skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thankful to have access to a cabin that sits on a portion of the homestead my grandfather grew up on in what is now just a relatively rural area of the great plains in Canada. It's a pretty rudimentary cabin by modern standards, on a farmable, but not easily mass-farmable sizable hectarage. It has electricity, and a septic tank, but we haven't tapped a well, and bring our own drinking water, with a future possible rain filtration system. There's no wifi, but some spotty cell signal. Very good growing soil that doesn't tend to flood so badly, and gravel roads. This cabin, and brief camping/hiking trips, are a wonderful way to break from the city, but I'd never trade it for my rental in the city. I'll never likely own a home of any kind the way things are going, though it's never been on my mind until now anyway, and still I wouldn't live out there as my primary residence; even with a shower, even with good internet, even with a washer and dryer, and I wouldn't do it for the same reasons that my grandfather doesn't, some of the same that the author mentions. There are no nearby hospitals, there are not many nearby people to strike up a conversation with, and it's otherwise quite deliberately isolating; an experience that's fine for a bit, but only for a bit. Even car-dependent, seemingly anti-social suburbanites who hold up in their fenced-in backyards behind the McMansion someone built for them on former wetlands would eventually go crazy if they didn't have their neighbours around to complain about. That amount of time varies from person to person, it's easier if your hobbies or work don't seem to include any other people, until you want to give your crafts to someone, share your work in some way, or enjoy those that others have produced. Maybe that time is when you realize it's impractical for anyone in your family to visit you, or for you to visit them, even infrequently.
It reduces the number of law-abiding parties trafficking in your personal data. Unfortunately, whoever publishes the monthly dark web data leak rollup still doesn't take opt-outs.
This situation happens to me too. I partially solve the problem by writing extra prompts so that it does not recur.
Now we get to(*) trace the boot process
one sector, one page, one instruction
at a time.

(*) If you replace the words "need to"
with the words "get to," life
becomes amazing.
So the idea is that Apple might have a trademark on the word Hello in cursive?
"If you want to pay someone to make a change to LuaJIT, Mike Pall is not available, but other people on the LuaJIT mailing list may be."
Go ahead. Cut out htmx as well if you don't need incremental updates without having to write JavaScript.
Sweet memories of Facebook, which was spamming all the contacts to invite them to join Facebook.
If you're having such an IO bottleneck that you're doubling your HDD array to provide the necessary throughput how do you actually run backups or restores using those disks? Do you hope you only need it in off hours?
They help us to develop tools that will allow us faster computation.
There are time, place and manner restrictions on assembly. If you decide to peacefully assembly in the middle of a major highway, the police will be there to explain that to you pretty soon.
That's not really any better than what we have now. In your model you need to have full trust in the DNS operator and that your DNS responses weren't MITM'd (which are still generally unencrypted!!).

In other words, you're just trading trusted CAs for trusted DNS operators.
So, they're claiming this statement is true:

> The U.S. does not have a national privacy law addressing how companies can use the data they collect

when it is clearly false. I only need one counter-example, so here's one: HIPPA exists, and addresses how [some] companies can use [some of] the data they collect.

Also, when overturning Roe v. Wade, the supreme court ruled that there is no federal right to privacy in the US, which impacted a wide range of privacy related federal laws in the US.
"Hello database, why are you slow?" /s

Serious feedback:

* Support Digital Ocean (currently only AWS supported)

* Even read-only access is scary... it's not clear if that means you have access to my sensitive user data or just the infra metadata.

Normally I would just include relevant info about my AWS infra in my prompt... how is this better than that?
But the weights are all on HF no?
At my current job I can trigger a pipeline to deploy a complex set of cloud formation stacks but my account doesn’t have access to logs of those deployments. Devops!
I thought "unified image" solved this?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image#Prepar...
I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things I make it do!

The dissonance is wild. I'd hate to go back to working without it. It definitely has its uses.
I’m having lunch down the street right now. There’s nothing forcing them to work remotely.

It’s not THAT bad here. Different and a bit more dangerous than most places. More hectic, dirtier, homelessness, drug use, etc.

Some of the people on the street have hearts of gold. They deserve a narrative too.

But hey, if these negative stories keep undesirables (read: suburban people who complain about everything) out of the city, I don’t mind.
That's an impressive article and a lot of good work put into it!
Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography
This is new:

>BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) is this kind of access in the inbox. It sets you apart from all the others by showcasing your brand and legitimacy to your users in the inbox by displaying your logo and, in some cases, a verified checkmark.

Apparently this can help me promote my brand. Unfortunately I don't have a brand so I fear that this would be used to promote the brands of others at my expense.
> The government is paternalistic by nature

I think this is your perspective on what the government should be, and it is not "by nature".

I myself have the view that the government serves the people. For example, one of the responsibilities of the government is to make sure road/transportation works good. When they repair the road, to me that's kind of like when the plumber comes to fix my sink. And I don't think of the plumber as a parent.
Gagged and blindsided: how an allegation of research misconduct affected our lab
> Every open source project should make its contributors sign CLAs

What's the point of open source if you have to reveal you real identity?
The AMA lobbies to keep the supply of residency slots restricted* in 1997 the AMA successfully lobbied to freeze the funding for new residency slots at 1996 levels. Lobbying by the AMA is also no small part of why it's so hard for a foreign-born doctor to practice medicine in the US.

*although in the face of the incredible pressure they're about to face from AI they may be opening up
Kanary is here and actively posting if that helps at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222672
Bats have surprisingly long lifespans for their very intense lifestyles
Ok, we've changed the title to a more representative phrase from the article.
> Hot parts of Chicago

Do you mean hot as flying lead hot?
Won't it deprive downstream sources of sediment and flow when done at scale?
> Not the official name anymore but I'm the kind of person who specifically mods the CSS on their instance to bring back "Toot"

It's clearly the best name, and (if I wasn't keeping away from all similar products for my own sanity) I would be sad that they changed away from it.
It violates the rights of other people to free movement and causes them economic damages. It may also lead to catastrophic consequences if emergency vehicles are blocked (happened many times) and since the highway is a common property, regulated by the laws of the jurisdiction owning it, assembling there contrary to these laws is also a violation of property rights.

If I set up a "protest" tent in the middle of your driveway, not letting you exit the house, would you say it's a constitutionally protected activity or would you call the police on me, claiming property rights and trespassing violation?
What is the solution? How can it be solved? The first thing that came to my mind was to take actions to increase the population of photosynthesizing sea creatures.
They were being pedantic, in that `package-lock` is a thing, and `package.lock` (which is the comment originally said) doesn't. Because apparently a typo invalidates whatever experience you have.
Afaict, these are all recurring subscriptions. Is there any reason not to signup for a month or two and then cancel, maybe repeat every couple years? The sub is more of a continuous monitoring thing?

I assume they wouldn't just "undo" their opt-outs?

I'd prefer a one-time payment over that darn subscription-recurring-revenue-model.
The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
you need about the same impossible accuracy to play this. im only half joking, if you want to improve you will need to somehow respond more accurately. Seeing someone play it well is mind blowing if you know how hard it gets.
Open Source Tech and Public-Private Innovation Are Key to Ukraine’s Resilience
> If all marbles in a bag are black, and you take one marble out, are all marbles in the bag white?

The logical answer is "maybe."
LuaJIT is in a very weird place overall. Some years ago, the main developer announced that they were stepping down. A bunch of forks sprang up as a result. Meanwhile, the main developer declined to put anyone else in charge of the project, and basically kept developing it on their own (albeit at a slower pace). The forks eventually died; no one was able to build enough momentum to keep a community going.

So this policy was basically where we were anyway. I'm glad the project hasn't died, and in my practical usage it's been very stable, so I haven't had trouble grabbing random development commits off the Git repo. My impression was the release process was very high overhead, and I'd rather that the main developer stick around to work on the code rather than leave due to burning out.
Ok, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Optery founder here, we're a YC company (W22) that automatically scans and removes people from hundreds of these sites. (for U.S. residents only)

There's a catch 22 where you have to be comfortable enough to submit your information to these sites' opt out pages in order for them to take it down. But if you do nothing, it continues to proliferate unchecked.

Most people don't have the time or inclination to submit opt out requests to data brokers directly, let alone stay on top of when information inevitably pops back up. This is where data removal services like Optery come in, but there's also a similar catch 22 where you have to trust the company you're using. Most companies in the data removal space are trustworthy, but some are not. Along the lines of trustworthiness, one of the most underrated attributes of a data removal service is its security credentials. Optery has its SOC 2, Type II security certification, whereas most other services do not.

If you already use a different service such as DeleteMe, Kanary, or Incogni, you can run a free Optery scan to see what they've missed. The free Optery scan typically produces 50 - 100 screenshots of places your info is published online.

Optery was launched to the public on HackerNews as a Show HN before we got into YC, and again as a Launch HN after we got into YC. Lots of great insights on the topic of removing info from data brokers in those threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010
Beautiful UI! With its focus on modularity, it looks like this could be a spiritual successor to Atom (RIP)
You should also read this book published in 2001, collapse is imminent!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Collapse_of_China
> fascinating tactic. i wonder if there are any countermeasures?

I'm guessing history has some anti-phalanx tactics that may be useful. My naive assumption is that well-organized protestors could choose one spot to focus on and try to break through using sheer numbers and momentum with some uh, ablation at the edges and tip of the spear. This comes with a very high risk of trampling. Veteran Black Bloc practitioners will likely have less naive countermeasures
Pretty much! I wrote exactly the same in a previous thread, in nowadays standards, 5 TiB is barely enough for a home storage let alone business or even enterprise!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37259331
yes to some extent, i'm not gonna dispute that!

but when you take 10 pieces of propaganda aboit some event from differently slanted sources and put them all together they'll all agree on some set of points -- let's call them facts -- and then it's easier to clearly see the line between what (f)actually went down and how it's being framed by various sources.
I don’t see definitive statements in that article. It’s a lawyer stating opinion, using qualifiers like “in most cases” and “I would argue”. Most concerning is:

> This is a complex topic that courts and lawyers disagree on

I would argue, in most cases, the benefits aren’t worth the risk, nor the legal fees spent to ascertain and manage that risk.
An alternative way to see why that’s the most logical viewpoint is, that, if you assume not all marbles in an empty bag are black, you can have the following:

- Take a bag for which “all marbles in this bag are black” is false

- Add a black marble to that bag

- After that, “all marbles in the bag are black” becomes true

As is often the case in mathematics/logic [1] with these kind of things, you can hold an alternative view where “are all marbles in this bag black” doesn’t make sense for an empty bag or one where it has the answer “yo”, but if you do that, you’ll find that many proofs get more cumbersome because you have to handle that case differently from all other cases.

[1] other examples are the convention that 0⁰ = 1 and the convention that 1 isn’t a prime number (that’s an example where mathematicians (eventually) decided that having 3 kinds of positive integers (prime numbers, composite numbers, and 1) is the better choice)
No lasers implied, though that does sound interesting.

Whatever extent reef size is evidence of the extant of global warming, that works both ways.

It's either a reliable indicator or an unreliable indicator. Apparently, an unreliable indicator.
Thanks for the summary.

> I define intelligence an innate ability to juggle information well, which is independent of memory ...

Well, if people start using their own definitions, then we should not wonder that they come to unusual conclusions.
And these people you mention are trying to stop you from using ChatGPT or you can proceed only based on their opinion?
In my personal opinion, there's no good reason to have a license policy at the CNCF, or any Linux Foundation directed fund, that makes using copyleft licenses so burdensome, especially when they are as "weak" as MPL 2.0 is.

I know that there are Reasons. I just don't think they are good ones.
Cargo culting happens regardless of language. It's true that fully meshed distribution won't fly for Google or Amazon scale. But 99% of companies will never get to that scale, despite what they'd like to believe. Fully meshed distribution works just fine for many use cases.
HIPPA protects medical records, which isn't so much as 'collected' as much as they are generated (and held) on behalf of the patient.

So, I'd say this is a pretty disingenuous reading. They're clearly talking about something more akin to GDPR. Conflating HIPPA (or, say, top secret document classification) is not a productive vector of discussion.
Yeah a large portion of research computing standardized on Red Hat (see e.g. Scientific Linux). The stability is quite important when trying to run ancient/niche scientific code that sometimes would only support (or even build on) Red Hat, and when you have a large number of nodes that need to be essentially bug-for-bug identical you want the package churn and update cycle to be kept to an absolute minimum.

The licensing of real RHEL never could have made sense in the HPC space, and I'd be shocked if a meaningful number of deployments would be moved to purchase RHEL now.

When I was a "sysadmin" in this space I always kind of personally preferred Debian, which has similar longevity to its release cycle, but it could never gain much traction.

I hope at this current juncture the HPC community might rethink its investment in the RHAT ecosystem and give Debian a chance.
> The government wouldn't tell you that you couldn't do what you please with your data

Technically true, but I think it is just semantics. Factually, it doesn't feel like it really matters, and the grandparent comment seems to be aware of it.

To elaborate: sure, technically the government won't tell me what I can do with my data, it will just offload that job to the companies by telling them what kind of data transactions I cannot engage in with them.

The end result is, meaningfully, the same. Without those restrictions, I was able to willingly and knowingly trade my data in exchange for some service XYZ (in lieu of paying for it with money). With those restrictions in place, I cannot do that anymore. Whether I personally am not allowed to, or whether it is the companies that aren't allowed to engage in such exchange with me, is just a distinction without a meaningless difference.

Personally, I disagree with these restrictions on the principle of not allowing me (as an individual) to willingly engage in such exchanges with businesses. However, I agree with you that such restrictions make infinitely more sense (and are way more enforceable) when implemented through placing them on companies rather than individuals.
There is a big tension in the UK between people who use kilometres by default, and those who miles.

Although road-signs are all in miles, it's not unknown for other distance markers (e.g. on walking / cycling trails) to be in kilometres. When I was studying in Birmingham in 2006-2010 the signs on the canal network were in kilometres.

For me, my default unit is kilometeres (although I am one of those awful Bremoaners [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bremoaner] who even moved to Berlin after the vote).
Exactly. An electric drill is useless for me in a daily basis, but it doesn't mean it's useless for a carpenter.
Viewing it as sets lacking a certain property may help explain why it's useful to know and why simply using a countable model is not preferable.

Uncountability means that real numbers lack certain properties. If you accept the claim of physicists that the world is best described using real numbers then this has some applications.

Among the things that are impossible are things like constructing a function to pick a number for each set of real numbers. Or making an algorithm to decide two numbers are equal.

Even more concretely the fact that it is incredibly hard to determine whether something is non-zero (or even nonnegative) is the bane of various numerical algorithms. Obviously you can work around these issues, but uncountability is the first sign of trouble.
Addictiveness is not necessarily an indicator of utility. Drug addicts keep going back to heroin even if it's ruining their lives.

Just because I feel compelled to scroll and endless, algorithmic feed it does not mean that this is how I want to use social media or that such usage reflects the role I want it to have in my life.
Sounds legit what you mention wrt. Langchain. I agree that it's nice for grokking the patterns and getting something out there. Maybe I worded my post too harshly...

Testing; I haven't really found something solid, something that I'd write up in good conscience as a clear 'best practice'. What I meant to say with testing framework is more along the lines of "take some time to set up a bespoke test harness for your use case".

For example, a RAG summarizer chatbot-and-PowerPoint generator that is backed by a data store containing 100s of sales pitches. No low latency reqs, but we need some appreciable accuracy.

There's plenty of cool ideas to try: do I generate n expanded versions of my user query to help retrieval, get m records back, summarize those in one go? Or do I go for a single query but do I let the LLM filter out false positives? Etc etc.

It helps to invest in putting together an (almost) statistically relevant, diverse set of queries and grepping (or even ranking with a LLM) for expected results. In our case, when summarizing sales in the public sector in the past 5 years, did the thing exclude our Y2K work from 23 years back?

Simple, diverse test jobs you can use to give some flavor of scientific hypothesis testing to the weirdness of figuring out how to tweak everything inside the pipeline. This also allows you to register succes criteria upfront, eg. we accept this if we get 19/20 right. Then that becomes 190/200 in the next project phase. Then that becomes "less than 5% thumbs down feedback from users when we go live".

It's an exciting field. Makes me think about building my own little convnets before pytorch become so good.
For testing, there’s a whole slew of ranking-based metrics you can use. You want to make sure the content being retrieved is actually relevant. Offline precision, recall, nDCG and MRR tend to be pretty good. Online you can just directly measure user behavior as a function of your model’s inputs and outputs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_measures_(informa...
It doesn’t help to find different thoughts on the same issue because you can’t relate to the majority of them. When you find out that you, yourself, came to different opinions of the same subject, then you end up having a practical understanding of that POV.

You have to understand where that differing POV connects with other POVs. The bridge between the two is what matters here; not the content.
If somebody is using a laser in a protest, we can be pretty sure they're not doing it to highlight the main points in their powerpoint presentation "How to Peacefully Protest for Fun And Profit". Trying to blind cops & helis with laser is a known riot tactics, and pretending we don't know what's going on is not very useful.
The Web also has had a lot of downsides that weren’t clear at the time, particularly when paired with smartphones and Skinner-style behavior reinforcement.
I agree. I think we (the "tech" crowd) overestimate how important these things are. If privacy intrusions were harming people it would be a bigger issue that more people know about.
I mean, the directories are laid out in the same way because MacOS runs on top of BSD. They basically ARE the same file system. I agree on the rest of your points though.
The word "all" doesn't appear in the version of the question in the story I see. It just says this: "The U.S. does not have a national privacy law addressing how companies can use the data they collect"

Even still, "all" wouldn't falsify the statement. There are some laws enumerating illegal things you could use data for. Anything not prohibited by law is legal. That's how the US legal system works.

"Common standards" also doesn't exist in the version of the question in the article. However, setting common standards would prevent states from pass stronger restrictions, with the effect of actually weakening privacy law.

[edit: Flipping some negations around, I think your version of the question is logically equivalent to "In the US, state and local governments do not have the authority to pass any laws addressing how companies can use any of the data they collect."]