skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Corporate entities and the legal protection they provide are accessible to only the wealthy and elite.

This is the part of the previous comment to which I was responding, giving just one example of how it's not the case. Limited Liability corporations protect business owners of all wealth levels. Just correcting a patently false claim.

I understand your concern about thread topic, but it's just not really applicable to my point above.
Is that limited liability in the US really that general? Why were James Robert Liang and Oliver Schmidt serving a sentence in prison?
We don’t need regulation. Let the free markets take care of Boeing. /s
It's just something that's not needed.

You can come up with a Unix solution by using bash, piping to logs, daemonizing with &.

And as a bonus, it works for any program, not just with node stuff.

Remember, use the tools available in your foundation before adding more blocks to the pyramid
I would like to see 3M forced to pay the DNR of Minnesota and Wisconsin a similar amount for making the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers polluted enough that we can't eat the fish again (like the 1980s/90s before the mercury settled out).
What comes next is a choice we will all collectively make. We can use these growing scandals as warnings and take corrective steps. We can take seriously the worsening trends and reorient our life’s work toward finding solutions for the next generation.

The next chapter has not been written, and the current state of worsening points directly at the reality that things can indeed be better.
And yet the self-employment rate in Germany seems to be higher than in the US: https://genderdata.worldbank.org/indicators/sl-emp-self-zs/?...
Curious how we assign moral blame. Sure, Boeing put Wall Street first ahead of safety.

But why isn't the headline "Wall Street put profits ahead of safety".

Or "The electorate chooses capitalism over safety."

During the oil crisis, highway speed limits were reduced to 55 mph, to ease the gas shortage. But an unexpected side effect was that about 4,000 less people died in car crashes each year. Would you be willing to drive slower to save lives?

Put it another way: how many people would you be willing to kill to be able to drive at 65mph?

Its so easy to sit there and put the blame on some amorphous, anonymous, abstraction like "Wall Street" because it exonerates you and you can feel all self-righteous. But if you were in the same position, are you so sure you'd give up your annual bonus? Or put your stock options underwater? When you knew full well that if you didn't they would just fire you and hire somebody who would?
Capitalism killing people, nothing new or out of the ordinary here. Companies are innovative when growing and competing, but if they win they’ll reach the final form for a successful firm: monopoly. From then on, the only innovation will be in new ways to rebrand corruption and avoid regulation.
They knew and they carried on to the detriment of all of humanity. The penalties we have are insufficient. Perdue pharma got away with mass murder.

There's a perverse incentive to carry on with grossly detrimental products, because an admission that they are detrimental could bring on claims of liability. The penalties have to be harsh enough to overcome that reluctance.
The main curse as an IC is that your productivity is heavily dependent on outside forces - more so than many other industries imo (or, at least, would be more easily recognized as a management level problem elsewhere)

Like an artist who gets a contract to paint a house for a client but when (s)he arrives half the canvas is already wrecked by an offshore team... this is why teams have to put SWE candidates through 9 interviews as a single bad hire risks tainting the canvas for their colleagues
But the same thinking leads to both. "Not my problem" or "just doing what the boss asked me to do, that must be OK" etc.
I disagree. 25k euro is simultaneously a large and not a large amount of money. It's big enough to lock out many potential small business founders. But also many ordinary inexperienced people can have that amount of money up front, yet still be deterred by the complexity of a 6 week long incorporation process as described in this article. Especially in the early days of a company when your stress level is already through the roof dealing with the actual problems of your new business.

I am generally suspicious of rhetoric like "you're a little well off, so we can heap arbitrary amounts of bullshit on you and you shouldn't complain".
I had the Sony TR5, which is probably my favorite laptop of all time. It was really great for its time, super portable and very useful. I really miss it, considering how heavy my Macbook pro is compared to it.
I think more complicated routing is absolutely going to become more common.

Specifically, I think at some point we are going to move to recursive routing, ie. pass back through a set of experts again. In the future, 'chain-of-thought' will happen internal to the model recursively
Better than the alternative
> Amazon succeeded in large part because they ignored the complaints of short term investors for years

The market is ultimately made up of people. Some of them are short-term oriented. Some of them are not. Which cohort a company chases very much defines the relationship, and Boeing—unfortunately—chose wrong.
Kodi evolved from XBMC, which is the OG of this genre.
It’s pretty hard to compete selling any managed service
Bingo. I live in Berlin. I know loads of folks who found Delaware corporations, use deel.com to work for them, and eventually found a GmbH when they need to.
You are leaving out the other primary reasons for a local NAS -- upload bandwidth, data caps, and special usage scenarios. Not to say that cloud-hosted solutions purely for backup purposes don't have their place, but it is just one component of a 3-2-1 backup policy.
Yes to be clear I very much agree that Boeing leadership chose wrong. I was aiming to speak to the impression that companies somehow had to respond to short term investors - they very much don’t and can justify financial outcomes on consistent long term objectives & decisions
Implementing the Idempotency-Key Specification on Apache Apisix
how do you find “people with a problem needing solving” on linkedin? you can find normal jobs on linkedin but those are not going to be open to corp to corp.
It doesn’t matter until it matters. I would’ve hoped those running counties wouldn’t be so short sighted. The older I get, the more apparent it becomes that politicians are just people with giant blind spots and knowledge gaps, with varying degrees of humility when it comes to dealing with those shortcomings.

I have a hard time telling of politicians are getting worse as time goes on, or I’m just getting old enough to realize how bad they’ve always been.
Side loading a Kobo is pretty simple, and they have readers in a variety of screen sizes. Never tried displaying a PDF on mine though.
EU 10-euro collector coin

Greek edition: 40 mm or 28.25 mm diameter depending on coinage year. The German ones are 32.5 mm. The Irish are 38.61 mm. Etc.
The reasoning I’ve heard voiced by Zuckerberg is that the faster the field moves forward, the better they can make Facebook and their other products. Their product isn’t models, it’s social media. Better data science helps them make better social media
Commoditise your complements: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Meta has a moat. That moat is the connected graph of users across its various properties, and the (monetisable) attention of those users. Making LLMs a commodity reduces the likelihood that OpenAI (or someone else) will build a unique, unreproduceable product that rivals Meta's properties for attention.
The fish rots from the head never from the tail.

Good luck.
Are you referring to the puzzle at the top of the tweet thread, where he spells out the 4 simple steps to get to the solution? Or are you referring to the $10,000 prize competition where dozens of the worlds best minds are failing to solve it yet?
Most self-employed people in Germany operate as "Kleinunternehmer" and therefore lack the liability protections provided by the LLC equivalent discussed in the article. It's apples to oranges.
Show HN: Toolkit for LLM Fine-Tuning, Ablating and Testing
Hello all!

Very happy to share this toolkit that allows you to fine-tune your choice of open-source LLMs on your data! The toolkit also allows you to run ablation studies across LLMs, prompt designs, training configurations, and can ingest different data files -- all through just ONE YAML file! After fine-tuning, you can also run a bunch of tests to ensure that the fine-tuned LLM behaves as expected, enabling faster time-to-production!

Why this toolkit? Why now?

While closed-source LLMs have become popular for chat-based applications, enterprises are considering a shift to self-hosted SLMs (smaller language models) since there is evidence that you don't need a gigantic model to solve narrow edge-cases. Plus, enterprises want to own the data pipeline from start to end, i.e., data ingestion, training, deployment, feedback collection and testing! Their customers' valuable data stays within their ecosystem, allowing enterprises to not worry about compliance or data leakage issues that come up using third-party APIs.

While there are a few repositories out there that do vanilla fine-tuning, it is well known that it takes more than a one run to find the desirable setting of weights / parameters for your specific data. Bearing this pain-point in mind, we designed the toolkit to allow running multiple experiments through one config file!

Around 5 months ago, I had shared a repository that contained individual fine-tuning scripts for the most popular LLMs. While the repository received great reception from this community, there was one unanimous feedback -- the community wants to build on top of our scripts! This prompted us to design the toolkit, bearing in mind the pain-points that data scientists / researchers / engineers like myself face!

Please feel free to give it a try! Looking forward to your feedback!
Nah, I'm developer and also I don't like paying for things.

If anything, the mind fallacy isn't the GP but on the commenters pretending that they love losing money. If we could pay $0 and get everything we want, we would. Everything else is just performative commenting to save face.
I know about templates, but I don't believe they are designed for fungible copies. You can run a bunch of my-app@a-random-port.service, but it's not the same UX as `pm2 start my-app -i number-of-copies`.
Recycle Cardboard into Anything with 3D Printing [video]
What's your complaint? asteroid impacts are natural events too. I would like the government to try to avert those.
Ok I'm sorry. You're right, no need to swear. I'm with you in the means drug addicts can also be a driving force.. not necessary they are completely useless. And yes, it's stigmatizing and it's done by the laws.

But I think it's better not to let the addiction even start, what would inadvertently happen if the handling of such substances is not regulated (not necessary completely unregulated in the means letting it up to the people to decide whether they want to try it or not)

Because it's the beginning, and the possibilities are very high that people start to like it and can't handle such freedom.

The same discussion is right about in Germany. From the 1st of April, weed ist partially legalized. So we have had people who did consume before (like me) and who now start to try it and - in between this both groups - people who did not consume frequently, but start to consume at higher levels (not like me, daily, but more often then once, twice a month..).

In Portugal (fully) and Spain (some kind of fully legalized) weed has been legalized since a long enough time for them to get the counts. O don't have sources by hand, but they tell statistically, around 30 percent more consumption and around 30 percent more of psychological problems emerged since legalization.

I don't care the numbers, except there was a rise since deregulation. I believe it's more than 30 percent. With me personally nothing changed really. So I think this 30 percent are from people consuming irregularly (now regularly) and new starters. The old consumers won't change their behavior much, because it was already at high levels before. So I'm thinking, if stronger things are not regulated anymore, then we will have a lot of addicts .. and with a stuff, that makes you strong addicted to, it's not fun anymore.

So that's why I'm arguing against it.

I don't believe some education will stop people from doing it. Nowadays we have like a really strong education on this topic. Each one knows what drugs do - bit still people try it. And they switch to even harder drugs if they can't get theirs...

Just look at the alcoholics. Of they don't have booze, they drink others like perfume (in the end, it's just alc).. or they try crocodile (the Russian horror drug) for example.

So we don't know how the people will behave and I'm thinking mostly negative about that, as you already got it punched in the face by me. Sorry for that mate.
PR is the research community. More top researchers want to work where their outputs have a wide reach and impact.

From the outside, it seems LeCun is most interested in the science and progress of ML/AI and has convinced Zuckerberg that open is also good for business. I’m not sure if that’s true, but it might be.
I'm more focused on the bloat of web design and lack of free software. This site is also a PWA and can be used as a mobile or desktop app
Now I've seen everything...
Scrolling up and down on this website, the top "progressive blur" was annoying: too strong in the vertical expansion, on too small an area in the height used.
Promite is better than Vegemite.
> What does Facebook gain in making LLAMA freely available?

The business model that consists in selling a subscription to be able to query a LLM isn't much of one: it's a race to the bottom. Users will switch as soon as anything even slightly better is out (like cancelling ChatGPT and taking a Claude 3 Opus subscription), companies with similarly performing models have to compete on price. It's ugly.

By making models freely available and by buying and advertizing that they bought a shitload of NVidia GPUs to train AI models (LLMs and others), Meta is adding additional pressure to those already fighting in an overcrowded market.

They don't do it because they'd suddenly be nice: Meta is still a despicable company with despicable tactics. It's all about screwing these one-trick ponies as much as they can: last thing Meta would want would be a tiny player to become a trillion behemoth.
Tangent, boy i love that site's design. Simple, elegant, animations feel like they layer on-top of the primary UX (ie they add to the text. Rather than the text being delayed for the purpose of showing some fancy animation).
why do i have to login lol
Cool it with the vitriol, please.
'Cloud Atlas' at 20: What makes a novel tattoo-worthy?
I think the time is not necessarily the issue. The issue is that everything is very manual and “analog” in Germany. You have to find a notary, register the “Gewerbe” at the Gewerbeamt, get a tax ID, and so forth. All are different processes with different institutions.

In theory, you can do the notarization online, but when I attempted to do it, the first notary did not even reply, and the second one told me: “The system is currently down. I would need to come to the office.”

In the US, you can just use Stripe Atlas or similar services, and get everything done for $500 in a nice digital interface within 2 or 3 days. But even if it took 2 weeks, it wouldn’t matter much because one doesn’t have to put time and energy into it whereas in Germany you have to contact people, coordinate, etc…
> they still require economic growth, a continuously falling GDP would wreak havoc in their pensions

I literally gave an example where this is not true. Falling GDP per capita would create problems. But falling GDP per se is fine. Their required real return is zero. It’s nice to earn more, but the math balances at zero.
Solving Advent of Code '23 "Aplenty" by Compiling
> Throughout the years, apple consistently delivers great design. They seem to always define (or at least popularize) a new trend, which then storms the world and everyone copies it

To the loss of everyone. This is the same company that introduced disappearing scrollbars, just one of many dumb design decisions.

What modern design seems to forget, is that at the end of the day, people actually want to USE the interface, not just look at it.
Sell the shovels, as they say. :)
Getting rid of set-car and set-cdr (2007)
I prefer Thermite on my toast
Definitely a reason to build your own NAS, at least then you can easily update the kernel or whatever software.
Minimum initial share capital of €12,500 to found a company where liability is limited to the firm seems like a very regressive impediment to business. For comparison in the UK, there's a £12 registration fee, and a £1 (one pound) minimum initial share capital. It must put limited liability out of reach of so many people.
I built scheduling and training software for fighter squadrons.
Yes, the Bay Area used to be a place where innovative young people could thrive.
This is new to me:

2025-01-28
Brownout
Read more about the Brownout schedule below.

2025-02-28
Blackout
Service terminated. All data deleted.

Brownout schedule
First week
1 hour down each day

Second/Third week
8 hours down each day

Forth week
24h down each day

So, in case you haven't migrated off with a month to go before full shutdown (possibly because you haven't realised you're using the service, etc), they introduce intentional outages of increasing length. Harsh but effective!

What's the deal with the fourth week? The service is down, but data is not yet deleted - is there still a way to export your data at that point?
AI assists clinicians in responding to patient messages at Stanford Medicine
You're implying that the Chinese people get a better deal out of their social contract with the Chinese state than the American people get with theirs?

That's gonna be a 'press x to doubt' from me dawg.
The US has been through far worse, let's cool it with the histrionics.
>Having thousands of people working on

I get what you mean, but let's just clarify what happens with free software: thousands of people are eligible to contribute hassle-free if they want to, some people help by filing bugs and minor fixes, and maybe sometimes a few people actually contribute great things you wouldn't have managed to do and the software may thus become much better.
I tried a Marmite butter at the Goring in London, and it’s become my favourite compound butter.
I moved from Australia to the UK a few years ago. I never liked Vegemite very much before but find myself really enjoying Marmite. There's an off taste to Vegemite, like almost a strange medicinal flavour.
Sure, but you need to leverage those people to level yourself up. For example, if you're facing a coding problem that seems intractable, ask one of those coders how they might approach the problem or if the solution you're thinking about is reasonable. More generally, ask them for advice on how to become better. People generally are keen to help those who are making an effort to get better.
My favorite get away with murder stories are the imperfect frame up type stories. So commit a crime and lay a trail of bread crumbs to a false path that will be picked up by the investigators and then later on easily refuted by yourself - because you did it but not in the way you're accused of.
In which way? Is it less intense than Vegemite?
never heard of such a small markup

computer futures in europe years ago wanted to double my rate
Last year I wrote a VS Code plugin [1] that lets you chat with an LLM in a Jupyter notebook on your own machine to do Code Interpreter-like things. It uses Simon Willison’s llm command, which you can configure to use whatever llm you like.

I think running the code that way is better since the notebook is free and under your own control, but a weakness is that there’s no sandbox. Perhaps these approaches could be combined?

I’m not working on it anymore, but perhaps someone wants to pick it up.

[1] Bot Typist https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=skybrian...
Well before github had a CI everybody used travis for free from it. Then they killed the free tier and people just started to switch.

It's trivial to switch from github to codeberg for example… So I don't think it's that bad to be honest.
The equivalency breaks down quickly, and even when it's appropriate, it doesn't paint a rosy picture of what interacting with ai will be.

If using an app goes from the modern equivalent of mindless clicking (which has taken billions of dollars to get there, but we've all seen babies use iPads) to the equivalent of personally training and directing an animal, we're going to experience a massive degredation of quality in user experience because of it.

And re-training these models is magnitudes harder than redesigning a predictable UX around user data.

Not to mention people are not promising these models as horses pulling a carriage or walking with a man on top but as doctors and lawyers and psychiatrists and engineers and drone operators.
I remember when the original "pets vs cattle" viral post took off in the tech world, it wasn't long before folks from the farming world started hearing about it and saying, "actually, that's not how you treat cattle..."
A.I. and religious freedom: divergent paths converging on economic expansion
Well, considering Boeing stock is down over 70% vs it's primary competitor, I would say the free market has taken care of them to some degree.
Because it's not supported by MS, and the driver makers cannot read the code if window's kernel. So even when the problems you mentioned are fixed, you will probably still not be able to boot windows from btrfs.

When in Rome do as the Romans do. Maybe we should only run windows virtualized :)
Natural monopoly is a technical term, it doesn't mean naturally occurring in the sense you're implying.
Dear software engineer, you are not making the world a better place
Beyond solid, liquid, and gas: The seven states of matter
* all the years capitalism has existed. This is bog-standard capitalist formula. Profit over people. Worker and customer and public alike.
In software, you can also make pictures of a lot of things that don't exist.
Yup and for outgoing traffic firewalling rules can also be put in place to only allow users authorized to emit traffic. Drop or reject anything by default, then only allow some users to send packets (like "john" and "_apt" [to update packages], etc.).

It's not incompatible with the other measures you described.

FWIW I also log, for every "user" on the system, anything from a user that's not supposed to access the net.
If corporations are people (remember that Supreme Court ruling?) then Boeing should be held criminally liable for their missteps
Wow, I just looked it up and there's a huge difference. UK Marmite has even less sugar than Vegemite, whereas NZ Marmite is 16.8% sugar by weight.