skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my half-hearted counterpoints:

1. what about something like a usb flir heat camera? yes i know webusb exists, but having to go to a website to use a peripheral (and give it permissions to that peripheral) is not ideal

2. apps can change on you at any point, potentially maliciously. I'm not naive enough to think the app store will catch this kind of thing every time, but at least you have control over updating apps, and some guarantees that everyone gets the same binary

3. you can kiss any sort of ui-cohesion goodbye
Pretty sure the point here was Llama3 respecting the command to not mention that this is interesting, not adding filler, rather than the output fact being interesting or not.
That’s not even remotely close to what I said.

I went through all the trouble because I thought it was the right thing to do and I wanted to do right by the babysitter. It’s why I ended up paying an accountant a larger lump of money than I would have liked to in order to get it all sorted out.

Im complaining how difficult it is to do the right thing.
The bill bans all software created by Bytedance.
Not from data I read do you have a source?
If someone can create or reproduce the same kind of work that Person A produces, then that work effort (not the work product, the work) holds less value. Person A should do something to add more value.

A similar argument can be had for something that can be made cheaper than a more expensive option. If my company makes a widget that takes 100 people to make over the course of a year, and then someone comes along and finds a way to make it at substantially less cost (not labor costs) via technological improvement, then seems like OP would similarly be against this, which doesn't jive with nearly any definition of capitalism.
As a joke, I built a jar that would call a phone number to inform them the status of the jar. Thing looked like a bomb.
This attack is very sophisticated and still the root cause is undiscovered.
> What people keep forgetting is the original iPhone had no App Store.

It arrived one year later, in 2008:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(Apple)

> People quickly forget the original 1st gen iPhone was, despite laying the foundation for some great technologies, hot garbage.

"Hot garbage" by what metric? Other phones introduced in 2007:

* https://mowned.com/top-mobile-devices/2007

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phones_introdu...

The Nokia N95 or RIM Curve 8320 were ranked higher by some folks:

* https://www.mobilegazette.com/2007-review-07x12x12.htm

* https://web.archive.org/web/20071214112358/http://reviews.cn...
You can be unaffiliated (or a member of the confusingly named Independent Party) but you’re right, you then can’t vote in any primary elections.
holy crap! how was this built hope to see some code
eBPF?
It is standard behavior on Windows.
The issues you run into come with plugging and unplugging screens. If you leave them plugged in they work like that. I know it's not helpful for laptops that get moved around.
It was highly praised in the blog post that led to this huge discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033
The kernel has API in place to run code in userspace from within a kernel module ("usermode driver"). That would in theory be one way something complex in the kernel could be isolated. The obvious downside being the additional context switches and round trips for the data adding latency.

Here's a blog post that demonstrates embedding an entire Go program as a blob into a kernel module and running it in userspace from the module:

https://www.sigma-star.at/blog/2023/07/embedded-go-prog/
For those who haven't visited Japan, this is especially interesting because Japan has a strong bias away from digital and toward paper books (and cash, and other "physical goods") relative to comparably rich countries.
I have already sent this to all my buddies.

I thought about generative games, so that one game could be made, and each individual gets their own experience.

Well done!
I could be wrong, but my assumption is that tech companies with a lot of talent develop their own messaging apps for the execs and friends. Why would they risk using a popular platform? The data could be sent via whatever medium, doesn't need to be ethernet. I also assume this is how most illegal collusion is done as well, unless someone wants to give me other data points.
Was I wrong to interpret the phrasing "I’m sure there’s some schools" to imply you were assuming the existence of these schools?

I'm sorry that was your experience, but it's not a widespread phenomenon like the green bubble phenomenon is.
Best practice is to NOT integrate this in a Ruby on Rails application.
> Nobody provides SMS levels of interop on unrestricted internet messaging platforms because the experience sucks.

Maybe Apple should lead the charge on that, or instead they'll be forced to use something truly godawful like OMEMO or RCS. I'd prefer they didn't, but it would be pretty funny if they were forced down that path in the long-run. It takes a haughty spirit before the fall.

> Destroying a working, positive experience on the apple platform and dragging it down to 2000s level is the explicit goal for a lot of people.

A more believable motive than being one of the millions of non-Apple customers that are subject to using an inferior messaging standard? Apple made their bed by believing they could proprietate a public resource; now you've got to lie in it because you're their customer. Frankly I (and regulators) could care less what iMessage looks like once it's all done. It's apparently not our platform.
How do you keep up with the industry?
Hopefully they price to compete with both Apple (Air has great screen and battery life) and x86 laptops (no crazy markups on RAM/SSD), while keeping their promise for mainline Linux support.
I’m not sure that’s what DIY means!

Congrats on the little ‘un!
copyright infringement ;)
> Withholding too much is literally required under the law. If you don't withhold enough, at tax time you could be liable for penalties unless you also pay quarterly to make up the difference.

You only need to withhold 90% of the taxes you owe to avoid an underpayment penalty, so you don't need to withhold too much.
All of these issues are entirely due to the tokenization scheme. Literally all of them

You could get this behavior implemented perfectly with constrained text gen techniques like grammars or any of the various libraries implementing constrained text gen (i.e. guidance)
"I find it useful to think “what can I expect from speaking with the dataset of combined writing of people”, rather than treating a basic LLM as a mind."

I've been doing this as well, mentally I think of LLMs as the librarians of the internet.
That's not a great example. Remembering a face is memory recall, whereas what's at stake here is LLMs not being able to infer simple relationships - if it learns from data that "John owns the red bicycle", it will succeed at answering "what does John own", but not "who owns the red bicycle". The relationship it learns is unidirectional.

Here's the intro to the paper that brought this to light: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SCqDipWAhZ49JNdmL/paper-llms...
>They are if you take car of them.

That also applies to ICEs.
What is median size of municipality? If many of them are relatively small it is not that much surprise as bookstore needs certain number of people to support them.
It has already happened on android in the case of Epic. They require that you side load their launcher/store in order to play games such as Fortnite. There was a big lawsuit about google’s fees which precipitated this.

https://www.fortnite.com/mobile/android/new-device?lang=en-U...
for the pizza place that's already doing it, there isn't one. but for all the other restaurants in the area, the Chinese place, the Thai place, the sushi place, it doesn't make sense for each of them to have their own drivers who then sit idle waiting for customers to want that specific cuisine when the driver could be busy driving food around, regardless of the restaurant. Seems more efficient to me, but I'm not a pizza place.
Yes, in that at some level I know my aster password or at least the components of it but it only when I type it at speed that I get it right.
It’s useful to know how the site moderators view my comments, and how this might influence their behaviour against my user account.

Thank you for admitting this.

I will be more wary of this site than I already was.
If you make a spreadsheet of real GDP growth, and when federal tax increases or decreases have happened, you will find there appears to be little effect.

You don't have to believe me on that. It's very easy to plop the data into a spreadsheet yourself.
> I've never been a big fan of mandatory message retention

It's the price of being publicly traded, which is born out of our lessons learned from the Enron scandal, and gave us incredibly simple SOX regulations, and decades of strange antipathy towards them.

> it just seems like punishment for the literate.

Are you suggesting that companies are eschewing written communication for verbal communication as a means of bypassing this legislation? And that it's unfair you have no similar bypass? That's a pretty morally relative take.

> but if you don't know what the crime is, how can you be so sure?

You've precisely described _why_ the coverup is seen as worse than the crime.
When Wall St. concerns lead to imposing cannibalistic capitalism plans that are pennywise but pound foolish.

Just wait a few years. When they come calling for consulting services, charge them triple.
No thanks, I don't want your fake "higher standards".

>Does this sound like gouging the customer to line their executive pockets to you?

Yes, it does, when they lobby to fight against right-to-repair. Yes, it does, when they price gouge the customer on storage upgrades. Yes, it does, when they hide defects in their products and push people to buy new products. Yes, it does, when they use child labor.
I launched something very similar ~5 years ago! The site is long gone, but there's some screenshots here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/spoiled-tv

Good luck! My goal was to be a sort of "Rap Genius" for movies and TV shows, but unfortunately, I couldn't really figure out the business angle, and my traffic was abysmal, so I had to shut it down. If you care to, you can see my old pitch deck here[1].

[1] https://dvt.name/secret/ucla/spoiled-deck-pitch.pdf
And really almost always its because the LLMs are really good at summarization and ok at extrapolation and generally lie a lot otherwise.
I'm at 130,000 now, I'll let you know when I roll over the 200,000 mark.
Agreed. If their data is safe, the rest of us are safe, too.
I'll keep using Signal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Grassmann would like to have a word with you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Peano was so impressed he wrote a book to explain it.
It is much easier to just read and try to understand what smarter people than us spent their precious time on earth figuring out.
Newton was on to something about standing on shoulders of giants.An option available to anyone.
Code mods are fun. Were they gated by human PR reviews, perhaps in batches, or applied without review?
Not getting their information from tiktok would improve anyone's intelligence.
API driven LLMs on purpose don't implement core features which would enable which you want, for example, negative prompting.

You can negative prompt any LLM with stuff like "always write the word interesting in your response".

You can also use techniques for modifying logprobs of tokens, which is avaialble in gpt-4 api (but is hard to use). You can literally ban "interesting" from its vocabulary.

You could even use representation steering techniques to do this using control vectors. See this library as an example: https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/llm_steer-oobabooga
Alt+Tab is practically instant and I already use Anki for all my SRS needs, so having a separate SRS for a niche topic as a Chrome-only browser extension is just a lose-lose for me.

It's a cool project, though!
I think the only way to learn it is long, slow practice. There’s a how-to linked on the splash page and an extensive wiki, but otherwise it’s just going to be a process.

I personally love Emacs and have lost interest in learning anything else, but “fun” isn’t the right word for the learning curve. “Pain” might be closer to the mark.
That re-embeding is also encoded in weather. It is why perfect forecasting is impossible, why we talk about the butterfly effect.

The "hallucination problem" is simply the tyranny of Lorenz... one is not sure if a starting state will have a good outcome or swing wildly. Some good weather models are based on re-runing with tweaks to starting params, and then things that end up out of bounds can get tossed. Its harder to know when a result is out of bounds for an LLM, and we dont have the ability to run every request 100 times through various models to get an "average" output yet... However some of the reuse of layers does emulate this to an extent....
It's not. Shell scripts are still very much actively used and developed.
ICE are more reliable than ICE if you take care of them?
Murder = killing without just cause.

Killing is not illegal (for self defense, or to save an innocent life). Neither is revolting against an oppressive government in the US, as per the constitution.
Sweet, now he owns two joke factories. Twilio has been a nightmare and we jumped ship to another provider after 10 years.
if you you don't pay or instruct staff enough to understand the difference, something's really bad at a company with that excuse.
I, too, am no physicist -- but from what I can discern from the article, they're using the light (presumably, the quanta - or photon) to change the polarity (the light, here, acting as the magnetizer/demagnetizer via spin).

This would, in theory, remove the limitations of signaling via copper or the like, which produces the limiting speeds of current RAM implementations.
So you only point that scrapping data is bad because the cost? How do you know that the site someone is scraping doesnt have fixed cost?
+1

It's genuinely amazing for what it covers. A fantastic way to quickly get up to speed for JS/TS, SQL, and basic Python.
> the wealthiest members of society, who are the most international and most likely to have two passports

Bizarre to wield this argument immediately after referencing Germany's recent change in nationality law, which overwhelmingly benefits immigrants from countries like Turkey.
I made a glowy box that takes up 1U in my homelab rack and represents my home internet reliability - an esp32c3 (risc-v, experimenting with the rust support) which pings 8.8.8.8 every minute and shows the past 30 minutes of results on a strip of 30 LEDs (green -> red for ping time, blue for errors)
It does not surprise me that people shitpost calling an expert "moronic" without any counter arguments.
And this works even if we assume the dots don't actually transfer information but just slightly mutate the state. First it tries a random approach, if that approach doesn't lead to a powerful result it emits a dot to try another random approach in the next round, until you get a sufficiently good path forwards.

Essentially a brute-force search. Which is a bit wasteful, but better than just blindly taking the first idea
We need to cut spending. Spending is OUT OF CONTROL.

You can’t make up in taxes what you keep spending, and deficit spending is insane right now.

Why is this not part of the conversation? I have no problem paying higher taxes, but without responsible spending it’s just pouring gas on an out of control fire.
I would think this would be old news.

"Cat, get off of the table."

"I'm not on the table, I'm on the placemat."

Cat logic.
I agree with you in general.

However, in your example it’s the kernel that is deciding the request (message) is bad. In Hubris it is the message receiver.

This is a bit contrived, but imagine you’re receiving some stringly typed data from an external source and sending a message to a parsing task that either throws or messages you back with a list of some type t. Maybe it is returning ints and you as the client know that if something isn’t parsable as an int you want it to treat it as a ‘0’ because you’re summing the list. Somewhere else you want to call the same task, but you want strings that can’t be parsed to be treated as ‘1’ unless they can’t be parsed due to overflow (in which case you rethrow) because you’re taking the product.

In some situations it’s natural for the client to know more than the server about how to handle errors. With this nuke from orbit model, there’s some forced coupling between the client and server (mutual agreement over what causes a REPLY_FAULT).
It seems to be a python app, so probably set it up as a seperate microservice with its own REST API
Amen brother. I had feelings like this which I wanted to share, but you hit the nail on the head.
But that’s the thing: People are buying those houses. They are not inaffordable. What we’re seeing is rather: Jobs get more and more advanced, you don’t only need to do IT, you need to be in the right sector of IT. Each new generation discovers/invents a new scale of wealth, no-one could have imagined in 2000 that developers would be paid more than $120k, but $600k is the new average in the right jobs.

I’ve made a blast as a Java/Full-stack developer in my generation, leaving hairdressers of my city in the dust in terms of purchasing power. But in 10 years? I’ll still be as rich, but AI developers will earn 10x more than me.

It scares me to death, not for myself, but how can normal people compete with a normal job, when there are more and more internet millionaires, dropshipping lords, bitcoins kingpins, youtube magnates and AI clerics who can stomach x2 on food prices and x10 on housing?
Have you helped your coworkers before? Then you got what it takes to get started.
Do you apply this ethics to webs scraping only, or to all other network communications too?

Because if that's your general principles, you are making the internet much shittier. I still remember the old internet with open SMTP servers, easy-to-use comment forms, and forums which did not require emails and capthas. But people with "You can respond however you like to my HTTP request" attitude ruined it with spam, scam and SEO.

If you only apply this to web scraping, then where do you draw the line and why? Can you scrape at maximum rate server can support? Can you scrape if this requires active action (like account creation?) As long as you scrape, can you also post some links to improve your SEO?
> I don't see that removing or crippling an option a lot of users rely on improves the market, or competition.

It certainly doesn't need to be removed, just expanded. Apple can't have their cake and eat it too, you either replace SMS and the multiplatform commitments that come with it or you don't. Pretending to hold down a halfway-house to keep selling iPhones is not only a bundling tactic, but combined with Apple's negligence towards alternatives it's genuinely anticompetitive.

> Are happy iPhone users that rely on iMessage every day including it's SMS integration not benefited, or not the public?

...no, those are happy iPhone users. The public inherently means people that are not paying customers of Apple; regular citizens with no outstanding obligations to any corporation.

I don't understand how you could possibly interpret "the public" to mean "satisfied iPhone customers" in this situation.
OP is specifically comparing voice to text. So it has absolutely nothing to do with being publicly traded. In fact the FTC can investigate fully private companies too.

Publicly traded or not, companies aren't expected to record all voice conversations done by their employees and retain those recordings for future court cases.

That's the double-standard that OP is pointing out. There seems to be an expectation that text chat should be recorded and persisted and audio not.

This is a vestige of an old era when text was for more "formal" or serious conversation and chat for informal.

Today with IM-ing and remote work text can be as ephemeral as voice.
Show HN: Data Bonsai: a Python package to clean your data with LLMs
I've been doing some data cleaning for my fine tuning projects using LLMs, and decided to just build a package for it as a side project. Check it out here: https://github.com/databonsai/databonsai

Some features:

- categorization (labelling), transformation and decomposition (text into structured format)
- validates llm outputs

- batch mode batches up the inputs/outputs so you don't send the prompt (schema, fewshot examples) for every row of data, saving a significant amount of tokens

There are some similarities to the Instructor repo, but this is simpler and made for datasets. Would love any feedback/suggestions (and a star if you like it!)
already way more than 1% do switch.

but if you're close to a monopoly, numbers go up with market size increase. you can lose ((market size Delta) - 1) until your bonus motivated employees have to care.
"Without roots"
The idea for this comparison came when I read in article that 40% of internet downtime is due to hardware issues (not sure if this is true). The experiment aims to compare the uptime between a website using a reliable cloud provider and one managed in-house due to compliance or other reasons. I understand your point about the variety of configurations that exist beyond simple cloud vs. on-premises. However, my focus is specifically on comparing traditional on-premises data center management against using established cloud services. Here's the repo of the project if that helps you believe in what I say https://github.com/mateomaza/cloudXground. I don't even have the knowledge to do something wrong with the info tbf, I mean just look at my GitHub.
Jeff Bezos can't use signal because Amazon uses... a pricing algorithm? Call me a bootlicker but that's insane.
Support is usually among the first to be outsourced to a remote country. It happened to all of my previous companies: two to Ukraine and two to India.
Proving it seems exceedingly difficult unless a party to the convo testifies it was done to evade potential discovery. Any record suggesting use of Signal for work purposes could be bad for their side.

One prime directive of megacorp comms, don't write down anything that could be used as evidence. If possible, have an unscheduled chat in person.
Yes but companies are not expected to record all audio conversations going on in their offices, or to put recorders on their employees.

In the era of remote work it's common to have ephemeral conversations through text, which are no different from employees chatting at the watercooler. Employees and execs should be free to have those conversations through ephemeral apps. There is no obligation on any company to deliberately create paper trails of everyday conversations b/w employees.
> Because they GAVE IT TO ME, that's why.

You gave it them when they visited you.
> my assumption is that tech companies with a lot of talent develop their own messaging apps for the execs and friends.

err- i dont mean to be rude but, what gave you that assumption?
To be fair the legal use of lethal force involves an intent to stop the perpetrator, not to kill him. You can very much get yourself convicted of murder in what would otherwise be a self defense case if a jury is convinced you were looking to kill someone intentionally. That’s why among other reasons you should call for an ambulance immediately and politely keep your mouth shut until you speak with your lawyer.
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It's not an app, it's the golf club. This is what golf clubs are for.
Related part of IEEE Std 1003.1: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1..., Guideline 6