skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember about a decade ago, when you’d read about YouTube’s algorithm creating an “alt-right pipeline”?

Without making any judgments on the alt-right label, it was absolutely a real thing. Many documented cases showing how a fresh account could go from “Sesame Street, cooking videos, and CNN” on the default feed - and, within ~10 relatively innocuous clicks down the suggested video rabbit hole, the home feed would be full of Alex Jones tier stuff.

TikTok is heavily reminiscent of the old YouTube. Just taking a few steps down the Free Palestine recommendation road will get you into “Happy Birthday, Uncle Adolf” videos (hyperbolic, but only slightly).

I don’t blame certain parties for getting rather nervous over that. But I wish we could have some honesty from elected officials about why TikTok is suddenly such a pressing issue again.

Whatever happens, I hope they’ve learned from YouTube’s earlier mistakes. In trying to break the alt-right pipeline, they ended up breaking the entire recommendation engine for years (tbf it’s a lot better now).
Link to Hugging face: https://huggingface.co/collections/apple/openelm-instruct-mo...

I didn't have Apple releasing the weights to their AI model on my 2024 bingo card but I am glad to see it
The OP made that comparison. My comment had the intention of illustrating how bad an analogy that was. Maybe I missed the mark! :)
Third Party Risk is a big deal these days. Especially with the rise in supply chain attacks
McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting
Brand new Model Y with latest software did 4 really dangerous phantom braking stunts. I engaged the system 5 times in total. It’s called enhanced autopilot. I can’t understand how people trust this kind of systems with their lives. Maybe in USA it works much better than elsewhere. But I will never ever turn it again. For the record I didn’t bought it. Got 3 months trial for using referral link.
Why do you want to avoid Home Assistant? From what I've found setting up my automations is that once you have it doing something useful you find you have a lot of ideas to further make your life better. I might be wrong but I suspect you'll spend a lot of time doing something that is simple in HA only then find you want to do something else similar.
Fulfilling for some. A system without slack is a brittle system.

I really have nothing more to say but I manage to find slack, and when life throws me a new ball to juggle I can deal with it, and use the spare time, energy, and focus to deal with them properly -- rather than become winded, stressed, and pressed.

I have always tried to find fulfillment with less, rather than more. The people I see zipping around from thing to thing have superficial and shallow experiences. Then they end up being superficial and shallow people. Chicken or egg?

However, nothing is more irritating than having to personally deal with the "zippies," high on whatever stimulant (caffeine, nicotine, amphetamine, etc.) so they can have the "energy" to "deal" with life's "responsibilities."

There's something to be said about work ethic, being able to push yourself to your limits, and balance on the razor's edge -- there is something special in that. However, lacking any sort of overarching focus is a much more common and base state of being. "More must always be done!" Yet they haven't taken any time to step back and reflect if what they're doing is even worth anything -- even the ancient generals figured that out.
This is not true.

[1] CP/M 3 (normally called "CP/M Plus") does not have or support subdirectories, only user areas, just the same as earlier versions... (Such as B4:MYFILE.TXT or A0:WORDSTAR.COM.) Source: me -- I own 2 CP/M 3 computers. Feel free to check the manual:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/cpm_plus/CPM-Pl...

[2] CP/M does not have standard command line switches or arguments, so there is no standard delimiter.
I look forward to VR 360 degree videos using something like this to overcome their current limitations, assuming the limit is on the capture side.
Me, but I found K-pop in my 50s. Add to that Doom Metal & EBM. I also discovered Nu Metal 20 years after the fact. You stop when you want to stop.
Yes, it can certainly be relevant on that and other contextual grounds. It's also where things drift into realm of speculation, away from what we know from the facts at hand.

All I've been saying (which I thought was obvious) was: when considering whether the actions of these people (who sent the "Do you support Hamas?" emails) -- as individuals -- constitute a form of intimidation (and it seems obvious that they do; and from what you said, apparently sanctioned by their higher-ups, no less) --

One has to keep their personal attributes out of the discussion. That's just how the legal and ethical standards for these things work.

Again, thanks for the disclosure. It definitely sounds quite creepy. Especially considering the apparent lack of action taken by the higher-ups.
No, I feel OK blaming the people voting for the TikTok Bill.
It's sort of related, but too often other people's problems end up forced into being my problem.

Other people's problems are fun to solve when you're like "hey, I've seen that before / I know something about your problem", and I think I can advance you in your pursuit of a solution. Fun, win/win for everybody.

But too often you try to use some product or service, either of another company, or of another team at your company, and it doesn't work. And the other team is just "but I don't waaaaannnna" about figuring out why their shit is broken. And so it becomes your problem, because you're probably trying to do something that isn't shaving this teams yak, but here you are, blocked on them. So it's either "do their job for them" or be blocked by them.

And managerial chains are just, IME, utterly ineffective at dealing with this. My current boss does not want to handle these, ever. He wants me to fix the problem. Problem is I have no authority over others teams, so I can't get them to act, and so … now it's my problem! And soon I'm doing the work of 3 teams, it feels like, and shaving yaks all day.

Google, internally — at least way back in the day; I've got no idea if this is still a thing — had a philosophy at several levels of "it's our problem", and in internal team-to-team stuff, that meant if a customer of your team's junk was having a bad time, that was your problem. Not your "customers'", internal or external. One of the many things I think that led them to being a FAANG.
None of that applies to switchdev; it's a somewhat different world than normal Linux networking.
We've been using SortableJS for years for similar functionality.

https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/
So it’s Just JavaScript and the risk of adopting it is basically zero.

It’s the thing that made it an easy sell after everyone got turned off by the long-term experience of Coffeescript and such. It’s the reason various “better” typed languages that run on top of JS have flopped except with enthusiasts.
I know two movies where the book is way better, Jurassic Park and Fight Club. I thought about putting spoilers in a comment to this one but i won't.
"Contractor" here just means a company that does business with the government. Google and Microsoft are both contractors for the US govt.
China collecting data is not the reason it was banned, and is largely a diversion meant to derail conversation about tiktok. The threat of tiktok is that the Chinese government has direct control over what content it's users consume.

American social media is motivated by money. Chinese social media is motivated by state power.
Is there a collection of algorithms published somewhere, in a coherent manner? It seems like to me, there should be a collection of matrix algebra, symbolic algebra, etc. algorithms somewhere that makes it easy to implement these in any language or system. As it is, it seems you need to already be an expert or researcher in the space to make any movement.
It comes down to the simple fact that somebody is going to hold the liability bag.

Tesla and similar obviously are not pushing to take on that liability, courts/legislatures aren't particularly interested in putting that liability on the manufacturers. So that leaves the drivers to try and offload the liability from themselves.

Unfortunately drivers are not particularly well equipped to be pushing that liability off themselves so there it stays. Insurance companies are better equipped for that sort of thing but they're only interested in the financial liability. The criminal liability, is definitely not going anywhere anytime soon.
In the short-term, these kinds of investments can hype up a stock and create a small bump.

However, in the long-term, as the hype dies down, so will the stock prices.

At the end of the day, I think it will be a transfer of wealth from shareholders to Nvidia and power companies.
Thanks. I put a no there as I live in Cambridge, and (historically) 80% of jobs I've seen are always in the Cambridge/London area.

But maybe I will put relocation as Yes now; not sure how it will help, I would expect other countries to have the same issues?
Well 100% of the votes went to not doing that.
yes, tiktok is stealing all the ad revenue from facebook, twitter, google, etc.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-faces-criminal-probe-o...
No mention of ptp, I’m curious how the switch handles it (and how is it connfiged from Linux)

I find understanding how Linux networking really helpful in uunderstanding mikrotiks (which I use a lot in prod, although tend to shy away from for the most critical and demanding of services)
> Are there cyclists in Las Vegas?

Holy shit, yes. And a bunch of other crazy pedestrian shit.

I mean, it’s not a biking Mecca or anything, but cars and trucks aren’t your only concern in Vegas.

SF sort of takes the cake of those three, with cyclists, one wheelers, scooters, pedestrians, and folks who are flying on something that they only experience. I’ve done AP there on certain streets (esp. with stop and go traffic) with no problem.

The peripheral areas of greater LA also have lots of non-auto traffic to deal with.
Show HN: I Built an Unofficial Unsplash Client for Anonumous Users
This is a Online Photo Library I built using only HTML, CSS, JS, powered by Unsplash. I get the images directly from Unsplash API and display them into my app.

No Rocket Science :-)
Emulsifiers linked to increased diabetes risk
banning competitors?
Operative phrase: "see it as". I can anecdotally confirm that central-valley relatives of mine bring up HSR as a reason not to vote for Biden. The Democrat = Democrat logic is strong, I suppose, even if the ignorance about federal structure is profound.
> The other group assumes the first group is complaining about right now, and thinks they're being ridiculous.

Except this is obviously not the case, as "the other group" is aware that many of these large training companies, such as Microsoft, have committed to being net negative on carbon by 2030, and are actively making progress with this whereas the other group seems to be motivated by flailing for anything they can use to point at AI and call it bad.

How many carbon-equivalent tons does training an AI in a net negative datacenter produce? Once the datacenters run on sunlight what is the new objection which will be found?

The rest of the world does not remain static with only the AI investments increasing.
I mean the A16z heavy bet on crypto is suss.
A big bad news headline alone is worth -$1M to tesla.

I really wish every single death ended up splitting a fine amongst all companies even tangentially involved.

Grandma fell down the stairs and died? Well fine the architect who designed those stairs, and the builder who built them.

Sure, all those companies will pass the cost back to the consumer, but the government will pass the fine revenue back to the consumer in the form of reduced taxes.

Ends up net zero overall, but everyone now has a real incentive to look out for the health and safety of others.
Yes, see https://github.com/blas-lapack-rs.
It hasn't been flagged (and I haven't). Elon bashing may be fun, it's rarely productive conversation. And when it isn't productive it should be flagged and often is.
I believe it's measured in the shade only so it's a true measure of the air temperature and isn't affected by the direct heat transfer from the sunlight. (eg https://www.forbes.com/sites/dennismersereau/2021/06/30/the-... )
This looks really good. Much better than react-beautiful-dnd which was sheer madness IMO. They were reimplementing most of the stuff browser does for you. Sadly I just built my own stuff on top of native browser drag-and-drop, but might look into changing to using this eventually.

The browsers inconsistencies are pretty annoying. Especially the weird Chrome stuff when you remove the draggable from the DOM during drag. Great to see their lib hiding this.
The main problem is that most companies are still not spending anywhere near enough on cyber. Even the big boys(mostly because until they actually get hacked they have no idea how much value they have at risk and IMO gov fines for this are nowhere near big enough) like systemic banks are way behind where they really need to be.

The problem with cybersecurity is that if you have no breaches its a "great" item for some striver manager to cut and if you get breached the budget will go up, but the guy in the cybersecurity department will at a minimum get told off and held back, and likely fired.
I think the concern is that it will make Ads on non-google websites much less efficient and will seriously damage all other companies.
>> labels pay Spotify to put certain songs on large playlists

What are you talking about. IM going to need you to back this one up with some proof.

1. The labels have a giant back catalog that remains popular. It does not need promotion. Huge long tail profits there.

2. The labels dont have a lot to sell any more. The big artists tend to get out of the system (and make money on tours) and small artists get nothing. And lots of artists have bought back their catalogs, again long tail.

The album, as a vehicle is mostly dead. Hell songs are mostly dead, if you cant hook someone in the time of a ticktock video your going to have a lot of trouble getting them. And there you need to be "background music" with a groove.
If there was more than one tort or crime that happened, then yes, there could be.
> as the hype dies down, so will the stock prices.

*Depending on govt interventions
If Biden wants instagram to show you pictures of ponies, the best he can do is go to congress and get funding to run an ad campaign on instagram to show people ponies.

If Xi wants to show you ponies, you'll see them all over tiktok tomorow.
> You are an expert Tailwind CSS developer that I will ask for help.

Is that part of the prompt necessary anymore? I feel that was a version 3 thing.

My prompts have been getting less verbose & I've been finding little value in introductory phrases, correct grammar or spelling.
Tesla does not even use it in the underground one-lane tunnel, the Las Vegas loop [1], instead opting for paid drivers operating the cars fully manually.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Convention_Center_...
to stay fairer, the required extra disk space for snowflake-arctic is cheaper then the required extra ram memory for llama3
Yes, I agree. Mostly mood affiliation, and so eager to condescend that it often condescends to the wrong people.

> I rang the bell; an Asian man in khakis and a sweater answered. I snapped into guest mode, introducing myself enthusiastically. He responded with an odd coldness. Then I realized he was not a fellow guest but, I guess you’d say, the butler. A hundred years ago, he might have been referred to as “houseboy” and greeted me in a tux.

A butler has always been a person of authority, expertise, and responsibility. Why "houseboy"? Because he's Asian?

> I reflected, perhaps unfairly, that marrying off their daughters to young men of talent and fortune is often how such families institutionalize their power.

The couple were in their late 30s when they married, and it is unclear why she would have no agency (or other value) here.

And many other snide remarks designed to show how blasé the author finds any rich person. He himself has brains and a soul, and they don't.

I do give small towns and communities far more credit than Andreessen does, let alone his guest's dreadful comment.
In Termination Shock, the US didn't really start paying attention until people in Texas needed to wear "Earth Suits" to go outside.
Tried Flow first, back in the day. I was ready to give up the whole idea as not-at-all-worth-the-trouble if Typescript had been as mediocre an experience.

Fortunately it wasn’t and now I get to not-hate working in JavaScript.
Geoffrey Hinton, AI doomer Eliezer Yudkowsky and others like Gary Marcus preaching AI == nuclear weapons seem like they don't really understand how LLMs work under the hood. Or they flip flop between "look at how stupid AI is" and "OMG! AI gonna kill us all, they are too smart".

100% Generative AI for text, video, audio, images have legitimate concerns for deep-fakes, scams, hallucination. However extending it to say that it will destroy humanity in the next few years is pretty far fetched.

AGI in the hands of one or two powerful corporations / nation states is the biggest risk we face.

Competition and power balance is extremely important.

Yan LeCun is right, we need Good AIs to fight bad AIs. Good robots to fight bad robots. Good and Bad being relative to a group's beliefs.

We cannot trust nation states, or corporations, or billionaires to do the right thing. The right thing is relative. Humans are a distributed system optimizing for their own survival and good feelings.

When everyone has it, no one has it.
You don't have to mount it dynamically if you don't want. You can use it in a very static way, like your baremetal way to do things. But you can also have option to do it dynamically, case you have different SDCards with different binaries to load (yes, NuttX support dynamic ELF loading as well).
You aren't wrong, but my assumption was (perhaps incorrectly?) that they would add Lidar sensors in addition to their cameras, not replace them.
If that is true, why haven't we seen mass death from repeated 35℃ breaches?
False. Not true, never was.

Here's the real story:

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-bac...
I was wondering this too! Like could we just turn off North Korea's international internet?
> FSD is also much scarier to use because it does ridiculously dangerous stuff all the time

That was my original experience. It was so bad that I strongly recommended people not get it.

That said, the new FSD update (supervised beta) has been super smooth both on the interstate and in town for me. Have you tried it?
> London has more cameras than any other city in the west but leads crime significantly.

any link for the crime claim?

i checked multiple websites, and while hard to measure, London as a whole is not even in the top 10 european cities when it comes to crime.
Is this considered a reincarnation of the 'rest of the owl' meme
The US does kind of do this through its national labs. They just don't have the thriller-esque story of the Manhattan project to romanticize things and aren't wasting their intellect on maximizing doomscrolling.
My understanding is that you and tantalor are mistaken. The bill explicitly covers using TikTok as a web app.
> The software ""engineers"" should be found criminally negligent

Software goes across borders. Perhaps you also think negligent software "engineers" should be extradited or rendered across jurisdictions?

Apart from the fact that Engineer does not have to imply either certified or licenced (the words you should be using if you know anything).
You can see them here as well:

https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR090162861685...
Siggraph: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/15922.15895
Cinefex: https://archive.org/details/CineFex_1985
Youtube documentary: https://youtu.be/5wuClV-i9r4?si=iQn6jqoFX5B3Go-c&t=706
French, but has captions
Another theory I've heard is that the driver was holding down the accelerator to prevent phantom braking. If this is true Tesla will likely respond fairly quickly to prove it wasn't them. So the longer they don't the less likely this theory is.
This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans and We Are Blowing It
Why does Windows use backslash as path separator? (2019)
Too bad you didn’t incentivize deploying batteries. If you’d offered a $2k credit 100% of solar deployments would have a battery, grid would be decentralized and everyone wins.
My friend deployed solar in CA. “Buddy why didn’t you deploy a battery?” Net metering means I sell to the grid and my “battery” is 200% efficient. But without a battery you’re not allowed to run your solar when the grid goes down.
Imagine if all that wealth spent on battling climate effects have been spent in the past to prevent them instead. What a world we could have. Dreamer I am, I know. Hope it is not too late and we still have some chances.
https://archive.ph/2024.04.24-194752/https://www.nytimes.com...
>For instance, (The) might be a token, as might (cast) and (ing), so an LLM might read "The casting" as "(The)( )(cast)(ing)

Also, tokens are just numbers internally after tokenization. So LLM sees the question as "how many letters N are there in 563 3684 11267?". It has basically no idea what you're talking about. Unless somewhere in the training data someone mentions that token number 11267 has two letters N.
Stripe Usage Based Billing
> What's the rationale for releasing all these models to the public? Do all these tech companies know something we don't? Why are they doing this?

It’s mostly marketing for the company to appear to be modern. If you aren’t differentiated and if LLMs aren’t core to your business model, then there’s no loss from releasing weights. In other cases it is commoditizing something that would otherwise be valuable for competitors. But most of those 600K models aren’t high performers and don’t have large training budgets, and aren’t part of the “race”.
It’s easy to tell people how to solve their problem, as it doesn’t include the burden of actually doing the work.

The classic example would be that it’s easy to solve someone else’s weight problem. Tell them to eat a proper diet of X, get enough sleep, get to the gym X times per week, etc. Saying all these things is very easy, but overcoming the barriers to actually implement each one in a life isn’t already doing these things, is much harder.

Providing a path is much more difficult than walking the path.
There is BLE Long Range (also called Coded PHY) which is Bluetooth with range of 1km. I bet that would be perfect for outdoor sensors. Longer range and lower power than Wifi, and Bluetooth ecosystem.

I couldn't find any devices that support it yet.
Yes it's a Kafka-esque soul-deadening trial. Either you: use some OSS tool that emulates AWS infra locally (never exactly, and always missing features), run the aforementioned tool in a container because why not (looking at you, GitHub runners), or simply rely on manual integration testing to somewhat emulate the environment (and provision and point to blackbox cloud resources when you have a lot of moving pieces).
>China orders Apple to yank WhatsApp

Welcome to 2017.

>and Facebook

Welcome to 2009.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...>
North Korean hackers often operate from different countries.
I'm not sure why do you feel that's the case. It doesn't look like cgi at all and if it is shadows and reflections are flawless so the whole video including a person and lawns would need to be generated. I can't imagine how anyone could create it. Honestly building a robot seems easier than faking it to this level of accuracy.