skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you :)

I2P was created by someone who was previously involved with Freenet, but its design is a lot closer to Tor than to Freenet. Both I2P and Tor are anonymizing proxies, they allow services to be hidden, but they're still centralized.

While they are quite different, there is enough overlap that running Freenet over I2P (or Tor) would be wildly inefficient and slow, so I wouldn't recommend it. Freenet is designed to run over UDP directly.

The new Freenet is designed to allow the creation of completely decentralized services. Briefly, it's a global key-value store in which keys are webassembly code that specify what values are permitted under that key, and the conditions under which those values can be modified. This key-value store is observable, so anyone can subscribe to a key and be notified immediately if the value changes.

This is just scratching the surface, for anyone interested in a much more comprehensive explanation of the new Freenet please see this talk I gave a few months ago: [1] You can also find a FAQ here: [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBtyNIqZios

[2] https://freenet.org/faq
I had gigabit pro for a few years, they gave me a half off promo that made it worth it at $150/mo, which is not much more than the close to $100 after miscellaneous fees that the regular gigabit down 35Meg up HFC cable plan costs, not to mention the fiber reliability is so much better - no brief outages and I even had Comcast business proactively reach out to replace gear when their monitoring noticed the fiber switch starting to fail.

I think they also discounted the install and activation to be $500 total.

I split it among around 8 housemates which included the upstairs unit of our house, so it ended up being very affordable and there was always extra bandwidth to go around. The main benefit I enjoyed being greater than 35Mbit upload speed.
Apparently he retired when he was ~45.
Another paragraph or two later they talk about the shortcomings of the augmented reality
I remember seeing a similar layout used for an article or blog post about reverse engineering a binary format. I’ve tried finding it later, but couldn’t. Anyone know of such a tool that lets you describe the various headers, fields, etc of a binary format with a similar visualization?
^^ THIS ^^

The middle road I've taken is that I use various consumer AI tools much the way I used the Macintosh or the Atari ST with MIDI when they showed up while I was in music school, as tools that may be used as augmentative technology to produce broader and deeper artistic output with different effort.

There's something mystical and magical about relinquishing complete control by taking a declarative approach to tools that require all manner of technique and tomfoolery to achieve transcendent results.

The jump from literate programming to metaprogramming to what we have in the autonomous spectrum is fascinating and worth the investment in time, assuming the output is artistic, creative, and philosophical.

AI is not free, but the price being paid comes at the cost of creators trying to create safe technology usable by anyone of any age.

Given the similarity to selling contraband, these AI tools need far more than just conditional guard rails to keep the kids out of the dark web... More like a surgeon general's warning with teeth.

Bard and Bing should be treated as if they were Therac 25, because in the long run we may realize that like social media, the outcome is worse.
yes I decided to keep on reading after the downvotes.
Exactly.

Ever go to school with a dyslexic that's using a ruler to expose one line of text at a time? Same thing....
For what it is worth, I'm a developer and I not interested in being exposed to AI generated content either. I work with students every day and probably have a more "real world" perspective on AI generated garbage than most.
You’re continuing to just make shit up here, I’m not sure how to proceed
I remember VRML.
looks like code llama 70B outperforms on humaneval I believe
Slimecast constantly lies at every tier of their organization. I won’t overwhelm you with example as they can be easily searched for, but here’s three good ones:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/comments/17cdku6/li...

https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/plan/i-was-lied-to-...

https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/customer-service/xf...

I personally have experienced the lying on every recent interaction with the company, and like many other Americans have no viable alternative providers.

I’m in no way surprised that they are using a lying terms that is clearly intended to mislead people into thinking they are doing better for their customers than they actually are. That the companies’ culture on display.

It’s so unfortunate because I have seen glimmers of what this company be in their charity work and in the occasional stepping up to help people (though there always seems to be a big stepping up when community broadband initiatives are on the table).
It has implications for his decision making process though. Christianity requires comfortably handling internally inconsistent information and taking a superficial approach to evidence. Whether that is an advantage in a CEO is unclear. It probably helps him remain confident in Intel's outlook.
Sounds like they did this to cover their bases when they get invited for a grilling in front of govt officials. Biological threat preparedness, check
How this works is that .internal never appears in the root DNS servers, it's that simple.

Then, in my private DNS on my private network I create an authoritative .internal zone.
Understood, thanks for the reply, blindgeek.

An additional question, if you don’t mind answering (and there’s zero obligation to). How have you found accessibility has changed on the web over the years? We have many tools these days to assist but do you feel there’s been a notable improvement to what used to be in place?
Anyone got any fun stories to share of trying to use LLaVA e.g. to make toy robots navigate? How good is it at outputting directions in structured data, guess distances, angles, etc.?

My weekend hacking goal would be something like an RC car that can "drive to the largest plant in the room" or "go hide under the dining table" when prompted by voice. Slowly, by combining some sort of basic SLAM with still image promoting.

This looks quite promising: https://i.imgur.com/DnYWYPl.jpeg

Of course an alternative to doing it one-shot would be to collect lots of pictures + orientation for each, have LLaVA only caption them, then prompt a more generic LLM with that collected world info to pick where to go, etc.

What I like most about this AI stuff is how many neat things it makes achievable in a weekend by a motivated hobbyist that in the past required entire companies to tackle :). DIY/maker life in the AI age has been amazing fun do far.
Amazing! Having the ability to move from a docker compose spec that I am running locally to a service that I can run and provision on demand is great. We can prototype our cloud service as we develop the product with little effort
Is it fair to say: complain if you can pass a double blind experiment on the arts you enjoy?
Conspiracy theorists have correctly predicted 1337 of the last 13 conspiracies?
Kind of funny that they show the iphone 15 pro and the Samsung S24 in the comparison chart, but not their own phone the google pixel 8. (I know it will perform worse than both phones)
Someone needs to make a utility to export legends maps and stories in Dwarf Fortress. It is a complete world with lots and lots of NPCs ready made.
> minimal control, i.e. checking DNA / RNA / protein sequences

They were already doing this 15 years ago.

> It's frankly ridiculous there are no checks in place right now.

It's frankly ridiculous that you think this.
"You may not be interested in AI, but AI is interested in you."
This used to happen back in dial-up days and malware using the home connection as and SMTP SPAM attack. The ISP would prevent you from getting online. Eventually, they just blocked that port from all home users. Since the modem connected directly, there weren't really firewalls yet. It was the stone ages, but people definitely had their accounts blocked for having an infected machine
> Clojure is one of those few languages actually designed by somebody who knows what they are doing

Not saying you're wrong. But look at the authors of Scheme and the CL spec... Rich may have seen far, but he was standing on the shoulders of giants.
I actually also have that and it does work very well. My problem is that I forget it's installed!
mm that's a good point, thank you.
It appears that I was first to discover Mummy Statue and Zombie Pancake. Is it okay to put this on my CV?
This was a fun read! Thank you
>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.

Why should you be free of accountability for the effects of your actions?
In my analogy, the motorist is the ISP customer, the thief is the hacker, and the DMV is the ISP. If I were to draw the corresponding links in your analogy, the motorist is still the customer, the auto maker is the router manufacturer. Whatever duty is owed to the owner of a faulty car, that duty is not on the DMV. It's on the manufacturer.

> Why shouldn't firewall manufacturers be required to have some responsibility when the firewall is shown to not actually firewall?

They should! I'm not arguing against holding companies responsible for their crap products. I'm arguing that the ISP shouldn't be forced to keep an attack vector on their network.

If a shitty home router becomes a bot in a DDOS botnet, that's not the ISP's responsibility. From their perspective, it's on the subscriber. From the subscriber's perspective, it's on the maker of that shitty router. (ISP-provided equipment is obviously different)
Untrue, but also incorrect to call it an LLM. This is a VLM.
Apple doesnt warehouse parts, and it doesnt care if Foxconn has too much connectors left over. Its not a $ issue, we are talking $0.06 USB C connector here on a $3500 product.
The same anxiety occurs with camera ON Zoom meetings. It's okay to have the camera on for a few minutes during a meeting but if folks aren't talking they shoul dbe allowed to turn it off. This is because you can't tell who's actually "watching" (looking at) you so you are in a heightened on edge state. This is the cause of Zoom metting fatigue. In an actual meeting room you can glance around a definitely tell who, when, and how often people are watching/looking at you.
Last I knew, they still needed to finish working with their counterpart monopoly on their collaborative new Xumo device and get all the systems lined up to use it.

Then they need to kick the little old grandma's still watching traditional cable off their network and set them up on a new Xumo streaming box instead. Then they drop the old video channels and use their frequencies to provide faster service on the same old copper wires.
Perhaps use the DAT p2p network as an alternative? https://kovah.medium.com/publishing-a-static-website-to-the-...
Robots Are No Substitute for a Social Life
Sketch still has 120usd desktop version. Their solution was to add server/collaboration element that is subscription based.

> This would put them under immense pressure to come up with new features (useful or not) to get people to upgrade. At some point for certain users, the current version is going to cover 90% of what they need and they won't see the point in upgrading.

Isn't this backwards? If you don't have anything to add to the software why should you charge for it? The thing with Adobe there is no shortage of enhancements/features people wanted. It's not lack of imagination. Adobe just realized they don't need to do much so why would you pay programmers if you have no competition and very little churn? Especially since what everyone wanted was stability, bugfixes, performance and hard stuff like versioning systems. How are you going to market that your software crashes 20% less?

Also if anything software/hardware compatibility is always going to be reason for upgrading.
At some point we are going to realize the best Spatial Computing won’t talk specs, resolutions, feeling like you’re there - it’s just going to talk about the lifestyle Spatial Computing enables.
If I pass the interview with ChatGPT I don't want the job.
I think it is used in lots of places where modern probabilistic inference would be a better fit.

In other words, look at methods that are in Murphy's volume 2, rather than 1, especially parts II, V, and VI: https://probml.github.io/pml-book
Steam takes about 1 minute to open if my NAS is off because I have it mapped as a network location in Windows.
You can give the current version a test drive at irc.oftc.net channel
#speakup. The journey has been fun so far.
I use my Mac as a desktop on one side of a room, connected to a display and a projector. The projector shines on the opposite wall of the room.
This is the best news ever. Gary Larson discovered Procreate! (Probably.) Hopefully he'll start churning out new stuff like crazy now.
From the fs's point of view, these are different file contents. But yeah, there's nothing stopping you from pinning something different that looks the same to a person.
I wouldn’t say it’s “Javascript front-end developers” specifically, but front-end developers in general. Intuitively, I’d say it’s because front-end development sits in the sweet spot between the creative side of the designer (who sets the tone of a website/app through their design) and the technical side/aspects of the back-end. An AI is most likely to understand how to interact with an existing back-end while respecting the “creative constraints” placed by the designer. To use a dumb analogy: if I had to use an AI to help design an airplane, I wouldn’t let it touch the flight control system or generate the movies and music from the in flight entertainment library, but I’d give it the task of making the HMI for the in flight entertainment system. Worst case scenario, it’s going to be .01% less clunky than the existing ones.
I was able to get piranhaconda from sharknado and Jack Sparrow. Sharnado from shark and tornado and Jack Sparrow from sparrow and captain. I then got Ice piranhaconda (which was a first discovery) from iceberg and piranhaconda.
Right, but if I:

1. go to https://www.xfinity.com/10g

2. scroll down to the main section titled 'Xfinity 10G Network'

3. click 'shop now'

I never see anything about a 10 gigabit plan, anywhere. It's classic bait and switch.
I don't think that's what that means. I think he means "we don't have to keep making models larger, because we've found ways to make very good models that are also small".
(afaik) it does not support batching, and some other server focused features.

I was talking more about a high throughput server, which is not appropriate for ollama or llama.cpp in general.
If you have multiple client-accessible IP addresses available to a server, I guess? But that's in no way common?
For their fiber gigabit pro (2+1 gigabit symmetric service) they lease you something like a juniper acx2100, so presumably something similar with an SFP+ port would be used for higher speed fiber plans.

Granted that's just a handoff so I'm pretty sure you're just on your own when it comes to picking something that can route at 10G. I just went with a decisio opnsense appliance and called it a day.
Another thing to look at with generated maps like this is to flag areas that would be 'interesting' to humans, to be filled out my a human taking a map of wilderness and adding points of interest.

A fork in a river, a floodplain, a bay, these are all areas where humans would congregate. Not all of them remain viable. Subsequent erosion, attacked by stronger or more mobile tribes (war), supernatural reasons.

A lot of towns are halfway between two places. More affluent towns are halfway between 3-4 places. If one were destroyed by a calamity (natural or magical), then trade along that route would become more uni-directional, possibly desperate.
To be completely honest, I don't really know what I'm doing. The IRC
bot I wrote isn't complicated at all; it basically just acts as a bridge
between IRC and a program that has an HTTP API.
FWIW I've never written an IRC bot before, so this is "baby's first bot".
I also wrote it in Go, even though I'm not a Go programmer. Probably all of
that shines through in the code.

The real magic happens in [ollama](https://ollama.ai/), which lets you run
LMMs locally.
Browse news in a throwaway VM instance that doesn't directly have password management. GoogleNews has served me several trojans, because I'm inherently clicking on unknown links. This attack was interesting, because it didn't leave Ars, but I would fear those who target HN with outlinks.

They can serve malware only to targeted domains so you may be the only one hit.

Even more targeted and obscured is to include several keywords in an article of interest that lead to a single controlled page optimized for search engines, which again serves targeted malware.
I’m neither , and think it’s insanely cool as well.
Ah yes, Random + Malice -> Skinnerbox.
Compulsory plug when someone uses macaroons: using an HMAC is overkill.

See https://github.com/rustyrussell/runes for a simpler alternative and implementation (this has C and Python, but there's also a Rust implementation because why not?)

However, the "no db access" property has proven to be untenable in practice. Users end up wanting to see what runes are issued, blacklist them, know when they were last used, and have rate limits. The last two are a killer, requiring some state to be kept (unless your system allows you to return a modified rune to the user, which is a different workflow from normal bearer creds).
We didn't touch the post. It set off the flamewar detector, and rightly so. However, because of the principle I described recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172045*, I'm going to turn that off now.

* and past explanations over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Maybe I'm missing something, but whether the first stage points to Ars/Vimeo or directly to the bad-guys, the URL has to be hardcoded somewhere. I think the comment you replied to is probably on the right track; hiding behind a legit intermediary seems a lot less suspicious if someone inspects the payload on the drive.
This is obviously not true?
ORMs are nice but they are the wrong abstraction
You're not asking the correct questions as an interviewer. You should be asking specific questions about projects they've worked on, or about them personally to get to know them. ChatGPT should not be able to answer. Pretend you're Harrison Ford in Blade Runner.
Ah, this is an old side-project of mine. Something I should probably make clearer is that files are not uploaded anywhere - the app is completely local, and all analysis is done in the browser.

This version is written in React but when time permits I plan to release an updated version written in Rust, along with a library of fast implementations of space-filling curves and related utilities.
Analyzing huge documents and info dumps.

Co writing a long story with the model so it references past plot points.

The story writing in particular is just something you can't possibly do well with RAG. You'd be surprised how well LLMS can "understand" a mega context and grasp events, implications and themes from them.
I think ive been following the dev chat long enough to answer that the new freenet is a new, seperate network to the original (now called hyphanet I think) that handles transport by itself, and end to end encryption is not in scope of the project but can be built on top
I'm never going to buy or use such gimmickry. Even smartphone use, which is way more benign, has damaged our psyche enough with less intervention that all we need is this new thing in search of the new high. Go outside, hug a tree, lay in the grass - it's more realistic, no need to augment, and it's free!
> I don't want music recommendations from something that can't appreciate or understand music. Human recommendations will always be better.

Ok but that's not actually true. "AI" music recommendations have been better than human ones for years, IME. AI art might not be better yet, but it's often good enough.

> If you're having AI attend a meeting for you, it probably wasn't that important. If you're having AI write your email, it probably wasn't that important.

100%. No-one actually cares about those meetings or emails. But apparently they're mandatory, so shrug.

Replacing human drudgery with AI is good for everyone. And a lot of meetings, emails, and even illustration work is drudgery. If you think AI can't be original and creative, then original and creative work will be precisely the part that's left over for humans to do, which seems like a win to me.
> provides 10Gbps of service to 98% of customers upon request

this sounds like PR doublespeak weasel words for burst vs sustained.
CogVLM is also really good at image captioning. I've been using it in the past month and it's shown very good results.

I'm excited to see how this works in practice though.
It's also used for visit notes generation and works really well. Doctors are really loving this one in my experience https://www.lyrebirdhealth.com/ It's also assistive of course - it basically generates a draft that you're supposed to edit.
Slightly tangential, many years ago I searched for a really cool .com domain and it was available. Tried to book the domain after a couple of days and the domain was gone. My hunch is that the site I used for searching booked it by themselves. These days I only search for domains when I’m ready purchase right away.
I would say that it could be the same framework as for firefighters, or for a bomb squad. They may need to enter private property in order to protect it, or nearby areas, from an imminent threat.

As such, they of course don't have a search warrant, but they have a license to locate and disable a source of threat: a fire, a bomb, a piece of highly radioactive material, etc.

IANAL, of course.
this is neal fun
Would get easier with an API that connects with stuff like whisper and voice cloning and a good prompt
Show HN: AI-Powered Twitter Filter
While exploring new applications for local LLMs, I built a Chrome extension that filters your Twitter feed based on natural language instructions.

For instance, you can instruct it to "Hide all tweets, except for tweets about machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs)."

I've tested it and got good results with a 10B parameter model, but I suspect a high-quality small model like Phi-2 might work almost as well.

It's open source and available at https://github.com/thomasj02/AiFilter

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CligVVTC5io
Sure living in an agricultural community. Land, house, and a shop is great. I had my own shop 11 miles from home that was about a 20 min drive to sort my head about the work for the day and miscellaneous thoughts - me time - not driving like a zombie.
Just got Jackie Chan vs. Piranhaconda. First discovery as well.
Yeah there's some silly shit that I'm sick of states paying for.

Mandatory drug testing almost always costs more then it saves.
> or that 5.6.7.8 would need to pretty much be a complete stateful NAT keeping track of connections for 6 to 4.

Yeah, that would be the transition period. Where any v6 router would also be a NAT gateway for any OG connections and would have to have both a v4 and v6 address.
I wish I had the citation handy but they also put sponsored content in your 'recommendations' even if you're a paying customer. Rubs me the wrong way.
And a 2017 beginner tutorial
"How to Make an RPG : Classes In Lua - Creating your own class system."

https://howtomakeanrpg.com/a/classes-in-lua.html
This is a story about a company not getting away with something. In general the US has turned the dial very far to the free speech side, even for advertising.