skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And survival sex workers don’t represent all sex workers no matter who you listen to

Its mostly an information asymmetry if they choose to sell their labor that way and dont want to, or do want to and believe it is the most lucrative choice for them

part of the whole sex worker activist movement is the observation that other kinds of workers dont have to be representatives of their entire occupation based on their mood that day
At what point do we drop the term "regular" expressions altogether for stuff like this? This is going to sound pedantic since I know that most popularly-used regex implementations are themselves non-regular, but I feel like we're just piling more and more stuff on top of good-old-regexes and trying to turn the concept into a catch-all for anything that does pattern matching on text.

I guess it just feels icky that "regular expressions" has inherent meaning (i.e. can be represented entirely by a finite automaton) which has become completely diluted at this point.

That rant aside, cool paper. The idea of bridging formal language theory with modern computational tooling feels timely. I think I would've liked to see more exploration of oracle-based costs, for instance:

* What happens when oracle outputs are inconsistent/uncertain?

* What happens as oracle interactions become more computationally expensive?
Apps like this are a godsend. Putting away all the social media aside (where 95% of the content is fake/useless anyway), in reality there should really be no use for mobile phones besides using it for calls/music and some important things when you can't get to your laptop/desktop.

I've realized recently that it takes at least 3 times more work and time to do things on a smartphone than to do the same things on a laptop. This holds true for messaging apps where we are so limited by the typing speed and error-prone nature of composing messages on a smartphone, and the lack of good multitasking options like on a desktop interface. I have more time in my life now, more than ever, after I started to avoid using my phone for things wherever I can.
YouTube is wonderful for that! Try PBS Eons for dinosaur and general fossil history.
Walk onto the UCD and Trinity Campuses tomorrow morning, go into the Newman or Phil buildings. Count the Macbook Airs and iPads in lectures, generally coupled with both an iPhone Pro model and an iWatch. Only the grant students are using DELL Laptops through the University schemes.

Then go down the docklands, walk into any incubator or start up lab. Hell, anywhere with a good load of contractors. It will all be Macbook Pro for IDE and Terminal work - the odd Thinkpad for the greybeards.
Launch HN: Keep (YC W23) – AIOps and alert management
Hey HN, Matvey, Shahar, and Tal from Keep (keephq.dev) here. Keep lets you easily centralize alerts from any monitoring tool and correlate (manually or AI-based), enrich, deduplicate, filter, and then run automation (such as auto-recovering or ticketing sync). For example, if you have Sentry for your exceptions, Prometheus for metrics, and your cloud provider for logs, you can easily send all the alerts to Keep and get a great interface to run workflows.

Simply check it out yourself at https://playground.keephq.dev or just have a look at our repo https://github.com/keephq/keep

We always had trouble with anything monitoring, observability and alerting, with and without OpenTelemtry. While trying almost every tool out there, we always lacked something and eventually found ourselves building complementary tools that fit our needs.

Keep is like a swiss army knife for alerts - anything from collecting, enriching, correlating, and automating. We have over 90 integrations: anything from alerts, topology (CMDB), ticketing, databases, etc., a GitHub-Action-like interface for your monitoring stack (we did a Show HN for it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381268) triggers manually, cron, alert or incident-based, a smart correlation layer, where we use LLMs or pre-configured rules to correlate alerts into incidents (imagine “DB is down” and plenty of 5XX from other services), opinionated or customized deduplication rules to view only the alerts that matter, extraction and mapping capabilities to extract/add missing bits of information to alerts, a single pane of glass to see and manage everything in one place and batteries-included LLM: chat with your observability data

Tools like BigPanda, Moogsoft, Splunk ITSI, or Datadog Event Management treat AIOps as a side quest – trying to vendor-lock or deploy AIOps for huge enterprises only while we build a tool that can serve organizations of any size.

We are completely open-source (MIT license), and we monetize on a SaaS-managed version and enterprise features: SSO, RBAC, Auditing, 24/7 support, longer retention, and private deployments.

We are excited to share what we’ve been working on for the last year and would love to hear your feedback and opinions!

Hosted Demo: https://playground.keephq.dev

Open Source: https://github.com/keephq/keep

Landing Page: https://keephq.dev
Why not just read a book or two?
As a schismatic from the Church of Vim, I’m compelled to recommend kakoune here. Unless you’re running in a peculiar legacy platform like Windows or Amiga, the selection oriented editing and smooth Unix integration are a delight.
Needs an option for “my employer turned on shitty Microsoft ten-billion-factor auth settings”.

To login to my work Microsoft account requires a passcode and then three face scans.
Are you wanting to get into LLMs in particular or something else? I am a software engineer also trying to make headways into so-called "AI", but I have little interest in LLMs. For one, it's suffering from a major hype bubble right now. The second reason is that because of reason one, it has a huge amount of attention from people who study and work on this every day. It's not something I have the time commitment for to compete with that. Lastly, as mentioned, I have no interest in it and my understanding of them leads me to believe they have few interesting applications besides generating a huge amount of noise in society and dumping heat. The Internet, like blogs, articles, and even YouTube, are already being overrun by LLM-generated material that is effectively worthless. I'm not sure of the net positive for LLMs.

For me personally, I prefer to work backwards and then forwards. What I mean by that is that I want to understand the basics and fundamentals first. So, I'm, slowly, trying to bone up on my statistics, probability, and information theory and have targeted machine learning books that also take a fundamental approach. There's no end to books in this realm for neural networks, machine learning, etc., so it's hard to recommend beyond what I've just picked, and I'm just getting started anyway.

If you can get your employer to pay for it, MIT xPRO has courses on machine learning (https://xpro.mit.edu/programs/program-v1:xPRO+MLx/ and https://xpro.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:xPRO+GenAI/). These will likely give a pretty up to date overview of the technologies.
You indicate you are in Japan so I think the first step is to find out what the legal definition of what "disabled" means there. Maybe find an employment attorney or equivalent to find out what is covered and what provisions you may be able to ask for, what hiring practices are illegal, etc. It will vary per country so unless someone on here is also in Japan and has a similar diagnosis I would caution any specific advice.
Related:

Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42196057 - Nov 2024

Russia bans crypto mining in several regions to address electricity shortages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185827 - Nov 2024

Russia's War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42152373 - Nov 2024

Russian Food Prices Skyrocket in Growing Concern for Kremlin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139964 - Nov 2024
I _love_ articles like this. Hacker News peeps, please make more!
It's not mentioned, but important to note, that R2 lacks object versioning.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/r2-object-versioning-and-...
Wish List: More head gestures
This app interrupts usage of the target app by setting up an automation (in the native Shortcuts app) that triggers when the target app is launched.[1] This means you can skip the app entirely and try to set up your own poor man's version. I fiddled around a bit and it's possible to set up an automation that automatically exits back to the home screen after some pause, or displays a notification to try to nudge you out of the app. This is not as good as the app but it is free. Also, without the Safari extension, I don't think websites can be blocked.

My own strategy is to simply use pi-hole to block time-wasting websites entirely. It's kind of a sledgehammer, but it works for me.

1: https://tutorials.one-sec.app/setup-ios
ChatGPT has replaced 90% of Google for me too, even with decades of experience. It's not even that ChatGPT is that much better, it's that Google is so bad and so spammy these days it's usually totally useless anyway.

I'd prefer hallucinations over SEO spam any day.
This is a great comparison and a great step towards pressure to improve cloud service pricing.

The magic that moves the region sounds like a dealbreaker for any use cases that aren't public, internet-facing. I use $CLOUD_PROVIDER because I can be in the same regions as customers and know the latency will (for the most part) remain consistent. Has anyone measured latencies from R2 -> AWS/GCP/Azure regions similar to this[0]?

Also does anyone know if the R2 supports the CAS operations that so many people are hyped about right now?

[0]: https://www.cloudping.co/grid
Did I misunderstand, or does it not seem to have support for user authentication? It seems your operating model is that the MCP server is, during installation time, configured authentication for the underlying service. This is fine for non-serious use cases such as weather forecast querying, or for small-scale situations where only a couple of people have access to an LLM that's connected to the MCP server. But in an enterprise setting, there are thousands of people, whose level of access to the service behind the MCP server, differs. I think the MCP server needs a way to know the identity of the human behind the LLM, so that it can perform appropriate authentication and authorization.
Valkey
No, it's 3D. It's some kind of automatic background removal. You can see this falling apart in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42252127

That "outline" is just an artifact of less-than-perfect removal. Here's another one: https://imgur.com/a/zTQubPb
I recently wrote a post for a coworker who asked the exact same question.

https://dandavis.dev/llm-knowledge-dump.html
May I ask you why you did install it in the first place, if you then hack your way around it?

Maybe the goal was to motivate you to find a hack anyway :)
Show HN: Collatz^Reich – when the 3n+1 conjecture meets Clapping Music
I was mindlessly playing Clapping Music on my Amazon package when I suddenly thought "Hey! Let's combine this with the 3n+1 conjecture!". Above is the result, enjoy :-)
My Bose QC15 headphones (bought around 2009) are probably my best tech purchase ever. I've had to replace the foam ear pad pieces twice, but otherwise they're fantastic. These are wired (no bluetooth).
Wasn't the protestant reformation more or less about the tenants of that faith not wanting to pay rent anymore?
Haha, came here to report the same
I’m content with Apple Health. Blood/other test results go into it. Most test providers support it natively.

I don’t really review it much anymore but it was instrumental for my doctor during some health issues. All my data was in one app and doctors are familiar with the app and can get around it quickly.
OpenAI allows employees to sell $1.5b
My Roomba.

It's ok-ish but too noisy, takes too long to do its job and as vacuum it kinda sucks I guess.

It also needs an app that doesn't really work at all. I was forced to install it to solve a random problem with the unit, but now it's useless. It doesn't trigger the Roomba sometimes.

I replaced it with a Bosch vacuum that has the bonus of using the same batteries as my cordless drill and other Bosch devices. Yay. The Bosch is also WAY quieter than the Roomba (also quieter than a Dyson, that was surprising), which is great since I have a cat. Also it doesn't have IoT capabilities so it's amazing.

Every device that requires IoT or an App needs to die die die.
Thanks~ I'm afraid I can't get it for you! What actually happens is that the laptop uploads all finalized images to an S3 bucket and then sleeps to save power. I have a raspberry PI that's responsible for fetching a random image and displaying it on the Samsung Frame on an hourly basis.

Next time you see one you like though, you can save the image to your machine and use something like exiftool to extract the meta information - I save the prompt inside the EXIF.
Show HN: I made a tool to convert YT video into blog in <1min
Rails World 2025: Save the date – September 4 and 5, Amsterdam
I strongly prefer vscode's solution to the current state of affairs in Emacs.
Ouch. Object versioning is one of the best features of object storage. It provides excellent protection from malware and human error. My company makes extensive use of versioning and Object Lock for protection from malware and data retention purposes.
I thought the PIN was the issue. Can't op just do a pw reset, wipe the phone and log in again?
I feel like the medium paywall saved me... as soon as I saw "47 clusters across 3 different cloud providers", I begin to think that the tool used here might not actually the real issue.
I love this statue. There's a free STL version here: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-the-once-and-f...
I printed one 40cm high in metallic copper filament and it looks amazing.
Is R2 egress actually free, or is it like CFs CDN egress which is "free" until they arbitrarily decide you're using it too much or using it for the wrong things so now you have to pay $undisclosed per GB?
>Or am I really alone to see something of a relation between Shu and Maya outside of the dominant paradigm :)

I don't know how to answer you because you don't really provide any evidence, nor is there anything in the general Internet about this. Care to elaborate?
People post frequently on topics they like. There are plenty of folks on HN that are heavily engaged in just a few topics, from specific programming languages to certain political ideas.
Discussing politics in an echo chamber - which is what BS has rather quickly devolved into - does not help in resolving the 'insane trajectory' the world is supposed to be on. To resolve that it should not just be discussed but also acted upon in the real world where everyone gets to have a say instead of just those who happen to follow the desired narrative. Such discussions tend to be contentious and often not at all 'nice' but that's what you get when discussing important issues in an open forum. In that respect X does a lot better than heavily polarised venues like BS ('left') or Gab ('right').

Of course X will only be better in this respect as long as there are some 'progressives' who refrain from following the herd to the next echo chamber. If all of them leave X will become another Gab.
I have a Quadra 700 of this vintage that hasn't been powered up in 25+ years. Kind of wanted to fire it up again to experience the glory of A/UX one more time, but sounds like I'd have to replace all the lytics :/
Where's the proof that this works?

It's a brute forcing tool with the goal of finding the desired fingerprint, but there's no demonstration of it actually working.
I was in Cork with the wife on a personal vacation but got to pop up to the place because I was working with a few engineers from Apple, Cork at the time.

Ha ha, the thing that sticks with me though was that when I got up there, there was an encampment of "gypsies" that were on the next hill over. Or at least when I asked my host I was told that that was what they were.
A Barebones GraphRAG Implementation
Mostly as an academic exercise, I built a much simpler implementation of the Microsoft GraphRAG implementation laid out in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16130.
I find it to be nevertheless pretty functional, and certainly more hackable than the de-facto implementation.
I'm watching the youtube video now, and I'm trying to find evidence that David Horowitz was debanked for having the wrong political views.

Marc seems to be making 2 claims. One, The US Government debanks marijuana dealers, sex workers and crypto companies that break federal law.

Two, that the US Government de-banks people for having the wrong right-wing (never left-wing) politics.

The first I buy and I think is worth debating, the second I can't find any evidence for.
To measure performance the author looked at latency, but most S3 workloads are throughput oriented. The magic of S3 is that it's cheap because it's built on spinning HDDs, which are slow and unreliable individually, but when you have millions of them, you can mask the tail and deliver multi TBs/sec of throughput.

It's misleading to look at S3 as a CDN. It's fine for that, but it's real strength is backing the world's data lakes and cloud data warehouses. Those workloads have a lot of data that's often cold, but S3 can deliver massive throughout when you need it. R2 can't do that, and as far as I can tell, isn't trying to.

Source: I used to work on S3
This is a very "Internet" comment, but what struck me about the title and very many other titles in the software engineering world is that I'm not sure it's the best idea to belittle readers in the title. The implication of "<x> for normal people, mortals, dummies, etc." titles is that the reader is not on the level of the author of the book and the authors of the tool or topic that one is learning about. Specifically, "for mortals" implies the author and programming language author are immortals, or at least not mortal. I realize this is taking the title more seriously than probably intended, but this type of framing pops up a lot in the software and programming world.
IIRC, the Sumerians (through the Akkadians perhaps) left records stating they had to build walls around their cities. Which to me certainly implies the Sumerians had cities without walls for some time. Pretty big deal that, to have recorded it.
That's a different potential vulnerability. I knew about that one (and had disabled the running of such scripts). I didn't know about this one till today.

Helping me finish typing the name of a function or variable ("completion") is not the sort of thing I expected (till today) the maintainers of Emacs to be so eager to do that they'd start running code that I never asked to be run.
Easy! The Vision Pro. It seams like Apple has already given up on that product.
Please post your configuration... Thank you!
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-r...
I am using a USB3 drive as a samba drive and it works fine, although I use it mostly for streaming video not to transfer large files.

My OS however is in the SD card which is Sandisk which I assumed was the good fair price brand.
If your model was popular, there's likely a recap kit for its power supply. It usually makes senss to swap all the capacitors in the kit, unless the kit instructions say otherwise.

You can look for physical signs of degredation (bulgy, leaky, discolored), but to really test a capacitor for capacititance, you need to take it out of the circuit, at which point, you may as well put a new, high quality capacitor in.

The OEM capacitors may likely have a just right voltage rating, a new one with a higher voltage rating (and same capacitance, compatible type) may last longer in cirucit as well.
I think it depends on the type of tool. If it's a specialty tool that I don't expect to use more than once or twice, I'll go for cheaper model. On the other hand, if it's something that I expect to use a lot then buying a quality tool (possibly used) is the better route. All of my cordless power tools are Makita but my 2 Makita drills were both bought used. For hand tools like combination wrenches and sockets my default route is used SK Tools bought at yard sales, pawn shops, eBay.
Are these always solvable? The handful of 4x4's I've had don't seem to be.
All of this drama is already doing that.
There's loads yeah, and they're public, and in mainstream publications. The one I linked is very good, so I don't know why you're asking me for something I already provided - is there something wrong with the article above?

The article itself links to loads of serious primary sources on the matter, including the relevant US government reports and European Commission publications. Have you exhausted those resources?

Or maybe you mean a more mainstream publication, economically speaking. Here's a FT article from 2016 (the first one I see after a search that looks relevant, very easy to find) entitled "Apple tax deal: how it worked and what the EU ruling means":

https://archive.fo/gGC2C#selection-2204.0-2204.1

Here's a tidbit from it:

> 0.05%: Tax rate in effect paid by Apple in Ireland on €16bn profit in 2011

People can think that's economically and/or morally justified if they wish, but the U.S. government thought it was anticompetitive and the E.U. courts have ruled it was illegal.
if you're talking about colonization, the second sentence should note that they brought civilization to those places.

In fact, even before the Soviet Union, since the 1740s, these steppes were part of the Russian Empire, and Russians built cities there.
Conor McCabe is a far-left fringe soapboxer, just for clarity.

If the anonymised wordpress site doesn't convince you, have a quick look at his bedfellows in Connolly and you'll get the picture very quickly.

https://www.connollybooks.org/product/sins-of-the-father
I would say don't run a casino on cloudflare
Probable extinction of influenza B/Yamagata and its public health implications
I can hypothesize that it may give startups the incentive to behave in reckless ways (e.g. pursue the MVP instead of the MVSP); think of the modern distortion of "ask for forgiveness, not permission" [0]:

> So “Ask forgiveness, not permission” meant:

Do the right thing within the organization, whether or not they know it. That way you can help the people that you work for.

> It did NOT mean:

Move the extrinsic cost to the public domain so that we can profit.

[0]: https://changelog.com/posts/what-admiral-grace-hopper-really...
Not for k8s, but I've used and liked Cloudways for simpler managed framework deployments (on your own cloud plans). They were acquired by DigitalOcean a few years ago.

For WordPress, there's also the self-hosted Gridpane.

I'd try to just use serverless most of the time these days...
NGL, the pronunciation of Waikiki as “Why, Kiki?” made me laugh out loud.
$1.5 billions
Related:

Redis is trying to take over the all of the OSS Redis libraries

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42239607
Doing it well IMO requires not deploying everything as sidecar but maybe, maybe, deploying it as shared node service.

In fact pretty sure I've read a write up from Alibaba? on huge wins in performance due to moving Istio out of sidecar and into shared node service.
Lots of people can get impressive demos up and running, but if you want to run AI products in production, you're going to have to do system evals. System evals make sure your product is doing what it says on the box with unquantifiable qualities.

We wrote a zine on system evals without jargon: https://forestfriends.tech

Eugene Yan has written extensively on it https://eugeneyan.com/writing/evals/

Hamel has as well. https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/