skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never thought I'd defend ISPs... (especially since an ISP destroyed my credit "on accident" 10 years ago) but there is no comparison to Facebook.

ISP's list of evil acts: failing to update infrastructure, failing to protect against intrusions, general technical and customer service ineptitude, absolute fealty to state requests for information (both official and sometimes unofficial), hijacking web requests to inject ads, and adding surprise undisclosed fees on a seemingly-random basis.

Facebook's: Where to even start.

Burying internal research directly linking Instagram to teen suicides (including a majority of teens surveyed saying they wish Instagram didn't exist even though they use it 5+_hours a day).

Running nonconsensual psyop experiments on unsuspecting users and measuring their emotional responses like unpaid guinnea pigs (in fact, because of Facebook's revenue model, it was like users were paying Facebook for the privelege!)

Cambridge Analytica and the 2016 election.

Straight up lying about Facebook Video view numbers (overstated by 60-80%!) to fraudulently entice advertisers and content creators, then covering up the lie for over a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video#Facebook_metric...

It's like comparing a molotov cocktail to a dirty bomb. Yes, both are evil and bad, but we can tell there's a difference there, right?

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To go beyond list wars, it's also just a matter of scale. You can be a mini-Hitler but if you're in an empty room you're not going to do that much damage. If you're at the Superbowl, though...

The largest US ISP is Comcast at about 30,000,000 subscribers.

Facebook has 2,900,000,000 monthly active users.

The sheer scale is also the problem. Scale gives them unfathomable power and access. It should make every non-Meta shareholder uncomfortable IMO. If there were only one mega-monopoly-ISP for the whole of the US, I'd feel similarly uncomfortable. But that isn't the case, in fact more ISPs seem to be starting up recently.

Put another way: An evil act from an ISP would hurt X number of people. An evil act from Facebook would hurt X^5 people. And I believe Facebook's acts are in general more evil than an ISPs.
Given that the blog post mentions apple’s ad business, I had no reason to believe that “just as much” somehow meant less than what was the subject of the discussion.
Yep,it has ,it used to be an underground platform and now it's gone mainstream.
The same can be said for a lot of things,especially YC
Earlier,it was hackers who made a product in their free time and then turned it into scalable,profitable products/companies,and now its MBA grads trying to get into YC by building ubers of somethings
The Nix community has been at it for over a decade and they've only recently managed to repeatably build the NixOS ISO. The kind of determinism you're thinking about is a lot harder than you're giving it credit for.

It's still doable I think, and I'd love to work towards it, but who is going pay for it? Mountains of wasted compute day after day might feel like a waste to nerds like us, but to an investor it's opportunity.

Fixing it? Less opportunity.
Thanks a lot for your thoughts! Frankly, I do not even try to think about doomsdays scenarios since I am unsure if it is even possible to make meaningful predictions on the state of technology. Someone with a magnifying glass reading Trump's twits of a ceramic plate in the middle of apocalyptic world?.. :)
Glad you found it useful. boringproxy fills a pretty nice niche, but it has some rough edges. I'm working on its successor now.
Microsoft continue to ship their Surface laptops with over-sized power bricks, which is enough to disqualify them.

Similar spec Samsung laptops (Galaxy Books) come with a regular USB-C cable and a fast charging power adapter that looks like any other plug.

Anybody know why Samsung can do this and Microsoft can't?

Only having to lug around a single cable and charger for all devices is a dealbreaker.
> Remember the brazenness in which they booted third-party screen time and parental control apps from the app store after the introduction of Screen Time.

You misremember. Apple sherlocked RescueTime and brought it to iOS, where no such app existed because the platform security model prevents an app from snooping on other apps and websites. Developers were upset that Apple didn't give them access to the same functionality; Apple eventually released an API (but it doesn't look like RescueTime uses it, even today).
Sometimes, those who are most vocal against authority, are projecting their own potential misuse of authority onto others, unable to see someone wielding power differently.
Also, is there a reason why people so strongly believe that an LLM would lead to AGI? People building magic dev seem to believe that can build an AI coworker.

Are there any videos on why and how these researchers strongly believe that AI systems will outperform humans to achieve AGI?

Building an LLM model consists of defining its "architecture" (an enormous mathematical function that defines the model's shape) and then using a lot of trial and error to guess which "parameters" (constants that we plug in to the function, like 'm' and 'b' in y=mx+b) will be most likely to produce text that resembles the training data. Copilot can already do this and it's ok at best. Magic dev guys seem to be using your repo as a training set to make better predictions on the output based on the context window. So are the systems "improving" is kinda my question.
Most of them require you upgrading to a business account, and are generally quite a bit more expensive than standard residential internet service plus a VPS.
This would have been a complete non issue if streaming services paid, not by streams as a percentage of the entire cake, but as a percentage per _streamer_ streaming each song.

The argument in court (according to older reports in danish media) was that other streamers were receiving less payout. But if he only received money from the bots he set up to listen, then at most this could amount to a laundering operation.
At least the SSD is not soldered down.
> Set high level goals for the company (e.g. revenue, customer acquisition and employee retention).

That sounds like OKRs by another name to me. Objective 1: increase revenue. Key result 1a: achieve $X revenue this quarter. Objective 2: increase customers. Key result 2a: number of customers exceed Y by this quarter. Objective 3: increase employer retention. Key result 3a: employee attrition stays below Z% this quarter.
>Documentation like "this bit of this word must always be '1'" Which as any engineer knows, if it really was always '1' then that bit didn't have to be in the protocol, so what did it do when it wasn't '1'?

Maybe it was a deprecated part of the protocol, and setting it would cause an error or do nothing.
Do you have any examples? I’m pretty curious about Picotron, but would love to try an OSS alternative.
Last I checked United had 50M people covered by their insurance plans and $400B in revenue. Rough math would be $8,000 per person.

But the revenue is similar to Amazon. They buy something for $100 and sell it for $102. Revenues look high, but just because they are a middleman.
> so the identifier ID is transmitted over two wires in the clear form.

I'm much more worried about someone using to a clothes hanger looking tool [1] to break into my hotel room than someone exposing cables and reading data over the wire to unlock the door.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3G9pyvCBcM
Waterloo drops lecturer in wake of controversial paper
Guy who has Bayes' theorem as his column description is a fan of propensity? What's going on? It's still there, I checked. "P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary." How many non-Jews get the "all the rest is commentary" part?
The current headline is:

> Stanford Math-Education Expert Has ‘Reckless Disregard for Accuracy,’

But I see

> Stanford Math-Education Expert Has ‘Reckless Disregard for Accuracy,’ Complaint Alleges

Though I personally agree that the "complaint alleges" may not be necessary, because I find these allegations credible to the best of my knowledge, it is only fair to acknowledge that they are allegations as far as the public is concerned at the moment.

(I've been following this research not because I'm in the field, but because they have been used to deny access to algebra in SF, which is what prompted me to follow others' investigations, so I must admit to being somewhat biased against this expert's opinions)
Fitia.
I don't think there's anything special about it compared to other nutrition tracking apps, but it does the job.
It would be fine if companies were extremely clear about it, saying “the car is $30k, but the average customer ends up paying an additional $2k in subscriptions for basic features”. Or “the phone is $1000, but most software will be more expensive due to our 30% tax”. Of course they’re not that clear, and I would argue these business models only make sense when there’s deception involved.
What Should Data Science Education Do with Large Language Models? (2024)
The audio book is narrated by Wil Wheaton!
I'm OK with the headline abridgement. I don't feel it slanders the expert, since we do not see their name till after we click and after we see the full unabridged headline.
One can always find counterexamples in a large city.

Meanwhile, the one lame station you mentioned that serves the 신반포 area is directly connected to the financial district and the airport. And just a couple of blocks away is 고속터미널 station where three subway lines intersect.
Show HN: Simple Task Manager (Beginner Project)
TIC-80

https://tic80.com/
Just because you aren’t being harmed doesn’t mean you can’t think it’s wrong or try to prevent it. There are lots of things people fight against that doesn’t directly impact them (yet).

One good reason in this particular examples is I don’t want subscription based heated seats to become popular, because then I won’t have a choice anymore.
> Devs are a hard audience to sell to

no, devs aren't hard to sell to. It's business owners that are hard to sell to.

If you are running a business, every cost needs to be controlled for you to be profitable. Adopting open source is a form of cost control.

The problem of OSS is that the value proposition is that it is free-as-in-beer (as well as all of the benefits of OSS). So if/when the software becomes not free-as-in-beer, the company will have to reconsider, or change, or eat the cost if the cost is lower than the value generation of the software.
RDS is like 4~13x than EC2 on AWS, 2.3x than EC2 on aliyun.
https://pigsty.io/blog/cloud/rds/

But The real cost lies on EBS, which is around 60x ~ 200x than local NVMe SSD.
https://pigsty.io/blog/cloud/ebs/

https://pigsty.io/blog/cloud/bonus/
I don't know which filebeat you are referring to...

https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/filebeat

This one? I only looked for a moment, but filebeat appears to be ingestion only. Benthos does input, output, side-effects, stream-stream joins, metrics-on-the-side, tiny-json-wrangling-webooks, and more. I find it to be like plumbers putty, closing over tooling gaps and smoothing rough edges where ordinarily you'd have to write 20 lines of stream processing code and 300 lines of error handling, reporting, and performance hacks.
Node.js Open Source LLM Tokenizer
The first (that I found) tokenizer for open source LLMs. It retrieves config files from HuggingFace and can encode / decode text and tokens.

Was created in an hour and can definitely use some work. Would love contributions and feedback!
This is not medical advice but for oral health you might try a system that attempts to both target bad bacterial and support good bacteria, such as one that incorporates xylitol gum as described and documented here by Ellie Phillips DDS (you don’t need to buy her xylitol gum of course): https://drellie.com/complete-mouth-care-system/

She also recommends a colon health probiotic and eating a healthy diet with a wide variety of plants and vegetables to improve the health of your saliva. She writes “Oral probiotics may seem a good idea, but many contain artificial sweeteners like Splenda, that can damage gut health… If you want an oral probiotic, I recommend Garden of Life Probiotic Smile lozenges, which contain strains of Streptococcus uberis KJ2, S.oralis KJ3 and S.rattus JH145, plus xylitol to feed probiotic bacteria.”

That said, as far as I know these recommendations were made for general oral health and not specifically about Fusobacterium nucleatum animalis C2.
Picotron looks to be a different product from pico-8.
It turns out that there is a lot of discourse out there about "semantic
newlines", under a few different names. So far the names I've seen are:

- One Sentence Per Line (OSPL)
- Semantic Line Breaks (SemBr)
- Semantic Linefeeds
- Ventilated Prose
- Semantic newlines

Reading through the pages below was helpful in getting a better idea of
what language people use to discuss this. They're mostly historical
retrospectives or arguments for the merit of semantic newlines.

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line
https://ramshankar.org/blog/posts/2019/semantic-line-breaks
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose
https://discuss.python.org/t/semantic-line-breaks/13874
https://discuss.python.org/t/one-sentence-per-line-for-peps-...
https://sembr.org
https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-recommended-practices/...

(Actually I think one-sentence-per-line denotes something slightly different
from semantic-line-breaks, not that I know what that difference is).
Does anyone also think these "is a" headlines violate commonly accepted headline rules? Arguably it should read: "Picotron, a Fantasy Workstation"
With what GUI? It needs to be usable for people considering Excel is a challenge. Honest question.
There are many drop in replacements (we use keydb), but, depending on the features you use, there are a lot of api compatible (but sometimes lacking features) compatible drop ins. We migrated of a large redis cluster overnight; 0 software changes.
It kinda is laughable for a virus that lives in your lungs and blood.
This idea has been around for a while. This company [1] was doing it a few years ago when I looked into it but there's definitely a lot of improvements to the process mentioned in this article.

[1] https://www.source.co/
Thank you for your input! It is interesting to imagine what consortium of data hosting organization could provide the ultimate trust platform. Some people actually do trust big tech, others trust government or churches, most people in the US trust the military. Therefore, maybe it is possible to imagine a feasible alliance of them that could manage hosting a huge archive.
My 12 Favorite Problems
For your thumb tack example you can at least do some simulation. My reading of the article is that the author argues that it’s totally reasonable to use 5% when you have no idea but want to sound more precise than “I feel like it’s unlikely”
> directly competes with redislabs

not having read the license (and not a lawyer), i dont know how far or direct it must be for it to be considered directly compete. Surely it's a very blurred area, which would then be rife with risk for anyone to adopt redis from now on.
Facebook’s attempt didn’t work out because they lost the youth market to Snapchat, TikTok, Discord and Instagram(It’s funny, I know). They tried to bring in Instagram users into Facebook but that didn’t(hasn’t) work out yet.
This is nice, we've got more Open Source LLM Evaluation Libraries coming in more often.

We're using DeepEval (https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval) currently. How is this different from that?
I believe they have a discord for asking questions directly to their engineers https://discord.gg/75cBWkbC
It's a sign of the fact that personal computing has gone way, way off the rails that we make pretend computers to run on our real computers just to have fun ways to compute again. I really really appreciate work like this, but why aren't our actual operating systems "cozy" enough to support creative work anymore?
If I didn't like the Apple ecosystem, lock-in and walled garden, I would use android.
CRED had it in their app for a while, their library is open source

https://github.com/CRED-CLUB/synth-android
i think they mention in a previous blog post with warpstream that they use localstack
How much does Apple's privacy restrictions affect a company the size of Meta ?

Sure, there was the direct commercial impact the moment the changes were implemented. But Meta is still doing the same business, it still keeps track of a tremendous amount of user data, and it's revenue is back to where it was before Apple's changes.

Same for Google or Reddit, they are in a position where Apple limiting their tracking range seem to have little to no impact on their whole business.

I still think some limitation is better than none, but it also doesn't look like a huge deal for any of them. At least not enough to force all users to go through sideloading just to get that extra bit of data.
Yeah you’re right, that’s much more plausible and all the more comical too.
> companies are buying Open Source solutions

so the original owner of said OSS being sold is making money by selling it to this company (who might be told, or is sold the idea that said OSS could be monetized).

This is no different to a startup making their own acquisition the end goal.
You're not allowed to be happy unless you're doing the "current thing."
I will write excessively complex sentences whenever I darn please, and will be hogtied before I stop at the whims of a /diff tool/.

Mock outrage aside, whimsy and play in written language is vastly cheaper than in industrial programming environments. Provided, of course, the author can yet communicate while horsing around.
Creative freedom is fine. Problem is when it is clearly a product placement and used way more often than for purely creative purpose.

And a for a very evil product.
I mean even the old people barely play Facebook games or use Messenger money transfer. Western consumers just tend to trust product specialists rather than an all in one app.
I used to do this. It requires configuring your router to set up port forwarding. That's assuming you have access to your router.
If you never break the rules you wind up writing COBOL (or the equivalent) for the rest of your life.

No one wants to do that.
If that's true it's so poorly enforced I had no idea they checked ID for the yearly national parks pass.

At JTNP we'd just get waved through the gates without even stopping by presenting one on approach. It's common for the locals to loan theirs to friends/family/guests...
I liked it when their wonderful hardware design team tried really daring things with their form factors. The Studio giant screen you can tilt and draw on. The Surface Book that has the tilting screen. The one with the detachable screen. The Surface Duo and Neo.
thanks for sharing..
Chronos is probably overkill for what I am looking to do with time series data. I just did an Ask HN on time series[0] but unfortunately didn't get the replies I was hoping for. Maybe this thread can get the bump I need:

I inherited a large time series JSON dataset in 2024. I've been successful in using the Observable Framework[1] by writing a Rust (rust-script) data loader[2] to parse and plot simple line charts[3] to visually see the data. There are hundreds of graphs over years of data so I would like to identify what graphs I should be paying attention to. My initial thought is to calculate metrics on each graph such as:

- Variability: how "spread out" are the data points from one another?
- Trend: direction of data path, up or down?
- Slope: are the data points increasing or decreasing?
- Level: where are the data points on the vertical axis?

What libraries, AI, databases, etc... would you recommend that would allow me to calculate these values? I am no data scientist and don't need forecasting but overall, I just want a dashboard that shows the most "important" graphs.

[1] https://observablehq.com/framework/

[2] https://observablehq.com/framework/loaders

[3] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-simple-line-char...

edit: the x-axis is Time while the y-axis can be values such as duration, frequency, intervals

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39763246
Exclusive agreements are legal.
It's 'representative text from the article' in this case plus it probably doesn't matter in most other cases.
However, TIC-80 only exists because PICO-8 does, and without money, presumably PICO-8 couldn't've been made, the dude would have had to be doing other work to live.

Previously this guy made Voxatron, which I imagine paid for PICO-8, and that presumably paid for Picotron, so if I don't buy Picotron, then perhaps I'll prevent his next work of art from coming to fruition?

Yes it bothers me a little bit that PICO-8 itself isn't open source, but I can't see the alternative, otherwise how can the dev afford to be spending time thinking about and working on these new things?

It's not as though this is a huge company, or that there are alternative means of generating income from it (no Enterprise wants PICO-8 support, for example).

I don't see an alternative to giving the dev a few bucks to keep making art projects that I love.
My decision not to engage with the platform is vindicated. Yay!
Great article. Now what happens when you apply this idea and let a LLM continue a chain of thought beyond mere question answering? Some form of artificial consciousness.

We've made this experiment: https://marmelab.com/blog/2023/06/06/artificial-consciousnes...
It's a header that contains the IP address of the machine that ran the Tunnelmole client, which ensures it can't be used anonymously. My theory here is that phishers and other nefarious actors are attracted to this type of service so they can hide their origin server.

I haven't had alot of phishing issues since introducing that header and the IP address in random domains.

I'll see if I can get tunnelmole.net added to that public suffix list.

One reason tunnels go through tunnelmole.net instead of tunnelmole.com is to protect the reputation of the main domain.
The same artist has some excellent tutorials on how to implement a lot of those effects: https://bleuje.com/tutorials/
> > RCS is the future

> It's really not. It's a step up from SMS, but the real future is true end-to-end encrypted communications.

I thought this was a board filled with futurists? Can we really imagine no future scenario where the RCS spec gets E2EE?

At least Apple seems to think it's worth trying. And I think they'll succeed.

This kind of annoying defeatism is why SMS took so long to upgrade to RCS in the first place. "Eh it sucks right now and there's no use working together to make it better, lets just lock everyone into our own app and move on." If this mentality never changed we would not be enjoying RCS's benefits at all.

And to be clear, over 1 billion monthly active users are benefiting from RCS features _right now_ (and a good chunk of them are enjoying Google's proprietary E2EE). Look at a line chart of RCS adoption and tell me again it's not the future.