skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would consider paying for access depending on the cost but if they wholesale ban NSFW content from the API then I'll probably be done. Way too many posts are marked as NSFW which aren't or only mildly so and I don't want a filtered feed.

I also refuse to use the official mobile apps or the website as they both are horrible. Reddit will move to the same place in my life as Twitter where I only go there to read some linked content but I no longer really participate.
We're currently focusing on web apps.

There's nothing "specific" in the underlying model that prevents it from testing mobile. It's just a matter of focus at the current time.
I hear that nuclear energy can also do that.
No, I mean he has demonstrated a lack of basic knowledge with programming itself, but he's making large architectural decisions and firing the people warning him about it.
So, where is everyone headed next?

We all know reddit has been on a slow decline for years now, and things are unlikely to improve as they head towards IPO.

Is there a good alternative yet for those of us who have little to no use for the viral front page content and whose primary use of reddit is interacting with niche communities, essentially using the site as a poor replacement for the dedicated forums from decades back?

Lemmy looked interesting last time I checked it out, but didn't quite seem to be taking off, an the dev team's censorship issues, even if they have been resolved, are troubling.
> It makes my position more solid

This is increasingly less true though.

People are seeing that they can produce high value for years and never get rewarded, and eventually get laid off when cuts need to happen.

At that point, why try?
What if big matrices are the last missing piece to research going on since the 50s…
One thing is clear: MS doesn't really care about customer satisfaction at all. There is no single innovative thing in Windows 11 that would make me switch over. I use Windows 11 on company machines only; I don't understand why anyone would voluntarily put up with this crap.
It isn't odd. Is it odd that content on Facebook is Meta's data? Maybe try reading the T&Cs and it won't seem so odd.

They provide the platform for free. Don't like it? Self-host or go elsewhere. This is the biz model every content silo uses.
> the power of Lisp macros isn't actually ever worth the responsibility in my experience

Expand your experience.

> At the very least, you can just write the code the macro would expand into.

You can "just" get it wrong when the code is used in many places.

Consider this as the hot take: macros reduce the number of characters you have to type. I haven't seen anything that beats macros in this metric.
I don't know what to tell ya, I assume I'm not an exceptional case. Maybe the characteristics change after 25+ years of use and multiple hundreds of thousands of miles.
This is very interesting.

I’m still noodling on how to send a full page screenshot to a model and get it to return the individual images (or the bounds of them) in the page.
Interesting discussion about discrimination against women by Indian tech screeners
You could also use postmarketos, mobian, etc. Have a look at the pmOS wiki for device support, most support USB OTG, and usually you don't need GPU acceleration nor screen/audio/cameras, which are usual pain points.
You might be interested in Q, which is the query language for kdb:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K...
Its CC-BY-NC-SA because of the upstream sources used for instruction training. There’s open resources being developed for that that I’ve seen, but probably nothing ready.
Cool to see Kratos mentioned here! A friend spent a bit of time coming up with a miniature OAuth provider implemented in Benthos (https://www.benthos.dev/) and Bloblang (https://www.benthos.dev/docs/guides/bloblang/about/). It is designed to serve a single OAuth client app and will generate JWT access tokens with limited lifetime: https://gist.github.com/disintegrator/0bd39879c437c4b3abb277...
I thought this updated blog post on password strength was interesting. I am disappointed they do not discuss the strength of using a diceware[0] based passphrase. Even limiting yourself to 4-letter words in your custom wordlist and using a 4 word passphrase, no capitalizations or space gives you 16 characters and against a ChatGPT-esque computer system it would still take them 2 years to compute all MD5 hashes. Using bcrypt, a PBKDF such as Argon2id or even SHA-1 would add thousands of years to the compute time. Using 6 or 8 word passphrases and a custom wordlist with 4, 5, and 6 letter words, 6 dice wordlists instead of the traditional 5 and you have a pretty solid password even against the most powerful computers today and in the near future.

[0]: https://theworld.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
We also use "house left/house right" to describe the audience perspective.
Who pays for Linux development? Either companies for servers or embedded Linux. Servers don't sleep. Embedded might sleep, but it's not PC hardware, so it needs completely different power management features.

Nobody is paying for Linux on average PC hardware, that's why 20 year old bugs are not fixed.
A jailbroken chat with GPT told me this article was "total bullshit".
Kaspersky Antidrone – protecting airspace from drones
For people wanting to run it locally, you can fit the 7b model (just) into a 24GB VRAM GPU (e.g. 3090/4090). The 3b model appears to be much more reasonable, but I would say the output is.... of limited quality based on the few tests I've run thus far.
The link to your repo is returning a 404 now, whereas I could see it just a min ago.
>QR code that was generated on their phone

this gets brought up a lot, often paired with GPS/other sensor matching and with a flavor of PGP-first thinking, web of trust, etc.

The protocol only allows interaction with other people that have swapped keys or been "vouched", depending on the multi-sig requirements baked into the protocol.

With the correct marketing scheme, this could take off, ironically being fueled by FOMO/exclusionary social pressure and meme pressure.
Yeah I can just like I am about all those other great ways to lose money that I just posted.

But, I'm really not getting your point here. SPACs have to report financial results just like any other public company. They aren't allowed to commit fraud any more than any other company.
> If the same workers in Bangladesh were to migrate to US

I think we have to factor in reality and external constraints if we're looking at this scenario.

An individual worker, maybe you can say that. But the entire segment of the developing-world workforce? If they were somehow able to immigrate en masse, it would disrupt the economy enough that I don't think we could predict the effects and say "they'll earn $7.25/hr".

Where they live, doing the work they do, they as individuals have almost no monetary value to western capitalist society (despite collectively generating uncountable value).
I know they exist, the one's I've seen are used to store towels and other things. By functional I mean really the kind you can shower in, with no pain.

Has anyone actually tried them? how is the water pressure?
You're right... I went off-lane there. It makes total sense of course since there is a demand for data, and clearly, just a minority of the people can just scrape everything at will, even if it sounds like kids play to me. And actually, it all makes sense now, since pay walling your own API is just throwing some competition to scrapers, which is totally legit. Sometimes a simple question can do a good deed, thank you:)
> I have an irrational concern about using security products from a company post-merger or acquisition. It has never ended well for me as an anecdotal user. Going public is taking that worry even further.

I wouldn't call that an irrational concern, since it's in fact pretty rational. Stock market investors demonstrability do not value computer security over financial performance, and once they control a company, its focus will shift to their priorities.
> Why can’t we do this easily yet?

Well, because it's distributed computing. Distributed computing is hard... really hard! Especially for applications requiring any level of real-time-ish interactivity between different users.

Two computers talking to each other in a room via a server in Virginia is not absurd. The physical distance is abstracted over completely, the application engineer needn't think about that at all, that's the beauty and point of protocols like tcp/ip.

What cannot be abstracted over is the single source of truth in the networked system (the server) that makes a whole class of really hard problems go away. So as much as you can describe the remote server as a problem, because of latency perhaps, it is a vastly lesser problem than the distributed computing ones that'd be introduced in the alternative!

That is the basic reason why things are the way they are, it's really not absurd or surprising at all, in my opinion.
> I do recall online discourse being a lot angrier and less civil (not merely "more critical", but a lot more personal attacks, hateful generalizations, caricatures, etc).

Tangentially related: I wonder how Usenet groups or 1990s/early 2000s mailing lists compare to today's social media in terms of toxicity. Seems like the "netiquette" mostly worked those days; then again, one can probably easily spot ridiculous trolling or bullying in list archives as well (I like old mailing lists, so I think I have seen many remarkable rants over the years -- to the point that they have seemed conceptually interesting, a peculiar form of utterly irresponsible postmodernist stream-of-conciousness-literature if you will).

The nature of e-mail -- free-form composition, often resulting in lengthy, thoroughly argued replies -- probably did keep some of the anger and emotional arguments at bay, though. Could be that 1990s/2000s hackers were also more eloquent people, but this feels like more of a myth.

Hypothesis: if most online environments would still encourage barebones free-form composition (like e-mail; social media pushes one toward tight and thus sometimes overly straightforward expressions [1]), we would possibly notice more high-quality writing and wordsmiths in the internet. (Proof: go read the lengthy posts of your favorite HN commenter.)

1: See Uni of Chicago-Illinois communications researcher Zizi Papacharissi's work on "affective storytelling". An 2015 article with 250+ citations, analysing Twitter coverage during the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and online iterations of the Occupy movement: https://zizi.people.uic.edu/Site/Research_files/Papacharissi...
> solved a few problems for a few people

Absolute rubbish. The proliferation of SaaS has been absolutely huge for business productivity, in fact, I would argue that my professional services business doesn't exist at anywhere near its profitability without it.

> I don't want my application to require an active Internet connection. I don't want it sending data to someone else's computer. Probably most importantly, I don't want the software that I pay for to change on me without my direct opt-in.

What software specifically? How to collaborate on literally anything business wise without a internet connection?! Now, is there a case for offline software? ABSOLUTELY. But to call this whole thing a fad and a trend is absurdly disingenuous.

EDIT:

Just saw your reply below:

I have multiple devices, laptops etc. in my house. Setting up a new Linux install takes me about 20 minutes. Wouldn't know about Windows. Then again, I probably use way fewer "services" / "apps" than most people. It's funny, I've always been a very tech savvy computer nerd. I've developed software for a living for 25 years. But the older I get and the more the industry changes the less I find I use "modern tech" as a consumer.

Ahhh makes more sense, you're a developer. I get that YOU might not need SaaS tools, but this is a very myopic take.
Interesting, so it could be similar to how our brains store knowledge, but could also be completely different.

This makes me wonder if these models are perfect universal translators once they “grasp” a concept.
As the other commenter noted, I’m talking about value to the customer rather than value to the company. WRT your list, I would only claim Apple as a clear success in this regard. (I don’t particularly like Apple myself, but Apple does seem to be giving customers more of what they actually want.)

Microsoft - Ruining Windows to extract more value from customers.

Facebook - hardly anything even needs to be said here.

Google - slowly getting worse and rotting away.

Tesla - I’m a bit neutral here. Tesla has its problems, but it’s not clear that they used it be amazing and now are just trying to extract money from users.
Magnets can generate energy.
I was a big fan of Yubikey (I have 3) until fewer and fewer services supported them, instead switching to authenticator apps. Now I have zero hard tokens, but still four authenticator apps: Google + 3 for banking services that use their own.

The biggest killer was the fact that Yubikey NFC is so awful. I worked with tech support repeatedly, even bought two new keys, and it almost never worked right.
As a sassenach that took me a minute (even with your helpful addendum)...
I tooted this yesterday:

Selling access to LLMs via remote APIs is the “stage plays on the radio” stage of technological development. It makes no actual sense; it’s just what the business people are accustomed to. It’s not going to last very long. So much more value will be unlocked by running them on device. People are going to look back at this stage and laugh, like paying $5/month to a cellphone carrier for Snake on a feature phone.

Web apps:

- Need data persistence. Distributed databases are really hard to do.

- Often have network effects where the size of the network causes natural monopoly feedback loops.

None of that applies to LLMs.

- Making one LLM is hard work and expensive. But once one exists you can use it to make more relatively cheaply by generating training data. And fine tuning is more reliable than one shot learning.

- Someone has to pay the price of computation power. It’s in the interest of companies to make consumers pay for it up front in the form of a device.

- Being local lets you respond faster and with access to more user contextual data.
Not their fault, the instruct-tuned models depend on non-open data.... Which should be open however. Scraping chatGpt is legal
Is this a joke? I tried the HuggingFace demo, and it just spews out ridiculous replies for everything.

Examples:

>> What can you tell me about Therese Johaug?

> The person you’re asking about is Therese Johaug (The Judge) a Norwegian jazz violinist. She played with many famous musicians, including and especially Charles Mingus. She was born in 1954 in the town of Kolsås. She is married to the violinist Mark Sörensen.

Everything in that statement is wrong. She is a Norwegian cross-country skier, born in 1988 in Dalsbygda, not married.

Ok. Let's try something easier.

>> What can you tell me about Edvard Munch?

> -He was born in 1821 in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse in what is now the Czech Republic.

> -He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, where he made a portrait of a young girl called Anna.

> -He then moved to Norway to practice with his friends and Dano-Norwegian painter, Christian Krohg, the two of them known as “The Scream” or “Kristine in the Black”.

> -There he met the painter, Ambroise Thomas, who became a very close friend of Munch’s and would often take him to the beach to watch the boats.

> -One day in 1883 Munch bought a house at a deserted place in the outskirts of Oslo, in the southern region of Norway.

> -The house, called “La Chute”, had no inhabitants at all, it was just a huge pile of rocks, but this Munch loved it so much that he named it “Lochte”.

> -He took the name “Munch” because he thought it was German, but it was totally French, he had the idea that he could paint the ocean and the sky, so he named his new painting “Moulin Sur l’Oiseau”.

> -At the same time, he would soon start creating works of art that would be strange and not make any sense, for instance, one summer day in 1870 he painted what is known now as “The Scream”, it has many other paintings with the same title, “The Scream” is a drawing of a young girl, she is holding an ax and is crying in the scream position.

> -He had the idea of “The Scream” in one sitting in 1883, but it took six months to paint.

> -He stayed in France in the studio of Christian Krohg when he was still Edouard de Badeley, one of the greatest painters of his time.

> -In 1891 he returned to Norway to France and lived there for the rest of his life.

> -He died in Paris in 1900.

Christ on a bike.

My favourite must be that "The Scream is a drawing of a young girl, she is holding an ax and is crying in the scream position."
You have to come up with a better alternative that doesn't take things away.

Your examples are good examples of things that are not better alternatives, they are worse.

I don't think most people realize just how unique a material plastic for instance is.
Btrfs Maintenance Toolbox
Cherenkov Radiation – real life version of the strange blue light in sci-fi
Cool to read about the actual science that maybe underlies a lot of sci-fi stories that include eerie blue lights coming from futuristic things.
> Cars don't run on 10W-40.

Why come?
> This post persuaded me to not take much of a look at Janet.

Do you mean to say that you were intent on taking a good look at Janet when you woke up this morning, but because of this post specifically your mind has been radically changed?
>> The fact this is not only legal, but common practice baffles me ...

> It's faster and cheaper, those are things that are generally considered valuable.

For the company. It's also faster and cheaper for the company to just to ignore all regulatory requirements (financial reporting, product safety, pollution, labor, etc.), but that's usually illegal for good reason.

It's seems pretty dysfunctional that companies would be allowed to do an end-run around pre-IPO scrutiny like this.
They are unwieldy and because of their length they're now too long for the sidings constructed to allow trains to pass each other causing scheduling issues. The whole rail industry in the US is slowly choking itself to death on it's own short term profit motives.
Ironically, if the OP had used straight 30w or 20-50w it would have run out of the car slower causing the car to take longer to catch fire because of less buildup of spilled oil.
(1) What makes you think that the benchmarks will be blocked in robots.txt? E.g. if it is uploaded to arxiv or github I don't know how you would stop it from being indexed
(2) There's probably loads of content blocked by robots.txt that people want to train on.
You can't sleep a Pi.
As a best practice, if you're being paid to write code you should make sure your corporate lawyers are okay with rolling the dice with these tools. The number of legal unknowns here is astounding.

Using randomly generated code with dubious copyright and licensing information is an excellent way to be ridiculed on the Internet for the rest of your life. Rightfully so.

The world doesn't need another generation of developers too stupid and lazy to implement leftpad. It desperately needs real innovators creating genuinely new things. AI might help with labor intensive tasks, but it's far cry from what the hype makes it out to be.
No there isn't. There isn't a single scientifically proven consequence of climate change we don't know how to deal with.
I tried it [1] a lot, but I must say it confuses me most of the time and I need to read the original text to check if it makes sense. Lots of times it doesn't.

[1] https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa
Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby
Yes, people who don't think like you do are horrible human beings.
Yup. Having worked on this for a while it’s best to extract the images of the PDF, then send them to Google Vision for extraction.

I have it working with 600 page documents.
This highlights the importance of SOPs, training, checklists etc.

What's the value of a unit-less fuel gauge? Why not a warning light or two per tank and / or a calibrated fuel gauge?

If you want to move the fuel hoses out of the cabin (good plan!) move the fuel hoses out of the cabin but leave the interface in place and make it electrical; put the mechanical switch in the difficult to find place and update the SOP to include "if the remote fuel switch fails use the mechanical switch in this difficult to reach location"

Engineering around edge cases is hard. Which is just simply saying "engineering is hard". Doing things without addressing edge cases is just craft.
What Happened to Fiverr?
The English equivalent is responding to someone saying thank you with "hey, it's nothing"
According to Bloomberg [1], for ongoing business expenses, it doesn’t. For startup costs, it does need to if you want these RD credits.

[1] https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/ch...

It is ambiguous even if you disagree with Bloomberg.
Community Phone (YC W19): Hiring engineers to manage VoLTE, low latency systems
I mean this is the whole point of the US ethanol industry and farm subsidies in general(that many people complain about online), better to have people growing too much corn than not having enough. If the US did have some drought or disaster that damaged a huge amount of crops, we just stop making ethanol and use the stockpiles and reduced crop to feed ourselves. In the meantime we use the excess for ethanol production, even if it's technically a net loss
How can you trust it though? It notoriously hallucinates and makes things up in an otherwise plausible way, and the only way to tell is to already be knowledgeable about what you’re asking about… which makes the whole exercise useless.
> Vicuna 13B performance is an order of magnitude below ChatGPT for all but gimmicky conversational stuff.

Until you connect it to external resources, I tend to think of anything you do with “brain-in-a-jar” isolated ChatGPT as gimmicky conversational stuff.
Pretty amazing. I uploaded the National Cybersecurity Policy recently released by the White House/CISA. It has strong DRM that prevents cutting and pasting, and OCR. Yet, somehow they got past that.
"Everyone who disagrees with my point of view must be ignorant or evil" is a terrible argument and only strengthens his point.

What a juvenile and reductive way to view people and relationships. Have you ever self-reflected and considered maybe you might be wrong about anything, ever? Have you ever extended any generosity of argument?

How about people are genuinely tired of the bs.
Dyscalculia: Do Rishi Sunak's maths plans add up for everyone?
Would you recommend to keep on with favoring this accounting trick for fairness because previous businesses took advantage of it? If so, how/when should the legislator changes laws when needed?

> general public

Not sure what’s your definition, maybe “non-startup founders neither investors” ? I work in startup since a couple of years and all my employers did declare me as r&d while we where only implementing react or so without any “research” difference than a cabinet maker building a piece of furniture. This drives me nuts because I don’t contribute to my country tax while my income is on the very upper side comparing median.

Creative =/= Research
(nonfatal) accidents sell more cars I suppose
All a low futures price means is that money men are betting there won't be a shortage, it doesn't say anything about whether there will be a shortage or not.