skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you will agree that we should not distract ourselves by, I believe not intended, false equivalency and whatabouttisms. The situation is too serious.

- We were talking about how conservatism has the weakness that it is particularly prone to siren songs of authoritarians.

- There are more bad things happening in the GOP with respect to the democratic constitutional state, but that is hardly a relief. The Dems might have their own idiots, sure, but there is no equivalency here.

- Perhaps I should not take the bait, but John Kennedy, the president, was not an anti-semite, unlike his father indeed, who was not president.
Once I play I was confused to, but I was thinking was it like little alchemy. You should play for like 20 min so you can be more better just giving a tip for because it is the right thing to do
oh wow ok, now I feel silly thank you
All internet users are tracked, either by American and American-allied intelligence services or their own governments, all the time. If you're in the Western sphere of influence everything you say and do on any internet connected device goes to an NSA server for analysis, assuming they don't simply have direct access to your data through PRISM or secret warrants. And we kill people over metadata.

You can assume that what the Dutch are doing here is standard operating procedure everywhere, and that any laws to the contrary are just a facade.
eBPF for in-kernel device emulation, then?

EDIT: That was a joke, but actually it is a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTMls33dG8Q
yep. there are some attempts where libraries try to use different data sources but worldcat is the monopoly. the relationship between libraries and worldcat has sometimes been an adversarial relationship.

the information is sourced from the libraries yet worldcat holds them hostage to their data with membership fees.
It worked with Stalin at Yalta in 1945, when Churchill signed away vast swaths of Eastern Europe to Soviet rule. "Appeasement" is frankly nothing more than a pejorative word for diplomacy. Be wary of those who employ its use.
I want people to continue saying it like this forever. Or just say Twitter.
Lua means 'Moon' in Portuguese, as it is also their logo: https://lua.org
European cloud providers locked in talks with Microsoft over licensing complaint
Ah. "The Problem of the Missing Baseball"
Semantic Programming
Seems like LLMs have a chance at disrupting this particular pyramid scheme.
What are you trying to achieve here? Are you trying to get any job, or are you trying to get a good job for a junior dev?

A good junior dev job is still going to suck compared to any senior dev job. I'd argue your goal as a junior dev should simply be to progress to senior as soon as possible. Looking for a good junior dev job is the wrong long-term objective.

Assuming you agree the unpopular solution here is just to compromise in all of the ways no one else in your position is willing to. This includes:

- Working for minimum wage.

- Working longer hours.

- Mastering the things you don't understand in your spare time.

- Traveling into the office 5 days a week.

- Working on side projects and building a portfolio of work whenever you have a free moment.

The first 3 years I was a developer I was working for minimum wage while at university. Every day I wasn't at university I was working - including weekends. When I had any spare time (which was rare) I was working on side projects. I barely slept for about 3 years between studying and working. But the result of this was that I left university and immediately jumped into a full-time senior developer role and from there things were relatively easier.

If I contrast my experience with those of my peers most struggled to find full-time employment when they graduated because they had no real experience. Those who found work were then working as juniors for several years.

My advice to anyone wanting to get into tech is to just work like crazy for a few years for crap pay and you'll get there. Those who expect to land a fully remote job with good pay while they have little to no experience will often just remain unemployed and unexperienced.

Also, while learning skills outside of work is useful, you really want to be able to demonstrate that you've used those skills professionally. Companies in my experience don't really want to take a bet on candidates who claim they've played around with x,y,z technology in their spare time. The stuff you learn in your spare time in my opinion should generally complement whatever you're being paid to do professionally, at least while you're still trying to progress from junior dev -> senior.
Tracked is different than surveilled. Being actively surveilled is much more intrusive than the gobbling of data done by the NSA.
why powershell and not python?
To add, the keys, targeting coordinates, orders, and control of the weapons was with the Russians in the Kremlin. Kazakhstan and Turkey also housed nuclear weapons. No one argues they were a nuclear power stripped of their defense.
Great story and I can relate. In the late '80's I worked as a summer engineering intern at a civil engineering company. They assigned me to train the crochety draftsmen on AudCAD, but they wanted nothing to do with it. To paint a picture, these guys were hunching over drafting tables using pencils and erasers to draw their drawings, while chain smoking the whole time. An ash tray would be placed on the center of the drawing. Needless to say, my summer project was not a success! :-)
Show HN: container-shell – containers as chroot on steroids
connect() – why are you so slow?
Why though? If you squint a little, a filesystem and a database are the same thing and filesystem semantics are useful and well understood.

Performance is "just" an engineering issue.
I do not know what that is but it sound incredble
> This is the ind of video that could have been a pure-text blog post (with a few images). So, for people who has no patience, whisper can help. The result is way better than YT subtitles, BTW:

Thank you, I don't even bother to click on video links because usually the content bitrate is quite low. So I appreciate your inserting a transcript.
I left Google 10 years ago because it was boring. Any interesting things it does is restricted to an elite cabal. It's horribly conservative with programming innovation for a company its size. Its main reason to hire is to deny talented programmers to its competitors.
On google.com, the logo for me is all white... Not sure if it's white history month or something

Edit: no it's black history month... Kinda strange

https://i.ibb.co/wRk36Tq/Screenshot-20240208-080725.png
> With ChatGPT, I need to copy the text into a premade prompt or pick a GPT made to improve my writing. But, the writing style may not match what I want. Going back and forth with chat instructions is slow

Sounds like a UX problem that's trivial to solve with a browser plugin.
Explosive shells are legally considered “destructive devices” and each round would require a separate tax stamp.
I've never heard of a free service that needs my credit card.
This is an impressive product, well done Google. There is a PM in there somewhere who knows what they are doing, kudos to you.

Prediction: they get to 6-7 digit number of paying customers, decide it is peanuts for them (~$20M/mo) and instead decide to push the free version with ads with full force as the future of search.
Show HN: SQL Playground in the browser, based on DuckDB WASM
Has anyone successfully bypassed the region lock? What does it check exactly?

Does it need a US credit card? A US IP address? A Google account with a US phone? A Google account created from a US IP address? Some other way of tying the Google account to a country?
It’s pretty much the one metric that holds true across all animal species. Read about EQ (encephalization quotient)
Similar to MS Access.
A New Chapter for Mozilla
iOS 17.4 Nerfs PWAs in EU
meth addicts
Show HN: Nasium – Gym Tracking App
Hey, I've been working on my fitness app called Nasium (https://hero.nasium.coach/) with the following core features:

- workout templates & sessions

- progress tracking of each exercise

- live quick session

I'd love to hear your feedback & suggestions for it :)
not in the US, but i believe we have plastic manhole covers here now because you can't leave anything metal unguarded
Apple just killed PWAs in iOS 17.4 beta (at for least EU users)

All PWAs now start in Safari window, as new tab, instead of fullscreen.
> The problem is you can't reliably collect it over bluetooth.

Really? Why not?
Thank you for answering a question I had half formed in my head.

Do LLMs have logical rules built in? What makes them different to a very advanced Markov chain?

Are there any models out there that start from logical principles and train on top of that?

(Apologies for poor understanding of the field)
Seems like it's time to start taking bets on when Google kills it then?
Such a weird test. 99.9% of humans wouldn't even understand the question, let alone be able to formulate a coherent answer for it.
I agree, users should be able to pick whatever works better for them.

There's a myth going on that dark mode is universally/objectively better which is simply false.
I'd rather jump into a pit full of rusty spikes
What Medium's CEO has learned about technology and journalism
Bard was a strange name... Gemini might be better... Stop changing the name?
It was Helium-3.

Potentially useful for certain types of fusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Candidate_fu...

And maybe cooling certain types of quantum computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator
Fraudulent App Impersonating LastPass Currently Available in Apple App Store
Not so sure. The WW2 generation plowed millions of men and billions of dollars into Vietnam.
So far, streaming hasn't made nearly the same amount as DVD sales and it's ridiculously expensive to run one.

That said, licensing to other streaming services often does work. You get revenue for the cost of a contract vs having the infrastructure costs and nebulous ROI. You get the added benefit of direct attribution because you can tell "we licensed [movie X] for $X for Y years".
A decade ago I was dealing with map tiles for the entire globe, stored each in it's own file, and reiserfs was dramatically better at dealing with all the small files associated with this: there are a lot of solid blue and solid green tiles in the globe. Reiser's idea of what a small file is was 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than what ext3's idea of a small file was.

More recently our map tiles are limited to a single US state, and we are using XFS, but because of the much smaller data set size I haven't really done any optimization beyond hard linking duplicate files. I inherited that choice, so I don't know what went into that.
When there is a literal line of narcissists and bucket-listers up the side of the mountain...at some point they need to dig a vertical tunnel, and install a pressurized glass elevator system. That'd let everyone (with money) check their boxes, without making a huge, ugly mess of a beautiful bit of remote wilderness.
Fine tuning on your documents will really help to answer questions in the style and tone of those documents, so in that way, yes it helps.

It would be possible to include some parts of the new documents in the prompt so you can answer questions about new facts in the style and tone of your old documents, which we feel is useful. We are also experimenting with adding Retrieval Augmented Generation alongside fine tuning to see if the results are better than either or.

disclaimer: I work on Helix
Hmm... Would a Discord custom client be considered libre enough? They officially see them as a violation of ToS but do not interfere unless they use too much bandwidth. Or would private/semi-private non-encrypted communications place it in another category?
Is this using canvas graphics? I don't think I've ever seen that before for a modern web app. Reminds me of the Mac OS 9 in the browser demo. Can we get SnapCode running in there?

https://infinitemac.org/2000/Mac%20OS%209.0.4
Sorry but your first letter of your sencetce is wrong because the first letter is has to be big.
What were the images of? Why doesn't the Guardian describe them instead of just putting in a bunch of weasel words.

> the Guardian itself is regularly accused of having anti-Israel bias

That's definitely not been the case since Oct 7th. They've been extremely pro-Israel, just like all of the MSM.
Blessed are the scrappers, for they shall inherit… 200’ tall radio towers?
VMS still exists and is ported to x86! :)

I should point out, I was talking about mainframes in general, to include Vaxen, Fujitsu, Unisys, etc. IBM isn't the only mainframe game in town.
Elon is not going to like this LOL
Xanadu, folks. It's quite a tragedy that Wired Magazine's article failed to uncover the real reason Xanadu failed to become the WWW (hence why Smalltalk didn't become the scripting language rather than Javascript, etc.).

https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
Another difference is that in a software company, "high drive + low aptitude" people usually don't cause anyone's death.

But you probably shouldn't give them passwords to the production servers.
That doesn't really work for openly hosted models, since whoever's doing the hosting can be held liable for what it generates.

What you want are unaligned local models, you just need to pay for the hardware to run them and grab one from Huggingface. They're not as smart, but endless fun to talk to.
In a few tests I just ran, Gemini/Advanced is currently eating everyone's lunch. It can even do things like 'show me directions to nearest starbucks' or 'plan a trip to x with chepeast tickets'.

Can you quantify your assesment with a few examples?
21% of men with ADHD and 13% of women with ADHD

VS

9% of men without ADHD and 5% of women without ADHD

Fair enough, more than double. However, not the majority of the people with ADHD, so it could still be a ADHD-relates boredom problem and less a typical addiction issue. (Which doesn't make the results less dangerous, but the mechanisms that cause it different)

Sources:

https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/adhd/

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/addiction-statistics
Even after advent of modern parametric modelers like SolidWorks and Inventor, AutoCAD is still tremendously useful.
Also in the news today is the passing of John Walker of Autodesk. His atlast https://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/atlast2.html is a version of Forth, and highly embeddable.
How come they didn't notice that their service went dead when the tower was stolen?
I think most of them look extremely generic and boring. They are beautiful, sure, but very standard at the same time.
Another place this technique was used and discussed recently:

Caches: LRU vs. Random (2014) (danluu.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39093109
I am going to sleep it is 1:oo am
Germany is in the Supported Countries list for Gemini Advanced, but the Google Gemini mobile app is not available in the country.
The browser certainly has unparalleled deployment advantages. Though for sustained use, I would recommend going desktop (there's a download link on the page). Java still does good desktop. :-)

Or maybe using new "Web Apps" feature like MacOS has to turn web app into desktop.
My mentor is a soviet refugee that left in the 80s before the Berlin wall fell. He has a very low opinion of Stalin (and Putin for that matter).
Can say with certainty that it's on fire alright, in the sense that the ad data is burning away.

The rapid innovation is a survival tactic. They know the ads boat is sinking, and unlike other tech companies, they don't have much diversity in their revenue. Hence the Metaverse, AI, etc. which although neat, are not exactly making the same level of money for the organization (at least not yet). In Q4 2023, ads had a revenue of ~$38B, while the Quest revenue was a loss of $4B. AI hasn't been directly monetized directly, so it's harder to say how that's doing.

Given how critical good data is to a model, I'm not optimistic this will work for them.
It's well documented that Ukraine was firing unguided MLRS into Donetsk years ago.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets...
There are major strikes in Germany about Quality of Life issues right now. I think France might be having strikes too now, but I haven't investigated the one clip I saw.
I have kind memories of Styleboost, TheFWA, K10K... I wish I also know PatternTap back then.
Large caliber here would mean artillery size, maybe mortar or grenade launcher.

None of that is commonly consumed by civilians. There are routes to get there, but it seemed difficult to me (I looked once upon a time).

The largest caliber even somewhat commonly used by civilians is .50 BMG (12.7x99mm NATO). I have seen 20mm rifles and ammo for sale (once), but it is a HUGE pain in the ass to get them and probably rightfully so.

Anything over .50 is automatically considered a destructive device by the ATF unless a specific sporting exemption is given to it (that's generally only for big game rifles). Getting one of those requires a fistful of certifications last I checked; I think you effectively have to be an arms dealer to get one (or at least pretending enough to be certified as one).

None of this is legal advice, talk to the ATF and/or a lawyer before trying to buy anything too exotic.
Fair but I think the difference is minor, given just how much you can learn about people from their data alone.
and then, since no massive adoption as they wished, they kill the product with one month notice...
Sounds like it’s time to cancel the H1B visa.
I think it's uncontroversial that Beria's day job was overseeing the murder of millions of citizens.

And that getting your coworkers killed was a standard part of office politics in that job.
Of course. Not just in videos, but in pre-roll ads as well. This is why some of us feel enormously pessimistic about generative AI and AI-based automation. The ideal customers for this are marketing companies that need to churn out even more grist for the social media content mill.

How much ink has been spilled on HN lamenting the SEO-ification of the web and impossible volumes of blogspam on search results? Yet if you posit that AI will make it worse, the villagers come out with their pitchforks.
Why would we, the right-wing conspiracy nuts, need chinamen to do that when there are so many communists in america and europe who do it anyway.
"I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley"

-- Beria
I have, and it's pretty obvious that religion causes a lot of violence
This is spot on, the thing we've not yet done is make it easy to import a repo(s) code and the associated metadata into a fine tuning session easily.

> I often wonder how you'd go about organizing training data for a full historic github repo in a way that makes sense for training (or RAG)?

This is the hard part :-) But you are right - it would be intriguing to see what the output of a fune-tuned & RAG model would look like for this use-case. We are currently experimenting with adding RAG alongside the fine tuned model (so it's both, not either or) to see if it produces better results.

I will make sure we take a look at the gihub repo use case because it feels like that would be an interesting experiment to do!

disclaimer: I work on Helix
I go to gemini.google.com.

I type an prompt with "Create an image of ...".

Response:

> I can't create images yet so I'm not able to help you with that.

Still broken, still not functional despite Google having announced this feature many days ago. I love many Google products but I am slowly losing a lot of faith and goodwill towards Google. This is just embarrassing.
So did I love little alchemy it was so fun
Fully agree.

The article says "The days of the battle for talent are over."

but as a consultant I keep getting project requests by companies who couldn't find enough employees and are now willing to pay a premium for outside help that may enable then to still keep their deadlines.
Yes, every window is a canvas. All painting is done with an adapter so it uses DOM painting in the browser and Java Swing Graphics2D painting on the desktop. It's pretty much pixel perfect identical though.
StractOrg/stract: web search done right
The lie is in the title: it is written in a way that makes it sound like the entire piece that was broadcast was generated by AI, which is not the case.
>Each participant looked at 16 images and were told to imagine themselves walking through those areas.

How does this extrapolate to actually walking in the environment? There are so many differences between looking at a photograph and actually physically being in a space.
I'm not very amazed about this discovery: a frame saddle is just not very far from the baggage frames one uses to load pack animals.

What is amazing is how closely that tree resembles a McClellan tree from ~1'500 years later, eg https://www.horsesoldier.com/images/product/34/138653.jpg
Can someone explain what this is? Is this a leak of whatbis used on the client side, or is this a recommended prompt for users to improve results.
About the same but significantly lower. Neanderthal cave art is basically scribbles and scratches compared to say Altamira.
I read it as 3M the company. The title should probably be fixed.
Oh I see they’ve improved and now give longer notice periods? Lol
I wish this article covered the more nefarious side of these organizations and "Coaches". Broken families, ruined relationships etc...

Here's the quick and dirty of my brother.

Full disclosure, I have not attended any Wright Foundation courses Myself.

My brother did however, and we are now sadly estranged. Since he joined Wright Foundation he has:

- Estranged himself from our whole family

- Got into serious debt - These courses aren’t cheap. There‘s a reason prices aren’t listed

- Forced a sale of our family business, of which he was an equity partner

Wright Foundation operates like the Landmark Forum and NXIVM. Ropes you in, and breaks you down (question your beliefs and worldview in a group setting), and sells you courses to build you back up again. All the while estranging yourself from those closest to you.

Don’t believe me? Check out the Salon and New York Times articles below.

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/15/betsy-devos-directs-500000-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/betsy-devos-c...

While it’s hidden now, the Wright Foundation owns

www.wrightinstitutecult.com

How do I know? If you search that url on waybackmachine.com and go back a few years, you’ll see it’s their own site they created dedicated to prove how NOT a cult it is
> What makes them different to a very advanced Markov chain?

Really nothing. There's some feedback structure in the layers of the model, it's not just one big probability table. But the technique is fundamentally the same, it's Markov, just with the whole conversation as input and with billions of parameters.
Ask HN: Those with memory loss, how do you respond when asked about your past?
I was reading another HN post about HR asking personal questions such as life story. I can’t remember anything past 5 or 6 years ago. With friends & random associates, you can just lie or say you can’t remember. However, companies may have background checks & saying “I don’t know” could be a sign of disability.

How do you get around it?
It does seem certainly seem atypical, and I'd be curious if anyone has ever encountered something like this in the real world. It seems unlikely because

1. It takes so long to create that many files in the first place. In this case 26 hours of doing nothing but file creation.

2. If the files contained any data at all, you would need a lot of disk space. If each file was 64k, you'd need 640TB of disk. It seems more likely you'd run out of disk space before you reached a billion files.

3. Someone developing such a system where that many files could be created would probably realize that it's a poor design and figure out a way to mitigate it before it ever happened.

Nevertheless, it's fun to think about.