skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One explanation would simply be that the LLM used is internally created or using an open source LLM.
A key part of avoiding MITM is to get the values from an authoritative origin, not comments on HN, so the link is here:

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...

Yes, this assumes the github-hosted docs and your SSL connection to them are not also compromised, but it's far better than not checking at all.
Ah, so the resulting model contains both the large matrix of original weights, and also the two small matrices of alterations? But this is smaller than the alternative of a model which contains the large matrix of original weights, and an equally large matrix of alterations.

Why is fine-tuning done with separate alterations, rather than by mutating the original weights?
Getting a 3% discount with "net 30" payment terms is great. However, you have to have the discipline to pay off the card every month. I understand why people advocate against credit cards if they don't have the discipline to not overspend.
Kafka Developer March Newsletter
> She recently bargained the couple’s monthly cable and cellphone bill to $300 from $400 and cut her restaurant budget to $70 a month from $150.

I can't believe what some people pay for cable and cellphone service. I pay $23/mo for cellphone service and cut the cable cord many years ago.
Presumably there will be manual review and if people are doing blatant SEO they get rejected.

They already seem to have thought about this, if you read their rules you are not allowed to include explicit instructions in the model_description field about when your plugin should be invoked.
Life expectancy at 65 is something like 85 - 20 years. You can divide the savings by 20 and get some sort of expected possible burn rate if you dig into capital.

These aren't really the "sob stories" I would be looking for.
This is totally different, Microsoft's A is capitalized!

https://lora-alliance.org/
I agree! I meant to say the layoffs were probably the final nail in the coffin for CRA. Honestly, I always disliked CRA, and I'm glad to see it go.
Even easier have a small set of 8-10 character gibberish tokens it's trained on in a particular contexts (eg a non-existent poem). Then feed it one or several poems and see if a gibberish token pops out.
Small CNNs can be used for BLE channel hopping and body detection.
A double decker bus should only really be used for volume. You want football pitches here. One deciwales is around 323000 football pitches, so a Luxembourg is roughly 646000.
That site seems to suggest it’s supported on Firefox as far back as Firefox 2 in 2006, which doesn’t really jibe with the article.
Random projects work well in high dimensional spaces, they’re cheap, easy, and require no understanding of the initial space. Part of the point of Lora is efficiency, after all!
Interesting that they 403 you.

https://ibb.co/JnpnCr4

https://ibb.co/dQF85hN
Ideas Will Be King
It's still not "true" 3D because there's still clearly a preferred direction (it looks like lasagna).

Consider the human brain... or maybe not, since AFAIK it's still only a (heavily folded) surface ?
I think the rapid rate of change in modern software libraries has left me underwhelmed with ChatGPT when it comes to new libraries, C++, or niche APIs (financial, etc).

If you're writing react/python/angular or something popular it seems to do amazing things and spit out entire websites (per demos).

Unfortunately, when I try to put together C++, Rust, or even C# using recent libraries like Blazor it chokes up. I fully understand at least one reason why (libraries and language features not being in the training data from 2021) but that makes me feel that perhaps software engineering at the cutting edge or niche is safe and still requires human reasoning. Not to mention things like properly understanding when and why to use certain data structures, real-world impact of coding choices, pricing, esoteric speed/efficiency improvements, etc.

I think there's still a broad general area where good, great, and amazing+ developers can operate without much threat and in fact using their knowledge and experience to leverage GPT-4 (or others) as a force multiplier.
You've also got to factor in all the software that relies on projects developed primarily on GitHub.
> Da Vinci made a living drawing and painting the rich people of his day.

From what I read, he hated every minute of it. Chose instead to draw/paint things/people he liked, often holding onto his paintings for years to make refinements, only to never deliver them.
> It may take a constitutional amendment

National proportionality, abolishing state representation, would take an amendment. Using STV or party list proportional within the bounds of each states house seats would not.

The US, though, has a strongly Presidential system, which would favor duopoly without radical Cobstitutional reform, and the Senate is problematic as well.
A USB-C plus USB-A expansion card would only need to support any of those on USB-C. That'd be substantially simpler.
Your last point is one of my long-standing pet-peeves about language teaching methods. It seems the universally accepted practice is to give students mountains of vocabulary to study, grammar rules that make no sense, and a little bit of speaking practice.

It is no wonder that native speakers of language X have a characteristic accent when speaking in a different language. When they try to read a word in the foreign language, they default to their native language's pronunciation heuristics.

That is completely backwards from how children learn languages. They are exposed to the sounds and intuitively figure out the rest.
This. It doesn't seem materially different from a credit card: if you pay within a certain window, no interest charges. It's just that BNPL is associated with being unable to afford it at the moment.

And, not surprisingly, comedians used to make exactly that joke! When fast food chains like McDonald's started accepting credit cards, they would joke that if you pay with one, it's like you're saying you can't afford the meal all at once.
I would have guessed that the significant majority would be using TOFU, but in any case the actual key was leaked so it wouldn't matter which method was used.
>> everyday BNPL orders, including groceries, accounted for barely 1% of all purchases in 2021.

> Presumably the share for groceries alone didn't increase meaningfully in 2022, or that would have been noted for effect, so we're looking at less than 1.4% of all BNPL payments for groceries.

It could just mean that BNPL as a product was not much used a couple of years ago, no? It could just mean that these folks would merely then put their groceries on a revolving credit card (which in many ways is worse). It doesn't necessarily mean folks are shifting to riskier forms of debt?
Did you miss this? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/brett-kavanaugh-...
"Mr. Jones’s retirement account took a hit in 2008 and never recovered. Spooked by the S&P 500’s 38.49% decline in 2008, he sold his stocks and invested in a stable value fund that earned about 1% a year, said the couple’s son-in-law, Jon Older, a doctor who has managed the portfolio since 2018. Dr. Older moved 35% of the balance into a low-cost stock index fund and the rest into an intermediate Treasury bond index fund."

So he missed out on one of the best stock market rallies in history out of ignorance and fear. Ouch.
Well, at least SSH could allow for signing a new key with the old one. So they could say it's signed, and people would know to accept only a different prompt.

There is DNS verification, but people have been trained all their lives to accept insecure DNS information (and set their systems accordingly), and I really doubt the SSH client checks the DNSSEC data.
> the Gen X retirement bailout is probably already unavoidable and will be in the trillions

State governments are going to get huge bailouts too. Most state pension funds are way underfunded. The my state's DOT pension is <60% funded, and that's assuming 7+% average returns.
Everyone else that’s left their money there is just risking holding the bag!
If you on-purpose bypass a filter to use an unapproved plugin, it is on the user at that point.
> zero national interest

After 11 years of involvment in the war, i wouldn't call their interest 0.
I thought
"Dalai" pronounced "Dall Eye" rhymes with "Shall I"
"Dali" pronounced "Dahl eee" rhymes with "Carly"
Bazel isn't about a particular language needing its build facilities - its about ALL of your organizations languages being built with one tool, ideally in one monorepository. Its very attractive when you have lots of microservices that would otherwise live in disparate repositories. Using a monorepo and Bazel allows you to share api definitions (proto files) across your entire code base (rules_proto, rules_grpc) , so you see immediately what api changes impact existing code across your entire organization, regardless of what languages each component is coded in.It allows you to containerize (rules_docker) and deploy (rules_k8s) only the components that need to be redeployed with every commit. It allows your entire development team to live, code, test, build, and deploy in harmony.
Oh completely agreed... One was for a friend who is using it as a backup dev box, and the other was for my MiL, whose computer broke, and I hadn't set it up as my home server yet.

Mainly stating, that a laptop cpu from the past couple gen are definitely nothing to turn a nose up at in terms of ability. The 5900HX outpaces an older i7-4790K and uses a fraction of the wall power and space. Especially, when they're headless in a closet.
If you lose your income and your savings, you've got major problems anyway.

Not paying the credit card bill has consequences, but having the option to choose whether to pay timely for expenses you already incurred offers flexibility.

If you had paid cash for your groceries the day before you got laid off, the cash is gone; if you paid on a credit card, you have an unsecured debt, but you can use your cash for other things, if need be.
And having enough money that this never backfires.
https://i.somethingawful.com/u/boldfrankenstein/The_BLoop6_c...
>Problem is, most of the slow pages out there are slow because the teams just can't keep up with all of these shifts

Not really. Most pages are slow not because they're using outdated techniques, or they're still serving everything from a large Windows Server running an ancient version of .NET. Those old react pages aren't slow either because they "didn't keep up", they still run fine.

Pages are slow because of the obscene amounts of tracking and "user conversion" techniques. Banners, notices, trackers to make note of everything you do on the page, trackers to make note of errors, third party trackers, ads everywhere because a simple static one isn't good enough, list goes on.

Guess what those old pages that "stayed fast" don't have? You guessed it, all those BS trackers, they weren't readily available back then.
I try to take a quick walk without my phone at least once a day. Helps a lot.
Rick Beato sells lots of great training materials. https://rickbeato.com/
A few months ago, I bought a car with a loan.

I was surprised to learn that essentially all lenders offer a fixed 8% interest rate... When annual inflation is at least 10% in my country and reserve bank interest rates are on the rise. If it was a variable interest rate, that would present some risk. But it's not even the case. It's literally a fixed 8% annual rate over 5 years (by which point the loan will have been fully paid). So assuming that I can keep my income in line with inflation, it ends up becoming easier to repay my loan as inflation progresses.

It's not quite the same situation for people with real estate mortgages as their rate is variable (or fixed only for a couple of years; so not really fixed when you consider that the loan is 20 to 30 years...) and their repayments increase along with the reserve bank interest rates. My repayments are constant and my debt is being inflated away as we speak.

I bought a basic/small, but good quality car as I think it will hold its value well due to its focus on utility and fuel (cost) efficiency.
He was acquitted of criminal charges. This will be a civil case.
I’ve heard that the form of credit that is used is somehow inferior, such that it reflects badly when judging your credit history.

I have absolutely no idea if that is true or how I’d even ascertain the veracity, so don’t quote me.
The webpage linked above includes "How do I apply?" and "get pre-approved." There's even a graphic of a home with a balloon when talking about inflation and literally mentioning mortgage rates.

Perhaps I'm feeling sensitive to this and it is a funny joke. Naturally the audience can decide for themselves. =)
The downside is that widespread usage of credit cards increases prices by 2-3% and disproportionally impacts those who can't get a credit card with the same rewards. You are getting a 2-3% discount on the backs of the poor.
When I say "appreciate" I don't mean it in a peasant to senior kind of subservient humility, to be thankful for the crumbs.

Rather, to stop and understand the subtleties of our setup and how much of our unprecedented wealth and freedom results from perhaps not very obvious design choices. Every possible system we can come up with has to deal with the problem of human greed, corruption, tribalism. There is no magical alternative around the corner where public officials are virtuous and competent - they are just as bad and greedy as the capitalists, only now they control not only the government but also all economic activities. As a person who lived in a Stalinist economy and the robber baron transition to market economy that followed it, let me reaffirm what you probably experienced yourself: you really really don't want to give control of the economy to the political elites.

Is a better and fairer world possible? Yes, I'm absolutely sure of it. But it will necessarily be an iterative redesign of our own. We'll still have capitalism in the sense of capital ownership and market competition, but maybe you would have an universal income that you can invest in any company. We will still have jobs but perhaps no more wage slavery, with enough robotic productivity to make housing, food and physical safety universal rights.
The online grocery stat really surprises me. Relative to pre-pandemic? OK, seems high but I can buy it that a lot of people tried it and some liked it enough to keep it. But YoY from February, at a time when grocery prices have increased a fair bit, is almost hard to believe. "Grocery prices are up so lets make them go up even more for a bit of convenience."
Yep. The executives at my employer realized the consultants were "underperforming" and cut their contracts, but this just left the in-house teams stuck with fixing or rewriting the Accenture code, piled on top of their current project work.
Mario is the one visual element that you stare at the entire game. If you're going to put effort into anything, it's that.
I don't think social mobility will be eliminated, I think the variance of individual mobility will just be radically increased. This technology will allow entrepreneurs and solo content creators to accomplish a lot more, but it'll also eliminate a lot of safe career paths. As a result, if you don't want to be stuck in the underclass doing manual labor or customer service, you'll need to either be brilliant, well connected, start a business or create content of some sort that attracts an audience you can monetize. The people who do well will do very well, but a lot of people who would have done decently before are going to fail.
I predict that these are going to be a hit with CS students. Performance, customization, repairability, "geek cool" factor; it's exactly what I would have bought.
With water-cheap petrol it’s no brainer to buy such vehicle. Meanwhile in Germany it would cost 1$ do drive a mile with it.
This is a timely article for me since I've been trying to learn more about webassembly lately, thank you for it.

I think the system interface is probably extremely important and significant part of webassembly and history. It's history making. It's the definition of a foundational interface that all users of webassembly shall inherit and need to target if it takes off. Which I hope it does. A standardised bytecode format is awesome!

Why do I say this? The binary interface for C programming such as the amd64 SysV calling convention is established and is important for C FFI interoperability. Likewise, the syscall interface for Linux is established and so is Win32 API or POSIX.

If people are trying to compile existing code so it doesn't need to be changed to support webassembly, then that's one constraint. Another constraint is performant Javascript interop. Another constraint which I personally find most interesting is the capability of defining a new API that is fit for purpose for application development. So that incorporates threading, garbage collection and sockets.
> I don’t get the overall doom and gloom towards LLMs on the software field.

> If you are a software engineer, this will output your productivity ten fold on the upcoming years. Now you don’t need to hire junior devs and can just build the product of your dreams with very limited capital.

And if you're a junior software engineer? Fuck you and be unemployed.*

Do you get it now?

* Until you can climb up the ladder where each rung is now 20 feet apart.
FBI investigated the 'murder' of Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor for two years
Interesting. According to Google, it's a British ("Da-lie") vs. American ("Da-lee") difference.
> Note that XDG_DESKTOP_DIR and XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR have to point to different directories. In hindsight, this is obvious, but this is also a really stupid "security" bug-o-feature that costed countless hours to countless people.

It's not obvious at all. The only security issue is programs dumping "downloads" on your harddrive without asking you first. Sucks that this is yet another thing that Mozilla has copied from Chrome without thinking.
Thought the same until I read this:

> Contact us at hello-dolly@databricks.com if you would like to get access to the trained weights.
People cite these big numbers but the typical Tata-like reality is $70-80 an hour billed with $40-50 paid to the developer. The guy you have to wake up three or four times a day. This is much lower than the local consultancies which need at least $125 an hour with $80-90 going to the dev.

I have seen the same contractor kept around for 12 years, slapped down upon applying for FTE after ten years (GE). They would rather pay more than allow them into the FTE ranks--unless their pedigree fits. Humiliating.

I used to hire and manage contractors as an FTE and was a contractor initially at GE. As such, I participated in the yearly consultancy hourly negotiations and onboarding with HR. Had a spreadsheet with all of the consultants and their hourly rates for our division. When I hired I would only consider the $125 and up candidates.

I work at a small consultancy now where I'm a partner. We don't do any business with GE but we do contract with other large companies willing to pay our rates. And they do so happily, even through pandemics and downturns. Our consultants keep the majority of the billing rate--save for expenses like office space and other business expenses and the "sales team" (some of which also bill). FTEs overall are the lowest paid. Even the "managers." Few evaluate the deal because they reason that they get severance or will not be laid off as readily. Ignoring the fact that the contractor already built in the severance and doesn't want to go to the Christmas party.
Well, "defanor" says these were the fingerprints. Perhaps they are the MITM.

(Not genuinely concerned about this risk, but "Reflections on Trusting Trust" reverberates.)
> Now, he was preparing his constituents for the existential battle posed by their newest imaginary adversary: wokeness

This in no way suggests "wokeness" is a made-up term. It's no different than the right's use of "Socialism" as a imaginary adversary. Socialism exists. But it's been applied as a boogeyman for the better part of a century by conservatives. Harry Truman made this very argument in the '50s. [1] In that same spirit, "Woke" is a term often hurled at any idea that criticizes the status-quo. That these are similar scare words is not an original idea [2]

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/truman-socialism-scare-wor...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/wokeness-s...
Liquid chlorine is another name for sodium hypochlorite, aka bleach. We tend to refer to it as liquid chlorine when buying it for pools and it is usually stronger than anything you'd buy in the household aisle of the supermarket.

Muriatic acid (aka hydrochloric acid) is a totally different chemical. That will reduce pH in the pool, it is not used as a disinfectant. I personally recommend getting something weaker than 31.45% however, if you're not etching concrete.
Most people didn’t notice, but dictation now runs in a hybrid mode — both on device and via server. So you get some (maybe poor) results at first (only results if offline but better than nothing) that get rewritten after a couple seconds from server.

For Siri itself, I think it runs locally now.
I had some fun inverting and then rotating the hue back around.
Nanotechnology's Spring
Those keys can be worried about on a better secured computer, and don't need to be spread out on every frontend ssh server. Also it allows you to have each machine have a different host key pair, so if one leaks, only that single machine may have some trust issues, and not the whole fleet.

Also it's way better than TOFU, you can just add the CA key to known_hosts and avoid TOFU for each machine.

(Nevermind that you'll probably not accidentally commit some semi-ephemeral host key that's rotated often somewhere, because it will not be some special snowflake key you care about, but something handled by your infrastructure software automatically for each machine)
Show HN: Kepler Book – A Way to Document and Share Errors
Kepler is a website to explain code errors in a context-driven way, instead of scouring the internet for solutions to obscure programming errors? This is an experimental project.

Inspired by the popular Stack Overflow and Val Town. Kepler-Book is a new platform that allows developers to easily write and document errors for others to read and understand the context.

Most times i was tired of struggling with obscure programming errors and wish there was a better way to document and share our solutions, check out Kepler-Book today. The team behind the platform is eager to hear feedback from the Hacker News community and is committed to making Kepler-Book the go-to platform for documenting and sharing errors.
Sometimes I think that 3D doesn't actually exist. Just a fudgey gloss linking the way we see with a nice way to model it. A convenient illusion.

It's hard to rationalize because it is fundamentally irrational.
Sorry to be obtuse, but it’s not damning at all because it’s a library, not a framework.
> people who create genuinely new things is so tiny

This is my insurance against LLMs, only works if the market demands new things...
Fractional scaling is just broken by design. If you have combined vector/bitmap graphics (like most web pages) designed for 'canonical' DPI, you can either break proportions between vectors and bitmaps (rendering vectors with proper DPI, while for bitmaps use nearest integer scale), or render everything with proper scale and introduce artifacts like blurring of sharp edges to bitmaps.