skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know its easy to blame the manufacturers but I don't believe they are entirely at fault here. Its not so much the size alone but that in these facilities they are not being cleaned after every run. Certainly the products that spoil are getting sanitize appropriately (eggs, dairy etc) but uncooked grains I suspect have a much larger time line for cleaning.
Thanks for this! We ditched our Tops Pallet software a year ago and have been looking for something similar. Where can we donate to the development?
This thing sounds like an absolutely massive piece of shit.

Chinese characters, glossy screen, slow refresh, and on and on and on.

Good thing it was cheap!
Recently saw something labelled as being made in a facility with ‘all allergens’. Which raises questions; in particular what are they doing with those cats?

(I assume they meant all of the EU’s list of Interesting Allergens.)
I do like Perplexity.ai. But interpreting how it works, and portrays itself as, is that the LLM component of it is, in fact, not a search engine.

How I interpret it: it is a more powerful version of stemming and synonym expansion of information retrieval classics when generating the queries it feeds into traditional information systems (such as the Bing search engine via API, or other index).

After retrieval, it's a selector and summarizer of repetition seen in the results to give you something of a blended outcome, pertinent to the prompt you gave it. Like any other tool, you get a feel for when it has is having problems, and some of those problems can be assessed by at least glancing at the sources it consulted. You get all sorts of weird stuff when your sources don't include relevant results or biased results

The first problem happens when the documents you are searching for do not exist, or something about your prompt -- it's usually obvious what it is -- is not sourcing documents you know to exist.

The second, bias, I've seen when researching something like the design conceits of Infiniband. While it has its genuine virtues, almost nobody talks about it...and many of those things that discuss it are Infiniband marketing materials that are both a bit too fluffy and sometimes stretch the truth, as marketing materials are wont to do. But you can spot this in the sources panel immediately.

I never found "disembodied" LLMs very useful.
That could happen and simultaneously teach kids a lifelong satisfying understanding of Jesus and Christianity. The arrest of a money-changing protester by the Roman administration. Commonplace method and frequency of capital punishment. A radical who read, for example, Leviticus and his own handpicked selected emphasized passages persist into the New Testament; ready for a mildly rebellious teen to apply His teachings directly to the chafing hypocrisy of PTA meetings, school boards, college essays, and any place we as adults expected polite secular obedience but instead deserve to get our faces rubbed into the risky business of actually teaching Christ.
I assume you're joking but just in case you're not.. Really?

I thought atheism was a perfectly fine option under "freedom of religion" too.

I guess it's ingrained in some parts of society. I would for example not be happy to swear on the bible. But in Holland we have this alternative thing for atheists where we have to swear to the king or something. I don't recognise our monarchy either but whatever :) it feels more acceptable because everyone can see that that's just a made up concept (I view a constitutional monarchy as a glorification of previous dictatorship)
Good breakdown. As others pointed out, there's an overlap. I dug through my browser history and found my weekly Google searches in 2024 is 119, down from 300 in 2022.
Both examples are expressing the same belief about Dobbs! Yes, I believe the social harmony from allowing these questions to be decided democratically outweighs individual "rights."

What about Ireland? Abortion was illegal in Ireland until 2018, and then it was put to the public for vote in a referendum. In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights refused to overturn Ireland's abortion ban (though it did find a due process violation with respect to the lack of procedures for qualifying for a pre-existing exception for life-threatening conditions). That's how the law works in civilized democracies. People make decisions on social issues, not judges.
TBH, I’m surprised to hear Element (X) described like this.

I thought the space that Matrix was intended for was group chat, similar to IRC, Slack, Discord, Mattermost, Zulip, etc.

Now you say that Element X is a replacement for WhatsApp/iMessage/Signal, which to me is a totally different kind of application.

Basically, I see WhatsApp et al as a better way to send SMS (E2EE) or send vacation pics to my family (without broadcasting them on Instagram) whereas if I would want to discuss a tricky PostgreSQL issue (or whatever) I would kind of expect the project to have some kind of presence on IRC, Slack, Discord or similar.

So now I’m curious about the change of course. Would be very interesting to hear the rationale for this.
Seems like at last some of the carbon nanotubes tech breakthroughs we read about here on hacker news have started making an impact.
> converting huge amount of xml files

> pickling

Sounds like if this is the tooling and the task at hand, about the most complex things that should be passing through the pickler are partitioned lists of filenames rather than raw data. E.g. you can have each partition generate a parquet for combining in a final step (pyarrow.concat_tables() looks useful), or if it were some other format you were working with, potentially sending flat arrays back to the parent process as giant bytestrings or similar

This is not to say the limitations don't suck, just that very often there are simple approaches to avoid most of the pain
I think the part i find interesting is it seems like we have a better picture of how the mythology shifted over time and was interpreted by different groups than we do with greek and norse mythology. So not just the stories themselves but how they were adapted in different contexts.

I dont actually know that much about the subject. Recently this video on youtube popped up for me about early history of what would later become the abrahamic religions, and i was just kind of fascinated by it https://youtu.be/mdKst8zeh-U?si=nhdcZJAnQlRPQVv6
use the right tool for the right job. your software requirements and design document should drive the language and the tools you use.
I think the most redeeming quality of Americans--an inheritance from the British--is that they'll jump off a bridge if they're told to do so by a court and the required procedures have been followed. Rule following, more than anything else, what separates advanced democracies from the third world country I come from. And in the long run it's what will save the most lives and lead to the most prosperity and social harmony.
This all feels like some Orwellian nightmare to me. Things like TikTok and X shouldn't require any ID verification in my mind; the rest of this fiasco just underscores all the other reasons why this is a bad idea.
Days? 3 years
You are fear mongering for the first two, and the damage for the third was already done a long time ago, would not be undone even with a full pardon.

I'll be very honest. You have a bias. You will fit everything to that bias. You don't care about how the legal system works, or that the plea deal was a great deal for him compared to what they could have pursued. Note that when they got that guilty plea on ONE CHARGE which is inconsequential for him, they dropped a lot of other stuff.
Cool cool.
So we can expect forthwith the hasty inclusion of Locke, Hume, Hobbes, Paine, Voltaire, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Seneca, Cato, et al? I mean... those were all more plainly and specifically influential on the founders than the Christian Bible. I'd be interested to hear specifically what passages they will incorporate and on what basis of relevance to the history of the founding of the US these are chosen, and how they plan to not get lost in the weeds of religious doctrine.

Or is this just another cheap ploy to waste taxpayer money losing another lawsuit to the Satanic Temple?
> I don't know why the narrative became "don't call it hallucination".

Context is "don't call it hallicination" picked up meme energy since https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 on the thesis that "Calling their mistakes ‘hallucinations’ isn’t harmless: it lends itself to the confusion that the machines are in some way misperceiving but are nonetheless trying to convey something that they believe or have perceived."

Which is meta-bullshit because it doesn't matter. We want LLMs to behave more factually, whatever the non-factuality is called. And calling that non-factuality something else isn't going to really change how we approach making them behave more factually.
The United States has Christianity as its national religion. This is obvious to anyone who has moved here from abroad. The nation proclaims it is not the case but factually here are a couple of things I have observed that make it obvious to me:

1. There is only one religious holiday observed by the nation, federally: Christmas

2. In San Francisco, where I live, there is a city-enforced exception to parking regulations for church parking on a street

3. The nation has a Pledge of Allegiance that specifies "One Nation Under God". On its own it could be any monotheistic religion, but combined with the rest it is clear that it is a Christian reference.

Ultimately, everyone is welcome, but the USA is a Christian nation.
Most Americans can afford a $300 phone, and that's enough to buy a pretty solid Android phone or a used iPhone.

Carriers will just make people sign two-year contracts at a guaranteed rate, plus an early exit fee. This is how all kinds of predatory scams work; the carriers will do just fine and low-income people will continue to get the newest iPhone.
Under the Constitution, you have both freedom of religiois exercise and freedom from religious establishment, as well as a freedom from religious tests for public office. The last two preclude institutionalization of religion with state mandate, even something as broad as the generic theism you suggest.
Also, recently Bolivia has announced its intention to join BRICS: https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/667d3cc48a0f643...
> So with this the main reasoning behind having some nuclear power generation would be to have a capable nuclear industry with a trained nuclear workforce to support the new batch of nuclear submarines that both major parties want to get.

I have no idea where you'd get that notion from, did Dutton hand wave that in during a press conference?

It's an unrealistic option to imagine a crossover between military small onboard proven reactors and civilian power stations for many reasons, in terms of Australia's immediate energy policy less so .. any actual AUKUS subs are as far in the future as hypothetical nuclear power stations and, as stated, the political angle here is to avoid doing anything other than fire up more coal power now and forget about any commitments made wrt emmissions.

In pragmatic terms, being neutral about nuclear "as a bogeyman" and focusing on the engineering, it's an aspirational dream to float in front of voters not an actual plan with costings, preliminary agreement from land holders, and a time line for construction (let alone lifting the existing nuclear ban in Federal law).

The immediate need for an energy plan as old coal power stations are being retired is already being met to a degree by sloar, wind, large battery parks, pilot thermal storage plants, etc and the costings on expanding these existing and proven (within Australia) technologies to the scale required come in far cheaper than "vague nuclear" (which as outlined by Dutton is still lessthan the energy supply required).

> Also as Uranium is another thing we dig out of the ground so we don't need to buy the fuel from elsewhere.

The "digging out" part isn't a great expense or challenge, maybe you might want to read up on processing requirements to isolate isotopes of uranium - raw yellowcake isn't a ready to rock and roll fuel.

And then there's the matter of building a GW scale reactor - checkout the timeline, delays, and cost blowouts on the UK's latest (still unfinished) reactor.
If I'm understanding you correctly, the concern is that someone who has e.g. a peanut allergy will eat product A which is labeled as containing peanuts despite not having any, and then decide they must not be allergic so they can eat product B which is also labeled as containing peanuts but actually has them, and have a bad outcome?

This seems a stretch. If the person is eating food labeled as containing an allergen, do we really care whether it is product A or B that produces the bad outcome?
Maybe the best benefit of LLM as a search engine is that they haven't figured out yet how to serve you 10 ads before they give you the link.
Good riddance to Administrative Law Judges

Although this ruling was on party lines, one thing I dont buy from the dissenting opinion this time that it’s not opposite. They just lean towards not being disruptive and never address the arguments the majority highlighted.

That’s far too skittish for me, I want a resolution on things that seem unconstitutional to me and they deprive us all from the opportunity of seeing any other perspective, just reinforcing the one we already have.
No, that misses the nuance entirely. An LLM returns one answer that it thinks is likely to be true. A search engine returns many answers one of which is either certainly true or (depending on what you're searching) is the literal source of truth.

There is a world of difference between these two results.

Ultimately the problem is that a single repository of all verifiably true human knowledge just doesn't exist and both search engines and LLMs are copes to deal with this fact.
Ostensibly, yes. But in actuality, Christianity (specifically a peculiar strain of American Protestantism) has been the dominant cultural and political motivating in the US since its founding, and there has always a significant populace who believes the US should be governed exclusively by Christian principles. The dynamic strain between secularism and theocracy is at the core of just about every American political struggle.

Recently, with the rise of certain neo-traditional ideologies intersecting with evangelicalism and the repeal of Roe V. Wade, the pro-theocracy populace (which includes the governments of many red states) believes it has an opportunity to push their agenda further than ever before. And so they are.
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If you are asking me, no, I am not joking. Did the US ever have an atheist president? There you go.

I, too, would rather swear on the monarchy (or on the republic) than on the Bible, but I am not sure they have that option in the US.
I'd guess that it speaks to the "knew charges were coming" bit to support that they were specifically fleeing the law and not disappearing to escape a bookie or an annoying family member or something
From a scientific perspective, the text is very rich and shows somewhat chronological evolution of beliefs and society systems. Coupled with responses to catastrophic events/influences, like the Babylonian captivity influencing what heaven and hell were understood to be, there’s a lot to study/research. There are many university courses on the subject that are not a religious class.
Now I'd truly love that computer as a talking point in say the rumpus room of my house, I could entertain my techie friends for hours. And it would take on extra importance in winter in keeping my house warm.

I've not used 6N3P tubes before but looking at the circuit it seems to me a 12AT7 (an old favorite of mine) would substitute in that circuit almost without alteration. Then again with a tweak or two either the higher gain 12AX7 or its lower gain cousin the 12AU7 would do.
The Linux kernel has an incredibly strong userspace API stability guarantee. I think in practice this guarantee is unmatched in modern computing, and it's what allows things like containers to deliver such incredible long term value.

Software is defined by its interfaces, and unlike userspace APIs, this guarantee does not apply to internal kernel APIs. The ability to update the latter is what enables the former. Inability to update internal implementation details inevitably leads to ossification and obsolescence of the whole system. Linus Torvalds spoke about this recently in the context of new Rust code in the kernel.
> freedom from religious tests for public office.

I don’t think this is true everywhere in the US.

Add: link

https://www.alternet.org/2014/12/7-states-where-atheists-can...
This has significantly harmed consumers who are actually allergic to sesame.

Their lobbying group caused the problem in the first place by pushing congress to pass unreasonably expensive cross contamination rules.
Because they signed an agreement with the NTSB not to "[provide] investigative information [or give] an analysis of factual information previously released", and then did it anyways.

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20240627.as...
Sometimes, only sometimes, search engines direct you to a trustworthy, citable resource. LLMs are never a citable resource and usually mangle URLs.

It's not that I trust randos on reddit, it's that even when they're wrong, I can link someone to the same bad advice and it doesn't change on me, for the most part.
Session Manager is way easier.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
A lot of of the interesting mythology was left out of the Bible, unfortunately.
Is it? I hope so, because this is a fantastic translation, it preserves as much of the wordplay from the hebrew, and whatever is not able to be brought through in the translation is well-annotated in the notes below.
Is the Prince of Darkness considered a god in this context?
We shouldn’t expect much from someone who has a stated goal of shoving off from this planet in favor of redder pastures.
The argument for is a mixture of textualism and moral repugnance at the idea of letting the Sacklers keeping billions in profits they made from killing a quarter of a million people. I suspect the second part was strengthened to swing Jackson's vote and aside from her, it's a fairly standard split.
This is hot on the heels of this man loosing one case against the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Ryan Walters recently lost when the highest court in the State ruled that it’s unconstitutional to create a state funded religious charter school.

Not one to obey the law this one - it seems to be the thing with these Christian Nationalists, to embrace the courts when they rule in their favor, then complain, bitch and invariably then ignore when the courts rule against them.

Apparently he saw what Louisiana did, then looked around for someone to hold his beer…
What lesson should the opium wars have taught that's applicable to oxy prescription?
But Boeing has the same right that anyone has to do PR, right? The NTSB is not entitled to public opinion going their way. It's completely beyond the scope of their regulatory power.
> Certainly I find LLMs replace a lot of searches for me...

I genuinely have no idea how people are having this experience. Regular google search is still quite good for me, DDG (my primary) is not as good but generally alright, and LLMs are completely useless (for searching for information at least). I assume y'all are telling the truth in good faith, of course. But it's so perplexing, because from my perspective you might as well be saying that the sky is neon green or something. That's how drastically different it is from my experience.
This theory gets parroted endlessly, but nearly never actually happens in reality.
I didn't say a real book isn't an option (tho my phone is smaller, lighter and carries more than one book...YMMV). But don't let me stop you from grinding your little axe to a fine edge.
AI will change smart endpoints dump
It could be done, but you'd have to treat bread production like silicon wafer production. Bread would become very, very expensive.
Show HN: Post sharing without an account
Just sharing a small site I made that allows users to create and share posts with others that uses digital signatures to manage "auth".

Posted before, but worked out a bunch of kinks that was causing issues to view the site.
My username comes from the fact that I built and sold potato guns back when I was in high school.

I should really write up a thread on some of the stories from those days.
> See, that is where you got all wrong

I said that if they wanted to support AMD they would use the closest-to-metal API possible, and your links prove that this is exactly their mindset - preferring a lower level more performant API to a higher level more portable one.

For many people the tradeoffs are different and ability to write code quickly and iterate on design makes more sense.
That's a bad comparison. Search engines are not search engines any more either.

Spam and global volume have won, and the idea of searching the entire web is pretty much dead right now.

Regurgitating the most stastically plausible response that the internet might have for a query may be more useful than a collation of ads and blogspam, but neither compare to what Lycos, Alta Vista, Excite, and Yahoo delivered 20 years ago, let alone what Google first ate their lunch with for 10 or so years thereafter.

We need a new discovery paradigm for the web, and LLM's may turn out to play a significant role in that, but "search engines" of the old sort are basically either dead or (beautifully) niche.
It is good advice to not talk about an ongoing investigation, but the government should not be able to force you not to. Talking about an investigation is not "derailing" it.
I agree wholeheartedly, and I'm going to go a bit further...

I think that I'm either out-of-touch or far enough outside the bubble to be able to provide an objective viewpoint, but:

Needing to verify government issued ID to create an account for high-in-the-clouds pure "lifestyle" services such as Twitter and TikTok? Fuck me, is this how far we've come? Is this the destination anyone actually wanted to reach?
There are plenty of orgs with legally obligated retention that was satisfied via the "we can pay to get the messages if we need the messages"

Now that that's going away, those orgs are being exposed to a legal liability and need to reconfigure.
Yeah - I think what I'm getting at though is that you want to guard against situations where somebody accidentally doesn't set one of the fields, and yet 0 is a valid value to set on that field. You could accidentally forget to fill in latitude, and that would be bad news.

Def +1 the confusingness of how you have to explicitly check for has_latlon() to make sure you're not just getting default values of a non-existent LatLon message. The asymmetry between primitive and message-type fields in having explicit presence checking is also part of my beef. It's weird to have to teach junior devs that you can do has_* checks, but only for messages.
Right, but right now they aren't getting answers to questions - they are getting confident bullshitting which may or may not be true. I don't think that the general public has caught onto this nuance yet, but with enough cases of LLMs biting people in the ass (like that one lawyer who submitted ChatGPT hallucinations to a court), that may well change.
No one's going to die because they can't watch YouTube videos.
Please do! Quirky fun personal websites used to be what the Internet was all about!

You have at least one guaranteed reader.