skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you are saying. But managing a .local domain is way harder to get right (Your internal CA, certificate house keeping on all kinds of devices and software running on them, your internal websites talking to an external IdP, VPN and DNS...).

Especially when dealing with corporate bureaucracies -- If you don't have skilled engineers to manage .local, then just purchase a real domain and get public CA signed certificates. There will be fewer things that can go wrong.
Well said.

> If nothing online can be trusted

I think we're already pretty much there, except that it isn't just online. This is an all-media problem now.

(I work in ML as well)
I don't think Senator Cotton gave off a good impression here.
I find that it is just real wordy by default. I commonly tell ChatGPT to be succinct.
> I'm suggesting that the companies doing the interview have an assessment process that reflects what the actual job is that they are asking people to do.

This idea sounds great on paper, but the actual job we expect people to do requires months of context and collaboration.

It doesn't fit into an interview. That's an unfortunate reality of interviews.

So interview problems must be artificially small and artificially constrained.

If you wanted to work on a couple 2-week sprints by yourself for free with no guarantee of a job and use ChatGPT as your sidekick, be my guest. But if you want to get the interview done in a matter of hours then I have to shrink the problem down to something that fits into a matter of hours to reveal how you work. If you're just copying into ChatGPT and then poking at the output, that's not a good test nor representation of anything.
Thanks! I saw that bit but honestly, skipped past it due to being on mobile and assuming it was just a list of commands. Must’ve missed the header!

Very impressed with the capability here given that transcript, I’ll certainly try it myself. Thank you!
Also, gardeners can use this information to guide how they go about it.

I used to want to grow my own food, thinking I would be helping the environment. But I realized I probably couldn’t compete on efficiency with real farmers. So instead, I garden to provide ecosystem services with plants that foster native biodiversity. There isn’t a profit motive to doing this so it isn’t optimized like farming is.
> Please don't position it so that if I want to use AI I have to defend myself from accusations of exploiting labor and the environment.

I don't think this article even remote attempts this claim. The closest it gets is suggesting that if these defenses are too much trouble for you, then perhaps your use case for AI wasn't great in the first place.

> but diatribes like this

How is this a diatribe? There's nothing bitter about the writing here, it's entirely couched within the realm of personal opinion, and is an unexpurgated sharing of that opinion.

Please don't position your arguments so that if I want to share my opinion I have to defend myself from accusations that I'm being exceedingly bitter or somehow interfering with what you intend to do.

You're effectively attempting to bully people out of their own opinions for the sake of your convenience.
What about a cross between IPFS/Nostr and RSS? RSS (or atom) already provides a widely-adopted syndication structure. All that's missing are signatures so that a middleman can re-broadcast the same content. Maybe with signatures that's really reinventing SSB[1]. But if we think of the network in a more social sense, where you're connecting to trusted peers (think: irl friends), maybe the signatures aren't even that important. All that's left then is to separate the identifier for the feed from the location--today those are both URL--so you can fetch a feed from a non-authoritative peer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt
>Devices that were infected by the first stage automatically accessed the malicious string at the end of the URL. From there, they were infected with a second stage.

I'm guessing the only reason it is done this way is to make network activity less suspicious than if the device were to connect to some novel 3rd party domain?
Spotify's exclusivity era nears its end
There's no evidence Palworld used AI for anything. The only reason it's come up is that the CEO commented that they liked generative AI on Twitter, and certain groups picked that up to try to build an anti-Palworld campaign by claiming it used AI to generate characters.
LLMs are a great way to prompt human ingenuity in mental gymnastics
No you absolutely should have to defend yourself. Like the author, I don't want to touch anything you create that is produced with generative AI.

The ONLY exception is if you can demonstrate that your model was trained solely on datasets of properly licensed works and that those licenses permit or are compatible with training/generation.

But the issue is that overwhelmingly, people who use generative AI do not care about any of that and in practice no models are trained that way so it's not even worth mentioning that exception in this day and age.
Umm, what? I was just being a bit funny with my positive realization that my recent undertaking of a new sport has more benefits than I was previously aware. Why are you insulting me?
Frequency of personality disorders in patients with gender identity disorder
Your cash guy is going to draw suspicion on that alone.

Besides the Germans are now on the same team there isn’t much danger.
I played around quite a lot and got many funny combos too. My memory is poor, but one of my favs was Gay + Vampire = Twilight
I think I see what you mean now, and I understand that that would be possible.

Wouldn't you need some extra parameters if it were a binomial distribution though? For a uniform distribution every item is equiprobable (i.e. there's only one uniform distribution for a given N) but there are many binomial distributions possible for a given N. (Disclaimer, I know very little about statistics.) So the fact that you aren't given those parameters in the question means you can't make much of a prediction if it were binomial.

Edit: I read that binomial distributions are parameterized on both the number of trials and the probability of the two outcomes, so that kind of demonstrates my point doesn't it? You're not given the probability of Red and Green for the binomial distribution, so you can't really answer the question that way. You could assume it's 50/50, but that's an assumption that isn't justified by the question.
C# kernel compiled to x86 using a combination of Microsoft's C# IL and native AOT compilers and the GNU toolchain, bootable in QEMU.
I’m afraid I don’t understand your point: I am not trying to compare Flink to Proton’s docker image sizes; nor do I see how it is relevant. In this case, they are clearly talking about the size of the binary as in “executable of the software you can download”. Both the OP and myself are surprised that a 500MB binary is considered “lightweight”, probably because -even in 2024- “lightweight” should probably still be around the tens of MBs at most.
> People are allowed to use Google in an interview

I’m sorry but lol no. There are many places where you can’t do that in an interview because there are many employers that want to test for technical knowledge, not knowledge of tools, which anyone can learn on the job and which change as fast as fads come and go.

I find this entire thread astounding in how so many people come in the defense of ignorance and outright incompetence. If ChatGPT responses were enough to do a job, then why would a company hire a human? There would be very little value add from a warm body than just paying for the ChatGPT API and automating integration.

And corollary to that: if your job is possible to do with a huge number of AI tools, then your work is likely the menial kind and you should seriously dread being laid off and being obsoleted in the near future.
The issue is that without loud declaration like this money men will just soldier on with implementing shittier future.

It's always do something first and then ask for forgiveness. But at the point you ask for it it's too late and too many eggs were broken. And somehow you're richer at the end of it all and thus, protected from any consequences. While everyone else is, forgive my French, fucked.

Has Facebook been a net positive so far? Has twitter?
You may make case for you YouTube, but what about Netflix?

It's only been good to us (engineers) and our investor masters, but not for the 90% of the rest, which may I remind you is the distribution that created us in the first place. Sorry for being dramatic, but I do seriously think these things need to be reigned in, and especially people like Altman who while believing themselves to be good-willed (and I have no doubts that he is better man than Musk for example) end up being Robert Moseses' of our generation. That is someone with good intentions who ends up making things worse overall.
This is generally true, though it’s possible to encode the same data into a slightly different shaped DAG to optimise for eg video streaming performance afaiu (balanced vs imbalanced).
UnixFS vs raw bytes may also be different but I’m not 100%
Adblock Performance Insights: see the difference ad blocking makes
Embedded in styrofoam shoes, Carl is sent to ‘sleep with the humans’.
It may not necessarily be "more sane" but we define any batch jobs like this in Nomad.

The benefits are:

- We can collect metrics and logs of the jobs to see how long they take start to finish, and whether they started/died early

- More robust scheduling to tolerate node failures

- Easier to deploy as IAC
"I'm not content" was especially relevant if you remember the old Darigold Dairies commercial: "Darigold...home of contented cows."
Thank you, you just made my day. (I feel bad about leaving that undermaintained, though.)
I wonder what he feeds the AI. Maybe some nice concise bullet points, which are what you’d probably want.

Maybe we’ll end up with dual layers of AI: one to expand out top-down requests, another to compress them to something efficient to read.

We can also have engineers prompt the AI: write me a weekly status report on what I did. Here are my git commit logs and jira points. Emphasize (some topic).

Then the owners can have the AI summarize those reports.

Whole layers of middle management might be in danger.
There's a part of me that thinks that this is actually what's great about tools like ChatGPT.

Such a huge percentage of typical intra-office communication is neither worth writing nor worth reading. It only happens because someone who will neither write nor read it has mandated that it must happen, and it's easier not to argue. Farming that work out to GPT, though, is excellent damage control. It minimizes the cost to write, and, as long as you can trust your colleagues not to do something antisocial like hiding important and original thoughts in the middle of a GPT sandwich, almost eliminates the cost to read.
While arguing against the usefulness of ML models, the author of this piece is not thinking of two key concepts. 1) Supply and demand are linked. If the supply is cheap/plentiful enough, this opens up new demand for things that would have been prohibitively inaccessible before. To illustrate, imagine CPU chips were so cheap that they were essentially free, where the most expensive thing about them was shipping them. In that case, new demand might open up to begin using them to pave roadways or something. 2) There is knowledge and wisdom wrapped up in LLM's and recommendation systems that comes not from the computer program, but from the knowledge and wisdom of the crowds. This knowledge shouldn't be dismissed as useless out of hand just because it's in a computer.

The argument that computer generated art is worthless because "if you want custom art, pay an artist"-- this doesn't recognize basic facts about economics. In particular, supply and demand are related, they are almost the same thing. If the cost of free art is exceedingly low, this enables me to make custom art for things that I wouldn't even consider if the price or barrier to entry or time-to-generate were higher.

The author also points out:

> I don't want music recommendations from something that can't appreciate or understand music. Human recommendations will always be better.

While it may be true that humans understand music better than computers, the intelligence behind recommendation systems is actually not the computer programs themselves. It's the wisdom of the aggregation of many people, reflected in the numbers of the model. While talking with an expert curator about the next movie/series you should watch, or the next band you should discover would be nice, the truth is it's just not as practical or easy as firing up a computer recommendation system. While I could book an appointment with an expert music curator and go through a 2 hour interview process to find my perfect music tastes, a recommendation algorithm can still provide easy value for me.
A year after this is implemented: "internet access is a privilege, we cant have people speading dangerous ideas!"

How about you start your own internet for fragile systems that can't handle the real internet? Then you can be a dictator and require remote attestation or whatever.
Why shouldn't we have a short TLD reserved for private use, non-delegated, for $0/year?

.lan is short and convenient, there is no good case for using it in any other context. .lan is used defacto as a private TLD. ICANN should reflect this reality by codifying it in an RFC.
Has the Internet made us dumber?
I sometimes wonder if anyone at X[itter] has compiled a list of people who had formerly parenthesised their (((usernames)))?
(Sorry, it was meant to satirize the silly title, and in retrospect I should've added an "/s".)
Too much choice is a problem. Most of that content will not be seen much.

https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choi...
You can disable JIT in Chrome (which also enables CET [1], just like in Edge) by executing it with

--js-flags="--jitless"

You can also disable JIT in Firefox by setting javascript.options.baselinejit, javascript.options.ion and javascript.options.native_regexp to false in about:config, although you won't get CET.

[1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/12c232c43ce7324d30...
Rich + Hooker = Marriage

Richest + Prostitute = Bill Gates

Bill Gates + Marriage = Divorce

Queen + Divorce = Behead

Trillionaire + Behead = Decapitalism (lol!)

Narcissist + Money = Politician

Peace + Trump = War
I spend a lot of time thinking about this kind of thing, which is to say proc-genned "lands," dungeons, (cities/towns/villages/hamlets), the eternally Lost Opportunity which has given economic viability to the great and unwholesome Wheel of Pain which is rulechurn for Dungeons and Dragons and so many other properties (probably worthy of some long-form rants thinly disguised as essays).

Imagine yourself playing a character in a simulation, walking through across a harsh desert plain. No sand, no hard-pack soil crazed with cracks, just weathered rocks and eternal wind. The horse has died some time back and only ominous constitution checks have kept you propelled across this near-featureless vista. A rock at your feet is interesting enough, but you discover it has three sides aside from its bottom. Does this startle you out of your gameplay? Most people would say, "Hey, it's a rock." But if you're a geologist, and especially a student of ventifacts, you might recognize the dreikanter, a three-sided rock so formed by wind. Is the simulation so good that it produced this kind of rock purely from repeated applications of The Math?

Or you might come across a cave system. You ready your weapons, and for what? Why, an encounter. Now, in actual spelunking, what you want at hand is rope, not a sword, because most dwellers in caves tend to look like little white shrimp, tiny translucent spiders, patches of a very thin fungus, or eyeless fish little more than water themselves. Caves just don't support a lot of life, at least, not for permanent dwellers, and yet we have our monster hotels. Fortunately DMs have, chastened by the term, at least stopped stuffing some lonely red dragon in a cave where it can't ever actually leave.

Now, it's easy enough to say that we expect a kind of exaggerated reality out of our games and our maps, and it's almost true, but it isn't sufficient. Our expectations include these odd little rocks, too. Sure, we expect our mountains to be taller and our gorges deeper, our volcanos hot enough to melt the One Ring, much less tungsten (a block of which would simply indignantly sink without melting once it punched through the caldera's crust leaving behind poor Gollum). However, we expect even our exaggerated variations to vary, so we can't simply apply some multiplicative function across the whole of our heightmap like a lazy creator. No, we must have relatively staid areas, as well. More normal. Bearable. And then it is back to having unlikely geological features in a little much abundance.

Just as we have had some posts on "random" when it comes to musical playlists not actually being random, we want something out of our fantasy maps which isn't quite reality, but in a way which is almost ineffably fanciful.
I don't fully agree. Things are becoming quite simple, which is scary.

There's a well-intentioned lobby in the UK advocating for some minimal control, i.e. checking DNA / RNA / protein sequences.

For instance, cheap mRNA synthesis as a service has lowered the barrier of entry for any malicious actor. It's frankly ridiculous there are no checks in place right now.
That's the opposite. I was able to buy a basic vehicle for about the same price as one with all the options. I bought the new one for the better warranty and the fact that it didn't have 50k miles on it already.
Sure, but ultrapeers/supernodes/routers/etc are forms of centralization. Locally, the network is centralized around these supernodes, and they can be annoying/impossible to bypass. The "inner network" or backbone of supernodes, if exists, can also represent a central authority. Nothing necessarily wrong with any of this, but it can stretch the meaning of P2P if it really means P2central-authority2P.

Functionally there is almost no difference between me sending you an (anonymous, encrypted) message over Facebook versus over some sophisticated, large, hierarchical "P2P" network. We still have to trust the local authorities, so to speak.
Serbian is typically in Cyrillic - but everyone knows/uses both Cyrillic and Latin. First year of elementary school you learn reading/writing in Cyrillic, second year it's Latin, and in third you get first foreign language (e.g. German, French, English... My parents had Russian, but both my 11 years older sister and me had German as first foreign language). And in 5th year of elementary school it's another foreign language (for sister and me it was English). Street signs - especially highway/cities are in both scripts.

Croatian is Latin only - and IIRC only people born before ~1980 or so were taught Cyrillic in school (unless they are "Serbians from Croatia"). Street signs are only in Latin, but in past I think they had kind of dual script signs like in Serbia.

Bosnian ... Ugh well Serbian/Orthodox-Christian majority parts (Republika Srpska) have signs only in Cyrillic. Non Serbian parts (so Croatian and Muslim/Bošnjak parts) have signs only in Latin.

So I guess BiH (Bosnia & Herzegovina) might be the only valid use case for Serbo-Croatian?

Montenegrin used to be exactly the same as Serbian (so Cyrillic, and different dialect/accent and very few actually different words). But they also started inventing new words to distinguish themselves from Serbian - so I'm not really sure which version of Wikipedia they would default to.

BTW all the words can be transliterated between Latin and Cyrillic with dummy search/replace. For example "đ" = "ђ" = "dj" (if you don't have "fancier" version of "d" on your Latin typewriter/keyboard)

Meanwhile (Former Yugoslav Republic OF /and now known as just Northern/) Macedonia was always Cyrillic (except like in Kosovo there's many Albanian speaking people there, and they use mostly Latin, though I can't say for sure about Christian Orthodox minority in Albania).

And despite being rather different than Serbian/Croatian (let's not stir up flames by saying mix of Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian). When I run into random Macedonian people - they literally say "Two countries (Serbia and Macedonia), but one nation".

PS. I'm originally from Belgrade/Serbia; Wife is 1990s refugee from Croatia; When we were born it was one bigger Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia; We're living in The Netherlands; Our kids have Serbian and Croatian citizenship; Friends and Family are scattered across that former/bigger Yugoslavia (mostly Serbia and Croatia) and some live in the rest of Europe.
So much 'other baggage'. Ugh.
Good to see them reporting on it. So many publications wouldn’t.
Witness all the artists who refused to put their music on iTunes or streaming. How'd that exclusive CD deal with Wal-Mart work out, Garth?
Interesting they went straight from "1 box running shell scripts with flock" to "mega custom thing" w/out going thru something like kube crob jobs or an off-the-shelf scheduler in between.

I find jumps like this hint at "political stiction", sometimes it's hard to get permission to do incremental updates to things, you have to wait until the smoke from the burning tires is unmissable, then get big political consensus and a "visible project" to allocate budget and time for what would otherwise be unsexy maintenance work.
…especially something hands on like building a company. The marginal value of information is a rapidly falling curve.

It’s like kissing in 6th grade.

You can read all you want about theory and technique and tongue placement, but you don’t know shit until you’ve done it yourself.
> You haven't seen what I've seen.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion? ;)

In my experience in the current AI climate people are over-promising and under-delivering. So I am a bit skeptical regarding hints at undisclosed great progress. No offense meant.
Thanks! I'll look into it! I live in a busy city now near the ground floor so the hobby is kinda on hold as I can't get any antennas up :( But this might be portable enough to bring out on a hike.
I don't suppose there's any way to actually get this?