skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was like listening to one of Quals engineering leaders try to explain, repeatedly, to business leadership why what they were doing was not going to work.

Popcorn worthy.
I strongly disagree that esr´s books are irrelevant. You had to be there, in 1998, I guess, facing the prospect of being fired for working on free software, as many were, or facing down the might of the legal apparatus of microsoft, and admiring his rhetorical skill at facing down the suits, as many did, then. He traveled all over the world, giving many inspirational talks.

He books were highly influential on me, and if it were not for his encouragement, and support, there would not be, oh, 10B copies of fq_codel running today, cake, or sqm, or better wifi routers, or libreqos.

We had fun, too!

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4162

I did learn from his lesson - when he told me I had to be a front man for the bufferbloat effort, in 2013, for at least 5 years - he quoted the original of this:

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” at me... and muttered under his breath,

"... and then you become a pariah."

I learned from his example.

So far, by staying on topic, and keeping my political and personal opinions out of any engagement with anyone on the web, and not writing controversial blogs (I know he has at least 3 he regrets)... I have largely escaped being a pariah, but, have also been working on fixing the same darn thing, for 7 years longer than I ever wanted to.
Your pihole could MITM the traffic. It doesn’t need unencrypted SNI to work.
You made no claim. A single contradiction is not a refutation or even a counterarguement. It is the bare-minimum disagreement you can assert without attacking the speaker instead of the problem: https://issuepedia.org/File:Graham's_Hierarchy_of_Disagreeme...

This argument may not be worth continuing if you don't have anything left to say.
Best framework to create synthetic data for finetuning small models?
Hi everyone,

With the different data points, such as phi-1.5 performance being as good as 7b models on some tasks, it seems to be plausible that small models can be quite capable on specific tasks.

I am working on BlindChat, an open-source and private solution to run small LLMs on your browser and I am interested in fine-tuning a phi-1.5 on some domain specific data.

I am thinking of having an approach similar to the researchers of the phi paper, which is creating a high quality dataset using GPT3.5 / GPT4.

Do you know good open-source frameworks that make it easy to create a high quality data for a specific task using an existing large model, like GPT3.5/4 or Llama 2 70b?
> Tangentially I want to mention that rinsing dishes before running the dishwasher is a known anti-pattern. The first washing cycle is exactly that - a rinsing cycle.

I haven't been fortunate enough to use a dishwasher that can reliably remove all particles from a dish. And I hate getting a "clean" dish out which still has some small bits of food stuck - now especially well stuck having gone through the heat drying cycle.

Some dishes need a human rinse/scrub before going into the dishwasher. The dishwasher is really more of a bacteria reducer.
Are there any pictures or video of anybody actually sitting on the thing on their web site?
Blue Apron Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Wonder Group for $13 per Share
Radars are your friend for exploring the map. Cheap, and they even have late game value when you’re placing things for base bots.
You can use Baudot 5-channel code.
Agreed.

My industry has hugely benefited from the technological productivity boost and in response has gradually increased our working hours over the years. We usually work 60-90 hour weeks now (50 hours is the absolute minimum we ever work a week) and are doing a lot more and making way less than we did in the past. We make pretty decent money, but only because of our absurd overtime, so some people in the industry are actually against reducing our hours to a more reasonable 40 because it will substantially decrease their take home pay.

And with inflation eating into our wages, we make less and less every year. We aren’t saving lives here or anything. The only reason we have to work these hours is to save our bosses money.
I don’t think morals factor in to the decision to allow / disallow traffic on a private network. That’s definitely morally neutral and to suggest otherwise is immoral.
I see the industrial advantage of massive windmills, but "industrial" solar is generally the same panels they slap on roofs. The scale isn't due to physics, it's due to financing.

Residential solar would work great if financing was generous but stipulated the cost had to be reasonably close to grid procurement cost.

Well, and we need to scale up sodium ion cells for home storage.

Home solar with storage adds resilience to communities, and should lessen the amount of transmission infrastructure needed for EVs.
The Blomberg link you provided was a useful read because it highlights how tax thinking is partisan. For example, "You might think both would pay the same sales tax ... while the driver would pay an additional gas tax, with that money going toward roads. In 37 states you'd be wrong—that's how many places have a fuel exemption for sales tax."

No, I would not think fuel should have two sales taxes.

The article concludes by advocating for fuel taxes to be added to the general fund instead of being siloed for roads. That sounds like a great way to take what is a specific use tax and spend it on everything, instead of the thing being used.

If you propose raising the fuel tax, well maybe that is needed.

Also, please help me understand where I have access to free parking on public land. Cettainly not at the airport or downtown streets in large cities.
Of course there’s warrants and FISA warrants issued for Google data. The question is whether they’ve issued a warrant to send a bugged autoupdate, which your link has nothing to do with.
The fact that Metas models have managed to be less accessible than fully closed, API-only offerings makes me really struggle to see the value here. If you’re willing to jump through corporate hoops, OpenAI can have you up and running in a few minutes, with few relevant restrictions for most businesses. If you’re willing to trade performance and ease of use for control, then there are plenty of open source models with decent performance you can fine-tune. Metas models are like the worst of both worlds - subject to restrictive licensing and approval with limited control (at least legally), but requiring a fair bit of elbow grease to get working compared to just hitting an API.
I wasn't putting words in your mouth, I was lampooning your position by making an equivalent statement.
The core infrastructure initiative sucked a lot of air into their room, and accomplished almost nothing.
If you control the client you can block trackers there, such as Brave and Orion do natively.
This was a rollercoaster for me. The first half of the article, I'm annoyed at the parents for suing the other girl's parents, the helmet manufacturer, and the bike manufacturer, when they really can't point to anything specific that anyone did that was negligent. Accidents do happen.

The second half, I completely flipped. The author doesn't specifically claim it in this case, but it seems pretty likely that the brakes failed, and that the brakes are either undersized or low quality on these bikes. I haven't owned an e-bike before but the idea that you need to do brake maintenance every 200 miles is totally unreasonable. I've owned owned several bikes and ridden them way more than 200 miles and I don't think I've ever had to maintain the brakes at all.

I had been thinking about buying one of these actually, and now I will steer clear.
And for something more up-to-date, this guy does threads about it regularly https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/109943715639028256 He made a video game called Neofeud that skewers a bunch of things he saw happen growing up in Hawaii, but in a cyberpunk setting.
That's kind of sort of the premise of the Battlestar Galactica reboot from the 00's
The heat death of the universe is inevitable. From that perspective, technological advancement is highly evitable.
Either The Onion strikes again or the French expect everyone to walk across continents and swim across oceans while holding their breath and farts.
A bit off topic, it it keeps surprising me how many dedicated chips cellphones have.

iPhone 15 Pro has 10 different power management chips. It has one dedicated transmitter and two receiver chips. It has two different rf front end chips. Plus four chips for cellular modem, wifi/BT, uwb, and nfc. And then two chips for envelope tracking and clock generating.

I have this feeling that designs in general really are multi-chio, and no one bothers engineering alternatives. Almost everyone goes out and buys the recommended power supply chip for the chip they want to use. Qualcomm not having an actual decent power supply solution & just asking people to keep adding more copies of the known power supply unit seems both all too expectable & also ridiculous. And it just seems all too typical that no one, even the very upper end, isn't going to take the time & risk to engineer their own better support solution anyways.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+15+Pro+Max+Chip+ID/16532...
By the same token, Rust has no type safety because std::mem::transmute exists. In practice, it's not a problem because transmute is not a valid way to construct or interact with values (outside of a few special cases). By calling transmute you're explicitly opting out of all safety and abstraction, and entering here-be-dragons territory.

(That said, the Go syntax looks far less "scary" than `unsafe { transmute::<_, Colour>("orange") }`, which I'd definitely call a design issue.)
So far, everything I have read about gravitational waves and current detection methods suggest that space itself is quite inflexible, so it takes massive cosmic events like black holes merging to generate the "earthquake" which sends the "tsunami" of gravitational waves through space.

I'm hopeful this means with enhanced detection methods, we will soon be able to detect smaller and smaller ripples. Perhaps we can eventually measure the "flexibility" of local space to find changes in density which allow for easier warping. Shipping lanes in space, the dream of so many :)
"to understand the driving environment in a human-like manner"

Driving is a phenomenally complicated thing. I gather that most modern cars (mine is 20 years old) have some sort of driving assistant thing which looks suspiciously like an experiment to gather data to move towards an eventual "auto pilot". I suspect there will be fatalities glossed over.

One of my staff described some features of his newly purchased hybrid (can't recall the brand - Asian of some sort, I think). It has "lane assist", which seems to mean that it looks at the white lines on the road and will adjust steering when it thinks you have buggered up. He nearly had to change his trousers after it made a severe course change to the left when close to the peak of a hill because it had lost sight of the white lines and seemed to assume that it was too far to the right.

I am fallible too but I get to reason about my fallibility. I also come equipped with a decent set of sensors (my eyes are getting a bit crap though!) I can look into the distance at a corner (and consider the various gradients) and work out how to shift gears and so on to use the engine to mostly not need to use the brake.

Recently I drove an old Morgan. It was like steering a whale! However, it turns out that my driving style works well with a fairly light car with very narrow wheels/tyres, a big old lump of an engine in front and the power applied nearly under your bum. Glorious!

How well will your LLM cope with the conditions that I encountered driving that old beast. The weather was absolutely shit and the roads were challenging: rural Worcs. Lots of mud (skidding snag) etc

Will these beasties be able to notice patches of mud and compensate? Will they be able to notice puddles that form at the bottom of a valley (or even anticipate them) during severe rain fall?
/me was pleasantly surprised to scroll my RSS feed and see that someone posted :-)

I'm the maker of Obscura.

Happy to answer questions folks have. Also, what thinkmassive dug up is accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37711006

Update: Just fixed the Matrix->Discord bridge, apologies if it didn't work for you before.
And it gets even worse. https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q3/259

> After our disclosure timeline was exceeded by many months, we notified the maintainer of our intent to publicly disclose these bugs, at which time we were told, "you do what you do."
I don't think I've ever heard of people actually brute forcing TOTPs on any halfway decent implementation. Since they rotate every so often you'd have to hit the whole range of 000-000 to 999-999 in like 15 seconds. A simple rate limit of only allowing a few tries every 30 seconds would completely prevent TOTP brute forcing while still being plenty accessible.
A little nitpick,there are 5 "forms" for 'e' in French, you forgot ë it is used in words like Noël and België
Maybe one of those reasons is right, but personally, Meta lost benefit of the doubt long ago. Just like I wouldn't give the benefit of the doubt to someone walking towards me brandishing a knife, just because I don't know for certain they're going to attempt robbery/murder/etc.
> salmoning

Riding against the traffic in a one-way bike lane
This is why my family portrait is going to be a painting. In the future, you can just paint in the new generations and we can all be in the same frame together.
I’ve seen a few 404 Media articles on here as of late and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the content.
You can be sure Google's lawyers vetted the training to ensure it was lawful instruction.
This post reserves a prize for illuminating how something that looks authorative due to words like "based on data" and listing sources can still be extremely misinforming.

Here's some real data:
https://www.similarweb.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/t...

TLDR: Threads basically died quickly after its birth. Twitter for user count is doing pretty much as good as it has ever been doing. Considering the pointless outrage about it going to crash is dying, advertisers are re-warming their feet after ADL's previous nefarious influence on them seems to be waning, I can't think but of the "Twitter dead" rhetoric coming to its end permanently.
The cursor is often rendered with special GPU acceleration like when using Hardware Cursor, making it as responsive as possible, but that does mean there’s always going to be a slight delay for the draggable object
the most interesting Argentine game scene is godot engine
They're going to resort to blocking IPs and not caring about collateral damage and force CDNs and anyone running multi tenant to turn the specific site targeted off or move them onto a separate pool of IPs that is easily blockable.
maybe a different way to frame it is that your inspiration idols are releasing brilliant new work, and your tribute to them manages to be relevant ;-)

I'm not such a crazy fanboy as that sentence should make me seem, but factorio has definitely made the management/building genre much more interesting for me, and while i never have a patience for a megafactory, i do enjoy the other games inspired by factorio, and will likely try yours
You could place messages around the city for your friends to find; leave reviews of restaurants for potential patrons to read as they're walking by; create scavenger hunts; place images around your house of your loved ones living life (something to reminisce on later); those are just a few. At its core, it's a type of location verification; if I place a kite and you react to it, it proves that you were in (or at least near) that place.

On most social media, the thing you share with the people to whom you're posting is a similar timeline, e.g. if I post on Instagram, my friends and family will see it now or pretty close to now. I'm interested in the question of how our discourse might change if the thing we have in common with our audience isn't time but place. I might not know WHEN somebody will see the kite I posted, but I do know WHERE they'll be when they see it.
What's so magical about that I/O? I get the point of improving the quality of a picture. But editing the picture so that it includes things that didn't really happen... why even care besides trying to impress others?
Hey, have had your game wishlisted for a while, and as a programmer/Factorio player/"guy who grew up with a pappy that had an awesome model train setup and took me all over to model train meccas", I just want you to know that I think you're filling a niche and expanding the genre in a very meaningful way!

Chin up, and good luck with launch!
Images are broken for me.
> That's not the LAN.

It doesn't matter much that your LAN itself is trustworthy if the only way out of it isn't.

> You can put your own router behind theirs. It's ridiculous for them to make you do that but nothing actually stops you.

Yes, you can do that, but it doesn't do anything to help with the problem that DoH solves.

> For which anyone can use a VPN.

I want to live in a world in which you can have privacy without having to be on a VPN 24/7.

> To work around this, a piece of malware would have to contact some custom server on a different port to do a name lookup -- but where does it look up that server's IP address? Hard-coding the IP address allows the malware's lookup server to be blocked.

Couldn't it host a file with the IP on a service like Dropbox or GitHub Pages? People aren't likely to block them at the firewall.

> But if centralized DoH servers become too popular to block because blocking them breaks too many legitimate applications, now the malware can use them and the user can't block them.

Isn't this basically "privacy for computer programs is bad because malware benefits from it", which is wrong for the same reason that "privacy for people is bad because criminals benefit from it"?

> The question is, what are they doing with the data they collect?

What's your ISP doing with all of the data they collect from your insecure DNS queries? And if you're concerned about Cloudflare in particular, then just use some other DoH provider.

> There is already a "least wrong" answer: Use a VPN you trust and use your VPN's DNS or run your own. VPNs have plenty of competition, and you can set up your own on any hosting provider, which also have plenty of competition.

> This is basically the same thing as having Cloudflare do it over TLS, except that it's not centralized and remains in the control of the user, so is better.

Cloudflare doesn't have a monopoly on DoH. There's plenty of competition between providers for it too: https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-av...
Recommendations for Remote vs. Colocated Teams
What confusing grammar.
You can but you need to install NT4 first, then do all the upgrades
I wouldn't be against some regulations that require safety critical AI models to be fully explainable. Or at least to some extent that "look what apparently ChatGPT can do" wouldn't qualify for.
Proof that decades of firefighting can save you weeks of forethought.
The hope is that the CDNs explicitly refuse to do that, so that the collateral damage leads to pressure that forces the censor to relent.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design
You're telling me you don't want a microsoft account, automatic onedrive sync, and useless ads from the start bar?? :)
> reproducible builds

Nixpkgs please! It's the most successful reproducibility experiment I know of.
Really, really freaking cool stuff.
In my close Argentinian circle I can name the following:

- Ricardo Quesada [1] can name zillions of incredible achievements but you can search on Google. You is the creator of Cocos2D [2] a super successful 2D game engine where many of the implemented games and apps where shown even by Steve Jobs in the time of the iPhone 1.

- Daniel Benmergui: very personal and creative games [3]

- Martin Sebastian Wain: also creative and very personal games and controllers such as Doggy Tug of War [4]

Can name more...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCX_dqlpVpYtlm2Es_PAZcA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocos2d

[3] http://ludomancy.com/

[4] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/alt-ctrl-gdc-showcase-m...
What isn't obvious at first glance is that humans are actually really, really good drivers on average. Humans regularly achieve seven 9s on a per mile basis. You're looking at another couple of 9s on top to be clearly and demonstrably safer without very large rollouts or lots of time for analysis.
Did anyone else struggle to read this because of its choppiness?
Free speech is important. People don't get mad at air because it allows people to transmit their thoughts. People don't get mad at pencils because it doesn't censor what people write. Internet companies transmitting people's ideas is no different and wanting to censor people is against the principles of a free society.
Hello,

Yesterday, a comment prompted me to list out a few of the AI/ML tools I was aware of for PCB design and simulation. I realized that it would be nice to compile a more comprehensive list, so I've created just that! This is just a page on my wiki for high-speed digital PCB design. Feel free to suggest anything I've missed, either here or on the page there.

Thanks!

Btw, here's yesterday's comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694414#37695136
No it can't. If it's in a browser, then extensions can still block it, and if it's in an app, then they could make it unblockable without needing DoH or ECH just by putting the trackers/ads/app telemetry on the same domain as the rest of what the app uses.
Things I’ve learned about building CLI tools in Python
No it isn't. Riding a bike to a nearby station doesn't require lithium mining and is better for your heart and body. Where did you come up with most efficient transit option? By what metric?
It's funny how divisive the graphics for Factorio tend to be. As someone who was a kid in that "golden age" of mid/late 90s isometric sprite based PC games, not only does the game have a nostalgic charm to it, but there's something about the the expressivity that the mostly-2D gamespace creates that makes it far more visually interesting than most AAA 3D games. A dense factory (and especially some of the animated gifs in the blog post) always feels alive in a way most game worlds never manage to touch.
As a person with an audience – you get to a point where the audience feels like an insatiable beast that just wants wants wants and never gives back. Soon you feel like a monkey dancing for peanuts to a jeering crowd that will move on to the next monkey immediately when you stop. You are only as good as your last [new] piece of content.

Social media has long since stopped being a bazaar of ideas and stimulating exchange. These days to most people it’s passive entertainment fueled by semi amateur creators. It’s no linger social media, now it’s social media.

It's pretty draining if you’re on the creator side.
The Russians previously blew up the Kakhovka dam, before the time it collapsed? I didn't hear about that. Anyway, this was a distinctly pro-Ukraine source, so I think he was at least in good faith, even if he was way off.
Haitian Creole is like this. There are a few phonemes that are represented by two letters, but the distinction is there both in writing and in speech.