skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, Sears is still around, if barely.

Other retail giants had been seen as walking dead for decades in the 1970s and 1980s before finally falling.

Though drivers then and now may differ. Old-school retail benefitted from purchase contracts (dedicated suppliers, corporate buyers), as well as service contracts (for purchased kit). Back when durable goods might actually last 15, 20, 30 years, this meant that at least a trickle of income was still coming in. Sears rather famously botched this hard when it used its automotive repair unit to commit nationwide fraud, see in 1992: "Accusation Of Fraud At Sears" <https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/12/business/accusation-of-fr...>.

How durable Amazon might prove under similar mismanagement in the globalised Internet age is ... an interesting question.
There is always a way
> This is why sites often have a list of fonts

Doesn't that mean every font in the list needs to be loaded? And surely in many cases the sets of glyphs overlap and then a bunch of network bandwidth has been wasted?
Ask HN: Is HN being a bit odd today? My comments don't show to others?
Hello folks,

Is HN having technical issues? I notice that my replies to comments simply aren’t getting any replies themselves, but when accessing from a different hotspot I noticed my comments are not even there to be seen.

It’s like I am a ghost on here. Did I upset Dang something?

I cannot think what I could possibly have said on HN which would deserve a shadow ban, so I am thinking maybe there’s a tech issue?

Anyone else having issues?
Of course it's Granbury........
Costco really needs to get new products in or I don't think it will do well with genz and younger millennials.

I hadn't been to a Costco since I was a kid so I had completely forgotten that the only stock (maybe) a few versions of specific items. I went a year or two ago thinking I'd come home with months worth of groceries and I was shocked that it STILL looked like the inside of a 1990s fridge and cabinet with such incredibly healthy options as (only) Sunny Delite and Tropicana for orange juice, massive boxes of Lays chips and cheezits and popcorn. I saw so few items that weren't basically boxes of corn syrup and sugar in some form. There's so many healthier snacks nowadays.

I didn't expect a complete grocery experience but I was expecting it to have far more healthy options these days, or even just more options in general.

I don't eat any of this stuff. I guess you're a costco family or not. I was a costco family as a kid and had to learn how to eat healthy after shoving soda down all day long my entire childhood.

edit: Yeah I'm looking just at their juice section here and there's not a single less-sugar option just as an example https://www.costco.com/juice.html.

Although, damn, $18.99 for 24 ojs is good. But both options are so disgustingly sweet. I had a single OJ for $7 from einsteins yesterday.

edit: Go down the orange juice flavor pack "Why do they all taste different" rabbit hole with me.... https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5mpdop/e...
And for me on Firefox on Android, it renders as a blank space!
I have always found the :pistol: -> water gun thing to be a great example of corporate NewSpeak in the service of some ideology.

If you mean a pistol, it should be a pistol.

If you mean a water gun, it should be a water gun.

Having both icons seems perfectly fine.

So I rather like this change: it reverts a Newspeakism back to normal meaning. Also, as another commentator points out, the relevant Unicode symbol definition image is an actual pistol.

anyway, a bit of a molehill to get riled up about. I have a mountain of code to climb. Ta!
Not supported on Linux (at least Ubuntu), either Firefox or Chromium.
As a counterpoint, imagine if there was an emoji that displayed as a swastika to the typer but as a bunch of pretty flowers to everyone else.

I think that has potential for hilarity. It would certainly soften the impact of a certain group of imbeciles.
That is indeed the catch-all to which I refer, yes. From my comment:

> [...] but sellers get around that by saying the substance is for research purposes only and not for human consumption; then you simply consume it anyway.
People are so preoccupied with putting the code on GitHub. It’s like it doesn’t exist before it’s on GitHub.

If you’re not gonna share it then it hardly matters. Use a backup drive.

Git is distributed. You don’t have to put your dotfiles on GitHub. Local is enough.
The funny thing is, anecdotally, I have never had a CPU fail on me. Memory, motherboards, PCIe cards, PSUs, hard drives, monitors, keyboards, mouse have failed but I have yet to loose a CPU or an SSD.
Still on my 4790k... But eyeing an AMD system for sure. Maybe the X3D top one is enough.
Poll: Ask "Alexa, is negative fifty even or odd?"
I'm curious to hear other's results. I've heard all 3 today!
Negative 50 is an even number.
Negative 50 is an odd number.
Negative numbers cannot be even or odd.
Dude, "SpaceX" sounds more like "space sex" than it does "sausage". It is literally one IPA consonant sound away.

Of course it's not the exact same sound, but it's bloody similar and it's a throwaway tongue-in-cheek comment from GP. Are you and the sibling comment robots that don't get word play?
> I would joke that the canary tests were the biggest customer for a lot of services

This is true for a surprising number of amzn/aws products
But a phone does the same thing.
My understanding is that you are correct. If the repo and all of its forks stay private then the only people that would be able to view them are people who have permissions to access those repos.
Wow! I’m assuming Snopes in the thread is the Snopes ?
Yeah, seems like Turing defines a symbol to be a compact subset of the unit square. Whether that makes sense or not to you is up to interpretation I guess, but like you say the closure should be more or less the same as the symbol for "reasonable" symbols.

You then need to assume that each symbol has some variation in how it's written, I think, which you can think of as an open set in the symbol-space (which is compact under $h$ as per my previous comment). The collection of all these opens forms a cover of the symbol-space, which by compactness must have a finite sub-cover (Turing's "alphabet").

A very elegant bit of philosophy imo =)
> Are we really suggesting this issue is worth defending and spending resources on?

Absolutely.

Sure, sometimes non-competing products have the same name. Or products sold exclusively in one country use the same name as a competitor in a different country. There's also companies that don't trademark or protect their names. Often no one even notices the common name.

That's not whats happening here. Xerox is famously litigious about their trademark; often used as a case study. The product competes with Xerox OCR products in the same countries.

It's a strange thing to be cavalier about and to openly document intent to use a sound-alike name. Besides, do you really want people searching for "Zerox OCR" to land on a Xerox page? There's no shortage of other names.
I mean, yes? Letter-based gymnastics are difficult in a token-based environment, and they're not a particularly valuable use case (outside of online dunking), so it's not really a surprise nobody cares much about those in terms of model training.
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The Apple vs Samsung situation is very different to this but I do take your point.

The end result is still the same though, CrowdStrike will lose a lot of income and confidence but they’re not going out of business.

Frankly, even if they were to, I’m certain they’d end up getting bailed out anyway. But I can’t see it getting to the point to begin with.
A thread about Alexa is a good place to criticize a stranger’s cooking technique?
> how does the whole LLM market come to fruition?

It replaces all the David Graeber "bullshit jobs". As well as about 90% of the education system.

It's not replacing them with something better, but it is cheaper.
For moral reasons, historically I never wrote POCs or threatened disclosure.

For companies like Microsoft, which a CSRB audit showed that their security culture 'inadequate', the risk of disclosure with a POC is about the only tool we have to enforce their side of the Shared Responsibility Model.

Even the largest IT spender in the world, the US government has moved more from the carrot to the stick model. If they have to do it so do we.

Unfortunately as publishing a 'bad practices' list by us doesn't invoke the risk of EULA busting gross negligence claims, responsible disclosure is one of the few tools we have.
Aider with Sonnet is so much better than with GPT. I made a mobile app over the weekend (never having touched mobile development before), and with GPT it was a slog, as it kept making mistakes. Sonnet was much, much better.
>Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs

Title is ambiguous, it seems to imply 14th gen CPUs have oxidation issues, the video explains that the oxidation issues are only on an early run of 13th gen. If you own a 14th gen intel CPU you should be safe after applying the upcoming microcode update.
layman or children shouldn't use LLMs.

They're pointless unless you have the expertise to check the output. Just because you can type text in a box doesn't mean it's a tool for everybody.
Huge pleasure! :)

Exactly, the Martin Thompson talk I linked above is about the LMAX architecture. He gave this at QCon London I think in May 2020 and we were designing TigerBeetle in July 2020, pretty much lapping this up (I'd been a fan of Thompson's Mechanical Sympathy blog already for a few years by this point).

I think the way to see this is not as "two places for the same type of data" but rather as "separation of concerns for radically different types of data" with different compliance/retention/mutability/access/performance/scale characteristics.

It's also a natural architecture, and nothing new. How you would probably want to architect the "core" of a core banking system. We literally lifted the design for TigerBeetle directly out of the central bank switch's internal core, so that it would be dead simple to "heart transplant" back in later.

The surprising thing though, was when small fintech startups, energy and gaming companies started reaching out. The primitives are easy to build with and unlock significantly more scale. Again, like using object storage in addition to Postgres is probably a good idea.
People don't complain about kernel code from Microsoft because Microsoft wrote the kernel. You don't have a choice but to trust Microsoft with that.

People have been complaining about rootkit powered antimalware for a long time. It didn't start with CrowdStrike: there was a whole debacle about it in the Windows XP days when Microsoft stopped antiviruses from patching the kernel.
There is literally no such thing as an unbiased text generator. No matter how you cut it there are an infinite pool of prompts that will need some sort of implicit value system at the heart of the answer. Any implicit bias just from selection of training data will be reflected back at the user.

> Uncensored, tunable LLMs under the full control of their users could scour the internet for propaganda, look for connections between people and organisations and just generally make the work of propagandists who don't have their reader's interests in mind more difficult.

Even this example, what sources do you trust that is or is not "in the readers best interest", what is propaganda or what is an implicit value in a society, when you tune an LLM does that just mean you're steering it to give answers that you like more?

Creating an unbiased LLM is as much of a fools errand as creating an unbiased news publication
The emoji is actually "Pistol" or "Gun" in the Unicode standard. It was originally represented as a real gun, but — for lack of a better term — activists chose to reinterpret it. If people want a "Water Pistol" or "Water Gun" emoji there should be one!
LLMs are not truly intelligent.

Never have been, never will be. They model language, not intelligence.
They are useful for customer service.
I see the distinction. Thank you for clarifying. I think generally speaking I would prefer to have more data on my health. I don't like the idea that this information might be held back because it would make me "paranoid". That is my decision.

I can see that in the general case, it can lead to increased spending and worse outcomes.
A is repelled outward, B is not repelled, C is repelled outward.

With gravity, A is attracted inward, B is not attracted, C is attracted inward.
Yes, they have a dark pattern where people buy a product and give good reviews, so suddenly they increase the price to benefit from that.
It can be an equalizer provided its neatly tucked away underneath a more performative layer. Coding is a great example. The majority of webapps are so mediocre that AI has no problems replicating their mediocrity. Most webapps are also barely more than glorified CRUD apps - something a cutting edge AI can string together with brute force prompting.

Slap a professional looking veneer on top and no one would know you’re running spaghetti code underneath.

Where AI is visible - marketing imagery, written content, ad copy - I feel it has the opposite effect of being an “equalizer”. Its mediocrity stands out like a sore thumb and makes you, the small business owner, appear a tasteless connoisseur of slop.
> This seems like approximately the dumbest possible place to have political battles. Isn't the entire purpose of having a standard set of emojis as part of Unicode to enable reliable communication of the concepts and emotions associated with them?

Does anyone see what's happened here?

A small group of people made a political decision and force changed the pistol emoji into a water gun. Then... later on, someone else undoes the change and suddenly now they're blamed for waging a political battle!

We see this elsewhere too. Github with master -> main, despite master remaining the default everywhere else and causing endless confusion with examples/tutorials all over the internet. Immigrants -> Migrants, voting laws returning to pre-covid rules (and being likened to Jim Crow on Steroids as a result), etc.

There's a segment of society that's in love with renaming/changing things everyone else was fine with, and then when people try to change things back - they're attacked as radical political warmongers.
I've been using Cody from Sourcegraph, and it'll write some really great code; business logic, not just tests/simple UI. It does a great job using patterns/models from elsewhere in your codebase.

Part of how it does that is through ingesting your codebase into its context window, and so I imagine that bigger/better context will only improve it. That's a bit of an assumption though.
Forget bytes, go for bits. Vocab of size 2. At a theoretical level all of AI comes down to a classifier that is able to predict the next bit given a string of bits. Check out Tsetlin Machines. At some point we will be doing it in hardware.

https://byte-gpt.github.io/
There's a whole section here about how to brute force the hashs. You don't even need the full hash... just a shortened version using the first few chars.
We need to write a an AI script that applies and gets interviewed by all these AI recruiters. Close the loop.
Your laptop breaks in a way that your disk cannot be recovered. Now what? How often are you backing up your disk? Probably much easier to type "git commit" and "git push"
The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum size of a white-dwarf, not a neutron star. It's usually defined as the minimum size of a neutron star (since it has to overcome electron-degeneracy pressure). The TOV limit[0] is the maximum size of a neutron star.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman%E2%80%93Oppenheimer%E2%...
I think the assumption here is that once you make a component library in code, you can just map low-fidelity wireframe components (from something like Balsamiq) onto those "real" components, and go from a napkin sketch to a functioning website without the awkward middle ground of vector designs and clickable slideshow prototypes.

It's an interesting idea. I'm skeptical that, in the real world, you can reliably infer everything you need to produce code from a simple wireframe: how do you deal with specific interactions, specific data, specific operations on that data? Balsamiq-style mockups are all about not getting specific, in order to keep the fidelity low and the velocity high.

In practice, with Figma, the thing I've noticed is that I use low-fidelity wireframes less than in the past, because it's just as easy and fast to use high-fidelity components from my design library. If I'm just stacking Lego blocks together to make a UI, why would I use low-fidelity blocks, if I already have high-fidelity blocks that are much less ambiguous?

In other words, I'm not sure Figma is in the middle ground between sketches and code anymore, I think it's just as easy to think of it as a brainstorming tool that happens to produce high-fidelity results if you use it right.
Considering Googles progress and censorship history, I'm inclined to take their assessments with a grain of salt.
It's probably to run llama 70b on the laptop locally.
Goes GlobalFoundary (AMDs old fab) still count, or are they too irrelevant?
Similar story here. 13700KF, no OC, had the machine put together 18 months ago at a respectable shop (Central Computers for those in the bay). I had regular stability issues and blue screens to the point I took it back to the shop after three months - they couldn't find anything wrong. Took it in again at nine months with increasing frustration - nothing. Probably should have taken it again three months ago when I was playing the new Helldivers and that would crash the machine every other time I joined a game, but by that point I was pretty exhausted by the whole thing (and the game had other, unrelated bugs that had me looking elsewhere).

Odds are good I won't be bothering with Intel hardware or recommending it to others for the next decade or more - this has been a flatly terrible experience (and I'll note the irony of finally deciding to spend on a "dream build" and this being the result).
HN filters emojis.
I recently worked for a company called Tandem Diabetes which has multiple closed loop, FDA-regulated systems going back 9 years:

"In July 2014, Tandem announced that it had submitted a PMA for the t:slim G4 insulin pump, which integrated t:slim Pump technology with the Dexcom G4 Platinum CGM System. This device was approved by the FDA in September 2015."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Diabetes_Care

We were still working on international support when I left last year. As you can imagine, there are quite a few regulatory hurdles esp. regarding patient data portability and access.
Are you implying that a water pistol is not a "handgun"? Or that you could not make a water pistol that could also be a "revolver"? Does "revolver" include revolver action rifles, so long as you can use them with one hand (sawed offs, etc). If not, why not? If so, would that be a "more" appropriate emoji for some reason?

I'm not saying they're further out of spec. But I disagree with your implication that they are somehow further in spec than a water pistol. Pistol is pistol.
Frankly, I am not even sure what "frontend code" means in this context. What stack? How is state managed? How is this code integrated into the larger production system? If by "frontend code" they mean fairly clean React code - that's just a small subset of what is actually needed for production.
Same story but although I have more patience now I still don't have lots for chess.

For this reason I don't excel nor enjoy long games but I found quick games, bullet and blitz, pretty fun. You end up moving on instinct most of the time but calculating lines when things look sketchy.
Silicon valley working at midnight? It was a contractor from India.
Totally missed the point I'm afraid so I don't feel bad or inhuman like you intended. I asked multiple questions

1. What data backs up the law? Answer a bunch of studies primarily on foster kids in some unidentified State. This could be a state like Louisiana for example. So it did not answer the quest whether CA had this problem and had nothing to do with districts policy.

2. What does the law accomplish? If it is intended to help foster kids it may do so tangentially but given we don't see studies on CA foster kids I guess we still don't know.

3. Is this a problem in CA? It was commented by several people that districts in CA were trying to make reporting mandatory. No references or data were supplied. I finally found my own reference and supplied it to the thread.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/gavi...

There is actually a district, Chino, was trying to to make it a policy. My mind has now changed about the law.

To paraphrase you - "So let me see if this is a rephrasing of your point: I am not going to put forth the mental effort necessary to take you points seriously so I will make a snide comment instead."
> I’m no security person, so the reasoning felt a bit weird to me, as I guess the .zip TLD can’t hurt anybody; downloading a .zip might, which you can attach to any link name?

Turn of all of your developer knowledge for a minute.

You click on a link "very-trustworthy-ceo-information.zip" in a mail, since you want to download this very important information from your CEO. Sure, your browser pops up, but it does that all the time so who cares, and then there is a file "very-trustworthy-ceo-information.zip" in your downloads folder. Native Outlook might usually open it in a different way usually, but who cares? OWA - you won't notice a difference in the UI at all. But anyway, important CEO information. Open the zip, open the PDF, oops your workstation is compromised.

If we turn our technical knowledge back on, it's rather simple. A user was phished to open a link to "https://very-trustworthy-ceo-information.zip". This returned with a file download, obviously called "very-trustworthy-ceo-information.zip", containing whatever I want to contain based off of IPs and whatever I can stuff into the link in a hidden fashion the average user won't note.

A lot of people would not be able to distinguish between https://foo.zip answering with a binary content type and naming the file foo.zip through content disposition headers and foo.zip coming from a trusted source.

And honestly, I would personally have to double-check what's going on there if it happened to me.
This is a false rumor. Please stop spreading misinformation.
Product looking for a service.
That's a lot of dependencies for ls of all things
If the liability is capped at the cost of the duration of the incident (70 minutes from Crowdstrike’s PR-messaging perspective) or one month’s service charge - both pretty normal in standard contracts, then it’s only outside of the contracts that some equity could be achieved. Not holding my breath though.
Is performance reduced when executing loops whose uop count is not a multiple
I’m glad I don’t use forks
The oxidation is.

The choice of voltage scaling is not.