skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works by allowing the project to deal with honest people and ignore assholes efficiently.

And for a small team (in this case, one person), getting rid of assholes who just want to rip the project off with minimal effort is a big win.

After all, if you just want to play around with the system you are a hobbyist and can get it for free anyway. Why go to the extra effort of stealing the code?

And if you actually are creating value with the system, don't you think you might want some support?

If your answer in either case is that you would rather cheat the author then there is nothing tangible stopping you, but you just defined who you are and selected yourself out of the class of people the maintainer has to deal with.
That's not true really. With well written prompts GPT4 is better at some things and worse at others than Claude/Llama3. GPT4 only appears to be the best by a wide margin if your benchmark suite is vague, poorly specified prompts and your metric for evaluation is "did it guess what I wanted accurately"
The original NNUE paper cites AlphaZero[0]. The architectures are different because NNUE is optimized for CPUs and uses integer quantization and a much smaller network. I don't think one could credibly claim that it would have come about if not for Google making so much noise about their neural network efforts in Go, Chess and Shogi.

0: https://github.com/asdfjkl/nnue/blob/main/nnue_en.pdf
Wow, I’m not sure. I hope not. That’s exactly how I got my recent-ish “nice” jeans.

I’m not especially attached to Levis. They were just a convenient example for why I think (hope!) the nicer ones were worth the extra money. I’m certain lots of people who could point us at something much better, although perhaps with a proportional price tag.
I've just started using Otta for my search and they publish responsiveness scores. Not sure if it's by role or across the company. It's saved me from wasting time on companies with bad hiring practices (assuming scoring is accurate)
Show HN: PicStacker – Layer and export images, like a dog on bacon and bananas
I’ll be honest, hackers. I really just wanted a way to layer a background-cleared picture of my sister-in-law's dog over his favorite treats—bananas and bacon—without needing to download anything crazy. So, I put this little site together over lunch.

Upload: Add your photos.
Pinch to Zoom: Control your layers. This feature is roughly supported on mobile, though it’s not perfect.
Up: Move the layer forward in the stacking order.
Down: Move the layer back in the stacking order.
Export: Rasterize and download the final result.
Whenever these laws are debated and people point out various ways in which they could be abused, Congress says that those are obviously far-fetched and the powers that are being given will be used in reasonable ways.

This email just goes to show what this actually means in practice.
I mean this isn't really a novel point, this is true of everything not just biological enhancements, but technological enhancements as well. The privileged will always have first dibs.

But historically the wealthy/first adopters help fuel the continued development of said inventions, which helps drive down the price, eventually allowing the larger public to have access to it.
Interesting, I generally assumed Eth miners would undervolt their GPUs to get more life out of them rather than overclocking them for absolute max performance.
You could require that all devices capable of video or audio display or capture embed models to detect copyright-protected content, and only proceed with playback or capture if they are connected to the internet and are able to verify some cryptographic liscense is valid. Put all this logic in some secure processor that self-destructs at the slightest sign of potential reverse-engineering or irregular behavior, along with physical anti-tampering measures that make phreaking or uncapping any components liable to trigger self-destruction. Then make the circumvention of any of these measures or attempts to create or import non-compliant display or capture video or audio content carry some heavy criminal penalty, such that any group well-resourced enough to attempt bypass would judge doing so foolish.

That would probably "work".
ppstep: Interactive C/C++ preprocessor macro debugger
It is interesting to wonder if they'd call us gods in a good way though. Perhaps they might see it as 'playing god' instead. HN being a techie crowd tends to skew this a bit, but it's worth remembering that genetic engineering is still pretty controversial to the average person: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/03/17/americans-ar...
I think there’s a difference between saying “ok I don’t know how to do this, what’s an easier way?”

Rather than going on a rant that “bunch of parquet files sucks!” When it’s clearly untrue and all that was needed was knowledge of the tools.

Reading a ton of data from an unfamiliar format (but one that is specialized toward solving a problem) is not mundane. It’s not meant to be easy. Parquet feels like it should be easy and many tools have been built to make it easy (how far we’ve come since the Java parquet reader!) but it still requires knowing what to do.

Not knowing at first doesn’t mean the right thing to do is to fall back to the wrong but simple solution of CSV. I’ve seen so many people do that in my company’s data pipelines and it causes so many downstream issues. This is the wrong message to send that will incur so much cost for so many companies if believed.

It’s cool that you’re making tools to make things easier. you can do that without ranting about parquet which just seems misdirected.
> We understand to some degree why hurt people hurt other people

By “understand”, you mean “have colloquial theories that we don’t bother trying to falsify”
Dell Security Breach
Email received....

Dell Technologies takes the privacy and confidentiality of your information seriously. We are currently investigating an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell. We believe there is not a significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved.

What data was accessed?
At this time, our investigation indicates limited types of customer information was accessed, including:
Name
Physical address
Dell hardware and order information, including service tag, item description, date of order and related warranty information

The information involved does not include financial or payment information, email address, telephone number or any highly sensitive customer information.

What is Dell doing?
Upon identifying the incident, we promptly implemented our incident response procedures, began investigating, took steps to contain the incident and notified law enforcement. We have also engaged a third-party forensics firm to investigate this incident. We will continue to monitor the situation.
I take runtime pattern matching over TypeScript any day of the week, I work with data across boundaries, compile time checking means very little to me (and I'm sick and tired of the "await request.json() as SomeTypeThatMostDefinitelyIsNotTheRightOneButMakesForFancyAutoComplete;" that seems to riddle every TS code base). Sure, you can add runtime dependencies with the additional code bloat to have it runtime check types with TypeScript too, but you still don't get any fault tolerance, and you have to write explicit code to handle errors that according to the type shouldn't exist.
It's like I say, Wayland is the replacement for X, but browsers and Electron are the replacement for NeWS.
Ask HN: Best AI tool for logo and full branding identity/strategy?
> And who's to say the advertising industry-blessed training material is not the highest standard of truth? :)

Anyone who understands what perverse incentives are, that’s who. Or are you just playing the relativism card?
We are not an cyber insurance firm, so we don't offer any guarantees or compensation if you get compromised. We operate the same as any security auditing firm.

One of our clients reviews all their dependencies in-house with their own team and has us be the second pass for extra assurance. They have also tested our team in the past by not revealing vulnerabilities they have already identified to be sure we are indeed reviewing the way we say we do.

Security bugs are everywhere because very few internet rando library authors have infosec experinece, so you are unlikely to get a clean report on any given dependency tree, but /usually/ the items are low to medium risk and can be chased upstream or easily patched out.

Sometimes however we find really problematic ones like CVE-2018-9057 that impact you if you have ever used it even once ever.

Also there is an economy of scale here in that if one of our other clients asked for review of a react dependency last week, we can copy over our opinion and consume fewer hours on the clock.
Once it was a failing line card in router zeroing last bit in IPv4 addresses, resulting in ticket about "only even IPv4 addresses are accessible" ...
Sounds a bit illegal.

I have to assume they'd notify the end-user, at a bare minimum.
If someone has a history of misrepresenting research on drug X and drug Y, it's reasonable to be skeptical of their claims about drug Z
> Stop looking skittish every time you see a person not like you and stop buying urban assault vehicles and dumping them on the street like that's your birthright.

If only!
i became more and more repulsed as i read your comment. I felt myself twitch towards the end of it.
>why isn’t there any reporting on all the threats to society

I think this framing is a bit naive. It also implies—without evidence—some malice on the part of LE. The suggestion is that this activity is known to be ineffective for the stated purpose, so continues to be conducted for some other purpose, which by definition would be nefarious.

But, there is no proof of this, except that some would like to see more perp walks that reveal sources and methods.

And, as much as people sound the alarm, we've seen relatively little-to-no abuse of these epanded powers. Americans are not being prosecuted at-scale, if at all, over information that may have been incidentally captured.

The truth is that powers had to be expanded to keep pace with changes in technology, and a changing world in general. Without this our LE wouldn't stand a chance. Now one might argue about degree and balance, but that's not what I generally hear. Instead, it's mostly vague alarmism and mistrust about the very idea of any expanded powers.
Undervolt / overclock / memory timings
I used to be the chief DRM guy at another large streaming service.

I can say 100% that the company did not want DRM as it was unreliable and customer-unfriendly, but it was the rights-holders that were badly educated and informed and would demand it in their contracts. I would suspect that is the case at a lot of other streamers too?

(the cost of the DRM was near-zero at our company)
The discussion here mostly seems to miss the point. The argument is to change the default, not to eliminate the behavior altogether.
What do you think about people who sell food? Farmers, grocery stores, restaurants?
Bed Bath Strikes from the Beyond
Unless it's trying to sell paperclips!
No, it's not currently supported by evidence. It's an extremely specific example. But the needle has been moving more and more in that direction to the point where people should be comfortable with the idea that they have genetics to contend with not only when running and looking good, but also when thinking and behaving.

Obviously the groups that will have the hardest time with accepting something like this are the groups that say things like "It's not your fault you didn't go to college, it's [insert social structure] and therefore our entire mission is to change [social structure]."
Nothing sophisticated right now unfortunately. But we're planning on releasing a version where all servers, models, and build CI for the app are self-managed. Let me know if that's of interest.
Unfortunately if "that guy" is your customer then your real job is to make them happy. Which means, by definition, putting up with their crazy-ass formats, services, and data stores.

Or they're some company / agency providing the data for free essentially, but whom you in any case have precisely zero hope of bending them toward your preferences on this matter on any foreseeable timeline. Or perchance they're internal - you're stuck with lobbying and politics (again, to get them to bend your way). Meanwhile you've got stuff to build and such.

Given the associated costs and benefits; and the fact that it's just a day job, after all -- stupidly huge CSV files may not be so bad.
This seems like a lot of fluff for basically SELECT ... FROM queue FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED? Why is is the extension needed when all it does is run some management type SQL?
Startup philosophies become outdated fast.

Early 2000s it was: just put it online and it will sell, at a time when online businesses were still new.

Paul Graham's Y Combinator was: create a good product and it will sell, at a time when online businesses were these half-assed 2000s era products.

AirBnB/Uber's generation is: get a fuck ton of funding and do mildly illegal shit fast, and then use your funding and lawyers to rewrite the law. So called "disruption".

(I am not going to mention OpenAI and other AI startups because they are a class of their own.)
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which is a pity, because the models and finetunes tainted with even a minuscule amount of GPT slop are affected very badly. you can easily tell the difference between llama finetunes with or without synthetic datasets.
yup, that's Muddy. One of our users described it as a self healing slack channel with tab groups.
Is there something like that in the jvm world?
People here seem to treat this like advertising, because it kinda sounds familiar to advertising. I’m as critical of ClosedAI as the next guy, but let’s think that idea through: OpenAI are the ones paying the content provider for exposure, not the other way around. In return they get training data.

The only reason for OpenAI to do this is if it makes their models better in some way so that they can monetize that performance lift. So I think incentives here are still aligned for OpenAI to not just shill whatever content but actually use it to improve their product.
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I'd say education and culture might be right on the money. I'm not sure it's occurred to me to take a small block of some type of plastic and cut it to shape using knives, planes, chisels and files like someone could with wood, but now that I'm thinking about it, it seems like it might be considerable easier to work with than wood in some cases, especially with how easy it is to join two parts afterwards with some epoxy or maybe even through heat.

Additionally, it looks like you can possibly re-melt the shavings into another block (I'm not sure if specific plastic types are required).[1] That's like woodworking but being able to easily gather and compress your bits and ends and sawdust into more wood.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wPmcgDRmg
Attach debugger (ptrace), call setsockopt?
The new trick they are using is to simply drop the case whenever they feel that the ruling is not going to be in their favor. Which lets them keep the rule on the books and continue using it in the future. Basically the onus becomes on the person prosecuted & their lawyer to bring it up every time.

And the problem with that is that by the time you get to the point where case is dismissed, it is already a major disruption to one's life. The legal fees alone can be effectively punitive for many people to begin with, and then if you actually get arrested and detained, it's straight up financial ruin. Not to mention reputational damage stemming from stuff like this even if the case is eventually dropped.
I would call that the Cheney Test personally.
next we're going to have ads in our dreams!
Was anyone expecting anything else? AI is going to follow a similar path to the internet -- embedded ads since it will need to fund itself and revenue path is very far from clearcut.

Brands that get it on the earliest training in large volume will have benefits accrued over the long term.
Lovely that they don't consider their customers' physical address as highly sensitive!
At the very last, it's devalued by more than half, and this is a national trend in the housing market alone. You can also observe this in dining out (either sit down or fast food), groceries, tools, etc. And yes, a pre-2021 dollar losing half of its worth in less than a couple of years is "near nothing". That means the dollar is a terrible store of value, and an entire net value stored in dollars would disappear inside half a lifetime, if not faster if Congress does another mass printing/borrowing of money.

As an anecdote example:

* Pre-2021, my house was 160k, with about 10% down, resulting in P&I of about $750.

* Post-2021 (and no significant change since, the same house can probably sell for near $320 (& definitely $290 at the low end). To buy this, you'll need twice the down payment, and even with 10% down, your P&I is now nearly $2000 (due to the higher interest rates and huge principal).

A dollar in 2018 is worth 2.67x more than a dollar today. It's pretty apparent in equities, but also in commodities, and there's no going back to pre-2021 monetary values. "Inflation" may or may not have slowed down, but a lot of people are now stuck until deflation actually occurs or significant salary growth occurs.
I’d love to have overheard his plans and just turn up wearing chrome clothes like “I heard there was a party”
In Canada, the LLM will mention our MAID program promoted through provincial government cost control programs to reduce health care expenses.
Feels weird that the Authors Guild so much wants to make public the names of the former OpenAI employees who created the data sets. That seems entirely unnecessary and irrelevant to the case. If what they did was part of their sanctioned work for OpenAI, they are not the ones responsible for how it was used.
That is just corporate jargon for transferring money from customers to businesses.
It's not just cancer right? UV light will damage those sensitive photoreceptor cells, so you would end up seeing less and less of anything over those couple of decades. Even non-UV blue light is hard for the eyes to deal with. Personally I'd just prefer wearing glasses that shift the UV to some other part of the spectrum.
Thank you, found this: https://github.com/sschroe/libnodelay
Ty for the catch, correcting now. Seems to be for the invite and update emails?
That's how it destroys humanity. Consider the impact of, say, oil and gas salesmen.
> Would some kind of LD_PRELOAD interception for socket(2) work?

That would only work if the call goes through libc, and it's not statically linked. However, it's becoming more and more common to do system calls directly, bypassing libc; the Go language is infamous for doing that, but there's also things like the rustix crate for Rust (https://crates.io/crates/rustix), which does direct system calls by default.
A little bit sad* but understandable, thank you.

*C/C++ tooling and verbosity pains, what PL dev progress is for? C# feels more modern than some of the "modern" alternatives but eh.
We don't want it both ways - if that's the price we'd have to pay, at least I definitely don't want model makers to license content.
I would not compare it to lambda. It is backed by Trino https://trino.io/ and can do map/reduce kind of jobs that lambdas can not.
He hated fiddling in the studio. Similarly he was really vocal how he hated Smashing Pumpkins, I guess for similar reasons.

Me? I love Dan, and I love Smashing Pumpkins... And I think Steve Albini was one of the greatest engineers of my generation.
I'd be happy if they just put in the Vision Pro and all the other VR headsets.
I am really curious what the subjective experience of a color-blind person undergoing gene therapy gradually being able to perceive the difference between two colors that previously appeared the same.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
Villneuve is a smart filmmaker and an absolute master when it comes to visual storytelling, so it's so disappointing when he makes such oddly uninspired choices. The Jared Leto character in BR 2049 is not just ridiculous, but boring — just some cartoonishly evil character with no apparent motivation other than being evil — and Villeneuve does the same thing in Dune/Dune Part Two.
Never felt like files were something that the C64 was especially good at. Sure, these days I too build lots of little tools and manipulate files an what not, on Linux. Back in the day though, on the 64, used to roll with not much beyond the old "DOS wedge" and Butterfield's "supermon", the one that let you assemble/disassemble interactively, and pretty much hacked things live in memory. Files were just for saving off blocks of memory for next time. But then, I never attempted anything very elaborate, and then the allure of that 8088 box with the 'real' drives kind of curtailed my 64 experiments.
Does PlayReady now require a secure enclave/TPM on your PC? Otherwise as you say, the only thing protecting the keys is obfuscation. This has been the same way all the way back to the first Microsoft DRMv1 in 1998 (?).

The decryption keys have to be stored on your device so you can play your media or your game. So, the level of encryption is totally moot. The level of obfuscation is all that really protects the content.
How the ADHD Brain Processes Sugar Differently
And regular cell-division will include this episome the way it does the regular chromosomes?
I'm creepin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39935200
The sky's the limit for 5G app developers
Isn't copyright about reproducing and/or distributing?

Does training a model count as reproduction or distribution?

Or can copyright say something about how I consume my books? Can copyright prohibit me to light a fire, or whipe my behind with, say Harry Potter and the goblet of fire?
I can only hope we're so lucky that the enshittification happens that quickly and thoroughly.

It would be yet another clear demonstration that technology won't save us from our social system. It will just get us even more of it, good and hard. The utopian hype is a lie.
The problem with this perspective is that many states have some equivalent of the Second Amendment in their state constitution, including some of the original states - and in many cases those explicitly spell out RKBA as an individual right. I think it's reasonable to at least wonder why the same people who wrote those state constitutions would, when discussing the federal one, not have the same thing in mind when authoring 2A.
The responses are wild, apathy, buck passing, come back in a few days. Honestly no shock windows ended up such a shambles.
This sounds like the root of my vncviewer / server interaction bugs i experience with some vnc viewer/server combo’s between ubuntu linux and freebsd… (tight/tiger)
Is there a reason the US needs Amtrak at such great cost for the amount of service delivered? Buses seem like a cheaper, faster, and much more flexible option.
opening `/proc/<pid>/fd/<fd number>` and setting the socket option may work (not tested)
Gotta pay for all that compute somehow.

It's not what users want, it's what users will accept. Many precedents have been set here, unfortunately.
You don't need anything specific. SELECT ... FROM queue FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED is the secret sauce.