skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keeping children out of our political system enables us to ignores their rights and needs. It's a form of discrimination.

Young people get thrown under the bus, politically, all over the west. Non-dischargeable loans, reduction in spending for youth clubs, completely ignoring their needs when it comes to city planning.

We are literally destroying the future of our society.
It’s not a blog post but a sort of dataset, my research for an “Agile Considered Harmful” essay I’m writing. Which is why I’ve kept the citations.
I'll take obvious jank over hidden jank any day personally.
quarterly growth is not on pace with targets. plain and simple.

that said, your question is one-sided. what about the obvious deficits of remote work?

the office expense is not much of a benefit. rent and housekeeping is a sunk cost, unless you completely shutter the office. and, the beatings will continue until morale improves, so we can throw that one out as well.
Sorta, if you scroll down the page.
You don't have to be that "old". Late 30's it is possible
Damn, I was gonna go research it just in case, but then I noticed who posted this.
Mad respect for your work!
Totally, but it’s an industry term since the Nord Lead, and honestly there’s no attempts at replication of analog stochastics, barring “oscillator drift” or some pseudorandom phenomena applied to pitch or phase if combining generators.

An analog synthesizer is something else.
The microcontroller used to make this is fairly interesting, however, as it can easily be user-hacked to achieve other things

https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy41.html
Can anyone recommend a good, and trusted UI so I can use it via the API? I don't want to pay monthly for it, but would be nice to use occasionally. I keep meaning to do this!
Good. Now add up all the emissions from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and tell us.
No, mining is actually critical to the state and region, specifically coal, specifically bituminous coal, which isn't used for power generation, but instead in applications that need to be much hotter than what other fuel sources can easily obtain, like steel manufacturing, ~70% of which uses coal blast furnaces.

And while you might want to replace those furnaces with something else, there really isn't a great way to do that. Most of them are already running and are going to need to run another 10-25 years before they're replaced in order to pay for themselves. You can't just shut them off, because then you won't have steel and you do need steel for civilization to keep running smoothly.

So what you're left with is trying to make hydrogen cheap enough to replace the coal furnaces and make it worth the extra R&D time required to get your foundry producing in-spec material with a different fuel source, which means their processes need to be better with the new fuel as well.

If that sounds like it'll take decades to happen, well yeah, you're right, probably decades to even start happening, so we need to keep mining coal, and, it'd be a very good idea to get young, bright minds involved, because the mining process is, by my estimation, ripe for automation, and if you want to directly reduce the human cost of mining in general, robots is how you do it, and that's also a goal worth pursuing given the number of people die every year digging in the dirt, not just in the United States, but worldwide.
What does it mean for them to “live”? Are there certain goals they try to accomplish? Find food? A mate? Build families?
Nothing has deflated yet. The bubble has wobbled at peak inflatedness at most.
You have a poor grasp on what a botanist is, why we need them, and how a kid might end up on that track.

Your claim is directly analogous to “study physics on your own once you have a real job”.

The notion that only the wealthy should be able to pursue critical fields is dystopian as hell. I’m not a botanist. I don’t even know that I know any. I bought a cartful of their research at the supermarket today, though.
Cheaper, safer, cleaner, and more convenient than a room in a motel. The room comes to the customer!

More seriously, this is evidently an unintended business model for Cruise -- and probably not a welcome one.
Writing a lambda calculus interpreter in Rust
Next DEFCON / Pwn2Own challenge:

Jailbreak a Ford F-150
For anybody else curious (maybe this was just new to me), the abbreviation CL (used all over the place in the linked docs but never actually defined anywhere I could find) stands for change log, or change list, near as I can tell. Am I the only one out of the loop here?
> CMake doesn't fetch your dependencies for you and ensure they're the version that your code is compatible with.

That’s a little too harsh. You can certainly make it do that via a combination of git tags (to build from source) and CMake modules/Find*, but yes, it’s much more cumbersome than cargo/npm/go
It's a huge stretch to claim that === isn't secondary to ==.
If any one is curious about the source of this aphorism:

> To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.[20]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson#Aphorisms_and_q...
Agile’s term “customer” is actually very ambiguous about whether it’s trying to define the relationships between developers and employers or developers and users who buy the software.
How does the LLM know what valid JSON tokens are?

What if the training data contains malformed JSON? There ought to be a non-zero chance of the LLM producing invalid JSON, no?
> Give small loans to your extended family and friends instead.

I feel like amongst the entire HN userbase that this will touch, somebody has to chime in and say the opposite on why you shouldn't do this?
Not addressed in this article, but the findings sort of imply to my naive and speculating mind that being blind might lead to increased risk of dementia. Congenitally or otherwise. I had not heard that, and I feel like it might have become folk wisdom by now if it were true.
"Does teamspeak/irc/mumble/etc even support live streaming with screen+audio capture to a group chat?"

pIRCh98 had video chat support, and back then we used some wrapper from FRAPS to do our screen captures.

Of course, back then, video chat was such a niche thing.

Everyone else is actually late to the game - IRC had this capability before the majority of known players.
Are there edge cases here due to context length?

1. I have a json schema with required fields. I complete the json, but do not include the required fields.

2. I run out of token from the model before I finish the json object because I'm in the middle of some deep, nested structure.

These seem solvable, just edge cases to control for by either reserving tokens, randomly generating required tokens until completing the json, or something more sophisticated.
I was looking for this response.

I would be pissed if a plumber charged me to do it some way other than the right way.

I'm paying for the sink to stop leaking, sure. But I'm also paying for the solution to be the correct, and best solution, especially in regards to fixing durable infrastructure.

I get the author's point, but this was a poor analogy because there is a lot of ways for plumbing to be done wrong.

A better analogy would probably be shipping a box from NY to LA. I don't particularly care if it is trucked, flown, or carried by a team of pigeons as long as it gets there when I was told it would get there.
Send MOAR metal opera my way!
If it says “pro subscription required” though like the GP mentioned, that sounds like it is still possible to download the score they’re trying to download. Unless maybe this is just how the site tells the user this is a HQ score… as cryptically as possible.
Archive mirror (lol)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230814235044/https://blog.arch...
I guess it's a question of "absolutely none" vs "proportionally almost none".

So if you died of 1000 cuts and I inflicted 1 cut, then I am not guilty of any crime because proportionally my impact was almost none?
Show HN: API to acquire PBR materials from any portrait image for relighting
With SwitchLight API, you can extract surface normal map, albedo map, roughness map & remove background of any portrait image and use it in your own 3D pipeline that supports physical-based-rendering (PBR).

1. Surface Normal API: Surface Normal maps represent in which direction each pixel is pointing towards in 3D space, and without surface normal, things will look super flat and unrealistic.

2. Albedo API: Albedo map removes any shadows or highlights from the original image and represents what the subject would look like under very flat white lighting. Also known as diffuse map or base color.

3. Roughness API: Roughness map represents how rough or smooth the surface is. The darker it is, the smoother the surface is like a mirror. For example your clothes is much rougher than your skin, and will be represented brighter in the roughness map. Also known as glossiness map.

4. Background Removal: Removes the background and return PNG file with alpha channel

Below is a video of a demo app where you can relight a human portrait in realtime using SwitchLight API & ThreeJS. Here, I extracted surface normal, albedo and roughness map using SwitchLight API and and used ThreeJS's Physical Based Rendering capability. We've also attached a sample code snippet so feel free to try it out!

Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaIBwL4w7HA

Code Snippet: https://www.switchlight-api.beeble.ai/docs/tutorial
> There does need to be some aspect of empathy in the immigration system.

Agreed; glad you think so too.

> Noticing differences in groups is so taboo that they throw common sense out of the window.

The problem is that "common sense" often proves to be neither, because we're quite capable of grossly misjudging what constitutes valuable human capital. Recall that we used to deny adult citizens the right to vote, or to serve on juries or in public office, unless they were white male property owners over 21 years old — who knows how much society lost as a result by way of productivity, and how many such men were actually counterproductive.
Weaponizing ML models for red teams and bounty hunters
iPhone 14/Pro owners complain about battery capacity that’s already falling off
What Are the Economics of AI?
Thanks for the reply. It's interesting that you find the lack of this feature significant enough to avoid the software.

As far as being harsh, OK maybe. But hey, I did change "shit" to "trash!"
Site returns "Error establishing a database connection"

Oh, the irony of using Archive.org to read blog.archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230814224105/https://blog.arch...
> Personally, I want to see the DMV define expectations for autonomous cars with respect to interrupted cellular service

The rules for self driving cars should be at least the same as for people. If things differ at all, it should be making them harsher - people get a heavily restricted degree of latitude as we recognize human brains suffer fatigue, etc but computers don't suffer those issues.

Similarly liability (civil and criminal) for dangerous, unsafe, or simply incorrect driving shall be with the driver. With a self driving vehicle, that is the manufacturer. The whole reason for the "driver must pay attention while self driving" is to liability shift from the manufacturer of an unsafe product to the purchaser.
Important information that for some reason is buried in the ninth paragraph of the article: the court was interpreting express language in the state constitution, not the federal constitution.

> The Montana case revolved around language in the state Constitution that guarantees residents “the right to a clean and healthful environment,” and stipulates that the state and individuals are responsible for maintaining and improving the environment “for present and future generations.”

So the ruling is not as wacky as it seems at first blush. That said, state constitutions can have all sorts of aspirational statements that, under that state’s principles of constitutional interpretation, don’t necessarily generate actionable constraints on the operation of the government. Will be interesting to see what the appellate courts say.
and it looks like those donations will get him nowhere.
> see from a mile away that this guy is trash

Actually possible, given the billboards lol
> as Kiva began to launch new programs like Kiva Capital, as well as Protocol, a blockchain-­enabled credit bureau launched in Sierra Leone in 2018 and then closed in 2022.

Uh oh.

Here's Kiva's own hype about that.[1] It's about identity verification with fingerprints and tying financial information to that.

[1] https://www.kiva.org/protocol/
What's your #1 missing feature?
The degree of this inefficiency is pretty incredible - 18% of total US GDP is now directly related to healthcare with some of the worst aggregate outcomes on metrics like maternal mortality.

It's disgraceful.
Maybe try going without ChatGPT for these tasks now - eg doing them yourself first?

My guess is the marginal difference between your abilities and ChatGPT is diminishing.

My experience with ChatGPT is it’s really good at generating non-controversial answers to well known topics.

Those are only so valuable.

Not as valuable as you creative abilities.
I agree with this. Also, how/when did business sneak in here? that's the one that least belongs.
You know clearly absolutely nothing about Greta Thunberg.
Exactly. At most, make a note of it, tackle it the next day.

Work to live, don't live to work and all of that.
The decision was made by a judge not kids.

Also India aside, the BRICS are just a grouping of chronic degenerates. I'd hardly be wanting my country to follow in their footsteps
That was during his term in office!
I have a 13 mini that I bought nearly 2 years ago, and it's at 91%. I'd be not happy if I had a 14 that's half as old and had even worse battery health. What I've experienced with my 13 is in line with what I've come to expect from iPhone batteries, over the last 15 years.

That said, I charge my battery slowly (using a tiny brick or slow MagSafe charger) partly because I assume it will extend the life of the battery. It's possible that fast-charging is part of what is causing the battery degradation for these iPhone 14 owners.
I used the hell out of copilot when plugged into vscode.

I became more of an editor, less of a coder.
If there's copyrighted material on the Archive you find valuable, download and save it now before it's the target of the next lawsuit. I expect it won't be long before you can't get old magazines or other nostalgic and niche material. This is exactly what we all said would happen when the IA gave a giant "Fuck You!" to copyright holders with the Emergency Library. The era of copyright holders ignoring the IA if they're not actively making money off the material is officially over.
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
Sure. I expanded in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37128472
https://archive.ph/B86cy
I know what it is. It's sitting on the toilet with a phone for long periods of time. Also sugar. Red meat / nitrates are out as our grandparents / great grandparents all ate this stuff like crazy.
Few people are regularly pounding rum shots.
I think what I am saying is tangential to TDD. I am not really even concerned about the ability of LLM to function as desired, and its verification.

I was rather concerned about a broader fundamental question - how does post-hoc guided generation interfere with the potential benefits of instruction-tuning?
Sounds interesting, I'll check it out. Thank you!
ok, I'll bite. I've done this a fair amount - and while it feels good to help your friends and neighbors and family - its gets weird. old friends calling me up asking if I want to buy the bar they work at because they hate their boss. people who've I've helped a lot turned out not to really like me very much.

but I still think the sentiment stands
Posting on another account because I'm rate limited. Sorry dang.

Yes, actually, a 3 year old and a 1 year old.
Believe it or not, this lawsuit does nothing to "keep the planet nice"
That looks really in line with what I was interested in except I was hoping for something a bit more recent. A lot has changed since the 80s (I think?). Thanks!
Fund of funds making funds where market research generates revenue and everyone’s adventures are capitalized into an on chain Large Lifestyle Model where being Day One is to emit content enough past the zeitgeist to avoid banality but not so far as to be incomprehensible.
Is your argument that a 1 week old baby with ~84 years of expected lifespan remaining should have a vote worth 84x that of an 83 year old?
It looks more like - we need something to be using it. Can you provide a program that uses it so we can evaluate this better.
Millions of Americans’ health data stolen after MOVEit hackers targeted IBM
Yeah, it's pretty vaguely worded. It has text about it being the responsibility of every Montanan to improve the environment, now and for the future. I'm not sure how they would measure or enforce that, and if lawsuits start popping off as a result, I think they will probably just amend the text of the constitution.
I can't practically get everclear since I live in California, where it's illegal. I use 99% IPA for shellac, it's not denatured but you wouldn't want to drink it anyway.
My unprofessional opinion is that these are both explained by a third variable, excessive consumption of carbohydrates, starches especially. (It also explains the correlation between poor dental health and dementia).

Myopia is known to be promoted by excessive carbohydrate consumption.
Are the elderly prevented from making claims in the legal system?
I don't mean to seem abrupt, but I'm not sure what is so interesting about this press release.
Never give loans to friends or family. Give gifts.
We don't know that yet...
New AI-generated customer review highlights
100% agree. I think extensions are an odd place to start, but this is the exact reason I avoid browser extensions unless I’ve explicitly audited them (and still don’t like they auto update without permission).
I'll have go:

Duplicating debt systems with those closest to you by even calling it a loan is a way to persist a system of oppression in the places young people grow up in. An alternative would be to practice freely giving, especially to needs, never calling things loans or favors, and maybe include with the gifts some lighthearted & light reading material on how to culturally dismantle systems of oppression.
For me the biggest issue the OSI has today is that the phrase "open source" is becoming disconnected from the Open Source Definition, some of that is deliberate and some of that is people who knew the phrase but not the definition. The language around FOSS is evolving for the worse.

https://opensource.org/osd
https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusion-Cases
No, it's just that child care doesn't turn off at a set time like most jobs do. Your schedule might be 6am-8pm, with multiple periods in the early morning while you're up.

I say this as a person who has been both a full time programmer and a full time care giver. Being the care giver was far more frazzling and non stop compared to my job. I found it far easier to pursue personal interests when I was working full-time compared to parenting full-time. Pretty much my only time without a kid in my life would be late at night, and even then you need to stay in the house to watch them, and you may be too tired and sleep deprived to actually be able to pursue an interest if it is pursuable in your own home.
> I'm not sure of why you would want to use raw llama-2

Sure. My concern was not specific to llama-2, and was only using it as a placeholder example of a decent pre-trained base model. Replace it with your favorite base model, which you want to use for guided generation. My question is more fundamental - how does post-hoc guided generation interfere with the potential benefits of instruction-tuning?

> About your second point, the goal is that the model can only generate JSON (for example), which can 100% be done by constraining which output token can and cannot be used.

Mechanistically, yes. I am not arguing that. The whole point is to generate JSON that is "useful".
Fun fact: Vodka is usually distilled to a high purity close to everclear using a reflux still, then diluted with water to get down to 40%.
This is what we did at Trex (https://github.com/automorphic-ai/trex). The tricky part is doing it quickly and efficiently.
I don't know if I'd go with a 1:1 ratio, but voting for matters that might have consequences farther in the future?

Yes, they should have a weighted vote.

It's hard to be objective when you don't have skin in the game.
How can I use a MacBook Air as a screen and Mac mini pro as a computer?
Not sure if this is appropriate to ask on HN, but I'll try (I couldn't find anything meaninful on the internet). I have been trying to decide whether I should buy a macbook pro 14 m2/m3 or macbook air m3/m3. MBA is very lighweight for travels but it can't withstand heavy computing for very long periods of time, it starts trottling and heating oscillation damages soldering of a soc over time. MBP can compute anything anytime however i want but it is very bulky and heavy to carry in a backpack for me as i have backache.
SO i stuck in between both worlds, and I was wondering, maybe i can use MPA as a travel computer and when i need more power when i come home, i just attach macmini pro or macstudio to a macbook air and use macmini's compute power instead of a mba?
But why would I want them to be E cores instead of P cores? Battery life?
LOL where's the lie? if you have to send lawyers after someone for stealing something which was free, it's not free. it's just a cult of flatulence inhalers that think that permissively licensed code is breaking their precious rules by declining to sue innocent people for keeping their own work.

as has been made readily apparent in this thread
So chorus is done? Does this mean all the VM properties are about to get a facelift? Or are they gonna do the stupid thing and customize WP until they’re basically maintaining a a fully custom CMS anyway just so they don’t have to change anything on the front end?

ETA: maybe I just don’t know what wpVIP is. It looks like the partnership is more about sharing VM technology with Wordpress vs moving to the WP CMS platform
I'm assuming Alexa will be transitioning to AWS side, for generative AI focus.

As for the claim that Alexa is hard to monetize, not really. It's always baffled me how teams can jump head first into pitfalls of monetary loss in that sector, and just keep swimming. Amazon fought to have the competitive edge, and once they had it... nothing.

I'll have to admit, I'm actually curious to see what's next. Change is good.