerick is that really a hallucination?
I hope this doesn't become a more widely used repo attack vector: Abuse repo maintainers until one or more fold. Fork the repo and become the New Maintainer That Saves The Day. At a later time, insert attack code.
Wall Street Casino Is Open for Business as Meme Stocks Take Over
I wonder how people have ruled out just iCloud storage not downloading stuff on device for weird reasons. Like were the photos also deleted from iCloud or just on device?
> I visited Florida once and was "mistaken" for a local ... people there immediately assumed I would understand... Spanish

That used to happen to me in Germany, even though my German is limited to "noch ein Bier, bitte." Whereas in France (where I lived as a kid and used to have native fluency), people would immediately switch to English. I asked one Frenchman, "why?" The answer was, "You sound French but you look Australian or maybe South African." "No, I'm American." "That can't be; Americans don't speak French like that."
I relied on this project heavily at a past organization when the original maintainer was just leaving it to wither. They worked at Joyent if I remember and assuredly their work on that was decommissioned. I remember when James took it over, it was rejoiced to finally have some PRs landing again!
I haven’t thought about ldapjs in a long time, and it’s sad to see this stuff happen. Hope you’re well otherwise James!
An anecdote:

My neighbor came into my yard and threatened to call the police on me because my 14-year-old-at-the-time son was up on our roof helping me. I went to grab a tool we left on the other side of the roof and she "panicked because I left him by himself and he could have fallen off and died".

In comparison to when I was a kid: my siblings and I would get the ladder to climb up on the roof when my parents weren't home. One time my sister thought it would be funny to steal the ladder, so I jumped down from the roof and chased her. I was 11-years-old at the time.

I grew up in a rural area. My kids in an urban area.

I've also jumped down from that roof several times. I probably could have died.
If Apple wants to train some AI model, using the photos and documents on everyone's iPhone/iPad would be very convenient. People will have their privacy violated and potentially their lives destroyed, but the ends (maximizing shareholder value) justify the means.

Alternatively, maybe this is just a stupid way to try to push people into buying more overpriced iCloud storage? There's no way those pictures survived "years" on the disk without being overwritten and somehow were accidentally restored with an update.
Not that inexpensive - that's a $12000 lens with a nearly 6" aperture. The telescope itself is a fairly specialized instrument. It's more like a redundant array of very fast (for a telescope) lenses. From the paper: "Our primary goal is to test predictions that at very low surface brightness levels galaxies display a wealth of structures that are not seen at higher surface brightness levels." (But yes, the lenses are going to be cheaper from Canon than the tubes would be from a specialized telescope maker).
I don't think anyone is suggesting it is not the trolls fault, but the internet is fundamentally an unpolicable place so I'm unsure what the value of assigning 'fault' even is.

There are 7 billion people and at minimum, tens of millions of them are massive assholes and idiots.
It sounds like they had a foot out the door on this project anyway.

You make a point that we shouldn't just cave to any Jerk that comes along and used your code, which makes some sense. There is a silent user majority that appreciates these projects (or doesn't think enough about them). I'd advocate saying thanks, but if everyone did that might be a time suck for the developer, so maybe use the "star" if on github, or contribute if that is an option.
> I think this is a terrible idea, as well as probably illegal. Unlike most people in the Bay Area, I think formalized safety and efficacy trials are a must for health products. In fact, I told Aaron Silverbook this when he asked me for my advice about his product last fall.

No one is going to want to consult you, if you might blog about it, attacking them by name, so... if it was serious enough to burn professional bridges, why not go to the FDA, an Attorney General, a public health authority, an academic-professional society or journal, a Congressperson, or some other channel more official and credible than Substack?
If anything, in my opinion, the more runway they have, the better chances to actually hit an inflexion point in AGI development. But maybe you're right.
To clarify, instead of building a strong company with a strong workforce as was the historical norm in the USA during it's prosperous times, companies 'invest' in stock buybacks, which do NOTHING to strengthen the company, their sole purpose is to manipulate the company's stock in the short term.

Forget workers rights, we all need to 'unionize' (work in union) to eliminate stock buybacks and get them reclassified as stock manipulation like there were prior to Ronald Reagan's presidency. If companies want to 'give money away' with respect to stocks, they can issue dividends, which changes to dynamics of the stock market (Prosperous pre-1980s America's 'I buy a company because it will be strong long term and pay me dividends' versus enshitified 2024 American stock market's 'I buy stocks for short term one time capital gains at the expense of all else').

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/stock-buy...
Continuing membership requires recurring payment not "one-time payment".
This smells similiar to the XZ thing -- demoralize / beret the maintainer and get them to step down
I suggest using shame to leverage yourself into quitting. It's fallen out of favor in our society, but shame really should be a powerful motivator.

I used it to quit smoking tobacco, quit drinking, and quit a 20+ habitual marijuana habit. I use shame to make myself do that extra bit of work in the evenings after my family has gone off to bed. Shame has plenty of good uses if leveraged properly.
So much for all those Congressional hearings and SEC investigations in 2021. What was the point? I assumed that there would be more restraint but Kitty is tweeting up a storm again.
What if there was a large scale fraud on the exchange, and shares that were supposed to be owned by a person or fund were "owned" by several different people at once.

Or can someone provide a reason that's impossible?

Bearing in mind I've personally seen screwups with processing thousands of credit card transactions with a software update.
Have you noticed any correlation between how hungry you are and how fast motion sickness kicks in?
Been on HomeKit and devices compatible with it for >5 years and I’ve not had any issues except maybe when there was the migration to thread(?).
I don't understand your point.

Bill Gates pays a lot more taxes than you do, and contributes greatly more to those same roads and schools.

You were blocked from accessing that farmland before Bill Gates bought it, and regardless of who bought it, you would still be blocked from accessing it.

There is plenty of farmland for sale in the US, if you were considering buying it yourself.
This was the norm about a decade ago. When I was at Hulu, we built our own analytics platform on top of Hadoop, we almost certainly wouldn't have done that today with the amount of off-the-shelf stuff available.

Even things like protobuf or Avro weren't as broadly adopted (>80%) at the time, many many companies at the time persisted stuff using JSON or other text formats (which in retrospect was very dumb, but it was very normal for a while).
Very interesting work! I'm curious how you handle loops/recursion? I imagine the `M` monad seen in the examples has a special primitive for loops?
I recall some folks did interviews with mass shooters in jail. They came up with a list of things they knew mass shooters DID NOT like in the media after a shooting, and things they did like. They sent some suggestions to news organizations and some have adopted them. They're not hiding information, but they are altering exactly how they covey it. Some of the suggestions were IIRC:

1. Limit how often you say the shooters name, don't give details about any manifestos / letters and etc from the shooter.

2. Avoid playing lots of video / audio of screaming / chaos.

3. Tell stories about the victims, give their names often, tell their story.

4. Tell stories about people supporting each other, the community responding and coming together.

Honestly, it makes for better news too IMO.
"hey reminder that" does make a difference, but that difference is invisible because it's exclusively in the form of incidents that did not happen. Remember that everyone reading the comment is a human too and some will be receptive. Good is good.
Not at all. The fact that it's hard to change yourself is itself part of the resistance against manipulation. It's a second layer of defense. Even if someone is able to manipulate your explicit beliefs, they still aren't able to manipulate your behaviour.
no, because i know that internet costs money. when its free, then its me who paying it with my data. Please go and fish elsewhere.
This is roughly The Elm Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(programming_language)#The...
Yup, here's the study [0]!

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10295630/
Durable Objects
The Design and Implementation of the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (Bind) Server
Share the blog post?

I remember in my 2005 high school political science class proposing fake legislation to require ID to go on the internet.

For the past 20 years I’ve shuttered at how awful an idea that would be and how naive I was as a kid.

But now I am curious how all of the externalities would play out.
This kind of a setup of a large number of small, cheap detectors works well for observing diffuse objects with low surface brightness. Generally speaking telescopes improve with size because larger telescopes can resolve smaller objects, so you can concentrate the light from your source into a smaller patch and increase the signal-to-noise with respect to the background. But once you have resolved the object (which doesn't require a very large diameter for a diffuse object) you no longer get any benefit from a larger telescope except for the greater light collecting power. So there's no benefit to having a single large mirror vs a large number of smaller detectors. Since it's a lot easier and cheaper to just buy a bunch of off the shelf components rather than build a large mirror from scratch that is what they did here.

A friend of mine in grad school worked on a project that is similar in spirit called ASAS-SN. It also used off the shelf cameras but distributed them around the world so that they could detect supernovae and other transients. Because everything was off the shelf they could build out their network on a shoestring budget. I think they're the first to discover the vast majority of all bright supernovae these days.
Is the reason the nosy neighbors or the child protection services? I mean if you aren't doing anything wrong, child protection services won't do anything regardless of people calling them.

Disclaimer: I am not in the USA nor have experience living there.
"This is a significant move for Google in opening up its smart home platform, following shutting down its Works with Nest program back in 2019."

Unless it will continue to work after Google discontinues the product[1],
no way.

Related dead Google products:

- Nest Secure

- Google Home Max

If it's not about ads, Google will kill it.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
Yup! Here's one study [0]!

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12747455/
Two sides of the enterprise coin.
Even if you agree with the sentiment of the statement, "get over it" is a shitty platitude pretending to be advice.
Well then it's both?
> This is the kind of thinking that gives a free pass to entrenched patterns of discrimination and targeted hate speech

What do you suggest? This is basically unpolicable in a world with anonymous ways of getting people to see text.
It's the End of Google Search as We Know It
I think of it more as a general observation: the people who maintain open source projects that must deal with the public must have thick skin, or they won't last. Acknowledging that there are and will always be assholes like the email writer in the world is not to excuse their behavior. It's great to call out shitty behavior and try to get rid of it, but it will always be around at some low level, that's the reality.
Asynchronous INSERTs are available in the open-source ClickHouse version and in ClickHouse Cloud. The feature is independent of the Cloud.

To enable asynchronous INSERTs, set `async_insert` to true.

Here is the documentation: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/optimize/asynchronous-inserts ; intro: https://clickhouse.com/blog/asynchronous-data-inserts-in-cli... and a hands-on guide: https://clickhouse.com/blog/monitoring-asynchronous-data-ins...
The 2nd most visited GenAI website is character ai.

The net sum of all LLM B2C usecases (effectively Chatgpt) is competing with AI girlfriends for rank 1.

It isn't just huge. It is the most profitable usecase for gen AI.

"A goal of a system is what it does"
Tangential - I just want a decent (financial transaction) Table to text conversion that can retain the table structure well enough (e.g. merged cells) and have tried everything under the sun short of fine tuning my own model, including all the multimodal LLMs. None of them work very well without a lot of prompt engineering on case by case basis. Can this help? How can I set it up with a large number of pdfs that are sorted by type and extract tabular information? Any other suggestions?
Wikipedia has an entire article for helping to understand what "AGI" refers to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
HBase is coming up on twenty years old.

In 2008, scaling was really hard. And the senior engineers at that point had been badly burned by trying to scale during the 2000-2005 period.

The comment about servers of the time being less powerful than smart phones of today is spot on.
It was about JavaScript!
This doesn't appear to be working on Safari desktop either.
When the whole celebrity nude leak thing happened a while back, my first instinct was to victim blame: "Why on earth would you do that? Upload your nudes to the Internet (iCloud)? Are you insane?" But, the UI absolutely doesn't help: It's not even remotely clear that when you take a photo, it's not going into some private library, but it's instead being uploaded. So you kind of have to have some sympathy. I'm sure a lot of people are fooled by this.
I use the open source Home Assistant software as the hub, keep everything local on my network and only buy devices that can use non-cloud, open protocols. This is the only way to ensure you keep control and won't someday get sold out or bricked.

The open ecosystem around smart home has matured a lot in the last couple of years and Home Assistant now has millions of active users. There are also a wide variety of inexpensive sensors, switches, plugs, etc which come pre-installed with open source firmware like Tasmota and EspHome (example: https://www.athom.tech/tasmota). You won't find them at Best Buy or local stores but they're plentiful on Amazon, EBay and, of course, AliExpress.

To the extent companies like Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung choose to support open, local-first standards I'll consider their devices as input and output nodes, however, I'll never let them be the central controller. There are now enough savvy open-only, local-first users that many of the Shenzen-based device makers have realized it's a profitable market segment and have given up trying to enforce their cloud-based apps. So we now have plenty of alternatives to the companies who only want users to be subscribers or eyeballs for ads.
>Are the only concrete examples a seven year old walking to school by themselves and wearing snow boots sometimes?

It's a much broader thing culturally from my experience well up into adult age. When I was in uni a little bit more than 10 years ago (in Germany) we used to have quite a few American expats and they behaved like kids too. Over here people can drink when they're 16, when they're 18 they move into a shared flat, do their laundry, cook their food etc. The American students were all into dorm life, couldn't handle booze, couldn't cook often, etc. American schools and colleges seem like daycare centers in comparison to education here.

I don't buy the argument that this is just about transit or environment or safety. US life seems very "on rails" all the time straight up into adulthood.