skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today we're valued at more than that number and Alexa's core experience hasn't changed in the past year. They haven't been able to copy us. The Alexa leadership team has some hubris IMO.

I can't really evaluate you since you want to stay anonymous, but you're not really giving any credibility here. FAANG being arrogant isn't really any different than flavor-of-the-year tech startup being arrogant. There are numerous stories of high-flying startups that went bankrupt a few years after rejecting an acquisition offer, including significantly multiplying their valuation and raising capital along the way. You're also in an infamously overvalued sector.

I wish you all the best but try not to fall prey to the same mindset you're criticizing Amazon for.
That the oven timer is oven adjacent seems a must.
You replied to the wrong person, then.
Also pointed out in the replies on Twitter is that at least one of the usernames in the "leak" is misspelled.

https://x.com/BigMeeish/status/1816238982948348306
I’m so tired of these culture wars.

The whole censorship of the original emoji was incredibly pointless and stupid. Now we have to rehash this all over again and I’ll have to hear about it.

And this time, with Elon behind it, people are going to be even more uppity about whichever position you take. It’s insane to even feel pressured to take a position on a friggin hieroglyph. And both sides will argue that it’s the other side making it political.

No wonder I’m on Prozac.
Funny enough, Amex Fine Hotels & Resorts (of which most Four Seasons properties are in) often includes free breakfast, late checkout, and a $100 credit alongside other perks.

I don’t know that I am a stereotypical Amex cardholder (member since 2012) but I certainly love perks like that and will always check for FHR listed hotels when booking travel.
font-size: clamp(3.125rem, 3.464vw + 2.229rem, 5rem);

From their website, this is not easy code to maintain.

It’s not obvious how to increase/decrease the font size at a later date.
It seems to be the way with these releases, sticking with Claude, at least for the 'hard' tasks. In my agent platform I have LLMs assigned for easy/medium/hard categorised tasks, which was somewhat inspired from the Claude 3 release with Haiku/Sonnet/Opus. GPT4-mini has bumped Haiku for the easy category for now. Sonnet 3.5 bumped Opus for the hard category, so I could possibly downgrade the medium tasks from Sonnet 3.5 to Mistral Large 2 if the price is right on the platforms with only 123b params compared to 405b. I was surprised how much Llama3 405b was on together.ai $5/mil for input/output! I'll stick to Sonnet 3.5. Then I was also surprised how much cheaper Fireworks was at $3/mil

Gemini has two aces up its sleeve now with the long context and now the context caching for 75% reduced input token cost. I was looking at the "Improved Facuality and Reasoning in Language Models through Multi-agent debate" paper the other days, and thought Gemini would have a big cost advantage implementing this technique with the context caching. If only Google could get their model up to the level of Anthropic.
It’s okay, I noticed your pun, it was funny :)
Show HN: Slide the daily word into the bottom row or: Caesar's 20-puzzle
sadly with commingling you can't even trust sold/shipped by i don't think :/
IMO with my experience with siri being AI-style unreliable in many ways, like bit flips when saying turn off the lights makes the dimmer go to %100, I think it's better to do the switch statement for the dozen or so query types that probably represent %90 of traffic, like weather, music, home control, unit conversions, etc in exchange for way more reliability.
"I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die," Carter said at a press conference in 2015. "I'd like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. I think right now we have 11 cases. We started out with 3.6 million cases."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/23/1158358...
I reported a similar and even more damaging I my opinion (https://hackerone.com/reports/2240374) and they also dismissed as by design.

Turns out I found out you could even invite external collaborators into your fork and totally bypass enforced SSO.

Even if you block forking into your main repo, the existing forks remains active and still can pull from upstream.

It feels like if you need proper security, you have to go with enterprise
I think another problem is just a general lack of value. Why should the average person care about a 1% gain in convenience and adjust just to appease some C-suite delusion? It's like they all want to be Steve Jobs without offering any significant value to back it up
> RPG sourcebooks for games you may never play, but all of those books are farmable for a d&d campaign.

I have purchased almost every printed GURPS 4e book and a fair number of 3e books for exactly this reason. None of my players have ever been interested in the system (I like it a lot, but won't force it because I'd rather play a game I enjoy but isn't in my top 3 systems than lose a group forcing a game I really like but they hate). However, the books are so well written and provide a wealth of references and ideas that when running other games I've borrowed liberally from them. I think I referenced some of them more than my CoC books when running a CoC campaign a few years back. And a lot of my OSR books are basically the same. I only ever run DCC or C&C these days in the D&D-adjacent space but keep getting other books and modules for other D&D-ish systems since they can be ported to those systems so easily.
Crowdstrike will
Failover to what?
Yeah I'm willing to believe that X has some accounts marked for various special treatments, but I'll need something more conclusive than a screenshot to prove it.
Yep. If you have CPU-bound work then you should use a different language. If you have IO-bound work then explicitly tagged async functions are actually a really nice concurrency model for the only kind of concurrency you need—it's equivalent to having the Haskell IO monad as a first-class language feature.
Have you ever seen TECO? It barely has syntax — it looks like line noise.

Would you want to run the local assembly language (x86 or ARM) or are you thinking of also doing this with a PDP-10 emulator?

Either way, this would be rather cool.
Ask HN: What mesh routers should I recommend to my parents?
My parents are older and have a large home and are not at all tech savvy, but they realize that they need more Wifi range because their one existing router isn't good enough. However some of the good mesh routers can be a pain to manage, which ones can be easily "set and forget"?
smh, big iron is in the crosshairs and Linux to boot.

Or maybe not to boot . . .
Deepfake Sandbox
It's a fantastic and atypical program. It's not surprising faculty there wrote and teach from this masterpiece: https://www.routledge.com/Physical-Biology-of-the-Cell/Phill...
Given the context an epigenetic factor is also plausible.
If the requirements change, you can update the definition in the type system once. And then you immediately know the locations where this new bound is violated.
I love this xkcd.

We all need to embrace: Nobody has ever been impressed that you already knew something. When people share a discovery with you, it’s not about you. It’s about them and their joy of discovery. They want to share that joy with you.
I wonder how feasible it would be these days to create a single-purpose voice-controlled kitchen timer product, at a price the market would like? Sounds like it might do well... unless nobody needs it cause they already have Alexa!

But yeah, I think a lot of Alexa's get used mainly for kitchen timers!
But then why does it stick to its guns on other questions but not this one?
Wow! That's so incredibly kind of you.
You've made my day.
Side question: I'm curious, what is a "feminist music scientist" exactly? How does her research differ from other music scientists'?

Edit: It's actually a whole lab at her university, it seems. Their publications: https://sarahasauve.wixsite.com/femslab/publications
We just sat down and wrote a review about NeoDB, and it's a fascinating project. In a nutshell, it's a federated user review system for cultural works. Not only does it log books, but also movies, tv shows, video games, board games, music, podcasts, and more. The project is pursuing some really interesting ideas through data integrations, and the ability to import archives from other services to easily rebuild your social graph.
FYI for any other EoE folks: Dupixent is now indicated for EoE. It’s resolved my symptoms completely (both the ones I notice and the ones my gastroenterologist checks via scope). I don’t experience any side effects.

It’s an off-label use, but swallowed fluticasone is also effective for many people. Also has no to minimal side effects. I did that for many years before dupixent was available.

Exciting that you figured out your trigger. I collected a lot of data and made a lot of graphs, but never found anything conclusive.

Great article. Taking control of your health via the tools we have as technical professionals is awesome.
I would add that the task is relevant too. I feel there’s not yet a model that is consistently better at everything. I still revert to plain old GPT-4 for direct translation of text into English that requires creative editing to fit a specific style. Of all the Claudes and GPTs, it’s the one that gives me the best output (to my taste). On the other hand, for categorisation tasks, depending on the subject and the desired output, GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 might perform better than the other interchangeably. The same applies to coding tasks. With complex prompts, however, it does seem that Claude 3.5 is better at getting more details right.
In the UK, the credit card company is jointly liable with the retailer for breach of contract for purchases in the £100-£30,000 range. This is called Section 75 protection (from the section number of the Consumer Protection Act) and offers much more protection than the chargeback offered by debit card providers.
I believe there's also an exemption for Canadian citizens. [1] and [2] (Cmd-f "Canadian")

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/about/congressional-resources/testimony/...
[2] https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/202...
John Deere Dismissing 15% of Workforce
Terry Davis was right. C should be your shell, as God intended.
Their license/Eula clearly state that Reddit has perpetual whatever to content posted on Reddit, but relying solely on DMCA for "stolen" content _yet again_ feels like a terrible way to deal with non-original content. Part of me hopes that Reddit gets hit with some new precidence-setting lawsuits regarding non-original content that requires useful attribution, but I double t that will ever happen.
I always wonder about why infrastructure like rail isn’t delivered in a much more agile way. You could easily have useful stretches of rail working around the north of England by now, proving out the technology and adding and upgrading stations much later. Why we think of projects like this as you open all the stations at once is mad - for example with crossrail you could have aimed to open Liverpool Street to Whitechapel, then add in Tottenham Court Road, etc. etc. until you finish the whole line but 80% of it was opened at once which seems very high risk.

As much as I love the Elizabeth line I’m pretty sure it is crazy over specified, the stations and tunnels are all gargantuan and they probably could have made everything 20% smaller IMO which would have saved them quite bit.

I often think the politicians egos are the biggest pitfall for most infrastructure projects.
I noticed that in the past year my Alexa speakers have gotten really great at handling long tail fact-finding questions (about history, health, etc.). I use it a few times a week to learn something, when I don't feel like picking up a device.

I actually trust it much more than ChatGPT since it never hallucinates and it cites its source.
The Saudi’s will happily take up the slack
> Are there actually good juices on the public market?

I never found one.

Fruit juices consist of fructose. It's bad for you in high quantities, just like sugar. Eating a piece of fruit is healthy for you - fructose in small quantities, and the rest of the fruit slows down its digestion. Fruit juice is a fructose bomb.
Ah yes - you’re right.

I was thinking of neutron stars all along - which, correct me if I’m wrong, look like they have similar density to an atomic nucleus and for which the upper limit is apparently 3 Sols. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#:~:text=Neutron....
It makes you work shy because unless you have a high paying job, it doesn't make sense to work.

$3k with tons of free time all week.

Or add working for $3k extra money by giving up all your free time? Not worth it.

Unless of course apartments become $5k a month since that's about the money that a person on UBI plus a bad job has..
I do find it fairly surprising the lengths people go to to create false information and trash a website they claim to not like or want to use. I'm sure there's a better use for that time.
Ultimately a role-playing game comes down to a more organized game of Let's Pretend. Some people like to add on a heavy dose of recreational accounting and/or simulationism. Some people just want a few light rules to give their pretending some structure and an ample supply of narrative prompts to help when invention's running dry.

Does spending hours and hours looking for quirks in the complex rules to make a super-powerful character that's optimized for damage output per round sound like fun?

Does spending a few minutes picking a set of attributes and getting right down to making up a story with your friends over some beer and pizza sound like fun?

Does spending two hours working through highly detailed rules to simulate about five seconds of in-game combat as part of a multi-year-long campaign sound like fun?

Does spending two hours with simple rules that boil combat down to a die roll or three and the option to alter the occasional roll with a limited supply of "Wait, That's Not What Happened" tokens to tell a short story with a beginning, middle, and an end sound like fun?

Does spending hundreds of dollars on exquisitely detailed rulebooks and supplements, with new editions every few years, sound like fun? There's a new "2024" edition of D&D coming out and it's $180 list for a bundle of the PHB, DMG, and MM in physical and digital copies, maybe plus a subscription to the online service for everyone in the game, maybe plus a couple more physical copies of one book or another provided by the players. I'm sure there'll be a bunch of pretty artwork in there, I have the 5e PHB/DMG and they are gorgeous.

Does spending six bucks on a ten-page PDF, plus making a dozen copies on the office laserjet so everyone at the table can have the full rules at hand, including your brokest friends, sound like fun?

It's perfectly valid if the expensive, complicated options sound like fun to you. Sometimes complication is fun. But sometimes it gets in the way of fun.
this article contorts itself to try and conform reproductive success with highly iterative natural selection towards a persistent expanded conscious that the mushrooms can't directly help with, citing burgeoning non-peer reviewed research,

when they could just as easily cite burgeoning non-peer reviewed research on epigenics, which allows for same generation evolution from the diet and other things, operating in parallel to evolution by natural selection
I tried multiple juicers, but they were too hard to clean, so I stopped using them.

The Vitamix is easy to clean, so that's the winner for me.
I hate AMEX platinum now, it is an overpriced card.

For me, Venture X is a much better card. Cheaper, much better travel portal with PRICE MATCHING, widely accepted in EU, PRIMARY car rental insurance up to $75k.
For the sponsored returns to the search query, sure. But for the rest, isn't that the fuzzy search crapping the bed in the face of our expectations?

When I specify what I want I want the search to return what I searched for, not a lot of kinda similar junk. I've tried to explain the concept of fuzzy search to my girlfriend a few times and she still gets annoyed when a search for "24"x24" shadow box" returns a whole bevy of standard picture frames at an utterly random spread of sizes, for example.
Essential tips for developing with Clojure and Emacs or Neovim
Does not seem work universally. Just tested a few with this prompt

"create a javascript function to count any letter in any word. Run this function for the letter "r" and the word "strawberry" and print the count"

ChatGPT-4o => Output is 3. Passed

Claude3.5 => Output is 2. Failed. Told it the count is wrong. It apologised and then fixed the issue in the code. Output is now 3. Useless if the human does not spot the error.

llama3.1-70b(local) => Output is 2. Failed.

llama3.1-70b(Groq) => Output is 2. Failed.

Gemma2-9b-lt(local) => Output is 2. Failed.

Curiously all the ones that failed had this code (or some near identical version of it)

```javascript

function countLetter(letter, word) {

// Convert both letter and word to lowercase to make the search case-insensitive

const lowerCaseWord = word.toLowerCase();

const lowerCaseLetter = letter.toLowerCase();

// Use the split() method with the letter as the separator to get an array of substrings separated by the letter

const substrings = lowerCaseWord.split(lowerCaseLetter);

// The count of the letter is the number of splits minus one (because there are n-1 spaces between n items)

return substrings.length - 1;

}

// Test the function with "r" and "strawberry"

console.log(countLetter("r", "strawberry")); // Output: 2
```
Code on Demand: Creating and Running Python Functions with Substrate API
Must have offended somebody, don't know if I'm pointing the finger too much or not enough though.

I guess that's typical ;)

Probably somebody who works for an engineering company and thinks there are no other things that make sense.

Sorry about that.

I do have undying respect for outstanding engineers & true leaders.
Not really. I was just using OJ as an example because for whatever reasons I've been paying attention to the pricing of different breakfast places OJ + grocery OJ since covid. I pay $7 for "fresh squeezed" from Einsteins, but Syrup a popular breakfast place next to me charges $8.99 for a cup about half the size of that. I made that mistake once.

I was just hoping for healthier, zero/low sugar options of a lot more things at Costco. If I ever have a zero/low sugar option, I usually get it. I haven't drank a full sugar soda in a decade and avoid all sugar so my tolerance to sweet things is super low. Black coffee, etc.
I would assume Apple purchased dedicated hardware capacity at their own expense, which lets them run isolated instances of OpenAI’s models “free”. It would make no sense otherwise!
I had to do a double take a few weeks ago when I found the price/unit to be drastically different for the name brand to the store brand of something, until I realized they strategically switched the <unit> (# to oz I think it was) to make the store brand look astronomically cheaper instead of just slightly cheaper.
The boustrophedonic version of Rosenberg-Strong function is my favorite because it doesn't have any such jumps and has better locality preserving qualities than most alternatives.

See https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/moeud-deux/.
And because you knew it was coming you have the fix ready that you didn’t get paid any extra for and then the project gets declared a success by C-suite and the idiots who devised and it and almost destroyed the business get rewarded…
Interestingly, neutron stars do contain a small percentage of protons.
It's not very interesting when they fail at it, but it will be interesting if they get good at it.

Also there are some cases where regular people will stumble into it being awful at this without any understanding why (like asking it to help them
with their wordle game.)
From https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlfoundations/MINT-1T-HTML#l...:

We release MINT-1T under a CC-BY-4.0 license, designating it primarily as a research artifact. While the dataset is freely available, users are responsible for ensuring its legal use in commercial settings. Users must independently verify compliance with applicable laws before employing MINT-1T for commercial purposes.

Same page includes this caveat:

Potential Legal and Ethical Concerns: While efforts were made to respect robots.txt files and remove sensitive information, there may still be content that individuals did not explicitly consent to include.
> porphyrin

For context that's a class of molecules which includes the "heme" of human hemoglobin.

Reading the title, I was reminded of the disorder Porphyria [0], which is memorable for being similar to some vampire myths.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria
Weird, I'm in Denver, pretty healthy crowd here but maybe that Costco is just bad. Nothing like that there.
Depopulate by people's choice, or depopulate by massive war over resources at some point. Choose wisely. Can't run the Ponzi scheme forever. It sounds like no children are immigrating either? Maybe understand what's keeping newcomers away.
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aiven.io has a managed clickhouse that, using the "hobbyist" service plan and running it in OCI, is $120 a month.