skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much appreciate your help and I'm glad to do any other diagnostics. However, respectfully, I think the deeper issue is the lack of community support. On the verification page, there is no "help" button. Even with my motivation to find the community support page (which is also non-trivial), there was no response on my original community post and it was auto-closed which was particularly offensive to me (at least just keep it open). In my opinion, something of the magnitude of "we're possibly going to lock people out of large parts of the internet" deserves more careful engagement with the public.

I also understand Linux is an obscure use case but I do wonder how many other "normal" use cases out there have been ensnared. Given the lack of a "help" link on the verification page, an average user is powerless.
Syslog-ng has a feature where each line can be piped into a long running program (eg Perl) and parse/match each line as it arrives. Then pump matched lines to the necessary thing.
pretty funny that I recall walking in the "pirate shop" area in Hong Kong, and finding multi-thousand pirate copies of American shrinkwrap software, including perfect cover art and sometimes tiny manuals.
Anyone have a non-Mastodon link?
Way to change the subject. I thought we were talking about cops here.
>> Fertility isn't "free". You pull nutrients out of the soil whenever you harvest.

> Simply not true. Many plants accumulate surplus nutrients in their root systems or provide the required support for the soil live that sequesters nutrients in the soil. All of that remains in the soil when you harvest the plant,

That's inaccurate and simplistic.

_Some_ plants generate _some_ nutrients in the soil. The most common example being legumes (in symbiosis with bacteria) fixing atmospheric nitrogen into a form essential for plant life.

However all plants have complex nutrient needs. So even those that contribute something to the soil will remove other nutrients.

In the example of legumes, to simplify, if the whole plant is harvested, they will have made a net contribution of nitrogen, but the soil will still be depleted of e.g. Phosphorous and Potassium.

> if you are not dump enough to destroy the soil live by tilling, which sadly is currently the norm in industrialized agriculture.

It's not a dumb approach, it can make sense. And it does not "destroy" the soil. Yes it _can_ cause leeching, soil erosion and depletion of some nutrients, but all these ill effects can be dramatically lessened by good practice.

In Europe we have soils that have been tilled intermittently for millenia and are still productive.
Is that only the case in Android?
Who (consumer or producers) ultimately shoulders the burden of a tax (in this case, a carbon tax to internalize the externalities I referred to) depends on the price elasticity of demand.

If consumers are relatively price inelastic, then they'll shoulder the cost of the tax.

If consumers are relatively price elastic (sensitive), then they (at the margins) switch to alternatives and then the producers ultimately pay via lower volumes and tighter profit margins.

I think we are seeing what happens when oil increases significantly for a prolonged period - emergence of EVs, switch to heat pumps, etc. etc.
Doesn't seem to me there's any ambiguity in that sentence. Each use of "present" only has one possible meaning that makes grammatical sense (with the possible exception of the final use).
Also namespaces. When you need them, you really need them.
In that case though, let's say OpenAI decided to enforce their Terms of Use by potentially suing. The defendant would likely have to show, whether he likes it or not, that he never once signed up for ChatGPT, never once signed up for the official OpenAI API, and managed to perfectly reverse-engineer the API from the outside. Seems unlikely to me.

But then of course... CFAA and DMCA. The DMCA in particular, for example, doesn't consider the strength of the lock in the criminality. DVDs can be cracked with 7 lines of Perl since 2001, but it's still a DMCA violation.
Show HN: Friendly AI – Chatbot messenger for your AI assistants
My buddy and I have been working on a chatbot service that connects to servers running AI assistants. Friendly AI allows developers and researchers to connect their existing Python servers using a messenger interface.

We have also built a simple open source messaging protocol called BaseBot (https://github.com/sergeybok/BaseBot) that allows anyone to add support for our app to their existing servers. Users can create a server running a LLM bot, Stable Diffusion bot, or any other server application. Check out the experimental quickstart section to get up and running on your own device: https://github.com/sergeybok/BaseBot#experimental-quickstart.

Right now, the app is built using React Native, but we are actively working on native apps for both iOS and Android with expanded functionality. While the Android app is still in review, you can check out the iOS app at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/friendly-ai/id6447589849.

If you have any questions or would like to share any feedback privately, you can email us at contact@friendlyai.xyz.
This comment is largely incorrect.

Raw milk is generally better tolerated than homogenized/pasteurized milk. However, in the early 1900s, as supply chains lengthened and the travel time for largely un-refrigerated milk from cow to table increased to days, we found that milk was a primary source of food-borne infections. The absolute risk was still low, but the relative risk was high. Thus, pasteurization became common and in most places, mandatory.

People have drunk raw milk for millennia and have not suffered from hormone-related effects..including people on dairy-centric diets. If you're talking specifically about rbGH, it's very easy to find milk free of it, which I would recommend anyway - I'd hazard a guess that's more common. It’s disputed that it has any ill effects, but I’m totally on board with not risking it.

Everything else aside, powerlifters aren’t recommending crazy diets like gallon-of-milk-a-day (GOMAD) and bodybuilders aren’t paying out the nose for human breast milk because milk has estrogenizing effects.
Then Exxon would go bankrupt by the demand cratering to zero. It's the same result either way.
So, if I create a cat GIF API, but announce that it's a private cat GIF API only I am allowed to use, I can sue anyone else who uses it to retrieve a cat GIF?
I installed promtail a few weeks back and I ran into this bug, that had been outstanding for months: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/8663 (e.g. a fix had been written but had not been released):

Due to a buffering issue, Loki would exit in case of configuration error without printing any error message or anything at all.

There is definitely something weird about how the project is run.
> I want you to find me a human who (a) has defined a loss function for social interaction and (b) consciously performs the statistical analysis involved in fitting that loss function in social settings.

Why would they have to do that consciously? Do you think LLMs do this "consciously", if that term even applies? I wouldn't think so. The loss function applies during training, that ultimately defines the weights which guide their "thinking process".

Analogously, human experiences in childhood shape our ultimate neural weights which guide our thinking processes in social situations in adulthood.

> LLMs do not have cognitive processes. They do not think.

You don't know what thinking is mechanistically, so you can't make this claim. I don't know why people keep pretending we have knowledge that we do not in fact have.
No, I never said we removed anything due to some nation state's MiniTrue calling it misinformation or disinformation.

All search engines must comply with laws (CSAM, right to be forgotten or whatever it is called now) in various regions. That compliance is not in any way the same category as what DDG boasted in March 2022 that it was doing.
I mean, I've had the gamut. TN, H1-B, EB-3, Green Card, and now Passport. And Canadian citzenship before that after immigrating there.

No immigration process is quick. They're probably intentionally designed to not be quick. The Canadian process might be quicker, but it still takes plenty of time, has requirements, etc.
People with university educations can very much abuse their power. Thinking otherwise is a liberal fantasy, much like the formerly popular meme that China would magically liberalize its political system because of globalization.
Point taken. I'd say I've never brought along anyone who was unclear about who was paying (i.e. these are friends and presume they're paying their own way because this isn't work), but I guess you can never be too sure.
This is awesome. I've wanted to go down this route for a while. Every time, I basically give up at the point where I decide I want to check out https://opensfx.com and then realize I don't have an easy way to get a referral.

I'm currently using a NLR Wheel Stand, and probably don't have time to build right now, but if you'd consider shooting me an email at chris at cjkinni.com I'd love a chance at actually going down the route of building one of these. No worries if you'd prefer not to.

Great work on the whole thing!
January 1, 1995: Confirmation of the Existence of Rogue Waves
Many people think of Turing Machines and see only the abstraction. But what Alan Turing created was a _process_, a method, for creating what we call Turing Machines. The process, the abstraction, is not a Turing Machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images). The machines created by the process are Turing Machines.

The process of creating these machines is the crucial part because if a singular process can create infinitely many machines, then those machines must bear some sort of commonality. This is what computer science is hoping to study, but we constantly get distracted by studying details of individual machines, individual numbers. And often, we confuse ourselves into thinking we haven't found any commonality at all -- that our machines _aren't_ Turing machines! But of course, this is incorrect.

When Turing was creating the machine to counter the Enigma Machine, do you think he just thought of it as a "computer"? or did he think of it as a machine created by his process, a Turing Machine? (though he probably wouldn't have used that term)

Edit: a concrete refutation of your claim that computers are not Turing Machines would then be to create a machine that solves the Halting Problem. Turing Machines cannot solve the Halting Problem so if our computers are not Turing Machines then they must be able.

We arrived at the Halting Problem because of our study of Turing Machines as a class of machines and our computers are within that class.
You can transfer $12 million with no gift tax, so if you want to pass something down instead of reserving it for end of life care, it's no problem.

https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/estate-tax-and-lifetime-g...

Obviously that's more beneficial to people with a lot of assets than to someone with less, but for instance, a parent might choose to gift the house they live in to their children well prior to end of life care being a consideration (of course that will be very situational; do they want to stay in that house, do they have a good relationship, etc., etc.).

Medicaid won't consider the primary residence when examining assets to pay for care, but it may try to capture some of the estate after death.
Ask HN: What and how to think before jumping to write code
As soon as I get the basic idea of new feature and or design that needs to be developed. I directly start implementing it without considering basic things it'll need in immediate future, extensiblity etc.
So I want to know how to improve this bad habit. From where can I start improving it. Considering xyz or some basic checklists/good reads will help alot. Thanks!
even if Windows survives, they will also likely move to ARM

Intel is in real serious trouble, and so is AMD
The Miata actually gives good context, that era was a 8.5s 0-60. The EV1 was ~7.7s.

However, if you were to run this race today with the 2023 Miata...well, the thing got a new sport, as it now has a 5.7s 0-60, utterly trashing both cars here.

Actually, our T5 Volvo XC40 does 0-60 in 6.3s, Toyota will sell you a camry that does it in 5.6s...but that's almost cheating as the thing makes freaking 300HP lol. Gas cars got fast out of nowhere because it moves units and CAD changed everything for engine design.
One of my first jobs 30+ years ago was ESD testing automotive and consumer electronics. I would spend a week with a discharge gun methodically running different discharge energies and waveforms both directly onto the devices as well as onto radiators at various distances from the device under test, as well as any cabling/harnessing that attached to the device.

Then the design team would figure out the reason for any resets or operational anomalies (or damaged components) and put whatever additional suppression was needed. Sometimes this required rerouting of traces to reduce coupling or redesign of the ground plane. It's a tricky business and expensive if you want to do it right. I suspect that your average $120 display does not see this kind of testing.
Everything that anyone has ever built is built on the works of others. This is how we progress as a species. The entire reason why the internet is so revolutionary is that it allows for permissionless innovation.
This litany is already getting old and it's just 2 month in.

All intellectual property is inherently stolen. Just let it go.
Assuming that those third-party services are ones that the public can access via their own web interfaces, such that the only thing unauthorized is the manner in which the APIs are consumed, this would seem (unless I am missing more specific precedent) to fall out of CFAA coverage as a result of the Van Buren v. United States decision.
People have gone to prison over guessable GET parameters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security#AT&T/iPad_emai...

https://www.praetorianprefect.com/2010/06/114000-ipad-owners...
You might not think so, but there are absolutely unheard voices there.

The /lgbt/ board is full of viewpoints I've not seen shared elsewhere.

Is that a good thing? Not for me to decide. I'm not particularly involved with 4chan culture so I don't understand what they're saying. But they've definitely found a space where they can share their opinions.
Re-implemnted a version of the old unix `who`, `last`, and `finger` command line tools that works across most of the whole infra of the company I work for. Planning to add more APIs for it for different systems to aggregate up into it. (AD, EDRs, Splunk, etc.)

I was a sysadmin for a dialup ISPs with a shell server in the mid 90's and people today have no idea how good we had it back then. An entire userbase accessible from a single shell prompt and a few commands instead of todays gamified web UXs with 3D graphics. Security was terrible back then, but the UX was calm, so I re-built that experience over everything.
I built a Chess training app called SpicyChess(https://spicychess.com) that leverages spaced repetition and strict time constraint to increase your pattern recognition ability for tactical motifs. SpicyChess also allows you to "bookmark" a puzzle for review later on.

It's not the most interesting tech I built but it's the most recent one and checks the features wish-list I've had when using other tactics training apps.
If you leave a door open to your garden or house, can I come and chill without asking?
Can Parseable be sharded, or can you just run a single instance?
> The notion that there is some kind of divide between math, science, and religion

Oh? There isn't a divide?

> Catholics used to be young Earth creationists the overwhelming majority now believe in an old Earth

Hey! There's the divide, its about 300 years!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

And if you feel like the divide is gone now:

abortion
euthenasia
contraceptives
sexual orientation
Jeans also started getting skinnier/slimmer 20 years ago, and that trend demanded thinner and stretchier fabrics. Thick, baggy work jeans are no doubt more durable but not fashionable.
I just looked and AMD now has a LARGER market cap than INTC.
I am seriously claiming that. Everywhere else on the internet, you'll get banned for posting something even a little politically incorrect.
We have a gigantic amount of unrealized talent in the US who never get to utilize their full potential because it's cheaper to hire H1s who have already been trained than to invest in US citizens. I will never lament losing out on a few H1s here and there as long as US citizens continue to get the short end of the stick.
Is this intended to replace Stable Diffusion? Somebody want to give the eli5?
> there are alternatives that can hold their ground in terms of productivity and economic sustainability

Much as I like these approaches, unfortunately mostly they are currently a long long way off the productivity of conventional agriculture by any metric (yield/area, yield/animal etc)

If you've got some specific examples of regenerative systems that out-perform conventional in terms of productivity please post some links.
The story behind the EV1 is pretty interesting if you haven't read up on it. They were all crushed eventually. I think there's only a handful left. One is at a university in the Midwest. Pretty sure OSU.
Seems like it's a cute way of saying that it's a material and superficial way of life (like religious ceremony). Which might be true for some people. I've been a vegitarian since I was YOUTH CREW (lol) but I've kept doing it for my own reasons. Most people have no idea...

What I notice though is that people get attached to their diets and act offended when you don't eat something that they consider to be some core part of their life style(barbeque, steak, meaty burritos, sushi, vegan fake meat). Some people can and do get butt-hurt when they find out I don't eat meat and then want to play "gotcha" reindeer games.
There is a fine and very important distinction to be made here.

If you have a health problem, you should do your best to get exercise, eat healthy, etc. However, that doesn't mean medicines are wasteful or pointless. People often greatly benefit from them.

I've struggled with ADHD, depression, and anxiety my whole life. And indeed, yes, the best treatment I've found is diet, weight training, and long-duration cardio. Which I do.

But people who are "in the hole" need medicines to dig them out. And also, people with kids/multiple jobs don't have as much time as I do. And these habits take years to finally stick. And I still need ADHD medication.

And the best treatment for things like this is to try every treatment you can together, but don't overwhelm yourself in the process (and it takes wisdom to not overwhelm yourself).

People on Twitter opine about this kind of stuff piss me off. They think their vague notions about what is right for society--that they have no experience with--should take precedence over my decades of (informal) research and lived experience. It's okay to have opinions and discuss things, but don't try to bully the people who actually know what they're talking about.
I've always wanted lab-grown meat.

Not the kind that looks like sludge, but the kind that would be indistinguishable from a beef patty you buy at the store, not least because it would be a more efficient way of producing food at scale.

But also because some of that technology would also eventually be applied to the creation of human organs.

And I'd like to live in a world where the waiting list for an organ transplant is just a few hours for everybody.
There's a story in Obama's bio (I think) where he went down to the local Chicago Democratic Party office to volunteer. Someone could find the reference if I'm not GPT-3'ing this.

The guy behind the desk said, "Who sent you?" (meaning, "what Party official?")

Obama said, "Nobody."

So the guy sent him away, with "We don't want nobody nobody sent!"

They didn't ask where he went to school, though.
To be fair to you, I am being snarky and not explicit about what bothered me about your initial comment. You’re right, I haven’t addressed it because it’s not my point, and yeah I am kind of trolling you.

I actually don’t care about AI regulation specifically and this is definitely not about ‘me’ or ‘you’.

I just generally think the technology industry has proved time and time it doesn’t take any responsibility for bad outcomes. AI putting millions out of jobs is a GIGANTIC problem for everyone. So, your comment that seemed blindly in favor of the status quo bothered me. I think leaders in tech need to engage more with elected officials to understand how to make society better for everyone. If you study history, you know that real revolutions (not the type of ‘revolutions’ tech billionaires claim to lead) are about material conditions.

It disturbs me that so many people in tech don’t care about what happens to working people, it seems like most want to just treat the world as a playground, invent ‘cool’ things, get rich, screw everything else.

That’s my point - the draw of regulation in the abstract is about being able to ensure we build a fairer society. I obviously respect your agency and opinions. I just think we have way too many decison makers who think like you, and it’s creating a certain debt that a generation someday will have to pay, and it won’t be pretty.
It is the best behavior for the language you are writing your browser engine on.

The thing is that ironically, a browser engine is only marginally inside the Rust's niche. (Or maybe it's even marginally outside, at this point I don't think anybody knows.) And for most things things that fit squarely at the focus of the language, it is a bad choice.
Back when they used to charge a few dollars to download the app I bought the Ultimate Guitar App (https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/)

Honestly been pleasantly surprised now that they've had a subscription model for years and have honored my app purchase from probably over ten years ago
Show HN: Haystack NLP Now Supports GPT4 with PromptNode and Agent
Vector is wonderful, and while I have no experience with Loki, if it's as bad as this post and thread suggest, perhaps Vector makes it more manageable by normalising and buffering everything coming into it.

For example, another comment here talks about Loki locking up Docker if it's the logging backend and the container crashes. I suspect that wouldn't be possible, or would be less likely and more manageable with Vector in the middle because it will buffer. I've also dealt with normalising logs from different sources and it can be a pain, but Vector will do some or all of that already, reducing the requirements put on Loki.
Seems like a theme with Intel. Back in the 80s Acorn was evaluating using Intel's 286, but Intel didn't want to work with them so they ended up making their own CPU, which directly led to ARM.
I don't like being negative and I always appreciate open source / free software but..

I tried using it in a small k8s cluster on digital ocean. Initial installation using the recommended helm package was easy enough. However, it only saved a very short period of log data. I spent a fair amount of time searching docs and the web about how to increase the storage, with no luck. Such an obvious and common need should not be so difficult to configure. You should not have to deep dive, reverse engineer, and read source code in order to solve such simple problems.
> Or, there's no need for you to build this kind of great thing for your elderly relative because an AGI can do it instead?

Just like there is no need to design and build the FM transmitter from scratch because [factory] can do it instead. Some of us still think it's fun to build things like that as a hobby, but those who don't can still have an FM transmitter to start with and create something more exciting from there.
If we enforced intellectual property rights that harshly, nothing more complex than a 6502 would have ever been made.