skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rise of services like 23andMe and AncestryDNA have actually allowed people to discover information about their parentage that they would otherwise not have had access to, basically they find out that one or both of their parents are not biologically related to them. Individual situations range from extramarital affairs, closed adoption, in-familiy adoption (teen gets pregnant, her parents raise the child as a sibling), and those who’s parents chose to conceive with donor gametes. In many of these cases where it is a surprise, the parents have either actively chosen to withhold the information or didn’t know.

In cases where the user is trying to find their parent, it’s statistically unlikely that their parent would have taken the test, but 2nd cousin matches are very common. These seem like a huge distance away, but you can work backwards and build a family tree up to their great grandparents and fan out from there.
The wife and I use the internet for recipe ideas... but we hardly ever follow them directly anymore. We're no formally-trained chefs but we've been home cooks for over 20 years now, and so many of them are self-evidently bad, or distinctly suboptimal. The internet chef's aversion to flavor is a meme with us now; "add one-sixty-fourth of a teaspoon of garlic powder to your gallon of soup, and mix in two crystals of table salt". Either that or they're all getting some seriously potent spices all the time and I'd like to know where they shop because my spices are nowhere near as powerful as theirs.
Who was attacked?

My understanding was that it was exclusively military leaders and that the pagers were handed out specifically to combat Israeli surveillance.
This factory is not for economic independence or economic strategy. It is for geopolitical strategy. This factory is meant to build smarter munitions if war breaks out, not the latest cellphone. The US gov does not give a fuck about Apple's stock price and product plans if war breaks out with China, since, you know, there's real adult problems going on.
Mozilla will shut down its Mastodon instance Mozilla.social
Sure, at an individual level age might not matter much. But taken in aggregate, age means a lot in the context of company culture building. Take any average 24 year old and see how much they have in common with a 34 year old or 40 year old. Let's not pretend life doesn't change over time and hand wave it with a nice platitude.
Investment in factories != investment in american communities.

Legal immigrants with special protected status, Medicare coverage, and some basic income from the government are given these manufacturing jobs because then the investors don't have to pay for health benefits, can severely under pay, plus they have the bonus of having a desperate, captive workforce.

The investment class thinks workers need to be knocked down a couple pegs. This stuff will not end well.
Papermill is great but has quite some limitations because it spins up a new process to run the notebook:

- You cannot extract live variables (needed for testing)

- Cannot use pdb for debugging

- Cannot profile memory usage

You can do all of that with ploomber-engine (https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber-engine).

Disclaimer: I'm the author of this package
El Salvador. They at least said they were going to. I don't know if they actually did.
Nvidia is riding on the AI bubble now.
Why not a simple solution:

1. Programs should call close() on stdout and report errors.

2. It's the job of whomever creates the open file description to fsync() it afterwards if desired.

3. If somebody runs a file system or hardware that ignores fsync() or hides close() errors, it's their own fault.

If you `hello > out.txt`, then it's not `hello` that creates and opens `out.txt`; the calling shell does it. So if you use `>` redirection, you should fsync in the calling shell.

Is there a drawback to this approach?

> LLVM tools were made to close stdout [..] and it caused so many problems that this code was eventually reverted

It would be good to know what those problems were.
I'm not familiar with VW's self-immolation. I usually think of Kodak, AOL, Blackberry.
Intuitively I feel like word frequency would be one of the things least impacted by LLM output, no?
My US tax dollars don't generally go to other groups of terrorists while everyone gives a standing ovation to a terrorist leader.
I had a quick glance at it but for someone unfamiliar with Ros it's really not obvious how much this does. I'm building CV pipelines and I'm always looking for friendlier alternatives to gstreamer-rs for the bulk of the plumbing... Is it coming with synchronisation primitives in-between inputs for each node?
Fantastically executed. One-off trick, but what a brilliant one.
I wonder vaguely about selection pressure and evolution. But I don't know if being genetically overdose-resistant is even possible.
It was a drastic example, but they are all responsible somehow for the laws. And something as serious (imho) as bypassing encryption and have insight into peoples communication/minds.. Well, it needs a huuge counterweight in case it goes wrong.

As corny as it sounds, with great power comes a lot of responsibility.
When I see "Waitlist" and "Discord" on a website, my immediate reaction is to close the tab and forget about the project.

And well, complain about it on hn obviously.
> Be more precise in your thinking. This is not about bomb threats, this is about punishing people that provide a line of communication.

Yeah, I used to think in good-or-bad, right-or-wrong, black-or-white terms too... Then I grew out of my teens.

This is about bomb threats.
> I hear this complaint often but in reality I have encountered fairly little content in my day to day that has felt fully AI generated?

How confident are you in this assessment?

> straight drivel

We're past the point where what AI generates is "straight drivel"; every minute, it's harder to distinguish AI output from actual output unless you're approaching expertise in the subject being written about.

> a team of copywriters who pumped out mountains the most inane keyword packed text designed for literally no one but Google to read.

And now a machine can generate the same amount of output in 30 seconds. Scale matters.
with FDIC gone? unlikely, in such a case the dollar will probably have lost value as a means of exchange, if only temporarily
You think China and Russia don't do a hundred times worse to their citizens? The US is far from perfect, but it is drastically better than China and Russia.
Which is small compared to Bitcoin + Ethereum's market cap (which will also grow).

So if you think blockchain is bullshit, then VR/AR definitely is.
Three dead in Taitung from suspected pesticide poisoning
Huh, thanks yeah that does switch the binary to rga, but with rga you need to specify a wildcard operator for the path parameter in order to search PDFs, otherwise it only searches plaintext files, and I'm not sure how to make rg.el's RG function add that... must be a variable but not finding it.

(use-package rg
;; ripgrep
:ensure t
:config
(setq rg-executable (executable-find "rga")
rg-buffer-name "rga"))
I'm in a University course related to AI testing and quality assurance. This is something I'll definitely bring up and see how it can be used.

With OpenAI comparability, hoping it supports OpenRouter out of the box, which means it supports Anthropic and Google too, along with a host of open models hosted elsewhere.
How would that avoid PII? One assumes there would need to be an email address to recover that account, and that would likely link to every single detail about the owner.
If you sleep with someone you are responsible for any resulting child.

Prostitution in the Philippines is illegal so any explicit or implicit contract would be void anyway. Not to mention that consent is questionable anyway when most of these women are either trafficked or forced by economic hardship to partake in it.
Instagram Alert: "We've Detected Automated Behavior on Your Account"
The author mentions it twice, I think the author gets it.

But it's a choice, at least if you're aware of it.
Show HN: An open source Zapier, automations made simple
Howdy HN! I'm Lars, one of the founders @ SVVARM, a platform hoping to bring the power of AI and automation to everyone!

Over the last few years, I have witnessed how complicated, convoluted, and costly automation solutions have become. Around 90% of users on Zapier have some form of developer experience, making it very developer oriented. It can often take days and a lot of trial and error just trying to get any automations up and running.

SVVARM hopes to alleviate some of the main problems that are core to those looking to automate:

- Generating automations with natural language prompting

- Exposing these automations with simple to set up triggers (email, message, slack, or API calls)

- Connecting to all your apps with a click of a button or a paste of an API key

- Enabling your automations with tabular data from spreadsheets or databases

- Allowing for customizable nodes that can be written in Python (or using code generated by AI)

Right now, SVVARM is only available via our online offering (waitlisted, but free). We hope to bring the engine to open source as soon as possible. Check out the video of our HackerNews Report demo on our Github! Or try sending your resume to svvarmbot@gmail.com with the subject 'Resume' to see one of our automations in action!

Let us know what you want to see more of, and if you have any feedback or roasts, please don't hesitate to drop them below!

To help push this project along, feel free to join us in Discord.
Oruga is a lightweight UI components library for Vue.js
What I find so chilling and reminding about this history is that to this very day, the spanish peninsula remains largely deforested because of that fleet they had 500 years ago.
> Fully autonomous reasoning that can truly pass the Turing test, but we aren't there yet.

The thing is, it's not that binary. AI progress will be incremental and gradual and we're already seeing some job impact. So while not guaranteed (this is a complex issue, with lots of variables) it's not at all unreasonable to think that significant job displacement due to AI could happen in the near future (for the sake of argument, I'll say "near future" here means "next 20 years").
Show HN: An experimental 2D/3D game engine for the terminal
> How does seeing "generate image" on WordPress make you fume?

HN crowd is increasingly threatened by new technology.
What if GitHub had vector search?
One of the casualties was the child of an MP. That is not military. So we know of at least one instance of a non-military member being targeted, and their kid killed.

Israel has consistently lied about the military nature of their targets in Gaza. I see no reason to believe they behave any differently in Lebanon.

Also, even if they were all military—which they probably weren’t—they were still going about their civilian lives far away from the battlefield, as they posed no threat to anybody.

Now that some time has passed we know a little more about the victims. Including a press conference by Lebanon’s Minister of Health Firass Abiad. There have been 12 recorded deaths so far. Of those were 4 medical workers, one 8 year old girl, and one 11 year old boy. The press conference noted that many of those carrying the pagers were civilians. And made special mention of the toll this scale of an attack had on their medical system.

The best interpretation for Israel here is that they conducted a terrorist attack in a civilian against an armed group during their civilian lives, inflicting at least some civilian casualties. But we know how Israel conducts it self in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine, and we have every reason to expect their intentions were far more nefarious.
I could see this maybe reducing latency, but wouldn't you still be limited by the memory bus speed regardless of how high you could clock the DDR?
Well those people could go do something constructive for humanity :) You're acting as if there won't be anything to replace it.
Important to note that the timing of this means that it's dedicated, specific AI, not "throw a wrapper and a specific prompt in front of ChatGPT" AI. Of course it's all muddied now.
Nope, no thanks.

Space indentation after text is very much a thing for me, and proportional fonts break that. Monospaced text looks neater to my eye, as well, and when I’m trying to figure out “how the hell that ever worked”, I don’t want the cognitive dissonance of trying to ignore the unaligned text.
Have you missed the LLM wave?
Privacy.md needs to be updated.

>If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at [your contact information].
I think foreign influence on elections is probably much less impactful than many would think. Campaigns spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars for a single election. There was some fear mongering article an election or two ago about Russian spending $100k on influencing tactics and everyone was like “omg they’re swaying the election! My candidate lost because of $100k!”

Which to me seems like one of two options are true:

Russia knows how to spend money a thousand times more effectively than any presidential campaign we’ve ever seen, and understands how to influence voters better than any American

Or

The $100k did absolutely nothing and we should go touch some grass
I think from now on future OEMs will be very careful indicating whether a product was in fact made by them, under their supervision, or was license made by some third party.
The US definitely violently expanded into Iraq. What Israel is doing is even more extreme.
No, generally not. 23andMe only ever did ISOs prior to the SPAC merger, not RSUs, and they had a quite high strike price. There was a 6 month insider lock up against selling, so by the time most of us could sell, the price had tanked. By the time I was able to sell, the share price was so low that only my oldest options from when I started at the company in 2014 were in the money.

I ended up making a few 10s of thousands. Not the 100s it would have taken to compensate for the low pay for all those years. And I probably did better than most by selling what I could when I could. Most people weren't in the money at all.

Maybe if you timed the market perfectly you could have done well. I don't know that anyone did.
"While the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon, the technology flagged incoming results several hours beforehand"

So they're understaffed and could just look into the results more, oh wow what an use of computational power.
systemd-resolvd is in the literal systemd code base.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/tree/main/src%2Fresolve
Chicago onwards was glorified Windows 3.0 386 enhanced mode, Cougar. The fundamental problems Win 9x has is it was buggier and didn't have the isolation assurances NT had. The main things Win 9x solved were the resource leaks of Win 3x and gradually increased relative stability. Whistler/Asteroid were the ways forward based on NT. (Pour one out for Neptune/Odyssey.)
Entropy is the existential phenomenon by which potential (any kind: heat, electromagnetic, and informational/structural) distributes over negative potential.

Math and physics geeks will turn beat red and say that entropy is a "scalar value [in their equations] of the distribution of delta probability." This, such as inverse square or whatever appropriate for the relevant manifold surface area (check out Penrose's Road to Reality for an excellent tutorial of manifold distributions.)

Conventional students will say "entropy is the waste energy that cannot be used or reclaimed" which sounds good in class yet doesn't fit in reality. Ambient heat is the entropy of whatever generated it, and we all enjoy ambient heat.

Everyone else is stuck in a mystical uncertainty (which is a laugh for uncertainty is a synonym for entropy.)

Where is it? Probably any location within the area of distribution.

What is it? Probably whatever there is, in statistical proportion.

In casual terms, any time anyone mentions "uncertainty" they're talking about the entropic distribution of potentials.

Thermal equilibrium is merely the most primitive universal example (everything is moving from more potential to less, and heat is the final exhaust of all working processes.

Entropy is the distribution of potential over negative potential, in every valid usage.

The mistake Shannon made in his monumental instigation of this very subject, that equation that expresses the electron distribution upon the valence of an atom, didn't account for the valence changing energy states. This giving modern information theory the erroneous conclusion that entropy is the "available states in a system" when in fact entropic measure is of all possible states, even those not fitting the model (a human construction.)

Other than all of this, the book looks quite interesting!
I'm not trying to attack you or say you wish ill for him. I'm trying to explain how your rhetoric (not your goals!) is philosophically aligned with people who don't want autistic people to exist.
it is used in `deno compile` to embed source bundles
Thanks for your answer. That sounds good on power.

My first "connection" question was about Internet connection though.

Can you get e.g. 10 Gbit/s, and is there a traffic limit?
Presumably there’s a middle ground between arguing for experimenting with new tech and somewhat disingenuously arguing that it’s the core of your business. The manner of delivery and applicability of the tech to a company’s products impact the credibility of the claim that AI is important to a business’s future.
"Israel orchestrating an attack against the terrorists they're at war with makes me think less of them" is certainly an opinion. A batshit fucking stupid opinion, but you're entitled to it nonetheless.

Please don't vote.
Some of the things you point out here are things you cannot rely on in Linux consistently, either.
You can’t rely on Systemd existing in Linux. You can’t rely on bash being the shell in Linux. Depending on the users system and distribution these tools may or may not exist.

Also the difference in some of the tools CLI flags wind up boiling down to being the BSD versions of them as opposed to the GNU versions of them. Which, again, isn’t a problem isolated to MacOS.

If you’re considering all Unixes everything you said basically still applies even if you remove MacOS from the equation. Unix isn’t just Linux.
It's worse because many humans don't know they are.

I see a lot of outrage around fake posts already. People want to believe bad things from the other tribes.

And we are going to feed them with it, endlessly.
My friend and I we are fixing old bikes for fun. And often the only way to figure out how to do certain things is watching YouTube videos about fixing bikes. And bikes are rather simple devices.

I guess NASA had lost all YouTube videos about how to assemble Moon rocket.
Now I understand why they so badly wanted Dong's goods.
Lol, this was my second thought immediately after my first, which was one of excitement. Hope the author does add a option for local. Wonder how that would work as a Chrome extension. Doesn't seem like a good idea for extensions to be accessing local resources though.
"By the same token, it's totally fine for Hezbollah to raze Tel Aviv, because the IDF is based there, thus using civilians as human shields. And almost all Israelis become soldiers at age 18."

https://x.com/Frances_Coppola/status/1836331295770632514 / https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QWVJ0
‘delve’ is given as an example right there in TFA.
Surprised; then I think When was the last time I used a Tupperware container? I can't remember.
> There's no possible way to guard all the borders 100% of the time...

My go-to example is that it's apparently impossible to eliminate illegal drugs from US prisons.

If "somehow" illegal drugs are making it into an environment where The Authorities have complete control over the lives of the folks housed in that environment, there is absolutely no hope to stop them anywhere at all.

Harm mitigation and minimization are the only things that make any sense in the real world.
This is correct. However, I always thought that legislation is pretty stupid. It isn't exactly comparable to alcohol/tobacco warnings. Actually, I always thought they are stupid too, but at least they can count as an "informed nonsent", since it's pretty clear, what's the harm they are taking about.

Cookies, on the other hand... Even for me, who was perfectly aware of the problem long before this legislation, and who was privacy-oriented to begin with, it isn't clear, what's the consent I'm giving. First off, I know everybody uses cookies, and almost everybody uses some trackers. Second, even me, somewhat informed user, I don't really understand, what is that information they are sharing with third parties, and why should I care. I feel kinda stupid when I bother to press "reject all". Like, does it even matter, what I choose? Wouldn't they do it anyway, whatever they do? Then, I use ublock and I hope it helps. If it doesn't, well, tough luck, but what do I do? I do want to read that one paragraph from the medium/NYT article I found on Google, despite how much I hate them. I won't stop using the internet because of... whatever this is.

I can only imagine, what it's like for average user, who is, let's be honest, pretty clueless. I guess for them it is indeed the EU who is too blame here.

GDPR is more useful, but still I'm not sure if it really helps. Like, I remember someone complaining that before GDPR you could bulk-download gpx files from Strava, and now you can only request .fit files, that are supposed to containt more data, but really aren't that useful for most. Well, it's not GDPR you should blame, it's Strava and all their partners/competitors (especially Garmin, god I hate them so much). They are successfully making life harder for you, because they don't want it to be easy to get your own data back. And who is to stop them? Maybe it's a matter of time, I don't know, but it doesn't seem GDPR is effectively enforcing what it is supposed to.
Well yes but the websites will find suppliers of untracked (context sensitive e.g. car ads on a website about cars) ads, which will become more valuable since they no longer have to compete with tracked ads.

Companies like Google and Meta would lose their huge moat because they're the only ones with the kind of pervasive tracking network that make tracked ads viable. They no longer have a big advantage over smaller ad players. And them losing their huge market position isn't a bad thing IMO.

I don't think ads would disappear, they would just become untracked. Neither would websites. They will find a way.
Honest question - is this a spamming toolkit? If not, what differs from a spamming toolkit?
Out of curiosity, how is this "much worse" than a breached honeypot of DNA information?
The past is another country.

Find me a modern US exec willing to actually invest in a risky hardware prospect, rather than throwing a billion dollars into real estate or "content" that can be filled with ads.
This article draws comparison’s to James Somer’s article on Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, The Friendship That Made Google. Where Somer’s was able to draw out the idiosyncratic detail of what made those engineer’s tick, this article reads as vague. It’s often pulling in praise from other industry big shots and that praise is so general, for example Hamilton’s “broad and deep” knowledge, that it sounds like politicians praising other politicians. If you want to write a credible puff piece for a distinguished engineer you should be a lot more grounded in the details of the engineering.
Unless you are suggesting they publish the most PII there is, you should propably specify that the data they should publish should be aggregated non-identifying information next to the number, not the actual DNa strings.