skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently, one of my friends asked ChatGPT about an internal tool with a funny name and ChatGPT seemed to know the meaning behind the name & options to run the tool properly for his usecase.

We googled around to see if there was any information on the web about the tool & there’s nothing on Google which makes sense since it’s a boring internal tool for a financial services company.

Ofcourse it could be a lucky guess or it could be an intern had uploaded the manual to GPT :D
Toward a code-breaking quantum computer
(AI Fails at) Predicting New Small Molecule Binders
Dictatorships run on people who think "I was only following orders" is an adequate excuse.
Staff blame non staff, passing blame to someone else that is not them and remaining employed.

In other news; dog fights cat, more on that bizarre story after the break.
Hey guys, this isn't the built in copilot that was scrapped. This is about corporate copilots in M365. The problem is that some companies have bad data hygiene and don't control who can access what. Copilot is working as intended but some teams have done a poor job of controlling permissions for data.
Better luck next time!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41321292
Incontrovertible historical evidence that dumpster fires scale across time and terrain.
Beyond that logical tantrum easily refuted - I'm 52% on free will, say a tenth of a bip on god and magic:

At least in Judaism there is sizable chunk of believers who believe in God and that everything is God's will and thus there is no free will - Hashgachah Pratit - so at the very least only one direction of your argument could hold, though I don't understand why it's a coherent idea to begin with.

(also, which particular audience are you trying to insult with that categorical statement and why?)
Just to be clear: UK Parliament is sovereign. If it passes a law forcibly legalising it, the privatised Royal Mail can sue the government but would need to find an international treaty obligation to win. Even then, if Parliament flagged it and said "we're ignoring this treaty in this case" then the courts are bound to the law, not treaty obligations.

If it has knock-on impacts in other areas, it's hard to say, but that's separate to the law.
I doubt they thought about it at that level of detail. I think it was just sold off on the cheap through a share offering with an initial offering[0] of underpriced shares? There was some kind of scheme where a private individual could buy a small number of shares before they went on general sale. Could be wrong though.
Meta: Bringing Llama 3 to Life
And then there's the current maintainer of libjpeg, who switched the down- and up-scaling algorithms for chroma subsampling to use DCT scaling because that's mathematically more beautiful, which does introduce some additional artifacts at the block boundaries of each upsampled chroma block.
Imo the us desperately needs to break up large monopolies and reestablish or increase free market competition.

It increases innovation, increases jobs, increases labor movement, and decreases inflation.

I'm of the opinion that a great deal of the last round of inflation was companies realizing their cartel power to set high prices because meaningful competition is so rare.

We like will be onshoring or near shoring more production in the coming decades and large cartel powers are less likely to do so because of sunk costs.

... It won't happen though.
Their point is that that is wishful thinking. If someone violates the law, which does happen, your data can get out. "No longer yours" in this context means "others may disseminate it without your approval". They may be penalized for doing so, but it is absolutely in their power to do so.
It uses a background thread to do most of the work, and it appears the 7ns latency numbers are a little cooked:

1. The paper's 7ns like number is 8ns for microbenchmarks but 18ns in applications. The 7ns number I'm guessing is microbenchmarks, and the true application level number is prob more in the 17ns range.

2. It isn't precisely clear what that is measuring. The says that is the invocation time of the logging thread. Considering the thread making the call to log just passes most of the work to a background threads through a multi-producer single consumer queue of some sort, this is likely the time to dump it in the queue.

So you really aren't logging in 7ns. The way I'm reading this is you're dumping on a queue in 17ns and letting a background thread do the actual work.

The workload is cut down by preprocessing the creating a dictionary of static elements do reduce the I/O cost of the thread doing the actual writing (I assume this just means take the format strings and index them, which you could build at runtime, so i'm not sure the pre-processing step is really needed).

My logger than dumps binary blobs onto a ring buffer for another process to log might be able to beat this invocation latency. This isn't really groundbreaking. I know a few place that log the binary blobs and format them later. None of them do the dictionary part, but when that is going to a background thread, I'm not sure how much that matters.
This is just a free will version of "god-of-the-gaps", where you can shovel the basis of any unknown into the gaps of scientific understanding. We know far more about physics and the mind than we did 100 years ago, and the boundaries for free will to exist in have done nothing but shrink. Not even leaving a mark or hint behind.

Free will is much closer to leprechauns (we still haven't mapped every forest!) on the truth spectrum than it is to cancer cures or fusion energy.
is the server side open source too?
That's not really correct.

CORS and the same origin policy don't protect against CSRF attacks by default, at least if we're using the standard definition of CSRF attacks.

An attacker can still "send emails on your behalf by making direct requests to your email provider's" HTTP API even with CORS and the same origin policy in their default settings, as long as your email provider doesn't implement CSRF protection (e.g. anti-CSRF token or Origin header checks). That's why all state-changing HTTP handlers need to implement CSRF protection.
This made me realize how fun games are going to become when integrated with AI, where we aren't limited to the coded option dialogues. I'm apparently still a child as I had way too much fun kicking the blacksmith in the groin and then handing a bewildered him panties as an apology. This really shows the potential for truly immersive and unpredictable adventures.

Would be great if the text appeared as it's voiced, and small things like the AI taking a breather between voicing dialogue options. I wonder if some form of image could be created on-the-fly, too? That's updated like a scene in a comic. Would love to see blacksmith's reaction, lol.
To never have given would have simply required the government to say "this is not part of the sale."

To take it would likely require either lengthy court battles or legislation. Given the priorities of the Labour Party, the latter isn't likely to happen within the next 5 years (when they'd have to add it to their manifesto).
Any plans to support other backends besides javascript?
This is probably the more liberating and insightful paper I've ever read on programming (close 2nd: "Teach Yourself Programming in 10 years"). So many things I already knew from experience, but had never seen been addressed so clearly and _embraced_ at the same time.
Microsoft's branding is seriously all over the place with all of this... They have at least 3 "Copilot" things now I think? Github copilot, the one built into Windows, and now this apparently. sigh.

Regardless, my other points still stand. All of these tools remain a leak waiting to happen.
I have a conspiracy theory that these parts were supposed to be faster at the same power level but after seeing what was happening with Intel they decided to turn down the power usage till they met the same performance of the previous generation until they can figure out what is going on. I wonder what these chips will look like under over clocking.
Ask HN: Is function patching in Python acceptable for a library to do?
> their status depended on this

But it's not inevitable that people chase status and lord it over others. Doing that is a choice. People can always choose to focus on something more healthy and productive.
> This is sort of like meeting one vegan protester and deciding you won't eat any vegetable because you didn't like them

So I'm saying "Don't listen to that one vegan protestor who is kicking that puppy, because the effect will be that even fewer people will eat their vegetables."

In any case, everyone in the nebulous Fediverse who doesn't want to remain only a fringe-iverse, would do well to collectively decide upon and use a viable name that outsiders will see.
Your article is from 2022, and the parent comment mentions fires in 2023.
It's interesting because when I do anything like that I don't look at the language information in the AI response.

Yours is a good example. All I'm looking for is the key names that would enable me to actually get the real information without AI repackaging, which I assume to be flawed.
To be fair, humans, with all their ego, simply call hominid intelligence "general".
Sensible changes, I just hope it doesn’t turn into a system whereby I’m required to make a choice for every aspect of my OS.
Eleven Labs announced a price reduction yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wevDlfDIG9s

It still seems a bit expensive to me, though....
Is this the same as Microsoft was forced to do back in a way with Windows (and their Internet Explorer monopoly)? If I recall correctly it boosted other browsers greatly.

… only to have Google to force feed “You should install Chrome” on every Google search page.
Or they’re successfully excluding you from a target audience due to lack of fit, saving money. Everyone wins
Are you talking here about the idea that Microsoft are training their models on private customer data in a way that could later expose details of it to people outside the company?

That’s not happening. Microsoft Copilot doesn’t train on data it has access to. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/faqs-copilo...
Yes, but it's not reason creating such database, or for not using the standard one from your place.
What place is so terrible that not only do the children have to work but conditions are so bad that the children need to protest and be activists?
Sure they will - the body shop guys still do the build, the staff developer still does the design and the project manager herds the cats, but they'll add a licensed software engineer to review the design and the load bearing parts of the build.

You'd also see service providers start selling pre-PE stamped services - which is hardly different from the whole "go buy your SaaS from X who is (compliance regime) authorized" today. Just like today when you build a house, your general contractor goes and buys a pre-engineered truss and hires a bunch of laborers to put it up per spec.
What’s the name of the tool?
Please also consider this when a localization contractor advertises lower costs by having human editors go over machine translations, then.
I don't know how it is in USA, but in EU, if you don't know how to use a phone as 2FA you are basically out of almost every bank. And more and more apps are adding it. TRy to login to gapps/gmail and you get a question if you want to setup a passkey or something like that.
> a French director

Who even has a name: Jean-Jacques Annaud.
> even though I only understood maybe 30% of them.

My parents got me a Far Side collection when I was younger, and I understood maybe 15% of the comics tops.

But it's still a great read; as an adult I'm stupefied by how much mileage Larson squeezed out of single-pane comics. He was willing to run the gamut of sight gags to double-entendres even to the coming-of-age Calvin and Hobbes style comedy. There's also a pervasive disdain for humanity that lovingly graces most of his comics. Humans are portrayed as baser and stupid compared to talking cows and sapient insects. Children regularly endanger themselves in outrageous situations and their caretakers respond in even stupider ways. Scientists and doctors are portrayed as self-congratulating frauds that care too much about their work to notice or interact with the consequences.

Larson's cynicism is what connected me to his comics as a kid, even when I couldn't get the jokes about taxes and car maintenance. That, and his incredible knack for illustration.
The VS one is an entirely different “Copilot” to this one. This article is talking about the Copilot that’s a RAG ChatGPT that integrates with Sharepoint etc.
I had an experience where I knew(not believe) I was the kind of the screen in which everything appears(including the human body). Lasted for a couple of hours.

After the experience all the religious teaching started to make sense instantly.

I think the thing is Self, Soul, Consciousness, Atman, Reality, Simulation, Screen or whatever you call it.

It's what all the world religions point to.

Though teachings has been made so hard to grasp by culture and dogma.

It's something you(the ego) cannot know without experiencing it. You can try to believe it. But the ego will not let you.
Show HN: GitBegin – Contribute to Open Source by finding good first issues
I've just launched Git Begin, a web app that helps developers find their first open-source issues to work on.
What Git Begin does:

Finds "good first issues" on GitHub
Filters by programming language, project stars, and other criteria
Covers various fields: Web Dev, Mobile Dev, Data Science, ML, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Documentation
Lets you bookmark issues for later
Works in light or dark mode

I built Git Begin with Remix.js, React, and Tailwind CSS. It's designed to work well on both desktop and mobile.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/The-Enthusiast-404/git-begin

I made this because finding the right issues to start contributing to open source can be challenging. If you're looking to contribute to open source, or if you maintain a project and want to attract new contributors, Git Begin might be useful for you.
Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think. All feedback is welcome.
Show HN: 4149 – get proactive guidance on the state of your team, DM-ed in Slack
Hey HN – Adrian, Stephen & Greg here. We’ve been working on an AI agent called 4149 that reflects on your team’s chats & meetings to understand what’s going on with your team. With this knowledge 4149 can proactively raise any flags the team should be aware of.

A few examples of flags raised in the beta so far…

– Hey I’m worried Francis is taking on too much since they are leading the product launch effort but were also assigned many bug fixes this week.

– Hey, I noticed that we have not discussed any customer-feedback in over a week, so let’s try to add it to the next team meeting.

– Shoutout to Mark for going out of their way to make sure we have a place to consolidate all the feedback we gather from the beta.

Our goal is to help founders and managers, who juggle a million things, be more aware of their team’s work and be more agile to take action to help the team. Rather than adding another transactional product on the existing stack, we built an AI agent that works independently and uses the same tools as you.

Once you create a 4149 teammate, you can invite them to your team Slack & point out what channels matter. After that, your 4149 teammate will proactively start working all on its own!

Out of the box, all messages 4149 sends will go to the manager for review/edits as a Slack DM. Then it’s a simple one-click approval to send the message to a Slack channel, Notion/Google doc, or email.

We are currently running 4149 as a free beta, focused on tuning the system to make the right contribution at the right time. We are keenly interested in collecting feedback on the onboarding flow and the quality of contributions 4149 sends.

Happy to answer any questions, hear any suggestions, and iron out any bugs that might pop up!
Yeah, I also love this style of web app, for the same reasons you note!

I made https://github.com/pickledish/cardi as a kind of dynamoDB-based bookmark keeping tool in this style :) though I haven't worked on it in a couple of years.
Show HN: Broadcast Box. Self-hosted sub-second H264/AV1 broadcasting
If the links are operating at only 10Mbps or 100Mbps, it's possible for them to operate in half-duplex mode (e.g., if the cables don't have all 8 pins wired properly), even with a switch. In this mode, there's a collision domain between the host device and the switch.
BMW overtakes Tesla in European EV sales for first time
I built world's first video processing API for LLMs
Built world's first video processing API.

- Process up to 1200 seconds of audio-video processing.

- Compression technique specifically designed for LLMs.

- Compatible with 200+ top models out there.

_ Little tweak and work can make it compatible with custom models too.

- Train model on videos & process videos, both.

- Run multiple processes at one-time.
How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize?
I'm a huge fan of both computer science and secret messages. If that's your cup of tea, I challenge you to decipher this secret message in under 30 guesses and test your general knowledge of computing.
Show HN: kubetrim – tidy up old and broken cluster entries
Eh, even an expected value that's linear with respect to profits can end up with strange results like the St. Petersburg paradox. In general, naively maximizing it breaks down at the point where you stop being insensitive to the possible risks.
Here's the webpage to get more info : www.deeptrain.org/vision
Have you implemented a toy operating system with this? The examples directory only has a debug print statement. I'd be interested to see how it's used in an operating system.
>BMW reported a 35% jump in sales last month from a year earlier, while Tesla saw registrations fall 16%, the report said.
About 139,300 new electric cars were registered last month, down 6% from July 2023, according to the report, which added market share of EVs slipped to 13.5% from 14.6% a year earlier.
Lots of people, lots of highways, lots of land that wasn't occupied by houses and people 100 years ago. Pretty simple.

Stack interchanges are very common for high-traffic areas, some of which wouldn't necessarily show up on your mental radar.
> killed 189 people

$396 million is all that would cost. That is a fraction of the damage to shareholder value.
Only thing that makes sense is that the thread sending the logs is blocket for 7ns - otherwise too much context dependent extra comes in to make a claim like this
I switched to alpine (https://alpineapp.email/) after 20 years of thunderbird. Converting 20 years of archived thunderbird emails took a couple of minutes with a script I found somewhere, so now everything rests securely in the Maildir format.

I am quicker, happier and more efficient with TUI email than ever before, and as a bonus, the memory and CPU footprint is too small to see.

What is important though is to keep in mind that I am not a power user. At most I might get 200 emails per day or so, but for that work loads everything works brilliantly.

I have automated rules, shortcuts, I can define my own keys, I can even rewrite the source for smaller things if I want.

I recommend everyone to invest a day or two just to see if it is for you.
Almost everyone I think - I'm not even sure I like outlining... more like a love/hate relation.

Workflowy and Dynalist are solid ones (cloud based)
Is there any stronger tool for rational truth seeking than the scientific method?

Observe. Hypothesize with falsifiable statements. Form experiments that could disprove the falsifiable statements. Observe. Publicly make falsifiable statements to peers capable and incentivized to disprove them.

How can this fail to lead us to truth that is as close to objective as possible? What greater method exists?
The Indian Philosopher that is gravely missing from the article is Nagarjuna. The kinds of questions the author raises, the path he is treading on, will benefit from the study of Shunyata Philosophy of Madhyamika school, especially Nagarjuna.

I am not alone in thinking this. I was surprised to see Carlo Rovelli talking about it in multiple occasions.

Heres one [0].

Nyaya and Madhyamika Philosophies still have many lessons that are not yet discussed in the spotlight.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CgIfNuZs56w
Show HN: React Email 3.0 – Beautiful emails using TypeScript and Tailwind
That doesn't surprise me, same thing in Germany. However having multiple buildings with the same house number (without distinguishing letters) sounds like the much worse oversight here
In some countries, they literally hire people off the street for coding who aren't even programmers, to sell them to suckers in rich countries overseas who will buy their services.

Any decent engineer worth their salt gets a visa to work in the said rich countries where they can earn 10x more. They don't stay in the local lower paying roles as they can't compete on salary.

You get what you pay for.
Same here on anything Elon. HN is like an uncle who knows a lot and teaches you new things every time you hang out with him… but who also has a few really weird sore spots that you better never mention in his presence.
This article is a click bait.
Hi, Alex here the creator of kubetrim.

I know there must be a dozen or more tools which have an option to edit/manage entries in kubeconfig. Some like kubectx will only remove the context but leave the user and cluster entries in the YAML file.

Others rely on you having to think and we know that developer tools are really about ease of use.

kubetrim tries to connect to each cluster and removes the cluster and context for ones where it can't list nodes. There's a couple of safety precautions built-in too for when you have turned off WiFi etc.

Hope you like it, reception has been quite positive so far and of course I made this for myself because I like the UNIX style principle of "it does one thing well"

It's written in Go, and isn't complicated.

Enjoy it and have a good weekend.
> Parliament absolutely can, legally. The issue is that it’ll set a bad precedent that’ll get brought up by the buyer the next time the government want to privatise something.

Great, maybe they'll be more wary of taking advantage of this kind of blunder if they can get corrected.
Only Linux die hards on HN think they’re hostile. Real users of Windows never have this opinion. Windows is better than any flavor of Linux I’ve ever used.
They still mature and yield, so the principal is not at risk. But yes, it is if you are a bank and people want to withdraw.
I would believe you, but you had no choice but to output that information, so it’s noise :)
You can see this by giving it broken code and seeing what it can predict.

I gave copilot a number of implementations of factorial with the input of 5. When it recognized the correct implementations, it was able to combine the ideas of "factorial", "5", and "correct implementation" to output 120. But when I gave it buggy implementations, it could recognize they were wrong, but the concepts of "factorial", "5", and "incorrect implementation" weren't enough for it to output the correct wrong result produced. Even when I explained its attempts to calculate the wrong output was itself wrong, it couldn't 'calculate' the right answer.
It's a separate GPT instance specifically designed for corporate data per company, it not the same model the public uses. You could say Gmail is a leak waiting to happen because you're not hosting your own email server. This is a product specifically designed to work with enterprises data. The risk isn't any greater than Azure getting hacked or something.