skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One time I was testing out the trick to bypass refusals by pre-seeding the beginning of AI-turn with something like "I'd be delighted to help you with that".

I asked llama for a recipe for thermite because this seemed like a very innocent thing to test on while still being sufficient to get a refusal from llama. With the pre-seeded ai-turn llama was happy to give me a recipe... where the "metal oxide" was uranium tetrachloride. Which I assume is technically a way to make thermite... if you're utterly deranged and not just trying to melt some metal.

I didn't investigate more fully, but even at the time I suspected I was seeing some sort of "evil mode" that occurred where when you went against the alignment training you went really against the alignment training.
Also discussion from today: 'Hey Number 17 ' (404media.co) 314 points by Amorymeltzer 10 hours ago | 122 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023
A SQL schema literally does not indicate the locations of data inside of a file. In fact, the whole reason schemas exist is to decouple the relationships between table rows and the pages and indexes that store that data. We had relational databases before SQL, and there are non-SQL relational (and non-relational) databases today, but you program them, at the query level, with code that is aware of what tables live where.

A schema is the opposite of a file layout. A schema is to a file layout what a Google search is to an IP address.
Awesome job launching guys! We used Browser Use last week to order burgers from our smart glasses:

https://x.com/caydengineer/status/1889835639316807980

One thing I'm hoping for is an increase in speed. Right now, the agent is slow for complex tasks, so we're still in an era where it might be better to codify popular tasks (eg: sending a WhatsApp message) instead of handling them with browser automation. Have yall looked into Groq / Cerberus?
“ No one exceeds their potential. If they did, it would mean we did not accurately gauge their potential in the first place.”

-GATTACA
When I created the SSG I use for my blog, I tested a bunch of different markup formats for the article content, but in the end I settled on plain-old raw HTML. Over the years, I've needed to render so many different specific visual elements in the blog entries that if I wasn't actually using raw HTML, I'd probably be using raw HTML snippets all over the place anyway. For another medium I might choose a different markup format, but when it comes to writing content for the web, with HTML I know exactly what I'm getting every time.
This sounds much more like gatekeeping than genuine concern about "dangerous" content. The complaints the article mentions:

- houses wouldn't have had large glazed windows

- there were no trains (a train track is visible)

- Vesuvius didn't start with lava spewing everywhere

- stemmed wine glasses and pepper mills didn't exist

- people would be reclining while eating, not sitting on dining chairs

- the bread roll is a modern loaf, not an ancient one

If you're going to nipick to this degree of anality then essentially any historical documentary ever made is "amateur and dangerous."
Its important to raise awareness of the forms of modern slavery [1] and while comparing employee-surveillance software to slavery may seem hyperbolic, we who build these tools are culpable to their impact on the world and what they might lead to next.

[1]: https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/
Losing on what point? Everybody agrees it is bad schemas are per se exempt from FOIA. On the security concerns of releasing schemas, we won in basically every court.
Something like Dash or Streamlit might be useful to manage an App like this.
No, that doesn't make sense; both the yielder and yieldee are warps, the PC is the weft (approximately).
In today's news Tesla sales dropped 45% in Europe in January while overall electric cars sales were up 37%. TSLA was down 8% just today.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas...
You're right. It's not slavery.

Slaves didn't have freedom to move jobs or to have agency in their lives. At the base level, let alone all the abuses they faced which varied in places and times throughout history.

But a lot of these workers don't have some things that even slaves had. Like room and board.
To be honest, even the article is not a formal attempt at proving all of this, nor does it have to, it's a bit of a conjecture, but anyway.

My reasoning goes along this line, which of the following two sentences you think is more likely to be true?

A. All n-day vulnerability discovery problems can be mapped to a document rerank problem.

or

B. Some n-day vulnerability discovery problems can be mapped to a document rerank problem.

I lean towards B, without any proof for it. Hence why I think the correct way is to reduce reranks into n-days (and all the other "hard problems").

If you think A is true, you still have to show that all reranks can be reduced to n-days, to be rigorous and able to say that your proposed algorithm works in both domains.

In the end it could be that both alternatives are equivalent, but it's easier to just say "reranks can be reduced to n-days" and because of this "some n-days can be adequately solved by my algorithm that works in reranks".
Probably not, because then you'd be asking them to go do research. You FOIA for specific documents and records.
this is the best thing to ever happen to the RPA world
The announcement video.

The desktop is 15 minutes in. (After the notebook announcements)

https://www.youtube.com/live/dnCGwii7FqY?si=0ppcg_cjj8I-5P67
If you do a bit of a repo dive, the repo was initially MIT licensed from its initial commit for at least a couple of years before that license was replaced by Apache 2.0, so there's an argument to be made that that license also applies.
Markdown is great... But you know what else is great? OPML. We need more tooling around OPML. It's not being used nearly as much as it should be for Personal Knowledge Management.
"At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"
Many, many, sweatshop workers are slaves.
Quick note that article is describing the species recovery since 1971 which is so long ago that even I don't remember much about that year. So although we have eagles that like to circle above Costco and pull fish out the river by my kids old school, they were on their way to extinction 50 years ago.
I agree with the software availability, but I'll just note that Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator were ported from classic macos to Irix with a Unix porting toolkit. Adobe Framemaker was also available.
Zillow already has the property history, the risks, the neighborhood details, etc. no?
Does this add any external information that is not present on the source Zillow page? If not, this seems like AI slop.

I like the idea of Zillow comments and guessing sale price though. It should be possible to comment on any web page.
> Yes and you absolutely have to. That's not a disadvantage, it's just how it is. Because SQL is the absolute bare minimum. The lowest common standard. And not a great one. Null handling and typesystem for example are way inferior to those of good programming languages. So why would I leave those productivity gains on the table?

I think... we're in a agreement? :)

EdgeQL doesn't have a NULL (it's a set-based language and NULL is an empty set, this tiny adjustment makes it easier to reason about missing data). And because it also has a more robust type system, allows for limitless composition and easy refactoring, it has far greater DX than SQL => you're more productive.

There's a footnote here: EdgeQL doesn't support some of the SQL capabilities just yet, namely window functions and recursive CTEs. But aside from that it is absolutely a beast.

> Well yeah. And it is inferior to the programming language I use. Hence, this comes at a disadvantage to me.

Maybe, but I'm curious how you arrived to that conclusion. I assume you mean that using the power of a high-level programming language you can force ORM to complete submission and that's just not true. Most of the time you'll either have grossly inefficient multi-roundtrip query code (hidden from you) or let ORM go and use SQL. Obviously that's an extreme scenario, but it's surprisingly common in complex code bases and logic.

> Aha, so then... why not build a query builder for every language, just like with ORMs?

We are. We started with improving the network protocol (it does less round-trips than Postgreses and is stateless) and crafting client libraries for MANY languages. All client libraries support automatic network & transaction error recovery, automatic connection pooling, and have generally great and polished API. Not to mention they are fast.

We do have a query builder for TypeScript. But we also have codegen for every language we support: place an .edgeql file in your project and you get fully typed code out of that. That said, we will eventually have query builders for every language we support. There's only so much you can do in 3 years since we announced 1.0.

> Sorry, not convinced. We would be better off by improving on SQL itself.

Significantly improving SQL without starting from scratch isn't possible. Adding sugar - surely is possible, but we are 100% that the productivity boost we deliver with EdgeQL is worth going all in (and our users agree with us).

In any case, with Gel 6 we have full SQL support (except DDL), so it's possible to use Gel along with ORMs if that's needed. We are not SQL haters at all.

We have this blog post that was on HN front page a few times, it's a good read and explains our position: https://www.geldata.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql
Well shoot. I always assumed it similar to other books read in school: good but not fun. I should read Moby Dick!
Late reply... I don't have my notes anymore on kafka client evals in ruby. When evaluating it was for a former employer. Karafka is very impressive though. Well done on the library.
Hung at 100%. Oh well.
I plainly stated that I considered the examples to fall within the bounds of AI. Further clarifying my viewpoint does not change that. Hopefully you can appreciate the need for increased specificity regarding this subject now that such a wide variety of things exist from hot dog classifiers to LLMs that output beautiful but logically nonsensical prose to katago to whatever else.

Even if we happened to disagree about that clarification (although we appear to agree?) that would not on its own imply that any shifting of goalposts had occurred. The "original goalpost" of which you speak is not attributed to me. To imply that I once held a particular view is to straw man me. If you want to know what I thought in the past then just ask!

I'd also like to point out that a change in the common usage of a term is not the same thing as the shifting of goalposts. I don't believe that happened here but it bears pointing out nonetheless.

> asked someone what AI meant in 1995

Who is the someone? I wouldn't expect a layman, either then or now, to have an even remotely rigorous working definition. This is important because if you are going to claim that goalposts have shifted then you're going to need to be clear about whose goalposts and what exactly they were.

> the boundaries of the definition were fuzzy, but the entire fuzzy blob has undeniably shifted radically

It seems we have a fundamental disagreement then. From my perspective the term "AI" in popular culture brought to mind an expert system conversing proficiently in natural language in both the 90s and today. That is to say, a strong and general AI. I think that most laymen today would classify something like chatgpt as AI, but if pressed with examples of some of its more egregious logical failures would probably become confused about the precise definition of the term.

Meanwhile the technical definition has always been much more nuanced and similarly appears to me to have remained largely unchanged. If anything I think the surprising revelation has been that you can have such extensive and refined natural language processing capabilities without the ability to reason logically.
You must mean "APFS volume".
Yeah, as a piece of knowledge, and what I've been saying is it's European thing.

I can hop onto Tokaido Main southbound at Tokyo with $1 ticket and get off at same Tokaido Main platform at Kyoto, or vice versa, or same for Ueno to snowy Aomori through Tohoku Main, if I didn't mind paying $60 outstanding fee and a 12-hour 5 train change long "metro" experience and "oh come on" look at the gate. By all definitions the Tokaido or Tohoku line are a "metro" rail, and uses some of same models of rolling stocks(cars) as literal subway services. I can technically do that because there's no hard distinctions between metro and train in the system I'm familiar with but the rails are rails and rails go everywhere.

European cities tend not to have that, and instead have often Y shaped branches off international long-distance rail networks that comes in and backs out of a "City Central" station, where it connects to local train services like trams and subways. This is due to Europe long having concept of city boundaries where city-ness of cities roll off sharp and somewhat abruptly ends, and many cities have not expanded enough to fuse together like late-game Civ maps.

Yes, I am aware, what I'm saying is that not everyone knows and you have to say it. You can't say, like, the author's stupid to not be aware of obvious distinction.
There are a lot open source one:

https://github.com/quiet/quiet-js

Remember seeing them quite a bit a few years ago.
Having worked with the core team I can only say that they are amazing. I'm sure they'll figure it out, but database tech is gnarly. Takes time.
Thank you Jack!
In pop history the influence of Chernobyl is wildly exaggerated.

In the complex set of events that lead to the collapse, Chernobyl is only a footnote.
It seems like an unnecessarily ambiguous term.

Without additional context, I would interpret the term “file layout” to mean the file and directory structure of an application.

Such an application could potentially store data as plain files, the names of those files may contain personal or sensitive information.
Only told me the number of files and it didn't even provide a list of files (their paths, etc.)
>the idea that human psychology is so malleable that global corporations (and the engineers who make millions working for them) control us like marionettes.

But it is that malleable, who would even dispute that?
I'm sure that's true for some industries and businesses, but obviously not true for all. Lots of very profitable companies employ low wage labourers (either directly, or as is often the case, indirectly). Nike had $5.7 billion net income.

But even if everything you say is true, we can still refer to these people as something slightly more humanizing than "number 17", and generally treat with a basic minimum of respect ("are you okay, work seems to have slower down" rather than immediately jumping to bollocking mode).

Productivity monitoring for factory workers is nothing new, or even controversial as such, but having a camera pointed directly at your face all day that your supervisors can monitor is pretty invasive (never mind that this is just the "bum on seat" type of "productivity").
The article says "we can’t be bothered to get used to a different word processor" and links to LibreOffice, but in my experience, it's not about "getting used to" - it's simply that the UX of LibreOffice is absolutely atrocious.

The UX is extremely overloaded with features with little organization or structure, making it hard to find the few features you actually need, and every simple thing requires 3x as many clicks as with other products.

I tried making slides with LibreOffice, and even though I don't need any of the collaboration features and would prefer to work locally, I ended up deleting my entire presentation and just starting over from scratch with Google Slides, because that was easier than trying to do anything in LibreOffice.
I'm just realizing this might finally be something that helps me get past analysis paralysis I have before committing to so many decisions online. I always feel like without doing my research, I'll get scammed. Maybe this will help give me a bit more confidence
I‘ve only seen it done by hedge funds so far. What were you referring to?
Show HN: Memothon – a custom GPT with spaced-repetion review
Not gonna lie the tone of that product pitch sounded straight out of a certain mobile game ad.

What do you mean you’ve been working all day? I've got over 500 million power in “Rise of Kingdoms” and
I'm surprised they didn't make a conversion tool to do MDX(old) -> AST -> MDX(new). The library support is there, but it doesn't look like anyone has created a tool to do it.
Bizarre that they would do this instead of trying to alleviate the toil of production instead. I just don't get it.
Please fund my torment nexus.
Commented on the Alzheimer's thread you were active on recently, but any chance you would be up to chat with me? matt@scifounders.com
> MAGA voters are going to get upset

Nope, as long as other people will suffer more. Such mentality is a backbone of Russian culture and it seems America is now following the same way.
Archive.org has a relatively detailed Tech Report from SGI on Cellular Irix.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970706222424/http://www.sgi.co...
We need an alternative platform
To be completely 100% fair, all these all describe microsoft products. All of them. Overloaded with features, with no consistency, wonky behaviors, and 3x as many clicks as everything should take.

The reason we look past it is, well, we're used to it. Software is 95% inertia, 5% quality.
If you spend public funds on NPR or the BBC to produce an educational resource with these kind of problems where the core message was historicity, not some other educational outcome, you'd be wasting national funds and be pilloried for it.

It's contextual. Horrible Histories can make boners. some soft-ed deliverable can make boners about things, not core to the syllabus. If you call it "history" and you want to teach lived experience, then don't put tomato on the roman pizza. It's actually not that hard to get right btw. Mostly, its lazy.
> "People" are not a single block of monoculture, and taste varies wildly.

Could not agree more! I really enjoyed A Brief History of Time.

My point was that it's a safer bet for most people, but I'm starting to realize that I'm surrounded by fantasy-heads, so my perspective may be biased.
Aside from the mildly disturbing tone of the video, I thought it was amusing/interesting that both of them were born into families that owned factories and got into Duke. What a world of people that get into YC.
Written text is perfectly capable of communicating all that, as evidenced by zillions of poems, novels, essays, screenplays, etc.

No, I counter that the real problem is that some people are either incredibly bad at communicating their real intent, or incredibly good at communicating their inner asshole nature.
"There's personal liability attached to being the named senior manager ..."

Thank you - that's a missing piece that helps.

"In addition to the "you're not fooling anyone" bit ..."

I don't suggest a corporate veil as a ruse - it's a tool that has a function and I think this is certainly it.

My sense is that enforcement for small operators is unlikely but the potential liabilities skew the risk dramatically. Pointing the initial enforcement at a corporate entity could change that risk assessment.
I wonder. I'm against wealth inequality, but for thousands of years, the human labor required to feed, clothe, and shelter a family wouldn't have allowed anyone to learn, preserve, and advance human knowledge without the labor of many being exploited one way or another by an elite few. That's not to justify anything or argue against egalitarianism today.
Wondering is just a visceral reaction to the possible harms that come with all technologies. As with most gut feelings, it’ll soon be forgotten once that cool new shiny doohickey is announced, with a price point of $599.
Here's a comparison chart of collaboration/teamwork plugins in Obsidian.

https://system3.md/observatory/categories/collaboration-team...

Peerdraft, Relay, and Screen Garden are all based on CRDTs, and Obsidian is also currently working on native collaboration.

(disclaimer: I work on Relay)
Ah ok my bad, didn't know about the L mount. I suppose if you are willing to pay that much... sure? I would still argue that it is not a good value for money product. Why would one take pride in purchasing an inferior camera for a premium?
So instead of testing each patch, it's faster to "read" it and see if it looks like the right kind of change to be fixing a particular bug. Neat.
Seems not.

I plugged in my house just to see. It's all public info anyway... it couldn't find the construction year (public), renovation year (public permits), recent sales (public), it called my taxes high (wrong), it considered _all_ of Brooklyn for price comparables (wrong), ...
For me, personally, I do a ton of fullstack work in JavaScript-land, but also have Python services for ML-heavy needs, and it’s nice to define one schema that at its root is still SQL while generating query clients for multiple languages.
The Luddites were right. We need to learn from them to stop these kinds of practices in the cradle.
Trump floats $5M 'gold card' as a route to US citizenship
I wouldn’t say it’s sketchy. They want people logged in to get the analysis.

It’s a horrible UX pattern. At the very least, it should be obvious that I have to login to get the analysis, not immediately shoot over to a google login.

Ideally, it’d be nice if they did a basic analysis of the property link and required login to get more details.
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/11/26/magic/ lists a few of these magic numbers
The problem is with ARM itself, who is trying to drown out the other licensees in the space, but then can't deliver a good enough product.
I don’t think this is a fair take. For self driving cars, you care about that because safety is involved and the reliability of the AI is the product itself.

For OP, the product is the product, how they got there is mostly irrelevant. We don’t really care what IDE they used (outside of being a tooling nerd).
Case swapping is wrong on these.
Are you going to rebuild your micro service every time there's a reorg?

It's nice as a SWE to own a specific service, but I think it leads to suboptimal tech stacks and adds latency.
> From the numbers we should want to build our processes around the high performers. But we can't expand our base of high performers AND they are the most likely to just disappear and not easily have their productivity replaced.

You're failing to retain high performers? Are there perhaps methods for retaining high performers that you have not tried?

AI for Executive performance monitoring would be an interesting social experiment.
> It also meant a loss in institutional knowledge about how things worked.

And the experience earned from the mistake.
I can't call this slavery but their attitude towards their workers who make $1 an hour is sadly extremely common for among wealthy Indian people. They just don't see the non-English speaking poor in India to be human, and very likely the people below their status in America to be human. It's disgusting and the reason why I can't identify with my ancestry
How were you able to stand as an expert witness when you have a personal relationship with the plaintiff? I don’t know the specifics of the law in Illinois, but my understanding is that that would generally be a disqualifying conflict of interest.
I'm very glad to live in a country where something like this would be considered blatantly illegal.