skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISPs routinely sell/share geolocation data for fixed infrastructure; there are many factors that could impact why this is more accurate.

In a sparesly populated area, using microwave, point-to-point radios? You very well may be the only subscriber on that first hop from your home network, and that first hop is likely in a geolocation database (this is certainly the case for my cousins farm).

In a densely populated area? Like a residential tower with 100 units? Your next hop off your home network might be on-prem equipment from your ISP that resides in the telecoms closet in your building, which is also in a geolocation database.

There is a broad spectrum of accuracy between these, and it's big business to effectively geolocate users, mostly for advertising, sometimes for compliance, and generally not to the benefit of users :P
Gitcoin's Pilot Initiative with Allo Protocol
Summary of Gitcoin's Quadratic Funding (QF) Pilot Initiative with Allo Protocol

Gitcoin, a pioneer in empowering open-source development, has initiated a revolutionary Quadratic Funding (QF) Pilot in collaboration with Allo Protocol. This groundbreaking endeavor aims to transform funding distribution within the ecosystem by leveraging cutting-edge technology and community engagement. The pilot proposes a $95K allocation from the Gitcoin treasury to conduct multiple QF rounds, emphasizing equitable distribution and community empowerment.

Utilizing Allo Protocol for Funding

Gitcoin's decision to use Allo protocol highlights its commitment to advanced technology to address community needs. The proposed partnership with Allo aims to pilot QF rounds, emphasizing equitable distribution and community empowerment.

Testing Different QF Approaches

This initiative includes testing two distinct QF approaches – normal QF and retroQF – through iterative rounds to identify valuable contributions and empower the community through participatory decision-making processes.

Motivation and Expected Outcomes

The proposal is motivated by the evolving needs of the Gitcoin community and aims to foster a deeper understanding of QF, experiment with supplementary budgeting processes, and enhance community engagement. With an intention to conduct three QF rounds, Gitcoin is committed to transparency, accountability, and refinement of its approach.

Budget Allocation and Eligibility

The proposed allocation encompasses Matching Pool Funds and Staffing. Funding eligibility criteria prioritize contributions that align with Gitcoin's goals and foster community engagement, promoting continuous improvement within the community.

Retroactive Funding and Drawbacks

Retroactive funding is intended to mitigate risk and lower barriers to entry for potential contributors. Despite its innovative nature, the QF Pilot Initiative is not without challenges, necessitating consideration and proactive mitigation of potential drawbacks.

Projected Milestones and Impact Considerations

The proposed timeline for the QF rounds serves as a clear roadmap, and considerations regarding the impact of higher monetary rewards on contributors' expectations underscore the need for thoughtful deliberation and strategic decision-making.

Pilot Work Intentions and Conclusion

Ultimately, the success of Gitcoin's QF Pilot Initiative hinges on achieving various objectives, from understanding community values to delivering tangible outcomes. Through strategic partnerships and a steadfast commitment to core values, Gitcoin aims to unlock new possibilities and drive positive change in its ecosystem.

By delving into this comprehensive summary, one can gain a profound understanding of Gitcoin's visionary QF Pilot Initiative with Allo Protocol.

https://dspyt.com/funding-pilot-initiative-gitcoin
Just do blood tests for liver diseases markers every year. Even if you're not an alcoholic - there's many other diseases that result in similar damage.

For example if you have asthma and especially if you have colitis ulcerosa or crohn's disease - you're at much higher risk of PSC - an autoimmune liver disease which does basically the same thing as decades of drinking.
My father has an 83 that's been used as a hunting truck for the past 40 years. I'm convinced that truck caused toyota to go back to the drawing board and redesign for planned obsolescence.
Eclipses make the sun's gravitational light bending visible
Ha. This backdoor belongs in the same museum as automake!
'The good days' of software engineering in 2020-2022
I am okay with the notion that war is dirty and that Hamas will try to pretend to be civilians or whatever. I have some questions:

- if the weapons always wait for them at target locations, who is transporting the weapons at any given target location and why is that not the focus?

- if we know they try to use infrastructure like hospitals, the IDF clearly knows where Hamas is aiming to shelter in, why not militarily occupy hospitals but then otherwise allow them to run without delay vs sniping anyone who shows up in a window?

- how is it possible the IDF allowed premature babies to die in their incubators once medical staff left a hospital in Gaza (aka unoccupied facility for IDF to sweep through), such that once medical staff returned they were presented with their rotting bodies left untouched in the incubators?

- how were Israeli unarmed civilians waving white t-shirts get mistaken for armed Hamas combatants and shot dead when trying to escape from their capture?

- how did the World Kitchen convoy, which had provided the IDF their route and time and coordinates with clearly labeled trucks, get shot with targeted missiles from above?
And you can justify any kind of civillian killing and genocide just like this.

Anyone can do anything, lets just target them all.
Hey, I did the test few weeks ago, but failed. When could I give it another try?

I have around 5y of Python experience (11 of career), but haven't touched it in the last 2y, so I'm a bit rusty.
I think it was Ted Neward who argued that libraries should come with a core and ancillary packages. Only the stuff really necessary and broadly popular goes into the base library, and all of the low use features should go into one or more ancillary libraries.

I still think this is the way to go, but it does move some of the problem around in that you have to pick good cleave lines such that people aren’t forced to pull 5 libraries in for 5 features they need. You want one software domain to use two or three and another to use an overlapping set of three.
The old IMB 360 use a 'display' where you just chose a register by convention, pointed it at some memory then did your own linked list on call and return.

In fact call was really jump-and-link(?) where you got the return address in a register. Anticipating that if your subroutine took more than a little code you'd just store it temporarily in your allocated 'display'.

No push/pop at all! Unless you wanted to write it that way. You were just on your own.
There is no objective concept of 'now' even at distance scales of Alpha Centauri with reasonable curvature and speeds.

If you want to stick to special relativity, the Andromeda paradox will show the problem with simultaneity with distance, and Einstein's train thought experiment about trains will show the problem of simultaneity with high speed.

The order of events, timing of events, and even causal structure of events are not fixed.

Even the Conventional Celestial Reference System is only quasi-inertial, only inertial like over small periods of time.

The incredible smoothness of the earth approximating a co-rotating frame with a high error tolerance is the only reason we can treat time as absolute on the surface of the Earth.

But to derive the new definition of the Kilogram requires lots of corrections as do modern atomic clocks.

Don't confuse the ability to choose a reference frame with the Newtonian concept of universal reference frames.

When making measurements SR is a framework that allows you to pick any reference frame that is convenient, but the speed of causality(light) prevents the existence of a universal reference frame.
This strengthens the argument I’m making, no? You bring in the source repo when doing development and debugging. In either case - tarball or not - it doesn’t seem that difficult to nuke the test dir before building a release for distribution. Again, only really necessary if you have opaque blobs where fishy things can hide.
"AI" in this case is probably mostly Oct 6 cell phone locations.

It is obvious that Israel has loosened their targeting requirements, this story points to their internal justifications. The first step in ending this conflict must be to reimpose these standards of self restraint.
Strategies for Translating Data into Action
Not every corporation is some wealthy shadow network.

The owners of an abortion clinic, or a store that sells fur coats, or a therapy practice for the criminally mentally ill, all might have good reasons why they’d like additional privacy.
It is not really hard to put two and two together about what a source-available software company's developer relations person has to gain by publishing a hit piece on community forks that are created to oppose source-available licences.

That aside, it is literally in the title "developer relations." I am not sure what is outrageous in pointing that out.
It's a garden-path sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

One is lead to believe the subject is "the ancient world before computers", as it would be in "the ancient world before computers had gladiators and triremes", but the subject is "computers", and the ancient world is the topic.
Movement Charter/Content/One-page draft
Thanks, we'll merge that one too.
Rapid prototyping with Gemma and Llama.cpp [video]
> Locating and directing this mission requires extreme precision down to the nanosecond, errors in navigation which could risk spacecraft entering the wrong orbits.

I don't see how time on the lunar surface helps with that any more than time on Earth surface does...
I never thought about it before - but seeing that chart of "Megaregions", almost none of my work travel within the US from the last 15 years has been outside of those regions.
I really want to support this, but the website is pretty bad. Blinding colors, poor and sparse information, and a links to shop/donate without a notion as to what or who the org is.
Megaregions as a concept seems to make sense. Even as a resident of the aforementioned triangle, I'm not sure that we have much evidence for Texas exceptionalism here.
Comments moved thither. Thanks.

Btw I'm not taking flags off this current post because the article should not have been posted with an archive.org link. Archive links are only ok as submission URLs when the original source isn't accessible.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've seen shell companies used during acquisitions to make it less obvious that FAANG is buying a company.
Yeah, I guess I don't see what's funny about that statement.

Unlike "sometimes a second is longer than a second" (not literally true but it makes some sense in the context of relativity), this one just seems like a tautology to me.
I don't think you're parsing the article correctly.

There is no allegation that the main criteria for the algorithm is "being male."

The allegation is that the human double-checking of the algorithm confirms the target is male (as opposed to woman/child.)
Why would it be accessible to journalist? Being a journalist doesn't suddenly make you ethical and responsible.
The irony of this tweet is growing ever rapidly I see.

>Emad (Ex-Stability CEO, 2023/11/21)

>Not your models not your mind

>#decentralizeAI

>https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1727091529440022641
Great feedback. Thank you Mike and HanClinto.

I am planning on doing some more articles/director commentary as it goes along.

I have a number of episodes in the queue and each one is better than the last. My plan is to release an entire season of 12 or so.

The "I'm a GPT that wants everyone to be friends and how" is increasingly better in those episodes.

Even incremental improvements in stuff like background music make a big big difference.

I really want to do a v2 that is more of a "copilot" than an "AI first" experience. But I need partners to help with funding; I've taken it about as far as I can on a solo basis. The next step is a team of 4-5 people levelling it up. Every piece could be 10x better, and it would be a different beast entirely if that happened. I think there are some super exciting directions this could go.

The vision of a distributed creator system is very interesting, as is letting people do more hands-on writing/rewriting.

If any VCs are reading, I'd love to talk. :)

(PS - Hi Han!)
guardian references 972 as source for report. it's not like it's "the guardian" article
Show HN: Promptordle – Wordle with an AI Twist
Hey HN, I built a fun little game with a spin on wordle. You guess words and receive riddles that try to incorporate your previous guess!
Edex-UI
I like Haskell in many ways as it shifts ones perspectives, but it is just way too easy to leave unpredictable behaviors unconstrained. =)
(2021). Maybe the book mentions it, but the article doesn’t cover the massive benefit of the Triangle’s proximity to Mexico. Mexico has a strong demographic profile and is a ready source of workers for manufacturing.
I'd argue that's not a legitimate use for a shell company. Hiding the entities behind the company should not be legal.
"Our system is 90% accurate if you don't count the 15-20 innocent people taken out for each hit". I know they're measuring the accuracy of target identification but that's laughable when used in this context.

For 100 targets, 90 are 'correct', plus 20x civs per-target is 90/2100 or 4% real accuracy.

Say you use a model that's only 50% accurate and limit yourself to 10 civs per-target, you're at 50/1100 or 4.5% accuracy!

I guess my point is that no self-respecting datascient would release a 50% accurate model, let alone one used to make life or death decisions and yet, in the application of this model, decisions made by humans about its use has made it no better than doing exactly that.
well, the Bronze Age, for one

And regular conductors …
Rich people get out of it because all their main hidey-holes (Banking, Insurance, etc) are exempted.
It sure would be nice if this industry had the tiniest shred of collective consciousness and realized our capacity to exert some level of control over what gets built and what doesn't.
I'm not sure why its such a shock to many to see the censorship on HN. This isn't a public square.

We are privy to the whims of whatever political views of those that aligned/run/manage/stake in YC and their policies and values.
On some systems, arguments were stored at the call site, typically immediately after the call instruction, where the callee could use the return address to find and skip over them. This made calls using constant arguments easy.

CALL MUL
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BNE 6, FAIL
Yes, that's why we merged those threads into this one. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Readers might still find it helpful to read both pieces, of course.
As someone who recently moved to the Texas triangle, I’m baffled by the lack of good transportation options between the three cities. It’s a 3-4 hour drive and while there is a train, freight gets priority. So the train takes anywhere from 3-7 hours. You can fly but with security any sort of delay and it would faster to drive.
> What AI applications are in use where the error cost is imposed on the company using them, not the consumer?

Air Canada's website AI chatbot for one
They need to run this stuff past a panel of 14 year old boys.
> I think your point is well made. Unfortunately, there are a substantial number of drug users in Oregon (and Portland in particular) who do not have a private place to do drugs. They live in tents on the sidewalk[1]. You see people smoking fentanyl on the sidewalk or in parks all over town.

Yes, and that's why the state also needs to provide injection sites, non-shelter housing, and all sorts of other programs that were supposed to happen under Measure 110, and which the state refused to fund, and which never had the time to get off the ground before this bill was passed.

> One example of how this negatively impacts non-drug using citizens is that summer camps have been having trouble because the kids can't use the bathrooms at the local parks. People are smoking fentanyl in the park bathrooms (which is not currently illegal), and so the kids have no where to do their business.

There are lots of ways to solve that issue without criminalizing drugs. And in fact, as proven by countless other cities across the country, criminalizing drugs doesn't even solve that problem either.
(Visual) artist, here.

In art school they (responsibly, I thought) told us "it's very difficult to survive as an artist", so:

a.) Go to grad school and become a teacher
b.) and/or, Become good at writing grants
c.) and/or Don't quit you day job

Seeing all the hoo-ha about (visual) artists getting all up in arms about AI, my opinion is: if are you actually creative, not just concatenating things from "inspiration" web sites, then don't worry too hard. You'll find new questions to answer and new media to answer them in.

wrt musicians, I'll give any music try, ai or not. I'd be less interested in buying swag or seeing live performances of ai, and know a LOT of musicians who do it for love, so don't see them drying up altogether.
my rage is immense and my day is ruined
I mean when he stops writing. Fair enough if he does it for fun afterwards.
Using the latest advances in technology and computing to plan and execute an ethnic cleansing and genocide? Sounds familiar? If not, check "IBM and the Holocaust".
lol autotune made some of these artists.
Still tho, how about a prime meridian centered on where Neil Armstrong first set foot ?
It doesn't matter whether anyone is "spoiled" or not.

The fact is large language models require a lot of VRAM, and the more interesting ones need more than 24GB to run.

The people who are able to afford systems with more than 24GB VRAM will go buy hardware that gives them that, and when GPU vendors release products with insufficient VRAM they limit their market.

I mean inequality is definitely increasing at a worrying rate these days, but let's keep the discussion on topic...
I think this is probably because interesting jobs require handling information, which computers are good at, and boring ones require just shuffling stuff around in the physical world, which computers are still mediocre at.

But, designing a robot that can do tedious tasks is an intellectual job, just a really hard one. If we automate intellectual jobs to the point where, like, any random team of 10 people with engineering degrees can make a really good robot, I guess we should see the tedious jobs taken too.
> And the public nor leaders are concerned about WBD's size or influence.

Plenty of people are concerned about consolidation in the media industry. There are ongoing antitrust investigations. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/warner-bros-discovery-direct...
> slightly less activity in the OpenTofu repo vs the original Terraform repo,

There is actually quite a bit of difference in activity level, if you consider unique people engaging with both projects. In the last 30 days, Terraform had 205 unique users interact with their repo vs 62 for OpenTofu [1].

[1] https://devboard.gitsense.com/opentofu?id=82c4b68df1&nb=all

Edit: If you only consider people with merges, then the activity level is very similar

https://devboard.gitsense.com/opentofu?id=82c4b68df1&nb=all&...

Note 1: Full disclosure, this is my tool

Note 2: You can't read too much into the trending insights for now, since I need to spread the API limit across many repos, so I only go back so far for each repo.
First time I've really felt like I'm living in a dystopian science fiction.
Easy to burn the flavor off
Had a quick look and couldn't find anything obvious - is it easy to point to a llama.cpp server on a different machine pretending to be openai?
The GCC blog entry actually calls this out, which is nice.
We're trying to hone into reducing the friction with the specifically tailored prompts to break down tasks and provide suggested responses, alongside the integrated tools. The timer and Spotify are just small steps towards a lot more widget functionality, so I'm glad you also see the potential.

I like those two ideas. We were thinking of similar calendar functionality and then a todo list that's generated as you talk with the coach. Some other ideas I had were
- speech to mindmap brainstorming (i like to speak and see visual output)

- simplify cooking recipes to the smallest pieces (get 3 eggs, and come back, etc..)

- open up a widget to put your phone # for accountability where someone calls you

- open up FocusMate body doubling session

- email visual drag and drop builder (i hate sending emails)

- you put money into a virtual piggy bank and it gives you
access to the money if you send an image or something or a completed task (kinda like beeminder but you hide the money behind completing a task)

- discord bot version that has emojis as the suggestion buttons to click

We're trying to work more on our personalization aspect to differentiate ourselves from ChatGPT so as you keep using the app, it is a lot more streamlined to know what you need. Thanks for your thoughts!
Yeah, if you're fishing for panfish it probably doesn't matter a whole lot. And truth be told, the extreme suppleness of braid does sometimes cause its own issues - for example, I find that braid is more likely to get tangled up in/around your terminal tackle on a bad cast (or again, due to a wind gust, etc). For example, I mean cases where your line gets caught up in the treble hooks on a jerkbait or crankbait or something, or gets caught up in the blades on a spinerbait, stuff like that.
In all the fast moving/low barrier technologies I've tracked over the years, competitors tend to leap frog each other. In this case, it's not happening despite scaled compute resources. Again, not conclusive but consistent with a slowdown.
The US government actually has an ongoing push right now to claim parts of the Arctic Ocean, for mining purposes, on the basis of bathymetric data.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-22/us-claims... ("US Claims Huge Chunk of Seabed Amid Strategic Push for Resources", https://archive.is/9Uyg4 )

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/us-extended-continental-s... ("U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Data")

- "The mission of the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) Project is to establish the full extent of the U.S. continental shelf, consistent with international law. "

- "Data collected for the project include bathymetric, subbottom, gravity, magnetic, seismic , and geologic sample data from the U.S. coastal waters to the deep ocean. U.S. ECS project data are in the public domain."
Could you please delet the following?

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39919614

I can't edit it anymore.