skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same boat. Eventually they made it so that after 3 videos you're blocked.

My subconscious rejoiced that I'd be free from the distraction hopefully forever, but then after applying the next
Firefox update (I also have adblock plus) suddenly the popups stopped and I'm back to relying on my own strength of will
to avoid youtube. It's not going well.
Thief aka employee.
Pet's Best

https://www.petsbest.com/
This is why I always come to the HN comments first before clicking on any link to a domain I don’t recognize. I want an indication that the content is worth running the mobile usability gauntlet.
And by next you mean in parallel. Spinning E2E encryption as a tool used only by bad actors is very common and pushing browsers to implement governments managed blacklists seems quite in progress. Banning VPNs from social networks (and more) was even suggested in France but quickly removed due to backlash.
I have vision problems so I have just stopped using my phone browser, cause I can see better and type better while using the laptop browser.
Do not vampire. It's just not good
> find it really hard to take advice from folks who have "something better" to sell you

We do this all the time when considering a change from one product or service to another. The potentially better offering tells why their way is better, and why the other ways are inferior. Then they sell us their way.
Half true. The S-box thing strengthened the cipher. Cutting the key length from 64 bits to 56 arguably weakened the cipher.
It doesn't actually matter. NIST should not be involved at all. Jesus this is basic, if all they're doing is refereeing a competition there's really no excuse for them to be involved at all.
Every substack post looks like this:
1. look at my emotional take on a hot topic
2. why don't you subscribe to my substack
3. ok i got you to the end? I have something to sell to you
hehe do not underestimate the power of edibles and rash decisions!

In all seriousness though, I like splitting my projects between two domains: .sonnet.io for the more serious stuff .potato.horse for anything that I might not want to put on my CV.

(it's a good tradeoff between keeping one domain for everything and buying vanity domains en masse - which I used to be guilty of)
Https://HeadlampTest.com

Made it to scratch my own itch.
When I say you can still adhere to the HTTP standards, I mean that you just have to adjust the suggested settings in the config, so requests reaching over the throttle should give 429 instead of 404:

Like the following:

# config/routes.rb
get "429", to: "welcome#429", code: 429

rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, with: :too_many_requests

def too_many_requests
redirect_to "/warning"
end

# config/initializers/rack-attack.rb
class Rack::Attack
...
blocklist("block 429") do |request|
Allow2Ban.filter("too_many_requests-#{request.ip}", maxretry: 5, findtime: 3.minutes, bantime: 1.day) do
request.path == '/429'
end
...
end

# config/initializers/rack-attack.rb
Rack::Attack.blocklisted_responder = lambda do |request|
[ 429, {}, ["You are blocked. If you think are not a bot and you think it was due to a mistake, reach out to us at support@yourdomain.com"]]
end

The way I interpreted the article wasn't to redirect everything to a 404 page, but how to handle massive amount of requests to a 404 page!
It is defined by the theme.

The default theme that XFCE ships with has a 1px grabbing area set. So it's not that the cursor doesn't change, it's just you have to be very precise.

There are "fixes" where people hack the theme to increase the size of some transparent images to force a larger grabble area or telling people that they are holding it wrong.
Yeah, in general, I find anything"mobile optimized" is TERRIBLE. I much prefer the desktop site where I can parse the page fully and zoom to where I want to go.

Speaking of. There is almost nothing that infuriates me more than some web developer overriding the behavior of zoom. Not cool.
AMD is a smaller company than you might expect, which drives them to need to focus. Once they got internal alignment to work with us though, they were all in from the start of kicking off the program.
Having been on both sides of this, ran a YC startup and now running a "lifestyle" SaaS business, the honest reality is that both have their risks/rewards. I wouldn't trade anything for the experience + network I received from being a part of a YC batch. But bootstrapping a business and going from $0 to $1 is also just as exciting for me as well right now. Most likely for my next business, I will be re-applying for YC again.

The best note that I saved that someone else wrote: Know What You Want. Do you want to build a lifestyle business? Do you want to grow into a company with employees? Do you want funding? An exit? You should figure these things out. Decide your own goals, don’t let someone decide it for you.
I'd say the self-hosting is a selling point for you.
Kiwi Browser supports WebExtensions. The 100% boring normal expected life-improving extensions like uBlock Origin for ads, Consent-o-matic for GDPR cookie setting, Dark Reader for dark-mode, and Form Vault for forms auto saving them make the web a much nicer place.

User agency rocks. Malleability ought to be the web's killer feature, is the open possibilities that apps will never have anything to offer or compete on. Cross-cutting software that improves every site or app we visit, in a consistent way: it's divine.

And mobile seems like the most constrained common form factor, which in my view amplifies the need to be able to adjust. But perversely the best & most important ability, the ability to adapt, is not available on common browsers like Chrome Mobile. And Firefox only semi-recently started re-allowing arbitrary extensions on mobile.
https://www.gobreadvan.com/

Close to throwing in the towel on this one… I built a e-commerce website from scratch in my spare time (like an hour per night, after work, dead tired). Fan of auto racing and wanted to try my hand at retail. Made a few “retro” auto racing items to see if I could sell something. Produced some socks and sublimated some coffee mugs in the garage. No effort into marketing, which I learned is the most important part. Not one sale. Nuxt.js, Node, Postgres. Learned a lot which made me better at my real job
This will be interesting because the few potential customers like TSMC and Intel are shareholders of ASML and thus their captive market.

Most people don't know that EUV was actually a DARPA funded project to pry away semiconductor leadership from the Japanese
Maybe, depends on the threshold for human creativity, which is still in flux.

You could copyright the underlying character maybe. But its a major headache for these companies and a symptom of the broader fact that copyright needs legislative reform, not attempting to shoehorn AI into the current law.
Agreed. Management’s actions, which are shameful regardless, seem further exacerbated by their ability to track carriers’ position to the minute and possibly having too few employees [0]. The latter may be the after effects of a requirement, since repealed, that required USPS to pre-fund pensions. (That’s not in the article)

To re-emphasize, these factors don’t excuse management’s actions.

[0]: https://apwu.org/press-release/angry-about-late-erratic-miss...
Other things like hlb-gpt? :)

I'd studied the problem to work on it, but didn't get as far as you. I agree that intuitively (not backed up by experiment) I expect that preprocessing to further flatten the segments and other hand-crafted features based on desired invariances should work well. It seems that a lot of people really have just used 2D convolutions, applied to just one or a few surface layers and then combined. So I'd also be interested in your code.

> I surmised that that 'crackling' effect actually is just of course slices of the data over different rifts in the parchment, and that the data of the ink lay on the manifold of that crackling and bending.

I'm afraid I can't follow this.
I've used it to find a couple of different python libraries. Asked is questions about top level ontologies and OWL. it was pretty insightful on the ontology stuff.
This person has made a conscious effort to learn if this particular red flag is silly and they deserve an answer that yes, it is. There are few roads that become impassable based on these circumstances, and some variables are more distracting than helpful to navigation. More people should be willing to question their biases and when it happens it shouldn't be dismissed with essentially a tautology.
AdGuard fits the bill for me in Safari. It includes blocking lists that you can enable and the paid version includes an optional extension that can execute more complex blocking rules where needed. YouTube ads are non-existent for me. The blocking lists also work in the standard in-app browser that most apps use.
It must have been both, right? In the sense that higher populations would tend to be helpful when fights started, better resources lead to higher population, and winning fights leads to better access to resources.
It's not just your eyes, we were using very different screen resolutions back then and UI was lot clunkier looking too. Having the option is nice, but being able to disable that is critical
agreed. i want to see all of the answers.
I've only ever seen gamers grouse about this acquisition fwiw
If someone is willing to steal from their customers and injure innocent, random public, then it seems like a small character epsilon to also steal from their employer and its investors.
If I was pitching my product, maybe I would have put a link to it. Or maybe mentioned the name.

Do you think all of PG’s essays aren’t pitching you something?
Have you gone into your settings and turned off all email notifications?

There are a pile of preferences under: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/notifica...

If those are turned on, then you have not opted out, so it isn't spam.

(And yes, feel free to rant about opt-in by default, and just how many places you need to turn things off. I'm not saying LinkedIn is reasonable about this... just saying that under the status quo, you need to take some initiative to control it.)
All hype in my opinion, and apparently the #2 committer of the project may agree.

He agrees that @neo4j is slower than a “normal vector db”.

“if you are not dealing with many documents, it works quite well”

“Neo4j might not be optimized for vector search, but that doesn't mean it can't do it.”

https://x.com/tb_tomaz/status/1646626362243919873?s=20
https://i.imgur.com/3wdGjaI.png
Studies add details about the brain, clues for future treatments
> Does being outside generally hurt your eyes?

I'm not the OP, but yes, going outside sometimes also hurts my eyes, depending on how bad the sun is.
How is there any fraud here? You took seed money, built a profitable company and it just can’t scale to a unicorn. That isn’t fraud and no court would consider it as such
Definitely North Korea. Just like that time the feds blamed North Korea for the Sony hack and then years later it was quietly revealed to have been a disgruntled former employee.

Occam’s Razor says it’s an employee, perhaps SBF himself (because #yolo).
Get TSA precheck. Your laptop stays in the bag.
> You then submit the manipulated version of the found or generated image to the authority.

If this is easy (for some definition of easy), is it not easy to then alter the CSAM images every they trade it to another pervert, such that hashes never match? How much image alteration would that take?, would it be human perceptible? If perceptible, would it be ignorable?

I think the exploit here suggests that the whole system may end up obsolete sooner rather than later.
Ukraine enforces no flight zone because of the war. Therefore there is no data.
Parts linkage is only a thing on the mobile devices.

Additionally, even on the mobile side, Apple can recycle or reuse them. So they’re not scrap unless you can’t get ownership formally.

The article in question was for a company that was tasked to dispose of the devices and wanted to double dip by reselling. They didn’t want to ask their customers to remove the activation locks because it would cut into their double dipping.
AdGuard on safari makes some pages non-reponsive by blocking cookie consent popups, but keeping scrolling disabled for me. I need to disable blocking, jump the I Do Not Consent hoops, and re-enable it. (using the free edition, this did not convince me that i should pay for it, as I guess this is because of some safari limitation. Maybe I'm wrong?
The web works better on Android.

At Google some PMs used to lament that Android users spend more time in the browser than in apps versus iPhone. In my experience using browsers on Android are much better than on iPhone and not everything really wants to be an app.

Id point the finger at Google actually allowing different web browser apps (Safari drives every browser on iPhone and lags in many areas) and just natural competition. (If ads really bothers you an ad blocker is an install away).

My only complaint really being cookie banners but they suck the fun out of desktop web too.
LoRA Fine-Tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training from Llama 2-Chat 70B
I read those names correctly and wondered why, when I realized I'd listened the memory of them was from listening to the first episodes of The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps[0] over a decade ago.

[0]: https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/
https://github.com/docker/genai-stack/graphs/contributors
This article would be more accurately titled, "Why you shouldn't try to build a venture capital funded business." Of course, my suggested title is not nearly as compelling and edgy as the actual title, and would be less likely to make it to the front page of Hacker News.

The content in the article isn't inaccurate or misleading per se, but it's also basically repackaging well understood information about the economics of startups and venture backed businesses.

Further, the author asserts that, if you're trying to optimize your personal economic outcomes, you should not pursue venture funding. But this wrongly assumes that money is the sole motivator people have for starting a business. Further, it ignores the massive economic value that the venture ecosystem has created.

Some people want to retire early. Some people have bigger ambitions. Neither group is right or wrong, but, if you're starting the business, you should know which group you're part of.
Changed it. THX! We're Free and will be free in future
Basic income is not radical
Postmark started supporting bulk/marketing email awhile back over a separate stream type ("Broadcasts"), in addition to transactional email: https://postmarkapp.com/message-streams
"Generated by dart thrown at wall" doesn't quite have the same ring to it though it is effectively the digital version of that.
This is how PG markets YC as well. Why do you think he wrote all those essays? :)
Where are you getting this? This site shows around 2-3% margins.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KR/kroger/profit-m...
Hey, thanks! I'm trying my best, this is all I know. :)

Now I feel better just because an internet stranger is having a better day, honestly! :)

Hope you have a great day, too.
Just Get Shit Done and build a car that's controlled by a Russian botnet. Live laugh love that
In defence of power points with switches
What does that have to do with an iPhone X?
The Servitude Bubble. Tech isn't making a "sharing" – by umair haque – Bad Words
> The startup's AC units suck moisture out of the air for more efficient cooling.

As someone who lives in the Gulf Coast area, any amount of moisture sucked out of the air is welcome. Take it all! There's an infinite amount of humidity around here. :-)
no, but in other parts of the world, there is no sense that you will imminently a) change the world with some doodad gadget or b) be a millionaire by picking up a startup lottery ticket.
> If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure. You will have to shutdown/get acquired for nothing.

There are several noteworthy exceptions to this generalization.

If you retain board control, you’re free to run a lifestyle business and pay out dividends to you and your investors. Plenty of VC funded companies have founder-controlled boards.

Also, you can negotiate a buyout of your VC’s and shift to lifestyle once you fail to grow.
Double sigh. I am even guilty of building this because well investors need to see AI in our product description. So what do we do? Slap an ai button everywhere and call openai. Never mind that you could just do the same thing say by calling an existing python library!
I found an aftermarket one in a local store: https://www.akku-elem.hu/Utangyartott-BIOS-elem-02K6486-200m... (I think they make them themselves)
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37867334
I would guess that this is actually SBF acting through an accomplice. Of course everyone's going to look at SBF when asking where that final $400 million went. Right now he's on trial, in the courtroom, everyone sees him there -- perfect Alibi.
I use Wipr on iOS and Mac OS. It works amazingly well.
> Why bother with the startup risk to make that amount?

One reason that hasn’t been mentioned yet as of this comment: ownership. Your startup is yours. You have the vision, you run the business, and there’s nobody to blame for anything but yourself.

When I was doing game development I got frustrated with the yearly post-mortem where we’d identify what things didn’t go well and what we could do to improve, only to make the same mistakes the next year. The company was relying on ambitious and hard-working people like me to keep fixing the same mistakes and avoid having to do deep planning and make hard decisions early.

With my own company, I still made mistakes but they were my mistakes to make and fix, and I never had to pull overtime to fix someone else’s mistake. I was far happier making a lot less money. (Up to a point… you can’t live on nothing. :P)

There are other benefits like doing both customer relations and engineering, which can make you better at both, and the slim potential for a large payout of FU money, among other things. Running a business isn’t for everyone, but wanting to and being willing to take all the responsibility is one thing you can’t get as a normal employee.
A chatbot system which is really state of the art will be a hybrid. In fact, that's one of the most compelling attributes of chatbots for customer service: the customer cannot know at all if a bot is answering sometimes and a human answering at other times.

That is, if the chatbot gets in trouble it ought to punt to a human. Similarly a human should be able to monitor the chatbot and take over if it perceives the chatbot is getting into trouble.
that isn't OCD
I think this is better than GPT4 for storywriting/rp, especially with a custom grammar restriction and custom sampling parameters:

https://huggingface.co/Sao10K/Euryale-1.3-L2-70B-GGUF

Mistral 7B finetunes are pretty amazing as well.

Not sure about the code generation side of things. Llama was actually really bad at this relative to other tasks, and I hear even 34B is pretty mediocre, but there are some more obscure foundational programming models I have not tried.
Every time I leave the house I realize how much my Pihole blocks. At some point I should put it online so I can use it for DNS everywhere.
How about telling something not understandable or asking something obvious? Former gives you a chance of being switched to human.
Stated in the article. It's dried using a heat pump.
> How do you tackle this?

By installing this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027

It's not the ultimate triple-A ad blocker but it hides the vast majority of crap.

---

For subjective site customisation (as opposed to typical ad/tracker blocking) it's also quite straightforward to use the following to inject your own JS/CSS into pages: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887
uBlock Origin is great, it's the one I use wherever I can, together with Firefox. On iOS I like the AdGuard + Safari combination, though, and the blocking lists also work in most in-app browsers.
At least on Android, Brave handles the ads, pop ups, cookie notices, etc very well for me.
Lacking tabs is Focus's entire value proposition
Loading LLM (Llama-2 70B) 20x faster with Anyscale Endpoints
How long does it take to download Llama2 70B? On the 4x 25 Gbps NICs that aws.p4de's have, it should take ~10s. Yet in production we've observed much higher times, which makes autoscaling less responsive + more expensive. This blog post shows how we've reduced download & init time from 4m25s to 20s, using techniques such as streaming S3->CPU->GPU and multiple TCP streams.
I've also been around a while and I agree completely, but I think articles such as this amount to more uncritical skepticism than substance.

The cat fairy was a cherry picked example.

Back in the early days of the internet I dealt a lot in retail. Adults would come in and say things like "What would I ever do with the internet?". Today feels a lot like those early days. Make of it what you will.
> I will pay money for you to not use the word AI anywhere on your app. Make that the premium tier and I will buy it...

No you won't!
Governments will mandate by law that the OS do client side scanning by peeping inside the app directories. Apple, Google, Microsoft will comply and realistically, which phones and computers are we going to use if we don't buy from them? Desktop Linux might become illegal.
Open up two black terminal windows on Ubuntu that overlap and there is literally zero differentiation between the two.
The biggest bargain routers I've used all come from Xiaomi, but you need to check their pages on the OpenWRT wiki very carefully, because there are very similar models with very different compatibility stories.

Flashing them is always fun, because their stock GUI is in Chinese and you do this by looking at it through one of the camera translator apps on your phone.
Look if I want to host some white noise I can't be held responsible for what happens if people xor it together with some other file hosted elsewhere.
I'm not using lists that disable cookie banners, exactly for that reason.
Large Language Models Can Learn Rules
Apple iCloud data loss – any suggestions?
TLDR: lost large amounts of data in iCloud storage following frozen "iCloud Settings" window on Mac Sonoma 14.0.

Setup: two MacBooks, two iPads, and one iPhone all logged in to iCloud with the same ID, and all set up to sync "desktop & documents folders". Convenient - I can review code, documents, etc. while traveling and work from either MacBook (one is large, one is travel size).

Yesterday I notice that passwords are not syncing across devices - password change on macbook was not reflected on iPhone. I go it to iCloud settings on MacBook to check if sync is turned ON. For some reason it (iCloud Passwords & Keychain > Sync this Mac) shows sync turned OFF (it was definitely ON before). I move the slider to turn the sync ON; at this point the entire settings window just freezes. First time ever I had the window completely freeze on MacBook. I wait about 5 minutes and reboot the MacBook (reboot seems to work normally). After reboot, passwords do sync up and I think "all good".

Today I realize large amounts of data is gone from all iCloud on all devices. For example, here's all that's left of a large CPP project:

project_name
cpp
src
CMakeLists.txt
tools
Dockerfile.el7

That's it - two files. Out of hundreds. I check all devices, also check iCloud Drive via web browser - same. Luckily this one's also in Git. But many other documents are not. I've been completely relying on iCloud for storage of personal documents for about a year now.

Google and ChatGPT seem to not be of much help. Apple support in progress but not much so far. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. And in general, thoughts on reliability of iCloud primary (only?) storage of important documents?