skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it says that they _do_ train global models with customer data, but they are trying to ensure no data leakage (which will be hard, but maybe not impossible, if they are training with it).

The caveats are for “local” models, where you would want the model to be able to answer questions about discussions in the workspace.

It makes me wonder how they handle “private” chats, can they leak across a workspace?

Presumably they are trying to train a generic language model which has very low recall for facts in the training data, then using RAG across the chats that the logged on user can see to provide local content.
What languages scale better in that regard? Genuinely interested in recommendations.
Fwiw (antidotal) I have 8 shucked WD drives in my my nas approaching 5/6 years worth of power-on hours. Moderate to medium read-mostly use case. No data integrity issues (according to zfs).

Certainly getting near the age where I wouldn't be shocked if I started seeing failures crop up, but I've gotten my savings plenty worth there.
Alas, poor Yorick; I knew him well, Ferris.

(Slightly more seriously, the project to replace the borrow checker was called Polonius[1], so it wouldn't be the first Hamlet reference in Rust land.)

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius
Additionally, I would not expect such “baseline” changes in the minimum RTT to be due to variation in CPU processing time.

These changes are more typical of a physical path change, as suggested by the author.

CPU/soft processing latency would look more like additive noise.

I give some examples of RTT patterns in this talk: https://ripe77.ripe.net/archives/video/2250/
Isn't vandalism an offense in Germany?
Automattic is not publicly traded.
I think wrong block sizes, or, to be more precise, misaligned blocks, affect writes more than reads, so the performance impact will be limited in all common cases. But they will worsen the write amplification and thus shorten the life of your SSD.
In 2023, 12% of Austria's electricity had a nuclear origin [0]. As for the risk of a meltdown, look at a map of reactors in Europe. The reactors Austria is buying that power from aren't much further away from major population centres than Zwentendorf.

[0] https://w3.windmesse.de/windenergie/pm/46044-ig-windkraft-at...
> That is, isn't the whole reason for crypto existing in the first place is that it doesn't depend on governmental backing?

I think the realization here, is that Crypto/Blockchain was competing against the DOJ (or the courts in general) rather than against the US dollar. While the US government/Fed were largely cool about crypto trying to replace the USD (many assets are, anyway), the court seems strict about maintaining it's authority of being the arbiter of who owns what.
Surprised no one has mentioned another great and similar resource called Rustlings [0] (yes very punny name). You are given some files with todo statements which you'll need to fix and make the code compile and pass all the tests. It's an interactive way to learn which is what got me through learning Rust a few years ago.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
That is one very incremental update. Seems about right though as Ruby has enough going in n already
It's not online-only and doesn't talk to the cloud. Here's the workflow:

1. Open a PDF in Firefox (this can be a remote or local file)

2. Make edits

3. Click the save button to save it locally
HN isn't really a bastion of media literacy or tech criticism. If you ever ask "does [some technology] affect [something qualitative] about [anything]", the response on hn is always going to be "technology isn't responsible, it's how the technology is used that is responsible!", asserting, over and over again, that technology is always neutral.

The idea that the mechanism of how people communicate affects what people communicate is a pretty foundational concept in media studies (a topic which is generally met with a hostile audience on HN). Slack almost certainly does play a role, but people who work in technology are incentivized to believe that technology does not affect people's behaviors, because that belief allows people who work in technology to be free of any and all qualitative or moral judgements on any grounds; the assertion that technology does not play a role is something that technology workers cling to because it absolves them of all guilt in all situations, and makes them, above all else, innocent in every situation. On the specific concept of a medium of communication affecting what is being communicated, McLuhan took these ideas to such an extreme that it's almost ludicrous, but he still had some pretty interesting observations worth thinking on, and his writing on this topic is some of the earlier work. This is generally the place where people first look, because much of the other work assumes you've understood McLuhan's work in advance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media
OCR has been a solved problem for years. Long before LLMs started being hyped.

At least from typewritten documents that you did not torch or shred etc.
The first few editions of the “Nuke” music festival were also held there in the early aughts: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke_(Musikfestival)
> they tend to be built further away.

This isn't actually true, historically speaking. When commuting was hard (pre-highway), the wealthy lived where it was most convenient - near street car lines, and close to the productive areas of the city. BUT service workers, laborers, etc still needed to live near-enough to work, so it wasn't 100% any one way. Once society invented a way to travel farther, poor neighborhoods were bulldozed to build highways, and the wealthy moved farther away, and commuted in.

TODAY, inner-city neighborhoods that are far from highways have wealthy people, but well-connected suburbs have wealthy people. The best example of this is (IMO) Cleveland - Shaker Heights, a nice streetcar suburb was all the rage with the well-off before the highways. They don't really have any highways, because of course the wealthy didn't want its damage. Post-highway, towns like Beachwood and Rocky River continue to gain popularity as the streetcars are decommissioned and removed, and wealthy professionals move to commuter cities.
I really identified with that part too. I also really liked what you said about the idea of solving a problem vs making a problem go away. Tell me if you think I'm wrong, but I've always believed that the 4 things those two different philosophies/approaches have in common is that they both require:

1.) elevating others' needs (the problem you're solving) above your own

2.) Sensitivity to others' needs

3.) Earnestness

4.) A world/psychology/personal belief system that's positive sum and collaborative in a global sense (outside of context-dependent contests and competition that are limited in scope).
Best way to make a city look crappier is replace a dirty wall with a dirty window
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Just build it.

China built 10,000km of high-speed lines in six to seven years. The USA went to the moon in 1969 too, but hasn’t been back since... Now we can't even build true high-speed rail from NYC to DC, which would take an hour instead of 4.5h.
Neither is stress. Turns out that's super bad for your health. When I was a kid, I was straight laced and couldn't understand why my parents smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol. After 20+ years of real-world experience, I no longer question it. The world often sucks. Life often sucks. It's much more difficult for me now to begrudge folks the little things they can do to make their lives more bearable.
not the OP but,

I am in my 20s and I use a typewriter somewhat regularly to journal. I was raised on computers, getting the jumble from my brain onto paper is faster with a keyboard than a pen/pencil and paper. And a typewriter is nice and analog - no screen, no lights, no battery. I'm disconnected, focused, and performant.
Similar to WNP3 in Washington state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNP-3_and_WNP-5
Maybe because my first language isn't English but "forged" to me implies card would've been used for access, or at least attempted, and therefore I feel like the title is click-bait. Had it said "fake" instead I would probably not think the same.

That aside, if he hasn't already he should've reported to eBay immediately so the buyer isn't conned.
Aristotle was the smartest guy around. Yes he got almost everything wrong but it took many centuries to find better theories.

Carlo Rovelli: "Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4057
The New Oracles of Generative AI
That's exactly what I'm talking about.

It's a clear import from the American culture here and while I can infer the meaning from the context, I doubt everyone would. Especially considering it's "Folded Hands" and not "Praying" and some sets have a... very strange picture for this emoji: https://emojipedia.org/google/android-5.0/folded-hands

PS holy shit, there is a WikiHow article on it's meaning and how to use it. While there is a lot of stuff on WH, the mere presense of that article adds to my position.

https://www.wikihow.com/What-Does-the-Praying-Hands-Emoji-Me...

https://www.wikihow.com/Category:Emoticons-and-Emojis
It seems I lost my faith in Raspberry Pis a lot sooner than most people. I gave up on them around the RPi3 days because it stopped working with the random chargers I had just laying around my house. I traced the issue back to my power supply having too much voltage ripple, with it still being within the spec for USB. Essentially, I needed to run it with their charger which was built to work better than industry standard.

This, coupled with the mini HDMI ports basically requiring an adapter, means that you more than total the cost of the Pi just in peripherals to get it up and running. It all seems like a waste of money anymore.
There is so much wrong with the faked Red Cross invoice

1) A German date is always written DD.MM.YYYY

2) PLZ not ZIP
3) „Wir danken für ihr Unternehmen“ is a bad translation for „Thank you for your business“ … but it means a complete different thing -> „Thank you for your company“

But I‘m still impressed how much effort this guy put into all this. And I‘m sure my friends would have bought me this badge, because they had no idea it‘s fake.
So it's Pope Julius II's Sistine Chapel and Francesco del Giocondo's Mona Lisa?
> Why/how? If someone "steals" "my" "property" in an online game, I don't get to call the real-world cops on them. Why should it be any different when you dress up your game in a bunch of finance words?

I thought the main difference is that game is operated by a legal entity that is a game company so cops will tell you to complain to Epic or whoever.

Imagine if some game is not operated by a single legal entity and becomes popular enough that many people routinely lose all savings etc, maybe justice system can start intervening in such cases.

But anyway in this case there are so many things wrong about prosecuting one thief for outthieving another thief, I don't even know what is the logic.
Also the same one who is making a new web server framework for Rust called Pavex, which is apparently pretty novel in how it works compared to others like Actix Web and Axum [0][1].

[0] https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/a-taste-of-pavex-rust-web-fr...

[1] https://blog.logrocket.com/using-pavex-rust-web-development/
This is so cool.

"- What do you think about the Roaring Kitty?
- Roaring Kitty? That motherfucker is a legend in the goddamn making. You got this regular-ass dude, Keith Gill, who saw an opportunity and went all in. He shook up Wall Street, and the financial bigwigs didn’t know what hit ‘em. It’s a David versus Goliath story, and this time, David’s packing some serious heat.

Roaring Kitty, a.k.a. DeepFuckingValue, took one look at GameStop, saw the potential, and bet big. He had the balls to stick to his guns when everyone else thought he was nuts. And guess what? He was right. He turned the whole goddamn market on its head, showing those hedge fund assholes that they ain't untouchable.

So, what do I think about him? The guy’s a goddamn inspiration. He showed that with some serious research, conviction, and a pair of brass balls, you can take on the system and make those motherfuckers tremble. Hats off to Roaring Kitty. Keep shaking up the status quo, you magnificent bastard."
Well, it depends. It can be you, your company, a customer, a friend, a SaaS company that asked you to sign a CLA to contribute to their "open-source" project,…
Replit cuts staff by 30 amid aggressive AI push in software development
A 30 year old implementation of the same idea (even slightly better IMHO) can be found in kdb+/ksql/shakti, you can see examples and comparison in https://shakti.com/ (press document, then sql.d - no idea how to link directly). And yes, it is by Arthur Whitney and related to the [in]famous K
Roads and highways are inherently public infrastructure and cars doesn't indicate personal and political freedom. They are just a mean to achieving personal mobility just as trains and bikes are.

Look at China, there are highways and roads and streets filled with cars and traffic congestion.

To say that political and personal freedom indicates why we are stuck in this quagmire is to ignore the role of suffocating zoning regulations and other mechanisms that enforces a car centric worldview of American politicans and planners.
https://archive.is/61JEi
I usually encounter rate limiting when trying to scrape some websites. I was even rate limited when manually browsing a website which considered I am a bot.
consent. same as the difference between a shower and getting caught out in the rain
> If they burn from this use case

No I don't mean from this use case, I mean during operation in a bus full of kids.

> about one combustion school bus fire occurs every day in the US [2] [3], so school bus fires are hardly unusual and one might expect electric propulsion versions to combust less often

EV is obviously safer but one fire in a bus full of kids and right wing will block it for years to come. Go explain them how EVs actually combust less :)
Adding to this, its an ugly mix.

The state tax system heavily penalizes anyone who can't pretend to be a farmer, so you will have people with 'hobby' farms that are valued 3x+ outside of the urban areas who are playing 1/2 or less in taxes than someone with a modest home in the suburbs. Then these areas are then heavily subsidized with schooling, roads, electric and internet services. Which is a feedback loop where those counties won't raise taxes because then they get less funding transfers. Until the recent reset of the tax exemptions its was quite likely most people in the state would have been paying the same or less taxes in California.

The state hates public parks, so the per capita acreage is such that the parks are both way over utilized and nearly impossible to use due to the overwhelming demand for camping/etc on the weekends.

Then one combines the many state inflicted problems with Austin's issues. Like the fact that there is a very strong anti growth lobby the ties everything up in courts. For example that the main interstate highway going through town has been functionality obsolete for 30+ years and any attempts to fix it are stymied at every turn. Then Austin will convert decades old overcapacity four lane roads into two lanes with a rarely utilized bike lane. Or while Austin is unusual that it actually has a lot of in town public land (BCP/etc) the vast majority is closed to the public and any appropriated money is used to fence it off and post no trespassing signs, rather than providing recreational or nature oriented opportunities. And again the anti growth people formed a coalition with the green heads to slice the western part of the city up into sections requiring people who live in those areas to drive miles and miles out of their way to get around the preserves which combine with the lake to form long barriers to direct traffic flow.

Which goes to the general incompetence/fear the city has about road construction, light timing, light rail construction, etc. Leaving bonded projects never being started because they either spend all the money on smaller included projects and never getting to the main one, or waiting a decade+ to break ground and discovering that the project is now 2x-8x the original estimates.

The air quality is some of the worst in the country for $REASONS.

I could go on, but its a _long_ list of issues.
We can all see how effective AI coding assistants are, they are very good.
They save a massive ammount of typing, can convert between different programming languages and even provide reasonable advice on how to structure and organize code, its not a mystery when it is sitting there in your IDE all day.
Do they replace programmers, I doubt it, i think they only accelerate programmers, this level of assistance will open programming up to a much wider pool of people, great time to learn to code.
You're right. Being friends with CEOs has a lot of perks. I gotta hand it to Musk, his personality is such that people are eager to give him intelligence on things.
I honestly think PG&E is going to collapse. It’s $0.49 / kWh here, which means our power bill would be $600-1000 per month if we didn’t have solar.

Full off the grid with propane backup costs less than $80K. ($20K each for panels, batteries, install and generator — I’m wildly overestimating intentionally).

At $600 per month, it takes 11 years for cutting the cord to pay for itself. More realistic estimates lower that to under 5-6 years.

Having said that, there are ecological reasons to give them free electricity from our batteries and excess solar.

However, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s cheaper to just build your own power plant and not do business with them.

Ultimately, someone needs to pay for grid maintenance, and, given the current insane market distortions, there’s hardly any economic incentive for individuals to continue to do so.
> When Europe turns on all it's power switches at the very same time the grid would collapse without Austria.

Would you happen to have a source?
There is also the opposite, as someone who once worked on a larger platform when we enabled rate limits, our first implementations caused issues with the service precisely because so many were hitting the API often enough, that when the rate limits were enabled they functionally expired at the same time for all the heavy users, meaning the service received a crapload of requests at the exact time, followed by a period of very low amount of requests, rince repeat.
> but you say it can also use external libraries? so it does not copy those?

Yes, it only renames files automatically sync'd from your phone. My understanding is it creates a separate metadata file for each external file, but doesn't touch the actual files in an external library.
Digikam
Or you could just write ERP software, secure in the knowledge that the customer organisation will be bent to conform to the ERP model.
It's unclear to me. `traceroute` typically just returns router IPs, so I'm assuming that "the first IP end point behind the Starlink earth station" is the IP address of a router of some sort.
New browser extension empowers users to fight online misinformation
Block-based Coding with Facial Gestures (2021) [video]
A skilled trade, it will be a few decades before the tesla bots start turning up to fix your home heating system.
While words have power too, I'm not driving next to ChatGPT on the freeway where it's going to immediately kill or maim me if it hallucinates.

Besides, only half of HN is all self-driving has to be 100x safer. the other half keeps bringing up the fact that Waymo is here and working, just not everywhere yet.
Great ! The first tip was already helpful, have to dig in.
I'm pretty certain it's an offense in most developed countries.
Couple of days ago I tried converting Britain's wind energy into equivalent barrels of oil per day.

Raw energy it's 130,000 barrels per day. But available energy it's around 350,000 per day. Britain's share of the North Sea oil is something like 1 million barrels/day. Excluding nat gas. That's down from 3 million/day 25 years ago. Notable oil production will continue to decline but wind energy will not.

I also calculated energy in watts per person and it's 130W/person.
I remember that. I was part of the group vocal about how messed up it was. I was at the first summit and it was a blast, took home a couple of those posters. So sad to see what’s happened to it.
On the other side of the view, many of his actions were those of a republican.
> There is a belief that removing graffiti quickly discourages it. If graffiti artists find that their work won't last long, they may be discouraged from doing it in the first place.

Ephemerality is known, understood, accepted, and even leveraged in art. I don't think this is an efficient deterrent, or even a deterrent at all.
Don't believe the hyperbole from the social media outrage machine.

1 in 3 Texans is either an immigrant themselves or the child of an immigrant. The border issues and illegal immigration are concerning to some in the state, but critically 1) Austin is far from the border and mostly unaffected and 2) there is little to no anti-immigration sentiment for legal immigrants even in the other parts of the state.

Austin itself is very LGBT friendly, and even at the state level, the only partisan debates seem to be around trans youth.

Your last point actually highlights Texas' surprisingly progressive education system. Rather than funding being local-only as in many parts of America, Texas has a strong state-level Robinhood system of taking money from wealthy zipcodes to fund schools in less affluent areas, so that all schools receive more balanced funding.

Additionally on the education front, admissions to the state's flagship schools is guaranteed for students in the top 10% of their high school. This policy is a clever hack around explicit affirmative action policies being banned (and was put in place when those were deemed unconstitutional) because it guarantees admission to students who attended lower-performing schools, often from disadvantaged communities.

There's plenty to complain about for the Texas state government, but realistically for most people the issues are more hypothetical than practical. It's not like California doesn't have it's share of governmental incompetence and dysfunction as well.
They don't give any numbers on the amount of resistances to the expansion of the infrastructure, based on noise alone.

This reads like a "we did a cool thing" but without qualitatively demonstrating the merits for the need.
If people (corporations) can't own infinity homes, the price of owning a home goes down.
Why is New York Penn Station so ugly and drab compared to Grand Central even though it’s newer? Even the style of decoration is entirely different and much richer on the older and larger building.

Could it simply be a question of society’s priorities and resourcing? Nah. After all the Americans were a fairly primitive culture primarily known for hamburgers and baseball. Most likely Grand Central was built by aliens or an older Native American culture.