skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When making an IDS registration request, a binary blob called “validation data” is required. This is essentially Apple’s verification mechanism to make sure that non-Apple devices cannot use iMessage.

I wonder, will this be in violation of the EU's DSA and/or DMA once they are in force?
+1 to this. Also I think we should use delivery as little as possible. Walking a couple of blocks is not bad at all.
Maybe I should have stopped after the first sentence, but there's always, every bloody time, someone there to drag you down with negativity. How wiki is shit, stackoverflow is shit, the web is shit, society is shit – they never offer evidence, it's just shit and they can't see good in anything. I'm tired of these people dragging me down. What is their fucking agenda other than to wallow in failure?
Your skepticism is, I think, very well founded -- especially with such unclear definitions of "improvement."

I think I have a corollary type idea: Why are LLM's not perhaps like "Linux," something than never really needs to be REWRITTEN from scratch, merely added to or improved on? In other words, isn't it fair to think that LoRA's are the really important thing to pay attention to?

(And perhaps, like Google Fuschia or whatever, new LLMs might just be mostly a waste of time from an innovators POV?)
FWIW, the "Drupal should be a framework" vs "Drupal should be a web page management tool" issue wasn't a matter of ignorance in the community as much it was a point of contention — there were fairly high-profile talks at Drupalcon as early as 2011 hitting on that very issue, and some of the linguistics stuff you mention was coming up in core conversations not much later than that. (Source: Was the crazy guy ranting about content-as-a-languagelike-system-of-communication in many of those conversations. Whew, DITA. Memories.)

The challenge, I think, is that by that point in time Drupal had gone through its first big popularity explosion, and was starting to grapple with the competing interests of many different audiences. Acquia ended up being instrumental in steering it towards "enterprise sites with complicated UGC requirements," but for quite some time the open source ideal of "the project reflects the priorities of the people who contribute time to it" meant it lacked a strong, opinionated take on many of the things you mention.

For many years Drupal's strength was (IMO) that enough of _those folks_ existed in the community to ensure you could build complex, highly adaptable structured content systems with it... and enough of _those other folks_ existed in the community to ensure that there were click-together content display and delivery tools that worked with the complex content. If you approached it with a clear understanding of where some of those boundaries were, you could build really amazing things — but if you came in looking for a well-paved path to build a simple site or architect a complex one, well... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit -- clicked on your profile and read some of your posts in other threads, and I feel like I should just get a beer and commiserate with you about doomed CCS initiatives for a few hours. I salute you.
I’m one of the authors of the blog post you linked — Beeper Mini is entirely different.

There is a great blog post by JJTech (author of the pypush library, tech Beeper Mini is based on) also on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532167
I enjoyed Tom Scott's YT video monologue about this. To summarize, he postulates that most major innovations follow a sigmoid growth curve, wherein they ramp up, explode, and then level off. The question then becomes, where are we on this curve? He concludes that we will probably only know in hindsight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhJbKBuNnA
>Rob Reid is a podcaster, author, and tech investor, and was a long-time tech entrepreneur

Ah yeah, exactly who you should go to for bio-engineering advice
On the contrary, the EU law that enforces interoperability should put some wind under this project's wings.
The problem here is this is not a bureaucratic view of how law enforcement actually works in the field.

https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/traffic-tickets-can-...

>We counted the number of days judges waited before suspending a driver’s license. Then, we looked at whether the city was experiencing a revenue shortfall. We found that judges suspend licenses faster when their cities need more money. The effect was pretty large: A 1% decrease in revenue caused licenses to be suspended three days faster.

So what typically happens is these AI systems are sold at catching murderers, but at the end of the day they are revenue generation systems for tickets. And then those systems get stuck in places where a smaller percent of the population can afford lawyers to prevent said ticketing systems from becoming cost centers.
> did you also try using weighted loss with Axolotl

This is really smart, I didn't think about this! Will add it to my list of things to try, great idea!

> Domain adaptation over subreddits/forums before finetuning may help as well.

I was thinking about this too (along with transcribing draft youtube videos), I'd definitely be curious how much this helps.
and blog post: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi...
Our opinions will have to differ then. There is no number I would accept for the loss kids experience by not having a “right to roam” due to being cordoned by paths for high speed vehicles on all sides.
If all your target users are comfortable with the tradeoffs of systems built on blockchains (ie private key is the source of authority), you're probably looking for Nostr.
I’ve been visiting Portland since 2002. I knew all the old school business owners and locals. I was at Occupy Wall Street PDX. I lived there off and on for ten years after 2008. For the first half I worked in Chinatown. For the second half I worked with police, hospitals, social workers, homeless shelters, etc. through Covid and the George Floyd riots. Cops still do stuff but their role has been limited by public opinion and they’re trying to keep crime stats low so the turn break-ins into welfare calls. The transplants after 2014ish turned Portland into a mess.
That lines up with my experience- for high-stakes decisions, they rarely give me a great answer. But for low stakes decisions, they do well at giving me a good enough answer. For example, I've been using them to help find gifts for friends and children this month. I don't need the best choice to solve the problem, just a good one.
I'm genuinely curious. What's in it for Android users? I don't think the real answer is clout & social standing, but who knows.
> Perhaps the 'evil motives' might be more subconscious or even class conscious than overtly articulated in the minds of the actors, but the goal is the same.

So you're going to claim that you know people's true motives better than they themselves do, like you're some kind of political Freud? This is really stupid. I don't know why we should pretend that it's impossible for two people to reach two different sets of conclusions in good faith.
I tried adding special tokens for a reddit-style dataset once. The format was: `
username
title here...`

The resulting model was so much worse than just formatting everything plaintext. This was with MPT-30B, 15 special tokens, 300M training tokens, and a full finetune.

I may have made a mistake, but I haven't seen any open source finetunes successfully add a large number of tokens yet either.
It probably varies a great deal by specialization, but speaking as a HM for my security group, specialization is miniscule almost to the point of irrelevance, in favor of attitude, ability to collaborate with other engineers, and leadership potential. Most - if not all - technical knowledge needed to succeed in this role can be learned, either on the job or with some spare time.
You can't punish a corporation, it is a collective and most members of it are worker bees told what to do without a big picture. You have to punish the members of the C-Suite individually if any change is to be seen.
This is a completely silly comment, but I will admit that it made me chuckle just because of how incredibly random and shocking it was, especially here on HN, lol
Can you please point me to good resources on fine tuning? Thanks.
Why have a third party rather than choosing one of your apps to be the "primary"?
I'd use matrix before xmpp.

I at least use Signal now, that's not bad.
> That’s not going to happen with Bitcoin.

It looks like that is going to happen with https://zerosync.org/ steadily progressing...
We need models that need less language data to train. Babies learn to talk on way less data than the entire internet. We need something closer to human experience. Kids have a feel for what is bullshit before they have consumed the entire internet :-).

I think feeding the internet into a LLM will be seen as the mainframe days of AI.
I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ). Instead it is a collection of browser search plugins.
On macOS, it's

say "enter text here"

To pick a different voice:

say -v Fred "enter text here"

To list voices:

say -v "?"

(The quoting is necessary to prevent ZSH from interpreting the question mark as a glob.)

I hear Firefox's TTL is important, yet prior to your comment I didn't even know it existed. This sort of stuff should be more discoverable, and have a more accessible (ahem) API.
One issue I've run into with unexpected NSFW in my federated TL on a single user instance is when people I follow reply to an unfollowed account's NSFW post, when the reply gets sent to my server it fetches the parent post
I think it requires a lot more UI components, more flexible layouts, and customization options to be able to build something externally facing. Building for end-users, especially on the consumer side, tends to require a lot of flexibility on all 3 aspects. Our product could handle it, but the resulting apps will feel quite limited.

For example, one of the limitations is that we have a highly opinionated app layout, with a data (table view) on the left, and a sidebar on the right to perform actions. Only a small fraction of all external apps have this layout (e.g. database lookup tools, CRMs, data editing tools) but on the other hand, almost all internal apps look this way.
I'm pretty sure almost everyone sending messages from an iPhone to another is using it.
Great article - right up to this quote:

"And this is also the way forward for us to find solutions for this climatic catastrophe. If you study these natural processes, there's a good chance you will stumble on something that will be actually useful."
So far you were a line in the log. Now someone is actually looking at you with three eyes.
SUS-Chat-34B
Yeah, 99.9% of the time they are interchangeable.

There are exceptions where a GUI folder doesn't have a corresponding directory (e.g. "Control Panel") or when a directory doesn't appear as a GUI folder (a mounted volume, maybe?).

But if you're just talking about regular everyday use cases for organizing files, folders are directories and directories are folders. In those cases, there's zero reason to distinguish the two, no matter whether you happen to be using a GUI or terminal at the moment.
Firefox was already statistically irrelevant 5 years ago. On our dashboard, a global e-commerce site with billions of views per year, it's not even in the top 10. Even regional browsers sometimes surpass it.

Firefox is also no longer a developer-default browser. This too has been true for years now.

There's very little Mozilla can do about it. Chrome and Safari are big because they're shipped as a default to platforms with billions of users. And the web works well on both of those browsers. It's not an engineering problem. You can't improve Firefox and expect market share to rise.

It's pretty much a done deal, and Microsoft (as well as Brave) using Chromium cemented that deal.
The license kinda sucks though:
```
3. USE RESTRICTIONS

Licensee is expressly forbidden from:

(a) Incorporating, modifying, or using the Software as part of any other product or service;
```
I wonder if you could define a specific complexity class of problems that LLMs are good at
Firefox has multiple profiles, I have used them every day for years. The UI is poor, particularly in terms of discovering that they exist, but they do.
As an employee at a database company working on the plan optimizer I would like to ask you not to use correlated subqueries for my own sanity. Close to 100% of the mind blowing bugs are correlated subqueries. Kidding of course but holy shit my life would be so much easier without them.
My programming blog (https://thecodist.com) sees Chrome 52%, Safari 27%, Firefox 9%, over six months covering a fair amount of the world. I use Plausible. I never found GA to be very reliable.
Do they really need to work that differently though? It seems to me that almost all of them can be represented as trees of text entries. Blog+comments, HN/reddit threads, Stackoverflow QAs, DMs, Discord/Slack, forums. These are all just text trees with optional attachments and/or links to other content (images and videos etc). Why not build that tree structure into the protocol (all you need is 1 parent and 0+ children for each entry)?
"Yes" Actually Means "No": The Curious Language of Venture Capitalists
Actually the green is far less saturated, making it less contrasting with the white text, making it look much worse.
Not at all. Because there are many books with colorful designs and unique visual language. Any textbook or magazine you pick will have more visually interesting articles than webpages.
People used to say the same about IE. Most people don't think about it. I just Brave personally.
12 year old me went in with a single purpose: make it go bang.

Damn safety systems are messing up my fun.
I've heard this as 91 is the smallest (or only two-digit) composite number that "looks prime".
I assumed this was because it’s internal devs that are actively looking for platforms to build on, while external devs might already have stacks they prefer to work on due to how it interacts with their security postures. Pure speculation, but it’s been my anecdotal experience.
OMG I love this. Go get em! Also, this is perfect material for Hack Club. You should join! https://hackclub.com/
> Only if those skills are in wide demand.

Of course it's not worth spending extra time to learn skills that aren't in demand. This would, by definition, be a dead-end job. If you have a growth mindset like GP, having a dead-end job doesn't mean that "hard work doesn't pay off". It just means that the 'hard work' should go into looking/training/applying for a job/career with more learning opportunities/upside.

> Moving companies can be risky and complicated depending on one's personal and family issues.

"Edge cases exist" is a given. It's still good advice in general.
> In order to generate the “validation data”, pieces of information about the device such as its serial number, model, and disk UUID are used.

Sadly, this is a clear sign the project is going to stop working eventually. At some point, the Apple is simply going to pull the plug.

I remember doing similar tricks when I was a kid. Nowadays I simply won't even care trying. The problem clearly isn't supposed to be solved this way. I'm not even sure if it's a good exercise in programming either. Software development is about doing the things the right way, not exercising in futility.

A better experience would be writing your own message delivery solution, superior to iMessage.
They're extremely intelligent animals that can, to a first approximation, in a built environment, move along any axis at over 20MPH. You're probably putting more faith in the power of flashlights than the experts did.
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The kids are all right. :)
> for malicious action which harms another

Here's are things a lawyer might be able to answer.

What specifically is my action that I am legally responsible for? I did not install my software on your machine - you did that. And I explicitly warned you not to trust it. Yet some reason you decided not only to trust that code base, but to keep trusting me in the future enough to auto-update, likely without even telling me.

What makes it malicious? I can sell you a tool to re-format your hard disk. That is not malicious, because I described it that way.

So how well do I need to document some "malicious" feature before it's no longer legally malicious?

And, if I sell my company to another company, who then carries out these actions, is it my responsibility?

Are these criminal liabilities, or civil? What is the relevant law? What is the maximum penalty?

> Yup. The mechanism for sorting out claims of truth and liability is court

Sure. But clearly invalid cases can get summary judgement for far less than taking the whole thing to trial, and I've been judging my risk based on the former overriding any of my users' claims of malicious intent.

This doesn't seem like a topic that can go any further without an appropriate lawyer involved.
The Mozilla Foundation is not the Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla Corporation is the entity that develops Firefox and realizes revenue from Firefox.
frankly we're new to open source. and technically we're not really open source. we wanted to take advantage of the self hosted nature of data processing worker, which are safety, extensibility, and developer trust. that's why the worker is under the source-available model.

as we grow and learn, if we get interest from the community to contribute, we'll definitely consider opening more of the codebase.
No, because you needed an actual account which could be trivially banned.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

On 4.0 Android become mature enough to dominate market and to become world wide.

First usable version was around 1.6..2.2, around 2009..2010 after them begin mass production and 4.0 become world wide phenomenon.

Even, considering, Android copied many traits of iPhone, but iPhone was that time limited joy of rich and geeks.
With Android 4 everybody enter smartphone era.
Normal people choose an app that works for everyone. If they can’t be bothered to switch to something, like Telegram, or Whatsapp, or Discord, or Line or Signal, or… is because they value your companionship not worth the bother.

So buy an iphone to fit in, or respect yourself a bit more and move on and find a better group to interact with.
Sounds fun to me and my social group. We not-quite-joke about the coming backyard refineries. I'm working on the charcoal production at the moment (not a joke, I have some small retorts in weekly production, though I'm mostly aiming for biochar production instead of fuel charcoal production).

Realistically, though, if all you have to work with are my general flows of materials in and out, I'm a lot less worried than if you have, say, details of home audio, my social media postings, etc (nothing I say here is inconsistent with my blog, which is quite public). And there are many things I don't say in these environments.
Wait people read those?
Pisa 2022: Decline in educational performance only partly due to Covid-19
That only results in your money going to miscellaneous secondary concerns and administrative bloat.
this month has been crazy for Apple and text messages. First RCS now this! I am a bit nervous about jumping into this not knowing privacy implications. Normally I let HN "vet" apps like this but I think more will be revealed with this app, and not saying that in a bad way. It is going to be a crazy week!
It's most likely too late to save the USA teen population from smartphone homogeneity - from 2022's https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/06/gen-z-survey-says...:

"Analyst firm Piper Sandler's approximately twice yearly survey of teenagers in America shows that iPhone ownership is up 1% to 87% since its last report. At the same time, the new figures claim 88% of teenagers say their next phone will be an iPhone, which is down 1% from the last report."

from my informal poll of young relatives in past years, females were typically iPhone users and males were more likely to own Androids. I guess peer pressure was too great to fight the supposed Android benefits.

But, hey, Apple doesn't have a monopoly in smartphones, right? so Apple doesn't need to be forced to play nice with anyone...
what if we already did and all that's missing is the skeletomuscular system?
> Compared to the cost of a house, a one-time visit by an electrician is a small amount

Okay but can you fold the electrician's bill into your home loan ? No ? I thought not. It comes out of your current cash flow. Which might be hand-to-mouth for many people.
> The US is going through a slump

The US economy is growing gangbusters but 40+ years of "Reagan revolution" have really taken their toll. That ideology has infused many with the belief that if something is broken it should not be fixed; rather that its problems mean that further intervention will simply make things worse.

Even SF, that supposed "liberal" city (whatever that means), suffers from this sickness.
Yeah the cognitive dissonance between writing "Little Brother" and "government can be trusted with more power" while its simultaneously advocating for encryption back doors is mind boggling.
It is interesting to hear that you prefer generalists. A glance at your profile tells me that you are a tech lead (focused on data engineering) and it looks like you are hiring data engineers -- which to me is a specialized role.
I have witnessed this phenomenon on YouTube with the channel Grace Digital Network[0]. It's scripts, imagery, and narration are all AI generated. They're putting out 1-2 new long-form videos per day. Generative AI is contributing to an impressive rate of content output, but it's somewhat scary to think that AI will be a source of religious learning.

[0] https://youtube.com/@GraceDigitalnetwork?si=CYW6aIVNltwHW7th
I am not sure if node is still a viable web backend runtime. When it released originally, it contended with the likes of django, and RoR, but now we have much saner options like Rust, Go, Elixir on backend, I am not sure if the original appeal is there any longer.

Edit: By “saner” option i meant more scalable, performant and maintainable using stricter types.
So, are we reading The Social Network of Caesar's life?
Once again, this is why I check the comments before hitting a link. Thanks jdboyd!
What matters is where the extra electricity comes from. It is a fair presumption that all the electricity produced is used. I'm not even considering peakers or load following generators; instead it is often about new sources: gas, wind, solar.

Add one car, and what sources over months provide that marginal increase in electricity consumption?

For example incorrect sibling comment:

> ~40% of electricity at this point is renewable

Wrong because the renewable sources are usually already used by existing electricity customers. E.g. in New Zealand at times if there is extra consumption on the network we sometimes start up our one coal station! The extra load uses coal as a source. Or if we have a dry year, our lakes provide less electricity so the extra load is often supplied by gas. We are installing new wind and solar but very slowly. I have a friend working to get a solar farm installed - but government red tape is causing problems (Labour not interested, and National seems uninterested) How can governments screw shit up so much!
> How do we know it won’t just plateau in performance at some point?

We don't.

But that's also the sort of thing you can't say when seeking huge amounts of funding for your LLM company.
This is incredible! Excellent job on this. I regularly hunt for an app that can do what you've done, so it was a very pleasant surprise to see it as an HN post.