skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with consuming most sources of “news” is that it’s not actually factual news.

It’s heavily filtered and spun stories from a small group of heavily biased and like-minded individuals.

This is true of mainstream media, social media*, and even small circles of friends.

It’s hard to find single sources of unbiased news where there isn’t bias or an agenda.

*Yes, this includes HN, but I believe (hopefully) to a lesser extent, or I wouldn’t be here either.
Instagram data is really valuable and they don't like sharing it, you're not dumb!

rotating proxies are the way to go with insta, you can't do much about IP blocking besides using the right IPs

although in theory if you had an account(s) you could still scrape data from a datacenter IP(aws), even though the limits were lower than a 4G proxy

you can buy/create insta accounts for less than a $ using throwaway phone numbers
all of those trivial improvements for the low price of half a trillion dollars in bailouts
Infineon Aurix microcontrollers on TSMC 28nm have eFlash and RRAM available as NVM. https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/press/market-...
> eternal human labor trafficking

What does this mean? Are there people being trafficked in eastern Germany?
Got me! Thanks for that correction. Too late to revise the post though.
> I need to read multiple news articles and then a novel just to have an opinion on something now?

Yes. Why do you want to have opinions on things you don't understand?
Anecdote: For my programming classes, one example I use is a simple browser. It doesn't do CSS or Javacript, so display is primitive, but it works.

On some sites. Many sites, especially the big ones, see that it's an unknown browser, and refuse to send content. Probably they think it's a bot. But even if it were, what's wrong with bots, as long as they're well-behaved?

What kind of closed web have we let the megacorps build?
to me, an argument i haven't heard yet is human dignity.

it's tough to hold onto it (as a human) when you're being threatened and/or injured/maimed/killed by robots.

the idea of yelling at a robot and having it ignore you is pretty fucked up, especially if it's squeezing your coworker to death, or running a dog (or human) over, etc.
As a software engineer yes I use it everyday. Boilerplate, straightforward refractors, questions.

It saves me a lot of time, and I’m senior enough to have my wits about me regarding questionable output.
It made video calls more accessible. They used mobile first approach so it was more accessible to lot of people. WebEx was a pain the ass use on desktop and it still is. Eric Yuan begged Cisco to invest more in WebEx and got frustrated and left and built Zoom.
> I will no longer be using the bank's website

That's a great temporary measure, but once this has rolled out everywhere and is part of standard commercial experiences, are you really willing to completely opt out of online banking because you're not permitted to send fake browser identification?

It's a fine philosophical position, but it feels akin to refusing to use public streets because of the existence of surveillance cameras.
While I'm willing to believe banks are very security minded in terms of their core infrastructure, banks do not appear to be with regards to their customer access and usually seem to move very slowly to secure that end of things.

Hell, many/most of these large institutions seem to still only support SMS for 2FA and even that's a relatively recent introduction to actually mandate.

Which is to say, I expect banks to be about the very last significant account you use to mandate this technology (if it takes off), not the first.
Gemini was doomed from the start. It barely extended the functionality of Gopher, it was basically just Gopher + Markdown, and it wasn’t even the full .md. I’m pretty sure it was impossible to really make a good index of pages because of how limited it is. I think even Gopher has some search engines.

It was probably even intentionally limited to be just protocol for making a blog without any user input. No possibility of making something useful on it. It needed just the forms support, but AFAIK the developers didn’t want that.

Basic HTML/CSS (without JS) would be minimal enough and even more accessible. See img’s alt attribute. You can view it on lynx or Netsurf, there’s no need to use huge clients for that. And even better, it was the way already.

I don’t get why would someone make a new protocol except for filtering people out. Why won’t they just focus on making minimal web services? As long as there will be something that’s not just software related, like it is often with Gopher/Gemini.
> Isn't "reasoning" a functional property though? If from the outside it performs all the functions of reasoning, it doesn't matter what is happening inside of the black box.

Yes, that's my point exactly.
There are ao many reasons that comparison does not work.
https://archive.is/kEQcs
do you also enjoy bailouts?
Assuming the researcher didn't lie, it seems unlikely that they got the responses wrong in some way.

The most likely alternative explanation I can think of is that this is the seemingly well know instability of results caused by the way the MoE architecture is implemented for GPT-4?

I'd love to understand what exactly is wrong in my understanding. I realise I've only got a layman's understanding of this, but it seems clear that OpenAI and others depend on these feedback loops to improve things over time. Is that not the case?
Rhetorical flourish.
I take it you have a use case for FTP still that's not yet been supplanted by other, more specialized tools? Please share, rather than snarking.
It’s hard to believe anything at the scale and complexity of a modern semiconductor fab industry could remain competitive without actually facing competitive market pressures.
> "End users are not the only stakeholders in the web."

Wrong. RFC 8890 clearly states that the internet is for end users.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890.html
The very point is that you can also do what the malicious actor did, just reflash it with a clean image. And if even then the manufacturer has hidden malware code somewhere else, then at that point its moot, you need to find another manufacturer.
Plenty. U**ons solve one problem only: when value created is high but leverage (=pay) is low.

The fact that this problem pops up all over the damn place should tell you something about our relationship to u**ons.
I don’t imagine it would be popular with unions, either.
> Monarchy can just also tell you to go die on a field if you don't kill the other king's people.

What makes you think that capitalism won't do the same to you? Capitalist[1] societies engage in pointless, bloody wars all the time.

[1] And communist, and other -ist.
>I think we have to see LLMs as their own weird thing

Well nobody seems to be able to reproduce the results of this "paper" anyway lol but i agree with you here. LLMs are sure to have weird failure modes even if they are "truly reasoning" just like biological systems often have weird failure modes that only make sense in the context of biology.
Google launches Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based development environment
I eat generally once a day, and it just makes managing food much easier. It took a long time to switch but now it takes much longer to get hungry, which means that if I overeat for any reason (say a party or celebration), I can just delay my next day's meal for few hours after usual date and make it smaller so I'm still not all that hungry (and annoyed) in the evening.

When I get ravenously hungry in the morning (which is around 10-11 AM for me, the blessings of remote flexible work) I just get a coffee or a cocoa and that gets me by to the normal meal time (12-14).

I also tried to cut quickly metabolizing food like bread which just makes me hungry earlier.
If you have cancer before reproductive age you're selected out of the gene pool; pretty strong survivor bias.
Microkernels treating every system in the machine as a "service" is literally asking developers to treat everything as a distributed system. No? Was literally a selling point early on in the literature for them.

There are good arguments for this in some environments.
URL, images, stuff shown after you click on a button...
Assuming they're using halfway decent cryptography, then doing this is nontrivial. But there are probably people working on it, and if so, they may eventually succeed.
A friendly note: when I visited your site, I immediately clicked away when I saw that learning more about the deployment process, pricing, etc required me to sign up.
Guardrails for PromQL Using Semgrep
Considering what many humans say about the creations chucked into the ML blender, their lack of regard for the (often living) creators, and the high regard they hold for people asking the ML (nicely) to make derivative amalgams of those creations, I can't imagine those values will persist if these perspectives migrate out of the tech world.
How do you know this? What's an example of a "reasoning model"?

If the only example is the human mind, for all we know our reasoning capability and ability to discern principles could work much the same way, and it's just some more subtle differences that lead to the differences in capabilities. There are plenty of cases where it appears as though GPT has discerned the "inner principle" behind something to produce answers.
Show HN: A C++11 Hierarchical State Machine Library
> or take turns reading lines from Macbeth.

‘If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly’.
You can use the application context, while also automatically intercepting requests. Best of both worlds.

puppeteer: https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.page.setrequestinterception

playwright: https://playwright.dev/docs/network#network-events
This is why the US uses the common law system. Laws are written and the courts then interpret them. The courts should be telling these yahoos that these actions are against the intent of the law.
> First joke is that there are three prisoners in the gulag in the former Soviet Union. The three find out why each of them is there. The first said that he came late to work and was accused of cheating the State out of labor. The second guy said that he came early and was accused of trying to out-compete his comrades. The third guy said that he came to work everyday and exactly on time, and the KGB accused him of owning a Western wristwatch.

> Second joke is that there are three prisoners in the U.S. They were all in jail for economic crimes of violating monopoly laws. First guy said that he charged higher prices than anyone else and the government then accused him of price gouging and profiteering. Second guy charged lower prices than anyone else and they accused him of predatory and cutthroat pricing. And the third guy said that he charged the same prices as everyone else and they accused him of collusion and price fixing.
I use: https://whereby.com

I don't know if it can handle sizable calls but it works well for me. It's simple, seems to have a decent privacy policy, and has always just worked.

The only drawback for me is they raised $10M a couple years back.
The ads are undoubtedly the worst part. During local news it’s terrible/obnoxious furniture companies and national news is 100% drug commercials.
It's a rule that upon being broken allows the SEC to fine you, which is why they are paying a bunch of money.

Are you saying that we should not be able to require banks of a certain size to keep records, so that the highway patrol officers of finance can economically pull you over when you're speeding? Or should we allow everyone to use fuzzbusters effectively making the law pointless?
We actually had the opposite experience in hiring for our Haskell team: it was substantially easier to find legitimately strong engineers for Haskell than for other teams using Python and Scala. I figure it comes down to two things:

1. A lot more people want to do Haskell than there are Haskell jobs

2. Haskell is an easy way to signal (show not tell) that our team is willing to do things differently—especially important because our team was at Target, which did not have much of a reputation as a tech employer!

We didn't try hiring Rust programmers because the existing Haskell folks were more than happy to pick it up.

So making hiring easier is one of the reasons I'd want to use Haskell, counterintuitively!
> Are you sure you're not in a citogenesis cycle? How sure are you that some of those "real users" aren't your peers' stealthed bots, who in turn picked up those fingerprints from unknowningly observing other stealthed bots in their logs, who...

Doesn't matter, they work (at least when used in combination with high-quality proxy IP's). If they stopped working I'd do something else. We only apply hard science when absolutely needed, otherwise it's mostly wire and duct tape holding things together -- ruthless focus on creating business value.

We definitely only sell this via high-value contracts, so you're probably mostly correct there. Though puppeteer-stealth deserves at least a quiet shout-out for not completely sucking.

That said, we do pay attention to a lot of the research in the field, even if we only apply the absolute bare minimum needed to create business value. Eric Wustrow[0] at UC Boulder does really, really good work in an adjacent space, and we've found some his papers/software to be helpful, as well as those of some of the colleagues he works most closely with. I don't think he'd love our applications of his research, but our technological needs dovetail well with the needs of the anti-censorship research that he works on.

If you were interested in the degree of "citogenesis", I think that's something that academic researchers like Wustrow et. al would be very well-positioned to investigate. Highly recommend any of their papers, they make front page of HN surprisingly often.

0: https://ericw.us/trow/
Finally. I was wondering if Java was going to show up to this circus. Python has definitely had it's viral moment with GenAI.
On average, UPS delivery drivers earn $95,000 per year in wages
Felix Geisendörfer did a bunch of work to improve continuous profiling performance [1].

[1]: https://blog.felixge.de/waiting-for-go1-21-execution-tracing...
It might be an American thing, but I'm fine with that. Keeping it professional means having a professional attitude - smiling and being courteous. At least it does in America.
This is a weird one, I think Meta made the right move. I am not a fan of Meta at all but I accept their position in this matter over the Canadian government and private media companies.
Despite the headlines, Texas has a fairly stable grid. They have work to do, but all grids do. In the end it doesn't matter too much as you cannot make a grid stable enough to rely on without backup power onsite and once you have that you can ride out most unstable events.
My take is it not the skill or even the cost of labor. The biggest issues is it is easier to find skilled people in Asia willing to work late and long hours to keep the machines running 24/7. The only way to make money is to keep these machines running as close to 100% efficiency 24/7. It isn't just one company, it is the whole chain of suppliers/manufactures with fast turn around time that gives Asia a upper hand.
> I've noticed a common scenario play out during the "awkward teenage years" of most, if not all, software engineers' careers.

The "awkward teenage years" is the best way I've heard this time period of JR to SR years described.
Electoral Commission hack exposed data of 40M UK voters
I wish there were a clear way to split up truly practical goods (medical equipment, basics such as silverware, phones, etc) and consumer trash (smart dishwashers, children’s toys, TVs, etc. Individual items didn’t used to be so cheap, and people simple owned less crap. Most people don’t seem to know how to practice self-restraint, and the only way to prevent the manufacturing and accumulation of mountains of consumer garbage just seems to be to price people out of it.

Is a world where people buy less crap a good thing? I really think so. But, there will be (valid) stories basic things which people truly need (baby formula, etc.) are scarce or far too expensive.
https://archive.is/VsIE5
You do the cheap manufacturing to get from low-income to medium-income. Once at that level you need skilled workers to get to high-income. If you don't have these, low-cost jobs will move to other countries affected you are trapped. Germany already had a highly educated workforce and is high-income. No need to go back to square one.

Source: Invisible China by Scott Rozelle which does a great job explaining economic development and comparing different countries.
I wonder if it can be used to charge another vehicle.
Outside of work, I use ChatGPT as a search engine for questions whose answers typically would require synthesis from multiple sources (in other words, won't likely be answered by a singular Google search or article). It's a very successful approach.

Also used Midjourney to insert a nice bedroom background behind a bed for sale on FB Marketplace, and eventually sold the bed for 5x the price I was hoping.
Godsend.

I imagine like 90% of HN'ers suffer from insomnia.
I don't avoid the news. If it's important to me it will reach me one way or the other. Friends, family, neighbours or someone posting here!

I'm okay with the unavoidable news.
Dioxus liveview or if you don't want websockets, dioxus fullstack, you can use warp or salvo but axum is good.

Rust embed is also great, I cross compile everything into a single dynamically linked binary and scp to my vps, deployment is a breeze.
> good luck reading that with an unsupported editor

You need a "supported editor" to display Unicode emojis too, as TFA shows. And supposedly it is quite hard. OTOH displaying jpegs is a solved problem.
The amount of times Cloudflare is making me sit through their 15 to 30 second "checking your connection" page is insane.

For people going through life with ADHD such as myself, the impact of all these delays and disruptions throughout the day can be severe. Despite being properly medicated this measure is absolutely debilitating and makes for a dreadful and very taxing online experience.
Linux wasn't the first OS, git wasn't the first source control, and vim wasn't the first editor. In each of these cases, someone used the existing solutions, asked themselves how they could be better for a particular use case, and came up with a solution.
> A good manager will give the engineer a long leash and time to figure things out on their own, but will jump in and help as soon as it looks like failure might impact the business.

As a newly-minted manager, this long leash is the hardest thing for me to learn. I've struggled with knowing when to jump in. The focus on business impact is a really useful lens!
I am really excited to start using the new structured logger.
Reverse Engineering the Apple Multipeer Connectivity Framework (2022)
Sugar and related carbs really is the worst, eat whole plate of baked potatoes and meat, sated for the rest of the day, eat the carb equivalent in pastries and brain is still in "want more" mode...
What's to stop your local city government from increasing taxes to hire a doctor and provide them with a building and staff in order to provide medical services to locals residents?

It seems to me that the problem is that everyone wants a federal solution to healthcare and the United States is generally structured to limit federal power.

Fire departments are funded locally generally speaking, it didn't take a federal mandate to create them. If you think medical services should be provided to people as a civic service, go convince your local government to do it.
Some historical context: WHATWG[1], the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, was originally a spin-off of the W3C[2], and was an organisation formed in 2004 by W3C members unhappy with decisions made in the W3C at that time. In 2019, a 'Memorandum of Understanding' was signed[3] agreeing to various principles for coordination between the two organisations.

The W3C is still very much active, and produces the vast majority of specifications that are implemented by 'web browsers' (in the general sense) like Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and they have their own standardisation process which is comparable in quality to organisations like ISO.

The area in which WHATWG are most active, though, is HTML, for which they produce what they call 'Living Standards' that have a different process from W3C's. CSS is done inside the W3C, and JavaScript is formalised by ECMA, an entirely different organisation still.

[1]: https://whatwg.org/

[2]: https://www.w3.org/

[3]: https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html

[4]: https://www.ecma-international.org
https://archive.is/ZjhRT
To add, there's also quite a bit of what recently has been described as "enshitification."

The news source starts out ok, somebody makes a metric [1] to describe "ok," sources start chasing metric, stories all start sounding like they're written by an algorithm, soon you wonder if they all got replaced by generative AI a while ago, and nobody noticed (kinda like radio DJs). Reuters exemplifies this. I used to read Reuters. Now I barely skim.

"ChatGPT, write me a generic story about a missile strike." "ChatGPT, write me a generic story about the Ukraine War, with absolutely no context, onsite reporters, or investigation."

"20,000 artillery rounds per day?" Seriously? Every 4 seconds? Does anybody on the news even look at how big a hole a 155mm artillery shell leaves? No. Just the same video reel of patriotic photos and then Zelensky photo shoots.

I saw one video the other day of a bomb squad trying to disarm a shell from WWII. Even with shielding, it still shook buildings for 100's of yards in every direction. 20,000 of those. Per day. Its like the only thing news sources can report on is stories with keyword "missile" because those used to get clicks. The algo says write this.

[1] Ex: viewers, view time, page views, ads, social reposts, qtr. profits, clicks, engagement length, ect...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-pass/
An interesting angle here is the use of police drones to monitor the water around beaches for sharks. Here's a story on the topic from earlier this summer https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-07/shark-sca... [Paywall]
But if you have two desperate communities that are really looking for jobs, how do you prevent them from racing to the bottom? In some sense that is the 'correct' market solution. Government is a form of collective bargaining for citizens (amongst many other things of course).
Includes inflation: "Fed researchers say the rise in balances reflects both inflationary pressures as well as higher levels of consumption"
GPT-4 in ChatGPT has changed so much and so frequently. I've spent an inordinate time using both, side by side, and it has mostly failed to replicate the performance of their API offerings. While I don't have examples on hand right now, you can also look for yourself. Just look at the network requests in the web inspector. Here's the description of the Default ChatGPT GPT-4 model:

{
"slug": "gpt-4",
"max_tokens": 4095,
"title": "GPT-4",
"description": "Our most capable model, great for tasks that require creativity and advanced reasoning.",
"tags": [
"gpt4"
],
"capabilities": {},
"product_features": {}
}

Note the context size is 4095. Their model has been heavily optimized for speed and, presumably, cost.
Here's some loop samples;

- Gitlab; Ray ID: 7f3961b4ec46c443

- Zabbix; Ray ID: 7f39624d982bc32e

- NameMC; Ray ID: 7f3962e68d251871

- Camelcamelcamel; Ray ID: 7f3962eb9cbb421f

Easily can recreate at least the never ending loop by flipping on ublock origin's 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frame blocking, which matches their recommended medium settings.
Thanks for the heads up! We'll look into this. For now, you can go here for FSA/HSA payment instructions: https://support.stellarsleep.com/portal/en/kb/articles/stell...
in the meantime, let's get something positive out of the contradiction