skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think no party to the war has a chance to really win. The biggest tragedy though is that whatever happens and regardless if anyone wins militarily, for many years (decades) after the war people living in Ukraine will not feel like they won anything. You can be sure of that
For discovery maybe, but I doubt many people are using it for that as a Meetup alternative yet.

I run an event in Cape Town for what it's worth.
I accept them.
+1 landed on it for 'I want a UI in front of syslog without effort'
your work is basically a Jupyter extension (https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai/tree/main/packages/pr...). Why don't just create an extension like others in here (https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib) instead of hard forking JupyterLab?
Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859993 - (103 comments)
The Information Theory of Conflict
Couldn't they emulate it then?

If multiple apps can access the filesystem at the same time, why couldn't also some app (background system process) read from / write to the filesystem in an android multi access compatible way, while serving the mass storage device API on the other side
"…new epigenetic editor that can silence the expression of prion protein (PrP) in the brains of mice and offers a fresh approach to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases."

Wonderful news, let's hope it lives up to expectations.
My spam filter for cold outreach is simple: if it opens with "Hi <real name>" or "Hi <HN user name>", there's a good likelihood it's a human.

If they don't know my name, they don't even know where they got my email from, so probably spam, however intelligible it looks.

It's the same in the age of spam calls. If it's a mobile phone and the person behind didn't even bother to introduce themselves via SMS/WhatsApp, I don't pick up.
I use catchall email addresses. If your service is called foobar.com I will register at your place with foobar.com@mydomain.com

If I ever receive spam addressed to foobar.com@mydomain.com that is unrelated to your service I know you leaked or abused my data. Result: you will get a DSGVO complaint and I filter all emails addressed to this address from my inbox.

The good thing about using a catchall email address is that I don't have to create a mailbox for each service/purpose, I can just make email addresses up as I go. All you need for that is your own domain and a mailserver that aupports it.
Most weird thing: PostgreSQL's checksum algorithm is almost free on modern processors. It uses SIMD instructions extremely well in optimized builds. I've never seen him in CPU profile despite I always enable it.

There are no any reasons to not enable it (except pg_upgrade).
During off hours the surplus power can be diverted to producing hydrogen, a zero CO2 fuel, thus providing for transportation as well as baseline power.
In a nutshell:

If there's a goldrush, you get rich by selling shovels.

... unless there are already 200 shovel shops next to each other...
yea they also fucked up the dat/md era pretty badly. the media tax too etc.
> Even OpenAI doesn't really have a product.

They are making a ton of money off subscriptions.
This will suck for a long time, just like spam, clickbait, social media upvoting algorithms, cigarettes, soda. But eventually we'll sense it and build antibodies to it like everything else.

Even now, we're starting to have a sense for which images and text were AI generated. And they'll evolve to get around the antibodies. And we'll build new ones.
Show HN: An AI-boss that can "kick your ass"
> the Mac will sometimes randomly turn on from sleep like in the middle of the night. For updates or things like that.

If it's for updates it's not random.
Modern M series macs also don't really sleep anymore, they just enter a very low power state.
I’m suspicious that there’s another factor in play: images being correctly labeled in the training set. Even from high-end hospitals, my personal experience leads me to believe that radiologists make both major types of error on a regular basis: calling out abnormalities in an image that are entirely irrelevant and missing actual relevant problems in an image that are subsequently easily seen by a doctor who is aware of what seems to be actually wrong. To top it off, sure many patients end up being diagnosed with whatever the radiologist saw, and no one ever confirms that the diagnosis was really correct. (And how could they? A lot of conditions are hard to diagnose!)

So the training data is probably hugely biased, and the models will learn to predict the training labels as opposed to any magically correct “ground truth”. And internally detecting demographics and producing an output biased by demographics may well result in a better match to the training data than a perfect, unbiased output would be.
To prevent Zendesk's email from being consider spam, my company's SPF record contains include:mail.zendesk.com, but I still don't understand why, when they send email to my company, they say Zendesk "via" an email address at my company. There really doesn't seem to be any reason to not just use their own email address in the "From" header.

Thank you for your reply, but I think there is something I'm missing ...
Sorry, you cannot use "imaginary" numbers to define something as "natural"!
Great article, and pretty relevant to what I'm building (cloud developer tooling, including some genai, but also including non-AI tools + an application platform. Email me if interested.).

Obviously I'm not nearly as pessimistic about it. Zoom out for a sec and generalize to SaaS in general, not just AI infra (a subset of Saas) - all the arguments listed apply there too, except the data moat (which honestly doesn't matter to tons and tons of AI infra companies. That's more of an AI application problem). Now of course most startups are doing AI at least a bit, but in the past decade we've seen plenty of SaaS vendors compete with incumbents either head on or by carving out their own niche. In fact, two of the companies the author considers "incumbents" are arguably still challengers, but definitely were in this exact situation just a few years ago: Vercel and Databricks.

Also, competition from incumbents is hardly a deathknell. There's room for multiple products in some market segments - how many RDBMS companies are there? Competition from a huge incumbent in many ways comes with benefits, because it helps grow the overall market and awareness of the product space, including your own product.

I suppose according to this author I'm in the "application layer" even though really I'm in the AI-application-layer-now-but-not-later-layer, software-infrastructure-layer. And that's great because I actually do have experience in that specific application area. But honestly, saying "you ought to have expertise in your domain" is 1) duh 2) in the examples (llamaindex parsing/ocr, langchain llmops + agnetic stuff), there is clearly a big enough twist on doing it "but with AI" that the application/vertical is close to novel. Successful challengers create valuable businesses without prior deep expertise in their domain all the time and I don't really see how this is any different.

Basically, you could repeat this for any SaaS business. Starting a company is hard, but I don't know if AI infra is uniquely hard in the ways laid out.
Interestingly (ironically?) I've heard of some bloggers intentionally adding typos to their posts to ensure the post looks like it was written by a human and not AI.
Autism as a Disorder of Dimensionality
I hate it. Seems to me it's full of clickbaits. "Find out what happens next", "What's going on?", "What's happening?", "So why is Chile so long, but not longer?".

I can't stand it to be honest and stopped reading because of this.
We already have fusion and it's super safe and cheap.

We just need to install more panels to harvest the incoming radiation.
Nobody said that. But people should know these things so they can make an informed decision if they want to use and/or contribute to the project. Are you against that?
Anything SaaS that solves a painpoints for established industries. Those that have billions of turnaround for decades already, are not good at building tech themselves, and buy solutions/services to run their business. Bonus for low barriers to entry. Agriculture, logistics, real estate, energy, etc.
>Our internal security team immediately launched an investigation to help determine what the aim of the attack was,

To steal people's crypto?
> Fun fact: you can ask it something fun like “weather app using fitness app components” and it would totally do that.

This actually seems interesting.
Genuinely great responses. I'm not sure "it can be generalized to an undecidable problem" really explains why it's hard though, as the 5n + 1 problem is very easy (to prove false) and generalizes just the same. And all good points about Fusion, but my point was that it took some time (months, at the very least) for them to realize that's what was spoiling their machines. Remember that this is all a counterexample to the statement that "If you can't easily explain why something is difficult, then it's incidental complexity" -- meaning all the difficulty you are encountering is your fault (and therefore the actual problem must be easy, and you must be stupid.) That's literally what TFA says.
I look forward to the dream job of writing LLMs that argue with strangers on the internet as opposed to the current dream job of improving ad click rates by 0.0016% per quarter.
> We need a Dropbox or a Slack or an Instagram: something people love that makes their life easier or better.

People seem to not mind ChatGPT or Claude and safe to say that a very large majority of AI products are using one of the APIs of those companies.
Thanks for sharing the papers! I remember reading the first one from Google and can’t wait to dive into the new one. Appreciate the insights!
Ask HN: Are the recent Supreme Court rulings affecting your work?
Look this might not be HN appropriate and if so please let me know and I’ll delete it. Or the mods can.

We talk here a lot about new tech, new companies, burnout, etc — and I’m finding that the direction the US is going by giving presidents — in my opinion — far more authority than warranted and thereby shielding former president Trump from any consequences of Jan 6th, storing top secret information in his bathroom, or other election meddling is putting the US on course to becoming far more authoritarian and not the place I grew up in or the free and fair place that my immigrant parents flocked to for a better life.

I worry about Trump retribution and the implications it will have. I worry about project 2025’s desires to move many more federal officials into such a way that they become yes-men and yes-women to the president-king. Coupled with the SC’s decision to kill chevron deference such that agencies can’t rely on experts and scientists to fill in the details of vaugeries in the law — what will that do for clean water or airline safety or anything else we expect government to do in holding big business accountable and keeping us safe?

And this is how it relates to HN: it’s affecting my work a bit. The anxiety of it all is something I worry about.

When it comes time to work I — like a psycho? — compartmentalize it all and put it away but it’s still there.

Is anyone else feeling this way? What are you doing to address it if any?
Trash disposal beccones simpler as plentiful cheap power enables plasma gasification, one of the cleanest methods.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification
Appreciate the feedback and suggestions!
a) If someone manages to generate a letter that I actually find useful and interesting then I’m not sure I would mind if it was unsolicited. I don’t believe that the likeliness for that is super-high, though. And if a crappy message would get past the spam filter I would just flag it.

b) If you want to read more, feel free to check the link I posted. Paul Graham has thought/written a lot about this. I think one reason people has forgotten about those articles is that today, a huge number of us use Gmail, so we don’t actually need to think so much about how spam filtering is implemented.
Well, the point, in math, is a zero dimensional object.
Bitcoin has one application where as there are multiple applications of LLMs. There might be mountains of noxious AI spam but it's hard to claim that Bitcoin as a technology is more useful.
Yet there is little "AI" specific in this AI infrastructure startup challenge:

1) insane levels of competition towards any goal make relavant minor, secondary, traits that are not obvious before hand. Pure luck becomes more important.

2) excess market concentration (of which the tech sector is maybe the most egregious example) makes any new initiative harder. The more dominant and controlling the incumbents the harder to find a decent sized niche to grow.

3) selling to risk averse enterprizes / organizations is always an uphill battle that requires climbing a mountain of bureaucracy and regulation, only to eventually face random internal politics.

In the end the current craze will certainly produce a modified tech landscape. These recurring hypes always overpromise and underdeliver, but a cumulative effect is slowly happening.

In such stormy seas its hard to identify an optimal course and strategy. Riding every hype wave may sound silly but might work. On the other extreme, one may seek beacons indicating eventual stable land and try to navigate there.

Good luck
That may be how it was arrived at historically, but it is not the best way to explain it.

e arises when you ask the question: is there a function that is its own derivative? And it turns out the answer is yes. It is this infinite series:

1 + x + x^2/2 + x^3/6 + ... x^n/n! ...

which you can easily verify is its own derivative simply by differentiating it term-by-term. When you evaluate this function at x=1, the result is e. In general, when you evaluate this function at any real value of x, the result is e^x.

But the Euler equation e^iπ = -1 has nothing to do with exponentiating e, it's just a notational convention that is defined to be the series above. When you evaluate that series at x=iπ, the result is -1. In general, the value of the series for any x=iy is cos(y) + i*sin(y).

It's that simple.
> Discrediting Putin online will have zero effect on Russian politics.

Discrediting Putin online will have zero effect on Russian politics because the people already know he's shit. The issue is that a.) they can't do much about it, and b.) many actually support the invasion.
> It was always odd to me that é was out of sequence

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it is the only one of those that is found in French, which may have been supported earlier than Spanish. I'd look at ç, è, à for further evidence.
But this is already the situation in the last 15 years, your gmail spam filter is already a machine learning algorithm that filters out automatically generated content. Mail as a vetted technology is way ahead of other forms of communications in the department of filtering unwanted content.

Anyone that tried to set up a new email domain will tell you its quite a serious task. Email spammers are constantly on the run, setting up new domains, changing up the content to evade spam filters. Its very time consuming, hard and unpredictable. It time for social media to close the gap with email and make spamming effectively as hard.

I postulate that if we applied similar techniques to social media after a couple of years online discourse is going to improve. Or we are not going to do this and the death of the open internet will continue.
Put a number on it. How much value of this will they capture from you personally (we'll assume, very very charitably by the sound of it, that you represent an "average" user of AI products) when this market matures? Exactly how much will your employer pay for a meeting summarizer? $10/mo a seat, $20/mo a seat, $50/mo a seat? Could the product sustain a 5x, 10x, 50x price hike that is going to have to happen to recoup the investment being made today?
In defense of an old pixel [video]
For what it’s worth, this exact pattern is essentially entirely what’s implied by “composition over inheritance”.

Nice to have a concise example written down though.
In 2024, it's completely rational to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Because this time, the Russians are really behind all of it.
Please see https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
If you want to use and/or contribute to such a project that's fine! And if not, that's fine too. But people should know.
I made a service to reply to marketing emails using GPT:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/spamgpt

It was a bit of fun, until I realized that most of the replied from the spammers were AI as well. We were just automatically spamming each other while OpenAI made money.

I stopped using it then.
The real value of this words are not in their literal meaning. Is an interesting question, in fact

When Chileans drop 'weon' ten times in two minutes in their conversations what they are saying is "I'm not Argentinian".

This is the real message.

Because Argentinians would use their trade mark "boludo" instead. Boludo is exactly the same that Weon. A boludo is somebody with "big balls". A weon is somebody with "big eggs". Both words have small differences in their meanings but are mutually exclusive (You either use one or the other). They are tribal tags.

If you want to do business with a Chilean, knowing were to casually drop 'weon' in an --strictly-- informal context is pure gold. It grants instant ghetto pass. Mexicans or Argentinians have their own equivalent words. If you use the wrong password the doors will close, so is risky and you need to dominate the context and use it sparingly. The overuse could be socially awkward and outdated (Imagine somebody from Sevilla going to Texas dressed on a fake cowboy disguise, pretending to walk like one and talking to you about business while spitting tobacco and flashing a weapon. Is 120% stoopid).

Spanish world is complex. Latinos can belong to several worlds at the same time. Lets take for example the singer Gloria Stephan. Gloria Stephan is a 100% USA citizen. But it was born in Cuba so felts Cuban traditions also as part of her culture. And her Grandparents are from the North of Spain, so Gloria Stephan identity is an USA-Cuban-Spanish-almost-Irish music star.

Most Latinos learn soon to adjust their different identities to the context appropriate, and wear or drop their accents and languages accordingly.

On the other hand, when somebody choose to say 'mergear' instead 'mezclar', the message for millions of people is: "look ma, I'm talking English. Almost". As the band Blur would say: "He'd like to live in magic America with all those magic people". Youngsters crave for acceptation and local friendship, so Spanglish or local accents are seen as something very valuable for making relationships

But grown people needs to adjust the message later. If you are a Chilean that migrate to Spain and keep saying "weon" all the time, what you are remembering to everybody is "I don't belong there".

And is the same problem with Spanglish. If you want to use English, by Pete's sake, talk in the most correct English that you can afford. Get the respect that you deserve, instead to introduce yourself like a wannabee latino redneck. If you need Spanish in business, the safe baby-proof choice is to learn neuter Spanish. Period. Will provide the most bang for the buck. But don't be ashamed to wear the multiple rich cloaks of Spanish in your benefit in the correct contexts.
What is so special about thailand's timezone?
propaganda laden gossip article. I don't get why people write in this light..

You can read it from this sentence:
" A year earlier, Irina Artemieva, who is Russian born but left the country decades ago, had taken over as president."

'but left the country decades ago' - what a useless piece of detail showing what is the intent of really writing this. If it was just an interesting/honest note to give about the person, the word 'but' would not be used..
Most consumers will prefer the browser that comes with their OS or is advertised on google.com no matter what you do. Compromising your priciples to chase after the mass market is exactly the reason for the decline of Firefox.

DRM'd content on the web is also not nearly as common as you are implying it to be. Outside of specific streaming sites that many use through dedicated apps on their TV or phone anyway it is almost nonexistent so this crap doesn't need to be in your desktop or mobile browser. Not to mention that even with DRM support you are not guaranteed to get decent content if you are on the wrong OS or don't give up ownership of your entire display pipeline or just have slightly older hardware or live in the wrong country. It's also not hard to avoid these streaming services entirely.
> Who knew that Snowflake and Databricks would emerge against the incumbents.

Snowflake is not profitable. I doubt Databricks is. Their market and business is crap.
This is what spam always did, why is it different now?
What is "just slop" though? A spam advert for a product is still an advert for a product. Therefore it's not just semantic noise, it is still an advert for a product, and therefore his point is invalid: there is an ROI and people will continue to be employed to do it
Or we could adopt the "smearing" technique in either direction and we could do it hourly or daily or weekly or monthly or half-yearly or whatever interval as agreed.

Maybe we should do it every 6 months no matter what. That way, everyone would know that on June 30 and December 31, there would be smeared seconds.

That makes the "do it rarely and people will screw it up" problem go away.
Kinda makes you wonder... why don't they just advertise with those odds?
No, I'm not being over-literal. Here's why:

Yes, it could be that for you a given advert is irrelevant or not worth your while, but the point he was making is that it won't even be worth it for the advertiser to put out the advertisement because it will be noise for everyone.

However, there is only one kind of noise that is noise for everyone: literal noise.

So long as the spam is about something, it is relevant to someone, and therefore it does not necessarily have zero ROI.

EDIT: The only kind of noise that has no semantic is actual "mathematically pure noise" as the person below commented (/u/dang banned my account so I can't reply)
You should be concerned. There isn't a good monitoring website for this.
> Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why?

Do you only read emails from recognized addresses? No new communication whatsoever unless it's initiated by you?
Then why does unix time not include the leap seconds?
Make Cool Shi*T
Exploiting Client-Side Path Traversal to Perform CSRF – Introducing CSPT2CSRF
Here you go:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/spam-spammers-back/
I'm not sure I'm exactly at the edge of things, but I have 2 companies trying to setup regular meetings with me to be a beta customer. Both have promised I can help define a new product, but when I list my real problems... they aren't in the mission. Everyone wants to solve RAG (that's easy, don't need help) or they want to give me a gui I don't need, or wrap open source software like vllm. Or "solve privacy" (which usually comes in the form of masking... which surprise, that works for PII, but not PHI... I need the protected information).

Want to solve a real problem, help me create custom benchmarks, clean my data, get my small parameter model to reason better etc.
TAI not as in thailand, but TAI as in temps atomique international: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
I was interested to see that this link was flagged the other day after getting around 15 upvotes but no comments. Pleased to see it back as I thought the post was worthy of a read.

Watching this film set me off in a Herzog marathon - amazing director.

(edit - a little researching and I see this is the same post that I vouched after it was flagged, pleased to see the system lets good links back)