skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A semi-related surprising fact I only learned recently is that the ultra-long nose of Japanese bullet trains is not for aerodynamics, but to reduce noise. Specifically, "tunnel boom."

Random source:
https://www.jrpass.com/blog/why-shinkansen-bullet-trains-no-...
It always seemed like loosing bet to implement a startup purely on top of the OpenAI apis. If you do that you have zero moat.
Dunno dude. If my bank is robbed there’s no real impact to me - all the money is insured. If someone graffitis my house then it looks horrible and I have to spend time and money cleaning it up.
I love that the "Authors" section just lists "OpenAI". For a split second, I thought it was written entirely by ChatGPT :)
I don’t think you can dismiss the aesthetic concerns. Many people consider the natural beauty around them to be a core part of their living experience. Like with offshore wind farms - if you take coastlines and dot them with wind farms, it does hurt that beauty and experience in a meaningful way. And if you’ve been near them, they produce immense and constant noise that is hard to ignore. There will definitely be effects from that on marine life, as boat noise also affects them. Many of the things you listed like telephone wires or roads don’t make noise, so it’s not the same trade off, and they are in places we expect nature to be displaced.
> asking for a sudden government oversight in the system that was built with the express goal of not requiring any government oversight.

Clearly, it has failed at that goal. This should not be surprising in the slightest.

Government gunna govern.
Great, so instead of conversing with someone new, we're now conversing with Clive Weaving?
NYT: How to Track President Trump (2019)
> In particular, the malicious proposer constructed their own block that broke the sandwich bots’ sandwiches up and effectively stole their money.

Deep cognitive disonnance or do these people really think they have enshrined privilege now?
These are fun questions and demonstrate interesting behaviours in JavaScript. Something I noticed compared to a decade ago when I anxiously thought I needed to know all these kinds of quirks: they’re pretty much all made irrelevant by using TypeScript.
>and I idolized musk in those days so I ate it up...

may I ask why?

it's a genuine question.

he proved himself as a certain kind of dot-com bro back in original-X days, his behavior seemingly stayed consistent with his history.

what changed? the miss-steps with Tesla? lying about future capability? the celebrity romances? the goofy attention-seeking child names? the drug stuff? the employee abuse? the local government black-mail and manipulation via geography threats? the 'founder' title within the companies he bought after encountering far later? the apartheid comments? the emerald thief dad who disaagrees with everyone else accounts' of Elon's upbringing?

the guys' a crook -- but he's a crook at face value, just follow him throughout any of his history or his past to realize that.

Why the surprise?
Synology updated this policy back in March (Happened to be a Friday afternoon).

Services Data Collection Disclosure

"Synology only uses the information we obtain from technical support requests to resolve your issue. After removing your personal information, we may use some of the technical details to generate bug reports if the problem was previously unknown to implement a solution for our products."

"Synology utilizes the information gathered through technical support requests exclusively for issue resolution purposes. Following the removal of personal data, certain technical details may be utilized for generating bug reports, especially for previously unidentified problems, aimed at implementing solutions for our product line. Additionally, Synology may transmit anonymized technical information to Microsoft Azure and leverage its OpenAI services to enhance the overall technical support experience. Synology will ensure that personally identifiable information, such as names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, IP addresses and product serial numbers, is excluded from this process."

I used to just delete privacy policy update emails and the like but now I make a habit of going in to diff them to see if these have been slipped in.
Rust's "all strings must be valid UTF-8" rule allows them to remove a bounds check in their "get the Unicode code point corresponding to a byte index in the string" function. Like, if you see a byte in the string that indicates it's the start of a 3-byte character, you don't have to worry about whether you'll have a buffer overrun when you try to read the following two bytes.

As far as I know that's pretty much the only memory-safety-related benefit of that rule, and it's probably a wash since you still need to do that check at some other point in your program to safely construct a &str from non-constant string data.

The impression I get from Rust people is that UTF-8 str is mostly about purity for purity's sake, and any performance improvement is at best a minor side benefit.
What's the embedded-energy cost in wind energy?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from...

My general argument is for us to convert far less energy in the first place, not to delude ourselves that we can tech our way into increasing our usage without significant environmental impact.
There's a difference between statistics informing logical reasoning and statistics being used as a replacement for logic.

Running a red light can be perfectly logical. In the mathematics of logic there is no rule that you must obey the law. It can be a calculated risk.

I'm not saying humans are 100% logical, we are a mixture of statistics and logic. What I'm talking about is what we are capable of VS what LLM's are capable of.

I'll give an example. Let's say you give me two random numbers. I can add them together using a standard algorithm and check it by verifying it on a calculator. Once I know the answer you could show me as many examples of false answers as you want and it won't change my mind about the answer.

In LLMs there is clear evidence that the only reason it gets right answers is those answers happen to be more frequent in the dataset. Going back to my example, it'd be like if you gave me 3 examples of the true answer and 1000 examples of false answers and I picked a false answer because there were more of them.
Enhancing Kubernetes workload isolation and security using Kata Containers
> In particular, the malicious proposer constructed their own block that broke the sandwich bots’ sandwiches up and effectively stole their money.

Deep cognitive disonnance or do these people really think they have enshrined privilege already? Because I don't think they mean to imply that their own sandwhich bots are "effectively stealing" from traders and other bots as part of normal operations...
I found this great link from Intel [1]. Apologies for my poor formatting of the table.

| Memory _| Size __| Latency| Bandwidth

| L1 cache | 32 KB _| 1 ns _| 1 TB/s

| L2 cache | 256 KB | 4 ns _| 1 TB/s

| L3 cache | 8 MB+ | 10x L2 | >400 GB/s

| MCDRAM | ______| 2x L3 | 400 GB/s

| DDR DIMMs| 4 GB-1 TB| 2x L3 | 100 GB/s

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
> Data will not leak across workspaces.

> If you want to exclude your Customer Data from helping train Slack global models, you can opt out.

I don't understand how both these statements can be true. If they are using your data to train models used across workspaces then it WILL leak. If they aren't then why do they need an opt out?

Edit: reading through the examples of AI use at the bottom of the page (search results, emoji suggestions, autocomplete), my guess is this policy was put in place a decade ago and doesn't have anything to do with LLMs.

Another edit: From https://slack.com/help/articles/28310650165907-Security-for-...

> Customer data is never used to train large language models (LLMs).

So yeah, sounds like a nothingburger.
When someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!
Someone connected Windows XP to the internet, and it didn't survive long
Graffiti makes world more beautiful the same way as ads do.

It is a vandalism and you shouldn't normalize it.
As temporarily embarassed startup founders the VCs we talk to are constantly asking us about our moat in order to secure investment.
Welcome to the White-Collar Recession
Why not just replace a gas range with an induction one?
This timing is responsive to public opinion, and in fact is still even risky for Biden. The problem is that while marijuana legalization carries a modest majority, that’s split between the parties. As of 2024, over a quarter of Democrats still oppose legalizing marijuana for recreational use: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/03/26/most-america....

That makes any national movement on marijuana risky for Biden. Biden cannot win reelection without winning a super majority of Hispanics, the majority of whom oppose recreational marijuana. Maybe Biden figures he’s cooked in Arizona and Nevada anyway, and this is his play for cross-pressured voters in whiter than average states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, where abortion has been flipping many Obama-Trump voters back lately.

But zooming out, this phenomenon will exist in any representative democracy with political parties. A policy with 57% support that carries an overwhelming majority of one party has a much better chance than a policy with 57% split between the parties.
I'd love to see this for finance statements and data.

Is anyone working on this?
I love driving by the actual farms that are also wind farms. There are a bunch of them driving between San Jose and LA - just endless huge fields of cabbage or whatever overseen by giant wind turbines.

Also seeing rows of them along ridgelines feels very cool.
I Cmd+F'd "mono" and got no hits. Then I exited the page.
Here's a recent talk of someone experimenting with SIMD to optimize the Zig parser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiUKafPs0U
"Hey there gorgeous! Do you want me to analyse your tables? ;)"
But in a bank robbery you’re taking someone else’s property no no no do not have a moral philosophy argument on HN in conclusion, that’s why a Georgist land value tax is one of the most economically efficient forms of taxation.
You are way underestimating the difficulty there. Most often the actual column does not have a detailed description somewhere so the llm is going to have to understand your entire codebase including whatever is logging the column and what that log actually means. Open AI has been trying to do this for 5+ years in various forms.
There's plenty of people saying that, they're not serious scholars but they're people. From aliens did it to a race of white people travelled the world and shared their technology before a cataclysmic flood.
The article is commentating on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w
can you bring the birds back though?
Most houses in Germany are not covered in graffiti.
> Do you have a source for this?

I'm not talking about Keffals here. What I am talking about was reported in a newspaper but is common knowledge to longtime NYC2600 folks.
Intentionally gimp it: if you want M2, that will be $100 more, 4K is version-locked but you can buy the unlock code for only $49. It default ships with an OS that contains ads, but you can "unlock" that too, for only $60, but hurry this is a one-time price, it's sure to go back up to $100 any day now. Gee, for some reason (after the security update), there's this "bug" where SD card speeds cap out at a max of 12Mbps (USB 2.0) , the engineers are working on a fix, but in the mean time you can get around it because the rPi-branded SD cards are running at the full 3.0 speed, better be safe than sorry.
They grow back by themselves.
There are plenty of alternatives to wind turbines. There are very few or no alternatives to the others you mentioned, especially in rural areas.

Even so, when a community has enough funding, they will often implement such things with additional aesthetic considerations- running wires underground, adding decorative touches or using more expensive materials for sidewalks, adding greenery to roadways such as planting flowers or trees, etc.

As for gas stations and stores, every business has local codes it has to obey, which in some areas may include the visual appearance of the building, the square footage and so on.

If a community chooses not to do these things, it is usually to save money or avoid discouraging new businesses from coming in (i.e. by requiring expensive brickwork facades).

In any case, yes, aesthetics are always a consideration.
One of the reasons I like computers is that they let me do things I couldn't do before even if others could without computers. I mean, think about the revolution in desktop publishing in the 1980s -- a person could use software to make a nice looking brochure or even a full book without any typesetting knowledge. And people were excited by it. They didn't say "You horrible person! You are trying to destroy the livelihoods of professional typesetters!", which I'd imagine would be the response if desktop publishing was invented now.
How are you going to defeat a drone swarm with a 50bmg rifle or dumb mines?
These aren't built in a city, where most people will be staring at them. They are in remote areas.

I'd also argue that they are awesome, quietly spinning giants in the distance. Although maybe that wears off if you constantly live near one.

Cell towers and oil wells are allowed to be built wherever by a landowner and are both eyesores, yet were built anyway.
Argentine government logged April budget surplus of nearly $20M
California also experiences rolling blackouts each summer - and lately turns off the power when it's too hot, wind blows too hard, wind doesn't blow enough, etc.

It's incredibly unreliable for biggest state in the union. But... we can sure pick a couple ultra-rare events and say "see, wind works" when it in fact does not.
This is my point above 100%. The government has been the sole source of these problems and now is desperate to solve them, steamrolling people without compensation.

The same, in my opinion, with inflation. Inflation has been caused by government monetary policy being too loose for three decades and effectively neutering its anti-competition authorities, but now they are getting tough on grocers as if the grocers are both the sole cause of the problem (false!) and that they made the problem in a vacuum (false!).

I have historically been extremely liberal, voting Liberal or NDP (even more liberal than the Liberals for those outside Canada) my whole life. The last few years of seeing our Liberal government fumble the ball so badly and point at everyone but the government itself (left and right governments of the current and past!) has made me realize the truth of the Reagan quote “government isn’t the solution to your problems, it is the source of your problems”.

Hayek’s Nobel speech on the pretence of knowledge is as accurate as ever.
I made a Shortcut that drops the white point, turns on the red filter, zeroes the audio and turns down the brightness. On wake-up it reverses these.

It’s attached to an automation for sleep and wake focus it works really well. I added an explicit run requirement for wake so that I could sleep in without getting blasted in the face with white. There’s a notification with a run button which I can wait until I’m truly up to hit.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4bcfd8fc02074316aaae3503d07...
The software industry (I include myself here) is so incredibly crappy that it's easier to change the basics of English than write decent programs.
Gitlab 17.0 Release
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote jobs at 300 companies
That doesn’t invalidate what the parent said though. Unpaid internships do filter out people who need a paycheck to survive.
It would be easier to compile a list of companies that don't do this.

The list:
You don't pipe the data directly through an LLM with this tool - it writes Python code that manipulates the data.

So this will handle millions of rows of data quite happily. I've used it extensively with SQLite in the past - you can upload SQLite databases to it and have it run SQL against them. You can also ask it to save data to SQLite for you to download.
Loop works well, is widely used, also available in Emacs Lisp and comes with zero dependencies. For these reasons, I don't see this gaining much traction.

Anecdote: In almost 20 years of CL usage, I've never needed an extensible iteration construct. I also find 'loop' a lot more readable than 'iterate' [1], another fad that has come and gone.

[1] https://iterate.common-lisp.dev
Many more birds will be harmed by unchecked climate change than wind farms.
There are no data leaks in Ba Sing Se.
Until this gets implemented in an open source AI chat UI, and now it doesn't matter what model you're using it with.
I find the 'hero' photo fascinating, of the aircraft lined up quite closely under construction. The closeness, the apparent temporary nature of the equipment nearby, the lack of there being a 'line'. Then it struck me perhaps the planes are stationary, while the 'line' moves around them. Can anyone shed any light?
Now they just need to be on time.
Yeah I think that's it. You can place the cursors arbitrarily with Ctrl+mouse3 in editors like VSCode, ST3, IIRC. Multiple cursors in one line is a scenario I don't think visual block would be great for. I say this as an nvim user who uses macros and will occasionally copypaste a block into VSCode just if i'm feeling lazy and want to multicursor something.
Aplazo is using buy-now-pay-later to pursue financial ubiquity in Mexico
These projects don't need to take 10+ years to complete, and don't need to cost what they cost.

Decades of fearmongering and NIMBYISM have created an artificial environment.
Tried going through the onboarding sample project from within VS-Code locally… I know, you suggest trying it in the Github Browser, but, hey, I'm perverse and it's available as an option within the extension.

It's not at all clear from the documentation or the onboarding notes how to seed a SQLite in-memory database and the CSVs in the `seeds` directory are sometimes referred to in the sample schemas, but sometimes not. So, kinda got stuck.

I know if I stuck with it (I got impatient), I'd figure it out myself, but it does seem to be a missing element in the docs.

Looks fascinating, though.

Kinda like Elixir LiveBook, but focussed on DBs.
They're saying they won't train generative models that will literally regurgitate your text, my guess is classifiers are fair game in their interpretation
What you call usury is also a government caused problem. It’s almost like 30+ year amortizations and ultra low interest rates… weren’t good for affordability. But now everyone but the government itself is the cause of this issue (in the government’s humble opinion). Blame immigrants, developers, AirBNB, investors… anyone but government! And if you must blame government, blame some other level of government!
https://w0.peakpx.com/wallpaper/697/794/HD-wallpaper-graffit...

You don't get to tell me what I find beautiful.
They might occupy more space but I still think most people would opt to live X miles from the center of a wind/solar farm than a coal plant. Mildly bad aesthetics vs breathing in heavy metals...
Seems like Google is mostly caught up.
Graffiti is about 20 to 30 times better than ads brother.
The results from playing with this are really bizarre: (sorry, formatting hacked up a bit)

To calculate
7^1.83
, you can use a scientific calculator or an exponentiation function in programming or math software. Here is the step-by-step calculation using a scientific calculator:

Input the base: 7
Use the exponentiation function (usually labeled as ^ or x^y).
Input the exponent: 1.83
Compute the result.
Using these steps, you get:

7^1.83 ≈ 57.864

So, 7^1.83 ≈ 57.864

Given this, and the recent announcement of data analysis features, I’m guessing the GPT-4o is wired up to use various tools, one of which is a calculator. Except that, if you ask it, it also blatantly lies about how it’s using a calculator, and it also sometimes makes up answers (e.g. 57.864 — that’s off by quite a bit).

I imagine some trickery in which the LLM has been trained to output math in some format that the front end can pretty-print, but that there’s an intermediate system that tries (and doesn’t always succeed) to recognize things like “expression =” and emits the tokens for the correct value into the response stream. When it works, great — the LLM magically has correct arithmetic in its output! And when it fails, the LLM cheerfully hallucinates.
I don’t care at all why they do it. I don’t care if they hate that they’re doing it. If they do the things I want and don’t do the things I don’t want then, well, that’s pretty good.

Also of note: Donald Trump could’ve done this to score some coolness points in his re-election year, and he didn’t.
Transmission lines absolutely do make noise. Plenty of smaller scale power line elements can also hum.

For anyone complaining about offshore wind (which is way the hell off in the distance) it may be worth considering that the alternative is those houses and beaches on the shore cease to exist in the future if we don't build the turbines.
>What are the worst case inattentive behaviors that are allowed?

I understand why you're asking, but it's terrifying that there are people who would gamble other people's lives with the answer to this question.
Here we are back in the 1970s: Detroit, having grown fat and lazy on years of profits from their tubby, inefficient land yachts, sits ill-prepared for the arrival of an ambitious foreign competitor with svelte, economical products.
I also find the word "Slack" in that interesting. I assume they mean "employees of Slack", but the word "Slack" obviously means all the company's assets and agents, systems, computers, servers, AI models, etc.

I would find even a statement from Signal like "we can't access our users content" to be tenuous and overly-optimistic. Like, when I heard the word "can't" my brain goes to: there is nothing anyone in the company could do, within the bounds of the law, to do this. Employees at Slack could turn off the technical measures preventing this from occurring. Employees at Signal could push an app update which side-channels all messages through to a different server, unencrypted.

Better phrasing is "Employees of Slack will not access the underlying content".
How could this possibly comply with European "right to be forgotten" legislation? In fact, how could any of these AI models comply with that? If a user requests to be forgotten, is the entire model retrained (I don't think so).
Recently, I saw that Google has partnered with Reddit to bring more amazing content that never happened before[1]. However, on SEO, Reddit ranks #1 compared to other websites for any startup. Now, with this partnership, it's so confusing how Openai and Google will use the user's data to farm posts for engagement[2].

[1] https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/expa...
[2] https://openai.com/index/openai-and-reddit-partnership/
Is it possible to cheaply canonicalize UTF-8? Or is a full parse/validation unavoidable if all you need to do is a substring search?

I suppose you could also generate all byte sequences that encode the desired substring and do an NFA-to-DFA trick to search in linear time.
Yeah, mobile devices are still hardware bottlenecked for a lot of apps.
We're talking about public property here. Many authorities have a 'no tolerance' approach to graffiti. Even if it looks nice, it will be removed. 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. Aesthetics doesn't really come into it.