skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feds indict ex-Michigan FB coach Matt Weiss: Hacked computers to spy on women
Major AI players don’t want to use someone else web index as they may cut it off or jack up the prices etc. major players want to build their own web index
Most California lowlands like the Central Valley sit on alluvial plains where water runoff from the mountains evaporated over millions of years, depositing nutrients dissolved from rock. It’s like the Nile river delta but over time instead of flooding every year. They were also once an ocean, so there’s a very deep layer of fossilized organisms that provide nutrients too.

There’s other reasons like California’s climate supporting a double growing season for many plants but the fertility is what really makes it so economically competitive. Farmers still have to use tons of NPK fertilizer like everyone else but most of the micronutrients are already in the ground so it’s a lot easier to get high yields with low risk and little micro optimization.
For a few years now, there's also been the option on Android to avoid giving permanent permissions to most apps that request use of one; when an app requests a permission for the first time, I'm prompted to choose from the options "allow only this time", "allow only while using the app", or "allow always" (in addition to having the option to completely deny the permission of course, although in many cases an app might refuse to function if that's chosen). Scanning TOTP QR code seems like a really great use-case for the "allow only this time" option; presumably adding a new TOTP secret is a pretty infrequent reason for opening the app compared to getting a code from an existing one, so having to manually accept the request each time doesn't seem like it would be that much work.

I'm not familiar with with iOS to know if something similar to this exists for it, but I'd honestly be more surprised if there _isn't_.
I am surprised that this is working, as I always thought that variables get initialized after the full command is parsed. So, I would assume that $_ would be related to the previous command (defined by a new line) and not this one, because there's no newline character here, but only an ampersand.
So in many respects, search the place it used to construct the model? Isn't that functionally bias-reinforcing?

"Look what I synthesise is correct and true because when I use the same top 10 priming responses which informed my decision I find these INDEPENDENT RESULTS which confirm what I modelled" type reasoning.

None of us have a problem with an LLM which returns 2+2 = 4 and shows you 10 sites which confirm. What worries me is when the LLM returns 2+2 = 5 and shows 10 sites which confirm. The set of negative worth content sites is semi infinite and the set of useful confirmed fact (expensive) sites is small so this feels like an outcome which is highly predictable (please don't beat me up for my arithmetic)

e.g. "Yes Climate science is bunk" <returns 10 top sites from paid shills in the oil sector which have been SEO'd up the top>"
Conservative Influencers Targeted by 'Swatting' Calls
How much % it’s significant compared to say openai or google? Because if I’m paying 20$ I want other things too not just coding. And if the moat for coding compared to other vendors is not significant, it doesn’t make any difference tbh
Yes life changes. Listing changes that turned out positive doesn't necessarily mean that holds for the future. Also I never found google to be greatly better than the existing engines at the time when they first started - could have been a regional thing I guess. It was meh until it just got better and other services fumbled the ball. For the public, the mid 00s IMHO was the golden age of searching, it's been in decline since.

However it's an interesting question of whether ChatGPT was good enough to replace a search engine, one which has been part of many conversations since A.I. services started to have real promise.

Those who've always had straightforward problems and the solution found easy enough, will probably find their net experience / life going forwards with A.I. based answers improved and enriched. They'll probably never notice if what they wanted to know was in fact not that straightforward, was complex, or that much of the data on the net was merely BS echoes, as they'll get a nice answer they'll swallow as being the best advice to be had.

Certainly one day, A.I. results might reach the stage where it can weigh and answer correctly after analysing all the data (including that in books) and determine which data holds up, even if 99% of the data was in fact noise / in error. Then the problem is how well it might censor said information, given who's asking.

Myself, I want links always. Good search engines used to have an available cache that wasn't hidden or denied based on who you were ... and present day I now find a verbose query is just a guide or it spits out too hard, no results.

Decent, credible, non fiction books generally still to this day include a thorough bibliography.
You have been able to check that for yourself by referencing the S&P 500 for the past 70 years.
> Monetization could shift to cloud services.

Amazon can offer it as a cloud service because it's allowed in the licence and they may not pay you a cent because it's allowed in the licence. If you are happy with that, it's fine. Otherwise you may try with AGPL or a source available licence.
Appreciate the efforts. It’s not there yet, but when it gets there it will open up a lot of use cases.

Any fine tuning for s2s in the horizon?
God forbid we listen to experts when we have the choice to listen to celebrities and social media, instead. Glad to see scientific literacy falling off a cliff.

On the plus side, middle America can stop worrying about the price of eggs, soon.
Nonprofit's Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240M in Federal Food Aid
While I agree that GitHub Actions could be more "secure and safe" by default most gaps are easy enough to fill. With https://github.com/marketplace/actions/check-actions you can ensure timeouts, permissions and version pinning. With https://registry.terraform.io/modules/giner/repo/github you can manage all repos together with workflows.
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'Startup Nation' Groups Say They're Meeting Trump Officials
I like how your imagined DEI HR bureaucrat[1] engages in Asian erasure. 100% credible.

[1]in soul if not title
I got much better results with o3-mini than Claude for coding. Get the high level design wkth o3 or o1 and then use gpt4 or Claude for small tasks.
There should be a union for YC startups, to prevent them from being exploited so badly. By the time the startup meat grinder eventually peters out, the founders own almost nothing of a fairly worthless company and the employees even less. Meanwhile YC pimps the myth of the startup and cashes the winning lottery tickets.
I think we are already past the point where unions would be valuable. Did you miss out on the continuous layoffs and forced RTO?
USCBP can't deport someone to a country they aren't a citizen of.

Mexico doesn't want that problem dumped on them.
That isn't a test of anything, since we've not isolated a single policy change; many things changed everywhere all over the world all at once.
It should all even out in the long run.

As long as we’re in a deficit, spending for this program would directly increase the money supply. Of course there are other factors like velocity of money and elasticity of good/services but at the end of the day we’re increasing the amount of money (aka cash + credit) with no change to supply AND we’re going into debt to do it.
I want to make a small note, in that `$_` is a special Bashism (though it is supported widely), but Parameter Expansion is POSIX-standard and will work on all POSIX-compliant shells, not just Bash.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/xc...
Thanks for the kind words!

I think the main advantages this has over other RDBMS's such as Postgres and MySQL is performance - due to the columnar / vector processing capabilities of DuckDB. I've run this in AWS with a i8g.16xlarge, and on Azure with a Standard_E64pds_v6 - and get amazing performance - due to the use of NVMe storage, lots of CPU (64) and memory (512GB) - for less than $4/hr in cloud VM cost.

This solution lets users use the large resources available on larger cloud VMs as an enterprise-grade server - for use with data notebooks, analytics dashboards, and more.

You can get performance that meets and exceeds many distributed systems on a much simpler architecture - reading from parquet datasets, assuming you've copied (cached) them on the local NVMe SSD storage. Of course - this has disadvantages - such as keeping the local copy in sync with the cloud storage (S3) - but it can be well worth it if you have a mostly read-only dataset (write-once, read-many). There is a small startup time penalty for hydrating the local storage - but I've seen throughput as high as 4GB/s for this initial copy...

I hope this helps. Thanks again for the question!
This is such a good analogy. Implant and thin film deposition never gets any respect…
Let people choose if they want to do something, but have a concerted effort to encourage/suggest things that might give them purpose and build a community. Leave them to decide their hours and effort. Maybe someone wants to clean the gutters for their entire block at 6am and then go tinker in the shed for half the day. I'm sure that sounds really lazy, but this concept is working up from a default UBI that is pay-for-no-job.

I can imagine loads of tasks or jobs that would be quite pleasant if it weren't for stressing over efficiency or business admin.
> The coolest part is the thing is powered by a USB C. [This is] a breath of fresh air.

Serious question, looking for a serious answer from you: Why?

The wafer-style USB-C connector is mechanically inferior to the size of barrel-style connectors that are typically used for 100+W applications. It's far less resistant to torque and shear, and due to its small size is significantly easier to accidentally dislodge. While accidental disconnection isn't a huge problem for a battery-powered machine, this thing is wall-powered.

Making things worse, unless you want to roll the dice on Amazon not sending you something that might burn your house down due to underspecced conductors and/or connectors, you're going to have to pay a significant fraction of the cost of the PSU for the cable to connect it.

There are also the ergonomic factors to consider. On the overwhelming majority of consumer hardware that's powered with a barrel-style connector, there's only one place where that connector fits. However, on much-to-most of the consumer hardware that's powered with a USB-C connector, there are many plugs that will accept the power supply cable but will refuse to use it to power the hardware. Perhaps one day in the distant future, manufacturers will universally pay the money to make all USB-C-shaped plugs capable of powering the USB-C-connector-powered-hardware they're built in to, but that day is not today.

And sure, you can reasonably retort with "Well, you just keep trying plugs until it works.", as well as "Well, just turn on a light and read the printing on the plugs.". These aren't huge hassles. But I remember that one of the big hassles that the USB-C connector saved us from was "You don't have to try to plug it in three times to get it right.". Going from "Well, it just works, first try!" to "Well, you just have to find the right plug to make it work. Keep trying!" is backwards and a little sad.
You can just prompt ChatGPT 4o saying only get information from web
Texas-based talk show host Pagliarulo said he was a victim of swatting in the early hours of March 12.

He played door camera footage on his show showing what he said was an armed law enforcement officer at his door responding to a fake report.

Pagliarulo said he was at first unaware that the armed man was law enforcement and even considered confronting him with his own guns, which he said could have resulted in a "shootout."
China travel advice – Risk level: HIGH
Heavier architecture / systems design stuff is sometimes easier to do with a differently configured cursor, or claude.

The key I find is experience doing that kind of stuff to begin with, vs domain experience as well, vs little to none and wanting to learn the ropes.
Maybe a bit like the CCC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
Miami Beach mayor backs down from threatening theater over 'No Other Land'
Can you elaborate on why you think that `if` is problematic in this way? The article mainly seems to cover how to implement the pattern rather than why it might be useful, and I'm having trouble imagining what problems you see with `if`, but the degree of conviction you seem to have about this seems quite strong and I'm curious to understand why.
I believe the UK uses the same Trident SLBMs as the US, but with their own warheads. I'm not sure if the US maintains the missiles.
rofl I didnt know this was a thing, why are people so intent on gaming the system? I was judging thing in person and even during covid I did it via Discord for some events (Discord hackathons were a different culture of their own and were great) even the physical ones I did had certain traditions depending on which universities you were judging at, I do peer reviews for the research lab that I help out with sometimes so maybe that counts, but the thing is I am just doing all this because I think its fun to do. Knowing that other people have potential nefarious reasons or trying to game things or even "cheat" the system was like one of the reasons why I quit Pokemon Go initially or certain games that put everyone on the same leaderboard.
I watched a fascinating video of a guy explaining, in detail, how vacuum tube radios worked. Quite a joy to watch.

I'm glad I didn't take up Electrical Engineering as a major. All the fun of using signal generators and oscilloscopes is gone. Just program a Raspberry Pi to do it. or a circuit simulator on your computer. Sigh. EE is no fun without getting accidentally zapped by A/C once in a while or letting the smoke trapped in a transistor out.

It's like hotrodding a car by plugging in a laptop. Ehhh no.
Can tell it to check it before and after if it doesn't do something and it can improve.

Also telling it not to code, or not to jump to solutions is important. If there's a file outlining how you like to approach different kinds of things, it can take it into consideration more intuitively. Takes some practice to pay attention to your internal dialogue.
I've found the most useful LLM UIs for me are tree-like with lots of branches where you go back and forth between your prompts. You branch off anywhere, edit top or leafs as you go.

If one branch doesn't work out you go back to the last node that gave good results or the top and create another branch with a different prompt from.

Or if you want to ask something in a different direction but don't want all the baggage from recent nodes.

Example:
https://exoloom.io/trees
I always interpret “core” as “no libraries”. What can you do with just your browser and an HTML file?

Poke through MDN and see what you find.

Do you know about dialog? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...

MutationObserver? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObs...

URL? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL_API
My limited understanding is that not all viruses affect the brain and related tissues. So you would expect both that the subset of ones which do are of interest, and that a plausible explanation for plaques in the brain are reactive to infection, or a side effect of a defence mechanism.

Shingles is a remarkably persisting infection. Shingrex and the other vaccines are still new. New enough the cohort with protection are only just moving into the phase where Alzheimers and like problems emerge.

So in some respects I would think we are approaching the doorway of epidemiology which might help say if this is a thing or not.

(not an epidemiologist, or a virologist, or an anything, I welcome correction on this)
There are definitely limitations, but later games have a lot more depth than these.

Link's Awakening feels like it shouldn't be possible in a single megabyte of mask ROM, for example. The fact that it was makes it almost more impressive by today's standards.
I've not seen any issues with random catastrophic failure like that in MTB land. Maybe it's because the parts are generally laid up much stronger than road? Wheels will break if you mash them into a rock, and even then Santa Cruz notoriously has a line of rims that Danny Macaskill had to ride down stairs repeatedly with no tires on to break.

With the ubiquity of frames at the high amateur level, if there were still issues you'd hear more about them.

Re CF frames... one neglected point is that even when you do crunch them into a rock, they're repairable, whereas Al frames aren't worth repairing due to the heat treat needed. My own CF XC MTB has a repaired chainstay.
I have a video projector, and if I flick my eyes across the screen I can perceive the separate R G B frames. But just watching it, it's fine.
Well sure, at many orders of magnitude more cost. If you wanted to brute-force RSA, you'd be better off leveraging economies of scale to operate ten thousand current-gen 4nm GPUs running at 2 GHz with air coolers than a single exotic prototype 1nm ASIC running at 8 GHz with cryogenic cooling.

Aside from LCS35, most cryptographic problems are about as easy with two processors that are half as fast as one processor that costs twice as much.
Nominative determinism strikes again! (Or is this anti-determinism?)
Ha! Comment of the week.
> "Toyota Subsidiary" is not really shorter than "Hino Motors" is it?

No, but between the two included in the original title, I chose the entity that’s more recognizable. I’m sorry if I misled you, and I’ll try not to do it again.
Ben and Jerry's have been known for social activism for quite some time, actions like these say that Unilever wants the ice cream money, but not anything else.
Wild! Every browser seems to support <frame> yet it's deprecated: https://caniuse.com/?search=frame
Someone I know put this well: "science is just as gullible at following the latest trends. The difference is it corrects itself, where trends never do."
>Haas

selling your driver seat to russian oligarchs son doesnt help
It does no such thing. It shifts power from the employer to the union bosses.
> the top results are often just blogspam

top results are blogspam but the LLM isn't? /s
The odds that that person will also understand or care about normalization, let alone the performance characteristics of their RDBMS and how their schema decisions affect it, are close to zero.

I’ve spent enough time watching devs have access to the DB that I know it’s a dead end. For a group that loves to talk about DSA, you’d think a B+tree would be second nature, and yet…

Full Stack is a lie, as is DevOps. We need to return to highly specialized roles. You want a new view? Submit your proposal to the DB team. They shot you down with a list of reasons why? Go learn everything they complained about; next time, the list won’t be so long.
Contracting out interviewing is nuts. IDK how a company can think that the level of validation you get in a coding interview is necessary and also think that it can be outsourced to someone else. They seem completely at odds with each other. I assume they're just cargo culting what other companies do though.

I don't think memorizing trivia is a useful signal for a job, which is what a lot of "domain expertise" looks like in interviews. If you're going to write software and solve problems for a job then you should be able to sit down and solve some medium difficulty coding problems. It's not that hard. Personally I'd much rather do that than a take-home coding assignment.

The number of people out there working as engineers who can't write basic code is too high to not check.
Barbaric, backward, but extremely dangerous
do you know if there is one for Japan?
We will very quickly enter a Kepler effect of information on the internet. All text on the internet will become AI slop being parsed by AI. Real information and human beings will be drowned out by the garbage. The internet will cease to be useful and we will retreat to corners of the web or to walled gardens. I'm seeing more and more online communities these days enforce invite only because there's just too much AI slop everywhere now.
> When you have one engineer who is empowered to write SQL specifically crafted to pull the exact columns required to SSR a web view (which they are also responsible for), you don't need to spend a single second thinking about APIs or ORMs or whatever. You just need to know SQL and modern vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.

A million times yes!

> I think the end game is doing SSR of web content inside the RDBMS

That feels like one step too far for me. I think things like authorization and HTML rendering belong in a separate layer.

But I do believe that more than 90% of today's "server side code" actually belongs in the RDBMS, and I blame the weakness of SQL as the reason no one wants to do this.
Opossum Country is pretty neat: https://benjelter.itch.io/opossum-country
Nobody is going to choose to be a ditch digger without a financial incentive. Most jobs worth doing are unpleasant or difficult. Thats why people pay for the labor!

I mean think about it…when was the last time you heard of charity gutter cleaning services? People would much rather enjoy their leisure time on hobbies or with family/friends.
I think drug overdoses are still higher for people under the age of 18.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7150a2.htm
While robots.txt is not there to directly prevent automated requests, it does prevent crawling which is needed for search indices.

Without recursive crawling, it will not possible for a engine to know what are valid urls[1]. They will otherwise either have to brute-force say HEAD calls for all/common string combinations and see if they return 404s or more realistically have to crawl the site to "discover" pages.

The issue of summarizing specific a URL on demand is a different problem[2] and not related to issue at hand of search tools doing crawling at scale and depriving all traffic

Robots.txt does absolutely apply to LLMs engines and search engines equally. All types of engines create indices of some nature (RAG, Inverted Index whatever) by crawling, sometimes LLM enginers have been very aggressive without respecting robots.txt limits, as many webmasters have reported over the last couple of years.

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[1] Unless published in sitemap.xml of course.

[2] You need to have the unique URL to ask the llm to summarize in the first place, which means you likely visited the page already, while someone sharing a link with you and a tool automatically summarizing the page deprives the webmaster of impressions and thus ad revenue or sales.

This is common usage pattern in messaging apps from Slack to iMessages and been so for a decade or more, also in news aggregators to social media sites, and webmasters have managed to live with this one way or another already.
Currently the USofA is deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador with no trial or other due process.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz032xjyyzyo
> I asked it "Rust crate to access Postgres with Arrow support"

Is that how you actually use llms? Like a Google search box?
Yeah, for parts of my house I have renovated I put in LED fixtures with separate drivers that sit up in the roof cavity, and none of them have failed (out of about a dozen lights) in the eight years since. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the house I have some older fixtures that were designed for incandescent bulbs and have been through a bunch of LED replacement bulbs for them.
Then again, a Game Boy emulator is usually the second thing people port to any given platform (immediately after Doom) :)
The first satellite for early wildfire detection and mitigation has launched