skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just referring to the idea that they could just not take VC cash or the PE deal and that would have worked out better for them. The current structure and offering from the company are based on those things. It would look very different without those things.

For context, I've used PluralSight for 10+ years. Scott Allen (RIP) was my favorite. I'm still salty about PluralSight acquiring CodeSchool and effectively shutting it down (what was the point of that?).
This is the problem of Hudson Rock making conjecture or trying to be authoritative when tbey don't know the process.

One SE is working on many accounts. Snowflake SEs don't build within the client environment typically. They set up a demo account like you or I do with the $400 in credits. SEs are constantly starting these. Why? They expire after the fact. The SE builds in the created demo account and shows the client. After 30 days Snowflake locks the account (no credit card) and subsequently drops the demo instance and data.

For an SE to do the work the customer can do one or more of the following: The customer's SF instance shares data to that demo instance created by the SE AND/OR the customer has given access to that Snowflake SE through SSO.

Either way, this is more of orgs not being restrictive in their security posture. There is nothing novel about this exploit other than they found an SE who was working very hard and clients who had not properly scoped the security permissions of an employee/contractoe/guest.
I loved the overall simplicity of the app. Good job. :}

First impressions:

* Good call on not requiring an account;

* 'Back' hardware button does not work on 'Settings' or 'Daily habits';

* I'd rather see a list of all the tasks completed for the day than just an icon;

* The loading screen (logo behind a black background) could temporarily hide the top status bar (the one that shows the notifications, time, battery level, WiFi signal quality, etc) or you could change its color to black so there's no color mismatch between the two;

* Instead of providing a way to download a shared routine from an URL, you could display all the routines publicly shared by other users directly on the app, adding an option to download them;

* It's impossible to add more tasks for the day after you complete them all;
I'm going to guess that google makes more money from car dealer ads than it does for programmers searching for hex codes. Also probably just because Google's search is more and more giving irrelevant results.
Domains usually have a 30 day period after expiry where only you can buy it back.

It is important to avoid circular dependencies though. My Fastmail account has one Fastmail-managed email address that my domain registrar's emails are configured to go to.
I agree with this post so hard. Email is the foundation for people's life online. In fact I am working on building a better self hosted mail platform in my free time because I believe in having the freedom to move your email to wherever you choose.

Running your own mail server has a bad stigma around it that doesn't have to be true. I understand it is not a task for everyone, but it doesn't have to this don't bother just use Gmail, Fastmail, Protonmail etc etc mentality. I have been running my own since 2002 and I would never consider doing anything else for such an important part of my life.

The big mail providers have built a walled garden to hold your email communications hostage and they want you to believe that you can't send email without them. There are many of us that know that is bullshit and it is time to move the needle back. I am excited to read Run Your Own Mail Server by Michael W Lucas when it comes out in Aug.

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms
Isn’t this a pre unix mac?
The reason music performances aren't as high status as centuries ago is that it's been democratized. The barrier to entry is lower. Anyone can get a mic and amp and start busking on the street corner. I think that's a good thing for humanity at large.

Practice of art works better IMO as an avenue for creative expression than it does as a status symbol. This can be done even with no audience at all. Perhaps the audience is all consuming AI-generated work.

Status often comes with rarity. There's more art now, and that's a good thing. Some of it has status, but most is just people doing stuff because they can. And that's not a bad thing.
There are all sorts of legal treatises that solve this problem
"most authoritive", for financially preferred values of authority.
UTMA withdrawals by the child are not taxable, however UTMA income is taxable to the child...

What exactly are you railing against? It sounds like the IRS is following the rules here.
> That was by far the most common way for artists to provide for themselves though, cameras did take their jobs.

But those artists still exist. They just use cameras. They're called photography studios.
Most online accounts are tied to my email as an id. Suddenly losing my gmail would mean losing those accounts too. I'm fairly certain I could recover eventually, but it would be a disaster.

The message archive is not a consideration.

Switching to another service is definitely indicated, but it would be months of toil to migrate all the aforementioned accounts.
We should all be ruthlessly raiding the IPs of corporations, both American and Chinese. If you're not, then I don't know what you're doing.
Yes, it's so clear what the deal is.
An older client got scammed by a fake Amazon-Hotline. They bought a XBox-gift-card while on his PC via Teamviewer, till he pulled the power cored.

He then called me and I tried to find the official Amazon-Hotline on amazon.de. Since I was unable to find it I had to asked a search engine. The only results where third-party sites. It where from journalistic magazines I recognize (like chip.de) but still yet another gamble.
Gosh am I annoyed by these bullshit energy startups.

They want to sell a PPA? For a technology for which they don't even have a working prototype? That has never produced a single kwh of energy?
That's like... step 200 before step 0.5.
> Something mapping text to reliable sources...(waves hands)

You mean basically Google search? What you want is an intelligent search engine, no such search engine exist today but not due to lack of trying, this is a trillion dollar problem.
Indeed.

Well unless you read The Manual by The KLF ;-)
With only metadata, just who is mailing who, you can build pretty useful social graphs of people[0].

[0] https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
Mexican dev salaries are really creeping up. $1MM MEX is no longer "pennies on the dollar" unless by pennies you mean "most of the pennies".

So you want to hire top quality developers for cheap that are the US Central time zone? Well, so does everyone else, and they got there before you did.
That's not what the phrase "Rule of law" means.
Recent and related:

Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456644 - May 2024 (229 comments)
and this is? your argument boils down to "despite all logic to the contrary, I believe in what I'm saying, therefore it's correct".
> No, they'd have called it trespassing. That's the point I think I'm making.

No, if someone retains a key to a location after their legal authorization to access the location has been rescinded, and then uses it to access that physical location, that is breaking and entering.

Regardless, "if they committed this crime with physical means instead of digitally, there would be a different criminal charge and a different word for it" is a point that is not particularly insightful, relevant, or interesting to discuss.
The point is it's not guaranteed at all, since it's a non binding letter of intent.
I don't see any point other than to give something to calm nervous investors or to get more investors.
Remeda v2
You can download your Google mail (and other) data here: https://takeout.google.com

Exporting your mails for you to keep locally or on another company's server is a good way to avoid a scenario where getting locked out of your account turns into a disaster.
scores on standardised tests != grades?
The problem with email self hosting is that the internet wasn't built for people, it was built for organizations that employ dedicated staff.

Let's say you wanted to host email with your own domain for the rest of your life. It's likely at some point you'd lose the domain.
Or just claiming the vehicle is currently unavailable or not yet for sale because it's in the shop/in use as a loaner/the manager has a hold on it or some BS, but here's a very similar vehicle that we'd love to unload on you!

It's very technically legal because they do have the vehicle in their inventory, and you can test drive and buy it, but just not right then.
It solved spam -- but is also the largest source of spam on the planet.
Smarmy response, but the point about malpractice stands.
These galaxies are so far away that they're very small on the sky, even at JWST's resolution. There's a reason why they're called "little red dots"!
I don’t understand your first question, sorry.

But for the second:

Llama 1, 2, and 3 all have different architectures and needed to be trained from scratch.
Llama 1 was released February 2023.

Same training story for openAI’s Sora, dalle, and 4o. All of mistral’s models Mamba, Kan, and Each version of rwkv (they’re on 6 now)

Not that this list is a result of survivor bias.
It’s only looking at their published models too. Not the probably 1000s of individual training experiments that go into producing each model.
It would be great to implement a browser extension that lets you highlight a term or phrase on any webpage and open a GPT rabbit hole for that term or phrase.

@maxkreiger - if I were to build one as a proof of concept, would you object to me having it hyperlink to your UI?
It's okay both the US and Chinese empires need to collapse, and Tik Tok's enshittifying influence will hurt both.

So the US Tik Tok source code can help the US empire collapse... Yes, because it will keep exploiting users.

And the Chinese Tik Tok source code can help the Chinese empire collapse... Ironically, again by exploiting users.
Anything that is even slightly hereditary looks "largely hereditary" in the absence of environmental factors. That doesn't mean that large changes in environmental conditions cannot have a large effect on hereditary traits.

Body height is largely hereditary if you can avoid malnutrition. But improved nutrition has led to an increase in average height over time.

It's not improbable that spending ten hours a day indoors to study could have an effect on myopia in children, even if the variation among children who all study for approximately the same duration appears to be explainable by hereditary factors.
Google is now a glorified Yellow Pages, assuming that every search is a search for a business.
> If there is a difference, where does that exist? In the mechanism of the LLM, or in your mind?

Thank you for this sentence: it is hard to get across how often Gen-AI proponents are actually projecting perceived success onto LLMs while downplaying error.
Nice! I remember a similar post a few years ago, but I can't find it.

[spoiler alert] Do you have a McDonald's somewhere in the graphic?
I'll say this, with the caveat that I never did finish the book due to unrelated reasons, this is an excellent method.

One may think "It's fine, I'll simply read the text and then, if I have questions, absorb some scholarly articles on it." Trust me, you will enjoy it so much more when you understand Joyce's intent and clever writing as it happens. You simply can't take it all in post-factum, too much would be missed.
> "One-hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration"

Actual words stated by Mitch McConnell. His goal is not to pass policy that's good for the American people, not to prevent the administration from overstepping or making mistakes, not to do anything except simply "stopping this new administration."

The purpose of our government is to collaborate and compromise to find solutions that are good for the country.

Consider two children tasked with collaborating on a problem. One of them walks up and says "One-hundred percent of my focus is on stopping you."

Are you similarly confused about who's the asshole? Is that "partisan propaganda" to say that the child who states that is an asshole? Are you really so smart that this becomes a tricky situation to understand?
Over the past 10 years I've recycled all of my large appliances. My (texas) city comes and picks them up at no charge, and I don't feel that's an unusual situation.
I like that theory, but with one slight modification.

There's a single word embedding for DARNED_IF_I_KNOW, and, statistically, automobile listings outnumber other pages with the DARNED_IF_I_KNOW token.
What is Science? Tech heavyweights brawl over definition
this is what i've done. never really broke the site in a way that i couldn't easily roll back and fix, and that was rare. what really slowed me down was messing up my local ruby installation because i really don't know anything about ruby. chatgpt helped me finally fix that though.
Congrats on shipping a game! It's truly an insane amount of work these days, with all the competition out there.
former area tech lead for dropbox (and frequent collaborator with isaac) here!

happy to answer any questions.
I'm actually a moderator on a discord. We have a lot of FAQ pages (generally wiki pages on various GitHub repos) that a discord bot will send you to in response to various different commands. Occasionally I use search to find a chat that I personally had with someone X months ago, and it usually works if I can find the right search terms. I don't think it is any worse than IRC with chatlogs (arguably might be better depending on how well indexed the chatlogs are).

And the fundamental problem is that social chats are noisy, and you should never be using them for knowledge retention. And web forums aren't a replacement for social chat. And 99% of the questions and answers in there are from newbies and are covered in FAQs and are just noise anyway. You can't index your way out of a horrible noise problem.

They also do serve a purpose because as one of the subject-matter experts (who is a single-point-of-failure/final-escalation level), I don't have to get involved in most of the discussion. There's usually dozens of people on the server who can answer the easy questions, and I can monitor for people hitting real bugs that actually need fixing.
What if the reliability is like "these bearings are known to fail every 10k miles or so, but we have no product refresh planned for at least 3 years so the problem will remain unresolved?"

This is what incremental improvements are supposed to be. Well that and discovering that the vehicle can last till the end of the warranty period with one less bolt in that spot, so you can eliminate it.
Small anecdote:

I've had Spotify premium for 12 years now. Back in 2020 I got a rather large prepaid debit card. I put a couple low dollar subscriptions on there. Spotify being one of them. Card ran out of money.

So Spotify instantly shifts me down to the free plan, after 1 failed payment, and deletes all the songs I synced to my phone until I update my card on file. Which was supremely obnoxious on mobile (but that's because I signed up for Spotify with Facebook, and 8 years after breaking FB SSO OTP code generation on mobile they still haven't fixed it)

No grace period, no warning that my payment failed and I was being downgraded. Just a big old full screen pop-up warning me that if I continue into the free version, it would immediately delete all my playlists.

Paying customer for 12+ years, with 12+ years of playlists. Had I not read the small print and just clicked "continue" it would've deleted ALL of that. Even after updating my payment method, and not having pressed "continue" (to the free plan) I had to re-sync all the songs I'd already downloaded.

They're a very user hostile company, and I've never had the slightest bit of sympathy in their fight with Apple, and this is a pretty good reinforcement.
It doesn't really teach CS or anything, but I'd say it does teach "how to think about programming like a computer scientist". Few entry-level "practical programming" textbooks are going to address - even at a cursory level - formal languages, recursion, mutability and immutability, issues surrounding aliasing, HtDP-esque design recipes, composition, and so on.

Even if it's not the best (to paraphrase Churchill: let the clever ones have SICP as an honour and HtDP as a treat), it's probably how I'd introduce the "average" student to CS.
woof,

The conspiracy theories abound in this thread.
Theres a brand of glasses for kids that stops the progression of myopia. Posted on HN the other day, cant remember the name. Look it up!
>what is the LLM doing differently when it generates tokens that are "wrong" compared to when the tokens are "right"?

When an LLM is trained, it essentially compresses the knowledge of the training data corpus into a world model. "Right" and "false" are thereby only emergent when you have a different world model for yourself that tells you a different answer, most likely because the LLM was undertrained on the target domain. But to the LLM, the token with the highest probability will be the most likely correct answer, similarly to how you might have a "gut feeling" when asked about something which you clearly don't understand and have no education in. And you will be wrong just as often. The perceived overconfidence of wrong answers likely stems from human behaviour in the training data as well. LLMs are not better than humans, but they are also not worse. They are just a distilled encoding of human behaviour, which in turn might be all that the human mind is in the end.
Blind cynicism?

I’ve read people on HN arguing that AIs are currently fully conscious. This is not what I would call “blind cynicism."
Perhaps we could use AI to give us a score for how AI a given AI is
My understanding was actually that technology enabled more time for leisure activities, one of those being art. Maybe not in the past few decades, but certainly as we through the Renaissance period and onwards.
There is a section of I-70 in Colorado that experiences temporary closures due to severe sun glare at certain times of the day and year. https://www.codot.gov/travel/sunglare
I suspect there's a single word embedding for WTF_IS_THAT.
Opinion: I recently graduated. Here's why I refuse to give up my life for a job
> Let's put it this way: we wouldn't call it hacking if he had held on to his badge/keys to the building and got the information that way.

If he did that it'd be prosecutable as breaking and entering, and it's perfectly reasonable to use the term "hacking" as the digital counterpart for "breaking and entering".

EDIT: It also looks like you work at Ticketmaster, or at least used to? If that's the case, that's a rather weird thing not to mention in the context of this thread.
Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine
Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund
Reading ease: each word makes sense. -25.1 points for no 4 words in a row making sense.
You could say the same thing about intercepter aircraft and it’s a real stretch to call those ceremonial.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that LexisNexis and Thompson Reuters didn't do nearly enough (if any) taxonomical engineering of the corpus before deciding to just do some sliding window chunking. Without that, the whole "think/plan" part of a natural language query pipeline is all but useless.

I just want to bang a marching bass drum while walking through their office and continually shout, "you still have to do the messy part!"
yeah! we were talking to the antithesis folks during this project, but it wasn't far enough along when we started the project in 2016.

we were heavily influenced by the original foundationdb testing talk from strange loop (wwilson, one of the antithesis founders): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
fairly certain they used this: https://w.dspconcepts.com/, they used to have Spotify listed a a client. I'm guessing they cannot open source for this reason (it's not their code to open source)
But this are all remote jobs, so the VISA thing is not relevant, at least that's why I brought this up
Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
How are you handling shading for dense wooded areas? I'm looking around at some neighborhoods with dense redwood trees in the northern California region. I know in the middle of the day a decent amount of shadow will still be in the area, which comes from the density of the forest and the length of the trees. From what I'm seeing, this shading is not accurate to the wooded areas I frequent.

But, that's probably a really hard problem to tackle. If there's no data on tree height, it seems impossible to accurately portray shadow extrapolations for forests. Especially since the forests can have a high frequency of change.

Super cool project, I hope this continues to grow!
Try going without food for a month and see how many novel inventions you can make. See, even thoughts require participation in the capital markets.
As a freelance engineer who's a long time Benthos contributor and who volunteered a lot of community support for this project in the past several years, I don't think it makes sense to fork it and I'm perfectly happy with the current approach where the core engine (https://github.com/redpanda-data/benthos) is MIT licensed as @jeffail mentioned and 3rd party plugins can live in other people's repos and have various licenses, one example being https://github.com/redpanda-data/connect.

I'm 100% committed to keep contributing to Benthos as long as it remains free and open source and I'm also happy to continue offering community support to whomever requests it on the official channels on Discord, Slack, GitHub etc.
> Why, if there is rigour and precedent, is there not a solution that doesn't start from a foundation of waffle and imprecision?

Law is a fact-specific discipline, laden with jargon, and where the answers can change on a pretty frequent basis. It's not that far off the mark to say that the answer to every legal question is "it depends." What you need is a system that can take a moderately free-form explanation from a user, tease out the legal aspects from that explanation to match against the legal database (which almost certainly isn't going to use the same terms the user used!) to arrive at the answer, and in the inevitable scenario where the user failed to provide enough information, also be able to recognize that more information is needed to answer the question, and query the user (in their own terms) to get them to provide that information.

LLMs are decently good at handling the language translation aspects, definitely, far better than any previous AI solutions; so it's not hard to see why people try this stuff with LLMs.
... in PHP.
>Or just contract one of the companies that already do it with a public-private partnership.

The IRS tried that already and the 3rd parties just used dark patterns that tricked customers into paying for unnecessary services.
As my interlocutor has changed his message repeatedly, this no longer makes sense.
Having been amongst the people hustling (and started-up a number of times), and now taking a bit more time to smell/eat the roses (having money in the bank, and kids nearly out the door), I agree that one should not let your work define you though it can be very important and empowering and fun.

(And today I am a published academic with my first first-author paper, as part of my part-time PhD by publication.)