skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that really concerns me is it isn't just Google, they are putting it right in front of a lot of people thanks to this change. But yes, it being Google that is doing it, is giving it a view of quality that just isn't there.

You contrast this with the demo's showed for chatgpt-4o and we are building this idea that we can really trust this. I was just having a conversation with someone over the weekend that I was like, yes I acknowledge that the tech is really good, just in a couple years it has advanced a ton, but I really think we are overselling its current capabilities and ignoring where it falls flat on its face. That we are going too quick rolling this technology out to the average user in every day situations.

And there response was basically, no don't think so. It is ready to be used, there are not these big issues, and so on.

Thats really scary. And these are fundamental issues with this type of technology but "we can't risk another company putting out their misguided dangerous product so we must do it first!" I am convinced that is the general attitude at these companies right now.
Absolute garbage-tier nonsense:

"Let’s say you’re responsible for managing corporate travel.

As new tools come in - travel booking tools, calendar management tools etc, - specific tasks get simplified and substituted by technology, but the decisions and the goals binding these tasks together are still managed by humans.
However, this changes with Gen AI."

LLMs take over knowledge work and can take over many of the decisions involved. AI agents - the first instance of goal-seeking technologies - take over goal-seeking.

In the corporate travel booking example:

An LLM (Large language model) can help generate a list of relevant destinations and an itinerary that meets certain constraints. This is knowledge work.

An AI agent can look up the top-rated hotel with available rooms, activity providers and restaurants that match the itinerary within a specific budget and complete the task of making necessary reservations. This is managerial work.

An autonomous AI agent can further learn about your corporate context and travel preferences over time and finding and booking hotels and activities that best meet those preferences and constraints. This is managerial work with learning advantages.

LLMs have the potential to absorb complex knowledge work into software."

None of this is happening, but I will laugh if corporations let these toy gimmick word generators hallucinate and screw up their travel arrangements. Are people actually burning money on this stuff?
> Mind elaborating?

I am assuming, he/she minds a lot.
Back when computing was a tool to make users' life better, not a way to profit off wasting their time by "engaging" them.
Amid gov funding cuts, a growing backlog of unanalyzed vulnerabilities in CVE db
This is a clear candidate for conspiracy theory peddlers. I wish people would write headlines better so these Internet fabulists aren't just given t-balls for their wild stories
Why is everything Israel’s responsibility?

Perhaps not "everything". But when one chooses to go around invading other countries (for whatever reason), one accepts legal responsibility to ensure reasonably safe access to humanitarian aid in the affected areas. In addition to agreeing to other fussy requirements, like ensuring reasonable access to hygiene and public health services, avoiding unnecessary destruction of property and public infrastructure, and so on.

It seems Israel "forgot" this responsibility, or is pretending to have forgotten it, in the course of Operation Iron Swords. Either way, this is why it is now facing legal action, and will have to go sit in a corner for while until it learns to clarify its values, and to at least try to act within the norms of civilized behavior in regard to such matters.

It's really quite straightforward, actually.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention
As I wrote in some older discussion about UNIX signals on HN, the root problem (IMHO, of source) is that signals conflate three different useful concepts. The first is asynchronous external events (SIGHUP, SIGINT) that the process should be notified about in a timely manner and given an opportunity to react; the second is synchronous internal events (SIGILL, SIGSEGV) caused by the process itself, so it's basically low-level exceptions; and the third is process/scheduling management (SIGKILL, SIGSTOP, SIGCONT) to which the process has no chance to react so it's basically a way to save up on syscalls/ioctls on pidfds. An interesting special case is SIGALRM which is an asynchronous internal event.

See the original comment [0] for slighlty more spellt out ideas on better designs for those three-and-a-half concepts.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39595904
> This is the kind of stuff that you use very occasionally, when it is time to use that one command that is immensely useful for very specialized things, and which you can never in your life remember the syntax for precisely because it's not something you do every day.

Don't people make notes of that somewhere they can look it up?

I mean, you're not going to use this to generate command line arguments for commands you've never heard of before, you're likely not going to use it for commands whose outputs are crucial or behaviours unsafe, and if you do you're going to need to use your actual knowledge to check it hasn't hallucinated something dangerous before you run it -- which means consulting the manual and doing the work.

I get that man pages are a particularly rich, standardised form of training text, I just don't believe there is as much advantage in asking an LLM.

This is one of those areas where I think people project success onto LLMs where there is none. It's like the songwriting example. Sure it can write a bad song fast, but so can literally anyone half-skilled, and if you want to help it write a good song, you're going to have to redo half the work.

This is just like having a bad dishwasher.
It got upvoted because microservices are currently sliding into the trough of disillusionment. It's trendy right now to hate on them, and the author is fully on the mindless hate bandwagon right along with a lot of HN readers.

In a few years we'll hopefully be out onto the slope of enlightenment, with microservices applied where they're useful and not applied where they're not. If we don't get there, then we'll just run the whole hype cycle over again with yet another rebrand of the same concept.
Yeah. Very simple interactions with hm myself. He interviewed my boss at the 'ChipShop' restaurant in Brooklyn as part of Super Size Me. If you have the DVD I'm the waiter in the background. Just a nice guy. Took time to say Hello.
Criminal record database of Americans dumped online
Rationalizing Latency Competition in High-Frequency Trading
Then anything you plan is doomed from the start. If companies start slipping cyanide into their food it would take at least 20 years for people to stop buying it. Getting everyone to simply do your thing while they're busy with their own life is a fool's errand.
More consequential queries probably have better safeguards, this hullabaloo is about long tail nonsense that doesn't matter, they're kinks to be ironed out.
Melange 4.0 Is Here
Modos is working on a 60fps e-ink monitor, no idea about ghosting improvements: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40423746 -> https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor-pre-launch-o...
I've been using Kid3 on my Mac:
https://kid3.kde.org

It's not a native Mac app, so it's not really ideal, but it does work very well.
You still need to design a CRDT that solves your particular problem, you don't just say the magic word "CRDT" and the problem is gone. And the performance will depend on how good the design is.
these exist, they're called tramways but they are more common in europe.
> until the bigger players put a stop to that

The problem is that the legal system is misused to prevent adversarial interoperability.

Adversarial interoperability was never explicitly welcomed by gatekeepers, but back then nobody would think of suing over it, nor prosecuting such a case.

Nowadays, copyright law is used as a reason to shut those things down, even when the copyrighted content is actually third-party user-generated content or content you do have a license to access since it's freely accessible using the official client.
Neither of them was there, the ex testified that she had seen him yell and shake the child at _other times_. Her sister testified that she had seen never seen that kind of behavior.

Also, if the ex's allegations are true, why the hell would her grandparents call him to demand that he pick her up that night? She was supposed to be at her maternal grandparents that night, they called him. Why not call the baby's mom? Why not just keep the baby anyways? Why not take it to the hospital themselves if they were concerned?

I'm not disparaging them for deciding to break up, nor for being in a custody dispute. These things happen. I just don't trust either party in a custody dispute; people get very emotional and the ends start to justify the means. If she is lying, it would be far from the first time false abuse allegations were made in a custody dispute.

I defer to facts here. There were no medical indications of abuse, nor any direct evidence of abuse of any kind. The child had pneumonia, a lethal dose of opioids, and hypoxia at the hospital. The likely biased testimony of an ex doesn't negate any of that.
I have learned to embrace it. It seems over the years I have developed a pretty good intuition for when it’s time to get going. I have tried to be more proactive and do things early but usually it doesn’t work out.
> Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
Add another +1 for me. Would buy it today.
And you'd like to think the binaries are still not the largest component of an app contributing to the file size. But who knows these days.
Yes but it's just too hard for even experienced people. Even harder to have good reliability, backup. I'm etching my rather average needs setup for a decade and there are still issues and I couldn't yet fully decouple. Life is short man.

There are new tools, apps and solutions every year (easy vm handling, kinda easy vpn, projects like Wireguard, Immich) but overall there are huge things missing to make selfhosting a thing for common people.
Yup, my work machine has an older i7 (2021-era maybe?) with 32GB RAM and between Teams, Slack, "new" Outlook, Jira, WSL, driving a 4K display off the piddly integrated GPU, and a VPN that involves every packet doing a transatlantic roundtrip whenever I want to connect to an internal service, everything is just dog slow. And the fan noise—my god the fan noise.

Some days it makes me extra motivated to make the code I write fast and efficient; other days I want to give up entirely.
There was a poll with probably more signatures than that for adding "swipe to queue" to Android that they sat on for years until they finally implemented it.
Why Google's AI search might recommend you mix glue into your pizza
Interesting; I just discovered and used this tool a month ago. For years I've been wanting to migrate my few hundred remaining MP3 files from iTunes/Music to just store them on the file system but iTunes DB stores play count and star rating in their DB, not in the file itself.

Turns out that there's no standard tag for this, but the most common (from what I searched was POPULARIMETER, where you store it in EMAIL|RATING|PLAYCOUNTER format.
Email is a string (optional), rating is an int 0-255※, and playcounter as an integer.

So I wrote a Python script that would read the file on disk, match it with the entry in iTunes DB, populate POPULARIMETER, then verify everything was set correctly in MP3tag.

This took a few hours to do, mostly due to discovering how to do it and verifying everything worked correctly. Unfortunately the MP3 players I use now (VLC and mpv) don't support updating the POPULARIMETER field, so it'll be left as an unchanging relic from my iTunes days.

※ - 1 star → 0.2x255 = 51, 2 star → 0.4x255 = 102, etc
Hamas is a terrorist organization, but not a genocidal one. Not even their worst actions have ever risen close to genocide.
Most NGOS concluded that an evacuation of Rafah is impossible. Given the lumber of people and the state of the infrastructure I tend to agree.
less than quarter mil number, that's very very early on! mine is over 3.8 million, and I created it relatively early on considering I was living in Europe :)

I think I remember my number because back then when you had to reinstall software or put it on new machine you always went by your number, instead of your email or username. That's why I think I still remember it :)
One example I experienced recently: Sims 4 uses a subfolder in Documents as a cache for downloaded data and decoded chunks. It creates and deletes files there constantly while the game is running; we're talking dozens of files per minute or more. Few minutes of play, and there's nothing but hundreds of new additions and deletions in the "recent history". Not to mention, all that auto-syncs with any other machine you have online and using the same Microsoft account.

Wrt. Saves, auto-uploading those can be good, but it's unnecessary for games I rent on Steam, which already handles cloud saves on its own.
Why is it called "doomsday"? Neither the wiki article nor MW dictionary definition explain this etnymology/usage.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomsday
Teams' USP is that it's part of the suite corporations are almost universally already paying for.
Yeah I think Slack's updated stated internal policies are about as reasonable as one can hope for from a tech giant, if one can trust them to stand by those policies. Your article was on my mind when writing this, I guess I should have linked it.

The crux of the matter is whether you can trust a big tech company to do what they claim they will. They all think AI is worth infinite dollars. In that world, without some very clear, painful, straightforward, contractual penalty ... well we've seen that the tech giant plan is that rules are meant to constrain your competitors' behavior, not yours.

If they wrote "If any of your data is discovered to have been in an AI training model, Slack owes you 10x your lifetime payments to Slack, and any involved whistleblowers get 1% of the total paid" in their terms of service, which means if Slack screws this up, the company is immediately bankrupt, that might prove effective. But a promise in a "privacy principles" policy that doesn't appear to actually be incorporated into the core ToS does not have a lot of teeth.
Effective large language model adaptation for improved grounding
In France, in the 1980" there was a Unix clone written in Pascal by the CNET (the R&D of the incumbent phone operator). The CPU was a M68K and the hard disk had 20Mbytes (if I recall correctly). I don't remember the name of the beast.
I just only buy every fourth or fifth whatever it is. Usually the previous model, too, when I do, sometimes used or official-refurb. Works great.
Some people just have way too much time on their hands...
42731249. I still remember this shit without any hesitation, incl. password. And have not used the service for 20 years either.
And then, I continuously forget the name of colleagues I see at least every other day.
Wall Street braces for faster trade settlement
All the meme-y wrong answers Google's AI is giving is really making them look like IBM. (Too large to die no matter how badly they fall behind).

Some of the answers are insanely gross like recommendations to jump off the golden state bridge for depression.
Try Ventoy, it's a game changer for bootable USBs.
I guess not open open, but at least they weren't behind cryptographic walls.

It is an embarassment that in 2024 you still can't send someone an iMessage from a PC or Android phone. Shoot, messaging from a PC in general is hard. No easy SMS access, and even third party apps often have stupid things like "the app is actually running on your phone but you can forward message to some flaky and bloated electron thing on a PC if you really must."
Not quite sure if you got the joke or not. In case you didn't: I was referring to how Trump referred to him once: as a very stable genius haha :D :D
I remembered that taking care of metadata of 1000+ mp3 music and syncing them between music players and backing up with CD-RWs were time filler. They still are, but I enjoyed doing so. Digital garden in web 1.0 era I could say.
> Meanwhile, all those deplorable schmucks in the trades, who've been lectured to death about choosing the right respiratory protection for the job, were able to comprehend that big mask hole and tiny virus is a Bad Choice. You want the mask holes to be smaller than the Bad Thing. Therefore, "Masks Don't Work".

It's interesting that you stop here, and not go further to the next level of relevant knowledgeableness, which is that the virologists and materials engineers who work on masks know something the tradespeople don't, which is a) that viruses rarely travel around as single viral particles and b) that this is why we make surgical and N95 masks electrostatically charged. (https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-the-n95-face-mask...)

(For a clear example of why a) matters, try peeing through your pants. The water molecules are, after all, far too small to be blocked!)

> A clear explanation of the different modes of operation, and framing it as a polite thing to do (akin to covering your mouth/nose when you cough or sneeze), probably would have been sufficient.

This was very widely attempted.
The podcaster is effectively asking if the AI Overview about Chromebooks coming up first on the screen above the actual answer the user is looking for is the intended direction of Google Search UX with it's new AI "improvements".

Sundar states that the user must opt into an AI Overview, but this isn't true, it basically automatically opens the overview for you.

When pressed about whether this design is a WIP or the intended goal, Sundar refuses to answer directly, for obvious reasons. It's a bad look either way. Either they did intend for this terrible UX or they clearly hurriedly pushed out a poorly designed/placed AI product to their search engine in the most prominent location possible. Which is not really a good thing when Googles most well known product is their search engine.

Either answer basically boils down to prioritizing AI over actual product quality.
FWIW I remember this very forum flinging this kind of accusations in 2020.
>Devs will monkey patch and reach into other module's internals without a second thought. I can't imagine the monstrosity that would exist if the network boundary wasn't there to stop them ...

We have a tool in our modular monolith, which is like a linter which checks architectural violations like that. If someone tries to bypass the API layer of a module and peek directly into the internals, it refuses to build (and CI/CD refuses to deploy/release). No need to replace a basic linter with a network boundary...
I've kept the same phone number since 1998. Incidentally, I still remember my phone number from 26 years ago.
Oh yeah I'm not gonna defend the article. I was only really responding to this line.

> Somehow in their mind switching from a model where you're either UP or DOWN to a model where you can be partially UP is worse, which suggests to me that they don't have very much experience operating either type of architecture.
I do agree with you, they will explode in usage. But where do we stop and is this the universal panacea for the modern obesity pandemic?
In my country, Ozempic is highly regulated and is free via prescription for diabetics. You can only get Saxenda otherwise, for weight-loss purposes. I tried it myself after years of infertility, high doses of hormones and pregnancies that made my body (and mind) suffer. I will not deny that it took a mixture of therapy, diet, and exercise to lose the weight. However, I do firmly believe that the magic of Saxenda was putting my “mind hunger” to rest and allowing me the space to make choices not influenced by cravings and hunger.
Show HN: An A.I. Talk Therapist
There have been several proposed deals where Hamas would return the hostages. Israel has not even entertained a single one of them.

In fact, the IDF have been busy killing these hostages along with all the other civilians that they are, of course, trying not to kill when dropping dumb bombs on schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and nurseries.
This is neat, but I'm wondering how well the authors approach will map to animated 3D models. I'm guessing, at best, it might look something like the "Voxel Doom" mod for Doom [1] [2].

[1] https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/55/54112/thumb_6...

[2] https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/55/54112/thumb_6...
It’s your assumption that the lack of oversight is because of too much information. How will you validate that hypothesis before you invest in a solution?
Isn't it already unpredictable? That is why nobody outperforms indices. And utterly irrational, which is again both expected and seen. This must be why Tesla continues to have a huge market value - Elon knows how to excite the LLMs. :)
Section 2008 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ206/html/PLA...

> (a) Authority.--The President is authorized to use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any person described in subsection (b) who is being detained or imprisoned by, on
behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.

> (b) Persons Authorized To Be Freed.--The authority of subsection (a)
shall extend to the following persons:

> (1) Covered United States persons.

> (2) Covered allied persons.

> (3) Individuals detained or imprisoned for official actions taken while the individual was a covered United States person or a covered allied person, and in the case of a covered allied person, upon the request of such government.
I respect the self hosting part of course. All I am saying is that the premise of the post is that you guys take privacy seriously but you still left that door opened that someday you may use LLMs.
You are talking about concurrent IOPS which is fair enough, you can indeed scale that. But every individual one of those IOPS would still have far higher latency than direct-attach storage.

This is a problem when IO operations have to be sequential and can't be parallelized such as when they depend on each other (database has to first read the index to know where the actual data is, then do another IO to actually read said data).

Having lots of IOPS could allow you to make multiple of these queries in parallel (assuming locking/etc doesn't get in the way), but it still means every individual query would be slower than on direct-attach storage.
Discussion yesterday [0] (94 points, 124 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074
Ask HN: How do YOU choose which business ideas to work on?
I get startup/app/business ideas every week.

Every couple of months or so I get really annoyed when I see that someone built something I already thought of but dismissed as not good enough of an idea/problem or as a waste of time.

I know: execution is what matters, ideas are worthless, but still, it doesn't make it any less frustrating.

If you had dozens of ideas right now, and a very limited budget to validate them, how would you choose which idea to work on?

My goal is not build the next unicorn, just a profitable business that could sustain me.
Cool, but what is the biggest feature compared to Everything and Listary?
In Canada and other places, we just don't have most of those sizes; supersize was replaced with nothing afaik. Fast food places do still try and trick you into thinking a massive soda with your burger is somehow worth the combo price.