skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare can't just do this at will. This only applies to websites that have explicitly trusted Cloudflare with their TLS cert in order to protect themselves from cases exactly like this one.
Not arguing with general point.

But I strongly doubt that your business model would even approach #1 spot on S&P index.

If you are looking for advice on your business model..

> Whipping homeless people

On avg. homeless people are less competent part of the bell curve. Don’t limit yourself, toss the “homeless” restriction.

You could reduce cost by mostly just threatening to whip, and to actually demonstrate the whipping only on Mondays, just to prove that it happens.

Also, micro-management has serious downsides. It does not build trust, it eats away at initiative and motivation.
Her position on abortion in the context of this discussion is directly related to her position on Roe V. Wade.

But if you want to be purposely obtuse and pretend that you don't understand that, fair enough.
I think that Issue # you linked was deleted by the repo owner, but the one below is related to the same issue and is still up:

https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/...
i'm with you, but 'product discovery via security announcement' is a risky business.
You got it all backwards. Go for a million!
Multiple examples are querying for "female" (which could be fine), and this prompted a thought...

What happens when a customer is searching for hiring purposes, and searches specifically for "male"? Or "young", or "unmarried", or "childless", or "straight", or "white", or "non-disabled", or "non-veteran"?

The data is out there, and is bought and sold heavily. (You mention that dog ownership is something you query over.)

What queries are you going to permit, and what not?

Even with current tools, it seems a lot of people people do this casually. Besides the many biases that people will openly admit on HN, I'm reminded of when someone told me to use one of the popular hiring sites to filter out candidates who weren't in early/mid-20s. (They spoke of it as if it was clever to use graduation year, since the site didn't let you filter by age directly.) Aaaannnndddd... the hiring sites surely have that search history information that recruiters and hiring managers for numerous employers are doing, unless they're intentionally discarding it against all data-appetite industry convention, so should be easy fodder for some energetic regulators/lawyers.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790775
This, not buying armfuls of books off individual sellers, is how used book stores get much of their stock. Running a good one (not just full of shitloads of Stephen King and Nora Roberts) means going to lots of estate sales.

Also, a lot there for a while but less now that they’re almost all gone, being there with cash in hand to buy the remaining stock in bulk when a competitor/colleague goes out of business.

Sometimes in a good used book store you can spot substantial remnants of some particular enthusiast’s collection, like a whole bunch of German-language original 19th century scholarship on the history of the conquest of South America or whatever. Some improbable number of books on some niche topic, nearly all of which probably belonged to one person (or, sometimes, institution) before landing there.
But he was given a diagnosis of cancer. It's not like he was hit by a bus. He had several months.
More here: https://cside.dev/blog/more-than-100k-websites-targeted-in-w...
As a dev, I say more power to them. I support people using better tools for things. Maybe if we kept this up we’d all be using good things, and not stuck with MS Teams and Google slides because little Timmy in marketing chews crayons and can’t figure out how to use anything but the most basic software.
Great stuff! If a query returns zero results, would it return non-zero results with the paid plan?
Those of us with minor technical interest in the space don't really have any love lost for most of the "companies" currently involved...
Rust doesn’t have a direct analogue to go’s concurrency primitives. The pieces are there, but you have to jump through hoops to use them effectively.
My issue with PDFs was the fact they are hard to read on smaller screens because the format isn’t natively easy to reflow.

I guess another issue today is RAG for AI: how can a pdf be chunked in meaningful pieces. Funny to see old methods such as document layout analysis being used for RAG.
Please explain the nuance I am missing.
The reason they don't go after the top is because the top use expert tax lawyers to file. Anything they do that is shady is ambiguous in the law and thus had a theoretical basis. The IRS isn't taking on those people because if they lose in court, they lose the people who were paying extra by not exploiting the loophole in good faith.

Also, they say they are focusing on entities making over $400k/yr. I'm sure there are exceptions and trust issues on that statement. We'll see.
treasure hunting for those boxes
I suppose that, if I'm asked "What is something that makes homoiconic languages special?" and the answer can't be that it makes macros easy, then I would say it's that it's easy to write an interpreter for that language in the language itself, because the data structures that form the syntactic structure of the language are themselves first-class objects. That's why the interpreter from the appendix of the LISP 1.5 manual can be so short. That's also why the EVAL function takes as a parameter a list of atoms, and not a string, as in non-Lisp dynamically typed languages; since a Lisp program is also a list of atoms, that's the form it takes in the interpreter. The first Lisp compiler [0] isn't so long, either. The equivalent eval function in non-homoiconic languages requires a lexer, parser, and special definitions of data structures to represent the syntax, as well as functions to manipulate those data structures.

[0]: https://texdraft.github.io/lisp-compiler/internals.html
The installation instructions should be:

1. Download this docker compose file.

2. Run docker compose using this command.

3. Upload your first file (or folder) of content using this command.

It's fine to have to pip install the client, but it might be worth also providing an example curl command for uploading an HTML/text/PDF file.

The quickstart confused me because it started with python -m r2r.quickstart.example or something. It wasn't clear why I need to run some quickstart example, or how I would specify the location of my doc(s) or what command to run to index docs for real. Sure I could go read the source, but then it's not really a quick start.

Also it would be good to know:

- how to control chunk size when uploading a new document

- what type(s) of search are supported. You mention something about hybrid search, but the quickstart example doesn't explain how to choose the type of search (I guess it defaults to vector search).

HTH
Just curious, does anyone run with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 in production? Did you catch any overflows because of it, and most importantly, is there a noticeable performance degradation?
A million, yes.

Unchecked.
For practical purposes Cloudflare is a lot more trustworthy than a random outsourced IT guy.
It’s crazy that excess deaths show at least 1.2 million extra people dying in the US as a result of covid but still some people think it wasn’t real.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/new-analysis-revea...

> Nearly 1,170,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States according to official federal counts, but multiple excess mortality studies suggest that these totals are vastly undercounted.

> If the primary explanation for these deaths were healthcare interruptions and delays in care, the non-COVID excess deaths would likely occur after a peak in reported COVID-19 deaths and subsequent interruptions in care, says study lead author Eugenio Paglino, a PhD student studying demography and sociology at UPenn. “However, this pattern was not observed nationally or in any of the geographic subregions we assessed,” Paglino says.
What makes that wonderful? What do you think the #s would look like if Denmark wasn't one of the top pork exporting countries?
What modern version of a "commercially used language" needs patterns a la GoF? Most of them simply disappear as the language is made more expressive than the horror that was pre-standard C++. Modern Java or C# are not at all like that.

It's not a bad book if you read it as positive account rather than a normative prescription, I have the dead tree version on my bookshelf, but it's also a narrow, historically-informed perspective. Nothing about patterns is a fundamental concept that persists across languages (or even time), unlike things like SICP, algorithms, CS concepts, etc.
Channels and async/await aren’t really equivalent features. Beyond the fact that they both deal with concurrency.

You can do channels (message passing) on top of async await.
So that would explain why people are interested in tools that help manipulate pdf files?
The big question remains - "Is there any benchmark at all on which algorithms can't pass human performance given sufficient resources?". If I were a being man, I would put my money on 'no'
Google disrupted over 10k instances of DRAGONBRIDGE activity in Q1 2024
you know, you can plug a dot-matrix printer into a parallel port on a linux box and redirect stdout and stderr to that port. last time i did this was 27 years ago (my monitor had been broken in shipping, but i had an inkjet printer that printed text line by line), but it probably still works. i recall i had to telnet to localhost to get it to not be line-buffered, and you might have to hack that a different way nowadays

around here office supply stores still sell fanfold paper and printer ribbons

of course your linux box isn't a pdp-10, but that doesn't seem to be what you're missing
Denmark produces around 29mio pigs per annum on a tiny k look and area inhabited by less than 6mio humans.
> Things definitely go wrong but no one says it is just the way things are. If changes are made there shall be new drawings.

> then about how structured everything was and eventually about the building being finished while they still had countless bugs

There is a famous story of the Hyatt Walkway Collapse where a change was made, was improperly documented, and caused a production bug that led to many deaths. Extreme example but production bugs in physical construction are extremely common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse

edit:

Here's a whole paper looking into the effects of design errors in construction projects. This implies they're common enough to study. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330701193_EFFECTS_O...

And here's some research that showed 10% to 25% of cost in construction goes towards fixing errors. https://getitright.uk.com/reports/call-to-action
When I read TF I was hoping to hear that the latency injection impacted the authors ad tracking.

I wonder if signaling a low quality network or device would change the behavior of advertisement injection during browsing?
meh, that's not true. it's easy to have a top score while never paying lenders a dollar in profit. You just have to follow instructions online to juice your accounts by opening the right kinds and using them the right ways (e.g. keeping your usage below a threshold percentage of your limits).

The credit score is essentially price discrimination predicated on customers not being able to find and follow instructions. It also happens to give poor scores to people who are credit risks, but the difference between a meh score and a high one is mostly your ability to munchkin a bit.

[Edit: just checked, mine is 808.]
> NASA announced SpaceX has been selected to develop and [emphasis mine] deliver the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle that will provide the capability to deorbit the space station and ensure avoidance of risk to populated areas.

> The single-award contract has a total potential value of $843 million. The launch service for the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle will be a future procurement.

So...with $843M, what could SpaceX come up with? In Gwynne's shoes, I'd be looking to develop a vehicle with far wider application than a 1-off LEO deorbit burn.

And, given the inability of most of SpaceX's competition to reliably delivery anything to orbit, I suspect that NASA has similar hopes.
I've been wanting to do the same, haven't explored ITTT yet. Is it possible to fwd an email (say a newsletter) and have it on the kobo?
they are red
70B parameters * 2 bytes each (fp16 or bf16) = 140GB

I wish models sizes were published in bytes.
What's the r for? reddit (markdown?)
usually when someone's estate includes a business with employees, shutting it down and selling off its assets is not what the executors do. usually they keep the company running so they can get a reasonable sale price for the whole company
Out of sight, 'dark fungi' run the world from the shadows
Luckily, nowadays, .NET has one of the best CLI among competition:

dotnet new console --aot
dotnet publish -o .
./MyConsoleApp

And installing it is just `sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0`/`brew install dotnet-sdk`.

I can strongly relate to the pain of dealing with CUDA and PyTorch as a sibling comment noted though. Python dependency management story in general is just infuriating.
>Can "educated machines" reproduce on their own yet? How do they fit into the food web, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, etc? Can they make meaning, towards a purpose in life? What role do they serve other than human ingenuity ego-stroking and for a few to further extract money from the many?
Can AI love, yet?

I'm sorry to say that to me all these questions sound as semantically meaningful as "can submarines swim?"
the computer museum history center existed as a separate entity before being transferred the assets of the boston computer museum; it's not simply a relocated boston computer museum
Because one crate uses one channel implementation, and another crate uses a different one… this is really something that should be solved at the language / stdlib level, as Go does, but Rust falls a little bit short. There mpmc and the Send trait, but they alone are insufficient. So instead we get crate dependency hell that is only somewhat mitigated by cargo, and colored functions due to the async implementation.
On a side note, is there an open source RAG library that's not bound to a rising AI startup? I couldn't find one and I have a simple in-house implementation that I'd like to replace with something more people use.
Yes, I see. There's a desire to map intervals pointwise through functions, but also a desire to produce intervals by all-pairs calculations, and the impossibility of representing both interpretations in one notation leads to some inconsistencies.
Agreed. It's well-established that protein from greens isn't as bioavailable as protein from meat. Hard not to worry about negatively impacting future generations of lower-income families.
What about Canva slides? They are both design focused
No I'm not with you at all. The point of social welfare should not be to ensure continuity of income. That's what private unemployment insurance is for. State mandate contributions towards that if you like. But social welfare different. It's what stands between the average person and a couple of unfortunate health or life events (say an arrest) resulting in destitution or homelessness. It might be normalised for this to be a fact of life in the US, but that does't make it civilised or rational.
Apple Expands Self Service Repair Diagnostics Support to Europe
Except that means less profit for the financiers, so it will not happen very much. Profit by using cheap labor from poorer people elsewhere was why we sent all our manufacturing to China in the first place. The only way it works, given our incentives for profit of the owners over everything else, is for our American workers to stay relatively poor and perhaps become poorer.
Starting in the late 2000s China began investing in nuclear, renewables and storage all at the same time. The original (optimistic) plan called for nuclear to peak at 18% of their electricity generation by 2060. But that was before the recent breakout expansion of renewables and cost decreases in battery storage. Since then China seems to have pulled back a lot on nuclear [1], coinciding with huge price decreases and deployment surges in solar PV and wind. Even adjusted for capacity factor, new wind+solar are seeing about 60x the installed capacity of nuclear (as of 2023) and that number has been on an upward trend.

[1] "It peaked in 2018 with 7 reactors with a capacity of 8.2 GW. For the five years since then then it’s been averaging 2.3 GW of new nuclear capacity, and last year only added 1.2 GW between a new GW scale reactor and a 200 MW small modular nuclear reactor." https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/12/nuclear-continues-to-la...
A different single-post account also included that link in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40804250. I think someone's phishing.
Another commenter mentioned that the default is no training for Enterprise and Organization accounts, but for Starter and Professional accounts the default allows training and you need to explicitly opt out.
if the building is unguarded and full of valuable items, someone will loot it. if you're the one that loots it, you get to decide what happens to them. if you don't, someone else will
Exploring Design Choices for Building Language-Specific LLMs
Hmmm... http://collapseos.org/forth.html
Do you not use CSS preprocessors or remote map files or anything like that... or do you just deal with all of that stuff manually instead of automating it?
Wi-Fi 7 doppler radar has been used by AI/NPU laptop to detect nearby humans, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WFx-8agAq4

> With a PC with Intel Wi-Fi sensing capabilities in sleep mode, the PC Wake-on-Approach is activated as it detects human presence. Even when a user forgets to lock the PC, a count-down to lock starts with no human present. False detection is prevented even with human presence behind and next to the PC.
Wow!

I have two 330' rolls of a similar Red Brand field fence I bought about 20 years ago, 660' total of it like the roll in the listing. I paid $75 for each 330' roll.

I think mine is the Monarch Field Fence roll with the graduated spacing beginning with 3" at the bottom. The same rolls sell for more than $300 each today according to that site.

Time to build a cheap fence with my old wire.
it's possible to make your point without disparaging others that you feel are beneath you
So what's the AI part in this? (And I am not being snarky or condescending here, everyone assumes that's the default on internet. I have more or less missed the AI wave and just playing catchup.) Are you indexing LinkedIn API and feeding it to an algorithm? Or are you converting a natural language query to a database query using an LLM?
Unveiling the Hidden Challenges of VPC Peering
“Hello, Phil? Yeah, doing fine, look, I need 200 takes on React, 50 of them actually having nothing to do with it, 100 that are just flames, 40 that are deeply stupid, and 10 that are at least informed and a bit insighthful, but not really that interesting or valuable. Please just jumble them up rather than sorting them by quality or usefulness, I want to have to waste a bunch of time and emotional energy finding the good ones. Great, thanks.”
No... it's really not. She said the way it was argued (privacy) was not a solid legal ground, which is correct. Roe v Wade the case was not about abortion as a whole (which is still legal in the United States as a whole, since there's no law banning it). Roe v Wade was a case that said the Constitution has a right to privacy that includes abortion, which it does not.

Maybe in the future, someone will attempt to argue an equal rights case. Maybe not.

Either way, that case will not be Roe v Wade. Supporting abortion is not the same as supporting Roe v Wade. Two separate things when it comes to law.
My Epson HX-20 has 4 lines but only 20 characters each.
The value of being able to see the entire implementation of a nontrivial program at once cannot be overstated. This is the real magic of APLs: no unnecessary abstraction, boilerplate, or structural fluff, just algorithms composed from general high-level building-blocks.
When I say he isn’t insightful I mean that his opinions aren’t unique. I can hear almost identical opinions from half a dozen other linux content creators who do not run a side blog promoting their far right identity politics. Maybe that isn’t giving him enough credit but Linux Sucks doesn’t seem to have changed much in content or structure from 2019, the last one I listened to.

If being tired about hearing from conservatives who freak out about the existence of trans people is promoting a culture war, I don’t know how to respond to that. I just want people to be able to live their lives and be left alone, especially if they aren’t hurting anyone. For some conservatives, this is somehow an attack against them because I don’t care to listen to their opinions on why trans people shouldn’t be left alone to live their lives in peace.
This article makes a couple of mistakes, and a couple of elisions. Firstly, fair use exceptions in copyright (which are used to allow training) are not universal across copyright jurisdictions. Secondly training is one through: generation is something entirely different.

The mistakes are more technical. It asserts that “ specific subject matter, genre, artist, instruments, vocal styles, and the like are not copyright-covered expression” but then goes on to equate that with “style” in the context of the Blurred Lines case.

There are three different things at play here. “Style” is not really what is covered by the preceding quote. “Artist, instruments and vocal styles” are not, as individual components, protected by copyright. However, an artist’s performance in a recording is protected - as is the mechanism that allows musicians to earn royalties from recordings when they are played on the radio.

It then goes on to say that the RIAA is “arguing that unprotected thematic ideas are protected”. That’s not what the lawsuit is arguing.

It’s arguing that training for exploitation by generative AI platforms is not fair use, because it does not meet the “four pillars” of fair use as interpreted by judges.

Lastly, the weird grudge against Mitch Glazer misses the point that although he’s CEO of the RIAA, the lawsuit is being brought, funded and litigated by prominent record labels. This isn’t a lawsuit being brought by the RIAA in its own right; it’s being brought by RIAA members.

I’m very pro-AI, but I’m also pro-copyright, and in particular pro-creator rights, and pro allowing people to have a chance of making a living from their creative outputs. There are easier ways to make a living, and for most creators there are better ways, because their creations aren’t necessarily anything that can be commercialised.

But this article is fairly hotchpotch and incoherent in the arguments it tries to make.
retching noises
Cloudflare is definitely less trustworthy than a random outsourced IT guy - there are many random IT guys across the world at Cloudflare [1].

[1] https://blog.ipv6.rs/understanding-tls-mitm-and-privacy-poli...
The questionable reliability of documentation is the big problem, for sure. It would be nice to be able to collect metadata such as referral dates and even comments. If you visit the docs, tick a box that says, "I referred to this and it was accurate," or, "This needs to be updated," etc.
It's embarrassing that we don't have NT support already. I have many users of NT on Alpha and MIPS who need Ball for critical services. Here's a convenient patch with a bunch of garbled test cases. Merge that in.

(I'm totally not a state actor looking to socially engineer you to hide an exploit, by the way.)
A lot of Americans would rather pay $1000 to a private service than $900 in higher taxes. It's the principle of the matter. Government bad. Privatization, "choice" between the oligopoly businesses, and public-private partnerships good.