skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would actually be a significant improvement, as SEO affiliate blogspam would lose its economic incentive, making it easier to find authentic sites again.
My favorite part of Uplink was the module you could buy to talk to other hackers. Which of course turned out to be an actual IRC channel with actual people! I hung out in the channel for a year or two (via real IRC client, probably mIRC), and after the game’s popularity faded a bit it was a running joke when players would once in a while still join from the game and be pleasantly surprised to find “real people” in the game.

PS I remember now someone (Scaevolous? WolfLord? Rkiver? Zaptan?) had written an irc bot in python, and it was the first time I’d ever contributed to an open source project :)
IIRC upgrade-in-place won't work without TPM hardware, but fresh installs work. (I was able to do that on an older Surface that nominally wasn't Win-11 compatible).
Love these sounds in Kerbal, actually made a package that adds a few to Chatterer.
Thanks, this is serendipitous and fascinating timing for me. Literally just a few hours ago I finished Walter Isaacson's excellent biography on Einstein and was enthralled by the story of Einstein's brain. Remarkable the coincidences of life sometimes!
You missed with your analogy. Germany (Palestine) wasn't happy with what it got, started a war, lost it. It became radicalized, Nazis (Hamas) came to power and sought to utterly exterminate some of its neighbors and some groups of people. They didn't want to have peace talks to the very bitter end. I guess you Netherlanders were the lucky ones, because you were pure enough to be not considered an inferior race.
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For 250k I imagine it's a very stressful sysAdmin/DevOps position where they're expected to be Jack of all trades.
Do you ever think how much better the world would be off if Alphabet wasn't allowed to buy all those things? I do. Antitrust has to come back in a big way.
Its truly sad we cant get access to fully use the phone resources. Like programming in C or even assembler.
I didn't mean to generalize the use of certificate. It would be for a specific protocol for a specific application. I just wanted to justify that we are not required to use three way handshake.

Revocation is indeed a weak point of this solution as it would take time, probably a transaction, to check. This problem might be mitigated by shortening the certificate validity duration.

I don't see why time synchronization would be critical if the validity periods are slightly overlapping.
Is the pricing difference stem from market discrimination on the part of Samsung or tax avoidance on the part of Mercadolibre?
You're right. I think it's fair to carve out fiction from my argument. For that, I would surely go to the source material until the point where the LLM was coming up with better long-form fiction de-novo. But for non-fiction, which I would guess is the economically and intellectually more important category to protect, the effects may be devastating.

I also agree that attribution can't be solved easily in the current paradigm. Perhaps, during training, one could deduce how much of the net gradient on a particular weight was derived from the batches covering some book, and then during inference, assign attribution based on the effect of that weight on the output. All of this is very expensive to do, and I don't have strong intuitions for whether the resulting attributions would be in any way meaningful.

To your point about hallucinations, if there's not a solution to that, then perhaps the whole point is moot when, after a while, the hype dies down. But if somehow hallucinations are solved (I don't see a technical way this can happen now, but who knows?), then I think we'll need to address attribution for non-technical material.
Yes but when you have 5 relevant ads, the highest bidder goes to the top. The highest bidder can stay there by charging the customer more of what it has to pay Google to stay at the top. As long as the customer is not vigilant, Google pockets this money. So if you ignorantly believe Google gives better ads then they'd abuse this to just charge advertisers, and thus you, more.
I love everything about your story and what you built. In the process of doing something similar.

Nice work!
Is Netflix still using their Titus container platform? It’s mentioned at the start of the post but the rest of the post seems to be able Kubernetes. Also the Titus repos on GitHub were archived a year ago.

https://github.com/Netflix/titus
Ask HN: ChatGPT's Search might redefine Privacy norms and shake up Ad world
I believe my $20 investment is now justified. With ChatGPT, I can create and interpret images, have a coding assistant that proficiently addresses almost any query, and now with the search feature, I have the option to shift away from Google. I engaged ChatGPT in a discussion about privacy concerns, and the responses provided seemed to address user privacy issues effectively. What are your thoughts? Response from ChatGPT:

“The exact details regarding whether the IP address of a user gets logged when utilizing Bing through ChatGPT are not publicly available based on the sources accessed. The documents and articles discuss the integration of Bing for browsing and searching, but do not provide specific information about IP address logging .

Typically, when a user interacts with a search engine directly, their IP address, and other metadata might be logged by the search engine. However, the setup may be different when the interaction is happening through an intermediary like ChatGPT.

The privacy implications and data logging practices might be governed by the terms of service and privacy policies of both OpenAI and Microsoft (which operates Bing). It’s advisable to review these documents or contact OpenAI and Microsoft directly for precise information regarding privacy and data logging when using the browsing feature in ChatGPT.”

Everything relies on OpenAI deciding what to do with user data in future.
How does this manage to scale? With even a modest number of drivers, you'd think the maintenance burden would be unreasonably high in terms of needing to have someone available who understands how a set of drivers work, knows how to test them, and keeps them up-to-date.
I absolutely adore Obra Dinn, but its got the replay ability of a really, really good crossword puzzle.

But not all is lost - I get almost as much enjoyment out of watching other people play through it and uncover the mystery.
>like restricting kids to keep them from scraping their knee

Extremely on-brand for the UK.
Do you want to unpack it with unzip —-geopolitical or —-realpolitik? And which moral framework shall we init? Consequentialism or Duty-based Ethics or Moral Relativism or Rights-based Ethics. I suggest for your own well-being that you find a way to look at it that doesn’t cause any cognitive dissonance with any beliefs you have about your own goodness.
This comment prompted me to think of some website that I rely upon that uses such adware to survive. I can’t think of a single one! Most things I use either dont have ads, ask for donations, or use a paywall/subscription system.
Ipinfo.io – Halloween Hunt 2023
The pixels were sometimes larger than my thumb though. And every video was cut into short segments.
You just declared a bunch of stuff illegal without even knowing a thing about them.

Scripts are continuously accessing browser state. It’s what web sites do. She. You visit a site you give consent to the site to run its code on your system. You can’t have a website without this.

Under your silly assertion loading any website ads or not would be a violation.
It starts with the power users. GPT4 has certainly had a big impact on my Google searches.

For example, all my tech support searches are now GPT4. Those are painful on Google. There's no need to verify with a Google search, since you can just try out what GPT4 says.

Concrete example: I use it all the time to help me with Excel. What it suggests is nearly always correct. It has turned me into an Excel power user within a few weeks.

You need to develop a sense for what it's likely to be correct on, but once you do it's insanely useful. Simple rule of thumb: if you think you'd find a direct response to your question by wading through pages of ad infested Google results, it'll definitely work great on GPT4.

The way I recall it, it took multiple years for Google to go from a secret power user thing to displacing Yahoo and Altavista for the broad user base. And that was at a time where being online in itself was sort of an early adopter thing.

Anyway, I guess my point is, I would be worried if I was Google, and ignore this tech at your own risk...
“The S in IoT stands for security.”
You guys are so naïve. The answer is that everyone will end up on a Chinese clone of Youtube which will simply ignore GDPR.
ZTE is not connected to Samsung. There were some budget ZTE phones sold in the USA about 10 years ago. I believe ZTE was banned by the US government, along with Huawei for doing shady things.
I want YouTube to become just one in the many competing video hosting services with various business and ownership models. I mostly like how nebula.tv runs their business (being owned collectively by the authors themselves, flat fee, no ads). Maybe we can have more of those instead?
That's not how public companies work, shareholders would sue in fact. If Google was private they could to whatever they want (see Valve), but they're not, so they don't.
Most of the time HN feels a little alien to me being from England.

But here we have something that's less than 3 miles from where I live.
Integer overflows/underflows don't affect commutativity, unless you refer to undefined behavior, which is...undefined and found only in C and C++ among common languages. 2's complement integer arithmetic is commutative for both addition and multiplication.

Thanks to BeetleB for pointing out that addition in IEEE floats is indeed commutative (I originally claimed "+0 + -0 = +0 vs. -0 + +0 = -0" which is incorrect).

As for IEEE-754 floats, addition is commutative as long as you don't care about exact bit patterns:

NaN + NaN may return different bit patterns. The result is still NaN, so the only way you can tell this apart is by bit-casting floats to ints or byte arrays.

Multiplication over floats is also commutative modulo the caveat above.
Linux or windows 10 LTSC, which has has support till 2029
Worked on computer vision. I agree with all this!
AdBlocking has been free and effective for the past 20 years, how did the internet not die?
not sure what you're talking about. i've been on the internet long before ads became ubiquitous and forced, and it worked just fine. youtube is highly profitable for google already. my device, my rules.
There is no debate in the sense of dispassionately presenting facts; sincerely seeking to understand the merits of the opposing view; being willing to own fault where factually based; accepting compromise, &c.

Unless I've missed, like, a lot.
Or, I don't know, consume content that people don't put behind a paywall? I view this all as a manifestation of the network's core feature of routing around damage. Monetization and centralization is a scourge on the system's value in propagating humanity's shared knowledge. As the pendulum swings, I think we'll see a shattering of the stranglehold these soulless money seeking empires have on that effort.
Or the sort of websites I visit that don’t do banner ads or tracking. I would like to have that signal to noise ratio improved so this would be the best thing for the modern internet imo. Goodbye ai written recipe website. Hello crusty technical engineering blogs.
Noone will force you to use adblock so what the heck are you whining about?
Worry not, chumps.

Google's "Web Integrity" and Microsoft's mandatory TPM in Windows are working hard to save the day!

What Google servers send is what your browser will render. Guaranteed integrity, end to end. Though not "your" browser technically. And not really "your" machine anymore, but nevermind that. Just sit back and enjoy your YouTube.
Thanks for the kind words and the great questions!

-- LlamaIndex has some excellent abstractions. In fact, I started off this project with LlamaIndex using their sub-question query engine. However, I found that the abstractions often obfuscate the prompt templates and the pipeline itself from the user. I found that writing my own pipeline was easier than trying to figure out how to engineer the prompts that LlamaIndex was using.

-- It is possible to non-serially issue independent sub-question queries (e.g., using async io). LlamaIndex does something similar. However, I would be extra careful while issuing parallel sub-queries due to the brittle nature of the system.

-- Cool project! I like the fact that the agent decision-making is clearly shown in the UI. A few questions: 1) How do you handle LLM output inconsistencies? 2) Can the user change the prompts for tasks or sub-tasks if the output is not satisfactory? Overall, a great idea and this sub-question query engine might simplify some of the abstractions here.
It was originally released in 2001, hardly the only game from that era that doesn't scale that well with higher resolutions.
I appreciate the example, but here's where I think it differs as an analogy of what LLMs do:

A summary doesn't have infinite or variable depth. If you read the summary of a non-fiction (I'll limit my argument to that, as another poster pointed out) book, and either aren't convinced, or want to learn more about the matter, you'd have to purchase the book.

An LLM that has ben trained on the book, if somehow designed not to hallucinate, would be able to answer any question you have about the book at any depth, seamlessly blending in material from other books to answer a question or explain a concept. That seems like an entirely better experience than reading the book from start-to-finish. I don't see how the original can compete.
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can you expand on "user-hostile with regard to privacy"? I genuinely thought Apple is a lot more private than Samsung
I'm not talking about today's Germany.

I was referring to post-war Eastern Europe where land property was so fragmented that famines would still happen because individual peasants didn't have enough land to meet MVP (minimum viable produce of anything should anything go awry and it always did).

And 1900s Germany doesn't require state farms precisely because commercially viable land was already concentrated enough (though heck knows what sacrifices that we'll never know) to be viable in the hands of capital that has the means to handle it.

State farms were a great step forward for humanity, in spite of the terrific occasional human costs it incurred on the imbeciles who couldn't read the times. Capital where it wasn't compared to no capital, that is.

Talking about 1900s Germany, that reminds me of a story my grandpa told me. He had a cousin that moved from rural Romania to urban Germany in order to work in a factory, after abandoning his pig trade that my grandma was doing (fattening pigs and selling them in an animal market). The idea was not to immigrate but to make enough hard $$$ as to buy here at home enough land that he couldn't have even dreamed otherwise. An early IT-guy I guess :)

Anyhow after he came back, the women of the village asked his wife who was at all times following him. "How did you manage to buy things given you speak no German at all?!". "Well, unlike the backwards shop here where the seller sits behind a counter under the presumption that you'll steal shit and asks you what you want, in Deutschland shops are open space. They provide you with a basket on entry, into which said basket you freely pick stuff from shelves in the store and all you have to do upon exit is show the basket to the clerk store and they will show you the number. You pay that (it's just numbers so you don't have to know any German at all) and off you go".

That was 1900s... Very advanced by comparison.
Off topic: maybe used to reading technical papers too much, but this is an overly long article for a pass-by read, and it has no paragraph summarizing the author's main thesis.

What are some good online services that can take a URL and give back a few bullet points? (which would then help decide whether to spend 20 - 30 mins to read the arguments)
I'm still soyfacing over sqlite and how elegant and powerful it is, and I'll continue deciding software architecture based on random blog posts. I have learned nothing.
The book “Trust me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator” discussed this, though focusing more on blogs than traditional news media.
The academic web was paid by taxation. Almost everything that is interesting about the web was funded by advertising.
It would be nice if we could actually get rid of the ads from meatspace altogether... It would be sooo much better...
Or social media becomes a lot smaller in Europe and society turns out to be better without it... Who knows?
> The Israelis are dropping JDAMs, mortars and artillery into the most densely populated area in the world.

What specific area are you talking about? The Gaza strip as a whole is about 15k people per mi^2. Gaza City is in the 20-40k per mi^2 (sources vary quite a bit).

Going with 40k per mi^2 would put it around 70th on the list of densest cities [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popul...
Balance in all things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38021463
So what is the solution here? Get rid of protective regulations? Nah. If humans are irrelevant, the. We have an entirely different set of problems to solve anyways, and no reasonable way to predict what the solutions would be. In the meantime in the present, I’m more than happy to keep consumer protection regulation, until there is a non-speculative argument to be had, but then at that point the discussion would have to be on the merits of the new situation.
United Nuclear has those https://unitednuclear.com/magnaview-film-p-629.html
"Real Money" Investors and Everybody Else
https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-summarize-an-a...
I think you've kinda hit why systems like the Django Admin aren't more common. At some point you simply need to build custom code. I've seen engineers spend so much time futzing with the Django Admin trying to contort it to their use case when they could have just built their own form in a fraction of the time.

I was going to question the "tremendous value of Django Admin", but I thought I shouldn't. I was going to say something along the lines that it creates this mediocre form inputs so that backend engineers don't have to write an HTML form and they can ship something to their users without having to touch the front-end. However, I actually do agree that there is a good amount of value in the Django Admin. Having a mediocre UI to touch the data is really valuable. I think the problem is that you start thinking it should be the only UI for touching the data.

The solution to your problem might be creating something custom with some utilities. What does the Django Admin offer you? A way of displaying a table of data? A link to a form to update that data? You could build what you need.

I'm not sure what you're looking for in terms of something "that feels more like software engineering." I don't even know what your use case is for the Django Admin. Are you a shop doing lots of small projects for clients so you need a way for them to edit the data that looks passably professional while taking the absolute minimum of dev time? Are you creating a single product and maybe you should just spend a little bit more time on data access? Why do you want something that "feels like software engineering?"

At some point, there might be cases where you simply need custom stuff for certain things.
Newspapers are competing with social media's rumor mill. There is intense pressure for speed to capture attention (and ad revenue). Sometimes inaccuracy make it through fast editorial reviews. This isn't the first or last error, and they do occur "in favor" of both sides.

This article is a great demonstration. Al Jazeera seems to be the source that rephrased "victims" as "dead". They are typically a trustworthy information source. However, this is a very politically sensitive topic for Al Jazeera - the lesson would have been exercising more editorial review (or at least citing them as the source).

Individual incompetence or systemic failures are always more likely than "deep state actors"
This is one of the many things Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 film depicted correctly, as opposed to how the tones were simulated on quite a few other TV shows and films about that era of space flight. For example, some of the more egregious depictions had the tones coming from astronaut transmissions, not the ground transmissions. Knowing this would have been a simple matter of research, but a lot of folks apparently didn’t do it.
And how would that domestic competitor make money? Can't use ads, can't charge a subscription fee. What else?

Where would this domestic competitor even get the content from? Steal it from YouTube/TikTok?
Advertisers are welcome to set up a website where you can watch their ads to earn money, which you can then choose to spend as you choose, whether on food or on (formerly free & ad-supported) services.
(other founder here) Yep, you got it! This is particularly relevant in the testing usecase where we started: "can we do whole-system E2E testing, so you catch more outliers before you hit Prod?"
I just want you to always and forever remember and admit that this is what you were doing during this. Hemming and hawing about who you can call scum without quite admitting to yourself you're advocating for genocide. You can never pretend that you didn't know what we were doing, or that you meaningfully opposed it.
Yes, true the fine-tuning is not new and indeed I also view it as "starting with an incredibly well-initialized network"

However, the promotable aspects of those vision models are completely new. You can define your tasks at runtime and steer the model behavior. I think this makes it easier and faster to insights from your images.
Lastly, those models are trained on a lot of different tasks compared to previous models that were general classifiers and that could then be trained on a specific domain. This allows them for example to be reused in an organisation and prevents you from creating multiple task-specific models
Footsteps of Ptolemy: Science of Monetary Policy and the Inflation of 2021-2023
Thank you. It's the best argument against the certificate suggestion I have read so far. It's a problem I overlooked.

Edit: If the server creates the certificate with a three way handshake, it will use the remote IP address. So the client doesn't have to know it's IP address
One conclusion: delete Twitter from the world and this wouldn't have happened.

Also: as just a casual consumer of this news, it seemed fishy at the time so why wasn't it fishy to grizzled news reporters?
Just because you value traditions it doesn’t void basic economic laws proved over centuries (supply and demand).

> OK USA has screwed it's food chain, but that does not apply outside.

How? Spain imports quite a bit food.

https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/opportunities-us-agricultural-....