skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember this from my dynamical systems class at uni.

How useful are these for generating pseudo-random numbers?

From what I recall they never retrace the same path so if you picked one of those narrow lines and take a cross section which you map to some space that you care about, say a unit interval, and then sample whenever it comes past that cross section you should have a pretty good source of randomness, no? Might not be the most efficient sampling scheme but should have the nice property of being aperiodic?

I guess given simulation with finite precision it will have to repeat eventually but how long will those cycles be in practice? Also, if you're willing to trade off some space then you could track all points sampled and if detect a cycle then you rerun the previous cycle at higher precision and stay at the increased precision until you detect the next cycle, rinse and repeat.
Now I want to do this for my hometown.
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>I am really curious how do people actually evaluate scrapers?

It is not easy to evaluate scrapers unless you have had to deal with lots of poorly written websites in your life. Just using it on a few highly structured well-maintained sites can be impressive but if you are using it to acquire data from many websites or large websites things get hairy fast.

Most scrapers today are some combination of extracting xpaths and reducing them to the loosest common form, parsing semantic (or easy to identify, like links) or highly structured content that has discoverable patterns, and LLMs.

The actual best way to scrape a site is to determine if they are populating the data you want with API calls and replicate those. People are usually more reluctant to completely change back-end code but will make subtle breaking changes (to your scraper) to front-end code all the time. For example small structural or naming changes. This has become more problematic since people have been moving to more SSR and semi-SSR injection. There can also be a problem with discovering all the pages on a site if it doesn't have poorly designed or implemented paging or search.

Some of the worst sites to scrape are large WP sites that have obviously been through a few developers. If you really want to test a scraper find some of those and they will put it to the test.

Cloudflare is another issue. Not necessarily an issue with this plugin, but because so many sites use it, you typically have to spin up multiple automated headless browsers using residential proxies for any type of large-scale scraping.

Some things that LLM does shine at related to scraping is interpreting freeform addresses, custom tables (meaning no TR,TD, but just divs and CSS to make it look like a table, and lists that are also just styled divs. Often there are no tags, attributes, keywords, or generalized xpath that will help you depending on how the developer put it together.

Surprisingly there is a pretty old library from Microsoft of all places called Prose if you can still find it (they keep updating but using the same name for different things and trying to inject AI) that is really good at pattern matching and prediction and is small, fast, and free and generally great at building a generalized scraper. Only drawback is I believe the only one I could find was .NET at the time.
Ohhhhhh shit, that has to be the longest paragraph in all of HN. Have you seen the movie Moneyball?

Just start with the premise that bias isn’t helpful and even less helpful when implicit. Let that determine what to measure and will not be harmed. If such decisions twist you into knots then you are the person qualified to make such decisions.
The interventions are decided on by a role called "rechercheofficier van justitie" and a role call "hoofd team interventies". When my stalking case went to court, the former head of the RIEC was the prosecutor and the case was delayed, then the former head of team interventies turned up on the board of directors of the court, where influence from behind the scenes could be exerted to make the case fail.

In addition, the assistent to the prosecutor at the time had a role of intervention jurist. Or intervention legal advisor. So the whole lot of them all involved where working together to make sure that case of stalking against their illegal use of a civilian for harrassing someone not involved in criminal activity for more than 10 years would fail. In addition, the papers (The case had a number of news articles associated with it), printed lies from the prosecutor further painting my as an anti-social individual and the judge said in comments to the papers that this case has received enough press attention now. So shutup why don't you.

The civilian that I had filed police reports against for stalking, ending up having his house bought by the government at 200,000 euros loss (Profit to him).

I had more than 600 videos of evidence, the prosecutor could not name a single thing (In a phone call the next day) of anything I had ever done to the harrasser. He refused to submit the evidence and additional, large chunks of evidence "went unexplainably missing" as well.

I researched the hell out of why would a prosecutor deliberately make a case of stalking fail against someone that according to a jurist in the council had consumed more than 1,000,000 euros of money by the authorities over a 10 year period.
Kind of ironic, considering the whole original population of America (the whole continent) was mostly replaced by immigrants, starting some time after 1492 AD.
>If you can show damages you will be made whole, i.e. indemnified.

You can be made whole to the best extent humanly possible.

Which is to say, no. No matter how much money you might win, you can't be made whole for the time and human capital wasted on fending off Executive Branch abuse.

The ideal timeline is to stop the abuse before it has taken root, bloomed, and spread its hay fever all over the place.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but trying to show ads when the laptop lid is closed and the machine is in "sleep mode" (with quotes) is not exactly smart, is it. But again, if MS can still charge their advertisers for such silliness, maybe it makes economical sense (for MS).
Its a nice idea, but ultimately pointless.

OpenAI have admitted that they are routinely breaking copyright licenses, and not very many people are taking them to court to stop. Its the same for most other LLM trainers who don't have thier own content to use (ie anyone other than meta and google)

Unless a big company takes umbridge, then they will continue to rip content.

THe reason they can get away with it is that unlike with napster in the late 90s, the entertainment industry can see a way to make money off AI generated shite. So they are willing to let it slide in the hopes that they can automate a large portion of content creation.
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I'm not sure Barista is going to hit the 200k / year or whatever US engineers are used to earning! Elec engineer is what I started doing, but moved out of quickly, and requires probably a 4 year time investment. If I was more practical I'd definitely consider a trade (plumbing, electrician) but they can be hard work as you get older. Tree surgeon seemed to be a popular route for outdoorsy problem solvers here in the UK. You also missed off anything in the project management, coaching, agile space - possibly for a good reason!
The US does not falsely convict and jail innocent people en masse as policy. If anything. A much bigger problem is that the US does not convict and jail criminals en masse as policy.

There is no better time and place to be a criminal in the US than today. Criminals are being coddled, which is why most Democrat cities are so crime-ridden.
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Yeah I do think your first point is a big factor.

I think I'd be more happy if my car split my range estimates into "city driving" and "highway driving", and provided those two different estimates side by side.

Since my car doesn't know where I'm going, without telling it through the nav system, that would be a much more useful approach.

Of course, that would also mean people would see the much lower range, so I guess it would affect sales to first-time EV buyers.
I didn't know Bell labs employees Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were all immigrants
“horror vacui” (Latin) - “dread of the void”

I suppose the neighbours are of the sort, like many seemingly, who cannot tolerate silence.
There already are ads in cars- on radios. That should be enough. Do we really want even more distracted driving?

Eyes should be on the road, not on screens watching ads. as long as vehicles need drivers- and judging by how self-driving cars are doing at this point, they are going to need at least driver attention for a good while- it's ridiculous to be pushing even further.
The article is only 5 paragraphs long, yet the similarities to so many other "the system was complex, the operators got confused, and things went wrong from there ..." disaster stories are obvious.
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Is there a security reason to disable sleep mode? Or just part of the user hassle some enterprise departments sell as "security"?
Huh? So you're saying I got hypnotherapy from the LSD? I'm not sure I get it.
We are really good at mis-estimating scale. So we know brine decreases sharply from the point of outflow, but do we know what 50 years of brine outflow at tens of thousands of locations around the world would do?

If it's profitable, it'll be implemented all over, and underestimating that cumulative effect is something we would plead willful ignorance on as we have done with other industries in the past.

Second point I will try to make, habitats are often unique and small, we would just want to make sure an ecosystem is truly ubiquitous before destroying a small pocket of ecosystem.

Especially now, there are animals that live in just one or few specific spots. We should be careful.
> you need to have at least a surface level understanding of the topic to recognise if the output is wrong.

Often overlooked point. The only reason I even consider LLMs a useful tool for my work is because for the things I request from them I do have the prerequisites to validate their output.
You guys move around for opportunity all the time.
I only use mine occasionally, so I turn it off an put in a drawer. When I power it on a few months later the battery is flat, and the machines date in far in the past.

This have never happened with any other laptop I've had.
You have a valid point regarding nginx for static content and its simplicity.

The rest of what you wrote is either wrong, oversimplified, or inaccurate.
well in that context they were conquerors
Cool idea. I just did. No answer.
How tight are those loops really and how complex are your instructions? I'd suspect you're blowing out the cache and leaning on a single decoder due to the nature of the instructions. Particularly if these are SIMD instructions even if you sped up or paralleled the decoders you'd be up against later pipeline latencies very quickly anyways, at that point, are you actually measuring a real bound?
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Question from an outsider:

Why is that 95% of the times I see something get stopped or overturned, it is from a court / judge in Texas?
> That's where everyone in America came from.

Er, quite a lot came from Africa.
Yes, and .py is "plain" text too. The extension however helps with signaling the intend of the file. Also, there is something to say for the argument "there is no such thing as plain text" [0]

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It was built in 2005 by Poul-Henning Kamp. It can work with Apache. But definitely not the same codebase.
But Ford doesn't profit off those ads. Now they can deliver their own ads and capture some of that profit for the shareholders. Not being distracted is your responsibility, not Ford's, so they have clean hands.
And if you don't push yourself.
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> That's something I don't think the people who freaked out about kids making their house or school in Doom or Quake ever really understood.

We made maps of our school(s) to play in Counter Strike, I understand people freak out if they don't really understand what video games are. Especially when it was around the time when people were starting to freak out about if video games make people violent or not, because some school shooters in the US had some violent games they presumable played before their attack.
Has anyone noticed how overrun by bots Reddit has become?
It seems that in about a third of threads I check, the top comment is by an LLM. They aren't pushing anything sinister, trying to promote political division, doing crypto scamming or anything like that.

They just post inane one line comments in response to the article headline. They often have some corny joke or something like that, but it's never anything more than two sentences, and those sentences never, ever say anything insightful or even controversial - it's just an incredibly surface level and uncontroversial reaction to the headline.

Of course, this sounds like a setup to a joke about what the average Redditor posts but I'm serious. Just thousands of accounts posting completely inane takes, with that "gee whiz" Ned Flanders ChatGPT perkiness, and getting massively upvoted for it. The entire account will be just these inane one-liners, or sometimes plagiarised posts from the top of all time. Also, they use way more em dashes than the average person - and I'd assume that the average em-dash-user would make less boring comments.

What's the gain in this? Are people farming karma to later sell the accounts to shill products? To get conspiratorial, is Reddit trying to pump up the site with fake accounts to juice growth?
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Never heard of Vellum. Thnx for sharing
I get cramps on my fingers since I'm not used to holding a pen :)
But they are. Yet men being men will go where they think the money/food is.
> Update your software.

I don't disagree, but also...

I find it a bit surprising that this is still a thing. Why is there ever a time when I _must_ reboot? Is it just that mainstream kernels were designed at a time when people had lower expectations around this sort of thing, and now it's too hard to evolve their designs toward something that would allow for zero-downtime patching in ~all cases?

Other examples that make me wonder if it's mostly because people haven't demanded better:

- Enormous updates for all kinds of things (gigabytes for a bug fix release) because differential updates aren't pervasive.
- Windows updates where a huge amount of work is done during the "rebooting" phase (why can't most of this be done before reboot?)
- Absolutely atrocious power management on pretty much anything that's not a MacBook, and even not perfect on those.

I never thought we'd have flying cars by now, but if you asked me a decade ago to predict the future of operating systems... it wouldn't be this.
Laptops still occasionally do that. I'm kind of impressed that they manage to keep chugging even when the lack of airflow keeps them at >90°C for the entire time it takes for either me to notice that they turned back on, or drain their battery.
Fastly is basically a varnish-based CDN. They even let you provide VCL code to program it.
>strangely enough after a while all those candidates who replied got rejected.

That also seems like a bad interview strategy. Make a mistake and you're out? Did you have so many perfect people to hire that you could just sort out almost everybody?
I would not recommend beginners to use LLMs to learn to code.

LLMs are most helpful for already-learned developers.

Learn from CS50, understand the fundamentals well.

Then use Cursor or LLMs heavily since you know what's going around.
> Is there any application of "Modern Standby" that is actually delivering significant value to customers somewhere?

I guess the value is for enterprise users because the ecosystem is so bad.

When I return from sleep on my laptop, my VPN is disconnected and can't reconnect itself automatically as I need to go through the auth + 2FA phase. I am also logged of all Azure AD authenticated web apps and Microsoft web apps like Teams and Outlook are so bad they don't automatically sign in back when you have signed on on other Azure AD resources.

I haven't started my corporate laptop on the original windows 10 for years so I can't compare but I imagine a "modern standby" would have some keepalive on the VPN connections and apps like teams so they don't sign you out?

But in the end this is kind of useless on those Dell laptops because it drains the battery so fast and they have such a low battery life that you just want to shut them down if they are not connected to their docking statino. I guess it serves the people who are on-prem and close the lid to go from one meeting room to another.

But when I was working on-prem I would just configure it to just lock the laptop and would use the sleep shortcut to put the laptop to a normal sleep. Apparently most people were too dumb to figure that out and would walk between their desk and the meeting room awkwardly with the lid up, I can't believe they have managers roles or are even allowed to work in the IT industry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, same for me.

But overall, I was pretty impressed by Fedora Asahi. I was expecting a clunky experience with hacks and bugs everywhere but I'm now actually expecting to use it as my daily driver as soon as possible.

Like, there are those things (USB-C, external display, Touch ID) that doesn't work at all but everything else works wonderfully. Even the audio is as good as on macOS (thanks to the specially built audio driver) which iirc, have never been the case on Intel macs (yes, audio works on intel but the sound is better on macOS because Apple have a special driver that is able to shortly and safely overdrive the speakers to get better sound - and asahi replicated this driver).
Ok...you want a scenario where an image of an attractive young woman was shared and used extensively by members of a male dominated field and where women involved in the field have told us what they think of it?

Oh yeah, I've heard that one before - its Lena/Lenna:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Here is a random example I found of a women talking about her experience

https://www.cmc.edu/news/every-picture-tells-a-story

And another one

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-playboy-centerfold...

Over the last decade or so journals and professional bodies have been trying to stop people using the Lenna image - Nature essentially banned it in their publications in 2018, and IEEE just this year.
Colonizers rather than conquerors. Colonizers are effectively migrants, by the very definition of the word.
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Some not most
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