skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of things mentioned are too handwaved and not explained well.

It's not explained how vector DB is going to help while incumbents like chatgpt4 can already call functions and do API calls.

It doesn't make AI less black box, it's irrelevant and not explained..

There's already existing ways to fine tune models without expensive hardwares such as using LoRA to inject small layers with customized training data, which trains in fractions of the time and resource needed to retrain the model
Same here. Happy to see there's at least a shoutout on the home with it being marked as not longer maintained.
I suspect "hallelujah" (from the Hebrew הללו-יה, a command to praise God) and its variants are common across many languages.
Thank you for the advice. I’m in graduate school, so I have contributed to software like SageMath and hopefully Julia in the near future.

Recently I’m reading up combinatorial optimisation and how it can be applied.
I don’t know about this author. If you see Einstein leaving Germany in 1933 because of antisemitism, you don’t wait around for years for things to improve. You get the hell out the country.

But not Wernher von Braun. He actually doubles down and enters the Nazi party in 1937.

You might think poor Wernher, he was probably indoctrinated by his family and they were all Nazis. No. His dad was secretary of agriculture before the Nazi rose to power and his parents withdrew to their estate in Silesia when Hitler dissolved parliament because why wouldn’t you get as far away as possible from such a madman? That was also in 1933.

Looking at Wernher von Braun’s actions after 1939, my limited mind simply cannot grasp how a smart person can then join the SS, support his country in a war of aggression, and willfully participate in the holocaust.
This is a good call, I love Jerusalem, but it is girthy.
Could you get the Play Store working if installed on a generic ARM laptop?
they didn’t turn it down.

they accepted it, then turned it down upon reflection.

these are not the same.
Honestly I find it a little reassuring that these are the lenghts you have to go to find a reproducible exploit. Granted the failure mode is not great…
As much as I agree with you... I think it's most likely that the US NSA, UK's MI(whatever), Israel's Mossad and a bunch of other secret services all cooperate with each other. No way these guys get taken down, and no way that the sanctions that have been nominally announced actually get enforced at the murky, intransparent bottom layer of the secret services.

Someone has to crack open the phones of drug kingpins, terrorists etc. after all.
Test Driven Dev?
Been following you for ages. Don't know if you remember but I saw your jeep parked in Tassie when you went hiking for a few days and we were travelling around there at the same time - I sent you the pic with my grey one. Keep it up!
That option exists.

When displaying an image, simply type "open" to open with an external program.

By default, it uses xdg-open but you can configure it in offpunk with:

> handler image/* sxiv %s

note that "open" works also with pages and will open the cached html pages in your browser. If you want to open the original page use "open url"
Truth is its own reason for being, even on something as inconsequential as movie reviews. When a society starts letting the corruption creep in, bad things usually follow.
Yes, "dead labor" if I recall Marx's term, embodied in the capital good - the useful part is the recognition that capital is simply the saved surplus value from previous work, applied to magnify current work.

But trying to apply the labor-value this way just further illustrates the mistake in asserting you can attribute value to the hours of labor in a finished good.

If no shovel is available, the value of a hole is the labor required to dig it with bare hands.

But if shovels are available, the value of the hole is the value of the labor of digging the hole plus the fraction of the labor embodied in the shovel that was consumed in digging the hole.

But if you introduce power tools, the value of the hole is the fraction of the labor of the construction and maintenance of the power tool that was consumed, plus the labor of the operator.

There is no rational way to form an equivalence of these things, except if you consider them costs of the hole, rather than the value of the hole.

Those different "hours of labor" whether current or past have different values based on how they are applied (utility value) rather than just "labor hours".

And then as a bonus, the hole has the same utility value regardless of how it was dug.
A lot of B2C VPNs position themselves as kinda sketchy and anti-corporate.

If the cops or the MPAA come calling, we'll tell them to go to hell. Netflix blocks our servers? We'll set up new ones. Accused of torrenting? We didn't see anything, and we don't know who you are either. We're incorporated in a jurisdiction that makes us almost impossible to sue. We've got 4 employees, and not a single clothes iron between us.

B2B VPN products often have the opposite market positioning - straight-laced, trustworthy stuff. Absolutely not claiming to be difficult to sue. We've got 50+ employees, all of them wear shirts and some even wear ties. And suppliers like cloudflare are more than happy to help you MITM all your employees' https traffic, in the name of "security".

These just seem like positions in the market that are very hard to reconcile.
Adding Basque to your list, the word is ur. (I don't know Basque, just looked it up.)
Anthropic Unveils Claude Pro
Doesn’t this running joke apply to IBM too?
I don't understand your comment either. You say you don't understand and then you give a choice between two narrow interpretations neither of which seems to cover what I wrote.

To make this a bit more productive:

If Apple were liable for their defective products then they might decide not to ship them at all until they can be sure enough that the risk of the lawsuits putting them out of business is small enough that they can absorb it.

This worked wonders for other industries (notably: automotive, airlines, medicine). It may slow them down a bit, you may have a wait a bit longer for the next iteration of some gadget. But that's a small price to pay in my opinion.

As for the NSO group: I'm suggesting that Apple use their well filled cash coffers to buy these guys out, and failing that that they use some of that money to sue them for all of the damages that Apple incurs as a result of their actions as well as any criminal charges that they might get to stick. See 'Skylarov'.

It wouldn't be the first time that a US judge finds fault with a foreign company. At a minimum it would slow them and their employees down to the point that they will be in a US jail the next time they visit Disneyland. If it works against illegal gambling operations I see no reason why that sort of mechanism can't be brought to bear against state sponsored hacking groups and their employees.
Also worth noting that there is Chromium OS https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/
The Apple Music/Beats offices are in Culver City, but I don't think that has hipsters either.

But Wikipedia does claim it has "the only romance novel bookstore in the northern hemisphere".
Why the downvote? !

I signed up for the addon and got 15 free devices. Curious if others see this too...
I don’t see the analogy. If I could visit a website and it runs sudo commands on my machine without my input then I would be scared.
and they have to change it every 3 months. The new number cannot be similar to the last 10 numbers used.
Funny because at the same time US govt is worried about China-Apple relationship
How fast does iMessage image decoding need to be?

And I mean this extremely rhetorically. The software launched along with the iPhone 4S. Going by geekbench, that CPU was 20-30 times weaker than a modern iPhone on a per-core basis.

I know the screens on the new phones are 5x bigger, but there is plenty of room for that sandbox.
I am using Linux rn because my Windows computer is busted. On Windows, I was using WSL for development. It was amazing to have a good dev environment as well as a real computer at the same time!

I can't even use my large MSI 1440p monitor with this computer because Linux (also perhaps because of the actual gfx card too, to be fair). I had to manually install Discord's update yesterday and now there are 2 Discord apps on my computer because Linux (and only one works).
Richard Feldman states in a video aiming to explain the popularity of OOP that Python initially had a small community for decades, and that Python's increase in popularity followed a slow and steady increase, which is not true of many other languages like Ruby. That's corroborated by the graph in this article. [0]

Based on Python's slow and steady incresae, timing and luck don't seem like good factors for explaining its popularity. The others are debatable though.

[0]

https://flatironschool.com/blog/python-popularity-the-rise-o...
Maybe it's for the better that McCarthy passed away in 2011; if he were still alive, he might have gotten a grant from SpaceX to put his scheme into action.
I think all else being equal, numbers like xx, x0, and x (<10) are more desirable for perceived significance. If a player desires anything else it's presumably out of some personal significance to them (even if just 'the number I was randomly assigned on my first team').
Analyzing Deceptive Imagery from an Explosion in Konstantinovka
Like this? https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/
You could do it right now!
I really wanted to find an answer for your challenge but it seems there aren't any answers using the regular 1-26 gematria and numbers written in their ordinary English form (without "and"). However, I did find some answers using a "zero-indexed" gematria ranging from 0-25, and with this other English gematria described here on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Qabalah#R._Leo_Gillis'...

Python 3:

>>> num_strings = ['Zero', 'One', 'Two', ... 'Seven Hundred Thirty Two' ... ] # I tried 0 to 1000. num_strings generation script sold separately

>>> def find_gematria_matches(values): return [i for i,ns in enumerate(num_strings) if i == sum(values[ord(c)-65] for c in ns.upper() if c.isalpha())]

>>> find_gematria_matches([0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25]) # "zero-indexed" gematria

[213]

>>> find_gematria_matches([5,20,2,23,13,12,11,3,0,7,17,1,21,24,10,4,16,14,15,9,25,22,8,6,18,19]) # R. Leo Gillis' Trigrammaton Qabalahn

[232, 242]
>Keys are not passwords. Keys are not just raw bytes or strings.

If only I had a dime for every 3rd party that signs their jwt using hex-encoded random string _as_ the key I'll be rich
"Taxi" is quite different in Chinese and Arabic for a start.
I'd guess it's likely to be almost universally understood among all humans that have had exposure to the concept though.
In Persian, "Kaput" is the word for car hood.
Aren't these zero-days sold to highest bidders? Just an honest days work...
Yes. We should be up to speed on safety issues surrounding the purchases we make. The third example is murder and we already have “regulations” for it. (I know arsenic and lead can be in muffins already. I’m assuming a large amount was added.)
That's even the name in Goa'uld!

As I verified that, I discovered that the actor who played Ba'al in Stargate SG-1 died a couple years ago. No word about his symbiont.
I think new words is the right approach in general, but golem.
There’s no real way to evaluate the effectiveness of the Chinese military because they’ve not seen significant action in several generations. However that itself is not a good sign.

As for their kit, Myanmar bought some of their planes but none of them are operational. The planes were a joint project by China and Pakistan, but 8 years after the deal was signed apparently have persistent unsolved technical and structural issues.

Meanwhile Thailand bought three of the new Yuan class subs from China, but they aren’t operational either. Problems with the engines so bad that they need replacing.

Meanwhile China now has two aircraft carriers, but still hasn’t committed either of them to long range operations. They have only conducted experimental night takeoffs and landings, their carrier assigned planes are still largely land based, and they have yet to operate the boats beyond range of land based airstrips. Modern carrier operations are as complex as it gets, and they seem to be struggling with it.
I'm guessing it's a shared systemwide decoder that happens to be exploitable in Message, but idk.
That's a matter of opinion and I respect yours.

Maybe a robot will raise its voice and they become conscious of their wrong doing and they will decide that the best course of action to minimize suffering in their human pet is to end them completely as other solution would always come with a non zero amount of pain

(Have you seen human living in the wild ? So much suffering)

Or maybe you should buy this new breed of human born without nociceptors ? (Its not like the evolutionary need for it is anymore relevant in our robotics world)
Start Your Own
True, though I’m not sure this risk isn’t overblown. I’ve heard of a couple cases where someone got a copyright statement spit out, but I haven’t been able to find much more than the one or two that I’ve seen on hn. If you have more examples, I’d love to hear about them.

Code is also tricky: there are a finite number of ways to write an algorithm, and I’m sure both that multiple people have written the same version of left pad for example, and that it is not possible to copyright something small like that. When the code gets bigger, the likelihood of an llm spitting out large chunks of GPL’d code seems vanishingly small (without asking for something specific like that). Though I’d love to see examples to the contrary.
Seattle: https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs...
I enjoyed working with Gabor, glad to see some of his work here!
Vxlisp – Variable Platform, Cross Language Lisp Inspired by Clojure
I think Dall-E isn't actually dead, but was merely renamed Bing Image Creator.
> Androids no better.

That does not make the situation right for Apple.
French stop signs say "stop" of course, and stop is a pretty commonly used word in France for stop. In Quebec, they insist on putting "arrêt" on the signs because of their insecurity about English.
? They'll just buy iPhones in some other country.
"Manipulation". Is writing jokes designed to make you laugh manipulation? Making games designed for me to enjoy - including if this involves the pleasant sensation of nostalgia - is not something I see reason to complain about.

Sure, wind waker is a good game, but I had much more fun playing BotW on master mode. I have yet to finish TotK, so we'll have that one ends up comparing.

So say what you want, it won't change that I'm having voluntary fun playing these games over here.
Noone’s being discriminated against in this program. This programme is specifically designed to assist people who have hit specific barriers due to their race or gender.

I’m sure if you’re being laughed out of VC meetings for being a white man, you can apply and Apple will accept you. But I doubt the’ll have any resources or advice for you given how improbable that scenario is.
Bummer, I believed I could use ich glotz tv if someone asked me if I can speak some German.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWzPcDtZZZo
> as long as there is a mechanism for rightsholders to opt out.

I really don't like this--opt-out never works because the scale advantages are backwards. It places the burden in the wrong place. The aggregators should have to get opt-in.

Look at YouTube. Because of "opt-out", lots of people monetize content that they have no right to and it's up to the original author to have to fight the scale of a zillion uploaders. Only the biggest entities can do that.

YouTube (and everybody else) should have to assert "You, the uploader, own this content" when they ingest it. Nothing else works.

I wouldn't mind an exemption for research use, though.
Do you have the exact style of talking in all your comments lol?
-40 and winter camping… does not compute.
Opposites don't actually attract: meta-analysis study
I'd be impressed if you fit that into a phone.
Even Microsoft knows that their own code is absolute garbage that would bring the quality of copilot way down.
I'm with Andrew Tanenbaum, who said, “It is sometimes said [Unix] Version 7 was not only an improvement over all its predecessors, but also over all its successors.” I got my start with V6, and I understood it thoroughly. There are large parts of my current driver, Debian Bookworm, that I only vaguely understand. Now nobody is trying to prevent me from understanding them (hello, Microsoft and Apple!), but there is no actual roadmap to the system.

So, yes, Debian is far more complicated than I need or want. I have pondered on building my personal Linux system, using say Alpine or Void Linux, but that is work that seems unnecessary to me. Better off just to use Debian as it is.

And, by the way, this bloat isn't just due to the distros. I build Emacs from source, and you should see the bizarre dependency set it needs, many of which have nothing to do with anything I use Emacs for. I have both GTK and Qt libraries on my systems. TeX Live's distribution media would fill up 20 IBM 2314 disk storage devices (circa 1970), each containing 8 washing-machine-sized disk drives (plus a spare). Install an application, and you might find yourself installing (different versions of) Perl, Python, and/or Ruby. It goes on and on.

I have felt for a long time that dependency management is one of the big unsolved problems of software engineering. It's not surprising that the resulting systems have the appearance (and texture) of big balls of mud.
> Looking at Wernher von Braun’s actions after 1939, my limited mind simply cannot grasp how a smart person can then join the SS, support his country in a war of aggression, and willfully participate in the holocaust.

“Smart” doesn’t correlate at all with “moral”.
Whatever else is going on with terms like "nation-state", there's some creepy politics behind the notion that countries are generally nations. I'm fine with the idea that "nation-states" don't generally exist. The word "state" in "state-level actor" is unambiguous.
Mandarin and Cantonese: Jīqìrén

https://translate.google.de/?sl=de&tl=zh-CN&text=robot

Meaning:

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/22467/
>I think the reasons are far more political than technical.

You may be right but sometimes the local optics track better when a political reason is given and the local authorities might also expect better compliance with political reasoning. Similarly, "We are getting pwned," never tracks well. There are solid reasons, long ago, why China stopped using Nortel.
I find it very surprising that this is not the top post at the moment. My partner went to work at her bar at 5PM ET, and their Square services which processes reservations, transactions, payroll and even staff scheduling is at a stand-still. It seems like this is the case for a huge amount of bars, restaurants, and whatever other line-of-business Square seems to have infiltrated itself into to cause one massive single point of failure.

I feel for the engineers at this point in time, but their status page being updated at a 45 minute cadence with very little in terms of resolution is.. not so good.
I'm not "discounting" "inspiration", I'm saying that the upthread comment only makes sense if you choose the correct definition for "inspiration", which makes the argument sort of specious.

The simple truth is that there are quantifiable justifications for preferring spending finite resources on science instead of manned space flight. The metrics used might be subjective (because at the end of the day everything is subjective), but that doesn't make them merely "inspiration".

Again, what you're doing is playing a semantic trick with words to respond to what is clearly an almost wholely objective opinion held by other people. That doesn't work. You declaring something "inspiration" does nothing to convince me that launching humans into orbit isn't a ridiculous waste of money.
I've decided to upgrade instead of fix a 3-year-old phone that was because even if I could fix the hardware I still would not be able to safely enable bluetooth due to an arbitrary code execution bug in android that was not patched. It was otherwise perfectly good for my needs. I could not install a custom ROM because my model was not well supported and any I could not rely on such ROMs passing safetynet/play secure checks which the extremely vulnerable OEM ROM would reliably pass.
Haha, yes, I remember very well!

Thanks for the kind words.
It most definitely is not.
I'm not talking about the laws, but enforcement.

America has the same laws, basically, as when Microsoft was found guilty.
Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
Hey there HN!

I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!)

HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different.

While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This no-frills view honors OS-level dark mode and is easy to skim on any device.

Tried to keep the site minimal. The only JS is Cloudflare's privacy-preserving analytics [2], just to gauge interest.

This is the first time I'm releasing something to the wild.

Hope you find this useful!

The frontend is pure HTML+CSS.

The backend is NodeJS (Puppeteer) + Python with the excellent Microsoft Guidance [3] library to interface to OpenAI's API.

[1] https://hackyournews.com/

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/

[3] https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance
> No one can pay these guys enough

I’m sure there are a lot of committed patriots there but I doubt it’s the whole company. Tim Cook could drop 1% of their cash on hand and see how many of them would turn down a million or two as a signing bonus, and if that didn’t work he could escalate to 10% or toss in some stock. I find it unlikely that wouldn’t tempt a lot of people, especially since the U.S. is one of Israel’s staunchest allies so it’d be pretty easy to tell yourself that pile of cash isn’t selling out.

The real reason they don’t do that is trust: how could you ever be confident that someone wasn’t passing information back to Unit 8200 or even helping them out?
> Who needs an exploit when it's never encrypted in the first place?

Someone that can't get a valid subpoena.

Someone that wants to track anything else you do on your phone outside the messaging app.
1. Somehow I always thought Alaska was 100% snow covered 24/7/365

2. Triple trailers? Nice!
> scored 18.9 on HumanEval (coding) where Llama2 7B scored 12.2

The article claims 18.9 for the base model, but also claims 20.7 for the fine tuned model.
The best way is with a wood stove inside the tent. Yes, it's very common.

You can go fancy with an "Arctic Oven" like this: http://theroadchoseme.com/liard-hot-springs-winter

Or old school with a wall tent like this: http://theroadchoseme.com/haines-pass-camping
Nice! Presently maintaining this hackily myself with an exit node running in Fly.io that reaches the internet via Mullvad, I'll be glad to simplify it and maintain less.

I'm a bit confused about the payment section though - I have to pay for Mullvad via Tailscale now? Can't I just use the peer keys I've registered in my own account?
GPS is a thing. iPhones have GPS.
Uh, I hope you realize that that does not stop or even slow down credential sniffing.
Yeah — other than the famines, forced labor, summary executions, and mandatory dictator cult it’s probably a great place.