skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know if LLMs have been used to augment their own training data?

I wonder what would happen if you trained an LLM on a little input but then had it generate a lot of synthetic input added to the training data. I think of it as "dreaming". This seems like it would just add noise, but LLMs are able to improve their output by augmenting their own context (by "thinking out loud"), maybe they can do the same with their own training data?
> but starting a low level awareness campaign to warn people with passwords that haven't changed in years about this risk seems like an easy thing to do that

Rate of change seems like a very poor signal compared to absolute password strength, which won't change over time. Isn't this already built into lastpass?
The problem with photojournalism is not that people don't trust that the pixels haven't been doctored.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/20/searching-metaphor-...
I'm not talking about just establishing a session. My questioning there was just why Internet vs. local would be different. On a local network, I've gotten 70k json CRUD requests out of a netty based service + postgresql with 4 cores and a single SSD.

I imagine search is more complex and expensive than CRUD, but 80k isn't something you can only do with a "hello world" tier application.
Come on, people live in this city and rent is high as you might have heard. People are getting priced out so middlmen can make bank renting these things?

If staying in a hotel isn't convenient or affordable I'm sorry? Perhaps one day you can figure it out.
>But there are fewer and fewer free-wheeling R&D groups in industry these days

This was true going back to the 80s. If anything there's been something of an uptick in companies with money to burn.
If this holds true, this would support the idea that much smaller, human curated datasets will be of much higher value than synthetic datasets generated by LLMs
It's because we don't buy furniture, we buy style.

Its like paper towels. You are not buying a towell, you are buying dry. Something is now dry.

It's like clothing, we don't buy it for function anymore, it's function is style. Same with furniture in most people's lives, it's about how it looks in your home, not how well it performs or lasts. People want to be able to change the style of their rooms every so often and not have it break the bank. We're using these objects differently, they're serving a different purpose (entertainment).
not a red flag at all..as long as they are competent at dev work. Many devs just want to dev and have no interest in taking on lead responsibilities, architecture, negotiating with product owners, attending lots of unproductive meetings, etc.
Back in The Day, rumor had it the detail page hosting/rendering would easily max out a single machine after only a handful of queries per second. I regrettably can't verify the truth of that, or if it still holds, but there is a LOT going on with a given /dp . "How many of those requests translate to actual purchases?" is the next question.
White Hat: Can I hack your website and services?

Company: No we are super secure! No trying to find vulnerabilities.

Black Hat: lol sells company data
Don't know about NYC, but in the midwest there are hotels that specialized in providing construction workers a home away from home for 1-2 weeks. You get a bedroom and minimal kitchen for 125-150/night. It isn't luxury, but most certain is:
> Hotel rooms like that ... at least for normal people.
I use sshfs at work to mount some AIX Dirs on my Linux Workstation, very convenient.
The government's obligations to its residents is far higher than tourists with very specific needs. There is no tourism if the area can't support workers to serve tourists due to inflated housing costs.
Yes but there are very few places in this world where you can be a very high salary worker and not be surrounded by people getting crushed in poverty.
I'll buy one at some point :)

The problem with this particular hack is (like with many others where flipper zero is mentioned) that you might just use some 10 BLE micro controller to achieve the same thing.

Usually the things that were glued together in the flipper are never used together for a complex use case. Not sure about what Apple does here, though, so I might be wrong.

Anyway, the cases where you can employ IR, BLE, RFID and the flipper's custom radio in some useful combination seem to be rare and it usually always seems to make more sense to list the needed components for the hack instead of giving some folks finally a (destructive) use case for their expensively acquired gadget.

Of course the idea of delivering the solution as software/declaratively is the interesting part. But applications are rare and seldom new (at some point replaying your old garage door might only deliver so much long term motivation)
It took 25 years to build the current state? Really puts the span of life into perspective. That’s way too long!
The hardest part of the hardware experience for me so far has been the waiting. I recently took the next step in being a keyboard nerd and have been tinkering with custom macro pads.

Currently printing the bottom of a custom osu! pad for the third time after a couple goofs.

Absolutely a blast though, especially coming from doing purely software. Even if you're just doing prototypes, highly recommended.
Well, anyone who claims to know what a "free market" is supposed to do is straight conning you. As i said, it's a disingenuous marketing term with no application to reality. If someone intended to say "supply and demand" surely they would use "supply and demand".
> What I found was a lot of people made security assumptions and never revisited those assumptions. Or never fully did.

I appreciate that KeePassXC has a feature to audit your passwords (Database -> Database Reports -> Health Check), which tells you which of your passwords are weak / should be changed.

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-08-15-keepassxc-password-hea... for more details (the threshold for "good" has since been bumped from 65 -> 75). The score corresponds to bits of entropy, with penalties for things like password reuse.

(It also has HIBP integration if you want to perform a one-off check that none of your important passwords have been compromised.)
These are engineering driven companies with strong leadership and growth (and some of the best compensation). Most people only dream of having even one of those things once in their career.
Amazon can simultaneously do due diligence on a subset of products while completely ignoring the rampant fraud and knockoffs of many other products.
> there are people who own apartments in NY that couldn’t afford to live there if they weren’t able to earn some money from renting out their space on AirBnB.

Yes, but also turning every apartment into a potential revenue source puts upward pressure on rents.

So there are also people who cannot afford apartments in NYC because of short-term rentals.
That was my understanding as well, but there were definitely unencrypted portions like URL. I assume for sharing purposes.
I not sure I could.

I used to do microwave communications repair in the army. The most painful part of my education was basic soldering. I couldn’t solder for the life of me. I have the finger dexterity of a brick (which is to say none at all).

A few years I took a comprehensive career aptitude assessment, which included testing finger dexterity. I thought I’d done really well after taking the test. I was informed I scored in the bottom 5%. If I became a surgeon, my malpractice insurance would cost more than my annual salary.
I suspect it grew into that. Amazon has been around for almost 30 years. That's a long time to incrementally change a service ecosystem.
Not if the empty homes are just perpetually rising assets with minimal servicing cost.
Well, this is about the price of labor, aka "wages".

Those prices are still mostly free in the US.
My wife waits months for specialists. She's currently been trying to find someone to do a biopsy on something that's probably not but could be cancerous. She has an appointment for December. That's the soonest she could find someone. We're an hour north of Boston and we've searched all directions. Medical has become impossible.
Housing availability is gruesomely low, but not so low as to challenge the Sanctuary City concept born of another political moment.

I'm suspecting this might change, as NYC is more politically diverse than places like San Francisco and Seattle, and pendulums swing hard back and forth historically.
That is true for most services now, including Lastpass and BW (iirc).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37378069.
Solid wood furniture designed to be dismantled and reassembled easily is not a nightmare to move. In fact it is easier than moving cheaper furniture whose integrity is compromised with each dismantle/reassemble cycle, and thus is moved whole. It’s a design problem, not a materials problem.

And the well-designed easily-movable solid wood furniture will be fought over by your great-grandkids.
Discussed a week or so ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277680
Maybe we should store our credentials on fully publicly accessible network using an enormous key. This way, at least there is no surprise when a breach occurs and it isn't necessary to trust dummies like LastPass to have good practices - only trust yourself and the quality of your key. The good guys can let people know if their key sucks and there might be some auditing of the bad guys. Eventually the bad guys will stop bothering since they won't be able to crack anything (with current technology).
Oh, I totally believe you.

They wouldn't have time to do anything like due diligence on all the cases they're asked to handle. Criminalization is the go-to answer for everything nowadays. And I'm also sure that most of the time the court is unwilling to actually enforce any of a lot of different standards, or to go through its procedures in a way that actually accomplishes those procedures' purpose.

Dereliction of duty is pretty much SOP for lots of people, many of them in supposedly responsible jobs that affect other people's lives.
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This is not surprising in the context of our wetware: "Jane sees Spot run. Run, Spot, Run."
Is there any way to get people a way to opt out of unnecessary internet connectivity? It seems to be spreading to include functionality that shouldn't require internet connectivity to begin with, like basic data storage and controls from a local network.
Generally:

1. NPR Up First podcast while brushing teeth.

2. This site for tech and adjacent nerdy topics.

3. Macrumors, 9to5mac, and various blogs via RSS.

4. Apple News+ subscription (that I got as part of Apple One) — check regularly for more in-depth stories form a variety of sources, and for following big events.
Show HN: Usernetes: Rootless Kubernetes (Generation 2)
Gen2 was rewritten from scratch for simplification.
Gen2 containerizes kubeadm inside Rootless Docker to eliminate the painful "hard way" scripts of Gen1.
This is similar to rootless `kind` and minikube, but Usernetes Gen2 supports creating a cluster with multiple hosts using Flannel (VXLAN).
You do realise that it's possible to believe both "the world would be better if everybody did X" and also believe that "the government should not have the power to mandate everybody does X"?
Consolidating online data from different apps and serving from one datastore
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> What I hate about Airbnb is all the hidden fees and ridiculous homework you have to do when leaving. Regulation could have gone to fix that but yeah here are some flying pigs!

Airbnb could have gone to fix that. Why leave it to regulation?
It may look simple in the diagrams and videos but sharpening is a tough skill to learn and then to master. One thing I learned through multiple woodworking classes is to avoid Japanese waterstones. They are beyond fiddly requiring regular reflattening in swarfy water every couple of dozen strokes of the tool. I spent more time doinking with the stones than actually sharpening. My diamond stones at least let me focus on developing the skill vs. fettling the tool AND then developing the skill. Maybe someday I'll shave the hair on my arms.

As with so many things, Paul Sellers makes it look Bob Ross easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN4yr7vp4I4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki8tt-VjwqI

Edits for clarity and links.
Chromium/ChromiumOS and AOSP are some of the most valuable open source projects on earth. Without android, smartphones would be a luxury, thanks to android even poor people have one, in many cases their only general purpose computing device.
I wish every City does this. I believe Airbnb is one of the big reasons rents are raising in these Cities. Personally if it was up to me, I would have a 90% tax on receipts from Airbnb customers.

If you are caught without being registered, your property is taken and sold off in a auction.
> What do passwords do on an airgapped system?

Get read and re-entered by exactly 1 person, the only person who's authorized to read them.

Oh, sorry, you wanted to copy and paste because you didn't think twice about the security of your clipboard, whether other userland programs are reading your memory? My bad.

> I'm pretty security minded - the word "security" is in my job role - but my password vault is in Google Drive.

I'm on a corporate red team. People like you with your mindset are why I have a job and why big breaches of F500's that "care about security" will always keep happening.

You don't prioritize security, you prioritize convenience, and security is a nice add-on to your convenience.

By all means, please continue doing things exactly as you do - my bank account and I will forever be grateful for folks like yourself. Never stop prioritizing your absolute convenience!
Nuclear fusion can do it, but producing that much helium from nuclear fusion would have to be done off-planet. Quick napkin math, it would release about as much energy as the entire planet gets from the sun in a month.
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Show HN: I built an extension that never lets you overpay for a book again
Surely a company with the resources of Amazon can determine fake reviews from real ones. Especially those bait-and-switch where the product is changed and half the reviews aren't even for the current listing.
> Let's entertain the idea for just a minute that you are an extended family visiting NYC. You need 2-3 bedrooms, some amount of space to spread out, and a kitchen could potentially save you some real money vs. eating out for every meal.

Is there a particular reason why extended stay hotels don't work out for that kind of stay? They typically have a kitchen, fridge, and laundry facilities.
Is it because these people didn’t know about the breech or just didn’t update their passwords?

I mean I understand not immediately changing the password for some online fan fiction forum, but I’d assume you’d at least put changing your password for your dozen or so important financial/email/health accounts on your todo list?
I finally graduated from college this year after 34 years. I spent about 4 semesters at a community college and I made it halfway to the degree which was my goal. Here's how I felt.

I rapidly arrived at the feeling that I was a product, that I was an object to be monetized. I felt like every minute I spent on campus was an opportunity for someone or something to extract value from me. It's long been a meme that credit card banks will set up booths during the first weeks of classes, to lure in students on too-good-to-be-true introductory rate plans. This is true and more. There are creepy little handmade flyers tucked innocuously into a corner which promise gift cards to students who'll participate in medical research studies. There are bookstores and food stores and food carts and vending machines. There are sandwich boards advertising classes and tours and things.

There are even handouts of free stuff, such as the USDA food program, which is probably subsidized in some way by funds that the school can collect by signing up enough people to pick up food. There are blood drives and fundraisers and every club you join has a budget and they're selling donuts to raise money for their coffers, and it never ends.

At the end of the day I would just feel exhausted from the constant marketing. You know how a constant stream of ads feels, on TV or on a web page? It just wears you out and wears you down. Sometimes you feel like you're ready to just click that "Buy" button to make it stop, but it doesn't stop.

There was an honor society, PTK, which is of course a giant service organization so they are thirsty for lots of volunteers. Their pitch is that you can get scholarships through them. I sat through a presentation where this lady claimed she got $3 million dollars in scholarships... for community college? What the hell do you spend $3 million on in community college? A gold-plated supercomputer?

So for me, attending community college as an adult just shattered any illusion I had that it was an academic bastion of higher learning. It was simply a differently-shaped temple to worship the Almighty Buck. I am thankful that I exited when I did. If academic institutions expect us to respect them again, then they will need to undergo drastic reform and reorientation into halls of learning. Somehow.
Nothing worthwhile. I just turned down a L+1 jump to management because I certainly don’t want to stress/deal with any of that business BS when I could do my fairly easy IC job and take the kids to the park or go to the gym at lunch since my calendar is mostly empty
There are also browser extensions that do this (minus the encrypted part).
Passwords on an airgapped system stay there where you type them across from that one to another one when you want to authenticate to something. Which, in this model, I suppose you have to do a lot, since obviously no one really security-minded would save a password in a browser. So I hope that airgapped machine isn't too heavy or can't run on batteries.
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Google still serves me well when I look for technical information, but do you know a search engine that's even better for that purpose? (I also use ChatGPT, and that's sometimes better, sometimes worse, and always slower.)
Is this causation or correlation? Those "free countries" seem to correlate pretty closely with colonial powers.

Scarcity necessitates tighter control. "Freedom" is easier to guarantee in prosperity. Also, at a global scale, if you're a rich country, it sounds like you'd want to spread a system that benefits those who have capital.
I think both things are true. There is a lot of regulation surrounding labour and employment that was hard won by labour, but you're right that there is also a lot that was similarly fought for by the employers.

This is part of the asymmetry of power -- as employers pockets get deeper, they are more easily able to have regulations implemented that further deepen their pockets. The same would be possible with labour, but there's little concentration of power there. It's a lot easier to spend $1m as a company to get the regulations you want than it is to organize however many workers to spend $1m to get the regulations they want, especially since no one will have the exact same regulations in mind.
Speaking of the Rise and Fall of password managers, Bitwarden has served me well for years but lately it has started to get reallly slow for my friends and I. Is there a newer cooler kid on the block?
It's interesting that this conclusion is the exact opposite of a sibling comment, which proposes that a small, human-curated corpus may be more effective than big, synthetic datasets.
Convenience and low price are legitimate preferences, even if you disagree.
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Helium is produced by extraction from natural gas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium#Modern_extraction_and_d...
Tax them, then?
Meta could put Android apps on the Quest.

It just does not want to, but maybe this will change their mind.
The self-serving question "do users go to Facebook for news?" is asinine. Of course, most people don't. But if they get their news while they're using Facebook, then they have less incentive to seek out other news sources.

The same is true for all types of content, but reliable journalism is a key pillar of democracy, and we are watching the many different ways that democracy gets ruined when we don't take it seriously.
I tried to search for that but for Firefox all three results I could immediately find were ages old so I am not sure they still work.

Also, it’s important to write to disk very often for this purpose. And the encryption is important.

And given that you are adding something that is in effect a keylogger and trusting it with all your inputs, I would not want just any random third party add on author to be in charge of that.
Maybe, but all those police departments were there before...and the Glocks didn't ND.
Doesn’t LastPass have this as well?
Big fan of your work GGML friends
I've done something similar in recent past on a large scale:

I did it because it was interesting, I wanted to prove DRM is a flawed concept and broken construct, and because the community which I built (as a result) was really great and a home to me when I didn't ever experience one.

It was never about money or fame, it was about providing something to people that had a value. People said the "thing" I provided was better than the "real thing", and that gave me a sense of pride: I'd never get hired by the company that made "real thing" to make their "thing" better because I didn't have the credentials on paper.

But at least my "thing" was better.
You mean "win the lottery" "twice"
Maybe they have friends?

The current dilemma does present an economic opportunity.

They should, or their friends should get hold of Rogan and Hinkcliff, both of whom are promoting Austin aggressively.

There is a good living there for some peeps.
What do you mean by less power? It's different.

One manufacturer can't force you to buy stuff you don't want, nor ban you from buying from a different manufacturer that does what you want.

(In contrast with the FCC, which has a lot of power over you, by banning you from buying what you want.)
>That horse has bolted.

I don't follow. Sure, existing images can't be retroactively made verifiable, but tech like this can stem the tide from this point on, and that is useful.

>The reason is that this trust was misplaced in the first instance.

I don't follow this either. Trust in photos? It has always been appropriate to trust a photo in proportion to the difficulty of faking it. Are you commenting on the fact that it has recently become much easier to fake a variety of photos (deepfakes, etc.) but a large fraction of society isn't yet wise to this?
Some background on the challenges around e-commerce search/product discovery/matching.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/building-blocks-for-...

80k RPS is not just for a single database lookup, don’t be silly.
I can imagine the argument when X is something that only negative affects the 'defector' (eg: "everyone should wear a helmet but the government shouldnt make you wear a motorcycle helmet") but what's the rationale when the reason that everyone should do X the social good at no costs, rather than personal good?
The biggest factor is probably my disability. It doesn't really matter though.
https://archive.ph/hZxv1
It’s becoming more common. Staff and principal are fairly common roles and they’re well respected in the US. All the fancier roles like “Architect” have been merged into those now