skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have occasionally wondered how easy it would be to bootstrap your own models using models from the big players. I remember first thinking about this when IBM Watson was the newest hottest thing on the block.

Then OpenAI came along and it seemed like it wouldn't be necessary any more because they were releasing their models anyway, except for when they suddenly decided that they wouldn't any more.

But others have been carrying that torch since (Llama and many others). Still it seems an interesting way of enhancing a model.
"If you follow" is a tautological condition, you're close to saying "if you don't hurt yourself, your chances of hurting yourself is 0". (by the way, so proper firearm practices include "don't kill yourself if you're very depressed"?)
...and it was good
well you know
That sounds like something they could reasonably argue was destruction (spoliation?) of evidence, and in some cases judges are allowed to tell juries to assume evidence that was destroyed is harmful to or counters the defense's arguments.

Also destruction of evidence is a crime, so you could pick up additional charges as well.

Don't play games with the law: talk to a lawyer. The law is not code, you generally aren't going to win with clever interpretation (see myriad cases where the "intent" of the people making the law is considered by the court) or "hack". If you're ever dealing with legal issues, civil or criminal, talk to a lawyer.
> While ByteDance’s use of our API was minimal

Aka... some dev fired off a handful of test queries and never used the account again, so OpenAI decided to suspend it to look good in the US press.
Are you associated with them in some way?
It is fairly pro-historical, take the development of democracy as an institution - it depends on an understanding that we'd really all rather see ourselves on the same side and trying to get the best outcome for everyone. Compare that to communist revolutions where they overthrew the hated landlords, then everyone starved. It isn't a be-all and end all, sometimes the only option is to fight. And on the small scale I've had mostly good results by being friendly towards my landlords.

But I don't think real estate in New York is the place to draw that line. I suspect the regulation of the market is creating these toxic relations and it is making everyone worse off, except for a few lottery winners presumably.

> You’re arguing that it’s strategically superior to unilaterally concede not just tenants’ interests but any acknowledgment that there even are tenants’ interests.

I think it is implicitly obvious that the tenants have interests. What I'm saying is if I'm living in someone else's house and my interests don't align with there interests, plan A is to find a way to align our interests. Taking it as a given that our interests conflict then picking a fight, on the other hand, strikes me as dangerously stupid.
Do you actually want them to store everywhere you've ever been on their servers because they would be using their storage instead? Because I don't, and I don't care to guess what the actual reason might be, because I'm just glad they don't want to do it anymore because it's better for everyone – removing remote storage removes a whole host of privacy issues.
> statutory damages for data breaches, and even steeper ones for failure to report breaches

If say an engineer becomes aware of a breech, would going public if their company didn’t do so within the legal timeframes to report be covered by whistleblower protections?
The website is so cool! Love it
Thanks, I’ve been looking for something like this since forever. OwnTracks is the thing I previously heard about, but at the time it required you to set up your own mqtt server for data ingestion. I’d rather not have to maintain something like that.
We already tested this in communist countries.
Again, you aren't wrong, and it's actually a lament of mine that these peripheral processors aren't themselves under the purview of the kernel's scheduler for their tailor-made tasks or that the code that runs there isn't debuggable in much the same way as any other code.

It is, nevertheless, good enough for most people that it more or less works 80% of the time. Pareto strikes again.
Almost pretty much the same thing really.

Consider that our sun contains 99.86% of the mass of our Solar System.

Bear in mind the headline is about total spectrum of elements in entire galaxies ... eg: as in looking at our galaxy, the entire milky way, from a distance that makes it dwindle to a near point and difficult to estimate how many stars make it up.

Of all the many galaxies that we can see, this is a story about a handful that are mostly hydrogen and helium .. more so than what we see as typical for galaxies.
Musk Corrected on Twitter for Misleading Inclusivity Tweet
> The main reason that doesn't happen in NYC in particular is rent control/stabilization -- dropping the rent lowers your baseline.

I was in a few "rent stabilized" apartments in NYC over the years, they always had a clause in the contract that "the official price is $1750, but there is a rebate so you will pay $1450" or something like that.

After you move out, regardless of the state of the apartment, they spend 2 weeks painting it. This is required to be able to maximize the increase in the "official price" ... though that seemed completely independent of the lower market price.

(That was the case 6+ years ago, I've been in slightly more expensive apts since.)
Everything is marketing, even the critiques of marketing
Is there no incremental lint mode? When developing you need that for instant feedback, same mechanism should work for CI.
Yes, they are two different quotes. I didn't mean to use them as equivalent. It was more like, I used both, because both were applicable in the context I used them in.
I love location data. In fact when I travel, I bring a GPS logger to track all my locations, it helps me sync up my ok photos and retrace my steps. I have pretty precise maps of ally big trips in the last 10 years.
Wouldn't it result in overfitting?
So true. Still have to find out how to avoid color bleach when converting to webp.
Looks neat, i've been needing to look into something like this soon so i'll give it a try! Thanks for sharing.

What do you see as your unique benefits over alternatives?
CIWS is not very effective against fast sea skimming missiles, you'd have to expend expensive interceptors in a way that could threaten your magazine capacity.
Wireless CarPlay didn't show up until several years after the original USB-based CarPlay, which is still around and there may still be new vehicles on the market which only support the USB-based CarPlay. Wireless CarPlay starts with a Bluetooth connection which is then used to negotiate the higher-bandwidth WiFi link. Neither CarPlay nor Android Auto can operate on Bluetooth alone, because the video data that needs to be streamed far exceeds what Bluetooth can handle.
Read it again—it's funny and reeking with sarcasm.
Are you joking to compare number of lines of apl with cobol. Come on. One page of apl can do thousand.
New 800V Zeekr EV battery can charge at 500kW
The consistency and quality of this project is impressive. This shows how much can be achieved if one just puts a little effort into a project every day.

At first I thought it was a project like this taking a photo of the same scene every day and making the changes of it over the years visible. But the variety of scenes is impressive and I can almost feel the pressure he must have felt every day to deliver his photo of the day.
Very cool, direct install link:
flatpak install --user --from https://nightly.gnome.org/repo/appstream/org.gnome.Prompt.De...
Opus is Vorbis‘ successor. Vorbis should no longer be used for encoding, except if you need to stay backwards compatible. Eg if you needed to shrink a FLAC collection I‘d use Opus.
Can anyone bring this down to earth for me?

What's the actual state of these "ML compilers" currently, and what is rhe near term promise?
China has good enough relations with Iran that they aren't really going to be threatened durably here.
I don’t see how people can STILL use wired nowdays. It’s so much less desk clutter and vastly better aesthetics to go full wireless.

Charging is not an issue, get some Logitech that lasts months if not years.
JWTs are definitely a much larger surface area than simpler encrypted sessions storage and most people don’t need that.

I cited this as one example of that surface area that led to serious vulnerabilities. Most people don’t need multiple ways to encrypt their data, and certainly not a ‘no encryption’ option. Each added option adds more ways to mess things up.
A Year in Review: New from Wolfram Media in 2023
Ah, all I remember was printers not working at the time. I didn't know they lost stuff. That sucks.
That's not just "A man stands beside a closed doorway" - he's a porter:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/nov/04/working-life-u...
We appreciate it very very very much and welcome you with open arms.
Actually the landlord. He hires a separate management company that we deal with for maintenance, but when they've messed up we've dealt with him directly. It's a small building - just 4 units. (This is in Japan)
ELF binaries and everything before main() starts [pdf]
"Unprofitable" startups will pay taxes on revenue that isn't really "profit"

If a b2b startup has some contracts which total $1 million per year in sales, but their dev expenses are also $1 million per year, you're right, the startup is unprofitable. But now they'll still have to pay taxes on the $800K of sales after their 20% immediate-year deduction for dev expenses
> So, if you want to elicit specific behavior from them, one approach would be to ask yourself how you'd elicit that behavior from a human, and try that.

This doesn't seem that human: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/01/chatgpt_poetry_ai/

How far removed is that from: Did you really name your son "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" ?

I think that these issues probalisticly look like "human behavior", but they are leftover software bugs that have no been resolved by the alignment process.

> unless the operator holds unambiguous rights to all the data used for training...

So on the opposite end of the spectrum is this: https://www.techdirt.com/2007/10/16/once-again-with-feeling-...

Turning a lot of works into a vector space might transform them from "copyrightable work" to "facts about the connectivity of words". Does extracting the statistical value of a copyright work transform it? Is the statistical value intrinsic to the work or to language in general (the function of LLM's implies the latter).
Of Memes and Magick
Privacy policy seems half-baked:

"""Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our Services from outside, please be aware [...]"""
I'm pretty excited about this. This standard has a lot of things but the on-street charging would be a game changer for lots of folks. Sure you have to cart your own cable around but that's much better than dealing with "extra" cables lying around on the sidewalk. Plus the new voltage standard simplifies the installation of new stations, which sounds good to me.
The number of people who have cared what any of my letter grades were since graduation is an even integer equal to its negation.
wow, it sounds extremely bureaucratic but then again there must be some reason why bureaucracies come up with size. it's a great warning and very kind of you to share this info with me. I'll do my best to avoid these pitfalls when selling to big co's. Also, it seems pricing your product under 100 bucks might do the trick
Skinny scrollbars is one of them.
The actual string I have is three wires. Data and + - it’s likely they have been swapped out for cheaper lesds now, or the picture is wrong.
Yes but a state machine is reducible to a directed graph, and a DAG is a specialization of a directed graph, which xstate can be used for

edit: to be clear, I think the additional constraints on the directed graph model introduced by Octopus may be useful by requiring developers to derive state transitions from updates which can only occur upstream, because that state can't flow back in the other direction. Whereas the dependencies can have cycles with xstate.

So I'm positing you can do everything with xstate that you can with octopus (and more). I'm not necessarily arguing that the ability to do the "and more" part with xstate is not a footgun, just that xstate lets you work with state in a similar way while also having a mature ecosystem of tooling around it. Perhaps the constraints introduced by octopus would result in more robust software in practice; I'm definitely interested to try it for myself and find out
Back in my CS undergrad we learned Dijkstra's Algorithm in AI class. Once upon a time, that was AI. I think AI just refers to newly discovered useful algorithms.
Dang it, now I guess I have to toss my out of support android phone that works fine but doesn't support lineage.
I think that marking the actual post as "flagged" or "censored" would make it clear what is happening.
A big banner across the top so that everyone on the post knows that their comments don't matter and they have been essentially cut off from the rest of the community.

Hacker news however prefers doing things on the sly and that makes people feel bad.
It is the opposite of open and transparent.
You're correct, but we also have model services that support the ReAct pattern which builds the exfiltration into the model service itself.
In 2019, after six years living in Cambridge, I moved to Seattle. A few weeks before the move I stumbled across these pictures as postcards in a local shop. They perfectly captured life in Cambridge, everything from punts on the Cam watching fireworks to jogging past cows on the green. I bought a dozen, and kept them on my desk in Seattle for a while as a reminder. Thanks for the memories!
Cool, rockbox? Oh, not rockbox...

Well, rockbox was cool and we had it in the early 2000s. Don't know whats with the revisionistic headline.

https://www.rockbox.org/
Check out torch.compile
We offer:

- Competitive Pricing
- Free Email Verification API across plans
- Transactional-only Service (which means better deliverability over companies that also support marketing)

Here's our roadmap for 2024:

- Webhooks
- Email Receiving API (IMAP and API)
- BIMI Support
- Email Marketing (but obviously won't mix the IP ranges)
- Affiliate Program
I would also think it'd be an incredibly expensive way to train a model.
I remember Scott Manley saying this was only like a 5% efficiency gain for rockets. Any idea if it’s bigger for air breathing jets?
Thanks for letting us know. I'll get that corrected ASAP!
A laptop by default is not suitable for working any substantial length of time due to the fixed coupling between its screen and keyboard. Separating them—so that you can relax while keeping your screen roughly at your eye level and at comfortable distance, and your elbows bent at comfortable 90 degrees (or more)—gets you 80% there in terms of ergonomics.

You could carry around a portable display, but that might be a bit of an overkill in terms of cost and bulk. Unlike a display, a portable keyboard is lighter and often smaller than the laptop itself. Modern wireless keyboards have almost no lag, have nice mechanical keys with replaceable keycaps, etc.

Working away from a stationary setup, I consider a separate keyboard a must—and particularly a wireless keyboard, since the one thing that reliably breaks on every laptop is physical I/O, especially USB/USB-C ports (and every time plugging/unplugging another accessory brings that closer).

Working with a stationary setup you have a detached keyboard anyway, and if it’s wired you don’t really need to unplug it, like, ever, so a wireless keyboard loses a lot of its advantages—though if you have a really large screen and have a lot of leeway for moving your chair around for comfortable work not having cables get in the way might be nice as well.
Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout
WBE?
That internet is still there. Harder to find, but still alive.

There’re still countless personal websites and blogs, small communities, old school forums.
It previously ran on Deno, but now we run our own edge runtime!

https://github.com/supabase/edge-runtime
This doesn't look even close to what I'm remembering. Doesn't surprise me there were multiple such things though.
Everything you say is correct up until the last sentence. Metal-poor stars tend to be old, because the metallicity of galaxies is increasing with time (as fusion in stars and supernovae combines light elements into heavier elements).
Almost pretty much the same thing really.

Consider that our sun contains 99.86% of the mass of our Solar System.

If you dumped that into a Sun-sized metal-poor star, it would probably pass for metal-rich.
> In order for an AI to evaluate the effect of a small molecule on the brain, it would have to... simulate the operation of a human brain in a simulated environment. Similarly, to avoid Thalidomide-style disasters, it would have to simulate the conception, development and growth to adulthood of a human.

This is how the human doctors who have cured things in the past have done it, is it?

The way this is going to work, when it happens, is that you'll ask the AI for a cure and it will give you a hundred candidates. A human doctor will look at the list and throw half of them out because they're toxic, several of the remainder will be excluded by animal trials, the few remaining will proceed to human clinical trials and one of them will actually work.
What about transformer itself, any indication that it is optimal in some way?
The article's title is actually "The Self-Checkout Even the Haters Will Love"; I changed it for this post, as the real title seems a lot like linkbait.
Why does it have no buttons?

There are plenty of good rockbox able MP3 players on the market. What I need is buttons with feedback.
I had a classic iPod mini that I modded with a 64GB CF card, so no more mechanical hard drive, and it had rockbox installed.

It was the perfect music player, and I had it in the late 2000s.

It even had DOOM on it!
What about being compelled to either unlock and open a safe, or provide the code to unlock it? I too am surprised that existing case law in the non-tech space wasn’t mentioned in the article.

It would have been helpful if the Ars journalist had scored an interview with his expert source — Berkeley academic Orin Kerr — rather than simply re-reporting Kerr’s own analysis:

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/14/is-compelled-decryption...
Ask HN: Do you use stored procedures for CRUD operations in your database?
I just stumbled on this today and apparently some people advocate to use stored procedures for select, insert, update, and delete operations with the argument it helps to reduce network traffic, increases the performance and doesn't allow SQL injection?

What are your thoughts? and are you aware of any framework/library using such approach?
I think the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard(FHS) is the most standard thing we know of.
Considering the extent to which youtube is blatantly encouraging people to copy their videos, and no doubt that openai haw user tiktok content for their models, this is like slapping a child.
Usually a matter of skill, most likely.
Odd? No. It’s basically every form of popular fiction. (There are tons of fiction that can be written without the suffering, but it is not in fashion right now).
To add to what the previous commenter said, It's wrong to imagine the market as one big block apartment building.
New Pied Piper
I am curious, which companies in Denmark are trying to get out of cloud?
Off topic but why is hypersonic Mach 5 and above? Anything special about that threshold, or was it chosen arbitrarily?
They also have their own web scraper called ByteSpider that scrapes websites with lots of text very aggressively and ignores robots.txt. I've had to block it by useragent on one of my sites.
Nah, it was obvious I would be losing my time, as the follow up answer proved.
The details on how exactly they may have used it to train their model is vague. I believe transfer learning or knowledge distillation are valid techniques based on the inference from other models.
Alternatively, they caught the action promptly and kept use to a minimum

Also, what does “minimal” even mean? I’m sure they monitor accounts that max out their API request limits, or even just request programmatically (i.e. request patterns that don’t match a natural human use pattern, like slowing down during a time zones lunch hours). Maybe this was a couple days worth of traffic
Unfortunately python for Postgres is only available as an untrusted language extension, which can provide avenues for things like privilege escalation[0]

We’ve decided to only bundle trusted language extensions so that there is a balance between flexibility when it comes to users writing their own procedures, all while maintaining security.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpython.html
I still don't understand how they can keep a straight face claiming that training on all human-written material (copyrighted or not) that can be found on the Internet is perfectly fine, but training on ChatGPT output is not (or in other words, that human writers cannot have a choice on whether their output is used, but bot owners can).
> The approach is very "Lords Of The Rings" like, you don't need to know fundamentals, don't need a keen understanding of the processes and various instruments, because "the ring" knows. All you need to know is to spin the ring around your finger and make the wish "make money".

What's the similarity to Lord of the Rings? That sounds more like Aladdin.
That’s not it. It’s not just hype. The underlying model is better.
>In order for an AI to evaluate the effect of a small molecule on the brain, it would have to... simulate the operation of a human brain in a simulated environment.

Humans aren't capable of doing this, but still make useful drug discoveries. AI can be empowered to conduct research in the real world, it doesn't need to simulate everything.
Even as a pretty experienced front-end developer I would often times ask myself “how the heck will I do this”. A lot of that changed with flex box and then css grid. “gap” especially has made is easier the formulate a plan without just poking at CSS and hoping it works.

That said, pretty basic things like truncating text and making sticky components still trips me up every time.
I think most are going to wait on the side lines watching the bleeding edge. The promise is great but so is the risk of disaster. Imo it's going to be a generational shift.
Can we see a disassembly of the dead christmas lights?

Knowing what chip they have inside can give a clue if there is flash memory and if it might be easy to dump.
So far prompt looks amazing, though it's crashing occasionally for no apparent reason. I'll try to track that down.

Are you aware that there is already a terminal for iOS with the same name? https://panic.com/prompt/
I'm not sure what the purpose of the word "just" there is. There indeed seems to be quite a lot of gold to be had by whoever gets a foothold.
Visualizing Unknown Pleasures – An Introduction to 3D Graphics on the Web
A few months ago I shared my project here and some of you asked how did I make it, so I made a video.

Here’s the original thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35419771
> The Business plan is priced at $6.67/user/month with annual billing (or $8/month billed monthly), which is the same price as Zulip Cloud Standard.

It's a clever way, borderline to a commercial dark pattern, to drive people away from the self hosted product and to the cloud service.
Same here, it's like a weird language where I've spoken and seen all the edge cases. Still remembering hacks for IE6 and still felling good not doing them
I don't find it funny and it is a long winded and confusing way of saying that their code suggestions use other code and documentation and that people should try it.