skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a friend whose son has tree and ground nut allergies told me this, I didn't believe it, but to her, it made perfect sense. With the thresholds for anaphylactic response so low, it's costlier not to be able to guarantee that there's no cross contamination than to just add the allergen.
Oh yes that's all thanks to the great HIPAA regulations. That was supposed to protect your information and give you better control over your information. The sad fact is it is exactly like those damn cookie prompts. You either accept them or you don't get to use the service. Part of the HIPAA regulation needs to be service cannot be denied because you do not allow the doctor you're dealing with to automatically share your information.
You realize, of course, that the regulations are there for a reason, and that it's probably best to reform them?

I don't want just any fly-by-night operation having the ability to judge my credit worthiness. If you don't tell people that's illegal and that they risk prison for it, they'll at least try it to make a buck. That's the problem, not government regulation. We're a country constantly at war against bad faith. And we're losing.
As I understand it, flame graphs add to normal x-axis-as-time ones by merging repeated calls to the same function, so if one function is called a lot it shows up as one wide chunk and not many small chunks spread out.

So yes, height doesn't matter much, you read bottom to top to get context, and width is what you're looking for.

But like any chart, it can't tell you what to optimise, or what Can be optimized. It just tells you what parts of the code are taking up the most time, in a hierarchical way. Asking for a complete description of what to see here is like asking for a complete description of what to look for in a histogram. Like, ofc it matters what the histogram is of!
It is not entirely clear from the article, but apparently, they still use Java for their calculation engine. And then transpile it into JavaScript. Which makes me wonder whether instead of porting this code base to WasmGC, a partial rewrite would have helped the project’s maintain ability in the long run. Rust seems like a potentially good candidate due to its existing WebAssembly backend.

WasmGC is useful for many other projects of course. But I wonder how painful it is to maintain a Java code base, which is not a great choice for client-side web apps to begin with. I remember using GWT back in the days - and that never felt like a good fit. GWT supported a whitelisted subset of the Java standard library. But the emitted Javascript code was nigh on impossible read. I don’t remember if Chrome’s developer tools already had source map support back in those days. But I doubt it. Other core Java concepts like class loaders are equally unsuited for JavaScript. Not to mention that primitive data types are different in Java and JavaScript. The same is true for collections, where many popular Java classes do not have direct counterparts in JavaScript.
> without anything tangible to show for

Facebook managed to shoehorn itself into the public and private school system of a nation with over a billion people.

That is tangible (for facebook) and way cooler than a million.
Likely using an LLM to extract the actual problem from the text
I don't understand how they have 10 year TCO when 3 and Y are less than that. If they (Consumer Reports) extrapolate based on first 5 year data, then it's not correct.
If that's true, why have types in proto at all? Shouldn't everything be an "any" type at the transport layer, and the application can validate the types are correct?
It is not taxed federally because it is not considered income. Similar how getting repayment for a debt is not income. Idk about state taxes.
Yes, everyone goes through the initial sluggishness getting into keto, but this only lasts a few days to a week and can be dealt with via exogenous ketones. One of the biggest benefits for me in keto was consistent even energy. It eliminated the post-lunch lethargy and gave me consistent energy throughout the day. I almost felt like I needed to sleep a bit less when I was on it. I'm not sure if that was better sleep or actually needing less sleep but my energy was great when I was doing keto.
...In other words, because DoorDash is convenient and advantageous for customers, they choose to get food delivered instead of go to the restaurant. And admonishing people for choosing the advantageous option is useless, at best. Does that not follow?
The researchers are aware, HN is not.
Do xenon clinics actually exist outside a single place in Czech Republic? Google turns up nothing
The way these things work(so far as I know) is that for the data to be passed along the chain the gap between transmissions can't be greater than 50 microseconds.

Of course a skilled engineer could write a tight output loop that computes and outputs every value on the fly with a guarantee that the time budget won't be exceeded, but your average Arduino user probably doesn't have the knowledge to do this. So all the control libraries that I know allocate a memory buffer for the whole output stream and let the user update it whenever they want.
Restoring what was taken from the victims is literally the definition of restitution.
What I'd love is a dialect of Factor written in Forth so that it could be run on these machines. Factor is a much higher-level Forth that is usable for scripting. Would make it more fun to use.
Also, we only started calling the eastern roman empire ’byzantine’ recently. The people of the ’byzantine’ empire still considered themself ’romans’.
The tooling around gRPC with bazel when using python is so bad it’s almost impossible to work with, which is hilarious considering they both come from Google. Then I had additional problems getting it to work with Ruby. Then I had more problems getting it to work in k8s, because of load balancing with http/2. Combine those issues with a number of other problems I ran into with gRPC, and I ended up just building a small JSON-RPC implementation that fit our needs perfectly.
Also they seemed to show a lifespan change with caloric reduction. The same wasn't seen (at least in at the same level) in humans.
you make a number of spud pellets, you freeze them after
> Food delivery has been a thing for a very very long time.
> The problem here is that there's a $45B company (doordash) in the middle of the person cooking the food and the person delivering the food instead of a high school kid in a funny hat
> This is the kind of software that needs to be a small scale distributed

Related: a few years back before DoorDash and the like exploded in popularity there was a local company near me who tried to start a food delivery business. They lasted one summer (busy) season and then made a post on social media about how unsustainable it was. These services (Uber/DoorDash) are only seemingly viable because of the mountain of "investor cache".
It would be interesting to know more about the whole Netflix ordeal, apparently they got fined because they have servers in the country.

This type of dispute can set up very bad precedent.
Interesting jailbreak, though I think the focus on jailing AI is a bit overblown. ChatGPT is becoming very difficult to use now, it's so hard not to step on its long toes if you have hobbies slightly outside the American mainstream lifestyle. Being from Europe and into some more kinky stuff this means I run into this a lot. For that reason I don't think this is something that should be overly mitigated.

It raises an interesting question too: not everyone has the same sensibilities. Even mainstream European ones are very different than American ones (here sexual content can go much further in the mainstream - I have friends who causally wear outfits that in America would only fly in the strip club, and violence is much less ok than in America) In order to train your model with your specific ones you need an uncensored model.

I think right now all these AI companies are viewing this "Responsible AI" mostly as a risk to their business and are avoiding news headlines that might trigger overzealous regulators. I don't think they really care, just like they don't take care about being "green".

So hopefully as AI becomes more established this kind of hyperfocus on AI censorship dies down a bit.
It looks like "row" is already the object you want. Why make a copy of it? And why copy it by copying each property individually?
Reddit is so much better than the average SEO-optimized site that adding "reddit" to your search is a common trick for using Google.
Make time and budget to learn a manual trade that's always in demand. Plumbing, electrical work and bricklaying immediately come to mind. The reasons for this are (a) you won't always be able to keep your skill set in sync with the market, and with the speed of change you could find yourself stuck maintaining legacy systems. And (b), if you decide to emigrate, you might be surprised at how much manual trades are in demand compared to software development/IT.
Your comment is rude and unhelpful.
>How do they know it's better?

Probably just evaluation on benchmarks.
Deepfake Elon Musk encouraging viewers to buy crypto [video]
It is possible to do quite well, as demonstrated by .NET.

Edit: and, if I remember correctly, gRPC tooling for it is maintained by about 1-3 people that are also responsible for other projects, like System.Text.Json. You don't need numbers to make something that is nice to use, quite often, it makes it more difficult even.
If my mother-in-law can use Ubuntu Linux, anyone can (2012)
The paper suggests on one hand Gemma is on the same Pareto curve as Llama3, while on the other hand seems to suggest it’s exceeded its efficiency.

Is this a contradiction or am I misunderstanding something?

Btw overall very impressive work great job.
Yeah, Foundations with Endowments need business people to run them and manage them and finding ones you trust and creating a corporate culture for them to last is hard. I can't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Paul Allen wasn't interested in establishing those sorts of legacy foundations for some of the same corporate politics reasons he was said to have struggled with Microsoft over the decades.
I wonder if you could apply this to training data. Like here is an example of a common mistake and why that mistake could be made, or here is a statement made in jest and why it could be found funny.
Yeah, my point being calling it brainwashing is a huge stretch. It's just the natural worldview that will develop from all these factors.
> you'll have a ton of people wanting to tear you down just because you dared to be successful

The article describes DoorDash intentionally deceiving its customers to gain their money, and wilfully depriving the restaurant owner of control of their brand. That's fraud. It's perfectly fine and in the spirit of HN to debate how contributes to measures of success.
You may find the money a pittance, but the victims decided otherwise.

It seems the case that the interests of the victims/plaintiffs (e.g. compensation) may be different than the public at large (e.g. punishment).

If so, perhaps the interests of the public should be pursued by a different avenue than the civil case of the victims, which requires superseding the agency of the victims.
Why is it absurd? I'm not following.
There is no "US police force". Every non-tiny municipality has its own police force. Countries have sheriff's departments, and state governments have their own police. These are all separate institutions with different policies, norms, and practices.
An one-time snapshot is not the active site under the original domain. You can do a snapshot (even though there's no organized procedure even for that, afaik) but that's not the same as keeping the site running in perpetuity.
That's the human's job for now.

A human reviewer might have trouble catching a mistake, but they are generally pretty good at discerning a report about a mistake is valid or not. For example, finding a bug in a codebase is hard. But if a junior sends you a code snippet and says "I think this is a bug for xyz reason", do you agree? It's much easier to confidently say yes or no. So basically it changes the problem from finding a needle in a haystack to discerning if a statement is a hallucination or not.
The code wasn't really ported to WasmGC. They now compile the same code base to WasmGC with J2CL where before they used J2CL to transpile it to JavaScript.
Ask HN: How do you deal with being more intelligent than the general population?
I'm going on the assumption that most people here are more intelligent than the norm, with some of you being on far-right side of the curve. How do you deal with so many people in your day to day life being less intelligent?

I'm not looking for answers like "open-mindedness." I'm looking for real answers, because let's be honest, most people are pretty dumb. Most of the things people say aren't really worth thinking about, but we still have to listen to it all day in and day out. We can't be argumentative, because they won't understand the arguments and, if we do, it causes unnecessary turmoil. We have to listen, though, because it's the human thing to do.

As an example, my wife says things that are patently false regularly and there is no convincing her otherwise and trying to just causes a fight. I deal with the same thing with friends but it's easy to ignore because it's not constant.

It becomes tiring. Like putting on a facade everyday, ignoring all the things wrong that everyone is saying and just going through the motions with them not to upset the "balance."

I don't know guys, just a quick rant from me, I guess. I'm tired of listening to other people say dumb things constantly and seeing those dumb things translate into dumb actions.
It's gotten to the point where if a company requires you to upload something to verify your identity, you should treat it as if that something is being posted visibly to the public internet, and decide based on that whether it is worth providing. Companies repeatedly demonstrate their inability to secure personal data that they obtain and store, while always issuing press releases about how "we take security very seriously."
>* Has a deadly amount of kinetic energy

Agree overall but electric cars/trucks are super heavy.
I think the anecdote highlights that there's no incremental way to approach gRPC, it's not a low risk small footprint prototype project that can be introduced slowly and integrated with existing systems and environments. Which, well, it is a bit of a fault of gRPC.
I am a little past that age myself, and his perspective strikes me in the opposite way: it seems like the kind of pragmatic attitude one must eventually adopt, if one is not to simply remain miserable.
It's a sad fact that teachers are often not very good. This often has to do with the fact that they do not know what you already know, and proscribe inappropriate things for you to try next. You struggled in school, it seems, because you had a teacher very focused on proofs and you never learned proofs. This is a common problem I find in mathematics, where someone never learned one key element, and struggles to pin down why everything is so difficult for them. For many people, it can be calculus, or linear algebra, or bayeseian statistics, or fourier transforms, to name a few topics myself and people I know have had aha moments in when they finally learned.
Are mice and human nutritional needs similar enough to draw any useful conclusions here? Genuine question.
There is no doubt that advertising has a huge impact on customer behavior. But that doesn't mean that consumers are incapable of making choices that go against the grain of the market. It does take a conscious effort, and it's true that most consumers just don't care or can't be bothered with it, or are crushed by too many other things in our modern society to have the bandwidth to even consider their choices.
It sounds implausible that the app can bypass OS-level restrictions. According to the Ars article this is the original source of the allegations:

https://grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-fraudul...

Reading that report more closely, it appears that the app has many characteristics the analysts considered suspicious but there's no evidence that it can actually bypass OS-level restrictions. The report is from September 2023 so if there were actually Android bugs that allowed permissions bypass I would have expected more security reporting from Google or third parties by now.
Well done on the accomplishment -- no small feat to improve runtime 50% in a mature codebase.

I'm interested more in learning how to work within wasmgc. Do you have any resources you'd point to for someone looking to pick it up?
People use it - like I do - because they like the improved type safety compared to REST. We use gRPC at $dayjob and I would hate going back to the stringly typed mess that is JSON over REST or the _really_ absurdly over engineered complexity trap that is GraphQL. gRPC lets us build type safe, self-documented internal APIs easily and with tooling like Buf, most of the pain is hidden.

The DSL I consider a plus. If you build REST APIs you will usually also resort to using a DSL to define your APIs, at least if you want to easily generate clients. But in this case the DSL is OpenAPI, which is an error prone mess of YAML or JSON specifications.
Because they're replying to someone who wondered about the performance "compared to Native Microsoft Excel".

I'll add that browser Google Sheets and native Microsoft Excel are the fastest versions available (of each product).
I don't understand how this is still a thing in 2024.
I don't get why more AAA games aren't available on Mac & Linux. For those that use Unity, Unreal or Godot: you just change the build target! Though for bespoke engines, I can imagine creating a new platform backend would be a lot of work.
Somehow Java is the ultimate always the best stuff to do something even transpiled. Java is easy to build upon on the long run and can save itself and the codebase to new times.
They have a process for exactly this.

https://www.irs.gov/faqs/irs-procedures/refund-inquiries

If the check was not cashed, you can get it canceled and a new one mailed.

And yes, I've dealt with the IRS a few times some of which they owed me money. It is a bureaucracy, but the process will work even if it takes a bit of time.
Not really, we know absolutely nothing about Claude 3.5 Sonnet, except that it's an LLM.
Potato cannons first inspired my love of physics. In high school I was amazed when I discovered that I could fire one vertically, time how long it took for the potato to hit the ground, and then mathematically reconstruct both the potato's exit velocity and the maximum height it reached. It felt like magic.

I ended up performing a science fair project on the effect of the potato cannon barrel length on the potato's max speed and height. (My experiments also led to a short encounter with the police, but that's a different story.)
Sending a request and getting a response back is not a new concept, it's about as old as computer networks in general, and gRPC is the only framework that refers to this concept as "unary". This is the original argument from the article and I tend to agree with it
In this particular case a mayor rigged the competition for a garbage truck contract so that one particular company would win it. That company then overcharged the city and gave a kickback in the form of $13,000 to the mayor. The Supreme Court said this was fine and let the mayor off of the hook.

If you can't prosecute with this level of evidence the law is effectively dead.
I would never join a cartel like the American Bar Foundation myself, but that's not my understanding.

https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-2020/obs...

I hope you all the best. We live in a Second World country.
Sincere question: is the guy gonna get the book thrown at him?
I read a lot on public transport. I’ve started using my Kindle again as it’s bigger than my phone and much nicer to read on.
Did you read the linked article? It starts with a very simple example and then builds up to a real-world case, unlike the articles you linked, which both start off with an advanced case.
It says the company claimed that the credential leak was discovered and remediated 18 months ago, meanwhile the leaked credentials were still working as of a month ago.

Is this level of governance and sophistication really typical of vendors in this space? Sprawling enterprises I can imagine losing track of the odd place or two where the credentials are used, but a vendor who only does one thing, specifically a high-trust thing like this?

Even if they don’t have the wherewithal to be thorough in-house, am I confused to imagine that such a firm would have to carry insurance, which would tend to bring in specialists to make sure this kind of remediation is done right?
The commenters at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759380 made a case that this article was quite a bit better.
Too bad the source code from the blog post cannot be accessed. It returns “forbidden permission”
Basically failing to lift weights that you could lift say last week. There are other factors too of course like fatigue, food, etc. that can make you fail to lift the same weights.
Wrong and terrible timing. There's a hell of a lot more to "Linux WiFi" than just the driver code that Larry maintained. I definitely wouldn't rule out hardware issues. I've seen race conditions in driver code before, but it's quite rare and Larry was really good at identifying and elimianting those. If your laptop is workable, pop the cover and make sure the wifi card connection is fully seated. Also check the dmesg logs early and often after boot and make note of anything related to wifi. Chances are good that if it's not a hardware issue, there's something in there to help point you in the right direction.
Right, which is why I'd rather Apple accept that their heart isn't really in the PC games business and work to enable Valve or others to handle that experience.

My point was Apple could do it themselves, but they haven't, they almost certainly won't, and even if they did I don't think their heart is really in it to do it properly.
GitHub no longer shows commits to mirror repos you starred on your profile
This is about RLHF training. But I've wondered if something similar could be used to automatically judge the quality of the data that is used in pre-training, and then spend more compute on the good stuff. Or throw out really bad stuff even before building the tokenizer, to avoid those "glitch token" problems. Etc.
From within the process it might be difficult*, but please do give this a read https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/du... and dotnet-dump + dotnet-trace a try.

If you are still seeing the issue with memory and GC, you can submit it to https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues especially if you are doing something that is expected to just work(tm).

* difficult as in retrieving data detailed enough to trace individual allocations, otherwise `GC.GetGCMemoryInfo()` and adjacent methods can give you high-level overview. There are more advanced tools but I always had the option to either use remote debugging in Windows Server days and dotnet-dump and dotnet-trace for containerized applications to diagnose the issues, so haven't really explored what is needed for the more locked down environments.
To some extent, but there would still be a large density difference between tissue and the air in the lungs. Perfluorocarbon breathing liquids could be used.
(the OP was https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/technical-marvels-part-3-the-y... before we changed the URL)
> Food delivery has been a thing for a very very long time.

But not at this scale; it was always a side offer from a more select number of restaurants catering more to pressing needs than an "immediate satisfaction" culture driven by same-day shipping.
One can use Kreya for a GUI version