skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all you have are the model weights, you can very easily tweak the model. How else are all these "decensored" Llama2 showing up on Hugging Face? There's a lot of value in a trained LLM model itself and it's 100% a type of openness to release these trained models.

What you can't easily do is retrain from scratch using a heavily modified architecture or different training data preconditioning. So yes, it is valuable to have dataset access and compute to do this and this is the primary type of value for LLM providers. It would be great if this were more open — it would also be great if everybody had a million dollars.

I think it's pretty misguided to put down the first type of value and openness when honestly they're pretty independent, and the second type of value and openness is hard for anybody without millions of dollars to access.
Yeah, that's the video that I was thinking of that explicitly tested it. It usually isn't a thing that happens in the real world.

The last couple of days have been different. People have left their cars in the parking lot for hours, which effectively is what OOS did in their test.
Does it do AI autocomplete?
A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)
The project of de-governance feels so radically imbalancedly more expedient. Any judge is free to veto governance.
mostly because humans just aren't that high of a target, I asdume
> But how could you say when this has crossed a "boundary"

When you take samples of ocean water at various depths and locations and they all come back with having microplastics, you can go ahead and say we've crossed a boundary.

When you have factories producing "forever" chemicals that have high concentrations feeding into water table and soil that can be detected large distances away from the source, you can consider a boundary crossed.

You don't have to be obtuse about admitting we've fucked up, we continue to fuck up, and we are very hesitant to stop fucking up. To me, trying to put these definitions of what is a "boundary" seems rather small minded. We know we're causing things. We know we don't have to do these things, but we're lazy and comfortable with what these things allow us to do. Until we can fix human nature, I don't see us fixing mother nature.
My point is that I realized my keystrokes would be sent to microsoft servers when I open the start menu and click on the search field and all kinds of web BS pops up. It's a clear signal that allows you to moderate your activity. Spotlight isn't clear when you summon it that it is about to shoot your activity to Apple's servers.

It's not a binary situation. There are always degrees
Is there history or a meme that holds that z is for jump?

Just wondering if that is why the hotkey for the jump action in Baldur's Gate 3 is z
I like self checkouts too. I am not arguing against them. It is just that these jobs going away is not helping former employees nor freeing them up. Economy is always going through changes, I am not arguing to stop progress.

> maybe jobs need to dry up in order to compel workers to move on

Nah. This is just lying to ourselves to feel better. Workers do not need to be compelled and it does not help them at all. The changes may be helping overall economy in the long run or just be irrelevant overall, but individuals on the receiving end are just not helped.
> plenty of people are threatened with lawsuits for seeding on an ongoing basis, especially in some markets like Germany

Fair enough, I'm talking about America. To my knowledge, individuals downloading pirated content have not been threatened with lawsuits. And to the degree seeders have been threatened, it's only that--threats. When was the last distributor actually sued?
Science if pretty clear that if you build a house out of flammable materials with no regard for fire safety, it could burn down and kill everyone kill it.

What you are doing is the equivalent of complaining that your house didn’t burn down this month and therefore fire safety is fake science
You may not know where the boundaries are exactly, but you can come up with bounds: lower bounds are places where Earth has spent a lot of time in the geological record in regimes that are compatible with human life; upper bounds where known terrible effects are guaranteed to happen.
I’m surprised Notion is still using .so when they own .com

ccTLD (.so) are more prone to outages & risk then gTLD (.com)

And for any company, especially SaaS, safeguarding your domain (and uptime) is an exercise is financial de-risking.
You seem to be asking how you can be speak hyperbolically while sounding realistic.
I don’t think it’s just a “vocal HN demographic” that thinks arms dealing is bad.
> 2C of warming is worse than 1.5C, 3C is worse than 2C, 4C is worse than 3C, and so on.

Are you thinking about continous instead of linear?

The effects of global temperature rise are certainly non-linear, given the extremely complex dynamical system under it.
Well that's a non sequitur if I've ever heard one.

> If you're asking me my opinion on how you succeed in your career," he [chair of PwC UK] said, "I'd be in the office four to five days a week."

Translation: I wanna see my peons in their cubicles. Also, forget your promotion otherwise, because my power games don't work well over video.

What a rubbish piece...
Yeah after talking about it here, it immediately made sense to me to combine them. I've thought about just banking some income for a couple of months and buying the best equipment I can afford and then starting something. Also it's dumping snow right now so there won't be much house painting / pressure washing going on.
This is a priority for the Obsidian team over the next few months. This should get a lot better soon.
Special Address by Javier Milei, President of Argentina – Davos 2024 [video]
It frustrates me that the actual paper is well researched and very interesting, yet the title and even the concept of these 9 boundaries will make many immediately disregard it.

There seems to be this notion that scary titles and overly-simplistic frameworks like this make it more digestible and give it more attention, but I think that’s a big PR mistake.
While understandable short-term - as someone from neither of those places: no, and bug off. But that's a short-term and emotional response. You want an arms race you'll get it. Eventually someone might press the red button indeed. Not too unlikely - and even then history will never learn the truth who really did it first (not that it matters).

As someone else pointed out above - this is going to be a surprising century for y'all promurica folks. Or for the the posterity, at least. Won't even be China to be blamed. Might not even be a state. Not seeing where this train is headed (and not just with the AI) - this is the biggest issue with the overall comprehension of the larger picture. But opening your eyes and learning to make sense of the world around isn't something you can learn by being lectured on HN, unfortunately.

It's a soothing feeling to have, though - this belief you're on the "good guys" team. Comfy. Also helps when you're arguing, doesn't it? OR when your passport allows you to travel to more places. Very nice indeed, but not a single a thought is usually given as to why, say, the latter, is the case. "Ignorance is our only ammunition".

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT hate America. It's given this world a lot of good things and personally affected my life through art, books, movies, music, language and other things. I used to visit, but I think I could've never enjoyed living there. I used to think it's the American movies that perpetrate lies about how life really is, but then when you see it, you realize the lies is anywhere but in the movies (even the bad ones). Lies not by the people... Just lies. Fake. Vanity. Madness. And the only true thing I found in America was my one and only love. For which I'm forever grateful.
DHH about Apple protecting its App Store racket
-tl;dr

-just looked at the picture

Louisiana says, "If you don't have a cancer alley, get one!"

West Virginia says, "OK."
That's a fair assessment. One more thing I would add is that things you can frequently get working on FreeBSD (like JetBrains IDEs) might be significantly more challenging (or impossible) on an OpenBSD desktop.

I'm a long-time fan of OpenBSD (I started using it in 1999) and I strongly second reading the warnings on the label.
The strategy that worked for the ozone layer crisis might not be as effective for other issues. Obviously for one problems like climate change are way more complex than the ozone issue, which had a pretty straightforward solution.

Also, climate change more broadly is going to affect also big sectors like energy and transportation, so there’s a lot more resistance and economic implications. The ozone issue was more direct – people got it because it had immediate effects like increased skin cancer risk.

So, yeah, while the ozone strategy was a big win, we can't expect the same playbook to work for everything else.
Neither. Almost all Norwegians understand English, and automated translations of single words without the surrounding context are so shitty it becomes hard to understand without mentally translating back to English.

Edit to add: see also the "postcode file" post about Windows 11 from a few months back.
It always starts at the top. Sundar sure seems like Google's Balmer. He's good at keeping the lights on but from an outsider's perspective he doesn't seem to have any vision.
Yeah but we need the Star Trek society first. In principle, I absolutely agree that IP is bullshit. The problem that many people in the “smash IP” camp tend to ignore is that people needing to eat, have a place to live, not having a stage 1 cancer diagnosis be an instant death sentence, and things like that aren’t merely “regrettable collateral damage” on the road to freeing data.

I’ve encountered many people over the years that hardline shit like that—they’re almost exclusively middle to upper middle class suburbanites that are edge lording that stuff to subconsciously quiet their deep-seated insecurities about how incredibly soft their comparatively unchallenged existence has made them.
I find it doesn't strain me at all to take these warning signs as is, without having to feel tied in a knot over what the word "boundary" means.
I am not Indian but I work for a large Tata like IT firm. This hit way too close to home. There a lot of cultural issues here that comes down to management being rewarded if things are done cheaply and discouraging any agency or self-realization by the developers. If I saw this in the US, I’d walk out. They literally don’t have that option as there’s a 90 day salary clawback if they do. Some general thoughts:

- Most management has a non-tech background. So they get what they want to hear and don’t want to hear what’s wrong.

- Thinking this coming from the same team or from the same company is wrong. They silo developers like crazy. There likely was an API developer, an Office 365 developer, frontend developer (so specific it is down to the framework or stack!) and the developers themselves will not touch anything they aren’t “certified “ in.

- I have been in meetings on $100 million projects where they will seriously argue over the cost of sendgrid. Eventually this will come down to no one having “sendgrid experience”
And some developer saying they can do it in Office365.

- Security team will get the first cut in budget since it should “already be secure.”

- You are likely talking over the head of the nephew hired to do security for this. Will the government or anyone sue them? No, so why is this guy bugging us.

Developers aren’t encouraged to develop but get tickets out and not question them. The manga is “It wasn’t in the requirements” all the way down the chain.

I work with smart developers out of India but it is not a culture of innovation. This kind of work is treated like a call center. Don’t go off script, stick your little problem domain, if we aren’t failing we are winning.
> Setting a boundary invites people to point out that nothing happened the second that boundary was crossed.

This problem is unsolvable by changing terminology because it's rooted in denial and misinformation.

> Maybe defining zones with consequences attached might be more meaningful so we can evaluate which cost is preferred - solving the problem or living with it.

How is this not identical to setting boundaries? A zone is a bounded area.

As for the preferred cost - the only correct response is solving the problem. The alternative is not "live with it", it's failure and suffering. Only when we're in the failure state does the choice become "live with it [and suffer]" or "die".

You seem to have internalized the suicidal narrative that addressing climate change is a tax on our economy, when in fact it's just a different and more productive way to spend money that we're already spending.
Festivals are going to be so wild when this goes mainstream. I've spent countless hours integrating EL wire into outfits with batteries strapped to my body anywhere they'll fit. This is such an exciting next step!
I think Helix by default binds `Ctrl-[` to return to normal mode.

That was more convenient for me, especially as I remap my caps-lock key to CTRL system-wide.
I'd be super demoralized if anything I could do a future pocket machine could do much better and faster. Like my very best is not enough to even tread water.
Ultimately legal protections are a prevention of something. Many people against some of these things are against the government preventing working/hiring/doing and tend to see the policies as increasing costs for marginal improvement/protection.
Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts
> Why are you introducing this 'last decade' thing. Was the decade before not relevant?

I'm arguing that policy preferences around copyright infringement have changed in general. In general, in 1990s, copyright infringement meant "crime, reprehensible, police, prisons, etc." for both individuals and coporations. In general, in the past decade, it's meant none of those things for either individuals or corporations. Yet it's meant fines and lawsuits for corporations with virtually none I can find, in America, aimed at individuals.

Also, LLMs were basically invented less than a decade ago [1].

> seems like misdirection

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like" [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> We know we don't have to do these things, but we're lazy and comfortable with what these things allow us to do.

That's absurdly reductive.
There are examples at a smaller scale. Nutrient pollution (nitrogen, phosphorous fertilizer in water) can build up for quite a while in a lake with no apparent effect. For reasons not well understood, sometimes after quite a long time (many years) of rising nitrogen/phosphorous levels, run-away growth of algae occurs suddenly and rapidly, depleting the lake of oxygen and killing off most animals and plants. Lakes and ocean regions which have undergone this process thoroughly become stable in their own way, with anaerobic bacteria and algae, but no plants or fish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
Imagine trying to run a national business where your state-equivalent of EPA standards changes with every state. It would be worse than the sales tax snafu companies have to navigate today.

One for EPA standards. One for worker's rights. One for workplace safety. One for shipping standards. Repeat ad-nausium.
Your feedback may not be seen here, but the admins are supernaturally responsive to notes sent to hn@ycombinator.com.
Yes, automatically burying their output. Even thinking in ahead that there will be soft enough ground there, for the little, cute killing machine to be able to dig a hole.
@monax
Since you're the maintainer, I'll assume you no doubt will know more about it than me. But from what I (vaguely) recall, it's worse than that.

Not at liberty to elaborate on exact details, but not so long ago I had to deal with wkhtmltopdf, when it turned out to be the (still preferred/recommended) PDF rendering solution as part of a major popular web middle-ware framework, at a large corporate client. I was rather shocked to see a top-tear prestigious international institution working with such outdated tech (albeit certainly in ignorance), but never mind that.

What struck me most was the nature of the bugs I encountered. Probably one of the most baffling: seemingly randomly changing formatting of the output. In the end it turned out to be a Windows specific problem, where multiple administrators logged onto the Windows Server hosting the web application. Because of different workstation display geometries on their end, they effectively kept changing the display DPI settings of that server (a headless machine, only accessed through RDP). That in turn affected the rendering internals of wkhtmltopdf. Rather hilarious when I finally figured it out. That's when I learned it best never again use wkhtmltopdf on any Windows system (if anywhere at all, for that matter).

Wasn't the WebKit core even older than 2014? Maybe something about it being older but then just maintained independently until 2014 .. or something like that? Or maybe my memory is just messed up and failing me.

Either way, what I do remember is my amazement about seeing this (at best) 10 year old code (arguably of questionable quality to start with and certainly outdated by now) still in use as a go-to solution for rendering PDF from HTML. Ended up replaced it with a puppeteer-based solution. Arguably with its own problems, but less of a black hole than wkhtmltopdf. Especially considering it was (also) rendering user-supplied data. What could ever go wrong, right?
I chose EE cause it was harder (for me at least) and everyone would drop out into CS. Wound up doing software development, which I loved as a hobby and wanted to avoid ruining, so to speak.

Fast forward to today, I've ended up coming to the conclusion that the whole university system (much like the tech, banking & finance industry) subsidizes foreign nationals to the detriment of anyone who's native & pays taxes to support these institutions of "learning".

I didn't really see a straightforward way to do anything interesting with EE, which seems to entail going for a phd and navigating all the financial costs along with that.
I have a mechanical engineering degree and work as a software developer. I tried for a long time to find a company like this but they all seem to only want people who very narrowly fit a senior engineer role in either specialization, never someone who can do both.
Thanks for the word Ikigai. I might actually remember it because it is related to the Japanese word Ikiru, which is the verb to live. Ikiru is also the title of one of Akira Kurosawa's finest films [1], which deals with the life and death of a Tokyo bureaucrat, and more specifically his discovery of meaning and purpose in life. I cant recommend it enough. It is generally ranked in the top 100 films of all time, a personal favorite, and reliably moves me to tears every time I watch it.

The concept of Ikigai seems to be broader than the professional sphere, so it makes sense that some people may have Ikigai, but it is unrelated to their work, or their work is merely a necessity, to support their passion.

I personally believe happiness is a spectrum, so people may have some level of happiness without Ikigai, but it is not qualitatively or quantitatively the same as that with it.

I have personally found great satisfaction and joy in my work at times in my career, and not at other times. In my experience, alignment of work, your skills, and passion is a glorious experience.

Almost like a drug induced euphoria, it can be an eye opening experience, which you can't help but place other experiences into the context of. It makes sense that those who haven't experienced it dont know- how could they.

My professional work isnt currently aligned with my passion, which severly limits my feeling of ikigai, but getting back there is the goal and destination. After getting a taste of it, life without it is certainly lacking.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/
Acid rain is also another example I reach for. I'm not sure why these things are different that society was willing to accept the necessary changes. I'm guessing acid falling from the sky was an easy thing for people to accept is just bad, and were willing to go along with changes. I'm guessing the ozone depletion was acceptable as replacements for the items causing the problem did not cause interruptions to people's day.

The fact that we say significant improvement in such a short time during the pandemic lock down is the most recent example I reach for when providing examples. We as a society can do this if we wanted to. The fact that there are more that do not is beyond pathetic.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence these problems with automation are being discovered now that the Biden admin has decided we have a "tight labor pool." I'm sure it has nothing to do with Keynesian theory being popular among the extremely wealthy.
Pity that he writes in C; if he wrote in JavaScript, he wouldn't need a minifier.
Yep. Order of operations matters. This isn’t a theoretical “future problem” for a lot of people.
Syncthing is a wonderful predict with a short but steep learning curve.

Once you actually understand how sync works in details it does wonders.
I guess it depends the person, dealing with sqlite + python doesn't need dependencies or custom drivers and is easy to do/easier to manage for me than bash scripts
That might be true in the number of active chess players, but it's no longer viewed as a peak intellectual game and the magic is long gone, just another intense hobby some people do, but basic machines can do better.
I had a similar experience when I was doing physics in undergraduate as well. I read online and was often told that a physics degree opened a lot of doors - academia, government/industry research, engineering, high school teacher, software development. But during my senior year when applying for jobs, I was hard-pressed finding any place that was interested in me. I was fortunate enough to find a job as a laser engineer immediately after graduating, but the specific role was leading to a deadend career.

I self-studied from my alma mater's computer science program (fortunately, many of the resources were all online) and was able to pivot into a career in software development, but it was a colossal amount of work and energy. I may as well have just done the computer science degree originally. A lot of my peers who had studied physics/math also took the same route, transitioning into data science or software development.
I think you're right. If you don't want to marry, then you shouldn't do it just to make the other person happy. The problem seems to be that those same people also don't want to lose the other person by telling them they don't want to get married, so they get married.
Ozone depletion was a relatively easy problem to solve though, since it was replacing some chemicals with different ones, but didn't require much in the way of behavior change.
I don't really hear from them anymore, I am guessing they have their hands full and can imagine the pressure they might be on? could be completely wrong
It was discussed on the hybrid-bidirectional (HyBi) mailing list, as a candidate for where after http to go.

HTTP2 is a fine example. The HyBi mailing list seems to have culminated most noticeably in the creation of websockets. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/hybi/about/

With webtransport over quic, I feel like we might finally be able to go where BEEP was leading us.
That's amazing!

What does the API look like?
I see you're calling it FuryGL so it must have some roots in OpenGL?
What did you have to change because of the underlying hardware? compared to OpenGL? Compared to what a software rasterizer API would look like?
You probably are familiar with Glide?