skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuck no. There is NO effort at all here to go after surveillance capitalism, I don't give a shit what their press releases say about "protecting American's privacy." It's straight horseshit. The biggest offenders to American's privacy are squarely in Silicon Valley, and the only companies that ever end up in the Government's crosshairs are the big scary Chinese ones that are gonna use their algorithms to turn you into a communist or whatever the fuck.

And FWIW to anyone in power who happens to read this, I was plenty radicalized by my own experiences and those of my friends under capitalism. China didn't do shit.
That is a good point. I'd probably wait until I saw the flash and then run out to catch the shockwave.

also, don't forget there are fast and slow forms of suicide. Fast is with a gun or overdosing on a drug. Slow is not taking any precautions from fallout or refusing treatments for cancer or end-stage kidney disease. Sometimes, just giving up is a form of suicide.

I suggest you look up deaths of despair.
Same Query, Different Hash: Snowflake's query hashing blind spots
To be fair, TP-Link routers without OpenWRT installed should be banned, considering their vulnerability history...

But they are nice and cheap OpenWRT platforms. Ban the software instead? ;D
>There's that nagging feeling that they're not concerned about security but banning anything that works well, is inexpensive and isn't made by an US company..

Two things can hold true at the same time. A US company selling US equipment and US software can have US law enforcement agents show up and point US guns at them for non-compliance.

But that in turns sets up a captive market where the US players in the market are more likely to perform collusion and raise prices.
people have always believed whatever they want. hence, it has been a game of persuation for eons. the most persuasive person was always listened to regardless of what they said.

science changed the game by insisting that it is not what we believe, but whats out there. But, it doesnt come naturally to most of us. we still love narratives, and are easily fooled.
FWIW, that is a thing that Apple actually gets wrong a bit across the world.

The default layout for Macs sold in Poland is also nonsensical — it's "technically" more correct, and maps closer to what the typewriters looked like (I think?); but it is a layout that literally nobody else uses.

I don't think I could easily find a non-Apple keyboard with that layout in Poland if I tried.
Volvo is majority-owned by Geely, a car brand that is definitely not known for safety.
> Many people may find the word "rape" to evoke more unpleasant emotions than the more muted "sexual assault,"

IMHO the action being described evokes an extremely strong emotion, and therefore so too should the word we use.
*imply
Disagree, I think it's more about the snark.

GDPR may have technically replaced the right to be forgotten with a more limited right of erasure, but unless you care about legal phrasing it's an easy thing to mix up.

Also, it does look like a GDPR issue to me — not that I'm a lawyer, so usual caveat applies, all I can do is look at the plain language of GDPR on the Commission website.

GDPR regulates "personal data" (information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual), and looking at the "lawful purposes" list in Article 6, people running such a thing would seem to me to need to make some kind of argument about "legitimate interests" or "performance of a contract".

It may be that a plain reading of this isn't giving me the correct answer, but I don't see how placing specifically whistleblowers (rather than, say, known embezzlers) on a blacklist would meet the standards: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
nagging feeling? that is absolutely what is happening, unless the US is claiming there is some backdoor in chinese cars
Some people might be minutes away from death, dragging the average way down. And the youngest of the adults alive right will probably not live more than 60-70 years max. And there’s a lot more old people right now than younger people due to increasing healthcare standards. It’s possible.
Have these AI True Believers heard of the phrase: sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? What’s magical about a recommendation system? Or statistical learning?

Well maybe they are? But they are all very specialized tools. And it’s not difficult to understand how they conceptually work. I guess...

Meanwhile a conversational partner in a box that can answer any of my questions? (If they eventually live up to the promise) Umm, how the hell would a normal person not call that magical and indeed “AI”?

I’m sorry but the True Believers haven’t made anything before which is remotely close to AI. Not until contemporary LLMs. That’s why people don’t call it that.
Alpine and Void are better for this IMO.
Intermittent fasting may slow hair regrowth
Well I learned something new that default arguments in Ruby can be expressions.

def dump(obj, anIO = (no_args_set = true; nil), limit = nil, kwargs = nil)

I love that trick because it exploits the fact that, like pretty much everything in Ruby, arguments’ default values are expressions.
This trick is most commonly used when you need to know if an argument was passed as nil or just not passed

Pretty cool way to do nil checking
Legalese would be a lot easier to understand if they did write it like an english programming language. “If age < 21 then let alcohol = illegal” is pretty succinct and unambiguous compared to however they actually wrote that statement in legalese.
Beautiful! Imandra is a modern Boyer-Moore style theorem prover for higher-order functional programming (its logic is based on a typed higher-order subset of OCaml rather than Boyer-Moore's basis on an untyped first-order subset of Pure Lisp (and later Common Lisp with ACL2)), but there are a lot of similarities! It also integrates computable counterexamples in a really cool way (they're first-class values reflected in the runtime and you can directly compute with them, including counterexamples to higher-order goals which involves function synthesis!). Imandra is used a lot for formal verification in finance, for example.
Is the content in these articles incorrect?
Health Insurance companies do two things: (1) Negotiate price of services with hospitals and doctors, and drug companies. (2) Determine if the treatment is medically necessary.

You are not hiring insurance companies to do the second part but they do it any way in order to increase their profits. They should be removed from this role via legislation.

The first part is necessary, because hospitals and drug companies would charge even more if nobody tried to control the prices. But the consumer is the best person to keep prices in check. It is challenging because consumers of the knowledge asymmetry. Regardless, the consumer needs to feel the cost.

One employer I know of has an excellent solution to the problem: Make employees pay 100% of their medical bills up to an out-of-pocket maximum, such as $6000. That's a large amount, but the employer then contributes a large amount to your Health Savings Account (HSA), such as $4000. This amount is for you to keep regardless of whether you have any medical bills or not. (This money can be used for medical expenses only, but can be used any time, including after retirement). So the maximum you will spend out of pocket per year is $2000. How does this encourage the consumer to scrutinize and control medical expenditure? Because the first $6000 of medical spending in a year is "your money". This is money you'd be able to keep in your HSA if you didn't have any medical expenses. This gives the consumer a strong incentive to reduce costs, question charges, avoid unnecessary services, and so on. When physicians and hospitals know that patients are scrutinizing care plans it will force a cultural change. That cultural change will subsume older practices.
I've never heard that term 'pig butchering' and assumed it had something to do with killing pigs in violation of some nation's religious laws.
What if you are typing not an English text, but a series of random letters? This gets you to 5-6 bits per letter.
I'm guessing it will get nowhere close to as well considered, written, and structured as what Bartosz makes himself.

I don't know how people don't see how poor quality so much AI writing is, even when referencing good quality work.

Also making effective visualizations that do a good job of illustrating a concept is not just a matter of being able to write the code.
It’s a common ui bug in all software, happens due to release event firing outside of controlling element. People don’t know about pointer grab, which should be used in drag operations, and frameworks don’t even inform nor encourage it. Modern ui/ux school.
I'd probably start here: https://oxfordre.com/politics/display/10.1093/acrefore/97801...

Or at the wikipedia page that links to that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism
> Except, you can't sync the iphone's passkey with non apple products

So just make multiple passkeys on the different platforms/devices.

> So now I am expected to have at a minimum, two use-able smart phones

No, you can have passkeys on laptops and desktops. It doesn't need to be a phone. Hardware tokens can be had for like $20.
Carbon.ai acquired by Perplexity, shutting down in 3 months
Shutting down in 3 month: https://x.com/tdinh_me/status/1869246605700055401
what i would give to live in a rational well-run country, rather than one governed by populism, paranoia, and jingoism
"Langsmith appeared popular, but we had encountered challenges with Langchain from the same company, finding it overly complex for previous NonBioS tooling. We rewrote our systems to remove dependencies on Langchain and chose not to proceed with Langsmith as it seemed strongly coupled with Langchain."

I've never really used Langchain, but setup Langsmith with my own project quite quickly. It's very similar to setting up Langfuse, activated with a wrapper around the OpenAI library. (Though I haven't looked into the metadata and tracing yet.)

Functionally the two seem very similar. I'm looking at both and am having a hard time figuring out differences.
> Value creation isn't a zero sum game. Increased productivity benefits everyone. Whether it hyperscales or not, genuinely profitable businesses add value to the economy. This in turn creates more opportunities for everyone willing to participate.

Your comment contradicts the "hyperscale or bust" mentality. Hyperscale is not a necessary condition to be competitive. You can put out a better product/service even before economies of scale are reachable. In the meantime, this hyperscale nonsense is nothing more than cargo cult mentality where the need for a sustainable business model is replaced with hand-waving and mindlessly repeating "hyperscale" as a mantra, which has been the death of countless startups.
An interesting take on the dilemma between the two 'sides':

> You see the problem. If you include the filioque, you fight the Arians in the West while inadvertently supporting the Sabellians in the East. But if you exclude it, you fight the Sabellians while inadvertently supporting the Arians. At its heart, the filioque is really a linguistic debate, not a theological one.

* https://old.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/68hb00/eli5_th...

(I don't know about the intricacies/subtleties enough to know how 'technically accurate' the above assessment is.)
No one is holding a gun to your head, no. But ij a lot of ways, you are required to use these services to participate in society.

My job forces me to use Google and Microsoft because that's what the entire industry is built on. Should I uproot my entire family's lives so I can move across state to find a new job? Is that a reasonable compromise to make so I don't have to complain about windows?
Two decades ago I was having WebEx calls all day with people distributed all over the world. Back then in order to do this well it took somewhat specialized hardware and Internet bandwidth beyond what most employees had at home, so it was only practical to do from an office conference room. It worked well enough.
This is a pretty poor take. Whoever is getting the information is going to use it for their benefit. The Chinese government is a scary government, this does not take away from or add to the US government being a scary government.
Do you think it’s possible for anyone to have all the information?
Its only an AI startup if it comes from the AI Startup region of California. Otherwise they are a sparkling independent business
> Recommendations for books etc are welcome!

See perhaps the references / (printed) sources at:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
> Horses for courses - it's my daily driver for development and administration.

Because OS doesn't really matter here. You can install the same packages and have the same workflow on any opensource unix OS.
I don't have ADHD - stimulants make me a lot more productive until tolerance kicks in. It's easier to focus on boring tasks, and I'm high so work that normally isn't fun becomes fun.

Once the tolerance kicks in (1-2 weeks of use) the high becomes mild / nonexistant and it no longer boosts my productivity
> So you could make the case that at this point private health insurance is, in large part, a parasitical racket. At which point at least some readers will ask me why I didn’t back Bernie Sanders in his call for single-payer, Medicare for all.

> The answer is that this call was and remains politically unrealistic.

The USA is so ff-ed for normal people and it will get so much worse. Not for the HN temporary embarrassed millionaire crowd here of course.

Meanwhile George Carlin said it best:

> it’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
I’ve seen this term a lot, but I’m still not totally sure what it refers to. I think it’s the one where they message you pretending they have the wrong number, then gradually earn your trust by pretending to be a pretty lady who might be into you? Definitely a bad name.

Cons seem to love bad names, though. “Ponzi scheme” is completely meaningless on its own. “419 scam” likewise. There’s also the Spanish Prisoner, phishing, catfishing…
Health insurance is destructive entrepreneurship. It is essentially the equivalent of price gouging people needing to cross the river with an exorbitant bridge toll.

It's also a great example of why GDP is an imperfect measure of economic output.

The _THEORY_ of why these companies need to exist is to to more efficiently allocate limited available care to a pool of patients. However in practice they do this so inefficiently (by design), that any money paid to the employees of insurance companies would be better spent on educating additional doctors.
Its does have some problems, biggest I see right now is context length which makes secondary questions hallucinate and give bad instructions.

Its biggest bonus is Realtime data using x posts/comments, been able to ask about trending information and getting good results. Also good for software questions on current software.

Not perfect, but you have to direct it. Makes sense, if you dont specify the field if discussion it will give you random results and gibberish.
I wish there was some books, lectures, etc. about what makes BND unique and what it does. Can’t find anything.
> prices to zero economic profit is a fairly basic result

Yes and that's not necessarily a good thing in all markets. Very low profit margins can result in less innovations and would certainly discourage companies from taking risks (basically by definition)
No, it's true of more or less any investor.
"All you need is love" can be a recipe for producing offspring. I've been wondering about AI parallels.
The AI Agent Spectrum
> It is substantially easier to replace the entire computer system of most gasoline engines

Verses a carburetor? Have you worked on engines before?
Remember, this is an intermediate encoding of a hidden feature space between perception and planning. What you see at the start and the end of the neural network might be very different. Consider this: Typing at 60 words/minute, 5 characters/word and 8 bits/character gives a gross bit rate of 40 bits/second. With today's compression algorithms, you can easily get 4:1 reduction in data. That leaves you at approximately 10bits/second that are consciously processed in your brain. Probably even less since your brain might be much better at encoding language than even our best models. Even if some of those numbers are off by a certain factor, the number in the paper is certainly in the right ballpark when you consider orders of magnitude.
I think the issue is that bringing the application down might mean cutting short concurrent ongoing requests, especially requests that will result in data mutation of some sort.

Otherwise, some situations simply don't warrant a full shutdown, and it might be okay to run the application in degraded mode.
Nice to see they’ve made some great progress on the application side, had seen the firmware component years ago. I simply just reach under my cabinet and press the start button on my 1st gen Xiaomi vacuum but looks like it’s time to flash it.
It’s crazy to see how xiaomi got it right with lidar from the beginning. I’ve looked for upgrades over the years and the cost effective variants have all been incremental upgrades in firmware and performance or just straight downgrades with things like mopping.

If anyone is interested in these things mine has been great for 5 years now and would recommend a lidar based one at a minimum. Got a Wyze for my now wife on sale for $75 (a steal) 1-2 years ago and it’s a cost reduced update of mine but performs just as well as mine and I think may use US servers (being a US company?)
How can it stop? If you keep asking it to reply it will keep replying.
There's a really specific behaviour that iOS has with its collapsible top bars that I've been trying off and on to nail with CSS for ages as a little puzzle, but for some reason it's always not quite right. As you scroll down or up, the bar remains perfectly in place and only starts moving up once it's fully revealed or down once it's fully gone. There should be a way to do it with `position: sticky` but whether you use some javascript or not, it's always slightly jerky or wrong, especially on safari. Apple really does pay attention to these little things in ways others don't.

And then they go and release that recent photos app update and make me seriously want to leave their ecosystem completely.
ChatGPT and coding helpers are the only useful applications. Just like Bitcoin and Ethereum are the only useful cryptocurrencies. Hence the limited applications for either technology
What happens when the internet disappears?
I mean, wouldn't you find it strange if historians from the year 4000 believed the sexual revolution of 1968 happened in 2018? Quite a discrepancy "only" 50 years
Every time I see it used I go "your using that term wrong" however I will concede that if everyone is using the term wrong, then perhaps it is actually I who is using the term wrong.

Anyhow, I like this meaning so I will share it with you. I first saw it use in the context of governments and their resident corporations. The government starts with fairly liberal corporate policy, this encourages the corporations to grow and make money. that is, fattening the hogs. and when times get tough, perhaps money is a little tight, they start pulling funds out and killing the corporations via increased taxes, fines, regulation. A process sometimes referred to as pig butchering.

I suspect the main problem with this is the absence of a stable environment to do business in.
Ah, classic regulatory theater. The administration, after 4 years of not introducing these changes, is now suddenly scrambling to roll them out. They’re dropping them right before a major transition, with an implementation timeline conveniently set for after the transition.

It’s a clever little maneuver. When the inevitable reversal happens, they can show up at fundraising galas telling donors, “We tried! We were so close! It’s just those baddies who always come along and pull the rug.”
Hey folks!
If you're into trying out bleeding-edge technologies, check out the MARCO compiler. We're focusing on optimizing large-scale systems, and it's already showing significant improvements compared to existing solutions.
That said, we're still in the early stages: language support needs to grow, and for now, there's only a command-line interface. But hey, it's open-source, so contributions, feedback, or feature requests are more than welcome!

Here’s the GitHub repo: https://github.com/marco-compiler/marco

And here’s a link to the latest published results: https://ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/modelica/article/view/909

Would love to hear your thoughts or ideas!
We do have high quality images of the drones, the problem is that when someone whips out their camera, it winds up being an aircraft.
Yes but ideas can have infinite resolution, while the resolution of language is finite (for a given length of words). So not every idea can be expressed with language and some ideas that may be different will sound the same due to insufficient amounts of unique language structures to express them. The end result looks like mimicry.

Ultimately though, an LLM has no “ideas”, it’s purely language models.
The only site that uses passkeys I regularly use that doesn't support multiple is PayPal. Pretty much every other site that at one time only supported one now supports multiple. Which common sites still only allow one, other than PayPal?
Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light
More like “we know we’re doing this, so they’re likely doing it as well”. Makes sense.
It seams interesting to me that what we refer to as the conscious mind is unconscious a third of each day and the part we call unconscious is active 24 by 7.
Pig butchering was the literal Chinese translation which is why the name got around to begin with. You find it dehumanizing or whatever then cool but it's not like we drew names out of a hat and landed on that one.
Try to call something done to new born infants "mutilation " or "brutal sexual assaukt". Technically it might be correct, but not many people can stomach it.
You're correct, and banning TikTok and/or TP-Link is not going to stem the flow of user data to the companies who sell it, not even a little bit. Hence my comment: this is not about protecting anyone's privacy, it's about keeping American tech companies on top.
At a surface level, but to do anything meaningful, you likely need to understand deeper technical details like RAG, context windows, tokenization, etc
Self-Assembly Trick Makes Transistors and Diodes
Words and names are powerful — this is something that I've found over and over again as a programmer. If you can find the right name for something, then the abstractions immediately become clear.

This isn't unique to programming
The closest I've been able to get is to buy a Protectli box, replace the AMI with Coreboot that you can compile yourself, and install OPN/PFSense.

It's still Chinese hardware, but it's warrantied by Protectcli and you have control over the bits you can change.

My first move out of the consumer "junk" was Ubiquiti EdgeRouters but their software quality declined a few years back, and my models got no more updates, then my main router died. My overkill i3 6-port Protectcli box has been running great ever since; first with pfSense now OPNSense; I'll only replace it when it dies or I want 10GbE routing.
No, it's exactly the same tactic that sexual predators use. Nag and whine and wear down the target until they agree to make you shut up.

It's predatory behavior pure and simple. Call it what it is and stop apologizing for abusers.
This is not a feature, this is a limitation. It would've been a feature if Signal offered you a choice of whether the history should be synced up or not (perhaps with a default of "no" for existing users, to maintain the established expectation). As it is, this is a limitation.