skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also why does it need to be an LLM that is doing these things?

Well, if you ask me it's pretty clear why: we are in the hype cycle of a very specific new type of hammers, so, of course everything must be nails. Another one is that our understanding of LLMs is limited, which makes them limitless and constantly shape/purpose-shifting for those whose job it is to sell them to us. As an Engineer, I don't know what to do with them: they have no "datasheet" describing their field and range of applicability, and I feel there are many of us annoyed and tired of being constantly pulled into discussions about how to use them at all cost.

(Yes, I understand it was rhetorical)
Next up: Tivo for Youtube
Mainline kernel tends to have only basic support (if at all) for many SoCs that actually get used in phones, especially full power management support has been lacking.
Of course. I never meant that it was all fun and chill, perhaps life was much harder, and perhaps our brains evolved to cope with that and when there are no natural threats it errs.
Until they go the way of Amazon/Netflix and show you ads anyway even if you pay...
> And it's not like those laid off can't start their own, disruptive ventures.

That's a totally unrealistic take... on the scale of "communism". Not every person is a perfect communist, and not every person is a business man.

Now I know you may say that only some need to create disruptive ventures and hire others then, but that's also unrealistic due to power imbalances.

What will turn the wheel is how capitalism works right now: If too many people are unemployed and too few people can afford your mass market product, someone will need to give the unemployed a job or money so they can participate in the "free" market.
For the same reason Tesla paid SpaceX for steel, or SpaceX pays Tesla for power packs.

Companies pay for services rendered.

Could another company have made the tunnel cheaper? Was a tender raised? did Tesla benefit from from having a tunnel under a highway to avoid going around it/paying tolls?

Those are questions remaining to be answered.
It still is revolutionary. Serious Sam 4 still doesn't take itself seriously. Best money i've spent on a shooter since ... Serious Sam 3.

I do miss the sledgehammer.
Don't assume they will never double-dip. The AppStore has ads inspite of Apple being a more "premium" platform.
Apple has been serving as a fairly effective proxy based solely on the fact that they have developed the software, the developer tools, the hardware and the APIs and the distribution platform that developers use. The same thing that makes the iPhone lucrative for third party developers is also he same thing that makes it lucrative to bad actors, and part of the iPhone’s appeal is precisely because it is more locked down than Android. I can try out an app, find out the developer is an asshole that wants access to all my contacts based solely off the fact that I’m getting prompted by a system UI and delete the app and know that it is gone.

So yes, there is totally a place for private enforcement of a comprehensive developer agreement (read: contract) backed by automated review tools and human review. It’s not perfect, but it is pretty good.
> a well run organization

Those exist?
Non-EU companies need to follow GDPR when serving EU customers, yes. There are many websites that geoblock EU visitors because they don't want to comply with GDPR.

But the EU only enforces that for transactions involving EU citizens. If you want to grab all the data from US visitors, go for it, the EU will not complain (as long as you don't do it to EU visitors).

I think the difference here is that the US is enforcing US law on an operation in a foreign country by a company that operates in the US. The equivalent would be the EU enforcing GDPR for all site transactions, regardless of the visitor's nationality.

The point of making this distinction is that there are countries that have laws that we don't want to follow (e.g. various Middle East countries having drastic punishments for atheism and apostasy), and that should not be applied to people (or organisations) who don't reside there. If the USA makes the precedent that it can enforce its domestic law on actions happening in other countries, then it's possible that (e.g.) Australia could enforce its ridiculous anti-online-bullying laws on US citizens who have never left the USA.
i just played it for the first time and i can instantly relate to your points! i struggled for bricks too and just kept losing cards before i could put them to good use.

it is due to bandit that most people hide their resources, so removing it is a must if you want transparent trading.
> Now, is it 10k examples? No, but I think it was on the order of hundreds, if not thousands.

If I was presented with 10 pictures of 2 species I'm unfamiliar with, about as different as cats and dogs, I expect I would be able to classify further images as either, reasonably accurately.
What if I were to tell you that the Echo team spent all their time building not one, not two, but three entirely separate embedded tech stacks, for which all features had to be ported over, that all had to be supported because there's 25+ different devices because people got promoted for shipping 4 different ones every year?
Real competition only works in the fairy tale of the free market, where users have all the time and money they want to make a selection and do the transition. It's not the reality. People use MS products because they have to, not because they choose to. Even MS knows and uses this, let's start from that
Not getting any coals caught between your toes is a big one too. Walking with cramped feet is a great way to pick up coals ;P
> Turns out, all the ‘update’ quantities were zero, resulting in the sluggish behavior of the filter.

I think you also meant the predict quantities were zero, not the update!
Scary. Its really fascinating how they have such capacity to spread into every nook they can find. We spent a lot of time wondering how such an exotic looking thing, showed up in basically an urban closed off area (barely any windows) where you rarely see any kind of fungus growing. Must be producing a ton of spores.
That private youtube already exists by the way. It's called Nebula and its a project by popular yt creators.
This limitation is new. And it's so annoying. 95% of the time my questions I have surrounding AWS are IAM or security related and this thing refuses to answer anything. It's so annoying.
They should call it “lobotomy”.

The picture on top of the article looks pretty much like what Walter Freeman would have used as an ad in the 1930s for his door-to-door “ice pick through the eye socket” procedure.
Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency
Yes, the content creator does. And it's their living which gets effected by ad block.
This has nothing to do with the App Store. The API access is being gated by the user granting permission, rather than some reviewer looking at the app and deciding it violates a policy.

Letting users lock and unlock doors is completely different from a walled garden.
I don't see any example solutions in the paper? If it is solving olympiad level problems, I want to see some!?
The Hopsworks Feature Store for Machine Learning (Sigmod Industrial 2024)
performance has many dimensions. for example the cost/speed of spawning a process/thread and their intra process communication.
The sales pitch Microsoft has with Office (including Teams and SharePoint), EntraID (formerly Azure AD) and Azure is pretty strong for companies.
I made a small digital clock program that I put on a small display.

It sat next to me while I worked, and I found the transitions from one time to another (like 1:01 -> 1:02) to be distracting. So I changed the transition to be a gradual fade and it helped.

Now that I think about it, I remember getting distracted years ago at a home with a grandfather clock. A quiet room except for the ticking. Definitely accentuated boredom (which with smartphones, we never have anymore)
Used MB ejection seats were re-used in flight sims.

When I worked in the industry (electronics eng), I saw one in either a Jaguar or Tornado sim under construction and it had a brass plaque on the side naming the pilot and day of activation, along the lines of "On [DATE], [PILOT], ejected safely from their aircraft in this seat."
QQQ would have turned your 500k into 2.56M

AAPL, NVDA (even without the recent events), MSFT, TSLA, NFLX, yeah sure. But out of those, only Apple and Microsoft were reasonable companies to put that kind of money into. I think you're not realizing that you're cherry-picking.

I mean I think your point still stands with just looking at QQQ, but I'm just saying over embellishing hurts your argument, not helps.
Diverse Social Networks Are Associated with Social Cohesion and Well-Being
Actually I'm now 100 percent persuaded.

When the company let him leave without invalidating his credentials, he developed the idea that he could act with impunity because the company was just completely incompetent on the security front.

The problem was that he acted without knowledge of modern forensics.
Oh man, this would make a cool Dr. House episode resolution.
> Crypto-currency ... is really useful as a backend technology.

I still can't find any really useful examples anywhere. Unless we count gambling and illicit money transfers. All other associated activity appears like a rounding error compared to its non-crypto counterparts to me.
Max Schrems. Go there son!

After years of growing criticism over invasive ad tracking, Google announced in September 2023 that it would phase out third-party cookies from its Chrome browser .

Since then, users have been gradually tricked into enabling a supposed “ad privacy feature” that actually tracks people. While the so-called “Privacy Sandbox” is advertised as an improvement over extremely invasive third-party tracking, the tracking is now simply done within the browser by Google itself.

To do this, the company theoretically needs the same informed consent from users. Instead, Google is tricking people by pretending to “Turn on an ad privacy feature”. noyb has therefore filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority.
No, although I do have a fair amount of shelf space devoted to a CS book series (published by that breakaway technical college somewhere in the fens) all of which are in shades of what I would've called green, but a cantab colleague informed me was in fact blue.

If either of us had had any irish gaelic, maybe we would've agreed upon glas? see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_lang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...

I'll add this to the list
LLMs, in this context, are nothing more than search indexes. The exact same information is a google query away. Publicly crawlable information was the training material for them, after all.
I don't just do it. I do it when doing it serves Justice. Has a real big difference. But if you don't understand ethics you're just going to try to attack me like a person, and try to beat me to death. I wish you luck with that effort. I want to tell you what I've done to people who have tried. But I'd rather you find out for yourself give it a shot.
I hate everything you stand for don't f** with me.
You should not assume that this group of 7 is the end of the project.
Yeah. The problem is the externality of the resulting CO2 causing climate change. Stopping that is pretty high on a lot of people’s lists.
could be lip balm addiction. It's a thing apparently
It’s an absolute disaster. It wouldn’t answer something along the lines of “what is IAM” when I asked increasingly simple “security” related questions. Very little chance I’ll try an aws AI offering again any time soon.
Considering this is a law, Apple's TOS becomes about not worth the toilet paper you could print it on.

Contracts can't contradict existing law. Even in the US, I think.
Bomb making instructions are available in quite plentiful ways, both on the internet and in books, with step by step instructions even. People don't "not make bombs" for lack of instructions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb-making_instructions_on_...

Here, if you want to make a quick chemical weapon: get a bucket, vinegar, bleach. Dump the bleach into the bucket. Dump the vinegar into the bucket. If you breath it in you die. An LLM doesn't change this.
If I tell you that you could be hit by a car, am I calling for your murder?
> But uncensoring Llama 3 can do harm in the immediate term

How so?
I think there are several broad categories all wrapped under "safety":

- PR (avoid hurting feelings, avoid generating text that would make journalists write sensationalist negative articles about the company)

- "forbidden knowledge": Don't give people advice on how to do dangerous/bad things like building bombs (broadly a subcategory of the above - the content is usually discoverable through other means and the LLM generally won't give better advice)

- dangerous advice and advice that's dangerous when wrong: many people don't understand what LLMs do, and the output is VERY convincing even when wrong. So if the model tells people the best way to entertain your kids is to mix bleach and ammonia and blow bubbles (a common deadly recipe recommended on 4chan), there will be dead people.

- keeping bad people from using the model in bad ways, e.g. having it write stories where children are raped, scamming people at scale (think Nigeria scam but automated), or election interference (people are herd animals, so if you show someone 100 different posts from 100 different "people" telling them that X is right and Y is wrong, it will influence them, and at scale this has the potential to tilt elections and conquer countries).

I think the first ones are rather stupid, but the latter ones get more and more important to actually have. Especially the very last one (opinion shifting/election interference) is something where the existence of these models can have a very real, negative effect on the world (affecting you even if you yourself never come into contact with any of the models or its outputs, since you'll have to deal with the puppet government elected due to it), and I appreciate the companies building and running the models doing something about it.
Capitalism is an inherently adversarial system - Google's motivation is to extract as much value out of me at minimum cost to them. My motivation is to extract as much value out of them at minimum annoyance to me.

Technology sometimes tips the balance a little bit towards the individual and away from the megacorp. I don't see how that is a bad thing.
In this case, the question is whether to use Swift for a backend server on a Linux machine, or something else. That's the environment. I'd prefer Lua, simply because its a very proven language for that application.

Sure, Swift has sexy features that make it appealing to developers. But the ecosystem for server infrastructure on Lua is formidable.
I'd believe it; fungal antibiotics (e.g. neomycin, various -cillins) trigger allergic responses the same way.
>Should they be forced to allow that but still held accountable when their device is noncompliant?

no, because there's this weird concept that seems to be foreign to the modern software folk - Ownership.

Owner is held liable for that, not device manufacturer.
Just an FYI for those reading. I had no idea what the keepassxc thing is about - apparently the debian version doesn't have a bunch of functionality that the original version has, and this was the maintainer's decision.

https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720
“only inexperienced engineers in a language would make such a mistake” — famous last words…
The main thing I'd be worried about in the short term is models making accessible the information to synthesize a pandemic capable virus.
much more popular and a regional champion - https://www.youtube.com/@DyLightedCatan
I've seen a Space Shuttle up-close (in a museum): it's big. The 747 is just gargantuan.
Short answer: yes. The AGPL should be avoided at all costs because it has never been robustly tested in court and its unclear what the licensing implications actually are.

There are various explanations in plain english sometimes offered about how the AGPL will apply. None of these are true.

Companies that have a made a business decision to provide AGPL licensed code do so with the understanding that no serious business will ever consider using such a product in their software stack. If you choose an AGPL licensed product it will (rightly) become a gigantic headache at some point. It will certainly become a problem if anyone does due diligence.
Mainstream Android used to have this, but the feature was dropped because it could be used to block ads.

Some Android distributions like eOS have re-enabled the switch.
Can the teenage mustang kids repurpose these to make tire squeal sounds with the small engines?
Can you? If they track the time the user began watching the video, they can refuse to send you any more of the actual video until the duration of the ad is complete.
As more and more of Android parts are rewritten in Rust, it might be a good thing long term.
> Investors and founders both tend to think that if employees knew founders were getting liquidity that that would negatively impact employee morale (it wouldn’t)

Not sure I agree there. If employees widely knew founders were getting liquidity but the rank-and-file aren't, I think there would be a hit to morale.

Of course, the solution there isn't secrecy, it's giving employees some liquidity.
See my point about long exercise window - 5-10y is not uncommon now. I’d rather have that even though it converts to PSOs than gamble ~50k + amt on early exercise. Unless you’re super early ofc which changes the math
I am about to give up on Spotlight. I size the taskbar to minimum and permanently hide it, then use Spotlight to launch apps but the config frequently screws up and then fails to find Applications or preferences. Or sometimes takes 10+ seconds to find something. It's done this for me across multiple MacBooks, multiple versions of macOS, etc. All I want from Spotlight is instant finding of apps/utilities and systems prefs. I've tried so many solutions suggested across the internet (rebuilding refs, restarting indexing, etc) and nothing has consistently worked.
Amazon adding $1.4B to its affordable housing fund in Seattle and other regions
Apple Intelligence is what Google Gemini should've been from the start
For mesh simplification, what about https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes ?
I know it does the thing you required, but it doesn't really do variable density (you could tell it what areas need what density and it would do that; the paper has a demonstration of this).
I tried the same thing for my kids:

Take some article or book written for adults. Maybe some archaeological discovery, interesting stuff from HN. Or science books from the 1960s.

Then have it turned into a conversation between the father and a curious, seven year old daughter. And convert it to audio with two different speakers.

While it’s been fun to build this, I never ended up letting my kids use it. It just feels wrong. The educational equivalent of Harlow’s Monkeys.
I remember reading somewhere that the brain uses quantum mechanics to store information.

The thought is interesting, but I guess it's just a theory and I have no idea how good it is.
Show HN: Rate AI chatbots based on real-world experience
Hi, folks!

As an AI chatbot user, I really enjoy using it to assist me with writing, coding, research, etc. I've been using GPT-3.5 Turbo since its release and occasionally use GPT-4. I'm not an AI "fanatic" nor interested in the academic papers and benchmarks. In the community, some people say X is better than Y, while some people say the opposite, which makes me confused. Finally, I exhausted my enthusiasm and stuck with my GPT-3.5 combo.

So, I built this website to help ordinary chatbot users rate AI models based on their real-world experiences, and discover the best option for their requirements.

BTW, now I'm using GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet :P
Exactly, you’re allowed to attack others if you do it indirectly, if you’re sneaky about it. Straight up pointing at someone’s bullshit is considered a direct attack and not OK. Being indirect is not strong enough to get that person out of a position of power.
> our peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG

I think you overestimate median pay at the FAANGs by quite a lot.
Oh I love this:
"I use programs as a way of remembering stuff. My memory is the programs I write. If I learn something math or physics or some other maybe biology and I write a program that represent that so I can read the program later it's not ambiguous, easy to read and that way I sort of store my knowledge."
LiveRecall: Open-source alternative to Microsoft's Recall
New Stable Diffusion 3 unable to generate human bodies due to nudity filter
You assume that just because Apple maliciously complied with the EU law by implementing alternative app stores, it means this is the solution.

The solution is to allow sideloading by the user (which incidentally Google allows you to do).
From what I hear, it was previously owned by private equity.
Now the only thing left: figuring out how to deploy it.
"The move also adds a layer of unnecessary complexity in saving Premium viewers from these ads. If they are added server-side, the YouTube client would have to auto-skip them for Premium members, but that also means ad segment info will be relayed to the client"

I don't think this is the case, they could just put ads into the stream at random places for the free tier, and not do so, or redirect to a specific ad-free stream for premium users.
> I very much preferred the state of things a decade ago when it was just Steam.

Do you think you'd have all those sales every 2 months if Steam were still the only pc games store? :)
> Just waiting for Adobe Store, Amazon Store, Microsoft Store, Epic Games Store, etc. to be installed on every phones soon.

Why would it happen with iOS when it has not happened in the 15 years or so since Android exists?

There's basically just one relevant alternative app store which is F-Droid, and it's just all around much better than Google's Play Store, although of course it doesn't have any proprietary, closed-source apps.
I think we're talking about the risk level when compared to various ways to work at a tech company, not risk level when compared against all possible occupations.
Discussion [0] (20 points, 12 hours ago, 9 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661990
If I can ask the question, I can take the answer. It's not up to daddy $AI_SAFETY_CHIEF to decide what an infohazard is for me.
> So if you open source your drivers and get them accepted into the kernel, then you don't need to rewrite[...] them for each new kernel version.

You don't, but someone does. In the note linked above they give an example of how the USB interface changed from synchronous to asynchronous, this must have required some refactoring in all drivers that used USB
But then couldn’t YouTube modify each ad segment very slightly - by a few bytes - so that the hash is different every time?
it's pretty straightforward and simple with `mix release`
See some example usage of history4feed here: https://www.dogesec.com/blog/full_text_rss_atom_blog_feeds/
> Of course, each one of these games also has at least one type of currency unique to the game, which you can only convert in one direction, nor is there any way to move currency in the "store". Often that currency, and anything you bought with it, is locked to the particular platform on which it was purchased.

On steam and GoG you pay with government issued currency. If the others have a currency system just hard pass on them. If you could cure yourself of Gacha, you can do it.
I'm not very in the loop regarding zig at the moment, but coming from C I would think you could just use 0.0 or 0.0f? Is that not the case?