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Show HN: Fine-Tuning Data Generator Written Purely in Python
Hi HN,
I was working on this tool to generate Data for fine-tuning of LLM's as I realised that there was not any single, easy-to-use yet customisable library to do so for my use case.

I was wondering about adding LLM data analytics to it as well, would love to hear whether that would be a nice feature to add.
https://github.com/YuriiCrimson/ExploitGSM

https://t.me/itcrowdua/1/203010

Seems this jmpeax person didn't fins it at all, actually bought the hack from someone else but scammed them so the original author made it all public.
The telegram link is the original author screen recording of theirs and jmpeax conversation with jmpeax trying to buy it.
> Even in the US the Afroman raids show the police about to rip drives out of the security system .. if there'd been a decoy box | real time cloud backup there'd be more footage of the raid for his songs and court case.

I think bigger problem is people that think they can do that in first place still being employed in police...
I have an audience on Twitter, so when I launch my app on Product Hunt, my audience helped to spread awareness of the launch. If you don't have an audience, I recommend building one. I also launch my app on other SaaS directories to get some traffic from them.
Here's a good in-depth video from a woodworker YouTuber that explains all the drama and pros/cons of the law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKkuDduYLk
i have too many devices to get an ereader.
System failur seems to be missing as option. I think the 5% are system errors.
I don't know that that really requires "genius" though. Having a lawyer tell you "hey there's this clause in the recent tax code that might make us a lot of money if we make an interesting demo", and then him saying "ok, lets make that demo" doesn't seem like it takes a 10,000 IQ.

Lying is pretty easy, and I can think of lots of habitual liars that I also think are very stupid. Without naming anyone specific, think of any politician that you dislike.
Python is a very fast language, but not in the sense that you would expect as a C++ developer: its execution is (comparatively) very slow, but it shines at the speed of development.

Many things that one might take as given in other languages, in Python are optional: static type analysis, multithreading, immutability and the like. When it comes to writing algorithms in Python, it's best to think about it as executable pseudocode, here to help you get to the correct execution first and optimise for performance later.

In Python, development happens in distinct steps. The first step is to get your code to do what you need, without thinking about the readability and efficiency. In many cases, this will result in the code that is ready to be used, even in production (especially if you include unit tests and type checking, for good measure); if not, the next step is to comb the code and optimise it to be faster. What that means exactly will depend on your needs, but with a combination of external libraries like NumPy, multiprocessing and async it is quite possible to reach sufficient performance.

Finally, if none of that result in the desired speed, the performance critical components can be extracted and rewritten in a low-level language (where you have a huge advantage as a C++ dev) that the Python will happily wrap around. This is the exact strategy used by most performant libraries out there, like NumPy itself.
Nice, those look very interesting! I've been very happy with all of the Kobo's I've had, so I can definitely see myself upgrade to the color Clara when my current one fails.
How do you pronounce Xe? I feel like that might just be a huge psychological barrier for most people.
And when Ford launches a new model, do you respond, “we’ve had cars for over a hundred years now…”? It’s a product announcement, I see no claim that Kobo invented color readers.
Great article! I had a similar set up using zsh and fzf but recently switched to https://atuin.sh/ and can't recommended it enough. It just works and I love the default built in search by current directory vs global.
This serves as a PSA to pirate more. Up 12 percent YoY from 2019.

They do not need a law to take a website to court. They can already do that. I need to find the lobbyist website which tracks how much $$$ is coming from Hollywood to DC.
The notion of truth is an illusion, this has been a philosophical debate since the beginning of time. The fact is, every person occupies unique physical space and thus has unique life experiences and a unique perspective of each “event”. It’s the standard multi-sided coin phenomenon. Ask two people standing on opposite sides what is on the face and they’ll give you two different answers and both be right and both be wrong. It’s not a solvable problem because there is no observable objective reality that we can all agree on. Granted, I’m fairly certain there is an objective physical reality, it’s just not one that we can all observe the same and agree upon
No timeline yet, but we know it's a high-priority feature and are working hard on it. Best way would be to join our Slack (link here: https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/blob/dev/README.md) to follow along. It will be in the coming weeks/months, though.
"Start culling those who are doing the job poorly to start making space for others who may be able to do it properly"

How about starting to cull top level managers who constantly put pressure on people, don't hire competent security people but reward quick results that create future problems?
What can you do if he likes "X". It used to sound cool at some point decades ago.
Canada to launch $6B housing infrastructure fund
Support & maintenance have radically lower margins than software licenses. Without discounting rules, sales can craft deals that lose the company money.
>I think Gen Z and Alpha have anxiety because the adults in charge of the world are such worse people than they are.

I think this is an interesting insight and I wonder if the anxiety and cynicism is related to a significant miss-match between expectations and reality.

They were sold an bunch of ideals which are essentially maladaptive because the world operates so radically different than how they were told it does/should.

This is similar in concept to how Generation Y erroneously learned from watching TV shows like The Simpsons that a typical middle class lifestyle includes owning a 2,000 ft house, which was never the case. When the "promised" good never arrive, people are naturally outraged, angry, or jaded.

If Gen Z and A are taught that for the world to be good, it must be a place of peace an justice, their teachers have burdened them with a Sisyphean task, and doomed them to living miserably in an evil world.

I place the blame on the idealism and absolutism of earlier generations, which rejected realism, incrementalism, and compromise. In my opinion, to find happiness, people need to be able to come to terms with world as it is, and then accept that they can only incrementally improve it.

I know I would be anxious, depressed, and neurotic if I was told that the world was broken and evil, and it was my responsibility for the impossible task of fixing everything.
> draw from imagination rather than copying or tracing photos

Well, I'd argue that the more important skill from a technical perspective is in between that-- life drawing. Being able to translate 3d scenes into a 2d image is the primary technical drawing skill emphasized in art school drawing classes, and for good reason: it forces you to reason about physical space and the structure of objects in ways that neither drawing from imagination nor drawing from a photo reference does. Using a photo reference for drawing in art school is usually disallowed because you simply don't build up that skill, and drawing from imagination is generally taught in classes like Character Design and Illustration after students have learned the fundamentals because there are tons of intellectual considerations there that don't have a lot to do with making marks and reasoning about space that warrant their own subjects. Among the long-time artists I know that started drawing from imagination exclusively, I don't know a single one that doesn't lament not focusing on the comparatively dry life drawing earlier in their practice.

Doing the traditional foundational things like pencil line drawing accurate complex still life can be really frustrating, as can figure drawing, though I found it a lot more rewarding. But if you're looking to develop the best possible artistic eye, there is absolutely no substitute.
Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio
The top external contributor is the maintainer for QtCore, Thiago Macieira (from Intel). He used to have great statistics about Qt contributors on his website, although it seems to currently be down. https://www.macieira.org/blog/qt-stats/
With all the APIs available to the browser at what point do I have the same worry that an .exe brings?
BTW we're launching on Product Hunt today and we'd LOVE your support!
So double entry is defeated if you uses a computer to enter the entries. For example if you brought a laptop for 1000, but you accidently wrote 2000 AND the computer automatically entered 2000 in the asset account it would still balance even though it was a mistake to enter 2000.

In addition, you can still make the same mistake by hand for both entries. So I’m still not getting how double entries catch mistakes
Indiscriminate banning/blocking is the thing that turned me off most social media.

I don’t post anywhere but HN so my profiles are always bare. Starting something like 5 years ago I’d follow someone and within a day, flip a coin, on tails I was banned or blocked.

I eventually deleted the last of my social accounts. They turned into places where strangers were just there to torment each other or receive unconditional praise.
Didn’t know*
I found this via https://500mile.email/ - I had seen a lot of the stories there before, but this one was new to me and I thought folks here might appreciate it.
This is exceptional effort and communication to build something cool. I'm very, very impressed.
By default you’re legally able to share it. It’s your data, you’re telling someone how much you paid for something.

Something can’t be a trade secret if it’s not a secret at all, and if you’re the seller, and the information is a description of something someone else did (ie how much the buyer paid) then it’s not your secret to defend.
Actually, why there is not? Company should be able to just get cert for wifi.company.com and then be allowed to just call its network wifi.company.com...
Also "Facebook"
Bonus third choice: Stone of Scone.

Pronounced like Frome ;)
I see what you’re saying, but this was an anecdote by the 7th grader in relation to their peers. Sure puberty makes teenagers not want to interact with their parents, but I’ve never heard it make them not want to interact with their classmates—usually the opposite.
They are different architectures optimized for different things.

From the Meta post: "This chip’s architecture is fundamentally focused on providing the right balance of compute, memory bandwidth, and memory capacity for serving ranking and recommendation models."

Optimizing for ranking/recommendation models is very different from general purpose training/inference.
The difference between the internet of the 2000s and the 2010s is how profitable it was to push things. No one got paid to get me to click on lemonparty, they did it because it was (to them) funny. Nowadays, there are industries that exist solely to get me to click on garbage, and it turns out profit is a much more powerful motive than comedy.

I can ignore/laugh with/block/modreport That One Guy, I can't do anything about an infinite number of marketers.
Understanding Physical Breakdowns in Virtual Reality
Once the cans become autonomous there's no point in limiting the airframe for the sake of the spam. "Fast, cheap, and out of control" turns piloted fighters into targets.
Pretty large increase in performance over v1, particularly in sparse workloads.

Low power 25W

Could use higher bandwidth memory if their workloads were more than recommendation engines.
Interesting, thanks for the heads up, just had it removed.
I missed this! Sorry for crowding the feed with the offshoot.
> I appreciate YouTube's official search for its accessibility, speed, and spooky "it knew what I meant" ability

That's interesting to hear, because my experience with YouTube search is poor. It will find text that appears in the title of a video, but that's about it. It certainly has no idea of "what I meant".
Still that you can't just avoid to explain lifetimes. There is a lot of code out there witch uses lifetimes
I laughed hard reading this.
Where is the report that is the basis for this article?

The article basically says "these dudes told us they found some passwords for databases on an open machine". Ok, well a) that may not be true and b) they may not be passwords with high value. Just because something is a "password" doesn't mean it is useful for anything.

There seems to be nothing on the web about this incident besides more articles repeating the TC mother article.
10% of last month revenue was donated to FFmpeg. Thanks for clarifying
I always say: my pipeline is a shell script I call pipeline.sh
I unironically believe everyone should have a spot on the team. Work should be like school, you're allowed to not always succeed. Otherwise you end up regularly firing people like they do at Netflix, and if every company worked that way, you run out of people fast. I understand that a top soccer team works differently than a division 3 local team, but I care more about how the local team works. Elite teams are going to do elite things that are not relevant to most of us. And most startups are NOT elite teams, even if they put pressure on their teams like they are.
This put a snarky smile on my face.
Paid by the standards of Kenya, perhaps. Not America. And how many of those people were paid anything like a living wage across all of the years of training? And how many orders of magnitude smaller is that number than '8 billion'?

And I note you still haven't answered my question. How many people are willing to pay you - who are not Usain Bolt - your current salary to watch you do whatever it is you do for sheer entertainment value for decades to come?
The guy's a kook. He's like Michael Jackson: a very rich guy, with complete control over who he meets. Unsurprisingly, the people he does meet all tell him what they think he wants to hear. I mean, who's going to tell him something he doesn't want to hear, and then see their name smeared all over Twitter by the richest man in the world?

I expected Twitter to crash and burn as soon as he took over; I was wrong. I guess it's like Truth Social - if you're fabulously wealthy, you can run a social media site that's a complete train-wreck, without it ruining you.

/me never had a Twitter account. Nor Faceache.
Dune the broadway musical -
https://www.udio.com/songs/eY7xtug1dV6hbfCDhyHJua
What if your company decides to be generous and just gave 1000 to random Joe, what is the double entry for that?
Was bartender, always liked computers and wanted to work with 'em. Self-taught my way into the field (which is a gross simplification but broadly gets at the meat of it).

Disconnecting from social media was part of a larger effort to remove distractions - around the same time I also deleted steam and cancelled my netflix account. The wealth of time this left me to focus on self-development was absolutely critical to figuring out how to 'take my computer hobby pro'.

My guess as to 'why it worked' is this; in those moments when I'm sitting around with nothing to do, there are no easy outs (facebook/insta having been the easiest and lowest-drag options for spending time, they were the biggest offenders) so you sit with your discomfort at being underoccupied for a moment, get frustrated, and pick up a tutorial, technical manual, or start googling around for answers to a question you have.

By no means was it "deleted facebook and productivity gods smiled upon me, bestowing me with champion focus and a fulfilling career", but without the disconnect, I'm confident I would have failed. The times when I would be doomscrolling also turned out to be the times I had the best bursts of inspiration, besides being the entry point for more focused bouts of actual, real work.
The link I just clicked on to reply to your comment was `https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39991931&goto=item%3Fi...` but thankfully it just said 'reply' in the UI.
From the article:

> Update: It appears Twitter/X has corrected its mistake, and no longer truncates any domain ending in “twitter.com” to “x.com.”
Malicious Visual Studio projects on GitHub push Keyzetsu malware
I'm not sure how much you can learn from history when you take claims of "democratic US empire enforcing prosperity and freedom on tyrannical despotic regimes" on face value.

The justifications to project power changed greatly over time and vary between the set of political ideologies in charge at any given time, but US and western foreign policy was always rooted in unspoken, consistent motivations.

That's why the transition between pre- and post- cold war foreign policy was so seamless. The covert action, coups, interventions, military support, economic warfare didn't change at all. Afganistan 1 was about the "red scare", 2 was about "international terrorism". Iraq, Syria and Libya was about "tyrannical despotic regimes". etc.
Quite a lot of what is now Scotland was Norse for a long time - the most obvious name being "Sutherland" (Suðrland) which is extreme north west of the island of Britain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Scotland
In python fast means calling libraries that are implemented in C/C++ for example numpy.
US debt is fine as it is, and US will always be able to pay it (it can just print more money).

The issue is how much of the US government budget it takes to pay the interest, which is exploding right now as interest rate is 5%+, leaving a big bill for future generations.

This money comes from the same budget that contributes to medicare, social security, maintenance of roads etc.

The big bill for future generations isn't actually something the Americans will pay, but how its currency will weaken and lose its reserve status, as it will need to print more money.

Currency debasement has a lot of negative consequences, such as... huge inflation. Prices will go up.

Currencies of other countries will become stronger and the US is a country that is heavily reliant on imports, those imports will be more expensive for the average US American resident.

There are plenty of references of high debt in history, and the most recent ones happened in Latin America, check Argentina for example.

It went from being a rich country in the 60/70s to mass poverty Today, 50 years later, making its currency completely useless and now they are trying to kill the peso and just use the dollar, a currency they do not have the printing machine.

The dollar at some point might become a currency nobody would consider parking their money with, this has really negative consequences to the US, as having a stable currency is a pre-requisite for many investments.

For reference, the average PE ratio (price-to-earnings) for US companies are at least 2x of Brazil. Brazil has a somewhat stable currency(higher average inflation), but weaker than the dollar. People are less willing to invest in Brazilian companies because there's a currency risk.
You're forgetting the biggest ones - Google and Microsoft
> But for what do a drivers license database, social security numbers exist?

To keep bad drivers off the road? To suspend privileges when you kill someone with your car?

Social security numbers were originally created for linking people to their social security accounts but has now become our national ID because there is an inherit need for one in the modern world. The problem with SSNs is that they were never designed for their current use-case.

> And why should a country/state know your bank account number(s)?

A state will always have access to and the capability of seizing your account funds. This is a necessity for a multitude of reasons that I can list out, but I'll let you use your imagination.

Take a look around the world. Take a look at history. Autocrats don't need an efficient ID system to take control of their citizens. People willingly give up their freedoms and align themselves with autocrats when they use the same propaganda and fear-mongering tactics that have been used for centuries. It has nothing to do with the government amassing a database of their population. Once the autocrats are in control, they will create whatever system they require.

The only way to avoid tyranny is to fight for liberal values at the ballot box. Anything else is bullshit. Your guns won't do shit when your local militia is aligned with the autocrat in control.
It's infuriating to hear a scientist say, "Science should be shaped to match our politics, not the other way around."

Once we give up on finding the actual truth then we're on the road to hell, as demonstrated so many times by past societies that put ideology ahead of truth.

And if you think the truth leads to you committing genocide, I think you have some of your own moral development to do. If your belief in human dignity is conditional on people being the all the same, your belief in human dignity is very weak.
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Cookie notices are at least easy to get rid of, there exist various adblocker filter lists specifically for that. That popup though...
And yet again they don't target the root cause of why people look for pirated content. All they do is encourage pirates to innovate new methods, which they will happily do.

To beat the pirates the MPA needs to encourage theaters to offer the consumer things the pirate sites don't have and to stop doing things consumers hate.

Make sure movies release on all platforms simultaneously, internationally. Encourage theater memberships, deals, events. Upgrade theater tech to use the highest resolution and most uncompressed high quality audio (making piracy files either low quality by comparison, or too big to process on most devices). Shut down DRM that forces people to use smart TVs at home instead of their mobile devices or their laptop. And importantly, stop being condescending, let people watch their media their own way, don't force people to watch in theaters if they don't want to.
The Norse vs. Old English vs. Roman place naming also explains the inconsistent pronunciation (see other subthread)
Learning to draw? If you have access to LinkedIn Learning (often available through public libraries if you don't have a premium account) all of the fundamental art courses there are absolutely fantastic. I'm an art school guy and while there's obviously a ton of value in getting personalized critique and tailored assignments from professors, the breadth, quality, and format of the LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) material-- from drawing, to watercolor work, to graphic design, to character design, to photography-- is truly exceptional.

If you're savvy, you can probably get ahold of the course books for the self-paced "Famous Artists School" courses from the 50s. They later became the "Art Instruction Schools" courses that had the commercials with that dorky guy saying "Do you like to draw, or paint, or maybe just sketch and doodle?" It was created by Norman Rockwell and Albert Dorne specifically to guide people to teach themselves how to draw. You obviously can't get the mail-in critique, but if you have the discipline to do all of the exercises, you'll still do well.
Does anyone know what is the current WAU of Threads?
Perhaps 'an applied branch of math' since the term 'applied math' is claimed by something usually disconnected from the discrete math subjects CS tends to study.