skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve actually been building a testing and evaluation platform from the start, but started with discriminative ML tasks like classification and regression. We waited to do a Launch HN because we were mostly focused on enterprise / mid-market.

These past few months, however, we’ve prioritized building out features for testing and monitoring LLMs.

LLMs certainly have their unique challenges, but the evaluation problem in general is not new, and much of what we’ve built historically is very much applicable to this new crop of ML use cases!
Since implementing EME, I'm not sure Firefox is critical for an open web, since by almost definition, EME isn't open. As a practical matter I can understand why they chose to implement it (though that was not without controversy), but let's not fool ourselves here.
But government don't exist to serve standards.

Governments exist to serve their citizens -- their users.

It's extremely user/citizen-hostile to say, "well our site works but no commercial browsers do, so I guess you can't register for a health plan this year over the web."

And I don't know about you, but I sure don't want the government building its own standards-based browser required for accessing government websites...
Do captchas have a future? It seems inevitable that AI will beat humans on captcha real soon (if not already). What's next?
> is there even one success story out there about moving a project like this back to a real not-for-profit/reasonable governance

Wasn't Thunderbird under Mozilla manglement initially? And, after a few rough years post-spinoff, they're doing pretty well it seems [0]. To the point I'm looking forward to their '23 financial report - I'm happy to continue to donate, and seeing the rise as others join in is pretty nice :)

[0] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
I think I'm finally okay with this. Firefox/Mozilla cannot handle their responsibility. With the death of their dominance, we can hope a new player comes forward.

I'm sick of cheerleading Firefox when it is slower than Chromium, heavier, and buggier. The only benefit is less creepy google.

I'm sorry Mozilla, when FOSS teams that are unfunded can make browsers, I expect much much much more.
New Catalyst Breaks Down Durable Plastic Pollution in Minutes
Now keep them raised if you didn’t change company...
You will notice that they say in the blog post:

"If you’re a researcher, consider pausing reading here, and instead please read our full paper for interesting science beyond just this one headline result. In particular, we do a bunch of work on open-source and semi-closed-source models in order to better understand the rate of extractable memorization (see below) across a large set of models."

So they are trying to rigorously quantify the behaviour of the model. Is this "look mom no hands"... I don't think so.
None of those concerns have anything to do with Django: just have Django return your HTML for all views that don't return JSON (which is to say, set the 404 to your HTML).

There's no need to use a data store like Redux. Any routing framework will work. Any react framework will work. Django has no impact on how you structure your SPA in any way! If you can build a SPA, making it work with Django is literally just "return HTML with a script tag". There's no "use React with Django" tutorials because that's literally it. If you can return HTML from a Django view, you've got everything you need for whatever React project you intend to build.
Especially given this would be fine definition of engineering+science: "All you're doing is exploring the parameter space of particular model in a very crude way."
> Maybe a web browser can be maintained for less than 400M, but likely not much less.

I doubt that. Mozilla wastes a ton, not only on CEO salaries but tangential projects and other dogoodery.
I was hoping I'd have to source the fuel, too, but they didn't get into that.
remember the avg person presses colorful squares on a screen to "operate a machine"

this type of self-directed exploration is still in the hacker spirit imo even if it's not the Next Big Thing according to greybeards

I enjoyed using it and i'm sure many others too, though i do agree we're in interesting times with how regressed the modern understanding of computing truly is
Ah my apologies, I wasn't familiar with that syntax.
Its because you can get some data if you opt in to relationship tracking. For instance, my 23andme shows like 1,500 genetic relatives. So saw you are jewish and opt-in to this feature. The person can login to the account and see X amount of other jewish people and their names. This is the data that was stolen from my understanding. Not the actual raw DNA of those individuals. With the current gaza/israel issue, you can see why someone having a list of the names of thousands of Jewish people might cause some concern.
Capitalism isn't about corporations, it's about capital.
For now yes. I'm sure it will be back on the agenda in some form or other before we know it.
and archive.ph on cloudflare (nothing but CAPTCHAs)
I was reading an article about car prices in the UK over the last 50 years. It seems the median car price has increased inline with earnings. This is twice the rate of inflation. It seems car manufacturers have done a really good job on us.

>You are still allowed to opt out.

>For now.

Opting out of consumerism is probably the most subversive thing most people can do.
The anti-Tesla phenomenon is seriously disturbing
To be honest, teaching SQL "syntax in" seems like a really backwards way of getting an understanding of what SQL is doing.

I run the tech side of a company almost entirely built on complex SQL queries. If I were to take a fresh college student and "teach them SQL"... well, I wouldn't teach them SQL. I'd teach them relational algebra: projection, selection, join, etc. as mathematical operators over bags of tuples. I'd make sure that they could show me what the bag-of-tuples looks like at each step, as each operator is applied. I'd get them to write code in some programming language with first-class Set and Tuple datatypes, that does these operations as in-memory functional transforms over bag-of-tuples -typed variables.

And then, once they have that solid understanding, I'd show them, in order:

1. that there exist these systems called RDBMSes that maintain durable, mutable bags-of-tuples they call tables (which is weird when you think about it; coming from a math world, a relation should be an immutable mathematical object, a value-object defined by its members. But RDBMS tables aren't relations, not exactly — and this is where you can go into detail about SQL `NULL`, "nullable columns", and how in an RDBMS, the absence of an asserted row-tuple in a table doesn't necessarily mean the implicit assertion of its logical negation as a logical predicate; it rather means "haven't been fed the truth-value of that relation yet." RDBMS query engines aren't relational-algebra computers; they're relational-algebra provers — and NULL is their "not proven"!);

2. that these systems accept a COBOL-like declarative syntax for either

• referencing their tables (`TABLE foo`);

• expressing relational algebra upon their tables (`SELECT ... FROM foo ...`);

• defining arbitrary literal bags-of-tuples (e.g. `VALUES (1, 2)` — bet you didn't know that was toplevel-grammatical in SQL!);

• expressing relational algebra upon arbitrary literal bags-of-tuples (e.g. `SELECT a FROM (VALUES (1, 2)) AS x (a, b)`);

• or any combinations of the above — using UNION, INTERSECT, or introducing any of the above as a common table expression and then referencing it by name.

3. that these systems also accept COBOL-like imperative syntax — one which really has not-much-at-all to do with relational algebra — for modifying the durable, mutable bag-of-tuples asserted by a given table (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, TRUNCATE);

4. and that, completely unnecessarily, these systems also have a COBOL-like imperative syntax for modifying the definitions of the tables themselves (unnecessary because the data-definition schema could have just been, itself, a set of tables that you modify through DML statements. INFORMATION_SCHEMA exists, but it's read-only in every RDBMS I've ever seen. Wacky, isn't it?)
Why isn’t it science? Surely people can use the scientific method in investigating?
My first thought on the Title "Play and learn how a nuclear plant works."
this is was lead to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
I think of the country in thirds - east coast to Chicago, Chicago to Denver, and Denver to the west coast. I think that's roughly accurate thirds (if you take the "east coast" to be Maine rather than Georgia).

If you want the middle, maybe Kansas City?
If people have to choose between being able to drive 500 miles with good enough handling and 200 miles with razor sharp sportscar handling the vast majority will pick the 500 mile car. Handling has long been good enough, most people don't get anywhere near what even their basic econobox can do.
Ethically: yes, totally.

Too bad it's never going to happen, because selling healthy things to children is a lot harder than selling sugar water.
Can AWS keep up in generative AI?
Azure can offer GPT while Amazon has to make do with Claude, Llama, Jurassic, etc. Is this a significant disadvantage or do you think that with the right APIs AWS can beat Azure and Google even without having the arguably best LLM on offer?
This isn’t that surprising. The math curriculum we are familiar with works nowhere. Most countries with better scores rely on tutors.
These sentiments are pretty close to my own. I read a paper that claimed that llms are General Pattern Machines and could be used to complete small games in gym environments. It seems to me that if these things really are General Pattern Machines all we have to do is figure out a way to represent any data as a pattern and try and predict the next step in the pattern right?

The multi token[1] project which allows you to take any type of data and turn it into a token it's pretty interesting and seems like it's going in this direction.

I would really like to see a framework where you can take any modality of any type turn it into a series of tokens and just cram it into a language model and effectively turning into a multimodal model with almost no effort.

[0]https://general-pattern-machines.github.io/
[1] https://github.com/sshh12/multi_token
I mentioned that:

> this is Germany, generally far higher FF usage

But the interesting part is not how much FF has here, but how much GA undercounts it.
Firefox is not IE8, which declared lot of CSS3 and HTML5 standards as "won't be supported" in 2009, paving the way for its own extinction.

USDS serves basic pages and applets which work fine on Firefox. It is only a handful of very complex web apps like Photopea where the developer will say "run this on Chrome for best results".
My first thought: "no way this can work permanently"

After reading the post:

> After initial success in disabling Serbian electric power systems, the electric supply was restored in less than 24 hours. [..] In the later stage [..] used conventional bombs and rockets to target power highlines and transformer stations.
For nightlife... that's quite the undersell. There are live bands everywhere, every night of the week. Every kind of genre. Thousands of ppl mingling, dancing in/outside these bars. It is better than Vegas's Fremont Street ;) The nightlife is phenomenal for singles.

It's not just 'quiet quitting'. Austin defunded their police force by 30%. Morale dropped significantly and there is now a shortage of police.

After-all, who wants to work in a city where they are not wanted and actively hated.

Homicide is up 70% and violent crime is up. Police response times are 30% longer.

Just an FYI... housing prices are expected to drop 12% in the near term.
So these manufacturers literally ransomed Poland by crippling critical infrastructure?

This is an incredibly brazen crime and I’m not so confident they will get away with it.
Since the discussions seems to be focusing entirely on the headline “Toxicyity”
They are using Perspective, you can find more here: https://github.com/conversationai/perspectiveapi
The initial article has proven to have very faulty analysis.

The primary being that the authors thought that Israeli options are denominated in shekels, when they are in fact denominated in agarot (1/100th of a shekel). So, even if every other aspect of their article is correct, their calculations are off by 2 orders of magnitude in terms of valuation.

Which leads one to suspect that they got other things wrong as well.
It’s simple math: how much revenue does she bring in, versus the costs. And how likely is it for the organization to find someone else that brings in equal or more, for reduced salary.
Most is. But there have been two significant house fires from electrical systems in my small town in the last year.

It's also my experience that if you have the know-how, you can often do a better job than the professionals you hire, or the factory that mass-produces a product for the highest possible margins.
SigNoz (YC W21), Open Source Datadog, Is Hiring SREs (Remote)
If I read correctly your message, you seem to assume that Firefox is a variant of Chromium. That's not the case.
This crap is why I probably won’t buy another new car, ever.

I’ll find an old 72 travelall and swap the motor/trans for something modern and efficient and say screw the automakers.

One exception: a new c8 z06. I might get one, if my dealer gets an allocation and I have all my ducks lined up AND I can get it with no markup.

Which… isn’t happening
He has a YouTube video where he explains in quite detail how he makes his animations. His most important software tools are Adobe After Effects and Python with matplotlib.
Great Article !!
I dunno. Honda doesn’t offer an electric CR-V, but they’re coming out with the Prologue, which is slightly cheaper than the comparable Passport.

Passport: $43k
Prologue: $48k - $7.5k tax credit.
This is great. I had been long looking for something like this in Ruby eco-system. I worked on a Rails app which interacted with a bunch of micro-services and I missed the async-await so much. The problem was, when the app was waiting on API requests, the throughput suffered a lot.

We couldn't increase the number of threads a lot, since it increased the memory usage a lot which eventually led to OOMs.

I tried to put something together using async-http [0], but it was not very stable.

One question would be, how does scheduling work with existing psql and myself db gems. Should the calling code wrap the database calls with `Fiber.await { Fiber.schedule { ... } }`?

A framework like this would be very useful when the tech-world is moving towards micro-services, for the good or bad.
[0](https://github.com/socketry/async-http)
profit is not the only morality
Ask HN: What's on your (seasonal) wish list for this year?
Or what is the best thing you’ve bought throughout this year?
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> This is a political problem, not a technological one.

Somewhat of a distinction without a difference, IMO. Politics (consensus mechanisms, governance structures, etc) are all themselves technologies for coordinating and shaping social activity. The decision on how to implement new (surveillance) tooling is also a technological question, as I think that the use of the tool in part defines what it is. All this to say that changes in the capabilities of specific tools are not the absolute limits of "technology", decisions around implementation and usage are also within that scope.

> The reason such things did not come to places like the US in the same way is not because we were incapable of such, but because there was no political interest in it.

While perhaps not as all-encompassing as what ended up being built in the USSR, the US absolutely implemented a massive surveillance network pointed at its citizenry [0].

>...managed effective at scale spying with primitive technology

I do think that this is a particularly good point though. This is a not new trend, development in tooling for communications and signal/information processing has led to many developments in state surveillance throughout history. IMO AI should be properly seen as an elaboration or minor paradigm shift in a very long history, rather than wholly new terrain.

> Make it a crime for a business to have the wrong opinion when it comes to who they want to serve or hire?

Assuming you're talking about the Civil Rights Act: the specific crime is not "having the wrong opinion", it's inhibiting inter-state movement and commerce. Bigotry doesn't serve our model of a country where citizens are free to move about within its borders uninhibited and able to support oneself.

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/hist...
>We concluded that working long hours is associated with depressive state, anxiety, sleep condition, and coronary heart disease.

https://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=3388&file_nro=...

>The evidence that long working hours are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease is accumulating and suggests a small risk.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11886-018-1049-9

>[...] working long hours is associated with an elevated risk of early cardiovascular death and hospital-treated infections before age 65.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...
I would reach for other laws like sabotage and extortion and something that probably exists specifically for the protection of public infrastructure and charge them criminally and raid the offices and take out the executives in cuffs.

They screwed with the rich and powerful here why not throw the book at them?
If Apple bans this they will have to answer to EU courts. I very much doubt they will in this political climate.
In the list of catastrophes, the Mongol Wars should probably be included: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E...

Some estimates are that 11% of the world's population was killed during this time.
If we worked zero hours, then zero people would die from working.

See also: "we lowered the speed limit and get X fewer deaths on the road".
I would have also made that assumption, but I have to admit I'm not surprised it doesn't. IIRC, iMessage was introduced with iOS 5, which supported iPhone 3GS. The secure enclave didn't show up until iPhone 5S which shipped with iOS 7.
You had no burnout or resentment because you had an enjoyable working environment with what sound like just rewards and you were able to learn valuable things. That's pretty rare in my experience.

My anecdotal evidence is the opposite. I worked extra hours and volunteered for a long time. I took responsibility for things nobody else wanted. My raises and bonuses were trivial. I had one promotion early on from entry level to midlevel. Then I was filling the role of a senior dev and a tech lead for a year each with good reviews and respect of other devs in the department (and some outside it). No promotion, still minor raises and bonuses.
The US Federal government is claiming that!
"A motor vehicle that is at least 25 years old can be lawfully imported into the U.S. without regard to whether it complies with all applicable [Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards].(1)"

After 25 years, it is assumed to be so safe they don't even need to comply with vehicle safety laws. If the import ban was about safety, it wouldn't ever allow cars previously legally considered 'unsafe' onto the roads, but the 25 year law pretty much gives away it was about people importing Lexuses and BMWs for less than it cost to buy one in the US, which made the manufacturers unhappy.

1: https://www.nhtsa.gov/importing-vehicle/importation-and-cert...
> The lion's share of real growth from the last 30 years seems to have been in Asia.

There was far more opportunity for growth in China than in the U.S. Rather, compare the U.S. to Europe, Japan, and South Korea.
From the article:

> Of the 2.96 million deaths, 2.6 million are due to diseases derived from employment such as circulatory problems, cancer, and respiratory diseases. The remaining 330,000 are related to work accidents.

It's hardly surprising a cushy office spares of you of most of these issues. I'm happy to hear your career has been a successful one, but what you describe is completely unrelated to the submitted article.
This is always the rebuttal. No mention of the large number of deaths from fossil fuel pollution. It’s just so frustrating to see people against nuclear for no rational reason.
Whatsapp and signal don't load messages that were sent before joining a channel, a modern feature that slack has had since launch.
I expect it to last as a Zombie company in some sorts. Not a true, government subsidized zombie company, but a way for Google to pretend they don't decide the internet.

Google says 'Don't spend your money on bug fixes and you can get 400M for default search, and you get your 3M bonus.'

Oops, we arent allowed to speculate on HN? I'm just jaded...
Mercedes achieved a 1000km range with a regular 100kWh battery by making an extremely efficient car with a drag coefficient of only 0.17 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Vision_EQXX
Did you try to at least remove the dust/dirt which tends to clog those parts over these timespans? With forced air from a pressured can to blow it out, or the other way around with a vacuum cleaner? (But arrest the fan, or unplug it while doing so, if possible! Otherwise it can spin like crazy and working as a generator, even frying the controller!) Furthermore the cooling paste/glue/mat between the die, or the lid of the CPU and the underside of the cooler tends to degrade/dry out, also because of time. Exchanging that requires disassembly, removing the old stuff carefully with isopropanol, reapplying some thermal paste, nothing special, just Arctic MX4 is good enough, and then reattaching the cooler.

Would work wonders, I guess.