skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former journalist and current PR professional, I'll say this is a brilliant way to destroy your clients' credibility in one fell swoop. If I were a journalist and I received an AI-generated pitch, I would immediately disregard the source. If a PR agency successfully fooled me into thinking a quote was from a human, and I found out later that the quote was AI-generated, I could never trust any statements from that PR agency or any of its clients again.

A journalist should not, under any circumstances, use an AI-generated "quote" in a news story. It's not an actual quote from an actual source, because no human being actually said it. It's just a jumble of words that doesn't actually express anyone's opinion or judgment. An AI-generated statement has no authority, because it doesn't represent anyone's expertise and no one is staking their reputation on the accuracy of the statement. And if you're a PR client, letting an LLM speak for you strikes me as reckless. If you're talking to the media, it should be to establish your own expertise and knowledge, not a chatbot's.

I may be applying too high a standard here. Looking at the "Clients Results" section, these quotes are getting placed in low-level filler articles that are mostly marketing, and no one expects these to be hard-hitting journalism. Heck, all these articles could be entirely AI-generated. But these kinds of marketing filler articles have very low credibility, so I'm very skeptical of the PR value of being quoted in them.
At 11:59 I see it more as half empty.
Process doesn't sound much different to some other types of pasta and bread. So I guess bread and pasta are UPF too? I think I'm safe with my Ramen ... Main thing that worries me is unintended contamination from cooking process and packaging TBH.
“Opioids can't be banned until we can replace them with something equally generally effective.”

If only doctors took this advice! When the CDC made its first recommendation against using opioids there was a chilling effect and thousands of chronic pain patients who desperately in need of opioids to function were cut off. There were suicides.

It wasn’t until 2022 that the CDC loosened its recommendations and, in my experience, only a few doctors have caught up.
I actually think that there is a good representation of robotics on HN, the posts just don't always make it very far. So personally I subscribe to https://hnrss.org/newest?q=robot and https://hnrss.org/newest?q=robotics (RSS feeds).

In terms of news letters, besides the Robot Report, there is also https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/ and recently this guy has been advertising his newsletter on HN a lot (which also seems decent but I haven't followed it in detail): https://thegraspnewsletter.substack.com

Kat's weekly news on ROS Discourse are really well curated, too, I think:
https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-june-17...
Agreed. They're being "sanctioned" for answering the media's questions about their own company, probably because the NTSB wants to control the narrative. The "sanction" seems to amount to nothing, though. No fine. No change to the investigation. Just bureaucratic finger-wagging and empty threats.

Boeing certainly deserves to be investigated and prosecuted, if the evidence supports it, but arbitrarily refusing to let them talk to the media is wrong.
I think a lot of companies (including Apple) figured out at around the same time that the Internet finally allows them to have that unbreakable "tether" to the end user. The Internet provides them the control over what the user is doing that they never had before. Without intrusive things like hardware dongles and long distance modem calls, they were never able to watch the user and control their activities like they can today.
The 'worst moment' of Sam Altman's OpenAI ousting happened just before midnight
Show HN: I brought the best Pebble watch feature to iOS and Apple Watch
Hi HN,

I wanted to share something exciting that I've been working on. Remember the classic word clock feature from Pebble watches? It was my default on my pebble steel (Still working like a charm to this day!). I've always loved how unique and visually appealing it was, so I decided to bring that experience to iOS and Apple Watch.

Introducing Custom Word Clock - TextTime: a fully customizable word clock widget for iOS. You can personalize it to fit your style and preferences. It started as a widget for the home screen, and I'm thrilled to announce that it's now available as a lock screen widget and a complication on the Apple Watch.

Here's what you can expect:

Customization: Choose unique greetings, fonts, colors, and backgrounds to create a word clock that suits your taste.

Widgets: Add the word clock to your iPhone's home screen and lock screen for quick access. Customization in the app applies directly to the widget.

Apple Watch Complication: Get the word clock experience right on your wrist with our new complication.

Numbers are so last year—why not add words to your watch? I'm really proud of how it turned out and would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

App Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/custom-word-clock-texttime/id6...
When people talk about price distortion, this is it. Reimbursements always open up the possibility for abuse.
It should be "confabulation", since that's not carting along the notion of false sensory input.

Humans also confabulate but not as a result of "hallucinations". They usually do it because that's actually what brains like to do, whether it's making up stories about how the world was created or, more infamously, in the case of neural disorders where the machinery's penchant for it becomes totally unmoderated and a person just spits out false information that they themselves can't realize is false. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Like rats looking for holes, they always will find some
looks like pecan nuts
https://archive.is/Rwst9
Two things,

1. The time to delivery is potentially much much shorter.

2. There's a built-in rules engine for targeting. You could integrate this in! But it feels nice having it separate.
I thought this was interesting

> Alex Gaynor suggested that the project try a an approach that Keith-Magee had not put forward inspired by Gaynor's experience with the cryptography library. The project often receives complaints that the library refuses to parse a certificate that is technically invalid, but was in wide use. He said that the policy was to accept pull requests that work around those issues ""provided they are small, localized, and generally aren't too awful"". But, he added, these patches should only be accepted on the condition that someone complains to the third party (in this case Apple), and extracts some kind of commitment that they would do something about it. He suggested that the workaround be time-limited, to give users a decent experience ""while also not letting large firms simply externalize their bizarre issues onto OSS projects"".

as a solution to the familiar problem of users wanting OSS to work around bugs in commercial software because OSS maintainers are easier to bully and they know bug reports to Megacorp go straight to a black hole.
Pfft. Let's talk about the rent before announcing where I live eh?
The rated pressure is for water, and the rating assumes the pipe is in perfect condition. And no, constant vs shock pressure doesn't make it safer.

If you nick it, drop it on something, etc - the rating no longer applies.

Over the years numerous shops have used PVC pipe "because the compressor only goes up to 100psi and the pipe says 250", that sort of thing...and had the pipework explode and injure/kill people.

~100 psi in a PVC pipe is enough to tear through a sheet of drywall and then fatally injure someone.
Yes that's easy advice to follow when you don't have a job
Until you can run a Windows-free build system with WINE (there are a few reported blockers, several others and I have tried) and PyInstaller, cross-platform apps will require developers to compile their Windows ports on Windows itself.

Windows is where the users are. Not targeting it is a bad financial decision.
Buddhas prefer bare-metal? If I ever meet one will definitely ask. (And then, chop off his head? shrug)
Considering most search engines are close to useless these days, I'd say major LLMs are doing a good job nonetheless.
Not here to argue your point, just to note that McDonalds fries are not as natural as people think, ie. most people assume they’re just potatoes fried in some oil.

“French Fries
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.
Contains: Wheat, Milk.”

Source: https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/small-french-frie...
The claim is that the models learn the inherent statistical properties of the training set, not the relationships and causality they were intended to learn. When they removed a statistical property of the training set, their BERT model got more accurate.
It's good to have the current state of all the flags in source control, just like you do for things like infrastructure-as-code.

The distinction is that you have a different release process, or build a different artifact, from your main codebase. The codebase you are controlling with flags doesn't change when your flags do. This can be done with separate repos if you want one build per repo, but it doesn't have to be.
It turns out... violence was the answer!
Sure, replacing a meal with different items and textures in it with a single pasty liquid is so much more variety.
Aurora: A static site generator implemented in Python
At bottom it's about public opinion, not paper documents.

Boeing has tried to saturate the public's interest in the topic with a self-serving line of spin, front-running the public authorities. That way, when the NTSB report finally comes out, any negative info would struggle to overturn already set opinions.
It's not forced to serve markets. They are just not allowed to say their products contain sesame when they don't. They are mislabeling their products, and the FDA's job is to ensure products are labeled accurately.
Except it apparently didn't have sufficient donors and benefactors--or vistors.
Huh, yeah I see. I guess I work more on the robotics side where messages often contain physical or geometric quantities, and that colors my thinking a bit. So "distance to that thing = 0" is a very possible situation, and yet you also want to allow it to say "I didn't measure distance to that thing". And those are very distinct concepts you never want to conflate.
I'm wondering what is the difference from https://docs.urlinks.io/gateway-chain/ .
There are a lot similar concepts, like very similar. Hatchet feels like same product but with money from VCs.
Nobody legit approaches anyone to do this.
Adam Savage made something similar, with compressed air, for the Slow Mo Guys - https://youtu.be/w9i9rwg1L_A?feature=shared
Orbital dynamics would say that makes it less likely to be an asat test if it was over the launch site.
Medicare fraud is really profitable (until you're caught)! There's a reason it keeps cropping up.
No they aren't. They don't like it, but they haven't done anything about it.
That’s not the reason you would say in your renunciation ceremony
The tokenizer in llama.cpp probably needs fixing then or it has some other bug.
@newsbunny, you're submitting an overwhelming amount of sfstandard.com

Off-Topic: (..) If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am not a lawyer. I am from a legal family (three generations) and I understand jurisprudence

> you instead leave ambiguity that harms the well meaning and benefits the malicious.

Two points

1. Law advantages those with access, and often benefits the malicious and harms the good. Case in point: Drug law. Another is IP law

2. Law is not objective. The words that form it are in black and white, but there are courts and judges because the application of the law is subjective. The boundary cases are numerous and important

More generally....

> If something is bad enough that it should be banned by an unwritten rule, it's bad enough to be banned by a written rule.

Sotp, just stop! This is the idea that we must punish and scantion people into being good.

I think of things that are good (like treating drug addicts as ill, not criminal or imoral). I think not of "bans". They accomplish little.

Permissible, impermissible, these are blunt concepts that are not very useful. We can be, and should be, aspirational and collegial not judgemental and competitive
True - still a lot better than painstakingly offloading a ship's cargo onto trains and trucks and vice versa, one crate at a time. All of civilization runs a good deal faster and better because of shipping containers
Speaking of books - I really like your CS textbook. Thank you!
Fair.

I guess replace my earlier comment with Five Guys fries then. https://www.fiveguys.com/-/media/public-site/files/allergen-...

> Five Guys Style [Fries]: Potatoes, Refined Peanut Oil, Salt

Its gonna make you fat and clog your arteries either way.

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My point is that "processing" food doesn't seem to make it more, or less, healthy. The amount of "processing" that Pasta has (Dry the Flour, Wet the Flour, Dry the Pasta, Wet the Pasta/Boil it, and sometimes further Drying+Wetting steps after that) is one of those running jokes in culinary circles.
Discussion (20 points, 3 days ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778134
Iss has whipple shields on parts of it, lightweight compared to something like plate armor, to protect against very small debris.
The black pill with chronic pain is it’s often better to off yourself depending on the condition. There’s no hope for some things like erythromelalgia.
Ask HN: Advice for Imminent Pip?
What advice do you have for a midlevel dev who might get PIP'd?

The market is crap, so I can't easily move out of the company, although I am looking. I'm also looking internally, but there are no dev jobs posted at my level internally (in a tech divison of over 5k!).

My manager says the department head wants to PIP me. The reason is supposedly that my throughput is too low and inconsistent (stories completed per sprint). However, a quick JIRA analysis shows I have completed roughly the same number of points as another dev at my level on my team. I have valid reasons for the inconsistency and it's common for others on the team to be inconsistent too - stories often hit major issues with the environment, confounding existing bugs, or even missing/incorrect requirements. It's not uncommon for our team bug fix/rework stories to consume 20-25% of our sprint capacity.

I also have a disability. So I tend to ask for help when I hit bigger issues, especially when there is no documentation. I was told this is being viewed negatively as a lack of independence even though I requested accommodations including more coaching. Others ask for help but maybe not as often. Those people have also been here longer than me and seem to ask other people more like a personal favor than an open question to the team.

So I'm screwed - PIP = department head wants me fired. Not sure what I can do. I know the best thing to do is leave, but there aren't any options for that currently.
Make sure he takes his shoes off
Fake Elon Musk livestreams promoting crypto scams have plagued YouTube for days
I tried submitting the following article yesterday:

https://mashable.com/article/fake-elon-musk-crypto-scam-yout...

The scam streams are entirely or nearly identical in content. Considering the scale of automated copyright detection that takes place at YouTube, why are these identical/similar streams still on YouTube days after being reported on in the media?
When my friends and I made these 20 years ago we leaned into the "cannon" vibe and mounted them on sawhorses held down with sandbags, then the ignition was on a wire so you could step back to fire it. At the time I think it was... not about safety so much as it just seemed cool to do it like that, but I guess that's one way not to actually be holding the thing while it fires.
I had the same reaction; recognize 3, knowingly eaten 2 (decades ago), purchased 0. It’s surprising to hear that this is the largest bakery in the US. Maybe bakeries localize well so none grow very large?
Pics or it didn't happen. Yeah that’s right I’m bringing that back.
Paperwork 'Piling Up Bad' at Dealers as Cyberattack Outage Continues
I see them at some aisle end-cap in just about every big box store January through March.
The article is pretty clear that it has this string because it's the Apple recommended method for launching a new app, and Python on MacOS does that. It's part of a standard library.
Debugging hardware is hard
They actually have the Bimbo brand on the soccer jerseys for the Philadelphia Union which probably isn't good for the team's jersey sales.
At 350km a lot will live less than a year
> You’re saying “created excess demand” like the people that you’re referring to weren’t chronic pain patients.

> I know some of them were drug-seekers but we decided it was OK to throw chronic pain patients under the bus so we could eliminate those drug-seekers.

To the GPs point, the cause of the regulation was the abuse of the sale. Many deaths were caused by aggressively selling oxy to folks who weren’t managing pain.

The fallout has resulted into harm with people that have a legitimate need for pain management.

Both can be true. The Sacklers are the culprits any way you slice it.
I feel like this concern is mostly a thing having to do with safe rollouts. Just as with any other software, I'm sure there's a gradual rollout to ensure bugs don't just kill a ton of people at once. Google and other large cos have largely solved the reliability problem with web services. while cars are ofc different i think the same learnings apply
I think this has more to do with the general lack of curiosity about the world beyond the US borders that prevails in most of American society. It's not as if US high schoolers get a comprehensive education in world history except for a few select omissions. I agree with you that this is something they ought to be aware of but I think you've kinda stretched the causality here.
oh please, there are plenty of first world countries without as many retarded regulations
So there's a market.
1.5 month of salary for each year of being at SAP. And people who have been there for 20 years get 33.5 months.

That’s quite high even for Germany where it is difficult to dismiss people. Because it is so difficult, a method often used is a mutual agreement with a severance package above what you would get awarded by a court.
There are a lot of AI startups that fall in the category of LLM API consumers (Anthropic/OpenAI wrappers). Or, as I heard the CTO of one of them joking, "we're actually more EC2 wrappers than OpenAI wrappers".

The problem we often hit when building apps on top of LLMs is managing LLM context windows (and sometimes swappable LLM providers). For which you need different types of worker/consumer/queue setups.

TypeScript is amazing for building full-stack web apps quickly. For a decade my go-to was Django, but everything just goes so much faster with endpoints & frontend all in the same place. But, finding a good job/queue service is a little more of a challenge in this world that "just setup Celery". BullMQ is great, but doesn't work with "distributed" Redis providers like Upstash (Vercel's choice).

So, in a roundabout way, an offering like this is in a super-duper position for AI money :)
> Free and clear phones should be unlocked immediately.

...and automatically

Even if your phone is paid for, removing the lock is confusing and time-consuming friction that shouldn't happen. They make money by doing it.
Yes. I put my taskbar on the side in the RDP server so it's obvious. I can usually get the RDP window to be properly on to again by fiddling with the RDP window settings and turning things off and on again (I forget exactly what).
It's just a word meaning AI gives wrong answer.

No, it’s more specific than just wrong.

Hallucination is when a model creates a bit of fictitious knowledge, and uses that knowledge to answer a question.
TFA seems pretty clear about it? For example:

"The NTSB said that during a media briefing on Tuesday, a Boeing executive provided non-public investigative information to journalists about the Alaska Airlines incident that the agency had not verified or authorized for release."

That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Gluten is an allergen for people with celiac, just not IgE-mediated. Celiac shouldn't be classified with lactose intolerance, it's much more serious, arguably more dangerous then even IgE-mediated allergies.
Are you one of the lawyers?

None of that would’ve happened if they didn’t start the flood of opiates to begin with. It wasn’t a marginally increased issue, they flooded the market with it. People with minor pain were getting massive bottles of OxyContin and selling or using it. This led to pill mills and crooked doctors. You had normal people getting hooked on high dosages. These are not the people who were using opioids before that. Pills made it seem safer. Most users don’t start with heroin, they start with pills because of exactly that. “A doctor prescribed it, must be okay.”

This is some insane logic to absolve them of responsibility. I say this as someone who also saw the problem firsthand. Was regulation handled badly? Sure but there’s no way you can say they didn’t start the problem.
But there are already regulations and companies with their executives are being held accountable against it. Does it matter how many badges the person designing the system is wearing if it complies with regulations and passes an audit? The problem with leaks to me looks like more of the nature of lax enforcement and few consequences when found in the wrong.
A good book to read regarding this topic is "Death in Mud Lick" by Eric Eyre who was a reporter for a local newspaper in WV during the early discovery phase of the epidemic.

The book details the methods used by the drug companies to pedal these drugs into small communities, the tragic victims, and lastly the refusal of drug suppliers to admit any wrong doing. There's also a slight dose (no pun intended) of WV AG's sheer incompetence on the matter due to donations and gifts by said drug suppliers.

Super depressing book, but great read nonetheless.
The bakers cannot eliminate the risk of certain production lines from having cross contamination with any reasonable amount of money (like they would need to redo entire factories). So, for those products they introduce the contaminant on purpose to ensure all products that they cannot eliminate the risk for get labeled reduce the chance of someone dying from eating it.

Now I'm not saying thats what they did, perhaps they were scumbags, but its possible they did try to do what I said above and had the best intentions.
That’s exactly my point. The fact that there is no central chain of command is what makes the “US police force” rotten, vs branches of the US military that have extremely high and universal standards for conduct as well as a system of accountability. It’s not perfect but at least it’s subject to central commands.
In my experience engineers usually want to remove the outdated flags but product does not prioritize that work.
even if it were 10%, we shouldn't expect 90% of consumers to subsidize the other 10%