skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sense is that finetuning might still have a role if your use is high-volume and with a narrow/specific goal. For example, we have GPT based summaries of our customer contact calls. It's fairly high volume (a typical bank will handle millions of calls a year).

We're considering finetuning for 2 reasons:

(1) the current system prompt with instructions is getting quite large* and we see more challenges for GPT to stick to the instructions. We could finetune with our historic summaries and a simplified prompt to slightly improve the performance of the summaries / lower token count (performance). The idea would be to then continue improving our system prompt again from that new starting point. Exploration still to be done though.

(2) we might be able to finetune a much smaller model to do what the larger model is currently doing (cost, sustainability)

* The larger instruction prompt is because there are lots of specific needs for the summaries (e.g. how to write the summary, what to exclude (health, etc.), what to include (actions taken), and we e.g. give examples of good vs bad summaries to improve performance.
There is no market in the EU, or at least not one you can figure out or communicate with. Imagine trying to sell widgets in the US but you don't know the laws, cant speak English and you cant pronounce widget. Then when you learn all that you get one state and your mind resets back to not knowing laws, English or what your product is called. This happens with each new state you conquer.
I only use Google for local search results (news or businesses) as well. Otherwise I'm also very happy with the quality of results I get from Kagi.
Nope, I thought you would be clever enough to fill the remaining ...

Those university research labs power many computing stacks nowadays, without which the American companies that depend on them for their existence would have had a complete different outcome going to market.

Rest assured, thanks to the way US is behaving with globalisation, if we don't get ourselves busies fighting yet another war, we might as well create The Great Wall of Europe, with Linux Desktop running on RISC-V.

There you have it, Finn technology, with a Swiss hardware consortium.
Trial lawyers will expound at length about how juries' perception of what witness behavior means is completely unrelated to reality.

Note that this is the problem that was solved by reference to a "jury of your peers". Your peers are familiar with you in specific and know how you behave. But the evolution of the US legal system has actually banned being tried by a jury of your peers; you're required to be judged by strangers who have never heard of you.
Kagi relies on data from the search engine giants. Without that data, it's dead in the water.

That's the dumbest part of it all; Kagi's not an entirely new search engine. It's Google's index but without the ad-tech juicing, and some clever use of a few other search indices to specialize results.

(I.e. Google could unshit itself at any moment, it just doesn't want to.)
The title is kinda clickbait, but the article is quite good. It starts with a basic introduction to some relevant feminist theory (which is perhaps a bit jargon-heavy), and then it deconstructs an aspect of popular culture (using the author's personal experiences as reference).

Some of her other articles probably aren't on-topic for HN, but I think this one is.
I just did the same search and the first result was how to use a massage ball. I scrolled down a bit and saw a reddit thread titled "using a massage ball for back pain".

The declining quality of Google's search results is greatly over exaggerated.
The article starts with intimating that SEO is the problem. Perhaps to an extent it is, though I'd say with G's massive market share that optimising for one sweet spot with one search engine is really the problem. It makes SEO easier, one search engine and criteria. 20-25 years ago when there were half a dozen prominent engines you'd be ranking well in some but not others. A good argument for alternative algorithms (and search engines).

Generative AI is no doubt useful for simple questions, and perhaps for people who aren't even interested in being sceptical about the answer given, but it seems at too high a cost for the visibility of the actual web and the effort put in by content creators.

Obviously with the huge and unrivalled ROI G gets from ads vs any rivals, the fact they're the default on most mobiles etc means any alternatives have a huge uphill battle to get seen.

At least there is Bing (and its meta variants), Mojeek (independent, a smaller index but truly independent) and Brave (claims independence but has a historical tie to scraping results)
Not really. Even with a monolith, you get partial availability. Most often as a default.

Imagine a web server handling requests. It usually has a way to recover from a crashed request handler. On top of that, you have multiple web servers behind a load balancer. Some code paths may be failing, some may be available.

Then, you have some background workers, maybe ingesting data from third party services. They're completely different processes from your web servers, even though they still use the monolithic code base. If they're down, the web app can still work with stale data.

The partial availability can be compromised in microservices as well as in a monolith (e.g. auth as you mentioned).
ChatGPT is also becoming a victim of SEO. Not purely at the crawling level, but also at the answer level.

But as a default, it gives mostly "SEO-optimized" answers in a SEO-optimized format. Even simple question are answered with bullet points. Some descriptions look like advertisements and it's all very authoritative, even when it's just bullshitting/guessing and doesn't really know the answer for sure. This is what I was escaping from.

EDIT: For example the last thing I asked was how Brendan O'Brien did sample replacement in drums in Blood Sugar Sex Magic. It answered something that was 90% plausible but most of the content was walls and walls of text about the equipment it assumed it was used (plus info on more equipment unrelated to sample replacement), rather than actually answering the question itself.
On page https://www.indexpage.space/register, the input box placeholder says "Choose an easy to remenber password". It should be "Choose an easy to remember password".
Ah that’s a great point! Yes, I was really talking about the presentation aspect only. And indeed how to get to experiment with it in the cheapest way.

I now realize the term I was looking for was “desktop environment”. Somehow it completely skipped my mind.
I'm always sad when I find such lists and there's no consideration of Literate Programming as developed by Donald Knuth to create TeX and METAFONT.

Before coming across it, I always had a problem when projects transitioned to being in multiple files, or past a number of lines of code which made maintaining a mental model and reviewing the code difficult/time-consuming.

With LP, I can quickly look through a PDF, using hyper-linked ToC or index, and control/command click at a point and then have the editor open at that point.

I've been trying to keep a list of notable texts on it, and of Literate Programs published as books:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...
I like mistral very much, and this is the kind of company that is still giving me hope. However from a market size POV it is completely inexistant compared to giants like openAI, or even google with gemini.

It’s still a very very tiny and fragile company. I will be proven wrong once it reaches the hundred of millions customers, and become one the first EU tech giant since the past 25 years.
"Create content for us to train our AI models while we fill the front page only with big websites that pay for our ads. Thank you!"
It's going to get much much worse with all types of media tbh.
Kagi works great.
I appreciate the parent commenter complaining about how they were looking for something just to get ads instead, and getting a response telling them to buy something.

That said, I'll also second the back mechanic book for anyone with back pain.
Yeah, and, along the same lines, directories should perhaps also make a comeback -- like the old Yahoo! Directory or DMOZ. Just a carefully curated and organized list of trusted sites that are made and managed by humans and for humans. Unlike, say, DMOZ, the directory of the future should be easier to navigate and incorporate "modern" features -- and it should also be easily searchable. (All sites on the directory are indexed; no sites off the directory are indexed.)

Searching for B2B products and services has become a lot tougher lately. A good directory could conceivably make a meaningful difference.
It also can't fetch more than 2 pages of results for either web or image search. Reverse image search just straight up doesn't work. I don't know why they have it.

With searxng, searching at least works. It also has plugins that I think can do some of what Kagi is useful for (but it depends on the instance)
While I loved the look of Neverhood, I personally never thought it was a good "game". The puzzles were obscure, random, etc. I almost feel like they should have just opted to make a short movie or if it adds up to 80+ mins then a full length movie, instead of a game.
Computing Mechanisms and Linkages
By Antonín Svoboda
https://archive.org/details/computingmechani00anto

"He shows that
with two basic mechanisms, the harmonic transformer
and the three-bar linkage, it is possible to perform
the fundamental operations of arithmetic, addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division, and to
generate ballistic functions."
- JOHN WOMERSLEY (https://www.nature.com/articles/162085a0.pdf)
I'm glad you liked it!

I'm using a PaaS, so I didn't want to pay the extra money for a cron job. Maybe not a wise a choice, but here we are.

Totally agree about the issues I might face. I'm glad that the Clojure REPL is a thing, so I can test out all of a job's functionality before sending it off to async land.
A COM client will let you control Office desktop applications, and use those to open and edit Office files. You need them installed first.

(Contrast with Doug Finke’s Import-Excel module for PowerShell which can work with Excel files without Excel installed, and Przemysław Kłys‘s PSWriteWord module that can write Word files without Word. They can’t do as much as full Excel and Word can).
>20-25 years ago when there were half a dozen prominent engines

That's not how I remember it. My recollection is that for a year or 2 (roughly 1998 and 1999) Altavista was the dominant engine, which rapidly gave way to Google essentially as soon as Google became available, and since 2000 Google has been the dominant engine.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was getting my info on what engines people were using mostly from Usenet, Slashdot and a non-web-based forum called river.org.
Really? I never thought of pg as naive.
Do you think AWS wouldn't give you a secret cheaper price if you wanted to purchase 10k IP addresses?
I try to live my values, so I can't use it. It's a rare case where I really do have a choice.
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Before: They were small. It was hard. Defer to Google.

Now: By having bad search, Google rewards them.
You have to understand
- rolling out new APIs tends to be _quite_ the hassle, you need to get it signed off by a lot of people, and rightly so
- rolling out new APIs that involve _design_ work is doubly a hassle, and changing the semantics of signals would be quite the change

and since signals are only for an ancient part of the API that really isn't used for anything new (new code yes, but people aren't doing anything new conceptually with that stuff) - people are going to take a "why bother" approach. Lot of work for debatable gain.

I'm working on new syscalls for exposing and using filehandles (because we can't rely on st_ino for inode number uniqueness anymore, 64 bits isn't sufficient for uniqueness with subvolumes, or for stacking filesystems), and some related work for exposing and traversing subvolumes (and mountpoints) in a clean standardized way - and they're probably going to be 6 month projects (granted, not my main project right now). It's just a _lot_ of work to do this stuff right when it involves fundamental APIs.
Works great for me on Firefox MacOS.
System Settings getting shuffled again in macOS 15, among other UI tweaks
"Top Scientist"

lol. There is no risk.
fwiw I’ve written about that here: https://camhashemi.com/posts/building-through-uncertainty/
It was still working?
Memory Sealing "Mseal" System Call Merged for Linux 6.10
Happy to share the benefits Readymade CSV Excel Import Experience brings to any product.

Talked about not just monetary benefits but operational benefits too.
I don't think that can be GDPR compliant, personal data cannot be used as a form of or alternative to payment afaik.
I wonder what Gruber will be saying when his beloved Apple inevitably steps on the same rake. Somehow I think his human slop will be markedly more exculpatory
I'm the main author of LuaRT. Yes LuaRT can automate Office apps through COM
Hah. I'm Norwegian, but I get the wish to double check. We also used to - it's not as common any more - often talk about "American conditions". It was often used especially in the 1980's. If you wanted to dismiss your opponents policy, you might imply they might cause "Amerikanske tilstander".
The deskilling of web dev is harming us all
Excellent writing.

I think one thing women don't always realize is that men have many of the same feelings toward other men the author describes.

I identify as male, and if I meet another man while out travelling, I am exactly as wary and careful at first (and so are they). You mentally calculate your odds, etc. Of course, most end up being a great meet and good company. Some of the conversations I've had with fellow hikers have been some of my best.

But I share her feeling of tiredness about that initial stage.
Yeah, I found that to be unnecessarily prejudicial. Mild,
Instant feedback is the best kind of negative reinforcement. Obviously we don’t have enough information to really form an opinion, but I have seen child abuse and this sounds far from it.

Much more concerning is the use of screens to maintain distraction, imho.

I don’t see screens as “abuse” but it is a lot like putting blinders on your children while putting them on a low key opium drip. Is is such a watered down, 2 dimensional portal to the world that strips out the vast majority of context, richness, nuance, and meaning from perception.

I’m pretty convinced that the value in interaction up through 7 years at least Is primarily the complexity and less the content of interaction. Obviously content matters, but without sufficient complexity you’re not going to develop the fundamental abilities necessary for nuanced interactions with the world.

It would be shocking if, as a significant source of training data, screen time doesn’t have a detrimental effect on learning outcomes in the long run.
David Heinemeier Hansson on SQLite
I moved into research at a Venture Capital firm. Mostly doing due diligence on companies, assessing new technologies, thinking about where the industry is going.

I love it, was getting sick of the constant framework and language churn in programming and I enjoy having a wider view of everything happening rather than just working on one company/product.
I don't understand what you mean by looking in the sentence "Google is no longer looking". Do you mean they're no longer crawling websites and therefore blind to new content online?
There is! In the Readme I have provided a link: https://github.com/koek67/resume-builder/blob/main/resume.pd...
> It also can't fetch more than 2 pages of results for either web or image search

I can't speak for image searching, but I found when I get limited results from Kagi, The other search engines that produce More results just pad those results with noise. Sometimes I'll do a specific search and have no results on Kagi, so I switched to another engine justified I have thousands of unrelated results
Tell this to Instagram or WhatsApp before acquisition. ;-) They have scaled well enough, IMHO.

On the other hand, I agree that for the larger teams, microservices make sense. It's much easier when you can roll back a failed deployment and block new releases just for your service, while the team tries to fix it. Also, monitoring and resource accounting is easier. All at the cost of some inefficiencies compared to a monolith.
If you don't need to run applications that run best on an iPad, they really don't make much sense.

For me, Proceate and Goodnotes are killer apps that justify the iPad.
Great is a loaded term. They promote "best headphones" on their home page.

3rd organic link is a 404. And the rest of the links are either not timely e.g. from 2016 or niche e.g. for Telehealth.

Also it is not location aware so mention of Bestbuy even when not from US.
What I find frustrating is that we write these tools for each individual file format. Calibre for tagging books, this tool for tagging music, another tool for tagging images. This stuff should probably be supported directly for all kinds of files in the operating system.
A long way of saying that living organisms need to enjoy their lives to properly function, cognitively and otherwise.
> Therefore, the gas fired peakers have to be sponsored to continue existing to service the demand at other times.

They don't need sponsoring, if they're needed at night then the nighttime energy prices will reflect the costs including the downtime. Which is then a business opportunity for storage technologies to become feasible.
Email address confirmation PIN code email arrived in portugese.
Too bad I’m on my iPhone. Cool idea tho
OpenAI: Non-disparagement agreement with NDA about the agreement itself
Or is Google prioritizing sites that drive Google ad revenue, and not ranking according to content?
There are some tricks to go waaaay past the character limits on Twitter though.

For instance, here's Pong and the tablet IV of the Epic of Gilgamesh, in a single tweet:

https://sonnet.io/projects#:~:text=Laconic!%20(a%20Twitter%2...
Alltheweb was fairly prominent then. The likes of Ask Jeeves and Lycos had a few % market share. Gigablast also had its day back then.
In defense of using fewer tools
It depends partly on where in the world you are and what language you use. I just tried that query in English and an answer callout was the first result, specifically highlighted. Then there is a "people ask" refiner widget, some videos in which the first is titled "How to use a massage ball (tutorial)" and then a WikiHow page. No ads.

I tried again in the local language and now I see some product ad results for buying a massage ball, but then it's back to the video results and sports blogs showing how to use them. That seems OK. Probably most people searching for massage balls do want to buy one or are very likely to do so soon.

I dunno, seems like they're both pretty good pages of results.
Maybe you should install an image-generating reader-plugin then.
Will share a longer post on this once I finish it. I have tested this multiple times, on bigger models, on custom smaller models, and it does not work.

In a strict sense, finetuning can add new knowledge but for that you need millions of tokens and multiple runs without using LoRA or Peft. For practical purposes, it does not.
How we crafted a first class visionOS experience from our existing code base
We must do it, promo packets are riding on this!
It could be that Google has a professional CEO. In many of those cases, the customer is the board of directors. AI is driving share prices.
Fauci aide triggers deeper concerns about hidden emails on Covid origins
Regarding desktop bookmarks: Adding tags on Firefox is so natural (ctrl+D and maybe tab for comma separated tags). In Chrome it is not possible without an extension.
The mseal patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Userspace API > System Calls:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/userspace-api/index.htm...

kernel.org/doc/html/next/userspace-api/mseal.html:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/userspace-api/mseal.htm... :

> Modern CPUs support memory permissions such as RW and NX bits. The memory permission feature improves security stance on memory corruption bugs, i.e. the attacker can’t just write to arbitrary memory and point the code to it, the memory has to be marked with X bit, or else an exception will happen.

> Memory sealing additionally protects the mapping itself against modifications. This is useful to mitigate memory corruption issues where a corrupted pointer is passed to a memory management system. For example, such an attacker primitive can break control-flow integrity guarantees since read-only memory that is supposed to be trusted can become writable or .text pages can get remapped. Memory sealing can automatically be applied by the runtime loader to seal .text and .rodata pages and applications can additionally seal security critical data at runtime.

> A similar feature already exists in the XNU kernel with the VM_FLAGS_PERMANENT flag [1] and on OpenBSD with the mimmutable syscall [2].

NX bit, Memory tagging, Modified Harvard architecture:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726077#36740262

TEE, SGX, .data, .code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33584502
Because that makes no damn sense.
Great job, thanks for your work !
The point (for some) of writing your own OS is that you do something only a handful of people can do ...
A paywall right after I signed up? Really? It's too early in my opinion. I'm still not "sold". There is nothing to prove to me that what is promised on the landing page will be delivered to me once I pay. I would suggest adding a trial period of at least 15 days so people can make the decision is it worth $49.00 for them or not.
That isn't the parent comment that I replied to. The one you're referring to is different, from a different author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40473931
Kombucha-associated microbes alter host metabolism & suppress lipid accumulation
Google employee scheduled the deletion of UniSuper’s resources and Google (ironically) did not cancel it.
Lapis is the framework that itch.io uses. [1] It also uses MoonScript [2] as the programming language which was also written by the creator of itch.io/Lapis.

1. https://leafo.net/posts/introducing_itchio.html

2. https://moonscript.org/
Let's go crazy and do: to whuch I have swutch.
Anger is an energy.
Great name! (Portuguese word for 'pencil')
MoonScript A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
I just tried "how to use a massage ball" and I don't see any ads, and links seem to be all legit articles, with YouTube video tutorials at the top.
That GLP-1 agonists are as successful as they are and appear to modulate the reward center of the brain (per the latest research on the same class of drugs and smoking/alcohol cessation) suggests that it's certainly not just a psychological matter.

That's why I made the heroin comparison. People underappreciate the addictive properties of refined sugars.

Edit: people also looked at the opiate angle too, apparently. https://pennstatehealthnews.org/2024/04/qa-can-weight-loss-d...
Not that I disagree that things are more expensive on AWS, but this is a bit simplistic, not to mention apples to oranges.

1) You cannot buy just one IPv4 address, you have to buy at least 256.

2) Owning address space isn’t free, you have to pay RIR fees. Fees depend on your region, but start at around a grand per year.
Recruiters. Most of the calls I get are for hourly contracts doing boring dev work for the corporations in my area. I tend to ignore them all, but if you are just looking for some basic hourly work, respond to the recruiters who spam/cold call you.