skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's wasteful.

disable all prefetch in the browser (which mostly server to tell google about links on the pages you visit).

use only quad9 dns.

enable all worldwide AdBlock filters (in uBlockOrigin obviously)

enable browser process sandbox (firejail if you're lazy) so it can only every access ~/Downloads and you have to artisanaly curate and move files beforehand.

disable JS globally on uBlockOrigin and see the site without it, and then think for a brief second before deciding if you will abandon or enable js on that domain.

there are so many GOOD ways to add that latency with a LOT of return.
But only for organisation and enterprise plans!

> Starting today, admins can set that content data training preference directly in settings, across all plans.

> -Starter and Professional plans are opted in by default, but can opt out.

> - Organization and Enterprise plans are opted out by default.
Figma is explicit about this:

> Two important highlights: First, all admins have control of whether their team’s content data is used for training. Second, participation in AI content training is not required to use Figma or Figma’s AI features. Learn more about our approach to training.

Blanket bans on third party AI tools don't make any sense to me. As the parent commenter said, they already have all your data, so you already have to trust them with that. Why would you trust them in those other areas but not trust their explicit statements that say that you can disable training on your data?
You may as well say variables are bad because people are bad at naming variables. I mean, yeah? I don't call my channels "chan", I call them "outputChannel" or "inputChannel" or "foobarProducer" or "twiddleListeners" or whatever.
Begs the question if they have 4.5b ... maybe that shit shoulda been distributed to investors and not as a fine to the government?
Thanks for that!

Again, it's not that I doubted it in the light of everything else, but wanted some verification before I talk about it to friends.
Ollama can already run Llama-3 70B with a 4GB GPU, or no GPU at all, it'll just be slow.

Considering this says it's "not designed for real-time interactive scenarios" it's probably also really slow
I'm genuinely shocked be the amount of clever disinformation in these threads. I expected better from this demographic.
If you’re not going to give more than two words then I’m kind of done. It sounds like you view tax policy as an equalizing factor, something to resolve inequality. If that’s incorrect, then please clarify your prior comment.
Yes but that is one of those niche tasks I meant.

Once again they are selling it like something that's for everyone right now. This is the problem. THe same with the metaverse. It has some really great usecases, but they made it out like next year we would all ditch our phones and work exclusively in a VR headset. Obviously that didn't happen, as the tech was nowhere near that and probably people don't want it either.

Also, if you really need to be sure that those 30.000 drilling reports really didn't contain any hazards, you still have to go through it all yourself. Don't forget LLMs aren't reproducible.

But no, my point was exactly that it's not just hype. There are genuine useful usecases, I totally agree.

As there were for metaverse, and probably even for blockchain (NFT not so sure tho :) I always thought they were really a solution looking for a problem). The key thing about a hype is that they overblow the potential benefits way too much though. I see this happening here once again.
It builds on normal electroplating which is already a safe DIY activity, best not do drink it though.

This is selective electroplating by only applying electric current to pixel sized areas and building up the object layer by layer like a resin printer. It's truly amazing what it can do. It's just really new.

https://fabric8labs.com/
Because France didn’t over regulate the nuclear industry at the behest of the coal industry like as happened in the US? Or are you making a blanket generalization about France without knowing anything about their government because you’ve associated socialism and regulation and France in your head?

As for solar companies stock prices doing great, how is that relevant at all?
>In a practical world this is an outrageously useless platitude.

I took it not as a platitude, but as a call to change the status quo.
Writing documentation up front is a good idea, but only if one treats it as the first iteration of the program with the expectation that the initial documentation may well be thrown out. The process of writing the documentation no doubt will help you organize the plan for writing the code. But there will also be things that the documentation does not capture or problems it does not foresee that emerge as the program is being written.

The danger is that either you fail to update the documentation to account for the changes in the system that emerge in development or you only update parts of the documentation as you go which causes the documentation to become inconsistent and unreliable.

A middle ground is write the documentation up front and then rewrite it after the system is done. The initial draft helps guide the design and the final version captures the full and complete essence of the finished program, which is nearly impossible to do up front.
What you have to do, to get around this is to negotiate a contract with the company providing the AI tools, which explicitly forbids them from doing that.

This is how corporations solve these kinds of issues. As soon as you as a company are a customer instead of some random person using their AI tools, you start to actually have influence over the other company.
I had friends and relatives who worked for the US IRS in the 80s, they all would say the IRS was the one place that budgets will never be cut, so the felt far more secure than I did in Tech.

Little did they know the top 1% would get with one specific US Political Party to cut the IRS budget so thy can all cheat on their taxes. It is cheaper for them to hire lawyers than to pay their "fair share".
Are you assuming that anyone claiming to be doing good things must be lying? And then getting angry at them both for not doing the good thing and for the lying?

That does sound exhausting.
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You have it write a program to analyze it. I think a lot of people fail to understand that you don't always need the LLM to do the thing, have it write a program to do the thing for you.
Naming layers has been a problem for decades. There are even memes about it. With the advent of AI, we all knew this is a perfect match where AI can help from day one. Happy to see it arrive to Figma now.
Unchecking all these boxes is a thankless task.
One thing I've struggled with while applying LLMs to business problems is how others have dealt with identifying and managing system failures.

Let's say some of your drilling reports contain a pattern that indicates balrog activity, which the LLM misses. The legal or insurance context requires you to monitor and address potential balrog activity. How do you plan for these failures?

In almost every case I've seen, the plan is to not have a plan, which is another way of saying that the data doesn't matter so long as no one complains about the results.
Thanks this is very helpful
fzf has pretty killer history fuzzy search. Just load its keybindings in your .bashrc
It’s almost like the parties don’t matter, and the ruling class relies on political circus as a distraction
One thing I didn't notice when travelling to Bay Area is thriving small museum ecosystem.

Apparently in the US they prefer to run museums like commercial venues, so either it's a large theme park of a museum, or not at all. I see the news where houses of very notable people like Ray Bradbury[1] sold and scrapped - elsewhere they'd be made a local prodigy of a "house-museum".

1. https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-ray-bradbu...
The answer is likely in the contract your company has with Microsoft.
I get maybe one hallucination per twenty chats with gpt4.
Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection
There’s a fusion reaction in the sky. All you have to do is harvest it. If you want to bring a fusion reaction home you have to deal with pesky things like INSANE AMOUNTS OF HEAT. Luckily the sky furnace is safely surrounded by 93M miles of insulting vacuum rendering the radiation harmless and even pleasant. We have a handy-dandy magnetic shield to handle surges, and atmospheric buffer for anything that sneaks through (now with protective ozone!) It’s really an ingenious design. I can’t think of any way to improve upon it.
The quote was to be exact: "Into the trash it goes". A cheap dismissal for arguably nonsensical reasons given that it's closed software specifically for a closed OS.
Because regulatory burdens have killed the US nuclear industry. That’s why China is 15 years ahead of us and pumping out fission stations at half the time.

Nuclear power needs a serious overhaul of the regulatory framework in the US and that starts with a broader swelling of support to overcome all the misinformed propaganda.
Not if your family stayed behind...
Go, check 'em all!
I would argue that the domain of language design is quite a bit lower-level than the domain of specific design patterns like state machines or ECS.

A language that wants to support ECS, shouldn't implement ECS as part of its syntax. It should provide features that allow library developers to implement ECS (in an ergonomic and efficient way).
Just saw this, not in the habit of checking back on comments (whoops). Casey Faris has been a huge help to me over the years: https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyFaris
No I had clinical depression but thanks for the diagnosis since my experience does not align with your preconceived notions of how the world works.
Return of the Obra Dinn: Stabilizing the Dither
Pedestrian deaths have been rising long before the pandemic. The lowest point was in 2010. The rise in pedestrian deaths post-2020 follows the same trend as pre-2020 in the US.

Most other developed countries, all of which had COVID-19, have managed to decrease pedestrian deaths in recent years. Just not the US.
You'll only get frustration and lashing-out as a result. This is a wrong approach.

Get some activities for that evening organized first.
You don't actually think the LLM is reviewing those 30k documents do you? You tell it to write a program (which is easy to audit) to pull the info from the PDFs or whatever. I don't get why this crowd is so goddamn unimaginative with LLMs.
Paul Allen sure didn't have great foresight for post death. First Cinerama and now the computer museum. The current sentiment with seattle lifers is that he used Seattle as a playground and didn't actually care about the longevity.

EMP now MoPop just keeps hanging on by a thread as well and has gone through lots of turmoil.
I think that for low-risk classification tasks and similar, something like an LLM is a great tool, and I can absolutely see it being extremely useful for intelligence work where sifting through stuff is very hard. However, I would not at all trust AI to make actually important decisions independently.
Multivitamin Use and Mortality Risk in 3 Prospective US Cohorts
> My problem with errors in Go are that they are too easy to ignore accidentally

This is a problem for values of all types, not just errors. One I'm not sure we've figured out how to solve[1]. There are a few languages out there that force variable assignment to try and address the problem, but even then there is really nothing to say that you haven't accidentally ignored the variable assigned.

> It's also _very_ hard to convince a team that they've been doing things incorrectly by ignoring errors.

To be fair, if you are able to completely leave out entire blocks of logic without anyone noticing even under the most cursory of testing, perhaps it wasn't actually needed? Forgetting entire code branches isn't exactly a subtle bug.

[1] Short of going all the way to formal proofs.
I had completely missed what Bryan had been up to in the last 5-6 years. All I remembered was that he did a bunch of these "Why Linux Sucks" videos back in the middle of the 2010s that I always thought were humorous, so I clicked through to watch this.

Holy crap, what happened? This video is all about complaining about DEI and then throwing shade at the Linux Foundation for "vaccine passports"
I hope with all the time and money being saved, you're having humans check the results.
> forced to walk through the woods for 5 minutes to go to the bathroom

I love that idea. I wish I had a big enough piece of forested property to try that out. Put the kitchen in one place, bathroom in another, and bedroom in a third, all five minutes walking distance apart.

I could probably still find ways to defeat it. But maybe it would help.
get_in(x.a)

better example would be nested.

get_in(x.a.b.c)
Unfortunately, the “old” web interface is nigh-unusable on mobile (no idea about “new”, I switch over every time). The targets are microscopic, and if you zoom in so they’re a reasonable size the text doesn’t reflow and you have to constantly horizontal-scroll.

I was daily Reddit user, commenter, and poster until the third-party app shutdown. I still occasionally browse /r/$city anonymously, but other than that I haven’t returned. I don’t miss it in general, but I am sad to no longer see inspiration on home improvement, software engineering, and hobby subreddits.
Yea, the more I learn about things, the more I realize that everything is defined relative to something else. Even measurements are defined relative to some standard (that beautifully manicured kilogram ball, the speed of light in a vacuum, your ruler's hand width or foot length, etc.) That's both very satisfying and extremely frustrating.

Programming languages can't escape it either; see the tautologies at the top of your favorite programming language (metaclasses, metaobject protocols, etc).
Okay, but you still need to debug the program. If your program must give correct results you still need to check the program output against every case. There's no free lunch there.
interested in the old-style forums you pay money for
If people are going to keep posting political stuff to HN, could we at least require them to flag it as such so it can be filtered out by those who prefer not to have politics creep into every last site on the internet?
If its frontloaded, then it makes sense to keep this ace up our sleeve until temperatures become unbearable. Then at that time, we can cut methane for immediate relief, to flatten the temperature curve if you will. Doing it too early is pointless.
Well, I think it's crazy to let idiots keep people from using things that are useful. If it's not useful, then ok, but if it is, then that's a bad reason to avoid it.

And I just don't relate to this at all:

> you usually want to present either the distribution (in which case a horizontal histogram without extreme kde smoothing or quartile info is usually better)

Where I almost always see this is in time series plots where there is a distribution at each point. Horizontal histograms are not as intuitive for visualizing this, because plotting time on the x-axis is so universal. And while it is true that box plots work well for this when the distribution at each point is close to normal, it is not true that all data looks like this, and it's easy to not notice this if you default to using a box plot.

I do agree with this:

> or you want to highlight just the summary stats in which case the boxplot on its own (or just a table) is generally better

Yes, but you can also just leave off the summary stats from the "violin plot" (just like, as you point out, histograms usually don't and shouldn't include summary stats) in order to visualize only the shape of each distribution.

I also really don't care about the flourish of vertically centering / "reflecting" the distribution, a series of vertical histograms totally expresses the same information that I'm saying is useful here! People seem to find that ugly, which I figure is why they started doing the reflection thing to make it prettier, but I really don't have a strong view either way on which of these presentations is or isn't ugly or leads to awkward jokes. I just think "a series of distribution shapes laid out vertically" is a commonly useful visualization.

And I really don't know about your last point; I don't spend much time working with non-experts who don't understand histograms really well.
I've yet to see any evidence that it's a "Chinese company." All indications so far point to it being a Philippine company based in Manila, likely run primarily by native Chinese speakers who conduct their business largely in Chinese. That doesn't make it a "Chinese company" any more than it makes the vast majority of businesses in NYC Chinatown or Flushing, Queens "Chinese companies."

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801999

Edit: The Register has updated their article to be less committal. See the diff at https://www.diffchecker.com/W3wmc71w/
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40799879
Real talk: if a company's contractor agreements don't strictly circumscribe how a contractor can only use the company's resources on a limited basis to perform their work on the company's behalf, the GPLv3 is far, far down their list of concerns. Do they also get to keep the rest of the company's code? Their emails? Marketing materials? Laptop? The OS on that laptop?

I've never been tempted to think I had any right whatsoever to my employers' internal materials. That would be a highly unusual, maybe unprecedentedly so, situation.
The lack of ads is protection against malware, considering Google & Bing PPC ads have deeply contributed to the malware ecosystem.
Simpler web development with Htmx, SQLite and TypeScript
Hell, I’m a dev and I already produce most of my slide shows in Figma. I’m so happy a dedicated product is coming!

I find Figma unmatched for architecture diagrams. It’s nice to have them at my disposal when preparing slide shows.
I did it when I had over 40 years experience. It was a blast.

I've since used that method when I was a hiring manager, both for technical roles, and even a Manager of Compliance. Was extremely successful, both for us on the hiring side, as well as two very good hires.
The point is that the justices own histories with respect to expensive gifts is naturally going to shape their senses of what kinds of gifts are normal, problematic, unusual, etc.— as are the general norms of their peers (professionally and/or socioeconomically). And our judges are quite accustomed to receiving extremely expensive gifts basically all the time.
Same way you manage human failures?
The devtools console is chaos
It's possible that they have the best intentions but are woefully misguided, like pretty much the average sv techno-optimist.
That is the most polite expression of lmgtfy that I've seen in a while. Probably would not happen anywhere but HN.
Is "may contain traces" / "made in a facility..." no longer adequate labeling in these situations? I know that used to be the norm in America, and it still is in Europe.

My experience with moderately serious non-anaphylactic food allergies is that "traces" are pretty low risk.
Yeah, it's amazing that most audits seem to be for misfiling for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
As mentioned elsewhere, you don't need some special contract. Figma allows anyone to opt out of training (though I think it's a fair point that only Enterprise and Organization plans are opted out by default, while Starter and Professional plans you have to explicitly select opt out).

Nearly every SaaS tool I've seen that has AI features lets you opt out of training, as these SaaS companies know that this is a deal breaker for many of their clients.
Time to write a Playwright script.

const { chromium } = require('playwright');

(async () => {
// Launch the browser
const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });
const context = await browser.newContext();
const page = await context.newPage();

// Navigate to your page
await page.goto('https://example.com'); // Replace with the actual URL

// Click all checkboxes
await page.$$eval('input[type=checkbox]', checkboxes => {
checkboxes.forEach(checkbox => checkbox.click());
});

// Close the browser
await browser.close();

})();

I'm proud of myself for getting the chill alert without even running a script, just frantically tapping with my fingers!
It would be cool if I could double tap some hieroglyphics and get a translation.
If Figma takes a little inspiration from Adobe (they were almost acquired at one point after all) they'll realize they can change their TOS at any time for any reason with impunity. Such statements are at best dubious and at worst complete unprovable bullshit.

The only way to be sure your data stays yours is local models running on your machines.
How can you be sure with humans doing the work?
More importantly close is a _broadcasting_ write. Which is an incredibly useful feature when you want to build nested structures out of your channel paths.