skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ramble:

It's probably best to take a step back and ask what you actually want an LLM to do for you. Using RAG and just having it raise references to consider is probably the best you can expect.

I have sometimes asked legal question (to which I pretty much know the answer) of LLMs and my consideration is that a lot of the time the section of an Act (UK) is the principle node about which a piece of information is anchored, but the anchoring is very loose and many sections are often mentioned in proximity, leading to poor differentiation of the relevance of a document/sentence/word vector to a particular piece of legislation. It might be fixed by training NER to recognise treaties/acts/conventions and the jurisdiction and always using that to label references; I suspect the "1" in "section 1" or "17 USC 1", say, is not being tokenised as part of the "section" and this contributes to poor results. Maybe someone has worked on this?

Also, context for the jurisdiction in which a discussion is taking place is often not really given - can the LLM tell that a law firm is talking about PCT, or EPC rather than USC when it discusses first-to-file for patent law and nothing in the document itself mentions the jurisdiction or any of those three initialisms? How about when the same law firm whose blog is mentioning these things represents the same clients at WIPO, EPO and USPTO? If you're going to fine-tune for that with human question-answer sessions you're going to need some really skilled workers who know the field well.

You probably then need specific prompt templates for legal questions too.

Then they need to layer in precedence and authority of different courts, recognise obiter statements from other statements, recognise summaries of positions of different parties aren't original statements by the speaker, disregard ultra vires statements, ... simples.
Not the poster, but I'd be interested in seeing the sort of test the poster mentioned which only a few pass.
The Amazon marketplace seller is what I thought would be the most used route. Selling overseas would require hardware changes with the plugs I would think which would probably not be something they're willing to do. Unless it's common to use adapters or have people make that mode themselves as part of the "but it was cheap"???

Amazon marketplace is one of the best fences of all time.
It’s… ok. Much better since the update. Normal parking sensors aren’t infallible either. My colleague scraped his BMW i4 last week and it has proper sensors.
Show HN: Maximize email efficiency using AI
Can confirm.

If I recall, gmail started out with 1gb in ~2004.

It was pretty standard at the time for an email account to allow 20-100mb. 1gb of free, no questions asked email storage was completely wild, then they doubled it!

Prior to this, it was a regular thing for people to go through their emails and delete old ones, and download attachments several times per year or even more often.

Keep in mind that in this era, it was not uncommon for a computer to have just 20gb or HDD, so a free 2gb was a serious amount of storage.
But then again, that road, according to a neighboring country who thinks that it’s their land and it isn’t a road. Depending on what country you’re in, it makes a difference
> reduction of some of the Reagan-era defense spending under the Clinton administration

...you mean when the USSR collapsed, and Cold War ended?
Sounds like an IBM Portable PC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable_Personal_Computer

Although the screen on that would have been somewhat larger than a 3.5" floppy (and it didn't even come with 3.5 floppies, just 5.25). You could find a smaller screen on the Osborne 1 and other early 80s portables, but they wouldn't have run DOS.

PC Convertible is another option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Convertible
Behavior outside of the training distribution is undefined and more often than not desirable. NNs work well on stuff they’re trained on.
Pretty low if they want to pass bar exams.
Hackers steal $305M from DMM Bitcoin crypto exchange
Does it matter if there's a one in six chance following your lawyer's advice ends up with you in jail?
The continued use of C++ is not exactly something to be proud of, although in this case at least it presumably is for short-running jobs, not for long-running services that accumulate leaks.
> LGA1155: Major change to integrated GPU, also fixed the weird pin assignment of LGA1156 which made board layout a major pain.

Of course, the P67 chipset was trivially electrically compatible with LGA1156 CPUs; Asrock's P67 Transformer motherboard proved that conclusively.

That said, the main problem with 1155 was their locking down the clock dividers, so the BCLK overclocking you could do with 1156 platforms was completely removed (even though every chip in the Sandy Bridge lineup could do 4.4GHz without any problem). This was the beginning of the "we're intentionally limiting our processor performance due to zero competition" days.

> LGA1150: Introduction of on-die voltage regulation (FIVR)

Which they would proceed to remove from the die in later generations, if I recall correctly. (And yes, Haswell was a generation with ~0% IPC uplift so no big loss there, but still.)
Maps advertises businesses for free? And without tracking the user's possible interest in spending money on particular things? Really?
Agnikul Cosmos launches rocket powered by 3-D printed semi-cryo engine
I'd have thought that most people getting rid of a an old fridge or washing machine are replacing it with a new fridge or washing machine.

The same vehicle and trailer and gym-bro that is bringing the new machine can then be used to haul away the old one.

That's how it typically works in the US. The appliance dealer offers delivery and for an extra charge will haul away the old unit.
I am basing this off of https://blog.hireborderless.com/post/working-remotely-for-u-...

> To legally work for a U.S. company, a Canadian citizen must obtain a valid work visa. This is known as a TN Visa.

And https://www.uscisguide.com/visa/nonimmigrant-visas/work/u-s-...

> 13. Are there any special considerations for remote workers with a U.S. work visa?

> Yes, remote workers with a U.S. work visa must comply with the same rules and regulations as their colleagues in the U.S. This includes such things as tax, insurance, and labor laws. Additionally, remote workers must ensure they understand the regulations of the country in which they are based, as they may vary from those of the U.S. Furthermore, remote workers should be aware that they may be subject to different immigration rules and regulations than their colleagues who are physically located in the U.S. Finally, remote workers should ensure that they have a valid work visa in order to remain compliant with U.S. immigration law.
Well again, the person who the HOA was in legal proceedings against signed a document saying they would do “x” then did not do “x”. The document also outlined what happens if they didn’t do it, including, at the very end, taking the house. I believe every state has laws that make it very hard for an HOA to foreclose, they do not just do it on a whim. It’s simple contract enforcement, just as you’d get your house taken if you didn’t pay your mortgage or city property taxes. I don’t see what the issue is. I’m sure there are some egregious corner cases, there always are, but as a rule I see no problem with someone who signs a contract being bound by the terms of the contract, in fact I’d see a problem if they weren’t.

My point about the EVs is people who hate EVs and do ridiculous stuff like block chargers are simply getting mad about other people’s decisions that don’t effect them. I don’t want an EV so I don’t own one, but I’m in no way angry that they exist or that you do.

Hating your own HOA I totally understand, there are days I hate mine, but hating the idea that someone else is in an HOA willingly I do not.
Startups Weekly: Musk raises $6B for AI and the fintech dominoes are falling
I agree with your sentiment, but traditionally (in the United States) cab drivers are one of the few service providers that one is culturally expected to tip.
Both AI data centers and new-generation nuclear tech are prestige investments so arguing about need and appropriateness is beside the point. Paying large premium to have a carbon neutral AI is going to go unquestioned.

But there is still a potential snag: Is it insurable?
Yes, I know... I've seen that, also the posts on Reddit/HN and so on, but I am just curious if there is some truth to it.
NixOS 24.05 "Uakari" Released
Google has been announcing this and then delaying it for years. Each time there is less push back. It is intentional outrage fatigue.

Rather than actually caring or listening to the push back they're just repeatedly doing what people don't want until there's a small enough response to push through. Very similar to how SOPA-etc and the like are passed.
Probably a mix of online and FB. Our local flea market has stuff tables of tools like this. Some tools are sold for like half the price.

Maybe there is some organization to it, one wear house, multiple people selling.
More importantly, Altman basically screams "sociopath". He's nowhere close to someone who should be trusted with dangerous items.
Ah, thanks. That's helpful.
I didn't have to escalate anything, just provided my receipt
The ClarisWorks communication module could act as a TTY, like HyperTerminal. You could just dump text into it and copy from the buffer to SimpleText if you really wanted.
I've signed up for shadow map while house hunting and it was worth every cent.

Shade map just crashes my phone every time.
What an unreasonable and reflexive response.
Try submiting again the English landing page. Post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged.

Add the name and description to the title something like "Show HN: Bestcase - One-Click Project Planning for smart IT Teams", but the last part has too much hype for the stile of the site, my recomendation is something like "Show HN: Bestcase - One-Click Project Planning for IT Teams".
That would be a good Hollywood ending. Sadly the world has become so credulous that people probably believe nutty conspiracy theories like that today.

When two seconds of thought would make anyone realize that the conspiracy story is insane: professionals working at a company literally paying for criminal acts targeting their own customers, in support of a sales increase they could never get credit for, and which would bankrupt the company overnight if it ever came to light.

But critical thinking seems nearly extinct, and the thrill of having figured it all out seems irresistible.
> The real question is what I, the human, get out of reading those words

So then you agree with the OP that an LLM is not intelligent in the same way that Google Maps is not intelligent? That seems to be where your argument leads but you're replying in a way that makes me think you are disagreeing with the op.
But how do you do "reliable citations" with the current architecture? You still have the problem that it is at its core a pattern recognition engine. It will just be "looks similar to all the reliable citations in the training set for similar subjects" not "this is the correct citation for your specific query."
I certainly agree that the third party doctrine is a threat to freedom.
How many times in history have we regretted over-building this kind of infrastructure? We have no shortage of good ways to use electric energy. If AI turns out to be a fad, others will benefit.

Pollution is a concern, but I think don't think that anti-growth or anti-consumption sentiments are useful. All this money pouring in is an opportunity to invest in clean energy.
Sure, France recently had a panel of scientists make recommendations on screen time:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/01/french-experts-reco...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/stop-children-...

Their recommendations seemed to be based on pretty conclusive evidence.
I think what you'd find in a real lawyer's office is that they don't "remember" or "generate" very many references at all. Those books in the stereotypical image of a lawyer's office weren't there just there to look lawyerly, and in modern times those computers are equipped with some expensive subscriptions to legal databases. This is not how legal references are created, not now, not in the past. Depending on an LLM (not "AI", LLM specfically) to do this is insane, stupid, and anyone selling an LLM-based product for this purpose ought to be sued for fraud... and that only coincidentally since they are providing a product to lawyers.

Why is anyone even defending this? LLMs are objectively unsuited for this. LLMs are objectively failing at this. LLM architecture is obviously not a good choice for this task to anyone with even a basic understanding of them. But... who cares? All this means is that LLMs are not suited for this task. I wouldn't be banging on this except for the engineers running around here with stars in their eyes thinking that despite all the evidence they've finally found the tool that does everything. No. We haven't. They don't. This isn't an attack on the viability of AI as a whole or LLMs specifically, any more than pointing out that a hammer is not a good tool for cutting grass is an attack on hammers.
Glider from Fdroid. But if I click on a HN link shared to me in other apps, it opens in chrome. Other than that its been a pretty awesome experience.
Xwin-LM: Strong and Scalable Alignment Practice for LLMs
I would not be surprised if it once served a racist function, a lot of things did, and I’m glad that’s now illegal. I wouldn’t be surprised if it still happens sometimes but I’m sure it’s the exception rather than the rule.

Most HOAs don’t even have the right to screen tenants, if you can purchase the house and will sign the contract you’re in and have the same voting rights and responsibilities as the other residents.
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Air_13%22_Late_2020 has guides to replace the battery, the speakers, the logic board, trackpad, screen, etc.
You don't see how a hacked email account or server could influence global politics?

Compromised email was arguably the largest determining factor in the 2016 US presidential election.
Factorio vibes intensify...
did Meta present the AI as an official customer-service chatbot?
Arbitration doesn’t really create precedent. When one person wins a lawsuit, it reduces the cost for all who follow (on the same facts). The evidence gathered in one case can be re-used in another.

A million arbitrations means a million arbitrary results, where one claimant doesn’t know what evidence was uncovered in the other cases.

Most importantly punitive damages. Arbitrators almost never impose real punishments, which means more companies commit fraud / act maliciously towards customers.
"Lol, if an individual does this, you're going to go to jail. A company does this? Tiny fine. What a world we live in."

An individual did do this. They did not go to jail.

Trespass vs. B&E is nuanced, and I'm definitely oversimplifying it. The "misconception" is widespread enough that it includes lawyers: https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/breaking-entering-vs-tresp...
Got another 11 years to wait before that enters the US public domain, unfortunately.
Yes, that's also what I think must have happened—missing 2FA. But it seems it's also not mandatory within Snowflake accounts also, from what I understand from the general message.

I've never used Snowflake and assumed that because you push all your data into it, it probably has 2FA enabled by default. Is it optional?
yeah, the perpetrator is wrong: nothing in production was accessed, no customer data either. totally being mischaracterized in the hudson post.
Not all retailers here offer e-waste takeaway with their delivery though. Online ones like Amazon or small discounters do not AFAIk. Only the big brick and mortar ones do since they have their own delivery vehicles and employees.
did you have any problems specifically with X? It's worked flawlessly for my entire adult life, and a decade ago they made it so magical I didn't even have to write a config anymore. I think they will have to pry X from my cold dead silicon at this point.
Because it's a drop-in replacement that lets you (theoretically) spend O(1) development effort on speeding up your Spark jobs instead of O(N).

I say theoretically, because I have no idea how Comet works with the memory limits on Spark executors. If you have to rebalance the memory between regular memory and memory overhead or provision some off-heap memory for Comet, then the migration won't be so simple.
Why does Dropbox have horrendous dark patterns that should be illegal?
Just messaged their support team and was able to get a full refund.
160 billion base pairs. Apparently it's Tmesipteris truncata from the Pacific, but it's being reported as oblanceolata.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmesipteris_truncata
After reading S. Levy's retrospective book on GE NE and ALWRs, SMRs were delayed for decades but came too little, too late.

There's essentially no general purpose point for them given the costs of PV and onshore wind have become cheaper to deploy. This is good for everyone so long as politic including techno-"religious" preferences doesn't subsidize coal, oil, gas, or even nuclear when there are cleaner and cheaper solutions today.
Sounds like implied extortion to me.
I think pavel_lishin's comment is alluding to that what we are reading in mvdtnz's comment is victim blaming. It is a bit coded. Being overly concerned what a female victim of sexual assault was wearing is textbook case of victim blaming. I believe this is what the sentence "I bet they were wearing a real short skirt, too." is evoking to say that the sentence quoted from mvdtnz's comment is blaming the victim of the scam.
I agree that their products are amazing but having dealt with their sales staff last year and this year, I completely understand why they're underperforming. They're rude, sarcastic, always have a very take-it-or-leave-it attitude, and had a bad attitude when I asked about certain features, like I was wasting their time. I canceled talks for 6 months just to let the memory fade.
TDD networks (where the same frequency is used for downlink and uplink, but with timeslots for each) do need tight timing between cells though, but it doesn't have to be absolute - just in sync with each other so one cell doesn't blast out a full power downlink while adjacent and nearby cells are quietly trying to listen for the (much quieter) uplink transmissions of their user devices.
“There is a phone number for Meta online. When CBC called it, an automated recording said, ‘Please note that we are unable to provide telephone support at this time,’ and directed callers to meta.com/help.”
> It took over a decade of research, elaborate numerical models, and 13 Greek marines fighting in it from dawn till dusk to prove it was surprisingly good at its job

A decade of research and mathematical models to determine that an ancient civilization wasn’t just making useless armor for fun?
How's Microsoft Edge affected?
My understanding is that the benefit of being outdoors is the ability and opportunity to regularly focus on things at a distance that helps, so sunglasses wouldn't factor in.
> I do see though how AI is a huge threat to them. Using Claude 3 for coding and being able to ask questions about my specific issues and getting tailored responses every time to my exact issue (vs watching a general video and applying that knowledge through trial and error) has made me much more productive and also greatly reduced my reliance on using sites like Pluralsight to get up to speed/debug/etc.

That seems like a learning cul-de-sac, sort of like trying to learn a city only by following turn-by-turn directions and never looking at a map. You're going to have no idea all kinds of things are even there.

Also, this: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

> And reading the Sparknotes often would be enough to fake your way through the test, but it would not have any chance, like, not a chance, of changing you, of shifting you, of giving you the ideas and insights that reading “Crime and Punishment” or “East of Eden” would do.

> And one thing I see a lot of people doing is using A.I. for summary. And one of the ways it’s clearly going to get used in organizations is for summary — summarize my email, and so on.

> ...But what matters about reading a book, and I see this all the time preparing for this show, is the time you spend in the book, where over time, like, new insights and associations for you begin to shake loose. And so I worry it’s coming into an efficiency-obsessed educational and intellectual culture, where people have been imagining forever, what if we could do all this without having to spend any of the time on it? But actually, there’s something important in the time.

> There’s something important in the time with a blank page, with the hard book. And I don’t think we lionize intellectual struggle.
I dreamt of Zip drives back in the days - I never quite understood white they didn’t become standard, much like usb drives would become later.
they're also totally wrong about what they had access to . . .
Is there anyway we can somehow find out that is true?

I could have sworn google always was happy to return some odd url matches, typically when the given results weren't great.
> This Standard Ebooks edition is based on a transcription of the 1922 Shakespeare and Company first edition, with emendations from pre-1929 errata lists and the second edition in its 1927 ninth printing by Shakespeare and Company. It does not track any one particular edition, but rather is a blend of pre-1929 editions that aims to contain what scholars might consider to be the most accurate version of what was printed before 1929. Therefore, various probable misprints have been retained that may have been corrected in post-1929 editions. Consultation of various editions of the book and the historical collation list appended to Hans Walter Gabler’s Critical and Synoptic Edition is advised before contacting Standard Ebooks about potential mistakes.

As someone who is fascinated with the textual history of Ulysses, this is going to raise some hackles.
Spanish police investigate whether hackers stole drivers' data
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday there were investigating whether the private information of millions of vehicle drivers had been offered up for sale online after the traffic authority detected an attempted data breach earlier this month.

Two weeks ago, the Directorate-General of Traffic (DGT) detected suspicious activity from users trying to access its database, a spokesperson told Reuters.

The DGT blocked them and alerted the Traffic Investigation and Analysis Group (GIAT), which opened an investigation, the Guardia Civil police force said.

The DGT's database contains detailed information - including licence plate numbers and insurance data - on more than 27 million drivers registered in Spain.

An anonymous user claimed in a post on the hacking crime forum BreachForums that they had "access to look up any licence plate or document number" and were selling the full DGT database.

"We'll have to see if there's any truth to what is being said. In data-selling forums, they often claim to be selling things they don't actually have," the DGT spokesperson said.

Over the past month, three of Spain's largest companies - telecoms giant Telefonica, lender Santander and energy company Iberdrola - have reported suffering cyberattacks that led to breaches of employee and customer data. According to a report by the Department of National Security, the total number of cyberattacks registered last year nearly doubled from 2022 to over 100,000 incidents, 130 of which were classed as "critical".

(Reporting by Emma Pinedo and David Latona, editing by Andrei Khalip and Gareth Jones)
Which doesn't describe much of my stuff at all.

At least not my stuff where it'd be quicker to ask an AI agent for help with.