skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My garden bed has a slug problem. How can FarmBot help me with this? Is there a tool, like a grabber, that automatically catches intruders and carries them away?
Advertisers can choose where to spend the ad bucks, based on absolutely any criteria, how is this lawsuit even a thing?

I would bet that law firms love fragile rich people. "Sure, we'll write up that lawsuit for you, bill coming soon!"
South Bay & Peninsula housing is actually more expensive than SF, though you do get a bit more for your money. Compensation is often marginally higher as well, though most companies with offices in both have them in the same salary band.
It's a "virtual" or "overlay" central reference monitor for the whole network --- imagine collapsing an entire campus network down to a single firewall --- which makes it really easy to draw arbitrary internal perimeters. The real customers for these products all tend to have group-based policies.

If you remember NAC products from back in the day (policy-driven 802.1x and filtering, all designed to deal with the "chewy center" problem), this is like the overlay network version of that, and because it's all software it's much easier to deploy and manage.
I rode by their office in SF daily in 2015-2018 and even back then it was pretty rough. I've heard things have gotten only more difficult since.
The $20 billion is categorized as "advertising" on Apple's Balance Sheet. I seem to recall so many commenters on HN whatabouting on the topic of advertising and privacy when it comes to iPhones versus android smartphones.

Is that line item the justification for people to imagine, whole cloth, that Apple has an advertising incentive, and therefore is no better than Google?

Wouldn't it be ironic for folks trying to equivocate Apple and Google's advertising agenda to find out that the only reason Apple has revenue from "advertising" is because Google pays them to?

> The big DOJ antitrust trial over Google Search revealed last week that Big G pays Apple $20 billion a year to be the default search on iOS. That’s over 20 percent of the “services” revenue Tim Cook loves to talk about on earnings calls, but hey, where is all that money on the balance sheet?

> BI’s Peter Kafka found out: Apple categorizes it as “advertising.”

-- https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150326/well-thats-an-int...
So, you're splitting strings on the hot path
Even if (as you should) you dispute their exact growth figures, China's economy is not collapsing.
> We’ve talked to many companies who have tried and regretted their decision to use Elasticsearch as their primary data store

oh no…
Many of the responses mention meditation, which I think is exactly what this is. With meditation we usually think of certain ways of managing our thoughts or breath or using some sort of mantra (I've never tried that last one), but I think any exercise that is challenging our ability to focus is functioning as mediation.

It also reminded me of "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" which is one of four Roald Dahl stories that Wes Anderson made into short films for Netflix.
I'm not sure what the author was referring to, but in our stack ES is the only non-serverless tech we have to work with. I know there's a lot of hate in HN around serverless for many reasons but for us for several years, we've been able to scale without any worry of our systems being affected performance-wise (I know this won't last forever).

ES is not this way, we have to manage our nodes ourselves and figure out "that one node is failing, why?" type questions. I hear they're working on a serverless version, but honestly, I think we will be leaving ES before that happens.
So if something is free but only temporarily, then that cancels out the generosity? Also, you and I have no idea how long the features will remain free. If anything, chatgpt has been making more features and stronger models free over time.
It’s doing more, it is allowing user to input using natural language and the output is the json format the API that is defined
EPA takes emergency action to stop use of dangerous pesticide
high turnover is common. he was not doing anyone a disservice.
The people of SF think that solving the problem as you have described, relocating the street junkies into cheap homes in the outskirts, is "literally fascism" because "how dare you tell these people they're not allowed to camp and shoot up heroin anywhere they like?"
That's actually pretty impressive... if they didn't dumb it down that is, which only time will tell.
So should OpenAI make their product less accessible, in order to make it easier for competition? That makes no sense
That this is flagged is just sad. GIS is a fun hobby that I think lots of programmers would love to get more into, and the link to MN's map archives is really neat. I live there and had no idea those existed!
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214536/x-elon-musk-antit...

Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds.
> the crypto folks spend their time on technology, based on a social model they want to exist rather than the one that currently does. I think it’s a big reason why it’s barely impacted the world in, what, 15 years?

assuming you mean cryptocurrencies, i think they kept several million people alive throughout the venezuelan civil war, sustained wikileaks through the visa and mastercard blockade, and have made sci-hub and library genesis financially stable; maybe they haven't impacted the people in your direct vicinity, but they've made a huge impact in places like moldova which don't have functional currency
Those same non-technical users will call anything "google" as long as they can type in a box and get some answers. They'll just as well google things on the blue google, or the orange google with the funny mascot, just like I'll hoover my floor with a Dyson.
It goes beyond just doxing yourself; to legally respond to a DMCA notice, AFAIK you also have to consent to the jurisdiction of the USA courts. Which might be acceptable to a resident of the USA, since they're already under the jurisdiction of USA courts, but it can be problematic to residents of the rest of the world.
My "No Soliciting" sign actually worked very well with everyone except religious organizations. I still haven't figured out how to deter them aside from saying "I'll listen to your sales pitch about God only after you listen to my sales pitch about Satan."

Funny story, only once did that fail to get them to go away. In that case, it was a couple of Mormons and they took me up on the offer (leaving me wishing I actually had some sort of satanic sales pitch). They were very nice and pleasant company, and we ended up spending a couple of hours talking about the music of Frank Zappa.

But I didn't become a Mormon.
Ok, I've been too harsh, I accept that ... but there are still many, I'm sure, who choose to remain there ... I have contempt for them.
Ah yes, don't get me started on all the fun edge cases involved in supporting cross platform network stacks and all their subtle tunnel API differences :-)

We're trying to stay focused on keeping policies easy to define and manage so that access management is... manageable as you scale. That and the fact data doesn't go through the cloud / intermediary have been a couple of the reasons customers say they prefer us.

Definitely an exciting space to be building in!
I have had a lot of success using BoundaryML (https://www.boundaryml.com/) for this. They have also been super responsive for any of my questions.
You can just mask the output probabilities for each token based on which options are valid according to a grammar.

There are quite a few open source implementations of this e.g. https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines
No, it was much more possible to consume without being logged in than it is now, though sometimes tricks like closing a login popup were needed.
This doesnt make sense. You care about "per population" because you are 1 out of the population. You don't care about per square mile because you are not measured in square miles, you are measured in people (1).
Kagi is free, just need to create a new account every 100 searches.
Here's a hypothetical I think about.

Taking money out of the equation (or making the offer equal between Microsoft and Google), could Bing have improved to meet the quality of Google if it had all iOS users using it and providing usage data to improve the experience? How long would that take?

I would assume the answer to the first question is yes, and the answer to the second question is too long for Apple's liking.
anecdotally, city life becomes a net drain when one doesn't have time for themselves. In my mid-thirties now, and keeping up with family/travel/hobbies is more than I can handle on most days. I've gone to a great number of restaurants in the past and ... getting more sleep seems like a better bet for the day then going to another restaurant.

I'm sure that this will flip when I no longer have kids at home and have reached retirement.
Two years too late. I think we are going through a bozo period at OpenAI where small things are being highlighted as achievements.
They are neither good nor evil. They are for profit.
A function that implements natural language -> bytecode is IMO way more likely to be under the hood an LLM operating a compiler (or maybe a compiler operating LLMs) rather than a "bare" LLM. From an end user's perspective maybe it won't matter but I think it's an important technical point. IMO there's no evidence that an LLM will ever be the best way to execute general purpose computations.
Exactly this. I grew up on a farm, was a student in the city, started a family in the countryside and I want to retire in a city, as long as it’s close to my children.
And if you do want their LLM, just append a '?' character after your query. It's up to the users, not forced upon them.
> However the film doesn’t do a good job at that. I see often comments about how people are missing the point of this movie.

To be fair, it's very hard in cinema to have people "get" the point without spoon-feeding it to them, which could fail anyway and make it a worse movie to boot. I'm sure you can think of tons of other examples.

Who was it that said it's impossible to make an anti-war movie because you always end up making it look cool on screen [1]? I think it's the same with any movie parodying or even denouncing something, unless it's turned into a manifesto. And this also bit Scorsese with this movie.

[1] Though in my opinion Netflix's "All Quiet On The Western Front" comes pretty close. I don't think anybody watched that movie and kept thinking war is cool or full of glory.
You just sample from a grammar and you automatically get 100%; who knows but it seems the most likely thing they are doing. llama.cpp has supported this for a while ( using a BNF-style grammar -- https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/... )

edit: oh actually, we do sort of know -- they call out jsonformer as an inspiration in the acknowledgements

https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer
You might be right that they're similarly powerful. In some cases, an arbitrary output format might in and of itself be desirable. Like it might result in token savings or be more natural for the LLM. For instance, generating code snippets to an API or plain text with constraints.

And this is more esoteric, but technically in the case of JSON I suppose you could embed a grammar inside a JSON string, which I'm not sure JSON schema can express.
There's no special interface, but you can write an instruction in a system message in the first position. E.g., "Before each function call, explain to the user what you're about to do." It's not super reliable, but the model can do it. Few-shot prompting might help as well.
Ciphertext authentication and asymmetric signatures are not the same thing.
"very good remote work options"

You realize Teams is pre-installed on like every windows machine, right? that's literally all you need for remote work. And most people agree that remote works is preferable/more more productive
Upwork are removing RSS feeds
Just received this email from Upwork stating they are removing RSS feeds. I use them to ingest job posts and filter them by excluding keywords etc. to make it reasonable to find relevant jobs. There is no way I could do this on their website. I'll be exploring scraping their site instead but that will be fragile and use more bandwidth.

Email text:

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If they are, they're quiet about it. Dang tends to shadow/ban them when they go much further than "IQ isn't racist: some races are just better".
Blackhouses of Scotland
They've already lost most of their brand equity among technical and non-technical users.

Their Gemini commercial feels like a death knell. They never had to advertise when their products were good.
Argentina's Milei moves sovereign gold abroad, raising concerns about seizure
The 250 mile range is with the buffer. Beta Technologies has flown their CX300 craft 386 miles on one charge.
I would argue that uBlock Origin is a far more impactful technology than HTTP/3 for increasing website responsiveness and reducing load time in real-world usage.
What vibration rating do those MEMS gyro stay functional, is it airplane adequate?
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Oh wow. The Ercoupe. Sadly, the original design was found to be an unsafe plane due to very poor spin recovery, but mostly due to being under-powered for its airframe. It actually ended up having a higher-than-mean accident rate for the time which defeated its raison d'etre. There are still more than a few (~200) actively FAA registered today though I'm certain with engine power and control surface upgrades.

It turns out that pilots DO need uncoupled yaw, pitch, and roll controls in order to maintain authority and/or recover from certain behind-power-curve conditions, but they didn't know all the edge case stuff back then.

Many of these early designs, including other notables such as the Dyke Delta, sacrificed general airworthiness for a single notable flight envelope performance characteristic. In the case of the Dyke Delta, very efficient high-speed cruise, but it's far too sensitive to CG, has little practical cargo capacity, poor stall approach/recovery (think snap-stalls), very poor visibility, and longer take-off/landing runway requirements.

I have zero doubt that modern fly-by-wire controls can enable a very car-like piloting experience, but I also have zero doubt that there's no way such an experience can be brought to the GA market that's remotely price-competitive with current non-fly-by-wire offerings.

Additionally, the regulatory environment (at least in the U.S.) still mandates pilot proficiency without any dependency on these flight aides. To use a (very) rough analogy, though we have auto-driving features on modern automobiles, they can't be enabled when obtaining a driver's license. Like with many other human activities, you need to train and certify for the statistical tails though you operate in the fat part of the curve.

The automobile market is also absolutely HUGE with (exponentially) lower upfront regulatory compliance costs that can potentially offer an return on investment to absorb the R&D of fielding a few "radical" early "luxury" models to enable the mass-manufacturing of a "base model" and achieve economies of scale.

The general aviation market is TINY and its large upfront regulatory compliance costs only effectively allow for a new manufacturer to field ONE model for many, many years so that ONE model must be designed VERY conservatively and, essentially, only iterated throughout its lifecycle--never fully redesigned.
Middle ages folks hate it because they are most likely to have kids and cities (in the US) tend to be kid hostile. What I'm calling city below is probably better described as downtown - most cities extend out farther and have areas that are nothing like what follows - but are also nothing like what you described as what people move to the city for.

Parks in the city tend to be focused on art. They often lack kid basics like swings and sand. They tend to be too small for a ball game. Often the people who are there will yell at kids for running off the path, yelling and the other ways kids play.

Bars and clubs are not kid friendly places. Middle age folks are much less interested. If you are middle aged and hang out in a bar you are an alcoholic. Clubs often have an minimum age, so going means an expensive babysitter. (bars might allow kids to eat there).

Theater is similar to bars - kids might not be banned, but they are not really welcome either. Both because the shows are not what kids would be interested in, and because they will kick out the kids if they are noisy (which they will be - not kid friendly shows).

Restaurants will allow kids, but often you get dirty looks for bring kids. Many of the others do not like kids and will let you know if your kids are misbehaving - what they define as misbehaving is normal for kids.

Then we add in costs - all of the above is affordable when it is just 1 or two adults, but with kids it is either a lot more expensive to bring this with or you hire a babysitter. You also need larger apartments - most are 1 or 2 bedrooms, but a family wants at least 3 and likely more. You can buy a house in the suburbs with 4 bedrooms and other extra rooms for less than the month payment on a city apartment.

Last there are schools which tend to be bad quality. I've concluded that this because of the other factors above - few families live there and so not enough people care to make them good. It does however stop many families that might want to try living in the city.
Being "For profit" to the detriment of everything else is like, children's cartoon evil, like disney villain evil.
Yikes, for an app like that, that is way too many dependencies to cross check.

I would argue this should be 100% avoided in production environments at this time.
> There's an interesting dynamic here--we (the industry today) are more okay with flying rickety airplanes from the 70s before flying something built with more modern engineering and production techniques.

Any insights on why that is? My gut feeling is that it’s some combination of cost (there’s still a huge glut of old and cheap planes that basically work fine) and skepticism towards new, less proven models and technologies (i.e. the perception of Cirrus changed very slowly over a decade plus to where now the chute is generally accepted to be a good thing to have).
If you follow the Spotify API terms then you are not allowed to mix tracks from other providers in your app. That's probably why it doesn't exist. You'll have to bend the truth in your API access request.
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I'm also a single file .html app distribution technology enthusiast.

Query string parameters totally work from file://

I built an online sandbox that lets you create them. To prove it, you can navigate here [1], then click the "Download self-contained .html" item on the hamburger menu.

[1] https://mutraction.dev/link/z8z
Upwork is garbage anyway, everyone competing for $30/hour shit jobs.
Deriving Scope from Purpose
Temporarily embarassed billionaires who think he will save their embarassment ...

What a waste of talent ...
Show HN: [Win] Use keybd to control brightness of the display your cursor is on
While this has hardcoded keyboard shortcuts, this sufficiently works for me. So I thought I'd share.

I'd be happy to accept PRs to extend it.
Yes probably. But considering non-deterministic outputs is the nature of the beast with Llms and we're (mostly) engineers here, calling any part of this mundane sounds almost more like fighting words than just observation
They can do it, but is it going to make them money? Google's $20b/year payment made up 20% of their income in 2023. 20% of their income was just free money, and their dev team doesn't have to do anything for them to get it.

Would Apple or their shareholders accept a minimum 20% loss in income, plus whatever the expenses would be to build a Search and Ad platform, plus the continued expenses of maintaining and updating it?
At that level of paranoia you're probably better off just airgapping your network away from the internet and only transfer data using physical drives.
Check the terms of service and the acceptable use policy of your host; even if the DMCA doesn't apply to you directly, it would apply to a U.S. based host, and you agreed to their terms when you became their customer.
One of the pain points I’ve experienced with configuration of traditional VPNs is when devices physically connect to different parts of the network when staff travel between home and different offices.

For a small example, when working from home, we want to connect to SMB shares over the vpn, with regular traffic going over the regular LAN interface of the computer. When the same person comes into the main office, just use the LAN. The simplest solution is to teach users to make sure they turn their VPN off when in the office, but that’s a super easy step to forget.

Could Firezone help managing these quality-of-life details for end users?