skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does protobuf or capnproto have good tooling support out in the world?

Buf (author of the article) has made it their mission to build out that tooling and support for Protobuf. I think they're doing a good job.

Cap'n Proto's ecosystem is admittedly weak, since it as yet has no full-time team trying to build this out.

(Disclosure: I'm the author of Cap'n Proto and, long ago, Protobuf v2. I'm also a small investor in Buf.)
Do adblocks actually lie or spoof to the extent that adblocking isn't literally just making it all invisible despite the fact its still going on?
What is the letter 'A' supposed to look like?

Every scribe had their own style and flourish. Every scribe was an artisan. Discerning patrons favored particular scribes for their uniqueness and quality.

Somehow, someway, the hivemind mostly settled on today's 'A'. Something good enough.

Moveable type replaced scribes.

And so it is with sliders and flexbox layouts.
I agree I hate this style and the bold words make it slower to read. If you hold so much, then everything else is just fluff so get rid of it.
> is achingly small

don't agree. the amount of written words we feed in, yes. but a tottler is a multimodal system including not only audio/images but actually video, plus other senses like touch or smell. This complex input 24/7 is a lot of data that happens, and some brain relations to classify the world in form before it can spell out a label (word) for it.

Even just looking at a simple word (like "apple"), the human already has a lot of contextual information about it, mostly how its presented and how the presenter frames it (like yummy, tasty fruit! like other foods in the fridge, ...), and then people say the word physically pointing at the thing.

My guess thats an order of magnitude more total input than our LLMs get solely via text or other standalone channels for training.
Which is fine, until Spotify or the artist for whatever political, business reason decide to remove the content.
But then there's the matter of purchasing specific drives etc... that just means it isn't trivial is all I meant by that
> Caffeine dependence is terrible and widespread.

There are plenty of reasons to not want to be dependent on caffeine, but I wouldn't put its dependence in the terrible category.
Honestly, with things like whisper out in the world it's not as much of a loss. The integration with media players was nice, though.
As far as I can tell they are just changing their API? Can someone tell me what makes that less open?
I distinctly recall the what.cd "entrance test" IRC bot.
I fucking hate that I can’t tell my phone to use my phone mic and not the AirPods mic. At least I can on laptops.
> leaving only correct interpretations

Unlike humans, LLM's can consistently realize (or at least claim to realize) when they've made a mistake (like assuming one's beliefs are necessarily correct, [because some persuasive story]).
I think spam is the single best savory food in the world, by a large stretch. No chicken, steak, seafood, or anything else even cokes close. It's got the tender texture of Vienna sausages
, but with a bit of added crisp, in a nice rectangular UX that's easy to add to sandwiches or musubis or ramen or anything else. It's divinity in a can.

Sadly I'm vegetarian these days. They actually make a veggie copycat that mostly tastes like a slice of congealed fat, which to be fair is largely what real spam is too, but... it's just not the same. The nostalgia, man.

Glad there's folks like you out there still enjoying the stuff. I shall savor it vicariously through your post (and hopefully newsletter).
This looks like a really cool project; would you be open to us PR'ing support for the 50k fine-tuned models on Roboflow Universe[1] via an `inference`[2] integration?

[1] https://roboflow.com/universe

[2] https://github.com/roboflow/inference
I use two mice. I have a trackball mouse for my left hand and also use a conventional mouse for my right hand. I switch back and forth throughout the day. I suffered CTS early in my career when getting a full time job. I could not work full time without this setup.
The thing I can't understand is that netplan is just a bunch of janky C that is almost entirely parsing logic and the thinnest wrapper humanly possible over systemd-networkd/networkmanager that does all the real work. And the abstraction leaks for anything but the simplest cases so your files are targeting a specific backend anyway.

systemd-networkd already gives you simple declarative INI networking files and a dbus interface. I can't find any value-add over just using its backends directly.
Meanwhile, in Russia they're making all kinds of smart drugs that work way better than the ones in the study: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/an-iron-curtain-has-de...

Piracetam was also developed in Romania in the 60s. I don't like communism or anything, but the complete ignorance of the U.S medical system about drugs developed outside the United States that are now out of patent is just a tragedy. Luckily, in the 80s and 90s AIDS patients lobbied to let foreign drugs be imported because many of them worked better than the domestically developed AIDS drugs.

What's weird is illegal drugs are vastly more popular and studied in the U.S, with the recent hallucinogen microdosing trend, than drugs that have been used safely for decades overseas.
Speaking of grass distribution.

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0009

There is a lot of detail that goes into it sometimes.
That's a silly complaint; much of that work had to be done and demonstrated before they'd sign off.
Not for interviews, video-applications, is used to sense stress and give extra points (not deducting them) if a person is indeed just too shy of being on video vs talking about something ; )
The Tiktokization of software development. Software made to look good in videos
Actually genius
Calling someone a cultist because they went to bed and didn't reply in a timeframe you considered proper is not suitable discussion for HN.
How would it know? If anything this is one of the only places where it’s not an ouroboros because of the citations.

But yeah, I have to imagine LLM-produce material is already on its way back into the next models. I wonder how this problem is perceived among the people building these systems. Given that they’re not yet near ASI or AGI yet, it’s gotta be close to an existential issue, no?

Maybe not “your company will collapse,” but “you will not be able to get further improvements.”

Would love to hear thoughts from someone who is actually addressing this (or knows why we don’t need to).
You're comparing apples/oranges. The comparison you should be making is ufw vs. firewalld and firewalld wins easily.

UFW will always hold a special place in my heart but firewalld is just a whole other level.
Ah great, so they are now spamming everything. Not long ago that was illegal.
Indeed. It's good to keep that in mind when we're encouraged to draw firm conclusions - or, worse, provoked into strong emotions - based on broad abstractions. Of course, we often do need to form opinions, but it follows that we should appropriately discount our conclusions, and appropriately weight those of people who have more-detailed experience.
The article says "Shift logic to the application level to reduce database load."

(Emphasis mine.)

It may have been edited since you commented (perhaps because of your comment), but it seems like they aren't actually advocating to do joins at the application level.
it's a piece of crap, but my 12 year old itanium box has 8 cores, sas controller, actual pcie ports, 10gb ethernet, and suppports up to 384GB of ram

unlike raspberry pi 5

say what you will about power efficiency and better options existing, but simply looking at the hardware, these are still capable machines
I don't know what that means.

I can tell you that I've been typing since my first c64 in 1989.

I once placed in the top 20 of typeracer by using a basic apple keyboard I found lying around at work.

I know how to type very well.

I still want a proper nordic keyboard on my laptop.
Nice, Let me know how if works for you, for me only the hardware (led outside the screen perimeter) works best.
> Also, omission of facts is not lying.

Not always, but it can be. If someone is allowing people to believe something false by withholding information, that is a form of lying.
>Unsurprisingly, amidst the incredible volume of information coming at us, there’s been a surge in low-res, ideologically-driven views: the world is like this, those people are like that, X is good, Y is bad, A causes B. Not complicated, bro.

>The world exists in infinite resolution, and that’s what we’re built for.

Except of course that's not how people or nature work. Call it an algorithm or heuristic or whatever you want, but e.g. "don't eat brightly colored animals" is wildly successful. The world does exist in "infinite resolution" but we are not built for it. That's the basic premise of The Good Place: life's too complicated for a person to look at the infinite resolution of everything; just doing the best one can and trying to do better is really all we can do. Don't over-generalize about people, but these shorthands are how we get through an infinitely complicated day.

Also, as a kid playing some version of what we called murder[1], a good rule of thumb was the murderer was the one who gave too much detail.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wink_murder
Accessibility is legally mandated in many cases and if you ever want to sell your app to government or enterprise customers, it’s likely to be a requirement.
SPAM is fucking awesome. I'm pretty sure the only reasons it got a bad rep is that it was EVERYWHERE for a while since it was a high calories, dense, tasty food that kept well and needed no cooking.

It's literally just potted meat in a can. SPAM is awesome, just don't eat too much of it because calories.
Do you have two ferns from which to work between/conduct interviews?
He's a guy from Odessa whose famous in Russian speaking spaces (and sometimes on Reddit) for having lots of pockets filled with things.
I may be wrong but isn't that what chain of thought, verification etc claim to solve? As I understand them, you essentially feed back the llm back as a prompt and ask to verify if it's true and fix mistakes until "convergence"
That is certainly a fine practice, but my disagreement is with the claim that doing this is necessary for open-mindedness, and that those who do not are "probably" doing something highly silly.
The article’s author is a professional programmer, I don’t think anyone in their right mind would ever say that that’s not a programmer. I think the comment OP just screwed up and either merely skimmed the article or confused the author with the author’s friend who is not a programmer.
Who said that it had to be ? Paintings / Photographs / Movies / Video Games aren't real either, and still we appreciate them nonetheless.

Some of the issues that you raise up can still probably dealt with.

It's a shame that TFA stops at the molecular level, because lower than that things are different. To start with, details aren't infinite. You literally cannot tell elementary particles apart, because they do NOT have detail, and this has wide-ranging implications. One of the laws of physics that is deemed to be the most inviolable is the law of paraconservation of information : our ability to transform energy into useful work depends on the information we have about the system in question ! Related to this, the number of involved particles is typically so huge that you can assume fluctuations to be negligible.

So for instance what one could do, is to only simulate the reality deep enough depending on the momentary attention the user is paying to a specific part of it, and rely on statistics otherwise. And only store the history of those parts, and only for as long as they are expected to persist.

You could also provide intricate and this time literally infinite amount of detail using fractals - if exact reproduction isn't the goal.

«Transferring your soul» is a way harder question, since you would have to first figure out what you even mean by «soul».
Most people on social media lurk and don't post. They're more or less being chased off the platforms these days due to the bombardment of ads, influencer marketing and UI Tiktokification.
Portable USB monitor for business trips. That second monitor when on the road does wonders.
It can and does, there is the facility to upload native rasp-pi code and have it execute natively, not even pretending to be an ARM1.
I don't eat tomatoes, but... How does the date encoding work?

215 = August
245 = September

Is it just the day of the year?
What whisper?
I should probably write a post about this, but comments are easier.

0) LLMs introduce the challenge of automated semantic verification.

1) LLM work should be broken up by usecase. These use cases lie on a semantic complexity continuum.

2) Tasks like classification are simple to verify (precision recall etc.). Tasks that require semantic complexity like summarizaiton are on the other end.

3) Anything on the high semantic complexity end of the scale needs expert human review.

4) Chained or complex calls greatly complicate verification

Which is why you are getting use out of it. There is a human (you) in the loop, and the calls are not complex.

As long as a human is reviewing the output of the LLM every time, its great. This is the vast majority of "generative" output.

Its when you have things like agents, or chained calls that things go awry. ITs why proof of concepts are easy, but production is hard.

For the record, many people have called this out, including people at Open AI, and AI ops was the largest sub group in YC's fall batch.
"at long last, we have created the Torment Nexus" (EDIT: didn't notice that the link posted by jtr1 points to the original "Torment Nexus" tweet)
Again, you act like building power infrastructure is a "we're done!" scenario. It's like demanding to know how many more lines of code Linux will need to be finished.

Germany - and the rest of their interconnected EU grid - will continue to build out cheap, clean power for the forseeable future.
> I had hoped to be able to get complex tasks done entirely with assistance from the LLM. In the end it helped maybe 20-30%.

Ok but if you would do the same task again, how much would it help you?

> When I went back to the videos of people using chatgpt to build a website in under 30 minutes - its always someone who knows the domain extensively.

You are one step closer to become this person.
OK, so LLM's (a) have no pre-wiring (b) have no sensory connection but they can still spit out remarkably good language, and thus they must be a good model for humans and animals?
I wonder if there could be a way to use this technique to 3d print something like HASEL actuators for artificial muscles to go along with the tendons and bones.
Nice read, interesting discussion. I'd add that switching one's perspective from one viewing angle to another, regardless of the resolution, often provides invaluable information. A classic example is looking at two different shadows - one is a square, the other is a circle. The same object (a cylinder) can cast these two shadows.

In the realm of ideas, such as the examples given on drug prohibition and Napoleon, this translates into generating arguments for and against the idea. Indeed, when querying LLMs on subjects, one of the more useful techniques is to ask for the pro/con arguments, essentially getting the LLM to argue with itself.
All too true, sadly.

One simplistic "how to improve" idea: All real credentials must always be stored on an uber-secure Credentials Server. If any of your code puts them elsewhere - and Sec. Team regularly scans - it's "Instant PIP" for you.
AI's will capture viewtime so effectively that human creators channels will wither.

Most popular youtube content is already garbage in my opinion but many small kids are already happy viewing bottom tier AI gibberish for hours.

And if endless AI content will soon be good enough to hit the dopamine centers in adults, only the connoisseurs will seek out the human made content making the markets impossibly small for artisans creating video content.

It's already a tragedy that socialmedia has made it so 95% of all content consumed on the internet is made in the last 24 hours lowering the value of making an effort.

Everyone is in desperate need of quality, boundaries and strict media diets including myself.
I am not Jewish btw. Nor is Walter.
They're already showing ads... maybe you don't see them because you're using an adblocker.
Biden Has Wiped Away $127B in Student Loan Debt
It's possible all right, I've already done it. Imported Tesseract into Go with WASM.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146154

It's not trivial because you have to figure out intricacies of the language and whatever compiled it into WASM, and Emscripten compiled WASM does expect some JS glue code. But WASM with WASI doesn't inherently require JS. And since Emscripten's JS glue is called via WASM host imports, you can implement them in whatever the host language is.
... then they see the cloud bill.

Cloud companies found a way to directly monetize developers' love of complexity and overengineering. It's genius.
Great, we have a stochastic parrot writing scholarly articles.

This will not make everything on Internet even more difficult to separate from bullshit. /intense sarcasm
This is one paper with 190 citations and one paper with no citations.

The paper is only 2 pages in a prompt-response format, un-edited. The prompts are specific and ask for paragraphs about chatbots, AI and plagiarism. The author's note at the end, after ChatGPT was asked for references and gave several, is:

> Author’s note: These are not real references, unfortunately.

Edit: One more point -- Even though it was published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering it really doesn't have to do with either. It's a quick read.
Also wasnt CDDB also the one where basically we ended up with creative commons license?

The basic problem though is servers cost money and time to run. No one really wants to pay much for it. So these sorts of metadata sites come and go because they end up as the destination for popular 3rd party items to basically harvest their data. Then basically whoever runs it runs into an issue (job loss, crazy bill, anger, whatever) and says screw it this now costs money.
In this instance, it would know because of the citations.
We Have a UFO Problem. What We Don't Have (Yet) Is a Serious Answer
At the same time, if I can't have some degree of trust in my employer, out I go.

This is a two-way street. A team effort. Employers that take the point of view that it's a one-way thing are bad employers.
> "I'll just put everything in PostgreSQL and optimize later"

Sounds good to me!
I didn't look too much into it but I too have seen something long time past about patterns with light from a TV on some of those documentaries from the 80's, basically about people trying advertising with subjective flashes to induce a certain mood.
Soulseek is very much still around. I recently logged in for the first time in a long while, and I was able to get all kinds of rare recordings. That said, it seems a less social place than 20 years in terms of using the chat feature. I would suspect that the majority of heavy Soulseek sharers are now in their 30s and 40s, with careers and families, and not so interested in making new music friends.
Vehicular manslaughter is not premeditated. Drunk driving and careless driving are intentional acts though, and are the acts that need to be enforced better.
> Germany already overprovisioned.

You keep saying this, and then you keep saying they don't have enough. These both cannot be true, and Germany's continuing to expand their wind/solar efforts indicate they don't believe they've "overprovisioned" yet.

Germany's plan goes out to the 2050s. Your complaint that they haven't provisioned enough yet is not in good faith.
It's more the fact that power efficiency is something Arm values quite lot in their philosophy since their products are used in mobile and edge devices.
I'm suspecting there are server-side scripts on many sites which relay data to the RTB system? So blocking ads won't prevent this data from being transmitted then?

https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-is-server-side-conversion-...

https://sanjeev-pandey.medium.com/ad-tracking-in-server-side...
Embarrassing that they published that. Should not have been more than a blog post.
I think you may have had a Freudian slip yourself!
With respect to surveillance? Perhaps. In general? I think that's a pretty transparently absurd statement to make.
> It's not like competitors are about to make a reusable second stage, they are struggling to compete with Falcon 9.

The really disappointing thing about the latest crop of rockets (Vulcan, Ariane 6) is that they are not competitive with Falcon 9 for LEO missions and don't out perform it for GTO launches.

The upcoming batch of partially reusable rockets (New Glenn, Neutron, and Terran R) have a better shot, but word on the street is that New Glenn took the Shuttle strategy of being an expensive rocket and relying on reuse to get the per-launch cost down to a reasonable level; I'm unconvinced that that's a good strategy - it certainly didn't work well for the Shuttle. Especially since landing rocket boosters was pretty unreliable for SpaceX for quite a while.

And Neutron and Terran R are far enough out that it's very possible for Starship to come on line before they're ready.
Not always, not anymore, but the substitutes may not be any better...

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/bpa-update-tracking-c...
They augment those with their own index (named teclis).
Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: "No one does tech for good -especially not in fintech"
> Every company now has a mission/vision/culture statement touting trust, respect, inclusivity, innovation, ethics, and similar flapdoodle

Yes, but company mission statements are, and always have been, marketing nonsense that should be ignored. What matters is how things actually are.
I used to get great results from modafinil. But it slowed to the point of having no effect at all. Was concerned I was getting fake ones. So went to India where its made, bought from source and same thing. This was years after I had stopped already. But I'm grateful for the focus it gave me for 3 or 4 years.
if you are into canned food, check this youtube channel "cultmoo" among others
https://www.youtube.com/@CultMoo

look for their videos titles "it came in a can"

canned food been in vogue for a while now
also look for reviews of sweet sue whole chicken in a can
Reminds me of the Leeloo creation scene in 5th Element
> For example in 2007, making good sounding music required at least a studio. If you wanted to record 4 microphones at the same time, you needed expensive hardware.
Doing any kind of music editing required a huge machine and expensive software with expensive plugins.

A lot of people point to Garageband (released 2004) as having a big democratizing effect on digital audio production. I think v2 in 2005 supported recording 8 tracks simultaneously. Not an especially sophisticated tool (and arguably responsible for the built-in loops being heard in way too many popular songs), but a big change at a time when the alternative might have been a computer with ProTools and dedicated PCI cards.

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/apple-garageband-m...
Definitely! It is something I was thinking to do, I just did not find the time yet. I think allowing people to automatically load models from the Roboflow universe would be awesome!
The HHKB layout is a copy of the layout from old Sun UNIX keyboards: https://i.stack.imgur.com/D8RsW.jpg

I like it more than the conventional PC keyboard layout, it makes Esc and Ctrl more easy to access, and means you can press Backspace without having to stretch your pinky as far.