skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say LLMs work exactly as advertised in this case: you go into the LLM, say "find corruption in these financial reports", and it comes back with some info about the mayor spending millions on overpriced contracts with a company run by his brother. What then? You can post on Twitter, but unless you already have a following it's shouting into the void. You can go to your local newspapers, they'll probably ignore you; if they do pay attention, they'll write an article which gets a few hundred hits. If the mayor acknowledges it at all, they'll slam it as a political hit-piece, and that's the end of it. So your best chance is... hope really hard it goes viral, I guess?

This isn't meant to be overly negative, but exposing financial corruption is mostly about information control; I don't see how LLMs help much here. Even if/when you find slam-dunk evidence that corruption is occurring, it's generally very hard to provide evidence in a way that Joe Average can understand, and assuming you are a normal everyday citizen, it's extremely hard to get people to act.

As a prime example, this bit on the SF "alcohol rehab" program[0] went semi-viral earlier this week; there's no way to interpret $5 million/year spent on 55 clients as anything but "incompetence" at best and "grift and corruption" at worst. Yet there's no public outrage or people protesting on the streets of SF; it's already an afterthought in the minds of anyone who saw it. Is being able to query an LLM for this stuff going to make a difference?

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/sf-free-alcohol...
I have always suspected that part of the explanation for why these heinous things are occurring without any actual consequences is the larger military strategic situation. And I think that aspect of it being left out of the discussion is not helping.

The Gaza area is strategically extremely significant for the US and other allies as well as their enemies.

I suspect that this may be the reason why Israel is allowed to continue regardless of how many civilian casualties. And also may in some way explain some of the resilience of the fighters there despite how deadly Israel has made dissent. Iran will always fund anyone who dares poke their head up to resist. Because again, it's a very strategic position. Not only in terms of the sea but also on putting pressure on a US ally.

I will probably just be accused of being a conspiracy theorist, but if any of this is slightly true, I think it should be part of the discussion. I think the reason it is not discussed is because the US and allies don't want to admit that they could stop it if they wanted but they really don't want to because of the strategic situation.
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Yep, this post is awful in many aspects, throwing rants here and there w/o ever making a point.
I have no idea how this got so many upvotes!!.
Do it right and you'll be eating Amazon's lunch!
Then something like trillian to glue them all together.
I'm highly skeptical that at this stage someone can produce a "playbook" for Enterprise AI, based on the track record and immaturity. I'm also skeptical that "winning" is the goal, unless that means the vendor/consultants who run away into the night with the most FOMO enterprise dollars.
Not really. It’s absurd to draw the line into ancient history of Arab’s colonizing the Levant. Early 1900s to 1948 are more reasonable given that people actually exist that lived in this time or at least meaningful records of history.

The fact is the British/UN gave a bunch of land to people that wasn’t really theirs to give. Nakba happened (which is illegal to even talk about in Israel) which was already a mass genocide/forced displacement). People alive today saw this happen. Watch the documentary Tantura to see some of the horrors by early Israelis (rapes, torture, killing people and feeding them their own genitals).

The point is: throughout most of modern history “Israel” has been invading Palestine. The fact that the UN recognized Israel in 1949 doesn’t matter… because that recognition required mass displacement and horrors to actually materialize.

Arab wars etc are a consequence of this. Sure maybe Israel won some of those. But one has to accept that the very conceptualization of Israel is rooted in genocide and displacement from the start. Many (or maybe most) states throughout history were formed this way I guess … Israel had the bad luck of doing it during a time that the human rights and morality of modernity was beginning to fully form.
I think canon DSLRs with wifi can ftp.

They can also connect to phones/tablets/websites but you need apps/services.

ftp direct from camera:

https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/5/0300024975/01/eos5d-mk4-wff-i...

page 113

link is: EOS 5D Mark IV (WG) Wi-Fi (Wireless Communication) Function Instruction Manual
Every shop that's running a dozen microservices on a Kubernetes cluster, is running something that can't be run on your computer.
Reorg Half a Seat to the Left
just googling didn't come up with anything for me. were there specific sites you found info on?
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I even remembered my password as well. I found a few really old friends that I have lost touch for decades still online.
> I never really understood the hatred that people on HN have for microservices.

If you're an early stage company and just trying to ship something with a small team, the overhead of microservices (testing, deployment, monitoring, platform infra such as k8s, etc) can be pretty obnoxious (like an order of magnitude more time than the work to actually deliver business value). And microservices give you enough rope for one overly clever person to hang the whole team, so there are definitely some traumatized developers out there.

If you are doing something simple enough, throw it in a single docker container and spend your time focused on building something useful.
The nurses and doctors who testified in these cases about their "shaken baby syndrome" theories should be sentenced to life in prison
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Genuine question: why should I care about my data being encrypted and private?
3d computer vision is very cool. You basically take a bunch of pictures of a scene, or a video shot by camera, and do a 3d reconstruction of such scene. The math behind it is tricky. If you manage to code even the basic reconstruction algorithm, you'll grow immensely in math, and math-related coding along the way (assuming no previous background). On the other hand, the job market for such skills is very limited. This is not a good career track, unless one is willing to relocate to Silicon Valley.
A single cross continental pipeline will not supply a nation of 1-point-whatever (statistics are in flux on a monthly basis) billion people.

Ukraine alone can take that out. Cruise missiles, sabotage, special forces, mercenaries. You don't even need to explicitly destroy it, Russians and Chinese build poor infrastructure.

Sarah Paine, a prof at the Naval War college really opened my eyes to this and the Belt and Road. Marine shipping is basically free. Keeping rail lines and pipelines intact over thousands and thousands of miles in Asia through desert wastes, mountains, tundra, and a half dozen politically iffy -stans is not a recipe for efficient trade logistics.

And China and Russia hate each other. Strange bedfellows, but would China want to rely on Russia for oil if it invades Taiwan and Russia has their country's oil supply in a firm iron grip? Putin? Nope nope nope.
I’ve had similar incidents happen with Apple and other premium things, nowhere near Europe. It’s market forces that created an upmarket company with stuff like this as part of its identity. Thank goodness for global capitalism.
Well the problem is that he stuffed his face with absurd amounts of calories everyday. Of course he got fat. He was eating like 5k calories a day. No one is doing that on accident cause they didnt know how big a supersize fry was.

So yes, its a super disingenious doc that is laughably transparent in its pandering to people just like you who want to make fun of obesity and trivialize it.
Hamas started the current war last October. They could end it any time by laying down their weapons and surrendering. Instead, they continue to hide behind the civilian populace.

I assume Israel will continue their operation until Hamas has been destroyed in Gaza. Hamas and Gaza are learning about that old saying: "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
Indeed, and with tools like Distrobox nowadays, it really is realistic to have a Fedora 40 host system running apps compiled for Fedora 17. In related news, being stuck with RHEL on the host has gotten a lot less painful. Desktops are finally really benefitting from containers (including flatpak)!
The private keyword is needed because the default access is public to the same assembly. Usually that's very different from private.

As for the implicit cast, two extra tokens in an uncommon case doesn't seem so bad when you consider all the nice common things like var, the lambda syntax, initializers, pattern matching, LINQ, delegates, etc. etc.
I still consider a well tagged library to be a badge of honor
The x65-x75 series ones, aka the "SGold" platform. I still have my CX75. That ELF loader patch was, without doubt, a pinnacle of patch engineering.

My next phone was a Nokia 5800, one of the last Symbian ones.
Yeah I guess I have honestly seen the same thing, my hands are full so I ask my partner to search something and the number of times he has said "google says x" makes me quite concerned.

But at least those info boxes are not generating text on its own, it's what is on the website already and clearly includes a source.

At least though, if you are even only looking at that first result it's still different than google ai generating an answer. Barely different, but different.
243121

Don't ask me how I remember this number that I haven't used in 20-odd years, but maybe that alludes to the impact it made on the community at large.

RIP ICQ
Why was this downvoted? IMHO containers, especially now that distrobox is here, are a great way to solve this problem. I use it all the time and it's wonderful!
But it can't come up with a particularly imaginative strategy; it can only come up with a mishmash of existing stuff it has seen, equivocate, or hallucinate a strategy that looks clever but might not be.

So it all needs checking. It's the classic LLM situation. If you're trained enough to spot the errors, the analysis wouldn't take you much time in the first place. And if you're not trained enough to spot the errors...

And let's say it does work. It's like automated exchange betting robots. As soon as everyone has access to a robot that can exploit some hidden pattern in the data for a tiny marginal gain, the price changes and the gain collapses.

So if everyone has the same access to the same banal, general analysis tools, you know what's going to happen: the advantage disappears.

All in all, why would there be any benefits from a generalised model?
Any human with free will who touches your vaccine could do something bad with it:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steven-brandenburg-sentenced-th...

Really, the only way you can be sure that nobody is out to get you is to disconnect from society entirely. Otherwise, you'll have to trust others a little bit.

For me, I'm pretty sure that the Manhattan Project doesn't have much to do with the operations at Moderna.
I remember the phone number of my great aunt who lived in East Germany. It was a 12-digit number (including country code). We called her once, maybe twice a year, and usually my mother was dialling. I was maybe around 8 or 9 at the time (it was around 1988).

I cannot even remember the birthdays of people close to me, let alone any phone numbers except my own. But I still remember that f*king 12-digit international phone number from almost 40 years ago...

oh and of course I remember my ICQ number ;-)

Human memory works in a weird way
== Instead of getting everyone on the same page, ==

Your post seems to be continuing this trend. Nobody called anyone “deplorable schmucks” or “puppy kicking grandma killer” but you. Your victimhood really comes out in the language you choose to describe others.
Have you tried ‘New Teams’?

It’s exactly the same but then you can have to open twice and drain your resources much quicker.
Yet another vote for Kagi. When I was on the free plan it felt like a secret weapon that I pulled out for tough searches. Happy to pay for it now. Now, they do have a similar AI summary feature, but it actually links the sources it used to come to its answer so you can check its work. You can turn it off too. I've also found Kagi staff to be fairly quick about bug fixes, though I've only reported one bug.
The government should tell us the truth about St. Louis.
For those interested, try Burp Proxy[1] or Charles Proxy[2].

1. https://portswigger.net/burp/documentation/desktop/getting-s...

2. https://www.charlesproxy.com/
"name of some girl i liked at the time" plus a couple numbers if needed for shorter names... That was basically the template we all used at first, in those innocent days.
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Well, if all the new models are made out of shit, when your old phone goes and you need a new one you have to buy a shit phone. Your purchase then goes into a graph in a presentation that shows that people really love holding shit, because why wouldn't they be buying it? Meanwhile, almost all competition for non shit products has been completely reduced and everyone except the execs hates almost every product that exists. Presentation giver gets a bonus
This is pretty clever. Nice work! Really illustrates how WAFs are extremely blunt tools.
Speaking for myself and likely others with similar motivations, yes we can "figure it out" and publish something to show our work and expand the field of endeavor with our findings - OR - we can figure something profitable out on our own and use our own funds to trade our strategies with our own accounts.

Anyone who has figured out something relatively profitable isn't telling anyone how they did it.
If you turned that into a heatmap of all software projects, I bet there would be hotspots. Probably would need to filter by project size or you would just end up with clusters at the top-right and bottom-left though
No. It works fine here.
I don’t perceive YouTube and social networks as mass media, but since print publications are either absent or write nonsense that is not interesting to me (usually it’s simple chatter about the coolness of Python and GPT chat, or about how difficult it is to be an IT specialist, it’s all sad and boring). I read old magazines that could not be subscribed to, because at the time of my formation as a specialist I did not have the funds for such things. Little has changed since then. In addition, I am interested in the web design of that time, and I try to adapt my work to both old and new browsers, and so that the appearance is not as boring as modern landing pages with ultra standard content, every second one copies the first one. the best time was when coding was clean, pure script without frameworks and several languages at the same time, simplicity and transparency. optimization, and every byte counts.
This and winamp saw lots of use on my computers back in the early 2000s. I still have spools of CDs full of mp3s i painstakingly tagged. :|
I discovered option D during covid and it's like a superpower. I have allergies even through double dosing OTC medicine, but a good mask does wonders for me in spring.
Spotify bricks $90 Car Thing device without customer recourse
Spotify only offers chat support via its website. Attempts to receive a refund have been met with request for customer location and receipt. Support mentions the backend team will reach out by email, "after a few hours." No followup has been sent after 24 hours and requests for update.

As a decade-long Spotify premium user, I am disappointed by this poor experience and wastefulness. Over the course of using their product, there have been few new, impactful features. I do not believe the company can offer a compelling service at their pricepoint and will seek alternatives.
555655 :)

I wish internet didn't evolve. mIRC and ICQ were magical.
We come up with all sorts of things that are initially a step backwards, but that lead to eventual improvement. The first cars were slower than horses.

That's not to suggest that Renaissance is going to start using Chat GPT tomorrow, but maybe in a few years they'll be using fine tuned versions of LLMs in addition to whatever they're doing today.

Even if it's not going to compete with the state of the art models for something, a single model capable of many things is still useful, and demonstrating domains where they are applicable (if not state of the art) is still beneficial.
the only thing i learned this media cycle is that non-toxic glue can be made from cornflour, salt, vinegar and hot water
Zulip project leader here.

I think you're missing a big part of the point of the post: Which is that if you self-hosting, nobody can train models on your data, if you're going to use a cloud service, you should use one where you can move data to self-hosting, and where you can trust the vendor.

We do basically guarantee that you won't have your organization's data included in AI training in Zulip Cloud without consent. But yes, we're not ruling out the possibility of some sort of opt-in feature that might be useful in Zulip Cloud.

I'm humble enough to not pretend I know what will be possible/expected in terms of AI technology in 5-10 years, but one could easily imagine some sort of tool trained on web-public channel data in open Zulip communities being a thing that could make sense if done with appropriate consent. If such a thing were desired, I don't think it most of the concerns related to the slack controversy would apply.
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The most impressive I've seen has been four-arch support in a single bundle: PowerPC, 32-bit x86, 64-bit x86 and ARM64.
You can build directly with patient facing API’s (USCDI) directly with a patient’s EMR if you’re working with patient data/ building a patient app.
I mean, yeah, don't use microservices if you're in a small or early project. That's a totally valid argument that I 100% agree with. Microservices solve a specific category of problems that you don't have until you reach a certain scale (either organizationally or operationally).

But again, this is their thesis statement:

> Let’s do a 1:1 comparison of microservices and modules. Spoiler alert: the argument favors modules, as there is little to be said in support of microservices when pitted against modules!

Their essay leaves very little room for legitimate technical reasons for a service to be split out from the monolith. Even their section titled "When Should You Consider Using Microservices?" basically boils down to "if you already have microservices, if you absolutely must use a different language, or if you're an irresponsible idiot".
"Perform", for whom?

I'm sure it's performing much better than XP as far as M$ is concerned...

One shouldn't look to M$ for a performant computer in general. The black box nature makes it largely untunable, and it's top priority will always be to provide maximum benefit to M$, not to the user...
I live in a rural area and there are huge grain fields all around me. At least for these kind of crops, the field is seeded 100%. There are no gaps for the tractor wheels. Having said that, you rarely see tractors pulling a sprayer in the first place anymore. Most crops around here are sprayed by purpose built sprayers that have tons of ground clearance, have relatively narrow tires, very wide booms, and are comparatively very light vs. a massive tractor. They can be built so light because they aren't used to pull heavy implements behind them. All they carry is the chemical, the spray booms, and the operator. Later in the season, it would be tough to pick out the path these things took through the field if you could at all. As for costs, the spraying is often done on contract so the farmers don't buy the sprayers in the first place: they pay for the service plus the chemicals.

For this kind of application, I think drones have a snowball's chance in hell of getting any kind of traction with farmers in the area. Their capacity is too small, their runtime is too short, the area they can cover per unit time is too poor, etc.
I had the exact same feeling. Can't tell if it's real or a joke. It's not only outrageous for privacy, but also very bad engineering.
I love how you could set different Away statuses for distinct individuals / groups.
This is really cool, but with all homemade voxel engines I have to ask the same thing. Where is the game?
Google invests in cable connecting Australia and Africa
tangentially related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0iqM_AnSuo

The ICQ Song, by Alchemy
If people who support an immoral attack are military combatants, then clearly we should consider that the vast majority of Israel's population, who support the current genocide, are military combatants.

Of course, this is completely insane logic and I don't believe so at all. Killing a civilian is abhorrent, whether that civilian might support an atrocity or not, as long as they weren't actually involved in it.
This is the guy with 7 years of experience in a 2 year old language. The tone is actively offensive in how it tries to assume a position of casual authority over a field that is just coming into existence.
If this were to become widely used, I can imagine executives writing financial statements, running them through an LLM, and tweaking it until they get the highest predicted future outcome. This would make the measure almost immediately useless.
Guessing you’re building off of US Core patient facing API’s for this use case? That’s what I ended up doing for www.meremedical.co
Excellent use of unicode.
> being completely convinced that one way of doing things is always wrong and one way of doing things is always right, and that people doing things the other way are just ignorant/stupid/wrong

> people who talk/write like this usually have no idea what they are talking about

According to your heuristic, you have no idea what you're talking about?

In all seriousness though, your comment comes across as unnecessarily personal. I disagree with the OP's conclusion, but he raises some interesting arguments on an interesting topic. I came to the comments to see a technical discussion around the pros/cons of microservices. It's off-putting to see that the top comment is an ad-hominem attack
> The ICJ can issue warrants for individuals, and the many signatories are then obliged to arrest those people should they travel.

South Africa who has been allowed to instrumentalize the court, because it is politically convenient. A few months ago, South Africa was leaving the ICC...

"South Africa moves to quit ICC over Putin arrest warrant — then backs down" - https://www.politico.eu/article/south-africa-cyril-ramaphosa...
Haha what exactly does it protect me from? If they see that I typed something to someone, and see the chat history of me having sent a particular message at a particular time, it doesn't take a genius to put things together.
Seems simple: Why share your effective strategies in an industry full of competition and those striving to gain a competitive edge?