skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was under the assumption that finetuneing LLMs was useful only when you need to change the model's tone (speak like a pirate, voldemort etc).

A lot of why I tried this out was to test the limits of this belief, you see a lot of talk like this out there and it sounded like nonsense to me.

Finetuning is fundamentally not much different than continued pretraining; if you feed the model high-quality and high-volume data I think it's reasonable to expect it to acquire new skills
"externalities" one of my favorite economic terms
That is the case, but even then Firefox really was a fork, within Mozilla.

Mozilla was created in 1998 to open-source Netscape Communicator suite. Mozilla released its own suite, also called "Mozilla" (e.g. "Mozilla 1.0" [0])

Independently of that effort, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross made an experimenal, cut-down version of just the browser part of the suite, which they called "Phoenix", as in a Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's a fork. That's a fork by any metric.

They later rebranded Phoenix as Firefox, and eventually the Mozilla suite was abandoned. Mozilla changed tack in 2003 and switched to developing Firefox and Thunderbird as independent products [1]

[0] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0

[1] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-apr-2003
You can just hook the networking system calls and you have the unencrypted buffer. TLS encryption doesn't do anything since you can just look at it unencrypted on the network function when they pass in the buffer.

If they encrypt before the network functions, you can just look at the callstack and trace the variable containing the buffer backwards until it's non encrypted.
Next step: YouTube refuses to play videos if Dev Mode is enabled.

(We all know this is the reason, right?)
Probably because no one uses iMessage in the EU.
Agreed, and I'd even be willing to opt out of the karma system entirely to get this.

The self-defeating nature of "graying" comments out is just utterly mind-blowing. It calls more attention to the undesirable content rather than less... yet nobody in power seems to understand that. (For starters: if I turn on showdead, it means I don't want my view censored. So stop doing it.)

Anyway, it's OT for this story.
tesla.com, five minutes and you have a car on the way.
RCS can be encrypted. Whether Apple chooses to do so is yet to be seen of course, but I'm guessing they will reserve encryption for "blue bubbles."
Yep, I used to switch back and forth between iPhone and Android every couple years. I'd deregister the phone number when switching over to Android. I don't remember a time they didn't offer that ability.
When did they change that policy?
seems apple really dislikes usb chargers
Does this look like the same file from the deleted repo? https://github.com/rdxunlock/albertsimlockapple/blob/main/AL...

I'd love to see an open source version of Beeper with no analytics. I'd be happy to host my own notification server.
I used to read code for a living (security consultant) and I'll ask you this question: you're being thrown in a codebase and you need to understand it in a week, what code do you wish the codebase to be. I'll give you the answer: it's going to be the language you work in, and then Golang if it's not the language you work in.
Except we should be pushing for the elimination of user agent strings, too. They just end up being used as a lazy way for lazy developers to not test for capabilities.

The most recent example I've run into is Snapchat's web client: It reject's Firefox purely by user agent string, but then works perfectly in Firefox if you just have your browser lie.
I have no idea, except that it blocks video output, and comes up with a prompt to log in to whatever service via the TV. I can cast just fine from e.g. a webpage or a podcast app. But Netflix or Max or Prime? Forget it.
We copied the Ubuntu release schedule to deal with this (rolling release for cloud, LTS + security/bugs for on prem). Its not particularly painful (but we don't provide support for 2 full years).
In order to speak like a pirate, it has to be able to reason :) I've done some fine tunes as well similar to the MTG example, in mine I was fine tuning it to speak JSON and reason about some input- and yes, you can indeed get these models to perform on novel tasks.
If only Firefox still worked.

Every time I open Firefox on Linux, it does disk I/O for about two minutes before it is usable. No idea why.

On current Ubuntu, about once a day, Firefox stops accepting keyboard input. Sometimes right in the middle of a text box. Other windows still accept input. Restarting Firefox is usually necessary.
Nah. Not NSA. CIA
I would argue that code with channels are hard to read in any languages, not just Golang.
> Basically, if you want to build an on-premise offering, look at the way Nginx, Postgres, Redis and similar projects are packaged and do the same.

Nope. You should look at how an app that uses all of those is published. That’s what on-premise software truly is. A combination of dependencies and your companies secret sauce.

Your own app code is just one cog in that engine.
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So you agree with the resolution that evolution prefers a social caste system then?
drugdeal.ing was cheap, though...
I switched back to FF, but honestly, I find it annoying that there isn't a better option. Firefox is (for me) the least-worst option. I really miss the existence of a browser that I actually like.
Good point. But we didn't always have destination AC charging; sometimes we were charging overnight on 120V instead.

If you're driving this theoretical 600 mile vehicle you can't charge it overnight on AC anyways. A level 2 charger is typically 10kW or 40amps. A 600 mile battery is likely at least 200kWh, a 20 hour charge at 10kW.
Not every job has 'more work = new skills.'

Usually it's just more of the same.
Java is verbose, C++ is verbose, Golang is not. Golang actually cared about verbosity. For example, uppercase letter means that your function is exposed, no keyword!
Agree. We have seen this before.

What if someone reverse engineered Twitter's services and built a separate client and tried to monetize it. What would Twitter do?

What if someone reverse engineered Reddit's services and built a separate client and tried to monetize it. What would Reddit do?

What if someone reverse engineered Instagram's services and built a separate client and tried to monetize it. What would Instagram do?
So this is the third AI power, after OpenAI and Google. Fourth, if we consider Anthropic as a major player. This new Alliance has a lot of prominent research institutions as partners, not to mention HuggingFace. Interesting how the landscape takes shape.
I just got some iMessage spam yesterday. Now I know why.

This jailbreak will make it less likely for someone to be able to trust iMessage.
> ...it seems that they need to recode the Enhanced Tracking Protection for GA to ensure that they get flagged as FFox.

That would be backwards

The main reason to use FF is the privacy protections

I find it very frustrating they do not get more recognition for the work they do on that front
As someone who evaluated software in the CI/CD realm for years working at an enterprisey company, not have an on-prem solution immediately disqualified you. We had to go through so much more red-tape to allow a SaaS offering in the enterprise it just wasnt' worth it. Yes, that's the enterprise for you. It's been a while since I've done that, so hopefully they've gotten better about it.
For me, even when working on something besides my editor configuration, having access to the parts of the “editor primitives” makes for a lot of powerful one-off editing tools. It was relatively easy, for example, for me to us lsp features to get a list of undefined JS variables in the current scope and add them to the function argument list. And, since lsp and the other bits I put together are all in elisp, I could use jump-to-definition to quickly find the itnernals I need to make the change.
Didn't mean to sound so bratty, I just get frustrated by this topic. My apologies if I was a bit testy. I just mean that iMessage is extremely misleading and overly-technical in what it takes to truly have a chance at making it secure and private to the extent it extolls itself.

This shit matters now that people aren't able to receive proper reproductive care and education and other grey areas where Apple is setting its users and itself up for terrible and unjust outcomes that depend on everyone but Apple having flawed/imperfect information and Apple pretending 'Saul Goodman...
Note, that Nominatim is not based on ElasticSearch but PostgreSQL and recently are working on "Nominatim lite" (with SQLite): https://nominatim.org/2023/10/25/sqlite-reverse.html

Maybe the confusion stems from the part that the same dev is also the dev of photon? (which is based on ElasticSearch)
vc-annotate in emacs is my favorite blame view I’ve seen, if you haven’t tried it.
He also stated that he chose the current platform based on pricing, and hinted that costs being equal might have made him choose otherwise.

You answered your own question.
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Namecheap is telling me that any of the `.ing` tlds i'm looking for are $13k... sorry, but f-off!
Since it seems like you don’t understand how streaming on twitch works, here’s the tl;dr. They’re paying you in exposure for giving them exposure. This is one of the few places where “for the exposure” is actually meaningful and not a meme. If you’re trying to get a channel off the ground as a career, this is not a terrible deal.
Specific problems I've had as a firefox user:

- I can't pay municipal license fees (Site says "Use Chrome")

- I can't use the Vendor management portal for $largePopularTechCompany type company for my small business ("We support Chrome")

- Xero my small business accounting software just doesn't work properly ("Use Chrome")
In some sense the government, which occasionally is run by sensible people, does save the day. Take Portland Oregon, or Curitiba Brazil as examples. They saw gains in multi modal design that benefited all citizens, not just the privileged elite who can afford the luxury of mono transit design.
Your life insurance just went up.
USDS certainly does not. The guiding principle at the time from what I remembered is to try to set "some standard" for all federal government websites to strive to because there were none.

We also helped with design and infrastructure support for ssa.gov (launched earlier this year) with a contractor team to try to boil down 60,000 pages to ~30 pages that people tend to use.

// opinions of a former USDS, no longer with the team
I'm curious; what do you think "moving up market" means? Does it mean "becoming a company that has a higher market cap and/or is more profitable" or does it mean, "Targeting a wealthier customer"?

Because what you've listed would suggest you believe it means the former, which isn't accurate (it's the latter). Maybe I misunderstand, though.
Are cars and fuel not already heavily taxed?
That is the intractable political problem. Short term pain is unavoidable to get to the long term fix, and voters have no tolerance for short term pain (still measured in decades).
Not even driving through Norway's or Switzerland's mountain roads has made me ever factor the cornering ability of a mass produced car into the equation. It doesn't matter outside of places you are putting a car's dynamics to its limits, the only place I know you should be doing that is on a race track.
The industry used to be able to ship shrink wrapped software that a non-technical person could install on their home computer, without 24/7 instant messenger support to get working.

I think B2B software should be able to create manageable installations for technically competent IT professionals..

If your install has that long of a manual task list, your cloud SaaS infra is probably junk too.
Most people see smooth movement. The brain usually interpolates for us as part of its normal wetware, such as blind spot filling, blur when moving your eyes quickly, low light vision, etc. People who are more visually sensitive and get motion sickness from moving pictures probably just have different circuitry that is more sensitive to the digital/analog mismatch.

I would say your visual experience is fairly rare, but common enough that I regularly encounter people that have various issues with digital motion. I have no problems with low framerates myself, but I do find camera shake (especially as so common in video games now) to be nauseating, though it seems most people have zero issue with it.
For 11 years, I worked for a successful Silicon Valley company that had a philosophy of renting rather than buying. Their rationale was to focus on their business rather than in something outside their core expertise, commercial real estate.

As a side benefit, twice in that time, we moved to newly constructed campuses, which was nice.
Except that in a lot of cases, a failed coverup incurs a few more felonies, so "don't bother" is closer to like 75%, while "failed cover up" is definitely 100%.

In terms of risk analysis, rationally considering a coverup is in the same ballpark as rationally considering shorting a stock, in the sense that making the wrong call can cost a whole bunch more.
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IIRC, though, Beeper Cloud does not come with end-to-end encryption on messaging services that usually have that feature through their regular app. Messages are encrypted between your device and Beeper's servers, and between Beeper's servers and the other end of the conversation, but the Beeper folks can still read your messages if they want.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong; the architecture of their product is pretty confusing.)
We're talking about a company that changes CPU architectures for their ecosystem every few years, completely seamlessly. If redesigning their entire authentication and delivery strategy is what it will take to mitigate this problem, Apple will do it.
Apple isn’t in the business of offering anything to Android users without getting anything in return. A value-add is something you offer only your existing or prospective customers, and that can have a lock-in effect, but only if you value it a lot. Keep in mind when iMessage launched, that it only worked with other iPhone users was a much heftier limitation because the smartphone market still had Symbian, BlackBerries, Windows Mobile, and Palm in it in addition to some very early Android models, and not everybody buying cellphones was buying smartphones yet.
> If the test was done, the results were sent, and then my test data/info were destroyed on their end,

they claim, at least, that this is the case if you delete your account; i got my results, downloaded my data and deleted my account years ago
And some companies continue to do so! It's not a lost technology. But the way it typically works is that big contracts come with a ops engineer or two to live with the customer and help them set it up.

At some companies, this is clearly demarcated from the SWE role - at others, stereotypically the "IBM mainframes, SAP and Oracle DBs" category the OP mentions, they kinda shade into each other. Which is, of course, why those technologies have such negative reputations. (There's also the Palantir route, where you have a clear demarcation but lie about it to new grads who don't fully understand the conflict between "forward deployed" and "software engineer".)
> Every time I open Firefox on Linux, it does disk I/O for about two minutes before it is usable. No idea why.

I have no idea either

But I do not think it is Firefox. I open it regularly on three computers, Ubuntu, mint, and Debian 12 and I don't see that
Thank you, this was probably my biggest concern
But the article says the mixture is rare
No time to check this out now, but I'll be interested in reactions from my fellow (ex) Navy nukes ....
Those are entrance exams.
This is where the sales team hands it over to the consulting arm. You charge for that as well as the licensing. It's why companies like IBM are still around :)
In democracies at least, the law can be changed to reflect this new reality. Laws that don’t need to be enforced and are only around to enable pretextual stops can be dropped if direct enforcement is possible.

There are plenty of crimes where 100% enforcement is highly desirable: pickpocketing, carjacking, (arguably) graffiti, murder, reckless and impaired driving, to name a few.

Ultimately, in situations with near 100% enforcement, you shouldn’t actually need much punishment because people learn not to do those things. And when there is punishment, it doesn’t need to be severe.

Deterrence theory is an interesting field of study, one source but there are many: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14773708211072...
Hence the importance of feeding your microbes in a predictable manner, with something that is not too easy to digest but calms them down so that they don't overrun the place.

Mucus acts as both a barrier and a food source with an extremely diverse O-linked glycans which decorate its backbone. ~800k permutations of the 5 possible O-linked if you consider a glycan chain of length 5, and 3 possible linkages types. In actually the diversity is likely greater given chain branching patterns, randomized expression of glycosyl hydrolases which generate the mucus, etc..
I'm looking for good opportunities to learn TypeScript. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, that'd be awesome. If email works you can use my username @gmail.com
I've used Firefox on Debian for years. Boot time is perceptibly zero. Performance is on par with Chrome. And I can't remember it ever crashing except for maybe a tab crashing every now and then due to some errant Javascript.
Well taxes on cars and fuel are being paid. So what additions are you talking about?

Also, it's certainly fair to be in favor of something and to have an opinion. It's a different matter to get a bill written and passed by democratic legislators. When it isn't (because let's be real, America is not restructuring it's entire lifestyle), is that fair?
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> How do I get my Messages window back if I accentally close it? Very good point.

Just checked it: Cmd+N (New) will pop it right back. If you don't want the stupid new message, Cmd+0 will do the trick.
My biggest beef with nuclear (and I've always said this) is its just so unsexy. No mushroom shapes, no passionate explosions followed by restful oblivion at the end. Its just reliable and faithful and keeps on pluggin' away. I like to live a little dangerously, and you should too!
Reversing decades of creeping car dependency will be difficult.
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That would be easy and wouldn't even require lying. "We identified and fixed a security vulnerability and fixed it"
Super interesting work. Do you have thoughts how to leverage this to create a deck builder AI that would also simulate games? The major problem here is that the search space for MTG is amazingly vast.

I've seen this effort previously, pretty exciting stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4T44EvPvo
Adversarial attacks can be made on face recognition systems and the like, defeating them, and AI models can be poisoned with adversarial data, making them defective or ineffective.

As it stands, AI models are actually quite vulnerable to adversarial attacks, with no theoretical or systemic solution. In the future it's likely you'll need your own AI systems generating adversarial data to defeat models and systems that target you. These adversarial attacks will be much more effective if co-ordinated by large numbers of people who are being targeted.

And of course we have no idea what's coming down the pipe, but we know that fighting fire with fire is a good strategy.
I guess the equivalent would be Laravel Nova.
I think this website is the main place keeping the term "pwned" alive haha. It's pretty much died out among Gen Z
But I need to put this credit card info into a car which I don't really own and then my "butt" starts randomly buying FSD. No thanks.
I think on the surface it looks like a double standard. I don't think that's what it is.

Apple users never had this openness, so they might not know what they're missing.

Google users did have this openness, and I think it's the taking it away that's causing the uproar.

I don't think most folks like it when things are taken away. It's not a Google/Apple thing, it's a people thing.
> On-Premise software is frequently bought by large customers with significant resources - including a competent ops team.

These are orthogonal. Resourcing is no guarantee of ops competency, or a culture where ops is enabled to deliver, hence the concept of shadow IT. On-prem software is bought by orgs with low risk appetite or other compliance objectives that skew procurement towards running on prem. I have seen exceptional ops teams on a shoestring ramen budget, and I have seen dumpster fire ops teams in companies with thousands of workers and billions of dollars a year in revenue who could not get you a single virtual machine in less than 90 days even if preventing the end of the world depended on it.
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> Make it a crime to grow a plant in the privacy of your own home and then consume that plant? Sure, why not? Make it a crime for a business to have the wrong opinion when it comes to who they want to serve or hire? Sure, why not?

Wow, that's a hell of a comparison. The former case being a documented case of basic racism and political repression, assuming you're talking about cannabis. And the latter being designed for almost exactly the opposite.

Restricting, um, "wrong opinions" on who a business wants to serve is there so that people with, um, "wrong identities" are still able to participate in society and not get shut out by businesses exercising their choices. Of course "wrong opinions" is not legal terminology. It's not even illegal to have an opinion that discrimination against certain groups is okay - it's just illegal to act on that. Offering services to the public requires that you offer them to all facets of the public, by our laws. But if you say believing in discrimination is a "wrong opinion"... I won't argue, they're your words :)
I don't follow how the proof text is generated from lean? Or is it not, they are doing the verification in lean and the proof text is completely separate.

Looking at the project more I see it's the latter. Turning lean tactics into readable proof text would be hard, as the lean phrase book he is keeping shows: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gsn5al4hlpNc_xKoXdU6...
Wouldn’t consider it a real alternative, but you increase/decrease indentation in insert mode with ^t/^d
You can run Android apps on almost any non-Apple brand of phones, Windows PCs, Linux, Mac OS and Chromebooks.

You can run iMessage on Apple devices, nowhere else.

Surely you see the difference.
I envision one general exam and one exam for each of the specialties. It would change the entire focus of high school and college to preparing for the exam.
This didn’t really say much. Apple definitely knows about Hackintosh users, they mostly just don’t care. The question is whether they will actually do something if made to care.
Well, it gives you an example, not quite a definition.
I have no damn idea why Tampermonkey, which as very best I can tell is closed source <https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/blob/master/REA...>, is on the "blessed" Firefox for Android list when Violentmonkey <https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey#readme> is MIT, although I readily admit doesn't it have a "politically correct" name