skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's going on in the second example? Did Prolog generate a list term stuffed with gensym variables, which satisifies the list_length being 3?
Neat but also… why not Cloudflare R2? An already fast and durable state store compatible with TF?
- Do not rely on teams to store useful messages. Search is hard.

Better to move such important info to a journal app like obsidian

- you can pop out chats into separate sub window. Use it for important chats

- teams channels are the worst thing I have ever seen and am forced to use. No one in right mind prefers it.
You're making my point. In your own words, "almost no people" would be okay with misinformation be sold about them. Yet misinformation is being sold them. And all these vendors hide behind the "we don't guarantee the accuracy of this data" disclaimer.

Requiring data sold to be accurate is a type of privacy regulation. And it's one that would basically kill all of these industries because nobody can make that guarantee.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/vaccination-...

Come arrest us.
SentencePiece is a tool and library for training and using tokenizers, and supports two algorithms: Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) and Unigram. You could almost say it is the library for tokenizers, as it has been standard in research for years now.

Tiktoken is a library which only supports BPE. It has also become synonymous with the tokenizer used by GPT-3, ChatGPT and GPT-4, even though this is actually just a specific tokenizer included in tiktoken.

What Mistral is saying here (in marketing speak) is that they trained a new BPE model on data that is more balanced multilingually than their previous BPE model. It so happens that they trained one with SentencePiece and the other with tiktoken, but that really shouldn't make any difference in tokenization quality or compression efficiency. The switch to tiktoken probably had more to do with latency, or something similar.
Trump shooter used Samsung Android phone; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 minutes
People I know are waiting to see what happens, but they want to know what the options are if things really start going downhill. It wouldn't surprise me if the spike were just research. Right now most people in my circles aren't really bullish on the future of the US. Hopeful, but not confident. They're looking for hedges just in case.

I only know one person who obtained dual citizenship and they did it through family lines.
They have good wines, as they can only compete through quality on the European market. Although before Russia set tariffs on Moldovan products they were only exporting awful sweet wines which they sold on the Russian market. I'm glad those days are over.
AI noob, but instead of training and fine tuning the LLM itself, don’t more specific and targeted embeddings paired with the model help alleviate the hallucination where you incorporate semantic search context with the question?
Is it now, though? I read it and didn't manage to get into it much, and don't really remember anything from it.

I think it's one of those works of art that were so revolutionary that they started a whole genre, but now they seem badly done and clichéd just because everyone has copied them and iterated on them.
Well their project was later classified by the US Government.
> Regardless, morals can only be applied to humans. Try to apply it to animals and you get nonsense.

This seems overly simplistic. For the sake of argument, I'll accept that moral judgments can only be made for human actions. But when those actions involve animals, they can still be made. People clearly make moral judgments about human cruelty to animals - every US state makes some version of animal cruelty a felony offense. The distinction between the presumed agency of the actor and the acted upon seems important here, and you are conflating them.
The key argument is not that we ought to expect non-human animals to abide by human morals (although animals do seem to have their own moral codes that they abide by) but that human moral codes (which we hold humans to) ought to assign non-human animals a value much closer to the value that we assign humans than they often do.
Efficiently Version Controlling JSON Documents in a SQL Database
> Until some special operation happens or some other one off event.

It can happen in any country, so all counties are not safe?
Sure, basic analytics is not objectionable. The issue comes from the analytics not being limited to basic things, as this post shows.
I mean, comon man, _most_ tech people work on in general is also useless. FAANG has a retainer on talent whether they are spending their time wisely or not.

LLM stuff is not in a different echelon
> the ballpoint pen, invented in the 1930s, saved many clothes and tablecloths from spilled ink

I used an inkwell and dip pen for a couple years to take class notes. Don’t really know why. Spilling the ink was never a problem, but really they are just worse than pencils in every way. Can’t erase, the nib doesn’t want to go backwards, and ink smudges.
Tips for New Developers with Dan Moore (2020) [audio]
I don’t see how you are negating my counter examples from your claim. If you are classifying decade+ investments as long term, then we will simply have to disagree.

>as everything now is short term shareholder profit/dividend driven. As others and the article notes, they held the long view on innovation.

While things might not be as hunky dory as in the heyday of Bell Labs, I don’t think “everything” is accurately described as short term either.
"Big Paper and Pencil" can thank the recent MS and CDK Global hacks for making writing fashionable again
Not to mention ai. Copilot works much better for the kind of things I would have asked an inexperienced developer to do: very well defined and documented tasks that aren’t too esoteric or requiring of obscure company-specific domain knowledge.

While it’s true that some of those green juniors would mature into tomorrow’s seniors, who can do things that Copilot can’t (yet?) the short-term mindset that rules business makes it hard to justify hiring these entry level positions, sadly.

I really feel for the young people who made a completely rational decision in 2019 to get a cs degree and be a developer. They really didn’t expect this.
Are you genuinely asking this question because you can't fathom how?
Laughed at this: "Without computers used have to use tablets. Tablets aren't very useful."

So true!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qQOGCyRbY

my fav elephant behavior: appreciating music
So what, we should just sit back and not try to improve things? I’ve never understood this perspective. It just seems like a way to try for people who have done well in the current system to justify to themselves the fact that in reality people in wealthy countries do still struggle with poverty. There are millions of people living hand-to-mouth.

Not to mention the fact that the reason wealthy countries have got to this stage of development is often because they are exporting the negative externalities associated with this lifestyle to poor countries.
For starters your travel insurance might not cover you there.
I was critiqued on here the other day for saying I thought HTML was inappropriate for emails and that I use a plain text email client. This is one of the reasons. Reading an email should not expose you to “tracking pixels” and for me it doesn’t.
When you're an empire being supported on the labor of a couple billion people in other parts of the world, yes, life for you and yours can be pretty okay.

Not as okay for the imperial periphery, the sacrifice zones, but they don't really count.

> You can amass a closet full of outfits, in a variety of styles and colors, with no knowledge of the spinning machines, the dyeing vats, the automatic looms, the sewing machines, or the tremendously efficient factory system they are a part of—the system that has turned this kind of product from a luxury for the rich into a commodity available to the average worker.

When I read things like this, I really understand how the lack of a liberal arts education has crippled a lot of people. I want to post that angry goose meme: "Who made the outfits, buddy? WHO MADE THE OUTFITS?"
Maybe the companies could be run by LLMs. They will still need shareholders because, well, as far as I know at least computers can’t own property yet.
This text only makes sense if you are in a privileged position. For the majority of the population in many countries, the world is not that wonderful.
It's completely controlled by the parents: who they can communicate with, etc. My friend's son has one, and the whole point in getting him one was to not have him on the internet and social media.

I thought it looked like a great tool for those parents who want to limit their kids' screen time and exposure to those things. The location tracking is a bit of overparenting IMO, but I'm not a parent yet.
Are carried-locked phones still a thing here in the US? The last few times I owned and upgraded my iPhone, none of them were carrier-locked.
In my experience I've never had trouble unlocking a paid off phone. Sample size of three carriers.
Bubble Sort: An archaeological algorithmic analysis (2003) [pdf]
Another alien crash.
Fandango founder [J. Michael Cline] dies in fall from Manhattan skyscraper
I remember something with facebook? where their internal DNS was misconfigured.

edit:

"This change caused a complete disconnection of our server connections between our data centers and the internet. And that total loss of connection caused a second issue that made things worse. "

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/facebook-outage-analysis

Not sure if MS is going through the same issue but DNS could be a reason why
Seems to be affecting a number of airlines. Frontier, Breeze, Spirit, Alaska, Allegiant.
For me the point of thinking like this is to remain centered and not freak out. I see some people who feel like ‘everything is going downhill and this is the worse time ever’ and that’s just not very grounded.

The benefit is that you can be optimistic that the hard work we’re putting in, more likely than not, might continue the progress. Even if there are blips along the way.
People who are more familiar with Bell Labs — what was the compensation and life was like when one worked there? Were there any extremely alluring alternatives like FAANG of the day, where even a bottom line individual contributor can save a decent chunk of money after half a decade of work?

It’s hard to convince extremely talented and motivated people to go into research nowadays when ad-tech and adjacent products pay so much more. Can’t even blame them, as it’s extremely high risk with very low reward. Obviously there are a lot of exceptions, but still.
> But my point is, essays like these assume we are peak humanity.

Do they? the might assume we’re peak humanity right now but they don’t make the claim that we’re are the peak there ever will be
Defragmentation of drives is pretty similar to all the SSD related issues we face today.

Difference between VGA and PS/2 was really more obvious than using USB-C for all of your peripherals and displays and power (and there are still HDMI, DisplayPort and regular AC and DC ports too)
I’ve become less clean in my life because I believe too much cleanliness is bad for your immune system. Could be a placebo, but I haven’t had allergies since.
It's actually still is, comparatively to what was. I took that to be the point.
Always fun to remember that this comment likely came to you through one of these cables
Related:

https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/jumper-who-leaped-to-d...
We run Bitbucket pipelines, but a similar notion applies. Everything we do is in a container. If we wanted to run our CI manually, we can just run our steps as a script on anyone’s workstation (given keys/permission). Staying away from the proprietary run environments and being easily to run them ourselves has saved us a number of times. Especially when running on Atlassian where things go down often.
? That code's meaning is extremely clear: it reads from a list of URLs that return JSON lists of JSON objects. For each URL, it pulls out some property and checks whether each line does not contain the string 'filter'. Those lines which clear the 'filter'-filter are written to a file whose name is the line of the original input file which contained the URL pinged suffixed by the extension '.data'.

It's very easy to read and modify if you just write it out longwise, which is what I'd always do in some actual script. (I also like to put reading data at the beginning of the pipeline, so I'd use a useless use of cat here.) To illustrate:

N=0
cat links.txt \
| while read -r URL; do
curl "$URL" \
| jq '.data[].someProp' \
| grep -v "filter" \
> "$N.data"
N="$((N+1))"
done

It's a very simple pipeline with a single loop. It's not very different from pipelines you might write to transform some data using a thread macro in Clojure, or method chaining against a collection or stream in OOP languages like Java or Scala or Ruby or whatever you like.
Forbes is saying he's got $211 billion so more like 3 months if we're comparing to the whole dod budget
How long before they have collisions and start using last names!?
Surprised this isn't on the front page, The whole region is down.

* Azure Devops is down globally
* Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is down globally
* Multi-Factor Authentication is down globally
Hunger.

Hunger and some money.
I don't think that's the thrust of the piece, any more than celebrating your birthday is an invitation to commit suicide. Appreciation of where we are at, like a birthday, seems its point.

And that there are a great many people who don't feel all the blessings of these achievements. Not only is there relative inconvenience and suffering, there are also resentments and those have tangible social and political impacts. One useful step is to simply acknowledge them. I write this from a small town that lacks Uber, Doordash, and has people that basically work for a living, not sit behind a desk. Their construction and agricultural labor enables some of the luxuries-cum-expectations listed in the piece.

We'll always judge ourselves relative to surroundings and peers, so the billionaire needs to be a centibillionaire and the retired cotton field hand would like all their teeth back and AC that works. Let's not forget we, the readers of the piece, were basically born on third base already.
Great to see you guys engaging the community. Bitbucket may be 10 years behind GitHub, but the simplicity of pipelines is nice.
The Ambari wedding this year is a wonderful illustration of the range available.
I suspect most tinkering is happening around digital modes these days. I got my amateur radio license four years ago and I have zero interest in talking with (other) old dudes where they're driving. I currently enjoy the hobby by watching the ISS flyover schedule and transmitting to the amateur radio repeater on the space station. It's fun! It's even more fun during the early evening highly visible passes. In those cases, I don't even have to look at a chart in an app to know where to point, I can just aim the antenna at the very bright dot zooming by in the sky. (Fun to see those visible passes anyway, even without a radio license.)

I interact with the space station using "APRS", a digital mode that is the equivalent of sending short text messages. It's fun to see how many thousands of miles a message can go with just a $30 handheld radio and $150 billion space station 250 miles above the earth.

This is where emergency backup communications sneaks in as the other interesting part of the hobby... It's fun to experiment with the scenario of being in the middle of nowhere with no phone signal and still being able to bounce a signal off a satellite (or space station) to get a message out. Of course, that's extremely unlikely to really work well in a real emergency, and less magical if it's a built-in feature of common mobile phones, but it's fun to practice gaming out those scenarios anyway.
They still exist, but I think these days there's a bit of confounding with carrier-subsidized phones. The phone isn't technically locked, but if you switch carriers before the subsidy has been paid off, you owe the remainder of the phone's price -- usually it's rolled into some kind of Early Termination Fee.

There's also some amount of regional locking, some phones might not be licensed to operate in the US but are in Europe, or vice-versa.
Very true and this is why I’m not surprised by TechCrunch’s discoveries here. I just assumed they were tracking and selling the data as they always have been. I assume they’re selling the images of everyone’s mail as well.
Industrial revolution and automation still makes amenities far more accessible for all. The material conditions of the average factory worker in Thailand is still miles ahead of the condition of someone of that percentile of the worldwide socioeconomic strata in any other period of history.
Sure. Try Podgorica.

https://travellingtom.com/blog/podgorica-europe-most-boring-...
Faulting Semmelweiss for being a nutjob (as he was) doesn't excuse the doctors who refused to look at the evidence.

That's your intellectual test: How do you react when a crazy, unpopular person says something sensible? When the safe thing to do is to just dismiss it?
How do you represent sum types in C# today? Can enum members hold records as data, or do you do it differently?
Seems like his argument is about now. The truth is that every now has been the peak so far, so his words apply to all points in time.

It seems to me he's missing that. Does it sound like he's urging people 2000 years ago to appreciate how clean their lives are? No?
Scientists integrate solid-state spin qubits with nanomechanical resonators
The Neal Stephenson experience.

That, and the 20-page grad-level dissertation on some esoteric subject randomly in the middle of the book.

The man’s truly one of the best out there, and I’m convinced a more aggressive editor would ruin him, but it wouldn’t be a Stephenson without some real head scratching authorial decisions.
Professional poker players know the optimal strategy but don't always use it
Robot Dog Cleans Up Beaches with Foot-Mounted Vacuums
SpaceX asks the FAA: 'Can we launch our rockets again, please?'
Norton SpeedDisk was far better even for visuals, not just the defrag capabilities.
New technique to diagnose cancer metastasis uses origami nanoprobes
>And if the last few sprints they've completed between 5 and 30 points, do you believe they'll complete around 17.5 points next sprint?

I don't know, what did the team figure out in retro? Was the big difference a real underestimation, or was there some kind of unforeseen blocker? I've never seen that big a variation, but anything's possible.

If it makes you feel better to measure team velocity in something you call "days" instead of story points and it works for your team, more power to you. But don't fool yourself that you're talking about actual days. At best you're talking about "probable days", and how many days it actually takes will depend on a lot of things, including unknowns and who takes the story (are "Bob-days" the same as "Carol-days"?). So you'll end up with a measure of days that is very team- and uncertainty-dependent, and at that point it's better to just use story points and admit that it's not a universal measure and doesn't need to be. Not to mention that by using days you'll invite confusion between calendar time and time-on-task.
It's right there in the name.
Two different stories of the same event.
Wasn't there a Cold War era communication method accomplished via a car with squeaky brakes? I think it was nicknamed "the duck"?
This one was on the front page but rapidly dropped down to the 4th: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000822
If you can get past the absolute slog of a beginning, Anathem is amazing.
It’d be great if the Apache Nations wanted to control the domain name, but they’re still mostly concerned with basics like clean water and other government services.
SQLite: Defense Against the Dark Arts
Yeah, but HN uses tables in a really dumb way. Each comment is in a separate table with the width of the first column set to provide the correct amount of indenting.

If the comments were properly nested you would just have a standard left margin and the tables would be completely unnecessary.
There's real value in 'one-liners', though. A 'one-liner' represents a single pipeline; a single sequence of transformations on a stream of data— a single uninterrupted train of thought.

Chopping a script into a series of one-liners where every command in the pipeline but the first and/or last operate only on stdin and stdout, as far as is reasonable to do, is a great way to essentially write shell in an almost 'functional' style. It makes it easy to write scripts with minimal control flow and easy-to-locate effects.

Such scripts are ime generally much easier to read than most Python code, but I don't find Python especially easy to read.
Can I FOIA everyone's address?
Exactly. My (mild) fear it that we ignore those kinds of issues and they blow back on us to start doing real harm to the overall system. To ignore the externalities like running up a credit card.

As to the second point, this is what empires do. They pump wealth away for their own gain until they are almost completely drained. And there still many countries that are empires in everything but name.
Given the complex economic ties between them it makes no sense. Not only are they big trading partners, there are large Taiwanese businesses in China (like Foxconn). War would hurt both economies.

Military it would hurt both sides. Taiwan is riddled with fortified gun emplacements, some of which can bombard mainland Chinese cities. Attacking it would be like a cross between Normandy and the Somme.

The only reason is political. But politics often overrides common sense.
Why not add a random 1000-3000 ms delay to making the cached resource available? Timing attacks are not a new phenomenon.
it wants me to login to ask a question

I will just keep using phind

you have vc dollars - sponsor a public free search over open source repos.

Also think about what happens when your question touches multiple repos.

I tried a similar "search github repo with ai" product before, but it led me right back to phind, when it couldnt answer a question that required specific information from the repositiory as well as a google search.
There are details in one piece that aren’t in the other. NY Post was more biographical, while TC was more venture and entrepreneurial career focused. Would’ve used a Wikipedia page as the root post, commenting with references, but no Wikipedia page.
I thought PoE in surveillance cameras are common, I though wrong.
also dr. dobbs. https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_03/page/n29... is a presentation of 'sam76', an 8080 reimplementation of mcilroy & morris's m6, probably built around an efficient associative array of defined macros. and assemblers built around symbol tables were commonplace at the time, too
Nipples work too. They also register as valid Touch ID prints.
They are, and I would say soon.
Informed consent is a principle in medical ethics, medical law and media studies, that a patient must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about their medical care. Pertinent information may include risks and benefits of treatments, alternative treatments, the patient's role in treatment, and their right to refuse treatment. In most systems, healthcare providers have a legal and ethical responsibility to ensure that a patient's consent is informed. This principle applies more broadly than healthcare intervention, for example to conduct research and to disclose a person's medical information.

The booster shots are not mandatory in most countries. Your doctor should have informed you of the benefits and side effects of the booster shots, so there's no point in commenting on it here.