skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. As a counterpoint, I have a site (<https://www.automidiflip.com/>, which I posted to HN on launch 8 years ago[0], which provides a service and does not have (and has never had) any ads whatsoever. (It inserts a reference to automidiflip.com in the MIDIs it creates as a credit, but no ads in the sense that most people mean.)

Granted, it's a niche service, but over the past year it's still been used to flip MIDIs about 23 times a day on average, so it's definitely not unknown. I don't see any need to monetise it, though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13553224
Why is Firefox considered bad now? Is Mozilla any worse than Google?
FBI puts together Tesla task force as counter-protest violence ramps up
As God intended.
The consequences will arrive by the will of the Trumpist administration.

Levied on the Undesirables only.
Ask HN: 23andMe has my data, am I screwed?
I'm quite concerned about 23andme. I deleted my account a year ago, but deep in their privacy statements they say they must retain data due to regulatory obligations. I've exchanged multiple emails with them asking what it means. I'll post their response below. Am I / are we... up a creek with no recourse?

"Thank you for your reply. Your inquiry has recently been
escalated to me for review. Please note that once you
confirm your request to delete your account, we will
delete your data from our systems within 30 days, unless
we are required by law or regulation to maintain limited
data for a given timeframe, as described in our Privacy
Statement.

For example, archival files of information needed to
satisfy state and federal legal requirements are retained,
such as those set by the U.S. Federal Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and College of
American Pathologists accreditation requirements.

Your de-identified Genetic Information and a randomized
identifier are retained on secure servers as required by
law and any biobanked samples are discarded. The Genetic
Information is not accessed, used, or disclosed for any
purpose other than as needed to comply with the
requirements referenced above.

It is important to understand that the retained
information is distinct from the genotyped data available
within your account and is stripped from registration
information. This data has not been processed by our
interpretation software to produce your individual-level
genotyped data (in your account).

If you participated in telehealth services coordinated
through your 23andMe account, your Medical Record will be
retained in accordance with applicable law and is subject
to the Medical Record Privacy Notice.

You can read more about these retention requirements in
the Privacy Statement."
There are other ways to "fake leak" information than having to look like an incompetent idiot at the end. Plus, what they said on Europe is not breaking news, they say pretty much the same on open channels - even when they face directly Europeans (e.g. last Munich conference)
That's very interesting. I would have assumed that 4o is internally using a single seed for the entire conversation, or something analogous to that, to control randomness across image generation requests. Can you share the technical name for this reasoning process so I could look up research about it?
Ask HN: Good examples of ASCII data visualization?
I'm working on a project[1] where one constraint I have set myself is the use of plain text ASCII throughout the site.

I have the data ready but I'm looking for inspiration for projects where ASCII format was used for visualizing data. I deal with plain text cricket data, so visualizations I'm thinking about include spider charts, score worms, bee swarms, wagon wheels, etc!

Any good implementations of ASCII would be great to check out.

[1] https://criclite.com
Like Plunkett says of Frost, this interview is hilarious in its superficial simplicity covering a deeper indirect commentary.

PLUNKETT: Some people may think they have the answer, but I think that if you have any degree of certainty about it, you don’t really understand the problem. I would say the same about reading Frost’s poetry.

INTERVIEWER: That if you think you have the answer, you don’t have it?

PLUNKETT: You don’t quite understand the problem.
I’m also from a small town in Spain, ~600 people.

And while it’s not as popular as before it’s still going strong in summer.

I’m Catalan so we call it “la fresca”, translates to “to the fresh air”.

In my street, ~5-10 people, my mother and some neighbours still do it.

The way towns are build in spain facilitate that, single houses but no garden. We live door by door.

So if you want to be outside you are by definition accesible.

Before TV people used to also be a lot in the balcony just chilling and chatting with people passing by.

This is my street in google mapa in case someone is interested:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.google.com/maps/@4...
Irony noted, but I think it's rare for the horrors of a codebase to be deliberately inflicted for self-enrichment or cruelty.
> Elon's not brilliant, he's just lucky

Est-il habile où est-il heureux [1]?

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Mazarin not Napoleon
The web as it was originally conceived - readable (but not interactive) content with linked resources - feels a far cry from the web of today, a platform for interactive applications that seems to grow asymptotically towards feature-parity with native applications (UI, input handling, data processing, hardware access) while never quite getting there, encompassing the fundamental things that make 'applications' work.

If the modern web _did_ reach feature parity in some way the real question would then be 'What makes it different?'. As linked resources doesn't seem like a particularly strong unique feature today the only other things I can think of are the simpler cross-platform experience and the ease of distribution.

So then the questions are 'What would make for a better cross-platform development experience?' (Chromium embedded framework not included) and 'How do we make app distribution seamless?' Is it feasible or sensible to have users expect to access every application just by visiting a named page and getting the latest version blasted at their browser?

And I guess that's how we got Chrome OS.
To be clear, that is DALL-E, not 4o image generation. (You can see the prompt that 4o generated to give to DALL-E.)
Whisk I think is possibly the best at it. No idea what it uses under the hood though.

https://labs.google/fx/tools/whisk
Was that an actual SVG?
That certainly would explain how Trump can rattle on for hours and hours, despite a notable lack of high quality training data.
It's very difficult to judge from these tiny clips. They're supposed to be showing off the technology with this video, but choose many clips with very little dialogue.
If it tried and failed repeatedly, then it was prompting DALL-E, looking at the results, then prompting DALL-E again, not doing direct image generation.
My father was born in a small village in Guadalajara, Spain.
I remember in the village my grandma and other neighbours tool their chair outside their homes to talk at the end of the day.
It is great to see good things coming again.
Do it... MORE.
Community is as community does.
Optimizing ML training with metagradient descent
I don't think Ladybird is ready yet and Chromium has taken itself out of the running with manifest v3. Ie. what do you suggest that isn't Chromium or Firefox based?
What is your threat model or the risk you are attempting to mitigate?
Yes, Kung Pow is a great example of how jarring it can be! :-D
> This has a lot to do with the fetishization of what’s difficult,

And this reminds me of software development!
Why are you specifically calling out you are not suggesting punishment nor prosecution?
Many people are making the argument that this administration is unlike all previous administrations. I infer you disagree with that.
It should mention conduit for sure, but sometimes conduit is hard if you want to stick to the rule of no more than 180 degrees of bend in the line (and no more than 90 at one bend). Long conduit runs need junction boxes at some of of the bends, and it's hard to always make those accessible.
this discussion is getting big so i've built a summary, here's a few bullet points:

- Cloud-dependent features for essential appliance functions are undesirable.

- Modern appliances are becoming less durable and harder to repair compared to older models.

- There are valid concerns about privacy and data security with internet-connected home appliances.

- Consumer Reports and similar review sites are not always reliable and trustworthy.

- Simple, locally controlled appliances are preferable for core home appliance functionalities.

- Some smart features, like remote notifications and control, can be genuinely useful and convenient for users in certain situations.

- Smart features might offer specific advantages in shared living spaces or for optimizing energy consumption.

- Developing local-first software for appliances is perceived by some as complex and expensive compared to cloud-based solutions.

- The market will naturally adjust to consumer preferences regarding smart features over time.

- For some users, the effort of returning a product might outweigh the inconvenience of dealing with cloud-dependent features.

- Not all Bosch dishwashers require cloud connectivity, and some models are still considered high quality.

the summary can be found here: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/dishwasher-app-dependency
Every failed impeachment encourages future bad actors not to worry about impeachment.
If it looks good it's fine, but I'm not as optimistic as you.

I would argue that pan-and-scan failed long-term, perhaps even short term. I remember widescreen releases being available on VHS because a significant amount of people didn't like it.

Colorizing black and white movies...I can't think of any time I've seen that done in a commercially successful way.

I also think that a dub with lips that don't match is something people barely notice in the first place.
Correlation of 0.25-0.5 being poor is very problem dependent.

For example, in difficult perceptual tasks ("can you taste which of these three biscuits is different" [one biscuit is made with slightly less sugar]), a correlation of 0.3 is commonplace and considered an appropriate amount of annotator agreement to make decisions.
question , have mono in plane body engines ever been tried? i developed a fascination with the idea (which is obviously tertible for safety and maintenance reasons) but beyond some exotic early critters google gave me nothing .
Whoever thought this was a good idea should step down.
Before calling something authoritarian, ask: who’s actually in control?

If a regime can’t control education, is shrinking the size of government, and is expanding individual rights (e.g., gun rights), can it truly be called authoritarian?

The issue with much of the modern left is that it often misidentifies the problem. The left should be focused on advocating for the working class and the poor. After all, figures like Trump and Elon Musk clearly align more with the wealthy elite.

But the current left seems dominated by affluent, highly educated people, and instead of class-focused politics, it often resorts to dramatic labels that don’t reflect reality.

Step one in solving any problem is understanding it. And that starts with asking harder questions, not just repeating slogans.
> These people are going to get us all killed in a nuclear first strike.

Not sure how leaking state secrets is risking nuclear annihilation - unless they invite Putin or Xi mistakenly in their Signal Group and plan to bomb Moscow or Beijing but the coziness of the current administration with these 2 countries is certainly not making this scenario realistic at all.

Instead the reality is likely more boring: they just accelerate American decline
Oooo... Can we get an average article ranking?
A copy of you, not the same instance.
Yeah that should be the bare minimum
Kevin Murphy's lecture on Frost is the best one I've ever heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5140uJOUDE

He first recaps the conventional view people have about Frost, then reads "The Road Not Taken", his most famous poem, and then completely takes Frost AND the poem AND THEN the public's misunderstanding of Frost apart.

Don't get fooled by the bare visual appearance of Murphy, his empty blackboard (no PPT, no bs) - this lecture is a fantastic, suprising and deeply disturbing (regarding what is revealed about Frost and his public misappreciation). Simply priceless teaching - thank you, dear colleague.

EDIT: If you ask ChatGPT for a "10-20 sentence interpretation of The Road Not Taken", it falls right into the trap that Murphy warns about.
what is the substantive difference between googling "filter records in dataframe by regular expression in Julia" vs asking ChatGPT/Grok/Claude the same thing (to name a totally non-random example I've been working with lately)?
> the vast number of internal models of the world that are generated strictly from text input

Do you mean in the sense than an LLM can emit documents following grammar rules or pirate-talk?

For humans, text doesn't generate our models so much as as it triggers them.
Because he wants the behavior to change, as it is a risk to the country's security. Typically these types of things at this level rarely result in prosecution; the compromise typically is a change in behavior / promise to do better / etc.
I can't wait for the corridor crew episode about this
Keeps*. He took them back some weeks ago
I don't doubt that you intended this meaning but doesn't that seem unnecessarily ambiguous to you? Usually when people say "dozens" they mean some small handful of dozens with an absolute number probably smaller than 200 (otherwise most would say "hundreds"). Few people are going to think "hundreds of trillions" when someone says "dozens". If one is expected to think "hundreds of trillions" in this case, it seems they should be equally expected to think "hundreds of quadrillions" which would be incorrect here.

Even if one agrees that "dozens" is accurate to mean "hundreds of trillions" it still misses the mark for the argument because the odds come from the high number of planets. That is to say, there are very low odds that any individual planet harbors life but ostensibly much greater odds that one planet in a set of planets harbors life. Saying "hundreds of trillions" gets that point across better than "dozens".
I've generated (and downloaded) a couple of images. All filenames start with `DALL·E`, so I guess that's a safe way to tell how the images were generated.
Bit of a wild model here. The US, broadly speaking, is going through a labor shortage that will only get worse in the future (structural demographics). Immigration was filling the gap for the last half decade or so, but with anti immigration sentiment rising, this will exacerbate the situation. So, some political parties have decided to employ children as young as 14 in potentially dangerous occupations. It's not great, and as it's politics, there aren't any solutions besides "vote better," which the electorate appears to be not so interested in.

Probably an opportunity for a ProPublica series to track the harm and death toll that will eventually result.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/despite-hazardous-working-conditio...

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/immigration-economy-jobs-gr...

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/us-labor-shortage-older-wor...

https://www.hamiltonproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2...

https://assets-global.website-files.com/5cd5801dfdf7e5927800...
The point of data presentation is to gist the most salient trends; an interactive chart where you can zoom in to the lowest granularity of the data basically defeats the purpose of the plot in the first place. Similarly most animation in charts doesn't really add any meaningful visual data, it's just distracting. I think most consumers of data journalism got pretty bored of scrolling through some massive viz after only a few minutes, and why would they not? People read the news to have the critical points surfaced for them. They don't want to dig through the data themselves (and if they do they're not going to be satisfied with the prebuilt animation). These kinds of things are IMO more fun and interesting to build, rather than to actually try and learn something from.
Aha! I see different messages in the Android app vs. web app.

In the web app I see:

Your name, custom instructions, and any messages you add after sharing stay private. Learn more
Self-Densified Super-Strong Wood
That's been my primary usage of them. Another is to create a list of config file options (or command line arguments) like

X(foo, int, "set the number of foos")
X(filename, std::string, "input filename")
X(verbose, bool, "verbose logging")

which can then be used to (a) generate the fields of a config struct, define the mapping from string to field (using the stringifying macro operators), define what functions to use for parsing each field, create the help message, etc. Basically like `argparse` or `clap` but much hackier.

As gross as they are, the ability to define one table of data that's used multiple ways in multiple places is handy.
pff wish i knew abt this last year!
I don't think it's "just" a stereotype. There's a lot of literature around how American suburbs are designed to be isolationist. The most obvious example is how much more difficult it is to meet your neighbors when you have to get into your car for every slight errand (FWIW, I've lived in all densities--I'm not some urban chauvinist).
> no one seems to care now.

Indeed. They believe and that's that -- there's zero proof that would change their minds. I'm a non believer but would be willing to change my mind if there was compelling evidence.
You know, with Musk, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
This honestly seemed like one of the few stories of Bitcoin as net positive for a community's energy supply. The hydro-plant is now able to continue investing and link up to the national energy grid, where it will be more profitable to supply "human" demand. The miners will move on to the next disconnected energy source, and everyone was happy.
Let’s see what the courts say. I will respect whatever outcome happens there. I sympathize with not continuing to grant visas to people who lead protests that involve crimes like trespassing as part of their demonstrations in support terrorist organizations. We are not obligated as a country to keep guests who are not supportive of our national interests and feel the need to commit crimes to make points. But I also recognize the chilling effect that has and believe in extending some level of freedom of expression even to non citizens and believe in civil disobedience. If the protesters were not occupying private buildings after being told to remove themselves and attempting to “negotiate” with authorities the whole situation would be benign. I have pretty low tolerance right now for demonstrations that turn criminal.
Is this really the future of jet engines? [video]
One of the biggest problems with hands off LLM writing (for long horizon stuff like novels) is that you can't really give them any details of your story because they get absolutely neurotic with it.

Imagine for instance you give the LLM the profile of the love interest for your epic fantasy, it will almost always have the main character meeting them within 3 pages (usually page 1) which is of course absolutely nonsensical pacing. No attempt to tell it otherwise changes anything.

This is the first model that after 19 pages generated so far resembles anything like normal pacing even with a TON of details. I've never felt the need to generate anywhere near this much. Extremely impressed.

Edit: Sharing it - https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...

with pastebin - https://pastebin.com/aiWuYcrF
Not arguing it was the best choice. But, I'm curious, if you were in the position where you had strong reasons to believe the official secure channels available to you were compromised by your political opponents who were leaking information received via those channels to undermine your policy initiatives, and needed to act and coordinate nonetheless, what would you do?
Landfilling plastics on the other costs about 4 cents a pound. The nightmare scenario about plastics is not that they get landfilled but that people chuck them on the ground and they find their way to the ocean and get ground up into microplastics.
I had no idea if the number of planets was estimated to be in billions or trillions and I wasn't going to look it up. So I went with dozens.
Authentik supports this [1] too, kinda. It seems you can set it up to register you based on a bona fide kerberos auth, and logs you in (maybe? would have to check) with kerberos but seems to keep a parallel synchronized authenticator in its own database for OIDC and "modern" auth. Doesn't seem to embed kerberos-isms as "claims" in OIDC either. Might be awesome if it did? Or terrible, depending on how you look at it.

[1] https://docs.goauthentik.io/docs/users-sources/sources/proto...
I've lived in suburbs where I had a good idea of who lived in each house, talked to some of them semi-regularly, and kids ran around the neighborhood together every day, and I've lived in neighborhoods where everyone stays inside and nobody interacts with each other and even the few group things explicity set up (neighborhood street potluck, chili cookoff at the attached park) couldn't be sustained. I moved directly from the former to the latter, so the difference was stark.

I think it has much more to do with demographics and type of people that happen to be living there, and whether there's an existing community. The more lively neighborhood in my case was in a "worse" neighborhood with cheaper houses, while the new neighborhood was all newly build housing. We were all starting from scratch with each other, with some people maybe having a year or so more history than others (as they staged builds 5-10 houses at a time). Community is a frail thing, and needs to be tended or it will wither, and sometimes it dies before it even has a chance to flourish.
LA-to-Shanghai United Airlines flight turns back after pilot forgets passport
In ecology it's recognized that highly alkaline lakes are some of the most productive[0] ecosystems around. Despite this, most organisms able to survive in highly alkaline environments are considered "extremophiles".

Maybe it's the rest of us that are the extremophiles.

[0] In ecology "productive" is usually measured by the rate at which biomass is measured in a system
At the start of Covid lockdown my group at work started having a daily "drinking alone together" afternoon Google Meet.

When that job ended, our household started drinking on our front porch in the afternoons. Soon a few neighbors started doing the same, and we got close enough (15-20 feet) to trade cell numbers. After that we would text back and forth to communicate during "distanced happy hour".

The friendships we made drinking _not_ together have lasted, and we still count those neighbors as friends...
Good point, I haven't used Cline yet. It looks like it can access console logs [1]

> 4. Browser Integration
> * Test web pages
> * Capture screenshots
> * Inspect console logs

[1]: https://docs.cline.bot/exploring-clines-tools/cline-tools-gu...
What is the attack exactly? Only full commit SHAs are valid to reference a commit by SHA. GitHub disallows tags and branch names that could collide with a full commit SHA. There is never any collision between commit SHAs and tags.
Kerberos tickets have timeouts on them already, it's a matter of configuration how long you wait.

The thing is most enterprises want "user disabled" to be instant.

Which of course leads to SSH keys all over the place anyway.
Jakt is the Swedish (and Norwegian) word for hunt.

Deerhunt = Hjortjakt

Boar hunt = vildsvinsjakt

And the most common and revered...

Moose hunt = älgjakt