skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing unless you go to the press these issues will never get resolved for you and you'll just be banned from random stores. So a 1% error rate will over time creep up to a 5% surprisingly quickly.

How many grocery stores will tell you what's security system they use when they already assume your a thief?
Looks real nice! Would be nice, if in addition to drag & drop, pasting the screenshot from clipboard would also work.
This is similar `Resume Next` in VB
That's not true.

https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014483627-What-ar...
Isn't part of the reason modern hard disks seem more reliable, that they have much more sophisticated file systems on them? In the old days, merely turning a machine off at the wrong moment might introduce inconsistencies that could cause data corruption later. Or on Lin*x, when's the last time you've had to look for the wreckage of files in the lost+found directory? Does anyone even remember what it's for?

I've had even modern HDs go gradually bad and the remaining undamaged files are generally readable without trouble.
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal
Only if those tokens are relevant to the current query
> you're supposed to use a plastic slab cover thing over your bath, which requires a lot of maintenance or it gets gross very quickly

Buy a copper replacement. They get much less grimy than the plastic ones. This goes for the kitchen sink strainer too.

Plastic is a nightmare when I try to clean them. I can't remove filth or stench from plastic no matter how hard I try.
From the linked article, they found that it activates the region of the brain that carefully reasons through unfamiliar problems. They also speculate that this might not generalize to people with 30 years of programming experience. Well, fine, a lot of academic research is done with students. But doesn’t that invalidate any comparisons with natural language processing, something that the test subjects do have decades of experience in?
I firmly believe that the harm done to misidentified people is not worth the capture of people who are sought after.

In the story I also noticed that people flagged are not treated as innocent until their identity has been truly established.

What kind of society do we want? Was the money spent on facial recognition systems better spent on “prevention”? Probably not as this money would not have gone to the police so we can’t have that! /s
Makes sense to me. I have had a number of women friends. The ones who were truly good friends (as opposed to social acquaintances)? If I like them that much, then I could also see the potential of a romantic relationship with them.

That said, I find it odd that the study found guys overestimated the woman's interest. That seems like wishful thinking. I always found it pretty clear whether or not the potential interest was returned. If it wasn't, it wasn't, and there's no sense messing up a nice friendship.

Taking a few steps back, to look at the big picture: It is pretty well established that - given the opportunity - men tend to be more promiscuous than women. Turned around: women tend to be more selective than men, and if they are not, it can lead to (or is tied to existing) mental health problems. For example, one NIH study shows "a strong association between number of sex partners and later substance disorder, especially for women".
You're doing exactly the right thing to kickstart your career as a dev/founder/indie maker: Building a small useful tool and launching it (that's the important part, many never get to this stage), seeking feedback, and improving based on it. This is the essence of the "build, measure, learn" methodology that every startup tries to apply.

In fact, my own startup wouldn't exist if I hadn't made a HN post with a crappy MVP and received feedback from founders, investors, and potential customers.
Wait but when did he say that?
I think they are actually being too timid.

ChatGPT is already replacing search in many professions starting with SWE. IMO they should embrace it 100% and make Gemini a full 50% of the search page or a new button. Just making it a sad widget gives the signal its not the place to be to get AI ar all, not to mentio the subpar results.

Maybe sergey and larry are not taking the reins now. Sundar was a good peacetime CEO but maybe Google need some deep reorg of their product which only an original foubder can have the credential to lead
But how efficient is it? I don't see that info in the article.
“Most people don't think of the Coast Guard as being particularly well-armed. Most people are wrong. A Coast Guard patrol boat is armed with two .50-caliber machine guns, and a 25-millimeter cannon, which means it can take out anything short of a battleship.”

-Michael Westen

I am only 20% facetious.
Tangential: Aza Raskin is the son of Jef Raskin, who created the single-button mouse interactions for the Macintosh, interactions that differed a lot from the ones on the Xerox machine, and that are the ones we all still use today: click and drag to select several items, double-click to open… great family of interaction designers!
Privacy Is a Myth. Unless You're Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Right, that makes sense, our brain will do a quick black box judgment (some may call it system 1), and then rational process only works to justify that or explain the black box, assuming that black box is always correct (depending on the person and how much they trust their black box or system 1).

So system 2 is "hallucinating" the best justification for system 1.

And usually system 2 will do it only when it's required to justify it for anyone else.
Oh, dependency injection?
There are some reasons you hire developers with Computer Science degrees.
This, and the other examples, reek of lacking knowledge by the users.

Tall building are expensive. The taller, the more available floor space to rent. The taller, the more elevators you need. More elevators mean less floor space. People need to move between floors.

Buttons outside means that an algorithm can dispatch elevators most efficiently, combining people who want to go to the same floors, or follow up floors. So the throughput of people thru the building is maximized.

Its tyranny of capitalism. Or the tyranny of efficiency.
> They ran the experiment for two days. During this time, 241 people bought cheese. When they saw .00-ending prices, they bought cheese 44.1% of the time. But when they saw .99-ending prices, they bought cheese 51.2% of the time.

> This study not only confirmed that .99-ending prices lead to more revenue

Er, surely that depends on the rest of the price e.g. 1.00 v 1.99.
Charge your laptop in a minute or your EV in 10? Supercapacitors can help
Really nice! One minor bug - installing the PWA lists it as "Create React App Sample": https://i.postimg.cc/0yjyt7RF/my-image-name.png
I still dont get it. Is this to sync two servers between each other?
But GPT4 has been trained up to recent events, so you can't do rolling predictions using just historical data with it. If your LLM knows the future obviously it can predict well, even if the company name is hidden.
Windows API that lets you disable Defender
I have Custom Instructions that can get ignored in a chat.

If I want control over the outcome or am doing anything remotely complex, I make a GPT and provide knowledge files, and if there is an API I want to use and it’s huge, I will chop it down with Swagger Editor or another custom GPT (grab the GET operations…) and make Actions.

This leads me to chaining agents with a specialty; the third party API, the general requirement, the first-party API, and code generators with knowledge for documentation and example code.

I chain these together with @ and go directly to town with run, eval, enhance, check-in loops.

I have turned out MVPs in multiple languages for a bake-off in the time it might have taken to select the first toolkit for evaluation. We’re running boiler plate example code tweaked to purpose. With 4o, the memory and consistency is really improved. It’s not a full rewrite every time, it’s honoring atomic requests.
It is up to the developers, and most of them play ball from what I've seen. What I can tell you from a user perspective is that if they don't categorize their notifications properly, I will at the very least block all their notifications, or uninstall and look for an alternative app if possible. Maybe a developer can weigh in on the incentives this behavior creates, in terms of lost engagement or userbase
The Creativity Driving DOS Nostalgia (2018)
> When you price something as $9.99, you're signaling to your customer that you're trying to manipulate them. Whereas a flat $10 is honest.

Singalling is honest too, y'know. :)
Is there something like this but for desktop?
e.g. take this screenshot of my desktop and show it projected onto:
1. A laptop monitor.
2. An ipad screen.
3. A giant TV screen in Times Square.
The people telling you about Sal Khan's name are being uncharitable, I think. I think you know that was not the intent behind the name, you're just pointing out that the coincidences add an extra layer of meaning to you. Which I think is perfectly valid.
You didnt have a horrible reaction thats just how the drug works. You get used to it eventually and ur body adjusts but your sleep remains low quality.

And yeah I agree self diagnoses and self medication is pretty bad
Etsy already does all that. Funds are held for some time. There's also a way to dispute a sale to get a refund and so on. Plus credit card charge backs if you're really pissed. Paypal basically exists because it's included htis functionality for the last 20 years so it's nothing new.

The thing is that the vast majority of buyers are perfectly happy with their drop shipped item.

That's the real difference, Darknet has very savvy buyers because the barrier to entry is fairly high and theres is little real competition. If you don't like Etsy then there's Ebay or Shopify stores or Amazon handmade or a local craft fair or just emailing a maker.

I think it's important in these situations, like many others, to not jump to a conclusion such as "legit marketplaces are idiots for not doing X" but rather "why doesn't X work for legit marketplaces but does work for non-legit ones."
In 2024 it’s pretty clear that sanctions ag
Simple one column resume templates are easily parsable by ATS softwares.
Few example - Crisp Monochrome, Sahara Contrast, Glacier Chill on https://1millionresume.com/resume-templates works great with ATS.

Newer ATS versions are good at understanding modern template as well but we don't know which company is using what. (it is kind of blackbox)
Yeah I think at this point in my life Id appreciate an intentional bout of chaos but at the time I was just in a stupor.
Maybe an artifact of the 4K token limit
> If an interface is to be humane, it must respect habituation.

This is a really good principle, not easy to implement but good to keep in mind.
China Wants War: Look How Close They Put Their Country To Our Military Bases
> I’ve never used an android phone so I’m curious… isn’t the categorization of such notifications totally up to the developer

Yes, but any popular app will have implemented it.

> If I’m an app developer I could just lie and say all my marketing trash notifications are actually time sensitive/important so that you’ll still receive them

In those cases, your users would come to distrust your app. I reckon, only a negligible percentage of 3b Android users ever turn any notification off. More likely that some have learnt to ignore them altogether (banner blindness); swipe left to dismiss those isn't exactly as hostile as cookie banners are. Or, worse uninstall your "misbehaving" app (some are annoyed by notifications).
Ask HN: Why do some VCs make it so hard to pitch to them?
There are some VCs that don't provide any way of contacting them for a pitch. For example, BlueYard [1], which have an elaborately designed animation on their website, but no way to contact them except for a legal@... email address. I don't want to call them out specifically, it's just one instance of this phenomenon and there are several others.

Is this because their funds are exhausted and they wouldn't be able to invest in new startups anyway? Or do they want you to find their general partners on Linkedin and pitch directly to them?

[1] https://www.blueyard.com/
> That seems like wishful thinking

I think it is more of an ego thing.
> rebuilding my mind map

and

> to fine tune the meta-language mind map of coding it has

I have difficulties to understand / unpack these parts of your sentence, what do you mean?
The thing is, this little feature that mostly nobody uses can be a disaster if used once.

At $work we had to implement a feature to delete a custom form object that was linked to maybe hundreds if not thousands of submissions to this form with cascade deletion. The thing is, submissions required something from dozens of minutes to multiple hours. The form was also pretty complex to build and could represent hours of work.

Still, we had to provide full (real) deletion of everything for legal reasons (and it’s hard to implement undo on this).

V1 was a classic "are you sure?"

It was a disaster for our support department and we had to recover data from our production backups way too many times.

V2 we added multiple confirmation boxes with something like "I understand I’m deleting x submissions", "I understand deletion is permanent and can’t be undone", "I understand $WORK support will not be able to help me recover ".

We still got way too much calls of people panicking about what they’ve done.

V3 was the same thing but we added some text to write (à la GitHub).

A little more effective but still not that effective.

The harsh reality is that people / brains just don’t read anything, they just click where they think they have to click.

Also this overkill confirm box would have been enough in a B2C context, but in B2B, you just can’t ignore people because they are stupid because they also pay you big money so they do expect you will solve their fuckups.

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 just to avoid some pretty rare overall (but massive) human errors. But I’m not there anymore.
Platypush 1.0 – a general-purpose, event-driven platform for automation-as-code
You can set per-app Accessibility settings as well, but sadly Color Filter is a global configuration.
I don't have any evidence for this, but intuitively it feels like this must be true for much of the bell curve of humanity. In other words, it probably doesn't work very well for some sets of folks. It's very easy to look at $18.99 and mentally think "$20 once taxes hit," which ought to dispel the illusion. It makes me wonder if there are some market segments which intentionally avoid this sort of trick since it is either ineffective or offensive to their customers. Sort of like how Wal-Mart doesn't generally sell luxury products, but in reverse.
Then don't go around claiming that your opinion is representing the majority.

Good try but you're breaking the guidelines by instigating, starting flame wars and fighting ideological battles.
The advertiser who knows half his spend is wasted is the one who /does/ know what he's doing.
It doesn’t really work like that in the UK. I doubt you’d get anyone to take it on, let alone for feee. Proving the material impact would be hard. She’s not been named publicly, no lost earnings etc.
I would like to think this sort of thing means we get better regulation, but who am I kidding.
I guess it makes sense to ease in to those kinds of things (go to simpler local shows first, progress to more chaotic ones, etc).

Maybe 20-22 is the better age for those bigger events.
what are you smoking? Solana has had various outages in its lifetime and required to repeat transactions a lot. thats NOT the same experience as on Eth and far inferior in reliability.
I feel like this is akin to asking someone to read a fairytale and to tell you how many times a person crossed a bridge in it, or what they carry in their hand in the end, or where the apple is when all is done.

I don’t think this is about understand what is written, it’s about figuring out what that which is written means.
Sane countries (almost everywhere but the US), have sales-tax included in the consumer-listed prices.
Agreed. And a sterling reputation may mean only good at hiding disintegrity.
None of those are innovations. They've existed in legit marketplaces for decades.
Costco does that. If a price ends in .97, it's been discontinued. If a price ends in something that isn't a 9, usually means it's on sale. You can look up the exact details.
Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad
Trying to do gradient descent using automatic differentiation over branchy programs? Or to combine them with neural networks for end-to-end training? Then this might be interesting to you.

We develped DiscoGrad, a tool for automatic differentiation through C++ programs involving input-dependent control flow (e.g., "if (f(x) < c) { ... }", differentiating wrt. x) and randomness. Our initial motivation was to enable the use of gradient descent with simulations, which often rely heavily on such discrete branching. The latter makes plain autodiff mostly useless, since it can only account for the single path taken through the program. Our tool offers several backends that handle this situation, giving useful descent directions for optimization by accounting for alternative branches. Besides simulations, this problem arises in many other places, for example in deep learning when trying to combine imperative programs with neural networks.

In a nutshell, DiscoGrad applies an (LLVM-based) source-to-source transformation to your C++ program, adding some calls to our header library, which then handles the gradient computation. What sets it apart from similar tools/estimators is that it's fully automatic (no need to come up with a differentiable problem formulation/reparametrization) and that the branching condition can be any function of the program inputs (no need to know upfront what distribution the condition follows).

We're currently a team of two working on DiscoGrad as part of a research project, so don't expect to see production-grade code quality, but we do intend for it to be more than a throwaway research prototype. Use cases we've successfully tested include calibrating simulation models of epidemics or evacuation scenarios via gradient descent, and combining simulations with neural networks in an end-to-end trainable fashion.

We hope you find this interesting and useful, and we're happy to answer questions!
Woopsie, a little forget, thanks I'll change it !
Do all in one units just not work very well? Putting the heat pump dryer inside the washing machine sure beats using the whole bathroom in terms of efficiency, both electric and effort.

I feel as though America’s “dryer culture“ is based on General Electric and others simply wanting to sell you two appliances instead of one.
The table you linked is chopped off on mobile. So you are looking at the last column and the person above is looking at the first column.

Also, why have you done an “alacritty” vs “alacritty+tmux” benchmark yet have not done a “kitty+tmux” benchmark on this same table? That’s a big omission. The entire conversation is about the effects of adding a multiplexer on top of a terminal.
What I understand from this is that it could be that with 30 years of programming experience, the region of the brain that carefully reasons through unfamiliar problems activates less.

That would make sense: if you are unfamiliar with programming, it makes sense that the unfamiliar problems zone activates.

It would be interesting to study this, to know if this zone activates because of the unfamiliarity or if it still activates with experience while dealing with code.

It could be that the zone will activate regardless (i.e. because when you are reading code, you are somehow always dealing with unfamiliar stuff - because this is why you are reading code in the first place usually) or not (i.e. because reading code is now familiar).

> But doesn’t that invalidate any comparisons with natural language processing, something that the test subjects do have decades of experience in?

It could: the test subjects would probably need experience in both natural language processing (which they have) and programming for the comparison to be fair. We most likely won't have "as familiar in both stuff", so we'll most certainly have to just do with "familiar enough with code".
From the article:

> Together, these features enable a web resource to synchronize automatically across multiple clients, servers and proxies, and support arbitrary simultaneous edits by multiple writers, under arbitrary network delays and partitions, while guaranteeing consistency using an OT, CRDT, or other algorithm.

So, you'd use it if you want to "support arbitrary simultaneous edits by multiple writers, under arbitrary network delays and partitions, while guaranteeing consistency", for example for apps that want to support collaborative editing.

Braid wants to turn state transfer (like in RESTful API designs - Representational State Transfer) into a kind of synchronization transfer for state. Currently, state synchronization is handled on the state management layer of each individual application, and API calls just transfer that state, but Braid wants to have it solved as an extension to HTTP libraries on the API layer of an application AFAICS.
> pricing it at $0.99 meant they’d have to open the register to give change, reducing the risk

How does opening register reduce risk?
That's why I disabled all notifications, including the ones from taxi apps. When you think of it, they're completely unnecessary as you can track the moment of the car in (near) realtime anyway, so for these 3 minutes between ordering a car and it arriving I can live without any notifications. Also, for me the "Your driver has arrived" is not that useful anyway as I need a minute or two to actually reach the taxi starting from putting my shoes on etc., so even this notification is suboptimal.
You could sync two servers. Or you could sync a server with clients.

Braid is transitioning HTTP into a peer-to-peer world, where the distinction between clients and servers doesn't matter.
This also allows one to pass parameters to `foo.init()`, something you cannot do with naked imports.
> (that works by delaying the send a bit).

A delay which can be annoying in its own way. It’s rarely an issue to be fair but it means you may not be informed of errors if you leave the mail client too soon. Also there are (admittedly very rare) cases where you want the mail to be sent immediately but it is sent at an unpredictable time : those undo features rarely display a countdown.
> government-managed (or at least government-certified

Huge difference.
Not meant as a slight or troll, is gemini anywhere near ChatGPT yet? My understanding from limited experience is that they function very similarly but Gemini is wrong much more often, meaning Gemini power users are at a significant disadvantage relative to if they used ChatGPT instead.

I know the benchmarks say they’re vaguely similar, but benchmarks said the same of Llama II, and it was almost useless compared to ChatGPT. (so I don’t quite trust benchmarks, more interested in how these tools perform in real use cases)
Looks really interesting, I'll give this a shot.
Libel and slander must have malicious intent.

I think the better legal tactic would be defamation as it doesn’t require intent.
My best ChatGPT conversation started with, "Hi. I want to have a conversation with you, but I want you to write in a style that's as different from your normal writing style as possible."