skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment on what submission?

This submission was just a comment, is what I mean. It wasn't really an HN story.

Sometimes interesting things are inside larger uninteresting things.

Sure but those are almost never interesting enough to be HN stories. There are ways to turn them into HN stories but that's done by adding interestingness. Playing logic games about what is and isn't a comment really isn't adding interestingness, it's simply claiming one can rule-lawyer one's way to interestingness and it seems sort of obvious one can't?

It's not. The argument is "this section is interesting enough to be a submission, but it would be unreasonable to expect everyone to find it in this large article/video".

Well, it is, because those things are rarely actually interesting. Like, you have to demonstrate interestingness not just claim it. And this practice is effectively elevating a claim - my claim to interestingness in someone else's uninteresting thing is so important, it deserves its own title. It's a serious special pleading and you could make the case for it with examples but as far as I can tell, there aren't many or any.

The pure form of this has no commentary

I'm not sure what the 'pure form' is, we're talking about people making up their own titles, i.e. turning their comment into the most important comment.

Incidentally, there is a site dedicated to not-having a distinction between 'comment' and 'story' and the exchange of snippets of things - twitter. It works pretty well for that use case.
World impact is not how Nobels are won. If that was the case Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg and others would all have multiple ones.

I honestly do not see this paper as being in the same magnitude of brilliance as a typical Nobel would be. Not to mention that it barely counts as science (actually it probably does not). Don't get me wrong. It is a huge achievement for both the machine learning research field and for humanity as a whole, but putting along the achievements of Nobel physicists and such feels wrong.
I typed this from memory, so probably not repeating LLMs word for word. If I change that prompt to "As an AI language model..." the detection works as expected. In a sense, a broader point my original comment demonstrates is that even for an absolutely obvious AI-generated text, auto-detection can't work reliably because it's trained on specific responses of specific LLMs that can be altered at any time.

To be clear: not attempting to discourage you. It's a very complex and interesting problem to tackle.
ColdFire made the compromises necessary to make it scale, and the author points that out. But it was too late.

ColdFire can be made entirely 68k compatible with simple low-overhead emulation software. It could be have been a viable path forward for 68k, but they rolled it out almost 10 years too late, after they'd totally given up on 68k.

Motorola abandoned 68k, is what happened.
We need to fix our antitrust :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457766
Looks really clean, I like the design.

For the demo video I wish there was a voiceover explaining what you're clicking through or what the features are. Like Someone posted it'd be nice to understand how the sleep quality is calculated.
You have to sign in to see the pricing? No way…
He's a socialist? I've always gathered that he is pro-capitalism but doesn't like the market capturing aberration that is big tech. Capitalism thrives on fair competition. Wanting to take a regulatory hammer to break up trusts isn't socialist- it's a necessary part of fair capitalism.
Google paid for Starlink. It's their loon replacement
Here’s the thing, if google didn’t publish this paper, it would probably just collect dust somewhere at Google.

OpenAi (ClosedAi) saw the potential and demonstrated its impressive and unbelievable capabilities!

If Google never shared the transformer model with the world, we would probably not have what we have today.
So is no one questioning that maybe the search subsystem talks to the "website score" (or whatever it's called in Google-speak), to determine if it's relevant? And perhaps that score is influenced by how many valid ads there are.

Maybe the score is simply highly-correlated with a site that shows many google ads? Think about it, someone that shows Google ads happens to also be very very keen on optimizing everything that affects their rankings in Google searches.

Hey Google, perhaps "displaying many Google ads" should be a negative on page-rank?
German-Turkish Culture [video]
"That vendor doesn't mention hydrazine ..."

You are correct.

I'm surprised it isn't in the "ultimate water test" and I assumed that it was.
Not all metals. The stronger aluminum alloys get their strength from precipitation aging, which gives a lot of similar benefits to forging (via different processes), and because of that cannot be forged very much. They do get stronger when forged, but only slightly, and they break apart if you form them too much.

Cast iron is already used in transmission cases etc, and it does indeed shatter. But it's not because its cast (although it can't be forged even a little; it breaks apart almost like sand), it's because it's actually just a name for an alloy. It's very high carbon (>1%) steel, which makes it very brittle but also very easy to cast. You can cast aluminum or low carbon steel and it will not be brittle at all, particularly if you let it cool slowly.
https://www.dragonfee.com/pricing
Well, that's depressing.
You think that Russia won the Ukraine war?
The bytecode of the binary could also be used to prove it was a random number generator, right?
> he did commit many of the moral breeches that are committed by existing governmental and financial institutions at scale without any legal repercussions

Example? Bankman-Fried committed outright fraud. He lied and stole money. This is simply incomparable to what anyone in finance is doing, much less being left unpunished for.
THANK YOU!

I have friends of mine that slowly migrated to ZeroTier for RDP.
As I understand it, the claim is that the volume being added is tiny compared to the real volume.
When I tried that, it didn't show a lot of detail. It seems they blend shrinkage generally into the cost of goods sold, and the original article in the thread discusses the idea that shrinkage is mostly caused by employees, not non-employee theft. I consider employee theft to be not the kind retail theft that news articles are really about. I can't find what you're saying, losses due to theft generally, nor can I find something specific about non-employee theft. Let me know if you can find something else I can search for, since I am quite new to this.
Ask HN: People interested in a dev toolbox for back end / DevOps?
I see a lot of app toolbox like devutils.com and devtoys.app but I feel like it's often more for fullstack / frontend than backend / devops work (I know that devops is not a job, but LinkedIn disagree with that stand)

I'm talking about:
- decoding format like zstd, snappy, protobuf
- inspecting docker / helm registry
- linting github / gitlab actions
- ???

Do yo feel like it would be useful to create something like that or is it now obsolete with current IDE and lsp extensions ?
It's fine if he voted against it. But a donation disqualifies him from that position if for no other reason than it's distracting from Mozilla's purpose. Whether good or bad, the foundation has a strong human rights focus.

Gervase Markham was a dedicated outspoken fundamentalist at Mozilla until his death and was very influential, but he wasn't in a leadership position. Big difference.
Would you say that a function that always returned 0 or 1 would be more/less/equally random than a function that returned any int32 with equal probability?

I would normally say the latter is more random, because you're getting more entropy per call. In the same sense, a function drawing from a normal distribution is less random than one drawing from a uniform distribution.

(All of this depends on a computers view of the world, where values are in data types that have some number of bits. In a mathy view of the world where every value is effectively infinitely many bits you get just as much entropy sampling from a normal distribution as a uniform one.)
np.random itself with that configuration can go negative with a probability of 0.62% as can be derived with scipy.stats.norm(loc = 7500, scale = 3000).cdf(0) or by looping a million times and counting the negative numbers.

Maybe the f2d function filters negative values but it sounds like a simple float-to-double conversion.

I'm not sure whether it was intentional, but, contrary to the headline, this random value was used to update the fund size daily as shown in the rest of the code. So, a single day for which the fund actually decreases wouldn't matter much. It might even be beneficial to make it look more real.
Hey - Z80 was nice! I wrote Z80 assembly by converting from op-codes to hex by hand based on a couple of copied pages from the datasheet.
Starlink has one ASN.
> could imagine they could possibly choose the amount randomly and truly deposit such amount to the fund

This would be bad risk management. The random number makes it clear that not creating the fund wasn't an oversight, it was a willful deception.
While I agree with crote's reply that this isn't a limitation at all for a professional, I'm surprised to hear your opinion. Of all the libraries that come with tools, I find KiCad's to be the highest quality with regard to footprints (in addition to having a ton of them available). Perhaps the symbol libraries are more limited, but that being said, I've never found a mistake in KiCad's library. I've definitely found mistakes in the built-in Altium libs. To be fair, Altium started getting much better after their acquisition of Octopart, and it started to be easier to find things through the built-in search.
Cool! But can't you already via this from the HN ui?
>So how do you square that sentence with what actually happened?

One way to square that with what happened: The left continued accruing power throughout Trump's presidency. I don't think the model of power relations presented in, eg, the constitution, or a civics class, or even an econ 101 class, have existed for centuries now
Since it's a normal distribution with a mean of 7500, and a standard deviation of 3000 multiplied by daily volume—it would only cause a negative change less than 1% of the time. This "PublicInsuranceFund" truly embodies their culture of "number go up".
Ya, I'd prefer if they just corrected the article, made a note at the top of the article about what was corrected, and have a disclaimer that it was written by Google's competitor.
My current car was an insurance write off and looks good if you look at it casually though looking closely the line is not quite straight down the side where it was hit and you can see a boundary in the paint where the respray finished. Works fine though.
> ... but every historical attempt at government agriculture has resulted in famine

So famine has been eliminated then? A quick Google search shows that ~9 million people die of hunger every year. There's no communism to blame that on, much as people like to talk about, say, famine in the USSR, but 9M deaths per year from intentionally withholding food under the auspices of capitalism doesn't get a second thought? Why is that?

> As for the "very few", anyone can buy stock ...

Things like 401ks have convinced people that they are participants. But owning 20 shares in Amazon doesn't make you a capital owner. Something like the wealth of the 8 richest people on Earth is about the same as the bottom 4 billion.

But sure, tell me some more about stock market participation.
Yes, but we have no idea what the probabilities are. We have no basis for saying "it is probable that Mars had life."

If we found native life on Europa or something, that would change things completely. Independent life arising at least twice in the same solar system would make it clear that life is common. But a sample size of one, with the anthropic principle, leaves us no clue. Life might be common, or we might be unique.
It says "ALL images of people". My reading is that it should explicitly prepend every reference to people with a (randomly chosen?) gender and ethnicity unless otherwise specified.

So if you type "3 people drinking coffee", the dalle prompt generated would be `a ${getRandomRace()} ${getRandomGender()}, a ${getRandomRace()} ${getRandomGender()} and a ${getRandomRace()} ${getRandomGender()} drinking coffee`.

In other words, yeah, a college brochure.
I also misunderstood the point—but if I now read correctly—it’s that to err is human, and something that we do as software developers constantly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37804856
If you have a business that needs to operate 24/7 then you need your Operations team to hire accordingly and then on-call should normally be unnecessary. Operations should be able to fix an emergency that is unsafe, insecure or illegal. Anything else can wait until the next working day even if management might prefer it not to because that costs money.

If a business can't or won't make those arrangements (and pay the bill for them) then maybe its management team need to recognise that fully reliable 24/7 operation is not something they can guarantee and they should plan accordingly.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37805256

It basically takes the daily volume, multiplies it by 0.00075% (on average) and adds that to the insurance fund. FTX charges a % fee on every trade, so this is the equivalent of taking a fraction of their fee revenue and putting that into an insurance fund, which seems pretty reasonable.
You can see all of an HN user's stories and comments just by viewing their profile. Click on their user ID, or use a URL like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

Under that profile page, you'll find links for "submissions", "comments" and also "favorites".

You can also use HN search's (https://hn.algolia.com) advanced options to search by user:

https://hn.algolia.com/help

For example, searching for "california author:pg" gives you:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Hmm, written in C99 :) Thats super cool, considered its very new language.
It can even run on my ancient toaster ;) I will keep an eye on that project.
For now im happy with old Ruby.
Windows can install full Linux distro via WSL. You can have a nmap in two minutes!

I like it much better than MacBook with its incompatible ARM cpu, and outdated commands from some ancient BSD!
> having editorial standards is so they can be applied by the editor before publication

Maybe there were lots of articles that were never published due to editorial standards, but we only see the ones that slipped through.
> They'd need multiple ASNs for each of these network islands then, though

No they wouldn’t. They could connect to local transit/IXs in each region and just advertise the regional networks.
HAHAHA this was my first thought too!

To be fully pedantic: it's both things! It's a random number chosen from an arbitrarily sized range around an arbitrary number :)
The 'Specification Pattern' in C#
If you order randomness by entropy, the uniform distribution is indeed, in some sense, "more random" than any other probability distribution with the same support.
Oh of course, but then it would be breach of fiduciary duty or maybe just gross negligence.
> but the roaming telcom provider will "tunnel" your connection to your local telcom

+1, I came here out of curiosity to see what others have to say, but ended up learning something new about how roaming works.
Something that seems absent these days in American political discourse is the assumption that the other party, in general, has a similar north start to your own, i.e. both conservative and liberal ideals (in the recent past) seemed well-intentioned enough to claim that they each just want what’s best for the country. Now it seems like we have four factions and the centrist left and centrist right just seem to be merging while the far left and far right are moving further away from everyone.
Labeling anti-bigtech leftists with conspiracy theory is not a good outlook either. I bet the HN liebling Cory Doctorow will write another tweet-eassay about this [0]

0, https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1709221318284173443?s=46
That’s a bit like saying that our bodies are random numbers because of quantum fluctuations. It may be true, but the distribution is the part that matters.

It’s still ridiculous to use a normal distribution to calculate how much money should go into an insurance fund that needs to cover sudden, severe losses.
> Can't those LLM/text-to-image model rules be embedded in the training/alighnment process instead of being injected before user input?

Absolutely. The model would fairly easily learn these rules with enough training even if you don't include such prompt.

But the prompt helps with training stability, and with not hurting other tasks.
Every decade seems to have a new mass hysteria over child abuse. Remember the "McMartins" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial

And then there were all those useless "Megans Law" lists.

Now it's CSAM and encryption, and nobody wants to stick their neck out on this, lest he be branded "Pro Child Porn"
Is it just me who doesn't like fleurons? For me, they are in an awkward limbo between abstract symbology and realistic illustrations, and draw an unreasonable amount of attention to themselves compared to other forms of decoration.

Generally, I would prefer that whitespace alone be used to separate paragraphs, and more significant sections be demarcated by headings, which can be embellished less intrusively by use of a decorative typeface, underlining or colour.
It's also an understandable mistake. The slide the GP mentioned doesn't provide a clear explanation and can be interpreted the way the original article did. It's no wonder multiple people didn't catch the mistake.
What's not the same thing as what?
I saw a few clips of an interview with Lewis here - https://youtu.be/B2z8ikGLRh8?si=pqF-jUI4SeWsI4Fg

The interviewer maybe edits for effect, but Lewis seems very biased towards SBF.
It sounds like you don’t understand the breadth of what “devops” people get asked to do.
That's just moral defeatism. Fraud exists in many businesses and institutions. A healthier outlook on this is that we need to stop it whenever we can, not that we should give up because "everyone does it".
> Men and women want different things

Few people are bold enough to discuss the “boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider” doctrine these days
Dockerized local and offline backing up of PostgreSQL with rotation, compression
Based on a quick search, it looks like air impedance (the mysterious air density x speed of sound calculation) affects turbine stability. So needed for engine control?
It was the same reading I had.

"How are they doing double blinded experiments on typing?" comes across as assuming double blinded experiments are the only acceptable way to a valid answer.

Why can't single-blinded, or even unblinded, give useful answers?

That is, why do you think any answer to your question would make a difference as to the quality of the results?

Epidemiology is an important field of science, even when based on observational and not experimental science. The answer to "How are they doing double blinded experiments on observational studies" is "they aren't."

Yet it's still good science.
Not really. Major damage would be damage to the subframes or wheel wells. It's a step right above getting entire axles ripped off. In most situations, for most cars, that will total the car.
I have to say, those are some ugly solenoids. Is it really that unusual/ocd to want them a little neater?
I'd guess numpy has been used for lots of fraudulent accounting! Congratulations, I guess?
This is one of the tradeoffs made to make the outputs safer. One of the ideas floating around is that some of the open source models are better simply because they don't undergo the same alignment / safety tuning as the large models by industry labs. It'll be interesting to see how LLMs improve because safety is a requirement but how can it be accomplished without reducing performance.
Just an opinionated bunch of changes. Some of them I really hate. Some of them I don’t care.

This should really by going though proposals 1 by 1. Not as a features-someone-likes.

Cons list syntax is the worst proposal
https://search.brave.com/news?q=chrome%20exploit%20in%20the%...

I'm delighted to hear that you (and I) were not personally impacted by those but to say "I didn't get in a crash, who cares about seat belts working" is comically misguided

Also your "for Chrome to autoupdate" perspective makes me wish I could search for every single red Update screenshot I've seen in presentations or Zoom meetings
Fun fact for those who have read the book: IEX recently started paying market makers for displaying liquidity on their exchange.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/fed-meeting-interest-rate-d...
The standard response to this is that T-shaped skillsets are the correct answer. Keep your specialty, but have enough broad skills in addition to that specialty to be useful.
They did mention in the previous parts about ARSA killing border guards and executing 99 civilians (?)
In my experience you kind of just have to lower your standards. i.e. if your system prompt is followed 90% of the time that still a win vs not using one.
Are you open to the idea that most people disagree with you and prefer a system that does do these things?
> The majority of the research money behind most (if not all) drugs, is spent well after academia’s contribution

[citation needed]

Just look at the timeline for Covid 19 [1] and how late in the piece you get before a company like Moderna gets involved. What huge investment was made by Big Pharma here?

Even this was funded by Operation Warp Speed, another $10 billion in Federal money.

[1]: https://covid19.nih.gov/nih-strategic-response-covid-19/deca...
you think he has been better than Newsome?
Curious about the reasoning for removing type aliases? I don’t have an opinion on that myself
Seems like they don’t care if prompts get leakes
What a tangled web of fears we create and pull everyone into. Less shipping in 2021 caused less pollution which caused a rise in temperature. If we keep polluting the ocean enough perhaps we can reduce global temperature so we can protect the ocean/creatures from a global percentage of a degree increase.

We are not saying the global temperature has gone up 1.5 degrees since you or anyone else you know has been born. We are saying we want to return to a time 150/200 years ago. The weather you experience now may go up .5 degrees. Why is everyone acting like the end of the world is near? We've already gone up 1.5 in the 1800s and we are better off for it.
It does indeed look interesting and looks to be similar to Lua in several aspects (although, there are some noticeable differences too). FWIW, there has been work done in eLua to keep some of the data (transparently) in ROM: https://eluaproject.net/doc/v0.9/en_arch_ltr.html (see rotables).
Well, this guy didn't become a legend by accident, that's for sure !

Reading this log, I can't stop thinking how clear things needed to be in his head to advance at that pace. Like he already had everything programmed in his mind, he was just transcribing it for the computer.
1) they don't seem very crazy, gpt4 should mostly handle this

2) they're probably finetuning the model a bit with these instructions