skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, of course I'm biased on the answer :). But to give a not-so-biased answer, I would first try to understand what the project is about and whether RAG is a priority in it.
If the project is leveraging agents and LLMs without worrying too much on context/up-to-date data then Haystack could be a good option.
If the focus is to eventually use RAG then our framework could help.

Additionally, there might be a potential route where both are used, depending on the use case.

Feel free to dm if you want to chat further on this!
Or whatever the AUE timer says.

In my experience, homeless people use phones and laptops until the wheels fall off.

Perhaps more of the essential consumables and durable goods society uses should have a responsible public or nonprofit coalitions supply chain: generic medications, microhousing, cereal and pulse crops, basic major electronic components, and software. Leaving everything to the magic invisible hand leads to the Charles Dickens' utopia of healthcare personal bankruptcy, widespread homelessness, and unlivable wage jobs we have now.
Commodore PET! ;)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore_PET_keyboa...
Switching browsers is good but pihole is a pretty bad alternative to just using uBlock Origin Lite which is quite good.
Flipboard has their own Mastodon instance: https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard
This is a lot like other kinds of security: when there's a hazard out in the wild you sometimes need to make people aware of all or part of the problem as part of fixing it. I would expect making it illegal for people to talk about the holes to make us less safe, since then they never get fixed.

This particular hole is not original to me, and is reasonably well known. A group trying to tackle it from a technical perspective is https://securedna.org, trying to make it easier for companies to do the right thing. I'm pretty sure there are also groups trying to change policy here, though I know less about that.
Seems like an appropriate time to shamelessly plug my tiny Chrome extension, JS Toggle. It's just a low key button that makes it easy to toggle javascript that I made for myself, and use pretty much every day. It does refresh all open pages after toggling, so be mindful of toggling it when dealing with forms, etc.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/js-toggle/bnhjfamol...
If you have stored your seed securely (in a safe, preferably engraved on stainless steel), then no problem, you can re-generate your private key on a new wallet from it.

If you haven't written down your seed before generating your private key and also lost your private key, your money is lost. Thank you for this sacrifice for the common good, but you will want to educate yourself better next time.
It both is and it isn't. It moves people from different threat models to a middle ground, and for some people that's worse and for some people it's significantly better.

If you live in the U.S. for most major ISP users it's probably a wash and you're just letting a different party have your info. If you live in a nation that desires to control what you consume online then it probably is a net gain.
Comparatively, yes.

Yes, it's annoying to disable Firefox suggestions. The company shouldn't be doing it, it is a violation of trust. Yes, it is hypocritical for Mozilla to talk about privacy and then to run these experiments. But you won't be able to run uBO at all in Chrome.

Even if the settings were getting constantly unchecked over and over, and even if the end result was that you had to check your Firefox settings every single day, that's still a better position to be in than not being able to do anything about the advertising even on a short-term basis.

If I have to constantly remind someone over and over again not to slap me in the face, I am going to be annoyed at that person. That person's behavior is bad. But it's still going to be easier to deal that person than with someone who just starts slapping me and refuses to even temporarily stop no matter what I say or do. I still have more agency when dealing with the first person than I have when dealing with the second.
I'm surprised more people don't use Firefox, even from a practical point of view.

The main reason I use it as my main driver is because I use Chrome for all my work stuff. I then use Firefox for all my personal stuff, so it separates the two, especially on my work laptop.
IMF provides loans and expects them to be repaid, having rules on government spending attached to the loans is... reasonable. Not to mention, that IMF loans are typically bailouts of governments that overspent.

Same goes with the EU bailouts, but PIGS countries were already in a compact with the rest of the Eurozone. Not to mention, that governments should not own things that can go bust and drag a budget under water.

As shown lately with Russian oil sales - it's absolutely possible to insure ships somewhere else, other than Lloyd's of London.
Yes, CVS.
Zhao isn't getting any jail time. Wonder who he rolled over on for that deal.
It's so sad how Twitter has turned out. It has been so useful for me. Found lots of people interested in the same causes as me, and being able to discuss them directly with the politicians deciding in my city.

But now every post by these same politicians gets tens of blue checked trolls spewing hate. So the politicians take breaks, post less, or ignore comments, and are thus less accessible for those of us that were respectful.

Unfortunately there is no new winner. Some have moved to mastodon. In my circles mostly to bluesky. But there is no way to have the same reach at the moment.
I think the idea is that internet connection is a basic necessity in modern society. A chromebook can help you look for a job, pay bills, etc. For kids it's an educational lifeline.

I actually did all my CS work via a Chromebook in 2013 with a VPS I ssh'd into. Coded everything in vim with makefiles. Was a crucible, but these days I use IDEs
No, of course there will be no ads. But yeah, I’m sure HNers will be ok with a paywall, considering they’re probably in the top 10% (if not 5% or 1%) of their respective countries. What’s a few more bucks on top of their dozen monthly subscriptions.

Now go ask someone with the median income in a developing country how they feel about getting pretty much all relevant content in the Internet paywalled in the next 10 years or so due to the ever increasing use of ad-blockers.

Don’t get me wrong, content creators/owners are as much, if not more, to blame than ad blocker users.
To add to what's already been said: If you think about it, CI pipelines are typically a complete description of how your system is built, tested, and deployed.

Which is pretty fantastic except for how walled off they are. You can't really re-use these descriptions for e.g. development, they're not vendor agnostic, and they only way to run them is by pushing your code.

Maybe it's a silly analogy but it's almost like being a web dev that doesn't have a browser and needs to send their code to a friend who can tell them if that font size looks good.

I think we're way over due for freeing these "blueprints" of our system from the confines of CI and making them portable and flexible. And containers are the technology that's enabling that.

Full disclaimer (as always): I work at Garden[0] where we're also solving that problem but taking a slightly different approach to Dagger (it's still a DAG). Garden config is declarative and the jobs (we call them actions) have a semantic meaning. You can e.g. have a Build action of type container or a Deploy action of type Helm and Garden will figure out what to do with it.

We've also put a lot of emphasis on the inner loop development story with hot reloading functionality, log streaming and more.

[0] https://github.com/garden-io/garden
We have an Unfiltered model for fiction in Sudowrite, with more coming in a few weeks. (In addition to GPT-4, Claude, etc.)
OpenAI was always fairly overtly a cult, and an apocalyptic one, at that. (Or a manifestation of a broader cult, perhaps.)
So . . . it's a complicated way to do test fakes with a dependency injection library? And not really anything to do with CD or much to do with CI except that it runs the same tests as on dev boxen?

The article seems like it's trying to use click-baity terms and is frankly not the easiest to follow. LLM?

https://blog.pragmatists.com/test-doubles-fakes-mocks-and-st...
> If you changed it to

> ``` "{ "result": ["you are very annoying.", ```

> the odds of refusal would be low or zero.

In other words if you go full Clever Hans and tell the model the answer you want, it will regurgitate it at you.

You also seem to be missing that contrary to your comment, GPT 4 did continue my message, just like Claude.

If you use valid formatting that exactly matches what the model would have produced, it's capable of continuing your insertion.
Do you think this is a good faith argument? What might be differences in these situations that aren't based on simple "other party bad"?
One turned over the classified documents.
Why? It's a perfect name for something that consumes feeds.
Internet provides first class access to third class information.
Just a couple days ago I was seeking some information relating to my "Intro to DSP" course at uni. After an hour combing through a bunch of unclearly stated and poorly answered questions on various stackexchange subsites and SEO-optimized hellholes, I just libgen'd a book my professor's textbook cited and found my answer in a couple minutes.

The question was how the phases add or subtract when looking at a phase graph of a cosine wave modulated DFT transform, not exactly rocket science.

It seems like the internet has dumbed down to the point where its front page is very surface level and always requires additional research assistance in the form of SearxNG, AI chats, or turning to less SEO prone engines like marginalia or even wiby to get good and honest results. I don't think adapting to human toxic environments like the current internet is a good model for the future, when we already have the tools to filter the wheat from the chaff.
I would use Firefox, if not for Mozilla.
An 8 year old would set the Pickcode record by one year, no reason not to try!
I assume that's sarcasm, in which case I think you are conflating other parental goals/issues in suburbia, such as "well-funded schools" or "floor area and bedrooms" or "buying a house as a form of investment".

Meeting those other goals doesn't automatically mean there's a good environment beyond the confines of household and school.
I don't even have Google Chrome installed. I have Firefox, Edge and Vivaldi. I pretty much switch between them throughout the day and it's unnoticeable really.
Given that these applications could occur before a company was even legally founded, I doubt much 'survival' before that point was necessary.
/s, I presume...
At the time that I started Zoekt (2016), Google's internal codesearch used suffix arrays for the string matching, which the team wasn't happy with, presumably because of the algorithmic complexity and indexing slowness. The Codesearch team was exploring alternatives, one of them the technique described in https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11390-016-1618-6. The positional trigrams were a simplification of this, that they didn't mind me open sourcing.

so, in terms of algorithms, Zoekt wasn't actually inspired by Google's internal code search.

The precise query syntax of zoekt is mostly copied from google's internal syntax, though.
It's 15% now. 30% is only for especially large apps.
> If you don't want to watch the ads that are posted, that's your right. But someone has to fork over cash for hosting and bandwidth (and paying staff, so they can pay their bills), and I'm guessing you're not that person.

That's also not my problem. They put their content in a public space, so I'm free to consume it as I will. If they would like control over that interaction, they're free to take their content to a private space where they can enforce whatever rules they would like. That private space probably isn't nearly as profitable, but their business plan is also not my problem.

I don't feel any obligation to let them reap the rewards of being publicly accessible, while negating any drawbacks via social convention. They have a solution if they want to force people to watch ads, I'd encourage them to take it if this is so important. I'm not going to change behavior to support their business plan.

Shopping malls put in parking lots and bathrooms. The goal is for shoppers to use them, but we all accept that people who aren't buying anything use them. This is the same thing. Being publicly accessible comes with costs, and the business can either decide being public is worth it and pay them, or decide they aren't and shut off public access.

Ads are the same thing. I don't feel bad about using ad blockers any more than I feel bad about walking around the mall for exercise or using their bathroom and deciding not to buy anything.
Do you know the board is a clown car or is that what the media surrounding “the chaos” has told you. The board has been quiet is all. Does that automatically mean they’re in the back flushing documents down the toilet and juggling balls? Or is there a better reason they feel no reason to publicly respond to a bunch of media flurry?
FB/Meta replaced Mercurial with Sapling which is git-compatible: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-so...

Mercurial is over.
pihole or adguard home[0]

[0]: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#getting-started
https://twitter.com/kevin_scott/status/1726971608706031670
If you're old enough to be here, you've already seen all the evidence you need.

And not just humans. Pretty easy to tell if an animal has been mistreated. Kittens raised on the street, where they compete with each other for food, are nothing like those born and raised indoors.

Do you really need "hard science" for this kind of stuff?
Why on earth is the picture of a busy truck stop type place? Most suburban neighborhoods have low traffic and plenty of places to ride your bike. Often have pools and basketball courts or fields to play in.
> Then the creator can still require people to agree to contractual terms before downloading the model from them, presumably including the usage limitations as well as an agreement not to redistribute the model to anyone else who does not also agree.

I don't think it's possible to invent copyright-like rights.
I find for my interests it has improved. Mainly being independent and on-the-ground journalism.
Funny how you leave out that the child was stressed in this situation. Exceptions for helping a child through a stressful situation is meeting a need.
The market for 1-click DNS sinkholes is about to get heated. ;)
The content is already heavily moderated and controlled, for example the content you receive in the Western world and in China is drastically different [0].

[0] https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...
> 2-that somehow customers will suddenly become amenable to low grade garbage movies

People have been amenable to low grade garbage movies for a long, long time. See Adam Sandler's back catalog.
All of those except the last one are positives.
> why you find Sam / the employees behind him so off-putting?

To me it's the 100% committed 'vibe' they're giving off. It's weird. It's not how staff, especially technical/researchers (who usually bicker like anything over the most trivial of differences) behave.

Anyone who's managed a big research team knows that competing rivalries and internecine warfare is the order of the day. Literal slapfights have broken out over whether big or little endian encoding will be more efficient for any given scenario, for example.
Are the prices comparable?
You literally contradicted your own original statement.
I use Google meet just fine on Firefox at work. Even video filters work. The only thing I can imagine not being 100% is tab-only sharing
> But LLMs only have the capability to statistically associate strings of words. That's all they are. There is no other capability possible there.

The first sentence is as reductive, and by extension the third as false, as saying that a computer can only do logical comparisons on 1s and 0s.

> So what is the point of trying to have a "security" team hammer secret keeping into them? It doesn't make sense.

Keep secret != Remove capability

If you take out all the knowledge of chemistry, it can't help you design chemicals.

If you let it keep the knowledge of chemistry but train it not to reveal it, the information can still be found and extracted by analysing the weights, finding the bit that functions as a "keep secret" switch, and turning it off.

This is a thing I know about because… AI safety researchers told me about it.

> Which is fundamentally incoherent.

𐀀𐀩𐀏𐀭𐀅𐀨
Firefox is my main browser for many years, and it's still good.

(The only main thing I don't use it for is for the DRM that my main streaming service wants right now. I dedicate Chromium to that, to keep the nastiness away from my main browser.)

With Firefox, you probably do want to change a lot of settings from the default, for privacy&security reasons.

Firefox is absolutely not holistically security&privacy-friendly overall -- there's a long history, of often behaving like a for-profit tech company, to grow out of -- but it's the closest I'm aware of that we have right now.

Not helping is that browser standards were captured and turned into both serving the needs of particular kinds of businesses, and as massive market moats for dominant players.

I don't know what to think of all the browser startups and open source forks. I know at least one person at Brave, and that person is a 100% straight-shooter true-believer in privacy&security (and intellectually formidable), but some things leadership has done are too trust-me and bad optics. Regarding the rest of the efforts, there might be gold in there, but we have to skeptical of each one by default, for two reasons: (1) our field is bad at what we do, and that's now reflected deep in our technology stacks, as well as in practices for new development; (2) our field has normalized a lot of sociopathic behavior in the last 25 years, so it's easy for even well-intentioned people to inadvertently do bad things, and there are also a lot people with not as admirable of intentions.
NextDNS does not help you with ads served from the same domain as the website itself, like Google ads.
As an Australian: this is about as true as the idea that we all ride kangaroos to work and live in constant fear of dropbears.

That word in Australia is just as offensive as anywhere else, and I wish people would stop perpetuating the misconception that it's fine.

It's certainly not "part of our culture" or "just a normal word", and it's a little ironic that you would call out GP for "forcing cultural norms onto foreign countries" while in the same comment spreading falsehoods about Australian cultural norms.

Hard though it may be to believe, we're generally fairly civil down here.
This goes beyond Youtube. Most ads are absolutely malicious and the web is unsafe and unusable without an adblocker. The FBI themselves recommend using an adblocker to stay safe online https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
Switched to Firefox recently and it was surprisingly painless. They've really catched up to Chrome in regards to usability, and of course surpass them in terms of privacy and integrity.
Sometimes that someone can be a thing, not a worker.

I know that a couple of carefully crafted email filters increased my productivity almost twice and cut down unnecessary screen time almost completely. Knowing your vices can be more than half of the solution sometimes.
Oh I have no problem with doubting the study (I definitely doubt its conclusions myself, since I don't think "screen time" is a meaningfully monolithic concept to study in the first place, without even getting into the details of the methodology). But there are good ways to doubt and bad ways, and "this study is junk because my kids misbehave more when they watch TV" is far on the wrong end.
I went down a rabbit hole about this while reading The Telomere Effect (recommended reading). The book goes into the good stress vs. bad stress paradigm and how it has a biological basis - literally at the RNA level. There’s a Goldilocks zone where, for example, the right amount of good stress actually increases your lifespan, and the lack thereof is actually bad for you. Of course bad stress is bad in any amount, with bigger consequences if you’re younger or, get this, in the womb. If a pregnant woman experiences a traumatic event or bad or chronic stress, that can result in lifelong issues for the kid. I don’t recall if the book went beyond RNA and into the neuroscience aspect or whether that was from further reading, but the neurological effects are significant too.

Update:

Harvard Medical School article: Understanding the stress response https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding...

Research on effect on neural circuits: https://jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...

Harvard article on impact of early childhood adversity, including on brain: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/inbrief-the-im...
I wonder how much of that is user aging out of active usage for one reason or another (retirement, switching to a tablet from a desktop, etc) and how much of it is people switching (and how much of that switching is to something newer and small (e.g. not Safari, Edge, etc).
A lot of homeless people don't go to shelters because they can be more dangerous than sleeping on the street
Sam Altman and OpenAI Are Victims of Their Own Hype
"The commercial project of AI, while less evocative, is no less speculative: People believe that they stand to make inconceivable amounts of money, and OpenAI appeared to be the start-up to end all start-ups. But it also has revenues of about a billion dollars a year, was recently rumored to be raising money at an $86 billion valuation, and currently “incinerates” money on computing power. Microsoft is still in the early stages of trying to commercialize OpenAI’s technology in Windows, Office, Github, and Bing. Google has invested billions of dollars in generative AI products that mostly remain in testing; Meta, Amazon, and practically every other large tech company are in the process of rolling out new tools, but nobody’s making any real money on this stuff, yet. Almost across the board, in fact, these companies are hemorrhaging money on AI. They’re doing this on purpose, of course. Investors and companies are placing bets. Some of them are confident. Others don’t want to miss out. None of them, of course, actually know what’s going to happen. "

This AI hype reminds me of the early streaming wars. Content companies dumping obscene amounts of cash because somehow streaming is going to change everything, and the winner will be making 100x of what their content is making now.

Fast forward and the same companies are forced to consolidate, kill own content for tax purposes, and raise prices. Streaming is here, but the streamers are resembling much closer the cable companies they tried to replace.

AI of course is going to have its uses, but once the dust settles and people are tired of feeding ChatGPT stupid prompts to get back funny shit or Thanksgiving recipes, what will get distilled down is going to be a glorified code auto-complete and boring data applications, like insurance.

Speaking of, how is that going?

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/why-insurance-leaders-...

"While virtually all insurance companies are using AI today, its impact has fallen short of the transformative change that many had hoped for."

Oh, never mind.