skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this downvoted? It raises some interesting and important issues. I saw a big bank's back office settlement system once. 30+ years old with almost no unit tests. It changes very little now and is virtually bug free because people have been fixing bugs in it for 30+ years! When they need to make changes these days, they first write unit tests for existing behaviour, then fix the bug. It is an example of how code can mature with a very low defect rate with limited unit tests.
Why Does My iPhone Keep Asking Me to Check in with My Ex?
Wait, so if somebody goes to WordPress.org, clicks the donate button, arrives at a page to donate to the WordPress Foundation, and donates, that money does not go towards funding WordPress.org?

The blurb on the donation page reads:

> Money raised by the WordPress Foundation will be used to ensure free access to supported software projects, protect the WordPress trademark, and fund a variety of programs.

“Supported software projects” is a link that leads to a page that lists these software projects:

- WordPress

- WordPress Plugins

- WordPress Themes

- bbPress

- BuddyPress

It sure looks like the WordPress infra and plugins are supported by the donations from the WordPress.org footer link. If the money is going elsewhere, where is it going?
They typically die after reproducing. Mothers use their remaining energy to help their offspring survive, fathers sometimes do but not all - if you could somehow capture only post-mating male octopuses from species that don't sacrifice themselves for their offspring then sure, but that seems like an unrealistic expectation.
Good point. That sounds a lot like fraud.
That still requires you to manually select hunks. The point of `hg absorb` is to automatically select hunks even if these hunks are to be squashed into different commits.
> I'm finding it difficult to believe this.

Pay attention to the whole sentence, especially the last section : "... based on the value of human labor."

It's not that I'm ruling out capitalism as the outcome. I'm simply ruling out the combined JOINT possibility of capitalism COMBINED WITH human labor remaining the base resource within it.

If robotics is going in the direction I expect there will simply be no jobs left that will be done more efficiently by humans than by machines. (ie that robots will match or exceed the robustness, flexibility and cost efficiency of all biology based life forms through breakthroughs in either nanotech or by simply using organic chemistry, DNA, etc to build the robots).

Why pay even $1/day for a human to do a job when a robot can do it for $1/week?

Also, such a capitalist system will almost certainly lead to AGI's becoming increasingly like a new life form, as capitalism between AGI's introduce a Darwinian selection pressure. That will make it hard even for the 100 richest people to retain permanent control.

IF humanity is to survive (for at least a few thousand more years, not just the next 100), we either need some way to ensure alignment. And to do that, we have to make sure that AGI's that optimize resource-control-seeking behaviours have an advantage over those who don't. We may even have to define some level of sophistication where further development is completly halted.

At least until we find ways for humans to merge with them in a way that allows us (at least some of us) to retain our humanity.
Users can just connect a ps5 controller to the Vision Pro, of course it's an extra expense but for Vision Pro buyers that's pretty much insignificant.

And all the sensors, cameras and superfast processing will still be needed for that immerse quasi AR simulated experience, so there are no cost savings there.
"Get a spaceship to Alpha Centauri next year. Oh, and it has to have a crew of at least 20 people, who all return safely to Earth by the end of the decade." I'll leave you to think hard and find a creative way to make it feasible.

Sure, sometimes you can re-define the goal. ("We need to know more about what's in the Alpha Centauri system.") But sometimes domain expertise means telling non-experts about reality. (Pi is not 3, no matter how much someone thinks it should be.)
I can't help but wonder if things would be different if Sam Altman wasn't allowed to come back to OpenAI. Instead, the safeguards are gone, challengers have left the company, and the bottom line is now the new priority. All in opposition to ushering in AI advancement with the caution and respect it deserves.
I used to work with psychology researchers conducting experiments with wearable cameras. Anything involving human subjects needed IRB approval, informed consent, ethics review, etc.

But with essentially any piece of tech you use (not just FB), you check "I agree" on a document you'll never read and give the same data to a private company who will use it however they want. And they charge you for it.

Imagine if I told you a research organization decided to throw out all their ethics and start charging their research subjects to be experimented on, and that this was actually a really solid business model.
Idk if that was parent's ref, but clopen is a term used in topology
Show HN: I built a no-code scraper for Lists and Page Details (Chrome Extension)
Hey everyone, just wanted to share a tool I’ve been working on.

It’s a chrome plugin to extract Lists & Page Details from any website. Here’s a preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyFFhilcGBo

Backstory:

A few months ago I was toying with the idea of building a no-code scraper. I shared a prototype on twitter and it blew up, so I continued working on it.

This is how PandaExtract was born.

Originally I was aiming to build a full web scraper but slowly realized that trying to cover every scraping need is just too complex. So I niched it down to a very specific use case: List + Page Details.

What it can do now:
* Extract Lists instantly
* Extract Page Details using AI models (best for small data that can fit into a spreadsheet)

Who is it meant for?
This is not meant to replace more traditional scraping operations but rather allow people to quickly grab some structured data from websites.

Most common use cases are reviews extraction, phone numbers, local business lists, product lists…

Pricing:

Most of the plugin is Free but there are some PRO features.

Chrome WebStore URL:
* https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-scraper-data-ex...

Let me know what you think!
Meta has to be happy someone else is currently looking as sketchy as they are. Thus the business strategy is moving to limit their power and influence as much as possible while also avoiding any appearance of direct competition, and letting the other guy soak up the bad pr.

Amazon gets paid either way, because even if open ai doesn’t use them, where are you going to cloud your api that’s talking with open ai?

If open ai looks weakened I think we’ll see everyone else has a service they want you to try. But there’s no use in making much noise about that, especially during an election year. No matter who wins, all the rejected everywhere will blame AI, and who knows what that will look like. So, sit back and wait for the leader of the pack to absorb all the damage.
I disagree. Some features are more complex than others and design has little to do with that complexity.

Async is a good example of a complex feature that needs a fairly detailed blog post to understand the nuances. Pretty much any language with coroutines of some sort will have 1 or many blog posts going into great detail explaining exactly how those things work.

Similarly, assuming Rust added HKT, that would also require a series of blog posts to explain as the concept itself is foreign to most programmers.
Aren't South Korea and Japan locked into that death spiral now? Thinking they have to extract more time out of people to make up labor lost to a declining labour force, which makes the labour force decline further, so they squeeze even more...
I think the departures and switch to for-profit model may point in a different direction: that everyone involved is realizing that OpenAI’s current work is not going to lead to AGI, and it’s also not going to change.

So the people who want to work on AGI and safety are leaving to do that work elsewhere, and OpenAI is restructuring to instead focus on wringing as much profit as possible out of their current architecture.

Corporations are actually pretty bad at doing tons of different things simultaneously. See the failure of huge conglomerates like GE, as well as the failure of companies like Bell, Xerox, and Microsoft to drive growth with their corporate research labs. OpenAI is now locked into a certain set of technologies and products, which are attracting investment and customers. Better to suck as much out of that fruit as possible while it is ripe.
As an example of a more informative map of income/deprivation, I recently encountered the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation website (https://simd.scot). Only applicable to Scotland (obviously), but it is interesting to see how each city is a mosaic of social status. From personal experience, it is extremely accurate down to the street level!
Hmm so the name must be corrected to be 8-armed in Greek. Oktobratso? Oktooplizo? Oktocheiro?
> 2. There is always a primary and secondary. Secondary gets called up in cases when primary cannot be reached.

Now you have two people on-call. Except if the expectation is that the secondary doesn't need to carry a laptop/can be unreachable. Important consideration to meet "only on all every x weeks".
fyi, the idiom is "chock full".
When my 3 year old is tired he starts blinking reeeeaaaaallllllyyyyy sllloooooowwwwwlllly. There's clearly signal here if you use it responsibly.
Yeah, but the surgeons and doctors are the ones who want the long hours. They lobbied for them quite hard.

It is “chock full” btw
> creating content from that scraping without attributing any of the source material, and arguing that the outcome is completely novel and original is another.

That's the business model of lots of companies. Take, collect and collate data, put it in a new format more useful for your field/customers, resell.
Uber for legalizing your business model
The usual workarounds are a stateful API (e.g. Cairo, OpenGL, or Windows GDI), passing a structure explicitly (oodles of examples in Win32, e.g. RegisterClass or GetOpenFileName), or a twiddling an object that’s actually just a structure dressed up in accessor methods (IOpenFileDialog).

There could be reasons to use one of those still (e.g. extensibility while keeping a compatible ABI, as in setsockopt, pthread_attr_*, or arguably posix_spawnattr_*). But sometimes you really do need a finite, well-known but just plain large number of parameters that mostly have reasonable defaults. Old-style 2D APIs to draw and/or stroke a shape (or even just a rectangle) are the classic example. Plotting libraries (in all languages) are also prone to this. It does seem like these situations are mostly endemic to specific application areas—graphics of all kinds first of all—but that doesn’t make them not exist.

If you don’t want to use function-like macros for anything ever even if this particular one works, that’s a valid position. But it does work, it does solve a real problem, and it is less awkward at the use site than the alternatives.
> New LLMs don't even rely that much on that aforementioned older architecture

Don’t they all indicate being based on the transformer architecture?

> not entirely because of transformers but because of the hardware

Kaplan et al. 2020[0] (figure 7, §3.2.1) shows that LSTMs, the leading language architecture prior to transformers, scaled worse because they plateau’ed quickly with larger context.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
They're not "selling OSS 1:1", they're selling managed hosting.
Here's the ImageNet recognition challenge results from 2011[1]. Bird is actually one of the easier categories they they call out, but still calling it 'solved' is a bit of an exaggeration.

The winning model is from Xerox Research Center Europe.

1. https://image-net.org/static_files/files/pascal_ilsvrc_2011....
why wouldn't they keep it?

the well known scammer successfully scammed everyone twice. obviously he's keeping it around for the third (and forth...) time
.NET has a few runtime knobs to control GC behavior at runtime:

GC.TryStartNoGCRegion - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.tryst...

GCSettings.LatencyMode - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-co...

The latter is what Osu! uses when you load and start playing a map, to sustain 1000hz game loop. Well, it also avoids allocations within it like fire but it's going to apply to any non-soft realtime system.
Sure. But there are a lot of other tax advantages. For example, at least where I am, non profits don't pay sales tax on purchases, and don't have to pay into unemployment funds. I'm sure there is more, but I'm not super familiar with this world.
im not sure if threatened is correct, i think it's more a collective "why?" And there hasn't been a particuarly convincing answer
With a lot of irrelevant stuff as decoration it seems.
'Replaced R436, R430 emitter resistors on right-channel power output board with new wire-wound 5watt .33ohm 5% with ceramic lead insulators'
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Test Accounts: A Hidden Risk
PON generally uses PLC splitters which are pretty much wavelength agnostic, so you don't even need to swap out the splitters in outside plant. It it entirely possible to overlay DWDM wavelengths on PON segments without even removing or changing any of the PON equipment, making it possible to do a customer by customer migration from PON to DWDM if desired. You do end up having to use 80 or 100km optics to compensate for the insertion loss of the splitter, but it's not like even 10Gbps DWDM optics are too expensive for that (they're on the order of $200 a piece). More important is the security concern as any customers on the PON segment would be able to snoop on traffic making use of MACSEC mandatory.

That said, it is unlikely that major telcos will deploy DWDM to the home outside of niche markets. The savings in feeder fibres costs are nice, but the bigger concern is that there is a very real cost to hosting enough ethernet switches to provide an ethernet port per customer. Most of the GPON deployments around where I live use 1:32 splits, but 1:128 is viable for residential subscribers at shorter distances and when using XGSPON or 10G-EPON (although I stick to 1:32 in my own network). With 48 ports in 1U of space a carrier can serve up to 1536 to 6144 customers in 1U with PON. That would be racks worth of equipment using 1:1 ethernet. DWDM-only would drive up operating costs for space, power, HVAC and equipment maintenance by orders of magnitude.
An AI essentially monopolized by one (or even a few) large non-profits is not necessarily beneficial to the rest of us in the grand scheme of things.
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Your point is completely out of scope of what's being discussed. My comment was a reply to a comment saying "It's beyond stupid to elect people who are in charge of upholding laws and prosecute crimes." My argument is entirely and only an argument that prosecutors should be elected instead of appointed.

All this other stuff about language is not relevant and I don't care about your thought experiment because it's completely unlike the way elections work in the real world, and has nothing to do with me preferring that over a situation where one of the 10 people gets to pick the prosecutor!
I was under the impression that it’s fairly common?

The caterpillar: Often a pest species like the tomato leafminer
Primary parasitoid: Cotesia glomerata
Secondary parasitoid: Lysibia nana and some species from the genus Gelis like agilis
Tertiary parasitoid: Certain species within the Trichogramma or Eulophidae families.
Some of these are not problems so much as they are proposed solutions to problems:

> Dark flow: Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the observed motion of large objects such as galactic clusters in the universe?

I'd like separate lists of the problems (observations that don't fit understanding) and proposed solutions (Dark matter, Dark flow, etc).
The "how to install python" page is depressingly complicated.
the history you're merging to the main branch is much more useful clean than accurate.
Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina
isn't cron removed from most distros? now you need 3 or 4 different files for systemd-cronie
I agree that using a hosted secrets manager is better than storing a random assortment of secrets in an .env file that's written right next to your source code. Just make a with-secrets shell script that checks your 2FA and fetches them into the environment as it starts your application.

This way, the opportunity to expose the secrets is more limited to the actual run-time of the application. You don't need to risk exposing your secrets every time you git push.
I’m not up to date on the recent changes, but problems we had with vacuum were more computation and iops related than memory related.

Basically in a database with a lot of creation/deletion, database activity can outrun the vacuum, leading to out of storage errors, lock contention, etc

In order to keep throughput up, we had to throttle things manually on the input side, to allow vacuum to complete. Otherwise throughput would eventually drop to zero.
Why would they want that
It's not an either or.

We have hundreds of languages made to please the corporate overlords.

Can't we just have one language that's actually nice to use?
Many years ago, I was basically an it guy in a rust belt city with a slightly inflated title and no cs degree. I started blogging about interactive web development as I was teaching myself. A year later I decided to look for a new job.

To my surprise, that website got me past pretty much every first round, and within 2 weeks of starting to send applications I had 5 job offers at 2-3 times my current salary.

I relocated to Chicago and the entire trajectory of my career changed. I will always recommend blogging or some form of content creation. Especially for someone thinking of a career pivot.

It keeps you focused on deliverable products from your learning and experience.

Helps keep you consistent if you have a posting schedule.

Creates tangible evidence of your skills and experience.

And perhaps most importantly. It really improves your communication skills around the problem space which is a huge benefit.
I have been of the opinion for a long time, that the basic architecture of file systems is antiquated and needs to be replaced. Any data organization technique you devise for organizing your files using a traditional hierarchical folder structure, will quickly break down once the number of files gets really large and are spread across many storage devices.

We need to move to an 'object store' architecture that can effectively manage hundreds of millions of files; attach a set of meaningful meta-data tags to each one; and find anything and everything in just a second or two of searching.

I created such a system that works exceptionally well that is currently in open beta.
Kinda seems like a political problem. We don’t have this to the same extent in the US because there a pretty strict rules around crew (pilot & flight attendant) rest.

These rules are written in blood and we(as the consumer) pay for it in higher ticket prices.

A simpler app that keeps track of the time off the clock allocated to rest would solve the problem but that increases operational costs pretty significantly. Not just reduced hours per pilot but also cancelling/delaying flights when crew run past their time and need to rest instead.
Well they are spending billions to make shovels that they are selling for millions (roughly).
given how the octopus uses camoflauge, operating on their environment by using other fish as a distraction to their prey is logical. punching the still predator fish to keep them moving removes competition and keeps them moving as a part of the noise distraction.

longevity research for cephalopods seems like it could be really fruitful.
I’ve been able to give up eating cephalopods, but pigs are too delicious to give up.
This obsession with using AI to help with programming is short sighted.

We discover gold and you think of gold pickaxes.
> memory safe languages

I would say anything that runs on JVM and CLR, and scripting langs, like Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.

Edit: I forgot Golang!
Well, given the overwhelming emerging evidence of social attention and behavior in plants, and given that it makes evolutionary sense that "social attention" would provide a fitness advantage in any environment where there are other actors,

the only reason to doubt it would be an assumption that "attention to social information" can only happen in creatures with an complex central nervous systems. Which requires rather constrained definitions of "attention", "social", and "information"

ok, there is another reason to doubt it. inertia. We've been taught/told that a complex CNS is what makes intelligence, and it is hard to get away from that idea.
Agree. Not sure what to do about the nurse situation, but there needs to be reform that increases the number of residency slots and ultimately doctors. The supply is artificially limited now.
It goes deeper than that! According to wikipedia, the tentacles, or appendages, are indeed called "arms", but they evolved from what in other molluscs is called a "foot"!
This happens if you are handling utilization of employees the same way as utilization of machines. But somehow medical doctors with an own practice work (largely) without doing 30-hour shifts, as opposed to their peers in hospitals.
I think we should delve further into that analysis.
That is messed up. These dudes have to work so hard to afford scraps they're literally falling asleep at the wheel and gaming the system to get more time behind the wheel so they can get more cash to afford to live in this country. We need to address wage inequality folks.
And they'll likely drop support/updates for it quickly after release... These out of pocket devices are sunsetted faster than mobile phones, especially so because they require completely independent development teams that companies love to roll essential staff off of.

There have been so many attempts to make VR glasses that it's really not innovation at this point, it's just gimmicky throw-away pocket tech. Something far better to invent is a phone that can project on walls, or project a full-size keyboard onto a table for an easier writing experience.

Most of these companies are gutted by investors, and turned into profit machines... There are very few visionaries leading projects now, and huge hurdles with IP theft and related lawsuits that hold up most of the typical innovation, unless these companies come up with game changing ideas that focus less on pushing out ads, they're going to fail with micro-projects like this. VR glasses have been around for ages, none of what Zuckerberg demoed was revolutionary, gotta be honest about it.
I for one, am extremely impressed. Yes, its a prototype, and the cost makes these nonviable for consumer use at the moment. But this is a glimpse of the future! I thought it'd be another ~decade until anyone was able to cram fully-functional, HoloLens-style AR device into a form factor this small, and here Facebook just went and did it!

It's crazy to me to see people in this thread calling this "bulky". It's literally the smallest this tech has ever been! Small enough to pass for actual glasses! It has a massively wider field of view than HoloLens, despite the HoloLens being like 10x bulkier! And they somehow managed to cram eye tracking and hand tracking into the thing on top of all that? This is literally the AR future science fiction has been envisioning for years, in real life, and yet this whole thread seems to be filled with nothing but cynicism!
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