skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and meanwhile BBC are pretty comfortable with using blatant CGI to intentionally mislead people into believing that there are impossibly small cats in the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W86cTIoMv2U

Not to mention Planet Earth, which feels like watching Finding Nemo
Interesting insight, and funny in a way since LLMs themselves can be seen as a specific form of document ranking, i.e. ranking a list of tokens by appropriateness as continuation of a text sequence.
only in UK IIRC
I've used graylog the most so that's what it looks like to me :P. I like how you can do a bunch of extraction stuff right there in the query interface though, that's awesome. It seems like a very thoughtful UI.
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Looks great! I had both a Psion 3c and Series 5mx, but both broke due to their folding design. It was the hinges on the 3c, and ribbon on the 5mx. A damn shame as they were great little computers. I still fire up the 5mx emulator on Windows to this day to revisit my old apps and play with it. :)
Ok, show me a bytecode from the 60s (or 90s!) to which I can compile Rust or Go and then execute with near-native performance with a VM embedded in a standard native binary.

The old bytecodes of the 20th century were designed to be a compilation target for a single language (or family of closely-related languages). The bytecode for Erlang is different from that of Smalltalk is different from that of Pascal, and that's before you start getting into the more esoteric cases like embedded Forth.

The closest historical equivalent to today's JVM/CLR/WebAssembly I can think of is IBM's hardware-independent instruction set, which I don't think could be embedded and definitely wasn't portable to microcomputer architectures.
> The police's job is not to recover ypur stolen lawnmower, it's to maintain order in general.

But here's the thing: it's often the case that the theft rate in an area is down to a handful a prolific thieves... who act with impunity because they reckon that any one act of theft won't be followed up.

I'd hope that in most jurisdictions, police keep track of who the prolific thieves/shoplifters/burglars/muggers are, and are also willing to look into individual thefts, etc., because even when it's the thief's first crime, there can often be an organised crime link - the newbie thief's drug dealer has asked them to do a "favour" to clear a debt, or such.

So it can be really useful to track down your lawnmower. Sometimes. And the police don't know if it's worth it or not until they do the work. I can see the parallels in this analogy to tax audits.
Cutting of contact from people who disagree with you is actual cult behavior.
Correct, the author links to it from his github page https://github.com/equinusocio
> C# / .Net tried to do that. Unfortunately, the memory model needed to enable garbage collection makes it far too opinionated to work in cases where straight C shines. (IE, it's not practical to write a kernel in C# / .Net.

It was pratical enough for Singularity and Midori.

Those projects failed due to lack of leadership support, not technical issues.

Additionally, Android and ChromeOS are what Longhorn userspace could have looked like if leadership support was there, instead of rebooting the whole approach with C++ and COM, that persists to this day in Windows desktop land, with WinRT doubling down on that approach, and failing as well, again due to leadership.
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If there is any legitimate reason for an emergency nighttime curfew and martial law, it’s likely this would be it, yes.

Chile is also relatively lightly populated, with the vast majority of its population in Santiago - which is pretty dense.

If anywhere in Chile is going to have a sudden crime spree if there was an opportunity, Santiago would be pretty much it.
It is nowadays, not just because of spam (there's both hosted and 3rd party solutions for that) but non-spam but unwanted / vile comments. Internet anonymity has always brought out the worst in people.
The site is working now and I'd love some commentary on the build. Especially the integrated graphics card and claimed AI/ML capabilities.
They do have a US law focused on them, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
I’m not a Trump voter or agent, nor a bot.

I agree with you, except that ignoring him is impossible.
Ask HN: Bootstrapper Looking for GTM Advice
Hi HN - I've built B2C web product called Fordi and am looking to build traction. I'm guessing that folks on here have worked through similar problems and would love some thoughts and advice.

The product (https://fordi.io) helps employees fix workplace issues by letting them send an anonymous, private message directly to a manager in real time. Basically instead of waiting months for an HR survey (that may not ask the right questions, may not be anonymous, etc.), this product lets anybody alert company management of their problem in seconds. Importantly, we offer this as a free, public service and it's open to any employee (independent of their HR dept). Using it is done by sending your anonymous message to feedback@fordi.io from your work email and telling us who you want us to send it to, we then deliver it anonymously. While imperfect, I've tried to eliminate friction in the submission process as much as possible (i.e. no app download, no signup needed, no payment). So the 2 big differences from every existing HR survey platform are that i.) feedback is fully initiated and controlled by the employee (not HR); and ii.) it's survey-less (fully conversational in existing apps like email or Slack).

I recognize that this product isn't for everybody. The idea is to gain employee traction with this free service and then eventually monetize it as a B2B SaaS product whose value prop is costs saves w/ better insights by automating survey collection and analysis (with a bunch of fancy bells and whistles that we've built around identifying themes, auto-routing to department leads, etc.). Admittedly, I'm not focused on B2B monetization right now and am simply looking to gain traction with this free B2C service. I tried for a year to sell this as a B2B product to HR depts and struggled dearly (due to execution mistakes on my part plus the HR survey market being extremely saturated, HR engagement being a low priority for many orgs, HR budgets shrinking, etc.). And so because of that I've pivoted into this free B2C GTM angle.

I wanted to see if anybody's worked through similar challenges and has any constructive advice? Thanks in advance!
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How is that different than a text url?
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Oh, it's not like what I thought then. Okay
> After years of defending C++, you'll secretly start a side project in Rust but tell no one on HN to avoid the embarrassment.

Lol!
In theory, if every QR in the building was different and they had the right sensors, they could also try to pair your browser fingerprint to your Bluetooth Mac, WiFi Mac, and your face. That pairing would have value on its own.
I love your brother's site, so much. It looks like the web counter is still working, and that I'm not the only person from here checking it out, so I hope angelfire is ready for a bit of a "hug".
I don't see how it could break separation of powers, especially if a legislator could provide minutes and/or a paper trail of discussions and revisions pointing the intent in a certain direction. You know, like evidence. The legislature surely has intent while writing the law, otherwise what would be the point in trying to interpret it, and the whole thing being litigated is the authors intent. I don't think the separation of powers doctrine presupposes that the legislature has no idea what their goals are while writing laws, that would be quite an insane assumption to bake into our system, and broken by design. And in this case, I very much doubt it was left intentionally ambiguous, since FOIA was clearly intended to help people get information from obstinate government agencies. What would even be the point in writing the law if obstinate government agencies are supposed to be able to weasel around the ambiguity behind a comma? Regardless, if we are able to ask the people who spent time drafting it, we could ask. There might even be a paper trail!
The the single best way to drive science and technology: teach everyone to format a json string share it via a URL.

The people on the bleeding edge of science and technology aren't just sitting in futuristic labs, surrounded by holograms and AI tech assistants, spouting one brilliant insight after another.

They are spending most of their days arranging various types of poorly formatted data, be it scientific metadata, purchase orders, journal proofs, grant proposals, interview schedules, their shopping list, or maybe (for a brief moment) actual scientific data. The real productive geniuses are the ones who figure out a way to ignore all this noise for along enough to get something done. It all comes down to logistics in the end.

A huge fraction of this work could conceivably be automated, or just trivial if people migrated to a better data structure. Maybe LLMs will help us bring order here, but that's only half the battle: part of learning to format data is thinking about the formal structure, what consumers will actually need, what parts are duplicated, etc.

20 years ago Tim Burners-Lee was advocating to clean this up via a better structured web [1], but, for various reasons, we haven't made much progress. I suspect a big reason is that the vast majority of people would struggle to understand the purpose of structured data: like basic literacy it's only useful if other people in your community use it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
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Referenced in this paper:

"Overall, while approaches such as FNet, Performer, and sparse transformers demonstrate that either fixed or approximate token mixing can reduce computational overhead, our adaptive spectral filtering strategy uniquely merges the efficiency of the FFT with a learnable, input-dependent spectral filter. This provides a compelling combination of scalability and adaptability, which is crucial for complex
sequence modeling tasks."

And a comparison section after that.
Some paint owners feel offended that folks get into their house, even though they left the door open, take the painting away, and didn't got any cut back from the gallery.
Many English speaking countries, I'm sure the US is more the exception than the rule in this case.

Of course, 'git' is also an insult.
I get your point about not being able to do everything in a vacuum, but I think there's also just a very limited set of geniuses that are of the Einstein/Newton level that might only exist once a century if you're lucky. We have millions in academia now and how many more physicists than the 1800s? There has certainly been progress, but it seems diminished.

There's a lot of discussion on this online and some folks speaking past each other. Yeah, there has been the invention of the internet, faster computers, the blue LED, sequencing the human genome...etc, but that is argued to mainly be engineering innovations on already understood physics. Where is the next discovery on the level of general relativity? Are we just at diminishing returns now where all the low hanging fruit has been found? How many physicists wasted away researching string theory? Were we just putting resources in the wrong place?

I do strongly think that modern research has become so beauracratic that it gets in the way of actual progress. The endless paperwork, presentations, teaching...etc isn't very conducive to discovery. Your average professor is more like a project manager than what Newton did.
Not a bad way to make a point locally, but wow are QR codes nice when you’re traveling and don’t speak the language. You get the menu, in a browser, with all of the translation and parsing tools on your phone.
>...I want the human-relevant parts of the lookup to be both human-readable and machine-readable.

There is OCR-B[1] for that. It is widely used as the human readable part of EAN/UPC barcodes used for laser scanners in retail. The relevant thing here is that the human readable part is never OCRed in practice because the barcode can be read much more reliably. OCR-B seems to be recommended simply because it is a well specified (ISO standard), easy to use (no weird licensing), high legibility font. Which is interesting because, as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, you don't really need a special font for OCR anymore. So it is a commonly used font that no longer serves the original purpose of the design. If you trained your OCR only on OCR-B you would likely get get some amount of accuracy improvement, but that would work for any high legibility font.

So the problem would be convincing app designers to read both things, where one of those things is much more reliable. I guess that might make sense for things that require high security, where the false negatives were worth the bother.

Getting back to the original article, OCR-B only has the good OCR characteristics for the upper case Latin characters, like with the QR code size thing, and for the same reason. If you are identifying something you generally want to use the larger, easier to read (both for people and machines), upper case characters. The lower case glyphs were added later to OCR-B as an afterthought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B
Completely omitting Melania suggests she is more thoughtful on generative AI, relocating Palestinians, and/or forming a real-world Trump-branded culture.
These rules are abusive.

They are problemizing behaviors that are ordinary, authentic, and helpful.
"I would love to see menus printed in OCR-A" just takes a regular human readable paper menu, and increases the success rate if you were to painstakingly scan each page to make a PDF with selectable text. That doesn't solve an actual need when sitting with the paper menu.

Taking a QR code that takes you to a URL, and writing out the URL in text does not enable anything, as you still must have an internet-connected device to retrieve the content, in which case you would most likely be able to scan the QR code anyway.

The point is to have e.g. a QR code, while still having human-readable content for those not having or wishing to use their smartphone in this interaction. E.g., just having the list of things on the menu printed in plain text (e.g., on a wall, over the counter, paper menu, ...), but also having a QR code with images and the ability to order directly to your table - stuff beyond what text would get you.
Can be, but I'm not sure it's worth investigating whether a particular deployment has such a specific monitoring system before being able to do a FOIA. The schema is marginally relevant for attacks at best (with heavy emphasis on just how marginal it is) and that's no barrier to releasing it
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Seems unlikely. They day I can’t wear my watch in the changing room is the day I stop wearing it to the gym, and therefore stop wearing it altogether, and therefore stop buying new ones every 5ish years.
Why is this a good idea for YC to sponsor?
I would add that Denmark's progressive parties would rather govern and face the responsibilities that go together with governing, and instead in many other countries progressives would rather be pure, lose elections and then point their fingers, look at how bad that guy who is now in power is, etc.
I'm not sure if I understand the purpose, it turns your text into an image?
TBH, no criticism on the developers, but the VS Code release notes haven't been interesting or relevant to how I used the editor for years. I think I checked out when they added a terminal client to it and it dominated the release notes for ages.

AI features is one of the bigger innovations in editors in years, I fully understand the enthusiasm, especially given it can be linked to an earnings model. That said, before AI stuff I would've expected them to push integration with Github and Azure more.
Thank you. We will security audit this extension today and take action if needed.
Show HN: I Built a ChatGPT Safari Extension
I was looking for a Safari Extension to quickly leverage chatGPT to fact check, translate or summarize web pages or content, and couldn't find a suitable solution, so I built it. No more copy pasting from one tab to another.
Forget all this crap - just get yourself a pan and a knife an Elizabeth David's "French Provincial Cooking": https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Provincial-Cooking-Elizabeth...

And all her other books, if you can.
Neon seems to be doing something similar (their hosted solution was not that great last time I checked) most of their stack is open source.
I like the concept of being able to upgrade the mainboard, the problem I have is that the support needs to come with it. I've had a framework 13" intel 13th gen since September 2023 and it's "mostly" ok. There's a weird battery charging issue where it discharged while plugged in which I raised shortly after getting it and it's still there I've been told to wait for a response. That one I can live with. But for the past few months the CPU gets stuck at 400Mhz and I have to boot into the BIOS and disconnect the battery and power cable to get it to clear which isn't great when I'm in the middle of something important. Support have been prompt and polite but it's been like getting blood out of a stone getting somewhere, from previous experience with other manufacturers it would have been RMA'd by now. I'm not writing them off yet but I'm not filled with confidence.

On the plus side I'm hoping that it's the existence of framework that have convinced lenovo to stop soldering components in their new laptops, that's what put me off buying one and why I went with a framework.
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Writing software is more akin to building an engine factory than a single engine. At least, much of business software is used over a long period with lots of changes needed. Maybe writing a single game is more comparable to the race engine.
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Great links too!
I've had the misfortune of working professionally with CORBA, and I've spent some time trying to keep up with WIT/WASI/that whole situation. Whatever WIT is going to be, I can assure you it's very different from CORBA.

The best way I think to describe WIT is that it seems to be an attempt to design a new ABI, similar to the System V ABI but capable of representing the full set of typesystems found in every modern language. Then they want to use that ABI to define a bunch of POSIX-ish syscalls, and then have WebAssembly as the instruction set for their architecture-independent executable format.

The good news is that WIT/WASI/etc is an independent project from WebAssembly, so whether it succeeds or fails doesn't have much impact on the use of WebAssembly as a plugin mechanism.
>Kind of doubtful that this was intentional, unless it was done by some one employee and somehow wasn't spotted.

I was be inclined think the same, until I remember how Google went on stage with their AI image generator that was banned from generating white people while only generating Asian, African and native American people, to which I thought there was no way someone didn't notice such an obvious bias programmed in before launch, or how Alexa would refuse to tell you good things about Trump when asked, claiming it doesn't discuss politics, but would gladly tell you all the good things about Kamala.

The most likely explanation is that stuff like this was indeed noticed by other people but who shared the same ideological and political biases and wanted this to go into production as a way to "own the chuds", or they knew it was wrong but dared not to speak up for fear of being labeled "-ists" or "-fobes" by the ideologically driven mobs in the org.

It's not just one rogue individual with a bias getting away with it, since there's too many points on the graph already, and they're all forming a line pointing in the same direction, it's the entire orgs infected with the same disease.