skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh this is very interesting! I wish I knew about this before I wrote my own benchmarking suite. :D
I'm honestly at the point where I wish there were a built-in one-click filter for Hacker News to prevent anything related to Machine Learning, AI, Chatbots, etc, from showing up in the feeds here when I'm signed in.
It remains to be seen to me what information is really being gathered here that wasn't already available. If you want to know where people are, geographic population demographics and residential density data is generally publicly available in most places. If you want to know where they're moving to, vehicular traffic, bus and train ridership, and airline ticket sales are also public knowledge.

This is simply providing another way to say "humans who connect to WiFi networks exist here, here, and here, and move to here, here, and here." Without knowing who actually owns and uses each device, it's hard to see how you can really call this mass surveillance, which typically implies the leakage of information that people expected to be private. The fact that my residential address has a WiFi access point in it does not seem to me to be private information. I can readily guess with at least 99% accuracy that every residential and business address in existence with visible furnishing, decoration, regular cleaning, trash outside, or any other sign of human occupancy, has a WiFi access point attached to it.

The threat they mention of intimate partner abuse and stalking whereby an attacker knows a specific person's MAC address and is able to track them if they move but retain the same device is a more obviously real concern, but easily mitigated by simply not retaining the same WiFi access point when you move to a new residential address.
Maybe because sonar is annoying as hell for cetaceans and makes their ears bleed?
"Explosions heard as nationalist sentiment sweeps the nation!"
Probably written by AI.
type `agent` repeatedly into the chatbot and it will let you request a callback
it's also short for Abstract Interpretation, right?
It doesn't need to be the same article to be a duplicate submission, it just needs to have no significant new information compared to recent submissions that already got a lot of HN attention.

This article is literally just summarizing the Vox article with no new information or insight. And the HN submission for the Vox article had 1784 points and 544 comments.
That's the best come-back you have?
Summer is the end of outdoor dining in NYC as we know it
I see it was included in the README. The other uses are also very interesting.

> It is an excellent choice for plugin systems, cloud hosts and as smart contract execution engine.

Would also be nice for a more dynamic sandboxed code running on mini home servers as something like https://sandstorm.io/
Apparently not.

> “Authorization” comes from “auctor” in Latin, meaning “leader” or “author”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493073
> have support people who can “Karen” for the need of a better word the medical and insurance system

Yep - that's called a "patient advocate". I learned about it when I was in my teens, and went with my grandfather to the VA hospital on a regular basis.

Multiple times I had to remind the healthcare providers that he had long-standing kidney issues, that contrasting agents had caused immediate and significant reductions in kidney function in the past, and that as a result we should consider why such tests were ordered and what benefit the results would provide.

I 100% believe they would have unintentionally killed him years early if I hadn't been there to question them and push back.
Well, the username certainly checks out
oh man, hard disagree. You are taking all the humanity out with JIRA only communication. If it's slack, or glue, or SMS txt, I want to "talk to people" that is type to people during my day.
An alternative for app distribution outside of Google Play Store.
Even then, I don't think it's quite the same... I've built several authentication and authorization controls, for the past decade mostly around JWT, but even then, I find more of the formal dedicated systems are often more complex than a given application needs, but it does take some understanding in terms of what to get right and getting what things wrong can be problematic. You can use some tools off the shelf, but may want other bits to be custom.

For example, I've worked on several applications where an external provider winds up sending the user through an adapter to the application itself. So that external roles or groups can map to application roles. Especially if your application may be Azure AD for one client, and Okta for another. And another still may want you to provide something (simple user/password backed).
No, it's the other way round. Wanting a place you can call your own is a basic fundamental human desire. It's the insanity of the world today that such a basic thing is viewed as a luxury and people engage in semantic gymnastics to justify permanent renting.
A basic transformer architecture performs only a bounded amount of computation per generated token, so it can never emulate a machine computing sufficiently hard problems.
Here I was thinking it'd be smart to have the app use the camera to figure out how fast the middle label is spinning around but this seems way simpler now that you mention it.
>For Shor algorithm the error rate needs to decrease exponentially with the number of qubits

I have never seen a result like that. Do you have a citation?
Well when you outlaw most of the things involved in making a protest effective it’s easy to shut them down for breaking one of those laws.

I think you all with this perspective are forgetting how many of the freedoms we enjoy today were won through violence.
It would be really weird if a Silurian civilization randomly pumped out a bunch of radioactive iron and didn't do anything else.

Any industrial civilization comparable to ours within the past few hundred million years would be very detectable today - reinforced concrete, plastics, ceramic shards, mined fertilizers, all would show up in the geologic record. Further one would expect fossil evidence of some lineage approaching intelligent levels over time. The only plausible place for a Silurian civilization to hide would be several billion years ago, so long ago that the crust they lived on has been subducted back into the mantle, taking the evidence for their existence along with it.
Also great job on Wizard btw! Your article about Wizard was a really interesting read to me.

The abundance of Wasm runtimes is a testimony of how great the WebAssembly standard really is!
> plans to unveil a proposal

Three levels of weaseling. The chance of this being real seems pretty remote at this point.
You can get out of the automated useless system. They don't make it easy.

But I once managed to get through to an actual agent with this question:

1. I want to buy a kindle version of this book [amazon link, for the paper version of the book].

2. On the page for the book, there is a link for the kindle edition: [link].

3. That link goes to a page for what appears to be an entirely different book. (Under the same name; this was an edition of the Arabian Nights.)

4. However, I have independently found this page: [link], which appears to be for the kindle version of the book I'm interested in.

5. Given that I want to buy the kindle version of the book linked up in step (1), which one should I purchase?

The agent directed me to buy the book that purported to be the book I wanted, instead of the book that Amazon believed was the book I wanted but which claimed to be something different. I would have assumed that anyway. But a couple days later I checked on the book and the "kindle version" link for the paper version had been corrected.

Unfortunately, while they did correct the issue on the one book that I took the time to point out to them, it's still rampant all over their website.
That * seems extremely optimistic.
> Large icy or rocky bodies hitting the planet

Or comparatively tiny bodies hitting the planet at relativistic speeds
They're present often enough that the people developing the TLS spec had to invent workarounds.

Personally, I would've preferred to ignore the spec incompliant middleboxes, or even report an error about something meddling with the connection to the user when it's obvious they're the cause of any connectivity issues. That's not a very popular approach for spec designers, though, because they're afraid people will blame the new software rather than the Enterprise™ NetworkProtection© box they paid six figures for. After all, the software is what changed, not the box!
The needle doesn't pass at a constant "ground speed" everywhere on the record. On the outside the needle "travels faster" and in theory you have more detail. Near the middle the needle travels over the record surface slower.
Surveillance and interference: Israel's covert war on the ICC
Russian media may be banned in Europe, but it isn't banned in America. You're not wrong about "civil society" seeming very euphemistic though.
Curious, which contexts do you prefer chatbots in?
That site has some sort of redirect for incoming HN traffic that masks the article and supplies the clicker with a pithy quote. Man, that blogger really hates HN.
New AI tools much hyped but not much used, study says
Sorry thought it was clear but maybe a little poorly phrased. My point is: the number of meaningful solutions to problems by practitioners is infinity. The number of meaningful solutions to problems by non-practicing philosophers is zero as far as I know. Open to it being non-zero, but don't think the score is remotely close

edit: I think often theoreticians are unable to appreciate the constraints or nuance of actually "doing it" so frequently their "solutions" don't survive impact with reality
NAMA is not in any way responsible for the housing crisis. Its purpose was not ever to fund or incentivize homebuilding and in any case, if I think back a decade, to a point where NAMA had been in operation for five years, there was no housing crisis. Neither NAMA nor the Troika ever discouraged housebuilding. Even if it had been a policy of theirs, there wouldn't have been any need: a sizeable proportion of the building companies here went bust after the 2008 crash and their employees had to emigrate or retrain. Furthermore, none of the local banks were in the financial position (or the mood) to fund property development.

The Irish housing crisis has very simply and abruptly come about because of the massive growth in population that has occurred here over the last nine or ten years. Due to the catastrophic implosion that occurred in the indigenous building industry after 2008, speedily ramping homebuilding up to a level that can keep pace with inward migration is essentially impossible.

We may eventually be able to build fifty thousand dwellings a year, but the shortages will persist until then. There are other factors that exacerbate the problem, most notably our sclerotic planning system, but the fundamental issue is the hollowing out of the private construction sector that occurred at the start of the last decade.
Which is why there always have been hundreds of calculator apps, from the crudest to the most polished. How is that a problem? Sure, it’s nice to have one out of the box, but is this really a problem?
That's because you did most of the work of setting up the return at home, including putting the item back in its original packaging, packaging it for shipping, and initiating the return through the app or online. Not sure how it works where you are, but there's also an additional step of printing a shipping label where I am.
What is Civil Society? Is it Civil in the way North Korea is Democratic? What does Civil Society say about Julian Assange?
The research for this does account for pied-à-terres, which do exist in some number but are a tiny fraction of he total and mainly exist in a handful of Manhattan neighborhoods. There are only about 10K of these in NYC[1] which is 0.27% of the 3,644,000 total housing units in the city. This just doesn't seem like a real problem when the rental vacancy rate is shockingly 1.4%[2] (of the 2,183,064 total rental units).

[1] https://www.brickunderground.com/buy/what-is-a-nyc-pied-a-te...

[2] https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/news/007-24/new-york-city-s-vac...
Most Single Family Homes don't have HoAs. Don't buy one with an HoA. They suck.
I wrote another comment the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125685) about how GraphQL has true typing unlike bolted on solutions to REST, and that most people use GraphQL incorrectly then complain about how they're running into problems with N+1 and all that. Basically, the way Facebook originally designed it was in combination with Relay and its graph query optimizing compiler that can stitch your entire app's query data together so that you never over- or under-fetch, at all. If you just use it like REST, you're gonna have a bad time.
The comment:

GraphQL is very useful, it removes whole classes of bugs. You can even use a Result/Either type where if you don't handle both the success and error cases, the GraphQL request won't even compile, so you can get type safety at both the client and the server while also not having to use purely TypeScript like with tRPC, allowing multiple clients like mobile and web. Pothos does this very well as an error extension [1], where, given the schema:

type Error {
message: String!
}

type Query {
hello(name: String!): QueryHelloResult
}

union QueryHelloResult = Error | QueryHelloSuccess

type QueryHelloSuccess {
data: String!
}

you can then query it with

query {
hello(name: "World") {
__typename
... on Error {
message
}
... on QueryHelloSuccess {
data
}
}
}

If you forget `... on Error` the query will simply fail.
I should also add that most people use GraphQL incorrectly, to get the benefits of not over/underfetching, the Relay approach using fragments is the only viable way currently. Otherwise it's not too much better than REST. You define the exact data required for a specific React component in GraphQL fragments, then the Relay compiler will stitch those fragments together into one and only one request. This is a great (if long) overview on the problems Relay solves and why everyone else uses GraphQL incorrectly (then complain that GraphQL sucks) [2]. Hint, Apollo is not the way.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yab6i9lrEv0

[1] https://pothos-graphql.dev/docs/plugins/errors

[2] https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/relay-style-graphql
I think we are the ones finding out
Saw the title and thought "Didn't I just see C sum types in HN recently?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307098

> Inspired by datatype99, but consisting of one small standard-conforming C99 macro-only header that is fast to compile.
It's been a hot minute. I really enjoyed Unsong.

OP, why the TWF link instead of directly to the story [0]?

0. https://unsongbook.com/prologue-2/
No tracking? Providing an alternative? Not strengthening the Google-Apple duopoly on the mobile phone market? I was looking at it as a platform to publish an app on, which the open source requirement stopped dead in its tracks. I didn't have a viable open source business model for it at this time because it was a straight "customer pays money, gets software" deal with no tracking or other nonsense.

As-is, F-Droid will not be an _alternative_, it can, at most, be an extension to the Play Store.
You are technically true. However, if you sign contracts you haven't read, you would have a hard time defending your innocence in court. This applies even more for higher positions like CEO.
(super-linear) polynomial
I like the idea of exposing Roles for selection, and having those roles generally apply to permissions or workflows internally. This tends to work pretty well for many, or even most applications. I can't stand fine-grained access controls in general.
The Death of DevSecOps
>Put up a filter and run it.

It's not that simple because any filtration media that will filter out, e.g., diesel exhaust or pollen will lyse the bacteria that are always floating in the air, thereby adding to the air that leaves the filtration device the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) toxin that without the action of the filtration device would remain relatively-safely inside the bacterium. Yes, even without any air purifiers, you will absorb some LPS toxin from the bacteria in the air you breath, but running an air purifier approximately doubles the dose. I claim to be able to tell the difference in that when I'm in a small room with an air purifier running at high fan speed, I am much more likely to feel a certain kind of non-severe, but not-good headache-like feeling.

I.e., you don't want to run an air purifier that removes very small particles from the air when you don't need to -- at least if you are as sensitive to LPS as I am. And you don't want the fan speed of the purifier's being higher than necessary.
Your argument doesn't change on who's to blame. Even if it's expected behavior, the users are the ones responsible for not switching
Now THIS is a method to distract and shut down speech :)
Sure but on average Americans move once every ~7 years on average. A 5% vacancy rate would be ~4.2 months between owners/tenants which seems unnecessarily high. Most apartment complexes I was at could turn them over in a few weeks if someone wanted to move in. So 5% would seemingly represent a significant economic inefficiency.

3% may represent local shortages as Santa Monica is more desired than West Adams etc. So increasing availability in undesirable places may not reduce rents in general.
> If learning durations were log-normally distributed, how would people be able to graduate from universities and finish studies, mostly in time?

If you took a hundred 5 year olds and set the objective to achieve the same PhD in the same field with unlimited time, guess how the time to achieve it would be distributed?

I'm sure some won't achieve it in their lifetime, so I disagree that there's a reasonable upper bound.
Chatbots in mainstream businesses are built for one purpose: to reduce the number of staff that are needed to answer phone calls. At this, they are moderately successful. They are built for the 80%+ of customers whose enquiries are routine. As a sophisticated customer with a sophisticated enquiry that needs human attention, your time is collateral damage.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/the-worlds-best-selling-c... (26 January 2024)

> For the first time in history the most popular new car across the planet is electric. Tesla sold more than 1.2 million Model Ys in 2023 to put it ahead of Toyota’s RAV4 which had sales of 1.07 million and Corolla which found 1.01 million buyers.

> Topping the charts in Europe and China enabled the Model Y to lead the field in total world sales, despite it sitting in only fifth place in the United States, behind the RAV4, Dodge Ram, Chevrolet Silverado and Ford F-Series.

> Overall, more than 456,000 Model Ys were sold in China, representing a 45% increase on 2022, more than 255,000 Model Ys found homes in Europe, and almost 386,000 hit the road in the U.S.A. As a result the Model Y counted for two-thirds of all Teslas sold globally.

https://cnevpost.com/2024/05/01/byd-sales-apr-2024/ (1 May 2024)

> BYD (HKG: 1211, OTCMKTS: BYDDY) saw further sales growth last month, which continued to be the second highest on record.

> The company sold 313,245 new energy-vehicles (NEVs) in April, up 48.96 percent from 210,295 in the same month last year and up 3.57 percent from 302,459 in March, according to figures it released today.

(BYD has a 3.6M unit sales target for 2024, up 20% from last year)

https://electrek.co/2024/01/30/toyota-sold-100k-evs-2023-les... ("Although Toyota held its title as the top-selling automaker, the industry is shifting beneath it. Toyota sold over 100,000 EVs in 2023, but that’s still less than 1% of the record 11.2 million vehicles handed over last year.")

Tesla and BYD combined sold a little under half of total Toyota global sales last year. The second half won’t take as long to get to.
this says AT&T is twice as big. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operato...

are you measuring by something other than subscriber count, or is wikipedia wrong?
We don't need a model, we need to take care of our planet.
I do a bunch of local politics stuff, and we have problematic nonprofits. You could write a compelling piece about poorly managed nonprofit contracts fucking up their missions, and it wouldn't need to rely on unrelated 20-year-old criminal records.
It would be great to have some basic, no nonsense Android applications, with least possible permissions possible and no internet connectivity. Some examples: SMS app, tasks, calculator, authenticator (2FA), weather, audio recorder, image/photo viewer, barcode/qr code scanner, calendar, file manager, music player, etc. Small app sizes, no Kotlin or support libraries. With very limited feature set, to keep maintenance efforts low.
Regardless of the nitty-gritty “determinism” questions; why’s this matter?
We went from having pre-answering services that you had to wade through huge decision trees to get to a real person. Now people seem to think chat bots are SO MUCH better?

All we did was replace one horrible technology for another technology that does the same thing. Its not better, its not getting better and layering LLM's and AI on top of an already bad technology isn't the answer.
> If the file already exists, it is overriden.

So any one of my users could overwrite or delete my other users files? Seems like this is not really thought through.
Is the fee a percentage of the price of the sale?
For f..k's sake can't we switch to ipv6 already?

Let's just put ipv4 on life support, reclaiming 240.0.0.0/4 is a bad idea.