skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it could show a reminder to have an email address in one's profile? That's recommended in general anyway
I find it hard to imagine that they weren’t before- to be honest.

Compared to AMD, Intel is distinctly a “US” corporation, outside of that image they have large R&D centre's in Israel.

US corporations that deal with the military very often have a similar setup.

Lots of talk about Intel running their own fabs is taken with a “National Security” mindset, and, isn't it the large “too big to fail” corporations that end up very close to government anyway, even if they are very removed from being the best? Oracle comes to mind.
There are multiple cities in the U.S. with the name of my city, so unfortunately this doesn't work for me.
I always thought Desk Set was a bit crazy, but it seems remarkably close to what AI is currently providing (including the warts).
mark my words, this will be worse than the reddit meetups.
anyone feel like this and Boeing sound remarkably similar?

Its almost like there is a lesson for executives here. hmmmm
you should probably use some kind of API to help people input their city/country.
If there was a shift to altruistic behavior, we could all increase the amount of other people's lives through charity and having children.
Pathway
> where I tell gpt-4 exactly what the rule is and it still fails

It figured out the rule itself. It has problems applying the rule.

In this example btw, asking it to write a program will solve the problem.
Well, from public information: Meta has a huge social graph that helps support their social media businesses, and Google has a wealth of real world knowledge. These graphs are, I think, optimized for super fast 1 millisecond level query latencies, and not a rich query language (for example, not something like SPARQL).

I have just been looking at the Data Commons data sets, and I think I will add a fun example to my live Common Lisp eBook (and/or my Racket live eBook).
Of course it matters. The solutions are completely different.
Redis' biggest flaw is its single threaded design. We end up having to run separate redis processes on each core and have client side sharding. We're lucky that our data allows this.

We experiment with KeyDB too but I'm not sure what state that project is in.
It would be more useful to have a button in each city to propose a meeting—no need to email anyone. You suggest a meeting, people can join or propose changes. That's it. :<
> the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people

Is there an inverse of this?

Often times, people ask me to help them do something on the computer or with other computer related or electronic things. I walk over, touch the equipment without actually doing anything and their problem is instantly solved. Could be a printer that won’t print, even!

I don’t see any links in the See Also section about any “effect” like this.
Sherlock Holmes is the index case for serial fiction featuring the same characters through a long number of stories. (Though The Odyssey and myths about Hercules and Theseus could be elaborated upon and sliced up to make a TV series and the same is true about some Chinese stories such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West)

It is great commercially because fans will eat it up but I think many authors aren’t happy with working under the constraints it brings.
You want to know another funny thing that happens to only a minority of tech workers? It happened to me: a senior colleague (a lady, no less, the design department lead) complained to my boss (the dev group lead) that when I went to speak to her I didn't smile enough. After that he also advised me when I wanted to go and speak to people, e.g. the guys at the server team (this is 2011 right? No Clouds on the horizon, we had an in-house server team, and machines) I should smile.

I bet my boss never gave the same advice to male engineers (I can think of some particularly dour dudes we had, but you don't know them so it wouldn't be as funny imagining them going to the server team with a big, friendly smile on their face), nor did the lady at the design team ever complain that male engineers didn't smile enough when they spoke to her. Just me.

I don't have a Bitchy Resting Face. It's all lies.
How a scientist is pushing to supersize research into ultra-processed foods
One can agree that illegal immigration is a problem that needs to be stemmed.

But where’s the fun in that.

The real fun lies in dehumanizing the illegal immigrants so one can hopefully start a pogrom against them. Now that’s fun!
The founder and I are part of On Deck and we had communicated.
No researcher will actually make this argument though because they'll immediately be called a eugenicist.
Sorry this happened. Could you share what you tried?

Maybe this video can help? https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329

If you prefer not to share publicly, you can also share your feedback here: https://meet.hn/feedback
bemoaning the erosion of trust as the fault of "technology" is to ignore the actions that led to the distrust. "You have done that yourself"
tough to answer. depends on the llm, on the api provider or hosting method, on the prompt

but you could get a simple estimate by running a CoT prompt, copying the output tokens, and then using an online token counter to count the length & tokens of the CoT part of the completion
This is just a reinvention of the global minimum corporate tax effort, and it would fail for exactly the same reasons. Except, with the added benefit of making corporate tax avoidance procedures more complicated, without actually accomplishing anything (now you need to offshore your profits to a friendly high tax jurisdiction before offshoring them again to a low tax one).

Also, aside from the fact that this policy would fail, what you’re describing is a rather extreme import tarrif, which is a highly protectionist policy.
Have signed up. It says there's another signup from my location, but is failing to show me. It just redirects to the home page. It is showing for another city, so perhaps due to the space in the name? Thanks.

meet.hn/city/in-New Delhi
Feature request: please add Mastodon/fediverse as a type of social media account.

Also, you generate invalid URLs for cities that have spaces in them, like Saint Petersburg.
I've had my shield for nearly a decade, gotten updates the whole time. Much faster and better than Roku in basically everything
It's a reference to a popular property of The Walt Disney Company, wherein a bite from a radioactive spider confers upon the titular character a supernatural ability to sense impending danger.
Make sure your handle doesn't have a space at the end. That was my problem
A overview of binaries, ELF, and NoMMU on Linux
Ubuntu and Debian both have unattended-uogrades running by default
I’m not familiar with the regulations but I always thought the benefit of not using gas stoves was less about the environment and more to reduce the CO2 produced in a home. It seems like there are correlation with in house stove usage in poorly ventilated homes and adverse health conditions. I definitely see a huge spike in my CO2 monitor each time we cook with our gas stove. Better ventilation probably addresses this but I honestly don’t know which approach is easier to implement.
This stat in isolation doesn't tell you much, because it's based on what was caught.

The stuff they didn't catch is the problem, which they can only estimate.
I was thinking of that. And G.K. Chesterton killed off Father Brown, and had to bring him back.
Thank you very much! Will add
> try driving one.

I drove a Model Y for >2 years, and it was great. The camp-mode alone brought so many opportunities to stay with friends and family more than I otherwise would have. Camping and sleeping in the car was the only time I had to wake up the dog in the morning. Usually she's up before me.

It used to be that Elon's public persona was a geek who wanted solar panels and EVs everywhere. When there were concerns about battery life, he upped the warranty. There were a few more very positive cases like that.

Then those things slowly feel apart.

Later it turns out we were fooled all along, and he's been a lifelong conservative, mistreated his kids and still does, and lately offered financial support to a wanna-be dictator. I can't even remember every horrible thing now.

Getting rid of the Model Y wasn't easy or cheap, but if I can't stand by my principles when it gets hard, what's the point of having principles?

I know some people who just can't afford to get rid of a car like this, but those who deliberately support a person like Musk are just hanging out in a Nazi bar at this point, and my grandparent literally did bad things to Nazis.

If you ever heard people ask "What did normal people do during the Nazi's rise to power?" -- we're all doing it now.
I think that's a big part of it. I'm writing servers and systems in C++ and Kotlin. C++ is a very dense language, virtually every token is semantic with little redundancy except the archaic header declaration system, so there are not all that many shortcuts that still preserve my intended meaning. Kotlin feels like a response to Java being so low-density, and is much higher density, although not as much as C++.

Every time I play with web or GUI development I get the impression that the languages and systems are misaligned with the way people express their intentions in the space. It makes me want to develop a language (or family of languages) directly for expressing GUI concepts, but I don't understand the space well enough to do a good job.
I've been using it recently because I saw some hype around it. I don't really get the hype though. It's using the same models you can use outside the Cursor app (Claude, ChatGPT etc).

It's not good at reading the context of the file. It's 'apply changes' is a bit handier than copy pasting but you could find yourself without some code you actually wanted if you click the green button too liberally.

I am likely to go back to VSCode + Copilot and using ChatGPT as chatbot assistant.
You can still use all the Authentication features of supabase Auth if you disable the data APIs (you just don’t need to use RLS for managing Authorization to your data)

Supabase is designed to work like LEGO, you add the blocks you want, and we keep everything as modular as possible so that you can combine it with other services like kratos if you prefer
Raw sockets behave differently in macOS and Linux
In the US you could just use “zipcode-us”. It’s not ideal though. Otherwise just “city-stateabbr-us” - e.g. “SiouxFalls-SD-US”
I think I paid $5-10 for this as a one-time fee in December 2010. It was one of the best purchases ever. However, by mid-2022, I noticed issues, downtime, weird errors, etc., so I exported and moved on to raindrop.io after emailing support@pinboard.in and not hearing back.
Individual Differences in Learning and Transfer: Exemplars vs. Abstracting Rules
You're missing the forest for the trees.

It's: a) an update, b) pushed out globally without proper testing, c) that bricked the OS.

It's an obvious failure mode that if you have a proper incident response process would be revealed from that specific incident and flagged for needing mitigation.

I do this specific thing for a living. You don't just address the exact failure that happened but try to identify classes of risk in your platform.

> Even if you could, you'd still need to deploy a fix before the OS update hits the customers, and anyone that didn't update would still be affected.

And yet the problem would still only affect Crowdstrike's paying customers. No matter how much you blame upstream your paying customers are only ever going to blame their vendor because the vendor had discretion to test and not release the update. As their customers should.
What does self referential have to do with anything? These LLMs have proven they can "talk about themselves".

> an individual act or product of thinking

Emphasis on "product of thinking". Though you'll probably get all upset by the use of the word "thinking". However, people have applied the word "thinking" to computers for decades. When a computer is busy or loading, they might say "it's thinking."

> a developed intention or plan

You could certainly ask this model to write up a plan for something.

> reasoning power

Whether you like it or not, these LLMs do have some limited ability to reason. Far from human level reasoning, and they VERY frequently make mistakes/hallucinations and misunderstand, but these models have proven they can reason about things they weren't specifically trained on. For example, I remember seeing one person made up a new programming language, never existed before, and they were able to discuss it with an LLM.

No, they're not conscious. No, they don't have minds. But we need to rethink what it means for something to be "intelligent", or what it means for something to "reason", that doesn't require a conscious mind.

For the record, I find LLM technology fascinating, but I also see how flawed it is, how over hyped it is, that it is mostly a stochastic parrot, and that currently it's greatest use is as a grand scale bullshit misinformation generator. I use chatgpt sparingly, only when I'm confident it may actually give me an accurate answer. I'm not here to praise chatbots or anything, but I also don't have a blind hatred for the technology, nor do I immediately reject everything labeled as "AI".
The part that I don't like about that one is Bob is dead. What if you do this while you're still alive? Von Neumann probes would be super energy inefficient too. Just power people with electricity via advanced wetware and static nitrogen atmosphere and a bit of climate control and people could live in deep space or uninhabitable planets easily.
With nearly all climate stuff one person changing won't make much difference which is why we need incentives for everyone to change. Or better tech - on current trends of falling solar cost we may be able to make green fuel from that in a decade or two.
Even in the military seems extensive testing is a thing of the past.

Where I worked in IT, there was a time testing would be done by a knowledgeable group of people and no major issues would sneak through.

Agile was imposed on us I think around 10 or so years ago, the test team was let go. I would say about 10 to 15% of the time, a major system issue occurs after a small Agile Type Change goes to production.

Well Canada, wellcome to the MBA World Order.

The good news is, these bags can be stored for 50 years and they will be usable in the far north.
Embedded the AI translation/commentary (or human translated if present) - main purpose of the AI translations was to improve embeddings.
Your personal failure to use ML successfully has no bearing on its wider deployment and success. Overfitting strongly implies that you or whoever was doing it just didn’t know what they were doing.

ML is used everywhere.
Are you sure that is a niche you are describing? Point #1 sounds like Gartner Group. Point #2 sound like {insert name of every consulting group under the sun here}.
E-Commerce vs. Q-Commerce vs. Kirana Stores: A Shopping Evolution in India
Also, you'd want to put in a double dash to signify the end of arguments as otherwise someone could set VAR="--no-preserve-root " and truly trash the system. Also, ${VAR} needs to be in double quotes for something as dangerous as a "rm" command:

rm -rf -- "${VAR}"/*
Why?

It's not making an argument, it's describing. And describing is not taking action.

[edit] about describing truth or evidences: we need that. Of course it all depends on how you present the truth, whether you are actually doing pseudoscience or not, whether you are manipulating concepts that are actually scientific or not, and whether you are conflating correlation with causation or not.
It's possible to maintain the "eclasses" without additional theoretical overhead.
Associate a linked list with each representative, initially only containing the representative itself.
When you union two representatives, concatenate their linked lists in constant time.
Developer Hegemony
> Why is this surprising? They’ve always done this.

Ah, well, that makes it alright then. Move along, people, there’s nothing to see here. What’s that? What do you mean you didn’t know about the company slurping your data for their own personal gain, or knowingly poisoning you¹ and selling you defective deadly products²? Didn’t you read that one forum comment by a random person that one time? You shouldn’t be surprised. They’ve always been evil, so what can we do other than cross our arms? All hail our corporate overlords!

> I’m not sure if they can peek into WhatsApp messages.

But someone knows. And if you use WhatsApp and get screwed later, wouldn’t you rather not having your concerns dismissed?

I don’t use WhatsApp, but do have an anecdote. I have a friend who just started using Instagram and purposefully follows no one. She doesn’t have Facebook. Recently a friend recommended to her a specific product on WhatsApp and then she started getting ads for it on Instagram.

¹ https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/05/02/how-c...

² https://www.decof.com/documents/dangerous-products.pdf
Yet, you signed an EULA for every publicly available service that legally prevents you from doing anything the company doesn't want you to do. So why do you want them to be legally using your data without, while they explicitly deny you things like scraping data from their platform.
People have always questioned things. The readers aren't changing. Their ability to communicate with the author is changing.
It might be fashionable to play pick on China, but that's all this is.

There are plenty of things this is a symptom of. It's a waste of attention and resource to play it safe and comfortable and attack a symptom, pretend we're actually accomplishing something, and then moving on to the next false target.

That's *not* how we build a better world. If we want our elected official to lead then we need to stop accepting their half-ass-ery. This persistent and normalized half-ass-ery is why... well... um... so much of our world is half-ass or worse.

Put another way, America can't keep disproportionately sucking up the world's resources and then play the "Damn those Chinese" card.

p.s. "No one forces anyone to serve this market" I presume you realize how absurd that statement is. The culture creates a market and... no one should serve it? What is that, Bidenomics?

Sorry, I'm done buying into the ruse.
Google uses language models.
I really like this idea. I've wanted to build something to bring startup/remote work people in my area together for a while. I bought a few domains but couldn't figure out the hook. Smart idea to build it as part of the HN userbase, since that is the userbase you want for something like this!

Great work
+1 for mastodon

also orcid or google scholar
Feature request:

delta.chat contact field, the best of the decentralised free software messengers

Easy to have multiple identities for public and private use
Bug alert: while clicking on the Seoul 'M' does work, listing its (currently 1) hackers, the close-by Pyongyang doesn't (despite also having "1 hacker" registered).
My maternal grandparents are in their mid 90s and we know that to be true, because aside from the church records, they both have decent memories of the time before WW2 and the event itself. Oddly specific things at that, like prices of goods and salaries from the time.

Also grandpa has 7 siblings, with his older sister already being 100. Interestingly their own parents didn't live nearly that long.

My paternal grandmother on the other hand died one week before turning 97 and only after that it was revealed that she actually lied about her age, claiming to be six years younger, so as to not cause a scandal when my grandparents announced their marriage.

The common theme among them is that they are/were all active working manually and would neither drink nor smoke, but that's no revelation.
A D3 based timeline visualization
No. Current will find a way. Lightning will destroy things you didn’t even think would be possible to destroy.
Then explain your solution for doing so, or show me a jurisdiction that has managed it and explain how. In reality no jurisdiction has ever achieved this, and for the reasons I have explained.

Real people also manage to avoid their taxes all the time. People complain about the rich not paying their taxes every day. People can also offshore their income in mostly the same way a company can, with the only additional complication being residency requirements. I just finished watching the F1 qualifying, a sport that has 1 Monegasque athlete, but nearly half of its currently active athlete living in Monaco.

If you want a system of global tax governance, then you’d need a global government. Something we don’t have, will not have, and a lot of people tend to be especially resentful towards any of the efforts to create one (or something that behaves like one).
Protecting Multi-Cloud Resources in the Era of Modern Cloud-Based Cyberattacks
The Norm Macdonald Twitter Anthology
Gerald Weinberg in one of his books, either The Secrets of Consulting or Becoming a Technical Leader, wrote of training himself to smile more, since some clients found his normal neutral look intimidating.

As for RBF, I always think of https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/alternatives-to-resting-...
Doing it in that time? Certainly not! But doing it at all? I reckon most people should be able to do it in like 4-5x the time. It would just cost a lot of money because she's not working or finding food/water/shelter along the way. I've walked 100s of miles over several weeks. You realise after a couple of days you could keep going indefinitely. Money is the limiting factor.
To be clear: both alternatives shown below will invoke the same thing (`command -v gtimeout`).

if [ -x "$(command -v gtimeout)" ]; then

and

if command -v gtimeout >/dev/null; then

The first invokes it in a sub shell (and captures the output), the second invokes it directly and discards the output, using the return status of `command` as the input to `if`.

The superficial reason the second is "preferred" is that it's slightly better performance wise. Not a huge difference, but it is a difference.

However the hidden, and probably more impactful reason it's preferred, is that the first can give a false negative. If the thing you want to test before calling is implemented as a shell builtin, it will fail, because the `-x` mode of `test` (and thus `[`) is a file test, whereas the return value of `command -v` is whether or not the command can be invoked.
> What is it that takes 71TB but can be turned off most of the time?

Still waiting for somebody to explain this to me as well.
I am reminded of "Χαμογελα ρε μαλάκα, τί σου ζητάνε;". A book by a Greek communist who spent some time in exile during the years of the military Junta (in the '60s). The title can be translated as "Smile you malaka, how hard is it?". I believe it refers to an incident when, in exile, after days of torture and incarceration, the author or a friend of his is asked to pose for a photo for the authorities, and smile to make it look like he wasn't on a secluded island prison surrounded by fascist police who enjoyed beating the soles of his feat with their clubs.

Yeah, sometimes a smile may not make you feel good, sorry.

Edit: I possibly misremember the reason for the request to smile. It could be the following passage where a Security commander promises to let the just-arrested author go if he but smiles:

https://stefanoslivos.com/xamogela-re-rwmane-ti-sou-zitane/

Also, to be clear, "malaka" was never in the printed title of the published book but when we were kids we all knew it was there.