skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But not as accurate. A few quick queries and already it's providing misinformation. As much as Wikipedia has problems with truthiness in some instances, it's not nearly as bad as misinformation-ridden GPTs.
I think it's pretty clear from all Sam's interviews that I've seen that he is a sociopath. I wonder why Paul didn't see it.
This ignores the large amount of business software which is Windows only. For many companies, and the people that work for them, you simply can't switch even if you are desperate to.
Toner has cast out a whole constellation of vague and non-specific incidents that motivated her to oust Sam. If the case was as open-and-shut as (2), why has Toner continued making vague and non-specific character attacks, and why did the board put out that bizarre "not consistently candid" line? Clearly, Microsoft didn't see much of a legal problem when Microsoft supported Sam's return to OpenAI and when Microsoft offered to hire Sam.

If Toner has been telling the truth about all of the myriad things that she claims happened, where was she when she was responsible for oversight during recent years? Toner comes across as unprofessional and reckless in how she handled all of this, whether her claims are true or not.
Function calls, the essence of DRY, are only readable if it is well known and well understood what it does.

When code is serial, with comment blocks to point out different sections, it is much easier to read, follow, and debug.

This is also a little bit of a tooling problem
IDK, they're just following what Chrome has been doing forever now, and it has worked there. I guess that really is what the vast majority of normal people want. And considering how even among my most tech-savy friends and colleagues Chrome appears to be the browser of choice, it seems even these folks don't really care...
i think people don't mention the existing sky voice actor, because in these kind of cases it is never the actual impersonator getting sued or found liable. in fact, if there were something problematic here, it could be entirely possible that OpenAI kept the voice actress in the dark about the intent of the performance and they would still have a legal problem.
Kdenlive 24.05 open source video editor released
I hope they don't put more of the menu items into unremovable buttons in the address bar (which already contains four icons: tracker protection, certificates, containers, bookmark) or next to it (both an overflow menu for extensions and an overflow menu for ..other things? and a hamburger for ..other-other things? in addition to the buttons I actually do want there). On my laptop I can hardly read the domain name of the url unless I fullscreen the window.
Half of my technical friends haven't changed theirs from the factory defaults. None of my non-technical friends have changed them. A non-representative sample of SSIDs I receive in my apartment gives 9 default ones, and 2 custom ones (plus mine).
No, a great deal of that is explicitly prohibited.

If you work for Google, they own anything you develop on the side. They're actually nice in that they have a review process where they will give you your rights back if they decide it isn't competitive with any of their lines of business.

A lot of other companies don't even provide that. If you start a business on the side, they own all of its IP. Period.

This is extremely common. Both with large corporations as well as with startups. You just might not be aware of it.
Body Heat: A New Source of Energy for Buildings?
> Otherwise if there's a sign that says "Left Lane Closed 10 Miles Ahead" everyone will get in the right lane for ten miles.

One reason for this is that it only takes one person "policing" from the right lane (i.e. driving down the middle of the road, or worse: swerving out in front of the left lane) to shut down zipper merging.
Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases
This is a pretty clear first amendment issue

That's what OP is saying - someone wasted a ton of time and money on lawyers to receive a verdict that they should have known was coming.
might make a good personal statement for a rival ivy League university though.
She's written five so far this term.
As this is being downvoted can someone explain why this wouldn't be true? One of the core tenets of graphql was not having to involve the backend team, wasn't it?
great! it's a pretty early version so please get in touch through the various channels (website chat, contact form or on twitter) if you have any questions or something does not work
What about catching up with PWA?
> It wasn’t sent to test AI, or to show it off, as in “ha ha check this out”; my friend had a question to ask me, and the email asked it over the course of a few paragraphs. It then disclosed that, oh by the way, I used AI to write this.

If one of my friends did this, I would be deeply insulted. Not just because I would think that a real friend would know I wouldn't appreciate it, and not even because it was written by AI.

I'd be insulted because it wasn't written by my friend. Ignoring the AI aspect, composing an email this way is no different than if my friend had asked someone else to write the email for him instead of talking to me directly. It would be a pure WTF moment.
May I ask you if you tried hybrid search directly on Pinecone, using Bm25 or splade?
> The sad thing is that I start the refactor, realize midway that I did not think it through, waste a day of my life, go to sleep, and repeat the same tomorrow thinking that I have found a "better way" to do it, just to make the same mistake again in a different place.

FWIW, this isn't wasting your time. This is exactly how your learn your craft. You don't learn much from things that work right first time, you learn from making mistakes, and understanding why they failed. Over time, that turns into intuition - a gut feeling that approaching a problem one way will fail because you remember that time you did something a bit similar and it turned out to be a bad idea. Given enough experiences like this, when you encounter a new problem, you'll very quickly be able to limit the solution space down to something manageable and then you have a good chance of coming up with a good solution almost right away. You might still make mistakes or bad decisions, but the more of those you've had in your past, the less likely they'll be in your future.
This.

The headlines are "court sides with NRA!" which fits the ongoing "illegitimate court" narrative for progressives because the NRA is unpopular. (Partly owing to "ew! guns!" and partly owing to other, unrelated legal trouble growing out of NRA leaders embezzling + offering an illegal insurance product.) But... this was about whether a government official could threaten arbitrary regulatory action against a firm's customers/vendors/partners because of that firm's constitutionally-protected advocacy. (And whether that had in fact happened in this case. 9-0 it did.)

And if you're the kind of person who is set off by that and can't abide NRA having a win, I'd ask if you want your favorite progressive advocacy organization to be able to have a bank account and an insurance policy in Texas and Florida.

This was not a close call or earth-shattering case.
Or, use a sufficiently well designed type-checking compiler, like GHC.
You should be nagging Intuit, Dassault Systèmes, etc. rather than the people that need Windows-only software.
A free internet allows a degree of lawlessness.
Maybe. But it can also be a good tactical case to set precendent against your opponents.

Having the NRA as one of the parties puts the conservative wing of the court in a bind. They don't really want to limit this (Republicans like to be authoritarian), but they don't want it used as a cudgel against the NRA, either.

So, the progressives get the first amendment issues reaffirmed, and the conservatives have to protect the NRA.
I think they do great! Except for the occasional stationary emergency vehicle, bridge pile, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/26/tesla-aut...
Because you are dead. You have ceased to be and your wishes no longer bind the living beyond the division of your assets, and even then that is only because of bitter legal argument between the survivors of an estate.
I'm still upset that theyve removed the "compact" style.

Granted, between ublock origin and tree style tabs Firefox is still my favorite browser, but why are they changing this stuff...

Can someone please ELI5 - what does "more streamlined menus" mean?
MATLAB is available for Linux. "Just switch OSes" seems like a perfectly valid and actionable piece of advice.

What's "useless" is sticking with an operating system that doesn't support the use-cases you need it to.

(Buying a license for Windows Enterprise might also be a valid and actionable course of advice -- I don't have experience there, but it should be considered if the use-case requires it.)
>What option is a parent to choose I wonder?

You do know that there are other alternatives to smartphones besides a "Google Kids Watch", yes?

Edit:

> If passed, schoolchildren will be allowed to carry simple phones that cannot access the internet but do have the capability to send texts...

That's every dumb phone out there, and a far cry from Google cornering some kind of market. Plenty of options available from a variety of vendors and price points.

Maybe go outside, take a walk and get some fresh air for a sec?
In the same way that you can’t keep a wild animal as a pet, windows is not your software, you paid for it but it serves another master.

Linux is great, I can even play modern games on it now.
That's because true love is unselfish.

The idea of a couple that belongs together beyond death might sound romantic but is ultimately too tough on the one left behind, especially if the loving couple are separated with the "leftover" still being relatively young.

(On a side note, I'm positively excited to read a quote on HN that dates from about 480 before Christ. It surely is still relevant two and a half thousand years later.)
The ACTUAL Heisenberg uncertainty principle does not have any effect on software, or on normal computer hardware such as cpus. The problem where an error goes away when you try to look for it is unrelated to any actual quantum effect. Bug analysts are only using the word 'Heisenberg' as a metaphor. It only confuses people. Please stick to 'observer effect' instead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(information...

https://lonesysadmin.net/2010/01/05/heisenberg-monitoring/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
> “Around ten to twenty new Gram-negative antibiotics have been discovered in the last ten years”, he adds, but none has gained approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.

They mention that novel antibiotics aren't very profitable, but also that approval can take 20+ years. What's not clear is if the referenced antibiotics are all in the long process of approval or if they're considered uneconomical or some other issue. My impression was we have a strong need for approved treatments for resistant bacteria, given the way the problem is talked about in the media. I would have expected there'd be a market for them at some price that works.
Hopefully this will mean that governments aren't allowed to request removal of twitter and facebook posts, like when the notoriously a-constitutional 9th circuit allowed California to remove twitter posts:

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/03/13/no-first-amendment-viol...
We also had Sheetz vs County of El Dorado as a 9-0 against Takings, which probably surprised the left.
It doesn't sound like much lifting compared to huge cannons that launch sulfur shells into the upper atmosphere!
Except, the alternatives he presents aren't alternatives.

And for each issue he mentions that rest doesn't have said issue is basically because rest doesn't have the feature at all.

You could use graphql the same way as rest (by exposing queries without allowing to specify fields) and you still have a better rest, since at least the response has a schema out of the box.
For the next set, buy something noticeable (i.e. bight yellow handles). I'd bet accidental theft will go down and folks will take time to return if they do accidentally take.
Looking at the comments, I'm not surprised about FF's low market share. They chose to target geeks and nerds, and let's face it, we tend to be whiny about almost everything and complain about any new change.

Meanwhile, Google Chrome doesn't even need to pretend like they care about privacy, so they automatically target the other "ordinary" people who are not so picky about every new release note.

This kinda teaches you something about the importance of product positioning.
Oh, oops. I guess I meant "legitimately trying to solve the full problem" rather than "not a bunch of weasels" :-)
Expat here -- yes, that's a real problem. There are even well-located commercial buildings in central Lisbon that are decaying while things like that are sorted out. I honestly don't know why they don't do short-term (as in, three year or so lease) rentals while things are sorted out. Perhaps protections (regulatory or customary) in commercial leases that make it hard to get people out once an agreement has been reached between the heirs?
Well if my course and teaching was crap I wouldn't get good reviews and therefore many sales. I've spent $0 on marketing.

https://www.udemy.com/neo4j-foundations/

There are many people who do teach and explain topics well. Richard Feynman comes to mind.

I've found Abdul Bari on YouTube to also be an excellent teacher around technical topics.
Good, I don't see any good reason for kids to have smartphones in school. If someone needs to get a hold of the kid, the old fashioned way of just calling the school still works just fine.
I like Firefox's built-in language translation feature. Does that count as "AI" these days?
Why do you say that? They battled FDR over the New Deal for example which was more political than any kind of principled analysis of the law. Here's an article from 2023 alluding to negotiations within the court [1]

> decisions issued this month have shown several cross-ideological alliances and likely reflected negotiations among small factions.

Not sure where you get that this isn't supposed to happen. Indeed, negotiation is expected largely because you'd think that judges would sacrifice their personal politics to enact decisions or communicate them in a way to strengthen the overall institution.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/politics/supreme-court-backch...
>This stuff is not even a little bit ready for fully supervised operation. https://youtu.be/fpoXr_z_6a4?t=565

Thanks for sharing. I skimmed through the video and watched a fair amount of it. I got a different impression.

I thought it was impressive how FSD 12 navigated narrow winding roads with parked cars and oncoming traffic and flaggers holding signs that alternate between stop and slow. My impression was while it's not perfect, it's a few iterations away from having very few situations that require disengagement. And keeping in mind that every incident of disengagement is a learning and improving moment for FSD, the following iterations of FSD will continue to get more impressive.
"Endgame" was a word with an established meaning before Disney stuck it in the title of a superhero movie in 2019.

The patch for "Operation Endgame" (in the screen cap at the top of the article) even shows chess pieces, not superheroes.
"Side effects" are not the same as "less important traits."

Side effects are usually unrelated or unwanted.
You seem confused about how medical education works. The link I posted above is relevant in that it has some good general information about the costs of residency programs. You might want to read it as a starting point for correcting your misunderstandings.

Most teaching hospitals are non-profits, often owned by educational institutions or state/local governments. They don't "write off" expenses from an income tax perspective because they aren't subject to income tax in the first place. Cost accounting as a discipline is only loosely related to financial accounting or tax accounting.

As for corruption, there are probably ways the current system could be improved. But you haven't presented any evidence of widespread illegal activity.
Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
As the title says, I have many PDFs - mostly scans via Scansnap - but also non-scans. These are sensitive in nature, e.g. bills, documents, etc. I would like a local-first AI solution that allows me to say things like: "show me all tax documents for August 2023" or "show my home title". Ideally it is Mac software that can access iCloud too, since that where I store it all. I would prefer to not do any tagging. I would like to optimize on recall over precision, so False Positives in the search results are ok. What are modern approaches to do this, without hacking one up on my own?
Sometimes it's best to be DRY right from the start.

Several years ago, I did some contract work for a company that needed importers for airspace data and various other kinds of data relevant to flying.

In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) publishes datasets for several kinds of airspace data. Two of them are called "Class Airspace" and "Special Use Airspace".

The guy who wrote the original importers for these treated them as completely separate and unrelated data. He used an internal generic tool to convert the FAA data for each kind of airspace into a format used within the company, and then wrote separate C++ code, thousands of lines of code each.

Thing is, the data for these two kinds of airspace is mostly identical. You could process it all with one common codebase, with separate code for only the 10% of the data that is different between the two formats.

When I asked him about this, he said, "I have this philosophy that says if you only have two similar things, it's best to write separate code for each. Once you get to a third, then you can think about refactoring and making some common code."

That is a good philosophy! I have often followed it myself.

But in this case, it was obvious that the two data formats were mostly the same, and there was never going to be a third kind of almost-identical airspace, only the two. So we had twice the code we needed.
It's funny that I got downvoted for this comment. Did you think I was supporting EA or something? I'm not. I just wanted to point out what they believe.
This just feels like more social panic pandering from Hochul. I sincerely doubt this will have any appreciable affect on kids well-being. My older kid's high school just leans way in. They use phones in class for tasks. They watch videos, do research, use calculator aops, Google Classroom. The teachers who won't answer email are the ones who are just being stubborn.
> kdbus didn't even make it into staging. Project mainline put in some serious work to get where it got.
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> And quite probably part of it going better was not insisting on becoming mandatory solution for everyone. If anything, it might have been less "wheelbarrows of cash" and more conflicts involving kdbus principal developer and Linus.

You mean, because it would actually be _used_ somewhere in open source distributions (that is, not just deep inside some de-facto proprietary half-closed-source fork owned by a single mega-corp)? Yeah when things are hidden away in some cupboard in the basement it's much easier not to ruffle feathers. But yeah the LKML is bad today, but back then it was a veritable open-air cesspool

> The kdbus docs could do better job declaring why it's needed then.

Well, it's dead, so what's the point...
He is still chasing money so clearly he doesn't see himself as rich enough.
Right, my main point being though that the expectation that a judge should rule for your "side" of the aisle is faulty and corrupt and not really a "progressive" thing. At least not from my recent recollection and I have a weird OCD habit of reading a lot of the denser text of these opinions.

I will say that Kavanaugh has been a surprising force on the court, tending to vote by what he thinks the law says, so I'm not trying to blame any specific party here, just individuals that I probably do not need to name because it has been so prominent in the news cycle the last few years.
Hybrid might work for English but where are you going to get sparse embeddings like SPLADE or ELSERv2 for most other languages? Vector search with ada-002 or text-003-large capped to the first 500-1000 dimensions will give you a support for 100+ languages for free. If you are using BM25, then you need to train BM25 on every single separate knowledge base which is annoying and expensive.
If I quit a job because they want everyone to return the office, was I fired?
I still don't understand why they were ever allowed in the first place. I went to public school in the 00s and if you got caught with your phone out in class, it would be confiscated until the end of the day. Repeat offenders would need their parents to come up to the school to get the phone back.
Of all the dumb ideas in the history of engineering, exposing an access point for strangers to query your database is certainly one of them. I cannot imagine that anyone involved had experience running enterprise systems at scale.
> There have been several others that attempted this.

Interesting, for my information, which companies are you referring to?
This needs to happen on a country-wide scale.

Our children are getting destroyed by the attention economy. I tried to setup a mobile game the other day and I immediately deleted it because every single popup was a psychologist-optimized addiction machine designed to suck every bit of dopamine from undeveloped children.

This is the #1 issue plaguing children in my opinion and it will only get worse without regulation.
I've seen code like this, what eventually happens is that all your 'copies' drift to be slightly different. Fixes get applied to some but not all of them, people copy from old code vs. new code, etc. And whenever you need to apply a fix you spend hours trying to figure out where each copy is, what it is supposed to be doing (since they're all different), and how the fix can be applied to it. You inevitably don't find them all and repeat the cycle.
I am happy it's nothing to do with Pocket, VPN or Colorways. Those are examples of visual clutter that I would love to see removed entirely.