skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really think that LLMs are a proper complement to social media.

Joel's reasoning requires that the complementing product be seen by the consumer as a requirement for consuming your product. Babysitters complement nice restaurants because parents need a babysitter to go. Gas complements cars because cars won't run without gas and the driver must buy gas periodically in order to use the car.

LLMs don't occupy the same space with relation to social media, it's more that they're quickly becoming an essential internal component for any social media site. Joel's reasoning doesn't apply to internal components that are invisible to the end user. A restaurant may benefit from finding a source of cheap lobster, but they don't benefit from publicizing that source to the whole world. Lobster is not a complement to restaurants, it's a component. LLMs occupy the same kind of space with relation to social media—they are something that every social media company would benefit from having cheaply, but not something their users need in order to consume their service.
Two different things to have a product to sustain research and expenses vs. having a product to make company grow exponentially and make investors richer
When RISC was getting popular in academia in the 1980s the conventional wisdom was hand-coding assembler was obsolete and it was all about being a compiler target.
Just start because it is a years long process. Maybe set up a Linux VM so you don't break anything...good luck.
This rot is everywhere in both private companies and public institutions
Yeah, it was meant to clarify the title, but it looks like the title got changed after I posted that.
This article[0] indicates that Disney removed shows to write them off.

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/disney-streaming-cuts-tax-writeoffs-1850...
If you look around you’ll see that there are indeed very many people who are doing very different things from one another and without much centralized coordination.
Yeah, it can't get pro-consumer and pro-right-to-repair than that. Disappointment with lackluster stock infotainment followed by disappointment in the move away from repairability felt a bit hypocritical to me knowing that world. 2DIN holes are fine!
Meta's advantage in AI is that they have leading-scale and continuous feeds of content to which they have legal entitlement. (Unlike OpenAI)

If state of open art pushes forward and is cutting edge, Meta wins (English) by default.
He’s deservedly being criticized for not saying anything of substance. If he had something to say worthy of his paycheck, it’d be less newsworthy than the “Google has no idea what they’re doing” stories which come out of consultant babble like “faster-twitch, shorter wavelength execution”. Google had the reputation they’ve been working so hard to shed because they used to actually innovate and build things which the average person could immediately see as better; telling people to do more with less becomes the story because it announces that the old Google is gone.

I asked Gemini for some advice and it gave a better answer suggesting things like “break down silos and empower teams to make decisions without excessive bureaucracy” and “refocus on what made us great – building products that solve real user problems”, not working 120 hour weeks.
German spycatchers raise game against China and Russia
You make it sound like it's a bad thing that it aligns with their business goals. I'd turn this around: if it didn't align with their business goals I would be worried that they would course correct very soon.
This is clear as day. If they got an early lead to the LLM/AI space like OpenAI did with ChatGPT, then things would be very different. Attributing the open source to "good will" and Meta being righteous seems like some mis-founded 16 year old's overly simplistic ideal of the world. Meta is a business. Period.
Metrolink goes right from Rancho Cucamonga to Union Station in about 75 minutes. Did you bother to check that before posting?
Apparently Paramount+ failed so spectacularly that it ended up dragging the company down financially, and now they're cancelling Star Trek shows.
Sarcasm, irony and euphemism are modes indirectness, like gallows humour, to help us talk about the horrific without the equivalent of burning our eyes out staring at the sun. It's a coping mechanism.

Sincere and explicit statements of horror have paradoxical outcomes because such words wear thin. They are overused by the disengenuous to wound others. The sincere are forced onto a semantic treadmill seeking different ways to express themselves.
We honestly can't know whether the regulators would care, or whether they would be making different decisions.

But that counterfactual seems totally irrelevant to the claims the GP was making?
Yeah this feel way overblown. Just do less. You probably don't need to try and juggle so many things.
I have never had an app refuse to work because of developer mode, but several if rooted. Anecdotal, but it would seem the two are treated differently by developers.
Nginx has stable and mainline releases.

The even versions are stable. Every year in April the mainline (uneven) version is forked to the new stable branch. The old branch is retired at this time and receives no further bug fixes.

All changes introduced in 1.25.x are now in the stable release, 1.26.

In comparison with 1.24 (stable) HTTP/3 support has been introduced and several fixes.
Ky: Tiny and elegant JavaScript HTTP client based on the browser Fetch API
Here is how the paper is defining it for it's purposes:

"demographic diversity (e.g. age, nationality), cognitive diversity (e.g., personality traits, education level) and job-related diversity (e.g., function, tenure), with a focus on the first two dimensions."
Why do you torrent instead of using Usenet?
> why is punishing Elon by boycotting Tesla worth slowing the transition to sustainable transportation?

Are you under the impression that Tesla is the only company who makes electric cars, or something? They're about 10-15% of the global market.
I don't know when exactly it happened but you can be 100% sure anyone complaining about fiat currency has no idea what fiat currency actually is, has something to sell you, and if you don't get out soon enough you'll be standing there listening to them misunderstand Nixon at you.
The notion that startups are more efficient at creating great products is a massive case of survivorship bias, a subclass of selection bias. A full facepalm duh!

Either he does not understand that, and that's bad, or he is trying to put one over on some very smart employees who do understand that, and that won't work.

You can make a big company less inefficient, but everyone who thinks startup efficiency is simply a culture you can recreate inside a big company is going to be disappointed.
Tangential: there are websites which provide good weather info. (eg, not affiliated https://www.windy.com )

Everything weather related, I uninstall, and if it is bloatware I "pm disable-user" in shell
I’ve got a question that I’ve tried to answer by googling but I’ve never been able to find anything that helps.

I have a septic tank alarm system that turns on an audible and visual alarm when the float switch detects that the tank is 3/4 full. There is a pair of NO dry contacts that close when the alarm goes off.

How do I monitor whether the contacts are closed or open? I assume with a GPIO pin, but I’ve never been able to google this question and find anything of use.

I’m ready to give up and use a RIB01BDC [0] packaged relay to turn on a raspberry pi and email me when the septic tank contacts close.

[0] https://www.functionaldevices.com/product/rib01bdc/
There are a lot of good reasons to go open-source, the majority of them being related to boosting the quality of the products being developed themselves. PyTorch is the behemoth it is only because it went ubiquitous, and it went ubiquitous only because it was that accessible. Whose "moat" was Pytorch destroying?

Saying that going FOSS is just inherently some sinister strategy to cut off other businesses' tech moats is a lot far-fetched than the simpler explanation that open-source simply gives you a lot more exposure and insight towards development and quality of the software. It has been a legitimate model for nearly two decades now (read: CatB).
And we arrive at collectivism vs individualism and the tendency of people to privatize gains but socialize losses.

Yes, search and ads are the golden goose but so many things contribute to that success. Chrome, for example, is absolutely crucial to search quality. Maps is huge. Android is also critical. Search and ads use a whole bunch of infra (eg Borg, storage, load balancing, serving infra, traffic management, data center infra and so on). Even the people who manage all the corp Linux distributions and video conferencing infra contribute. Source control, build infra, testing infra and so on.

Deciding who does and doesn't "contribute" for something so interconnected like this quickly devolves into a political exercise at best and a popularity contest at worst.
tangent: it might not be worth the tens of billions that have been dumped into the "Metaverse", but I've always thought FB rebranding as "Meta" was a savvy strategic decision. Unlike Alphabet — which everyone still calls "Google" b/c Google search is still the most useful and ubiquitous part of the Alphabet conglomerate — plenty of people use things like Whatsapp and IG without ever having to touch FB (beyond its login infrastructure) and many of these users despise FB and its perceived "boomer" audience and content.

"Meta AI" at least sounds much more congruent and palatable than "Facebook AI", even if the people and processes remain the same.
It would be great to see some latency benchmarks between this and the Windows 11 start menu.
Cloudflare Dashboard Down?
Hmmm, now my DNS is horked and I can't fix it :o
It's not at all interesting.

Google closes services with no alternative, and as they are almost always cloud-based, you can't use them at all after the closure.

Microsoft is selling products that can be used indefinitely, albeit without continued software updates from Microsoft.
The problem is that if you've compared 10,000 theories to find one that fits, that theory now has to have 10,000x stronger evidence to account for multiple hypothesis testing.
They probably want everyone to have glass walls in their house too.

Doesn’t mean they should get it either.

London has more cameras than any other city in the west but leads crime significantly.
This is getting ridiculous. I feel like string theory will end in one of two possibilites: either it will be completely useless for anything except providing a mathematical diversion for a handful of physicists so that they can in turn dazzle laypeople with buzzwords that lead nowhere, or it will have some devastating practical application that will lead to the demise of humanity.
I am an African based in Uganda and I am currently working on my project https://labour.quest

I wanted to start by using Google Workplace. But then switched to Zoho for the generous free tier.

I am so glad I did. Zoho has so many tools that a project needs to run "built in".

For example I was thinking of signing up for the services below but Zoho already had these built in.

SendGrid - Zepto Mail
MailChimp - Zoho Campaigns
Email - Zoho Emails

Not to mention many other tools like CRMs

It's a real "batteries included" service for email & communication.
Diversity in experience, thought, skills make for an excellent team. I think it matters not what political views are but I do think diverse home lives can lead to a balanced work approach (some can pickup pager at 2am or work extra shifts, but everyone is mindful of leaving work at work and having a sustainable pace).
One of the problems was just how profitable film was. No amount of digital camera sales is going to be as profitable as being able to charge people $2 per photo (film+development).

Fujifilm survived by diversifying more into a chemical company than a consumer product company (whereas Kodak sold off those portions of the company as "not being core to consumer imaging" and focused on printers(??))

And yet even Fuji are now back to having traditional film photography being their single largest revenue generator (their instax instant film is now so popular it is chronically sold out and they are doubling factory capacity to keep up)
Tweets are useless here, these words are too vague to interpret without more commentary (how are we measuring diversity, what is effectiveness, etc, all the usual stuff I'm sure the researchers explain).

However the preprint article itself is 130 pages and I'm not reading through it.
Yes they will work indefinitely. Why wouldn't they?
> Have you looked at this per province or per 1mm+ population city, rather than a Canada wide average?

Not exhaustively, but it is as true nationally, as it is in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and even many rural areas. Sure, there is probably some outlier – there always is – and CREA (Canada's unfortunate source of housing price information) doesn't collect/publish data for every last nook and cranny of the country anyway, but the general trend is abundantly clear.
First, you should do some experimentation to determine if fine tuning is even needed for you. gpt4 and claude opus have enough context window to ground the model with your knowledge base and one of the best of class hosted models is going to be far better at reasoning than any model you can afford to run yourself.

If you need data privacy and don't trust openai and anthropic when they say they don't train on api call data, then you will need a local model.
Parent is likely referring to political/mass pressure behind initiatives.

In which case the lack of a clear singular message, when confronted with a determined and amoral adversary, dissolves into confusion.

Most classically, because the adversary plants PR behind "It's still an open debate among experts."

See: cigarettes, climate change
I’m in same boat. Turnaround is awful for anything besides the most basic boards, and that being fast doesn’t really help when it’s just quickly entering a slow delivery process.

I find pricing really scattered everywhere. Often mouser and digikey, which others swear by, have worst pricing (and availability). But I think these places are intentionally high on some items to discourage production runs and keep it a prototyping service. Not sure why they care though.
If that works for you for anything but very small strings, I want to buy your computer.
I may make a plug in for this in to my local 11b LLM so that I could have it third-party summarise my comments in a David Attenborough documentary style. I love the idea of 60k plus DA summarisations and attributions of naturalistic motivations for my comments.

I stopped using Reddit when they banned 3rd party apps, after 16 years and nearly 6000 hours on the platform, including over 2800 hours writing content on their site.

More than happy to burn it all down, for the simple fact that their app sucks so bad that it’s unusable and they banned the app that I was comfortable with.

So, I will be replacing roughly $100k of written value (at half the rate I am normally paid for my writing work) with at least that much in negative value AI generated stupidity. F@$k those guys.

I intend to be an object lesson in abusing your top performing users.
> I've never heard of a company that wants their employees to move slower.

Companies don't formulate it this way, but in practice, by

- having lots of meetings

- introducing more and more red tape

- introducing more and more layers of management

- introducing more and more reporting requirements

- ...

they actually practice it.
Down for me, thought I was refreshing too much.

Nothing on their status page, HN wins the race again!
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Sorts like these work really well on GPUs. You would start with a single thread for the first pass and then keep spawning one-thread-per-bucket for every additional pass until done. It isn't particularly taxing on the GPU; your advantage comes from being able to run potentially thousands of threads simultaneously without having to worry about coordinating read/write memory access.
used this extensively before switching to linux/kde/plasma.

also look at

- Notepad3

- XYPlorer

- https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

- https://goffconcepts.com/products/filesearchex/

- HeidiSQL

- foobar2000

- KMPlayer

- 7zip

- Process Explorer (and many other Sysinternals utils)

- Autoruns (and many other Nirsoft tools)
USPTO provides guidance on the patentability of AI-assisted inventions
I was told by someone that this will all get killed off in W11 "soon" because of a shell rewrite (again) to XML Hosting/Win32 and that "third party shell replacements will die soon" because of it.

https://www.neowin.net/news/new-system32-files-suggest-micro...
Love the idea ! But how ? It seems to be a costly indexing.
> I’m surprised no one is outraged that Israel’s Military AI, named lavender is in active use identifying, targeting and murdering Palestinians In Real time.

'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245 - 20 days ago (1418 points, 1433 comments)

It's not that no one is outraged, it's that we like to keep the outrage limited to the threads that are about the outrage. I'd rather not see HN devolve into a place where every discussion inevitably pivots to the horrific world event du jour.
I use Brave, when I want to use browser teams I just open another browser exclusively for that.
My dad likes to tell the story of him working at a post office as a teenager. He was very motivated and worked fast, so his colleagues urged him to slow down, otherwise they would get more work.
I do think that people over-hype how useful diversity is, but I always worried that ethic tensions and whatnot would hurt productivity, so I am glad to see that this study supports the harmlessness of diversity.

I wish that the twitter user had cited the study, because I would have liked to actually read the thing. Noting that I haven't read the study though, I would like to put the following pro-diversity argument which I think is relevant and probably isn't covered by this graph:

Diversity helps create products which are useful to larger segments of the population. An instance of this in tech would be Bumble, which was created by a woman. The idea is basically be Tinder but the woman has to initiate the conversation after a match occurs. This apparently partially solves the problem where women feel inundated with messages and leave the platform. The result is that Bumble's gender ratio is 65% male as opposed to Tinder's 75% male.
You can’t be that naive. “Done is better than perfect”. Please google “commoditize your complements”.

Business is about winning in the arena of capitalism, not abstract metrics like code quality.
Do you have any proof this is running on infrastructure and support of Google?
I have to say I would be extremely surprised if Israel hosts intelligence data on GCP. Extremely surprised to a level I'd suspect high negligence on their part.
Variable-length instructions cause one bit of inconvenience for assembly programmers.

There are long and short JMP instructions that your assembler can possibly choose between depending on how far away the target is. Now, changing a JMP from short to long can change the length between another JMP and the target. Assemblers have different levels of intelligence for this situation: I programmed a lot of assembly for the 80286 (not protected mode but I used all the instructions that would speed up real mode) in the late 1980s and since we were working with little space a good assembler would try assembling the program multiple times until it got a consistent solution for what kind of JMP to use where.
I mean look at slides 8 and 9.

There is no such thing as a software patent.
There is no such thing as a rubber patent.
There is no such thing as a steel patent.
There is no such thing as an electricity patent

There is only ... a patent.

OK fine, but there are patents covering applications of rubber, steel, electricity, and software.

So either you think "well it's not a software patent, it's a patent that covers the application of some software" is a useful point to make, or you're being pedantic for pedantry's sake. To the former, I don't think that makes a difference to someone being sued by a patent troll.
For whatever metric they are using to measure “productivity”, this study says it’s a wash. Others say it’s beneficial. If you step back from questionable quantitative measures, it’s obvious that you will gain qualitative benefits from having a team made up of people with different mindsets, backgrounds, experiences, and opinions, so long as they treat each other with respect and good faith.

Team dynamics are far more complex than just what type of people are on the team, though. Leadership, purpose, process, relationships, communication, openness, morale, and expectations all probably play as much or more a role in productivity and success.

You won’t magically solve all your problems by creating diverse teams, but if you can build diverse teams that work well, you’re probably doing the right stuff in general.
Microsoft has good backwards compatibility in general, but saying "you can't use Google Wave in any shape or form" isn't really true in spirit.

Much of the advance of Wave went into other products. Wave itself did not take off, but we have better chat, better email, better docs, all because of things pioneered in Wave. This is often the case with Google products disappearing, it's often because they've served their purpose and the technology has become normalised in other places.

Google Play Music is a good example of this. It was a technically capable product, but missing the market (in my opinion), and was turned into YouTube Music, a much better fit (again, opinion). Many product "deaths" are actually just a migration, or a recognition that the product is no longer necessary, and are better for it.

Apart from Reader. RIP Reader.
In the example, the 3rd party is a sub-domain name. Are sub-domains treated the same as unqualified, "second level" domain names?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name
k-anonymity means there must be at least k persons (or similar) that have identical data in the dataset. E.g. with k=5 there has to be at least 5 rows for each unique set of column values.

It's easily broken if multiple such datasets are combined. And that's probably exactly what the commercial surveillance industry does.
This seems to be fairly unique in its breadth of different enterprises. Most co-ops seem to stay in a single industry e.g John Lewis with 80,000 employees in UK retail or the many agricultural/distribution co-ops owned by farmers.

Wikipedia page is a clearer read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Custom Dashboard for Great Expectations
HN isn't immune to Russian bots abusing voting systems. Dang and the crew clearly do a better job than most, but there are only so many mods, and the Russian bots are a pandemic.
We are not allowed to critique Israel or else we will be called anti-semetic and get cancelled. A proverbial third rail if you will.
New Insomnia 9.0 version available
Oops, I did.
Reading this news where there are real gun control and seeing a kid died because of this feels like America happens in a different dimension.

Even worse, a company exists to place sensors around a city to monitor gunshots. Observability platform for gunshots.

I'd say... the issue isn't with ShotSpotter, but the fact that the average citizen can carry guns.

I remember how, as a tourist, I just needed to sign a paper and pay some bucks to shoot with a gun.