skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found some things weird in the article.

> Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty

Ok, but what's the accidental match rate? They're essentially proposing a filter where some token combinations wouldn't occur. With that you can say a text was likely written by OpenAI, but it doesn't say how likely it was written by a human.

> Our ability to defend our lack of text watermarking is weak now that we know it doesn’t degrade outputs

Apart from structured output with strictly expected contents. For example you couldn't extract done paragraph from the given text into Json. It would have to get changed in some way to match the allowed token filter.
Thanks for the recommendation. Ah yes, Synthesia looks familiar - I've seen YouTube videos of people playing fast compositions with colors flying by in 3D.

Good point about the game interface, how getting too used to playing with the color indicators does not translate to sheet music during performances. I think I'll prefer to look at sheet music during practice too.

I'm checking out the other apps you mentioned. So interesting to see successful implementations of the "gamified learning" concept, with piano and other instruments. I can imagine a similar approach might work for other areas of study, like language learning.
That's... not true?

Example in C:

void fun(void) {

int a[16];

for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(a); i++)
{
a[i] = 1;
}

}

I have allocated and referred to memory without pointers here.
As someone who gets the shakes from looking at too many parenthesis I think it's a great step in the right direction.

A few weeks ago I went through the "GUI demo" source, and it's not bad. Of course just reading it doesn't tell much about what's the IDE support, how easy it is to figure out the arguments/types. (But it's rhombus/static, which is encouraging!)

https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/gui_demo.rhm
Just imagine all the packaging material that would be required to get everyone a new farm bot every few years.
Ask HN: Hotel/booking insiders, why the hostel love?
Not a great title, but limited space. Here's the full title:

"Hotel/booking devs, why is it impossible to filter out hostels?"

Other than setting a high minimum price, there seems to be no reliable way to ensure that search results are not polluted with artificially low prices caused by hostels that offer cheap shared rooms as well as expensive private rooms.

Booking.com even has a separate option "only show me private rooms", which it ignores.

The problem is that in some countries where costs are generally lower, the difference in price between a hostel room and a low priced private room in a less popular area is small enough that simply raising the minimum search price will not help. You'll filter out some good options and still have some hostels in the results.

Selecting property types, intentionally excluding hostels, does not work either.

The key problem is that many hostels have some private room options in addition to their shared offerings. So the hostel will appear in your hotel results with its cheapest shared room price.

After years of traveling and fighting with search sites, I have come to the conclusion that there must be a good reason that the major sites - Hotels.com, Agoda.com, Booking.com, and even Google's hotel search cannot or will not allow us to filter out hostels. What is that reason? They must know the problem exists.
> then isn’t that the same case with your perfectly good 10 year old Toyota?

A good 10 year old Toyota can have its head unit replaced and you can add new features if you so chose. When I was a kid it was a rite of passage to mod at least your speaker system.

> Or 10 year old Target Toaster oven or 10 year old Samsung fridge?

> I think we will live in a strange world if we start demanding our refrigerators allow side loading YouTube.

You set up a strawman argument. Who is demanding this of fridges and toasters?
They have these things called farmers' markets where you can buy fresh produce and it's much cheaper than $4000. You could probably buy fresh produce for a whole year and not have it come to that total. A year's worth of food is likely more than the robot could produce in your lifetime, so the market is a much better deal.
US nuclear MRBMs were withdrawn from Italy and Turkey, and the US publicly committed to not invading Cuba.

That's a decent deal.
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I agree with you overall, but some vegetables were found in a recent study to be more efficiently grown at home. Also, a lot of people already have turfgrass farms and converting those to veggie farms would be a huge net win. Finally, if you think that people have a fairly static amount of time/energy to spend on hobbies, hobby farming would likely be a net benefit because some hobbies have much greater negative externalities.
Why not just specify "all branches of this code must execute in the same amount of time", and let the compiler figure it out for the architecture being compiled for?
Happy to.
They released a tool to do this in a followup post:
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/trufflehog-now-finds-all-de...
Oh, it already happened.

Case in point: it is possible to build cheap and fully auditable harware RNG, with bandwidth fully sufficient to replace /dev/random on most servers. I have one. But apparently noone wants such a thing, or if they even consider it, they insist on adding unneeded "feel-good" complexity like whitening.

But...somehow the sky has not fallen. Trying to understand why. Maybe it isn't really a problem?
I'd generally recommend HTTPS, simply because most developers cannot be trusted to manually verify SSH public keys/fingerprints. Most will blindly approve whatever fingerprint they are shown, opening the door to man-in-the-middle attacks.

This isn't just an issue during initial set-up. If the Git host rotates their keys, it will need the client to accept the new keys. If your developers are sloppy and unthinkingly approve the new fingerprint, that means they're vulnerable to a MitM attack at any moment; presumably they'd unthinkingly approve an attacker's fingerprint too.

With HTTPS, you inherit the web's CA model, and it's pretty much secure-by-default.
Growing tomatoes as starts that are transplanted is not required if your frost free season is long enough. The benefit of using starts is you can give plants a head start and only plant the strongest.
I suspect it had much more to do with lacking product market fit. They spent 10 years faking demos and dreaming about what they thought AI could do eventually but since it never worked the products never released and so they never expanded. A well optimized TPU will always beat a well optimized GPU on efficiency.
A few years ago I saw on a tropical island some open ended poly tunnels growing salads and things that, in my own open air garden, are very heavily predated. They had a simple but very effective solution: they ran misters for a few minutes every hour. This made an environment that the plants thrived and insects left alone. And they lost very little water (on an island where fresh water was conserved generally) even though the tunnels were not closed at the ends. Fungus wasn’t mentioned when I asked about them. It was very simple tech level but I was struck by the smarts and knowledge behind it.
I would love a drone or robot that selectively kills invasive weeds and leaves native ones.
Home gardens are cheaper than stores, since seeds are cheaper than finished fruits/veggies. Of course it depends on free labor of The Gardener which this may address.
You're not drinking from the sink though, but the tap. The tap is also constantly wet in every house and we're never cleaning inside it. On the other hand, my kitchen is not getting cleaned with heavy antibacterial chemicals multiple times every day.

Are you sure the taps in commercial restrooms would have more bacteria?
in some form or another is the key to their point.

Here's something to try at home .. exactly your code save for this change:

i[a] = 1;

... guess what, still compiles, still works !!

WTF ??? you ask, well, you see, X[Y] is just syntactic sugar for X+Y - it's a pointer operation disguised to look like a rose (but it smells just the same).
For homeowners with a garden it's not necessarily about efficiency.
I have a little garden and the food quality is just way better in terms of freshness and taste.
for anyone interested, I recommend spending a few minutes with this to get a feel for the language (and if something is undecipherable then searching the docs for that thing, because the docs are super verbose and hard to navigate, and too dry, IMHO):

https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/gui_demo.rhm
"You’ve read your last free article." -- no happiness for me :(
It doesn't look terrible but colon after "match list" is optional.

And how would the last line look if the previous one didn't end in a colon?
This checks out with someone I know who grows their own plants, and me, who doesn't spend time growing plants. We're both not interested in the product.

Maybe it has a niche. Millionaires who want to go on holiday but still like to grow plants. It seems more like a gimmick.
He's going to blow his mind when he learns I have two AeroGardens in my kitchen, but don't want to do any farming. I could just hop down to the grocery store to buy the same amount in minutes. I can't believe the company is still in business!
I don't know who GP is but I've got in my LinkedIn contact someone I personally met who was actually spied upon by the GCHQ (or was it GCHQ + NSA? You never really know in this cases).

It was done to him simply because he's a famous belgian cryptographer.

And we're talking about people who made frontpage of mainstream media newspaper: hardly the kind of publications that shall report all the various states' wrongdoings (typically they'll instead be complicit and try to cover up misdeeds).

It's not as if these thing do not happen nor if as if there aren't persons of interests here on HN.
Yes but most people already own a plot of land that is not in use for anything except growing grass.
Show HN: Chat with your DB using Python SDK, API and create data apps
I work on my initial version of this project, I opensource it and I post this in HN two weeks back and it bombed. But I still got good feedback from two people who saw my post in a different group. So I revamped the project with some features and separate website with docs and posting it now.

Here is how this framework works.

Problem: Build customer facing apps/chatbot where customers can ask questions in natural language and query the DB and answer it. Build internal slack bot where your customer success person or other team member can ask your slack bot a question and you need to query your db.

Solution: Text2SQL there are plenty of solutions. But maintaining the semantic layer is the hard part, the more you label your data and give your business definitions or glossary, the better accurate it is. You need to maintain it somewhere and then you need to create some some endpoints or functions to integrate them.

In DataNeuron, the cli guides on creating the context layer through a set of cli commands. Once the context is set, one could chat using cli to see how the LLM responds and correct the context layer. Once you feel it is ready, you can then start integrating within your python app using dataneuron sdk or through the API (which you can deploy to LAMBDA or to VPS).
You can also chat with db per customer or tenant, and it would add the client/tenant filter to the resultant query -- this is still WIP, currentl recursive CTE is not addressed yet.

I have been working on this last two weeks, so still requires lot of testing and iteration. Would like some feedback to improve this project.
Doesn't the 194.5 number in the "FRONT" diagram need a bracket around it?
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Listening to audiobooks has definitely made me happier. I don't even watch tv that much anymore, listening books has taken TV's place for me.
I run a bunch of Seagate 8TB SMR bought a few months after release, and the ZFS raidz2 pool has grown over the years.

They are wonderful for write once/read many storage of large files. Due the the sheer number of drives the write speed isn’t a major concern as it can saturate the 20gbps Ethernet bond to the machine.

Reads are the multi-GB/sec range though, so long as they are sequential.

They would not be my first choice, but for specific uses like backups and media storage they are a good value.
And yet, none of these countries are held accountable for what they did, western hipocrisy at it's best.
It would take 31 of their largest model, the Genesis XL to cover that area as each robot covers 18 square meters. So for the low low cost of 31 × $4,295 = $133,145 you could buy enough farm bots to feed yourself. Then you'd just have to worry about the cost of repairs, land, processing, and harvesting.
What about exploiting a vulnerability in the host VM, to gain persistent root there, multiply wormlike over the network, and get control of the cyber-physical interfaces in their sphere of existence?
- https://archivebox.io
- https://archiveweb.page + https://replayweb.page / Browsertrix
- SingleFile
Is web dev actually a shit show? I think it's going fine isn't it?
I heard watering the leaves is a technique to avoid frost damage in some regions
Don't forget: https://archive.is/ORJYZ
> Effectively unlimited clean energy is the goal.

Reality check: We currently have no clean source for abundant tritium.
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That website tracks CS2 pro Faceit matches. You can easily pick your favorite matches to watch the demo,Hope you enjoy it!
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Ah, cool, I wasn’t aware of arcade machines using recorded video before the brief laser disc era! If you have any references or links where I could read up about them, I’d be fascinated to learn more!
This is probably not true for a lot of produce with a limited shelf life.

If you factor in wastage and the expensive supply chain logistics for things that spoil quickly it's probably cheaper to grow them closer to the point of use, especially if you can keep down labor costs with automation.

Tastier and more nutritious too.
I think the point is that it's used differently for criminals. The intent was to judge traffic, rather than make sure nobody tried to break in.
I bet that’s Europe, it’s not uncommon
There's a reason hundreds of miles of abandoned stone walls are hidden inside forests all throughout the Northeast US - people deforested everything and tried to farm, but abandoned it all until nature reclaimed it again. It's tough.
Didn't they abandon edge TPUs?
From what I recall, it depends on your definition of efficiency. Large farms are more efficient in terms of mass of produce per unit of labour but less efficient in terms of mass of produce per unit area.
The cheapest option is to buy $40 worth of hosing, then lay hose around the plants with small holes in it so that water drips out onto the ground at a constant rate.
Like you wrote, at the low end the distinction between hostel and bargain hotel blurs. The properties tag themselves as both types.

I generally avoid the low-end properties but I’ve seen the problem you describe. I draw the line at shared bathrooms.
This is what chargebacks are for, no?
Fine Grained Authorization (FGA)
Cache the position of quotes/apostrophes, etc.

Optimizing for your edge case would require everyone writing and reading code to conform to this extra thing, which seems completely unnecessary. Machines are pretty fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZI198eFghJk Modernizing Compiler Design for Carbon Toolchain - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 2023
The TPUs are highly integrated with the rest of the internal Google ecosystem, both hardware and software. Untangling that would be ... interesting.
The “everybody other than me is too stupid to make decisions for themselves” argument is not very compelling, especially when you have to curate the hypothetical model of stupidity to fit nicely with your stance on the topic.
There are already some good points made about efficiency, but I’ll also add that for an individual sometimes it’s not about efficiency but about survivability in the event of a crisis. As we saw in 2020, over indexing on efficiency can lead to cascading failures that put individuals at risk, so it’s logical that some would want to mitigate the risk of food production failures.
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I've been in the industry for 47 years - first 5 in hardware followed by 42 in software/firmware. Most of my past 32 years have been spent doing system level code in C which I still enjoy. I've had a few short stints as an acting manager and have managed to reject management's attempts to make those permanent each time because I enjoy spending my days solving problems.

It has gotten harder to remember what I've worked on lately. For the past 15 years, I've been keeping notes in text files to remind me of what I work on each day. It's far easier to do a recursive grep on my top level notes directory than it is to find something in Outlook. I also make heavy use of Confluence to document everything I work on. I think I've created more Confluence pages than the rest of my group combined.

I've kept in touch with a number of people I've enjoyed working over the years with which has made it much easier to find jobs when I need to make a change. For the past 20 years, I've maintained a mailing list to organize weekly happy hours with some of them. I got hit by a RIF 5 years ago (first time in 47 years, believe it or not) and managed to line up a new job in 2 months thanks to a hardware engineer I had enjoyed working with 32 years ago. I also had a few whiteboard interviews during that time which helped remind me why I hate the traditional way of finding jobs.
And here's a non-trivial example of how it looks/feels.

https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/gui_demo.rhm
Looks like ripe for disruption with an LLM search.
The USB packets? Yes.
A lot of security is human and process based. Technical is important, but the best software in the world won't survive someone being social engineered.
I think that was beautifully phrased. Needless to say, I agree.
Time to create a third "Global" system.
It is a tricky balance to be sure. Building familiarity with html, css and javascript first is necessary, and I do link out to tutorials that teach that on the welcome page. But beyond the basic knowledge, how do you learn good practices quickest? Do you start trying things and learn what works and what doesn’t through experience? Or do you follow the learning track of popular frameworks and learn good practices through example and osmosis?

On balance I think it’s better to learn how to build with frameworks first to learn all the right concepts in the guiding structure that they provide, and only then to walk away from frameworks and have complete freedom by going vanilla. That’s why that paragraph is there. YMMV.
and i’ve worked with 1000s of sysadmins, java|python|php|go|javascript developers, network admins, security admins who could be replaced by bash scripts, llms, or even mid-level dbas.
No. Pretty sure you mean nuclear fission, not fusion. They’re opposites. Fission splits the atom and fusion fuses them together.
>array full of nils

which in Lua are indistinguishable, both in theory and practice, from a newly created empty array: {}
The SEC is no longer asking to decide on tokens in its lawsuit against Binance
The negativity comes from the fact that it's obviously stupid to spend $4000 on an AI robot that waters plants on a single small plot of land. The selling point of this product is "I want fresh food but I don't want to garden" which is much better served by going to a market and buying the food from a farmer.
The higher-end and larger drives today are filled with helium (or vacuum in some exotic cases), and opening the case at all completely destroys the drive's ability to operate.
No more than a passing mention of the UK's dire cost of housing. Nor the myriad miserable consequences of the UK letting Mad Hatter Tory PM's stampede it over the Brexit cliff. Nor ...

Elite talent is free to vote their feet for a higher-functioning country.
Indians are powering global scam hubs. It's not out of choice
So you’re supposed to do it through a reflection though? I’m confused because you say straight on also works? I thought it was through another mirror or peripheral vision? I definitely can “stare into nothingness” and what happens is usually a black pulsing blob or maybe very dark blue takes over my vision like a vortex. Weird, I know but never any faces although I’ve only ever looked at my shower wall or bathroom scenery.
I did some quick math on this 10,000 number and I think it’s off by at least an order of magnitude. You have to assume everyone needs the tractors at roughly the same time and the cost/time of transporting, loading, unloading, etc severely limits the efficiency in a suburban environment.
Preferably with the use of a high-powered laser
The overlap between both groups are quite large from my personal experience. The mythical code wizard with no domain knowledge or soft skills exist but they are very rare. Most people who are really good at coding are also good at picking up domain knowledge.
Is this not the best way to start on that path, an open source project yhat shares all the info so others can join branch and improve. Yiu cannot climb the mountastarting at the top !
This is really cool! The opposition of the AI hype, in this particular market, is something I strongly approve of. I guess most of us on HN have dealt with the unpleasant landscape of IT recruiting at some point, and hearing that such new approaches are being tried is a breath of fresh air.

What is gold for me is the business model that doesn't charge end-users, although I can imagine this might become problematic when the pendulum of the IT field's supply and demand for experience swings back.

I also like that the form doesn't ask for a PDF resume, meaning no more marketing and social engineering work for the ever-decreasing attention span of recruiters and ever-increasing automation in resume screenings. Further kudos for the straightforward interface and main form of the website.

Question though: how do you plan to combat spam applications? It doesn't seem that difficult to be _completely_ dishonest in one's application, which granted, will be detected in later screenings, but will probably shadow honest profiles.

Feature proposal: integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats (think Codeforces, LeetCode, HackTheBox, etc).

I hope this takes off well!
Makes you the think what the black mirrors were for back then!

Haha, what did you do exactly with your phone? How long did it take?
Sounds like LSI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSI_Corporation
It’s probably wrong, yeah. I made a wild guess at magnitude just to make a rhetorical point. Are you saying it’s more like 1,000 or 100,000?

I’m not a farmer but I live in a farming city, and one thing I notice is that the crops around here are definitely not all harvested at the same time. Some are harvested months before others. Even the same crops like corn or various beans are harvested weeks apart. For corn sometimes months. Farms also share a lot of equipment. Though a lot of farms are just absolutely massive corporate farms so it’s not really “sharing” but has the same effect.
You mean studies from Google, which explicitly has a culture of dumbing down software development, and heavily focuses on theoretical algorithmic skills rather than technical ones?
They did in Korea