skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as an American, it was fairly shocking to realize that San Diego County was embracing "track all vehicles at all times, linked to registration".. these are long-lived records? I realize that active duty military have basically already agreed to this, and others like that might not object. But every vehicle? Is that part of a "police state" by definition? unsettling
> A professor who makes a $250 book mandatory and then barely uses it sends one kind of signal. A professor who goes out of their way to hunt down (or even scan) and provide free PDFs for all required readings sends another.

My memory may be fading away, but what I remember is that many professors provided their lecture in a kind of written form (written by them or their assistants, not copied from books), at cost to copy. No book required in addition.

A lecture that follows a book seems weird. Why a lecture, just read the book?
i dont mean to be glib, just concise :

capital writes policy, and exceptions are hard fought and rare.
Okay. Answering different questions is one way to signal you don't have an answer to the actual question. We can accept that and close this thread. Thank you for participating.
You're arguing with and algorithm that says if comments > points then downweight. It's to avoid typical internet flame wars, it's not some rejection by the community or whatever you're inferring. It's just that it rehashes tired and well trodden internet discussions that aren't very interesting. What would you have rather seen happen? It stays at the top so people can pile on about how bad climate change is?

Edit: I'm wrong about the reason, because the comments aren't more than the points. But the point stands, it's algorithmic, it's not some conspiracy against discussing climate change. It's that it's a boring discussion that doesn't add to anyone's understanding.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187203
Sometimes this is just a brain that lacks clarity. If you aren’t already doing intense workouts, I’d recommend starting a running habit; do it every day as soon as the day starts. Your body strengthens, but your mind strengthens even more.
It's a simulation (following the theme of the OP submission), so these outputs are assumed to be the same quality. The point is even if you assume the quality is the same, the structure of the faculty hiring network alone will drive faster/further diffusion from prestigious institutions.
My live performance with generative AI audio
Alternaive to Fastmail (using a custom email domain)
I've been wanting to ditch Gmail for too long now. In the context of privacy, I had seen FastMail mentioned a number of times on HN and by all accounts it looked good from the outside. One of the key must-haves for me is the ability to use a custom email domain. FM has that. Great!

Note: My needs are only for me. There are no other team members - at least not at this time.

Unfortunately, I've run into a couple of things with FM that for me make it a bad fit.

1) I've set up my custom domain and have an address, me@my-domain.com. Unfortunately, in the FM email client - web and mobile - the default send from is always me@fastmail.com, and I have to manually switch the send from to me@my-custom-domain.com.

Since I'm using this for professional purposes, this is annoying and a deal breaker. I don't want to sending from me@fastmail.com *at all*. At the very least, if I'm using my own custom domain why wouldn't that be the default? Bad product design?

2) Along the same lines, apparently there's no way to "decouple" me@fastmail.com from me@my-custom-domain.com. That is, to get to me@my-custom-domain.com I have to log into me@fastmail.com. But that means - on web and mobile. - my admin "stuff" is readily available.

I would prefer it if my me@my-custom-domain.com had its own password just for email, and that if I need to switch into me@fastmail.com to do something "admin-y" there's at least a "please re-enter your password" or "please enter your admin pin". Something to prevent mistake. Something to add a bit of sec in the case, say, I lose my mobile device and someone guesses my PIN (or whatever).

As far as I can tell, the only way to get the "decoupling" effect would be to have two @fastmail.com accounts both on the $50 tier. But even so, as far as I can tell, I'm still stuck w/ their email client defaulting to @fastmail.com instead of @my-custom-domain.com - which just boggle my mind that something THAT simple isn't possible.

I want privacy.

But I also want some sense of security.

And some sense of UX.

Thanks.
Now that I think about it, cars’ existing adaptive cruise technology could probably be extended to accomplish something fairly close.
I wasn't aware of https://trust.openai.com/ before; it's hilarious. If you want to find out about why you should trust them with PII they make you submit your PII to them.
There are no artifacts at 300% resolution – that's exactly 3x3 real pixels per CSS pixel.
> "essentially robbery"

There you go, with your 'creative' use of language again. You seem strangely upset about Ukraine having internet access, because you're throwing up all sorts of FUD about it throughout this discussion (16 comments from you so far; 21% of posts in this discussion), all with a negative tone and hyperbolic abuse of language. Why are you so keen on getting people to be upset about Starlink's use in Ukraine?
My question to Musk would be,"Is there one, cheap, device that could be deployed widely on roads that could improve self driving cars enough to push the technology into viability by a substantial margin?".
License plate numbers are unique. Two somewhat similar names can resolve to the same Drivers License number, but in those (extremely rare) cases it's just a matter of checking the actual name against the warrant.
It's already ubiquitous, most new laptops have these as primary power plug
higher voltage makes it a lot more sane, imo. if anything increasing the voltage a long time ago would've probably helped us avoid the plague of all these shitty under spec USB cables. the cynic in me says they would've just shifted to even thinner gauge wires, but hey, a guy can dream, right?
I had this exact use cases a few months back: a big SQLite DB I didn't want to duplicate (and use twice the storage) before testing a script, on a filesystem without copy-on-write.

I wrote a fuse tool to provide copy-on-write for the file instead: https://github.com/remram44/cowblock
D&D has been revised dozens of times over the past few decades, and racial alignments have been more honored in the breach for nearly as long -- one of the most popular characters in the D&D books is a chaotic good drow, and such "good renegades" are an extremely common appearance at tables. The past is not being rewritten. This is WOTC being responsive to the desires of (some of) their customers.

The Dahl publishers have confirmed that they are only making changes to editions published for schools, and the original unedited books will still be published. Dahl himself authorized changes to his work to keep them marketable.

There's no evidence that the Le Guin books would have been kept from publication if those mild changes had not been made. It appears that we're only even hearing about it as a response to the Dahl controversy.

All together, this seems like piecemeal evidence of works being updated to satisfy contemporary mores, which is something that has been done continually for centuries, not a sign of a growing ideological trend.
Who is the “I”? Can one sole person single-handedly cancel another?
AMD also has AVX support on all recent CPUs.
Anecdotal data point of 1

Me and my wife would rarely get sick before kids, and even then before they started school

Once they started going to daycare, then preschool, or when switching schools… we all get sick at home now
'Nicotine releases a chemical called dopamine in the same regions of the brain as other addictive drugs. It causes mood-altering changes that make the person temporarily feel good. Inhaled smoke delivers nicotine to the brain within 20 seconds, which makes it very addictive—comparable to opioids, alcohol and cocaine. This "rush" is a major part of the addictive process.

'When the person stops using tobacco, nicotine levels in the brain drop. This change triggers processes that contribute to the cycle of cravings and urges that maintains addiction. Long-term changes in the brain caused by continued nicotine exposure result in nicotine dependence, and attempts to stop cause withdrawal symptoms that are relieved with renewed tobacco use.'

https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addict...
Democracy is essentially mob rule. It's great when the mob is doing what you want, not so great when it isn't.

Currently most Western democracies are designed to protect minority rights against the majority because of this. In fact, the Bill or Rights in the US can be seen as a great example of this: it prevents the current majority from removing rights deemed essential.

If you look at states that have weak individual property rights (all the communist states, most of the Iberian colonies) you can see the issue: weak property rights by individuals go hand in hand with authoritarianism.

Those who want "change" always want to destroy the system. Historically speaking, that has led to disasters of one sort of another.
LMQL dev here. A bit of an unusual way of getting highlighted on here, I must say.

I am sorry to hear that you have issues installing LMQL. We are working very hard on LMQL, to make it as seamless and accessible as possible (as you have seen with our docs). However, we are of course not a well-funded company and the project is open source and community-driven.

Please feel free to reach out (hello@lmql.ai or Discord), so we can assist you in getting started. Please also consider contributing to the project, to improve it with respect to the kind of issues you were experiencing.
Show HN: I Built an App to Help Me Be on Time for Appointments
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Introducing NotifyWave, an app that connects to your Google Calendar and sends you a notification when it's time to leave for your appointment. The app takes into account your current traffic and transit conditions to calculate the optimal time for you to leave and arrive on time.

I've been using this app for a while now and it's been a game-changer for me. No more stressing out about being late or getting stuck in traffic. And I thought, why not share it with everyone else who might benefit from it?

So if you're someone who's always running late or just wants to be more punctual, give NotifyWave a try. You can check it out at https://notifywave.com/trigger/calendar-time-to-leave.

Let me know what you think!
Something they definitely understand is exactly what their pre-training data looks like - the raw text that goes into the initial runs of training the models.

Instruction tuning and RLHF is a bit more complex than that. I assume they maintain detailed logs all of those human-driven decisions about which responses were better.
> Freenom sucks; sad they're gone, so many domains lost.

They do suck but are they gone? I have a paid .tk domain and am able to login and manage it. I thought they just halted registration of new domains?
That is only true for apps where everything is vectors and it knows about scaling, since apps draw to the pixel buffer themselves. Many contain rasterized resources with fixed resolutions.
> What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative?

One already exists in Lemmy.

I suspect a big hurdle is dealing with all of the laws & regulations that exist in the United States. I've already seen one good sized mastodon instance vanish forever because hostile actors flooded it with actual child abuse material. And despite #fediblock, new instances with hate speech spring up all the time.
When I say totally doable, I mean humanity surviving is totally doable.

I guess I was thinking after the current ecosystems are wiped out, it will open up the niche for something else to take hold and evolve in their place. Isn't that what the geological record shows during mass extinctions?
Consumers care about where the LLM is run because of the UX: People hate how current assistants randomly break because you have a spotty signal, or take forever to respond because it's making a round trip across the internet to actually reply, etc.

They don't need to know how you solved that, but local LLMs are the way to solve it.

> Can my local LLM help me request a refund from a Shopify order or would Shopify have to fine-tune their own model? Then what? I download a 300GB file just so I can refund an order?

LLMs are like an implementation detail: Shopify wouldn't have a single "Shopify" model, but they might have models for specific things they need to do to generate value for themselves. Likewise you might have some local model that acts specifically like a personal assistant and is able to initiate a refund for you.

OpenAI's plugin spec already works for advertising capabilities to LLMs you don't own: https://server.shop.app/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
Full disclosure. I just built this for Google Workspace (www.gofasterhq.com). I built it because it's a tool I wish I had when managing teams in the past.

These articles are very one sided and there is a productive middle ground to be established using productivity management tools. As a manager, it can be difficult to know what your team is working on and who is actually productive, especially in a remote environment. Replace the word "spy" in this article with "hold accountable" and it doesn't sound so bad all of the sudden. But with that visibility, the manager also needs to understand the context in which the data is generated. Whether somebody is productive isn't only a matter of metrics, but also their role, their seniority, and what it is they are expected to do.

As an employee, these tools can benefit you by weeding out teammates who present themselves confidently, but don't actually do much. With a good manager, you should be able to simply do your job and the metrics, in context, take care of themselves.
Nope, that is extremely low. I would double that for buying food just from a super market. And even then it is likely not too special.

150€ sounds like the advertised poor person diet. Rice, beans, cheap vegetables like potatoes, little of cheap meat(chicken legs maybe).
I'd be happier if they ditched pi 4 production and just released a 5 with whatever SOC manufacturer has the best availability, hopefully that isn't Broadcom.
Resistance is the function of conductivity of the material, cross section area of the conductor, and length. In the case of wires the length is long, so they need more cross sectional area to keep the resistance down, in the contacts the length is very short, so they need less cross sectional area to achieve the same Resistance. Often, they make the contacts from an even more conductive material than copper like gold or silver, so that helps even more.
I guess that training on specific bodies of private and licensed data will become a selling point. Right now, it’s a lot of trial-and-error to gauge a (closed) model’s expertise in a particular niche. I think that there’s naturally a (large) premium for access to a model that’s definitely trained and knowledgeable on all of ACM, or all of ASME standards, or other similar bodies of work.
I'm not sure how much genuine concern there is about debt in the US vs how much drama due to the debt ceiling. (Many countries have some limit on debt, but only the US and denmark have it as an absolute amount, and only in the US that amount is so low that it needs to be raised constantly.)
OpenAI obviously don't know all the data in their dataset, but they must at least know whether they are training on private data submitted to their API.
Then how do you learn it?
It’s not clear to me which bit you’re complaining about—I assume it’s either that the format is still used and/or that name describes an obsolete use. But the former seems perfectly reasonable if it still serves a useful purpose, and the latter largely irrelevant (these days a “tarball” is generally as an arbitrary word, like “zip file”); so I’m curious to hear your perspective on what the problems are.
Many Watts means some combination of Amps and Volts - power is Amps times Volts.

The main risks from each are different though. Simplified explanation for the non-physicist:

Lots of Amps make wires get hot, make connections melt, etc. In general, thin wires (eg headphone wires) are good for 1 or 2 amps safely, and chunky wires (eg. AC cords) are good for 10 or 20 amps safely. The exact amount depends on how much cooling they get - which is why you should never put blankets over power cords. If you screw this up, the outcome is probably a fire, which maybe kills you.

Lots of volts causes electrocution. Thats because your skin is pretty decent at blocking electricity, but when you have enough volts, some can sneak through your skin, freezing up your muscles, stopping your heart which probably kills you.

So - amps and volts have totally different mechanisms of death. USB-C @ 100W is 20 volts at 4.5 amps. The voltage is well below dangerous levels, and the current is pretty safe in the cables specced, but I can totally imagine a few fires.

It's worth noting that about 10x as many people die from amps (electrical fires) than volts (direct electrocution).
I guess this is a bit of an interest of mine as I've been to the museums in Las Vegas and Albuquerque, though I'd call myself more of a general science tourist.

It does remind me that I'd like to go by the Trinity test site (I think one of the lesser known aspects of the development of the bomb is that the first ever nuclear detonation was actually carried out on US soil/sand), but it's only open twice per year.
Was that voiceover at the beginning ("I am a translater ... I am a healer ...") generated with AI or did they hire a human actor?
Is there an IPFS dedicated to training data? A mirror of input datasets and fully open models resident on HuggingFace could endeavor to cut out onerous license agreements when possible.
A little misleading, perhaps, that at the top of the article is an illustration of a kid working at McDonald's.
You call me a liar, I tell you to bug off and live in your own commie utopia mental palace.
> What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative?

This 'alternative' needs to be able to attract and move both new and existing Reddit users, replicating its network effect and retaining them so that they do not go back to Reddit.

> Hosting the content could maybe be done via one of the new decentralized systems like Mastodon, Nostr or Bluesky? Those inherently have open APIs, so it would be easy to build a frontend which aggregates the content into one simple UI.

Before these generative AI systems this was not a problem and free APIs on social networks was fine. Now having free open access APIs on social networks doesn't make that much sense anymore thanks to generative AI.

It just enables these AI systems to easily train on their platforms at little to no cost to accelerate the grifters, scammers, and bots flooding and overloading the social network which also increases the costs of spam, moderation, servers and low quality content. It doesn't scale for humans alone to reduce it once API access is totally free, whether if it is on the largest instances or even with another Reddit alternative.

But anyway...

...AI really is going just great. /s
Benefit of surveillance over checking their deliverables, go.
> I really don't think privacy is something everyone should value equally.

> "Unmaskings" don't generally happen to most folks, and these "dangerous outcomes" are exceedingly rare

Can you provide a source for this claim? I have some sources that say otherwise:

- https://www.safehome.org/family-safety/doxxing-online-harass...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/technology/doxxing-protes...

However, doxxing/"unmasking" are really only part of the problem when talking about privacy. It opens doors for new and unfounded forms of oppression. Prior to the internet there was at least some inherent privacy in that aspects of your life were self-contained in private activities. In a world where many/most of your activities have some form of connectedness, whether shared with the public or not, "privacy" or the choice to share more widely and/or with the government becomes more paramountly important: https://learningcenter.ecnl.org/learning-package/surveillanc...

> If your threat model includes the possibility of things you do online having negative consequences for you should they be discovered, that's one thing. But the vast majority of people do not fall into that category, and pretending like they do is a great way to numb folks to the very real risk some people carry.

An interesting take. I'm part of online gun forums; I promote good gun and safety culture among other things. One of those forums is queer-centric/leftist. The people who doxx gun owners could care less whether they're doxxing via a state agency, a leftist gun forum, or a righty gun forum - the objective is the same: guns are the enemy they're targeting and people are a mere consequence. If I ideologically allow people to doxx one part of the gun community, I have opened the door for alternative approaches, so I relinquish that right to the state who requires cause for such a thing. That is a bit at odds with my (dis-)trust towards the government to maintain cause uniformly and justly, but that's a different discussion and a different approach.

Key to your argument is that privacy is one in the same with eschewing consequences, which is far from the truth. In fact, technologies like PGP prove you can maintain privacy and ensure accountability given more mainstream adoption and tooling. Who holds those people accountable and the ability to engage in moderation of online discussions are equally important parts of privacy because it involves the how of a lot of those things. Saying the vast majority of people deserve the unmasking, and the inevitable violence, they received is a lot like saying I deserved being beat as a kid. My dad would tell you that he had the best of intentions in mind and he thought he knew what we was doing and that I deserved it. My siblings and I have a life of experiences that prove why the best of intentions and his knowledge were acutely wrong. The change he wanted in each of us could've been attained in entirely different and more healthy ways.
Hey thank you! See you round the Pond some time
How is "deadnaming" an attack on free speech? It's always been considered discourteous to refer to people by a name they don't go by.
Setting Up with Sparkfun's IoT DataLogger
AIUI Lassie uses indexers to locate content instead of using a distributed hash table (DHT). So a content identifier (CID) might be present on IPFS (and downloadable by a regular IPFS client), yet 'invisible' to Lassie.

If my understanding is correct, it can't be considered a complete IPFS client.

https://docs.filecoin.io/storage-provider/architecture/netwo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
CCS64 is old and inaccurate. You want x64sc from VICE, preferably with a 50 Hz display mode and matching emulation speed for smooth scrolling.
Same. Roblox is terrible for earning money, and their pricing is truly exploitative indeed, but it’s a great way to learn to code and design games (and random super weird shit) and show it to your friends. Just don’t try to earn (or spend!!) real money on there and you’re all set.
US must 'stand strong' in face of 'unbelievable aggression from China': Turner
I wonder what the behavior of

scores[-2] = 4!

is. Or, for that matter, of

scores[-1.1] = 4!

(Assuming that -2 and -1.1 haven’t been deleted.)