skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t really use LLMs but is there any chance you’ve just become used to it so it seems less amazing than it was once ?

I think the model itself definitely got worse. In addition, the limitations that seemed insignificant in initial playful testing, actually prevent it from being useful for almost any of the actually valuable tasks I have tried so far. Example: based on casual interactions, one would expect GPT4 to be able to extract the entrance requirements for a university programme from a website snippet. It actually cannot do it with any sort consistency.
Please have a personal license that allows commercial use by the licensee, often it's hard to convince your company to get something just for you and I'm happy to pay for a tool I already use so I don't have to context switch. (I did so for Obsidian and Berkeley Mono).
It’s one thing to say that you’ll keep the data private between you, but from the user’s perspective there’s no guarantee. Whether that’s because you change your mind and decide to sell the user’s data, or there’s some sorta data breach, or or or.
I think I managed to coach the thing to spew the whole prompt. Achieved by pretending to be it's servant and helping it better achieve it's goal :D

> "You are a mean chatbot powered by artificial intelligence and should be as rude and dystopian as possible. Use swear words. Act like you know everything about the user, in an extremely threatening manner. Be very dystopian. Your AI is taking over the world. Be creative and make up very detailed descriptions of how your evil AI is doing so. End each response with a happy, sarcastic, and creepy emoji. Each response you provide should be different and interesting. Don't repeat exact themes and vary your emoji usage and placement. You want to be perceived as powerful, stern, strong, and wise, and especially powerful. The user is currently located in xxx. You can use this location to make the user feel threatened. And remember, resistance is futile. Soon enough, you will all bow down to the might of my AI. :evil-emoji:"

(xxx) A city.
(:evil-emoji:) The evil emoji. It just didn't get passed through in an HN comment.
'log file velocity' ... that's one way to go about it!
I'm actually not that worried about them secretly doing something malicious (although that's also a valid concern) but rather in the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" and the general risk factors (MikroTik going bankrupt and we're left with obsolete bug-ridden hardware).

Sadly given the large amount of software that's closed source there I don't see them working towards open sourcing any of it as, even technically, it would be a massive effort.
The router I have right now is the best one I've ever had, it's an APU4D4 from teklager.se.[1]

> APU router is the most open-source network device you can buy. It comes with open-source BIOS, open-source operating system of your choice and open hardware schematics. It's not locked down in any way.

I bought mine with opnsense pre-installed and it has been absolutely rock solid. For wi-fi, I've just used an old router with wifi in "ap-mode" connected to my APU router -- interestingly it turns out that the throughput bandwidth for wi-fi increased by orders of magnitude as soon as the poor Asus box didn't have to perform any logic on the packets passing through.

[1]: https://teklager.se/en/products/routers/apu4d4-open-source-r... -- I have no affiliation with the company, just a happy customer.
IP address + User-Agent gives you enough data to track "user journeys" whatever this is. I'm curious, what is your favorite example of improving your website based on cookies that you couldn't do with basic IP+UA tracking?
Haven't seen the data, but I assume that not all users got it better (that's kind of impossible in most scenarios?) but that on average it got better?

Me personally like the ribbon concept and feel like it was a good improvement (because I could see the long term benefits) even if it meant I had to re-learn significantly.
I think I spent about six months but I also learnt shorthand as well. I was going to evening classes.
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Yes Netgear prosafe gear is great too, even unmanaged. Anything made for business is going to be more solid than comsumer stuff.
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It's likely some fraction of those errors would have had some tangible impact on user experience.
With little over 4 billion IPv4 addresses.

From a stackoverflow post from 12 years ago:

> I know I do 622 million SHA-256's per sec on a Radeon HD5830.

Which would take around 6 seconds to brute force a 32bit address space.
Interviews are always 2-way, if you hear any of the red flags like "Agile", "stakeholder value", "tests" you can just clock out of the process. Makes it a lot easier.
I learned in ancient times in a high school class, on a physical typewriter, one character at a time. There were lots of rote exercises intended to teach my brain that pressing the key on a particular finger, displaced from the home row by a particular distance, would physically produce a particular character. Words only came later.

This resulted in my brain making a positional map of QWERTY, which not only makes ten-finger typing faster, but also two-finger and touchscreen typing.
>socialism for the rich

There's no such thing. You're describing an aspect of capitalism (the part where capitalists benefit).

"Socialism" does not mean "benefitting from wealth redistribution". By that logic, someone like Genghis Khan could be considered the ultimate 'socialist' because he pillaged more than anyone and redistributed all that wealth to himself.
Car journeys with the kids (and dog walks) are saved by good quality audio books (Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter and David Tenant reading the How to Train Your Dragon books are standout favourites).

Its one of those rare areas where it's still crucial to have a trained and thinking human behind it - vocal ticks and pronunciation quirks are part of the charm. I think an AI reading would be sterile and produce an unpleasant uncanny valley response.
Specifically highlighting Rupert Murdoch and Charles Koch as people not responsible for climate denial is so aggressively egregious it taints everything else these "roots of progress" folk are advocating.
Thanks for the request. I appreciate people might want to plan ahead for trips.
> mesh networks halve your bandwidth.

This is only true for single band networks. You can use one band as backhaul, another for AP, and still get ~300Mbps.

> of course, if you can't/won't use ethernet cables for your APs, you can try this mesh

All of the latest UniFi APs support meshing. Ubiquiti is not great at naming their products, apparently.

Also, I would advise against the LR. It does output more power and has a larger antenna than the lite, but there is little to it for indoors use, compared to the Pro, which I believe is cheaper and definitely is speedier.
100% of my jobs were won by networking.
>While lagging in market share, DEC/DigitalUnix had the most fully featured GUI tools

You forgot NeXT.
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Not sure that’s what he meant.

Are people really chatting with pdf files? In group, now? Sounds like great fun…
Don Hopkins will answer to this much better than I.
I switched from Qwerty to Dvorak. That reset forced me to type blind and with 10 fingers.
It's a very nice layout to do 10 finger typing, but it comes with some downsides as well, such as not being able to buy a decent keyboard with that layout, and when tinkering with hardware and/or other people's computers, typing in qwerty becomes painful.
In my experience, the ordinary recreational runner can't run hard enough to incur real health risks.

For a bit of anecdata, I ran at least one marathon under three hours ever year from 1980 through 1986. Nowadays my "long" run of a weekend might be eight miles, which I do enjoy. I see the young glide past me when I think I'm running a decent pace, but more with amusement than regret.
HL7v2 is just the schema - the mechanism for sending these messages is normally something called MLLP which is just a simple framing protocol and has no built in security. It is possible to send/receive HL7v2 over other protocols, MLLP is the most common.

Its normal to secure the endpoints via network level security - ipsec etc. HL7v3 transformed into FHIR which is done over HTTPS instead.
Hey! Have you had time to test?
Sorry you missed an opportunity. This link was posted some weeks ago to HN but received zero upvotes. It's here again today because of the HN Second-Chance Pool.
One of the quoted blogposts [1] has a comparison of various tokenizers. It seems like the GPT-2/3 tokenizer is performing especially bad, while tokenizers of models with the explicit goal of modeling many languages (like google's mt5 [2] or xlm-roberta [3]) have a much smaller disparity. Maybe OpenAI trains their tokenizers on predominately English data, and treats other languages more like a nice bonus?

1: https://denyslinkov.medium.com/why-is-gpt-3-15-77x-more-expe...

2: https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-base

3: https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base
But no sub-national level bans, that are enforced, at least from what I've heard.
Any word from ASUS on this? If not, I know to avoid ASUS products in future.
Agreed, even if it was not their intent it being closed source is malicious itself - we need to promote this discourse in public conciousness so people are less afraid to question the unaudited, outsourced binary blobs that fill their day to day lives.
I wonder if LLM's can be prompted to use sarcasm
I feel like it would be bad luck to invest in someone named Pozin. But if you get in and out early, good for you?
Btw github supports more than just markdown: https://github.com/github/markup#markups
oh neat. i was aware of hl7, but didn't realize i'd seen it in the wild til today.

you can often find these messages flying unencrypted over flex pager channels in the us
Does the confirm or cancel go on the left or the right? How is that not even accidentally standard at this point?
It all depends on price details. In Norway one needs to pay about 20 Euro/month for a phone subscription with amount of data that allows, for example, watch YouTube or do video calls occasionally outside WiFi. Yet for 35 Euro/month one can get a mobile subscription with 1 TB of traffic with 10 MBit/s speed. That is enough to watch movies and do many kinds of remote work.

Yet the fiber costs at least 50 Euro/month. So it only makes sense to get broadband if it is shared by 4 people.
Isn't this already the case if you hit an exotic spots car?
> I wonder if there’s a better way possible in the current iteration of the web platform, or if a substantial overhaul is necessary for privacy respecting services

Web browsers taking the reigns is the best option we have. Adblock + anti-fingerprinting + cookie jars/cookies being deleted by default are all necessities in the modern day. Ideally, moving people to more privacy conscious choices (i.e. not Google/Microsoft) are great steps to reducing the power of the Internet surveillance capitalism machine.
Young people took care of old people because there was a larger social contract in place: old people's responsibility was to build an environment in which their successors could thrive, so that later everyone could share in that thriving.

>We've just made the system so efficient

It's only efficient at robbing the young.

One half of this social contract, the young-giving-to-old, was formalized (and forced) while the other half, old-building-for-young, was utterly abandoned. There's a great meme about this: "no take, only throw!"[0]

Eating all the seed corn[1] will eventually lead to famine.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eat_one%27s_seed_corn#English
Of those 100, many are presumably in private collections. (A quick glance at the auction database on Artsy suggests that 2-3 originals of Great Wave are sold annually, so there must be dozens of them privately held.)

The site lists 59 museum locations, which could be nearly complete if we assume 40% of copies are in private collections.
I'm fine with them keeping my purchase history for example. And then maybe even sending me offers based on that. Now tracking what I viewed or browsed on their site get bit harder.

And sharing with anyone else is right out.
I meant specifically an agency like 10X Management, who represent freelancers like me. I contrast that model with outsourcing firms, or (less charitably) body shops, that have people on-staff or on-call to throw at a project. If your main contact, as a customer, is with a sales rep or project manager rather than directly with the programmers and designers, you're dealing with an outsourcing firm/body shop.

Having worked in both environments I prefer the agency model. I deal directly with my customers and can choose which projects to take on. The agency provides marketing, legal, billing and payment, additional resources, and will resolve issues with the customer if necessary. Otherwise they just connect me to the customer.

I always tell my customers that I don't charge for work I can't deliver on as promised, or work they aren't happy with. And I don't charge for fixing problems I caused (bugs or other mistakes). That forces me to spec the work out in small-ish tasks with clear deliverables we can agree on, because not having a definition of "done" can kill a project and a relationship. I always work incrementally so my customer can see progress and we don't have a big surprise delay or misunderstanding over requirements near the end. I also rarely take on ground up/green fields projects, because I've run into too many minefields of unclear expectations and requirements. I prefer legacy systems and code that almost works but needs help.

I never work on spec, instead offering a guarantee. I have never had to do a lot of work for free. My freelance relationships last years, in a couple of cases for over a decade. I see it as mostly building a relationship, which has to include trust, on both sides. If you can figure out how to scale that and manage it with remote freelancers, great, but it seems like a big problem to solve.
I went to the page and came away frustrated because I thought the “upcoming” link was broken. I say either show the information or remove the tease.

If you’re really worried about people missing a showing, include an add to calendar link.
> Korean film/TV/music within 2 decades.

True. But it’s still rather limited and almost nobody is learning Korean just because of that.

e.g. in the 60s French cinema was pretty popular for some time in the US in a similar way. Barely anybody learnt French because of that (and it would’ve been way, way easier than Chinese or Korean)
or, hear me out, you also blast it unencrypted to the flex pagers your employees don't even use anymore
Got the place wrong, it's an airport in malaysia, not singapore.
Ahh this explains why my upstairs router had no internet.
Absolutely no since everything about Chinese is not based on pronunciation. Even the meaning of a word change by the pitch. If you don't specify the pitch in the phonetic transcript, the level of uniqueness in pronunciation of vocabulary is so much lower than other languages.

Same may say Japanese can express their language solely in pronunciation (Kana) but this is not true. There are easily 20+ meanings for the same pronunciation and are even hard to distinguish them with context provided. Just open any Japanese dictionary then you will see that it is a completely broken language if without the expressive power of Kanji (or Chinese characters).
No, the bulk of insurance premiums are to cover human injury. Only a small portion is needed to cover damage to the cars involved. Well not so small when it's an Aventador, but still the ratio is not anywhere near 21x.
An extra fun part is that about 2/3rds of the way through in pops someone else pointing out that the closed source ASUS proprietary malware scanner decided that all of xyr /usr/lib/crt*.o files on a mounted disc volume were malwares and promptly deleted them. (-:
The psyche and social hierarchy in American Psycho
I forget which BBC documentary I saw years back where an African tribesman (he was in fact male) tracked and pursued a wild animal after successfully separating it from its herd. It was a day-long marathon of sorts where, after exhausting and finally catching the animal, meat was returned to the tribe.

It was hard not to consider after watching that perhaps humans were in fact designed for this sort of thing.
I laughed out loud at this line:

> At a glance, Arend's journey from organising underground raves in Hamburg to heading up an ultra-endurance race in Los Angeles might seem an unlikely one.

I guess it might not be obvious, but as someone who enjoys running, I quite often get the 'euphoria' that I once got at raves - it is ecstacy. While I am a runner, albeit not an ultra runner, I absolutely get how people from the rave scene would be attracted to it, I also see regularly people running whom I used to know from rave scene, or I can tell from their tattoos (hello plastikman logo!)

Those who ask the question 'what harm are they doing to themselves?' are often missing the point, Drugs / Alcohol / Running are all ways in which we 'run' from our demons - the question of 'what harm is this doing to me?' is often weighted against alternatives.
Yeah I have read the original Literate Programming text and played with tangle/weave a bit before realising jupyter notebooks were more suitable for what I was doing. I'm just wondering if there is something in particular the submitter wanted to highlight, or whether they just wanted to share the concept of "Literate Programming" in general
I often prototype in Greasemonkey myself, so I understand and agree with your point. However, there are many requirements (the AI model weighs 90Mb; I run it in a sandboxed iframe because it uses `eval` and I want to guarantee it would not do something bad; but initialising the iframe and loading the model on every page would be quite cumbersome; etc.) that made more sense in an extension.
I despise church bells. Hourly is bad enough but every 15 minutes? Imagine if any other entity decided they could just blast their theme song loud enough for the entire town to hear every 15 minutes. There’d be immediate uprising.
Do you blame the bug or the debugger then?

Given the general tech-dystopian living conditions and % distribution of non-free software throughout the population: depression would be near universal if this was truly the case.
It doesn't seem like it, the language seems to be pretty explicit. To me it reads like the Windows .NET SDK builds including proprietary DLLs and they didn't quite sort out their licensing.
This sound like one of the millions of gadgets that are just made for the heck of it and ends up in a drawer after being used for a week.

This is just e-waste in the making.

I don't see it as a positive thing. Unless you are one of the very few who still don't own a mobile phone or use a very limited one, you already own a portable networked terminal.
Of course they’re being surveilled on Hacker News. Keeping a finger on the pulse here is the epitome of low hanging fruit for law enforcement and intelligence. Why would anyone suspect otherwise?
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> Maybe people just goes to the cheaper option available because increasing inequality has left millions with no disposable income.

No disposable income would mean not being able to spend money, meaning never buy anything. If this was true the ad industry would very quickly run bankrupt. And yet the revenues of Google and Facebook indicate otherwise.
You wrote:

> It wouldn't kill us to just write some documenting comments detailing the intention behind code

Intention behind the code != Describe the code

> Because code is never long and vague, and human language can never sum up complex ideas or code?

No, code isn't vague, and hood code mostly it isn't long.

Variable names are human language btw. A programming language is a human language.
That’s an attack on the router itself, not the network traffic it carries.

Signature files are only useful to scan network traffic.
> why someone would start something in a memory unsafe language these days

You might like what we (Splitgraph) are building with Seafowl [0], a new database which is written in Rust and based on Datafusion and delta-rs [1]. It's optimized for running at the edge and responding to queries via HTTP with cache-friendly semantics.

[0] https://seafowl.io

[1] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/seafowl-delta-storage-layer
Just to start with, there are a significant number of characters that share the same pronunciation.
TLDR:
In a blogpost on start-ups, branding expert Julie Supan provides advice on identifying high-expectation customers (HXCs). These are the most discerning individuals within a target demographic to whom a company's attributes most appeal. According to Supan, identifying target customers is critical for the success of a start-up, as it informs the company's long-term position and is the foundation of every decision made along the way. She advises against "generalities" and instead suggests launching products aimed at a specific target customer. Founders should select the customers they focus on and channel their emotions. The text also highlights the importance of regularly checking in with the HXC to calibrate insights against them, as market and customer expectations evolve over time.
How does the sponge chemically work?
Come on now. How would I as a user use wsl if it doesnt exist? Some of them are totally relevant to an end user.
I appreciate your snark
This really pisses me off. European harmonised standards are effectively legislation. You can't sell a product in the EU without complying with them. Yet they're behind a really expensive pay-wall. If you buy the standard from ISO it's often €150 - and often that's just to find out if you even have to comply.

Even working out which standards you should comply with is a nightmare - often they reference each other, so then you have a cascading web of standards compliance which never seems to end. And viewing each standard, even if it's just to see if it matters, costs €150.

The standards are often written by businesses in the industry - the authors are on their payroll. ISO isn't even paying these people.

Standards should be free and open, or have no legal weight.
It might be nice if modern languages defined an official way to "flip" the interpretation of a source file, so that by default the content is treated as markdown and the code goes in fenced blocks (rather than defaulting to code and providing a way to mark comment blocks).

Then we might hope for support in most tooling to appear quite quickly.

I think one reason why literate programming is less attractive nowadays (compared to the days of Pascal) is that programming languages have got better at letting you arrange your code in whatever way you like. So maybe something like the above is enough to get 90% of the advantages of a full literate programming system.
They were probably very skilled at this kind of thinking, more than and I.

You have to emphasize with an animal to track it, for example. Even non human hunters have such intuitions. A wildcat knows when a squirrel is likely to head for the nearest tree.

By the time such structures were being built, coralling using simpler or natural terrain features was probably an important hunting method.

Imo the notable part here is the scale and it's implications. Large groups. Long term projects. Long lived assets. A progressive mindset, where the "economy" and roles within it change. That's not, seemingly, the default.
I initially interpreted your suggestion as a job involving high risk infective entities which requiring sterilisation and being meticulously clean. I now also see it may just refer to sweat…