skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why anyone would use a debit card in the United States is beyond me.

Why would anyone use Venmo with even less protection? But millions of people do.
> How would this result in the growth of a new tooth in the right spot?

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I'd guess the same way teeth grow in the right spot to begin with. Stem cells somehow "know" (the mechanism wasn't fully understood the last I heard, but perhaps that's changed) where they are located in the body and what they should grow into. That's why you don't see babies with noses on their feet or whatever. Sure, once in a while something goes wrong and you get things growing where they shouldn't, but in most cases that doesn't happen.
Can this export flipbooks?
Some of your choices and what you consider iterative/innovative are strange to me. For 2009, a chassis update for the iMac and a spec/camera bump for the iPhone doesn't seem particularly innovative especially in comparison to say the HomePod in 2017 or Satellite SOS in 2022.

Also small correction but iTunes (as Soundjam MP) was originally third-party software and Final Cut was acquired by Apple.
Yeah that really should be in the first paragraph or two, at least
Can't we just charge our electric cars during the DAY, when they are PARKED, and therefore THOSE batteries can be used? Seems like a good use of electricity. Sell it back to the grid during the night so electric cars can charge during the day. Arbitrage the fact that people with panels sell cheaply during the day.

It seems to me that anyone could start an electric car parking garage, that

1. receives excess electricity from solar panels around the city and suburbs during the day
2. cheaply charges the electric cars during the day
3. subsidizes powering the homes at night, for those same credits

Or probably a better entity to do that would be the public subway system

Storing electronic credits instead of energy hehe
Hate.... finds a way.
- Can't Generative AI synthesize 3D from 2D footage?
Looks complicated to reason about, but really interesting.
Freeforth implements a similar mechanism to eliminate swaps via register renaming, obv. the focus is different in that Freeforth tries to still be an optimised stack, rather than a VLIW processor.
I guess you could look at this paper as a vector processor, similar to the way APLs handle things with function composition. In that, you'd need the compiler to take care of things as managing it manually would be a nightmare.
I guess the best way forward would be a specialized (forth) word lib which invokes the compiler to manage the top N stack cells for the duration of the word.
No the Atari is still rendering to this day!
Ransomware gangs are adopting "more brutal" tactics amidst crackdowns
Show HN: rerank-ts – TypeScript Library for Re-Ranking Search Results with LLMs
Hi HN, we are announcing a TypeScript library for re-ranking search results from vector databases or from full text search indexes. Re-Ranking is a very important step in retrieval for building RAG applications. It almost immediately improves accuracy of LLM's response synthesis as you are able to feed in much more accurate and relevant context. Why? Because while semantic or full text search systems are designed to be fast and fetch semantically or lexically close document chunks, they don't rank the chunks based on the intent of the user's query. This is where a re-ranker comes in.

Why did we build this?

We couldn't find a self contained framework independent, re-ranking library for Typescript. We also wanted to swap models and algorithms easily, publish and track latency metrics closely.
We implemented two different re-ranking algorithms -
1. LLM based re-ranking: It uses the algorithm presented in the paper - "Is ChatGPT Good at Search?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09542 - they implement a sliding window based algorithm to re-rank search results which could be potentially larger than the context length of an LLM. We added support for LLama3 and GPT-4. For Llama3, we are using Groq, but other model providers can be added easily.
2. Reciprocal Rank Fusion - A lightweight algorithm to merge search results from more than one index while preserving their relative importance.

We recently built a consumer application which indexes 100s of 1000s of images using Indexfiy (https://getindexfiy.ai), which indexes various aspects of the image - caption(using a text embedding model), visual descriptions(using a VLM), CLIP embeddings. During the retrieval process we lookup 40 images from each of the index based on user queries, and then use this library to re-rank the results. The results are frankly amazing, compared to not re-ranking at all.

Latency -
Latency is a big deal for applications which humans interact with, and LLama3 8B on Groq is the fastest LLM re-ranker based on our experience. They are able to process ~1000 tokens/s. We are able to re-rank 100 images in roughly 1.4 seconds. We haven't tried using GPT4 in production to be able to share any latency related numbers.

Choosing a model -
Pick the model which has the best tradeoff for latency vs accuracy. There are many smaller re-ranking models available - Jina AI, BGE, Sentence Transformers, etc. We have heard good things about Cohere's re-ranker as well. We hope to add support for more models in the future. The library has a clean Model Provider interface, so contributions are welcome!

We are hoping this helps developers who are building RAG/any search based LLM applications in React or any other JavaScript framework. Love to hear your thoughts, and feedback to improve the library!
The Russian guys just seemed desperate for a job and most of them lose money with a few striking it rich keeping the cycle going. I would blame the black market in China and Vietnam more, since it also causes the same sort of issue with wild rhino and elephant populations in Africa.
This is actually worse than a debit card because in the case of unauthorized transactions your bank can reverse the charge.

But it is better than "linking your bank" or wire transfers because FedNow has a request / fulfill flow instead of "give us access to take an unspecified amount from your bank."
Another recent attempt at a language combining features of Forth and Lisp https://github.com/rickardnorlander/misc/tree/main/cursed_la...

Someone even asked the same question

' seems redundant. 'x could just be (x)?

though for that language the answer was that yes it's exactly the same.
Is it like the Microsoft Surface Duo ? Those seem awesome for multi tasking productivity on the go and people with ADHD. Shame they're way too niche and don't appeal too the masses therefore end up being canceled.
My biggest worry about passwords by Apple is that I have even less pull when they screw it up. Not that I have a lot of input in 1Password, of course, but I bet if I get loud enough on HN for long enough, I could get the attention of the CEO. Try that with Apple. As a long time user (sufferer) of Screen Time, I am acutely aware of how badly Apple can screw up software, and how long they can let it go unfixed. Tim Cook ain't ever going to hear my pleas.
I don't disagree with any of that. But you didn't deal with the "why is their an active land war in Eastern Europe?" question; which is what Chomsky was picking at to get to the NATO expansion point.

> Ironically, returning to a might-makes-right global order as envisioned by Russia would mean the United States could behave far worse in future

The US could act much worse in the present if it wanted. Only China is really in a position to stop them and even there only in a geographically limited area of Asia. The reason the US often doesn't bother with a might-makes-right response is because it isn't effective, not because they're purposefully holding themselves back from useful options. It is more effective to have the rule based order where, famously, the US makes the rules and gives the orders.
Jepsen has written a fantastic article on this issue. I'm not sure if it has been fixed since then. https://aphyr.com/posts/293-call-me-maybe-kafka
While your reply is interesting to me, what I actually was asking was, "if these people died in circumstances that did NOT involve a car, but in the water, would the bodies have been found eventually because they float to the surface?"
Rules and regulations are not designed to ensure good products. They are there to prevent disastrous ones.
Stockton Rush is not eligible for Darwin award because he had two children.

The 19-year old son is eligible, though he won’t win the award because he was peer-pressured by his dad.
photonic intensifiers are ITAR controlled, but china has started manufacturing gen2 equivalents recently.

digital is controlled but more widely made, but also barely worth it.

the real issue is how to display it. for head-mounted setups it's essentially full field of view, and in monocular use combination is subconscious, but it's still rather awkward and requires practice. you can't achieve the same effect on a windshield, even with HUD.

cadillac had this feature in the 90s, though.
Devon McCormick
DKBTrace and POV-Ray were my introduction to CGI.

Open source meant it was possible for an Average Person with No Budget to do CGI animations and stills.
zelle by any other name is just another scammer target
bro, just wait til you learn that gleam has something similar to monad. now pass me the joint (also a compliment)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

Always has been.
Possibly some version of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellweger_off-peak

In use for 7 decades or so.
> If you had two working parents, but had "community", frankly I'd have to assume it was comprised of kids with homemaker parents, which doesn't count as a counterpoint.

This is exactly it. The mental health we're looking for is the byproduct of a childhood spent with regular access to hours-long, adult-free peer time. It also reduces parenting from the stupidly impossible amount of hours we have now.

The community part we're trying to replace with religious spaces was when kids grew up surrounded by multi-generational households. Until the 1st ½ of 1900s, it was what we could count on neighborhoods, villages, settlements, etc being built out of.

Religion can't replace that. I know because my kids grew up in the ideal the author is has in his head.
Superhuman, THINKIN are top grossing luxury apps in May 24
Huh? Venmo (since being bought by PayPal) has the strongest fraud protections that exist. It's why online P2P marketplaces have huge banners saying "If they don't accept Venmo or PayPal G&S it's a scammer."

Venmo/PayPal are unique in that they'll insure an informal purchase agreement between two people neither of which have a merchant agreement with them.
> I'm not sure how you think microservices gets around that (it doesn't!).

Microservices get around potential dependency bugs, because of the isolation. Now there's an API orchestration between the services. That can be a point of failure. This is why you want BDD testing for APIs, to provide a higher confidence.

The tradeoff isn't complicated. Slightly more work up front for less maintenance long term; granted this approach doesn't scale forever. There's not any science behind finding the tipping point.
Debit cards have same chargeback options as credit cards.
Don't give up. I had the exact same issue when AeroSpace when I first used it, but I gave it another chance because of my constant frustrations with Amethyst. The commands do what they're supposed to, but unless you read the documentation carefully, your expectations will be different.
> “ROV” stands for remotely operated vehicle
The "before:" operator trick is very useful but it won't last. They have quietly phased out some of these operators and they are not supported on many google properties. The before operator is also buggy, I regularly get searches where they fuzz the date by years.
Clicked every button. Maybe the most aesthetically pleasing website I've seen in a while
I've been asking for years when this sentiment pops up, and I'm going to ask again: What specific examples are there of debit card users holding all of the risk in the US?

It isn't legislated as it is with credit cards, but I've so far been unable to find any instances that don't have a contractual resolution process for fraudulent charges.
There are tools like Fluent that help a lot : https://blendermarket.com/products/fluent

The programmer is really cool and responsive on his Discord
> 1. Develop a system where you can turn codepaths on and off with a toggle.

> All are good practices…

I beg to differ on this point actually. It’s very difficult to get right and leads to subtle bugs (or even potential security vulnerabilities). It also pollutes the codebase with conditional statements that aren’t related to the business logic and makes it harder to read. Avoid feature flags.
I didn’t know the term schadenfreude, but looking for the definition, it immediately remembered me De rerum natura[1], there is a passage about how good it feels that you are not aboard the boat that you see sink in the horizon or something like that.

[1] Of the Nature of Things, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_the_Nature_of_Things_(Leon...
Like a cell becoming cancerous.
I signed up for this in Illinois and never heard a single peep of complaint about it (nor did I ever notice it when it kicked in.)
Seaweed Deep Dive Article
I see many people here recommending products without the caveats included in the article such as tamper-resistant features. It is a warning for 1-Click [1] users.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
> Operation Time

> RSA key length (bits) Average time (seconds)

> 1024 16

> 2048 124

> 3072 600

> 4096 ~1000

That must be a typo, that they mean milli seconds - right? Otherwise this seems too slow to do anything useful?
In the consumer space at least, WiFi was nowhere to be seen on a typical PC when Apple adopted it. Same with USB. So while it technically originated and existed elsewhere, there was no serious traction on it prior to Apple adoption.

What you say is also true: many people weren't ready to ditch the old when Apple decide to deprecate it.
Might be outweighed by the bigger effects when they do screw something up. Like if their passwords mess up for amazon.com, some big airline, Facebook, etc... the noise will get pretty loud pretty quick.
That's what I meant when I said they would be given the data in a mostly unusable format because Google wasn't told _how_ to export the data by the law.

When they shut down GPM I requested my listening data via Takeout and it was in a format that was absolutely useless to me. OP seemed to be in Germany so Google has been told by the law to allow data exfiltration, but as we've seen with Apple, these companies engage in malicious compliance and there's no guarantee that they'll get usable data from Takeout.

There's also no guarantee that over 18 years the EU regulatory bodies will remain uncaptured, and never reverse course on data controls such that Google could conceivably kill Takeout as a product due to "the excessive costs involved in supporting an organization wide data exfiltration tool"
There is a convention already, and it's quite simple. There's an "autocomplete" property on an input tag, and you can tell the browser what it's for[1]. Use "username", "email", and "current-password" for example when building a login page. ("new-password" is useful for creating an account or changing password, and the password manager can suggest a new password here instead of trying to autofill with your old password).

The autocomplete attribute supports nearly everything you can imagine. Check this for a full list[2].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/In...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
Because when I go to the grocery store they don't usually take PEPE or WinDOGE98.
Cryptocurrency gives that same data away for free, to everyone.
OpenAI most likely paid Apple and why in the long run that's a great move
It was VistaPro, for me. So many hours of fiddling with variables, and rendering new worlds.
The whole idea was/is weird. I can understand undertaking a certain level of risk to get an amazing view of the Titanic, or some other wreck or reef, but that wasn't even what was offered. Regardless of who offered this dive and how it was managed, there would always have been some risk. That risk had to be stupid low for what was offered, a tiny window, offering a really poor viewing experience. It not even like the was a massive glass dome and you could pan around the wreck for hours just looking at it from a multitude of angels. Notice how all the videos and photos are always taken from the outside of the submersible.

The cost and risk, as compared to what was on offer never matched up.
Kei Trucks America
Because there are so freaking many of us, and some of us trust each other. If we were better at coordinating about which parts of the code we trust and to what degree, we could determine which parts of it are untrustworthy and patch the problem out of it.

The GrapheneOS people are doing this, for example. It's not crazy to consider your device vendor as part of your threat model, because like it or not, they are a threat.
Chipmaker Intel to halt $25B Israel plant, news website says
Use TikZ to solve a math riddle
I had a 486dx and it was such a huge upgrade over a 286. I ordered pov-ray from some shareware catalog since I didn't have internet access, and it arrived on 3.5" floppies.
Does it apply to non-citizens?

As far as I know, in the US you can politely decline a phone search if you are a US citizen. If you're a foreign tourist your only choice is either to allow the search or be denied entry to the Land of Freedom™

How does it work in Australia?
IDD, but it depends on your threat model. Personally, it's a tradeoff I'm happy to make, but an alternative would be setting up your own VPN, e.g. Wireguard.
I think you'll have to log into your bank account to send money - it won't be taken by the receiver. Every other country has this. And the recipient has clear identification, so if there's a dispute, you go to the police and say they stole your money. Since the recipient is known and in the same jurisdiction, the transaction is reversible by the courts.
RAG Does Not Work for Enterprises
I can't think of physical processes that could go from macro -> micro. The examples I can think of stem from Yuval Harari's human fictions affecting the world. For example, a nation state or a corporation or a story could set the stage for the macro affecting the micro. If we look at a story, it communicates an idea that changes the behaviors of humans, which in turn causes those humans to interact with the micro and the macro.

As I'm writing this out and thinking about it, where would fictional objects fit on the micro <--> macro axis?
The benefit of growing teeth in-situ would be being firmly embedded in the jawbone and connected to living tissue, neither of which is really possible with implants.
Simon Willison: Thoughts on the WWDC 2024 Keynote on Apple Intelligence
POV-Ray was my first introduction to HPC clusters. In the early aughts a few of us in college participated in a summer program at Wright Patterson Air-force Base to build a MPIPOV [1] cluster out of 10 old Sun SPARCStation 20s with "Happy Meal" NICs.

We documented the process of installing Linux (Debian), configuring the network, compiling MPIPOV from source and clustering them together.

It was a thing of beauty to watch the rendering speeds increase and the blinkenlights putting on a show in that lab when we were done.

If I remember correctly they planned to take what we documented and use for a much larger cluster they were building, but never found out the specifics.

1. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/648136.748781
... then point to your commits in the curl repo on Github?
Brazil: Children's Personal Photos Misused to Power AI Tools
This is such a tired talking point. Use a (lightning|USB-C)->3.5mm adapter or use bluetooth.
Ignorance is bliss right? If you don't believe that climate change is real, etc.
You don't need internet for everything... by definition these systems are connected to the grid by wires which can transmit a limited signal. Utilities in countries such as NZ have managed load for decades by turning hot water heaters in customers' homes off and on remotely with ripple control units which transmit a signal over the power line itself. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellweger_off-peak
Why is this flagged?

I don't agree with the problem or the solution, but flagging it just seems emotion-driven.
That does seem exceptionally slow, although RSA key generation is also notoriously slow.

(In most settings where an HSM is used, you shouldn’t be generating keys all that often. So these times are often acceptable.)
>If a nuclear power invades you - the world leaves you to die.

You mean like Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria?

>The problem with appeasement

Putin decided two years ago that he is done appeasing the West and look where we are now.
In other words, stick your head in the sand.
It's absolutely brilliant.

Everyone has watched a TV show where a case is slowly being solved, but who actually considers that oh yeah, I could actually become the person who searches for a random missing person case, instead of watching it on Netflix?

And the amount of McGyvering involved! How many people would have given up at one of the steps? Oh it requires coding in C++ for Arduino, sure, I'll just do that. Oh, it requires me to contact manufacturers to manufacture something, which I have never done, and I don't even know how to use a 3D modeling program. Sure, I'll just learn how to do that and then actually have it made. Pretty sure the give-up rate there would be very high!

If this were TV, people would hardly consider it plausible. And they did it, for real. And all out of just pure curiosity!
Interstellar isotopes!

> By studying geological radioisotopes on Earth, we can learn about the past of the heliosphere. Fe60 is predominantly produced in supernova explosions and becomes trapped in interstellar dust grains. Fe60 has a half-life of 2.6 Myr, and Pu244 has a half-life of 80.7 Myr. Fe60 is not naturally produced on Earth, and so its presence is an indicator of supernova explosions within the last few (~10) million years.
> People can get so irrational when it comes to the cost of software. The same person who'd pay hundreds of dollars for a cleaner, or a gym membership, will swear up and down that 70 bucks a year for an online bodyguard is highway robbery.

Often while refusing to work for less than six figures as a SWE, hating on companies for seeking VC funding, dismissing non open-source approaches, and then complaining why there aren't more alternatives :)
I haven't thought about Joan in years. I used to frequent the ASCII art newsgroups in the late 90s as a teenager.

I hope wherever they are, they are doing well knowing that they are a tiny bit of Internet history.
David Lochridge, who oversaw marine operations at the company and who needed to sign off on the transfer, became convinced that Titan was unsafe. In January 2018, Lochridge sent Rush a quality-control inspection report detailing 27 issues with the vehicle, from questionable O-ring seals on the domes and missing bolts to flammable materials and more concerns about its carbon-fiber hull. Rush fired him the next day. (Although Lochridge later made a whistleblower report to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about Titan, Rush sued him for breach of contract. The settlement of that lawsuit resulted in Lochridge dropping his complaint, paying OceanGate nearly $10,000, and signing an NDA. Lochridge did not respond to WIRED.)

How is that legal in the US? It is insane that someone who clearly was acting in the interest of the public (albeit the rich, fee-paying public...) should be found at fault for doing something that is clearly morally correct.

I don't normally read Wired, bu this article is both morbidly fascinating and a great tale of human hubris.