skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a mistake I've made before, except we did have nightly backups.

I was not the one who set up the backups, nor did I perform the restore. I just told my senior I made a big mistake, and he said thanks for saying so right away and we're going to handle it. Our client company told their people to take the rest of the day off. It must have been costly. I learned a lesson, but I also internalized some guilt about it.

Reflecting on this, I was in an environment where it was the norm to edit production live, imagining we could be careful enough. I'm suggesting that the error the author publicly took the fall for was not all their fault. Everyone up the chain was responsible for creating that risky situation. How could they not have backups?
Not sure Trump could write a 900 pages document about anything but sure? Unless Trump endorsed whatever that document is then sure.

And yeah, shooting a presidential candidate because of some conspiracy theories that involve a president dismantling 'modern life' is unhinged. Unless modern life is a 4 year American political cycle. I remember the same doom posting back in 2016 so it really doesn't have much bite anymore, especially since I'm not American and not knee deep in the batshit rhetoric that permeate american politics
You know, I've changed my opinion since my initial reaction after thinking more. Teddy Roosevelt getting shot in 1912 didn't get him a third term. I'm not sure how much independents and undecided will be swayed.
The claim that she is cherry picking data is quantifiable, not just a subjective assessment. If that’s true, especially given the public records available, it should be possible to back the claim up with examples.
It would destroy the resale value, which is likely one of the reasons someone would want this option anyway. A factory exclusive color will carry a premium. A repainted GTD will resell for a discount.
There was a discussion earlier on HN whether it is OK to steal content if its open on Web.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40833323

However, the extension to that is the Copyrights now. According to me, as long as the Idea creator is a Human, it should not matter if its AI and any LLM creating the art.

The human who gives the prompt may be the Author. This can be concerning but challenging for Legal.
Wouldn't this make it seven since April of this year?
Load Balancing, Visualized
that's the library of Congress' job though, not the NSA via the FOIA's job. the LoC has the mission and resources to do exactly that.
Don't use Roblox then. I guarantee every parent ever would rather their kids have access to a moderated Roblox than an unmoderated one, though.
I can't vouch for it either. But there are a bunch of dead threads on the "New" page, and I can vouch for them. So it's the article.

But given some of the dead comments on this thread, I might not let people vouch for it either...
6/45 presidents have been shot today.

Today that number is 7/45

So it went from 13% to 15%. Not only that, but firearms technology has advanced considerably. If anything, statistically speaking we've been incredibly lucky in the past 30 years
I am really stoked about this actually, I thought it could not happen
Thoughts on this vs wgpu (and the associated projects)?
Yes, except they were a non-profit AI research group who decided to flip the "profit" switch, with their existing staff, who were mostly researchers.
Every person in the world has a doppelganger out there somewhere. Now we can all meet them through the magic of takedown requests.
Zig implementation: https://github.com/jedisct1/zig-aes-gem
seed phrases are a thing, sure, but how is that more memorable than searching for what the podcast was talking about?
My current phone is an iPhone 13 Mini. My next phone will also be an iPhone 13 Mini unless it's completely unusable at that point, or Apple haven't got back to their senses.
One-Pager on AndAI (YC S24)
Have been going through the latest YC batch and wanted to share notes on an interesting company:

&AI: AI Patent Review

THE PROBLEM

Remember the (underrated) "Patent Troll" episode of Silicon Valley? It highlights a real issue: patent due diligence is time-consuming and costly for lawyers, often taking 2-4 weeks with high chances of missing crucial information.

THE SOLUTION

&AI, founded by MIT alums, enables instant patent review. It analyzes thousands of documents and current jargon to invalidate or redraft new applications. What once took weeks is now done in seconds, with easy-to-interpret graphs and charts guiding the legal strategy.

THE NUMBERS

Market Size:

TAM: $71B | SAM: $10.7B | SOM: $107M

Competition:

Patsnap, LexisNexis PatentSight, IPlytics, Google Patents, USPTO Patent Database, ROSS Intelligence, Kira Systems

Team:

Caleb Harris, CEO: Built data science stack @ InsideTracker, CS/Neuroscience/ML research at MIT

Herbert Turner, CTO: Founding engineer @ Kino AI, LLMs at Google, Aero/Astro/Autonomous Vehicles/ML research at MIT

Risks:

AI hallucinations (like ChatGPT generating fake legal precedents)

Limited reasoning capabilities of LLMs

Data security concerns in handling sensitive legal information

What I like:

Chat with documents: Dive deeper into comprehensive data snapshots

Error-specific response generation

Custom charts: Digestible visual data representation

Opportunities:

Develop case studies for different industries/purposes

Partner with professional legal groups

Collaborate with other legal tech startups

Thoughts on AI's potential impact on legal research and patent law?
He was already reportedly telling friends that he has been receiving "gifts from the political gods". [0] If that's what he was thinking before this, what is he thinking now?

[0] https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/trump-undecided-voters-plan...
Agreed. I guess there's still a chance that the shooter is just an unhinged, mentally ill person with no political affiliations (like with Reagan) but there's probably a "why" otherwise.
I have been donating a few hundred dollars to Mozilla every year (or at least most years) for the last 7 years. It's not much, but I might stop that donation now.
So the AI has overtaken all code and manual processes within a laboratory environment to hijack the ability to print DNA sequences without anybody saying “man it’s weird that my projects never finish now”? There’s also the modeling vs real-world aspect that Halvar talked about in the submission - the AI needs to do some degree of real world testing to make sure the pathogen properly kills humans. It then needs to distribute that pathogen around the world quickly enough to prevent humans from cutting power.

That’s all incredibly fantastical and sounds vaguely plausible unless you’ve had to interact with bureaucracies.

To your second: I’m not sure that we’re talking about the same thing? If I own $100mm worth of H100s and their electricity, networking, and engineering overhead, I’m very interested in their utilization and return on investment. I’m going to have specific goals and milestones. When those are not met because the AI is doing something else, I’m going to direct introspection (which presumably is what kicks off the reboot in the discussion on point one).

And since you mentioned the poor having to pay higher prices, that highlights the fact that AI is not operating in a vacuum. If AI starts making life that much worse for people, they are going to rise up. FUD works to some degree, but there are always people without Internet or willing to martyr themselves for a cause.
If size is a large part of your sales pitch you need to show an image with some reference in it.

https://www.noypigeeks.com/android/unihertz-jelly-star/

While hands come in different sizes the picture there gives an immediate feel for the product. Next you might feel you want one. 95.1 × 49.6 × 18.7 mm is more accurate but there is no feeling.
One of the weirdest things for me when I moved to the USA was learning that car mechanics have their own tools... when they change workplaces they take their toolbox with them.
The NT kernel was created with a POSIX layer (along with os/2).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

Microsoft had previously been the largest AT&T UNIX licensee with Xenix sales on the TRS-80 model 2, so they were familiar with the need.
> Old (er) people spend a lot of money.

Still blows my mind that this is like that in countries that didn't go through a 70-year period of socialism.

Anyway, old people don't buy smartphones as much, at least from my observations. They still only use a phone for calls, so why bother? There exist dumb phones with large buttons and simple large UIs specifically for older people.
Wouldn't you want small bevels on a small phone to maximize the screen size for the overall package?
I'll be honest, I was waiting for Orion RC 128 to get released, since that's when the multi-container feature was supposed to land (according to [1]). I just updated Orion RC, and the profile management is pretty nice, but seems to be missing some things: (1) assigning full or partial URLs to always open in a specific profile, and (2) profile assignment on a per-tab basis, rather than per-window.

Other than that, the browser is pretty amazing. Blazingly fast, support for both Firefox and Chrome extensions, and lots of customization. There's a lot to love about it, and as soon as the two features above land I'll likely be switching to it as my primary driver (on MacOS)

[1] https://orionfeedback.org/d/43-something-like-firefox-multi-...
For Indian stock markets, Nifty 200 Momentum 30 and Nifty Midcap150 Momentum 50 index funds are the best.
Whenever the slightest shred of pro-worker regulation, in this case even something that already exists, is being discussed, I can always count on HN’s strong US contingent to be dismissive and act like the rest of the world hasn’t solved this already.
that is correct in its own sphere of applicability, but incorrect in the scenario i was discussing, with entirely separate processes writing to the file, since that's the usual case on unix, because each process has a separate lock

(amelius, however, did mention the possibility of multiple threads!)

it also wasn't what they were saying

this thread is starting to remind me of the 'i'm not your buddy, pal' cascades from reddit
agreed (well, i haven't looked at how glibc implements the thread safety requirement, but i imagine you're correct)
NASA might be the agency who most bitterly regrets not having paid more attention to units and gone metric earlier.
That place is a total sweatshop
> if you take a shit in their staff bathrooms, that turd belongs to them too.

Yeah. That’s how we got Cars 4.
The election rests on the "undecided voter", which is a person I have a really hard time understanding at this point. So yeah, what effect will this have? Damned if I know.
Java is incredibly readable. I don't care for writing Java either but reading the first part but implementing it in c# was incredibly easy (and also ensured no copy/pasting).
I built an AI negotiation coach
One of my dogs thinks tv remotes are the most delicious chew toy.

I've switched to using my phone as a TV remote, exclusively, but I realize I'm a bit of an edge case.
sadly, they will
Here is Change’s HIPAA substitute notice:
https://www.changehealthcare.com/hipaa-substitute-notice

This is just an insanely vague and worthless notice. And it is infuriating that healthcare customers are made vulnerable by the vendors used by insurers like Cigna or whoever.

Change is so disingenuous that they admit the following was stolen:

> Health information (such as medical record numbers, providers, diagnoses, medicines, test results, images, care and treatment)

But claim with a straight face that no “full medical histories” were compromised. What sort of two faced word game are they playing? Those ARE full medical histories.

I also saw recently that Fred Hutch was also compromised:
https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/accountab...

And of course due to vague partnerships between other hospitals and them, like the University of Washington hospitals, people who were never their customers also were affected.

This has to stop and it has to happen through regulation, fines, jail time, all retroactively applied. All these companies underfund security because posting a notice and offering credit monitoring is all it takes to move on.
I've done analog for years and tried to do digital this year. I switched back to analog. With digital, I tended to just dump everything whereas with analog I reflected and edited for concision. The things I typed I forgot; writing things down I remembered. It's much the same as taking notes - the act of physically writing helps "set" the information.

I know a lot of people will say to do digital for ease of searching. I find that if I write it down, I'm much more likely to remember and not need to search in the first place. And digital I think it's easier to get lost in the ways to try and optimize the process with a file, format, editor, plugin, method, etc. With paper, I have some paper that I can write in whatever format I want at the time.

I use these every year for taking notes: https://www.leuchtturm1917.com/weekly-planner-and-notebook-2... . I've been using the A5, but will probably go up to the B5+ for next year. I've been using these for the past 7 years.
The 1912 election was very unusual though – in rather different ways from the current one. It was a three way contest between Wilson (Democratic), Roosevelt (Progressive) and Taft (Republican) – all three of whom won electoral college votes – plus Debs (Socialist), who while he didn't win any electoral college votes, got 6% of the popular vote. I'd be very careful drawing any conclusions from the 1912 election, unless we were dealing with a similar sort of 3/4-way contest – which we aren't, RFK Jr might get 5-6% of the popular vote like Debs did, but no way he's winning anything in the electoral college.
I think something based on portfolio would be better.

portfoliohq, tryportfolio, useportfolio, withportfolio etc.
It means prosperity in the sense that the manufacturer is taking you to the cleaners by eliminating smaller low-end and mid-range products to funnel you into higher margin "big" things, for both cars and phones.

SUVs being pushed so aggressively the US is because the margins are better and the segment is eternally protected by the Chicken Tax. The insane CAFE leniency for lardassed SUVs/"light trucks" is fought for tooth and nail because the margins on SUVs (especially full-size ones) are crazy.

Same thing happened with phones. Remember when a thousand dollar phone was stupid? Now that's what shit gets developed on, tested on, etc. It's just normal, and that's great for people who make phones.

Not enough modest people exist to really make an impact in sales numbers and even if they did, they don't really drive any more sales. I know multiple people that are very well off, money in the bank, with a nice house, multiple very nice (enthusiast) cars, that just don't give off the same FOMO effect as somebody in a shitload of debt living in a McMansion driving around a shiny new Navigator.
Change’s HIPAA notice actually says they won’t tell affected patients what exactly of theirs was compromised:

> CHC cannot confirm exactly what data has been affected for each impacted individual

Why not? Their CEO and partnering insurers’ CEOs need to be jailed.
> C++ doesn't even have the lesser form of C restrict pointers.

Standard C++ doesn't but `noalias` is available in basically every major compiler (including the more niche embedded toolchains).
> most of AWS revenue is servers and storage

The way that cloud businesses work, you sell the servers for about as cheap as you possibly can do. Instance prices are all a race to the bottom among the providers, because servers are largely commodity hardware that's easy to get from any number of providers, and it's one of the first prices customers see, and often plays a big role in their choice of provider.

So that's not where you make your profits. So you're right, lots of revenue, but crucially, there is no real profit. There never will be. That makes it a boring product, not worth focusing a lot on from a marketing perspective etc.
Same tends to go for all of what you might think of as the basic building blocks of the cloud. e.g. object storage prices are often really close to what it actually costs to provide the service.

You make your profits on what you sell that runs on the cloud. All those additional things like databases, streaming services, kubernetes bits, functions etc. Those are where you make your actual profits. GenAI is a big potential profit driver for AWS, so that's where they're pushing. A couple of years ago it was "$foo, but on Kubernetes". Before that it was "$foo, but Serverless".
They're just pushing where the profit and interest is, and pretty much always have done.

sort of side-note: Gartner's evaluation of cloud providers got really absurd around kubernetes stuff. Because one cloud would do it, you'd miss out on points if you didn't also add it, even if being on kubernetes literally added zero benefit, or arguably was worse. Same for "Serverless". It didn't matter if customers were actually using it, or wanted it, if AWS/Azure/GCP launched it, you'd better have it too.
We got here because both sides have for the last 8 years consistently failed to treat one another as human beings with opinions rather than the literal devil incarnate.

There are a substantial number of people on this forum who sincerely believe that if Trump is elected there will not be another election. If enough people sincerely believe that, one of them will eventually decide that it's worth it to sacrifice their own life to ensure the survival of democracy in America.
Lol I am considering this one. Seems like it hits a spot. Longevity is my main concern.
You're putting the cart before the horse.

Again, gathering requirements is a time-consuming and confusing process, making the software late and often wrong, because most companies assign programmers to the systems analysis process, not people skilled in actual systems analysis. A good systems analyst has the empathy and high-level insight it takes to understand the existing business systems and the true needs of the users, and design a new system to better meet those needs -- traits sorely lacking in programmers. Note that a business system is not the same as software. It incorporates all of the procedures, whether performed by humans or machine, necessary for business operations.

As a consequence, we tend to declare that nothing can be done about gathering requirements and implement "Agile" methodologies, which are nothing more than institutionalized guesswork: in the words of Milt Bryce, "do a superficial feasibility study, do some quick and dirty systems design, spend a lot of time in programming, install prematurely so you can irritate the users sooner, and then keep working on it till you get something accomplished." And the software is still late and wrong!
EDIT: I was wrong. Please see my reply further down in which I realise this.

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IIRC, people have never been able to vouch for flagged articles, only for flagged comments. You gain your ability to vouch for flagged comments once your reputation hits a certain cutoff; rarely, you might lose it if dang feels you are abusing your vouching ability.

I believe the only way to vouch for flagged articles, is an informal vouching process in which you email dang and try to convince him to turn the flag off manually. Sometimes, that works.
Would Google Fi support it? ... Interesting that they say it has "Google Certification" but no Fi support, which imho has International support (I live in the USA, but have traveled internationally with Pixel phones on Fi service with 0 issues for me )...
Flash gets fussier especially when there are reserved sections.

But come on, are you really saying that 1100 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 bytes of RAM isn't close enough to being a power of two to prove the same point?
It is free* from Netlify

* until you get DDoS or a lot of traffic
Personal opinion, I'd rather you build a specific thing, with perhaps brief periods where you talk about the pros and cons of the most notable options and then why you chose what you did. As you said there's a joy in a complete system, and at least to me there would be value in discussing your set of whys because that can show people less used to system design the types of considerations involved.

I will not fault you if you don't get to any such project (I remember discovering Crafting Interpreters around the time you were like... halfway through part one? and seeing how long it took you to get through the rest of the book. The care you take to both give useful technical information and make your writing clear takes a great deal of work), but I would certainly read it as I've read much of CI if it ever exists (I need to finish going through part 2, I'm up to Closures).
It is recent news. The breach was in April. Insurers started notifying THEIR customers that they were in that breach because they irresponsibly fed everyone’s private data to that random third party, who has clearly committed malpractice in handling highly sensitive patient information like diagnoses and test results.
It sounds like you don’t understand what is claimed.

There is an often repeated claim that while the best AI has beaten the best human chess player, a combined human/AI player beats the purely AI player. The idea is that an AI and a human collaborating together will play better chess than just the AI alone. This arangement (an AI and a human collaborating together to play as one) is often called a “centaur”. Akin to the mythical horse/human hybrids.

The sentence you asked about, the “Now the best chess AI are only held back by humans” claims that these “centaurs” are no longer better players than the AI alone. That the addition of a human who is meddling with the thinking or the decision making of the AI makes the AI plays worse chess than if the human would be not present.

Sure, humans built the systems and they are interested in the results. Yes it is a human endeavour. That is not what the claim disagrees with. It disagrees that a human meddling with the AI mid-game can improve on the outcomes.
I can’t imagine having no plan for backup power in a hurricane corridor
My favorite was when everyone was looking for prompt engineers.

I was trying to understand what prompt engineering was, because I thought there is no way this is a discipline for how to ask ChatGPT questions... And then I realized it was...

Sure, I get that there is much to learn regarding formulating effective prompts, but a new career path?
Good point, didn't know that. Figured it was a cheeky dev.
there is not a snowball's chance in hell trump loses unless he's shot again and the guy doesn't miss
That's correct. And the idea that Trump will end democracy is a core part of the left's fear campaign. They share responsibility for this.
There's three different assassination attempts on major-party candidates in the 70s (Ford twice, Wallace once), none of which propelled them to victory. Situations are quite different, of course.
iPhone 4 or 12 mini size is probably ideal for me personally.

While this is small, it is double the thickness of most modern phones.

Still, it is great to see a bit of creativity in the smartphone market. Most phones are pretty much the same these days.
There seems to be a dead person on a nearby roof, who the news is claiming was the shooter, with an interview with someone who was outside the event saying that they saw said rooftop-person get shot presumably by the secret service. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c51yly4085lo

...honestly, if they're right about the person on the roof being the shooter, there was a serious fuck-up by event security.
This is actually a genius move by Google/YouTube. Video hosting is expensive, so YouTube is transitioning to a new model where the primary form of engagement is sending each other takedown requests and watching fake SpaceX scam streams.