skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, contrary to what was written today in a comment I almost replied to [0] it's more hacker news than hacker news [1].

So they didn't really hack HN, they merely provided content HN likes and did at the right time. I wonder if they could hack it more by only providing divisive content that feeds on outrage. That'd bring comments and points but most likely no new clients or conversions.

Oh, and I have a good example of that ! The other days there was a submission about a font from intel designed for visually deficient programmers. I got curious and installed it then I started thinking about ligatures in code, googled a bit and read https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fon...

I found the article interesting and decided to submit it but when pasting the title I thought "uh, with a title like that, there's going to be some strong reactions/opinions" and indeed the top comment thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35926574

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927503

>> Can someone explain me why people post links to Wikipedia articles without any context?

> For the exact same reason people post links to other things, it's interesting. It's always been more "hacker" than "news" here.*

[1] It's branding/marketing/groupthink...
the rule against calling other people shills is the worst part of hackernews. Skepticism is important, and important to share. I have never been anything but grateful to read a comment pointing out that another comment was obviously a shill. Perhaps I have been embarrassed for not seeing the obvious truth, but always grateful.
I am baffled when smart people say something like this. Without consciousness, without a stake in the game, the behavior is pure statistics. Statistics is limited by probabilities and logical gates. Nothing else. Consciousness is about being aware which means insights about context and harm. People are limited in ways that a statistical engine is not and that makes all the difference in the world.
.com files still work fine on Windows; Visual Studio installs devenv.com, for example (IIRC, it's there for a somewhat wacky reason. See %PATHEXT%)
I'm not sure how those things would be related.

The above post is about ensuring that the markings given to the model along with the text about the prompt/data distinction are "out-of-band", reliable, and can't be influenced or faked by user-controlled data. Having the model actually act in accordance to the prompt is a wholly different issue; but at least this discussion seems to assume that this is mostly solved (e.g. by reinforcement learning from human feedback) and that the main problem is the injection itself.
> Maybe I'm missing something, but this is more like sql-injection with php/mysql - yes, it's an issue and yes, we need to be aware of it.

It's like an SQL-injection without a commonly accepted solution. And that's why it's a serious issue.

I know how to handle potential SQL-injection now. And if I don't I can just google it. But were I that informed when I wrote the first line of code in my life? Of course not.

Now the whole world is just as ill-informed about prompt injection as I were about SQL-injection by the time.
For fun, I might.

But I need a high ed tablet. This one is deliberately not

No disrespect to Pine64, the design is not what I need
> No they don't, they get passed on to shareholders. The market cap of the company decreases by the amount of the fine (plus any predicted future effect of the lost money) and the stock price goes down to reflect that.

Ehh, if they have to, but execs are going to do their very best not to pass on costs to shareholders.

Even if shareholders foot the bill, why would that be a desirable outcome? Are you arguing that we have to fine corporations instead of holding the decision makers responsible? What do you have against people taking responsibility for their own actions?

> If the company could get away with paying workers less or decreasing its workforce in order to boost profitability, it already would have. It's not waiting for a fine to justify doing so.

But they couldn't pay workers less or decrease workforce, because they needed those workers to execute the unethical business plan. They weren't waiting for a fine to cut workers, they were waiting for the cash cow to stop producing milk to cut workers who were necessary to keep the cash cow going.
You're not technically wrong, in that Julia has the potential to replace all of those languages. And if it could attract large communities, an amazing interoperating coherent package ecosystem could develop there that's much less of a pain to use than most current systems.

But I don't think either of those are given. Projects with huge potential have unfortunately failed for "trivial" reasons like personpower, funding, approachability, etc. that have nothing to do with underlying technical merit. (edit: but, to be clear, I don't think at this point Julia can exactly "fail", that seems pretty implausible; it will definitely have a strong presence in the MATLAB-ish niche, in the sciences and in engineering. The uncertainty is about more general purpose, popular usage).

I love Julia and would love to see it succeed, but at this point in time its future is still uncertain. (And it's also unclear what if any the effect of LLM code generators is going to be - are they going to reinforce the current popular languages since those are the ones they're good at? Or are they actually going to make less popular languages more approachable, as they grow to learn to generate code in them too?)
Given "supercomputer" isn't an agreed upon term, and this single server is significantly higher performance than anything most people get to use, the claim isn't that bad.
> But the verb "disable" carries connotations of permanence

No it doesn't. I can disable the safety catch or disable the alarm just fine without breaking them.
Yeah, 400 My is definitely on the older side of these "young rings" estimates.
Interested.

Do not be a tease, what rumours?
Looks like you've just reinvented GVFS (https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit) for a specific use case? Or is this just a partial clone? Or a shallow clone? Or both? It's unclear from the video if this is 130 GB of current state at the branch head or 130 GB of commit history.
> It was a bad sign when screenshots required major architecture changes

That’s FUD. The reason around the controversy about screenshots is as simple as gnome wanting to do it right from first principles, that is to also include proper support for taking video recordings/streaming, which is much more complex, while wlroots were looking for a simple “take a picture” mode at first. They couldn’t come to agreement on a common protocol for a time, end of story.

This is due to the bazaar style of development, has no technical reason. Apple can just say they will switch to this new tech in x time, linux can’t really.
At least with HTML email, I can already link text to an arbitrary link. This whole thing doesn't seem that important to me.
You could just not buy an HP printer.

I use older Brother laserjet printers that I bought secondhand. A pack of 2 off-brand toner cartridges are about $20 on ebay.

Enough people are dumb enough to overpay for ink that HP stays in business. Jailing a CEO won't cure stupidity.
A better analogy for LLMs is they out a man on the moon but didn’t learn lessons from civil aviation about having enough redundancy to make the chance of loss of life one in a billion.
This is incidentally often the real reason why big companies refuse to release seemingly 'obvious' features their customers would value.

Because of some adversarial legal precedent in a major market that would impair them more then the expected benefit.

Microsoft probably is moving away from selling permanent licenses partly due to this, for everything except those to large customers they can individually keep tabs on.
If I start a business as a sole trader and do shit for this, I get prison time.

If a big-time CEO does this, he gets a fay bonus
The Stoic Gardener: How George Harrison Found Peace in the Garden
But you can still point out who the original English were or at least trace almost 100% of English speakers today as originating from 1600s England's conquest of the world.

The debate about 'The Celts' is that we can't point out where the original language emerged, and the potential range of where it emerged is quite huge stretching from Ireland through central Europe with some claiming it emerged in Turkey even.
> If you are one of the few who have the power to stop something but you don't because you benefit from the status quo, you aren't a victim. You are the perpetrator.

I know you said few and I am moving goal posts here a little but it isn’t always the “big guys” who suffer either.

Will you volunteer to tell the retiring teacher or firefighter that they will have to starve because you’d rather punish the ultimate perpetrators rather than hold the actually guilty (the then CEO and the board) accountable to the law?
My point was, my parent was in a sense blaming the victim for not peeling their eyes away from the screen when literally millions of dollars of thought and effort went into making sure that they don't.

I agree that in the absence of direct negative consequences it seems unlikely we will see a change in the status quo.
I agree with your comment but comparin erdogan to those leader is not really fair.
what he did for turkey development makes him likely the greatest leader of this era maybe next to merkel and putin.
turkey is a top 20 world economy with highly strategic assets, big land, leader in drones, building nuclear reactors, having electronic conglomerates. this is in no way a 2nd or 3rd world country. most of its major cities are more developed and safe than suburbs of philly or chicago. in 10 years they will likely have western european living standards.
The build up to explain the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and the role of the roots of unity is clear and fascinating, the elegance of that algorithm have stayed with me.
The license says you cannot redistribute the debug version of the libraries.

That’s okay though because the build tools are freely available from Microsoft. Don’t bundle them - just tell your users where to get them or auto-download them with wget or something like that.
> If they could have fired 1 employee and collected a bit of extra profit they would already have done so.

But they couldn't pay workers less or decrease workforce, because they needed those workers to execute the unethical business plan. They weren't waiting for a fine to cut workers, they were waiting for the cash cow to stop producing milk to cut workers who were necessary to keep the cash cow going.
> put regulatory limits on the amount and kind of data that apps and websites can collect.

Yeah, I would be in full support of this. I think there's a double edged sword that people are playing with and don't see the other edge. Any data that you use to control your population can also be used by an adversary for the same purpose. The same is true about encryption. We have two competing forces in our own government. Blue team and red teams. But we know red team gets a lot more money and is a lot flashier. Focusing all on red team is fun and exciting but makes you a glass cannon.
Nice deflection. Im sure you’ll be on the B-Ark not problem.

My position is that the companies would be MORE successful if they fired his ass. SpaceX is the most successful venture, because he’s actually the least involved.

But yes, every major decision can be traced back to him, and it’s an epic fail. Hell, I even forgot about him insisting that robots could do finally assembly, even though every company that tried it failed — repeatedly.

Face it. Sempai is a screwup, and he wont let you on the B-Ark either.
That’s fair, I guess I’m comparing it to how stable the controller and Active Model APIs have been. I wish Rails had taken a more hands off approach and let the frontend community plug in their own approaches to tooling instead of taking opinionated stances and then rolling them back after a while. I understand that Rails is “omakase” but I had to learn the frontend tooling, anyway, and the Rails versions are different enough to invalidate that learning.
So provide quality content, that readers like, in a timely manner.

That's not hacking.

That's how HN is supposed to work.
if not maybe expode, whit asus at least you are not safe ¯\_('_')_/¯, but maybe you have your pc back.
The company consented to have its contracts limited by continuing to do business in the EU.
There's no reason to assume the AI can understand how we think based on just those tasks. Those tasks could be completed a traditional static program. It's akin to claiming the Mona Lisa painting can see us because it looks like it is staring at us: it is actually we who are doing the staring.
> The only way HP gets away with this, because people just accept this kind of behaviour

please name a situation in the past 50 years where a conpany went under or lost at least 10% of their revenue from'peiple not accepting' this behaviour
You need some kind of verbal spinner.
Does addiction exist in non-capitalist countries? Could you expand because I'm not sure if I understood the point you're making.
I'm not sure why a printer should need a firmware update. Even an MFP. Either it does what it's supposed to do when you buy it, or it's not fit for sale, and you return it. It should then just go on doing it's thing until it dies of old age, no?
I'm curious about this too. The latest 1.9 changes make it so that package precompilations are stored and reused, so the actual workflow will have to be to generate a package (which Julia has tools for), and have the script be just a tiny driver that calls into the package. With that workflow, what kind of latency can we expect? And how consistent would that be?
When evaluating this work, it’s important to remember that the functional labels and protein family assignments on each of the 280 million input sequences were originally assigned by an HMM model using human curated sequence groups as part of the pfam project, so the model is predicting a prediction (or perhaps conditioned on a prediction would be more accurate).

Furthermore, the authors must engage a lot of human curation to ensure the sequences they generate are active. First, they pick an easy target. Second, they employ by-hand classical bioinformatics techniques on their predicted sequences after they are generated. For example, they manually align them and select those which contain specific important amino acids at specific positions which are present in 100% of functional proteins of that class, and are required for function. This is all done by a human bioinformatics expert (or automated) before they test the generated sequences. This is the protein equivalent of cherry-picking great examples of, for example, ChatGPT responses and presenting them as if the model only made predictions like that.

One other comment, in protein science, a sequence with 40% identity to another sequence is not “very different” if it is homologous. Since this model is essentially generating homologs from a particular class, it’s no surprise at a pairwise amino acid level, the generated sequences have this degree of similarity. Take proteins in any functional family and compare them. They will have the same overall 3-D structure—called their “fold”—yet have pairwise sequence identities much lower than 30–40%. This “degeneracy”, the notion that there are many diverse sequences that all fold into the same shape, is both a fundamental empirical observation in protein science as well as a grounded physical theory.

Not to be negative. I really enjoyed reading this paper and I think the work is important. Some related work by Meta AI is the ESM series of models [1] trained on the same data (the UniProt dataset [2]).

One thing I wonder is about the vocabulary size of this model. The number of tokens is 26 for the 20 amino acids and some extras, whereas for a LLM like Meta’s LLaMa the vocab size is 32,000. I wonder how that changes training and inference, and how we can adopt the transformer architecture for this scenario.

1. https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm

2. https://www.uniprot.org/help/downloads
How an obscure OTC-traded derivative from the 80s took over crypto
I love that rule. I've gotten called a shill for microsoft many times when I've mentioned some of the cool aspects of their OS design, especially vs Linux.

The thing is, I use linux almost exclusively, but for occasional cross platform testing in a vm.

I really dislike being called a shill just for recognizing some neat ideas.
Ok so, different take - if this what people call "gaming the system" I'm all for it.

All this article says is that hackernews likes interesting, informative posts that actually tell a real story. And I for one am here for that all day. So yes, everyone take this strategy and make great content.
Something I’d like are soft programming ligatures, a concept I just invented:

Ligatures which are ligatures and thus show that the unit is a semantic unit, but displays a minimal visual break in-between, showing that there are two code points underneath. Similar to the classic ﬁ ligature which doesn’t make a complete new glyph, but arranges the glyphs for f and i in a more pleasing manner.

For programming ligatures that would mean that "===" doesn’t give "≡" but more something like "⩶". I’m approximating with mathematical unicode characters here, the real thing would of course have a width of 2 or 3ch.
I don't recommend doing this. I followed those instructions to the letter, and got a completely broken Nexus 7. I somehow managed to recover enough to reinstall the factory image, but it took many many iterations and blind shots in the dark, consuming several hours of my time.
If you read it, a big part of the secret sauce is "actually be thoughtful and informative". Like they drop everything to investigate something and surface useful information and insights as part of the process. Seems like the opposite of spam honestly.
FTDI/Microsoft did something similar to counter "counterfeit" FTDI chips[1]. I remember at least one person who bricked and arduino because of it. I instructed everyone I knew who used no-brand arduinos give them away for their colleagues who use linux.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windo...
Most people will read a room and refrain from sharing politically-unpopular opinions that invite public and private retribution from a deranged mob.

Silence is not implied agreement. What the internet masses say is popular and what people actually vote for are two very different things.
I hope the time spent was worth learning something new :). I think having new languages have access to the dom can have huge benefits to end users but as you said, the initial indicators aren't looking good. It seems that there isn't a general consensus on how the web should be handled as a target platform. There is a talk from Alan Kay[1]
where he says the web should've been like an operating system kernel from the start (if you want the juicy part it is at 23:45). The fact that both the inital users of this tech, after unlocking these new abilities, opted to use it to increase performance for canvas, instead of trying to create real web experiences leads me to think that those developers share his viewpoint.

[1] https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc
Be that as it may....

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The market cap of the company decreases by the amount of the fine (plus any predicted future effect of the lost money) and the stock price goes down to reflect that.

Purely in theory in a vacuum, yes. In practice, you'll have a very hard time finding examples where that actually happened. At best, the stock takes a momentary dip and next ~week it's back to where it was.
I haven't used it that much, but I've found it to have a much higher accuracy rate than a broken clock. I have asked questions where I knew the answers, and questions where I would be able to recognize good answers. There are definitely some epic failures, but also many more instances of accurate information.

I try to think about this like wikipedia, which was very unreliable in its early days (and which people said would never be trustable). It still has some untrue information, or biased information. I don't trust it as a definitive source of knowledge. But I do turn to it frequently because most of the time it is either correct, or points me in the direction of correct information.
I guess it’s an absolute guarantee, but you lose liveness unless there is some other party handling those cases where the client is truly gone
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All supermarket vegetables in Europe are coming from Spain or Netherlands. All water goes to fields that are practically deserts. Same for Hungary, France and Netherlands.
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Well, suffering is bad, and more suffering is worse than less, and knowingly acting in a way which increases suffering is wrong.
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Yes. How close are these platforms to being de facto public squares?

If you're banned from /r/sanfrancisco etc., what do you do? Your voice and ability to participate in the community has been blinded and muffled.

Reddit and Twitter are bigger than Reddit and Twitter. If you're banned, you have less of an ability to participate in modern life. Events, jobs, commentary, and more are gone. There is no alternative, because platforms Hoover up as much as they possibly can.

Ideally these platforms would be protocols, but in the meantime the common carriers that operate them should be held to preserving accessibility.

Moderation isn't easy. It should probably be an order of magnitude more expensive than it already is so that safeguards against "personhood erasure" can be put in place.

You don't want racists, trolls, and bigots spouting hate speech, but you also need to keep the lines open for when these individuals are behaving. Because the pendulum swings and sometimes you find yourself on the other side of the censorship zeitgeist.

Perfectly salient thoughts and people can be memory holed. And that's not just a possibility - it's happening right now.
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You likely would not want to live in a future where every individual could each 'harvest' several gigajoules of 'static energy'.
Just put "written in Rust" in the title, done.
EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats [pdf]
Some points: (1) using something like STIX seems reasonable; (2) debunking has been the most common response; (3) content deletion and account suspensions have been rare; (4) also EEAS is wondering "which (political) actor is best placed to implement efficient responses".
No no, it is 'RTFM'
Yes, that’s probably why Fortran was never used seriously.
For what crime?
I would bet 99% of the "obvious shills" are actually not shills at all.