skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SaaS are now adding e-sigs as a feature (Box, Google, etc.) Some workflows still need DS but it’s fewer and fewer. Box, I think, can be CFR11 compliant.
US can have fun with that. In EU well likely get laws that force companies to let us talk to a human if it gets bad enough.
Its just an example and you can "well actually" until the cows come home, but your missing the point. I'm sure there are things you have found hard to google. Also you are most likely (as your commenting on hacker news) not a good representation of the majority of the world.

idk if you have noticed, but google is clearly using LLM technology in conjunction with its search results, so the assumption they are just using traditional tech and not LLM's to inform or modify its result set I think is unlikely.
a human has never used an em dash in the wild
Stupid question, if anyone still reads this thread:

Why do these oh-so-secure offerings allow any idiot to add you to a group chat without asking you if you approve?
Did you look up her platform at all? Or do you insist this because it wasn't spoon fed to you?

There was a platform document pretty early on in her campaign.

Meanwhile Trump in 2020 did not have a platform at all and yet the voters didn't give a shit.
It wont work. I thought about that option..
I hope they suspend the operation, if that is what they are thinking about....
Haha - actually one of our customers is a doggie hotel chain that has installed them in multiple locations
by this definition just about every crime will be a hate crime. i hate speed limits and just drove 70mph on posted 45mph - this too a hate crime? :) or I just hate walton’s family and try and steal from walmart every chance I get - this too a hate crime? what wouldn’t be a hate crime by this definition?!
This shows both the en dashes and hyphens for page ranges. Is one preferred?
Ah, I guess I should have described that in more detail.

The author habitually never commented on the issue tracker, despite continuing to merge pull requests until 2023. An explicit query (https://github.com/okunishinishi/python-stringcase/issues/42) went unanswered, too. Someone highlighted the author's email address on https://github.com/okunishinishi/python-stringcase/issues/43 a few days ago and nothing seems to have come of it.

This is arguably not the strongest possible evidence - and that's why they're so careful about PEP 541. And in all honesty, this is not someone who's "disappeared off the face of the earth" - just someone who doesn't appear to be reachable WRT this project. But I'm not convinced the author ever realized the project's popularity in the first place. It also looks like said author mostly uses Javascript, anyway (https://github.com/okunishinishi?tab=repositories). I imagine the expectations are different in the NPM ecosystem.
You can't have an AI that fills in things automatically and then expect a signature on that document to be legally binding.

As soon as you modify the content or suggest what someone fills in, you are no longer a disinterested third party. Ask any notary or go look at DocuSign, they explicitly won't advise you on how to complete a form aside from basic things like making sure a field isn't blank or contains a number and not a string.
"[triple pane] windows saved an average of 12% on heating and 28% on cooling"[1]

That said, if you haven't insulated the walls and attic, windows alone won't do much.

1: https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/how-triple-pane-windows-stop...
Look for the ways that AI works, and it can be a powerful tool. Try and figure out where it still fails, and you will see nothing but hype and hot air.

Perfectly put, IMO.

I know arguments from authority aren't primary, but I think this point highlights some important context: Dr. Hossenfelder has gained international renown by publishing clickbait-y YouTube videos that ostensibly debunk scientific and technological advances of all kinds. She's clearly educated and thoughtful (not to mention otherwise gainfully employed), but her whole public persona kinda relies on assuming the exclusively-critical standpoint you mention.

I doubt she necessarily feels indebted to her large audience expecting this take (it's not new...), but that certainly does seem like a hard cognitive habit to break.
Yes. Drivers who have experienced traffic violations before are significantly more likely to experience a crash in the future:

"Over half of the observational studies demonstrated that traffic offenders were more likely to commit a subsequent traffic violation or had elevated risk of crashes. […] Traffic offenders are a high-risk group for subsequent violations and crashes."
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10634619

"After adjusting for confounders in the regression model, drivers with three or more driving offences had 2.25 (95% CI 1.98 to 2.57), 2.87 (95% CI 1.60 to 5.17) and 3.28 (95% CI 2.28 to 4.72) times higher rates of any crash, crashes that resulted in hospital admission or death and single vehicle crashes compared with drivers with no driving offences."
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9510411
Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
My terminology was poor. The venous sinuses aren’t associated with your sinus. They are sort of like the storm drain for your brain, in a sense, not the same as the nasal sinus.

Sorry I can’t edit. Here’s some more info:

https://teachmeanatomy.info/neuroanatomy/vessels/dural-venou...
> unrelated monolith applications on the same db cluster

If your "db cluster" is split into containers on one VM as you would do in any other cloud (because VMs are expensive), then you would have the same problem.

> encouraging monolith DB consolidation

Does it? I don't think so. I've worked with Oracle's stuff and the only real difference between Oracle Cloud and other clouds is that Oracle cloud is more expensive overall. There's nothing stopping you from running virtual machines and kubernetes in the same way you'd run it in any other cloud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._McChesney

https://robertmcchesney.org/
>> But I can go ride in a Waymo any time I want

Can you do this in the winter when it's snowing on the unmarked roads with near zero visibility ? And the maps and destination change at the whims of a manager?

Software development is sort of like that. Writing code is the least of your problems; helping businesses understand what they need and holding them to those requirements is the challenge.
Trump’s DOJ will side with capital.
She's a scientist. In that area LLMs are quite useful in my opinion and part of my daily workflow. Quick scripts that use APIs to get data, cleaning the data and converting it. Quickly working with polar data frames. Dumb daily stuff like "take this data from my CSV file and turn it into a Latex table"...but most importantly freeing up time from tedious administrative tasks (let's not go into detail here).

Also great for brainstorming and quick drafting grant proposals. Anything prototyping and quickly glued together I'll go for LLMs (or LLM agents). They are no substitute for your own brain though.

I'm also curious about the hallucinated sources. I've recently read some papers on using LLM-agents to conduct structured literature reviews and they do it quite well and fairly reproducible. I'm quite willing to build some LLM-agents to reproduce my literature review process in the near future since it's fairly algorithmic. Check for surveys and reviews on the topic, scan for interesting papers within, check sources of sources, go through A tier conference proceedings for the last X years and find relevant papers. Rinse, repeat.

I'm mostly bullish because of LLM-agents, not because of using stock models with the default chat interface.
I've looked, but never played (this being my primary personal device, it's not something I want to have out of service).

I guess that's probably also why I feel like this is the wrong solution for me. I don't want to have to deal with issues on this laptop. If I pull a system update, I want it to install without a problem, automatically, overnight, and not require hours of debugging and reverting and then finding a fix a week later.

I appreciate the effort and skill that goes into making it, and if this was a less critical device for me it might well be the right solution.

Also, I agree re: peak MacBook. The keyboard is good, the ports are good, they're tough, and I really can't believe that the performance has been enough for over 10 years. It'll be a sad day when I move on.
Akamai becomes the official distributor of the Linux kernel
I was so glad of that story. It gave me something to point to to get my boss off my back.
What is the best open source live machine transcription tools would you say? Know of any guides that make it easy to setup locally if so?
> The closest thing to a specification for the PKPass format appears to be the Wallet Developer Guide, and whilst it doesn't explicitly state that the .png files should actually be Portable Network Graphics images, that's presumably the intention.

Lol, that got a chuckle out of me.

Amazing write up by google project zero as always.
The Evolution of Global Trade in 2024
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Hi, I couldn't figure it out on your site but on the picture where you have your hand under the virtual sun[1], do you feel the warmth of the "sun" on your hand as you'd feel it with the real sun?

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If em dashes were uncommon pre-2022, they wouldn't have ended up in the LLM training sets.
Which is why there shouldn't be hate crimes in the first place. Hate crimes only serve to give a specific group protected status, when most crimes involve hate..as you just described here.
this doesn't always work. many things can go wrong in distributed systems and you cannot test for all of them. also you have no control of your dependencies like when AWS networking degrades or a 3rd party API provider changes their APIs without letting you know.
> and for concurrency (without parallelism)

They are pretty good as a task abstraction with parallelism as well.
No, they did not in any way break the law. As they wrote themselves:

> I did some research and found that the app did infact have a responsible disclosure policy which at that point, I was happy to continue forth.
No, it should be there. From the link:

> Lastly, in the final blog post we’ll explore the iPhone’s host isolation mechanisms, research the ways in which the Wi-Fi chip interacts with the host, and develop a fully-fledged exploit allowing attackers to gain complete control over the iOS kernel over-the-air, requiring no user interaction.

Which is referring to this link: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/10/over-air-vol-...

That link is the one I am summarizing:

> Sufficient isolation for DMA-capable components can be achieved by partitioning the visible memory space available to the peripheral using a dedicated hardware component - an I/O Memory Management Unit (IOMMU).

Apple uses Qualcomm chips for cellular modems, and they use Broadcom for Wi-Fi.

edit: I might have linked the original post incorrectly, there are many volumes and parts
Hope Oracle doesn't sue them somehow ;)
You knew what it meant very clearly when you repeatedly stuck up for it here, so I think you could stand to be a little more candid about the point you're trying to make.
After some effort!
I don't think that's quite right. Snow Leopard was a lot of changes to a lot of the OS code base and wasn't great out of the gate, taking multiple dot releases, like all large-scale software updates do, to stabilize and bugfix enough to be "good."

There is no silver bullet, just a lot of lead ones and the answer to Apple's quality problem is to begin baking QA back into the process in a meaningful way after letting it atrophy for the last decade or so.

Hire more humans and rely less on automation. Trust your developers, QA, and user support folks and the feedback they push up the chain of command. Fix bugs as the arise instead of assigning them to "future" or whatever. Don't release features until they're sufficient stable.

This is all basic stuff for a software company, stuff that Apple seems to have forgotten under the leadership of that glorified accountant, Cook.
I think that this trick or something like it is used in ski mountain maps. For example: https://files.skimap.org/js03b74i9eokcg2y1iakwdtv2av6.pdf

I don't know how to confirm this; the distortion just feels similar to me.
Ask HN: What advice would you give to a CS student today?
I was often invited to speak with CS students at many universities. I loved it!

I wanted to inspire and guide them since I felt overlooked when I was their age.

After yesterday's meetup at my coworking space on tech startup failures, my friend's 20-year-old son dropped by to chat. He is studying computer science in his third year of university.

It was a typical small talk, and he asked me about my business. “As I recall, you worked in technology and recruitment," he said. How's the market now?

He cleverly asked for advice about his future career. I quickly saw how important and valuable it was to him.

I always had the right words to say to kids like him, so I started talking.

I talked about how the market is changing, how demand is down, and how layoffs affected the situation.

Then I got fully paralysed, and I couldn't think of what to say. I was a bit pessimistic, but I wanted to motivate him. I didn't want to discourage him by telling him that the market is hard for junior developers.

I realized that I don't know what to tell him. I have NO clue what's "good" or "bad", or what the market will do, or which skills he needs. After working in tech recruiting for over 15 years, I don't know how to guide him.

I felt helpless. In his eyes, I saw my younger self from 20 years ago, seeking advice from someone I trusted.

After a brief pause, I realized that I needed to be practical. I promised him I would send him a written response via his father soon.

That was the best I could do at the time. Being honest about not knowing everything felt better than pretending I did.

Also, I gained some time to give this kid some thorough feedback.

What advice would you give to a CS student today?
It's Merriam-Webster - they are descriptivist rather than prescriptivist about language. They don't define correct usage per se, but rather document actual usage, though some usage may be given greater weight than others.

In this case, they are calling out the prescriptivist definition but are implying that it may be overkill and offering the more commonly used alternative.
Ask HN: Best way to approach user-facing analytics
I’m looking for advice on technical strategies for user-facing analytics features (think real-time customizable dashboard). I’ve ended up in a situation where I want to design some analytics dashboards for end users that display aggregates/historical data for a number of years. The queries I want to run take way too long to run on-the-fly so I’ve resorted to pre-computing the data I care about on a schedule. This approach works fine but it’s not real time and it adds some friction to introducing new features/views (every new feature requires backfilling years worth of data). I’m curious if others have better strategies for developing analytics software like this that’s real-time, responsive, and quick to iterate on? OLAP DBs like clickhouse? Reverse ETL? Better OLTP indexing?
I'm sure a precision strike at this facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Consultative_Assembly would change the regime somewhat, and make many people currently suffering from them rather happy. Could probably be sold as womans liberation.
See my original comment ...
deferring to best practice instead of best judgement is a major plague of the software industry these days.

best practices usually come from giant companies with tens of thousands of engineers like google (who doesn't seem to be keeping up with competition btw) and amazon (which is notorious for burning out people).

what science or evidence drives the best practices?
Does anyone know if these hydrocarbons are in "useful" concentrations, or "detectable" concentrations (ppb).
Hard to disagree. You would think for a company obsessed with performance per watt and battery life that every release would be as fast if not faster that its predecessor and more efficient to boot.
Australia and New Zealand are insanely careless with personal data. I was shocked when I was asked to write my credit card details, including cvv, on a piece of paper in a beachside surfboard rental shop
To make the paste useful, various artificial additives are used so it sticks together, has a suitable texture and so on.
possibly. the “spirit” of such legislation is solid - if a group is specifically targeted because something but if we gonna stretch this out to “I hate Elon” (this is 100+ million people in the USA, probably in the billion(s) worldwide) then killing the legislation makes more sense
It's a weird circle with these things. If you _can't_ do the task you are using the LLM for, you probably shouldn't.

But if you can do the task well enough to at least recognize likely-to-be-correct output, then you can get a lot done in less time than you would do it without their assistance.

Is that worth the second order effects we're seeing? I'm not convinced, but it's definitely changed the way we do work.
Only thing I could imagine was extra hands to deal with the weight.
Hate crimes are supposed to apply to so-called protected classes. Who's the protected class here? Teslas? Elon?
>I did some research and found that the app did infact have a responsible disclosure policy which at that point, I was happy to continue forth.

Looks like he did some research before.

On the other hand

>On day 2 I awoke and began by finding some form of contact details, information was somewhat sparse but I managed to find a phone number.

Doesn't a responsible disclosure policy contain contact infos on where to report usually?
Why do any of that? What they're doing has made them infinitely rich, and that's all that matters. /s
Why would I do this, when I can just write it from scratch in less time than it takes you to have this conversation with the LLM?
I'm not saying I personally agree with the statement, but to be chartiable there is definitely a non-zero amount of commenters here who believe that the US is the only "real" democracy in the world.
The key for LLM productivity, it seems to me, is grounding. Let me give you my last example, from something I've been working on.

I just updated my company commercial PPT. ChatGPT helped me with:
- Deep Research great examples and references of such presentations.
- Restructure my argument and slides according to some articles I found on the previous step, and thought were pretty good.
- Come up with copy for each slide.
- Iterate new ideas as I was progressing.

Now, without proper context and grounding, LLMs wouldn't be so helpful at this task, because they don't know my company, clients, product and strategy, and would be generic at best. The key: I provided it with my support portal documentation and a brain dump I recorded to text on ChatGPT with key strategic information about my company. Those are two bits of info I keep always around, so ChatGPT can help me with many tasks in the company.

From that grounding to the final PPT, it's pretty much a trivial and boring transformation task that would have cost me many, many hours to do.
One of Germany's biggest mistakes in WWII was pushing out scientists / intellectuals and I fear the US is headed down the same road. Between anti-intellectualism in general, political censorship, and the new Gestapo rounding up student immigrants there's less and less reason for smart people to come to the US or stay and put up with it.
If the metric you're looking for is most accurate spectrum including deep red, near and far infrared (heat), then a good old incandescent filament light is the most efficient device. Not LEDs.
I always come via the algolia page to hackernews. Just get the most popular news in the last 24h: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h
It looks like flagging doesn't affect the ranking there as long as it gained some traffic before that.
This is US vs British English. You will struggle to find an em dash in any British publication.
No, but this was the point where the "let's make something up" got to be too much.

I'm not talking about low budget UHF channels, but TV stations I've been in and around all have multiple studios. If the switcher in Studio-A goes down, the signals can be routed to the control room for Studio-B. Also, Alex the know-it-all is such a forced thing that is just ridiculous and eye roll inducing. Anybody that is a jack of that many trades is a master of none of them. The entire forced analogy just got to be too much and I lost interest before a point was ever made.
…and speaking of Snow versions, bring back those cool welcome videos when you first purchase a Mac!

I miss those. Unfortunately, since Apple doesn't do the whole space theme anymore, you'd probably get some really boring drone shots of California at best before a Setup Assistant faded into view from behind a Redwood or something.
“There just isn't a huge pool of money for academics anywhere. Maybe the EU, Canada, or Australia or NZ can step up to the plate, but pretty much everyone I've talked to in those areas have been in financial crises of their own.”

This is congruent with what I’ve heard from my colleagues about this topic, as well as from my own research.

If our worst fears are realized in America, who else is capable of absorbing all of the scholars in America who want to continue pursuing scholarly work?

Even before MAGA’s freezing of NIH and NSF funds, I was already disillusioned with the funding milieu, which is one of the reasons why I am a tenure-track instructor at a community college (100% teaching and service) instead of aiming for a professorship at a university where fundraising is often vital for tenure.

Industry, where I used to work as a researcher before changing careers to teaching, is not a panacea for those who want to do long-term research that is not dictated by short- and medium-term business needs. The days of places like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs ended roughly 30 years ago, and since then industry research has been increasingly focused on the short- and medium-term.

Between the high-debt fiscal situations that the governments of many developing nations face and the unwillingness for industry and the wealthy these days to fund long-term research projects that are not tied to any specific gains, I don’t see the situation improving for academics soon.

One way out of this is to convince millionaires and billionaires that academic pursuits are worth funding. We need more places like the Institute for Advanced Study, more grants like the MacArthur Fellowship.