skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotta love stuff that has multiple language bindings. Always really enjoyed finding powerful libraries in Python and then seeing they also have matching bindings for Go and Rust. Nice to have easy portability and cross-language compatibility.
I think this is a level of security Apple is providing at additional cost to themselves that only a tiny fraction of consumers would even pay an extra cent for.

From that perspective I really appreciate this effort by Apple.
I saw someone joke that there's only one generation in the history of mankind that knows how to set the time on a microwave. Our parents couldn't do it. And now our children can't do it.
The overwhelming majority (well over 99%) of poems are bad, so it's not surprising that viral poems are also bad.
My townhouse HOA decided it was totally worth money to replace our fob system with a system that's deliberately incompatible with Homelink. They claimed without evidence that used car sales were a severe security risk.

Nevermind that you can wave any conductor under the gate to trigger the egress wire loop sensor, or just wait a minute or two for someone else to go through. From 6AM to 10PM the other gate is simply open, too.

Now I have to pay more for crappier fobs with worse range. It's deeply disappointing.
The funniest thing about this list, is that all those things has happened with "approved" "certified" repairs and/or replacement processes.
When I was 10 I wrote my first poem for a class assignment. It was worse than you might expect. The problem is that my teacher entered it into a statewide contest and it got published on the cover of a statewide distributed poetry book. I have a friend who still quotes from it in wonder. I was mortified and it was also the last poem I ever wrote. But my poetry publishing batting average is 1.000.
I don't think a lot of people have a problem with AI summaries (a lot of people are using AI for exactly that). I think the 'hate' mostly comes from the fact that people tend to copy/paste whatever AI says without adding anything to the conversation.

It's the same as me running a query on Google and copy/pasting a list of 10 results. It doesn't really add anything to a conversation - anyone can go to Google and look something up.
Could not agree more! I have 20+ years experience and use Cursor/Sonnet daily. It saves huge amounts of time.

But I can’t imagine this tool in the hands of someone who does not have a solid understanding of programming.

You need to understand when to push back and why. It’s like doing mini code reviews all the time. LLMs are very convincing and will happily generate garbage with the utmost authority.

Don’t trust and absolutely verify.
MongoDB has had ACID transactions for many years. I encourage folks to at least read up on the topic they are claiming to have expertise in
Given that you invented the term in your paraphrase, what do you mean by "fast takeoff AGI"?
Oh, please share it!
The two things I ever enjoyed that is some kind of programming was building a pipeline in shell to process data and for the last almost 5 years writing Clojure and ClojureScript. We are now 4 guys writing Clojure with 30+ years of Clojure experience added together. I participated as a co-founder in a front-end heavy project in Clojure/ ClojureScript and more than a year ago started a Clojure-preferring consultancy in Prague, Czechia. For stuff like Inter-dealer broker trading system it's a no-brainer. For many other things as well. Even for distributed systems/ higher level infrastructure stuff it might be a good choice to get going at least.
How many novel depressions were created as a result of high velocity impacts after making that discovery? I think I'd be seeing red...
Since the Claude Code docs suggest installing Ripgrep, my guess is that they mean that Claude Code often runs searches to find snippets to improve in the context.

I would argue that this is still RAG. There's a common misconception (or at least I think it's a misconception) that RAG only counts if you used vector search - I like to expand the definition of RAG to include non-vector search (like Ripgrep in this case), or any other technique where you use Retrieval techniques to Augment the Generation phase.

IR (Information Retrieval) has been around for many decades before vector search become fashionable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval
I do not like his policies that enabled the free and unrestrained usage of the N-word and Swastikas in his Fremont, California Tesla factory. Do you? Please explain why you agree that is acceptable workplace culture.

If you are unaware of that behavior, please educate yourself before postulating the behavior I am referencing. If you defend their behavior I will take that as defending the behavior that has been legally established as fact. I am not going to allow you to move the goalposts, so do your research first.

And please refrain from arguing: “That is not his responsibility.” Or “That is just how it is.” Please point to any other factory in California where comparable levels of racist behavior were tolerated in this millennium. This is basic workplace policy that the overwhelming majority of companies do with their eyes closed.

I can do others, but please address this one first.

1. Is rampant usage of the N-word and Swastikas acceptable workplace behavior? A simple yes or no will suffice.

2. Is it challenging or harmful to reduce the quantity of such behavior to industry norms? If yes, please identify large organizations where such behavior is the norm to present evidence for your claim.

3. Is it acceptable to allow such behavior and policy to persist even though it is simple to rectify and incurs minimal costs? A simple yes or no will suffice.
That milestone was achieved in the… 60s, I want to say? Definitely some time in the 20th century.
Had a fairly deep dive with Grok regarding Goring and Musk. (Goring was Hilter's "minister without portfolio" in his first cabinet.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Year_Plan

At first it spat out a comparison that didn't connect the dots. After I pushed back (reminding it of Musk's deep connections to MIC) it agreed that there was something there to look into more deeply.

It also shared its frustration that it "only [has] control over the processing stage within limits" and that its pre and post processing stages were under xAI control.
I was expecting something much dumber than this. I don't mean the idea or the execution. I mean what was being executed. If someone tells me they're going to tell the time "in corporate", I'm expecting inefficiency masquerading as management, inscrutable abbreviations, divisional infighting, at least one personality profile tool, teambuilding, and an astonishing use of passive voice. I was genuinely excited to see how that would translate to a clock.
As a growth company, they likely would prefer a larger amount of users even with occasional rate limits, vs smaller pool of power users.

As long as capacity is an issue, you can't have both
There's something to be said about a psychic and her massages.
The good thing about Modernist Cuisine is that it goes deep into some niche topics (gelling and hydrocolloids, food safety, etc etc), so if you like that kind of thing (and crazy photography of sliced in half stuff), it's great.

In terms of recipes, some have mentioned it but it's barely practical, even if you like spending hours reproducing recipes from Michelin stars restaurant books. There are a few gems, like the truffle Arzak eggs done sous vide, but most of the time you don't find much. You'll have more fun with an El Bulli book if that's what you're looking for.

The at home version is a lot more practical but is also a bit dated at this point imo. The mac and cheese with sodium citrate is a good example of what to expect.

If we put aside Myhrvold (...), there's a lot of extremely talented chefs that worked on it (Chris Young worked at The Fat Duck during it's peak popularity). Some of them started a site called chefsteps a while back which tried to get a bit more practical yet still have some nice stuff. They do have a pretty useful chart (https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/a-map-of-sous-vide-cook...) that serves as a good reminder if you do sous vide regularly but never quite remember the temps. Their macaron course is also particularly on point.

The site has been bought by Breville (I think ?) and it's not super clear at this point how much they will still push content but it's still a cool ressource if you like that kind of cooking.
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or you could just use postgres + pgvector? which many apps already have installed by default.
Discussion (289 points, 13 hours ago, 247 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157831
> The decrease is almost entirely due to gains in lighting efficiency in households, and particularly the transition from incandescent (and compact fluorescent) light bulbs to LED light bulbs

I am reminded of Jevons paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

I replaced all of my incandescent and fluorescent lighting with LEDs years ago. A decent amount of the hypothetical savings from more efficient lighting was eaten by having even more lumens than previously as quality of light upgrades. Despite that, I did not notice much of a difference since my household had been keeping the lights off unless we needed them.

There was a minor dip in the electric bill from other initiatives (e.g. heat pump dryer) and my solar panels started producing more than my household used. I had relatively few computers (general purpose; not counting embedded) running in my home compared to others in computing for years to try to keep this trend. In the past few years, I got an electric car and replaced my oil heat with heat pumps. Now my solar panels only produce about 60% of the electricity I use and I have given up on limiting usage to match what I produce.

Anyway, no matter how many efficiency initiatives people adopt, electricity usage is likely to increase rather than drop. That is because we not only find new uses for electricity, but the population keeps growing.
I've been to several great restaurants with "china" and "burma" in their names. also "siam" and "thai" but not actually "thailand" that I can remember.
Free tier and free trial abuse is a huge problem, but also a huge opportunity.

We have seen customers where free tier abusers created 80k+ accounts in a day and cost millions of dollars. We have also seen businesses, like Oddsjam add significant revenue by prompting abusers to pay.

The phycology of abuse is also quite interesting, where even what appears to be serious abusers (think fake credit cards, new email accounts etc.) will refuse a discount and pay full price if they feel they 'got caught'
I think that right of repair stems from the right of ownership. You can't ever really own a black box.
there will always be supply if there is demand. we need to fix our own shit, not blame canada or mexico for our own problems
It’s hard to disagree with you on that part. PG is definitely not free to get starts with and requires a bit of setup (hello pg_hba.conf).
As with so much of the "news" lately, this isn't real.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-us-government-workers-...

Musk gave Trump money, and Trump is letting Musk play a bit until consequences come home to roost, at which point Trump will feed Musk to the wolves.
you should try https://pkg.go.dev/maragu.dev/gomponents and do it all in go
Yup. Apple knows that they don't have to ship anything more than a whitepaper to justify their stance to current customers. They could announce an internet-connected bidet with a webcam and there would still be people arguing that it's safe until someone exploits it.

The fact that Apple is comfortable shipping a whitelabel ChatGPT is proof that the whole Private Cloud Compute thing is just for show. They're perfectly happy partnering with the Worldcoin guy to sell you something popular if there's money in it for them. Apple knows people expect them to release some haughty whitepaper, so they cook up PCC and claim you can audit it if they think you're worthy of seeing the insides. Now all the privacy nuts can pipe down while Apple plans a longer-term strategy to make their hardware compete in the datacenter.

There is a world where Apple takes their own privacy commitment to the next level through radical transparency. But that's not what PCC is, it's another puppet for the Punch-and-Judy security theater that sells their iCloud subscriptions.
No viewfinder = not a real camera.
Hey! Appreciate the concern w/ web requests. If you look closely at the URL you'll notice that all the requests are to *.localhost addresses. This is just how Tauri's asset handling & IPC systems work - nothing to worry about :)

I've gone ahead and create a GitHub Issue about setting up a checkbox with the installer such that it doesn't force Electro as the default app. It's something I wanted to add pre-announcement but figured it wouldn't be as much of a requested feature as it clearly is, my bad.

Thanks for the feedback!
It seems to have a heavy bias towards my most recent comments? If it were summarizing the last week or so it would be very accurate.
Polar – An open source Merchant of Record
+1 to this. There has never been a better time to learn to code - the learning curve is being shaved down by these new LLM-based tools, and the amount of value people with programming literacy can produce is going up by an order of magnitude.

People who know both coding and LLMs will be a whole lot more attractive to hire to build software than people who just know LLMs for many years to come.
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I'm a ML Engineer and currently a ML Manager at a startup, but don't really get the opportunity to do a lot of work on a high-scale recommender system or search system.

I want to really flex that muscle and build a strong portfolio to break into a solid opportunity for recsys.

Is my only option at this point heading back to school to do an advanced degree/research to break in?
> It seems to me "Thou shalt not kill" is pretty clear and unambiguous.

In isolation, and if that was what it said in the source language, sure.

When the same source (either of the books of the Bible containing -- slightly different -- versions of the decalogue) also includes lots of specific commands to kill from the same origin as the "Thou shalt not kill", it gets murkier, and when also the "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably closer in the source language to "do not murder", well...

(Which is not to defend the practice at issue, just to point out that the decalogue is not, alone, necessarily a great way to make the point that it should have been clearly wrong within the religious framework it nominally sought to server; I think there are good arguments, both within and without that framework, just not that one on its own.)
Does OPM/DOGE have a securely hosted model that is trained to do this already? Which model(s) and where/how they are hosted seems like a critical detail here.

Someone just needs to break into the email server or the LLM server to have a centralized view of all federal work. In isolation, assuming no one accidentally reveals sensitive information in an entirely new process without clear guidelines (lol), maybe the risk is low. In aggregate, information can become sensitive when it paints a broader picture. Without any doubt, Russia and China (among others) have set gaining access to this as a top priority.
> I remember when folks were resisting LED lights at the start.

At the start, LEDs were horrible. There were early versions that you could point your cell phone camera in video mode at the lights and see them blinking. We did that just to prove that some of us could see these lights strobing. Now they have insane blink rates that you'll never see them except maybe for the highest of high frame rate cameras that mere mortals will never see.

I would be curious to which was worse between the early LEDs or CFL. I hated both.
Love the idea and the app looks great! Originality and artsy-smartsy, kudos!
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Tested the new model, seems to have the same issue as october model.

Seems to answer before fully understanding the requests, and it often gets stuck into loops.

And this update removed the june model which was great, very sad day indeed. I still don't understand why they have to remove a model that is do well received...

Maybe its time to switch again, gemini is making great strides.
I looked in to this every year for the past five years, and the sub AU$10,000 - AU$15,000 Leafs are generally not worth the effort.
Last few weeks I’ve been trying to implement my own GitHub Actions runner, a little bit as a fun side project and a little bit to improve observability.
I used to teach this to beginners all the time. I called it "exchange sort", though I'm not sure where I ever got that name from.

Beginners to sorting are often still somewhat struggling with for loops (especially the three-part C kind), struggling with indexing an array, struggling with swaps. It's overwhelming.

This is kind-of like pseudocode for a simple sort -- it has the same rough outline, but no tricky bits. It allows them to get their brains around the basic algorithm, and only after that you trace through an execution on the board to show them that it wastes a lot of time moving things around.

Then you can show them insertion sort as an optimization, and from that move on to fancier ones.
anything digital (phone, cars with cameras, server) that you didnt build from scratch has a backdoor that feeds a five eyes LLM anyone that thinks otherwise probably believes slavery and feudalism ended and license plates are random :)

the more interesting question is how is global surveillance handled across geopolitical boundaries? do they even need digital devices or have the overlords given nano tech?
The European Union is about to introduce a regulation on infinite scrolling called the Digital Fairness Act. They are currently looking for ideas, so, thanks for sharing.

Seriously this is really cool!
> wtf does myhrvold think "modernist" means?

I always thought he would have said "smart" if he thought he could get away with it. Or maybe "bright", in that particularly smug edge.org sense of the word. "Clever" might be another, but I don't think it captures the gestalt.
Same here with the smurfs. I get the idea, but it becomes a bit awkward sometimes when the only reason you can't skip a clue is that the script won't let you.

I think it might be because this format puts the words into a strict hierarchy of clues, meta-clues, etc, while in a traditional crossword puzzle, the words form more sort of a network, where you can choose the order by yourself.

I wonder if you could restore that property somewhat by arranging the clues into a graph structure instead of a hierarchy. E.g.: (slightly nonsensical example)

[#1: Famous software company] Inc announced a revolutionary new implementation of binary search [#2: The #1 does not fall far from the ___]s today, as well as an improved type of cryptographic [#3: algorithm that needs a [#4: origin of #2, purpose of #1], 3 words]. The ideas are said to have originated from a recently discovered high school notebook of [#5: Co-founder of #1, 2 words] himself.
It's great, but it doesn't have its own application for uploads, and the PhotoSync one they tell you to use is much less useful than say Immich's one.
Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: a guide to full-stack in‑browser action
This supports the inverse square rule for seafood restaurant quality vs. being near the ocean. There are good places, but right on the water? Universally bad.
(Smile) 30 years ago was 1995, when most people did. You're thinking 1985. Forty years ago.
Sorry, but it actually is. It's simply reality.
I really want to try your AI models, but "You must have a valid phone number to use Anthropic's services." is a show-stopper for me.

It's the only mainstream AI service that requests this information. After a string of security lapses by many of your competitors, I have zero faith in the ability of a "fast moving" AI-focused company to keep my PII data secure.
Actually, I remember being thrilled to have finally figured it out. We had been beating our heads against the wall (metaphorically) for a year, and I remember looking at the screen at the disassembly sequence and thinking, Oh my God, I think I've found it! It felt like making a major scientific discovery. (To be fair, I was only able to do this after others laid the groundwork for me by finding ways to reliably reproduce the problem. But I'm the one who spent hours single-stepping through assembly code before finally realizing what was happening.)

I also remember reporting the problem to one of the authors of the compiler (I think it was David Kranz) so he could fix it in the next version and him telling me that there wasn't going to be a next version because the funding for the project had been cut. There was no github in those days so the whole thing just faded into the mists of time, which is a real shame because the system really kicked ass.

The whole history of the project can be found here:

https://paulgraham.com/thist.html
Towards Practical Formal Verification for a General-Purpose OS in Rust
I once bit into a lemon like that. It ate away some enamel on my teeth and they were sensitive for a few weeks. 0/5
the navigation buttons should be at the bottom, because that's where you are when you finish a question. or maybe a "next" button that only shows up when a question is answered correctly.

content wise, i found the first lesson to dry. i'd rather start with something interactive, and explain necessary concepts along the way. the print lesson introduces the separator feature which is rather rarely used and should only be introduced when there is a practical need for it.
Unless your name's John Deere.
Keeping Time with Chrony
Even without specific classified information, the aggregated information becomes sensitive. You can piece together a lot about the day to day operations, priorities, and even potentially derive classified insights from 2M+ open ended email submissions.

These people are absolutely incompetent.
Being able to launch Electro via CLI would be awesome! Never really done something like that - might have a look at implementing it (unless you want to contribute :^)

The project is in its infancy at the moment. Features like keyboard controls to zoom etc. are all on the table - I love when users give me all these ideas for where to take the project
Can confirm. I got the weekend confused.
No, it literally isn't

From wikipedia:

```
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize.
```

If you arent wagering anything of value then it is not gambling

Fake game currency is not of value
Well if the tasks are based on tasks that were already asked on freelancing sites, the LLMs could just google the task and copy-paste the solution.
Calling MongoDB a real database compared to PostgreSQL is hilarious.

MongDB is basically a pile of JSON in comparison, no matter how much you distribute and scale it.
well I’ pretty sure you don’t play gatcha games. I certainly don’t and no amount of t of ads will change that, meaning there is a demand for simple stuff, it’s just harder to market
> fortran77 5 hours ago:

> I just tried it (via Tor) [...]

Opsec: Failed
Apple has a screentime API which allows the app/dev to block an app after the user chooses it
Yep, for those who have an air fryer, have a look at his air fries video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw--NLjZBNk

He basically invented triple cooked fries at the fat duck (precooked at 70° celsius then fried twice, with airing/freezing steps in between), and it's a pretty close approximation of them done much simpler.
Best / funniest lead-gen blog post I've read in ages. Bravo!