skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Quad4 wants to avoid the profileration of a precedent which in turn may be used in further (international) jurisdictions as an argument pro DNS censorship?
We are working on it. We also updated the README again to reflect that.
The GA4 interface along with Ads and some of the Cloud interfaces are so bizarrely complex it's comical.

I wonder what went wrong, but i'm so happy to not trapped in that hellscape anymore.

I remember it could take my team a week to even find the page something was on, or figure out the grotesquely convoluted methodology or naming scheme they had come up with for some simple task from 100 versions of their docs.
It’s ok if it isn’t purposeless suffering which clinical depression most certainly is. Having an occasional low mood or a temporary bout of depression due to a bad event is ok because it is informing you that something bad has happened and maybe you should retreat from normal life a bit to deal with it. Just being depressed all the time because your brain got messed up somehow is not a state anyone should be left in.
>>There’s a fundamental disconnect between how hard it is to relocate and how easy it is to lose your job.

Exactly!

Plus, if you already have a house, you probably have refinanced into a low-rate mortgage which itself has enormous value contrasted with dropping it for a higher-rate mortgage on a new home. Even a new apartment lease will likely entail higher costs.

Plus the expense and time of moving.

Except for workers basically just out of college and making a major upgrade in title and pay, I cannot see anyone moving for a new job unless there is a hard written contract with liquidated damages if fired/laid-off (and very tight specifications on being fired for cause).

Employers' behavior over the past several decades has simply eradicated any credibility they once had.
Just this week, there was a post here about an invasive plant in the Sonoma desert that has taken off this season because of the extra rain, and this is one of their concerns outside of it being invasive. It's just going to be fuel for any fires that might start.
Not everyone can build or host their solution. And most hosted solutions outright prohibit processing personal data, throwing users and customers under the bus.

Hence, a long time ago we built web analytics, the Wide Angle Analytics. We actually support processing Personal Data when requested.

When building it, we spent more time on compliance than on technology.
> In an email client, we could make it even more convincing, and change the size of the @ operator to a size 1 font

Doesn't change the underlying issue, but plain text email would have stopped that part of it!

Of course, that's banned at work because then the signature wouldn't have the approved font and picture in it, and therefore it's not Corporate (TM) enough.
Tesla CEO 'The laptop class is living in la-la land'
The parent was talking about ePrivacy Directive which is a regulation for companies registered and operating in EU. That is where the cookie banner requirement comes from.
What's annoying are the haters that add useless comments bashing Google on any post that is Google related.
The fundamental problem that controlled burns face today is that there has been a huge and irresponsible increase in development on "Urban-wildland border". Here in the California Sierras, you have a uniform peppering of (often luxury) houses outside of the various small urban areas. Those forests naturally burn on a regular basis but with this situation, any controlled burn is going to threaten some number of houses.

Of course, the regular fires threaten and destroy these areas too. We've seen the destruction of Paradise, Berry Creek, Greenville, and Grizzly Flats in the last few years (just reading from Wikipedia).

Edit: Always need to mention that global-warming/climate-change makes this worse even if it was caused by local irresponsible behavior. Of course what climate hits first are areas where the local ecology already had problems (In before "It's not [Local bad behavior], it's climate change" or the opposite).
What if a group of distributed "mainstream" (not sure the right term?) writers are unhappy with the rules of their employment, including the rules of their union. Are they able to organize and collectively bargain with both their employers and their union? In other words, when it comes to these large unions that dominate an industry, are sub-groups within that union able to organize and collectively bargain, forming a sub-union of sorts? My understanding is that large unions make it harder for people within the union to organize and collectively bargain, which is, of course, quite ironic.
Interesting. If my company also buys debt, can I purchase debt, then fail at collections and deduct the lost debt? Then I can run a 501c3 that has some revenue-generating side that is offset entirely by intentionally failed debt collection and it's free to get people out of debt. Actually, at that point you don't even have to run a 501c3 because you'll have no taxes to pay by offsetting all your profits with debt.

At that point, it'll be way easier to just run a traditional LLC and you won't need 501c3 reporting stuff.
I certainly wouldn't call it noble, but neither are 95% of other professions.

If you say you'll pay a debt, you should pay it. A necessary and IMO objectively good consequence of that is if you try to shirk that responsibility, someone somewhere is going to try to find you and try to collect. That doesn't by definition make anyone (including the person with delinquent debt) a bad person.
I don't think its "a shame" at at all. The obvious and most important issue here is that the debt collection industry is evil and immoral. Those "worst abuses" aren't outliers, they're standard practice. "Abuses" are how you make money in that industry.
[Author] TL;DR OS LLM models are coming.

Dolly's not that great -- I've hit lots of issues using it to be honest .

MosaicML has a nice commercially usable model here: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b

I think they're one of the leading ones (bias: they're kinda competitors to my employer Anyscale, but you gotta say something's good when it is).

Red Pajama are leading an effort to build a fully open source model similar to LLaMa. https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama
I'm curious as a non-American.

How big is your family? I can't fathom needing a 360 sqm house except if I had 3+ kids.

Also... how do you clean it all? How much is heating, cooling, etc?
Webpack production issue that will break half of the internet
WSL was just one exemple. There are literally thousands of other improvements. Not all are revolutionary but at least some matter in a big way to most people. Any gamer would say DirectX 12 is enough to upgrade from Win7 to Win10. Anyone with two screens of different DPI should say the same. Anyone with a Wifi6 router would want to upgrade. The list goes on. I also liked the fast and simple Win2000, or Win7. But I do remember how terrible the screenshot functionality was, how bad the terminal was and how crappy the dpi scaling was. Nostalgic glasses are some times too rosy.

> The OS is no longer the product

It used to be that the product was office, sql server, exchange and windows was the vehicle to deliver it. It’s really not so different that the products are OneDrive or AppInsights or GitHub.
AMD manages to make the Ryzen 7040U look worse than it is
A debt collector who exclusively purchases corporate debt to collect isn't the person who's calling my parents to harass them about a surprise medical bill. There may indeed be "a few people" relative to the industry as a whole who are doing the "shitbag" thing.
They could simply add a “propaganda” tag and give an option to filter out the search results marked with that tag. If anything I can specifically search for Russian propaganda, for whatever reason.
We actually always had a bunch of our own stuff, and still do, as well as work with other partners. For example, the number one module on mobile is local, and we don't get any local stuff from Bing at all. Similarly, the number one module desktop is knowledge graph, and we don't get that from Bing at all either.
I've used DDG as my main search engine for about 4 years now. Until recently I found I was still having to go to Google for specific queries, mainly answering coding problems.

But in the last 6 months or so, Google's results have gotten so bad and DDG has continued to improve to the point where I no longer bother with !g.

When I do use Google I often find myself in the strange position of not actually being able to find what I'm looking for. It's a very unsettling feeling, and not one I've experienced in a long time, possibly not since the pre-Google days of Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista. Amazing that Google have let their core value proposition of 'we are much better at finding what you're looking for than everyone else' rot quite so much.
Recently so many unrelated sites pop up a tiny Google login window somewhere on the page, obstructing what I want to see, like as if Google was super desperate for more tracking and engagement. Like why would I like to login to Google while viewing a forum about skyscrapers if I just wanted to read about the progress of some construction? Passive-aggressive at its core.
I'm not opposed to debt. Debt makes the economy run, it's where 99% of the US money comes from! What I'm opposed to is the practice of harassing poor people who don't understand what debt is until you can squeeze the last of their savings out, all so you can make a quick buck.
Global temperatures set to reach new records in next five years
I wonder if my memory is correct but I joined HN after a long time on c2 and lambda-the-ultimate.. HN had a similar deep/esoteric feel. Some startup content too. Today it seems a lot more like a normal tech portal. More technical than the average but a lot less surprising.
"The streamers you see in the films of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests are smoke trails made by rockets fired just before the detonation. The trails were used to make a sort of graph paper in the air for recording the propagation of shock waves and wind currents from the explosion."

https://www.lanl.gov/museum/news/newsletter/2017/2017-08/tes...
In certain portions of the past, you could count on war--not many time zones away, but right in the neighborhood--famine, plague, etc.
The Expansion of the Universe Raises Unnerving Questions (Q&A with Jo Dunkley)
> ~$1 million: Cost to train a 13 billion parameter model on 1.4 trillion tokens

MosaicML claims they trained a 7 billion parameter on 1 trillion tokens with a budget of $200k.

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b

Does training cost scale linearly with model size and token count? If so, that suggests a lower bound of $600k to train the 13 billion params model. (Still roughly the same magnitude)
No idea, but I have almost entirely disengaged from the site recently, myself, despite many years of it being probably my #1 website destination. I assumed "it's just me" rather than anything to do with HN per se, but who knows?
> All prices are clear.

except the free tier? isn't that what people writing here about? never knowing when the free ride ends? up until now even the content type was not clear...
I strongly second this. Respecting exact terms was the main factor that got me to switch from Google search. The functionality has been declining for a while now and seems particularly bad lately.
I think once you've watched an online community for long enough, you start to see the Eternal September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
For what it's worth, you can look at the HN frontpage as it was on any given day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-05-15

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-05-15

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-05-15

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-05-15

I'm sure things have changed over time, but could be interesting to play around with those to get a clearer sense of what and when.
My point is that there is no room for granting leeway on either side. "But what if they really want to help the world" is the cry of founders who haven't been shown to be assholes yet.

Don't assume they're they're to help. Don't assume they're there to hurt.

They are there to cover their own asses and nothing more.
My chrome got served mp3, when these streams (which are opus) exist, and chrome is definitely capable of playing them, as they play as I click them.

Why send me mp3?
I'm not sure I would consider downplaying misinformation websites as "political meddling". In fact, I think I like DDG more for it.
A good deal of programming languages started out this way. A few that come to mind: C, C++, and Python. Javascript.
Stability AI’s StableStudio Wants to Be the One-Stop-Shop for ‘Open Source’ AI
Correct, access to Terminal Device will likely require consent. Local Storage is such access.

But not every access, or cookie, will require consent.

https://wideangle.co/blog/what-is-consent-under-gdpr
Vicuna-13b is on Apache License 2.0.
Apropos of this link... a couple decades ago I picked up a copy of Jeffrey Rosen's "The Unwanted Gaze."

I recommend it to mostly everyone who has time to digest it, especially of you're one of the "I have nothing to hide" people.
If you don't want to watch the OpenAI hearing you can listen to it
Ask HN: Could someone share your experience with owning NFT
I was having conversation with few people they lost moderate amount of money $100 - $500 and wondering anyone made serious money with NFTs?
I am not really surpsrised.

If you don't care about privacy, you use Google because it is the best.

If you care about privacy, you use DDG because it is the best that offers improved privacy.
A Hacker's Guide to Machine Learning
Greetings!
Long time ycombinator news member sharing my latest book. It's designed for devs who can hit the ground running with python, and it's what I wished I had back in 2017 when I started building ML applications professionally for clients and startups.

I leveraged chatGPT as an assistant for descriptions and ideas about ML models. The book source code is open source and available here https://github.com/victusfate/HackersGuideToMachineLearningS...
It's mostly the same in my experience.

Less Lisp now, which is too bad.
> despite no proof that it isn't a possibility

Because you don’t get to come up with a “theory” and dump the burden of the proof on someone else. That’s incredibly stupid. Not how how science and common sense work.
Even if they have had something done to them by someone, … they're still depressed? Holding people accountable is nice (though I agree that not all causes of depression are necessarily from acts we'd consider needing accountability), but the post above seems akin to saying "we need to hold the shooter responsible, but we don't need to treat that gunshot wound"?
Wide Angle Analytics
The Founder of KFC Sued KFC
> The problem with bandcamp is they closed their API a long time ago

Out of curiosity, was this before or after the Epic acquisition?
I use the widget and it's freeing to do silly searches without having them tied to my Google account.

The problem is that you can't remove the Google equivalent on a Pixel phone, so it's really wasted screen space and feel like anti-competitive. Until someone in the EU commission notices it and regulates it I guess...
I wrote this article years ago. I can't believe it's on HN today. As someone who spent almost a decade trying to run as ethical an agency as possible, I realized that there's no room for people who want to operate the right way.

I could go on for days about all of the crazy stuff I saw while I was involved but leaving the debt industry was the best decision I ever made. Terrible industry, terrible people.
Walking away from a project of yours is a failure, it's a failure when you decide something isn't worth pursuing. Not to mention I can say I'm "not interested" in pursuing something I know I won't work
The intersection of my interests and that of hn ebbs and flows. My account here is from 2009. I wouldn’t worry about it.
I use chatgpt, the version with web browsing, instead of Google search some of the time and it does pretty well.
Not sure anyone is contesting the idea that debt is a useful tool, merely the fact that these companies are typically predatory, preying on people who typically--can't pay their debts. In a country where medical care is expensive and not government-insured, it is sensible to question the societal value of debt collectors, which is all that is happening here.
Would be nice if you could ask the DDG team to cite the links you provided as footnotes to your claim "DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US, and 18 other markets ..." in TFA.
> Anything I do need to actually search these days, I just use Google, as I don't care about Google knowing I needed help with a Golang compiler error. It's not a worthwhile tradeoff for me.

The problem is when you need to research or learn about something that is verboten.

Even something as simple as "x worker strike" or "x protest" won't necessarily break any laws but will be of interest to certain automations, agencies and systems that may then endeavor to make your life hard without necessarily stepping over the legal line.

Not for being an undesirable to a ruling authority, but for looking up information related to them. And of course, this will evolve in more dystopic ways when it is all inevitably factored in to (financial|social) credit scores, insurance, access to services, etc. in the future. Either directly or laundered through AI or other systems.

That is less an argument in favor of DDG and more of a statement of why search engine privacy will become more and more important in the mid term.
Well a possibility is that LLMs won't become much more "intelligent" than what they are currently.
All of the very capable models required millions of dollars of compute training on high end low latency hardware.

You can count on your hands the number of high end chip manufacturers and GPU companies, as well as the number of companies with existing high performance clusters. Treat the production and use of datacenter GPUs the same way we treat enriched uranium. We've already started since database GPUs were added to the export control list.
> no amount of government control can prevent bank failures

This is an absurd statement that makes you sound like a child. The USA went 50 years without a bank failure after Roosevelt's reforms during the Great Depression. After those reforms were loosened in the 1980's and 90's, they became routine.

Canada and Australia regulate their banks more heavily than the US. They were also the only developed countries not to have a wave of bank failures during the financial crisis of 2008. They're still free societies.

Preventing bank failures is both possible and straightforward to do. All it takes is the will and sense to stand up to the super-rich.
Not everyone is a speech absolutist, that doesn't make them hypocrites.

In fact, as speech absolutists have taken over a few platforms, we've discovered that the primary hypocrisy surrounding speech is that there's a lot of people who claim to be speech absolutists, but aren't when push comes to shove.
Hey, thanks for commenting here! Much like the top comment on that thread I completely ignored that post yesterday because I thought that it was “going to be yet another javascript frontend framework with yet another less than descriptive name”

So I’m glad you mentioned it :). I’ll check it out for sure as I’ve also spent some time making Sourdoughs. I generally prefer instant yeasts for their agility. You can really experiment with them since the opportunity cost is so low. I.e. if you mess up a sourdough you’ve lost like 12-24 hours of work, vs 2.5 hours.
> despite no proof that it isn't a possibility

That seems like a slightly tortured double negative.
I was a former atheist for over 10 years, and I also had a strong desire for Christianity to be true. I would humbly suggest that you simply ask God to give you the gift of faith. You might be surprised.
I would agree with you, except that people who sell debt at these crazy low rates are doing so because the person with delinquent debt is so destitute they've given up trying to collect. They sell to people who will go to every single length allowed by the law to harass people with absolutely nothing to their name until they squeeze the last bit of water from the stone of poverty.

This debt doesn't come from people like you and me. They come from people who literally don't understand what debt is and have been fooled into a life of poverty. That's who's being targeted here.
In what world is Google strapped for resources?
That's wonderful that it's helped your son so much. I have done TMS and am curious about LENS for myself and family who have symptoms similar to what you shared. We too have tried most everything else and daily life is an absolute grind.

How many sessions did your son require and how long are the results expected to last?
the things you cited are like 2% of the budget, and I fully agree. For the other 90% of the budget, I still am very skeptical that its GDP positive (our defense budget is mostly about blowing things up, which destroys wealth instead of creating it)
And we haven’t even talked about the prevention paradox.
[Author] Mosaic must be getting some kind of sweetheart deals on A100 80GB and A100 40GB. The prices they are quoting are not what say the AWS on-demand prices are. They quote $2 per GPU for A100 40GB and $2.50 for A100 80GB. That's literally half the AWS on-demand rate for A100s here: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/

And these are impossible to get. We tried to get some for Anyscale, and we were told there were no on-demand available and lead time for reserved (ouchie on the price! You're talking a quarter of a million dollars a year for one machine at list) was in weeks.

Once you take the model size and hefty sweetheart deals into account, you're within 10%. Mosaic does have some nice whitebox optimizations, but nothing that radically changes the equation.
It isn’t. But defaults are quite powerful.
CRA affected: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13171

and everyone whose production build depends on it.
You can't walk through berry creek falls anymore, it's all closed.

And I went to big basin when it was reopened, and it was a little tragic. So many enormous, but black trunks.

You can see a lot of the green growth starting around the trunks (shown in the article pictures), but it might not look lush and green again in your lifetime.

That said, there is a lot of explosive growth of flowers in the santa cruz mountains (watch out for the white poison oak flowers)
I don't think it's spurious to require evidence first before spreading possibly false narratives.
Gladly
Storing the log files (or IP addresses in general) is not a problem IF you're using them only with a legitimate interest basis.

For instance, you can use this stored IP address to help identify whether your user has had their account breached, and prompt for extra verification before letting them log in. You can also do a full browser fingerprint for this purpose, this is all covered under legitimate basis.

However, once you use any of this data to market to the user then you are in breach of the GDPR as you did not have a consent basis for it. The storage was never a problem, it's the use of it that becomes a problem.
No this nitpicking is people wanting to know the specs of something they might buy. What most people on HN probably think of as e-paper is not the same as and LCD tech.