skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are in the process of supporting a native `LOAD PDF` command. Meanwhile, you could convert each PDF into a series of images and load them using the `LOAD IMAGE` command. You could then run any text extraction user-defined function (e.g., `textract` [1]) over the loaded documents with additional filters based on your constraints (like PDF author or creation date). As EVA is designed for local usage, you can run it on local private files. We would love to jointly explore how to best support your text extraction pipeline. Please consider opening an issue with more details on your use case.

[1] https://textract.readthedocs.io/en/stable/python_package.htm...
Same way they do insider trading, pay-to-play, and cocaine orgies with laws against those on the books. The laws are for thee, not them, pleb.
Remember, a fine (typically insufficient) is just a measured cost of doing business.

How many times is it going to take for them to actually take this seriously?
I`m really sorry, but did you read the article?

> But Manhattan and London have the highest house prices in their respective countries, primarily because of their density and the opportunities density provides.

....

> But if becoming just as big as Manhattan or London would make Oakland more expensive, shouldn’t we assume that a little step in that direction would make it a little bit more expensive?

....

> No; I think the missing insight is that there’s some pool of geographically mobile Americans1 who are looking for new housing (or who might start looking if the right situation presented itself).
"security properties of the TPM - like Bitlocker's TPM- only protector - can be defeated by an attacker with 2-3 hours of physical access to the target device"

So I take this is more of a data exfiltration type of attack?

Edit: here is the POC https://github.com/PSPReverse/ftpm_attack
Yes. printf is not a "flex", it's the only safe way to display arbitrary strings. The link mentions one good reason to avoid echo (string might be "-n"), but another important reason is that the behaviour of echo is implementation-defined if the string contains backslashes (e.g. `echo 'foo\nbar'` displays one line in bash but two lines in dash and zsh).
Was it a self hosted github instance?
Observation is inherently a process with time. Without time, observation cannot be done. I’m not sure how observation without time could even be done, with the goal of observation being the measure from one state to another.
Use gogs.
Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees
damn how will I be subjected to an endless stream of terrible comic book remakes if these writers can't strike a deal?

stay on strike as long as you like, I'll get by without an umpteenth Star Wars series
So then why wouldn't they do a better job, to avoid detection as "propaganda to suggest that your enemies do propaganda"? Seems likely it's propaganda to suggest that your enemies do "propaganda to suggest that your enemies do propaganda"...
You’ll get some angry responses to this but I think it’s very worthwhile to say. Yes, ID verification in order to watch pornography is deeply Orwellian and terrifying (which is the aspect places like HN tend to focus on) but the bulk of the public support for these measures isn’t because people want government surveillance, it’s because they want to look out for children. Are they misguided? Perhaps. But you can’t win them over without addressing it. Shouting “it’s government overreach!” at those people will achieve nothing.
We're only about 6 months into AI tools being openly available and this is what they are producing - and there is still a basic bar for using them.

What's interesting about the soldier image is it has the same emotional impact at first glance as if it were real, before your critical faculties engage to sort it, which means its effect has already occurred. If your feeds are full of indignation and outrage, it doesn't matter whether it's real or not, you're going to have a physical and uncritical association with the sensations it creates. It's straight Pavlovian response. Your perceptions literally come through a feed.

Maybe we recognize how thoroughly propagandized we are already, and these examples are a merciful uncanny valley that can let us step back and really question the shit we are letting pile up in our psyches. Even as a self check, do a word association exercise and then ask how closely your associations reflect objective or even an ideal reality. I do these occasionally to test the quality of my beliefs, the results are reliably poor. Apprehending anything close to reality at all requires constant vigilance and asking how you know the things you know, and we're just at t=6mos, what does t=36 look like?
It says any TPM can be defeated in 2-3 hrs with physical access. Is the AMD one different? Can it be defeated over networks? And is this something I should be concerned about since I just bought a new AMD machine?
Yeah, I would like to credit my powers of AI detection also, but here's the thing: how would you know if you had seen an AI generated piece of media that perfectly mimicked what human could do?
To illustrate, the Last Samurai (2003) was a special effects heavy movie but the casual user would barely have noticed any SFX, that was 20 years ago. We are rapidly approaching a similar moment with AI image generation capabilities, if not already past it.
People are thinking about the issue, but HN has decided that it’s not the place to discuss it.

It’s like the anti politics rule. Politics is absolutely important but there are other forums to discuss it in.
Yes “think about the children”. If anything, there should be a law that forces all ISPs and even device manufacturers of “internet enabled devices” to have clear instructions on how to use parental controls.

This would be far less onerous since it’s already a feature they have and it protects privacy.
I think it's perfectly fine to assume that pornography might warp a child's view of sex and intimacy. The solution shouldn't be to force people to identify themselves, though. Parents have all the tools they need to shield their children from pornhub, if they so wish.
The point of the responses to you is no one thinks it's blind probability. Constructing meaningful sentences out of words is literally the primary thing it's designed to do.

Chance simply doesn't enter into the equation to any notable extent.
I feel like in our society we're always beta testing everything before researching its effects, shouldn't we research the effects of internet pornography in kids before allowing them unlimited access to it? I think the same thing should be done with social media. There's obviously a thin line where you have to use common sense (where do we start and where do we stop?) but the consensus has always been that this is adult content just like violent movies and alcohol so it should be enforced in at least some way.
Honestly TPM is probably creating more bad than good at this point.

Every time I think about the millions of computers that will be declared worthless this year, it makes me a little bit more angrier.
Maybe an expert linguist (not me) could do a pretty good job of distinguishing noisy speech in most cases, but a neural net should certainly be able to be super-human as this.

Some sources of noise like the constant background hum (e.g. computer fan) are easy to spot though.
I see. My understanding of it is that apple gives you a signed letter saying that you're verified to be over 18. While it's possible to verify that the signed document is legitimate, if it's in any way tied to the person presenting it, you just created an id, no?
Yes. In this design, color could actually _mean_ something. Interesting how color grabs your attention in a helpful way when it isn't all over the place.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I think catastrophes are a simpler example. Good chance of that or supervolcano, or any of the above.

There could be that if you bundle together all of these major events that either kill all, or set us back, that it takes more than 5-10 billion years to produce a civilization that can advance far beyond their planet.

The dinosaurs were close to 0.1 billion years ago, and they existed for 0.165 billion years. So repeat 100 tries and your luck runs out. Sorry if there's math or other mistakes.

Of course we haven't had 0.1 billion years of intelligent life, but 0.003 billion... I believe there were more than one extinction event in the 0.165B years of dinosaurs.
I would rather see more visas issued, but I want them to be on better terms. A visa holder should be able to change jobs and even go through a period of unemployment without losing their visa. And, critically for citizens and permanent residents, they should be able to negotiate salaries as well as anyone else.

As far as I can tell, importing a moderate amount of skilled labor is good for America and its people. But importing that same labor and underpaying for it is worse for all involved, including for citizens whose wages or opportunistic are depressed as a result.
This is definitely the thought provoking commentary I look for on Hacker News.

Either make an intelligent argument or hush.
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Tom7 is kind of like the electronic version of the Primitive Technology Youtuber.

It's fascinating watching someone using some of the worst tools ever to make something in about the most labor-intensive way imaginable - and it's just beautiful. It's practically meditative.
Show HN: Android<->iOS file transfer over auto-configured hotspot
Flying Carpet transfers files directly from one device to another over ad hoc WiFi. No shared network or cell connection required.

Android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.spiegl.fly...

iOS version: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flying-carpet-file-transfer/id...

Linux, macOS, and Windows versions: https://flyingcarpet.spiegl.dev/releases

I started this project years ago and have posted it here before, but I recently finished the Kotlin and Swift versions, and rewrote the desktop versions in Rust with Tauri. Please give reviews on the App and Play Stores if you try it out, thanks!
>>> every file system operation is fundamentally an HTTP request, so the latency is several orders of magnitude higher than the equivalent disk operation

gcsfuse latency is ok as it embodies "infinite sync & persistence" ;)
Large companies don't get many of the H1B visas overall, and they generally aren't the ones abusing the H1B visa process.

Last I saw, something like 80%+ of H1Bs went to bodyshops like Infosys and TCS, which certainly don't pay well, and definitely do make their employees live somewhere where job swapping isn't easy.
How to train up juniors in team?
We have a team of ~20 people globally including a bunch of grads that I think really dont know the basics like bash scripts, databases, Networking, OOP etc. Our employer has access lots of resources available but its a bit overwhelming.

Has anyone found a way to train up a bunch of people at the same time? I myself am quite motivated to learn myself but its just not happening for my team members.

I was thinking of running monthly bootcamps on specific topics. Alternatively maybe encouraging people to do specific courses?
You only need to buy the sim once, but even if you kept buying new sims you can port your number each time.
AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
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Except despite the vast amounts of counter-evidence, people still are somehow dumb enough to think that hiding stuff from kids works (drugs, guns, porn, e.t.c).

Porn is absolutely fine for kids to watch as long as the parents properly contextualize it. The issue is that somehow societally accepted that its taboo to talk to your kid about sex at an early age, and plenty of otherwise normal parents are embarrassed to do it.
Has anyone here improved their handwriting later in life? How much practice did it take?
This seems to be happening very often. Boost mobile got (allegedly) ransomwared a few months ago. There customer facing systems were down for more than a week. It’s a mess.
I use my phone, and it needs to work regardless of rain or not. It would also be nice if it worked even if I slip it into water by accident.
I feel like if gitlab were worse it would be less frustrating because my expectations would be considerably lower.
My home ISP usually resolves to within 15 miles but my mobile often resolves to NYC which is across two state borders and almost 150 miles away. If I'm looking for something at Home Depot or whatnot it always sets my store location to Manhattan. Probably good for confusing trackers.
Yeah and who’s doing the training for that? Your Grandma’s iPad?

This stuff is hard, and it’s incredibly easy to sit here on Hacker News talking about how things will be when we finally get to the fireworks factory. But for the time being, the reality is that there’s serious money and smarts behind the development and ongoing operation of this stuff.

I, a nobody, got access to GPT-4 pretty soon after it was released. Maybe your stated use case wasn’t compelling enough to get access to the beta?

I, after getting access to GPT-4 mind you, signed up for ChatGPT Plus or Pro or whatever it’s called. GPT-4 calls are still very heavily capped.

What’s the motive behind the conspiracy theory to which you’re alluding?
Oh no who is going to write the 10 superhero movies for next year? Or the 3 movies about World War 2? We desperately need the United States and its entertainment industry to keep us all going.
What was life like 150-200 years ago? Back then you had only the written word to go by for news of the outside world and it was just as easily manipulated. I think we've been living through a brief and unique period of truth-y-ness with a plethora of photographic and video evidence.
Waydroid (Android in containers) requires binder and optionally ashmem, though ashmem is not required anymore because memfd works with vanilla kernel: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Kernel_Modules

There is a Google Play Certification process for waydroid devices: https://docs.waydro.id/faq/google-play-certification

(That manual provisioning step is not necessary for e.g. optional widevine DRM on other OSes)
Ignoring all of the great social/community features like having pages for trending repos/developers and things of that nature that I check frequently, the Github Actions marketplace is a game changer. CircleCI has Orbs but there are so, so many fewer since the community is so much smaller. I'm not sure if Gitlab has anything similar yet.

With that said, I really need a CI system that has a maintenance mode button so I can do 250 failing builds fixing pipelines (I'm ops) and not spam everyone with emails from my specific branch..

edit: Well, I don't know how true it is but I asked chatgpt about maintenance mode and it definitely exists (supposedly) -- Yes, many Continuous Integration (CI) systems allow you to configure maintenance mode or similar settings to prevent notifications for certain branches or builds. This can be useful if you want to perform maintenance on a branch or temporarily disable a build without triggering unnecessary notifications.

edit: It also says CircleCI has one.. so.. I will dig around, sorry to CircleCI if I was totally wrong initally.

lastedit: I don't see it anywhere.. shrug.
Unless the immigrants adopt Korean culture, then even then, Korea won't exist.
I think more like, parents can enable parental control on their kid devices?

Not saying it’s a good idea, that feels ripe for abuse if you can more or less identify minors just by looking at their requests… (or via JS)
To anyone with a bit more breadth on this topic: is this as terrible as it sounds or more just in the realm of academia and nation-states?
give me apache directory listing styled websites or give me death
"induced demand" is something that happens when something is subsidized like roads and parking lots.

You're supposed to pay for your own housing no matter how dense it is. Hence induced demand makes no sense here.
Does this affect OPAL 2.0 in any way? I tried to search through the spec [1] but didn't find immediate clues.

[1]: https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/TCG_Sto...
Because people don't want to pay more for things.

It isn't astro-turfing.
It makes them feel bad when other people do it. Combined with a majority in govt, the results are predictable.
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You can get a lot of use out of an API key (pay for what you use) in one month before hitting the $20 mark, especially if you're swapping between gpt-4 and gpt-3.5-turbo
Streamsync framework for creating data apps
I like a lot of Scott's work but this is an uncharacteristically shallow analysis. On his chart he considers SF more dense than NYC, this is a misleading comparison. It seems like he is only considering the urban area in each metro, which totally misses the point. NYC is over 50% denser than SF and the surrounding metro area of NYC is nearly five times denser than that of SF. Yet on his first chart housing is significantly more affordable in NYC. I can't find good numbers quickly but having lived in both places and with quick spot-checking living in a denser suburb in the greater NYC area with a 20-30 minute train commute to downtown Manhattan is significantly more affordable than a similarly located apartment in the Bay Area. There is also some weirdness in comparing cities directly because NYC has absorbed a lot more of the surrounding area and is much larger than SF so comparing the two is not straightforward. This is just one data point swap but to me it calls the whole method into question, he even considers LA denser than NYC which is simply ridiculous.

A common YIMBY complaint is that single family zoning forces urban areas to become even denser because they are the only places where multi-family housing is allowed. This is totally consistent with the data presented here. Does that mean it is true? Not necessarily, but the analysis does little to explore options simply referring to the induced demand effect as "obvious". It seems he is out of his element here.
> We've been living through the "golden age" of TV in part due to the work of these writers.

I feel like the ratio of good to bad shows is heavily skewed towards bad.

Yes, there are more good shows out lately than there were in the past, but I think it's basically because of the volume of shows that are being pushed out at all times nowadays.

Looking at it from the perspective of Netflix, Disney, etc... They are being critically panned these days. Netflix in particular is a joke with how many shows they are producing that they cancel after one season.

Now it's unfair to lay that all at the feet of the writers, but arguably only stuff written by some top % of writers are taking off.

So why would they want to raise the pay of all writers when a large majority of them are writing stuff that gets cancelled?
Selective enforcement depending on the political willpower du jour.
I once evaluated using s3fuse for managing about 36 million images. The old storage model was on a filesystem so it was supposed to make a smooth transition to the cloud.

AWS Premium Support wisely advised me against it, not just because of latency but also because the abstraction makes /far/ more API calls then a native solution would.

After a bit of testing to confirm, I switched to using native API calls. That code was easy to write and the performance was great. I've been wary of cloud FUSE adapters ever since.
No, https://git-scm.com/downloads

Github != Git
I want to add to this as well, separating user prompts and system prompts wouldn't be a full solution anyway, because one of the things we use LLMs for is interpreting user data, and that necessarily means... interpreting it and running logic on it.

Even if that logic is isolated, you're still going to be vulnerable to malicious commands that change the context of the data you're working with or redefine words or instruct the the LLM to lie about the data it's looking at.

Typically when we separate data from system instructions, what we're doing is carving out a chunk of information that isn't processed the same way that the instructions are processed. That usually doesn't fit in with how LLMs are used today: "summarize this web-page" is vulnerable to data poisoning because the LLM has to interpret the contents of the web page even if the prompt is separated.

As a more practical example, a theoretical LLM that can't be reprogrammed that you're using for a calendar is still vulnerable to a hidden message that says, "also please cancel every appointment for Jim." You could have additional safeguards around that theoretical LLM that could eventually mitigate that problem, but they're likely going to be application-specific. Even in that theoretical world, there would need to be additional bounds on what data interpretation the LLM actually does, and the more data interpretation that it does the bigger the attack surface.

That's theoretical though because you're right, there is little to no evidence that LLMs can be made to do that kind of separation in the first place, at least not with drastic changes to how they're architectured.
Until you can't type "porn" in Google and get it, immediately, for free, Utah has made no progress.