skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard all this when my employer rammed SAP down our throats. Somehow SAP knew our industry and processes better than we did and so we were going to be more competitive and innovative by doing what everyone else was doing. We now have a giant organization devoted to feeding that backalley abortion. Meanwhile, we're less competitive than ever and innovation is dead due to lack of money.

I'm shocked, shocked that Oracle is no better. The chaos IS the point so the consultants can feast.

Meanwhile, Birmingham is slashing funding and services - especially in its highly regarded arts community - because the leeches are feasting on what blood is left.
I posted my comment because the linked proposal itself never uses the abbreviation "KYC" and none of the early comments spelled it out, so if (like me) you didn't already know what it means a quick Ctrl-F wouldn't help.

The proposal seems to use the term Customer Identification Program (CIP) instead, mentioning KYC (spelled out) only once, in the introduction:

> Section 1 of E.O. 13984 requires the Secretary to propose, for notice and comment, regulations that mandate that U.S. IaaS providers verify the identity of foreign persons that sign up for or maintain accounts that access or utilize U.S. IaaS providers' IaaS products or services (Accounts or Account)—that is, a know-your-customer program or Customer Identification Program (CIP).
Music was always like this. It used to be even more like this 100 years ago. How many twelve bar blues songs use the exact same chord progression? Maybe thousands if you managed to catalog them all. Maybe hundreds with the same lick between verses. As music started being recorded you had people writing dozens and dozens of songs a day to be owned by a label. They’d find some starlet with a voice and give her a book of these songs from the basement to record on the album and market her for a few years. If anything we are reverting to this model more today, as bands are no longer in vogue as much as individual artists whose material they perform has probably 20 writers credited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agre...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
Amazon's cloud-computing arm to invest US$11B in Indiana to build data centres
If you really want to quickly build, you can try ESPHome. Less learning, but way easier. They also make it possible to insert your own C into that code too.
Mobile Typing Pain
The obvious answer is that either you eat it up and build an Iranian community based on the OSS thing, or use a VPN and conceal your connection to Iran.

This is the way.
MemoryDB isn't software that's being distributed to customers. It's a service.
Good thing Java edition is a trivial game to pirate. Microsoft stole my legit copy of the game by demanding I sign up for a Microsoft account and accept a new TOS. So I downloaded a third party launcher and commented out the account verification code. There are also prebuilt "cracked" clients of course.

Pirate servers with friends is more fun anyway, people can change their nicknames on a whim as they can on IRC/discord. And you don't have to worry about the built-in snitchware banning you for talking shit with your bros, or daring to be born in a country the state department is mad at.
First principles learning is critical for sure.

Being able to navigate first principles concepts and learning to use them gets to what's novel is more a little quicker.
IaaS is defined as a provider of computing resources the allows you to run software that is not predefined. So that would seem to include basically every web host. If you can install Wordpress or Mastodon on the servers they provide, they are an IaaS.
I used to game all the time but completely stopped during college. I always felt like I had more important things to do (invest in relationships, study, read, exercise) and there way no time for gaming. I would still watch a movie or a TV show, but the time commitment there was always much lower.

Since then my responsibilities have only grown (kids, job, house to maintain, etc) so I haven't even tried picking them up again (though I do play Switch with my 7 yr old occasionally)
Ice Age climate analysis reduces worst-case warming expected from rising CO₂
So basically if you can't run it anywhere other than AWS, it's no more newsworthy than talking about a COBOL compiler for an IBM mainframe; which is also equally capable of giving you 11 9's.

BTW AWS can't possibly have been delivering on 11 9's given their previous outages; 9 9's is 0.031s over a year.
> It's also about making sure the common person in $SANCTIONED_COUNTRY feels the pain.

This is exactly it - otherwise the populace can just ignore their government's foreign policy decisions. There's consequences for being a bad actor on the global stage... and today that means no more Minecraft, of all things.

Perhaps the OP can write a letter to their representative and pressure them to work on easing sanctions...
Meh, Matthias Wandel's still going to beat you on speed (and quite possibly strength) with his homemade pantorouter or box joint jig.

As much as I like nice joint design, I think a lot of that aesthetic beauty comes from when it's not machinable (or not traditionally anyway, iirc the pantorouter can make some pretty tight dovetails - because of the orientation vs. trying to route them 'normally'). It's not how fancy and curvey can it look, it's how intricate and fine the detail. Chunky dovetails don't look better than box joints in my opinion.
AI doomers act like it's an existential threat to all of humanity. And as I said, we are still here.
Dreamhost, Wordpress, etc
I don’t think we’re ready either but I also don’t see how you’d get ready without the pressing need to.

That is to say: I think this was inevitable.
Some AI services such as Synthesia
https://www.synthesia.io › ethics
" Your avatar can be created only with your explicit consent, following a thorough KYC-like procedure. Complete control: Our platform ensures you can decide"
It's on the parties sponsoring and proposing the law to rigorously explain the benefits (and to discuss any negatives). Maybe go ask them?
At a quick reading, it doesn't sound like those are requirements. It also doesn't look like any documentation is technically required. One of the methods permitted is "Verification through non-documentary methods".
It's really not benign as far as I can see. There is an implication that its purpose is to allow providers to start writing reports on foreign users training LLMs (which, incidentally, I'm not condoning either), but in the process it requires every American IaaS has to start implementing KYC folly.

No one wants to send in selfies and their passport just to start a Digital Ocean droplet.
In practice this often means requiring a photo ID scan.
If this was the case, wouldn't the VPN work? Reddit OP said that it didn't.

> Even VPN doesn't work. Because Microsoft has linked Minecraft to your Microsoft account and it's hardcoded into it that I am iranian. I tried VPN, and it still said it's banned in my country.

source: https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/comments/1cckj2q/today_m...
Part of the exposure is also due to the limited range of some smaller drone control systems, meaning those drone operators have needed to be much closer (a few km) to their targets than artillery crews (several dozen km).
> Having nix-darwin uninstall brews not declared in the flake makes me stay honest about keeping my configuration up to date as well

Note that you don't need nix-darwin to achieve that. I keep my homebrew stuff separate from nix but still "keep myself honest" with this:

HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 /opt/homebrew/bin/brew bundle --file="$HOME/Brewfile" --cleanup --no-upgrade
>They don't need anyone else's money

There's no such thing in capitalism. Limited supply semi is(was) a bidding war, where China had a blank cheque and was willing to outbid everyone else to secure semi manufacturing supremacy.

Do you think Intel or TSMC could have scored all that ASML supply at that price if China would have been allowed to bid as well? ASML would have been able to score way higher market prices per EUV stepper had China been allowed in the game, and therefore higher profits.

You think ASML shareholders hate higher profits or what? Nvidia sure didn't during the pandemic. You wanted a GPU? Great, it would cost you now 2x-3x the original MSRP because free market capitalism and the laws of supply and demand.
This feels like a convenient excuse for cost cutting. Experienced people are expensive. If you need to make cuts, it's an easy place to start.

Ironically, it's felt like US tech companies have been moving in the opposite direction lately. There seems to be a lot of demand for very senior engineers at the same time it's become increasingly difficult for new grads to find jobs. Maybe this is just a function of the pinch in CS graduation rates ~15 years ago[1]. From my experience as a manager, the premium you pay for senior talent also seems like a good deal. Even among good programs, there is huge variance in the productivity of new grads and training is a difficult proposition when changing jobs every 2 years is common.

[1] https://www.jamiefosterscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/1...
I guess one start might be to avoid the comments section on HN ;)
Do content creators currently make any income from your platform? If so, what are the statistics of this (best, typical, etc)
Tracing C++ function performance live via instrumentation [video]
Hello, since some time now I develop an extension for Visual Studio that makes it possible to see what's going on in your program live. This includes which code paths are executed and what changes in variables take place on each line of the function. Here, I decided to create a prototype that makes it possible to visualize the longest executing lines in the function, also completely live and at runtime.

The difference between this and e.g profilers like Tracy is that there's no need to insert the instrumentation manually, and you can explore the codebase much more freely to see what's going on. This is done through dynamic function relocation and inserting an rdtsc call after each line to collect the CPU timestamps. There's some more supporting code of course, but when it comes to overhead we get about ~15 instructions per line (more if it supported multiple threads).

On top of all that, the extension works really hard not to disrupt any standard Visual Studio workflow like setting breakpoints or viewing the call stack, which has been a very hard thing to achieve: the VS debugger expects that all code is on the same place as it was and that it maps perfectly to the corresponding debug information (which is not at all the case when the extension is running!).

If you want to try out the extension: https://d-0.dev/

I'm also active on a Discord server for the project if you want to talk more/follow for more updates: https://discord.gg/PY6X3NMmuN
What I do is be very quick to block any number that sends me spam of any sort.
Enhance information retrieval with learned sparse embeddings
Why?

Is one system provably better than all others and therefore must dominate?

I personally find the idea of an Oligarchical Republic to be a bit batty nuggets... Do i get to trade? Am i up against the wall in your world?
Anything that helps turn RESP into more of a commodity protocol seems like a good thing in the long run. It seems to be simple enough that workloads can legitimately migrate around and users can vote with their wallets for whoever operates the most secure/available/portable(OSS) platform. By contrast SQL tech is in a far more precarious state.
Computers outside of the US sure, but the latest chips used for AI training have export controls so not so much.
FreeBSD: The torchbearer of the original operating system distribution
This isn't really answering your question, but Wi-Fi isn't a very power efficient protocol.
FTA: "The company lists possible applications of the new robot as "wildfire control and prevention," "agricultural management," "ecological conservation," "snow and ice removal," and "entertainment and SFX." But most of all, it sets things on fire in a variety of real-world scenarios."
> It seems a bit benign

This seems, to me, an utterly malignant attack on anonymity, which is a protected constitutional right. It's the idea that every internet packet needs to be tied back to some verified identity. We're in frog-boiling territory with this garbage.
You could repost this as a Show HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and it might have a better chance at getting attention. If you do, definitely keep this patch allowing guests to create their own experiences, because you'll get better feedback if users can access the full system.

Also, your text should go into a little more detail about what this product actually is and how it works. Your description at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138318 is ok, but a bit too high-level for HN.

I hope this helps!
Again, you're conflating DID with VC improperly.

VC is an extension built on top of DID. It's not decentralized Verifiable Credentials, it's just Verifiable Credentials.

The entire article is about VC, and refers to VC as DID (which is also what you're wrongly doing).

It's like criticizing the collective web standard based on REST. REST is not the web.

Also, the part that makes VC decentralized is the alternative (OIDC authorization code flow). VC doesn't require the issuer for verification. (So basically the user has control over attestation of information about their identity, not some third party)

That means even though the Gov issued you an ID they can't track every time you have your credentials verified.. it works exactly like a physical ID. It's issued by the government, but the government isn't there every time you need to show ID. Some might consider that an invasion of privacy if they were.
AFAIK, you still can play offline with alternative launchers like Prism Launcher (you need an account to do the initial setup and download, but once everything is downloaded, you can add as many offline accounts as you want), and the downloadable server still has a "do not validate the accounts online" option which allows offline users to connect and play.
This is really good. That image you have on the README now makes me want to have a depth of field effect on the confettis as well as multiple layers!
In combat, flamethrowers were rarely used to kill. They are meant to terrify. Point a flamethrower at a bunker and those protected inside will surrender.
Show HN: Langtrace – OpenTelemetry-Based LLM App Observability
Hey HN,

Ola and Karthik here. We are working on Langtrace(https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace), an open source, open telemetry based SDK and monitoring/evaluations client for LLM based applications. The SDK generates OTEL standard spans and traces for popular LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, popular frameworks like Langchain and LlamaIndex and vectorDBs like ChromaDB and Pinecone.

The LLM monitoring/evaluations space has seen a number of products off late, both open source and closed source ones. But, a couple of things we have observed are: lack of standard spans and traces that creates vendor lock in, different tools are optimized for solving different pain points - Evaluations, Prompt management, Datasets etc.

We believe that adopting open telemetry(OTEL) standard tracing not only lets teams use our SDK without having to switch their observability client, but will also enable developers to develop tooling for any custom needs such as capturing datasets, prompts, evaluations etc.

A quick note on what we have built so far:

[1] We have a Python and a TypeScript SDK and we have broken down the support for the LLM layer into 3 groups, LLMs, Frameworks and VectorDBs. Our SDKs are open telemetry compatible, can be installed and used independently and we also provide an option to pass custom exporters to export the traces and spans to any observability tool of your choice.

[2] An observability client that is hyper optimized for solving the unique pain points and challenges that come with LLM based apps like Evaluations, prompt iteration, datasets etc. We are SOC2 compliant and the client can also be self hosted if you have strict data privacy and protection requirements.

[3] Both the SDK and the client are fully open source. We are leaning on the community to try it out and provide feedback.

A note about Open Telemetry semantic conventions for LLMs - We would like to converge on standard names for trace attributes that follow the OTEL rules and are looking for feedback from experts here - https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace/discussions/71

We recognize that this project is early and there is a lot of room for improvement. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thanks!

Links:

[1] https://langtrace.ai/

[2] https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace

[3] https://docs.langtrace.ai/introduction

[4] https://langtrace.ai/blog/why-you-need-opentelemetry-based-o...
Clearing weeds and other grasses
Tell us more about what you do during the day so we can help you automate it.

I would start with MacOS Shortcuts.app . It is an accessible approach to automation / scripting that works across all of your apple devices.

Some general "unix" tools found on MacOS Terminal

* bc -- desk calculator
* tr -- replace text (translate)
* grep -- filter text
* nano -- edit files
* convert (imagemagick) -- resize images
* ping / tracert / mtr / iperf3 (advanced) -- network testing
* top / free -- activity monitor
* open (macos) -- open current file in Finder
* pbcopy / pbpaste -- copy / paste stdout

You may need homebrew to install some if they are missing.
Useful for annoying your visitors?

Why on earth would they not enable the setting which honours the `prefers-reduces-motion` media flag for users who don't want stuff flying all over their screens?!
It’s the height of irony to respond to this comment with some techno-utopian BS, when the parent is describing how AI is actually being used, right now, to inflict mass casualties on a civilian population. At what point to people abandon their Panglossian hypotheticals and stare reality in its face?
Top languages measured by code pushes
ugc wasn't promoted earlier. that's whats new.

there was a reason there were so many tiktok video that went viral where influencers used to tell people to append "reddit" at the end.

you don't need to do that anymore because quora, reddit, etc... all rank above on google now.

there's a reason seo's are crying because they all lost their income.
For sure that could be done. I guess the benefit of having an ML search engine is that it may be able to infer what you're looking for even though you can't exactly name it.

But yeah, you're right. Burning magnet links into Ethereum seems like it might work decently, never thought of that.
There are probably very few ISPs that can fall outside of this standard. For example if your provider provides e-mail, it's providing infrastructure. And yet, the slope can get much more slippery than this.
A very significant percentage of us (I suspect a large majority) haven't really bothered with blockchain tech. Blockchain tech doesn't solve any problems that most of us actually need solving.
In fairness, though, HN has a limit on title length, so I'm not sure it was all that possible in the headline here.
If you're a downvoter, why? I would love to hear why you disagree with my comment.
I applaud sanctions because this time Iran simply went too far. It is completely unprecedented that Iran bombed the consulate if Israel. This is an incredibly reckless escalation of violence.
This would make it illegal to anonymously run your own Wordpress install or Mattermost/groupchat server, you would have to reveal your identity to the web host. Do you trust the powers-that-be to never use this information to find and punish dissidents?
Literally every software that you can host.

This effort will end anonymity on the internet. For everyone.

Crypto was just the beginning. Next is end-to-end encryption. And it's going on worldwide, not just in USA:

https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-en...
Think of a problem you want to solve, Google how to do it in the terminal.
Lots of good stuff in there!
Burning crop stubble (where that's legal) or heath control?
Oh I see. I interpreted your comment as if it were more of a treadmill than other distributions.
In this case, that's right. I don't care about source since client-side is widely documented. And as for server-side, there's still Redis source code.
> Conservatives tend to be more self-disciplined and are thus healthier, consume less alcohol and tobacco, and have a better diet (Chan, 2019; Subramanian & Perkins, 2010)

The first one is unfortunately paywalled.

The second[1] is a letter to the editor and mostly consists of the finding that people who report themselves as Republicans are more likely to answer positively to the question "Would you say your own health, in general, is excellent, good, fair, or poor?".

It only speculates one of the reasons could be conservative values encouraging self discipline (it doesn't seem to entertain the possibility of any correlation between political leanings and biased self reporting).

[1] https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/3/930/627191
> And I also don't agree that the change we have had in America from prior generations of immigrants is a good thing. New York City, for example, would probably be much better run and more orderly if it was still mainly people from a culture that reflexively queue up even if they're unsure what they're standing in line for

But then we have to wonder as well whether NYC and its surrounding environs would have evolved into the global capital of finance, culture, technology, etc., that it is.

We'll never know, for example, whether Bell Labs would have arisen in a region populated "mainly [by] people from a culture that reflexively queue up even if they're unsure what they're standing in line for[.]"

And more generally: We'd have to wonder whether the U.S. would have, for example, twice led the rescue of Europe from German fascism and provided nearly 80 years of relative peace that has been labeled Pax Americana — or would an isolationist U.S. instead have led to even more domination of various countries by aggressors (see: Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Stalin); warlords and their gangs (see: Somalia, Haiti, etc.); and xenophobic nationalists (see: Orbán, Modi, and their ilk).

Bemoaning immigration is not unlike bemoaning bad weather. Immigration is gonna happen; trying to stop it, using our available means, would cost more financially — and perhaps morally, for some crimes-against-humanity measures that can be imagined — than decent societies are willing to pay.
Their government says that America is an evil spiteful bully. The apparent truth of that claim has now been demonstrated to any Iranian who plays Minecraft. You think the result is more Iranians questioning their government? I doubt it.
That is outlined in §7.302

The TL;DR is that the must collect name, address, email, phone number, IP address, and payment information and use that information for "verifying the identity of each foreign customer to the extent it enables the U.S. IaaS provider or foreign reseller of U.S. IaaS products to form a reasonable belief that it knows the true identity of each customer."

AWS already has all of this information on my account.
> When the tyrants have to face their own behavior, they'll be forced to raise the evidentiary standards high enough their own lies won't work.

I don't think that tyrants work this way –- at least not in America's educational system. They're very happy to employ double standards.
Maybe they’re supposed to be held responsible or liable?