skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had the same thing happen for a town home I was interested in buying. Went through their online scheduling app. Got email confirmation with agent's name, but no phone number. Got another confirmation day of. Didn't think anything was amiss. Go out to building, wait for 20 mins and leave after agent was a no-show, no-call.

I called their office and after 20 minutes of trying to go around their obnoxious automated phone menu's I finally got someone who informed me who said they don't use THAT app any more to schedule appointments I need to use their NEW app and sent me a totally different app link in an email. I told them they are probably losing a ton of business because very clearly the OTHER app is still very much out in the wild and still very much being used.

I went with a different company and had much better luck.
Looks very good, although I'm surprised there isn't a page in the book detailing the date of first publication, the name and artist of the cover image, maybe the date the copyright expired, and all that kind of information. (I was particularly surprised by the cover image attribution omission.)

Is this not standard?
> If you care about economic success of the country, the goal isn't 'collect as many taxes as possible'. The goal is to make the citizens wealthier in real terms.

But the goal of taxation isn't to maximize the country's economic success or overall wealth.

It's to fund necessary government services (schools, courts, police, military, etc.) and to redistribute wealth (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.).

We only want to maximize national wealth after we've funded government services fully and redistributed wealth (and sufficiently protect the environment, protect workers, etc.).

So if funding the IRS gets you back more money, that's always good, because it's by definition going to the things that we have democratically decided are a higher priority than maximizing national wealth. And if we democratically decide that we're spending too much on services or redistributing too much, then we cut those intentionally -- not "accidentally" by underfunding the IRS.

Even if under-collecting taxes is good economic policy by the extremely narrow measure of GDP, it's terrible national policy. It's like saying that accidentally redirecting an extra $500 per person to the military is good military policy. I mean, sure it might be. But that doesn't mean it's good national policy.
> But 16 hours? No tech solution will be done faster than that.

True

> Don't build a factory for a one-off.

One thing on my wishlist is that I end up with a way to instantly transcribe my notes.
It can serve multiple purposes. You can have 0 ohm resistors to serve as a bridge to run a trace below if you're running out of space.

You can have multiple resistor footprints and depending on where the 0 ohm is placed, different configurations are enabled.

You can use it to be able to isolate parts of the circuit after the fact, although solder jumpers are more common for that purpose
The great increase in illegal entry into the country through the southern border is a good recent example. Though, I suppose this is predicated upon it being "good policy" that illegal immigration be slowed.
Detecting 'tortured acronyms' in research papers could help root out misconduct
The gospels and the Acts of the Apostles certainly have a strong narrative element; the letters rather less so. It doesn't surprise me that they could all be memorized in a decade, but not a year. I just think the techniques in this article might not be the way to do it, focused as they are on rapid memorization of dialogue.
LOL 8kbps. Damn. That takes me back. I built the first version of one of the world's largest music streaming sites on a 9.6kbps connection.

I was working from home (we had no offices yet) and my cable Internet got cut off. My only back up was a serial cable to a 2G Nokia 9000i. I had to re-encode a chunk of the music catalog at 8kbps so I could test it from home before I pushed the code to production.

Psychoacoustic compression is a miracle.
And it's really because they don't know any poor people.

Because if they did, they'd know that filing taxes for low income people with kids is a HUGE bonanza, and they'd work like hell to implement a system where all tax credits were applied to individual paychecks, not lump sums during tax season. It's the one time of the year when their pockets are flush with cash.
Besides the founders, who gives a shit if they have a good exit?

As a user, them destroying chunks of the e-learning space and cashing out is something I view as a negative.
For me, cloud VPSs are the most abstraction I'm comfortable with. I can reason about what's going on and there is not a new article each week telling me how fly this, micro vms that, that are cool but to me unnecessary. Hosted? Dedicated server, Cloud VPS and at maybe a lambda. If I want complexity liek k8s, I want to set it up myself so I understant and control every bit of it, and the downsides are obvious to me because I can look at the code, not hidden behind marketing speak.
Indeed ChatGPT is one of the solutions I tried.
> People seem to really think that well organized faq sections on traditional websites and properly searchable and indexable forum threads should be replaced by "just search through two years of chat backlog on discord"

Nobody thinks that. Creating and maintaining a traditional website with a well-organized FAQ section requires non-zero effort. The discord backlog is already there on accident. This thread comes up every other month and is always full of people who seem to imagine a project lead sitting down to weigh pros and cons of possible options for their FAQ, and settling on, "I think we'll use Discord!"

Documentation lives on Discord for the same reason that so many companies have critical infrastructure running in Excel. Nobody sits down, evaluates tech stacks, and decides, "I think this part should run on Excel." It runs on Excel because the guy who initially wrote it was already interacting with a CSV file in Excel and didn't know how to do much else, or didn't want to spend the effort for something he thought might be a one-off job.
PaperBack
Coming back to this a few days later... it looks like the fastest way to implement this idea is to host a local TiddlyWiki instance. There are so many TiddlyWiki plugins that fit so naturally into the ideas I had above -- kanban, todo, and the wiki itself, among many others.

I tried this Ruby script for local hosting and it's working great for now: https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/ee791c1bdd30ce137bc23cce826.... Just make sure you have wiki.html located alongside the script, and navigate to /wiki.html.

The next evolution would be to get it running in RedBean reliably - and maybe even get it saving Tiddlers to the built-in SQLite instance. Simon Willison's work on saving Tiddlers to SQLite in Python might be a good reference: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-tiddlywiki
The general public is getting lied to constantly. HN users have a bit more context to see through the bullshit but the marketing getting pushed in people is that these AI tools are super genius incredible world changing tools that make everyone 100x more productive.
> That's not to say defined benefit programs aren't a great deal for the employee -- they are, and most of us would love to have one.

I would much prefer a big SEP-IRA, or a 401k with a company match beyond the standard safe harbor 4% or whatever it is.

Government defined benefit pensions come with their own problems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40538070
Thanks for the link, this does make it more approachable!
yes, it does. There is already at least one cases where law firm messed-up writing docs using AI.
Most parents absolutely do not trust their kids to be adults,

Now you're either saying that 'most' parents track the live location of their children into their 30s or you're saying something vague and irrelevant.

What are you saying exactly? This was about location tracking.

It seems like you're either talking about your own irrelevant frustrations or you're saying things that you have no evidence of.
There are not many examples of the government hacking opposition politicians an en leaking damaging material to friendly "news" agencies for political gain

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/12/18/polish-state-tv-order...

Law and justice are a particularly extreme example.
I don't think those old Macs used software modems. Honestly they probably couldn't, the CPU in these machines were not very fast and had some pretty horrendous bus contention issues. Servicing a realtime device is likely beyond their capabilities.
> If he'd kept a key or badge and got the information that way, no one would call it hacking.

No, they'd have called it breaking and entering. I don't know what point you think you're making.
You can also print it: http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/#1
AI "generational inflection point" for the music business, says Sony Music CEO
LLMs hallucinate 100% of the time - hallucinating is what they Do. Often they’re hallucinating things that also occur in reality, but it sounds like the legal products are only doing so 66-83% of the time.
How does wearing sunglasses affect time outside effectiveness? Any research on that?

(Just something I've wondered since sunglasses are super prevalent)
Israel is very intertwined with the typical conception of "the West" via a very cozy relationship with the USA including billions in annual funding, and a great proportion of its citizens having roots in Europe and the USA.
If if the request itself hasn't reached the network layer but is having a networky feeling hang, I'd look into DNS. It's network dependent but handled by the system so it wouldn't show up in your web app requests. I'm sure there's a way to profile this directly but unless I had to do it all the time I'd probably just fire up wireshark.
This is a feature of the US constitutional system, not a bug. It's designed such that things move very, very slowly. If Congress isn't able to pass laws, it probably reflects a division in how the voting populace feels about the subject of such laws.

The president may be all we have, but he is constitutionally forbidden from acting like a king. Though, of course, that hasn't stopped presidents from trying.
In learning English as a second language, I suspect the textbooks tell them to start all correspondence with "Dear" so as to not appear impolite
Most people are struggling to cover their debts, rent, and food.
It's a startup weapon, not an enterprise weapon. It's mostly an accident of history, Laravel itself is great.
Snowflake says it's not their fault, it's customer's fault apparently:

https://community.snowflake.com/s/question/0D5VI00000Emyl00A...

If https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/snowflake-massive-breach-acc... has not completely fabricated the story, Snowflake are tiny bit less than truthful.

> Research indicates that these types of attacks are performed with our customers’ user credentials that were exposed through unrelated cyber threat activity. To date, we do not believe this activity is caused by any vulnerability, misconfiguration, or malicious activity within the Snowflake product. Throughout the course of our ongoing investigation, we have promptly informed the limited number of customers who we believe may have been impacted.

They are way too wishy-washy:

* "Research indicates": Their own research or just general security research out there.

* "...do not believe this activity is caused by any vulnerability, misconfiguration, or malicious activity within the Snowflake product": I think they know exactly how it happened. They enumerate all possible scenarios and methods it didn't happen: misconfiguration, vulnerability, malicious activity within the product. But skillfully skip the explanation for how it actually happened.

They were contacted by the bad actor if hudsonrock is to be believed, so they probably had a good idea how it happened.
I love this idea. It’s way overengineered for this problem, and I already have a startup that requires my complete attention, but thank you for writing this out.

And if anyone decides to do this, let me know!

Privacy is one of the reasons I would pay for a service like this, rather than pay a person to (try) to do it.

These journals contain a lot of psychiatric-level information about me, which is both what makes it valuable and sensitive.
You do not want to start making handling adjustments based on rain on the windshield, when the road could already be slick from prior rainfall or other conditions.
That's what I said -- "whenever laws are vague". And it's not "effectively" -- that's a major part of what precedent is.
We should thread carefully on this one.

It might be that they genuinely geeked out.

Hudson reputation would forever be scarred (badly) if they tried to manipulate the narrative.

Going down this hole also means we discredit the perpetrator, even if he did specifically reach out to Hudson.

Just wanted to say this so we don’t immediately jump to conclusions.
AI stands for “artificial intelligence” and I think an algorithm which decides how easy a book is to read qualifies as some sort of intelligence.
Words are meaningless if we don't adhere to some common definition. "Hallucination" and "generation" are two separate concepts, and it is unproductive to conflate them.
Jank dev update – chunking, volatiles, atoms
Firefox, Chrome. Much faster, you can actually block ads with ublock, etc.

What is the benefit of Brave over those?
Yeah, headline is overly broad by just saying 'AI'. From just the headline itself, it'd be easy to write this off as "duh, this guy's a fool", but the AI in question here is from Meta, itself. And, not only is it from Meta, but it's the AI they've put in charge of support.
Generally, no I don't. I have basically two hospital systems to choose from. All specialists I require seeing are only available in these two hospital systems if I want to be covered by my insurance. I can see a variety of primary care physicians, but I cannot see e.g. a rheumatologist outside specific hospital conglomerates.
AI tools hallucinate 100% of the time for me for the security related topics, in particular encryption.
Slow, and full of ads/tracking.
This is the (near term) future of white collar jobs: AI does most of the work, but real people will still be required to audit and verify basically everything. I don't know how much net gain productivity there will be...in certain professions an error rate that high is unacceptable and dangerous.
I feel like the real inflection point is when Sony invented rootkits and installed them without anyone knowing.
I had a client that I set up with a static site generator. Sadly the client changed their FTP password to something insecure and someone FTP'd in and added a tiny piece of code to every HTML file!
How much of the time do humans hallucinate?
My carbon footprint while writing code is 100% lower than that of the AI, I would reckon by magnitudes
The public tech companies (and hot private ones) all pay $250-300k and up for senior devs who can pass the interview process.
The 20-20-20 rule[1] can help with diplopia from computer vision syndrome.

Although I would advise to reduce screen time rather than treat just the symptoms that arise because of it.

[1] https://wiki.endmyopia.org/wiki/20-20-20_rule
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome
Only if you want a factual answer that can be depended on.

If you just want a text bot that makes statements one word at a time we can stop throwing 100bs at this sector and some marketing departments need to come in this weekend and redo a pitch or two.
Indeed. Humans hallucinate under these definitions.
Why it's nice to compete against a large, profitable company
So far experiments say yes, with an asterisk. Taking ensembles of weak models and combining them has been shown to be able to produce arbitrarily strong predictors/generators, but there are still a lot of challenges in learning how to scale the techniques to large language models. Current results have shown that an ensemble of GPT3.5 level models can reach near state of the art by combining ~6-10 shots of the prompt, but the ensemble technique used was very rudimentary and I expect that much better results could be had with tuning.
Don’t read the book. Listen to it. I got a lot out of listening to a performance of the book, by Irish actors on RTE. It’s a lot more fun than reading the book. There’s a podcast for it:
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0610/1146705-listen-ulysses-...
For the sake of sanity, I think we just have to acknowledge these are propagandistic terms that serve the interests of those who invent them, and are design to mystify and cofound non-experts. Then, move on.

I don't really think there's any winning this propaganda war until it shatters under its own illusions. It's shouting into the wind.
It fell out of fashion in western English speaking countries decades ago but not the 3rd world English speaking countries the scammers come from.
$200k puts you in the top 5% of earning, FYI.
I think this is the best approach for project-related information. It’s essentially the Second Brain approach.

I’m interested in these journals for autobiographical / psychiatric reasons. Therefore, indeed, the more recent information is more valuable, but not with such a steep drop-off.

The oldest 10% might contain 5% of the value.
That also begs the question how much of that value is substantial and how much of that is just narrative froth from speculation.
Brewfiles: Share Your Homebrew Files
I'm not a Mac guy, but it seems like they glossed over all of the normal solutions to intentionally come up with weirdest one possible. Good for them getting the files they needed I guess, but still weird.
This is exactly what I was thinking, because a real theft ring wouldn't be sitting on so much unsold inventory... what if it ends up being the dealer reps attempting higher commissions?

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As a retired tradesman (IBEW), discovering your tools have been stolen is "up there" in gut-wrenching professional experiences. My good luck meant most items stolen from me were probably just "walk aways" [leant out, never returned]. Last time my work truck was burglarized, they only stole personal effects (leaving behind thousands in rechargeables).
I agree. I stopped reading on the kindle years ago because I got so fed up with the terrible mistakes in the text. Not just spelling but also formatting. I love paper books. Having said that, Standard EBooks are very good.
Here in the USA a great number of networks will drop back to 2G when their data plan runs out. And most poor people are on really low data limits, so they spend most of the month on 2G.

Try using Google Maps to get around on 2G :(
Tests. AFAIC, this isn't something that should be long living. If it is only duplicated in a couple of places and remains unchanged for years, that's probably fine too, because ya... no one is touching it. If one place does need to change and tests still pass that should mean that the other one didn't need to change and you've reaped the benefit from not prematurely abstracting. There are a lot of ways it could play out, though. Often the duplication is very local and obvious. I think a lot of people take "duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction" WAY more seriously than its intended. It's actionable way of saying "don't abstract early" as the counter that is usually: "But then I'll have duplication and DRY is the law." Like EVERY piece of programming advice, though, it's not universal.
I try to read a few scotus rulings a year and I always wonder if anyone actually reads all the citations, notes, references, etc. It just feels like doing it right would take hundreds of hours. Sometimes I wonder if the judges have read their full final opinions or if its just the clerks.

Im genuinely curuous, how does this work in regular law? Does anyone ever check all the citations, etc? Does a judge really deep read all 200 pages of filings and arguments? Do they just scan them efficiently as a lot of it is familiar?
I was an early adopter at dropbox, got all my friends/family/etc on it. Maxed out the free affiliate space when I added my .edu email to it for a grand total of 16.125GB, technically over the max, but, whatever I guess.

I eventually got into a 'make decisions' IT roll, and, Dropbox was an easy choice, did everything we needed it to, price was fair, and we used it for years. Everyone had access to the webUI that needed it, and, everyone else had access to an SMB share where dropbox actually ran. All was good until suddenly nothing would sync. Tech support was useless for about a month until I finally got a call with some kind of higher level tech, who told me that what we were doing wouldn't work, and never should have worked. Mind you, we'd been doing this for years, and stuck with dropbox because of it.

So I dropped them like a bad habit and never looked back. Our portal system had half-ass but usable remote file sharing, so, we used that while we rolled our own system. Was a rocky 6 months, but, now, we have extremely tight, easy, automated, simple to manage file sharing. So really I should thank them for the impetus, and I would if they weren't so abundantly unhelpful.

Personally, well, my personal account continued to slowly lose features over time, and it finally got to the point where the messaging from them was "Pay or Leave", so, I left and did my own thing, which is a combo of Syncthing and Nextcloud that works extremely well, and I own 100% of my data.

So dropbox might have some glitz, but I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft poll, they're too big for their britches, and have been for awhile, and worse, they seem to want you to believe that file synchronization is hard, cloud storage is hard, and file sharing is hard. None of that is true anymore, so what you're buying is a name and a logo with them with a free side of smoke blown up your ass.

No thanks, I'm allergic.
Rarely do the jokes on HN get a chuckle out of me, but you did it!
I did have a look at transkribus and their models did not work for my needs.
> If you care about economic success of the country, the goal isn't 'collect as many taxes as possible'. The goal is to make the citizens wealthier in real terms.

Just like how "collect as many taxes as possible" isn't actually a good goal, just "make the citizens wealthier" isn't actually a good goal either because it says nothing about the distribution of that wealth.

If we enacted a law that made 99.9% of all citizens absolutely destitute to the point where they must eat rotten food found in the trash to survive, but this law also multiplied the wealth of Bezos and Elon a millionfold, then that would successfully "make the citizens wealthier" in sum.

Taxes are used to run society, from it's roads, fire department, education, social services, and much more. A lot of people are pushing to cut down on those things, to decrease the bounty that society offers regular people who partake, because "we just can't afford it." and the reason we can't afford it is because there is an overly focus on "make the citizens wealthier" even at the cost of most citizens.
You are right, but it's possible to connect RS-422 to RS-232 using just proper wiring [1]. Basically, same three wires and one loop wire for RX+ to ground. It's not reliable and not recommended, but works and would solve the problem. :-)

1. https://stratusengineering.com/rs232-rs422485-conversion-cab...
Sure, it's matching VINs. But in the vast expanse of the net, surely there are many strings of random hex out there. Why this source of random digits.
Thats what I did. I literally tripled my salary and landed a better work environment. Time difference is great too, now half of my schedule almost always has no meetings!
Great work! A small suggestion, filtering by part-time/full-time would be great.
James Webb Space Telescope photographs most distant known galaxy