skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially related, I want to make a comic strip. I have some questions for people knowledgeable in "prompt engineering":

1. What's the style name for dilbert-like comic strips? Comic? Line art?

2. How do I produce consistent characters throughout the "comic box" and episodes?

3. How do I hint the generation of the comic? E.g. I draw a stick figure of someone sitting, and it generates my character with that pose.

4. How do I "refine" some parts of the generated image. For example I like the generated character, but I want the face to look different direction.
Devin doesn't do as good a job as us
Is it possible to be woke and not kind?
Yes exactly that's what I was thinking. If "Linux" adopts a common desktop I'm sure it'll be gnome and that means I'm out. I can't stand it either. Opinionated software just doesn't work for me.

I really love KDE. It's getting better and better and doesn't tell me how to work but it enables me in figuring out my own style of workflow by adapting to me instead of me to it.
It's only a matter of time until someone reverse-engineers the API, and then you're free to port it to any language you like.

However, I think Turso & Cloudflare D1 currently have slightly better pricing.
Global life expectancy fell 1.6 years during Covid-19, Australia's increased
China moves to dump crippling tariffs on Australian wine
Apache needs slowloris mitigation, and a dozen other tweaks to get it secure (mpm-itk, fail2ban rules, and anti-spammer mods etc.) It can be good, but most people run the vanilla install. Sometimes it is the only solution... ;-)

However, Nginx gets over 20% more concurrent users per host... Hence the main reason people put up with its lack of features and silly HA design.

Forks can be healthy, but it usually quickly degrades into a competition for users.

Hope everyone has fun =)
Because Discord sucks, is a privacy nightmare, and is a walled garden.
I agree!

And if your grandmother had wheels, then she'd be a bicycle.

Since you just don't get it, and you're such an intellectually dishonest unrepentant racist whose opinions are so worthless they should be dismissed, I will explain it for you:

A statement in this form is always true:

"If <something that is false>, then <anything in the world you want to make up, true or false, no matter how stupid of implausible>."

Because <something that is false> like "If the opinion is based on facts that are true but inconvenient" means that you can say anything you like after that, such as "the intellectual dishonesty is dismissing them", and the entire statement is true, because the condition is false.

I know that's going to whoosh right over your head, but in other words, it's false that your opinion is based on facts that are true but inconvenient. Your opinion is based on lies and pseudoscience, and it is false, which is inconvenient for you.

Gino D'Acampo "If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike" -18th May 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
In this whole thread, it feels like you are trying hard looking for the drawbacks while actively rejecting the benefits.

What you are doing is called confirmation bias.

I would suggest you to open yourself to perspectives foreign to you. That's the whole point of HN for me, aside from learning new things.

And no, it's not yet a reason to avoid lab meat. Let's actually find out if lab meat is actually less safe in practice? Because contamination of meat as we are producing it today is a thing and still relatively common and this we know it for a fact.
This shouldn't be charged per API call, you should look at an average of API calls per person - and create a figure 20% above that of what you want to earn.

Alternatively, charge x per month - with a cap of a certain amount of API calls.

The problem with charging per API call is that what do you class as an API call? What happens if a network degrades and the response hangs? Should the end user pay for this? What if they get a 404, or a 401/403? Should they be charged for these?

As your application stores customer data that they own, I could price based on how many records they are storing - not how often they want to access their own data.
Kind of funny how everything is slowly converging to using HTTPS because it just works, even though it may not be the best transport method.
Yeah it's juste because it's cheaper, twingos also have drum breaks for the rear, as well as smarts and probably a boatload of other vehicles
This sounds like a good approach. Pretty much exactly this "opt-in/out, pluggable trust moderation" is something I'd thought about a number of times over the years, yet I'd never come across the relatively simple idea implemented in the real world until now

Do you/anyone reading know of any prior work? The closest I know of is this site, in fact, which is opt-out but not pluggable. Or maybe email spam filters, from the POV of the server admin at least
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery: a semi-secret fifth plot
Oh wow, I never noticed. It appears I’m running a ~1 year old version (2023.4.0) that just stopped auto-updating. It doesn’t have any restrictions and doesn’t require an account.
If somebody can explain why bitwise ands generate serpinski triangles I would sure like to know.

(y * 4 & x *4) % (frameCount / 10 % 300)
I know its early days but I think it's really broken to directly copy the upstream website, and impacts on how usable the product appears.

For example, https://freenginx.org/en/security_advisories.html states "All nginx security issues should be reported to security-alert@freenginx.org." and then has a complete history of bugs from prior to the fork (and thus were never freenginx issues).
> And this works behind NAT?

Sure, UDP NAT only knows the 4-tuple (say {wggwd.fly.io, 12345, clientIP, 23456}).

Any UDP packet, whether it's a new "initiator" udp packet, or a response to the outgoing initiation message, will look the exact same to any UDP NAT in the way since it only has the 4-tuple to go on, and the 4-tuple is the same.
The standard solution in ML for this is cross entropy loss. You can think about it like this: from the probability estimate you derive two codewords, one saying it will happen and one say it won't happen. Then when the event happens (or doesn't) you write down the corresponding code in your log file. Then after a large number of predictions you can compare the size of people's log files. Someone having a shorter logfile means they used a more efficient encoding which means their probability estimates were better.

But yeah it's not possible to do this after just one event, you need some track record to be able to say that someone is statistically significantly better.
So are there any spaces one could use to test it out with?
> Google has always been relatively unbiased in these cases.

And always will be.

So we can sleep safely at night knowing a company of highly intelligent people have figured out this problem optimally and will manage it on behalf of society going forward.
You can run a webtunnel bridge behind Cloudflare. It also works behind AWS Cloudfront but that's just way too expensive if you don't get a reasonable rate from them like 99% reduction.
Or there is simply too much risk that an LLM is creating output that appears to be educated about politics and the future to a degree which might classify as election manipulation.

Google has a reasonable argument that the result of a Search does not represent their opinion but is a list of what's available on the internet.

But the response of an LLM can be very much interpreted as the voice of Google, because it is explicitly content THEY create...
You don't actually need HTTP(S) to make use of WebRTC, though, if that's what you were implying.

For data transmission WebRTC layers on top of SRTP and the developer just needs to provide a way to pass the handshake data over some medium; could be an HTTP server, could be a Matrix room, could be an IRC channel (or PRIVMSG). And in the worst case it can also use STUN or TURN to solve the NAT issue which DCC makes zero attempts to.

Perhaps you can clarify what you mean by enshittification? I suppose the reality with NAT isn't the great, but it's not really about protocols but the way systems end up being built.
I am launching a CLI tool this week that allows you to get insights into your Open API specification. It is currently a beta pre-release, but built using Go and pTerm - it was a lot of fun if I am honest!

https://github.com/Treblle/treblle-cli
That's mostly due to NAT.

When we have some more widespread IPv6 adoption we could (and should already) look into supporting IPv6 with DCC, that would make it function properly and dare-I-say would be excellent from a UX perspective.
Key take-away: blockchain analysis heuristics should not hold legal water, and should at best be used at the corroborative level.

Pretty much the conclusion the prosecutors themselves published after winning the case.
> without any ethical issues

is that so?

> Humans were eating ribs over thousands of years

Appeal to tradition?

Ethical discussion is beyond the topic because you framed it like this, but ethics and environment is what is actually motivating lab meat production, you can't really discard this.

We have a sub thread answering your health-related question.
Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
Very nice, this is an idea i've posted about before, and i'm glad someone is implementing it. Very interested to see how well it works out!
It seems sensible enough. It's not being presented as the One Weird Trick that lets you see the future, just as something simple and obvious that (implication: bizarrely) other people who try to predict the future often don't do. So even by just doing very basic things like that, you can end up ahead. Not right, not even most of the time, just more right than other people.

We might think that this seems rather obvious, and that's probably true. Samotsvety are being compared to people like IC analysts, politicians and pundits. Not people exactly famous for their firm commitment to rationalism and accountability. If you compared their track record vs top hedge funds it might look a little different, but of course hedge funds don't try to estimate the probabilities of things like a nuke hitting London.
1. You probably won't hit 100% parity just by prompt engineering especially if you want to do your points 3-4. You would need to train a style LoRa.

2. You can use one of the many ip-adapter models but the best result would probably be a combination of ip-adapter + subject LoRa.

3. That would be a controlnet model probably sketch best results would be achieved (for poses) using open or dw pose models.

4. You would do that with inpainting or stable drag.

https://stable-diffusion-art.com is a good starting point.
The irony is lost on this one.
In Hong Kong and France, the two places I pay taxes in, it's been digital, free and trivial for as long as I've been a taxpayer, a decade+, as well.

It's just weird when you realize the U.S. is so bloated and backward compared to places they criticize constantly like France and HK :D I suppose they don't have ways to pay taxes monthly there either, so it's all a giant lump sum yearly or a tax loan ?

I always wondered why giant tax jurisdictions never try to just do one single non-micro-optimized tax rate ladder across everyone and zero other taxes / deduction / special regimen etc.

I know HK is much smaller, but having only one single tax to collect at a very simple percentage rate, with very few deduction, makes it so cheap and simpler that the government can reduce taxes because it collects them so efficiently. France collects directly from salary, so now there's no tax return for the vast majority of tax payers, it's a bit riskier since you can't escape it, but... can't do much simpler.
> Fascinating how you caricatured away billions of people with a simple flippant thoughtless remark.

I believe caricatures are among the most precious things a human can produce, self-caricaturing even being abong the highest merits. This one is based primarimy on self-reflection, as most of them are, consciously or not.
Well, depending on which population of middle schoolers you base on. The whole population? Yes it was extraordinary. The ones owning a micro-computer? There it was more common indeed.
Honestly, that sounds completely arbitrary, especially the one about 1/75. It also ignores anything that would alter any thinking person's probability calculations in the real world. For example, if tomorrow the Chinese premier says that Taiwan belongs to China and starts amassing navies, the % wouldn't change. I'd personally much _much_ rather listen to a view from some scholar or expert in the geopolitical situation than these "base rate" calculations.
Yes, I think it solves that as-is.

But I'm hoping a future version of it would also solve some other scenarios, like when I share a file from a mobile to a room it would leverage an already running desktop session with better battery and better connectivity.

Another axis is providing a well-tested specficiations and providing it as a library that could be easily integrated into apps.

I have a TLA+ spec of the existing solution, so I hope the "next" version would also be as precisely specified, probably using Quint.
Hey! I agree if it can't recall the correct token at a "critical point", then definitely even perplexity is low, the sentence becomes unusable.

The main issue is perplexity is just the exp(CE_loss), so essentially minimizing cross entropy loss is the same as minimizing perplexity. And CE is just P(of the next token)

We need some new loss function which probably minimizes say the token of the 2nd or 3rd token which can probably be more effective - sadly it's more computationally expensive, and probably in the long run, might be equivalent to just minimizing CE.

Ye intelligence sadly is still hard to define
It is very important that common people understand that the Apple App Store is not a way to outsource their own security and blindly install whatever they find on it, personally I was always convinced that Apple Marketing about the security of their App Store in regard to opening competition sources of app installs, has done a lot of damage to their users for the benefit of their shareholders, and if I was a Apple user I would be pretty upset for them up to the point where I would be unable to trust them. Whatever the source you're responsible for your own safety. Don't be a victim of marketing departments.
Yes, check out NVML. There's wrappers for a couple languages, not sure about golang.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-management-library-nvml
Just "cool"? Valuations based on thin air disappeared 2 years ago and we still talk about why did it all failed?
Startups in general terms are just a wishful business and this is good because new things sometimes win their position if are better, cheaper,... but just because the clone of a clone rises money (because laundering is not seen as a politically correct term in this forum) it doesn't mean it's a grown ups business with a future of more than 3 years in the horizon.
Startups are a nice idea, a fun game and, lets be honest, we've earn a lot of money in the industry with this ideal but it's not gonna happen anymore (or anytime soon).
And yes, a share of "nothing" remains "nothing" if the business isn't profitable.
Primer is the only backwards time travel in media I have ever seen where, apart from a few small problems, I thought the fundamental idea actually made sense and could exist in some (not our) universe.
"Godel, Escher, Bach" was my first introduction to it - you might find it an interesting book
That is my view from when I worked there. The silent meritocracy side doesn't get up much in the news since they aren't interesting to write about, but that side dominates all internal discussions. They are the main reason you still get sane results from Google etc.

Of course the extremists on both sides wants to say Google is biased and full of extremists, so there aren't many who states my views here. It is just more engaging to call things extremist. I strongly disagree with the extremists that works at Google and many of those did get fired, so maybe you'd call me biased there if you agree with those extremists.
Oh great! :)
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EVs are 50%-100% heavier and a lot of them accelerate faster than supercars from the 80s...
> When a corporate tries to seize control of a open source project

Yeah, they wanted to have some CVEs for a bunch of bugs in experimental code, the author of the fork didn't.
I've always wondered how those "Ten minute Mandelbrot zoom" videos worked, because there's no way double would last that long at a tolerable zoom rate.

The perturbation technique is interesting. Calculating just a few points with super high precision and then filling the pixels in between by adding an offset and continuing with lower precision halfway though the calculation seems plausible at a glance, but I'll have to read that more carefully later.

Thanks for sharing!
As an unrepentant racist who's bored enough to post about your racist beliefs on Hacker News, you're overly political and naive, so who are you to talk?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605689
In the near future, less text input and more "magic" AI buttons for OCR and speech to text would be my guess.
In theory, but from what I understand Mastodon is rife with inter-server blocking, so your admin might just decide you're not allowed to even read posts from a condemned server (because aggregation is done server-side, unlike say RSS). And simply not blocking certain servers is enough to get your own blacklisted. Making it less of a network and more of a graph with several isolated networks that you have to exclusively choose between
LLMs with Perl 6(Raku): Processing Biden's State of the Union Address
What is L1, L2 Proficiency?
Do you mind sharing the treadmill that you are using? I know I can do a google search, but I read a lot of bad reviews on the cheap ones and that they smell like burnt plastic nearing 1hr continuous usage.
> foreign bad
Sort off.

The `.gov` tld is explicitly for US gov tasks.
Whether the service is trustworthy or not is a different question.
Whether it makes sense to use an external service for identification is another.

But if it's used for official means, they should at least get a branding contract and brand and host it properly.
If only because the governance of `.gov` can and should be used to mark things official.
Does the emission cheating also require a subscription now?
I'm trying to tackle this problem more head-on, by outfitting LLMs with lambda calculus, stacks, queues, etc. directly in their internals, operating over their latent space. [1]

I'll read your paper, but, LLMs famously fail horribly at "multi jump" reasoning, which to me means they can't reason at all. They can merely output a reflection of the human reasoning that was baked into the training data, and they can also recombine it combinatorially. Eager to see if you've solved this!

[1] https://github.com/neurallambda/neurallambda
That's what they want us to think.
Litigation, perhaps? Google is already being hit on multiple fronts over being a anti-trust violations, invading privacy, and a litany of other issues over the past decade. spreading false news on a domestic election with very premature tech that is not fully within their control would just be the cherry on top.
could someone point me a good and active irc server and (possibly) channels?

miss a lot the old days but the last time I tried every person seemed to be "idle"
> Earlier today I decided to switch my Android for an iPhone.

Mistake #1 : switching to an even more closed computing environment, where user has strictly no control

> android

Mistake #2 : running on a tech. stack you do not control: closed-source, walled-garden

> wallet

Mistake #3 : using a wallet instead of your own private cold storage to hold any kind of significant amounts of money

> but its still up there, #1 search result.

Mistake #4 : trusting that Apple is making huge efforts to secure their environment.

In the same vein as "not your keys, not your coins" :

- "trust the vendor, not your coins"

- "not your hardware, not your coins"

- "not your operating system, not your coins"

- "not your key management software, not your coins"

- "not open source and therefore not auditable, not your coins"
> And I don't think anyone (who is worth listening to) is advocating BTC for trivial transactions; it has already solidly cemented its role as a "wire" service for larger transfers.

LTC apparently seems "a better BTC" for trivial transaction. Also Monero which supposedly doesn't even need mixing.

Why do people even care using BTC which needs mixing when there are Monero and ZCash?
An iPhone user is typically from a rich country, like US or Japan, an Android user is typically from India or China. Here's 10x wealth difference.

Add to this the fact the iPhone users are dumber and more prone to expoits, so of course hackers would rather focus on App Store.
Modern homes in Germany have ventilation with heat exchange which have some sort filter system.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontrollierte_Wohnrauml%C3%BCf...
That political concern is real, but it wouldn't block them from at least white-labeling the private service though an *.irs.gov domain.
I've had some great success using posits for fractals. Unfortunately, soft(ware) posits so rather slow. But mathematically the results were great.
This happens to me not in my native language but in the language in which I learned mathematics.
GitHub: Neurallambda. Reasoning Computers via Differentiable Lambda Calculus
Aye, a better view indeed 'tis the archive capture.

If only the HN had a wee link atop the threads, just next to the comment count, that listed the archived/paywall-be-goned link if one was provided.

Methinks that might be a ripe task for the young dang to swagger up to, if he found the time for it, like.
Only when an app is distributed from their store though? You can request a developer certificate, notarise your apps and deploy them from your website using any API you desire...
This is a valid criticism, but does not detract from the fact that Switzerland is pretty much a model democracy.

Power is extremely decentralized, not just down to the Cantons, but the counties and then the cities/townships (translated to rough US equivalents) also have a huge degree of autonomy. For any law or political decision that affects a Swiss citizen, it is almost guaranteed that it can be overturned be plebiscite (or in local issues by just showing up at meetings).

The late adoption of Women's suffrage is just a consequence of this system, which is biased towards inaction by design. On the plus side they have not had ideological extremists run their country, or had political violence on the level of some of their neighbors (Italy, Germany, France).
This is a misconception that I've seen going around, and I still wonder where it came from.

The Dutch implementation is called "Uitvoeringswet Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming", which, as the title states, is the law that implements the GDPR. "AVG" is just a translation for "GDPR", not the name of the law that implements it.

The Uitvoeringswet describes how the GDPR functions within Dutch law, for example, it describes the role that the Dutch Data Protection Authority plays. You can read the Uitvoeringswet right here: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0040940/2021-07-01

The GDPR (in Dutch AVG, in French RGPD, in Spanish RGPD, etc.) actually DOES state that it should be just "as easy to withdraw as to give consent" in Article 7. The directive (2016/679) can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679.
Nice except that it is an absolute no go to generate these on the server.

Why not port to JS and generate it on the client? Should be trivial.

Yould should not encourage people to trust you.
"in as soon as a decade".

They think it's possible. I doubt anyone there thinks it's certain or even has a high probability.
https://archive.is/S3LXU