skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made this, thanks for sharing it!

Backstory is here: https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3lkigjm7sk2...

...and here: https://bsky.app/profile/matteason.me/post/3lknf6qfsek2p

tl;dr Séamas O'Reilly wrote a column in The Observer about faking a government reimbursement form for his son, who had swallowed a tooth and was worried about whether the Tooth Fairy would pay up if the tooth couldn't be put under his pillow. He published the form as a PDF (linked from the homepage) and I turned it into a digital service

Someone on Bluesky told me about our first successfully-fooled child yesterday: "I can confirm that form TF-230 worked flawlessly, and my cynical, streetwise 8-year-old son was utterly baffled by finding an envelope with his application form and a handful of coins in the letterbox this afternoon."
> historically we have exactly zero expectation of privacy in public spaces in the UK.

True, but we also had zero expectation of permanent records being kept of so much of what we do in public spaces, or being under such constant surveillance in public spaces. I think that is a concern.

> Overall, I can't say I love the number of ANPR cameras we have, but then I'm also not thrilled by the thought of subsidising large numbers of people who aren't willing to hold up their side of the social contract by taxing and insuring their cars.

ANPR does not seem to have put a stop to it. I really cannot understand why. If someone has not made a Statutory Off Road Notification they must pay tax and be insured, and if they are caught on an ANPR camera having made a SORN they are clearly breaking the law

With such widespread use of ANPR I cannot understand how people are still able to get away with it.
We already do that. Government has strict firewalls to access DMV data, so DMVs sell the stream of data to various parties, and the government buys it back from the third party or any non-police purpose.

A company like ID.me basically performs a function that any state government could do itself or through a contractor at lower cost and without the privacy issues of providing the data to third parties.

The law has failed us here - privacy attorneys basically focus on providing notification on a “take it or leave it” basis.
It's more efficient, but the end result is basically the same, especially considering that even if there's no noise in the optimization algorithm, there is still noise in the gradient information (consider some magical mechanism for adjusting behaviour of an animal after it's died before reproducing. There's going to be a lot of nudges one way or another for things like 'take a step to the right to dodge that boulder that fell on you').
>they can dump out a boilerplate react frontend to a CRUD API

This is so clearly biased that it boarders on parody. You can only get out what you put in.
The real use case of current LLMs is that any project that would previously require collaboration can now be down solo with a much faster turnover. Of course in 20 years when compute finally catches up they will just be super intelligent AGI
I think this article undersells the size of the antenna needed to focus a powerful radio source into a distant target.
NYU website defaced as hacker leaks info on a million students
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> > even fairly minor violations like failure to pay road tax

> The main use of those cameras is to deter not paying road tax

No-one has paid a road tax in the United Kingdom since 1937. Vehicle excise duty is (currently) based on CO2 emissions (which is why EVs are subject to a £0 VED) and has always gone directly into a general government fund -- it does not maintain the roads. Of course the government could choose to spend some of that money on road upkeep, but they don't have to.
And preschool teachers talk this way because they're desperately afraid of hurting parents' feelings
I think you are missing the point. I never said it's the same nor is that what I am arguing.

> Anyone who finds them 'mindblowing' clearly does not have a complex enough use case.

What is the point of llms? If their only point is complex use cases then they're useless, let's throw them away. If their point/scope/application is wider and they're doing something for a non negligible percentage of people then who are you to gauge whether they deserve to be mindblowing to someone or not regardless of their use case?
That doesn’t really align with my experience in Europe or Japan - do you have a particular country in mind?
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Could you add adults to those shouldn’t be punished for (most) failures?

Let’s be nice to each other and ourselves when try..and learn.
I have a second google account on my phone specifically for apps that ask for my contact and calendar data. I download the app using that account on the play store, and give it access only to the contacts/calendar of that account. So no data given.

I have the google assistant on that account as well, so I didn't have to turn on several of the tracking options of my primary account but can still use the functionality of the assistant.
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Yes I’m experienced this. It’s a worry. Even though the llms are not capable of doing anything properly complex / interconnected / novel, I think something in my brain is atrophying by offloading the simple stuff.
Recently ran into this. Didn't realize it was that obvious.
It seems to me Amazon is now just Aliexpress with a better coat of paint.
Am curious. How, with 17th century technology, could you have a geometry where I can see you but you can't see me? Glass treatment? Narrow viewing port?
> Spacing around an em dash varies. Most newspapers insert a space before and after the dash, and many popular magazines do the same, but most books and journals omit spacing, closing whatever comes before and after the em dash right up next to it.

It's funny that they omit to mention the possibility of setting it off with a thin space ' ' or hair space ' ' (those are the thin-space and hair-space Unicode characters, though they show up full width for me), which I thought was preferred typographic practice.

(On Googling, maybe the reason that they don't mention it is that I was imagining it; I can't find any evidence for my belief.)
The links in that X/Twitter post go nowhere. And there's no proof a crime was even committed; just alleged.

In fact: "The claims were later found to be false, and McClain was cleared." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain

You've slandered a Bronze-Star decorated astronaut, who was so outstanding she was the youngest in her class.
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this is one of those areas where the fraud becomes much easier with scale. if you are trying to steel 1 plate for 1 car, this is a problem, but if you're trying to steal plates for 1000 cars, 1200 plates will match 800 cars
American here. Most of the country by population is considered a border zone where you have very limited rights against federal searches: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

As a foreigner, our government will arbitrarily detain and search you as you wish and you will have no recourse, especially with this administration.

It doesn't really matter what the laws are on paper. Your employees aren't going to resist interrogation and fight to defend some vague law on behalf of your clients when they're being questioned by big armed dudes and threatened with indefinite detention. The government will get its way.

Buy some separate Chromebooks for travel, with no local data saved and no logins saved, and loan them out to employees when they travel. Have them memorize a password and make sure it gets changed when they get back.

Better yet, don't even come here right now. The civilized world should be boycotting US businesses (or at least travel to the US) until and unless we get our shit in order. Make a Zoom call. It's not worth getting your employees traumatized.
I would totally read a Cryptobiology/Public transit/Self-help piece titled Take The Electric Ell
It's not my name for it, but an established term for the style, so I wouldn't know.

I would note that most pyramid metaphors tend to be kind of lacking. Test pyramid, food pyramid, etc.
Getting rid of these biasis is mostly what DEI is.
> Scientists dependent on public funding undermine their credibility on the issues within their distinct expertise when they yoke themselves to unrelated social issues and ideologies.

You can't act like diversity issues don't impact science because they fucking do except for maths, physics and chemistry. For example epidemiology, we've seen that in Covid - poorer areas and areas with higher rates of non-white populations had significantly more cases. Medicine in general is riddled with issues of gender bias, not to mention ethnicity differences in genetic expression or outright "fake science" like the all too common assumption that Black people or women have a higher pain tolerance.

It's not about "yoking themselves to social issues" - looking at DEI aspects is good scientific practice, alone because your science can only ever be as good as your dataset, and a dataset of white young men is going to ignore a whole lot of issues.

As for grant programs preferring "DEI hires"... the "glass ceiling" effect is real, and the current administration is setting the clock back decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling
Indeed, it is the stuff of science fiction, and the you get an "akshually, it's just statistics" comment. I feel people projecting their fears, because deep down, they're simply afraid.
What’s the mechanism for sunlight/artificial light psoriasis treatment?
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It's honestly so scary because Sam Altman and his ilk would gladly replace all teachers with LLM's right now, because it makes their lines go up, doesn't matter to them that would result in a generation of dumb people in like 10 years. Honestly would just create more LLM users for them to sell to so its a win win I guess, but it completely fucks up our world.
As much as I loathe diving into the utter cesspool of US politics, I do need to point out that the article is simply quoting the goals of Project 2025, which prominently include:

to “defang and defund the woke culture warriors who have infiltrated every last institution in America”.

You are pretending that Nature is the one who cares about DEI, when in fact it is the Project 2025 partisans who made this their flagship concern. This comes across as quite dishonest.
I had a moment of pique where I was just gonna copy paste my reply to this rehash of your original point that is non-responsive to what I wrote, but I've found myself. Instead, I will link to the Wikipedia article for Equivocation [0] and ChatGPT's answer to "are wikipedia and LLMs alike?"

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation

[1]: https://chatgpt.com/share/67e6adf3-3598-8003-8ccd-68564b7194...
In the UK public transport increasingly pushes you to use trackable tickets or means of payment such as apps or credit cards.
May be you could give a link to a book which might be a better fit for practitioners?
Democratic surveillance is not bad unlike China's authoritarian surveillance.
Did you need an /s to understand sarcasm?
Not to mention that this means 2/3 of people prefer to be in the office at least some of the time and 2/3 of people prefer to work at home at least some of the time. So naturally if you're strictly going based off of numbers hybrid makes the most sense, but I've noticed a lot of "I only want to work from my home office and never go anywhere else ever for any reason" folks frame hybrid as "RTO" which it is not.
Funny, I'd rather have the break at the start or end of the emdash-implied break than just before or after it, not having to mentally handle some single dangling word divorced from its compatriots.
I don't see any of this. It's a short article, and it provides the broader context of the administration's cuts up front, which is normal for journalistic writing. And even if we give you the benefit of the doubt that the order in which things are mentioned matters: It mentions climate defunding twice before mentioning diversity. And I can't interpret the mentions of DEI cuts as somehow insidious - they're brief and objective. I.e. I don't know what "human shield" could mean here.
> In what sense is it inverted?

The triangle is upside down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
a circular room looking out from a high point facing an exterior round wall of cells that look in
Starting 4/1 Unauthed Docker Hub Pulls will be limited to 10 per hour
Hi all, I figured this is pretty critical to share out. Docker recently announced in February that starting April 1st unauthenticated Docker Pulls from the Docker Hub registry will be limited to 10 per hour. This is a pretty significant breaking change, especially for those that run Kubernetes in production.

Many Kubernetes clusters may host open source software with images pulled from docker hub without credentials, thus by default the pulls are unauthenticated. And many of these clusters run behind a NAT.

I was very surprised to see this warning from Digital Ocean today and that there's only a 3 day lead time to address this. Surfacing for visibility in case anyone else doesn't regularly follow Docker Hub updates.
For one good example, look at the Soundcore Boom 2 "SE" -- the "SE" is specific to Walmart, and has some features cut.

Back to denim, Walmart caries "Levi's Signature" -- those are lower cost (and lower quality) versions of the normal lines.
Despite Ukraine war, Europe imported even more Russian gas last year
I’d tend to agree it’s worth studying. We really don’t understand this stuff. Unfortunately the political football aspect makes that hard.

The age of girls having their first periods is like 5% younger, while regular cycles are taking longer to start. I don’t have the data at my fingertips, but my understanding is that different cohorts have very different results with respect to this.
> I'd want speed cameras that are miles apart... and the determination that you get a speeding ticket is that you traveled several miles at high speed.

That's what SPECS does:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECS_(speed_camera)

There are similar systems in other countries. Here in Belgium we have "trajectcontrole".
The cost of cameras and disk space is very low, and rapidly approaching zero.

I think that means it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about anonymity in public places. We're already almost always seen by several cameras, and it will soon be 10x as much.
>swap every postgres insert query, with the corresponding mysql insert query.

If the data and relationships in those insert queries matter, at some unknown future date you may find yourself cursing your choice to use an LLM for this task. On the other hand you might not ever find out and just experience a faint sense of unease as to why your customers have quietly dropped your product.
> I was under the impression that you do "-" for hyphen, "--" for En dash, and "---" for Em dash. IIRC, LaTeX (or maybe the editor, it has been some time) even helpfully changes that for you to the correct dash.

The conversion of '--' to an en dash and '---' to an em dash is done by the TeX compiler, and appears in the rendered file, but I think that most TeX editors don't change the TeX code itself. (This is distinct from XeTeX-based compilers, which can handle non-ASCII Unicode characters like the em dash '—' directly in the source.)

(I think that the article's point is that, in some fonts, -- (two hyphens) is literally the (approximate) size of an em dash, not that it is always understood as meaning an em dash. At least in my font, --- (three hyphens) is far too long to literally look like an em dash:

---

--

—

–

(in order, three hyphens, two hyphens, em dash, en dash).)
LLMs function as a new kind of search engine, one that is amazingly useful because it can surface things that traditional search could never dream of. Don't know the name of a concept, just describe it vaguely and the LLM will pull out the term. Are you not sure what kind of information even goes into a cover letter or what's customary to talk about? Ask an LLM to write you one, it will be bland and generic sure but that's not the point because you now know the "shape" of what they're supposed to look like and that's great for getting unblocked. Have you stumbled across a passage of text that's almost English but you're not really sure what to look up to decipher it? Paste it into the LLM and it will tell you that it's "Early Modern English" which you can look up to confirm and get a dictionary for.
This is off base. Socially intelligent people occupy all of the best paid and most powerful positions in society. Social manipulation is the most valued kind of intelligence in America, far more than academic intelligence.
81 construction workers trapped and 3 passed away [0].

Sadly, hundreds of similar incidents happened across the border in Myanmar, as the epicenter is right outside of Myanmar's 2nd largest city.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0gr8gl0wo
Why not?

There is no “bother” here. The mouse has a cable, the cable goes to the back of the tower with USB or PS/2.

And I have one more USB port to plug other stuff.
I don't understand. Opening the page in a logged-out state, it looks the same to me (just that there are not buttons to pick whether you want to raise/lower/block a domain when you're logged out). What's the different view you mean?
These forms of media were work-for-hire projects owned by the publisher, paid at a rate per word or page. Assignment turned in and paid for (or not) and on to the next assignment. A volume game.
Thanks for reading, Viktor!

>I'm less bullish on images, unless they are profoundly relevant to the text. Illustrations for the sake of having illustrations are no bueno in my opinion. You want to reduce distractions and visual noise.

I'll respectfully disagree on this one. You can overdo images, but I think readers find a wall of text intimidating and visually too boring, but this is a matter of taste.

>Images should above all never be funny.

I strongly disagree with this. It's like saying a technical blog post should never have jokes.

Why should an image never be funny?

I think you absolutely can mix humor and useful technical insights. xkcd is probably the best example, but there are lots of authors that complement their writing with humor, both in images and in text.
There's still a loss function, it's just an implicit, natural one, instead of artificially imposed (at least, until humans started doing selective breeding). The comparison isn't nonsense, but it's also not obvious that it's tremendously helpful (what parts and features of an LLM are analagous to what evolution figured out with single-celled organisms compares to multicellular life? I don't know if there's actually a correspondance there)
I think you have an interesting point of view and I enjoy reading your comments, but it sounds a little absurd and circular to discount people's negativity about LLMs simply because it's their fault for using an LLM for something it's not good at. I don't believe in the strawman characterization of people giving LLMs incredibly complex problems and being unreasonably judgemental about the unsatisfactory results. I work with LLMs every day. Companies pay me good money to implement reliable solutions that use these models and it's a struggle. Currently I'm working with Claude 3.5 to analyze customer support chats. Just as many times as it makes impressive, nuanced judgments it fails to correctly make simple trivial judgements. Just as many times as it follows my prompt to a tee, it also forgets or ignores important parts of my prompt. So the problem for me is it's incredibly difficult to know when it'll succeed and when it'll fail for a given input. Am I unreasonable for having these frustrations? Am I unreasonable for doubting the efficacy of LLMs to address problems that many believe are already solved? Can you understand my frustration to see people characterize me as such because ChatGPT made a really cool image for them once?
Tell HN: On 4/1 Unauthed Docker Pulls will be limited 10 / HR
Hi all, I figured this is pretty critical to share out. Docker recently announced in February that starting April 1st unauthenticated Docker Pulls from the Docker Hub registry will be limited to 10 per hour. This is a pretty significant breaking change, especially for those that run Kubernetes in production.

Many Kubernetes clusters may host open source software with images pulled from docker hub without credentials, thus by default the pulls are unauthenticated. And many of these clusters run behind a NAT.

I was very surprised to see this warning from Digital Ocean today and that there's only a 3 day lead time to address this. Surfacing for visibility in case anyone else doesn't regularly follow Docker Hub updates.

LINK: https://www.docker.com/blog/revisiting-docker-hub-policies-prioritizing-developer-experience/
> I’m not asking if the tooling currently exists, I’m curious if there’s something inherent in .class files that would prevent static linking.

It's not so much a problem with the .class files, instead it's a problem with reflection.

I can write `var foo = Class.forName("foo.bar.Baz")` which will cause the current class loader to look up and initialize the `foo.bar.Baz` class if it's available. I can then reflectively initialize an instance of that class by calling `foo.newInstance()`

Java has a ton of really neat meta-programming capabilities (and those will increase with the new ClassFile api). Unfortunately, those make static compilation and dead code elimination particularly hard. Tools that allow for static compilation (like graal) basically push the dev to declare upfront which classes will be accessed via reflection.
I assume they at least have photos from your previous border crossings pop up when your car approaches.
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Just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's not worth investigating.

And there are many people who believe that children under 7 can't truly reason, so it's not even as obvious as it seems.
They have to because Walmart drives them so hard on price.
While I agree, it doesn't stop business folks pushing for its use in area where it is inappropriate. That is, at least for me, part of the skepticism.
It has two potential benefits:

— In the context of automatic text processing, it unambiguously indicates the function of a hyphen, as opposed to a minus

— Fonts can choose to make the hyphen-minus a bit wider than a regular hyphen, to accommodate the usage as a minus sign. In that case, U+2010 would be typographically more appropriate for a hyphen, similar to how U+2212 usually is typographically more appropriate for a minus sign.
I think you might be on to something with the empathy but I don't think it's as naive as "I don't work well at home so these other people can't work well from home." I think it's much more likely something like "I don't work well from home, so if I'm in the office I will do better. If we're fully remote, I will do worse in my career, get fewer/smaller raises, miss a promotion, etc. I will have more success in the office so I will fight for everyone to be in the office."

If other people perform worse in the office it just means those that prefer that environment will do that much better in their careers.

Especially as you get into higher management levels, your coworkers are also your competitors - if the guy in the office next to you gets a promotion, you don't get that promotion.