skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar thought the other day about transistors, computers, and data centers. There is a qualitative difference between one transistor and a lot of them packed together into a CPU or GPU but there is no qualitative difference between a computer and a data center other than the speed at which parallel computation can happen. So I don't really understand what threshold AGI is supposed to happen at if it hasn't already happened at AWS and Google data centers.
Hashicorp commited to keeping the MPL, then switched licenses anyway. Such a commitment would need to be contractual for me to believe it.
In response to this incident, I just put together a Python CLI to help you monitor and take action against suspicious sessions in your account.

https://github.com/Titan-Systems/titan-security-tools
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.md/fPlxw
And in this particular instance it did not even start with opt-in. They went straight to on by default!
I’ve wanted to build an app that could estimate total solar energy generation for boondocking RVers (meaning the position changes a lot), and if what others are saying about the paid version is correct, this seems like an intriguing way to improve solar energy generation estimates.
High density is awesome right up until you have kids and then it's awful. I think a lot of young people who don't have kids have trouble understanding this.

If I had no kids I'd love to live in a downtown high rise apartment. Really wish I had done so when I was younger. Among a lot of things I wish I could go tell my younger self to do...
What does that have to do with whether or not LLMs spit out bullshit or not?
Just because this stalking happens invisibly in the guts of a Javascript file it doesn't make it any different than following me around every street I walk down and noting down everything I look at.

Here's the metaphor. Google offers free video cameras to any person who wants them. The cameras collect thousands of data points about every single person who enters their field of view. The cameras pick up every movement on the streets, in the shops. Every word uttered. They note all conversations and relationships. They send this data into a central database where every person gets a lifetime profile where they are uniquely identified and where all the aggregate data across all the free cameras in the world is collated and stored together.

Google now has a moment by moment timeline of everyone in the world, updating in real time.

Now, using this cache of information, anyone can bid for my attention in real time as I go about my life. While I'm at the bank (website). While I'm at the bar (website). While I'm at the grocery store (website). While I'm at the library (website). Around every corner is a digital billboard that's watching what my hands are doing, where my eyes are looking, what I'm saying. It knows my name, where I'm from, what I do, and who my family is, and it wants to sell me something.

This world is grotesque to me. It's about much more than data breaches.

I didn't even get into the government overreach capabilities such a dataset would enable, nay, tempt.
Red Meat Friday: Emacs Doesn't Have Plugins
This was AFAIK the first paper to show linear representations of truthiness in LLMs:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824

But what you should really read over is Anthropic's most recent interpretability paper.
Conversely, one of the first recognisably modern police force was Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police, which was explicitly not paramilitary and had (still does) a mandate to police by consent according to what are now called the Peelian Principles which quickly spread all round the country.

This replaced, rather then grew out of, a mishmash of informal local watchmen and constables.
Show HN: Hello Hendrix, an app for learning conversational Korean
I would expect appliances to be fairly recyclable. They're mostly made of metal, which can be sold for scrap. Parts can be stripped out and sold to appliance repair shops.

Plus, appliances with refrigerants need special handling to prevent the release of the refrigerants to the atmosphere -- better to have one organization handling that than leaving citizens to their own devices.
The most surprising part of that story, when I read it, was that it was from 29 years ago.
ah, not the blogging platform.
There’s also the classic phase where it’s technically opt-out, but it magically gets reset to default every time Windows updates.
That's like exactly the opposite of how economy works. Taking a great firm and reducing it to zero destroys value. Building a great firm from zero creates it.

I personally believe that the failure to understand this is the reason why the political left is so bad at building economies when given a chance. Being obsessed with the fair distribution of value, they overlook the creation and preservation aspect. In the end there's nothing to distribute.
I want to add to your second question by asking why nuclear + renewables + storage isn't a feasible solution?

The CAISO grid makes use of all 3, with solar and storage being used more and more, as shown here (I just picked todays date, but I think the trend applies to most days):
* https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso?date=2020-05-30
* https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso?date=2024-05-30

In addition the UK grid has seen a large expansion in renewables underpinned by it's own nuclear fleet and imports of French nuclear power (https://www.mygridgb.co.uk/historicaldata/, https://grid.iamkate.com/).
Yes but has GTA6 been in development for 12 years, only to reach alpha?
Kara Swisher's story about Sam Altman is falling apart
WSL is still very broken on Windows on ARM for any cpu intensive workloads. With the push to popularize this platform, I really hope some attention finally gets paid to the various RCU stall bugs that have been reported and ignored.
Success or failure? Canada's drug decriminalisation test faces scrutiny
Yeah 4 of the 5 are just variations of "don't put food and drink in plastic containers".

But I've got another one: use rock salt instead of sea salt. This might not be feasible; most or all salt I see in sea salt, but it seems fairly obvious to me that rock salt is unlikely to contain any plastic, whereas sea salt is likely to contain plastic.
The only silver lining on this is that, previously, the idea that your computer might visually spy on everything you do and index it for easy searching was the domain of paranoid conspiracy theorists.

So I guess at least marketing that as a feature now makes it obvious that it is possible, I guess.
Which models and how are you prompting/setting the context?

In some cases hallucinations are unavoidable, but 100% sounds like it might be a usage issue.
Ask HN: How do I make my niche knowledge discoverable for future rabbit holers?
Over the past week, I've went pretty deep into a few rabbit holes that I'm sure a few others will fall into years later. There are a few old threads asking the exact same question that never got answered in decade old archived forums.

How do I answer the question in a way that it will appear in future searches? Is it socially acceptable to ask&answer the question on stack overflow as a form of documentation?
Didn’t know how to program at the time I was using classic macos but my current understanding (having done some retro programming for fun) is that unless you specifically installed a programming environment there’s no real ability to script or even run commands.
Meanwhile if I search for a specific Bosch solenoid part number there's a 50% chance that any one result will point to some different part number that contains 90% of the digits - even though the specific part number actually exists!
I wonder if MS will then just make it a online processing version, so it just ships all your data "for free!!!!" to MS servers and then processed remotely for you!

I also wonder how "knowledge transfer" will happen when you get a new machine in the future? What about backups, do they sit in the cloud already? These all sounds like ways that this "local" AI PC will share data with the MS cloud in one form or another. With Apple doing similar things already on iPhones (I know there are differences, but its still analyzing your data etc), I wonder if Linux might actually become a more mainstream OS in the future.

Could also be that people stop using computers as much and just use tablets with docking stations + keyboard & monitors (again, there is work to be done, but its a possibility from a HW level). That would leave us with MacOS & Windows for business desktops (with some Chromebook & Linux sprinkled in there). Education would probably be more Tablet & Chromebook style compute, and gaming is already moving to the cloud (I guess the positive here is that we might finally be able to get rid of AntiCheat software:) ).
It's against health code for restaurants to use wooden cutting boards and that's also why the color coded plastic boards have invaded home kitchens too
Thinking about this a bit more, I think I see what you mean - the example where you fold it into a torus is "intuitively flat" because when you leave the portal travelling north, you re-enter travelling north, etc. That property doesn't hold for my cube example.

I wouldn't say the curvature implied by this property is "intuitively" 0 - why not 1, or 360°, or 180°? - but I can see how it's an interesting property that only a few shapes can have.
I use Vivaldi and love it. I hope their built-in ad-blocking continues to work even if the uBlock Origin extension does not.
From what I've seen, gorgets were generally more common than articulated visors. so the collar is a fairly standard feature, it's just more obvious than on later plate. Obviously the drawback of that design is that more standoff means more surface area to armour, which means more weight for the same protection.
Barring rent seeking and other anti-competitive behavior, all net profit is value creation.
Here’s a short video of this armor in action: https://youtu.be/rm2ZR25xU8M?si=6HdtRO8cFxB5HO8l
Me. Haven't found anything that's just as easy to use. The supposed Heroku replacements like Fly.io weren't.
No need for personal attacks. The states and the federal government could better coordinate tax filing, it would not be against the US constitution.
I think that kind of sabotage would only work if a very large number of persons joined you.

You might want to consider an alternative plan, as doing that to an employer's / government's computer could get you in a lot of trouble.
I miss when Google had thousands of results, and you could browse past page 5. Now it just lies to you.
> I'm still upset about the recent trend of authors placing "sponsor segments" embedded in their videos […] ; I wish paying for Premium automatically skipped these segments too, but oh well.

May I introduce you to SponsorBlock:

<https://sponsor.ajay.app/>
>what is the LLM doing differently when it generates tokens that are "wrong" compared to when the tokens are "right"? If there is a difference, where does that exist? In the mechanism of the LLM, or in your mind?

If there were a detectable difference within the mechanism, the problem of hallucinations would be easy to fix. There may be ways to analyze logits to find patterns of uncertainty characteristics related to hallucinations. Perhaps deeper introspection of weights might turn up patterns.

The difference isn't really in your mind either. The difference is simply that the one answer correlates with reality and the other does not.

The point of AI models is to generalize from the training data, that implicitly means generating output that it hasn't seen as input.

Perhaps the issue is not so much that it is generalizing/guessing but the degree to which making a guess is the right call is dependent on context.
I bought Zimbra Network Edition, around £2k with 25 mailboxes.

Professional enough to resell accounts and works nicely on phones.

It supports high availability, mx relays and takes scheduled backups to directory of choosing.

I've been satisfied with support and it's a rock solid product that's finally starting to mature after many company take overs.
Ahhh, I knew it was important to keep my 20 year old SGI fuel. :P
“Someone else will do it”
>>>>Even after 60.2 months of follow-up, the median progression-free survival has not yet been reached [1]

> This sounds awful? Or contradictory at best?

No, quite amazing. At 5 years more than 50% of participants are progression-free. That's indeed off the charts for a metastatic lung cancer.
Show HN: P11, Plan 9 kinda inspired kernel running on the browser
That was very well written and reasonable, neither minimizing the risks nor succumbing to hysteria.

The idea behind Recall, universal, machine-assisted search, is a good one but it's embarrassingly clear that in terms of implementation, this ain't it, chief. Microsoft should do what Google has done with Sky -- withdraw the product, take the hit, and hope that something can be salvaged from this debacle, both in terms of an improved product, and better company-wide testing and rollout practices.
I'm not in Silicon Valley, perhaps that's the difference. Most programmers I know have about 1 QA (of the old school type described) per 5-10 programmers.
It was always possible.

But now they will claim you have a way to turn it off. Who knows ! There is so much telemetry being recorded anyway.

This is like people preferring Macbooks from 2016 because it was pre-touchbar. I honestly consider good tech from previous years to be far more secure than what’s around now. Who knows what’s in your products now?
Yeah definitely a bit of practicality but mostly the factor of having already paid everyone that would be getting paid yet the system not being built to adjust to that properly (YouTube only has one version of the video it'll serve and no knowing that I'm subscribed externally to the person either).

Excluding some other somewhat reasonable scenarios which break the mold in corner cases (like accessing the dozens of subscription news sites that get posted on HN with no way to actually pay for them properly except spending more time managing the subscriptions than actually reading article or two a day) my "I paid everyone for the content so I can consume it the way that works for me" stance and reasoning doesn't really apply when you intentionally skip the first step "I paid everyone for" out of disinterest in doing so.
If it works like any other electronics product I've bought in the last ten years, the "AI" version will soon be cheaper thanks to subsidies from advertisers, while the "normal PC" will be twice as expensive and the domain of tinkerers and cranks.
My hot take on this has been that although the tech community universally hates this - the sales and management types that drive these decisions will love it, and recall will go down as a resounding success for Microsoft. You're also going to find disabling it reduces your 'azure score' which is absolutely used by such types as a measure of their sysadmins skills.
That used to be the advice. But it doesn't fly anymore when your OS is running on an easily-stolen device like a phone.
Wouldn't it increase the probability of bullshit, if they're trained on bullshit.
Likes and dislikes, like I said. It's literally a feature where the users judge the quality of the video.
Seriously… flakes are still “experimental”… come on… this is starting to look bad at this point… I have been refusing to get onboard while the entire community’s preferred methods are “experimental”… I don’t want to base my entire OS install on experimental features…

The flakes situation felt like the sort of thing that the next major release would have finally solved… it’s absolutely baffling to me that this is still not offical and enabled by default… I haven’t seen any new decent documentation in over year that doesn’t use flakes.
Noticed this too. The master failover is marketed like a strict upgrade, and the "async" part is only in the fine print. Many would actually prefer the downtime over losing data. A user who's experienced with DBs should think to check on this, but still.
> ... flat paper ... [2, 3]

:stares blankly in mathematician:
Taxing tourists is equivalent to taxing exports.
Yes. There was at one point a software hack for Macs where you could plug a FireWire cable between two of them and write directly from one of them to the video output of the other.
Rough times are ahead no matter who wins in November. If Trump wins, we get Project 2025 and 4+ more years of a Trump-controlled executive. If Biden wins, we get 1/6 part 2 and an enraged, radicalized Republican party.
You just forked my open source project: https://saasstarter.work

If anyone wants this completely free, here you go: https://github.com/CriticalMoments/CMSaasStarter
Regardless of the new Recall feature, the Windows Timeline already collects vast amounts of data and is enabled by default, and I've seen the database file grow even when disabled. A trove of information for any forensic analysis.

https://kacos2000.github.io/WindowsTimeline/WindowsTimeline....
Not really surprising. There's probably going to be an uptick in violent terrorist activity as a result. And so here's some resources from the Red Cross:

https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergen...
There's a phase in between where it's reset every time you leave the settings menu and can't see them resetting it (I forget which privacy policy it was anymore, but that was the straw that kicked me over to Linux for good).
Blog post, then link on as many relevant places as possible ... here, reddit etc...

You can link off to all the old post, tell a story, provide an answer.
You didn't build this.

You just forked my open source project: https://saasstarter.work

If anyone wants this completely free, here you go: https://github.com/CriticalMoments/CMSaasStarter
We're moving off them as well after today. Thinking of using Northflank (https://northflank.com/) deployed our AWS
The original paper does not state that there was a consensus that the armor was ceremonial, but lists it as one of several possibilities.

From the introduction: "Earlier experiments with replicas demonstrated its flexibility for use in combat but not its suitability for use in extended battle contexts [...]. Was it purely ceremonial [...]?"

From the conclusion: "The discovery of the Dendra panoply in 1960 immediately raised the issue of its function. Could it have been worn in battle [...]–as repeatedly demonstrated by the exploits of the warriors in the Iliad? Was its use restricted to those who rode to battle in chariots? [...]–again, a regular practice in the epic and indicated in the Linear B archives by the association of armour and chariots. Or was it too cumbersome to be worn except on ceremonial occasions [...], as stated, for example, in the caption to the pieces of armour from Thebes on display in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes?"

The paper lists several references for the the positions mentioned (which I have not cross-checked). Among them is also the study that is provided as reference for the sentence you quoted. The author's of the paper summaris the result of this predecessor study as follows: "Sixty years on we now understand, despite its cumbersome appearance at first sight, that it is not only flexible enough to permit almost every movement of a warrior on foot but also resilient enough to protect the wearer from most blows", and explain what their own study has added to this insight: "In addition, our experiments have now demonstrated, we hope convincingly, that the armour is also of a weight and structure to permit extended use in combat, day after day, for up to 11 hours, without detriment to a fit warrior (although, apart from the Iliad, we have no accounts of battles of such duration)."

Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Bonus question 2 is the most ridiculous straw man I've seen in a very long time.

The existence of arbitrary string encodings in transcendental numbers proves absolutely nothing about the processing capabilities of adaptive algorithms.
Kagi is totally the only way to degoogle. It’s the only product where the results are clearly better or on par with google. Everything else I’ve ever use I found myself subconsciously back at google a few days later.
I endorse queer automated Revolution.

The beauty of this is that we can do terror and violence to the enemy by just existing peacefully, as queer people. The enemy is literally just that cowardly, we could say "boo, I exist" at them, and we don't have to kill anyone.

Automating things, making those automations queer inclusive, and maintaining control of the things that we automated, by making them open source, is how we ram that victory home.

Tada! Queer automated open source communism for the win. Now you either want to work for the revolution, are terrified of it like bonkers because I said queer as if I'm proud of it, or you have critical ideas about how to improve it! And that's exactly how a revolution should be!

Viva! We can be gay! We can do crimes! We can automate the things! And we can win!
There's a tangential issue in Rust where there's a concern around if a library should be exposing the error types of its dependencies. If they are exposed, semver is broken anytime a dependency is updated in a semver breaking fashion. I, in general, agree that this breaks encapsulation and is not good. However, and maybe I'm doing things wrong, but often enough there are edge cases where it is important to distinguish between different errors and adjust control flow. Often, library authors will not be able to foresee all possible usecases for their error types, so one can end up doing some horrible type casting or worse hacks to get at the actual underlying data. I'm still torn as to what is the better way forward.
Did they actually sell 1m+ of these things? I think the reason they’re killing it is they hardly sold any.
Another great reason to use Linux.
Depends highly on the region. Most US prisons look like daycare compared to Japanese prisons, wrt prisoner treatment. (The prisons in the southeast US are an exception to this)
Try the Aurora IO-optimized, it's a (relatively new) game changer price-wise.

I'm migrating a 1tb database to it right now because I'm paying too much for iops even on the regular rds postgres.

I'm also quite sure this is what heroku must be using or they would be out of business because of the pricing mismatch.
> Here's one of them, which follows a common recommendation in the Go community to use a sentinel error to represent the "value not found" condition.

Is this really a common recommendation in the Go community? Seems like returning `bool` to indicate if the value was found is somewhat of a no-brainer, since it follows the familiar approach used for map lookups and type assertions.
This was the case in ~2019 but are you sure this is still true? I think you can “bring your own account” with Snowflake, but I’m honestly not certain because their docs aren’t exactly clear about it…
I’ve gotta imagine that you could’ve found an analogy that didn’t compare domestic abuse with some nerd not being able to use their favourite browser extension.
Canada's overdose crisis and the toxic illegal drug supply
Doing some more digging, this is where the data is sourced

"Hudson Rock acquires and purchases compromised data directly from top-tier threat actors operating in closed circle hacking groups. What sets our data apart is its quality in providing high accessibility to hacker groups looking for potential targets, and the speed in which we make it available to clients compared to other threat intelligence companies.
Our operational knowhow, and our boots-on-the-ground approach to cybercrime originates from the IDF's 8200 Cybercrime division, and its efforts to thwart nation-state adversaries and professional threat actors."

https://cavalier.hudsonrock.com/docs

This would imply that they are financially engaging with and supporting cyber criminals.
I've been out of work for 10 months. Be careful out there.