skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite nice. Any plans to add simpler ML tools? A sklearn plugin could be as valueable as LLM access.
We talk to W3C vice chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System
When I’ve tried listening to YouTube videos explaining, say, Attention Is All You Need, I find that I cannot do it passively at all. The first 10 or so minutes I’m nodding along, folding laundry or doing dishes, then the presenter says something like “by reifying this tensor against the priors I was just talking about, we’re able to—“ and I have to pause, rewind a couple minutes, grab a piece of paper and actually engage with what’s going on.

I have to imagine listening to raw papers (not even someone like Andrei Karpathy interpreting and presenting it) would be even more difficult. I don’t know if there’s an easy way to passively consume academic literature at all. If it’s important stuff, it will usually be pretty challenging.
GhostRace: Exploiting and mitigating speculative race conditions
The question is why the stealing is allowed to go for that long and massive and pretty much in the open until it results in the crash.
Naming and layout are part of how experts communicate intent with each other. Auto formatters are literally blind so they mostly make poorly motivated naming and layout decisions.
If you’re wondering where this is, here’s a website with map (also PDF version): https://www.southernoregon.org/dark-skies/oregon-outback-dar...
> I think that you are vastly overestimating the amount of people who want to spend a large portion of their daily life with large googles strapped to their head isolating them from the people and things in their immediate environment.

I wish you were right. But, man, look around. People are immersed in their mobile devices. No one gives a shit about their surroundings anymore.
I agree: of course not.
As if working at Helldesk weren't bad enough IT helpers targeted by cybercrims
I am still trying to understand this, but it seems like the potential here is tremendous. For example, you can imagine producing audio tailored to the sophistication of the reader where a layperson may wish a more basic interpretation than a subject-matter expert. Really looking forward to seeing where this goes for the dissection and understanding of scientific publications.
> euphemism for federal intelligence agencies strong-arming social media companies to censor American citizens

Specifics matter.

If a hurricane is coming and a meme is countering FEMA’s advice, I’d want them to be able to pick up the phone and let Facebook know. They shouldn’t be allowed to compel anyone, explicitly or implicitly. But the notion that any communication between the government and social media platforms is censorship is as extreme as arguing that the government should have takedown powers.
Hey, absolutely - that's a perfectly fair question. I can give you my personal reasons:

- I don't have excel on a Mac so I need to use Google Sheets. Google Sheets crashes on any file over 30-40 MB (at least on my macbook air)

- I think this type of chained data transform is a much better (more code-like?) way of doing transforms. You can see exactly how you got to your end-result. Vs, for example, in Google Sheets, you're modifying data in-place and your transform history is only accessible via Undo and Redo. This is far more reproducible short of using a python script.

(I've worked as a data scientist for a while and I suppose that influences how I think about chained data transforms vs the in-place Excel way too!)

But this is just for now - the long term vision is: Being able to easily switch between visual no-code blocks, SQL and Python in the same browser-local "notebook"/"workbook" that's easily shareable. I think it doesn't take much convincing that such a tool would be more powerful than Excel for certain workflows!
In Finland there is basically 2 big sites. Where most units are being sold and even rented.

https://oikotie.fi (159€ for private seller)

https://www.etuovi.com/ (149€ for private seller)

In addition each agency shows the available units on their sites. Then there are some in newspapers and I think there is some papers from some group of sellers.

Ofc, there are some private sellers on Facebook, and some local craigslist equivalents.
> everyone wants to moderate

For a privately owned website, moderation is not a violation of anyone's freedom of speech. Your freedom of speech does not give you the right to insist that you can post on a website that I own. If I don't like what you say on my website, I can ban you. You can go get your own website if you want a place to say what you want.

These cases are specifically about government officials and how they manage their accounts on social media platforms. What I find disappointing is that nobody appears to be talking about the obvious solution: an official's personal account should only be for personal posts. If the government they are officials of wants an official account to post official statements on, they should set up a separate one solely for that purpose. Then the whole issue the court is trying to deal with here would evaporate.
Spam emails assert legal claims like copyright infringement? News to me.
So the MO is, when your plan to pay professionals to make it look like suicide fails, pay family members some cash to say he was under major stress!!
Legality is not in question here, only that speech which is legal that people prefer to ban.
But it adds a layer of protection, doesn't it? Your known public phone number is one, your verification phone is another one from another carrier.

Is that really an additional layer of protection, or the same layer, slightly obscured? But probably not obscured from the attacker that managed to get your password and just needs the SMS verification code to get into your account.
My experience is that for some people, the physical act of speaking is required for them to think through an issue. Think rubber-duck debugging, but applied to most aspects of their lives.

For whatever reason, typing does not seem to serve the same purpose for these people, or doesn't serve it nearly as well. I don't know if the important part is the actual verbalization or if it's the direct, low-latency synchronous conversation with another person, but folks like this strongly prefer and are much more productive in meeting settings.

They are also often frustrating to interact with, but that's orthogonal...
cost of building is definitely not the cost of operation
Yes I think this is the one area where specialized DBs will win over PG
Inference world is gradually switching from INT formats to FP formats. FP8 is already supported in modern hardware, and FP4 support is coming. In my experiments I get better perplexity in language models with FP4 than with INT4.
Apple settling for a significant amount of money on the question of whether CEO Tim Cook mislead investors about upcoming expectations for iPhone sales only feels dull from a tech point of view, but HN is a site for anything people find interesting not just tech-specific content, and from a business point of view it is a rather interesting story and it happens to be about one of the most influential tech companies in the world and involves them settling for a sizeable amount of money in response to the accusation that something Tim Cook said about iPhones fraudulently misled investors. The title is pretty much bang on and one of the most detailed, least clickbaity titles around - unless when you commented it was something other than the current "Norfolk County Council beats Apple in £385M iPhone row" (in fact it's almost under-playing it as it's local press focusing on the local aspect of a £5B pension fund who are one member of a class action of Apple shareholders).

£385M obviously isn't going to break Apple's bank balance, but it's 0.5% of their last annual profit so it's at least a noticeable slap on the wrist to not do it again.

From what little I know of the case I do actually feel it's weak and if I were magically to be made a judge and in charge of deciding this case, from this article & the couple of others I've read I would find in Apple's favour, but I'm not an expert in this area nor do I know enough about it to be confident it's even my best guess on which side deserved to win. However I think even if it were obvious and universally agreed that Apple didn't deserve this case and should or would have won rather than settling, the fact that it did happen and they did settle would keep it interesting (still as business news that happens to be tech-related, not as tech news).
not OP but it does seem like you're nitpicking details instead of engaging with what seems to be the intent of the response: AR/VR has come an incredible distance since DK1, the last 10 years have seen it go from a barely-discussed completely unavailable/fringe dev-kit-only technology to being an clearly viable spectrum of mass-market products.

edited: grammar. still feel like I've failed to produce readable english, but I'm giving up
Sorry, the only use case I can come up with is if you strictly need a Windows laptop because some software only runs on Windows (e.g. a game or Matlab or something). But for practically everyone else this is a terrible purchase.
How good is it for Kubernetes cluster administration?

I'm used to using kubectl and I don't know if I am losing something with a Gui like this or lens.
Show HN: Implementation of the "Self-Rewarding Language Models" Paper by MetaAI
Hey all,

After reading the Self-Rewarding Language Models paper by the team at Meta, it felt very approachable and reproducible, so we spent some time implementing it.

The scripts provided take any base model and put it in a loop of:

1) Supervised fine-tuning on an initial dataset

2) Generating new prompts using the SFT

3) Generating N responses per prompt

4) Scoring the generated responses 1-5

5) Running DPO on the rewards from the model itself.

We've run it through one loop starting with a Mistral-7b base model and the results are pretty encouraging so far.

Feel free to check it out or run it for yourself and let us know what you think:

https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Self-Rewarding-Language-Models
Literal random hiring would probably be better than what the industry does now.
> There is no way LEDs last less than incandescents.

Sure there is. I bought a case of Sylvania LEDs in 2019. They're used a few hours a week and I've tossed 5 of the 15 I've installed.
Well this will make the neo-puritans happier.
ollama has made a lot of nice contributions of their own. It's a good look to give a hat tip to the great work llama.cpp is also doing, but they're strictly speaking not required to do that in their advertising any more than llama.cpp is required to give credit to Google Brain, and I think that's because llama.cpp has pulled off tricks in the execution that Brain never could have accomplished, just as ollama has had great success focusing on things that wouldn't make sense for llama.cpp. Besides everyone who wants to know what's up can read the source code, research papers, etc. then make their own judgements about who's who. It's all in the open.
> We know that Uber and Lyft are very much taking advantage of the drivers here.

Are they? There isn't anything quite like these kind of jobs for flexible hours. Want something extra this week drive for a few hours.
Hey congrats on the Show HN. Local, browser based data exploration works for a lot of uses cases and is so much faster thancloud based tools. We've implemented something similar at https://addmaple.com/ - but with a graphical interface designed for rapid exploratory data analysis of large datasets.

Memory per tab can be an issue for really big files (1gb+) but we're exploring a transform to CBOR which allows us to free up JS memory, i.e. when parsing CBOR we can leave row level data as Uint8Array and it doesn't increase the JS memory overhead.
It’s ridiculous how a few hundred millisecond lag can make communication difficult and frustrating but certain people on the internet pretend an unpredictable lag between minutes and days for every step of a conversation is exactly the same as an in person chat. It so obviously isn’t.
If your business can't survive paying employees a living wage, you're closer to slavery than you are to a proper economic model - i.e. your business is unsustainable.

If your cost of raw materials is too high, you can't just stiff your suppliers or steal from them. Why should labor be any different?
There's an entirely short term outlook that's caused by the "housing ladder" IMO. If you spend any time on reddit, you'll see people asking "Why would I want to spend £10,000 insulating my home if the payback period isn't 4-5 years?" Instead of thinking about comfort and maintaining a building, they're thinking about ensuring that they maximise the value of their current property so that they can sell and upgrade to a bigger one.

I live in an old stone building in Scotland - the previous owners installed a kitchen in 2019, and at that time they replaced the flooring. They _could_ have insulated under the floor, and done internal wall insulation but that would have added a few hundred pounds onto their renovation job, and they didn't care, they were content with the asthetic upgrade of the room.
The mention of factions is opposed to the thesis of 'everyone'. Things like spam are not typically considered factional, so un-controversial in fact that most people don't even think of spam as a form of speech or its moderation as a form of censorship.
Can you explain why nobody knows this trick, for some values of “nobody”?
https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql
We bought a pair of Sactional seats used for $1k. And I'm delighted that we did because we hate how uncomfortable it is for us. If you're thinking about dropping 10k+ on a Sactional set, keep your eyes open for used and even consider doing what we did and trialing a smaller section first.
Tesla is the worst performing stock in the S&P 500
Yeah haha, a lack of public transportation and cycling infrastructure were my next concerns
HN is a reasonably decent site for literature related stuff so if you find anything good in a more specialized place, you can also post it to HN.
There's nutters everywhere, to be fair.
You can apply YAML, edit, as well as delete any artifacts (pods, services, ingresses, etc.).

It helps create a more visual approach similar to k9s / Lens in a more integrated area (you can see your local containers too through Podman Desktop).
I thought buying bitcoin to pay work off related malware infections was "too expensive" at $300 when in reality I could have purchased several thousand bitcoin, had my client reimburse me, while keeping a chunk for myself because of course I would have.

also, the idea of being not being able to get hired or fired is really a silly concern as I always did my job well and did not want to leave my "safe" job.
> For a privately owned website, moderation is not a violation of anyone's freedom of speech

It’s not a violation of the First Amendment. It is a curtailment of someone’s freedom of speech.

> an official's personal account should only be for personal posts. If the government they are officials of wants an official account to post official statements on, they should set up a separate one solely for that purpose

These rulings effectively say that if you taint your personal account with official business, you have to treat it like an official account. That should lead to a best practice as you describe.
Thank you! Yes, one of the items in the Roadmap is support for Pyodide (https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide) for running in-browser python on the results of each of the code blocks! This should allow most ML libs to be usable in-browser! This is pretty high-up on our priority list.
Tenstorrent RISC-V and Chiplet Technology to Build the Future of AI in Japan
A big thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583743
...because the internet was still tiny and wasn't getting any legal attention. The passage of the DMCA was a response to the situation that was going on once it started to get industry attention.
ex post facto laws are illegal just like Uber and Lyft you wouldn't be punished for what happened before they changed the laws.
> You really don't think Boeing has a vested interested in not being found liable for retaliating against quality control whistleblowers, _while being investigated for having quality control so poor people nearly died_?

I never suggested otherwise. Having a vested interest does not indicate murder, motive sure.

> If they lose this case, the FAA is going to notice, and they're going to be pissed. It's one thing to be negligent, Boeing could probably paper over that with the FAA and some small regulatory changes because they're defense contractor and vital to national security. It is another thing entirely to not only be aware of the problems due to whistleblowers but to both ignore the issues and attempt to silence the whistleblowers.

The FAA already started an investigation years ago when he first made the claims they are being sued for retaliating against.

> We're talking about a clusterfuck of proportions most of us can only have nightmares about. Boeing would spend the next 50 years with the FAA's hand jammed so far up their ass Kermit would feel bad for them. I wouldn't be surprised to see the SEC filing indictments for securities fraud for not disclosing known, material defects in their planes.

Yeah, as if the widely publicized major incidents weren’t enough already.

You may very well be right, but you may also very well be letting your imagination get far ahead of the facts.
C# LINQ, being a round-about implementation of do-notation, is a pretty advanced FP feature, and beyond most mainstream languages. C# is certainly a step up over Java etc.

However, most developers wouldn’t understand, say, a result monad implemented via LINQ, so you’re still fighting the ecosystem somewhat.
Good points, and there is precedent right in the Apple ecosystem.

I think it's brilliant that "last year's model" (iPhone, iPad) drops down the good-better-best chain with every product refresh. No new R&D or tooling, still a great product.

There will always be a steady supply of last years' models. And customers to buy them. Apple just has to feel confident that a $700 M1 isn't cannibalizing their $1200 M2s or the upcoming M3s.
> Why would "creating a novel" by a human not itself be text generation based on prediction on what are the next good choices (of themes, words, etc) based on a training data set of lived experience stream and reading other literature?

Unless you're Stephen King on a cocaine bender, you don't typically write a novel in a single pass from start to finish. Most authors plan things out, at least to some degree, and go back to edit and rewrite parts of their work before calling it finished.
And these warnings would be as hijackable as the current system so what would be the point?

Or perhaps they would be hijackable in new and improved ways…
To twist a Mike Tyson quote: "Everybody's a free-speech absolutist until the speech causes them to get punched in the face."
I can't tell from the article what he purchased but it wouldn't suprise me if it was a security only available to accredited investors.
Self-driving startup is using generative AI to predict traffic
I would love some examples of this. I’ve yet to see a case in 20+ years of programming that was even close to being more-valuable than not having to think about formatting, but maybe it’s because none of the ten or so languages in which I’ve been paid to write code have been the sort where that’s a big deal.

[edit] naming, yes. That’s important. Static types are enormously important—machine-checkable documentation is the best sort. Comments are excellent if names and types aren’t enough. Separate documentation if all of those fail. Where my braces go or tabs-v-spaces or what have you? Not so much, but again, maybe it’s because we write different languages.
> there are (somewhat) prominent views that do literally mean no speech should be banned

Do you have an example that’s been presented coherently? Every one I’ve seen creates caveats for, at their worst, speech they don’t like, and at their best, spam. (The latter seeming like a small exception until we get around to precisely defining it.)
... for a very brief period of time until Linux servers and other options caught up.
https://archive.ph/i33bo
EU requires devs to include mailing address and phone nr on app store listings
Not open source, but plays well with others, SimpleMind is an inexpensive mind map tool that works across Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android. Actively developed for over 15 years with regular releases, it’ll export plain text, OPML, PDF, etc. and easily convert plain text outlines. Works with most cloud sync, including NextCloud. Really impressive for the price you pay. No subscription.
When you share an image or video with someone its now a Reddit link so it drives new users. Even if you Copy Image, you'll see a Reddit overlay when you paste it.
YouTuber liable for bogus DMCA notice "awareness campaign" targeting Bungie
They did that for a reason. Rendering decorations server-side is a really bad idea. Just because X11 did it is not a reason to repeat the mistake.

If other compositors want to do it, they have their optional extension for that. Eventually, they will find out why they shouldn't do it. With mandatory extension, there would be no way back, with optional, there is.
A guy I know at $currentjob would have agreed to the criticism, then created at least 2x Jira tickets to clean up the original and then the structure you mention.
So as far as the progress goes, people are less and less interested in reproducing.

With fertility rates rapidly falling towards 0 all over the world, I see only three viable long-term options, if we want to self-preserve (and not just fade away):

1. Growing humans on industrial scale in bio-reactors. Government+AI would take care of raising them. Basically a cyber-communism. Probably could happen in China.

2. Replacing/surpassing humans with AI+robots completely. Then reproducing is as easy as scaling up a K8S cluster. Seems that we're heading towards it.

3. Reverting progress. Could happen anyway via some apocalypse scenario. But also could be deliberate, like Neo-Amish or something.
Playing devil’s advocate - even if this is related to a Boeing executive, it needs to be proved in court.

Allegations and heresay is easy. Pricing in court with evidence is a much steeper climb.

Don’t see much talk of evidence in the article.
https://mymodernmet.com/inner-monologue/
> And these warnings would be as hijackable as the current system

No, parent-poster is saying the warnings would go out to the original victim's phone in advance of any routing changes.

That means the victim would have at least some opportunity to react and block it the hijacking.
The whataboutism is dripping so much it's a monsoon. Why is everything a comparison with "you people"? I have many reasons to dislike Musk not exclusive to your sarcasm of a 12 year old. I don't like brussel sprouts, but I don't need to know about your opinions of eating snails, raw fish, or burnt popcorn. It makes no bearing on my dislike nor does it have a bearing on the conversation.

The car Tesla produces is a piece of trash and is unsafe at any speed, and you will not make me like it by telling me "yeah but other cars are worse".
Sounds like a professional service that doesn't have anything to do with sale price.
They lag on software a lot more than the lag on silicon.
>there are (somewhat) prominent views that do literally mean no speech should be banned.

Yes, "no speech should be banned" right up until it's about posting the publicly available flight logs tracking a private jet, and then its not cool.
https://github.com/NextJSTemplates/startup-nextjs