skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> connecting their output to anything important is a very bad idea for now.

This may be true for images, but at least for text, treating an LLM as an untrusted person in your threat models will at least allow you to apply defense in depth to the downstream systems consuming from the LLMs

Tldr: engineer other systems to treat LLMs as a potentially bad actor by default.
I looked over the universal declaration of human rights and didn't see anything about statelessness, but the UNHCR has a page on it: https://reporting.unhcr.org/spotlight/statelessness
Her title is db admin and that’s the position she’s gunning for. They’re going to expect senior level skill beyond just creating queries.
A good pick, and Wikipedia even provided a copy:

https://ia801709.us.archive.org/27/items/postman-neil-amusin...

Also his intro from 2005 seems even more relevant now.
I don't see what you're saying. How do you propose to determine whether the current understanding is incorrect or the model is unsuitably trained?
Yeah, I also thought there is someone who doesn't know what social media is all about :)

Why not suggest folks get some token from the state and use that for identifying them exactly. And also, using clear names would help as one Always can Google up the name and make sure the other end doesn't pretend
>flood the Internet with misinformation

After the past few years… anyone who can seriously complain about this seems like their identity is wrapped up in not admitting that the worst “misinformation” didn’t come from bad apples - but official sources.
SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC
Sounds like something right up the domain of synthetic data.
Because of this: https://youtu.be/NJ7M01jV058?si=PeIaYaUvR-Q0ywJa
Sample of an actual comic strip posted by an artist:

Jan-Feb 2023 issue. 7-page comic strip focused on the presentation of the job of French ambassador to Haiti.

https://www.maximeschertenleib.ch/topo
i wish nirantk would add an addendum noting the pgvector issue was fixed or people like me will have to put up the counter response every single time https://youtu.be/MDxEXKkxf2Q?si=eUhNtghbiLRJ7yHB
Coasting is entirely realistic. There are still many jobs that require knowledge that has been releatively stable, that are not stressful. And it is perfectly fine to want them id you realise pay is going to be less than you could get in other positions. You are just being an asshole.
Oh this isn't about Salt (like in Chef) and Mercury (like in Gut)...
Insisting the distro be native compiled on every arch means you actually know the entire toolchain works on the arch.

A step further would be requiring it's done on real hardware and not emulated or virtual hardware.

I recall some story about some NetBSD port (vax I think) with cross compiled binaries being broken on real hardware for years before anyone noticed.
Speaking of shareware: was I the only person who modded Captain Hector to take away his more powerful weapons?

I feel bad now for not scraping together the 10 bucks or whatever they were asking for, but mom would have just told me to go play outside if I'd asked.
Too bad there were no examples. It would be interesting to see... you know, for science.
I'm not gonna ask my science teacher as that YouTuber suggested because when I showed my science teacher a disk magnet that only attracted metal on one side, she said this happens when you split disk magnet exactly in half.
Sure, I'd like to see a fee free system set up. But I currently would much rather pay the fee than deal with cash.

Realistically cash has plenty of fees in the form of security and handling which are just baked in to the price of everything we buy. As cash becomes less common, these hidden fees start to go away.
You can use tools like Snyk to scan images for vulnerabilities (even the Docker(tm) cli tool has one now), you can do things like failing your CI pipeline if there are critica vulnerabilities.

You can also use Dependabot (and others) to update your images on a cronjob-like schedule.

This is a solved problem
> This past October, Dolphin turned 20 years old.

Incredible.

First thing : I’m old.

Second thing : Just a thought but it’s amazing that the best Wii emulator is older than the Wii itself. I know it’s logical since the Wii was basically an overclocked GameCube with WiFi and Bluetooth but it’s still impressive that this project managed to follow this evolution in real time.

And last but not least, I’m frankly amazed by this piece of software. It works incredibly well and I’m very grateful of what those people did, it’s a really important thing for video game preservation.
Yes, these "great designs" are invented at a constant rate. I saw about 30 of them, or 1 per year at average. For example, Fedora invented and then abandoned modular design recently.
I get bullied by recruiters for applying to jobs if I already have one. Especially if I try to get contract positions. Large tech companies trying to turn the world into their farm. No thanks, I think that's disgusting and makes me feel like all of the employees don't deserve the positions they have.
Lol. The random bullshit generators can write basic code, or make auto-complete smarter, but good luck making one solve complex problems, solve obscure problems without generating bullshit (aka hallucinations) or reason about large codebases. Random bullshit generators see far too much hype and will never replace programming languages for most things, where determinism is needed.
> "A major implication of our study is that videoconferencing should be considered as a possible complement to face-to-face interaction, but not as a substitute," the authors wrote.

Why the assumption that seeing faces is valuable at all in a lecture? Where is the "no video" result?
So i primarily use containers on my local machine walled off from the internet, so it's not a big concern for me. Watchtower [1] is popular among home server users too which automatically updates containers to the latest image.

For production uses I think companies generally build their own containers. They would have a common base linux container and build the other containers based off that with a typical CI/CD pipeline. So if glibc is patched, it's probably patched in the base container and the others are then rebuilt. You don't have to patch each container individually, just the base. Once the whole build pipeline is automated its not too hard to add checks for security updates and rebuild when needed. Production also minimizes the scope of containers with nothing installed except what's necessary so they have few dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
Sweden could be a new nightmare for Elon Musk
Of course there are. One can't handle Internet. It handles you.

When I was in the age of preteen/teen I got everything I wanted. Everything. Sure, today isn't very different from the past. If some teenager pricks want to use meta, watch Netflix or do some nasty chat & greet chat roulette - they're just do it. We need to teach them how to handle that dickheads they may see and the do's and don'ts. this should be without tabooing.
Yes, Nix. And it works great.
There's a difference between finding something 'bad taste' and wanting regulation to ban it.
I think this article would've made more sense if it had a title "The Dunning-Kruger effect is regression toward the mean", because that's what the author is actually showing.
Unpopular Opinion: Linux got it wrong and Windows got it right. (Or at least closer to right.) Programs shouldn't use centralized dependencies. Programs should ship ALL of their dependencies. Running a program should be as simple as downloading a zip, extracting, and clicking/typing run.

Docker exists because building and running software is so outrageously complex that it requires a full system image. And it turns out Docker didn't actually solve it after all!
And then, poof, something goes wrong, Oracle bills you a kilodollar and now you need to fight _Oracle_ if you want any recourse.

No thanks.
It's a false equivalency to expect Capitalism to produce specific laws or outcomes as it's an economic system and not a government.

Both Sweden and USA are Capitalist but have very different views. You're critiquing an economic system as not self-fixing the flaws without proposing an alternative you would expect to do so.

I agree capitalism has flaws, but feel history has shown the flaws to be manageable.
Revealed: King Charles profiting from the assets of dead citizens
Ask HN: Guideline to create a open-source Python library or framework
I have an idea for creating AI related python library. But I have been a library user so far, don't have a lot experience building libraries, like using meta-programming, special variables, etc. Is there good tutorials about building robust python library?
Take my upvote !
Hummm, down since yesterday ...
Even with the marketing campaign, it seemed like a major cultural moment. Probably notable that The Blair Witch Project came out in the same year, and also had a significant buzz. I worked online in a time when some people didn't and many still didn't have home internet, and I remember people asking me if it was real in the lead-up.
I'd be interested in learning which commands you have in mind and what specifically is a bit nicer about their coreutils implementation.
This is a solution for the app developer, not for the users that might have to deal with older and unsupported apps.
Curious why this is not toxic for the mitochondria of real cells if it is so bad for the cancer cells?

Is it because the therapy only blocks genesis of new mitochondria,and most people would have sufficient existing mitochondria to stay healthy through the course of the therapy?
Pipewire 1.0.0
8% of babies were conceived through IVF in 2021 in Japan, compared with 2% in US
Ask HN: How to build robust Python library?
I have an idea for creating AI related python library. But I have been a library user so far, don't have a lot experience building libraries, like using meta-programming, special variables, library design pattern, etc. Is there good tutorials about building robust python library?
Read Goldman’s Prime Book reports… and similar… like BofA flow desk..

OP meant 90% of the market is now dumb money - CTA, L/S HF, macro, passive funds etc. Actors that have to stick to certain script outlaid in their strategy - which makes market easily predictable and profitable for active investors.

Last two years market is consistent and profitable for actors that use gamma and flows… Before it was Vol cycles… and so on…

NB according to GS Prime we are right now in a distribution phase on Tech stocks… [retail buying, smart/fast money selling]
> Why do hold books on a pedestal?

Maybe my opinion on this is negative due to my Eastern European upbringing, but I would say it's because it's something often seen as painful (think of a thick book with a dense vocabulary, being more scary rather than appealing to the majority of people), and, people are OK with wasting time if it involves pain, it gives the impression of a more honest attempt to achieve something, and books are the go-to for the majority of people who judge whether somebody is being productive or not.
Spot on. This statement is true in a lot of industries. It is difficult if not nigh impossible to get a product of the door without a good sales team.
Mods fix that issue, and the modding scene is active.
Myanmar has a large number of armed groups, which fight with each other as well as with the central Myanmar government. Inevitably, what begins are ethnic liberalisation movements, turn into organised crime, the spillover effect of which eventually had China conduct this 'soft intervention'.

There are some parallels with US vs Mexico cartels scenario, though in this case the armed groups under attack and now arrest by PRC are ethnic Han Chinese citizens of Myanmar (as if Sinoloa was made up with ethnic Texans)
Great read. If I had to quibble, it would be with

> Even if 90-day ephemeral TLS certificates and a general atmosphere of laziness have deteriorated our discipline in this regard, private key material should be closely guarded. It should be stored in only one place and accessible to only one principal. You don't even have to get into these types of lofty security concerns, though. TLS is also sort of complicated to configure.

Any time there is complexity and only the One True Priest can manage it, there will be tears.

There had better be a break glass solution backed by Righteous Documentation (a hypothetical substance I heard about this one time) if we are boxed in to a One True Priest situation.
I am yet to meet a fellow Canadian who hasn’t complained about our health care system. It seems to be one of the main discussions around provincial elections.
That is different form of mercury, bonded with carbon, which is easily absorbed by body.
I thought that was strange too, but I wonder if it was to reduce the number of variables. They wanted an experience as close to an in-person lecture as possible, but using Zoom.

Also if faces can be hidden, the lecture might as well be recorded and sent to students.
Better than Escape Velocity?? Gotta try it then.
> Since November 20, postal workers have joined the movement, ceasing deliveries of letters, spare parts, and pallets to all Tesla addresses in Sweden.

Is this normal in Sweden? Postal workers refusing to deliver mail to X to support a cause?
So that’s what the Dunning-Kruger effect basically boils down to, right? That people in general are just bad at assessing their skills.
Wholeheartedly agreed. No mileage in rewriting historical morals and then holding people to them, past the standards of the day.

Participating in evil perpetrated by everyone at the time just makes you... average. The baseline is intrinsically linked to the time.

I think the "interesting" reference is the standards of the character's day (~1900-1940s) clashing with viewing audience standards (~1980).

Personally, by modern standards, I think it absolutely still fits with the Marion Ravenwood character. She's idealistic and driven. It wouldn't matter who the object of her affection was, even an older Indiana. She wanted him, and she made that happen, her age be damned.

Which also aptly sets up their movie-time interactions, where she still flummoxes him. (In contrast to most others, who are generally respectful or deferential)
The very obvious loophole is that a teen could upload a picture of someone else to get an account made.

...and everyone uploading pictures of their kids would have to keep their drivers license handy.
Ask HN: Should HN users have a way to contact others on HN?
The HN crowd is super diverse, on top of that story comments often reveal there are so many interesting people here.

I often think I'd love to engage with some of them.

I know some users choose to add contact details/personal site in their profile, but unfortunately most don't.

Should HN have an option to send a message between its users?
> OOP simply came first

Not really. Lisp is a functional programming language and has existed since at least 1960. Some claim there were many other proto-functional languages since the early 60's, and the FP language [1] (a clearly functional programming language and the result of the famous paper "Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style?") appeared in 1977 - was inspired by much earlier efforts like APL.

OOP really only became a thing with Simula in 1967, but was not popular until the 1980's with Smalltalk and Common Lisp's Object System (CLOS) came about (so yes, there was a OOP/FP hybrid already decades ago), and then C++ and finally Java much later... at which time Functional Programming languages already included Miranda (1985) which later evolved into Haskell, and Erlang (1986). That is, FPP languages were at least as common as OOP languages by the 80's.

As far as I know, however, pure functional languages were not really very efficient until Haskell came about, while OOP languages were nearly on par with procedural style: which mattered a lot in 1980's machines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP_(programming_language)
I was a frequent visitor to Manhattan in the 2000s, and I generally felt very safe at any time in midtown, and the upper east and west sides. My recent visit last year (the first in 10 years or so) was shocking in how much Manhattan had deteriorated in terms of safety. I don't know what it was like in the 70s so I can't compare.
Reminds me of Trantor in Asimov's Foundation books. They had to beam heat into space with lasers if I recall correctly.
It's missing a digit at the end, original tweet: https://twitter.com/_nonfigurativ_/status/172732259457002734... / https://nitter.net/_nonfigurativ_/status/1727322594570027343
You're thinking of communists, establishment conservatists and wealthy progressives. Libertarians are the opposite of that.
I might give your words some weight if it wasn’t for the great big pile of upvotes on my comments. I like that reception just fine, but thanks I guess?

If they have an issue they are welcome to raise it, no need to go white knighting people.
Actually, sitting in front of tv is pretty safe. Once you do other sports at home, like taking drugs or climbing a ladder, then it can compete with travelling in cars.
on ebay as part of the search pane running down the left hand side, there's an "already sold" radio button, will show you stuff already gone by, not sure how far back it goes
The existing homeowners are not interested in increasing supply, hence all the regulations to make it as hard as possible to build more houses
It seems like such a pointless exercise .... it's so unsurprising that if you try really hard to break something by violating it's design constraints that ... it breaks. Like, if I said I was going to find out if you can smash a car by driving it directly into a tree and then wrote an article about it.

The really useful point of building the constraints in is to ensure we don't get offensive content by accident. Especially since in some countries just possessing an artificially generated child porn image is an offence that will get you on a public sex offender registry for a decade ... I'd really like it if they try hard so that the image generators don't do that.
throwaway914, would you be willing to send over your drivers license for verification to participate on HN?
I wasn't aware of '-v' so thanks for that.

You can list package content with 'dpkg -L', although, granted, it doesn't cover files that were somehow created by the install script. Also 'apt purge' removes all files including config.
Shouldn't he also have tried pouring the salt onto the mercury? Might have got the expected floating effect.
Exactly, Docker + Compose is the best way of running server software these days.

I keep my compose files in source control and I have got a CI server building images for anything that doesn’t have first party images available.

Updates are super easy as well, just update the pinned version at the top of the compose file (if not using latest), then ’docker-compose pull’ followed by ’docker-compose up -d’

The entire thing is so much more stable and easier to manage than the RedHat/Ubuntu/FreeBSD systems I used to manage.

(I use Alpine Linux + ZFS for the host OS)
I think you are too harsh on the Russian railway - it did carry a lot of people on their daily commute from their satellite towns to Moscow. The schedule is also quite reliable. It wasn't used much for intra-Moscow travel due to the issues mentioned, that is correct.
Are all people production? Even death row inmates?
I personally don't want the feature and am glad it does not exist on HN. On other forums where it does exist I don't use it. It's good people can put contact info of their choosing in the bio etc.
There's no merit to this complaint about Docker that it complicates configuration. Actually it simplifies a great deal.

Author should consider how configuration is at different locations and sometimes even further split differently in different distributions for the same software package (apache, PostgreSQL etc) while a docker Image has it all at a very well known location within image and it doesn't matter where you use that image.
I understand what this pattern does, but it makes me wonder how useful it is in practice. I am focusing specifically on the retry and circuit breaker functionality.

If the call is done in a synchronous context (for example original client executes a REST call), you are adding latency by inserting an extra service in between. When the remote service is not immediately available or responsive or fails, and you do a retry, in the end your call might take too long and the caller might cancel the request. I have seen this behavior in practice and it makes me wonder how useful this implementation is in a synchronous context. You add complexity (on the infra level) and you add latency in the happy path. When a retry is needed, most of the time
(in my experience) the call to the remote service does not succeed in time, and the original call still fails.

If the call is done in an asynchronous context (for example the original client picks up a message from a queue and processes it), you are adding latency and complexity by inserting an extra service and extra logic. However, when the remote service is not immediately available, you can just let the processing of the message fail. The queue or bus should contain retry logic that could be finetuned based on the type of error you get. So, in that case, you should already have a retry mechanism out of the box, then is the added latency and complexity really worth it?

I understand about the circuit breaker, and I understand that might be useful, because it could prevent the remote service being overloaded with requests (well, at least if every caller to the remote service implements circuit breaker... but then, the ambassador service would better be placed on the side of the remote service and every client should be forced to pass through it, and then it might just be implemented inside the remote service instead of in a separate service adding extra latency/complexity/... basically, the remote service should protect itself against this).

Thoughts? Does it make sense what I am thinking?
And if it continues to repeat itself, penalize him again when he generates the text, and if it continues to repeat itself, penalize him again, and if it continues to repeat itself, penalize him again, and if it continues to repeat itself, penalize him again, and if ...
Programming the AMD Instinct MI300 APU [pdf]
> distributing an application only as a Docker image is often evidence of a relatively immature project

Or, you know, a contractual requirement. And, as far as those go, I actually kind of like it: you ship a well-tested container, and the only thing the infra dept at the customer site has to configure-via-the-environment is the URL for (or path to, via any kind of supported file system mounted into the container, which most IT shops can still just about manage) the instance configuration file.

This reduces most initial troubleshooting to "well, what does the instance log say about retrieving and parsing the configuration file?", which, trust me, is way preferable over what you get with most other deployment methods I've been involved with...