skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And then if you want to list other entities to that user you will have to start mapping the external id and foreign relationships every time to external users?

If we're talking about relational database engines, that's what they do, relate things. One join statement is much the same as another.
its from one of the content moderators. they are all hired and managed through recruiting agency. there was over 10k of us while I was there. and most people are just kids with one week of on boarding doing short term contract. whoever did it is blackballed by biggest recruiting agency in the world. way to get your life crazy difficult over reddit points
Its just for fun.
FYI, the imposter planet as a 2D pixel shader on a backdrop is a godsend for those doing procedural universes where you have lots of planets. Due to memory and GPU bandwidth, I restrict my spherical cube-based planets to 1 instance and draw the nearest bodies using the backdrop technique. When in space, there’s a distance in the middle of two bodies where both are rendered as imposters, before settling on the nearest body for spherical quad-tree goodness. It’s not perfect but the illusion is near flawless. This also makes it rather trivial to add light physics to your camera lens for long distance galaxies and bodies. Since they are on a plane… such as when the moon comes up and looks bigger than it is, or a galaxy in the distance being warped by gravity.
Depends on the tech stack. If it's JS/TS then it's a nightmare to maintain, with all the Critical and High security issues. Packages that are not updated anymore you need to replace with something else.

You can't just leave it alone, it's easier to shut it down and save yourself another accident and subsequent postmortem.
I didn't see anything in the article that said they are (for sure) not retaining this data.

"Google could purge some or all of your location history when it sunsets Timeline’s web access" -- or they might not. It just won't be available to the user.
What I don’t know about this stuff is a lot, so I’ll admit I’m speaking out of ignorance here, but isn’t the red tape there for a reason?
Texas also has loudly proclaimed that they want to secede from the USA, but keep the military bases and equipment, the jobs, the money, the people...but still be totally independent.

Good luck, Texas. You'll quickly find that regulations are in place for a reason.
You're thinking that shorter lines can be thicker without tearing under their own weight, so the optimal mix is a few heavy lines supported by a larger number of light ones? And/or heavy lines for safety, many light lines for stability?

I suppose that makes sense, though it still seems weird that they needed that many types.
Or noDRM, and either duplicate it or split the epub in Calibre.
They are trying to get out of having to fulfill law enforcement requests because they have this data. If it’s only on-device (i.e. no web-based view) then Google can’t give law enforcement data they don’t have.
There is no past you. You travel along the time axis at one speed, other things travel at other speeds. So something could take off from earth at the speed of light and come back further ahead down your line, but nothing can go back in time.
Third-party calculator apps on mobile are absolutely bloated because they're just ad-delivery systems. It's parasitic behavior from developers looking to cash in on basic software we've had for decades.
This is the attack vector I worry about the most.
GPT-4 leap from GPT-3 is like you said.
GPT-5 might be another leap that we can't predict.
I think the more I think of it, the more I favor the Discord snowflake ID's because they're just integers, and they can be generated on the fly. I think new messages generated them on the client if I'm not mistaken.
If Apple wanted to implement a simlar feature, they would just do it. They wouldn't buy a 3rd party app when they could just do it themselves.

The value proposition of these kind of third party UI apps is that the developer cleverly figured out how to manipulate Apple's APIs to do something Apple didn't really intend. Apple themselves can just write their own private API to do it, they don't need the clever hacks.
Kind of have the same intuition. However, to play devil's advocate, the human data and knowledge far exceeds what a single human can know and learn - so it would make it already superhuman.
From the fine article:

> The company plans to sunset web access and switch to a more private, on-device approach. This would make Google Maps’ Timeline data unique to each connected phone — as the migration would deactivate the universal sync mechanism.

So even though they're killing the feature as it exists today, they're replacing it with something more secure. What's wrong here exactly?
Copyright policy options for gen AI
Uncertainty and Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: What Probability Is 1
> Shitposting is the top of my personal sales funnel. Always has been.... I got multiple interviews and job offers from it, too, none of which I could take sadly because I planned to move to Finland to be with the aforementioned lass. But I knew plenty of others who did.

There was a pretty in-depth article about that recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/nyregion/twitter-lawyers-...
Js is the blurb now.
I love this idea! I think it would be really fun for my kids to use - maybe if it had a chunky wrap-around case so they wouldn't lose it. :) But overall this is such an elegantly executed concept. Did you ever catch the motorcycle thief?
From the article Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state including New York and California.
Three Algorithms in a Room
I love this term!
It's not a misnomer. "Dark" has multiple senses. In this case, it's "unknown, hidden, mysterious, secret".

> The hemisphere has sometimes been called the "dark side of the Moon", where "dark" means "unknown" instead of "lacking sunlight"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon

More examples:

- Dark matter

- Dark continent

- Dark knight

- Dark web
Changing infrastructure so much that you constantly have to rewrite your actual applications is a tail-wagging-the-dog scenario.
Some mistake it with the red ribbon you cut when you open something in front of the news reporters.
And as I suggested, batteries are getting better and cheaper.

So the electric cars will keep improving their position relative to ICE. (I don't want to express any opinion on whether they are better or worse at the moment than ICE already.)
We can assume that with minimal staff, the project is still building and deploying new versions with new dependencies. If it weren’t getting new builds and security fixes, it would raise internal alarms designed to catch unpatched software.

It’s the “database X is going away” that really, really kills an understaffed project.
The June 1984 date is a fabrication that was invented by The Tetris Company in 2009 so they could have a 25th anniversary event at that year's E3. Every source from before 2009 points to Tetris releasing in 1985. https://tetrisconcept.net/threads/june-6-1984.2411/
Sure, if all data is in a single DB. But in the real world you’ve generally got some/all of:

- 1 or more data warehouses

- Other services storing said data (e.g. the user id will live in many databases in a service oriented architecture)

- External API integrators who have their own data stores totally out of your control that also have copies of parts of your data

- Job queues. It’s common to have jobs scheduled for the future on some other system (Redis, etc.) that say “do X for user with id Y in Z days”. If the “id” changes these fail

- Caches. Say I cache data by user email instead of a surrogate key, user changes their email, and another user signs up with the old email. Cache hits for the wrong user!

- etc.

Changing the primary key becomes an absolute nightmare project once data lives in multiple places like this, and in my experience it mostly does.

Having truly stable identity for your entities just solves so many future problems, and it’s SO easy to do. In almost all cases, natural PKs are really all downside, virtually zero upside, except slightly less storage.
Worse, they load slower now on today's hardware than they did 20 years ago on hardware from 20 years ago. There is no excuse for doing what Windows 95 did, with one hundred times the system requirements of Windows 95. I'll give them a pass up to Windows 2000 or XP, because that's when it became stable by removing all the DOS compatibility stuff.

> Microsoft's minimum requirements for Windows XP are a 233 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, 1.5 GB of available hard drive space, and an SVGA-capable video card
I don't get why you assume this.

If I write a parser combinator based parser for a grammar that is not ambiguous, I will write it to fail if it comes across an error, just as I would if I were to e.g. hand-write a recursive descent parser. In fact, most of the places where I use parser-combinators, I use them to build parsers structured exactly the way I would structure a recursive descent parser, just with reusable combinators instead of manually written functions, and I will - in the same way as I would wherever possible in a recursive descent parser - aim to bail at the first symbol that causes an error, or optionally jump an error recovery function.

I've never in my life written a parser combinator based parser that required a multi-stage compilation process. Verifying that the parser recognises the language it is meant to, is part of the test suite whichever parsing method you use.

> I suppose alternatively you could verify the parser on application startup and terminate with an error if it's not valid LL/LR.

Why would I run my test-suite on application startup? The grammar is not magically changing between runs.
Also, in page 452 [5], Heaviside wrote:

div B = 0

Finally in page 475 [6]:

div D = ρ

So yes, essentially all 4 Maxwell's equations were here.

[5] https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers01heavuoft/page/...

[6] https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers01heavuoft/page/...
I'm pretty sure that there is a mistake in the unit circle animation under "The sine and the cosine". It looks like the author mixed up sin and cos

You can right click the image and "Open image in a new tab" for a freeze frame, then checking the values it seems they are switched.
> Referring to Anatolia as "Persia" because Persia conquered

Yeah, that was the entire point of my initial comment. To be fair I don't think I was able to contribute much besides that and of course I agree overall with what you're saying.
For those wondering, this refers to Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
It’s not a staffing thing. They’re fundamentally getting away from storing your location data to avoid having to deal with law enforcement requests and other problematic things.
> From the article Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state including New York and California.

But the question is: will they change their listing to this new stock market, or stay with the long-recognized ones?
Also discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579660
> if you're interested in the state of the art in drone tech, you're almost certainly paying attention to the Ukrainians and Latvians

Definitely not to the ISW, though. (Just lmao.)
My RSS reader shows me a lot of papers in practical chemistry and I am astonished by what people are doing with Metal Organic Frameworks, Deep Eutectic Solvents, etc. (I sure wish I could get HNers to upvote some articles on these!)

Perhaps chemical recycling of plastics will always be an El Dorado like the fast breeder reactor, but it seems something is going to come out of all the efforts to cheapen hydrogen electrolysis, using CO2 as a feedstock material, figure out how to make something valuable out of cellulose better than

https://www.finc-sh.com/en/about.aspx

(the video on that page is worth watching the whole thing. My wife had bought those mushrooms and was wondering how the hell they could sell them so cheap, turns out they can grow those on straw without anybody laying a hand on them until they arrive at the grocer)
Floating' ladder for thrillseekers opens in Norway
Yes, it's somewhat funny. Our commenter consp almost suggested that people with private planes _want_ to burn leaded fuel, when unleaded fuel wasn't even legal to burn in them.
It’s a $22 paid app. Of course it’s not going to be open sourced.
Meh, RL really lacks robustness against changes in the environment if they weren't in the training.
Thrown in the hat on imaginary numbers to trade up for quality of life. The horror.
we entered the age ?! we've been here for at least a decade
The Ed link is referenced from GT's official class page: https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-6515-intro-graduate-algorithms
It was a good decision for me. But I'm still in a process of learning to love myself and it's a hard task to complete. I understand now that I should value the opinion of people that trully cares about me. But what I think is more important.
No, Obamacare was modeled after the Heritage Foundation market based proposal, Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans, which was trialed in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney.

https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/assuring-aff...
Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX
I can't imagine REPL-based "development" is good for anything other than one-liners and quick-n-dirty one-off stuff.
It does require maintenance, unfortunately.
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Show HN: kblight – keyboard backlight controller for Framework Laptops
Hey everyone! I got my Framework Laptop 13 a few months ago. I found it cool that you could change the backlight brightness of the keyboard with func + space, but I wanted some more control over it. I also wanted to learn bash a bit better. I wrote kblight as a CLI and daemon (using ectool) that you can easily install. You can set the brightness via percentage or keywords, as well as effects like strobe and breathing. I'm not sure if it works on Framework 16's, but I'm going to see if I can get it to work if it doesn't!
I've found that people who are serious about photography tend to behave in a way that is exactly legal but still extremely annoying. They're relatively harmless (after all "it's just a picture!") but the behavior is still a public nuisance

A few years ago I read a similar anecdote of a woman being accosted by a photographer on transit, taking photos of the baby she was carrying and persisting even after asked to stop. She wound up having to physically shield herself and the baby from being photographed and the guy kept taking other shots every chance he got, like when she was leaving the train and such. Super rude, but technically legal. This was in Alberta, for those who care

It really made me think we need different laws about consent in photography. Surely we can carve out exceptions for photographing notable events, documenting crimes, crowd shots and other such valid reasons for photographing someone without consent, without allowing a rando with a camera to pester (and arguably intimidate) people just going about their day

Edit: There was also a case a few years ago of a guy going around taking creepshots of women, their butts and cleavage and such and publishing them. That was clearly illegal so we already do have some rules about public photography that is allowed and some that isn't.
I couldn't copy the whole title from original article because of 80 character limitations
What looks odd to me is this silence about acquisition. I've got a lot of emails and read enough blog posts from developers that brags about new owners and new opportunities that goes with it.

Bartender is just utility app, but has permissions to e.g screen recording, so new version from new developer without prior explanation just seems shady
'One-man truth squad' still debunking JFK conspiracy theories (2012)
It's weird as fuck how people working in these fields have unrestricted access to peoples private information, be it videos, pictures or worse.
Normally when Timeline is talked about the comments are all extremely negative, making it sound like no-one wants this feature due to privacy concerns.
Airbus Wingman concept gives stealthy look at aerial combat future
Yes. Either this will flop, or a whole lot of low-information investors & rubes are about to donate their money to the already-rich.
> Erm, don't show the ID to people who don't need it.

How do you communicate with other people in your company about a customer without sending around PII if the customer's ID is PII?

Maybe we could create a field that uniquely identifies the customer that isn't PII. Then that could be used to uniquely identify a customer in places where we don't want to expose their PII. But then... why not just use this unique ID as the key?
And we've just seen a new high score world record earlier this year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU

(Sorry for linking a 16 minute video, but it's better than any article I've found.)
I was a longtime user of 4sq/swarm in its heyday, but eventually gave up on it mainly because they never could figure out how to automatically check me in — like Google Timeline does. The whole product has the stench of death about it these days, though. It seems like it’s a hair’s breadth from being discontinued, and its lack of any changes in the past 7 years or so makes me suspect that they have about half a FTE working on it at most.
This article doesn't describe it in detail. One scenario imaginable would be that they ran their model trained on non-full moon data for an evaluation on a full moon day. Which means the model would simply apply it's learned "optimal" action policy in a different environment, where the previously learned action policy doesn't lead to good scores anymore.
Tiny Fern Has the Largest Known Genome
so youtube content moderators can just view anyone's private videos willy nilly?
So for ML to work, it has to know all permutations of a game? Does that mean ML is useless for non-deterministic games with random outcomes or procedural generation?
Boeing to launch its first Starliner astronaut mission today
Scientists move closer to making computers that understand our emotions
Why would they change their listing?
I believe games like NetHack have monkey paw situations where fortune may not actually be that fortunate

My memory has not lasted well
Of course.

But it's not always a good reason.
Changing the base of number representation with a random basis feels like XORing a string with a random string, which is to say you're adding entropy equal to the random string. My thinking is that for any number representation M, you can get any other number representation N given a well-chosen base. So when presented with the encoded N, the original number could be any other number with the same number of digits. But once you put reasonable bounds on the base, you lose that flexibility and end up adding negligible entropy.
The thing is - in this case you only lose convenience and gain nothing in terms of privacy, because G will have access to that data anyway
I have an actual question about the implementation of this. It currently seems like there is no way to maintain your location history if you switch device platforms. Your on device history seems to be synced to iCloud, but if you switch from iOS -> Android, it seems like your SOL?
So does this mean if they allowed the game to run on "full moon days", it would be expected to eventually get a higher score (if the full moon day allowed that through the actual game mechanism)?
Likely cost cutting is a factor. They’ve been getting rid of lots of freebies (e.g. no more free Photos storage), enforcing previously unenforced limits (e.g. Google Drive storage for business accounts), aggressively ramping up ad density (e.g. YouTube), and hiking rates across the board like crazy in recent years. I was shocked to find out my Workspace Enterprise bill has shot up 40% early this year, which is after another price hike from a year or two earlier.
This is good reason for why applications should be containerized. The Old OS X way of simply putting a bundle into the Applications directory was a good start.
Yes, most fraud is inside the corporate structure. Not shady "hacker" types in Romania.
When did Texas most recently proclaim this?
Small steps towards 'the Western front'.
What would be the point of moving to an on-device approach AND keep the data remotely as well? Just keep it remotely as it currently is, no?
Refrigeration, food losses and associated greenhouse gas emissions
Actually I'd say you're wrong here. They know exactly what the fence is for and want to tear it down so they can steal out of your backyard. Sad thing is they'll convince every idiot in this state to sign up for the 'crime in the name of freedom' party.
Indeed this is the another thing pushing us towards dystopia. Now it's "climate change" . Previously it was drugs and terrorism.
> Future plans for the app remain unknown, but users have a right to know what’s going on behind the scenes.

Do they though? You buy a license for a piece of software, and as far as I understand that doesn't include any fundamental rights involving insight into company policies, direction, business strategy, ...

Regardless, this is of course quite a dubious takeover.
Not a dismissal of runtime probes, but a statement that, sometimes, they are not the best tool for the job. I like the REPL, but I'd rather not have to use it just to find out what X is.
> Googles infrastructure evolves reasonably quickly - so most reasonably large services will need quite a few code changes every year just to keep up with the fact that internal database type X is going away and everyone needs to migrate to database Y which might have subtly different semantics requiring bits of your service be rewritten.

I find this an unsatisfying explanation (to be clear, I'm not criticising you but the effect you're describing), if we develop to interfaces as a principle, then underlying implementations shouldn't matter.
Despite the laws in place I've seen questionable stuff over the course of my career.
The Rise and Fall of Preview
There's some precedence for that. I'm pretty sure wavelets are SOTA for compression.
> What a terrible night to have a learning model.

They blew it: It’s “What a horrible night…”
I wish Texas could do something like the LTSE [1].

[1] https://ltse.com/
Articles like this and the endless stream of hacks & leaks are important reminders that there is no such thing as computer security. If your data is on a networked computer, you should consider it semi-public.
The article fails to describe the core agent algorithm. I.e. how does the agent decide what to code ? If the agent did coded something, how does the agent decide that the code is correct ? (Ecepsically if the core model is based on auto complete and lacks any logic).

Like if the agent decides to search for a file X on task Y why file X and not file Z ?
Sure, especially for anyone not used to writing parsers using a parser generator is a good way of validating assertions about it. But for that parser, just starting by cleaning it up would be a big improvement irrespective of formalism. Even if you get an unambiguous parser, if you can't read the grammar you'll end up with nasty surprises anyway...
Eehhhhh. Encryption at rest is technically possible here, no? Though I guess they could still be gagged and coerced by law enforcement to MITM the front end (browser/client). But they could also be coerced to do that in the mobile app too, so nothing seems to have really changed.
This was something I learned when owning even a moderately successful github app.

There are a lot of bad actors out there, who end up in your inbox monthly, asking to "acquire" your app for a small sum of money.

I would bet some if not all were looking at it as a juicy attack vector against my users.