skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been building https://www.datafragment.com, a tool that can help you get prospects for your product. It lets you search the web's HTML code.

Some of our current users use it to find Wordpress websites with specific versions of Wordpress, others to find websites that use niche-market tools, ones that are not covered by incumbents such as Wappalyzer or BuiltWith. We're currently focused on the French market.

Curious to hear your thoughts, if you are looking for new ways to find prospects.
For pricing data, sure, but for things like fundamentals or economics where there are estimates that are revised over time, one way to store this data is with a versioning feature. It allows for PIT data without much overhead, in theory.

And actually, pricing can be revised as well, though it is much less common.

That said, versioning is not the only way to handle these kinds of things.

Versioning can also be useful as an audit trail for data transformation. Though again, these could be stored in another way as well.
I use Firefox's readability mode for quite a lot to help me process these "pretty" web pages. Most of the time it works pretty well and I can read the content even faster. Even if it doesn't work perfectly, it still provides a better contrast than the original. In the case of these new Ruby docs, it falls apart more completely than I've ever seen. It's completely unusable!

As a terrible Ruby programmer with pretty good 55 year old eyes I can't read these docs at all. Everyone is complaining about the color scheme (which I agree with) but its the font choices (lightweight, grey on grey) that kills usability for me.

When I'm looking at docs I need to find what I need quickly, and searching a sea of whitespace and barely there text is not great.
Science treasures from Microsoft mogul up for auction
This sounds really interesting as a concept. Would love to learn more! Ping me via Patrick at omnifact.ai if you’d like to chat about this!
I would think more in terms of a network myself, but it gets harder to visualise I imagine.
The amount of mystery and curiosity that this game and others like inspired in me as a kid was immense. It’s great nostalgia and honestly still motivates me.

As an adult, I’ve enjoyed leisurely reading through this code to help unravel how it works.
You can get 512GB RAM and 96 core machines for $1000 / month and at that point you can throw any workload on it.
Police should have "more say in EU policy-making," says Swedish government
How do you compare to the many other Zanzibar open source implementations like keto, spicedb, topaz, warrant, etc. It seems like it is a crowded space.
For a lot of usecases it is actually awful
The cost of a serious nuclear accident is fossil fuels[0].

[0]: https://ember-climate.org/countries-and-regions/countries/ja...
> As for the attack method, there's always the good ol' "flash drive found on a parking lot" vector.

Right, which requires the attacker to be physically near the parking lot at some point! That decreases the number of possible attackers by several orders of magnitude at least.

> Exfil may be tricky if the system is actually airgapped - I take GP's use of scare quotes to mean that most systems are "airgapped" by means of software-enforced security policies, which should correctly be referred to as "not airgapped".

Ah, that makes more sense! I do think tpmoney was quite clearly talking about truly airgapped systems, however.
I (along with a friend) am working on an Elixir-based built-in error reporting and tracking solution: https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker

I wrote a post explaining the reasons for building this when we already have multiple third-party SaaS providers: https://crbelaus.com/2024/07/31/built-in-elixir-error-report...

It boils down to simplicity. While error reporting is extremely valuable for most projects, it is absent from many. The most common reason is that this requires entering SaaS territory. Most solutions are provided by third-parties that require you to subscribe and pay for the privilege of tracking your errors. Cost is the main noticeable downside. Data protection (GDPR, HIPAA, etc) is another.

The Elixir community is providing great feedback and it was covered both in a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/TNmSVjGyZx0?si=yd6kOwa2ZpxUyFad) and a Podcast (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/215).
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Back on the merry-go-round of bad science regarding meat consumption
> Deputies responded that morning to a report of a mail theft that had just happened

The fact that they showed up and followed through, is the most surprising part of the story. That why it made the CNN news probably; “Look, police did their job after someone did most of the work”.
The Gitflic link you posted is broken. Here is the working one (looks like it was updated recently, but my browser doesn't want to translate)

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chro...

I wasn't aware of the bpc-clone, but it's working and was updated 4 hours ago. I would imagine Github would catch onto that one rather quickly. The parent folder is private.
One technique to reduce hallucinations is to tell the LLM "don't make things up, if you don't know then say so". Make a habit of saying this for important questions or questions for which you suspect the LLM may not know.
The US also isn't facing an invading army!
I haven’t tried on recent consoles so all my current gaming experience is on PC. I have played Rocket League at both sub 60fps and 200+fps and with narrow and wide fov and it didn’t change anything for me so I don’t know if it’s that.
www.papertalk.xyz

Made it to the front page of HN a few months ago with a less polished version. Still trying to build consistent traffic and engagement. Any feedback is much appreciated!
If your data can't contain a NUL byte you can just use NUL as the separator.
I’ve never seen it used for backtests personally. Generally backtested results are saved as a batch of variants following some naming convention as different symbols.
I wrote a post how to do full-text search back in 2018:

https://austingwalters.com/fast-full-text-search-in-postgres...

Imo custom indexes are the real key to more accuracy and speed. That said, if you have <100m documents the built in search functions are great and really depends on your speed requirements.
Banlieues are not “council housing”. HLM is council housing. Banlieues literally means suburbs.
They’re still having problems with Hurricane Electric and other telecoms, problems no legal website should be having. The fact that they could even have these problems is itself a big deal, considering this has never happened before in the history of the Internet.

And it was never that their speech was “immediately getting people killed” (which is an exaggeration given even their most liberal “kill count” isn’t even in the double digits), but that certain people with tech connections (who have been redacted on HN) don’t want their “consent accidents” on public websites.
By saying its more complicated I meant to say that the settlements in the West Bank don't really have mainstream support in Israel as the parent comment suggested. There's a very powerful national religious minority that is able to keep them alive but that's more due to political deadlock than due to widespread support (I'm not arguing some support exists but its not huge, and Smotrich btw is expected not to make it into the next parliament because he's leaking tons of voters). Curiously, the most religious Israelis (the ultra orthodox) generally don't care about the settlements at all.
Now dismantling the settlements would be very hard now but that's much more due to a reluctance of most Israelis to see a Palestinian state in the West Bank due to fear for their security - not out of love for the settlements.
If conditions for peace ever arrive I don't think the majority of Israelis would have a problem to dismantle them (Israel already did dismantle quite a few settlements in the past, also in the West Bank). But yeah we'll cross the 'peace bridge' when we get there.
The author has a Russian mirror

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chro...
I suppose it's precisely the existence of Boeing that keeps SpaceX "cheap" (I guess they are also good at what they do). I would imagine the minute SpaceX has no competition, it will lose all incentive to be cheap or good.

Equally, perhaps Boeing knows that oddly they have utility as a runner up, and are unmotivated to do better.

Interesting game theoretic problem.
> but not with AI

Why not? Seems like the perfect use-case, which isn't true for a lot of other "AI" companies.
Is it really a “crushing blow”? Bowing’s continued success in the commercial aviation sector despite the MCAS issue seems to suggest that they are more or less untouchable. They’re too big to fail, and probably also too big to succeed.
Pretty interesting take on a finance app! I like the inbox and filters on transactions. I'm not sure I understand the benefit of storing it all in the browser though. Does the data just live in the browser? Does anything store on a server?
Mid 60s. Microsoft 1996-2000 but ran my own business for 20 years after.
There are a lot of odd choices here. Is there a mailing list thread or something where this was worked out? I couldn't seem to find one on a quick scan, but I don't know where these discussions happen these days.

I really don't want to assume incompetence or ignorance at all since I'm sure someone worked really hard on this. But I'm genuinely puzzled by a lot of what's going on.
hmm, you know there is this big book of all chemicals....no one in the science communities with any professional sense and skills recommends rote remember such lists....

For example, is it better to remember by rote all the amino acids or is it better to reason which is which be the quantum mechanics involved in the different bonding groups?

Most in biochemistry go with the 2nd option....and succeed.
Love how the topic has shifted from “even an hour of storage” a couple of years ago to now demanding a complete seasonal storage solution without even specifying based on which data it is needed.

It is funny when reality outpaces contrived made up arguments by conservative detractors.
That's the plan... :-) It can auto-detect 45 languages now, including Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and most European languages. (like in sci-fi movies, it allows two users to share a pair of airpods to talk to each other in different languages.)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.evergreenl...
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/3po/id6503194251
Agree with this sentiment, erosion of trust and potential issues. The illusion of facts and knowledge is a great moral hazard that AI companies are willing to step around while the market share battles play out. More responsible AI companies, stronger government policy, better engineering and less dumb users are all part of the solution here.

This is more solvable from an engineering perspective if we don't take the approach that LLMs are a hammer and everything is a nail. The solution I think is along the lines of breaking the issue down into 2-3 problems: 1) Understand the intent of question, 2) Validating the data in resultset and 3) provide a signal to the user of the measure to which the result matches the intent of the intention.

LLMs work great to understand the intent of the request; To me this is the magic of LLM - when I ask, it understands what I'm looking for as opposed to google has no idea, here's a bunch of blue links - you go figure it out.

However, more validation of results is required. Before answers are returned, I want the result validated with a trusted source. Trust is a hard problem..and probably not in the purview of the LLM to solve. Trust means different things in different contexts. You trust a friend because they understand your worldview and they have your best interest in mind. Does an LLM do this? You trust a business because they have consistently delivered valuable services to their customers, leveraging proprietary, up-to-date knowledge acquired through their operations, which rely on having the latest and most accurate information as a competitive advantage. Descartes stores this mornings garbage truck routes for Boise IA in its route planning software - thats the only source I trust for Boise IA garbage truck routes. This, I believe is the purpose for tools, agents and function calling in LLMs, and APIs from Descartes.

But this trust needs to be signaled to the user in the LLM response. Some measure of the original intent against the quality of the response needs to be given back to the user so that its not just an illusion of the facts and knowledge, but a verified response that the user can critically evaluate as to whether it matches their intent.
The space shuttle had three main components - the orbiter (white and black space plane with the crew and cargo), the external tank (rust brown on all but the first few flights), and a pair of solid rocket boosters. The orbiter had three engines and received its propellant (oxygen and hydrogen) from the external tank. At launch, the solid rocket boosters (SRB) and the main engines were all running so technically they can all be considered part of a “first stage”. The SRBs would expend their propellant in around two minutes and separate. They dropped into the ocean, slowed via parachute, and were recovered by boat and refurbished. The three space shuttle main engines would continue to burn for several more minutes until the external tank was depleted. The ET would be discarded and burn up on reentry. Then the orbiter would use two small rockets with internally stored hypergolic propellants to boost up to its intended orbit.

Apollo/Saturn had a much more traditional staging design where the first stage booster would run then drop off, then the second stage booster would run, then drop off, etc. There exist other rockets like the Atlas which had what they called a “stage and a half” design where the center stage burned for a long time and there was an outer “ring” stage that dropped off after a shorter time while the center stage kept going.

After going to the moon, the only part of the entire Apollo/Saturn rocket that came back was the command module capsule with the astronauts and moon rocks. These were completely torched and affected by salt water and were not designed to be reused. Reentry from the moon is significantly faster than reentry from low earth orbit.

The shuttle orbiters were refurbished and reused. It was a very difficult, expensive, and time consuming process to get an orbiter ready for another flight.

All of that is to say that the picture is blurry for the shuttle regarding first stage reusability. Yes the SRBs and orbiters were reused and were lit at launch. The ET was in use at launch but discarded. In my opinion it’s sort of not that interesting to argue what is and isn’t first stage on the shuttle because the elements just don’t map cleanly.

The design of the system with the SRBs, tank, and orbiters being adjacent to each other is considered by many to have been too dangerous in retrospect. This design was a factor in both shuttle disasters - the SRB shooting fire at the ET causing it to explode on Challenger and cracked foam falling away from the ET during launch and hitting the leading edge of the orbiter wing for Columbia. If they were stacked vertically rather than adjacent, those specific failure modes would not have been possible.
What to do with the random domains you buy
Well, it really tells you haven't tried buying drugs on Telegram. It is all scammers, every single one of them (maybe with the exception for prostitutes but I bet most of these are scam too). There is pretty much 0% chance you'll buy drugs or fake documents using the geo search. They will scam you for a transfer and disappear. It really is no that different from a spam email, just different media and targeting.

That said, you CAN buy drugs on Telegram, sure, it is just not as easy as everyone seems to think. You need to know the account name of a service that delivers in your area, you need to be reeealy careful when typing the account name because for every real drug seller account there are multiple fakes with slight variation in the name that fish for people using search, and then even if you have a verified account and they sold you drugs last month, there is like 30% chance that the account have been compromised and now you are talking with scammers again.
Please do the calculation on cost for consumers for a nuclear power plant which can’t produce a single kWh for the grid any time the sun is up.
Hi man!, the creator of amrit here. Loved to see your user test of amrit. Just wanted to tell you it would be great to add this to PLDB. Also, It was indeed Hello, World!, google translate probably didn't do a good job. And fyi there were some examples in the playground too for common stuff like fibonacci, fizz-buzz, factorial etc. if you are interested in trying.

kudos otherwise

PS: I checked out PLDB, found it to be quite awesome.
My hardware project is the 100 year computer. I believe the next phase of computing will be focused on maintainability and longevity. This is different from the development phase of computing that currently surrounds us.

The next wave of interesting hardware development will be focused on form factor. Devices of the future could be any shape or size.

The first version of this device I have completed but not fully documented is an 8 unit mixed use apartment building. I converted each of the 7 classrooms into studio apartment the 8th unit is my development studio.

How can a building be a computer? My perspective holds that a building is a machine that needs a differential engine to optimize the resource usage of the occupants. This perspective with the idea that some circuits should larger not smaller to aid operational understanding.

The building is done enough and I need a break so I think my next form factor will be mobile sensor network and focused on individuals and small groups.

I think developing for a sailboat will be a good complement to the building. The both serve the same purpose but one is extremely resource constrained and in a harsh environment.

Currently identifying all the current sailboat tech for a refit. The devices I’m looking at range from RADAR to sine wave inverters. A very rich tech environment. Looking forward the fall.
> Not the real world implications of it.

What real-world implications? One of my favourite lines of questioning in nuclear debates is trying to figure out what exactly the anti-nuclear crowd are worried about in terms of real-world implications. The real world implications seem to be minor enough that nobody can point them out.

Even your comment, deploring real world implications, doesn't articulate what they are. The only real world implications I've seen are people panicking over negligible issues. And I'm happy to believe there are actual problems, but it'd be fantastic if someone knew what they were.
Because at Apple, everyone was under the Ontological Supposition that Jobs was the second coming.
Cool, this look great, thanks for sharing. Scanning the front page, I actually think the maker of this [0] is active here on HN and [1] also made it here before.

[0] https://howtoware.co/invisible-computers

[1] https://howtoware.co/wyldcard
TBQH I'd bet the following would yield pretty good results:

1. Take your existing incident reporting / review docs (you have those, right?) that cover everything including 5-why incident reporting and analysis.

2. Fine-tune a Llama-3.1-70b [1] LoRA on the data associated with the outage as input, and the root cause analysis as the output

3. Tada! You have a state-of-the-art custom LLM that is good at analyzing your outages and guessing what the root causes might be.

It's a little shocking sometimes to me how underutilized fine-tuning is. Most of the "learning" happening in "machine learning" is in training — yes, it's definitely true that LLMs can exhibit a surprising amount of "in-context learning" via prompts, but it's a surprising because learning during training is so much more powerful, and it's surprising that in-context works at all. Honestly even just fine-tuning an 8b model — which is totally doable on a 3090/4090 — can yield SOTA results on task-specific performance. It's so much better than prompting!

1: I mean you could also finetune 405b, but you'll need a lot of GPUs both to train it and to run it. In my experience (public benchmarks be damned; the models all tend to saturate the public benchmarks, even though everyone claims not to train on them), 70b on internal evals tends to perform similarly to gpt-4o, and with OSS models you have somewhat more ownership and control.
Fantastic, thanks. Keeping this answer for reference.
At least they seem to be seriously trying to fix it now.

https://www.techpowerup.com/324171/amd-is-becoming-a-softwar...
I am trying to build a algotrading system for myself.
I have reached the stage where it acts as my co-pilot and I can read graphs and take trade, but I am now stuck to make it fully automated.
Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water
"The deputy speaker of the state Duma, Vladislav Davankov, said he had called on Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to secure Durov’s release. “The arrest of [Durov] could have political motives and be a means of obtaining the personal data of Telegram users. We must not allow this,” he said on his Telegram channel."

https://www.ft.com/content/c5d40e3c-9f9c-43dc-a467-1c713b40c...

That makes me wonder if Telegram was always a Russian spook op and its [ineffective] banning just a ruse.

I don't think any of the major platforms are independent of some spook oversight.
Being separate systems is fine as long as they can all calculate a number within the time it takes to make a cup of coffee. That's not hard if you actually make it a design goal.

I'm sorry that "prioritize it" isn't very helpful, but it's true. If the calculation takes longer than that, it's a management-induced problem.

If we're positing a system that can already do that, then you need to be more specific about the problem you're describing because it's not obvious.
The term to search for prior art is user-mode scheduler / scheduling. Basically you add additional kernel features that allow making some scheduling decisions in the application, it's not something you'd just build on a vanilla pthreads implementation.

Examples:

Windows 7 UMS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/u...

google3 fibers / switchto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
Still happens, but it’s Friday now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Release_Day
Because that's another thing to set up, operate and pay for.
At some point in the near future, Facebook will use your accumulated posting & commenting history to sell you an A.I. form of yourself that can chat with people AND keep you on teh interwebz well past your death.
...Do you think nuclear power plants stop working during the day?

Look at the (many) graph reports I linked: in every major American market, nuclear produces consistent power throughout the day and night. That's why they're useful!
This is a great idea. I'm actually researching DIY solutions to electrifying my boat (I was a USAF electrician, once upon a time) and the prepackaged battery solutions are so expensive and inflexible. (Granted, for marine use there are some extra considerations...)