skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Synthetic data are the answers. For example see Tiny Stories dataset (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759).

Synthetic data might be the answer if you're fine with any data, but I haven't came across many synthetic datasets that are of high quality, and if you want high quality output from a LLM, I'm not sure Tiny Stories et al can provide that.

Here is just one example from Tiny Stories (https://huggingface.co/datasets/roneneldan/TinyStories/viewe...):

> Once, there was a girl who wanted to write a story. She thought and thought about what she could write about. She felt it was too boring to just write about trees and flowers. Suddenly, an idea came to her. She decided to write about her waist. She started to write about how her waist was round, and how it jiggled when she danced. Her story was so fun and exciting! She wrote about how she liked to put a belt around her waist and how it made her feel smarter. She even wrote a rhyme about her waist: "My waist is round and jiggly, And when I dance, it's so wiggly." The girl was so proud of the story she wrote. She was no longer bored - writing about her waist was much more fun!

Hardly high quality "story", and an LLM training on data like that won't have high quality output no matter how much you train it.

Edit: Another example from Tiny Stories, just because how fun they end up being:

> One day, a little boy named Jack was playing in his room. He decided to go and sit on his favourite chest. When he sat down, he noticed something unusual. The chest smelled smelly! Jack had never noticed a smelly smell before and he couldn't work out what it was. Jack's Mum heard him say 'That chest smells smelly', so she came into his room to see what was happening. When she saw the chest, she knew what was wrong. Jack's little puppy had been using the chest as a bed! His Mum scooped the naughty puppy up in her arms and took him outside. When the puppy was outside, the smelly smell went away. Jack was so relieved! He sat back down on the chest, and said 'Ahhh, much better!'

Do people really expect to be able to train on this and get high quality output? "Garbage in, garbage out", or however that goes...
Sure, they make their own choices. But if all they (son and daughter) consume are submissive Disney princesses I get … frustrated? I want my daughter to have strong role models. Like Scully.

What are boys and girls anyway? It’s all made up cultural constructs. If anything I want them to be aware of that and know they can choose their own unique path to happiness, while recognizing that right for others as well of course.
This proves that the parallelogram diagonals, both being diameters of the same circle, are equal, akho was pointing out that there's a leap from that to "the parallelogram is a rectangle", which can be proven with Thales.

But then, the article is about laying out a proof of Thales so if it's using a lemma that leveraged Thales itself that's circular logic right there and so we're in trouble.

One other way to prove Thales is by computing angles, but then you've got yourself a proven Thales so the point of the article is moot.
Right, the question is, why would you want to download an svg? Do you just want to stare at it and admire it, like a pirated movie? If so, that's fine. Please share!

In my experience people tend to use SVGs to build products, though.
Spock was somehow was equally damning just by saying "fascinating!"
P3292R0R0: Provenance and Concurrency
EDIT: Hmm - I'm actually having a problem finding anything saying ROSS actually passed the bar. Maybe my memory is faulty...

IBM had an AI (Ross) pass the bar years ago...I believe it was actually 'hired' as an attorney at a firm in London for routine paperwork..

0) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibms-artificially-intelligent...

1) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3589795/Your...
This looks incredibly bad.

Fundamentally, it doesn't matter if it's irrelevant relative to total budget size, the simple fact is that if you promote a culture of one rule for me, and another for thee then you end up where people couldn't care less about the extra work you want them to do. And that costs you the money. Perception is reality and all that.

Like, it blows my mind that enough people at Amazon thought this was OK as they were laying off loads of people. Clearly the notion of frugality is pretty dead.
Here's another fun one that took a colleague and I several days of analysis to diagnose. S3 will silently drop all requests once a single TCP connection has sent 100 HTTP requests.

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/issues/2825
Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
How many underlying services and clients was the GQL layer catering to? How many different digital products and independent teams? You referred to "the backend team" (one) and did not mention stitching/federation. This makes it likely that you were using GraphQL to address a set of needs that may not be aligned with the goals of GraphQL. Just like the author of the article - it sounds to me like he probably has been working in contexts where he would not have been able to see the org/collab/infra benefits of GraphQL. Much like the case with microservices. Enterprise tech/arch solve more than just technical problems.
And the insistence on pushing everything into JS instead of just serving the content. So you’ve got to wait for the skeleton to dl, then the JS, which’ll take its sweet time, just to then(usually blindly) make half a dozen _more_requests back out, to grab JSON, which it’ll then convert into html and eventually show you. Eventually.
The trees thing seems to be new, I’m not sure I’ve noticed that before
too much crap holy and this is worse case scenario with adblock
Perhaps this is not about sight as much as about proximity. I'm guessing parking, walking or driving next to a boat could be not as safe as compared to e.g. a parked car.
Ask HN: On what grounds can I object to Meta using my info for AI training?
Meta have emailed saying they have a "legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI"

They provide a link to a form to object to this processing:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019

It asks the these two questions:

Please tell us how this processing impacts you. (Required)

Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection. (Optional)

On what grounds can I object?
I think part of the point is that it doesn’t matter. You can’t preach “frugality” and @we all need to pitch in” and then use private jets and rock concerts for the few at the top. It is hypocritical.
To me KDE 1 and 2 looked great. KDE 3 and 4 were just ugly and unusable.

KDE 5 and 6 look ok I guess, but are buggier and perform worse than XFCE, so why would I ever use them?

The "Win95 pixel art" era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_1.0.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE-2.0-es-es.png

The "wtf" era of KDE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kde-3.2.3-es-es.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_4.png

The "we give up, just make it look like XFCE" era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_5.2_Konqueror_and_Kon...
Very interesting article. Even more interesting when you consider Target used to sell on eBay directly from ~2012-2018.

They gave the expected diplomatic corporate answer at the time as to why they left, saying they were focusing on their own direct digital efforts instead, but I have reasons to suspect Target may have encountered some not insignificant triangulation fraud issues on eBay that could have factored into the decision to stop selling there as well.
That eyebrow!
Exactly. This looks like the EU appeasing their paymasters while fooling their constituents with PR.

It seems to be a very effective strategy to coin a phrase, make people believe it's one thing, even gaslight them over their concerns, then turn it in to another in the implementation

Just like Affordable Housing.
And how do you think NIMBY’s have influenced government policy? Perhaps by not voting for anyone who might allow houses to be built near them
HOAs require more than (or a very specific extension of) freedom of association to exist: they require an ability to bind any future owners of a piece of land to join the HOA (regardless of how they acquired that land: via sale, inheritance, bankruptcy, ...). For property that's not real estate that's usually not possible (see e.g. inability of companies to provide binding promises on how the data they have are used after they go bankrupt). Given that this ability applies very inconsistently across types of property, it doesn't seem like an essential part of freedom of association.
I am here just to say that although I don't use it (still node) I like what they are doing.
Doesn't really matter. If it's "a drop in the bucket", everyone in the company will think of potential savings in other areas as "a drop in the bucket". This means the cost reduction targets will never be reached. And when employees see and hear this, you'll start to notice it in their productivity as well.
I think the issue here is, retention goes up because not everyone is doing it. ( so people have motivation to stay )

Also productivity does not go down, because not everyone is doing it. ( so people have motivation to not get fired )

In normal conditions, expected would be some drop in productivity but bigger gain in retention.
Windows doesn’t have it at the file system layer, NTFS is case sensitive. Windows has it at the Win32 subsystem layer, see replies and comments here:

https://superuser.com/questions/364057/
Not a dig on you, but I find it telling that in discussions about the freedom of upping up and leaving, money is always mentioned as a limiting factor, but never community. For many, moving means losing the social ties they have, and that can be devastating. I wonder if it's a HN or American oversight.
I think a much more fortunate way is to reduce
how much money is spent on the the military industrial complex
by simply buying less weapons.

That is a win for everyone, except the major players in
the military industrial complex
I totally agree with your statement. I consider LLMs imprecise in any case, it's not a perfect/exact science, just statistics. I only use LLMs for tasks where an error margin can be allowed.

In that perspective I'm totally fine with using a 5 MB LLM like this one : https://neuml.hashnode.dev/train-a-language-model-from-scrat...
Getting at least “n”kb of html with content in it that you can look at in the interim is better than getting the same amount of framework code.

SPA’s also have a terrible habit of not behaving well after being left alone for a while. Nothing like coming back to a blank page and having it try to redownload the world to show you 3kb of text, because we stopped running the VM a week ago.
I think a much more fortunate way is to reduce how much money is spent on the the military industrial complex by simply buying less weapons.
That is a win for everyone, except the major players in the military industrial complex
Is the purpose of the fence to hide the boat or is it to provide a physical barrier? Since this is not a HOA rule but at city of Seaside rule[1], I'm guessing the latter. And in that case I suppose the painting is a good solution for everyone.

[1]: https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Seaside/#!/Seaside17/Seasi...
Firefox could absolutely mantain XUL and have improved it's engine, they just chose not, or were ordered by google to do so

And as you say several 1 dev forks were able to keep both WebExtensions and XUL for free, why wouldn't the million dollar company spending millions on side quests?

What Firefox did was a shoot in the foot, loose active users, and fragment the community for many years. And we can only hope the same happens to Chrome
Do you find that has worked well?
Vietnam, Iraq, Libya?
I liked and recommend - Statistics Unplugged by Sally Caldwell
https://check.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/rackspace.com
Seems similar to how communist party of the soviet union worked. As any organization becomes huge, psychopaths migrate to the top and make it shitty. Maybe solution is some kind of mandatory splitting at some size?
> I’m curious what one would find with adults.

I think the polical class will be very interesting to study. Maybe they will also find new disseases.
HTTP/2 push is super dead: https://evertpot.com/http-2-push-is-dead/
"I am not a prize to be won!" - Princess Jasmine (1992).
"very tokenistic and superficial" - welcome to 'straya m8.
as weird as it sounds, tiktok is probably a better search engine for people on that platform from what i understand.
The project is stalled, because at some point after i developed it, the project langchain-rust appeared and gained traction. My project is not very advanced compared to langchain, i used regexes while langchain uses tree-sitter.

Langchain-rust for the moment supports only 6 languages, and not even one lisp, like Elisp, but it's tree-sitter integration means it can be extended easily to many many other languages. Also it doesn't support Groq for the moment just OpenAi, Claude and Ollama.

We are getting to Literate Programming being very practical, we are not there just yet, but it's coming soon.

I am researching also how to anticipate in changes in the code, by retrieving git logs, and invalidate some description of the code, which may have fallen behind. There are several wrinkles that need some work.
You’re missing the point, which is that the upper execs failing to make any sacrifices while making everyone under them live in fear will make Amazon an objectively lower performing company as morale drops, the best workers leave, and infighting grows.

The fact that this part is objectively a drop in the bucket is how the execs justify it to themselves, but the fact is that Amazon didn’t need to have mass layoffs and doesn’t need to treat its workers with such disdain. Amazon has plenty of money. The parties the execs throw themselves are just one of a thousand ways they are taking that money they save by firing people and funneling it to themselves and the big investors rather than trying to improve the business itself. And it bodes poorly for the company in the long term, but none of the people involved care about that either.
Cities also like them (alot) since they assume costs that cities usually pay for. Neighborhood parks are usually maintained by the HOAs. Less commonly sidewalks, roads, and water lines are maintained by the HOA.
This is very naive view. Anyone that handles stolen goods will have a fence "repairman" (just like they have car breakdown places - in EU only certified establishments can breakdown cars). All it will accomplish is make repair harder not easier while at the same time showing "hey look, we have right to repair".

This is straight out of Lenin's book. How do you do whatever the f** you want when in power? You first redefine language. Then you can do anything. The EU has been at it for quite a while. First we've lost the UK because of this stupid bullshit. Now, the majority of the young population in the western countries like Belgium/Netherlands etc is already majority against the EU. It's only a matter of time it will fall apart. Russian/Middle Eastern corruption and pure homegrown stupidity. This is what is killing the EU right now.
For those wondering as I did: HOA is 'home owners association'.
Every time I click a link in GitHub, and watch their _stupid_ SPA “my internal loading bar is better than yours” I despair.

It’s never faster than simply reloading the page. I don’t know what they were thinking, but they shouldn’t have.
And macOS does that normalization at the filesystem level.
Ok, so what you are suggesting is for every power to use an ever increasing
amount of power in order to keep the peace?
And that there is no such thing as spending too much money right?

We got to have more and more and more.

We may increase the number of nuclear missiles ten hold.
or more

And what the US does not win the weapons race.
Then will we have achieved the goal of avoiding conflict?

The old speech:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
(Chance of peace)
> This is just a lie [...] it's still a probability non-negligibly above zero. This kind of pretending you can "fix" the hallucination problem [...]

I don't think "generally don't hallucinate" and "it's usually for other reasons" are implying a total fix. From what I've seen, it is true that these errors stemmed from uncritically accepting satire/unreliable sources rather than hallucinations.

> It's missing the entire point. "Um akshually the LLM didn't hallucinate, we simply gave it Reddit user Fucksmith's post which it confidently restated as truth" (or indeed, the much funnier, "we gave it The Onion, which it confidently restated as truth") is functionally the same as a hallucination to the end user. The mechanism here does not matter.

When you can check the provided source it's summarising and see that it's a satire website, I think that's materially different than ChatGPT's hallucinations from thin air.

It is still an issue, and if the post was just deflecting by saying "it's not typical hallucination so it doesn't matter" then I'd agree that'd be insufficient, but it seems totally fine to clarify that it's a different issue and go on to describe how they're working on fixing that issue.

> "Rare" hallucinations are unacceptable on a tool used billions of times a day

I don't think 100.0% accuracy is a reasonable bar for anything, including humans. My benchmark would be roughly "people come away with the correct information the same or more often as they did before, with features like highlighted snippets".
Ask HN: Is there scientific consensus on how to manage screen time?
I Have been researching a lot recently and I am struggling to find clear guidelines on how to approach screen time with children.

There are some good rules I found on how to handle food (Parents are responsible for the what, when, and where of feeding and children are responsible for the how much and whether of eating).

But the screen time advice seems to conflict this approach somewhat. I often see sources advocating for a hard limit of screen time, which seems counterproductive in the context of how we approach teaching our children on managing gratification and self control.

I am keen to believe that providing viable alternatives and setting an example by our own non-screen quality family time should steer the child in the right direction.

Looking forward to your experiences and insight!
From the comments:

> There's a lot of people (my wife included) with memory impairment. When your typical "time to learn some new fancy UI" exceeds "lifetime of fancy UI before CADT replaces it with something new", it makes life hell for you, and for those around you!

> Can we please refrain from using CADT? It's a slur. Like all the other personal attacks it has no place in this discussion. You can make your point just as well if not better without it. Thanks.

What is "CADT"? Could not find anything useful that fits.
> End users do not care about the browser engine

but they certainly care about the search engine. I remember several years ago when Firefox changed their default search from Google to Yahoo, so many clients that we supported complained that IT's response was just to switch everyone over to chrome.

To be fair the biggest issue was that yahoo was worse with dangerous ads in their results then Google was the time.
If you are referring to what is theoretically possible with arbitrary computation in the model, it's called Kolmogorov complexity and it's not computable.
Can you point to some sources for your claim please, I'm using Brave so I'm interested.
https://archive.is/lcRob
The Climate Game: Can you reach net zero by 2050?
I just had to check some really rural places and went to some random village in tibet. As there is no information about trees or buildings there, just roads, it surprisingly doesn't work - it just shows some shadows based on terrain heights in middle of empty village road grid.

So as expected, if the site has height information it can draw shadows but definitely not for "every building" etc that the title claims.
I think it will does not work. Here their explanation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

Of course I will fight to keep features in both browsers, but chrome really fight for money and against a good UX
I read the same book, also in Kannada. It was bought by my father when he was in high school. Of all the science books I have read, this one was more engaging and had a bigger impact on me growing up.

My father said he used to buy lot of soviet translations because they were cheap but the content was of high quality. Even after 30 years, when I picked them up, they were clearly distinct, including the Art, print quality and binding.
My understanding is that deliverability service providers care more about your bounce rate than your complaint rate. Seems to me the right thing to do with spam is have the email server bounce it, which might get your email removed by the bounce cleaner and might actually cause more pain to the sender than an FBL or something similar.
Rizin, Cutter, Radare2, BAP (Binary Analysis Framework), LIEF, and so many other tools aren't in the list. Please add them and probably many other that were missed.
Trolltech, whose main product Qt was, was listed in Oslo stock exchange from 2006 to the Nokia acquistion of 2008.
Advancing the state of the art for C++ std:unordered_map implementations
Freedom? You usually have to live somewhere near your work or where other family lives, and most HOAs have very similar cookie-cutter rules with the differences determined by something akin to mob rule.
OneStepBack is a GTK 2, 3 and 4 theme inspired by the NeXTSTEP look
OneStepBack is a Gtk 2, 3 and 4 theme with some colors and embossed widgets inspired by the good old NeXTSTEP look. It is developed from scratch, is light and minimal, uses only three shades of grays and one color.

It has been tested on Arch Linux with Gnome-Shell, Gtk+ from 3.16 to 3.24 and Gtk+ 4.12.4, a good amount of Gtk2 and Gtk3 applications and a very few Gtk4 applications. A lot of widget controls are still missing (but the defaults should be good enough) and it is not tested at all with unity or xfce.

QT applications can use some base colors of the gtk theme after installing qt5-styleplugins and qt6gtk2, for a more consistent overall appearance.
Why do you think he set up repair.wiki? It's a free resource he started to provide diagnostic and repair guides for a wide range of electronics. He's very transparent about wanting people to be able to repair their own devices and his actions clearly back that up.

These are not the actions of someone being protective of their skills to make more money imo.
Shouldn’t HTTP compression reap most of the benefits of this approach for bigger pages?
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