skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I set up the Linux version of Firefox on our company's Chromebooks so we could use client certificates (not available in the Android version available from Play Store).

It's super easy so I imagine any nerd with a Chromebook that wants more functionality that they can get from mobile apps would do it!
Yes. That’s very likely actually.
North of Europe used horseradish as the closer substitute.

Some notes:

1) The results depend on how we define spice. Many European countries use cheese to add interesting flavors to the food. Other parts of the world are more lactose intolerant and probably use spices where the west would simply use some type of cheese. A lot of berries dried or fresh could also play that role. Black currants could be easily included among spices for this purpose.

3) As a general rule, the poorest the diet, the more spices will include. If you basically eat rice each day, you will crave for something able to add a different taste each day

4) Places with more biodiversity have more choices. Small forests in Tropical areas have twenty times more tree species that entire countries in Europe so the number of possible sources of flavor is much higher.
Just came across a pycharm deal while browsing pypi https://lp.jetbrains.com/support-python/

> Purchase PyCharm at 30% OFF, and have all the proceeds of your purchase donated to support Python
I'm comfortable with Javascript. I'm not comfortable with constantly having to change and upgrade my code or build system for the next breaking change in Webpack or in an unreadable complex Typescript typing, or the spider web of React libraries.

Doing nothing is not an option either, because that bites you in the ass as well because that newer Node runtime turns out not to support a deprecated md5 hash function the outdated Webpack in this project, which only gets a few weeks attention per year, relied on.

Now I only have Blazor for my frontend with a little bit of gulp to compile some dart-sass with design tokens and do some minification on some glue javascript.
I dunno, where there is boat traffic there will be chop as well. So it's intercoastal, low traffic areas.
> Let readers make their own judgement about whether it's genuine.

Looks like they have -- it's been flagged (but not by me -- I'm not informed enough about this to make that kind of call).
According to a random Google search, something like 40% of internet users use an ad blocker.
Honestly, I feel that every discussion of this sort should have at least one Memento Mori comment.
I don't know what to say to your situation, because we're different people.

But I just always had a strong sense that life is too short to be spent on aggravation from people who stop mattering the instant you leave a job.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/2023/11/15/what-i-know...
I can certainly imagine some SIMD concepts in that. Particularly stream-compaction (or in AVX512 case: VPCOMPRESSD and VPEXPANDD instructions)

EDIT: I guess from a SIMD-perspective, I'd have expected an interleaved set of packets, a-la struct-of-arrays rather than array-of-structs. But maybe that doesn't make sense for packet formats.
98% of employees legitimately signed the letter wishing Sam to be reinstated, so I’m not sure how media or investors play in to that at all.
fine, ok
Canadian government discloses data breach after contractor hacks
> affluent neighbourhoods have lower (violent) crime rates but surrounding areas are literal sh*tholes
way to sell the city

Also, these statistics measure crime according to the laws, their enforcement and reporting. SF has lax laws, lax enforcement and underreporting.
Been my daily driver since 2021 and its rock solid, performance is maybe 5-10% slower.

Theres only one site I know of that doesn't 100% work in it, thankfully its not one I use all the time.
Not to mention this is an attack on multiple fronts: do you _really_ believe DoH is about privacy?
Unfortunately, you do not have to go to "deep Oakland" to encounter violent crime these days. It is kind of everywhere in Oakland now.
Is it the tech that is worth that much or the tech and the people that built the tech when future iterations of the product rely so heavily on the people? Losing 95 percent of the employees will definitely impact delivering future products and that will definitely impact future profits and that has to impact valuation.
A few people in this thread have recommended it but you need a rooted phone for this, right?
neat, too bad my Game Maker 5 license won't qualify though. still kinda salty it didn't transfer over when YoYo bought it out.
> Nobody wants to invest in a personality cult that's sworn an oath of fealty to one guy, dude. That's basically flushing money down the toilet, as this fiasco demonstrates.

Are you aware that Microsoft and Salesforce CEOs have both offered to hire any OpenAI employees who want to switch boat, while Nvidia CEO and Meta's FAIR team have both made similar but slightly lesser "call me" offers to all of them?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsoft-salesforce-nvidia-a...

> These lunatics are ready to sacrifice their children on twitter. You cannot work with people like that!

???
Oh yes it works, thanks!
This is how you get the DoJ to sue you for antitrust violations.

It starts with blocking ad blockers on Chrome. Then, to prop up Chrome usage you deliberately slow down other browsers, something that's arguably already happening [1] and has arguably already happened [2].

At some point the government takes the same actions they did with Microsoft over Internet Explorer: abuse of market power to require your browsers for the supposedly open Web.

[1]: https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-reportedly-slowing-...

[2]: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/google-denies-alte...
Show HN: The open source Serverless webhook publisher we built and use
How are they not aligned? They didn’t oust Sam because of profit they ousted him for dishonesty.
De jure, de jure is de jure, de facto, de jure is not de facto?

To absolutely mangle paraphrasing yogi berra's quote about the difference between theory and practice.
Sure.

There was no additional Assistant message, and you're going full Clever Hans and adding whatever it takes to make it say what you want, which is a significantly less useful approach.

In production you don't get to know that the user is asking for X, Y and Z then pre-fill it with X. Frankly comments like yours are why people are so dismissive of LLMs, since you're banking of precognition of what the user wants to sell it's capabilities. When you deploy an app with tricks like that it falls on its face the moment people don't input what you were expecting

Deploying actually useful things with them requires learning how to get them to reply correctly on a wide range of inputs, and what I described is how OAI's approach to continuation a) works much better than you implied and b) allows enforcing correct replies much more reliably than Anthropic's approach
AFAIK, commingling means that customer funds went into the same account as business funds.
SBF is accused of then using those customer funds for business expenses, while Binance _seems_ to have stopped at just not separating them properly.
> Helping businesses with something like an incubator

First: helping businesses does not avoid corruption and nepotism.

Secondly: I experienced a government subsidised business incubator in New Zealand, and I can honestly say it was a 100% waste of tax dollars. (We were the only positive dollar business outcome and the incubator had very little value for us!)
35-45% of users worldwide use ad blockers, depending on the source. It is extremely common, otherwise Google wouldn't be doing this. The top few ad blockers in the Chrome store (uBlock, AdBlock, AdGuard, etc.) have tens of millions of users each.
Hello HN:

I’m posting today to introduce Groovestack: PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React-admin for fullstack application development (especially back-office platforms and dashboard applications).

Our team has been leveraging this stack successfully for multiple projects and have found this combination to be robust, feature-rich, scalable and cost-effective. It’s an opinionated, fullstack framework that eschews the ‘bring-any-database’ and ‘bring-any-API’ Rails philosophy for specific choices that are an ideal fit for many applications.

We’ve used this stack to build a variety of back-office and end-user applications. We’ve found development accelerates as common patterns become recognized by the team - easing integration and generating more code reuse. Groovestack allows for leaner modules by reducing requirements to a smaller set of configurations.

We are posting here to find teams that are already using this stack and those that are interested in how it might benefit their projects.

By giving this stack a name, we hope to make it easier to aggregate the community and accelerate the development of new Groovestack-compatible modules. #groovestack

We’ve put together an introduction that describes the rationale for choosing these components as well as some new community resources that we are organizing.

https://talysto.com/tech/groovestack/

To demonstrate how these pieces fit together, we’ve launched a Groovestack Demo that incorporates our CORE Jobs module which provides a full API and administrative UI for background jobs in Rails. There is a link to the demo from the Groovestack page.

Any and all comments welcome.
TBF, NYC has regular homeless public defecation based on my last 2 visits there.
I understood that the Montreal metro trains used wood breaks and peanut oil. Hard to say if that makes the same mess, but the rubber tires surely leave something. Also, the new rames may use different breaking technology.
> all the employees have basically sworn out an oath of fealty to the CEO

Objectively not true. Employees were quiet on Friday. It was after Ilya told employees that Altman was fired partly because he tasked two people with the same job, that they then organized.
Hi, I'm the Han-Wen from the title.

The story mentions git because git5 got me into developer tooling. More in particular, it put me in touch with Shawn Pearce who ran the Git/Gerrit team at Google. When I went to work for him, Shawn wanted to have codesearch support in Gerrit, and Zoekt was ultimately the outcome of my explorations in this space.

IIRC, Git5 was deleted approximately 5 years ago because Fig (the Hg based replacement) had taken over all the use cases
So occultism seems to be a thing with the openai leadership. I’m not sure if i wanna trust anyone anymore an AGI.
In just a few short years Web Components have gone from "be all end all web development" to "yeah, enhance some HTML maybe".

That said, this is actually closer to the actual original idea of web components [1] than the "react is bad frameworks are bad use the platform" chorus of recent years [2].

[1] See this original talk (and transcript) by Alex Russel sometime in 2011: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/web-components-an...

[2] Which is ironic because web components are extremely bad at using the platform themselves https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1717580502280867847
No, the point is they would not have to start building everything from scratch.
What bugs me most about this stuff is the dishonestly.

This is about AdBlockers.

It's okay to say it's bad for your business and you don't want them. To make up all these other excuses is what is painful and just feels so patronizing.
I created this many years ago but never really shared it. It's a Serverless webhook publisher (not consumer) for POSTing JSON payloads to other servers.

We still use it at Shotstack to send callbacks to our customers servers when their video renders and other long running processes complete. We’re not talking massive scale but we’re sending about 100,000 requests per month, and it might be useful for an early-stage startup who wants to get something up and running in half an hour (or less).

It runs on AWS Lambda and SQS and running cost is negligable. It includes an exponential backoff which just uses built in SQS delays and keeps track of message attempts via headers. It should be a case of configuring a few variables to customise it to your own needs and deploying it using the Serverless Framework.
I'll have to rewrite some chapters once it's stable and released but I'm not holding my breath... It will be a nice problem to have anyway.
DAIR.AI > Prompt Engineering Guide > Technics > Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/rag

https://github.com/topics/rag
My own primary news source these days is HN and I’ve missed anything about it, your comment isn’t really helpful.
More like the flipped a flag and tried to put some good PR out there to calm things down?
Honest question:

Is Altman really worth it? I am surprised by the internal support.
Generative methods have usually been considered unsupervised.

You're right that conditional generation start to blur the lines though.
I'd have my lawyers do the pounding.
I'm quite surprised by this, if only because of the regularity with which they appear in standard software consulting agreements.
does this story remind anyone of when Facebook investors started crying about needing new leadership?

same story here - investors knew what they were buying into. A profit capped for profit, OWNED BY A NON PROFIT. Said non profit could, at any time, make decisions that are not optimal for profit. Surprise surprise.

Of course they'll push, but I doubt they'll get any sympathy.
Thanks! Big fan of the project, I've been following it for ages. Thanks for the hard work.
> I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I’d used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.

> I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming postal mail and separates out anything that she knows I’ve been looking forward to seeing urgently. Everything else goes into a buffer storage area, which I empty periodically.

Wow having someone do stuff for you is nice. Such deep insight. One day I wish I can afford to have someone do stuff for me so I too can experience this insight.
Yes, it must be me to blame, not the bad faith actors in office. Would you like to collect the two cent payment I offer for exposure to my wrongthink now or later?
Yup. LiFePo batteries are now starting to have lifetimes that long (or longer), but they haven’t been in the field for long enough that people can notice yet.
If they change settings at their discretion to enable sponsored results, do I really have an option?
They would be perfect for the public boat transportation system in the Oslo fjord between the islands there.
Your comment brought to mind the number of IRS employees who are delinquent on their taxes. I think it really comes down to trust. You say that the government is already investigated enough, but I would contend that it's really the government investigating itself. If there is a separate, independent agency that investigates government and employee malfeasance, then at least there can be some check, accountability, and maybe transparency.

I can understand your focus with intelligent agency abusive, but I think the problem is much more systemic, and far greater than simply the intelligence agencies. People who work in the public trust should be held to a higher standard.

"According to the FY 2021 FERDI Annual Report, IRS employees had a 1.35 percent delinquency rate, compared to 4.93 percent for civilian workers throughout the Federal Government."

That number should really be zero.
Ah I see more disses, very cute. Get a Team Sam t-shirt made for yourself.
[dupe]

More over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361758
The big advantage of fast charging is that charging stations are smaller. With hours-long charging, everyone needs a parking place with a charger. With 20-30 minute charging, you need a big lot with parking stalls and something for people to do for 20-30 minutes. With 10 minute charging, you're almost at gas station throughput. With 5 minute charging, you're at gas station throughput levels.

As I wrote a few days ago, once charging is below 10 minutes, charging stations work just like gas stations in terms of throughput. We will see gas stations converting directly from gas pumps to chargers. (Unclear if gas pumps can coexist near high-powered chargers; gasoline vapor and high voltage electricity should not be in the same space.)
Don't censor my feed with your preferences.

Anonymity should be extolled and protected.
The iOS 17 swipe keyboard is the worst it’s ever been. I have to constantly go back and edit my discord messages.
I just had to put my small hobby OS development site behind cloudflare after 23 years without a CDN. Between occasional ip bans, mod_evasive, rate limiting, user agent blocks, etc I've been self hosting on a single box without much problem until last week.

We went from hundreds of thousands of requests per day to 5 million per day. Traffic was web scraping bots based on the obscure URLs. The URLs were valid (mediawiki history links, etc) and not attempts to hack the site. Banning IPs did not help, the traffic would move to new subnets. Mostly IPv4, some IPv6. The user agent was popular Chrome agent strings so I'm guessing it was masked puppeteer.

It was a DDoS in practice but I get the feeling it's an immature web crawler.

I think people are likely building a new generation of crawlers to feed LLMs as fast as possible.

The caching aspect of Cloudflare helped a lot. Putting specific url patterns behind Cloudflares dynamic JavaScript challenge also helped. It was surprisingly easy to setup.

And I know what some of you will say, Cloudflare is bad. I've personally been annoyed with them for making specific sites more difficult to use while on VPN. But it's not a hard choice when it's either taking your site offline or using their free tier offering.
I think so too however it looks like they may have printed their (counterfeited) way into solvency.

Basically: buy cheap BTCs, print shitload of tethers, sell BTCs for real USD to the tune of tens of billions and now store these real USD in short term US treasuries (they don't own chinese treasuries anymore) bringing in 5% and more.

They're claiming they now have excess money (!) to back their tether due to the fact that they collect 5% or more of interest on the short-term treasuries they have.

Put it this way: even if they printed $40bn out of their arses out of $80bn of tether, the $40bn of actual USD they'd have would still net them $2bn a year in interest. That'd still be a big hole but...

What if they printed "only" 10 bn out of thin air out of 80 bn: they'd have near 70 bn bringing in 3.5 bn yearly at the moment.

They don't give any of the interest back to USDT (tether) holders.

So if they printed "only" 10 bn out of their arses, in less than three years they'd have these 10 bn for real on interest alone.

It's still criminal (I guess) but it may not be "0% of tether are backed".

People have tried to run the maths on how much money entered the cryptocurrency world (with Coinbase giving a huge hint).

Centre (Circle+Coinbase) has really $24 bn backing their USDC coin (they publish the individual US short term treasuries bill number).

USDT (tether) is much older than USDC.

Did they cheat? Most certainly.

Did they "fake it 'till they made it", helped, by sheer luck, by interest rates going like crazy?

I think it's possible.
> Stable diffusion has around 1B or so - or the early models did, I'm sure they're larger now.

SDXL is 6.6 billion.
Foiling sailboats deal with pretty substantial wave action, including open ocean storms. It’s all in the design.

What’s really shocking to me is how slow this ferry is compared with those foiling sailboats which can reach upwards of 90 km/h.
What are the chances:

1) A high-enough Chinese official was at the same hotel, in a not well-known Asian nation, at the same time, within earshot of

2) a youtuber with sufficient hearing, analytical skills, and user base and

3) said official be dumb enough to talk about likely highly classified geopolitics within earshot

of said youtuber?

Versus:

1) Youtuber is making up said stories for clout/views?

* Note: I do not work for the CCP, although I guess that's exactly what someone working for the CCP would say...

Edit: I've been informed it was a pizza spot instead of hotel. My point still stands.
HN vastly over estimates adblocker usage, yes. But also if adblocker usage was completely trivial and could be completely ignored, then Google would not be wasting resources trying to shut it down on sites like Youtube.

I don't think this is going to create a large change in browser stats, but I'm also not sure anything short of antitrust is going to create a large change in browser stats. The pickings are very slim for issues that are worth campaigning on to change general user behavior, and adblocking might as well be one of the ones we use, because while it's a minuscule percentage at least it's not nothing. It's at least a large enough percentage for Google to care about targeting it.

And at the very least, adblocking is an easier issue to campaign on for user rights than privacy or abstract notions like software freedom are. We shouldn't be so quick to throw away talking points around one of the very few user rights where exercising that right has an obvious benefit and doesn't just make the user's life more complicated or difficult in the short term.

I am not going to get many people to switch to Firefox over an adblocker. But I'll get more people to switch for adblocking than I would by telling them to care about privacy or web ecosystem health.
Governments and laws are reactive, new laws are passed after harm has already been done. Even then, even in governments with low levels of corruption, laws may not get passed if there is significant pushback from entrenched industries who benefit from harm done to the public.

Gacha/paid loot box mechanics are a great example of this. They are user hostile and serve no purpose other than to be addictive.

Mobile apps already employ slews of psychological modeling of individual user's behavior to try and manipulate people into paying money. Freemium games are infamous for letting you win and win, and then suddenly not, and slowly on ramping users into paying to win, with the game's difficulty adapting to individual users to maximize $ return. There are no laws against that, and the way things are going, there won't ever be.

I guess what I'm saying is that sometimes the law lags (far) behind reality, and having some companies go "actually, don't use our technology for evil" is better than the alternative of, well, technology being used for evil.
I'm convinced that stress is the single biggest factor in aging and overall health. Look at the careers of people who live to 100+ -- they almost always worked in something where they weren't dealing with a lot of trauma and high stakes. You read this blue zones stuff and at the center of all of it is low-stress. Not necessarily "leisure," but activities that are intended to be calming and thoughtful - exercise baked into the day, shared meals prepared at home, community interaction.
Sam Altman, OpenAI board open talks to negotiate his possible return
It may not actually be OK to say that, since admitting it publicly could make antitrust regulators jobs easier when investigating how Google uses its stranglehold over the browser and search markets to enforce its stranglehold over the online advertising market.