skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the contrary, sit and listen in a college cafeteria, and it quickly becomes apparent most conversation participants are LLMs.*

Excuse the bluntness, but you're the CTO of a fintech company. Your analysis of people's social life is probably the as valuable as a janitors.
Someone didn't pay attention to what happened to Miranda in Firefly.

Furthermore, as others mentioned, Huxley would like a word.
That is what’s already been done under the term "multi-agent". This paper argues that there’s no need for any such message-passing or context sharing, you just literally run the same query several times on the same model, fully independently, and then pick a "typical" reply according to some similarity metric.
Yes, but its quite unfortunate in that you cannot do what you want with the data you pay for. Even in plan which not unlimited when I buy in visiting USA, I cannot even use the x GB I purchase without restriction.

I should not need to resorting TTL „unsupported hacks“ which also say company will ban me for.
Having used this as a part of a solution we were delivering to corporate customers, the traffic wasn't causing problems (we were tunneling over secure WebSockets, though, not plain text ones). It's only those overzealous "malware detection" tools that caused us to have to drop it and come up with a different way of encrypting our traffic.
We could be faced with a form of Survivorship Bias here[0]. I find that thought rather chilling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
You using HTTP in the example without explaining it, was really funny. Was that joke on purpose?
Generally insurance premiums are invested into relatively safe assets, like bonds, which yield quite a bit right now.
It's up to them to make their own risk assessments. There's a lot of press when claims get denied but it's not as common or as easy as complainants make it seem. Especially when it comes to roof replacements. That's been a heavily exploited point as well. Lots of shady operators chasing storms.
I use ship and colony names from Battlestar Galactica. Big x86 servers are battlestars, DRADIS for firewalls, NAS' get the colony names. All the ARM servers and SBCs get Cylon names. Personal devices get civilian ship names.
> Has he been to Silicon Valley, where 9 to 5 working hours are far from the norm for tech bros?

Aside, and from a west-coast-but-not-SV perspective... isn't this a mis-labeling?

I thought "tech bros" were the folks who actually work in marketing synergy or become entrepreneurs or whatever--"tech" just delineates the industry they landed in. Their hours are based on schmoozing and start early enough to call people on the east coast.

That's not the same as the folks rolling in at lunch because they binge-coded from 8PM-2AM.
Thanks for your work! I use it everyday and recommend it to everyone who has an interest in better password management.
Mine had a wombatinfestation, named as a riff on the Berkeley OCF 'natural disaster' hostnames (lightning, earthquake, plague, etc).
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnwsanders_a-canonical-hami...
He says the decision not to distribute prebuilt APKs is because:

> if you aren't able to build TextSecure from source, you probably aren't capable of managing the risks associated with 3rd party sources.

Which is a compelling argument from my perspective. I also think that people who can’t compile code should probably not root their phone.
Wow, it works. But it's not random, afaict. I keep getting the privacydev instance.

How do they keep theirs up and running?
Kind of. More like a mixture of a mixture of experts.

The problem is MoE on its own isn't able to use the context as a scratch pad for differentiated CoT trees.

So you have a mixture of token suggestions, but a singular chain of thought.

A mixture of both is probably going to perform better than just a mixture of the former, especially given everything we know by now regarding in context learning or the degree of transmission synthetic data is carrying.
Can you quantify the amount you can get per month by working there and in what types of work? Sounds interesting.
No, it's definitely not. No one accounts for the risk of being rejected due to inaccurate information. It doesn't even make sense to do so because the nature of the probability isn't definable.
Best Buy Geek Squad employees report mass layoffs
I'm sorry but this comment makes no sense. Where did you get that insurance companies are now "surveiling you 24/7"?

If my insurance goes up, and it has, because of people defrauding insurance companies then I would fully expect my insurer to protect their bottom line and my rates by dropping those customers playing unfairly.

What I don't agree with is insurance companies punting the decision making process to an algorithm. At that rate we end up with Google "support" from a company that, as paying customers, we should be able to have a conversation with.

The last thing I'll mention is that it goes a long way to know your insurance broker. As an example I've known mine for the last ~15 years and they have helped remediate a number of, what I'll describe as standard process issues, when I've contacted them and in a few cases even proactively.
I expect an observant janitor would have quite useful insights into people's social lives
And you have to pay tax back to your motherland even though you’re a resident of another country
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if there’s some “critical mass” for ML compute on device, that may make this kind of devices significantly more useful & usable.

E.g., running 70B or even larger model on device should allow to cut interactive response time, and should alleviate privacy concerns while enabling incomparably greater personalization (eg using all of your emails and chats as context); but will also have significant battery life implications unless there’s some breakthrough in specialized ML ASICs.

In any case, this is where part of that 1B of raised funds should be spent.

But to get to the “critical mass”, this looks more of a 100B+ effort.
This is an Informational RFC, there’s a plenty of them and because they aren’t specifications, there’s no particular level of rigor expected (April Fools RFCs are Informational, for one!)
The damage is already done, no european corporation is going to rip out Teams because they’re so used to the crap.

This should’ve been decoupled when everyone went looking for a chat platform, not in 2024.

I’ve worked in many places where no employee had ever opened Slack and they don’t get why Teams is shit.

As of this week the “new” version of Teams takes 14 seconds to open from click to usable on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio…
Earthly solves this really well: https://earthly.dev

They rethink Dockerfiles with really good caching support.
Looks like the page was renamed to just 'Machine'. I don't know why that would be. Surely not a copyright issue?
That seems like a great way to talk down to your end users, which seems like a security smell all by itself. Many users of F-Droid are technology professionals themselves and are quite aware of the security implications of the choices they make for the devices they own, and F-Droid is often a component of that outlook.

Further, I don't think it applies to the F-Droid maintainers, who routinely build hundreds of different Android apps for all our benefit. They even directly addressed his concerns about the signing key(s) and other issues by improving F-Droid and met with continued rejection.
Vulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We?
Top line revenue and gross profit aren't my opinion.

You really think the BoD cares much about anything other than their profits? The board is the last place to look for an honest opinion. They're all friendlies of Gelsinger.
It’s a good idea.

I want to do a presentation and have the slides work out which one to show based on what I’m saying.
If you dispense with insurance entirely, how do you deal with catastrophic expenses? The key things I think you are not considering are:

1. If you choose not to take out an insurance policy, and instead save the money yourself, you will not have the lump sum immediately available to cover catastrophe. Whereas as soon as you start paying insurance premiums you are covered.

2. The payout you receive when you make an insurance claim does not just come from the premiums you have personally paid. In fact, for a rare event, the size of the payout likely exceed the total cost of all premiums you could pay over your entire lifetime. This is because the risk is pooled over all customers, and not all customers will make claims.

Neither of the above 2 points become any less relevant as the insurance premiums become more and more accurately priced.
Great article. Replay is an amazing achievement.

Preservation is an interesting subject. In art it has been something we have endured for a long time. The Last Supper was painted, as I recall, in an eggshell based paints. This medium had required restoration artists to repaint various sections every X number of years where X < 100.

The Shoah Foundation has the problem of preserving the digital transcriptions of holocaust survivor testimonies. Preserving those without bit-rot is also a difficult endeavour. I can’t imagine what it will be like for video games in the future.

Great article. And if you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend Replay.
There are actually insurances that to some degree work proactively to reduce the risk of all its members in the pool.

My home insurance offer free pest-control, because they know that if this is neglected, it will cost a lot more for them. Plus, it will be hard to prove that it was a cause of the home owners neglect.

At the risk of getting political, (governmental) healthcare is another one, where regular checkups can save you thousands in repair. It might look like a subsidy but in the end it becomes a net-benefit for everyone in the pool.
Hippocratic Oath slams against silly and ignorant laws.
They were replying to this:

> This seems to essentially disprove the whole idea of multi-agent setups like Chain-of-thought and LLM-Debate.
Didn't read the paywalled article, but I thought one of the benefits to glaciers was reflecting sunlight and this reducing warming?
1. Christianity was not a Jewish sect. It had Jewish and non-Jewish (to an extent that it caused a bit of an issue).

2. Constantine was centuries after the seminal events and sacred texts.
A local Unix users’ group once had a server named “morgoth”. I guess in general the Middle-earth legendarium is a nigh-inexhaustible source of cool computer names.
Contracted with former employers. Word of mouth.
No doubt AI will be a force multiplier. But that in no way says it will help the masses. It will help the owners of the tech. You might be able to find some tangential ways where it may help the bottom somewhat, but in the end the disparity between rich and poor will just be larger.
Do you self-identify the movement through personal proprioception? Or is it completely disconnected from yourself, like a set of poltergeists dorking about in a nebula?

Interesting either way.
Autodafe: Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools
I suspect very few customers have the wherewithal and time and effort to “tell the regulators”. (Who, to issue a fine, would have to show malfeasance so the customer needs to produce evidence of the interaction sufficient to show the insurer broke the law)
I provided the script, you assigned the blame.

If you were to have asked me instead of asserted at me, I'd have said there is no human blame to be placed. The Word took on human form specifically to fulfill the role of the sinless martyr and win over satan, and so He did.

I've heard speculation of demons in the midst of the crowd responsible for guiding the mob, that seems plausible but I do not know of a strong scriptural argument in favor of it.

None of that is to say that it is in any way inaccurate to attribute the words of the Jews to the Jews. This idea that we need to reshape history at every turn in order to not be interpreted as "anti-semeitic" needs to perish.
On HN, it's the convention to put the year in the title when the article is older than a year or so. Readers often helpfully mention the year in such cases.

It doesn't imply anything about the relevancy of the content. Interesting older material is always welcome here!
America's Next Soldiers Will Be Machines
I wonder if there is a clever/more efficient shortcut that could come from before the sample is taken on each token. We have the logits after all.
Texas Becomes the First State to Win the Battle Against Imported Car Bans
https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk/status/1776275139010904525

It's like Richard Nixon cursing the newspapers. Except these days we have immediate "feedback", a string of silly, supportive comments, which some say could be computer-generated.1

1. Before taking over, Musk claimed Twitter was dominated by "bots".
Woah, where can you buy a house that 90% of the money you spend is land? Is that even true in expensive downtown US cities like SF and NYC?

Construction is pretty expensive too.
Gen Z have done this to a few things. Another notable example is redefining breakcore from “extreme technical noisy breakbeats” to “atmospheric ambient drum and bass”
Docker layer caching is one of the reasons I moved to Jenkins 2 years ago and have been very happy with it for the most part.

I only need to install utils once and all build time goes to building my software. It even integrates nicely with Github. Result: 50% faster feedback.

However, it needs a bit initial housekeeping and discipline to use correctly. For example using Jenkinsfiles is a must and using containers as agents is desirable.
One reason the Eisenhower matrix is a good productivity tool is that it's simple and fast. It doesn't leave much room for fiddling with it or optimizing the process. Many of today's apps are overly complex, allowing users to tinker with them so much that little to no time is left for actually doing tasks.

In our experience ( we run a body-doubling platform for remote workers), complex productivity tools don't work, especially for procrastinators. They may be helpful once someone is already productive and organized, but not before. A good rule of thumb is to throw away tools that have a lot of features or complex decision trees.
Source on this? Been living in Spain for 8 years now, and my wifes family have a number of empty of apartments here. AFAIK, they do not pay tax on any of them for being empty.

IMO that is one of things they can do to address the housing issue we have but I have seen no mention of this policy anywhere.
That argument is being made all the time, without sufficient evidence to back it up. Even places which have experienced tremendous growth of their housing stock have often seen massive house/rent increases (e.g. Melbourne).

Even more the theory can't explain the sudden jump of house prices that happened during covid in many places. People were moving out of the big cities and house prices still increased? How can that be caused by government regulation not building enough houses.

The reality is that the house prices are much better explained by the fact that the top 1% have essentially unlimited funds compared to everyone else and the main thing to buy are assets, especially during covid.

It's easy to observe when walking around the richest parts of cities like Melbourne, Auckland, Sydney... 90% of thr biggest houses are almost always completely shuttered, because it's the 5th home for the owners and they only use it for a couple of weeks a year.
Note he's not a cybersecurity researcher, he's mostly a database engineer (a great one, making significant PGSQL contributions), so I'm not sure he's familiar with statistics and variety of backdoor attempts.
The website you linked doesn’t work at all on iOS
If your insurers goal is revenue i suggest you go look for a new mutual insurance.

(no, this is not some hippie collective thing, in many countries this is the norm, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance)
do you self host your jenkins deployment in your AWS account?
I will also try airbench - love the clean code and am I mis-reading you need 46 SECONDS to reach 96%?? That is crazy!
what do you mean by discipline here?
#2 is less successful and incurs more costs. Trampolines are a good one because let's say you lie about a trampoline. Ok, great, we don't have to cover any trampoline related injuries. What are the chances that you would then lie and say that a broken arm occured on the steps instead and simply fail to mention the trampoline like you already did.
Just from reading comments around, it feels intuitive to me that looking at a heatmap of cascading pendulum would be more “accurate” than looking at just one snapshot, and also that joints on the pendulums don’t necessarily need to be interlinked between iterations of simulations
Show HN: Codepilot – The Ultimate SaaS Starter Kit
I've noticed I kept doing the same things over and over again while building SaaS apps from scratch. So I thought, why not streamline the process?

I launched a super flexible SaaS Starter Kit, CODEPILOT, that can be used for all sorts of SaaS building.

My goal is to ensure I am are on the right track when it comes to technology, customizability, developer experience, and maintenance. It's built with the latest frameworks to ensure that your application is fast, secure, and scalable.

I hope this boilerplate will help you as it helped me!

Enis.
Possibly. Also in my country (in EU), the home insurance doesn't cover your liability for an accident like this. That would be another type of insurance you buy extra.
OK, let's use that above. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "Excellent succinct breakdown of the xv mess, from an OpenBSD developer")
I don't think we should assume a state actor. We don't know.

It's kind of similar to stuxnet but attacking Linux distros is so broad and has such a huge risk of being exposed, as it was within a few weeks of deployment. A good nation state attack would put more effort into not being caught.

But we don't know. So maybe I'm wrong.
Show HN: Automated dev setup with Devbox and tmux
For years, I've used various tools & shell scripts to automate my development environments.

Some were easier to maintain than others, but earlier tonight an idea crossed my mind to combine a few tools and end up with the following command:

`devbox run tmux`

Imagine you run this command and here's what it does:
- Installs Node.js or Python and/or Postgres or whatever you need
- Installs tmux & tmuxp
- Runs whatever commands to set up the project (e.g. npm install)
- Divides your terminal window into n panes
- Starts a database, backend & web services, you name it
- Seeds the database, runs tests, you get the idea

It's freshly baked and I'll continue to iterate on it, but would love your feedback and thoughts!

Thank you

https://github.com/mootoday/devbox-tmux
I don't care how well you manage your expenses, it doesn't make sense to keep enough cash on hand to rebuild your house if it burns to the ground. (Not to mention that is completely impossible for almost everyone.)
I just bought homeowners, it didn't ask anything about trampolines. Am I expected to call them up and inform about one? They specifically ask about a pool and if it is fenced or not.
> but I wasn't around in 1990 ...

It wasn't a 5 or even 15 minutes process. It involved anywhere from 5 to 25 floppies, you need to sit and watch (at least occasionally) at the screen to change the disks, of course disk #13, which you used just fine yesterday, now has an unreadable sector and not only you need to procure a replacement but the computer you [tried to] reinstall is now surely non-operational.
It's Three that asks for credit card numbers before watching the nudes.

I actually switched to EE and they have no such restriction.
I agree that the systems are different and one is more oriented towards payout because we have little to no social safety nets so whatever the victims get has to last them for life, among other reasons I described above.

Are you trying to say that one system is bad and another is good? They are different for different reasons, which can be explained by the structure of the society and what we expect courts to provide for us as opposed to other areas of government or private parties.
Agree. Also why shouldn't we be nice to livestock? It's not a requirement to be nasty.
This argument is tired and simplistic. Zoning and other homebuilding laws also prevent large-scale tragic disasters that occur because of self-interested corner-cutting and profiteering.

Many people died on a regular basis because of the unregulated living spaces you’re fantasizing about.
Perhaps more interesting is the list of crawlers that this API generates the robots.txt from: https://darkvisitors.com/
“When it comes to rate regulations for overall insurance, according to state regulations they should not be excessive in any way. This means that they must be affordable, and are not set too high in relation to insurance claims. Insurance rates should also not be inadequate. This means that they should not be marketed at a rate that is too low. The Insurance rates should also not be discriminatory in any nature, meaning that all insureds are charged similarly for similar coverages. These rate regulations are imposed on insurance companies in order to protect consumers. (Dorfman and Cather)”

Source: https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/judicial-law/gove...
I recently read an interesting thread that laid out the case for LLMs being a path to AGI: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/13ox85j/how_do...

The argument boils down to the idea that language isn't simply strings of words or bits of factual information, but an actual encoding of logic. By training statistical models on vast amounts of logic, we've given them a generalizable ability to perform logic. A sufficiently advanced LLM could thus potentially fulfill some definition of AGI.

To be clear, this doesn't in any way imply that LLMs could ever fit the definition of artificial consciousness, which would be a completely different form of strong AI. They're effectively just mathematical functions (albeit extremely complicated ones), which simply take inputs and return outputs without any intervening subjective experience. Even if they can perform a complicated task, retrieve and effectively summarize complicated information, or say all the right things as a conversational partner, they have no concept of the meaning of their output.

Maybe that limitation in itself puts a ceiling on their potential. Maybe the best possible LLM can only ever be 99.99% effective, and that 0.01% of the time it will go completely off the rails and disregard its instructions or hallucinate something ridiculous. Maybe the only way to overcome that is by keeping a human or a true artificial consciousness in the loop, in which case LLMs would still be extremely useful, but a flawed AGI if "AGI" at all. Or maybe a sufficiently advanced LLM and/or a sufficiently advanced error correction architecture will actually be enough to mitigate those issues.

I don't have a strong opinion on where LLMs are ultimately headed, but I'm looking forward to seeing how it all unfolds. It's amazing how capabilities that were strictly in the realm of sci-fi so quickly became mundane.
Replication and reads can be scaled with something like Patroni or even a DIY replication setup (if one knows what they’re doing, of course), but writes are difficult.
Perhaps we should be right-click->view-source'ing for the true brutalist experience.

e: ah, in this very thread https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html
What are you talking about Stripe is great and really well made. I just built on it and was able to do whatever I wanted. Lago looks like just one more platform I'd have to keep track of for no reason.