skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea is right.

KDE Plasma embraces this principle with widget deletion, and I believe the KDE UI guidelines pushes this kind of stuff.

I have to say, it's a joy. No additional pointless step / confirmation when I delete stuff and really mean it, which is most of the time, a way back the odd time when I did indeed delete something wrong.

Relatedly, trash bins and file removals without confirmation work very well for the same reason. Let the users empty the trash when they are done, or let a timeout after which deleted item are really deleted from the trash. Less work for everyone, but one more free safety net for the users.
Making 60% a year would still be very high after tax. That’s why he accumulated many billions of dollars.
> It all depends on the benchmark and the use case.

That's why I have my own set of simple benchmarks that I'm not going to publish. Everybody can easily prepare such a set - in my case they are various programming tasks that should generate determined output. It is not easy to automatically qualify the quality of code, but at the very least you can filter the results by invalid outputs. With reasonably high number of tasks and their complexity, this can be a fair estimator - provided that it's never published publicly.
Vizio did this too.
Ah, I didn't realise you can share it - that answers my questions then. Sounds great for a simple solution.
Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses) – LessWrong
0.5 didn’t support a friend-to-friend structure, so the privacy protection possible with it was much lower than with 0.7 released in 2007. Since 2007 Freenet / Hyphanet stayed compatible with content from previous versions.

A summary of the changes since 2007 can be found in the presentation “Freenet / Hyphanet: the long game”:

https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-ga...

This is auto-translated from the German original which was presented at SUMA e.V.:

https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-ga...

https://suma-ev.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SUMA-Kongress2...
People have always told me the best programmers/computer scientists are also great mathematicians and this seems to support that. Esp thinking about Turing, Von Neumann and Knuth
Show HN: I generated API documentation for all Java packages
Hi HN! I'm excited to share a project I've been working on for the past year: Docland. It is an API documentation browser that generates documentation on demand (through compilation, not LLMs) for Java packages. Instead of relying on Javadoc, the built-in doc generator, I created the engine from scratch to give the documentations a modern look, build fast search indexes, and enable link resolution to other packages.

I built Docland because I constantly found it frustrating to locate and view API definitions when programming. You'd have to Google the function/class name, skip all the SEO articles, find the page you want, yet the documentation might be poorly formatted or does not support searching.

So I thought it would be really cool to create a documentation site dedicated for programming languages and libraries, so that you can find the docs all in one place with a uniform look. Docland currently only supports Java, but more programming languages can be supported thanks to its modular architecture.

Please try it out and let me know what you think! Also, the process of building Docland was extremely fun and challenging. I'm happy to share about that too.

Thank you!

Martin
This is wise, another angle on this that your reputation is the best investment. It is in your control and can't be devalued as easily as a house, car, portfolio.
I wonder how this will do as a server.
discoverability, spam and community moderation are already big problems in slightly less centralized systems - they're even more unsolved with these. as with activitypub, things work fine until suddenly there's enough adoption that you have an entire different class of problem.
It’s interesting that even in Florida and Arizona with so much natural sun, how little of Laundry is dried in Sun.

Or how few Solar panels there are on roofs.

Kinda feel like Sun Belt states leave a huge opportunity on the table.

Washington has their grand coulee and 145 other hydrodams. Even has some wind farms and nuclear plant giving it the cheapest electricity.

The sun belt states ought to have the cheapest electricity.

Really it’s a mystery why electricity is >$0.10/KWh in all states.

I remember reading books how Electricity would be too cheap to meter.

I have a feel our grandchildren may go ahead and build it. Laugh at how dumb our generation was. “Had everything figured out, just couldn’t will to make it happen.”
Which book exactly? "The Man Who Solved The Market"?
Strictly to your point about rehabilitation, that doesn't mean the store necessarily needs to let you shop there again. So unless there is a statutory requirement to the contrary stores would still get that information and presumably there would be a chain-specific SOP about whether or not that person was allowed on the property.
The docker daemon is running as root in that scenario. So anyone in the Docker group can trivially become root by starting a privileged container.
Feather: Data Reordering for On-Chip Dataflow Switching
Why don't you give Mission Control a try for 6 months?
I think you glossed over the importance of the term process failure.

The idea is that this one particular form missing the appropriate care is indicative of a wider lack of discipline amongst the engineers building it.

Definitionally, you cannot solve a process problem by fixing a specific bug.
China's SAIC Motor Says It'll Mass-Produce Solid-State EV Batteries by 2026
Withheld diploma?
-1: mark-for-deletion is generally best practice, where it doesn't create meaningful overhead in storage or performance. To optimize performance, consider a move-type operation, so expensive operations don't need to scan deleted data, but it's still online for the purposes of fast restore/recovery.

Conceptually, database backup/restore is effectively mark-for-deletion, but with a more difficult path to restoration, especially for one complex object.

If your database or framework/ORM supports it, my favorite solution is to use virtual tables that hide deleted data, so every the code is kept clean and developers don't accidentally query dead data.

I'd love to see an ORM with full undo/redo support. Examples:
https://github.com/zchtodd/Flask-UndoRedo
https://github.com/etianen/django-reversion
> I really wish browsers would do the same with closing browser tabs.

They do, though. Ctrl-Shift-T does it for me (FF).
I Became the Honest Broker (2021)
Possibly a reference to:
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466814
Well, plenty of bunk stuff (bite mark analysis, hair analysis, etc...) has been used in the past, but in theory anything used today should be backed up by significant evidence and rigorous methodology, and obviously it'll vary based on jurisdiction, but in theory courts should require that background.

Certainly, more transparency than "we bought some facial recognition software, no, you can't see the code, that's a trade secret".
I've decided to subscribe to OpenAI because their default prompt and the underlying model are good enough that I can just ask conversationally what I want it to do and the output is good enough for me.

I feel like trying to "engineer the prompt" misses the point. You don't get deterministic behavior anyway, and you can just re-generate an answer if the first one doesn't work. Or just discuss it conversationally and elaborate. Usually I find that the less I try to prod it and the more I just talk and ask for changes the less effort it takes me to walk away with what I need.

What is the value of a natural language interface if I cannot just use natural language with it?
That's just inefficient solar thermal though.

If you want to do that you'd be better off using parabolic mirrors to heat regular fire bricks directly.

These are unique it seems because they're durable electric heating elements that can hit industrial process temperatures and might be cheaper then alternatives?
I remember I saw something similar in Ukraine when the war stared, a Tesla drivers was photographed fleeing the country towing a generator.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/zxk623/in_kyiv_the...
Wondering why archive.is is ok to replicate articles beyond paywalls while chatGPT got sued for a few unintentional regurgitations. Should there be a "protect it or lose it" rule for copyright as in trademarks?
We'll know it's full hype when Long Island Iced Tea Corp. changes its name to Long AIsland Iced Tea Corp.
https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/javarevisited/8-big-...
The bearing is on the claim that calling software "intelligent" have anything to do with trusting or liability.
Dumb or not, no one is supposed to blindly trust it.
You feel the sensation of warmth because your body is trying to cool down. It does so by raising the temperature of your skin so more heat is dumped into the environment. This is part of the reason why drinking can lead to hypothermia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1811578/ “Alcohol is a dominant cause of death in urban hypothermia. Drinking alcohol gives a pleasant feeling of warmth.”

Try taking your core body temperature using a thermometer rather than relying on perceived temperature.
Edison Motors has built diesel-electric truck that operates essentially like a diesel-electric locomotive. Last I read it got whatever certifications are needed and is now 100% street legal. They intend to also build retrofits for existing semi trucks.

https://www.edisonmotors.ca/
I remember them being a big help with History for example. I believe I read most of the encyclopedias I had at home (a couple of them totalling maybe 20 heavy books). Now, when I want to learn about something, say acoustics, I go to the internet, back then I would go to the encyclopedia as a starting point and later to the library for more specific information. That's how it used to be.
Yep, exactly!

My approach is similar - closed source benchmarks with prompts and tests from real LLM-driven products (mostly around boring business automation and enterprise workflows).

Although it would be neat to upgrade the setup to work on the synthetic data. This will at least make benchmarks shareable publicly (not just the results)
Solana is perfect for most retail use. I’ve used Solana Pay to buy things online with USDC and the experience is incredible. Can’t see any reason why most things that don’t require utmost security (shopping, games, etc.) won’t use Solana.

But if I was managing big money, I wouldn’t want it on Solana. Ethereum is far more decentralized and secure.

I can see a near future where Bitcoin is “digital gold”, Ethereum is the settlement layer for institutions, and Solana is the blockchain for retail users.
That reopens the page, but it doesn’t correctly preserve state. Browsers will typically try to restore things like input values, but all JS state is lost, which means most cases where you had actual work to restore don’t work.
This is so encouraging to me and it means a lot. Thanks
A journey to the medical netherworld (2016)
United Way has a system which can connect you with volunteering opportunities. You can filter the location, category etc. highly recommend:

https://www.unitedway.org/find-your-united-way
That's what breakdown companies (like the AA and RAC in the UK) do. It's slow enough that you'd only want to use it to get just enough juice to get to a proper charger, though - they use 3.5kW or 5kW chargers: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/rac-news/rac-begins-rolling....

I'd imagine it's way less efficient and way more polluting than using the national grid, too.
Show HN: Alexplainable: Early prototype of a transparent image recognizer
Hi HN,

I wanted to showcase a quick reseach project I have done for a [lesswrong post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y9tnz27oLmtLxcrEF/constructa...), where we tried to attempt to construct a flower recognizer in a way that is already understandable (the basic idea of constructability being to create neural networks in a way that is already understood instead of trying to reverse engineer them)

The idea of creating AI systems that we are able to explain the behaviour of and predict for their erratic behaviors seemed important, and so we wanted to prototype what it would look like to have an image recognizer we can explain in all their details.

Models differ in their performance, we have been able to achieve 75% F1 score pretty reliably independent of the architecture though. More importantly, the notion of decomposing a model into many submodel does seem to hold in a way that I did not expect (it keeps composing even with retraining the submodels).

I am overall quite glad with the results. Let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks. I'm fixing it, should be up in a few minutes
> Always struck me as utterly irrelevant. The world is big; a beach is huge. The very idea that kids taking a half-dozen pretty pebbles at a time can make a dent in it?

I’m quite surprised this point has to be made, but the article made it so I’ll just quote directly:

> While one person taking a few pebbles from the beach may not significantly affect the berm or the overall beach volume, the cumulative effect of many people removing numerous pebbles may be more significant.

You continue:

> And, one storm can take an entire beach away (or return it).

Yeah. Or, you know, could maybe take out an entire coastal city. How about we don’t make that easy? Again from the article:

> Asking people not to take pebbles from the beach may appear trivial and insignificant, but it can help beaches play an effective role in protecting our coasts.

I think you should reread the “it all adds up” section. They’re trying to do research on ways to prevent disasters from climate change, and taking out those pebbles affect the research:

> Given the importance of retaining sediment in the system for flood and erosion protection, there is ongoing research to better understand how pebble beaches respond to waves and storms. This research is particularly important for assessing the effectiveness of artificially created cobble beaches at providing protection from coastal flooding and erosion risks.

It’s like we’re facing a massive forest fire and you’re complaining they’re fining people for throwing molotov cocktails into it because “what difference is it going to make, it’s all already burning”. Yeah, but we’re trying to study how it burns so we can combat it now and in the future, and you’re messing up the numbers.
And there's a lack of, for want of a better word, punishment for false positives for all of: the law enforcement officers, the software publishers, the policy makers.
I think the examples the paragraph gives more than backs up the statement. I’ve met people who comment out code instead of deleting it (luckily not in a long time!) and I feel the authors speak from experience here.
Maybe not exactly what you mean with frozen in time but they used to (or maybe still do) publish a new tome every now and then with updated information. I think they are still very useful for children, for example.
Really nice idea. I'll add it in a few days !
Freenet AG is now a pretty big mobile phone provider since it bought the biggest carrier-independent mobile phone contract provider.

Revenue about 2.5 billion Euro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet_AG
What's stopping somebody from porting Blender or writing something like it for iPadOS and the Pencil? Other open source applications (like VLC for example) have excellent iPad ports.

Would Blender need some entitlement that Apple is unlikely to grant?
Math, Where Are the Static Types?
Yes, but that just reloads the tab and tries to repopulate input fields. The actual state of the tab is lost.
Make sure that you are likable, friendly, and fun to be around. Ask good questions, be polite, and reliable.
Since 2015 I made some futile attempts to switch to DDG, and mostly used google, but last year I noticed myself using DDG 90% of times, because DDG got far better, and G turned in a page of junk, or showing generic stuff instead of specific. G spectacularly shot itself in the foot.
Wouldn't there be a better outcome for those misidentified and publicly slandered and inconvenienced if they sued for stress? Some unlucky sod could have a heart attack from this.
This is true mathematically but simple to implement in practice. If the number is signed, shifts to the right and widening casts fill the new bits with a copy of the sign bit. If it's unsigned, shifts to the right and widening casts fill the new bits with zeroes. Shifts to the left and narrowing casts work the same for signed and unsigned.
One of the fun parts of this is when you start realizing digital methods of improving analog signaling exist.

He mentions one of these techniques briefly in this article: equalization. The condensed version is that you use an ADC for the receiver, sample the incoming waveform, then pass the resulting samples through a digital filter that amplifies the high frequencies and suppresses the lower frequencies.

This is actually quite good at counteracting the losses and phase shakeups that come with passing high speed signals through long cables.
I can guarantee they will look different because I've spent the majority of my life in a culture where male-female friendships are extremely common.

In fact, if the study was conducted among 50-year-olds in the United States, the results would most likely be significantly different.
I want a setup that generates 1 Kω/H.
Who are you "communicating" with? A programmer does not communicate with a computer, through a PL. He or she writes it down, to later be executed or interpreted, so the computer can "communicate" with the user, through the User interface (not the PL).

Also, the vocabulary works very different, in a PL almost all of the vocabulary is defined "at hoc", as you go.

I mean I don't have a problem calling them a language, people should just be vary not to use language ideas for PL.
Shhh, quiet bro. It's okay to be wrong, you know?
I doesn’t happen nearly enough to be worth the effort. Electricity is cheap, and these mobile services are only worth it if they can charge a premium. And they can only charge a premium when a car is literally stranded. And that happens infrequently enough that you may as well just use a tow, which is readily available.
With physical access to the camera, disabling them can be delightfully low tech.
Then what's the course of action when every store in the city requires your written authorization to shop from there?
System prompt.
I hope your prices end in 0 and are nice round numbers. There was a time when all the software and info products were whole numbers but ended in 7 for the exact same reason. "$10 is honest and $9.99 is manipulative" is pretty reductive.
Google : We will breach the rules we preach.
Thanks, however ethically I think it's OK to be seen ads or otherwise pay for content, as long as I can opt out of tracking.
I'm more interested in what the lesson is supposed to be. Any ideas?
I do not think it's accidental. Dark patterns are quite deliberate.

"All this matters because the interfaces in question do the job of the dictator and the censor, and we embrace it. More than being infuriating, they train us to accept gross restrictions in return for trifling or non-existent ease of use, or are a fig leaf covering what is actually going on."

Software: empowering you to do anything, on someone else's terms!
> IIRC the next step was to implement a hidden undone mechanism like a fake deletion then a cron job does the real thing hours or days matter but it’s a rather expensive and complex thing to implement

I've done this before.[1] How did it work out to be expensive and complex to implement for your use-case? Did the "just deleted" elements have to be removed from any results-set as well?[2]

[1] Gather the data into a structure and throw that structure into a queue/bin/table with `now() + 5 days` as the expiry time.

[2] I've done this too, but not with a soft-delete column (which is a nightmare), but in a more complex way by writing the records to be deleted into a log, and then actually deleting them. This lets the user `undo` by showing them their entries in the log and asking which of those entries need to be restored.

Your task/job/goroutine/thread/script runs once every minute, retrieves all the structures/command/forms with `expiry > now()` and removes them.
True, "check" was poor phrasing, because these things don't produce evidence, they produce alerts to guide investigation.

It should be a given that these systems don't produce anything actionable, they are a guide for a user to look more closely, of course, that requires someone in the chain stops and says "this isn't usable evidence".
Show HN: getuniversal.link: A Tool for Testing Apple App Site Association Files
I'm excited to announce the launch of getuniversal.link, a new utility designed to simplify the testing of your Apple App Site Association (AASA) file configuration.

With getuniversal.link, you can:

- Verify the configuration of your AASA file effortlessly.
- Easily create test links for you and your team.
- Save the website as a bookmark on your device or the iOS Simulator for convenient access and testing.

I hope this tool will be helpful for developers looking to streamline their workflow and ensure their AASA files are correctly set up.

Check it out at getuniversal.link and let me know your feedback!

Happy testing!

-Aryaman S.
It's up to app developers, and some of them indeed just straight up lie with their categorization. Moovit and all dating apps come to mind. They implemented _some_ categories, but none useful – nothing that lets you separate wheat from the chaff
I've tried many system prompts so far, and I'm underwhelmed with the result. Especially, I keep insisting to just give me answers with as little context as possible. E.G, if I ask for code, just give the code.

But the gpt does what the gpt wants.

It's a minor annoyance though, 1st world problem at its best.
Firefox with uBlock and uMatrix active likely allowed me to avoid that experience.
You know what they say about assuming.
UK infected blood scandal made worse by 'chilling' cover-up, inquiry finds