skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't mind that as much as them searching the whole web when I'm searching for a local file.
Uni super customer here in Aus. Didn’t know what it was but kept receiving emails every day when they were trying to resolve this. Only found out from news on what’s actually happened. Feels like they downplayed the whole thing as “system downtime”. Imagine something actually happened to people’s money and billions of dollars that were saved as their superannuation fund.
Don't leave us hanging! What did you use instead 3 weeks ago?
That's probably an OK writeup but seems focused on someone who's good at learning without doodles and pictures. A visual / kinesthetic variation would be nice, even if it's just ASCII art of the data patterns.
The death penalty is a question of fact, not of law, according to current SCOTUS precedent.
ANOM has been discussed many times before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ANOM

The new part here is a 41m interview with journalist Joseph Cox (404 Media, Vice) whose new book comes out 6/2024 "Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever"
So many parts of the financial system only work because there’s take-backsies.

Taking back a wire transfer seems to basically involve someone at your bank phoning a friend, and it all works in the end.
Let's be honest. The safety of models is a joke.

The models currently pose no more of a risk than someone going to the library and learning how a bomb or weapon is made. AI safety is commonly used by openai to encourage the creation of regulation which enables them to capture market %.

This is like arguing that software or engineering data should be restricted due to safety. Is their a potential of harm, yes. But that potential is Inherited in information and is the user who determines how it is used.

Historically, corporate interest has not shown the ability to set aside the drive for financial profit. Everyone thinks they have the right ideology, no one person has the answers.

I feel like this would be restricting access to trigonometry and calculus because it is a key part in terminal guidance and in weapons development.
They sold their real estate for 1.5 billion and then red lobster paid 200 million a year in rent.
That’s insane.
In 7.5 years they would pay back the purchase price.

That just seems like a massively bad deal for red lobster, I wonder was there another way the private equity firm made out on that deal ?
> and also confirmed soft delete behavior.

Where exactly do they mention they have confirmed soft delete behavior systemically? All they said was they have ensured that this specific automatic deletion scenario can no longer happen, and it seems the main reason is because "these deployments are now automated". They were automated before, now they are even more automated. That does zero to assure me that their deletion mechanisms are consistently safe, only that there's no operator at the wheel any more.
Isn't an act criminal simply by breaking a criminal statue? I.e. someone did something that we had already agreed shouldn't be done?

Criminality isn't absolute, it requires the context of what those in charge decided shouldn't be done.
A witness reported observing the accused shaking the baby, therefore you find it safe enough to assume that the baby was killed by shaking. Safe enough that you would murder him with the legal system? Despite knowing that the baby had severe pneumonia at the time of death, and that many cases of SBS that were "proven" by the standards of the time are known to be incorrect?

Dear God, I hope I never get into legal trouble and have you on my "jury of peers". I'd be better off being judged by a panel of... sorry, I can't finish that sentence without venturing into ad hominem territory.

Do believe that every Karen has a legitimate beef, then? Every parent who goes out in public and has their child {have a tantrum, demand to have something, make a loud noise} knows that they are being judged, often harshly, by someone with less than a full picture. It is not hard at all to imagine a very concerned and upset observer deciding that what they think they are seeing is in fact what is happening, and it's horrible and must be stopped and they are a noble savior for calling it out. And be full of crap. It happens all the time. It may or may not be what happened here, I don't know enough and I doubt you do either.
My point is we're screwed either way and SuperSize me was a small blip in the grand scheme of things. You're missing the forest for the tree.
If it was mal adaptive, it wouldn’t exist.
Where’s the H1Bs? Didn’t see them in the legend, but might have missed em since that legend is legendary
Private equity firm wants to buy Red Lobster, but they don't have enough money. So to afford the sale, they make a deal to sell the land every Red Lobster sits on to a firm that will charge Red Lobster above-market rate rent to stay in business.

This doesn't seem like it should be legal.
It's only criminal because those in charge wrote criminal states declaring those acts as such. There's no universal, fundamental code that defines criminal or right and wrong.
Potentially related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022626
Some people may call this trash, I prefer to call them treasures!
This also happens to be shaky advice. Focusing on the big goal, when it will take thousands of steps, can be demoralizing, emphasizing the bigness of it. Focusing on just getting the task at hand done today and leavbing to faith that the big goal will work out if we just crank out one task per day is often way less procrastination inducing.

But LLMs are good at generating text, not understanding the implications of what they said.
This is an interesting observation in combination with the popular pension strategy to continually buy index funds regardless of performance.
That does sound frustrating. I'm pretty anti government in general, but one thing my city has done is make the best internet service I've ever had.

My IP address hasnt changed in the 7 years I've been here and I don't even pay for static IP. Plus I get symmetric gigabit for $70.

The profits are required to be rolled back into infrastructure upgrades. That's why we even got fiber. They just had a huge pile of money lying around and said "I guess we'll upgrade everyone to fiber". They already had conduit installed because of good city planning so it was just upgrading switches and running wires for the most part. (I'm sure it was more than that, please don't hang me by my hyperbole)
> A portion of your sovereign territory was invaded, and you did/are attempting to defend it

Technically true, but if you get some amount of promised military support, you're going to try to be more ambitious in your defense/counter-attack, and you're going to reject unfavourable peace terms.
> I can say that my wife and I did wear masks and we did not get infected with covid.

When did you stop?

I have been wearing N95s everywhere since the pandemic began and I don't think I've been infected yet, but according to the wastewater data, it seems the virus is still very prevalent in population.

In fact, it seems another wave is building right now.
I met one of my best friends randomly on Reddit, so there.
There's no reality where a competent customer isn't going to ensure Google pays for this. I'd be surprised if they have a bill at all this year.
I’ll have to give this a look! I’ve been looking for a simple way to use Go to write an internal development tool which is basically just a form with some buttons and text fields. I tried Gio, but had a hard time with wrapping my head around it. Right now I’m using wails and like it much better. This looks interesting and worth a look!
Not All Language Model Features Are Linear
And now OpenAI knows everything about you and your family.
Most wild thing I've heard lately is the cognition theory that most of what we perceive is surprise.

The thumbnail sketch of the idea is: we know from glucose uptake studies that there's basically no way our brain is actively synthesizing every sensory stimulus at all times. The hypothesis is that the brain creates a sort of "predictive map" of reality (which is what we perceive), and then uses sensory stimulus to listen for variance from that predictive model. So most of the time, what you perceive is a hallucination of reality that maps close enough to what's going on, and only when sensory input starts to deviate from that predictive model does the brain dedicate the resources to "read" the sensory input and meld it into an update of the prediction to match reality.

There was a Kyle Hill video on this recently. He also notes that there's an easy experiment you can do to observe your brain doing sensory fusion: touch your finger to your nose. We know, physically, that the signal from the finger takes way longer than the signal from the nose to reach the brain, but we perceive the two touches as a single instantaneous event that happens at the same time.
The biggest piece of reasonable doubt to me are the other medical issues. Sounds like she was medicated to death related to the pneumonia. But that's just my armchair opinion.
Fairness is not something you strive for because someone deserves it. It's because it's the only way to run a stable society.
Addendum: I believe the basis for electrolytes is salt and water; the sugar is there for taste. You will find the WHO recipe has a similar Gatorade kind of taste. That’s the sugar and salt flavors mixed. Perhaps the sugar changes the water polarity? But you can do what ever you want after 1L of water + 1/2 tsp salt and some sort of sugars. 1/8 tsp (pinch) baking soda is another popular addition.

> An electrolyte is a medium containing ions that are electrically conductive through the movement of those ions, but not conducting electrons. This includes most soluble salts, acids, and bases dissolved in a polar solvent, such as water.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte
I have the same question every time I see one of these articles. I think I've even posted the question in previous HN threads on private equity shenanigans. The question is:

Why is this profitable?

If the land is worth $1.5 billion, it should have cost PE more than $1.5 billion to buy the company. Then there would be no way to make a profit by selling the land, paying yourself, and letting the company go belly-up.

Why does PE keep doing this? Presumably because it works? But why does it work? Are the sellers less sophisticated at asset valuation than the buyers, and frequently lowball themselves? Or maybe owners/stockholders are sometimes just tired of holding this asset, want cash to reinvest somewhere else, and are willing to cash out at a discount?
Musicat – A sleek player for your local music library
SOSP Paper – Windows Azure Storage (2011)
I’m pretty sure IRC has continued to grow in obscurity, much like Gopher, which, last I checked, was also at an all-time peak and growing steadily but slowly.
By not worrying whether it got the answer right. As long as some numbers go in and some numbers come out, vibes are good enough.
Oh sure, but the Catholic Church didn't have to answer to a bunch of analysts whose only skill is fast excel spreadsheeting.
What’s most weird to me is that the PE firm owns Red Lobster. So if a deal is bad for Red Lobster, the deal is also bad for the PE firm.

I guess the reason that isn’t true is differing time horizons. If the consequences of the deal only become apparent years later, then the PE firm can sell the business before the chickens come home to roost.

But how do they sell Red Lobster without the buyer realizing what is going to happen? Who would be dumb enough to buy from a company that has a history of crippling companies it owns then selling them to suckers?
"ease" is relative here. And if you really care about that debate you can find some social media challenge posts fantasizing about how you'd consume 10000+ calories for 1b dollars. I wouldn't drone much more on that point past calorie density being an undertalked about issue with these "calories in, calories out" crowd.

Main point: consuming 3000 excess calories a day roughly equates to an average person gaining 5 points a week, 20 pounds a month (which tracks with the documentary). That is extreme. But think of 1000 excess calories (2 pounds a week) and do it over a year. We know which one is worse, and we know which one is more common. And we know it doesn't just stop after a year.

I think there's merit in demonstrating an extreme experiment (especially in this day of social media) and using it to demonstrate what happens from less extreme, but longer term bad habits.
I love seeing fun little projects like this
IRC buries yet another contender. This one has hung on longer than most.
I switched to Apple Music because of Apple Music Classical (browsing and curation of classical music is very different from popular music.) I'd love a similar feature set for Jazz.
Well, at least OpenAI seems like an upfront, honest company full of integrity. Don't see any privacy concerns here. /s
Hey! It works on mobile. Just go to https://jstrieb.github.io/poker-chipper to use it.

It's designed exactly for games with friends, so it should work well. But to be clear: it is for allocating chips to players at the beginning of the game, rather than for thinking about playing optimally during the game.
Whoa. That's a really cool idea. Have as much wealth as you want, but past $100mil or something we recognize it's not really just yours and it has so much gravity it affects society around it and thus, we still let you fully control it, but you must be fully transparent about it.

I can think of a lot of shady investments people wouldn't dare make if total transparency was required.

Or maybe you should be allowed to benefit from but not really control it. So above $100mil you have to put it in a blind trust or something.
Basically the plane is susceptible to a mechanical failure known as Hard Clutch Engagement which causes it to immediately drop out of the sky. And the manufacturers not only can’t fix it but don’t even know what causes it. But it’s still being flown. How is this possible?
Certainly the US has more logistics experience in actual wars, but it's unclear whether it would matter that much in a US-China war.

A US-China war would most likely be fought in the South China Sea. Most of China's supply train would be moving through China, whereas most of the US's supply train would be moving half way around the world through open ocean. It's not clear why the lack of Chinese experience fighting overseas wars or the US's experience moving materiel through uncontested ocean against non-peer adversaries would apply here.

Remember, the last time the US fought a war without uncontested sea routes and naval superiority was WWII.
Internal. 30+y of development with multiple languages, and I'm still a rookie when I look at the code and the progress of it, and part of the revenue (maybe even most of it) doesn't even come from this monorepo codebase.

My understanding is that 20M+ SLOC is not even considered a super large code base, though, when it comes to those "textbook" monorepo examples (urban legends?)
You're still not gaining much, right? You're just not losing what's already planted, but you could still plant more if you didn't have to drive in the first place - or do I misunderstand the precision driving?
Scientists discover CO2 and CO ices in outskirts of solar system
I thought the PE model was to buy one of these companies, leverage them with many multiples of debt while paying themselves out massive fees and bonuses, then letting the huge interest and debt load take its toll on the husk of the company.
I wouldn’t be surprised if VMware support is getting deprecated in GCP so they just don’t care - waiting for all customers to move off of it
That's not what it was about for them at all. Wearing a mask is a minor, even trivial thing.
The thing is, I wouldn't bat an eye if a friend said this, because I would understand it is a joke.

Fundamentally, whether you're dealing with a human, written text, YouTube/TikTok video, or AI, you cannot abandon your personal responsibility to think critically.
Because the asset is worth the net present value of its future cashflows. Unless you take over the the thing and liquidate it, the value of the property is far in the future... so arguably the takeover and liquidation increases its value.

PE here acts like a fungus unlocking the energy stored in dead trees that have fallen to the forest floor. :P If this is good nor not depend on if you're one of the creatures that has made their home in the log, if you're the fungus, or if you're the newly growing shoots that appreciate clearing out the obstructions.
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
Interesting. I did not realize that revenue rides do not fall under the reporting requirement.
Look up the user name on that comment before you dig yourself in deeper. The very first sentence of my initial response to you specifically countered that argument, but you just want to keep repeating it as if it was somehow meaningful.

But I hardly care at this point so I’ll leave with a more simple rebuttal:

Grid scale Solar’s global capacity factor has been flat over the last several years. So kW vs kWh only matters at the local level, globally the difference is a rounding error in terms of climate change and it’s going to remain that way for at least a decade.
If I've never used ICQ before, can anyone tell me how it differed from other chat apps?
Meh - I am skeptical of the entire “safety” fear mongering. Every time our rights are restricted, it is under calls for some kind of “safety”. And there is a whole ecosystem of activists and industrialists to bolster the same message - that somehow the sharing of information (which is what LLM models are) or excessive calculations / thoughts are a problem. There are many reasons to distrust Sam Altman or OpenAI - for example that the models are closed. But “safety” isn’t one of them for me.

Regarding industrialists and their motivations around safety: Amazon and Meta recently joined Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI as part of the “Frontier Model Forum” industry group, AKA the group for regulatory capture by playing up “trust and safety”. They are the ones pushing for regulations which will potentially make it illegal to build models that are open or uncensored.

This whole group has a dystopian vibe to it, with forced assumptions for its members:

“Member firms must publicly acknowledge that frontier AI models pose both public safety and societal risks, and publicly disclose guidelines for evaluating and mitigating those risks.”

In other words, all the members must amplify the same safety tropes to force regulation on the rest of us.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/26/google-mi...

https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/amazon-and-meta-j...
Ask HN: What are you building this weekend?
What interesting personal projects or side projects are you building this weekend?
Thing is, normal people don’t really like interacting with the kind of person that would have jumped over to Mastodon. Zeal is insufferable most of the time.
I'm far from being versed enough here, but from an adversarial standpoint, is having the client offer up the trust stores and certificate IDs it has going to increase the server's knowledge of aspects of the client we don't want it to know? IE could this contribute to fingerprinting or help to understand the browsing history of the device?
I was still able to pick up some Toshiba FlashAir cards relatively cheaply. No idea what the deal was, but some seller in India had hundreds of them for sale really cheap.

I have no idea what the original FlashAir software looks like. Never even occurred to me to try it—just assumed it would be a nightmare.

But it works fine in my old Nikon with PhotoSync on iOS!
Its not the early days in terms of expecting digital tools to be correct 99% of the time. Early adoption age was back in 2000-2009. Now everyone expects polished tools that does what it expects them to do
The more one learns about how traditional finance works, the more horrifying it becomes.
Heads-Up for folks trying to get to one of the linked pages:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-...

You can get to the same content here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-02-16/the-se...

Which was previously posted to HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34824986
It's not. They paid $2.1 billion for Red Lobster and sold the land for $1.5 billion. Now it's bankrupt so they lose $600 million.
tar -cvf mytar.tar /home/myuser/*

Was definitely the syntax I ran. I'm on FreeBSD so just tar.
Way way too complicated. I thought this tool was suppsed to make my life easier
Here's one I spotted a few weeks back, just so you know I'm not making shit up:

https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops (see Ubuntu section)
The effusive praise for the customer in Google's statement makes me think they have free GCP for the next year, in exchange for not going public with their frustrations.
I don't think the solution to excessive sentencing is more excessive sentencing. The individual doctors/nurses presumably had no malicious intent, and it was commonly accepted knowledge within their practice at the time.

But, there do seem to be systemic issues with the justice system at play. As an uninformed non-lawyer, this kind of determination seems like it should necessarily be linked back to an independent study (ideally providing recall and precision, to properly update credence of guilt with Bayes' rule rather than a "finger in air" approach) and not just nebulous common knowledge. Then, if future scientific evidence contradicts that study, review of the cases where it was relied upon should be pretty much automatic.
The tax authorities care what you list as an expense. If you aren’t a public company and don’t try to write it off as an expense/loss, they don’t care.
Dumb q- have you profiled the inference execution? Where are the bottlenecks you are observing?
YT deciding who can communicate with who. Pathetic, really.
Likewise, I used it for a while as well. I also used a console client named micq, good times.
It's well written and full of practical advice and fun to read.
> Drs rediscover integration is about people stepping far outside their field of expertise.

> It is neither deception or ignorance.

How is it not ignorance of math?
DHH on SQLite
I hope we get extensions that auto-append this soon.
I don't remember where I read that. But I just checked on wikipedia and it looks like the US had rifles to provide to its white soldiers, but not to its African-American soldiers, which formed 13% of the force. There was a whole combat division (the 93rd) that was equipped with the French Berthier rifle [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces#...
When they reach lower temperatures like 900C, we could finally replace the inefficent hot water turbines in coal power stations.
It's a good thing that the average person is a long distance runner then?

I'd love if someone has a source, but I distinctly remember that a significant proportion of adults are constantly slightly dehydrated. Ironically, that might have been improved in recent times due to the Stanley cup (and various other water bottle) fads. It won't kill you, but it will cause inhibited cognition, and an increased risk of kidney stones.
The app (at least when I used it decades ago) didn’t recommend accounts to follow or insert junk in your list. That’s the key reason I resent all social media I use today.
Notice the sudo and terminal. You must enter a password in a terminal. In windows you just click twice.
Well, they DID have to scrape together a few % of the purchase price 


Isn't this what Gordon Gecko did in the movie Wall Street? Look for asset-rich companies, buy a controlling interest of the stock (the equivalent of the PE leveraged buyout) then strip them for parts? Also, wasn't that a cautionary tale of the worst of the 80's vs. a "how to" manual?