skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the difference between the case and a monolithic electronic bulletin board like HN. HN follows an old-school BB model very close to the models that existed when Section 230 was written.

Winding up in the same place as the defendant would require making a unique, dynamic, individualized BB for each user tailored to them based on pervasive online surveillance and the platform's own editorial "secret sauce."
Universally every single time I've used bing, including this week. My response was to scroll through the entire first oage of results, swear, open google and with the exact same search params what I wanted was the first result.

Bing is objectively worse.
Would that be https://id.me ?

It's what the IRS uses.
At the moment I haven't found good ways of measuring the quality between different models. Please share if you have any ideas!

For small scripts I've found the output to be very similar between small local models and GPT-4o (judging by a human eye).
I think this is plainly untrue in any of the situations relevant to what we're discussing.

Some "de-identified" health information can be used or disclosed without restriction under HIPAA, but it needs to genuinely not be possible to correlate back to an individual, which I don't think is something that's possible with what you're describing (at least if prior medical history and decisions factor into the execution of the program). Some health information can be released in the public interest (like for research) or for bettering healthcare operations, but that's not this either.

It might be worth taking a look at https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg....

This is excluding stuff like 23AndMe genome sharing / Ancestry.com law enforcement collaboration, which might be what you're alluding to, but I believe it to be irrelevant in this case.
"it was an older and much cheaper model with the shroud replaced and flashed to call itself the newer model in windows"

I really though that anyone going to these lengths wouldn't be bothering to do this to scam on amazon and would instead be gainfully employed??? What the hell.

I guess I can't buy anything on amazon anymore. Oh well.
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I wanted an easy way to go from idea to user feedback as fast as possible, so I built this.
> C++ has exactly the same async mechanism as Rust

Is this true? I ask because I've seen it mentioned that a C++ co_await suspends that call frame alone (thus the call returns to the caller and resumes immediately), where as Rust's .await suspends the entire call stack (all frames up to and including the caller). If true, in what sense are these mechanisms same?
Platinum was first melted using concentrated solar iirc.
The ingenuity of kids to believe and be easily influenced by what they see online had a big role in this ruling, disregarding that is a huge disservice to a productive discussion.
Why Did the Chicken Catch the Metro? 'Cause It Was Faster Than Crossing the Road
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Nice to see, over the past months I've replaces pandas with ibis in all new projects and I am a huge fan!

- Syntax in general feels more fluid than pandas

- Chaining operations with deferred expressions makes code snippets very portable

- Duckdb backend is super fast

- Community is very active, friendly and responsive

I'm trying to promote it to all my peers but it's not a very well known project in my circles. (Unlike Polars which seems to be the subject of 10% of the talks at all Python conferences)
The "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy.
What remains of justice when the judge is also the vindictive victim and the accuser?

Recently the press published message leaks indicating wrong conduct from Moraes or at least from his minions. In one of the messages they even cogitated — joking? — hiring someone to kidnap those they couldn't get extradited. But what summarizes all is Tagliaferro's, the chief of the supreme court investigative team (yep), answer to a journalist when asked if he was responsible for the leaks. That he, knowing Moraes, "would never have the courage" to do so.

https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-justica/ex-assessor-de-mor...
Design Holes for Machinability [video]
Yeah, I agree. Rampage is the original here. The artwork is very similar, and clearly mimicking the other game, but ultimately original.
We're there on solar panels. The next step is batteries.

And roof systems. Cheaper ways to get solar panels on roofs. That's mostly installation cost. Does Tesla's solar roof [1] actually work? Anyone have one?

[1] https://www.tesla.com/solarroof
I agree that the announcements are annoying, but isn't this an overly emotional response? UK railways are extremely safe (as shown in the following link that someone else already posted here), and the annoying announcements might just be one of the less appealing aspects of an overall safety culture which is working as designed. I certainly don't see any connection between annoying announcements and any of the real problems facing the UK at present. E.g. what do they have to do with the housing crisis, or the social care crisis, or ...?

https://international-railway-safety-council.com/safety-stat...
> I don't want claims to be public.

I don't think you realize this already happens. It is already available to hundreds of organizations, both domestic and foreign. Any organization can license it really at a price. What I said would only democratize it, also mandating an appropriate level of anonymization which is currently inconsistent or missing. Also, think of the bigger picture, of the clues such data will yield for advances in healthcare.

> someone getting specialized immune therapy in west virginia is pretty damn identifiable.

Yes, despite the best anonymization, some can still be identified, but it will take significant effort, and be limited to a very small number of people, like the one in WV. Overall though, the ratio of benefits to harms from transparency would exceed 999:1.
To be fair thats an outlier and says more about Rockstar than the state of technology. The only other game I can think of with that kind of cross cutting is Skyrim.
Plus bad knees by 40
Well, something like network mounted 4 TB of space for photos, some movies, stuff like that?!?
Haven’t looked into the Zuckerberg thing yet but everything I’ve seen of the “Twitter Files” has done more to convince me that nothing inappropriate or bad was happening, than that it was. And if those selective-releases were supposed to be the worst of it? Doubly so. Where’s the bad bit (that doesn’t immediately stop looking bad if you read the surrounding context whoever’s saying it’s bad left out)?
> We did not want to contact FlyCASS first as it appeared to be operated only by one person...

It seems pretty remarkable that airlines are buying such a security sensitive piece of software from a one person shop. If you make it very far into selling any piece of SaaS software to most companies in corporate America, at the absolute minimum they're going to ask you for your SOC2 audit report.

SOC2 is pretty damn easy to get through with minimal findings as far as audits go, but there are definitely several criteria that would should generate some red flags in your report if the company is operated by a single person. And I would have assumed that if your writing software that integrates with TSA access systems, the requirements would be a whole lot more rigorous than SOC2.
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I wish we had p(doom) conversations that included factors other than AI. We've been living in a paperclip-maximization-ocracy for at least half a century (probably longer.)

Accounts of the exact nature of this system and who is to blame for it vary with political perspective, but we all feel it. We're all shaped by it. And we can all sense its perversity.
That wouldn’t work for PDF’s use case of being an arbitrary paper-like format because the various Unicode and OpenType algorithms don’t provide sufficient functionality for rendering arbitrary text: there are no one-size-fits all rules! The standards are a set of generic “best effort” guidelines for lowest-common-denominator text layout that are constantly being extended.

Even for English the exact tweaking of line breaking and hyphenation is a problem that requires manual intervention from time to time. In mathematics research papers it’s not uncommon to see symbols that haven’t yet made it into Unicode. Look at the state of text on the web and you’ll encounter all these problems; even Google Docs gave in and now renders to a canvas.

PDF’s Unicode handling is indeed a big mess but it does have the ability to associate any glyph with an arbitrary Unicode string, for text extraction purposes, so there’s nothing to stop the program that generates the PDF from mapping the fi ligature glyph to the to-character string “fi”.
Oh thanks! I had one heck of a difficult time trying to find the author and title of 'the glass bead game' by Herman Hesse. It's pretty hard to find with simple keyword based search.

Though short comments seemed to score a bit too highly IMHO. It took a while to find a query that found the long rambly comment I needed.
Wow, I’ve never had someone ask me to purposefully build in latency. That’s nuts.

Maybe she was responding to how jarring page transitions can be. I’ve gotten some good use out of the View Transitions API in a product I’m building. (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...) It’s a server-side rendered multi-page app, and throwing in just a bit of view transition CSS to get a nice fade effect when you go to a different page does feel nice.
Exactly!! There a uncountable millions of examples, and you're right, anywhere efficiency counts, which is pretty much everywhere.
As a general rule, don't talk to the media -- there's little upside and a lot of potential downside.
> it needs to genuinely not be possible to correlate back to an individual

What you say is a theoretical goal. In practice, despite good efforts, there is no hard rule imposed by reality that 100% of records will totally remain anonymized.
(author) I disagree, as you might expect. :)

I'm an independent developer who makes video games, one of which - YOYOZO - was voted a GOTY in 2023. I can explain every single line of that source code and every parameter, variable and constant. I could also explain the physics system I created, my graphics rendering, replay system, scoring calculations, and so on. Nothing is in my code by chance and everything was written by me. I can appreciate the that some people find this difficult to believe, even more so if that type of from-scratch solo-development seems alien.

Mine is a bit of a special case because I code games from a blank file without using engines like Godot, Unreal, Unity, Game Maker. Could every game developer explain every part of the game they're making? Of course not. But if one person can claim it then we know it can be true.

I agree with you that some systems can be so complex that it would take a huge effort to understand or predict all possible outcomes, like breaking encryption. But that's not all systems. So I think it's not so black and white. It can possible and impossible, easy and difficult, obviously human and done by design or less obviously human with the intent shrouded in complexity. It doesn't have to be one or the other, it can be both.
You're mistaken as to what this ruling is about. Ultimately, when it comes right down to it, the Third Circuit is saying this (directed at social media companies):

"The speech is either wholly your speech or wholly someone else's. You can't have it both ways."

Either they get to act as a common carrier (telephone companies are not liable for what you say on a phone call because it is wholly your own speech and they are merely carrying it) or they act as a publisher (liable for everything said on their platforms because they are exercising editorial control via algorithm). If this ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court, then they will have to choose:

* Either claim the safe harbour protections afforded to common carriers and lose the ability to curate algorithmically

or

* Claim the free speech protections of the First Amendment but be liable for all content as it is their own speech.
How well does it compare to the original un-minified code if you compare it against minify + humanify. Would be neat if it can improve mediocre code.
Then you're not talking about what I was talking about in the post you replied to with a framing that suggested you were disagreeing. Did you click the wrong reply link?
I believe there is a non zero probability that you(awareness) are eternal and what you do in this life has consequences in subsequent lives.

It's okay for you to disagree. That's just my belief system.
That's why everyone doing sensitive (military) things in Ukraine uses Signal for that and Telegram for their social media crap.
If it's a criminal case, be sure to checkout the innocence project to inform yourself on some of the junk science police and prosecutors like to use.
This reminds me of an article I read somewhere (probably here in HN) wherein people implementing Banking Services just straight up test the API in Production after a few cycles of mock development, due to constantly having to deal with edge cases not present in the dev env.
Fair point, N100 systems do differ quite a bit generally, the numbers I've got in my head are what I've seen people quote for the Radxa X4 recently. Some might be more, some less.
I only know one person who successfully got one installed, and his installation was endlessly delayed, after which their paperwork got screwed up on Tesla's end so they had it for free until they sold house (not sure if they ever got charged for it honestly). It worked, but reportedly wasn't as efficient as panels would've been.
The US (and almost every government) has reliable ways to covertly move a person that don't involve putting SQLi in their own codebases.

The classic way to covertly move a person is to give them a new passport to travel under, and have them move around like every other schlub on the planet. Competent intelligence services make sure that this isn't easy to detect by making the fake passport's identifier indistinguishable from real ones. Russia has prominently failed to do this several times[1][2].

[1]: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/11/07/how...

[2]: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/08/25/socialite-widow-j...
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Congrats on building and shipping! I love how "at home" the styling feels.

I searched for `Excel` since that's a topic I care about and tend to follow frequently.

The first ("most relevant") link is a post with 1 point and 0 comments from 2020. The second link has 1 comment and 2 points, from 2017.

The top two links on Algolia's search have about 1000 points each and are way more topical.

I tried to hit "Back" to make this comment, and saw the site broke my browser's navigation. I was forced to right click on "Back" (or spam the back button) to get back here... so not a great experience, overall
Structured/JSON saves a tonne of time building regex parsers. The regex parsing at query-time is also pretty expensive. This is where Splunk excels - dealing with the noise with powerful querying. ClickHouse is also very performant at this, we hear. It's an expensive task though (computationally and cost wise)

I thought this was well put together from Better Stack: https://betterstack.com/community/guides/logging/logging-bes...

Charity, CTO of Honeycomb has strong views (which we enjoy a lot): https://charity.wtf/tag/observability-2-0/ - they come at it from a tracing/OT angle which is Honeycomb's forte, but we agree a lot on the intended outcomes - actionable (not spammy/noisy) + make it easy to gather the variable/state context in the context of a single event.
Ah, but there are third-party services that provide identity verification, such as id.me. And now that there are for-profit entities involved in a government service, you will never be able to convince the government to implement their own solution. It's telling that id.me is headquartered in McLean, Virginia; gotta be in the DC metro area so your lobbyists have easy access to Congress.
> Achieves 94.9 Mbit/sec when Pico is overclocked to 300 MHz, as measured by iperf

Is this an effective rate, or just the reflection of a hardware limit?
It is a curious assertion for sure, but the next wave of AI will be throttled by a few factors: chip fab capacity, water supply to cool data centers, and electricity to power the chips/servers. Look at what is happening with xAI in Memphis where they are illegally running a dozen turbine generators to power their new AI data center since they can't get enough supply off the grid.
As a former Sydney resident, i would also like to point out for our North American audience that Australia doesnt have the same pedestrian right of way laws as N.A.

Pedestrians must give way to cars at all intersections and corners unless there is a marked ped crossing or traffic lights displaying a walk symbol.

Its not like NA in that every intersection or corner is a de-facto crosswalk.

In Sydney the police are also VERY active in enforcing and ticketing people who cross outside signals, or outside the walk signal. As a personal anecdote, i was fined in Sydney because the copper said i crossed on the flashing red walk symbol. He argued that in the time i took to step off the curb and before my foot landed on the roadway, that the signal changed.
If solar could reasonably double for me as a way of weathering a several day power outage in the winter, it would be more interesting. But I'm deeply suspicious of anything that has people out in front of Home Depot hard-selling something that often has complex financing schemes. I don't have huge power bills relative to lots of other home costs. So I'll pass.
Is not the set of such things offered still editorial judgement?

(And as an addendum, even if you think the answer to that is no, do you trust a judge who can probably barely work an iphone to come to the same conclusion, with your company in the crosshairs?)
Moderation doesn't scale, it's NP-complete or worse. Massive social networks sans moderation cannot work and cannot be made to work. Social networks require that the moderation system is a super-set of the communication system and that's not cost effective (except where the two are co-extensive, e.g. Wikipedia, Hacker News, Fediverse.) We tried it because of ignorance (in the first place) and greed (subsequently). This ruling is just recognizing reality.
Peeve of mine: blog posts that lack a date stamp. The only date appearing anywhere in the article is at the bottom, where it says "Last modified: August 29, 2024." So for all I knew it was a brand new post, until this comment. How old is it actually?
vpn incident for one and their refusal the change initially or admit any wrong doing which i mean is the theme for every controversy they go through
I just bought one! It's brilliant, I had no idea. Cost almost nothing, and I removed the HDD and put an SSD in there, extra RAM and it's lightning quick.

Right now I have Windows 10 on it as I needed to run some old proprietary software, but it's a proper gem of a machine. I got the one without touch screen.
I have used to https://www.solarpricewatcher.com/ to find panels.
We spent quite a bit of time trying to make length normalization better, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. The default behavior was super biased towards longer rambly comments and we may have over-corrected. I appreciate the note.
Being that CISA is under the same parent org of TSA that there should be ongoing internal evaluation/remediation of sibling services.

https://www.cisa.gov/
That would be something, but the issue is that most people don't have the time or capacity to audit their own records, or to hire an attorney to escalate it. Journalists on the other hand specialize in this; they can audit everyone's records and expose wrongdoing at a state level.
> he’s only been in the job a month or so, so replacing wouldn’t be a huge deal

He's way, way than more than just some guy who has been rail minister for a month, he's one of the most respected, perhaps the most respected transport executive in Britain(at least until yesterday). He's not an elected politician, he has worked professionally in rail transportation since 1975.

For 10 years he was Chief Executive of Transport for London which runs all public transport in London.
Following that, for the past 10 years he was and still is Chairman of Network Rail, the organisation which is responsible for the entire British Railway Network. It's in this capacity that he sent the letter, not as a minister.

Unless this turns into some huge scandal, which seems unlikely, he'll be fine.
They’re “failing” to investigate Epstein’s client list, too. The whole thing basically needs to be disbanded and investigated itself, then rebuilt from scratch. This is banana republic grade stuff.
This exists in some European countries, in Hungary for example you have an identity service (KAU) which authenticates you and operates as an SSO provider across a number of different government properties.

The United States has it, too: https://login.gov

But with a government as large as America's it's going to take time to get everyone converted to the new system.
> Most people who care about the history of nuclear power know about the ballooning costs and schedule overruns for nuclear reactors after Three Mile Island

Costs were ballooning even before TMI.

> The other part is that real coal prices fell in the 1980s instead of rising.

More importantly, 1979 saw the passage of PURPA, which began to open the power market to non-utility providers. There was enormous untapped potential for cogeneration (and, as it turned out, cogeneration-in-name-only) that produced a slug of new output, mostly gas fired, into the grids just after what had been inexorable 7%/year increase in electricity demand in the US suddenly moderated.

In this environment, it was very difficult to make the case for new nuclear power plants.

> I wonder if those over-optimistic solar cost predictions you saw in 1975

In what sense were they over-optimistic? PV has experienced a remarkably relentless cost decline along an experience curve of about 20% decline in cost with each doubling of cumulative production.
Yoshua Bengio is a very respected scientist with well deserved reputation, but this discussion is upsetting… “academia now trains much smaller models… 10^26 FLOPs is 10 to the 26 floating point operations per second.. yes.. how big is that compared to GPT-4? It is much bigger than all the existing ones…” (flops has a different meaning: there is no per second in the law; one single H100 from last year performs 1e15 FLOPs per second; llama3.1 was close to the 1e26 limit this year, and the total training FLOPS of other models are not published; research could change once compute is even cheaper but state laws move at glacial speeds…).

It is disheartening so see the damage capacity in the hands of a couple of paranoic people who perhaps read the wrong scifi and had lots of power to influence others. If California passes this law, in a few years the world economy will be very different.
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I use the default ctrl-b for tmux and changed screen to use the same. I like it because on my keyboard, a Kinesis Advantage, the (left) ctrl and b keys are right next to each other which makes them an easy combo.
Oh man, I thought I was the only one! It really is maddening to not have these work as expected.
FYI, this is the "vacuum adjustable focus mirror" I mentioned:

https://lm.solar/order/4-square-rigid-aluminum-composite-mir...
The ThinkCentres kinda look like "evil" IBM corporate machines out of a Star Wars movie. I wish I could put an IBM logo on mine to complete the picture.
Can it support raw HTML + CSS (or tailwind) ?
Newly delivered Ukrainian F-16 crashed
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