skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO this is your business model. Build an Alfred clone that is AI first. It has a potential to be a nice lifestyle business.

Mac users still buy software and I’ve wanted to buy something like this for years.
Pill mills notoriously maxed out count and dosage (per script) ratios. A single Rx could be for a jar of the highest dosage.¹ This was common.

Scripts written outside of pill mills were orders of magnitude lower in dosage and quantity. Lumping these very different numbers together paints a simplistic view of a complex issue.

> Between 1991 and 2011 painkiller prescriptions in the U.S. tripled

Years that include the rise/fall of pill mills.

> as of 2016 more than 289 million prescriptions

289M is a single broad number representing complex and distinct things. To determine opioid use trend, some of the things we need to know are count per Rx, dosage, med type and treatment type.

Institution (eg:ALF,hospice,VA) trends are distinct from public-facing doctors but we don't even look at them. We just lump their Rx #s into the pot.

An important number we don't have: Denial counts for reasonable need. Single-figure opioid views don't leave us room to consider it.

Chronic pain patients (who responsibly used pain relief for years) started getting shut out before 2016. That trend ratcheted one way. Their choice was losing what productivity they had or seeking illegal+risky options.¹

But as ever, the public and news orgs are much more interested in billionaires than vulnerable people in need.

¹These are things I personally witnessed.
imagine how much they could reduce when the barest safety rules regarding hygiene were met
Targeting solar panels absolutely does hurt conscience.
The intends and ideas sound reasonable.

Yet, what if a human asks an AI to generate a text, and reads it and records it? Or changes just a few words in it?
When does it become human and not generated?

The last paragraph of the article is just free FUD, though.
I recently purchased a BambuLabs A1 printer and I absolutely love it. So, before reading the article I was siding with BambuLabs. However, it appears as if BambuLabs is not an innocent bystander in this mess. They have filed quite a few patents of their own and Stratasys is just fighting back.

Either way, everyone loses with these types of patent wars.
Just like how the Hyperloop was a scheme to prevent development of trains. Tesla doesn't try to make the best product, they just try to hurt the competition.
Understood, we'll look into this. Thank you!
IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says
> It has the power to turn the most interesting and smartest people into bitter trolls.

There is tremendous value in having access to large quantities of data demonstrating the various failure modes of relatively intelligent minds. Nothing is being (publicly) done with this data so far, but this will not last forever.

This is something that has always bothered me about the /r/SSC community (and others): the "no culture war topics" constraint + moderators locking threads when the Rationalists start collectively behaving irrationally.
not sure i agree with this assertion.

Personally I embarked on a PhD because i wanted the credentials to become a university lecturer.
Because Sam Altman is a con man with a business degree. He doesn't work on his products, he barely understands them which is why he'll throw out wild shit like "ChatGPT will solve physics." as though that isn't a completely nonsensical phrase, and uncritical tech press lap it up because his bullshit generates a lot of clicks.
A definition of "open" which encompasses nearly all products and services in existence isn't a very useful one.
They hiring?
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering network via legacy IT
The problem is, the business process shipping with Oracle may be grossly inefficient. Or worse, the former Siebel module and its integration with a former PeopleSoft module may be replaced by some new thing with yet another business process.

In any case, CUNY would likely save $300M hiring clerks armed with excel and paper forms.

Seems like a lot of money wasted, mostly to advance a “lowercase p” political dispute to consolidate HR functions with a questionable benefit.
People who are famous for running companies and not writing code.
Thanks for confirming! Our cold start, excluding model load is 2-4 seconds typically for HF models.

The only time it gets much longer when companies have done a lot with very specific CUDA implementations
You retain most of the control. You have actual laws protecting you from them snooping on your database. If it goes down, then you have a backup, right? so redeploy the backup onto any other provider or at home.
Update: Gold Apollo is a small company with about 30 employees. The CEO said that this was humiliating, the products were made by a distributor in Hungary and that they were ruined for that. Small chances that they could sue anybody.
Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure
I guess we'll never learn how to count the 'r's in strawberry
When have thousands of consumer devices, in public circulation, been covert bombs set off in unison? This is far, far outside of the norms of warfare.

To the parent's point, I'm looking at my iPhone thinking that Israel would murder me with it if they wanted, and it absolutely does not make me support Israel.
But it is quite profitable.
Does this use SendInput on Windows or injects directly into the app?
And are you going to pivot back when the AI bubble bursts? We also saw an influx of blockchain and web3 companies a couple years back -- and that bubble burst. All I'm saying is that from the point of somebody who was keeping tabs on and evaluating Nile, I find the new messaging weird and exclusive.

It makes me reconsider Nile because my business has nothing to do with AI at this point. Just my $0.02.
I think that many, perhaps even most, engineers incorrectly believe that the main purpose of abstraction in code is simply DRY, as if the goal is to save keystrokes or something.

In my view, the purpose of abstraction is to compress the concepts of your application into digestible and manueverable chunks, and DRY is just a heuristic for beginners to follow to help point to where appropriate abstraction boundaries may be.

I hope the various theories behind what constitutes good code will make their way out of scattered blog posts and into CSE curriculum.
Wonder if US have that capacity. So they think that if it is everywhere they can activate it at will on whoever they think is worthy, until a bug/mistake or backdoor is used to do that on everyone. Its the kind of elephants in the room stampede that you don't want to get caught in.
why is terrorism most aligned with Islam? isn't it possible to frame any/every religion as "most likely to commit acts of terrorism" based on subjective interpretations of their tenets?
The best attack against Tor is convincing people not to use it.

If anyone tries to convince you Tor is not safe, ask yourself: cui bono?
Well, you're supposed to read the code and figure it out. And if you can't, you're not good enough an engineer. According to people at Meta.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Interviewed with Otherbranch?
As the title says, has anyone interviewed with Otherbranch (https://www.otherbranch.com/) and, if so...

What was your experience?

Did you think their assessment tasks and questions were relevant to the position you're seeking?

Do you feel their assessment was accurate?
A) PowerShell isn't Python, it doesn't have to (and doesn't) import the whole Python ethos, just the parts that make sense for a Shell and Shell language with different end goals.

B) PowerShell doesn't care as much about the first part because shells have always had aliases and macros, but it does care about the second half "obvious way to do it". The other reason for starting with verbose names and aliasing them for day to day REPL use is to aid discovery. It's often very easy to discover which command or cmdlet does the thing you need simply because it is right there in the name. Sometimes you can just guess the name because there are only so many "allowed" verbs and you just need the noun you want to "verb". `Get-Help` can be quite powerful, `Get-Verb` can help explain some bits about what the verbosity is meant to mean. You can search for commands with `Get-Command`.
>> That’s such a tiny amount of bread, what even is the point??

> For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
Even knowing what that means, means she's probably technical enough to run her own server. You overestimate the average person's care about privacy.
Lmao, I was first: https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler
I disagree with most of this.

1. symlinks: I think the systemd structure is very intuitive and the order of overwriting makes sense. It's new, but it makes sense, and we only have 3 different locations, each with a specific order and precedence.

2. Config files: I think keeping the declarative syntax is the secret sauce of systemd. The whole point is you can orchestrate processes without needing to write code. They're much easier to understand if you assume a knowledge point of 0, and they're much more maintainable (no logic), and they're even more portable. Bonus is they're much faster to execute by the init system. Yes, most of the logic is in systemd now, but you tell it what to do. Reading the documentation goes a long way to making unit files less cryptic.

3. Binary logs: yeah I agree just not a great idea. Always sounds nice on paper because you can do neat things with permissions and can have faster performance, but in reality just not necessary. They got too fancy.

4. Responsibility creep: from where I'm standing, not a problem. systemd isn't a piece of software, it's just a name given to a collection of software, like GNU. systemd-init doesn't have feature creep. Sure, now we have systemd-file-my-taxes, but that's optional and it's a whole different program that just uses the systemd name.
Facebook promised to connect the world in a happy circle of friendship and instead causes election integrity controversies, bizarre conspiracy theories about pandemics and immigrants to go viral, and massive increases in teen suicide. Not sure why anyone would trust them with their promises of decentralized-AI and roses.
Makes sense, this is just my personal experience so it's always interesting to hear what others have seen. I recently learned about Mechanical Orchard[1], which seems to have the same thesis (better to update legacy custom software with a modern custom solution rather than migrate to a modern off-the-shelf solution).

[1] https://www.mechanical-orchard.com/
Reminds me of similar concerns around understanding our infrastructure systems and the built environment.

In the Industrial Revolution through New Deal days, innovations were coming and going, and novel and exciting for the time, but still based on simple enough principles that most people understood the basics of the emerging technologies even if they had to be reminded of the dangers. Nowadays I imagine it'd be hard for someone to give a cogent answer to the question "where does your trash go when the garbage people pick it up?"

This isn't to promote some "kids these days" narrative but rather to help us understand how layers of complexity and nuance are added on top of existing technologies relatively quickly.

Simple, effective systems are attractive because they can be comprehended. Complex, gargantuan systems are attractive because of the monumental amounts of resources they can coordinate.

Still, as then, it is today a civic duty to understand your contributions to the systems you inhabit and to act as a good faith steward for the sustainability and efficacy of those systems.
To be fair (or frank?), OpenAI were open (no pun intended) about them being "open" today but probably needing to be "closed" in the future, even back in 2019. Not sure if them still choosing the name they did is worse/better, because they seem to have known about this.

OpenAI Charter 2019 (https://web.archive.org/web/20190630172131/https://openai.co...):

> We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future, while increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research.
Sounds like a gameplay mechanics a-la Braid.
Honestly OP sounds like a troll I can't imagine it would just go on a tangent like that. From my demo I was struggling actually to get anything of quality in the responses. A lot of repeating what I said.
It's not even a subset. They break foundational contracts of the Python language without technical necessity. For example,

> Dictionaries: Codon's dictionary type does not preserve insertion order, unlike Python's as of 3.6.

That's a gratuitous break. Nothing about preserving insertion order interferes with compilation, AOT or otherwise. The authors of Codon broke dict ordering because they felt like it, not because they had to.

At least Mojo merely claims to be Python-like. Unlike Codon, it doesn't claim to be Python then note in the fine print that it doesn't uphold Python contractual language semantics.
According to that definition they are:

"booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use"
Same was true of Truecrypt.

After the core team disbanded there was a full security audit which uncovered some very minor issues.

People never really trusted Veracrypt though. Quite interesting how that turned out.
https://github.com/blueprint-freespeech/ricochet-refresh

...We are writing this blog post in response to an investigative news story looking into the de-anonymization of an Onion Service used by a Tor user using an old version of the long-retired application Ricochet by way of a targeted law-enforcement attack.

...From the limited information The Tor Project has, we believe that one user of the long-retired application Ricochet was fully de-anonymized through a guard discovery attack. This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack. This protection exists in Ricochet-Refresh, a maintained fork of the long-retired project Ricochet, since version 3.0.12 released in June of 2022.
For those unfamiliar with terms:

"Black Letter Law":

In common law legal systems, black-letter law refers to well-established legal rules that are no longer subject to reasonable dispute.[1] Black-letter law can be contrasted with legal theory or unsettled legal issues.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-letter_law>

Searching for black letter and combat turns up:

International Institute of Humanitarian Law: The Manual on the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict With Commentary (2006)

Among definitions:

For the purposes of this Manual, fighters are members of armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organized armed groups, or taking an active (direct) part in hostilities.

(p. 4)

Civilians are all those who are not fighters.

(p. 5)

Military objectives are objects which by their nature, location, purpose, or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture, or neutralisation, in the circumstances at the time, offers a definite military advantage.

(p. 5)

<https://www.humanrightsvoices.org/assets/attachments/documen...>

(I'll note that one of the co-authors is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel, though others do not appear to be Israeli.)

The US DoD publishes a law of war manual, last updated in 2023:

<https://media.defense.gov/2023/Jul/31/2003271432/-1/-1/0/DOD...>
I think it's newsworthy because it's such a unique move, almost like it's from a spy novel. Not because 9 people died, that unfortunately happens semi regularly in this conflict.
Awesome work on this, it looks like a game changer!

From my (admittedly limited) knowledge on this space, it seems like this is a straight upgrade over WASM, with the only limiting factor being that your stack is limited to Bun + C. Are there any downsides of this feature when compared with the alternatives mentioned at the start of the article? There are some tradeoffs listed at the bottom but I'm not sure how napi/WASM perform in those aspects either.
The differences seem relatively minor. Your specific example can be worked around by using a tuple; which in most cases does what you want.
It has been clear from the beginning that Meta's supposed desire for an open source AI, is just a coping mechanism for the fact that got beat out of the gate. This is an attempt to commoditize AI and reduce OpenAI/Google/Whoever's advantage. It is effective, not doubt, but all this wankery about how noble they are for creating an open-source AI future is just bullshit.
This isn't about pagers generally, this is about a particular batch of 5,000 pagers ordered by Hezbollah. They weren't distributed to random Lebanese citizens.
The soldiers on the Cole were "non-combatant targets" , so the definition is consistent.
Try setting up a server on Windows, then. Windows's native language is the GUI like Linux's is the command line. I remember there used to be lots of GUI Windows web servers - don't know if there still are.

Of course you have Windows versions of Linux servers like Apache, which still use their configuration files and so on, but you can use the GUI for the rest of everything.
Everyone in the US has committed to NACS in the next couple years. The others are aware of this and if they are not completely stupid making plans. They will probably support CCS for a while in some form, but they will be doing NACS in the near future. It might be like regular/premium/diesel fuels - pumps support more than one hose (though wire is more expensive than a hose).
Yep, working from home is easily 25%+ of my compensation and it doesn't cost the company a dime. I'm shocked executives aren't over the moon that there's a zero dollar perk they can give that's worth significant amounts of money to people.
Well, we all know how humiliating Pearl Harbor had been…

(While areal bombing, sanctions, assassinations, surprise attacks, and the like, have never worked, and, to the contrary, have always proven to further cohesion, this time, it will be totally demoralizing, for sure! /s)
Decentralized on centralized hardware?
CRISPRkit: DIY Gene Editing Kit
Israel in no way offers "peace". Never have. Nor do any of the other "actors" in this tragedy.
haha the reason I stayed as long as i did
> The advantage of working from home was that you could take care of kids and do all the housework, this worth thousands of dollars per months

You are also not using the office, not commute and pollute.

Companies also put workers through the stress of working in inadequate workplaces - open plane offices to cram as many workers per square feet, like caged hens.

System will not balance itself, as people are just few missing pay checks from being homeless, so nobody is going to risk going against their master, sorry employer.

It will also not come from the government as these are as corrupt as they get.

The system will simply collapse at some point. Most likely the rich will be "hanged" and the cycle will start over.
Secondly, if a US citizens owns more than 50% of a foreign company, by default, income from that company counts as personal income, but taxes paid by the company to another government don't count as personal taxes. You can get around this, apparently, but it's even more complicated.

This is the GILTI regime, which was intended to target foreign income from intangible assets. But, like most GOP legislation of the last two decades, it was written in a rush without regards to the practical consequences.

Note however that if the foreign income (from the company's perspective, local income) is being taxed at a higher rate than 90% of the applicable U.S. tax rate on that income (currently meaning, 18.9% foreign tax rate or higher) then the income does not get included in its owner's income (aka the high-taxed exception).

Also note that if you are for some reason subject to GILTI, you've basically just prepaid your taxes on actually receiving that income, meaning that you don't pay taxes again when the foreign corporation actually pays the income to you as a dividend.

This was super complicated for a year or two until the IRS released guidance clarifying some points. Now, for any accountant worth their salt, it's pretty straightforward and if they're still complaining about it, find a new accountant.
I don't know about Linux, but in Windows all input messages come with a timestamp, so even if you happen to process it later you should know when the key was actually pressed. That might help when simulating physics, animation or other stuff.
The pod just reopens and lets you back out
The web is much more than a shopping site.
People keep bringing up the same argument about dropping nukes on Japanese cities, and it seems like the world just accepted it.
We don't know the true scope of this, but apparently $600m was low balling in this story:

>The negotiations that were the run-up to the purchase of CUNYFirst were a travesty. The project required an expenditure of up to a billion dollars to do it right. CUNY Central offered far less. All but one of the bidders dropped out as a result: the project could not be done properly with what CUNY offered. Oracle-PeopleSoft did not drop out. However they warned CUNY that for that level of funding, they could not, would not CUSTOMIZE: they would only CONFIGURE.

I do agree that it sounds like this was some 10+ year project with heaps of support. If this account it true, they went with Oracle because they were the cheapest (and were fine with the compromise of no configuration to hit that goal).

If that hunch is true, I can see some $600k-$1m/year average for support of an entire chain of universities (remember that CUNY is a systetem of 10 colleges and more CC's like a UC, not just one campus) being peanuts that no one wanted to touch.

Seems they got what they paid for:

>The actual cost far exceeds the $600 million dollars that go to Oracle. Because processes are now much more inefficient, more people have to be hired to do tasks that were formerly automated.

> - The interface is laughable: It looks like an early-90s update of 3270 bi-synch technology. Web 2.0? Ha. Not even Web 1.0.

> - Because CUNY wouldn't pay for customization, we had to renumber our courses. This is just one of many, less visible to faculty, changes that CUNYFirst has forced.

absolutely not surprising as someone who's used Peoplesoft. That stuff felt ancient even in 2003. to sign onto that 10 years afterwards for a very stagnant software is just insanity.

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now of course I'm taking this at face value. It could be exaggerated or from a biased source. But in my biased opinion, who in the last 15 years isn't biased against Oracle's software? they will probably literally die out as their clients age out of the job market.
I strongly suspect the birthday paradox is making an emergence.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a day of the year without some plausible significance.
We are talking about Amazon engineers here. They are in the top 3% of earners, I don't think we need to cry too many tears about them going back to the office.
As it became common during the last years, public domain and shareware return under other marketing names like open core.