skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The utility of airplanes outweighs the utility of civilian firearms designed for assault/defense, or the two are at the very least incomparable. I don't believe that you don't believe this.
A pi-hole that null roots traffic? No, unfettered by TLS certificates and morals, the competitors site would show the item as being out of stock and drastically more expensive, and the store's closing early today.
It does! Though right now we're focused on what teams need to get that first version out the door, ultimately, we want to offer people a platform that lets them manage their NLP app throughout its lifecycle (LLM or otherwise).

Going through that process of idea -> first model -> optimized model is the core "loop" of the LLM lifecycle. The problem is to do that effectively you need to set up the right infrastructure to both aggregate the data going into and coming out of your model AND set up benchmarks to run experiments.

Having this data-eval engine set up is what lets you easily (or even autonomously) evaluate whether it makes sense to switch from that prompted model to a smaller model.

Right now, GradientJ lays some of the rudimentary groundwork for this loop by letting you set up testing for prompt-based LLM models and automatically aggregate the input/output data that goes through your model in production. We've got some basic fine-tuning capabilities, but really we're still working on refining the tools to use that data to evaluate across multiple NLP models (both LLM and non-LLM).
Probably not enough. I learned from Beej's guide to networking and some excerpts from the Linux programming interface, and have done a bit of network programming in C before moving to Python, but that was decades ago.
Complaining about posting about it is irrational too
Yeah, I've had so many experiences of coming back to something I wrote 6-18mo ago, and being so relieved that I wrote it "simply" and with clear comments explaining the intent/purpose. Not only a great refresher, but anyone else could also gain context and easily make changes. I think there's also an aspect of that "broken windows" phenomenon[0] where inscrutable code existing in a project becomes a sort of implicit acceptance of more such inscrutable code being added to the project.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Jake Shields says that it was someone reputable in the tech industry and a close friend of his who was killed. And that the family doesn't want to reveal the name yet.[1][2]

Additionally, if you search through Jake Shield's Twitter feed, you'll find instances where Bob Lee talked to him. [3][4]

UPDATE: Jake Shields confirms it was Bob Lee. [5]

[1] https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/164344881917319577...

[2] https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/164346184739026124...

[3] https://twitter.com/crazybob/status/1538245201734406144?s=20

[4] https://twitter.com/crazybob/status/1587914051715227652?s=20

[5] https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/164347000156601548...
We need better air quality exposure monitoring
Existing air quality metrics - AQI, PM2.5 - measure only the particle size and there is no information on composition. PM 2.5 could be salt spray, pesticide aerosol, or particles with toxic metals -- there is no way to tell the difference based only on size. Data on composition is essential to determine the health impact.

Exposome: DNA sequencing technologies have accelerated research. However, genetics has been found to be the root cause for only about 15% of diseases, with the balance due to environmental exposures and interactions between genes and the environment. There has not been much progress in the collection of exposure data in the past hundred years. We still rely on dietary surveys and coarse geographic sampling at the level of zipcode. To determine root cause and eventually prevent disease, we need better environmental exposure monitoring.
It was verified in the comments but the only source was a tweet which has since been deleted. I want to assume people are telling the truth but I could see this being one of those "pranks" where we find out what people are willing to believe without proof.
Depending on your goals, ChromeOS Flex is another excellent and way to revitalize older laptops like MacBook Airs.
What is a "moral market share"? Is that like the market share that you wish something had, instead of the market share it actually has?
It's worse. They announced to cancel the free legacy tier, so I tried to upgrade but it said my account type was in the wrong country/region or whatever, and didn't let me upgrade. There were rumors a couple weeks after the original announcement that they might allow a free tier after all. I don't know what happened in the end because I just moved my email to protonmail.
Yes. It is definitely a risk.
there is no glory in the idea that we have created intelligence by llm's. from my perspective, you must mean something very narrow by intelligence, and i find it extremely difficult to respond to, because i do not want to deconstruct and demean man's intelligence, definitely not down to what an llm does.

the only barriers to understanding the code is power and time. are you seriously advocating for an unintelligible object, made by our own hand? that - in itself - is considered intelligent?

someone's going to get burnt trying to chase two meanings at once, and it's not going to me, i'm sorry.

if you want to discuss centuries-long innovation, then the counter-argument is just more centuries of interpretation and dissection to understand it. if you want to guesstimate AGI arriving at 2220 then the balancing counter-technology comes in at 2420.

people are already starting the process of cracking open the black box. [0] the majority of what keeps AI and any software "in the dark" is the cloud's cybersecurity and legal mechanisms (and the need for man-power) that prevent the average researcher breaking into it.

it is still vulnerable to the scientific method and symbolic interpretation. as always.

LLM's main advantage is keeping knowledge out of the hands of the poor and the public. The millisecond AI becomes "good enough" people will use it as a cover-up justification to start hiding currently accessible knowledge behind paywalls and university entrance exams.

AI is the grim reaper for the world we used to know.

[0]https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AcKRB8wDpdaN6v6ru/interpreti...
Wow, fascinating. I had never considered that angle before, that the genetically engineered would be "aliens" in the eyes of the public (even on your own "team") and therefore enemies.

I don't know what to draw from it, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I am not a graphics programmer, but this procedural geometry reminds me of "tessellation" from ten years ago.
> "I want a function that takes anything and returns itself"

Sounds like you're looking for a function "I : a -> I". Precision really seems important. Programming in English is like being granted wishes from a djinn. You'll get what you asked for, but beware. But currently you don't even get that.
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.

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I won't do that...but I will try it myself. Give me a few.

EDIT: Well I'll be damned.

"However, there is a bug in the script as it only checks for the tags attribute in the first 10 lines of the resource block using the grep -A10 command. "
This doesn't address all your concerns, but for people who want to keep the commercial apps, GrapheneOS now supports that to some degree:

https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play
> Exactly, and in the end that's the only thing that matters: power.

> democracies represent the biggest power.

> Anyone who doesn't agree is free to emigrate or happily live in a dictatorship of course.

Eh, but that's the point: a bunch of countries with a shady history of global power dynamics (genocidal colonialism, fascism, etc) that now declared its current political establishment as a universal virtue, all while invading other countries around the globe.

I just feel like "democratic" don't notice at all how they're slipping into antagonism with almost every other culture except their own, up to labeling the forming west-skeptical alliances as "new axis of evil" or claiming everyone who doesn't politically align to them to be dysfunctional (see Hungary)

What's the coping strategy for the fact that so many diverse regions of the world that share nothing in common assess a very tight (geographically, economically and culturally) circle of countries as a threat?
Ah you're Bohra/Vohra. That makes sense! I think a significant subset of the community traces their origin to Arab communities in Oman and Hadhramaut. Also I do think a fair amount of Arabs Muslims did end up settling in Sindh and Gujarat during the expansion of Islam in the 700-1100 time period. Like I said, due to my cultural biases, I sadly don't have much experience with Arab or Gujarati Muslim communities.

A good introductory book might be "Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7Th-11th Centuries" by Andre Wink. He has a strong reputation in the Indologist world, so that might be a good starting position. That said, ethnographic research in most South Asian communities is kind of weak due to lack of funding and the disjointed mess of the social sciences academic world between South Asia and the US+Western Europe. That said, I'm sure there are some solid PhD theses or research papers published by academics at JNU or Jamia Millia - those two are the ones of the handful institutions in India I'd trust for anything social sciences related.

>The history books claimed we were "unquestionably of Hindu descent" based on our social practices, but the genetics disagreed. It was a shocking surprise

Oof yea I'm not surprised by that. That wording sounds like something sourced from early-to-mid 20th century British Academica. While a plurality of Muslims in South Asia are of indigenous descent, I wouldn't interpret that as being "Hindu" persay (also begets the larger question of who is a "Hindu" or indigenous - eg. should Pakhtun Hindus from Tirah be treated the same as Hindus from Bhojpur? And what even defines "Hinduism". Are indigenous pagan beliefs like Devta worship in Himachal and Chitral "Hindu" in the modern terminology or an indigenous belief system). Like I said above, Anthropological and Ethnic research within South Asian ethnic groups is severely lacking - let alone for those from regions that saw significant cross-cultural relations with Western and Central Asia. On a separate note, generally most South Asian ethnographic research has been devoted to those in Central India due to the larger British academic/political needs to understand communities there in the aftermath of the 1857 rebellion.
> The ability to read and mentally parse and execute code will become extremely important

Scarily, it'll probably become more scarce at the same time. It's a lot easier to parse code in your head when you're writing it every day from the ground up. Even a couple weeks away from your own code makes it harder to follow, no matter how well commented it is. Working with other people's code is always an order of magnitude harder, but there's an unspoken trust that they at least put their mind to it and tested it against the tasks it was supposed to perform.

Reading mostly-AI-generated code to spot bugs could be a specialty indeed, but it's one perfectly adapted to black hat hackers.
If I go to a restaurant and leave separate tips for the bartender vs waitstaff, is the restaurant now a money transmission service?
The Myth of the Finished Project
Penultimate means second-to-last; if that’s what you meant, what’s the ultimate solution to those business needs?
How can this possibly work with apartments/condos? You’re guaranteed to have multiple “hotspot” networks in range with zero ability to talk to local printers/cameras/TVs etc
I will say GrapheneOS is much more usable than normal custom Android ROMs. Maybe this has changed but IME even Lineage based ROMs, official or otherisez don't have automatic updates the same way stock does.

But GrapheneOS and a few similar projects actual have fully automatic updates, for every Android security update and major versions.

Once installed which is very easy as long as your are starting fresh, GrapheneOS requires no effort to maintain. F-droid or even the Google Play Store works just fine once configured. The only apps that don't work are major banking apps and snapchat so not a big deal.

If you have family/friends that use smartphones but don't really use "Apps" then GrapheneOS is perfectly fine.
That isn't less damning than it sounds. Whether it was overt or 'accidentally' (as in your case) the data is still unreliable, which is the point.
That's even more depressing, can't even visit for a day without risking life (assuming it wasn't targeted). May he rest in peace.
Probably much the same for phone spam which is why all of us get (semi-targeted) calls from indian call centers daily.

Plenty of these are spawn out of Discord/Telegram networks to coordinate infrastructure. Via the grey/blackhat versions of Twilio.

It's far too common for the operators to give a shit.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le71yVPh4uk
There are other problems there like mixed signal work, higher voltages, etc. that make it hard to use the smaller nodes. Especially the FinFET ones for classic microcontroller uses.

And the bond wire problem you point out is also real; these designs will then become severely limited by core size and not the size of the padring. But the advantage will be, ridiculously high yields.

That’s why 28nm is such a sweet spot - you are still on bulk silicon, but the frequencies are great and the yield is massive for tiny chips.
SF reminds me of college campuses. I went to a liberal college town. Everyone was a bleeding heart liberal who wanted to save the world. They voted Democrat. Even when their homes are trashed or burglarized, having to pickup hypodermic needles from drug users who tossed it on the street so their kid doesn't step on it, or when they are confront with homeless who became violent.... they would still vote Democrat. It's not about the party. It's the fact the policy we have does not work. Homelessness and NIMBY have become the third rail of American politics.
Oh so Pfizer paid for gain of function research for decades at the same time they were repurposing decades-old HIV drugs to fight their government-sponsored novel viruses, and we’re supposed to think of this as a win for science? How about kiss my ass instead.
Sounds more like project zero didn't bother looking for xp exploits, not that they don't exist.

My understanding is project zero is about finding new zero days, not cataloging known vulnerabilities.
I've been using this company's product for a few weeks now and I'm really impressed with its ease of use and functionality. The team has clearly put a lot of thought into designing a tool that is both powerful and user-friendly.

That being said, I do need a dark mode and markdown syntax conversion.
Or you know, switch to Android.
The form factor of the PEBL looks about right, but with the $10k price tag it's not there quite yet.
I believe it was flagged because the deceased's family does not want the name publicly known.
It’s amazing how many horrible things governments do and yet we keep giving them power and allowing them to do shit like this.

This is from the 40s, can you imagine what they are doing to us right now?

Creepy to even think about it.
Depends on your political alignment. Superhero movies are basically fascist propaganda (the people who are most powerful will have your best interests in mind and save you, you dear children who enjoy comic books in your adulthood).
I trust the math. I trust the manipulator.

But it drives home the reason why I parted ways with advanced math. There just came a point when the math no longer resonated with the natural world that I was comfortable living in.

Imaginary (and complex) numbers were the first real schism where my mind repelled the very idea.

Nonetheless, decades later, I would be talking with a friend who is much smarter than me. We were talking about the lossy nature of converting audio from the time domain to the frequency domain and back. I understood that phase information was lost in the translation (I also thought it was curious that the human brain seemed to be phase-agnostic and so could not perceive the difference when audio was round-tripped through the frequency domain).

"Oh," he said, "when you do a Fast Fourier transform to move audio into the frequency domain the phase information is represented by the imaginary part of a complex number."

Wait, what? So complex numbers have a real-world analog in constructing an FFT — a "real" algorithm that does real work?

I see now that the really smart people just understand the natural world much better than I do — or perhaps see it differently than I do.
The point of hypertext and the web is that those definitions and footnotes should be built into the document. In a magazine it would be in a definition box at the side using some sort of grid layout.
Tell HN: When is it okay to ask for money as an open source maintainer?
The MIT License is a permissive open-source software license that grants users broad rights to use, modify, and distribute the software. While it covers legal aspects, it does not address the various time burdens faced by open-source maintainers. Time burdens that are out of the scope of the MIT License include:

Issue tracking and bug fixing: Maintainers need to manage and address the bug reports and issues raised by users and contributors, which can be time-consuming.

Code review: To ensure the quality and consistency of the project, maintainers must review and provide feedback on contributed code.

Documentation: Writing and updating documentation is essential to help users understand and utilize the software effectively.

Community management: Maintainers must build and maintain a healthy community by responding to questions, managing discussions, and dealing with conflicts.

Release management: Coordinating and managing software releases, including versioning, packaging, and distribution, can be a complex task.

Continuous integration and testing: Setting up and maintaining testing infrastructure, as well as ensuring the software passes all tests, requires considerable effort.

Security: Maintainers need to stay vigilant about security vulnerabilities and promptly address them when discovered.

Marketing and outreach: Promoting the project, attracting new users and contributors, and staying engaged with the community are essential for the success of an open-source project.

Fundraising and financial management: Some projects may require financial support for infrastructure, events, or even to pay contributors. This requires fundraising efforts and financial management, which can be time-consuming.

Legal issues: While the MIT License covers some legal aspects, maintainers may still need to deal with other legal matters, such as trademark disputes, contributor agreements, or compliance with third-party licenses.
In medieval times people likely carried less. Pilgrim routes were like tourist attractions these days. Lots of people making money.
Cost seems like the most likely answer
Both sides of the SF topic are absolutely poisoned by ideology. It's a borderline un-discussable topic on the internet at this point, even on HN.
I saw the tweet before it was deleted, and if you search for crazybob on Twitter you can find other tweets by users who clearly knew him that he died.
> Alphabet $1.3T.

1.3T. 1.3T!!

In 2009 Google was maybe at 1% of its current size...

They had it coming for a long time, but you'll probably have to wait for a while before you could do your victory dance
>> SF has become so unsafe. Why aren't the democrats in charge voted out of office for other people who will do something about it? Do people just not vote in that city?

> If you’re outside of a situation looking in and wondering why people aren’t voting the way you think they should it almost certainly means you’re misreading the situation.

Didn't SF recall its local prosecutor recently over crime issues? It sounds like people may actually be trying (somewhat) to vote the way the GP thinks they should.

I would hazard a guess that the answer to the GP's question is something along the lines that SF residents hate Republicans, but Democrats only come in so many flavors nowadays (and not even all of those are available in the Bay Area).
It was one of those Titanium G4 beasts. My gf called it the "war machine" since the keys were worn to the point you couldn't read most of the letters. So it got way too hot before it even throttled down, and I never saw it shut off from the heat. It radiated heat through that metal... it would almost scald your legs.

I could usually control my CPU use so a magazine could last up to half an hour... but basically I'd feel the warmth coming through the magazine, jump up and switch it with another one from the freezer. Easy peasy.
Apple Gangnam Style
Not respecting or trusting Apple is a valid position to have. Not sure why people would down vote this.

It's clear that Apple uses the feelings of trust and respect in their marketing campaigns, but this is just a calculated strategy that works for them. As a company, they are like most companies - they desire to create and maximize revenue streams. To the extent that they value trust and respect they actually value customer perceived trust and respect as it relates to their marketing strategies.

Tl;Dr if they think they can get away with things that are customer hostile without tarnishing their marketing image they'll do it. They will take calculated risks here as well.

Examples:

Apple will hold a monopoly on iOS for books and this is fine: https://www.techemails.com/p/ibooks-is-going-to-be-the-only-...

Apple forces a 30% fees on subscriptions, negotiates with Uber (and presumably others) to pass this cost directly onto the user in cases where the margin is so low the 3rd party cannot economically eat the fee: https://www.techemails.com/p/lets-take-a-cut-of-membership-p...

iMessage is exclusive to iPhone because they fear that parents may buy Android for their children over iPhones if the app was available on both - which obviously indicates that the dark UX treatment of non iMessage sms (green bubbles) is an intentional segmentation of the messaging ecosystem designed to bring users to the iphone thru social effects. Any platitudes to security are purely marketing. https://www.techemails.com/p/imessage-for-android

Apple is a company, their users are revenue streams, trust and respect matter in terms perspective not in terms of meaningful action. They will do things that put their trust/respect at calculated risks to maximize revenue.

Folks thinking otherwise are pleasantly naive - it is totally reasonable to question Apple's actions and motivations.
I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 Pro daily and I can use banking, transport, and government apps just fine. There's only been one time I had to look up how to get an app working and that was trivial. I get notifications and can use the Google services I choose with permissions I pick. I can even use all the hardware features such as Google's AI image editing and camera features. Even installing GrapheneOS is done through a browser and takes just a few steps. If you are just slightly technically inclined I see no reason you can't use GrapheneOS, I haven't personally had to compromise in any way while I have gained complete control of my device.

Even if using GrapheneOS came with downsides, the amount of power you gain over your device would have been worth it. If you have a Pixel device you owe it to yourself to spend a few minutes finding out if you want to try GrapheneOS.
You can configure autofs to access your networked filesystem seamlessly without the tramp mode qualifier in the path.