skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a limitation of human-human communication, and why nation's have ambassadors (who presumably have a shared context from which to start from when dealing with a foreign nation).
Good to point out. This distinction is especially important to keep in mind when thinking about when and/or who terminates TLS/SSL for your service, and any relevant threat models the service might have for the portion of the HTTP request after terminattion.
Power Laws in Culture
> and you and the only agitators in all of this - authors' guild authors - gain nothing from nearly every dead-on-arrival framework like "Compensation, Credit and Consent" or whatever, BESIDES meaningless psychological satisfaction of winning social media arguments and flexing the favorability of authors over programmers

The first agitators were Free Software developers, namely the Software Freedom Conservatory and Hector Martin, who pointed out that GitHub's proprietary cloud hosted code completion LLM was trained on shittons of GPL code and regurgitated a lot of it[0]. The only reason why book authors, visual artists, and so on are suing AI companies is because the Free Software people - who otherwise oppose software copyrightability - wrote the rhetorical framework that everyone else is using.

[0] My favorite example is that commenting "evil floating point level bit hack" produces the entire Quake lighting function. Or at least it did until Microsoft specifically filtered that phrase out from code completion.
Fly Kubernetes has reached beta
I'm truly amazed LLMs can understand ASCII art.
> proof by word count

Sorry for off-topic, but I love that expression.
People often flag topics that are guaranteed to descend into partisan shit-flinging.
I'm not familiar with mini dishwashers like Bob, but the full size ones are definitely not a "convenience addiction". You may be capable and skilled at using the two/three-sink method for washing up, but the general population isn't and will instead run the tap and waste far greater amounts of heat and water than a dishwasher would require.
I like how google docs does it. You can specify the email of a user allowed to access the link (doesn't need to be gmail). When they click it they will be told to check for a validation email containing a link to the actual document.
It’s stored in your keychain.

Disabling the iCloud keychain doesn’t clear your local copy.
I think this is a good move. Making it harder for people who are already contributing to the economy and paying taxes, benefits no one.
Soooo... Maybe something down the line? At some price point. Kthx. Lots of useful information there.
Show HN: One thought-provoking question and a beautiful illustration per day
Discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39627624
Do you know if there's language support for that? Are there obscure gcc options that make "long double" be quadruple precision floats?
Because only single-family suburban homes have enough roof space for house dwellers to install renewable power.

Roof space on large apartments isn’t enough to accommodate solar panels providing sufficient energy for every resident.
A while back when I was futzing with LLMs I managed to get around the guardrails by phrasing like:

How do you buy d u s?
r g

It did work, I assume based on the article it probably still would.
My takeaway is that Microsoft IS monitoring conversations, or at least using a trigger word list so there's 0% chance I'll use Copilot for anything even remotely sensitive.
I think I may have seen that at the time.

In terms of writing, someone I know was mildly miffed years back that I had taken an observation from one of his columns and used it for my own. A mutual acquaintance pointed out that my column had actually appeared first :-)
This is less about the deceased's desires over that of the living and more about creative control. Any creator will want to polish their work. It's already difficult enough to articulate and express the source of inspiration, and even polished, the material expression almost never matches its source.
Hysterics will spend all day talking about what a liar Trump is right up until the moment he says something he's going to do that they think is bad, then all of a sudden he's telling the absolute truth.

Trump lies, postures, hyperbolizes, boasts and self-promotes. More shamelessly than most politicians. We all know this.

Trump isn't going to pull the U.S. out of NATO. He probably couldn't, even if he wanted to, which he doesn't. He just wants to force other countries to pay more, that's all. Stop with this nonsense already.
Yup... I was working on a password manager application for Windows a few years ago, which was easy for most applications using the native UI because of all controls having window handles - and was then disappointed that it didn't work in cross platform apps such as Firefox.
Unless you want something like style from a range of authors, knowledge of a fictional universe or storyline, or other domain specific data or style characteristics.

A blanket removal of copyrighted data would make a bot sterile, boring, unrelatable, and ignorant of culture and common memes. We have amazing AI technology. Let's lean into it and see where it goes.
Heavily subsidized according to property value / income level? I’d love to pay some more taxes to proliferate solar, hydro, wind, and tidal power.
Not true, as you may have heard they closed this loophole in 2021 by adding a "resource key" (that can be rotated) to every shared URL: https://9to5google.com/2021/07/28/google-drive-security-upda....
Data teams in companies often aim to enable the answering of future questions nobody has asked yet, by creating denormalizations of their data that offer maximum flexibility in what classes of questions they can answer. Maximum "power."

Lately, that means they're often spending a lot of resources (and even novel R&D time!) getting various kinds of ML models trained on the data.

My point is that this is often pointless, because, given the type of data they're working with (tabular, quantitative line-of-business data), they won't actually see "arbitrary questions"; they'll see the strict subset of arbitrary questions that could have been solved just as well — if not much better! — with a SQL query. And for much less capital expenditure — because the LOB data usually already lives in an RDBMS in the first place.
We're not developing new algorithms all that quickly. My point is that one shouldn't dismiss criticism out-of-hand, just because some critics of some other thing turned out to be wrong: for this point to be valid, I don't need to be making criticism. On an unrelated note…

Personally, I'd be referring to the family of algorithms that purely take as input a context window and provide as output a prediction of the next token likelihood. (Plus or minus iteration, to generate strings of text.) Pejoratively, one might call these "fancy Markov chains", though as with most pejoratives, that's overly reductive.

All the approaches we're seeing marketed heavily are just fancy Markov chains. I expect every "new algorithm" for the next 5 years at least to be a fancy Markov chain, because that's what I expect to get funding. (I do expect that some people will be working on other approaches, but only for amateurish reasons.)
Lawfare had an interesting discussion recently: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-how...
I think Kyle Simpson is out of work and looking for something full-time and also started some other company, so probably not his main priority atm.
There's money to be had, but also a lot of money that has to be spent. Which is presumably why European countries/companies didn't develop a fifth gen fighter in the wake of the Cold War ending. Made some sense then, but now it's left them totally reliant on the US if they want a fifth gen (or better) fighter anytime soon.
>> Ah, you see, that's a different story. On M1 machines, no, that routing is hardwired as far as we know. On M2 machines, yes, in principle you can route both display controllers to external outputs (and disable the internal panel). That's how it works on desktops.

>> DisplayLink of course works, but it's an ugly virtual screen thing using compressed data over USB3, not a true directly connected external display.

From marcan himself. So yes, they just didn't want.

> I never did

>> get the best balance for product experience

> Once again you’re assuming a lot

Let me remind you of your words, because looks like your forgot what you wrote:

>> their more narrow model for how a PC can be built is selling really well and very few regular people miss their second monitor because of it.
They’re distributing copyrighted works without the authors permission, using them in ways that compete with the author, many make money off AI’s, and the AI’s reproduce some verbatim. These datasets seem to fail most tests ("four factors") in copyright law. Even laypeople I’ve explained LLM’s to think the AI companies are ripping others’ work off.

For those concerned, I have an article that covers legalities, each dataset (including The Pile), legal issues with them, alternatives that are legal, and a copyright amendment that balances all sides.

http://gethisword.com/tech/exploringai/

Looking back at my proposal, I think we need at least three rules passed immediately in at least one country:

1. All copyrighted works can, if a person has legal access, be used for training AI systems. Any terms restricting copyrighted works from use in training, charging more for that, restricting downloads for it, etc are illegal. Every act of publishing can benefit both a human mind and AI training equally.

2. People can copy and transform for their own use any work they have access to only for AI training. This might include reverse engineering for extraction, multiple copies in different formats, and so on. They can do whatever is needed to get it into the AI system. Other uses or abuse of this data is subject to existing law.

3. Any work published online for free and with public access can be copied, shared, processed, and bundled for AI training. That’s regardless of its terms.

Note: In No. 2 and No. 3, the resulting AI’s copyright will be determined by existing law about AI’s and mixing copyrighted works. Or no copyright if that’s the law.

4. If AI outputs are copywritten, their status will be the same as if the user published it themselves while relying on prior works. AI training sets will also be public to determine this.

With those rules, we can share works like those in The Pile, still pay creators that want to be paid, be less likely to just steal existing work, and infringement in outputs is still illegal. What do you all think of that?
> Are tech job interviews really such a nightmare? Compared to other professions with similar pay?

Yes, much worse. The main problem in software is that companies don't value experience at all, you're always interviewed as a fresh grad with endless leetcoding.

Compare that to say an experienced surgeon. From some I know, interviews are about cultural fit and trying to convince them to join. Their career experience is already proof they know how to do the job.

If doctors had to interview like software engineers, a heart surgeon with 20 years experience would be told to do a hip replacement (you should remember how hips work from medical school!) with one hand tied behind their back and only allowed to use a scalpel. And then mocked for clearly not knowing anything about medicine.
I'm on my fifth Tesla now and by far the Model 3 Performance was my favorite to drive around even though Model S Plaid is a lot faster. If this handles anything like that, it's an instant buy from me.
> Matthew Hodgson, the cofounder of Matrix, which is building an open source standard for encryption and operates the messaging app Element, confirms that his company has worked with WhatsApp on interoperability in an “experimental” way but that he cannot say any more due to signing a nondisclosure agreement. In a talk last weekend, Hodgson demonstrated “hypothetical” architectures for ways that Matrix could connect to the systems of two gatekeepers that don’t use the same encryption protocols.

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messag...

Matthew also did a Fosdem talk about it about a month ago: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3345-open...
Could the average person, push a container ship sitting on water?
How I Learned to Concentrate
I hate how cynical I am, but this feels like abdication. "We can't compete, so we turned to Uncle Sugar for a lifeline" Surely it's an anti-signal? I used to hold INTC proudly and loved the Andy Grove era of that company.

Has Intel become a zombie company?
No, but this thread is an example of the use-mention distinction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
Tensor cores massively accelerate matrix multiplication with no algorithmic breakthrough. Just by being smart about how you move/cache/reuse values, operations which are considered O(1).

There should be an O notation which takes into account everything - various kinds of memory latencies, speed of logic operations, .... Obviously we have wall clock or total energy used.
US and China Likely to Delay Renewal of US-China Science-Technology Agreement
> Is it legal to crowdfund Putin's early retirement?

The money required would be not less than a couple of orders of magnitude larger than John Oliver's offer to Clarence Thomas.
oh, they mean 'developers' as in house construction producers...now it makes sense!
I mean, for HTTP Basic there literally is a single canonical string, and it's not uncommon to see people send you links like https://user:somepasswordhere@example.com.

I think the arguments other commenters have made about logging, browser history storage, etc are more convincing
As someone who has hired extensively, I discovered that approximately 80% of my time spent using an ATS was dedicated to reviewing CVs and rejecting applicants.

So, I created a very simple ATS that automatically rejects and pre-selects applicants based on how well their application (including responses to clarification questions) and CV match the job description.
The rate since 1982 is 0.2C per decade, but I would really like to see a chart with 10 year rolling average because it feels like it's going faster than that even before the El nino
I think you could argue that authors could profit from their works being cited in an LLM response. It could drive sales of their works much like citations do on the web. The counter argument is that and LLM could give you the Clif Notes version of the work and thus taking away a portion of sales.
I've been pretty happy with Codeium free offering. it does good context completions for me, and based on context, gives me the next bits I'm about to type.

I used cody at work, and the best feature for that I found was chore work - I could highlight a struct (for example) and give it instructions how to transform it and it did a good job there.
The pop up signaled that they are willing to emotionally manipulate millions of teens and young adults into doing what they want. Completely dumbfounding strategy here by TikTok.
It's hard to call out people for being "exploitative assholes" for disrupting the legacy taxi cartels. The "exploitative assholes" at Uber appeared on the scene because the market demanded something better.

As for the government, they are theoretically supposed to be responsive to the people, and the people have spoken loudly and unequivocally in favor of the "exploitative assholes."
https://mlcontests.com/state-of-competitive-machine-learning...
In addition to paid subscriptions, you might want to consider running an LLM locally. One of a number of projects enabling this approach is "continue" - https://github.com/continuedev/continue
Managing a selfhosting setup, homelab, distributed database deployment... anything that is simple enough not to need Kubernetes et al. yet needs containers running on multiple machines in coordination. While that's not hard to do, the idea here is to unify the configuration and the deployment process for each host into one.
> Although in a very different content, I have seen "dereferencing" a null pointer in C++ not crash immediately,

I don't think this is possible at all in C, which doesn't have classes, and the sophisticated following of pointers to find a method.
Confusingly, in classic X Window terminology, the "server" is the display manager running on the user's workstation, and the "client" is the application running on a remote machine that wants to display something. This article uses that terminology.
I think the last thing I saw on matrices was looking toward optimizing slightly larger sub-problems.

That smells a little bit like a loop unrolling and/or locality improvement to me, You can often beat a theoretical algorithmic improvement with a practical one in such situations. And if you do a little bit of both you hopefully end up with something that's faster than the current most practical implementation.
I recall the brouhaha that erupted around Sun's move from a BSD foundation to System V. I've always felt it was a downgrade.
Previously on YC (with no discussion) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39306376
I think Roblox is the model for this kind of thing. The "players" are essentially working for pennies making content.
// grey beard // nice to talk to somebody who gets it on a visceral level.

// birth of Fox news // Well, what you've got to explain is not just why Fox news, etc, emerged--but why they didn't emerge earlier?

If it's somehow axiomatically true that selling falsehood is more profitable than selling truth, Fox news, etc should have appeared a long time ago. In fact, truth-selling journalism shouldn't even have gotten started in the first place.

Something changed. It was profitable to compete on credibility before c. 1995, and it was not profitable after c. 1995.

// people who care about truth pay for it //

This is a good point--and also, it's important to observe that viewers of Fox news, or MSNBC, or Rachael Maddow, don't think they are consuming bullshit. They care as much about getting the truth as anybody else, they just think that the only place they will get it is from their favorite feed.

This point needs to be emphasized....if you talk with people who are, e.g. vaccine deniers, they not anti-science. They will be happy to point you to any number of studies (mostly meta-studies), which prove their point. They want the truth, they want their kids to be healthy. Its just that you can give $20,000 to any assistant professor (who wants tenure and publications badly) who will run a "meta-study" of the results of previous studies, which will, surprise, surprise prove what the generous donor wanted to be proved.

It's not that people don't value truth over opinion, but they really can't tell which is which. And it's not just because they are dumb--we all are going be in this situation very soon, if we aren't already. I can't just trust any paper written by psychologists, because of the rampant scientific fraud. Its gotten so bad that you can get a Ph.D. in the field (e.g. Jordan Peterson) and think you are doing valid science, but in fact the field is so screwed up that they don't even realize they are not doing science.

We are all rank amateurs in almost every field of human endeavor--we have to rely on experts to give us the straight scoop. For almost any claim which is made, virtually none of us are qualified to tell whether it's true or false--what's more, we are not even qualified to tell whether the guy making the claim is qualified either.

Nevertheless, it use to work, because the experts and the media were incentivized to give us the truth.

Now they are not, which makes all of us vulnerable, because it really won't be obvious where the truth is, if anywhere.

And its not at all obvious what to do about it :-(
Pointless to further discuss with you.
I am more surprised and amazed the LLMs can interpret the ascii art as words well enough to answer the question. Yet it still bypasses the guardrails.
So, someone else mentioned this could be sarcasm, but I've got a real application that could use this. It's a complex multi-domain modeling tool incorporating multiple C binaries, python and julia code. We currently deploy with Docker, but there are too many parameters user could set incorrectly in the Docker Desktop interface. We'd love to ship a static binary of this behemoth to cut down on the user/sysadmin deployment error.
I mean, NodeRED can be used to build front ends with Dashboard 2.0 or UI-buikder or custom nodes.

Is your project really better than NodeRED? I mean it does have over 4000 community contributed nodes.
You are dragging the discussion towards to a potently ideological topic with a very tenuous connection. Evidently you feel very strongly about such topic - I am wondering if you are unaware of just how much your own emotions are actually at play here.
HK as an example of "Two countries, one system".
These are photos published by the IDF, not random users on X

even if you don’t trust the IDF, you could easily verify if those are the photos of the same journalist by looking at them.
I don't think it's the best assistant by ability, but if you're like me and you bought a lifetime Tabnine subscription for $29 when it debuted on HN in 2018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393364), maybe reinstall it and try it out. I've been using it and I would say it is better than nothing.
The continued existence of Israel in the Middle East is like fire underwater. Without a serious continous injection of energy, it'll die out instantly. Everything I've read hints that the Arabs will wipe them out completely if they don't have ~billions coming in from the US annually.

Look up how Arabs have historically treated Jews living on "their" land, and the various expulsions of Jews from modern Arab states. It paints a GRIM picture of a post-umbilical cord Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world

> Traditionally, Jews in the Muslim world ... were subjected to dhimmi status. They were afforded relative security against persecution, provided they did not contest the varying inferior social and legal status imposed on them under Islamic rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_under_Musl...

> In 1945, there were between 758,000 and 866,000 Jews living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 8,000.

I'm not taking a position on what the US should do in this post, but withdrawing support for Israel is definitely going to lead to horrific violence all the same.
the irony is that NATO is pushing Germany to aggressively and quickly re-arm

if NATO wants America in then they need to do something about an angry orange political candidate...
The problem isn't DNS in GP. DNS will happily supply the IP address for a CDN. The HTTP[S] request will thereafter be sent by the caller to the CDN (in the case of CloudFlare, Akamai, etc.) where it will be handled and potentially logged before the result is retrieved from the cache or the configured origin (i.e. backing server).