skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any discord employee sees this, here’s an idea: 10$/month subscription to run a LLM on the chat history daily, grouping and indexing all information, structuring it in articles, etc…

Killer feature, that’d solve a lot of issues with the current experience.

Next one: teach someone born before 1999 how to deactivate channel notifications.
https://huggingface.co/SkunkworksAI/BakLLaVA-1
But isn’t it a requirement that you are a tourist (as in, you have a 90day visa exemption or a tourist visa in your passport)? And if you are a tourist to Japan it is very unlikely that your income is denominated in yen, and therefore the cost in yen is not as relevant as the cost in USD or yuan. So the price increase should be considered against the yen depreciation.

I couldn’t buy one when I was an exchange student in Japan, due to my visa status (granted, that was over a decade ago …) but sibling comments seems to indicate maybe I could today.

It also sounds like you are making money in USD and not yen, so the price of the pass in yen is not important to you, but the price in USD.
Is there another managed service of Citus that is NOT offered by MSFT? I understand it's legally possible, but is anyone else actually hosting a managed Citus?
Hmm, what are the crimes surrounding fleeing, or escaping? Property damage?
That’s why most e-commerce sites send their marketing stuff from a different domain. If it gets flagged they can still send transactional e-mails from their main domain. Assuming that both mail servers are on different ips.
The current generation of AI can't do the truly difficult things better than you: finding a good niche, making the decisions about how you want to differentiate, building relationships with your customers, choosing which innovations to pursue and when to build on the features you already have.

I run my own startup too, and I wish it could help me with those things. So far the most I can get from it is things like generating some HTML, and even then it gets it wrong half the time.

That will change in the future, but it will be gradual, and it will help you execute on ideas faster and better.
I disliked it because when I click on another link I expect to see the new webpage and nothing else. Instead, I have the video continuing playing on the side so I have to manually close it aswell. That combined with the video player taking up unnecessary space for me, it's even worse on the phone, some picture-in-picture players eat up 1/4 of the screen.
Those who want to develop a library that can be used by any other reactive framework. I often see SignalLike<T> type that tries to subtype it.

https://github.com/preactjs/preact/blob/757746a915d186a90954...
I’ve gotten some emails from Gmail about delaying my emails to Gmail users because I apparently send too many emails. I use git-send-email(1) which might send a cover letter plus X patches right after each other. These Gmail users are then in the CC. So I’m not a mailing list. The email list is the To recipient.

I’ve been wondering if this was the cause. I don’t send out 5000 emails (I’m not 10X). But there’s this part:

> While these guidelines primarily affect bulk senders, senders with less volume per day can also be affected if they are not adhering to these guidelines.

I haven’t looked into it yet but I guess I should.

I use my own domain and I’m hosted by a not-Gmail provider.
I feel old, but maybe it's because I'm dumb.im much younger than the author and I haven't done anything with AI except some Copilot. In my mind, remote workers in lower cost markets, or younger people, or non-disabled people are much bigger threats to my job.

I don't think we'll do away with devs until AGI is at least as good as humans. You have to understand that data and problems, including asking questions about missed or incorrect requirements. Maybe we'll get there in a few more decades, but maybe not.
I believe we crossed the speed limit a few thousand years ago. Human evolution is so much slower than our technology has been since the agricultural revolution.
No, but I also can’t set one in the middle of a chain of methods.

In Python it’s quite common to have to refactor in order to debug.
It would be a terrible idea to release such a decoy, because it is now creating massive amounts of scrutiny on other libraries.
Do you find the smell of cigarettes less offensive? This is obviously a personal preference but personally I find that one much worse, and unlike with tobacco, I've never had to put my clothes in the laundry just because I stood next to a weed smoker for 5 minutes outdoors
This is a given. Is your only point that we should be more skeptical of free stuff or is there something deeper here?
Essential Virtual Try-On Research Papers for Machine Learning Engineers
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In this article, I’ll share the top 6 research papers to help you with your Virtual Try-On AI research and development.
I can on Samsung phone. But the difference is tiny. You found two of the closest colours in the space.
I am close to that old at age, but a software developer for only about 6 years.

My perspective to using LLM at coding is that it make my job more enjoyable. I can quickly create a good enough boilerplate code to get me started, I can quickly create dummy data objects to test things on the frontend, when I am stuck I can check some ideas or even get a correct code suggestion to unstuck me.

It makes the mental load of coding much lighter, by aiding with the trivial stuff, so not removing the joy of figuring out the hard stuff.

I am old, but coding with AI seems a much easier hill to climb, as it comes with an escalator
Yes I see what you mean now. Of course it would be important to know that sooner rather than later. But I suspect if you are paid that little, you would know it from industry averages. But awareness of how screwed over you are is not going to make you happy. If you can be paid that much less than the next guy and not know it from industry averages, you should probably be able to guess it.

At one job where I was perhaps making 70% of what my coworkers did, and I found out a couple of years before I was able to leave. It did upset me a lot. I knew I was underpaid before that because of how other companies paid, but knowing specifics definitely rubbed salt in the wound. I suppose knowing specifics might be a necessary evil but I think back then it might have been better to not know. On the other hand, that experience set me down a path that eventually worked out ok, so I can't really say I wish I didn't know.
> thwarted a very expensive operation by a state actor

From the article:

..the fix for this was already in train before the XZ issue was highlighted, and long before the Github issue. The fix stopped the XZ backdoor into SSH, but hadn’t yet rolled out into a release of systemd.

I believe there’s a good chance the threat actor realised this, and began rapidly accelerated development and deployment, hence publicly filing bug reports to try to get Ubuntu and such to upgrade XZ, as it was about to spoil several years of work. It also appears this is when they started making mistakes.
You can fine-tune a 60mm parameter (e.g. distilBERT) discriminative (not generative) language model and it's one or two order of magnitude more efficient for classification tasks like sentiment analysis, and probably similar if not more accurate.
What is Your Private Phone setup? (2022-2024)
There is more to the article than this, it is only a part.
> compromising security for everyone

I don't think you understand how Onavo works.
To amplify your "comma right after", the call can even be simply:

some_function(proc(a: int): int = a, proc(b: int): int = b)

And Nim lets you put ()s in a great many places to resolve problems. I find its syntax quite a bit nicer than Python, actually.
The only reason some clicks still get through is because they’re using CNAME cloaking to mask the tracker.
The worst part about it is that it will be harder to get hhc. For me suffering from bipolar hhc is a game changer no more benzos for sleep and no anxiety that thc might catapult me into mania.
Not in most systemd distros though. Those include all kinds of spare wheels that automatically take over your actual wheels.
How morally bad a murder is depends on how close to human’s mind we’re talking about; i.e. whether we are able to assume that entity has a consciousness similar enough for us to empathise with.

Saying humans have to die of hunger simply because humans cannot torture and then kill beings substantially like them in an industrialised manner is a disingenuous argument, and the reverse side of the same coin is basically cannibalism.

Murdering a mind that is substantially close to human’s (e.g., a dog) has been considered bad or even off-limits in many cultures for quite a while. Murdering human’s mind for whatever inessential purposes has been considered off-limits for longer (probably after we stopped with sacrificial murder). Morality progresses, news at 11.
Show HN: Faster-than-light ping (April Fools')
A server that replies to your pings faster than ever! Now with IPv6 support. Give it a minute and the response time will go down tremendously:

ping ftlping.net

On Windows, add an option not to stop after 4 pings:

ping -t ftlping.net

Works best on MacOS and FreeBSD. Not impressive on Windows but you can see something interesting if you run a packet analyser.

Report issues here: https://github.com/plingbang/ftlping/issues The code may be published when my future self passes it to me.
The same way Facebook/Google/openAI & others censored their own LLMs, I guess ?
Looks similar to tini [1].

—

1: https://github.com/krallin/tini
Most open source projects have not just the final source published, but also all communication for patches, features and their relevant discussion.

That could be on GitHub, a traditional mailing list, or some other hosting platform.

You can’t tell in advance how your work will be received, but you can empirically tell how others work has been received. And even compare the communication styles.

And it’s not rocket science that well reasoned patches, with tests, splitting out separate commits, explaining the reason for the change would be better received than a typo laden one-liner, “I needz it”.

It’s up to the submitter to match the flow of the project.
'skype for business' was lync and had little to noting to do with skype, aside branding
I'm 10 years older than the author, and I spent a lot of my career wishing that I was 10 years younger -- mostly because of the lack of available resources in the CS and electronics fields when I was in my 20's. IMHO, the most significant contribution of the Internet to humanity has been the increased availability of information to all. I envy my children because they grew up with access to incredible resources that weren't available to me.

On the other hand, I was blessed to experience first-hand, incredible advances in technology. During my career, I've witnessed a roughly 10^3 improvement in speed, storage capacity, and signal processing algorithm efficiency.
Oxygen's a pretty potent carcinogen, yet I really enjoy breathing. Makes me feel alive.
https://huggingface.co/georgesung/llama2_7b_chat_uncensored

https://huggingface.co/SkunkworksAI/BakLLaVA-1

you'll have to brave 4chan yourself to find links to the NSFW ones, I don't actually have them.
Are there any models out there for cleaning up an image, not just upscaling? I have a bunch of old photos taken on early low-res point-and-shoots that have JPEG artifacts etc and this seems like something a modern model could easily be fine-tuned to resolve, but every few months I look around and have yet to find anything
It's an open secret the value of diamonds is all marketing.

GE made the first gem quality diamonds in the 1970s. They can be manufactured in commercial quantities since the 2010s. The largest one so far is 511 karats.

So the diamond industry has to market them as inferior, labeling them "lab grown" and suggests they won't retain their value.
Have not experimented with it personally, but here is Andrew Ng's talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sal78ACtGTc
> Yes this is true. Accident implies nobody is at fault, or this stuff is excusable. It really isn't, because it's negligence at multiple levels. On the bright side, that is easier to fix than defective plane designs.

"Incident" vs "Accident" in Aviation have very specific meaning (see https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/830.2 for example). Simply put, an accident is an event where there is any of: death, serious injury, or substantial damage to the aircraft, and an incident is an event relating to the safety of operations regardless of whether or not death, injury, or substantial damage to the aircraft occurred. Neither have anything to do with whether there is fault or whether they are excusable.

Regardless of the recent incidents, air travel remains exceedingly safe when compared with other modes of transport, and comments such as these make me wonder what I'm missing.

Again, I'm not excusing these Boeing issues -- they are very serious. However calling a simple (number of deaths/total flight hours) calculations that are trivially verified as "uncited stats" is extremely hysterical to the point where you cannot be taken seriously at all.
No follow up?
From a consumer perspective, this is a super interesting paper because it touches on one of the fundamental issues with most RAG beyond the toy case - that you need to do different stuff depending on what the user is asking for. You also (usually) can't just ask because most users don't know that LLMs are bad at math or semantic search won't be sufficient to answer questions that involve enumeration or totality. And while you can always add more steps to your RAG pipeline, some of those steps may be computationally expensive or not particularly relevant to the question at hand.

That being said, it is a bit frustrating that so much RAG research focuses on multi-hop approaches with LLMs. IME multiple round trips to an LLM is essentially a non-starter for any serious consumer product as it's far too slow. Smaller models can struggle to follow instructions so they often can't be an adequate replacement even for simpler tasks. Curious to hear if other folks working in this space have had any success thinking critically about these types of problems!
The xz Backdoor Should Not Happen Again: two ideas on prevention
> the day the world declared in one voice:

Yeah . . . big news in the Congo as I recall, endlessly lauded in East and West Papua, nobody could shut up about it in Patagonia, a cause célèbre in the Chatham Isles.

The next day, everybody forgot about the 8 year civil uprising in the British colonies that kind of paled against the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and all the other biffos of that time that went on longer and killed more people.
The people who own those plants employing them are not "leftists", quit projecting biases.
Looks like reactive programming to me. Very similar to spreadsheet formulas.
>skype for business

Because Skype for business(what a shit name, why not call it Skype Enterprise?) wasn't Skype at all, it was just Lync renamed, which was Office Communicator renamed, which was Windows Messenger renamed, which was Exchange 2000 Conferencing renamed.

It's like a Matroska doll of Scooby-Doo masks.
It’s not even stolen accounts. There is a huge amount of cold sales email (spam) sent specifically through Google Workspace accounts. Google do absolutely nothing about it.
Quite right -- and ban Paco Rabanne
Nothing deeper, skeptical is a fair term but impractical.

Consider instead what the person stands to gain.

In my case I invest in my network because it makes me independent and that is my objective and I am happy to pay for that.

For other people its because they might want to foster open source (freenode for example) and thus your for-profit business or gamer clan isn't the right fit.

Due diligence is the correct term. Not skepticism.
This is a poorly written article that is used as a springboard just so HN users can lament that the good old days of tech have passed.
I suspect this article is a joke, but that would actually be a smart strategy.

Required to release some info you'd rather not release? Release it on April 1st, phrased as absurdly as possible.
> The US government suppressed strikes back then, which proved it was a democracy for capitalists, and a dictatorship for workers.

I'm not sure it proves that at all.

The anarchist "protests" involved significant violence including more than 40 bombings including letter bombs mailed to the Attorney General of the US and FBI.[1]. As well as bombings of public areas that were up to 25 pounds of TNT.[2]

I don't know of any country that wouldn't treat it as a crime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Red_Scare#April_1919_mai...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Red_Scare#June_1919_bomb...
Hey, thanks! She's got some leaks and is showing her age, but we genuinely do love this old ship.
To me it makes sense to have an interface that can be implemented individually for AMD, Metal, etc. Then, leave it up to the individual manufacturers to implement those interfaces.

I'm sitting in an office with a massive number of Macbook Pro Max laptops usually sitting idle and I wish Apple would realize the final coup they could achieve if I could also run the typically-NVIDIA workloads on these hefty, yet underutilized, Mx machines.
I wonder how that would look like if it used word2vec.
A high-boost and high-efficiency DC power converter
Do you have any recent examples? Skype acquisition was more than a decade ago ( during the Ballmar era).
Humans can't even agree on what it's best to create.

Try asking ChatGPT if you should become vegan, for example.

AI is a mediocre mashup of millions of ideas. It needs a driving force telling it what to be and how to react.

"Then there will be AIs trained to create certain things" -- and that's the point. People's ideals go deep, and achieving them is time-consuming and labor intensive, even with the help of AI. Someone, many someones, will need to be there guiding it every step of the way, through robotics, through politics, through religion. And that's a kind of programming.
The AI fever feels a lot to me like all the other fevers, most recently in particular around Bitcoin and how its proponents claimed all sorts of things: it was going to be worth millions, and all stores would switch to bitcoin and the population would conduct business with bitcoin, it would take over the finance world and replace fiat currency, etc. etc. etc.

We had a few years of that insanity where if you somehow dared to commit blasphemy and say something otherwise, even something mundane like "yeah the tech is cool and has some cool/good uses, but I don't see any of your bitcoin singularity actually happening" you'd get downvoted to oblivion no matter where you were. Now all those downvoters, years later, when their singularity never happened have somehow become quiet and disappeared and we don't hear from them anymore.

It feels exactly the same with "AI" for me. Especially reading some of the comments in here ... jeez .. yeah it's a cool tech and has lots of cool/good uses, but do I think it's going to fall into somehow inventing strong AI, a concept which we don't even have a definition for, and start taking all our thinking jobs and go into AI singularity state? No, no I do not.

I wonder if in a few years all the people writing in here about how they fear they're about to lose their job and how AI is going to take over, will also fall silent and disappear when it doesn't happen, same as the bitcoiners did. They'll just move onto the next thing I guess.
This should have been a tweet.
Buy his consulting services.
Kurt Vonnegut, in a letter response to a high schooler asking for advice:

Here’s an assignment for tonight,
and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it:
Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed.
Make it as good as you possibly can.
But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing.
Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them...
You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem.
You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
I was gonna be worried for a second, then I remembered that kind of person almost never lives a terminally-online, hacking-obsessed life.

Phew.

gets back to trying to convince his bank to send his data over plain FTP
Imagine being a fan of a company when your options are VERY limited ((A or B) or C).
Making an informed decision at the time you want to buy/upgrade something is a relative simple task these days.
I am able to access reddit this morning using protonvpn
Didn't Germany have a way, way more ambitious plan at the beginning, basically the Canadian model with fully legalized sales, dispensaries etc. only for it to get shot down by the EU? So they backed down and ended up with this halfbaked compromise..
Not necessarily. Oz was created as poster child to multi-paradigm language design. The book shows this. Each paradigm gets its own chapter and Oz examples to program in each are shown. This is similar to the cirricula structure author mentions. In contrast the article makes a case for programming without paradigm distinction and mixing elements across styles.

Since Oz's Wikipedia page was linked, Wikipedia apparently has a page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_p...) comparing multi-paradigm languages (though can be argued all languages nowadays are multi-paradigm). A summary table for some of those (partial support isn't considered):

| Paradigms supported |
Language Native Libs Others Total
Wolfram 14 0 1 15
Oz 11 0 0 11
Raku 10 1 3 14
Racket 10 0 1 11
Julia 9 5 3 17
Scala 9 0 0 9
Haskell 8 5 2 15
Perl 8 1 0 9
CLisp 7 8 2 17
C++ 7 7 1 15
Python 6 4 0 10
Java 6 2 0 8
Rust 6 0 1 7
JS 4 3 2 8
Fortran 4 1 0 5
OCaml 4 0 0 0
Go 4 0 0 0
Lua 3 0 0 0

Interesting ones will be Wolfram supporting the most basic (not in others) natively, CLisp the only one supporting all the basic considering libraries, and Julia that alongside CLisp support the most considering extra (in others). Moreover CLisp alongside C++ show that thanks to libraries supported can be greatly extended (doubled in those two). To also compare to article, another will be Haskell supporting more paradigms (even only considering native ones) than Rust. Sadly Nim and Gleam aren't in list.
A nice example of this is fftw which has hundreds (if not thousands) of generated methods to do the fft math. The whole project is a code generator.

It can then after compilation benchmark these, generate a wisdom file for the hardware and pick the right implementation.

Compared with that "a few" implementations of the core math kernel seem like an easy thing to do.
Parents complaining to government, and government enacting consumer protection laws.
Bravo! Gets my vote for best of this April 1st.
To run a local LLM you need the device it currently runs on and electricity. There are actually quite a lot of ways to generate electricity, but to name one, a diesel generator that can run on vegetable oil.

What you're really asking is, what could cause a modern Library of Alexandria incident? But the fact is we keep the only copy of too many things on the servers of the major cloud providers. Which are then intended to have their own internal redundancy, but that doesn't protect you against a targeted attack or a systemic failure when all the copies are under the same roof and you lose every redundant copy at once from a single mistake replicated in a monoculture.
I like the idea of Nostr, but we see again that every recommendation in that space is towards some cryptocurrency.

Do people even talk there? About anything but cryptocurrency?