skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average user cna be expected to run quite a lot of things, actually; it’s just that the last decade of VC-funded services has trained them not to. Otherwise—AIM/ICQ/Pidgin, LAN game servers, Hamachi, DC++, a BitTorrent node ... Remember when Opera came with a web server? I doubt people have gotten so much stupider since then, even if computers have become much more complex and mainstream consumer software essentially troubleshooting-proof.

(Now if it’s an extra-special piece of software just to use your extra-special chat, then they’ll tell you to take a hike, true. They’ve got to actually want to get to the dancing bunnies[1] first.)

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dancing-bunnies-problem/
I've been thinking along the same lines recently. The shallows just next to Emeryville seem ideal for this, and would aesthically match the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. I'm not sure if or why this hasn't been proposed yet.
If you take the ethnicity out of this and stick to economics does it have the same outcome?
The term Open Source is ambiguous and has always been rejected by the original proponents of Free (as in Freedom) software as a corporatation-derived attempt to lessen the ‘Freedom’ bit. So defending the term Open Source is probably not the hill to die on.
...and when WEI reaches mass adoption, your privacy-oriented clients will eventually be locked out of essential services.

I sure hope you have a big war chest for litigation.
Interesting timing with the tetra protocol vuln disclosure.
If we believe in some geographical correlation (due to exposure to new ideas, sharing interests, or anything else that's not genetic + a minimal threshold population being necessary), a prediction would be that online communities should facilitate the emergence of a "long lasting remarkable excess of creative accomplishment" by removing the geographical constraints.

Given what I see all around me (HN, reddit etc) I'd tend to believe that: free software has changed the world. Wikipedia offers free knowledge to anyone who wants it. Libgen offers all the scientific knowledge and book. Reddit and the likes offer to the fat-tail places to congregate and exchange ideas.

I'm curious what we'll create in the next 25 years!

It may not have been possible to make that prediction in 1997: I don't think they had any social network at the time, and online forums must have been reserved to a tiny fraction of the population.

At the time this was written, maybe a few rare people like Kurzweil foresaw what we'd have by now: his prediction of AGI around 2030 seems very plausible to me, but it seems to have been met with disbelief when it was made - and not just this one, but his predictions in general.

On Wikipedia I see: "Forbes magazine claimed that Kurzweil's predictions for 2009 were mostly inaccurate" but that in October 2010, Kurzweil claimed his accuracy rate comes to 86%.
Our goal is to make data-movement in/out of Postgres fast and simple! Based on customer feedback, we already added SQL Server as a supported source for streaming query to Postgres.We will indeed keep adding more connectors. Here is a reference to another relevant thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895220
At least for the businesses that deal with people, the real agenda for chatbots is to make the UIs (web and mobile apps) go away as the first layer of contact.

A user should be able to talk with a business over SMS (or similar) chat or phone call over a single identity.

Web and Mobile apps are just the 2nd/3rd leyer utilities to support the primary mode of communication.

Business couldn't do this earlier because the language understanding accuracy wasn't sufficient. The large language models (LLMs) solved that limitation.

The small reduction bots can bring about in human agent interactions, through the experience gimmickry is cherry on the top. The % deflection is getting a bit bigger with the better large language models (LLMs).

The irritating chatbot widget that sits on the bottom right corner is a stop gap until the provisioning of a single phone number and communicaton over that is streamlined.

Last but not least, the title is misleading. He is not building an open source chatbot. He is just saying build chatbots using open source libraries only (instead of closed source/commercial tool) to foster community and faster AI progress.
> Are they worried about performance?

Yes. You use a gateway to protect your service from unauthorized requests slowing everything down. A cluster of reverse proxies taking the impact of a denial of service attempt is exactly what you want. You also delegate the auth to another service so that attempts to log in and determining permissions does not slow down your core functionality.

Auth headers and the identifier are passed from the internet user to the auth service via the proxy and it looks up the permissions on the given identifier for that user to confirm or deny the request. The API service on the backend doesn't necessarily need to know about any of this to be secure. It just needs to be walled off from everything that's not the gateway.
Shedskin is a Python-to-C++ transpiler that does type inference and does not support the full standard library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shed_Skin#Type_inference

From "Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21012133:

> pytype (Google) [1], PyAnnotate (Dropbox) [2], and MonkeyType (Instagram) [3] all do dynamic / runtime PEP-484 type annotation type inference [4]

Hypothesis (@given decorator tests) also does type inference IIUC? https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

icontract and pycontracts do runtime Preconditions and Postconditions with Design-by-Contract patterns similar to Eiffel DbC; they check the types and values of arguments passed while the program in running and not just at coding or compile time.
I thought that Fortran was traditionally faster than C++ for numerical code due to stricter aliasing rules in the language, which I wouldn't expect to carry over to an IR?
Ridiculous pricing. Acrobit Groundwire mobile SIP client [0] costs $10 once and is EU based therefore GDPR compliant. Add a prepaid SIP provider, mine charges less than $10/year for the number plus calling costs that are so low I don’t notice then. Once in a while I add $100 credit to my SIP provider, good for several years with 3 numbers. For incoming calls Groundwire send a notification that pops up the app and shows the UI. Works flawlessly, many options for deniing calls, forwarding etc, etc.

Some numbers are shared with others, just disable it on my phone and the other person enables it to start receiving incoming calls.

I really don’t see the business case for paying $10/$15 per month.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrobits
CONFIDENTIAL is one of the collateral security levels. It goes UNCLASSIFIED (this data can be also additionally marked CUI/FOUO, for official use only), CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET. S and TS have compartments which further gate access to information.

The software being marked CONFIDENTIAL means that it is classified software, the exposure of which can cause damage to national security.
I'd prefer to have access to the base LLM and be treated as an adult who can decide for themselves what I'd like the model to do. If I use it for something illegal (which I have no inclination to do), then that's on me.

As a customer, I don't want others choosing for me what's offensive.
Yeah sorry, but it made me laugh because it was such a let down after reading all this text you and dang have been writing in this thread, and then I get here for this lack of payoff. That kind of dissonance gives me a sardonic humor reaction.

But to try to answer your questions: I think what's weird is that I kind of thought you were complaining about unfair flagging or moderator behavior resulting in comments or posts being removed unfairly. But if you're just complaining about downvoting behavior, well ... honestly that's pretty silly. People can downvote whatever they want. (And isn't it actually explicitly discouraged by the guidelines to complain about this?)

Edit to add (to respond to what I think you added after I first replied):

I guess I don't get what you want here. You have unorthodox views, and seem to foster that and take pride in it. That's great! The world totally does need people with unorthodox views! But you must know that those views will not be popular. That is what the word "unorthodox" means. So I don't get it, what do you want? You want rules enforcing a safe space to express unorthodox views without people disliking them? I'm sorry but that's not possible in a social space. You have to write on a blog with no comments or something if that's what you want.

But I do think people shouldn't downvote just for disagreement with the content. (FWIW, PG and Dang have expressed in the past that they don't agree with me on this, that it's fine to downvote just for disagreement, but I still think it's better not to.) But I think it's fine to downvote for bad faith. And as you've noted, this is totally subjective.

So yep, I downvoted your "I don't have to provide examples" comment (but not any of your others), because I thought it demonstrated that you weren't engaging with dang's many examples in good faith, but were just ranting at him about an unfairness in moderation (again: not just voting) that you've just intuited.
It's not a vulnerability in the sense this concept is used in software. It's prompting to partially repair from the conditioning bias put onto the model.
“The concern is that these models will play a larger role in autonomous systems that operate without human supervision. As autonomous systems become more of a reality, it will be very important to ensure that we have a reliable way to stop them from being hijacked by attacks like these.”
I'm hanging with other programmers at #dailyprog. It's a channel on irc.rizon.net (https://dailyprog.org/members/).
how do we find this settlement? did it already pass?
Yeah I mean compared to having private military keys, this was a funny tack on.
Interesting. Does it use OSM data? I fail to see a mention in the article. If it does, what other data do they use? Send someone to survey the neighborhood?
I read a very confidential dossier on my last playthrough of Goldeneye 007 on N64.
We built about a million aircraft globally during WWII (specifically: 1939-1945). I’m not saying the average WWII airplane compares perfectly to a modern wind turbine, but the technology and industrial base we used to do this was also vastly more primitive. So yes, I’d bet that a sufficiently-motivated human society can crank out a million turbines over a multi-decade time span. You can Google the IEA “Net Zero by 2050” report to find estimates of how much offshore wind capacity there is (it’s a lot.)

It does illustrate the specific challenge of this energy transition. If a given energy technology isn’t being mass-produced in factories, it’s basically irrelevant given the scale of what we need to do.
Pacing my drinks (sip every ten minutes; bigger drink of water between sips) and Pedialyte or Gatorade Zero after drinking if I've had a lot is the only system that works for me.

I'm 36 and haven't had a serious hangover[0] in a very long time.

As an added bonus, since I drink way slower when doing this, I can enjoy my drinks more and pay less for fewer drinks.

Additionally, because I drink fewer drinks when I go out, I'm much more selective about what I drink, which means I'll opt for higher quality stuff or a good NA if no good options are available.

YMMV of course.

[0] I define "serious hangover" as "unable to get out of bed; serious nausea; serious brain fog." The worst hangover I've had since doing this is mild brain fog that recovers after a few hours.
I like mature trees and love walking among them (e.g., downtown Sacramento). In 99% of the US more trees would be better (and I try to contribute by planting an acorn or other tree seed when I spy a place a sapling might not get mowed, wherever I go). But I still consider more trees a distant second to buildings closer together, without room for trees (or, as typical, empty space or junk). If there's room for many mature trees, the place is fundamentally not dense enough to be totally amazing for a life of walking, as opposed to walking tourism.
The English state ceased to exist in 1707.
HN has shadow banned this article. I contacted them:

"It's too sensational a topic for us"
Yeah, this is a hill I will die on. I love researching, but once I grab my PhD I do not plan to push to journals/conferences unless it is requested in a job. It just holds no meaning and I'm tired of pretending it does. Perpetuating the system harms my fellow researchers, kills innovation, and just kicks the growing can down the road.

The other hill I will die on is that we shouldn't refer to journal/conference publishing as "peer review." This is one form of peer review, but there are MANY more. And as far as I'm concerned, 3 randos that briefly skim my paper in an adversarial setting (zero sum) looking to reject works barely constitutes peer review. Peer review is what happens when your peers read your work, test it, build upon it, replicate it, etc. We need to stop this language because it helps no one.
I don't think the thing driving this initiative is public sentiment. The public, obviously hates child abuse and that's a convincing argument. Child protection organisations might be vocal proponents... but law enforcement, mi5 and whatnot are also probably strong advocates and tend to have the ear of governments.

This is a security/law enforcement issue.
This book is great, I always recommend it to all my students
He has a newsletter. You can even pay for it if you'd like!

https://buttondown.email/edyong209

...of course I get that he's not committing to publishing all of his writing there:

> I’ll likely do smaller-scale pieces too, but am still working out the details of where, what, how, and all the rest.
You really don't need a car. Bikes are awesome. You can ride them with backpacks. Friends have trucks. Money pays for delivery.

Source: a normal 38 year old that never had a license
I see this only works with OpenAI at the moment. Any plans to include other sources, in thinking llama, bedrock.
It's heartening to see efforts being made to address the isolation that incarcerated individuals often face and promote better communication with their loved ones. Improving access to communication could have significant positive effects on inmates' mental health, family relationships, and potential for rehabilitation. It's essential to continue exploring ways to support and uplift those within the prison system to create a more humane and effective approach to criminal justice.
You just broke my bias that no female can be a philosophist. She changed the world because everyone knows her as a symbol of realizing the problem, for example auto bloggers use to remember her frustration as a good joke when their cars product too much smoke and/or use too much fuel. But what exactly has she done to consider her as a philosopher, can you formulate this criterion for me?
US Cold War Slide Decks on Soviet Capabilities
Big fat nothing-burger.

Except for the sloppy enthusiast contractor too deep in the criminal tendencies end of the pool... his life probably just got rather difficult.

Having recently rewatched Sneakers I'm struck by how much what the article describes of his home overlaps with characters like Mother(Akroyd).
Thank you for your feedback!

Building apps with LLMs is fundamentally an exercise of manipulating strings and making API calls (Both LLM and vector db APIs). When apps are more complex and start including multiple LLM calls and prompts that can change dynamically some additional challenges start to emerge. e.g figuring out:

- When was a particular LLM called?

- How much time did it take?

- What were the input variables?

- What did the prompt look like?

- What was the exact configuration of each LLM?

- How many times did we retry the request?

- What was the raw data the API returned?

- What was exactly returned from the vector store and fed into an LLM?

- How many tokens were used?

- What was the final result for each call?

- How do you make API calls in parallel?

I think a framework like this should provide abstractions that allow people to focus on the important part like prompt engineering and productionizing the app and worry less about how to figure out stuff like this.

Right now LLMFlows supports only OpenAI models and Pinecone but I am working on classes for Chroma and Weaviate. And I would like to also provide support for Bard and Claude once I get access.
>Are you sure about that? Presumably the secret parts of the SSH key are being read into memory at some point, or a RCE could dump the key the same way ssh-tpm-agent does.

This is not how ssh-tpm-agent works. It does the key signing inside the TPM so you do not have access to the key on the machine itself.

The private key never hits memory or the machine itself.
Surprised to hear the bus is always full. I took the Metrolink train from Union Station to San Bernardino recently, during an hour when people ought to be going home from work, and it was spookily empty. The one single other passenger in sight told me it was usually so empty. I thought of how crazy it was to offer this huge rail infrastructure - which really did seem cheap and convenient - for so few people to use.
ahh, thanks. not to spoil anyone's fun, but i grabbed the word list from source if someone wants to cheat like me. https://pastebin.com/A4yTMvWE
A nice trick for small unicity constraint index in PostgreSQL
I found this nice trick and thought it may interest others.

Imagine you have a few foreign keys in a table which together form a primary key in the database theory meaning (a minimal set of columns that yields uniqueness of rows).

It may be costly in space and time to have a unique constraint on these foreign keys.

But for example in Django you would not expect a huge number of sites or logistics centers, etc.

If you know you data well, there are always some parameters tables which are small (less than 256 or less than 65536 rows), compared to exploitation tables (the daily data increase linked to activity).

Now look at generated columns magic on a simple example:

test_db=# CREATE TABLE site_center (
id INT PRIMARY KEY GENERATED ALWAYS AS ((COALESCE(center_id, 0) << 8) + site_id) STORED,
site_id INT NOT NULL,
center_id INT
);

test_db=# insert into site_center (site_id) VALUES (1);
INSERT 0 1

test_db=# insert into site_center (site_id, center_id) VALUES (1, 12);
INSERT 0 1

test_db=# select \* from site_center;
id | site_id | center_id
------+---------+-----------
1 | 1 |
3073 | 1 | 12
(2 lignes)

Nice :)
Is there any reason to expect them to be as dystopian as you predict?

Previous laws relating to policing and investigatory powers have been widely criticised by civil rights groups for their overreach and lack of effective oversight and safeguards. We now know that some of those laws have in fact been abused in ways the critics predicted.

Secondary legislation has been widely criticised when used as a vehicle for government ministers to make rules with statutory authority while bypassing the usual requirements for Parliamentary scrutiny and approval of new laws. Our Home Secretary is currently attempting to use secondary legislation to implement controversial immigration policies after essentially the same measures were already explicitly blocked by Parliament when they were put forward via primary legislation.

So yes - there are unfortunately plenty of precedents both for broad legal powers being abused and for secondary legislation being used to circumvent our normal democratic processes for scrutinising and approving controversial measures.

There also seems to be no good reason to assume that the regulator that would be given these new powers and responsibilities actually has the necessary resources or expertise to understand the issues and perform their new role properly.

None of this looks encouraging and for rules that could have a profound effect on (among other things) our personal safety and the democratic integrity of our country it seems fair to question whether passing a very broad law that delegates the implementation details to a regulator that may or may not be competent to regulate these areas is really a good idea.
Do you care about the climate that your children will have to survive in when they grow older?
But how? Run to the warehouse again after the cashier has charged you and bring an item and sneak it into the cart? Sounds very hard to do.

The only plausible thing is to steal at the self-checkout, but the receipts are different and cause more scrutiny at the door.
"People should walk!"

Pictures of miles long suburban corridors with no services or business along them.

Maybe.. people don't walk there.. because there's no _reason_ to be walking there.

If you want people to walk, give them a reason other than "I don't like cars."
Physicists achieve breakthrough in Monte Carlo computer simulations
The article said that he was selling radio equipment. I’m sure all of the buyers will be getting contacted and investigated to ascertain if foreign buyers were involved.
insecure how? How is this ever a problem?

>The real problem is your self-control.

Maybe, so ?

and no, i in fact did a search before this thread https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
The newsletter is just website updates, but I recently discovered https://brr.fyi.

Also, it is probably well known, but I don't ever see it posted here: Liberty's Highlights - libertyrpf.com
I'd say it's closely related: Force, the threat of force.

There should be options available to do nothing. We have private companies extracting "stuff" from the ground and privatizing the resulting profits. This is crazy. We throw out something like 1/2 of all food, which on average comes from hundreds of miles away so that food costs money, which if you don't have you starve.

We subsidize farms, the military, all kinds of things - but we privatize the profits.

There should be no threat of homelessness or starvation in our system. You want more than baseline, you have to work and compete. But we spend all this money to prop up this shitty system, I do not understand it.
isn't the security benefit from people genuinely not being confused and making accidental disclosures? You phrased it more focused on penalties applied after a failure which to my novice understanding is too late (and ineffective anyway).
Indeed. Why do they get to decide for humanity?
> Big cities already have recreational walking trails

Those are a great example of the problem. Often those recreational walking trails are very nice, but they don't go anywhere functional.
Don't expose your redis to the internet (please!). Don't whitelist large swathes of your cloud/hosting provider's subnets either. Of course redis isn't special, mongo, elastic, docker, k8s,etc... even if it is a testing server and you will never put important data on it.
Right. And at least I find phone use to be markedly different from e.g. computer use in this respect. It happens on the go, unpredictably, and not for very long at a time. I'm totally fine swapping to a different set of glasses when sitting down to work on a computer for three hours, but it's a much bigger hassle to do for a lot of phone use cases.

(I don't like any kind of varifocals.)
We had rented a car from San Francisco to San Diego. My wife was going to drop off the car at the airport. We asked at the hotel (by the harbor near Little Italy) how to get back. 'Uber'. We then looked at the map and realized it was about 0.5 miles away, with sidewalks the whole way. She walked.

My Houston experience was when I wanted to go to a nearby salsa place. It was about 3 blocks away from the motel, as the crow flies, but the other side of the interstate. It required a car to get there.