skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that always comes up with posts about CRDT is how they typically don't handle formatting markers when resolving edits. How is this (and CRDT) handled in SN?
> A whistleblower doesn't abscond to a hostile country with troves of top secret data.

Why not?

The fact of being a whistleblower is orthogonal to whether you abscond and where to. And Russia wasn't a "hostile country" - many of the biggest companies in the US had operations in Russia.
Footage of the Burning Man Exodus from the sky [video]
a good paying non-management job with a overseeable workload is what i'm look for as well.

kinda hard to find as most hr ppl seem to be looking for either rock stars or code monkeys, any tipps?
Is there a natural embedding for text? Why do we need to make up random extremely precise numbers and optimize them expensively and keep that thing hanging around?
Last time gcsfuse was on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784889), the author of rclone was in the comments:

> From reading the docs, it looks very similar to `rclone mount` with `--vfs-cache-mode off` (the default). The limitations are almost identical.

> However rclone has `--vfs-cache-mode writes` which caches file writes to disk first to allow overwriting in the middle of a file and `--vfs-cache-mode full` to cache all objects on a LRU basis. They both make the file system a whole lot more POSIX compatible and most applications will run using `--vfs-cache-mode writes` unlike `--vfs-cache-mode off`.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35788919

Seems rclone would be an even better option than Google's own tool.
It's simple at the low end, GP's talking about much higher power & light output gear than you get in a Christmas cracker. Marine applications, cycling, caving, etc.
When you're older, try being hosted by the Red Cross for the remainder of your years https://adevarul.ro/stiri-locale/focsani/camin-de-batrani-al...

https://www.jurnaldevrancea.ro/noi-amanunte-despre-caminul-d...
> At the time (Poland before the fall of the iron curtain) there wasn't actually anything illegal about what they were doing; copyright wasn't really a concept in their legal system at the time, particularly for software.

They were successful because they actually stopped when it became illegal and started calling game publishers offering localization and distribution services.
Do you know whether LLMs grasp the equivalence of a word expressed as one whole-word token and as a series of single character tokens that spell out the same word?
I'm curious if modifying the way some input words are split into tokens could be useful for letter-by-letter reasoning like in Wordle.

Or would an LLM get confused if we were to alter the way the tokenization of the input text is done, since it probably never encountered other token-"spellings" of the same word?
Norway court rules against Facebook owner Meta in privacy case
Thank you, I got really confused when the linked page started to discuss Photoshop blending modes and I had never considered they could be mapped directly to Porter-Duff ops.

As a graphics programmer I always want to point out that it's good to remember NONE of these are scientifically foundational. These are more or less just hacks that looks nice - pure heuristics that is. They are really pragmatic heuristics that produce nice outcomes.
Modern-day programmers reinvent Plan 9 abstractions every few years, poorly.
While it's possible, I'm not sure how practical it is. On macOS (which has fairly granular permissions in recent releases), my terminal emulator and text editor end up with access to pretty much everything. If you're editing code/scripts, a malicious actor could insert something into a file the editor has access to and wait for it to be executed
I think your best bet is to code it yourself (assuming you can, I don’t know your background). If you’re trying to sell a digital product it’s not going to take you much time. The core part will be to integrate a payment processor like stripe. There are lots of libraries which simplify this process. One important thing to take into account is to make sure you have as many payment options as possible to make the sale process as easy as possible. (ApplePay, GPay, etc.)
Getting there, but it doesn't quite work: https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/issues/20
Get used to it. There is no manual or answer to it.

But the word to fixate on is information. Is the org causing info explosions? Is the org increasing info asymmetry? Is the org producing info pollution? What kind of information is the org pumping into your head? Etc
> The whole cottage industry around work is a festering wound at this point.

and (we?) the internet natives are most prone to this assessment as growing up in a world of free ideas (foss) wrecks any connection between work and reward.
Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers
Just perfect. So glad I read this. Thanks for sharing.

> In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz.

Such a wonderful, respectful retrospective of Lenat's ideas and work.

> I think Doug viewed CYC as some kind of formalized idealization of how he imagined human minds work: providing a framework into which a large collection of (fairly undifferentiated) knowledge about the world could be “poured”. At some level it was a very “pure AI” concept: set up a generic brain-like thing, then “it’ll just do the rest”. But Doug still felt that the thing had to operate according to logic, and that what was fed into it also had to consist of knowledge packaged up in the form of logic.

I've always wanted CYC, or something like it, to be correct. Like somehow it'd fulfill my need for the universe to be knowable, legible. If human reason & logic could be encoded, then maybe things could start to make sense, if only we try hard enough.

Alas.

Back when SemanticWeb was the hotness, I was a firm ontology partisan. After working on customer's use cases, and given enough time to work thru the stages of grief, I grudgingly accepted the folksonomy worldview is probably true.

Since then, of course, the "fuzzy" strategies have prevailed. (Also, most of us have accepted humans aren't rational.)

To this day, statistics based approaches make me uncomfortable, perhaps even anxious. My pragmatism motivated holistic worldview is always running up against my reductionist impulses. Paradox in a nutshell.

Enough about me.

> Doug’s starting points were AI and logic, mine were ... computation writ large.

I do appreciate Wolfram placing their respective theories in the pantheon. It's a nice reminder of their lineages. So great.

I agree with Wolfram that encoding heuristics was an experiment that had to be done. Negative results are super important. I'm so, so glad Lenat (and crews) tried so hard.

And I hope the future holds some kind of synthesis of these strategies.
If your argument is that AGPL can’t restrict me from using mongo in a proprietary product because copyright law itself does not restrict this, then you may or may not be right, I don’t think any of us know for sure until this is tested in court. I will say that the AGPL is written with the assumption that this is restricted by copyright law, so I don’t think your interpretation is the common one.
My lesson is - use and contribute to Open Source software as long as it's not controlled by a single company, but donated to a OSS foundation like Apache or CNCF that has a vested interest in keeping things open.
The issue is that even if you pay well above $50 there's no guarantee that the t-shirt will actually be any good after 10 washes. I have two t-shirts from 15 years ago that are still going strong. Whatever I buy these days becomes 'home' t-shirt fairly quickly.
We already live in a world we can't trust photos from everyone who calls themselves official photojournalists.

I've seen photos of the recent nazi rally in Orlando that were very slightly manipulated to darken the skin of participants to imply they were, in fact, "infiltrated BLM or Antifa".

Anyone could use this system or a similar one - if the sensor signs the image with its private key anyone can trace a raw image to a specific sensor and, therefore, to a specific camera. If that image (or enough hash bits it becomes impractical to fake the data via collisions and still have a recognizable image) is placed on a public ledger, you can prove those pixels are yours and were taken at or before the moment in time they were added to the ledger. If the camera is part of a larger system, such as a phone, the software can add your own credentials to the raw image data, proving it was you who took the picture (unlocking the phone with, say, your face).

I would not, however, want my personal family photos to be trackable like that. EU restrictions on images already took away a lot of my joy of photographing people.
Show HN: Autodistill, automated image labeling with foundation vision models
Foundation vision models (Segment Anything, Grounding DINO, DETIC, etc.) have knowledge about a vast range of objects. In many cases, these models are impractical to run on the edge due to the compute resources required.

Autodistill lets you label images automatically using foundation vision models [1], in one command. You can use this data to train smaller, fine-tuned models which require significantly less compute to run.

Distilled models are both interpretable (you know what data went into training), and require less compute resources to run.

Autodistill makes it easier to get to an MVP that uses your data for use in testing vision. Then, you can refine your annotations and model to the extent required for production.

For example, I trained a milk bottle detection model in a few commands (one for trying prompts, another for labeling data and training a model) [2]

[1] https://blog.roboflow.com/ai-vs-human-labeled-data/
[2] https://blog.roboflow.com/label-train-deploy-autodistill/
It doesn't really, because a book cover is advertising, not information - it doesn't really tell you any more about the contents of the book than the pictures of food on a fast food menu accurately represent what you get on your plate.
If the AGPL defines network access as distribution, it stands to reason that network access also counts as linking. See my other comments about a hypothetical proxy that thinly wraps mongoDB as an AGPL workaround, for why this gets hairy very quickly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37400264
Principles for coworker:

Context Aware - Unlike other AI chatbots, it should have knowledge of your context. The conversation your having, the background goals at your company etc.

Extensible - It should be extremely easy for a developer to add a new capability to the coworker that's relevant for their company.

Human in the loop - We want to give Coworker really powerful capabilities. To do that in a way that maintains trust, it should be transparent to a user what the AI is doing and always get approval for its actions.
Behind Big Tech (msft/apple/intel/google/meta/etc), you have blackrock and vanguard, we are talking tens of thousands of billions of $.

There is zero "economic competition" here: only moral values and strategic interests.
In addition to blocking/throttling, I have my services provide bad data to the abusing clients.
tbf 700ppl software business in rapid growth is probably not the worst choice
If you mean start menu search should not include results from internet then I am with you
> You also reject the reasons they wrote to justify secession, because you think it did not make sense

No, I never said that.

> Remember, these are people who believed "the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free

How is this relevant? I never defended slavery or claimed that the southern states did not rebel to protect slavery.

> if you filter the primary documentation through your own interpretations and discard anything that does not make sense to you.

I'm not doing that either.

Did you read the quote you posted?

> "The prohibition of slavery in the Territories, hostility to it everywhere, the equality of the black and white races, disregard of all constitutional guarantees in its favor, were boldly proclaimed by its leaders and applauded by its followers ... We know their treachery; we know the shallow pretenses under which they daily disregard [the Constitution's] plainest obligations

Could you explain how exactly am I misinterpreting it?

If you reading that quote as "we believe that the abolition of slavery is imminent and will happen in the next years" that's a pretty obvious misinterpretation.
I don't know which world you live in, but I am pretty confident that there aren't that many HN users in my software company, even among developers

Even so people (HN or not) won't give up their productivity tool their daily work relies on because of some nuisance or really, ideal. I have seen comments where people are so pissed off by the aggressive ads in Windows that they switched to Linux or Mac, but the number is going to be very small.
Thank you! I totally agree that data should belong to the user (in fact, I find it shocking that some consider this opinion controversial). I’m still not quite clear however how the software can interoperability is supposed to be achieved. I understand that one can impose a standard, but a standard presupposes a certain data model. What if my application does not follow this data model? Would one ban social network apps that don’t want to implement a particular database schemas?
> Not brushing teeth

People have practiced dental hygiene since forever:

> Since before recorded history, a variety of oral hygiene measures have been used for teeth cleaning. This has been verified by various excavations done throughout the world, in which chew sticks, tree twigs, bird feathers, animal bones and porcupine quills have been found. In historic times, different forms of tooth cleaning tools have been used. Indian medicine (Ayurveda) has used the neem tree, or daatun, and its products to create teeth cleaning twigs and similar products; a person chews one end of the neem twig until it somewhat resembles the bristles of a toothbrush, and then uses it to brush the teeth. In the Muslim world, the miswak, or siwak, made from a twig or root, has antiseptic properties and has been widely used since the Islamic Golden Age.
> The criteria for trademarks is not defamation, but confusion.

I'm well aware of that, I'm mentioning two potential issues, one being the "confusion" part and the other being the "defamation" part.
Bubble of galaxies discovered, given Hawaiian name
Have you ever done any software development? One does not simply change defaults... Who cares about defaults anyway? Just change them.
Thx for the noscript/basic (x)html version... but the servers are unreachable :(
Oh.. I am in love. And it can load Future Composer modules! Finally I can play one of my favorite tunes of all time in a tracker without an emulator.

https://files.exotica.org.uk/modland/?file=pub/modules/Futur...

The playback seems a bit off in places, or maybe my memory is, but since the program is still being developed I don't care. So happy right now. Thank you so much.
According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics the mean hourly wage for cabinet makers and bench carpenters as of May 2022 was $20.25 per hour. Even in San Francisco the mean hourly wage was only $26.37. Lesson for today - your instincts abiut whay real world, non-dev jobs pay are totally out of whack with reality
noscript/basic (x)html link?
ime a lot of companies do this, but most don't

also phrasings like "average" and "up to" tend to obstruct an important part of the picture (i.e. the common worker)
Oh good. I expected this to be another dehumidifier attempt.
For those who like sharp knives, but don't want to persue a doctorate in the matter, may I humbly suggest the Catraphone:
https://www.catra.org/sharpening-products/catrahone-domestic...
He claimed it just a week before the invasion!

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493646431743356931?lang=...
It's far easier for a project with many contributors. Plus, PRs and branches are cheap.
> Append workloads are common in distributed systems.

Bringing back the topic to what the parent was saying; since S3 is a pretty common system, and a distributed system at that, are you saying that S3 does support appending data? AFAIK, S3 never supported any append operations.
>[...]Alphabet, Microsoft and Samsung provided sufficiently justified arguments showing that these services do not qualify as gateways for the respective core platform services.

The mental gymnastics, corporate/lawyer double speak and lobbying efforts in those argumentations must have been absolutely insane.
My New Home – Alarm Clock
Sorry that misses my point, blazor runs client side which means that it’s sandboxed with the same permissions as JavaScript executed within a page - you can’t use blazor to read a file client-side, but there’s nothing to prevent wrapping what would be a server side library in a way where ‘it executes on the client except when it can’t, at which point it executes on the server’

Doing so would almost always be a security risk, as validation would presumably still run client side, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible to actually achieve such an engine.
Interesting timing since Insomnia just died on me with the recent flatpak update (apparently my LTS linux install doesn't have the correct glibc, so goodbye Insomnia I guess).

I like that receipeui got rid of electron. I don't like the UI design very much as of right now at least... I would also need to know more (can you sort collections by projects? Can you store URL prefixes in environment/config variables?)

One thing I liked with Insomnia was being able to switch between development/production projects simply by switching the environment (no need to duplicate requests across collections).

I don't care for the Typescript types though... but I see how that could be useful for people.
I am happy zsa/ergodox ez user for many years and was waiting for something like this from zsa, since moonlander wasn't for my hands. My current ergodox layout doesn't use keys that are removed on voyager, so everything plays perfectly. I can vouch for the zsa product quality, since my ergodox didn't hiccup for many years with lots of typing.

It is hard to explain to people who never tried qmk layers that more keys doesn't mean better keyboard, having proper layers on home row is many times more ergonomic. One of the things that don't click unless you try I guess.
He doesn't claim anything, he just didn't believe it at that point. He literally says "If there's an invasion tomorrow, dunk on me because I have been spectacularly wrong."

He admits that he could be wrong beforehand!
Oslo district court rules Meta is violating the right to privacy (Norwegian)
Only this PDF: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/docume...
>He would have had the chance to go to trial and defend himself and seek whistleblower protection status

No, he wouldn't. Google "snowden fair trial". He has always said that he is perfectly willing to come to the US and do exactly as you describe, if the government is willing to guarantee a fair trial. It isn't.

Go on, Google "snowden fair trial". Go do it. It's a key part of the story you're apparently unaware of. It'll take 5 seconds.

Sibling comment pointing out same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401553
Tracking Finances with Spreadsheets
Nice, no need to look up past commits ! Didn't know about this, I had to look it up.

It's a separate project from git [0].

[0]: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
Then maybe you should start putting a bit more trust on the people giving you accurate information predictions, like the US State dept. and people like Dmitri Alperovitch https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1473362460673515527 , and less trust on Russian state propaganda spreaders like Snowden, https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493646431743356931?lang=....
mountpoint-s3 is AWS’ first party solution for mounting s3 buckets as file systems: https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3

Haven’t used it but it looks cool, if a bit immature.
I am a customer and bought several ZSA keyboards. I specifically DO NO want wireless. I want tried and tested wired with appropriate cable length and that's exactly what they did here.
I met with the health and safety team at a large multinational manufacturer, with factories all around the world, US, UK, Asia (including India and China). Their health and safety chart showed that, by a large margin, the highest number of worldwide health and safety lost days came from transporting workers to factories in India.
This is exactly the wrong way around. We've seen the progress we've seen because of the adoption of Python. Even now there are relatively few people that can write code like this and have the ML and math experience to push forward the research.
"an ethical alternative"

Define "ethical". Depending on the definition, none of the current big companies are ethical, so Microsoft going out of business wouldn't even matter.

And you really need to understand how the world works. Ethical never matters, money matters.
Or, how about not saving the location in the URL at all when moving the map? I guess there must be a reason why none of the mainstream map webapps does something like this...
Security is not mythical, at least in the near to short term, enough time for your kids to grow up.

Passive income from $10M would secure access for 99% of food, water, heat, shelter, education, transportation, healthcare, retirement, and legal costs.

$5M will get you most of the way there too.
The article links to this print-friendly PDF:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/docume...

Also, it being the official European Commission site, they comply properly with the GDPR, and if you do view the webpage with JavaScript enabled and choose only essential cookies, they do respect that correctly.
i haven't encouraged anybody to use downvotes.
"Oh no, we can't afford to pay off our debtors outside of China, and Chinese law requires us to prioritize local debtors. Also, we used the debt to build apartment buildings, so there's nothing for you to repossess on default... sorry!"
I don't think people are afraid of skynet level AI taking over the world. Current AI is more likely to cause people lose their jobs to vastly inferior but cheaper AI bots. Executives are overestimating its value over real humans, and with right marketing you can easily convince them to fire people in favour of bots. Its a threat of automation where only people who profit are top 0.01%. While nukes might end the world, I don't think we should ignore any other threat just because nukes exist. We shouldn't mindlessly add more tech in our lives where none is required.
The wiki looks like a much better organized starting point! I wonder if that could simply be linked after the intro in the BlinkDL repo until search rankings catch up: "For those looking to get started using or testing out RWKV models, visit: https://wiki.rwkv.com/"

I do also think that having a recent benchmark table w/ the latest models and reference to a few similar sized transformer base models (but most importantly llama, llama2) would be super useful - maybe a table w/ memory size at various context lengths, or other ways to highlight RWKV's unique advantages. While local LLMs are still niche, I do think a lot of why RWKV gets overlooked is because if it has lower capabilities, doesn't inference faster, and is harder to set up, it's not exactly clear why to check it out (beyond as a curiosity).