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Show HN: A Repo for Making LLM Web Apps with NextJS, OpenAI, and AWS Lambda
I have put together an open source repo for demonstrating how to make an LLM web app with NextJS for the frontend, which maintains chat history, API Gateway + Lambda for the logic layer, using the OpenAI API for the LLM.

This is very much a work in progress and most certainly not production ready, but they code will give you a kick start in the right direction. I hope you find it helpful. I intend to keep working it it for my own learning purposes.
He would be really stupid if that is his thinking, because as we just saw these users would just move to a competitor as long as there is one. Twitter doesn't have a monopoly on short conversation-based social media.
I am surprised that an article this length never mentions "message passing" once.
I'm not an Apple fanboi, I generally dislike their stuff, but I am also going to give credit where credit is due because that's what any fair person should do.

Apple makes stuff that will work, that will satisfy the common man, that will (or at least should) have quality meriting their price.

Apple's products are good, and that is an objective fact separate from whether I personally like their stuff or not.
I know plenty of middle class parents who bought their teenagers an old beater because they didn’t want them driving the car they needed to get to work or their expensive car.

Wrecking your first car is almost a teenage rite of package.

Again we are talking about people who are willing to spend $3500 on a headset. Not exactly the demographic of people who are “sharing a family car” and that don’t statistically have separate cars for the parents and don’t either buy their kids a car or subsidize them in some way to help them buy their own.

I know I never let either one of my sons drive my car alone and I bought myself a new car and handed my older one down to my older son and bought my younger son a car before he had a license.
What does it mean to Really Believe in B2B data integration?
I completely agree with you regarding corporate suicide. The rest of my post is complete speculation.

The least nonsense thing I can think of is that they weren't paying their bills. They weren't paying rent, the landlord locked them out and repo'd their servers, or something similar. (perhaps they were inspired by Elon Musk's recent antics?)

If that were the case, they would not disclose that that's what happened. If they disclosed that, all of their other customers would immediately begin migrating their data; not tomorrow, not next week, now.

If there were any excuse they would give it. "We were hacked!" "It was a disgruntled ex-employee!" "The datacenter burned down!" "It's those dirty EU data laws!" etc.

Shutting down the data center and deleting all the data (without migrating) at the same exact time and that was Plan A--nah I don't believe that.
Keep it up. :)
You should be passionate about delivering a viable competitor in that problem space, or why bother?
Not necessarily, I'm in both - hedging my bets. Whichever gets me better/more engagement, this is the platform I will stick with. I'm not fond of either CEO, but Elon keeps coming off more and more as a psychotic narcissist, and I find myself rooting for Threads over Twitter for that reason alone. He needs a big L to gain some humility.
They made a big mistake by removing porn.
it's not that simple many other companies running longer running jobs, including their competition, use Firecracker

so while Firecracker was designed for thing running just a few seconds there are many places running it with jobs running way longer then that

the problem is if you want to make it work with long running general purpose images you don't control you have to put a ton of work into making it work nicely on all levels of you infrastructure and code ... which is costly ... which a startup competing on a online dev environment compared to e.g. a vm hosting service probably shouldn't wast time on

So AFIK the decision in the article make sense the reasons but listed for the decision are oversimplified to a point you could say they aren't quite right. Idk. why, could be anything from the engineer believing that to them avoiding issues with some shareholder/project lead which is obsessed with "we need to do Firecracker because competition does so too".
Most things in life aren't software and don't have a TOS. I know this is a tech forum, and people are usually thinking about tech, but most of what copyright applies to is still not software.
What do you mean by "believe in" here?

There have been very few companies I worked for where I "believed in" what they did in the sense of thinking they were doing something amazing and world-changing. But I "believed in" them enough to know they were doing things I found interesting and could afford to pay me.

> I can't be productive and efficient working on stuff I despise.

There's a huge amount of space between believing in something and despising that thing.

> It's like trying to swim while being skeptical about touching water.

I think being nervous about touching water when trying to swim for the first time is healthy and rational, and may even make your ultimate success more likely. I'd be much more comfortable working with a founder that had a healthy amount of skepticism than a founder who was a "true believer".

I suspect I'm purely getting trip up on language here, though, and I probably agree with your underlying sentiment.
Why would gravity behave different than Higgs field?
Part of the issue as a prospective cryptographic user/consumer is that not only do I not know which algorithm(s) should be used, the most likely library https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs also explicitly states that it shouldn't be used in production.

Hybrid deployment (E.G. with ECC using a curve like 25519) is a great recommendation and probably obvious, far more so than picking a winner among the available post quantum possibly safe algorithms.
I find it amusing that the table published a conservative cutoff year and an optimistic cutoff year. Based on the trends I've seen, most non-critical software would probably have made the switch in time for the conservative year, whereas anything security-critical like a bank would probably use the optimistic year.
> There has been a big push in the last 20 years or so to make sure that everyone makes a "living wage". This, in turn, makes it nearly impossible for people who want to learn a trade while making something (anything) from actually doing so.

Checking Austin IBEW, it goes from starting apprentice at about $17/hr+benefits and goes up every year guaranteed until hitting about $34/hr+benefits at base rate for a journeyman. "Living wage" isn't going to impinge on that except at the very bottom.

However, people don't want to do trades because it's really hard work.
Man, I haven't played KoL in forever, thanks for the reference and reminder about a truly hilarious and amazing game.
Debugging code review culture
my $green_line went up after tricking $big_corp into buying my SaaS
I tried. No dice.

Thanks!

We had a friend of the family that is a general, looking, and he couldn't find anything.

The army certainly has records of the award, as he's buried in Arlington, and they sent us new versions of the medals for his flag case.

No records as to why he got the awards, though.
Video of the handshake:

https://twitter.com/NATOpress/status/1678496279951732768
Why? Pass a law with sufficient penalties (say, $10K) and include lawyer fees. This'll result in a cottage industry in any state. Enough civil litigation and companies will finally decide it's not worth it and MA billing zip codes will be excluded from sale of location data. This has worked in other industries.
I believe they believe they are helping people and the work is valuable at some level, if they are successful, yes. At the very least they aren't intrinsically opposed to the field.
Yeah, that is the blog post about the newer nRF52 series. From what we were told, Nordic updated the silicon to counter the fault attack we were using. Retesting with newer devices is on our todo list.

Some more links, also in the blog post, are [1], demonstration on a dev board, and [2] the airtag attack.

[1] https://limitedresults.com/2020/06/nrf52-debug-resurrection-... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0PWQvW-14
IIRC there's also a config flag you need to set, otherwise it won't load the userchrome file. I forget the details, it's been a while since I set this up.
How to Market a Multiplayer, the Battlebit Remastered Story
Even enabling -Wall is a debatable point of view in some circles.

VC++ is actually quite good, has SAL, /analyse and SFIR. Also much better than many other compilers, when looking beyond the big three.

Implicit conversations is a common source of errors. Certainly a nice feature for pentesting.
I call this "usability nihilism," as an allusion to therapeutic nihilism - the idea, not that the user shouldn't be made to think unnecessarily, but that in fact they are not capable of it. That the user cannot be empowered or trusted to learn by experiment. In short, that usability is impossible.
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_product

Infinite product expressions for the trigonometric and hyperbolic functions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trigonometric_identiti...
Neither is 420
Ask HN: Is DDG/Bing search down for anyone else?
It started this afternoon when I am getting zero results for multiple words search query. It seems to get worse in the late afternoon.
DDG's picture search results are suffering too.
I call bs on this strategy being consumer centric. They couldn't monetize "enough." They're saying they had a product problem, but not for their users. Tumblr was lovely, just didn't have the gross design patterns that drive the level/type of usage that advertisers want. Reddit has the same issue and you see them prying the product out of the hands of their users. Lol, also yes to that comment, let the NSFW fly free.
This is also kind of a union maneuver. They push sportsball news into a different corporation with a different union. They'll bring over a few articles about the Yankees to keep the subscribers happy but the net result will be fewer reporters under the News Guild contract.
I've found a lot of great books via https://hackernewsbooks.com/

I'll also recommend my own monthly newsletter:

https://newsletter.corecursive.com/profile

My last piece was about my struggles to get coding tasks past that last 10% done. And how part of its being distracted by social media and part is that the stakes are low.
Cultures are and always have been constantly shifting and changing; conquest is one method of that happening, as you point out, but is far from the only one. Immigration, emigration, catastrophe, technological progress, climate change... all result in the movement of people and the shifting of national and cultural boundaries.

No culture is "erased" as a result of this. Even if Japan fails to have children, Japanese culture and the Japanese nation will continue. It will look different, certainly. But there's nothing magical or better about the way things used to be simply because they used to be that way. Change is inevitable, and more than that, it is good.
I'm not so certain, requiring login for twitter, I read has cost Twitter all of their search engine listings, which amounts to something like 30% of traffic to the site.
You can use VMware Workstation Player and an unlocker like Auto-Unlocker (https://github.com/paolo-projects/auto-unlocker) to enable Mac OS as a guest. It works, but it's very slow because the Mac guest runs without GPU acceleration.
Do you support bringing violence to Crimea, just so Ukraine can own it again?

Let's just say that's up to the mafia-like entities that currently run the peninsula.

What is clear at this point -- is that under no circumstances can it remain under the sovereignty of the RF. Which unfortunately means it can't be fully sovereign (to the extent of being able to determine its own alliances and such).

This matter was of course fully settled when these same mafia-like entities agreed to allow their territory to as a base of aggression against Ukraine.

All this talk of self-determination and autonomy is nice, you know, but -- once you start allowing your territory to be used as a base of rape and pillage against your neighbor -- that's it, man. You lose. And you can forget about any silly notions of "sovereignty" for at least a generation or three.

Just as with Germany and Japan after WW 2.

So that leaves either: (1) autonomy within Ukraine, or perhaps (2) UN protectorate. Either way, with some permanent territorial concessions to Ukraine (the military bases, at least) will be needed, so that the latter has, you know, the muscle to keep the enforced separation from the RF in place.

Along with paying their share of reparations, and a full investigation of all of those involved in repressions (disappearances and all that) of Tatar other activists since the invasion again. And the voiding of all real estate transactions since that time as well.

Those are the choices. And the leadership of these mafia-like entities pretty knows this, by this point.

As for violence - of course everyone would prefer less, not more. How much is ultimately needed is again -- a matter that rests in the hands of these mafia-like entities.

Since they're the ones who got this whole mess started, by choosing to allow their territory to be used as base from which to bring violence to Ukraine -- and at massively horrendous scale.
I think the proper way to characterize the situation is as follows.

The university were founded largely for the sake of teaching the liberal arts, that is, the free arts (as opposed to the servile arts). I am using the traditional meaning of "liberal arts", and not the tragedy we have now. The university was supposed to educate the man, to mature him intellectually, to free him to be able to pursue the truth and to do so effectively which meant also the ability to draw from and participate in the tradition.

The feverish mission to push everyone through college is a fool's errand. It is not for everyone. The result is that universities had to change to make this possible, thus failing their founding mission. But at the same time, they aren't good at vocational training. So for most people, it's a waste of time and money.

We would be much better off with a system of vocational schools and apprenticeships. This would unburden universities and free them to pursue their original mission, and it would enable vocational schools/apprenticeships to provide excellent training for workers.

Primary education is, frankly, in an awful state as well, as it, too, is supposed to educate the man, and it is here where the vocational stuff is still not necessary to learn even for those who will eventually enter the vocations.

We're seeing some interesting developments in both primary education (with the spread of classical education) and the founding of small colleges that aim to avoid the failure of the university. Some try to combine intellectual formation with an apprenticeship program to try to reconcile the desire to form the man with the need to find a job. Apprenticeship is also used to cover at least part of the costs of the education.

Ballooning costs are a symptom of corruption and bloat. The mission is lost, so it's a numbers game now. There's no reason a university education should cost anywhere near what it costs today, especially given the mediocrity of the education. I don't really see much will to change the status quo among those in power, so we'll probably see a combination of hamfisted maneuvers like debt cancellation to maintain the status quo, but ultimately, probably a collapse of the system.
Is that 5s per token?
Show HN: Throw – A space for asking and answering questions anonymously
Hello HN community,

For the past two years we’ve been working on this disruptive new thing. It’s about people, community, communication and truth.

Throw is the new space for asking and answering questions anonymously. We believe that in today’s world (both online and offline) content in communication exchanges is strongly influenced by the personas, profiles and façades people maintain/upkeep/safeguard socially, ideologically and on relationships.

From the way people post on Instagram the life they want others to believe they have, or the way people behave on thanksgiving with family, or at work, or with friends; on every social setting and interaction to some degree acting and behaving according to that setting and the people they interact with. These dynamics influence the content itself, as people don’t just respond to a question like computers do. What ends up happening is that the responder comes up with the answer by blending the possibly objective answer with feelings, setting, desires, commitments, ideologies, fears, insecurities, etc (social pressure or social agenda).

Something is missing between social media and the traditional Q&A…

Throw addresses this by creating a space free from this social agenda. Thus focusing strictly on the content exchanged and providing a safe, comfortable and unbiased space where people can ask and answer anything freely with no bias, fears or strings attached.

We've put key components of social media, Q&A and surveying industries into one platform.

Not only may Throw be used for personal and private questions and answers. But the power of crowdsourcing allows for a great variety of use cases like market research, validation of content and ideas, trivia, and much more. Serious matters and also just for fun…

It’s a query marketplace which means that “throwers” (people who ask questions) pay a fee proportional to the answers they need and in turn “catchers” (who catch them and respond) get compensated. This way we guarantee every user gets as many responses as he/she needs.

As for dealing with anonymity, we have built a sophisticated moderation protocol to neutralize and quickly ban people that contribute negatively as it is a priority people feel safe and comfortable in this community.

We have worked very hard to create a delightful product and are basically launching today!

If this is something that may be of your interest or you’d like to be one of the first to test it out download our app and play around with it.
https://www.trythrow.com

Also, if you have questions there is additional information in the FAQs section on our web page that could be of help.

Finally, we really appreciate any feedback we can get (of any kind). So if there's anything you like, don't like, or any other thought about Throw, we'd love to hear about it! You may post a comment below or through the contact section on the web page.

Be curious and dare to know!

Thank you!
Last call for preservation of our video game history.

Right to preserve our culture should be enshrined in law, because otherwise it will disappear due to adverse relation with copyright law and novel art production.
It is a bit hard when after all isn't every bank as originally described.

Need to move that goalpost around.
The situation for students is pretty close to a double bind situation [1]:

- Get loans and go to school, or I (your family, society, the job market) will punish you.

- Do not get loans, or I (the economy, lenders, your credit score) will punish you.

- You must got to higher education and get a degree, but only if you want to. ("college isn't for everybody", except all we ever say is a HS education is a dead end).

- With a blaming tertiary of "You should have already know that and realized what an issue large student debt was before taking the loans. Why are you trying to act like such a victim?"

And I admit, I've fallen into this previously of "how did they borrow so much money?" Except its this same issue of "we put you in a bad situation, and then blame you for not escaping earlier."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind
Of course I’d bet the sun would rise tomorrow, because if it doesn’t, I’m either dead or money will be worthless…

The same applies here, would you bet on a horse that is flagging (RSA won’t work forever)? We have the ability to take in new information, and throw away past information because it is no longer relevant. If you choose to ignore the new information, just because “it’s always been that way”, that doesn’t seem rational.
Why is the BCrypt text “OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt”?
Indeed. The sun has successfully rose every morning, hundreds of billions of times straight! That's a pretty good record.
The LSD Museum (2021)
This company has been recommended to me by very health conscious friends, stainless steel and charcoal activated: https://purifyguru.com/

And this for a cheaper faucet attachment option: https://www.amazon.com/PUR-FM-3700-Faucet-Filtration-System/...
Just for clarification, the TFA is about the nRF51 which can be attacked via a debugger only. No glitching or other hardware was needed.

Your link is a different attack on the newer nRF52 series which no longer has the same weakness in its debug handling.
Works fine for me. Are you using Cloudflare DNS? If so I would never expect consistent results as archive.is give CF bogus records on purpose. Example [1] anywhere you see a response of 1.1.1.7 they are using CF and will get bad answers.

[1] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/archive.is
Where does the money come from? I’m assuming it’s more difficult to find ads to run on NSFW content and/or there’s some other reason why monetizing NSFW content is challenging for businesses like Reddit, Tumblr, etc.
WikiLeaks tried that, Assange is still in Belmarsh and the MSM is still largely allowing him to rot there.
"Krebs went on to cite an official at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who said cellular carriers by law are required to know the approximate location of customers in the event it's needed by emergency 911 services. Whether the carriers are permitted to sell or otherwise provide the information to other third parties is less clear. Expect there to be much more scrutiny about this in the coming weeks and months."

To see this in practice, check out MVNOs offering prepaid mobile service. Some will disable certain features unless this physical E911 address is submitted by the customer.

What if there were a limitation on how that data can be used.
We all here dabble in technology(doesn't matter which one) so possibility of being some brainwashed meat puppet taking part of some covert war between powers that be is more likely. And there are fates that are even worse(think what was in that ship on international waters). GitS is a nightmare and cyberpunk for a reason.
It's not like anyone who wants to develop for the Vision Pro is going to get a Meta Pro and decide they don't care about the Vision Pro. Also it opens the door to people who already have Meta Pros who want to develop/port apps to the Vision Pro.

If I was serious about developing for the Vision Pro I'd eat the difference between a Meta Pro now and then selling it after the Vision Pro ships.
Fingers crossed EU gets us some sneaky repair legislation that forces companies to release all code required to make a device operate if they choose to stop updating it.

The amount of waste caused by companies actively not doing this is arguably criminal.
I don’t know if it’s my fault or what but my “LLMs will obviously improve” comment is specifically not “llms will stop hallucinating”. I hate the AI fad (or maybe more annoyed with it) but I’ve seen enough to know these things are powerful and going to get better with all the money people are throwing at them. I mean you’d have to be willfully ignoring reality recently to not have been exposed to this stuff.

What I think is actually happening is that some people innately have taken the stance that it’s impossible for an AI model to be useful if it ever hallucinates, and they probably always will hallucinate to some degree or under some conditions, ergo they will never be useful. End of story.

I agree it’s stupid to try and inductively reason that AI models will stop hallucinating, but that was never actually my argument.