skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people act like Chelsea Manning is in Guantanamo or something? Snowden's initial leaks were much more targeted than Manning's. If he stayed in the country and didn't continue leaking, he could potentially be living life as a free person in the US just like Manning. Instead he made himself a villain by running and ruined any chance of returning to the US outside of handcuffs.
Ken Griffin needs to worry about covering the shorts.
If this happen will you consider running your own models?
Cloud providers will eventually start hosting foundational models and will offer a simple to intergrate apis with low price points. Which will almost eleminate need to run models localy.

Foundational models as a Service.
When cloud providers start hosting foundational models and even trainied on public datasets and offer a simple to intergrate apis with low price points. Will you still running your own models locally?
And y'all are playing right into that position (which is probably successful propaganda), instead of being angry at the NSA for sniffing through your panty drawer.
Look at all the time and effort spent to port Wine when all they had to do to win over developers was officially support OpenGL and Vulkan.
I think there's nothing currently that combines both logging and metrics into one easy package and visualizes it, but it's also something I would love to have.

Vector[1] would work as the agent, being able to collect both logs and metrics. But the issue would then be storing it. I'm assuming the Elastic Stack might now be able to do both, but it's just to heavy to deal with in a small setup.

A couple of months ago I took a brief look at that when setting up logging for my own homelab (https://pv.wtf/posts/logging-and-the-homelab). Mostly looking at the memory usage to fit it on my synology. Quickwit[2] and Log-Store[3] both come with built in web interfaces that reduce the need for grafana, but neither of them do metrics.

- [1] https://vector.dev
- [2] https://quickwit.io/
- [3] https://log-store.com/
Apple updates its App Store rules to crackdown on clones
I would ascribe that to a slightly different phenomena: Trump-era impunity. That was the point that people started doing all kinds of things that were previously Not Done and getting away with them.

Fox could have carried on lying forever if they'd remembered not to libel a business, only individuals and minority groups.
More info for those inclined. In short, you can specify multiple versions of the same image…

> “ The HTML <picture> element gives web developers more flexibility in specifying image resources.

> The <picture> element contains one or more <source> elements, each referring to different images through the srcset attribute. This way the browser can choose the image that best fits the current view and/or device.

> Each <source> element has a media attribute that defines when the image is the most suitable.”

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images_picture.asp
Ublock used to hide all the hulu ads for me, now some get through but its more than satisfying seeing the other 6 god damn ads just blink through when they don't load. I'll deal with a Hyundai or apple commercial if I don't have to deal with 8 more every 5 minutes.
Apple's best [integrated] GPU is close to a mid-range previous gen [discrete] nvidia GPU [consuming 10x the power]?

-fixed that for you
I use Brave on iOS. I know it's forced to be just a webkit skin there, but it's better, at least.
Newly discovered brain mechanism linked to anxiety, OCD
> you can stop caring

If your goal is purely compatibility, then using img with either PNG or JPEG will be just fine.

If however you care about image quality, bandwidth, &c. then you should use picture but... you'll also probably care about what % of your users are getting served whatever image version you consider optimal.

So using picture and stopping caring seem like opposites to me.

Otherwise, 100% agree: use picture.
Glad to hear you've had good results! Yes, @mildbyte did a great job making Seafowl comply with HTTP cache semantics (i.e. Etags/Cache-Control), and it should give good results for both CDNs and browsers. When building Open Data Monitor [0] I certainly observed some nice speed ups.

For those interested in how caching works (i.e. if your dataset is public it could be an easy win) more info is in the docs [1]

[0] https://open-data-monitor.splitgraph.io/week/2023-05-22

It's a Socrata scraper that renders diffs of public/government datasets

[1] https://seafowl.io/docs/getting-started/tutorial-fly-io/part...
I am even more amazed, about companies paying for ads, while seeming to ignore most users will not see them as they use adblocks plugins.
The problem space in self driving is the set of unexpected and uncommon events. Pretty much any solution can do lanekeeping fine.
Or maybe young people have new values than we do and we should let them do their thing. Trust they will figure out, since they are not any less clever than we are.
It’s a stretch to directly couple seat belt wearing to one’s own value of their life.

While (afaik) seatbelt research is pretty definitive a very closely related area, car seat research, is plagued with confirmation bias, FUD, and a lack of interest in exploring alternatives (car seat makers are the ones who fund the crash tests)[0]. It’s crazy to go to hyper modern cities that don’t put children in car seats (Seoul, for one) while in the US you’d hear shrieks of horror if your kindergartener got into a car without one. So who benefits from car seat laws? It seems like primarily car seat manufacturers.

Back to seatbelts, I don’t know why someone would choose not to wear one, but if they have a reason that they value more than the safety a seatbelt provides, ultimately it affects them and their family far more than it would ever affect me. People need agency over their own lives. Not wearing a seatbelt seems like a minor inconvenience to most people, may impede others.

New Hampshire doesn’t require adults to wear seatbelts and doesn’t have as many per capita motor vehicle fatalities as neighboring states. In fact, it has the second lowest rate of deaths per 100M miles traveled in the country (obviously very different from large urban areas). So an assumption about seat belt laws equaling fewer vehicle deaths may not even be a valid assumption.

0 - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-much-do-we-really-care-...
Nokia Threat Intelligence Report finds malicious IoT botnet DDoS attack increase
From time to time, I happen to browse using someone else's computer (browser) and I get immediately overwhelmed by how crappy the experience is without uBO.

Yet, I cannot convince people to install it :)
Wildfire Smoke Blankets Sky Across Northeast US
The worst part:

client.jar searches the entire filesystem for files that look like mod JARs, and infects them with Stage0. This includes entire Gradle and Maven caches, as well as tons of things mod devs would likely never think to check. The potential scale and scope of this infection has gone from “a couple weird mods” to potentially infinite.
Really deep stuff here. It has nothing to do with an over controlling government trying to protect their moat.
There are YouTube specific addons that will do a better job of that and likely use less memory just FYI.
Why you’ll never fly in an airplane with those double-decker seats
"Conspiracy theories are ok when it's us discarding UFOs" :o)
It appears that their position is that they are not be blamed. Did Snowden also had a mole in immigrations to revoke his passport right when he was passing through the country which employed him? While going towards a small sized country for no apparent reason! The plot is very thick.
Ah the politics of web standards. At least they aren’t bickering about support for the <marquee> tag or something.

Wonder what is happening behind closed doors in this squabble…
e.g. I recall that blogpost titled "ZZ vs zz". I use both of these on both QWERTY and Dvorak frequently enough; although tbh I had to actually try typing 'zz' to recall what it did.

My suspicion is that when I picked up using Dvorak with Vim, whatever association or motor-memory goes on gets some indirection added, so that 'letter and position' are not quite so tightly coupled.
I think the point is that you can then put multiple versions in it to get the best option supported in each browser.

There are lots of reasons why that's annoying to do, but it's a solution.
Yeah. There's a glimmer of hope that Apple being forced to open the app store will allow us to use Firefox on iOS, too. Fingers crossed!
About what?

Romans practiced ritual human killing, too. They acted very haughty about others doing it, but they buried people under a temple when Hannibal whomped them at Cannae and they very happily and publicly performed ritual killings of prisoners of war during triumphs. Cato thought that was fine--why then, not, Roma delenda est?

Another example that comes to mind: the xōchiyāōyōtl in Mexico did involve human sacrifice, and it even was a nontrivial ramp-up in the act from pre-Mexica societies. Such acts then used in part to legitimate oppressive activity by European colonizers. They needed, after all, to be civilized. But contemporaneously Christopher Columbus himself, the guy who's got pictures in American government buildings, instituted "bring us impossible amounts of gold every year or we chop off your hands" and "test your swords' sharpness by hacking off children's legs" when lording over the Taino.

This is not an incongruity that can be reconciled, it must be understood and accepted, and the idea of "taking sides" in this flippant way for a conflict two thousand years old is deeply, deeply foolish.
There’s already been quite a bit of work done on replacing compiler heuristics with ML models. Google has productionized it with MLGO and there have been quite a few papers/experiments on the topic.
This is made possible by Swift macros, which also will make migration easier.

I can imagine starting out with SwiftData @Model's, but then redefining the @Model macro to work with another backend -- even deploying the same models to different backends on different platforms (e.g., CoreData on iOS and MySQL on Linux).

"API-compatible" now includes attributes. This could be a great opportunity for alternatives to the CoreData stack.
I'm of the opinion that Gemini is the least-shady exchange, given the involvement of high profile US-resident US nationals, but that same property also makes it much less popular.
Even with the full federal tax credit this is still 50% more expensive than a Corolla or Impreza. (Civics are hard to find at MSRP still.)

The Bolt would be a much, much better Corolla-killer if they weren’t discontinuing it soon in favor of $100,000 land yachts.
They don’t. And how are you going to check? Just fund their next study and stop being creepy.
Wildfire smoke and haze in the Eastern United States should peak this week
The best example is my iPhone charging cords. It was $5, and didn’t work. It was so cheap that rather than the dog and pony show of doin g a return, I ordered another one from another vendor that also didn’t work

I then ordered official apple one that worked

And the HDMI splitter I bought sings to me

And the baby toys, it’s almost comically bad grammar on the box, and the kids songs are Chinese accents

My $100 battery charger, takes half a day to charge
Game enthusiasts can be so weird. Do y'all even have fun playing games, or do you just keep buying hardware and optimizing settings until they run at 120fps, declare victory, and move on to the next AAA game?

I don't think I have worried about game frame rate since the days of Quake 1. I set my graphics settings to "Medium" and then spend the rest of my time actually enjoying my old ass games.
> The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.

Yes. Selling stock photos for crappy ads will be dead in a year. Unless you're at the level of Ansel Adams or Margeret Bourke-White, your content is not worth much.
Apple acquires Mira, a startup building lightweight AR hardware
It is especially frustrating when scientific ideas are applied to moral dilemmas. I see this from the far left wing frequently. The irony is that this same mindset is what led to the proliferation of eugenics apologists in the 1800s. The scientific consensus had absolutely no objections to eugenics on scientific grounds. In fact, "science" would seem to support it. Yet it is widely agreed that this practice is morally reprehensible nowadays, because humans were able to put aside their hubris and apply their moral reasoning.
If I was running a third-party unauthorized repair shop, then I'd care.
However, I just don't see why I should care, as a customer. Also, I have trouble wrapping my head around the standpoint that people want to pay the Apple "it always sort of works" tax, then spend lots of extra time trying to save $50 on a repair.

When I mess around with hobby hardware, it's esoteric stuff, not readily-available laptops that are being built by the millions. For that, sometimes you need a volt-ohm meter, or diagnostic rigs.

Every few years I even bring some piece of a Linux box to a repair shop, to narrow down some fault.

However, Macs are all identical, so repairs boil down to "yank component, throw in the recycling shredder box, and (if you just replaced the mainboard) restore from iCloud Backup". Apple hardware switched over to being livestock, not pets a long time ago, so I'm not seeing the point in spending lots of effort on custom repairs (vs. replacing + recycling the bad components).
RL: Reinforcement Learning
Yeah, like how the US is so developed, you can get anything from a surgery to a cable plan at the advertised priced.

Hang on, my hotel is calling me. Something about a resort fee...
Improve Your Prompts for LLMs: Simple and Effective Techniques
Could you just airplay from the mac to the Apple TV? Not sure about input lag in that situation but it'd be interesting to see
Or LibreWolf which comes with UBO out of the box.
Most of the "sizable" mobile developers are entangled in the PC/Console game developers if in no other place than on the broad sheet with one generating revenue to pay for the increasingly expensive other. King is a part of Activision Blizzard (and a part of the pending sale to Microsoft). Zynga is a part of Take-Two (Rockstar/2K). Riot is obviously Riot. A half-dozen others are arms of Tencent in one way or another, who in turn is heavily invested in Funcom and Epic and Riot and From Software and less invested but still invested in plenty more like Ubisoft. NetEase is a mobile developer and publisher that also develops (but so far generally doesn't publish) PC and console games and has been buying studios looking to deepen that.

The list goes on; everything videogames is deeply entangled financially. Therefore, the markets must be deeply entangled, too.
Not yet, it’s on the roadmap, Knit will be the home for all of your prompts.
Five ways to prevent the risks from hardcoding secrets in code generated by LLMs
Encrypted data is just as easily subpoened as unencrypted data. Subpoenas come in the form of "give us everything related to X."

In case of highly-relevant info mixed with other non-relevant, but highly-confidential information, some courts allow a trusted third-party to see the documents and use their judgement what to submit to the court as part of the subpoena.

"But courts won't know what is in the encrypted info, so can't subpoena it, and you can't get in trouble over that." doesn't work. They order you to hand everything over. If you decline, and the opposing party convinces someone on your side to cooperate, you are in trouble.

If you decide not to turn something over, you get a nice stint in contempt-of-court land, which may include some all-expense paid nights at a not-so-nice hotel.
Very cool can’t wait to try it. I’m curious about offering Bosnian which basically no language apps do.

Was it just easy to offer or is there more of a connection.

My wife is Bosnian and I have learned some over the years.
I see, so in the world you propose we live in the Nintendo Switch must be a tremendous flop?
GitHub support for PHP Packages: “no longer planned”
> Hn usually has high quality discussions.

Lmao keep deluding yourself. What the hell did y’all put in this kool aid.
They won't be paying for content that wasn't loaded.
Been a big fan of your work but I think your take is wrong on this one, Walter.

Saving this for later to say I told you so :).
Which also integrates with ytdlp. I run an instance of metube. If I want to watch a longer video I throw the video there, it downloads it, strips the sponsor stuff and makes it available on Plex.
> Possible that I was using Spring in a wrong fashion but for me (project size around 300 KLOC) Spring dependency injection model with so much magic happening (all the auto configurations, guessing which classes to load etc.) was extremely hard to maintain and understand. I think I prefer Guice/Dagger style of defining dependencies which is much more explicit.

Spring used to be (and still can be) very explicit about defining dependencies, but they've been pushing more towards encouraging the use of "magic" over the last many years. I prefer to be as explicit as possible about everything, unless I have a very good reason not to be, and tend to either specify the literal bean name in the annotations or use the older XML-style configuration (and do the same).
This is how podcast ads generally work- the adtech can splice a targeted ad directly into the audio file, even when streaming in real time.
Yeah, uploading six versions of every image doesn't intersect with my definition of not caring.
The US DoT estimated $340 billion lost in traffic accident damage and just over 42,000 people’s lives lost in 2021. I think we accept that largely because it is diffused across lots of people. Self driving cars would centralize some of this liability and so they have to be an order of magnitude safer before they are accepted to replace our current system. And the existing “system” of human brains has millions of years of R&D; I think anyone in the industry should be accepting any unfair advantages we can get in the name of safety.

After all does anyone care if the plane they are in is flapping its wings?
I'd be happy to have autonomous driving in just a few roads, namely highways. I really do not understand why there is practically zero interest in getting me out of the wheel where it would be both the easiest and the most useful. I'm more than happy to drive the bits within the city of I just could rest in between. Both embedding some kind of track in the highway my car can follow or a wireless peloton technology behind trucks should be orders of magnitude easier problem to solve than full self driving.
Chemical Documents Analysis of Industry Influence on PFAS Science
Was this for religious reasons, or for quality control?
Not OP but: I’ve been using Colemak for 10+ years at this point.. I switched in the middle of a semester while getting my CS degree to A) learn to actually touch type and B) maybe help prevent RSI issues cause I knew I was gonna be programming for a while (and I have trash typing posture).

It’s a struggle for maybe a month or two completely upending your muscle memory.. but retaining the locations of AZXCV from QWERTY did help a lot with transitioning. The hardest part for me was how S is moved one character over to where D is (took a while before I stopped making S related mistake..).

I think I practiced typing every day deliberately for a few months until I didn’t feel like I had to consciously think about it anymore and was up to ~80WPM again. No regrets here.. and it’s always amusing watch people use my computer at first
It's being run through several layers of emulation. Of course it's going to be slow.
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That sounds like intuition.
It’s pretty nice, although it makes your image encoding, storage, and HTML size N times larger to support N formats. That gets even crazier if you also want responsive images.
> The confidence intervals are represented as latency ± (lower, upper), in which latency corresponds to the fifth percentile of latency measurements across 100 different machines. Lower and upper refer to the bounds of the 95% confidence interval for this percentile.

Does anybody know why they chose fifth percentile? I though we should always choose the fastest time when measuring performance.
You may find this handy https://github.com/sapristi/mmuxer :) (yes I'm the author)
Can anyone explain how this worked? as per the paper (which I TLDRed): "A single incorrect instruction in the AssemblyGame can potentially invalidate the entire algorithm, making exploration in this space of games incredibly challenging."

What did it do if it didn't have a useful partial score function? How did it avoid brute force?
DeepSparse 1.5 Released for Faster AI Inference on CPUs
This video sample use base M1 chip.
When the road quality, paint, and signage is decent, modern self driving stacks really don't have any problem seeing it and using it. Effort should be focused on improving those so that everyone benefits.

If Tesla (or any self driving player, but the Tesla FSD stack drives a million miles/day across the US right now) published a road quality score, home buyers would quickly start paying attention and then home owners would quickly start paying attention. This would push forward the political will to fix the roads, at least in places where low road quality is driven by budgeting problems rather than outright poverty.
This is really cool. I like it. I think a few simple things would be:

-- a toggle to ensure that what you get back is automatically translated to english, and the translation is easier to read. In fact, making sure you can always see translations right away would help, even for suggestions.

-- Much simpler conversations to begin with, my Spanish is basically non-existent from when I took it in school, and the teacher input and the cafe prompt was already too far over my head.
Occasionally, so wrong I actually notice. Which must be pretty wrong, because my mental arithmetic is not great.

There's also a thing they'll do where two similar products in jars/tins will have a £/kg number but one will be based on the total weight (e.g. including pickling liquid) and the other based on the weight of the actual food.
Tor probably doesn't help, but it's not blocked by design.

Tor traffic meets the rest of the internet via exit nodes. There are a finite number of exit nodes and some sites seem to know what they are at a given time and may block the traffic or present a bunch of extra captchas.
I feel like we have an uphill battle here. Most people these days are ok with government surveillance in the name of "safety". Go to a local city council meeting where they are discussing automatic ticket cameras and facial recognition in public places. Most people are totally ok with that.

As Ben Franklin said: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
TCO is a better measure than upfront price alone. People don't want to buy golf carts (wrt the Bolt), sell what people will give you money for.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/04/tesla-model-3-lifecycle...