skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guess you think Penneys/Primark is luxury as well in that case...

Regardless, more insightful information would be very welcome here rather than hyperbole.
Reddit Stock Soars After Company Inks Partnership with ChatGPT Owner OpenAI
Thank you for the suggestion. While not quite as good as preview this seems way bettet than using Microsoft Edge for working with .pdfs on Windows.
Previous discussion when he was arrested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32436413
Sorry I don't do youtube anecdotes.

I think you missed my point, my fault. Passenger trains and individual train cars do indeed weigh considerably less than fully loaded freight. So yes....its not nothing but they are easily double the weight. Leading to my point that when you are 2.5x+ the weight, its a different engineering problem along with an issue of economics.

Freight cars are not loud only because of age but also because of weight and the challenges on both engineering and cost to remedy it. It is hard to compare a passenger train with a freight train, entirely different beasts.
Ah just ctrl-c was it? Sometimes I just think way too difficult. Keep up the good work!
I thought it said ->read_iter() and ->write_iter()?
High status leads to increased happiness–sometimes
By 2027, the NYPD drone program will be repurposed to checking for unauthorized grills, having failed at being a "first responder" to real crime.

What is a drone supposed to do? Take a witness statement? Run into someone who is stealing something? A big part of the deterrent of the police is that threat of violence. A drone telling you "your crime has been recorded now wait for us to arrest you" will work for a few days on the intimidation factor.
Sometimes it feels like the NYPD's mission is to keep their officers in cars as long as possible.
To be fair, this was a university research team. Literally, a team of folks who can, all day everyday, iterate over a single topic using the Scientific Method.

If you were paid by a big company to sit at a whiteboard all day with a team of equally intelligent engineers, I'm sure you'd be come up with SOMETHING that would look like an "outside the box" solution to the rest of the world.

However, most of us are paid to work the JIRA factory line instead, which limits the amount of time we can spend experimenting on just one single problem.
I did read about this. Not most know about this.
Is that some sort of zoning thing in NYC? I know a county around me is already using drones to check for structures/additions that aren't listed for tax purposes.
Agreed, it is useful for both speaker and listener because it sets context. But that’s also why LLM’s are promoted to do the same.
Literally the comment they are replying to.
Is waiting a moment for hot water to fill the pipes really so inconvenient?
Faster linking times on nightly on Linux using `rust-lld`
Defining a colour is a perversely difficult task. Does the RAL system offer anything unique? Wikipedia tells us it is based on the CIELAB and expresses color in terms of it's hue, saturation and lightness. But does it have any advantage over (for example) the Munsell color space? Or is the difference between the two just a cultural thing, like Celsius and Fahrenheit?

Hue is the beast in the box. How many other natural phenomena are expressed as terms, not degrees of intensity?

I often imagine how much simpler color science would be if humans did not possess the ability to perceive hue difference. Indeed color would likely be perceived as too simple a phenomenon to warrent scientific enquiry.
Top comment aged like milk:

> Wow, just wow. Am i alone in thinking this is not going to fly if all he did was write some software that helps with your financial anonymity? There must be more. Perhaps he also deployed it? That would be a different story. The article is quite murky in that regard. Perhaps they don't know yet

Code isn’t law. The law is the law. If you enable the crime willfully, you are a party to it.
Inching ever closer to OCP taking over NYPD
Advanced object oriented design and development with Pharo
Nice. It appears it will be launched an advanced version of the Pharo MOOC. The original MOOC can be accessed at https://mooc.pharo.org/
In kindergarten you can grow a bunch of interlocked small crystals. It's difficult to make a nice big one, as a sibling comment complains.

(We made a big one in high school, but it was AlK(SO4)2 instead of NaCl. They have a different shape. I'm not sure if they have other properties that make it easier. Kids may drink or eat it, I'm not sure if AlK(SO4)2 is safe enough for kindergarten. It was a side project that took a few month.)

The article here is the "advanced" version that is necesary to make big crystals. These kind of stuff usualy get traction here since forever, so it's not surprising that it got to the front page (multiple times). (Bonus points for nice photos.)
It's... neat? But I'm struggling to think of what the applications of this would actually be. 2D artwork usually doesn't have a consistent 3D space, which they acknowledge, but they don't seem to have overcome that problem in any useful sense. The scenes are barely coherent once they move from one of the originally drawn camera positions.
If they're using drones to race officers to the scene to potentially capture evidence before the human responders can manage to get there, it seems like a good idea. But if the idea is to delay human responders who will wait for the drone footage before moving in, that just sounds cowardly and bad for victims.
I am trying this out, I haven't really written any code to build the application. Generating codes via LLMs.
Interesting, didn't know about those. Will check out. Thanks!
This story is framed oddly. Imagine if you blamed, say, cash, for being used by North Korea. Also compare this treatment to the employees at Wells Fargo/Wachovia who laundered billions for Mexican drug cartels,

>The settlement reached between Wachovia and U.S. authorities, known as a "deferred prosecution," raises questions. It's a probationary agreement, effectively allowing the bank to evade prosecution if it abides by the law for a year. While the fine imposed was substantial, it amounted to less than 2% of Wachovia's 2009 profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox but for hardware.
We contain multitudes I suppose
got does not get much attention, but I think part of the reason for that is because people don’t know what it is or what it does, and they don’t take the time to click the link and find out.

I do find it pretty interesting, and have been following from a distance for a while.

Their website explains it very succinctly:

> Got uses Git repositories to store versioned data. Git can be used for any functionality which has not yet been implemented in Got. It will always remain possible to work with both Got and Git on the same repository.

> Game of Trees is developed by OpenBSD developers and other contributors. The software is freely usable and re-usable by everyone under a BSD license

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
Exactly. At this time, people were either giving or throwing away vintage Apple products because most had very little value in the secondary. I know I did too.
I looked that up, and boy was it an interesting read! For anybody who is interested in reading what John Chapman theorized about the pyramids, see here [0].

0: https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/ancient-mysteries/a...
I’m not sure the linguistic differences here are as cut and dried as you would like them to be. Estimate and approximate are both verbs, so you can derive nouns from them both for the process of doing the thing, and for the thing that results from such a process.

Estimation is the process of estimating. It produces an estimate.

Approximation is the process of approximating. It produces an approximation.

You can also derive adjectives from the verbs as well.

An estimate is an estimated value.

An approximation is an approximate value.

But you’re right that the ‘approximate’ terms make claims about the result - that it is in some way near to the correct value - while the
‘estimate’ derived terms all make a claim about the process that produced the result (ie that it was based on data that is known to be incomplete, uncertain, or approximate)
I mean, did you read it?
the reason it's too simple for most real world use is that hyper-log-log is the "good" version of this technique (but is harder to prove that it works)
The AI Denial Train Should Stop
Another thing that may have played a role is that traditionally Penguins were published in orange covers with black and white being the only available colors besides orange. A penguin becomes an obvious mascot under these limitations (I suppose a Holstein cow could have worked too).
Link to Michael Michalko website is broken.
How do you run installation on bare-bone hardware?
I would look for an ISO or a bootp image, but it seems there is none in the linked website.
> "The only way to destroy the spores is through burning, so we cannot use antibiotics unlike other countries in the world due to market access," Long said.

Market access? What does that mean?
Was just now solving it and came to see if others had the same issue. Yep, you are right.

function generateRandomNumbers(c, n) {
let randomNumbers = new Array(c);
for (let i = 0; i < randomNumbers.length; i++) {
let randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * (n + 1));
randomNumbers[i] = randomNumber;
}
return randomNumbers;
}
function run(w, wS, m, r) {
function round(r) {
while(wS.size < m) {
const next = w.next()
if (next.done) return true;
wS.add(next.value)
prune(next.value, r)
}
return false
}
function prune(v,r) {
for (let i = 0; i < r; i++) {
const flip = new Boolean(Math.round(Math.random()))
if (flip == false) {
wS.delete(v)
}
}
}
function purge(wS) {
const copy = new Set(wS)
copy.forEach(ith=>{
const flip = new Boolean(Math.round(Math.random()))
if (flip == false) {
wS.delete(ith)
}
})
}
const done = round(r);
if (!done) {
purge(wS)
return run(w, wS, r+1,m)
}
console.log(`Round ${r} done. ${wS.size} Estimate: ${wS.size / (1/Math.pow(2,r))}`)
}
const memory = 1000
const words = generateRandomNumbers(3000000,15000)
const w = words[Symbol.iterator]() // create an iterator
const wS = new Set();
run(w,wS, memory,0);
Yes, I am aware about this and I won't be using my account for extraction. Users will put their session cookies for data extraction.
Show HN: A Minimally Disruptive macOS App for Breaks, Relax Eyes, Drink Water
I have always struggled to take breaks while working. I've tried many macOS applications from the App Store, but they all use fixed timers, which don't work well for me. I wanted an app that requires minimal user interaction and is minimally disruptive. So, a year ago, I decided to build one myself. This was my first experience developing applications on the Apple platform, and it has been quite a journey.

TotalPause primarily reminds me based on my activity level and offers advanced do-not-disturb features to detect when I'm using certain apps (it can even match specific browser windows) or watching videos. This approach has worked well for me, and it's now available on the Mac App Store [1].

I also wrote a detailed personal blog post about why and how I created this app: "Reminding Myself to Take a Break - The Hard Way" [2].

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/totalpause/id6482185943

[2]: https://blog.damnever.com/en/2024/reminding-myself-to-take-a...
> Hard to follow someone, hard to chat

Maybe that's one reason why you have such great quality time here.

I think the problem about social medias is that people have flaws, and social medias puts a great focus on individual people, exposing their good side as well as flawed side. But, most people are not well-trained to handle such level of influence (including being influenced as well as to influence the others), and don't clearly know the power/stress such influence might hold (one misstep, the whole thing can crash to hell).

Also, people change. One day you believe one thing, then the next day you believe something completely different. But if your follower follows you exactly because you are advocating one belief, wouldn't that in turn encourages you to lock yourself out from all other beliefs (and risk become more extreme in the process)?

Hacker News puts the material itself in the focus of discussion, rather than who posted it. Which in my opinion, is better, at least most the time.
In practice, you don't want the global optimum because you can't put all possible inputs in the training data and need your system to "generalize" instead. Global optimum would mean overfitting.
The data it has is incredibly valuable if they build their own product or sell it off. You essentially have org charts of entire companies and people asking for things and getting responses and working back and forth together long term.

In terms of building agents for doing real work this could be more valuable than things like Reddit.
OP appears legit, but yeah, woah that submission rate. Must be automated.
It is as much tech as Amazon or Airbnb.
WTF. Mass storage is mass storage; it shouldn't matter what filesystem is on it (or, as the case may be, whether there is a filesystem at all.) Some use-cases might perform slower than others but outright failure shouldn't hapen.
Due to the dense packing of people in NYC, there are very few places that allow you to have any kind of open flame, including in a barbecue or grill. I think the requirement is that your grill has to be at least 10 feet from any flammable material, including building walls, other furniture, and pretty much anything not made of concrete or metal. You can't do it on a terrace or a balcony either. Almost nowhere in NYC do you have a 10 foot radius with nothing flammable in it.
We built a backend heavily using protobufs/grpc and I highly regret it.

It ads an extra layer of complexity most people don't need.

You need to compile the protobufs and update all services that use them.

It's extra software for security scans.

Regular old http 1 rest calls should be the default.

If you are having scaling problem only then should you consider moving to grpc.

And even then I would first consider other simpler options.
Sounds like this qualifies as "recent" to me.
They will drone strike you for using a gas weed wacker and letting your kids play in the front yard unsupervised.

When the criminals steal your car/bike/phone they will do nothing.
Talking about forgeries of early Apple employee badges is far from a non-nerdy topic to be fair.
Both Futurama and Family Guy sometimes use 3d rendering for vehicles for example, and render it in a cartoon looking style and composit it with flat 2d animations.

Maybe similar kind of things could be an application of this.

Another possible use-case might be a game development studio developing a license game based on a 2d cartoon, but making the game 3d. They could use this as a tool for visualization while planning and developing, to iterate quickly and to reference how the original 2d could translate into 3d.
> who would draw a laboratory setup including a stool and I knew he knew exactly how to build the stool.

I love that about illustrators. A decent illustrator is also simultaneously an engineer and a designer.
Free "with ads" doesn't interest me as much as free from ads.
This is great and all, but is there an actual list in text of the films in the playlist?
Untwister: A PRNG seed recovery tool
IBE allows two users to communicate without the trusted party being online
> What is a drone supposed to do?

A drone is cheaper than a helicopter when it comes to following a potential suspect on the run.
And here's Steve Jobs thanking someone for an amazing "proyect":

https://www.ebay.com/itm/285775420457

(same seller.)

P.S. The seller is located in Spain. :)
BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit
Sadly, the alternative would be to just not show up at all.
It’s fascinating that the generated Gaussian splats look kind of like a dream. Almost like that was the way we generate 3d scenes in our minds
Be careful with venturing into the world of Chinese watches, it's addictive. They're like between $50 and $200, depending on the brand (they have more and less expensive brands now, they've been at it for years and years), with very reasonable quality, often using Japanese movements (eg Seiko), and resembling famous designs ("homages"). To the point that it's almost impossible to tell if you're wearing $25,000 Rolex or $40 "Olevs", unless you look at it from arm's length. I have like 8 now, all looking and working great, and keep checking AE sales for new ones. Someone please stop me...
> "The only way to destroy the spores is through burning, so we cannot use antibiotics unlike other countries in the world due to market access

“Market access” in NZ presumably means the local government’s law to use burning, not unwillingness of a pharmaceutical company to sell the antibiotic?
Curious of the lack of access? to alternatives here. If a hive has AFB the practice I'm aware of is to burn it after dark after all the bees have returned, so they don't scatter to other hives. Its euthanasia for an insect colony. Your equipment goes with it.

But that was obvious signs (the smell) of AFB. Is this a complaint because its only a spore test and then they burn an entire cluster?
> Imagine if you blamed, say, cash, for being used by North Korea.

This is odd framing. If you launder cash for the North Koreans, you will similarly find the weight of various criminal justice systems descending upon you. Ethereum is widely in legal usage.

I'm all for harsher penalties for Wells Fargo.
Googling his name turns up this site, which appears to have some potentially useful resources. https://thinkjarcollective.com/members/michael-michalko
The difference is in the way they do logistics and on-demand/just-in-time production. Shein is deeply integrated with its suppliers - H&M and similar are not.

Traditional retail - like H&M - has a markup of around factor 10 (meaning if something is 100 in the store, the factory/shipping company gets 10) - and supplier lead times of 3-6 months.

Shein has much lower markup and lead times of down to under a day.
> Republicans were dismissive of that possibility, arguing that in the decades prior to the pandemic, when public masking was largely illegal, they couldn't recall anyone being prosecuted for wearing a mask for health reasons.

So... wait, their argument is that it is okay because they don't think the law will be enforced?! I mean, then, why make it?
I got the same problem.

When implementing the exact method as described in quanta magazine (without looking at the arxiv paper), I always had estimates like 461746372167462146216468796214962164.

Then after reading the arxiv paper, I got the the correct estimate, with this code (very close to mudiadamz's comment solution):

import numpy as np
L = np.random.randint(0, 3900, 30557)
print(f"{len(set(L))=}")
thresh = 100
p = 1
mem = set()
for k in L:
if k in mem:
mem.remove(k)
if np.random.rand() < p:
mem.add(k)
if len(mem) == thresh:
mem = {m for m in mem if np.random.rand() < 0.5}
p /= 2
print(f"{len(mem)=} {p=} {len(mem)/p=}")

Or equivalently:

import numpy as np
L = np.random.randint(0, 3900, 30557)
print(f"{len(set(L))=}")
thresh = 100
p = 1
mem = []
for k in L:
if k not in mem:
mem += [k]
if np.random.rand() > p:
mem.remove(k)
if len(mem) == thresh:
mem = [m for m in mem if np.random.rand() < 0.5]
p /= 2
print(f"{len(mem)=} {p=} {len(mem)/p=}")

Now I found the quanta magazine formulation problem. By reading:

> Round 1. Keep going through Hamlet, adding new words as you go. If you come to a word that’s already on your list, flip a coin again. If it’s tails, delete the word; heads, and the word stays on the list. Proceed in this fashion until you have 100 words on the whiteboard. Then randomly delete about half again, based on the outcome of 100 coin tosses. That concludes Round 1.

we want to write:

for k in L:
if k not in mem:
mem += [k]
else:
if np.random.rand() > p:
mem.remove(k)
if len(mem) == thresh:
mem = [m for m in mem if np.random.rand() < 0.5]
p /= 2

whereas it should be (correct):

for k in L:
if k not in mem:
mem += [k]
if np.random.rand() > p: # without the else
mem.remove(k)
if len(mem) == thresh:
mem = [m for m in mem if np.random.rand() < 0.5]
p /= 2

Just this little "else" made it wrong!
Finally, a fifth-floor walk-up will be a selling point when ED-209 is roaming the streets.
Speaking of, one of my favorite discoveries with Unicode is that there is a ton of code points acceptable for symbol identifiers in various languages that I just can't wait to abuse.

>>> ᚨ=3

>>> ᛒ=6

>>> ᚨ+ᛒ

9
Good to know. Can you share your email id? I will ping you as soon as I have the first version of application ready.
I don't agree with the ruling, but I wonder how many people out there are living the good life because of dodgy funds they laundered through Tornado Cash. Flying in private jets, driving lambos, drinking the finest whisky. While many of those that do honest work like teaching the next generation live in poverty.
Some of the reports I know of were around a captive lion. They said they could hear other lions calling (or responding) to the captive one.
As an engineer who has worked on systems that handle sensitive data, it seems straightforwardly to me to be a statement about:

1. ACLs

2. The systems that provision those ACLs

3. The policies that determine the rules those systems follow.

In other words, the model training batch job might run as a system user that has access to data annotated as 'interactions' (at timestamp T1 user U1 joined channel C1, at timestamp T2 user U2 ran a query that got 137 results), but no access to data annotated as 'content', like (certainly) message text or (probably) the text of users' queries. An RPC from the training job attempting to retrieve such content would be denied, just the same as if somebody tried to access someone else's DMs without being logged in as them.

As a general rule in a big company, you the engineer or product manager don't get to decide what the ACLs will look like no matter how much you might feel like it. You request access for your batch job from some kind of system that provisions it. In turn the humans who decide how that system work obey the policies set out by the company.

It's not unlike a bank teller who handles your account number. You generally trust them not to transfer your money to their personal account on the sly while they're tapping away at the terminal--not necessarily because they're law abiding citizens who want to keep their job, but because the bank doesn't make it possible and/or would find out. (A mom and pop bank might not be able to make the same guarantee, but Bank of America does.) [*]

In the same vein, this is a statement that their system doesn't make it possible for some Slack PM to jack their team's OKRs by secretly training on customer data that other teams don't use, just because that particular PM felt like ignoring the policy.

[*] Not a perfect analogy, because a bank teller is like a Slack customer service agent who might, presumably after asking for your consent, be able to access messages on your behalf. But in practice I doubt there's a way for an employee to use their personal, probably very time-limited access to funnel that data to a model training job. And at a certain level of maturity a company (hopefully) also no longer makes it possible for a human employee to train a model in a random notebook using whatever personal data access they have been granted and then deploy that same model to prod. Startups might work that way, though.
They aren't racing anywhere. The drones purpose is to do even less than before and look like they're helping without even leaving the chair.
I could see some value maybe in giving an artist feedback on where the model detects inconsistencies between different viewpoints.
Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking
I wonder if there’s a phage that could be introduced to a colony that would hunt down AFB.