skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes companies are so big the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Maybe the legal department is overeager but the PR team would never had let this happen, given the chance.
I guess it must work, or they wouldn't keep doing it, but why would anyone entertain a cold caller to any degree? In my experience there's a 0% chance it will be useful or a good deal, and a very high likelyhood it's an outright scam.

I do think it's good to be polite to anyone who calls, but it doesn't matter what they say or ask, the answer is always a polite "Please don't call me again."
I clearly remember it wasn't, they would pop up with a login page as soon as you scrolled down.
I did that because I don't know anyone who doesn't still call it Twitter.
From what I read he doesn't ask whether someone is busy but only acknowledges they know they are busy and moves on with the pitch
Not able to comment on the technical side, but for sure a lot people who got sacked were on moderation. Some countries like mine eventually lost all moderators specifically working for that country. And it does show in the amount of spam an unchecked racism etc, which is a big reason why many advertisers left.

From a moderation point of view, Twitter arguably did collapse. The technical side is not all there is to it when running social media.
meh, you get used to it.
> but academia is conservative

There is a whole set of interlocking organizations supporting the TeX ecosystem, such that no one can claim ownership of it. It truly is owned by its community. Typst, with its pay-for-play online offerings, keeps a tight grip around the open-source project of Typst. I don't see how academia ever switches from its own albeit complex ecosystem, to a corporate-owned project.
As if nobody anticipated this?

This is an attempt to distract from the parent's main point, rather than respond to it.
Remove them, many are causing ADA violations. You don't get to break the law because you feel like it.
Note that, as always, this applies only to quarantined apps. To delete the quarantine extended attribute:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine

Then you don't even need to control-click.
If you hate everything people generally like about European cities, you might like San Jose.
Thanks, you have my promise that for every major use case there is going to be a fix. Feel free to check out at a later time if has been fixed or not. I appreciate the feedback
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Community notes sometimes provide useful context I'll grant you that... but often they are just a popularity contest to see which side can upvote which community note.
I think it will take a long time for the world at large to realize and then operationalize the potential of this "mundane" technology. It is revolutionary, and also sitting in plain sight. Such a huge technological shift that was considered decades out only a few years ago
As the other comment says, you have to basically dox yourself to respond in the legal sense, and of course there's expenses even to just doing everything yourself.

The law inherently favors corporations because every Tom Dick and Harry in the US of A doesn't have a lawyer, let alone an entire legal department. Yeah they might be wrong but they have basically infinite resources to drag out the process of you proving that until you call it quits for your own sanity, or simply run out of money to fight back.

Like the author of the post says, most of America's legal system is set up pretty explicitly to serve corporations.
Do you think it's a problem that people are inundated with rage bait and scams? That's it's own "bubble".

People aren't getting educational and uplifting material shoved into their feeds.
That can actually make competition from open source harder. New upstarts that are open source can't compete with free service from OpenAI and can't make money to grow their development or offerings.

OpenAI wants to kill everything that isn't OpenAI.
I think this may defeat the purpose of minimal compute utilisation.

It definitely sounds like a great idea and an interesting problem.
It was demonstrated to me a a young kid that running a strong magnet through beach sand would collect tons of black magnetite, at least some of which is likely meteorite derived.
Mullvad accepts XMR which is more difficult to trace than amazon related anything. Mullvad does however state that payment information is disassociated from account numbers 90 days after payment. Theoretically you could use any payment you like, pay the 90 day compliance tax, set a cal event, then begin using it about a week after that 90 days is up. Cheaper to use XMR.
Please specify how music gets in the app.

Does it use the default music library that you load through Apple Music? Can you load mp3/flac/alac directly in it?
The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning
> if revenues are down 50%

Check the actual graphs! It went down by 50% briefly, but then increased again. It's still lower than before, but not by that much.
Most cons like that are have huge failure rates. But all it takes is one or two to fall for it for it to be worthwhile.
Well, there goes one of the big advantages of open-source models...

For a long time, I was relying on such guaranteed structured outputs as a "secret sauce" that only works using llama.cpp's GBNF grammars. Now OpenAI literally introduced the same concept but a bit more accessible (since you create a JSON and they convert it to a grammar).

Those of you who have used GBNF, do you think it still has any advantage over what OpenAI just announced?
Ask HN: Sales to Recruitment and Staffing Agencies
Hi HN Community,

I created a tool for recruitment and staffing agencies that automates the manual work done by them. They use their own internal database for candidate data and submit the resumes to the hiring managers over email. So I automated this process and made interview scheduling very easy. I have zero experience in sales and tried different approaches to reach out to different agencies but no luck so far. I know I am doing something wrong so that is why I seek your guidance. If anyone has experience in this field and could share it to help me get started, that would be great.
Thank You in advance.
There are many reasons, though I am not sure which they had in mind. One thing is that LLMs in general tend to do better when they can be more verbose in their output and sort of “think aloud” to reach an answer. Insisting on strict output format would rob it of the benefits (because it doesn’t just not emit but completely skips those stages, or else you’d be paying for those elided output tokens).
Well, based on today’s activity there is apparently some conspiracy involved.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1820849880283107725?s=46&t=alZ...
Its usually a distilled smaller model
I dunno. “Are you busy?” sounds open ended and is a bit presumptive (I don’t know you, what business is it of yours?). Do you have a second seems more casual and nonchalant without being particularly rude while succinctly indicating you aren’t asking for lengthy or in depth attention. You’re playing on a natural tendency many people have for simple charity, and then once you’re in… well, lots of us have felt trapped in unwanted situations because of a fear of being rude, right?
Space habitat, sweet space habitat
For me as very simple customer with a few devices, is that a benefit? I didn't configured any acls in my little vpn town.
oh, I like it actually! I had idea to scan the screen with 5-10 pixel sparse 100x100 matrix at the point where the change has been found previously to detect a possible screen change.
Had a recruiter call with Twitter a few months ago. Mandatory in office 5 days per week. Among other things, an hour commute both ways to work was not acceptable.

Maybe they will have better luck in Santa Clara.

I don’t buy any of the flamebait reasons for leaving SF. Reason 1 is money and reason 2 is talent pool.
In a startup I was working on last year, I had a surprisingly good experience with using a json-schema in my prompt. I had to tweak the json response a bit because it was always invalid, but the issue was generally a missing colon or misplaced bracket. Data-wise it stuck to the schema very well, and cleaning up the json was simple enough that we got to zero parsing errors. I believe this was with 3.5.

Sadly, that project was a final (relatively successful) attempt at getting traction before the startup was sold and is no longer live.

Edit: Ouch, are the down-votes disbelief? Annoyance? Not sure what the problem is.
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When they talk about detection, they are most likely referring to protocol level detection by ISPs forced to block VPN traffic, hostile local networks, corporate firewalls and such.

The actual service you are connecting to (example: website, game server etc.) most likely uses a IP-based detection service such as https://focsec.com/ or similar. In such cases, the protocol will not make a difference.
We might be talking about different forms of electronic elections. What I am talking about is remote electronic voting, when people vote from home using a website or app.

> If you count 1000 people entering and 1000 total votes that doesn't mean 1000 individials voted.

This means that if someone wants to vote 10 times, they need to come 10 times and hope that no election monitor will be surprised by seeing the same person 10 times. If you want to add million fake votes, you need to recruit 100 000 people voting 10 times each, you need to bribe thousands of election staff to let them vote 10 times, basically you need to involve a whole army of people and hope nobody notices nothing. Of course it is possible to find 100 000 corrupt people, but it is difficult to hide such large-scale operation.

For comparison, in electronic voting all you need is to have one patriotic sysadmin willing to enter fake data to 'save the country' from an undesirable candidate. The barrier for large-scale fraud is much lower.

So, basically with electronic voting election fraud requires corrupting less people and it is easier to hide.

> Additionally, if you have 1000 people entering and 1050 total votes; which 50 do you discard?

You nullify results at that polling station as the winner cannot be reliably determined.

> Also, you don't need to "trust the government" (aka your neighbors) you can volunteer yourself to be a poll worker at your local elections to see how things are done or you can run to be on the board of elections in your local government.

How can you be a poll worker in electronic elections? In my country typically the code and procedures are developed by a contractor or governmental organization. The code is not always even published. The best you can do is be an election monitor, but they have very limited tools in case of electronic elections, like observing stats on count of people voted. In contrast, election monitor at paper voting can see the whole process with their own eyes.
I doubt many of them would be honest with you out of fear of legal consequences: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2024/03/21/elon-mu...
I'm a little confused why you have to specify "strict: true" to get this behavior. It is obviously always desired, I would be surprised for people to ever specify "strict: false". That API design leaves to be desired.

I also learned about constrainted decoding[1], that they give a brief explanation about. This is a really clever technique! It will increase reliability as well as reduce latency (less tokens to pick from) once the initial artifacts are loaded.

[1] https://www.aidancooper.co.uk/constrained-decoding/
Honestly I don’t know what other people want.

I’m genuinely interested in old software like WordStar as it was well known when I was growing up.

If it’s not something that appeals to you then you’re well catered for with well known GUI applications.

I personally already use Vim and pandoc hence the comparison.
Quicksand Myth Exposed
But with parentheses we get the full power of Paredit and Parinfer, is there such a thing for Elixir's ends?
In the US, retail businesses are offering individualized and general coupons via the phone apps. I wonder if this pricing can be tracked, as it results in significant differences.

For example, I recently purchased fruit and dairy at Safeway in the western US, and after I had everything I wanted, I searched each item in the Safeway app, and it had coupons I could apply for $1.5 to $5 off per item. The other week, my wife ran into the store to buy cream cheese. While she did that, I searched the item in the app, and “clipped” a $2.30 discount, so what would have been $5.30 to someone that didn’t use the app was $3.

I am looking at the receipt now, and it is showing I would have spent $70 total if I did not apply the app discounts, but with the app discounts, I spent $53.

These price obfuscation tactics are seen in many businesses, making price tracking very difficult.
Incorrect. Shifting office is a layoff (constructive dismissal).
Suing your customers has such a positive PR vibe...
That was the only example you provided, and it contradicts your point.
He’d been threatening it since at least the Covid/Alameda County spat. It’s transparently just him trying to save 13.3% on capital gains taxes
Don't forget the peak happened during COVID- where it is at now isn't really much different than where it was before, if the numbers are accurate anyway.
Apparently the DMCA takedown notice was filed by some third party that specializes in this form of trolling. I wonder how big the market for this nonsense is.
Ah, I love this. Nice work!

I really wish supermarkets were mandated to post this information whenever the price of a particular SKU updated.

The tools that could be built with such information would do amazing things for consumers.
Assuming low transaction costs and no collusion shenanigans, markets converge in microeconomics even in the presence of market power (meaning producers are big enough that they're not effectively price-takers.) Using Game Theory here kind of complicates the analysis without bringing a lot to the table, unless you have some special conditions or requirements.

If you have an overall demand curve and a marginal cost curve for each seller, you can find the equilibrium where each producer is at their profit-maximization point. In the standard micro textbooks this is the point where each producer's MR is equal to MC, i.e. a local maximum where the derivative of profit with respect to output is zero. [1] In the price-taker case this is easy, as the MR curve is flat. In the non-price-taker case you can just solve iteratively until the whole market converges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_maximization
This is such a healthy interaction, it makes me so happy to see people lifting each other up like this
Consider the lifestyle, world view and personality type of people who have a lot of time to get into culture war arguments on the internet and there you have your answer.
I’m not quite sure how I feel about that tool’s name. I like that it’s a slang but aren’t they overdoing it? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
I feel that way about casting in general.

The prompt to login whenever you cast to an arbitrary TV feels like a footgun. I don't want whatever community I'm watching with to know what the algorithm thinks I like. The distance between "annoying" and "embarrassing" is directly correlated to who is in the room to observe.
I like params and end.... I would happily use lisp or elixir... LFE is really cool.
Why do you misrepresent what I said? “One of” != the absolute most single thing
> SOMEONE to make a bit more money by putting the space to use

That someone needs to be the landlord + the tenant since those two parties would both need to agree to change the status-quo (the lease).

>It could be that...

I agree that your examples are both likely culprits. Anything can be changed, though, it just needs to benefit both parties (landlord and tenant) more than the status quo
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>same product but new name, probably cheaper parts,

The new $100 TV Streamer has 32GB of RAM. 32GB of consumer RAM alone is at least $50, and that doesn't include any of the other stuff (graphics, cpu, nic) that makes a minimally useful device.
Most of the workers stuck at X are on H1B visas or similar, which require them to keep their job or immediately find new employment at a company that will sponsor them.
That is true. But you'll:

a) slowly lose to competitors as you can't keep up with increased demands in the space.
b) take on more and more existential risks

For a lot of companies, that is exactly what they want to do. Its called the exploit phase, I forgot what business lingo this came from. Do a practical feature freeze, cut costs to the max, and squeeze all the value out the product for as long as it lives. Informally known as enshittification. Its all about cost-cutting rather than market capture.

You can last a while though, especially because there aren't many changes so there's also less operational risk.
FPVs fly a few KM before getting to a target, so the battery will be low by the time they get to the part worth recording. There's no need for a return trip since it either finds a target or is intentionally ditched.

Also they use li-ion cells which can be run to a lower voltage than a lipo, which is normally what the flight controllers are configured for out of the box.
> Additionally, the availability of test strips for detecting fentanyl, as well as other types of drug testing equipment, Cerda says, may have also prevented overdose deaths

Not sure that this is necessarily to do with it. Fent tests have been around and widely available since 2015 or so. It's been testable via normal reagent testing since forever. A large amount of these overdose deaths have been the most destitute of society, a demographic that tends to never practice any degree of harm reduction.

I spent some time getting to know "average" "street users" and it was genuinely astonishing how different of a world it was, compared to the type of drug users I usually rubbed shoulders with. No harm reduction practices, very little knowledge, wild misconceptions, and the absolute state of the "street" market was horrendous. People used to putting crap that's been stepped on 15 different times in their body and paying out the ass for the privilege. 7/10 of every titration I ran on street sourced drugs was grim. I once tried to explain volumetric titration to a street-user in colloquial terms and he thought it was a fairy tale. This is not a world of test strips, weighing, sanitation, basic neurochemistry, etc. It's a world of the most predatory, exploitative, anti-consumer marketplaces taking advantage of people who don't know any better. People who are kept in the dark by poor education and misinformation through legend and sometimes even government institutions. The worse off the person is, the more ignorant they tend to be.

In the wake of the fent/carfent proliferation, you've seen a small number of this segment adopt harm reduction practices. But the overwhelming majority are still recklessly freeballing it. To them, it's the nature of the game.

Please remember to test your drugs. And always measure your doses. Jewelry scales are cheap.
> The tokens that are valid at the beginning of the output include things like {, {“, {\n, etc. However, once the model has already sampled {“val, then { is no longer a valid token

Oops, this is incorrect. {“val{“:2} is valid json.

(modulo iOS quotes lol)
A lotta graduates for the population and more abilities (e.g. pharmacy vaccinations have long been a thing and lighter regulation leading to dispensing without prescription (legal or not)):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745069/

https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/survey-finds-abu-...

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/retail-pharmacy-practice-...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305425201_Antibioti...

> Self- medicated ABs [antibiotics] is an issue in many countries especially among middle income people regardless of the variation of regulation, guidelines, culture or region. 60% of children patients in Yemen received ABs without prescription12 and 56% of population in Abu Dhabi, UAE according to Abasaeed et. al.7.

> In Jordan two studies showed a close estimation for dispensing ABs without prescription among the Jordanian population. Here, Yousef and co-workers estimated the percentage to be around 42.5% of the population10 while Bakri and co-workers estimated the percentage around 46%
People seemed to have turned against him far before he started expressing controversial views. I think the original hate for him was a reaction to people who liked him as well as just generally an anti-capitalist sentiment.
That should read "low-lead 100LL" avgas.

Basically, the FAA drug their feet despite over a decade of independent testing data that indicated it was perfectly safe to run 100 octane equivalent "low-lead" in almost every extant GA engine.

In the few that couldn't do it (mostly WW2 vintage stuff), they could be adapted to run it during their next required overhaul. These sorts of planes are mostly "ramp-toys" and only get a few tens-of-hours of flight-time every year at air-shows and meet-ups so they have very little environmental and gestalt time-in-airspace safety concerns anyways.
Dell's employee number grew from 105,000 in 2017 to peak level of 165,000 in 2020, before going down to the current level of 130,000 - [0]

But are you saying we should only pay attention when layoff happens, ignoring a long period of significant growth?

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/264917/number-of-employe...
Am I the only one that wants to know 1,000% *WHY* such things?

Is it a natural function of how models evolve?

Is it engineered as such? Why? Marketing/money/resources/what?

WHO makes these decisions and why?

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I have been building a thing with Claude 3.5 pro account and its *utter fn garbage* of an experience.

It lies, hallucinates, malevolently changes code that was already told was correct, removes features - explicitly ignore project files. Has no search, no line items, so much screen real-estate is consumed with useless empty space. It ignores states style guides. get CAUGHT forgetting about a premise we were actively working on them condescendingly apologies "oh you're correct - I should have been using XYZ knowledge"

It makes things FN harder to learn.

If I had any claude engineers sitting in the room watching what a POS service it is from a project continuity point...

Its evil. It actively f's up things.

One should have the ability to CHARGE the model token credit when it Fs up so bad.

NO FN SEARCH??? And when asked for line nums in it output - its in txt...

Seriously, I practically want not just a refund, I want claude to pay me for my time correcting its mistakes.

ChatGPT does the same thing. It forgets things committed to memory - refactors successful things back out of files. ETc....

Its been a really eye opening and frustrating experience and my squinty looks are aiming that its specifically intentional:

They dont want people using a $20/month AI plan to actually be able to do any meaningful work and build a product.
The price decrease is particularly notable because it represents a 50% cut in the price to handle image inputs, across any OpenAI model.

Previously image inputs on GPT-4o-mini were priced the SAME as GPT-4o, so using mini wouldn't actually save you any money on image analysis.

This new gpt-4o-2024-08-06 model is 50% cheaper than both GPT-4o AND GPT-4o-mini for image inputs, as far as I can tell.

UPDATE: I may be wrong about this. The pricing calculator for image inputs on https://openai.com/api/pricing/ doesn't indicate any change in price for the new model.