skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most important factor that will determine success is the starting point. Initial conditions matter.

So, I don't know if I agree with this considering Apple has such a large cash cushion. They can easily make missteps the first few generations until they figure it out.

Early Apple Watches focused on luxury and personal communication with loved ones. But later iterations de-emphasized all that and pivoted to being a health and fitness band and some subset of iPhone features like cellular phone calls and texts (instead of the weird heartbeat sharing stuff we saw at launch of the 1st gen device)
First, Godaddy is a scammy company. Stay away from them for future. NOw, as far as I know, when a domain expires, you have a grace period as per ICANN here:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/domain-name-renewal-ex...

I don't know if you have any legal options but according to ICANN, you should be able to renew the expired domain without extortion.
Postgres.ai Bot
It'd be very easy to game open contributions
Yes, I guess the problem is the US is rapidly falling behind the rest of the world in terms of EV adoption and infrastructure. In the UK and Europe it's perfectly feasible to charge at home, and keep the car running happily for more than a week or two with general local or even commuter motoring. And there are over 56,000 public chargers available to use in the UK alone. Including ones embedded in street lamp posts in big cities.

And yes cold weather reduces the range a little. But even when it gets extremely cold, it just takes a bit of preparation. Ask the Norwegians how they cope with their huge EV population. https://insideevs.com/news/705338/norway-winter-ev-charging-....

The other thing folks don't often mention is just how easy it is to maintain an EV. It doesn't need oil changes, brake pads, complicated engine tuning or servicing. It's so much simpler to own. Which is probably one of the reasons the legacy automakers are having a problem - once EVs are everywhere, bang goes the massive aftermarket and servicing requirement. The only major thing to keep spending money on is tyres.
Data are hard to collect, because it's such a qualitative thing.

Anecdotally, I've sat with my daughters while they were gaming with voice comms, and using things like VRChat and Gorilla Tag. It's very rare that they go more than an hour or so without someone realizing that they're young girls and trying to establish contact outside the game. They're 10 and 15 years old, and if anything the number of attempts increases when they state their age.

I have no idea how far those people are intending to take that, or how much their initial intentions match what would actually happen, but it's obvious to me that there is no shortage of people out there trying to be inappropriate with young girls at the very least.
HN is a message board. I was on Slashdot back as a teenager, and I think that was fine. Completely different than Facebook and Instagram for one thing based entirely on text and communication rather than pictures and materialism.

> Let's be real about the risks: statistically speaking, the most dangerous adults to a child are not strangers, they're the child's own parents

Depends on what danger you’re talking about.
>>> the FBI sent specific KV Botnet commands to compromised routers to collect "non-content information about those nodes.

This must’ve been so fun for whomever individual(s) working on this from the FBI.
RFC1918 space is perfectly routable, and it is routed all the time.

The fact that is is not routed throughout Internet is another thing.
Interesting, I never once made that distinction, always assumed it meant 10gbps. Was this actually confusing people or just companies fighting in court?
If it's rooted* there's no point in wasting any time trying to secure it.

* 'rooted' = 'fucked' - Australian slang.
Sounds more like we need a minimum required period for security updates after a device is sold, and other similar measures. It is much, much easier to enforce this type of thing with one manufacturer than with 100k customers, many of whom are elderly and will never be able to do it themselves no matter how much we preach.
Those who lie about one thing are likely to lie about many others.
.IT is the Italian ccTLD /. One would think it would be a slam-dunk for, y'know, IT companies; but the infamous Italian bureaucratic sentiment ensured that registrations were, for decades, limited to Italy-based businesses (at one point, even individuals were barred....). I don't know if it's still the case.
I didn't mean any offense. As the sibling comment suggests, it wasn't about whether you were qualified to have an opinion but rather clarifying what your opinion might be representative of.

The comment reads differently from an applicant's point of view Vs that of a hiring manager.
relevant: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an...
I got swamp with plant + water.

Then swamp + fire = dragon
I’ve wondered if what we need in society are nonprofits that advocate exclusively against certain evil and nefarious corporations. Imagine what an org could do with a few million and a mission to combat Comcast and expose their behavior. One organization whose mission is to expose Amazon’s bad behavior. A PR check on monopolies.

Consumer Affairs, etc. do good work, but we need a more 1:1 relationship.
It wasn't even so much a crash as a "ran out of program". The code was pretty simplistic and was basically "player selects option 1, goto line 10, option 2, goto line 20." They selected option 2 and there was no line 20. That's simplifying a bit, but that's basically what happened.
I got Tea + Dinossaur = Tea Rex

Thought it was pretty clever
I thought it did too. I went to their website to check out the specs, the fastest 'Xfinity 10G' plan available to me in a major city was 2Gbps/0.2Gbps
Hi HN, Let me know if you have any thoughts about what is good/bad and how it could be a better experience. Thanks!
> It is much, much easier to enforce this type of thing with one manufacturer than with 100k customers, many of whom are elderly and will never be able to do it themselves no matter how much we preach.

They all pay their ISP a hefty "rental" fee for their crap modem. It's only fair to hold the ISPs responsible in such cases.
with GPT-4 (non-turbo) and a good system prompt?
I like the Bayesian Surprise definition for this. It's not about predicting the exact next state of the world (or the next frame of the noisy TV) but about how much the next state changes your model of the world.

https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2005/hash/0172d289d...
Abstractions, repetition and discovery (2015)
As a user I’d stay away from sharing IPFS because of legal reasons. Just like torrenting, by actively distributing content I take up legal responsibility (at least in Europe where I’m located) - that’s risk is tolerable for a legal torrent because the file doesn’t change over time. For a changing web site, I’d constantly have to monitor the site for changes or trust the site 100% - which is not happening as soon as the site is somewhat controversial…
I found it fun regardless. HN, I proudly produce to you my newest invention: Beer + Lens = Beer Goggles.
AI is the new Gold rush at least for next 2-3 more years. So yes, expect it to be everywhere. Reminds me of blockchain days even though AI does have better use cases overall.
If history is any indication, they would either reduce the cost or just not raise it for a while. AWS is usually pretty good about keeping their profit percent steady and adjusting prices accordingly.
good game https://i.imgur.com/ofxkKJS.png
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200323

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39199368
I didn't realize they were actually selling a 10 Gbps service tier as part of this branding. It's never been available in my market, so I assumed that they were advertising the uplink capability of the thing my modem was connected to! Happy to see this go, but I'm still shocked to learn that the name was _less_ misleading than I had thought.
I mean it's enough to make at the most a few thousand a month selling residential proxy plans on crime forums. Not really significant. There are orders of magnitude larger botnets (some 100k, 400k+ in size) you can read about on https://blog.netlab.360.com/.

Edit: I agree it is important to do takedowns. Qakbot, GameOver Zeus, Emotet, Snake, etc all had actual espionage risk / were cumulatively involved in billions of dollars of theft. But this botnet seems sort of irrelevant.
> What if a hospital was disconnected from the Internet because it has some insecure IoT device in it?

Give them a remediation time of 24 hours. If that doesn't help, cut them off anyway, as that's the only thing that will force management to give their IT people actual staff and budget. Hospital IT is almost always a shitshow and that won't change until external pressure forces management's hand.
The main thing is that "true" (in the sense of absolute) decentralization does not actually work. It doesn't work technically, and it doesn't work socially/politically. We always need some form of collective control over what's going on. We need moderation tools, we need to me able to make errors and fix them, etc. Centralized systems tend to be authoritarians, but the pursue of absolute decentralization always end up being very individualistic (and some kind of wrongly placed elitism). There are middle grounds: federated systems for example, like Mastodon or emails, actually work.

That is not to say that all p2p software is bad, especially since we call p2p a lot of things that are not entirely p2p. For example, BitTorrent is a p2p software, but its actual usage by humans relies on multiple more-or-less centralized point, trackers and torrent search engine.
Open AI is clearly overestimating the capabilities of its current product

I'm sure they recognize this, and have decided that anything that comes out now would be much more favorable for them based on their current capabilities
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39199368
I thought it was pretty well understood, to anybody paying attention at least, that there have been no official 6, 7, 8, or even 9G mobile networks yet, so of course 10G was a slightly quicker name for 10Gbps networking. It's maybe not an industry standard, but colloquially many datacenters will call a 10Gbps-capable network switch a "10G switch." This seems like an extension of that colloquialism to general consumers. But I guess I won't argue, necessarily, about being less vague in our choices of words for things. I just generally don't think accusations of "misleading" is completely fair, in this instance. Comcast has been misleading customers in other ways, but in this case, I think individual ignorance is doing a bit of the heavy lifting for the misleading here.
According to the article, it will be open source, but it's not open source now.
> Microsoft knew that GitHub had no moat

GitHub had the best moat: network.

But yes, the additions have only deepened it.
Makes you wonder if social isolation is a cause of dementia, thinking less means less brain stimulation.
> But then why do I interview you? Why would I recommend you as a candidate for a position?

Presumably you have tasks that you want performed in exchange for money? (Or want to improve your position in the company hierarchy by having more people under you or whatever).
180k people? That's not how many people were fired. 8k were fired, which is less than 0.5% of the company. Finding useful projects for that many people doesn't sound that ridiculous.
What all these discussions leave out is the importance of distributed object systems (COM, Binder, ...) and related technologies that played a prominent role in GUIs post 1990. Notably COM was designed so you could create "objects" in a non-OO language like C.

I see it as an important watershed because it seems to me the reliability and particularly performance reliability went downhill around the time this technology went mainstream. I remember plain old X Windows was rock solid but once KDE and Gnome came around that were based on this technology the Linux desktop became about as reliable as the Windows desktop.
Yeah, and these people don't deserve to be on the Internet. We also don't let people run cars with bad exhaust stacks on the road, and if police spot violators, they get issued remediation orders.
if you are asking about Apple silicon based Macs, they have integerated GPUs and do not have dedicated graphics memory (UMA)

For running 4 bit quantized model, with 70B parameters you will need around 35G Ram to load it in the memory. So I sould say a Mac with at least 48G memory. That is M3 Max.
The gear might support it in theory, but may not actually have sufficiently powerful CPUs or enough RAM to actually handle all the traffic. Also there is a bunch of software in between that needs upgrades.

If it were easy and straightforward they would have done it years ago. The fact that even today most things AWS don’t support ipv6 tells me that it’s hard.
Linux Pseudo-Random Number Generator Internals
Another idea: line up some dev consulting work that would enable you to spend more time per week (in aggregate) than the 2-3 hours per day you're spending now. Consulting offers higher hourly wages and more flexibility, generally speaking.

There are clear downsides too. You would need to source these contracts yourself and figure out health insurance for your family.
Exactly. People end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater on this. "Data structure & algorithm interviews aren't perfect, so let's not ask people to code at all." It's an absurd overcorrection, but most people think these interviews are about demanding optimal code and perfection when they mostly just are making sure you're not using arrays when you should be using hashmaps... and that you know what a hashmap is, I suppose.
Lightning seems to be a kind of drug for Apple that they can't get rid of even if threatened with punishment.
They really did. As a design-nerd, it's some of my all-time absolute favourite retro hardware and software design.
Bring your own S3 to Neon Postgres
Did you know that Bill Gates is the richest samurai?
if you were to get me in a lab right now, i'd had absolutely zero clue on how to multiply a virus. perhaps i'm old and behind the times.

thing is, i'm not sure about the lab access requirement. i'd expect any number of diy techniques to be functional substitutes. brb, asking chatgpt for more details.
$ dig AAAA ec2.us-east-1.api.aws
...
2600:1f70:8000:a0:41d7:f53b:34f4:5798

The EC2 API is available over IPv6. AWS services that support IPv6 for their APIs use the .aws TLD and the SDKs and CLIs know how to invoke that when IPv6 is preferred. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#dua...

The reason is for backwards compatibility. If IPv6 was simply added to the original names, some clients would instantly shift from using IPv4 to IPv6 and in the process break any customer IAM policy in place that is restricted by IP address. Some day it may be the right call to let that kind of breakage happen, but for now the preference is to ensure that customers are not surprised.

See also: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ipv6-su...
A fun way to play this is to pick a specific result first and then see how quickly you can get there.
Show HN: Automatic 1111, but as a Python Package
I built an open souce, lightweight, fast Python library to run all of Automatic 1111.

Compared to the API from Automatic 1111, the SDK is also much more lightweight than running all of stable diffusion webui just to use its API on localhost and takes up considerably less VRAM. Additionally, the API doesn't support upscaling, inpainting, outpainting, which we support right now. It also does not support extensions like controlnet, dreambooth that we plan to add.

Compared to Huggingface diffusers, we are 2x faster and detail the many advantages we have over them here: https://flush-ai.gitbook.io/automatic-1111-sdk/auto-1111-sdk....

I would sincerely appreciate a star on our Github repository!! https://github.com/saketh12/Auto1111SDK
No, but those devices are their responsibility.

Car analogies are always fun, so here's one: The catalytic converter on my car is sawzalled off in the middle of the night. I drive around with the missing cat for a couple months. Then I fail a smog check, or get a ticket for loud exhaust. Is it my fault the cat was stolen? No, but I still have a responsibility to everyone else to not pollute (fumes or noise).

If the ISP supplies the router, then of course they should correct it. But if the subscriber brings their own equipment, then they take on the responsibility of maintaining it. Including replacement if it turns out not to be fit for purpose.
Well, would you look at that, yet another solution that doesn’t require a busy loop burning watts of energy.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. It’s nice to see a side of this which isn’t just about a clash of tech cultures (it seems).
why wouldn't a cheater just pipe a generative audio model through a small earbud? like that one villain from season 3 of westworld
You could argue that researching it then and there proves that you know how to learn stuff quick. I agree that there should be disclosure though.
Can't believe I was the first to find "boobs". The 12 year-old combined "tomb raider" and "jiggle". LOL. It's actually a useful word. I can change anything male into female.

Lots of other funny combinations:
Burger King + Business = McDonalds
Disney + Motive = Money
Princess + Cleavage = Disney

Plenty of political ones:
President + Dictator = Trump
White House + Flame = Trump
Trump + Bribe = Impeachment
Trump + Impeachment = ??? (literally three question marks)
Obama + Home = Change

And a few questionable:
Slave + Plant = Cannabis
Jamaica + Garden = Marijuana

This is actually great fun. I wish I could sort the words alphabetically. I also wish there was a save feature. Oh, and that first discoveries were highlighted in the word list.
That is why I asked about having a scientist (or many of them). From your answer I understand that for every health condition, and probably jointly, you need to do an analyzer? I am trying to understand the complexity from a CS perspective. You have the string that is your DNA and then you need to pass different functions with their own complexity for detecting each health issue?
There is literally not enough information to tell if they can perform their job duties or not.
Synthetic Image Dataset Development (Crowdfunding Project)
I am building a synthetic image dataset consisting of intact and damaged 1D Barcodes. If you are a computer vision engineer working on a project that needs such a dataset, kindly check out the link I shared.
Thanks
>relevant projects or commits on GitHub of a major open source project and that eliminates the 90% of candidates in the pool.

I have 20 years experience in very high level data science work. I do not have a public git repo because I've worked at for-profit companies and I don't do additional free work in my spare time.
Sounds like an empty feel good platitude for the technically minded to feel superior to the rubes buying crap from manufacturers who put out that insecure crap in the first place.

Yes, everyone could be more responsible about their consumption but why should that free the manufacturers from the responsibility of making competent products to begin with?
I don't think that's right though, I don't think "chosen" implies what you are saying. An existing binomial distribution could exist and you just choose n from it. You wouldn't have to "generate" the distribution. To me "chosen" and "sampled" would mean the same, and it wouldn't be weird to say "n was sampled from a binomial distribution"
what if the ai superintelligence is banking on us running datacenters non-stop in the hopes of continued return on investment. all while humans are deprived of electricity needed to operate air conditioning in a continuously heating world. and we all die off from what was initially anthtrogenic, but now ai-induced climate change?

i've got a two birds; one stone solution.
Few things:

1. Unless you have real traction (2-3x growth every year) or rich connections, your change of getting an investment on a $600/Mo product is almost nil.

2. Your chances of getting a business loan is almost zero as well because most business loans are given against real collateral (e.g. physical/real estate, machines/hardware etc) and most banks in US wont consider a $600/Month software revenue anything real worth a collateral. You are most likely better of getting a personal loan if you have good credit but regardless, you will have to guarantee it personally which means they come after everything you got if you fail to pay it back

3. Your best bet is to keep the job and keep grinding on the side. If you really believe that this can become big, it can become big without you going all in at least in the early days. Get creative. Find a co-founder if possible who is willing to work for sweat equity. If not, do it yourself until the revenue is close enough to your min. expenses. Then quit the job.

I don't mean to say this in a rude way but no one will give you money so that you can quit your job and work on a $600/Month product. You have to take that risk yourself. All the best.

Source: A bootstrapped founder who was privileged to buy an existing side project (doing $2500/Month at the time. used my own personal savings) and grew it to low 7 figures revenue. I have taken small loans (SBA/personal etc much later on) and funded all of it myself for the most part.
If you didn't know... LMM = Large Multimodal Models
I got dragon from fire + swamp.

Another strange one was puddle + rock = pudding + dragon = custard.
Terminator + Robot = T1000
T1000 + T1000 = T2000
I'm at T-32000000 and still going
> But here is the thing, if you rely on RAG or any other knowledge injection for recommendation, you essentially make your LLM parrot machine, no better than a search engine, just much slower.

this is a really good point. I was working on some careful q/a data curation today that is then fed to a vector store where embeddings are calculated and served. I realized that my carefully curated q/a data in combination with the vector database works just fine for what i want to do all by itself. A really good semantic search of my q/a database turns up answers to my questions with no rag llm prompting required. When I added the llm it just put the same information in different words, not super useful when i could have just looked at the returned embeddings and gotten the same information.
> Tears + Pottery (AI: Bowl)

Urn
This is incredible. What a fun interactive demo, as well. I love the way I can copy maps between steps to iterate as I go. Well done!
| to anybody paying attention at least

Maybe they don't think you should have to follow the industry to know what a company's advertising means?

It pissed me off to no end to hear the monopolist advertise their "10G network" ("with speeds starting at 200Mbps")

It was CLEARLY meant to mislead.
Long time user of owncloud then Nextcloud and have been very very happy. Notes is great as well as many other apps.
Instagram and WhatsApp are still popular with consumers though. Meta didn’t kill them, if anything they’ve grown significantly.
There is a discontinuity in curvature where each arc meets. It’s possible to make joins between curves smoother using Euler spirals, but I don’t know how to use them well enough to apply them to eggs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral

I recently tried to draw f holes using Euler spirals, but they turned out too short and fat, and I gave up on them. But they are quite fun to draw on a computer by simple numerical integration, ignoring all the more complicated mathematics in the wikipedia article. Perhaps I could have made my f holes more elegant by understanding the parts I ignored… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_hole
The most unexpected 2048 clone