skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is starting witch hunts for ai generated comments, attempting to discredit the comment by its format, not its content.
This violates the goodwill we all share in conversation on HN.
People in music are doing things that weren't even possible 20 years ago. Just off the top of my head: Live in-game concerts, twitch collaborations, music "meme-ing" with youtube and tiktok. A musician can push a button and broadcast a live performance to the world now, and with a few more button pushes incorporate other artists or their works.
In the universe where I live, a Uni will most likely throw the accused under a bus, won't respect his rights and will even withhold or disregard exonerating evidence.

https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/press-releases?ID=26B5...
Technically you would need to do that I think (it is free at your local Bürgeramt). I just did it together with the registration.
And won't let you replace the battery yourself

... for eco reasons.
It’s more that its training objective doesn’t require it to be correct, which is a completely separate thing to whether or not it can generalise to things it hasn’t seen before
No. You have a very persistent, easily fixable habit of being confidently wrong. I'm suggesting a way to fight that habit and make your comments useful, even for those cases where you turn out to be wrong. You can benefit from that advice, or you can double down. I know what the responsible option is.
Yes, the "confidently incorrect" issue will be a tough nut to crack for the current spate of generative text models. LLMs have no ability to analyze a body of text and determine anything about it (e.g. how likely it is to be true); they are clever but at bottom can only extrapolate from patterns found in the training data. If no one has said anything like "X, and I'm 78% certain about it", then it's tough to imagine how an LLM could generate reasonably correct probability estimates.
Eh, there’s a reason we have a system where the accused has the right to make their case in court. An arrest is a strong signal but by design has a lower burden of proof than it takes to punish someone within the system. Given that being publicly accused of a heinous crime can do irreparable damage in the age of Google even if ultimately acquitted, I'd rather err on the side of caution here.
So the solution is to get humans involved? Yay, I've got nothing better than to eat spam.
related thread from few days ago: Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35478007
It is literally 100X easier to launch an openai competitor than a spacex competitor.

The latter requires massive upfront non-retrievable investment.
I don't know what you want to say with this graphic.

The only thing I can clearly see in this plot is the Invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

No matter what you want to say, it makes no sense, since both the nuclear plants and the coal plants are owned by German companies. It simply doesn't make sense to argue that Germany is trying to unfairly get an advantage by shutting down one type of it's plants to benefit the other type.
Pulumi Insights – AI generated IaC programs
I don’t think there’s a need to ‘plug the hole’. The article suggests that there’s hot water flowing out from under the sea bed but what’s more likely (and normal) is that there’s a fracture of exposed magma that’s heating the water at the seabed. This heated water is convecting up and mixing with the surrounding sea water, with the hot water mixed to ambient sea temperature before it hits the surface. The methane is normal from such fractures. They’re not normally permanent features and are analogous to magma flows on the surface of the earth.
This. It's not fair to apply this rule that kinda says "state affiliated/funded = propaganda" to everyone except for USA media, that's some USA exceptionalism.
You have a single mongo cluster that's writing 40M docs a minute? Can you explain how? I dont think I've ever seen a benchmark for any DB that's gotten above >30k writes/sec.
LLMs are not as clever as you think they are.
Given a cloud service account you can call the provider’s token service, get a bearer token, then use that bearer token to call any other cloud service configured to trust the provider issuer. Most cloud providers support this today with oidc.
What’s wrong with Faiss? https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
> The startups with devs in portugal, costa rica, Mexico, Spain, the Ukraine, India, China, anyplace where they can pay 5 dollars for a day's work.

I can speak to Portugal and Spain at least, and there's no chance you could ever get people in either of those to work for you at $5/day. You'd be laughed out of the room/conference call. And I'm pretty sure that's true for the rest of the list too.
Maybe to you, but 30 years ago I was already using the internet. BBSes were common in tech circles as well. We didn't have google, but there were search engines to look for files that you could then FTP. AOL was already nearing their peak, them and competitors were in many ways trying to be what the internet became. 30 years ago my dad was already calling in to work from home (2400 baud was not as good as being in the office, but when a customer has a problem at 3am that was the fastest way to fix the problem). 30 years ago people would get the details wrong, but they had already imagined today's world even if they couldn't actually take part in one of the forerunners to it.
> they chose to spend significant resources investigating the coffee and did not spend resources investigating the sexual assault.

You made this up again, did you?
Mosts stats are like this when you start understanding the nuance. For example, the bike fatality rate. Its 36 people on average a year for LA county. You can't draw anything meaningful from that data at all. The county is 10 million people. What is even the variance year to year? It could be like the bulk of that number. That's just considering the statistics of the number and how rare these sort of incidents really are.

Now consider yourself versus the average bike rider you see. Are they wearing a helmet? Following traffic rules? Using lights? Taking the entire lane? Signalling? Making left turns from the perpendicular street instead of merging into the turn lane for cars? Chances are they might only be doing one or two of those things, but probably none of those things on average based on my own anecdata of what I see cyclists looking like in my city. If you consider riders who do all of these things, whats the fatality rate then? I'd bet its effectively zero a year.

Crime works accordingly. We hear people say how they think the murder rate is a good proxy for crime you'd experience in a city, since you can't really hide a body and fudge the stats like other crimes that might go unreported. However, the murder rate is also a case of a small number of occurances happening over a massive population, and probably subject to a lot of variation. Likewise, it probably disproportionately affects people in domestic violence altercations who already own a gun that they keep in the home and know their victim, then secondly people involved with organized crime. Avoiding these factors that put you at outsized risk might make the murder rate effectively zero for someone like you.
At least for Red Cross certification, the training is a mix of teaching and test. The basic swimming skills are basically a test, as it's incredibly unlikely that someone would develop those in the 2-3 days that the course runs.
National Geographic maps use the Winkel tripel projection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection
I'm interested if anyone has some hard data on the "best" size of the document "fragments" that are used for embedding into a dense vector.

Obviously, embedding single words probably aren't particularly useful for reassembling portions of a document for submission to an LLM in the prompt. I'm currently pondering on what size of string is best for embedding, and considering a variable size might be one option.

Testing with strings around 512 characters seem to do pretty well, but it may be storing multiple lengths of similar runs in the document might be a better way to do it.
Yearn Finance exploited (again) for more than $11M
Would you rather have X amount of carcinogenic material in the air, or X+Y where Y>0?
I think that brush you're painting with is far, far too broad.
I work on inkjet nozzles. One of our drops is maybe 9 nanograms. According to Wikipedia that's about 9e-9/2.5e9 = 3.6e-18.

No problem, we'll start specifying our drop weight in atto swimming-pools.
They are planning on building a European factory.
You have a different problem. You can handle the authentication, and blacklisting, on your side. That's harder to do when the clients communicate with OpenAI or another third party directly, while incurring charges that you have to pay for.
Yes and they rushed to cast this tragedy as part of an imagined crime epidemic.

There are some good contributors to the Chronicle, but they skew fairly conservative for SF and have for a long time.
So far as I'm concerned, the only single thing wrong with the legislation is that all the companies reacted to it by deciding to do whatever it took to keep collecting data they didn't strictly need.

Well, almost all.

GitHub doesn't show you that popup, because it doesn't collect unnecessary data. Neither does Hacker News.
> Who does?

The majority of my printing happens from my smartphone, so my printer needs to be on wifi, and needs to be able to reliably print from Android and iOS.

Accordingly, it needs firmware updates because phones break how they work all the time.

> things like wifi were added but that doesn't require cutting-edge technology - consumer devices could handle that 20 years ago

Not just wifi, multiple protocol for connecting to printers. Also that wifi needs to be 5ghz so I don't have to switch over to a 2.4ghz legacy network every time I want to print (which I had to do with my previous 2.4ghz only wifi printer!)

The onboard touch screen + embedded OS means I don't need to set anything up through a computer or smartphone app.

FWIW I have a black and white laser printer from Brother, I've never had to install a driver, I just plugged it in, typed my wifi PW on to the touch screen, and after a firmware update on first use it has happily been allowing anyone connected to my wifi to print w/o any hassle.
Men's clothing used to be interesting, then there was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation
Then let's solve those problems as well?

I do not think death is going away any time soon, we are not even able to extend lifetimes by a meaningful amount yet. For now, we can more meaningfully discuss a world where poeple are living for 150 years.

Running out of resources is not necessarily an eventuality. Arguably, it would be possible to live sustainably but regardless of people dying or not, we are not doing that anyway. That's a separate discussion.

Running out of room is a serious concern. I do not have a good answer to that.
I have not heard of the SF Standard (I'm not in CA). You seem to value SF Standard (at some level) even while disagreeing with underlying political stances. That juxtaposition seem unfortunately rare in the current era, could you expand on what value they create (for you)?
> suitcase full of cash and that it might impress some college coed to fuck

I think the sex in that story is a red herring. If you have a suitcase full of 700 grand you don't need to impressive anyone to have sex. If you have a bunch of illicit bitcoins converting that into cash also makes sense without bringing sex into it. Money makes sense as a motive.

> What does your assessment as to what's reasonable have to do with what Jack Teixeira thought was a good idea?

A crime like this needs a motive.

> this guy isn't a spook/source for any foreign government

We're on the same page. What I'm saying is if this guy was a spook the story would start to make sense. But it doesn't look like he is.

> what does his name have to do with it?

I'll go out on a limb and say the average person who's last name is Putin has more loyalty to the Russian government than someone who's last name is Teixeira.

> Actual spies [...] didn't have "russian" names

It's funny. In a parallel thread I'm being accused of thinking Cold War spy stories are real, and here's two men whose entire Wikipedia articles read like spy thrillers.

I'm not checking if this guy is a spy, just that some sort of evidence of Russian sympathies would make this all easier to swallow.
Taking a lesson in evolutionary adaptation from octopus, squid
No, your proxy site can have a login flow or some other unique id process that is per client like any web app.
While I'm not in favour of legislating something like that, because I think it would be extreme government overreach, if that were to just happen magically I would be hard pressed to find the problem.
You probably don't need to scale if all you're doing is auth and proxying requests. If you get to the point where you do need to scale, you can probably afford to figure it out.
using lsp with typescript-language-server?

most of the neovim setup scripts (lazyvim etc) get this set up automatically
Elixir and Rust is a good mix
Softwired! I was the same for many many years but changed as I grew older. The mindset you have is not bad in any way, I enjoyed my life then just the same as I do now.

The brain changes over time, so subsidies or other solutions could still have an impact.
Bing doesn't index Codeium (copilot rival)
Be sure to use the metric system! I'd like a half-micropool of beer, please.
And even humans get it wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ronson#Lawsuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony#Credits_...
The way things work in "ghetto logic" is a guy from the ghetto will kill you for "disrespecting." So instead you act friendly, unafraid, and respectful and that's good enough for them to want to go mug someone else.

If you want to get a good feel for San Francisco ghetto logic, or ghetto logic in general, I recommend the excellent, but hard to get a hold of documentary, "Straight Outta Hunter's Point" (2003).
Some people are happy with ChatGPT, some prefere Llama, FSF people like projects with all the source and training data available

Is that too close to a dream? Maybe. Is it misguided? I don't think so

Everyone will benefit even if smaller projects that you have access to all the steps from start to finish. Either for learning or new companies to compete

Today is very difficult, almost impossible, to run a fully open source PC, from firmwares, BIOS, drivers, OS, software... but I am happy for FSF to keep the dream alive as there is no other organization bothering with it

The other extreme also exists where the company would like you to sell you hardware and software that you'll never own. That you have to connect to the network, login, and it asks everyday if it is allowed to run. Only for the subscribed purpose, user, and location. Otherwise to disable itself and contact local authorities
We don't have many tech startups, but also don't have many big tech companies. Like there is SAP, and then... Wirecard maybe. Oh no, that's the one that faked IT greatness. I guess, there are Siemens and Bosch.

Then, IT talents: In 2020 Informatik (computer science) made it to the second-most studied university discipline after BWL (business admistration). Which is very interesting since it was not even TOP 10 for decades and still is a male-dominated field. Tradionally Germany has great apprenticeships, so there are multiple vocational schools you can go to learn something in IT, backed by IHK (chamber of commerce and industry). We'll need them, because we somehow fail to attract many foreign talents, compared to Switzerland.
"Google's deprecation of the JPEG-XL image format in February in favor of its own patented AVIF format might not end the web in the grand scheme of things, but it does highlight, once again, the disturbing amount of control it has over the platform generally."

I thought AVIF was royalty-free.
This doesn't make any sense in actually real humans. Of course you can make edgy jokes you don't believe. This is clear to everyone in society except a rotating cast of puritans, where a decade+ ago they fundamentalist christians, now they are fundamentalist progressives.
parent comment was edited, originally said "i thought they [Tailscale] hated that thing [Headscale]"

they literally have on their website that they encourage people to use Headscale if they want an open source solution for the coordination server or just to learn how the internals work, they coordinate with Headscale maintainers to avoid breakages, and they don't discourage (but also don't require) employees contributing to Headscale
Yes, but you could negotiate a token with each user on startup and if someone starts abusing your service you can block that access (perhaps automatically) or know who it is by authenticating the user.
In the US the states decide these rules, the federal government just sets limits. So, in my state, I just tell them my address, if I’m registered to vote they’ll have my name in the list, no need to show an ID or anything. They have a list of registered voters, so I guess if multiple people tried to give my name at my address, it would get flagged when the second person showed up. I actually don’t know what the procedure is. I think it almost never happens, at least, I’ve never heard of it happening to anyone.

Individual voter fraud is a silly way to influence an election, you have to get away with it thousands of times to make a dent.
The weights aren't going to help understand "why we see what we see", which is what non-tech people (and this article) think they'll get from companies releasing "the algorithm"
The GDPR is a very good piece of legislation. I fail to see where the awfulness is. Even if you discount the very significant new rights it gave to users, it did force all companies to actually think and take responsibility for what they collect. It’s a massive improvement from what was happening before.
Sorta like how in the 90s UML & all the new modeling tools were going to replace the need for actual coding!
With GPT 4, I was able to give it a JSON blob and asked it to generate a JSON schema definition to describe it. Then verified the generated schema, found a few edge cases in the dataset where it wouldn’t validate, asked ChatGPT to add those exceptions to the schema under certain conditions. Then found out that the library I wanted to use only supported JSON schema draft 6, so I asked ChatGPT to rewrite it to accommodate that and verified it still works. Then kept asking it to add misc validations as I needed and that was it.

Took me maybe 10-15 minutes total, where it would have taken me hours to brush up on the multiple versions of JSON schema, since I’ve never really written it. Reading it is trivial though, so you can review the final output quickly.
Very common to get access to the Azure/Local AD in ransomware attacks.

That Bing CMS bug was only exploited by the researchers who disclosed it to MS.
Your comment indicates you do not understand the mental state of many homeless people. I have a good friend, who has beaten by a homeless man in Los Angeles. None of his wallet, phone, or cash was taken. It was not a robbery. It was a senseless beating.
Is it significant that the leaks were allegedly of photographs of printouts, with visible creases, as oppposed to being straight file-dumps? Maybe photographic a printout is better for opsec as opposed to files with some sort of DLP.
Cool, so any consideration of the downsides of technology is just "fear of the future"? We're just suppose to terminate all thinking and mindlessly charge ahead?
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> No. It's number 37. It's number 23 with the default sort, which is alphabetical order. (California is early in the alphabet).

I checked, you're correct, but my point that it is more dangerous than the average city is still correct, even at #37.

> It's number 66 when you sort by homicides per 100k.

So? We're talking about safety here, not fatality. When people talk about safety, which is what I was responding to[1], they literally talking about violence, not "only violence that results in death".

I specifically addressed the posters dishonest equivocation that in other cities he is likely to be shot, while in SF all he has to do is step over poop.

The clear fact is that you're, on average, less safe in San Francisco than elsewhere; the gun argument doesn't factor into this so using it to show how "safe" SF is, is pointless ideology that is both irrelevant and dishonest.

[1] This is verbatim from the post I responded to:

> I generally haven't felt nearly as unsafe as people always play up.
I think AI spam will be the nail in the coffin for standard search engines. What will be interesting is how SEO might start targeting AI source collection.

I imagine being a source for a question like "What are the best speakers to buy for $100?" would be quite valuable.
That particular rendition relied on the UK refueling the planes. Seems a very tenuous link to me - the idea that the US would illegally kidnap someone from the streets in Sweden but not do the same thing in the UK

Hell nowadays the UK would not just allow, but probably pay the US to take asylum seekers somewhere else

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/iraq-war-tor...
Another VPN service bites it.
Those appear to be marketing innovations to me, but I don't understand everything you listed. I claim the music itself as a medium is stagnant. I.e. the art form hasn't really changed.
If some bad actors have access to inside information, that's a limited and solvable problem and doesn't mean that we should give up and give that information to everyone.
It also helps editors later be more flexible with the format... if someone wants to reuse the insight you taped in a new medium (say, they want to put it in a documentary) they might want to have you saying the whole thing rather than to provide the context of "there is also an interviewer".

The Song Exploder podcast does this very well; each episode is recorded as an interview between the host and the artist, but because the artist is answering the questions with a restatement of the question, they can edit it so that it just sounds like the artist talking through their project (you almost never hear the host ask a question).
With all the EU initiatives, one can see that some ideas make sense (securing privacy, regulating tech monopolies), but once it gets into legislations it ends up with monsters like the cookie banner or GDPR.

In the end it doesn't do what it was meant for but still remains a pain in the a*.
> The other half make 200,000 dollars a year from a subcontractor of a subcontractor of Northrop Grumman pushing paper at a desk all year.

That's what happens when you don't want the government to spend money actually hiring skilled employees. Instead we waste money trying to not waste money. The government could pay a very skilled developer $150k/year + benefits. But certain people think that the government only wastes money. So we can't have public sector employees making comparable wages. Instead we pay a "contractor"[1] $200k/year where the contractor gets $110k of that and the employer takes the other $90k.

[1] They are de facto public employees
Plaid Transfer (https://plaid.com/transfer/) does this.