skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect, that's BS. First of all, of course it would be possible, but you would need to be smarter with your traditional campaigns to reach customers.

And secondly, if you do B2B advertising then your MO is cold contacting businesses, email campaigns, social media, trade shows, etc. Why do you need behavioral data of your users to advertise to them? And how would you even know they represent a business from just their behavior?
Moscow halts grain deal in what UN calls a global blow to people in need
Own a manual?
How do you use ChatGPT to generate websites? Any particular process or tools?
I'm not familiar with most of these models in detail, but training time is generally less interesting than inference time to me. I don't care if it takes a month to train on $10k of gpu rentals if it can be deployed and run on a raspberry pi. I should definitely look into fasttext though.
Is the Mozilla foundation wasting money on awareness ads for pushing propertiary SaaS to add features?

(Picture in article)

Edit: Yes they are. I zoomed in on the pic.
Classic man in the middle attack can be easily dealt with PKI. Why go through such a hassle?
For the record, these chips do not have AMT in the first place, and even then they come with coreboot, for which ME is not really a concern.

I thought you were talking about proprietary microcode, which all of these chips you mention do come with. Or even worse, since they are all SoCs.... You'd have to e.g. avoid using the Ethernet controller on them (which generally has flashable eeproms with code) which would also happen to be an effective prevention of any ME issues even if were running an ancient version of ME.

I.e. the only threat vector you mentioned does not apply and can't possibly apply. A mac shares more firmware with your average intel laptop than this.
Neat! I definitely read the name as "Peeing" and was confused. (Most people parse words using the first few letters and last few letters when they scan.)

The blurb on the site was difficult for me to parse, mentally. It's wordy and awkward with the negative in there:

> Receive an HTTP request whenever your heartbeat endpoint is not pinged for a configured interval of your choice.

"Get POSTed when your endpoint stops receiving a ping." is where I got to after reading your description here, but it's sorta unclear what "your endpoint" means (it's ambiguous, is it my site's endpoint? or my "peeng endpoint"?)
I honestly just don’t understand why anyone would care about this distinction. I’d support a total ban on all advertising, but I simply can’t fathom giving a damn about exactly which data points were used in the targeting.
Great news for billionaires!

Think wealth inequality now is bad?

Would have to be naive to think this technology (if/when it works) would be a net good at humanity’s current achievement/progress level.
Couldn't they just make the car blare non-stop alternating sirens for 10 minutes at a time, 4 times an hour for 12 hours, loud enough to get through drywall and double-paned windows, at the slightest perturbation?

Although I don't own a car, I'm happy when I hear throughout the day and night that my neighbor's cars are well protected.
Firefox devtools where long time not comparable to chrome, now they are almost the same.
There are now some features I prefer on Firefox and some I prefer on chrome.
I had the same issues with AstroVim when it was first coming together. Looks like the creator was rapidly iterating to try and make it easier to configure.

It’s now in a stable enough state that I haven’t had any issues.
Heatwaves: World reels from wildfires, floods as US and China discuss crisis
I can't really tell in either case. I can't see the apple, but it would depend on just how the zebra stripes look whether I would find it tasty or not. I can think of the idea of it, but not the details. As for the crocodile wearing a wig, that's literally what I think. "A crocodile wearing a wig". No visual. If I had to draw it I'd have to figure that out. The typical "think of a beach" turns into a quick one liner I'd give an artist to work from ("sunset on a beach with someone walking along the water line" or whatever).
Why should Mozilla care about anything than trying to make their browser better? Slack is not their responsibility. The browser is already ton of work.
How much energy do modern Large Language Models (LLMs) consume for inference?
Its weird that no one has cracked: you bought a mattress recently, would you like to buy these bed sets or bed frames? Complementary goods are not exactly rocket science. If I go to a a dealer and buy a car they try and upsell me on features on the car, they don't try and sell me another car.
My car in high school had a similar system. The radiator fan didn't turn on automatically, so my dad wired it directly into the AC controller. (The AC also did not work. It was not a great car.)

If you got in the car, and did not specifically turn the AC to the correct setting, the car would overheat about a mile down the road.

Luckily for me, I never had a chance to put this into practice, because nobody stole my car. Unluckily for me, there were several times where I forgot that I had to do this, and my car overheated about a mile down the road.
You define public_foo in the header with the public members and a appropriately sized byte array for the private members.

In the .c file you define private_foo, same a public_foo except that the byte array is replaced with the actual members.

You static assert that size and alignment match and cast at function boundaries.

You hope not to have violated strict aliasing rules.

This is not completely unlike type erasure with small buffer optimization done by some c++ classes like std::function.
it probably depends if you can speak fluent Japanese or not tbh
I agree, there's a creepiness to it, but demographic-based target marketing isn't exactly new. Remember when products used to come with a "warranty registration card" that not only asked for your name and address and phone number but your income, SSN, other products you owned, hobbies, age, marital status, etc? Or you'd enter a contest to win something, and the entry form asked for similar information?

All of that went into databases that were bought and sold, matched and merged with each other, for purposes of lead generation and target marketing.

What Meta and Google are doing is nothing new, they just have much better collection and segmentation than was ever possible, and it's much more covert than what was ever possible.
This is useful with something like the Canterbury Tales where an average reader can puzzle out the proto-English, but with Ancient Greek it's pretty useless. I love Loebs but I think their translations are very dry and academic, sometimes to good purpose (I love their Hesiod) but not always.
> Remember the $445 million self driving pizza oven delivery van?

What I find hilarious about our industry is that this could be completely made up ... or not.
Will Akamai's plan to become a major cloud power work? We looked into it
>travel agents as another source of the email

Sales and travel agents, an IT depts worse nightmare. People too busy to double check anything are the fault of emails delivering to the wrong recipient.

Colour me surprised.
majkinetor, re-read you comments, links were provided for convenient reference
Thanks for sharing! What would be the most surprising/revealing thing you encountered?
How did you make best use of the experience once it was over?
Advertising and paywalls aren't the only available business models. One would think that with all the modern technology we would have alternative sustainable business models on the web.

Turns out, we do. Brave's BAT is a great model, regardless of what you think of Brave Inc.
So the entire English speaking world should study the linguistics of Spanish in order to accommodate your specific annoyances, annoyances you have with bullies from Spanish speaking countries and not English ones? That's like getting mad with any regular person for saying "gnomes are short like dwarves" because you're a dwarf and some tall guy at school decided to bully you for being short and called you a gnome.
https://archive.md/11SjH
Any mention of Frontpage should come with a trigger warning! After all these years, I still haven't forgiven Microsoft.
found this when i searched HN asking the same question

https://www.susanrigetti.com/math
This AI is basically a search engine layer for the wix library of components.

It uses pre-defined colour palettes, with minor modifications.

I hope you’re right, but I don’t understand how, by design it’s not supposed to come up with completely new things (even though that’s what the marketing blurb says).
Hey! How do you know how to do that? Nobody can start this car but me, butthead!
I don't think the UK has ever had a government that actually wanted the NHS to fail. Even the most right wing conservatives realize they're stuck with it and that voters will be happier if it works better. They have very few levers to achieve that. Private sector involvement is one but not a very powerful one given that the NHS killed off the private health sector in the UK and ensures it can't regrow to any kind of meaningful capacity. To the extent it grew in the last few years that's only because the NHS is now in the stages of advanced collapse, failing to provide even the most basic services you'd expect and therefore for some paying twice is the only way to get healthcare at all.

I also really doubt there are many in government or politics who want a US style system. The US has a strange system replicated nowhere else (much like the UK). The way healthcare is tied to the employer there is a legacy of socialist economics during WW2. To try and stop inflation wage controls were implemented so companies started to compete via non-wage benefits, like bundled health insurance. Then for reasons I don't know it was made tax-exempt, so the tax system incentivized workers to demand healthcare through their employer instead of paying it themselves. And then legal changes and union campaigns cemented that system. Part of why US healthcare is so expensive is the sheer number of layers between the people who use it and the act of paying for it. It's very much an accident of history born in the war, and not a model to obviously replicate.

The UK system is likewise rather dysfunctional thanks to WW2. Years of wartime propaganda followed by a victory convinced Brits that the government must be very good at things, and of course this was an era in which socialist economics was taken seriously across society. So on victory the UK immediately voted in a Labor government that nationalized many industries including the entire healthcare system, with Bevan famously dividing and buying off doctors who realized it'd be a bad idea by "stuffing their mouths with gold". Governments have attempted to use the same strategy to solve its problems ever since, yet have never been able to predict or control costs in the way a business would need to. Even in its very first year, costs were double what was predicted. This is very far from the original belief that GDP improvements from the NHS would be so great it would effectively pay for itself.
The study was probably motivated by this: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/10/...

Note that the study was conducted by companies that are in the business of conducting paid clinical trial for supplements manufacturers, and both were paid by the makers of XClear, so the study should be taken with a heaping grain of salt....

Especially considering that there is no other research suggesting that either xylitol or grape fruit extract is protective against COVID. Both are antimicrobials (i.e., antibacterial) but COVID is a virus.
Once you stray off the popsci/undergrad topics, wikipedia's summation of knowledge is often a few sentences if any. Topics for which numerous books have been written may get only one or two sentences on wikipedia, so I think it's fair to say that wikipedia is an inch deep. Maybe a few inches deep since popular topics do get longer articles, but the long tail of knowledge gets very shallow coverage on wikipedia.
> Can a static personal website get fucked over badly?

A pure static website (i.e., only a webserver and files on a filesystem) avoids all exploits that involve "hack into the CMS".

It is vulnerable to "hack into the server itself" -- but you must secure the sever no matter whether you host static files or install something like wordpress.

Re. bandwidth -- unless you become popular you will not need to worry about bandwidth. And even if you do, a webserver and static files can withstand a rather significant size traffic burst without breaking a sweat at all. So you can put off worrying about traffic until after you may have become popular enough to justify worrying about bandwidth.

> To be more specific: I've got a cheap droplet and $1 domain-name from Google and would like to put a personal blog on there.

Can it run a webserver? If yes, then it is very likely more than capable of handling a static website for a surprising amount of traffic.

> I am worried that by doing so I'm making myself a target in ways I would never expect.

Part of that depends upon what you reveal. If you give all your personal info out on the site, you are making yourself a bigger target than if no one knows your name (or any of your other details).

> or using a specific static site generator

A static website needs nothing more than a working webserver and a text editor (vi/emacs/etc.). The value add for "static site generators" is they remove a lot of the manual work involved in using a text editor to write html.
Wasn't there a rash of thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars recently?
> Sure, but isn't the entire world a bigger market than the US?

Sure but it's made up of a lot of smaller parts. I guess there is some advantage in releasing to a population of 400 million mostly English speaking people first? At least for western companies, and/or at least they think so.

> I don't get why you'd limit the amount of people who can pay for your content by geographic area when there is nothing that would prevent you from releasing it to everyone.

For content at least, they normally sell the rights to other companies in those reigons. Whatever gets them the most money I guess.
Not true. My manual civic was stolen 5 times in 5 years.

Car thieves learn how to break into various makes and models of cars and hotwire them. They have also figured out this thing called a "clutch".
I guess this can be useful for large-scale public communities but as far as I know Slack never explicitly supports this use-case (and lacks many features suitable for this such as moderation features, etc).

For Slack's primary use-case of intra-organization communications, this is completely useless and wouldn't work anyway (if you block and hide messages from a team member, how are you going to collaborate?). If there is abuse, it should be up to management/HR to step in and address this issue.

Mozilla should really mind its own business - Firefox marketshare is dwindling and so are the reasons to pick it over its competitors (and they don't even focus on the few reasons that do remain!).
Raking house locks is a) not difficult and b) not expensive. You don't need to be a professional to do that.

But also, bricks through windows are equally not difficult and not expensive, though they do leave a bit more evidence. When my neighbors have been burgled, this is the preferred method of entry I've seen.
It's your configured endpoint that gets POSTed when your Peeng subdomain stops receiving pings.

Anyway, gotcha, we'll do some work on the text there! Thank you!
Show HN: Alternative HN Front End
Hey folks,

http://dstill.ai/hackernews is alternative frontend for Hacker News, with some features on top:

(1) AI powered summarizations. Summaries are generated for the link, for the post and for the discussion. Summaries are automatically generated for selected top stories, but you can also generate them on demand — currently this requires supplying your own OpenAI api key (which gets stored in your browser in localStorage). When you generate a summary, everyone else can see it and benefits from it as well. Here are some examples:

Summary of a long discussion: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/36580192

Summary of a subthread: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/36582568

Summary of a PDF: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/36543284

Business insider: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/36706138

Wall Street Journal: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/36571407

New York Times: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/36653874

Reuters: https://dstill.ai/hackernews/item/36753032

It’s surprisingly not easy to get LLMs to produce summaries that aren’t vague, and I am not satisfied with the current quality just yet. E.g. the summaries might contain “the benefits of X are also discussed”, instead of “the benefits of X are A, B, C”.

(2) You can view top / best / most active stories from previous days. I use “Top Yesterday” (https://dstill.ai/hackernews/list/top/yesterday) as my bookmark, this way I avoid the habit of refreshing the front page (expecting new stories to pop up), and refreshing each story (waiting for new comments to pop up :)).

(3) You can highlight usernames and save notes about users. This way you can make sure you don’t miss posts and comments from people that you care about, and you can save notes for future reference also, like “This is the CEO of Cloudflare”, etc.

(4) You can mute users. Posts from muted users will be hidden, and their comments will be collapsed by default — actually, I would love feedback on this part, as I am not sure that collapsing the comments is the best approach (better alternative might be hiding the comment’s content and author name).

(5) Formatting for blockquotes and for code snippets.

## Why did I build this?

I am using Hacker News as one of the more important data sources for my upcoming project (that I hope to show off soon). This requires me to keep a near real-time mirror of the HN database. Given how much I use and benefit from Hacker News as a user and as a resource for my project, I thought this would be a nice way to give something back. As a HN user, the above features were added in order to make my use of HN more effective, and I am eager to hear your feedback and feature requests :)
Lombardo is good, agreed.
I see your argument but I'm not arguing for morality. I'm arguing that a because of Reddit making some significant policy changes there have been more people specifically moving to another product (HN) and bringing with them their historically lower quality comments. Thus unrelated to morality argument.
Right, the image shows it connected to the battery pole. Just pop the hood, bridge the contacts. Any proper solution has to be integrated into some essential part that is difficult to access (like the ECU).

Maybe they want that thing to talk to the ECU? Otherwise, how is it locking the car?
Firefox will always have a special place in my heart, because of Firebug, which I credit to helping me whilst I was learning webdev in the late aughts.

A colleague of mine at the time quipped that "Firefox is my workhorse; Chrome is my show pony"

Times have certainly changed.
I know someone who wired their turn signal / high beam stalk to need to be pulled while turning the ignition key. Back in the early-mid 90s, my dad had a tiny light switch that needed to be toggled before starting the car.

It's ridiculous this sort of thing is needed, but it's sort of...fun?
If you want to actually make a difference, offer shell accounts to people you can have a personal* relationship with, e.g. kids for whom the nearest thing to a general purpose computing device they have at their disposal is a Chromebook and who don't otherwise have the resources to pay for hardware (or a VPS account) of their own.

* should help the "even if you find a way to, please don't hack me" requests go further
Land Value Tax would fix this!
same as dark matter
X doubt
> This won't meaningfully increase air quality or reduce emissions.

And using this argument inversely, those 100 watts also cannot meaningfully help others, which is what the OP wants to do.

So if you have two options - meaninglessly donate 100 watts or meaninglessly save 100 watts, what’s better?

If someone were in need of significant amounts processing power (which is what the OP is hinting at), obtaining it from idle consumer PCs is an incredibly inefficient method of using that power. Think on the lines of CPU mining - a totally useless waste of energy. Whatever this hypothetical person is trying to do, it would be much more efficiently achieved via specialised hardware, and the OP would be better off supporting that than donating their processing power.
## How did I build this?

The backend is written in Rust, and the frontend is written in TypeScript with SvelteKit. The API is based on gPRC, using Buf Connect on the TS side. On the storage side, it’s using Postgres + Qdrant (self-hosted on dedicated servers) + R2. The reason I am self-hosting on dedicated servers are mostly the high CPU and RAM requirements for the main project which would otherwise make it cost prohibitive.

For the LLM parts (which are central to the main project), I built my own language-agnostic framework and platform to facilitate building LLM powered services. This is based on some lessons learned while working on Google’s Bard and other LLM projects that preceded Bard (those were ultimatelly killed — long story :)).

The framework and platform are currently private, but I might open it up in the future. To give you a glimpse:

The main premise is that building apps that leverage LLMs should not be that different from building regular apps. The main difference is the need for configurability and observability.

Each component (e.g. LLM call, Vector DB lookup, etc.) is just a regular RPC method, with well defined schema for its input & output.

The platform allows you to configure each method, which just means specifying values for some subset of its inputs.

The platform also tracks and stores the inputs and outputs of all the RPC calls and sub-calls. This is invaluable during development to understand and debug the methods, and in production to collect data for evaluation & training.

Thanks to the well defined input & output schemas, all of this can be done universally, rather than creating a bespoke solution for each method. Here are some examples:

- The “LLM” building block: https://www.loom.com/share/bc6fa6b27298420c82fcacca5f84d096

- Higher level JSON → Format → LLM building block: https://www.loom.com/share/d09d38d2c316468fa9f38f5b386fc114

- Example a complex trace from a summarization method: https://screenbud.com/shot/61dc59a6-5c73-4610-8168-753b79062...

Example code for a simple retrieval augmented chat bot in TypeScript and Rust https://gist.github.com/Palmik/42940e3887d6446244f8b74ce0243... — there’s still a lot of room for polish and boilerplate removal, but it gets the job done already.

Happy to answer any questions.
The F35B is also known to have damaged existing aircraft carriers by melting the flight decks during testing.

This won't work, it'll fail for the same reasons the proposals to use highways for the Harrier fell apart in reality - too much damage to use it at any time other than wartime, resulting in no training for landing on highways, so it'll never happen even in wartime. Besides which, if you're at war where you need a defensive air force to be able to use make-shift airbases, you've almost certainly already lost.
> Specifically, I care whether you're a person who owns a dog and spends money on high-quality/luxury dog goods.

Thing is, that is non of your god damned business.

You can show your ads next to dog videos or whatever other content you like. You don't get to spy on me just because you think you'll learn better ways to try to manipulate me.

If targeted advertising were really about helping get the information to interested people who want that information, then content based advertising would accomplish that.