skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We indeed need all visibility

…literally on a thread about Boeing being overly (and misleadingly) transparent during an investigation.
I don't know why the narrative became "don't call it hallucination". Grantly English isn't my mother tongue so I might miss some subtlty here. If you know how LLM works, call it "hallucination" doesn't make you know less. If you don't know how LLM works, using "hallucination" doesn't make you know less either. It's just a word meaning AI gives wrong[1] answer.

People say it's "anthropomorphizing" but honestly I can't see it. The I in AI stands for intelligence, is this anthropomorphizing? L in ML? Reading and writing are clearly human activities, so is using read/write instead of input/output anthropomorphizing? How about "computer", a word once meant a human who does computing? Is there a word we can use safely without anthropomorphizing?

[1]: And please don't argue what's "wrong".
I specifically asked about Inngest, so their comment is very helpful (more so than those only focused on the open source or licensing issue)
> but a vendor who only does one thing, specifically a high-trust thing like this?

They’re not in the business of being trustworthy or secure, it’s just another software shop trying to grow product.

> which would tend to bring in specialists to make sure this kind of remediation is done right?

Ideally, sure. In reality an insurance company has many thousands of customers, they can’t possibly do any real assurance beyond basic compliance. Managing access and credentials is a hard problem for well staffed security teams, let alone a single compliance auditor.
Yes! We aim to launch https://fair.io/ next month to promote the term Fair Source for this purpose. Early feedback is guardedly positive, e.g., ESR's take was "very clever."

https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-historical-case-f...
Thanks! Yes, our recommended approach is to write a parent workflow which calls child workflows registered on a different worker. We have users who are managing a set of Python functions from a Typescript backend with this approach.

It's also possible to have a single DAG workflow (instead of parent/child) that has steps across multiple languages, but you'll need to use a relatively undocumented method called `RegisterAction` within each SDK and use the API to register the DAG (instead of using the built-in helpers) for this use-case. So we recommend using the parent/child workflows instead.
exactly! also, one can set parameters etc. if they'd like.

also, after this post, i was able to do some tinkering and run it outside chrome, which i think would be more useful. hope they release the weights and make it open
Author here: I primarily use Excalidraw. I wrote an article detailing how I go about writing my newsletter here.

https://www.viksnewsletter.com/p/how-i-write-an-engineering-...
yolk (yellow part of egg) -> yoke (harness for beasts of burden)

EDIT: but also and more importantly, your point is Excellent! 100% agreed - the ongoing process of discovery and continuous improvement of a codebase are signs of the best kinds of ownership / attachment, and sadly represents a huge blind spot and missed opportunity for the majority of "dayjob" projects.
Thank you, if you build a .NET API we will give it a try.
Well, first of all, the stated purpose of RLHF isn't to "improve model accuracy" in the first place (and what we mean by accuracy here is pretty fraught by itself, as this could mean at least three different things). They initially pitched it as a "safety" measure (and I think if it wasn't obvious immediately how nonsensical a claim that is, it should at least be apparent now that the company's shucked nearly the entire subset of its members that claimed to care about "AI safety" that this is not a priority)

The idea of RLHF as a mechanism for tuning models based on the principle that humans might have some hard-to-capture insight that could steer them independent of the way they're normally trained is the very best steelman for its value I could come up with. This aim is directly subverted by trying to use another language model to influence the human rater, so from my perspective it really brings us back to square one on what the fuck RLHF is supposed to be doing

Really, a lot of this comes down to what these models do versus how they are being advertised. A generative language model produces plausible prose that follows from the prompt it receives. From this, the claim that it should write working code is actually quite a bit stronger than the claim that it should write true facts, because plausibile autocompletion will learn to mimic syntactic constraints but actually has very little to do with whether something is true, or whatever proxy or heuristic we may apply in place of "true" when assessing information (supported by evidence, perhaps. Logically sound, perhaps. The distinction between "plausible" and "true" is in many ways the whole point of every human epistemology). Like if you ask something trained on all human writing whether the Axis or the Allies won WWII, the answer will depend on whether you phrased the question in a way that sounds like Phillip K Dick would write it. This isn't even incorrect behavior by the standards of the model, but people want to use these things like some kind of oracle or to replace google search or whatever, which is a misconception about what the thing does, and one that's very profitable for the people selling it
AnyDesk is by former TeamViewer folks.
I don't agree with your last statement. I've been programming forever, and I understand recursion, and I use it, but I never equate it with loops in my mind (unless I'm deliberately thinking that way, like now) and I always find it more difficult to think about than loops.
<grin>

That's probably more accurately how I look at the singularity, actually. The singularity is ever receding.
Vegans hate this. Always happens with milk powder.
What Is API-First?
Don't want the features, and feel superior for not wanting those features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813886
if they were smart they paid taxes on the fraudulent gains. So they netted US $5 million or more each
Ah okay that makes sense! Thanks for the reply, will definitely try hatchet out!
Had the same issue, filled out the form others linked, didn’t hear back via email, but my account was unblocked after ~3 days.
When our first child was born (a long, traumatic story in itself), after the ordeal was over and we were resting in the hospital, a nice fellow came by and asked whether we wanted to test our baby's hearing. Sure? No mention was made of a price. He put a device in the baby's ears. Hearing was fine. Then we got the bill. Hundreds of dollars, maybe $500, for a moment's effort and no expenditure of resources. We had almost no money at the time and certainly no insurance. This was in Nashville. He was an independent contractor they let wander the halls of the laying in ward accosting unsuspecting new parents. He bought the machine. Now he's got a steady income from this grift.

Another event in Nashville, my wife cut her hand making dinner. We walked to the emergency room. Eventually someone saw us. He asked whether we wanted to try some experimental tree sap glue to close the wound. Sure? It actually wasn't much of a cut and it had stopped bleeding. No mention of a price. While he was squeezing a droplet of liquid out of a tube the attending physician looked over his shoulder. Yep, checks out. It was basically a glance, less than a minute's interaction and no interaction with out. The whole experience, again, when we had essentially no means to pay, cost hundreds of dollars. They guy who glanced over glue man's shoulder tacked on a couple hundred for himself. Coming through the door and signing some papers then waiting hours to be attended to cost us maybe $400.

I've got similar stories from Washington, DC. My son (not the baby with the hearing test) had to deal with the medical system in Vermont. He's dead now but we're still paying the bills. And now we have insurance.

Regular healthcare in the US looks a hell of a lot like a scam. If you have insurance, the scam is less visible, but it's the same system.
Author here: Thanks for pointing this out. You are right, I will edit the article to fix.
The police complain if you have people riding on your lap in a car. Imagine what NASA thinks of that for a space pod.
That's too perfect.
"Good wine needs no bush".
> But we own 25 bowls and 40 spoons. When we run out of bowls (that is, when the "dirty" dishwasher is running with a complement of 25 bowls), the "clean" dishwasher still contains 15 spoons. At the next mealtime, we each get a spoon and a bowl. When we're done eating, we put the dirty dishes in… Well, not either of the "clean" dishwashers!

So you end up washing those 15 spoons again. Big deal. Or you notice that you consistently have leftover spoons in the clean dishwasher and put some into storage, or get rid of them.

On average you use more or less the same dishes each day, so you reach equilibrium pretty quickly. You wash a bit of stuff that was already clean. It's no big.
I haven't heard anything to suggest that Apple intends the review process to give clear direction.
I hope not either.

If I understand the conversation correctly, you have been talking about "transtrender", ie. people who do not experience body dysmorphia, or at least not diagnosably, and yet still want to be treated the same as other 'legitimate' trans people. Kinda saying that if you aren't really willing to go through what it takes to Actually become trans (medically) then you're just following a trend.

I think I replied to that as best I could with three points as to why I don't think doing that is harmful to anyone.

Green Badger brought out the standard trifecta of anti-trans gotchas, including ones about how horrible it is that people are getting surgeries, so it's clear they're not talking about transtrenders like you were. My response to that (imo mostly unrelated) comment wasn't even an argument as much as trying to point out that focusing on these issues is a distraction from the underlying point that they just don't seem to believe a person can be trans at all.

Anyways, if you have a specific argument or question I'm happy to try to answer if but I think I've said all I can, and if that's not good enough, I'm sorry.

Only bothering to say it at all to try to make the world a little bit nicer and safer for my friends in Florida rn who are dealing with a Lot from the government
They have a cloud offering with import and export tools, so one can still use that and migrate to self-hosted when or if they want.

Your question was why is Zulip better; I'd argue that's a pretty strong reason.
The number might be 0.2% for just sesame, but roughly 10% of Americans have some form of allergy[0]. I'm guessing the reasoning here is to attempt to prevent "allergen creep", where the endgame would be major manufacturers throwing their hands up and listing most products as possibly containing many allergens (or, as in this case, intentionally introducing unnecessary ingredients). If this were to happen, we would expect a number approaching 10% of consumers to have a needlessly large selection of foods they couldn't reliably purchase, even if there would be negligible risk otherwise.

At that point, the usefulness of requiring the labels to begin with is considerably diminished. Having a cottage industry of "actually correctly labeled" foods because the standard labels are poorly enforced seems inefficient, IMHO.

[0]https://www.foodallergy.org/resources/facts-and-statistics
My team leverages feature flagging heavily. Developers want to clean them up but product doesn't prioritize the tickets, and it creates more burden for QA as well having to do a full regression test.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20240625103929.133292...

This has some serious GNU-Pratchett vibes - http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com and nice to see
This, 100%. I am never going back to stringly typed JSON in whatever random url structure that team felt like doing that week. GraphQL is made for Facebook type graph problems. Its way overcomplicated for most use cases. I just want a lingua franca DSL to enforce my API specification in a consistent manner. I dont care if its PUT POST PATCH. Just keep it easy to automate tooling.
> I blame the patient. We've known opiates were bad since at least the 1800s, and really longer than that.

As a reminder, Oxy was heavily marketed, (to doctors!) as a "not bad" opioid. As in, not as addictive, not as problematic, and something that can be prescribed more easily and with less worries.

If a doctor comes up and tell you "don't worry about this one, it isn't addictive like the others", and you are in a ton of pain at the time, you are going to thank modern medicine for its new miracle pain drug and accept the prescription.

> but this is taught in every highschool.

And as another reminder, most schools, until recently, just taught that "drugs are bad" and kind of left it at that. They exaggerated some of the down sides, and didn't mention any of the positive experiences.

IMHO South Park actually did the world's best anti pot ad -

"Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but… well, son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored. And it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything."

-

And IMHO messages like that are more useful than what kids are being told.

There is also the social contract side of things - Since around 1950s, if people worked hard they things in return from society: A stable job, a house, the opportunity to raise a family. That social contract is shot to shit, and so it should be no surprise that more and more people are choosing to drop out of society via drugs/games/apathy.
"One of these days, some seasoned and principled lawyer, who knows a bit about tech, is going to get ticked off, and decide to make one of these companies truly pay for their gross negligence."

Principled lawyer who knows about tech here: This won't happen.

1. It's probably not gross negligence - gross negligence is an extreme departure from ordinary standards of care - the ordinary standard here seems to be to suck at security :)

Legislation could establish a standard of care here and make this kind of thing gross negligence, but that hasn't really happened yet.

It's also not obvious they owe a duty of care to anyone in the first place, without which negligence is impossible (at least regular old negligence) - this also needs legislative fixing unless you want to end up arguing about it forever.

2. Damages are basically all speculative - what is your actual injury here, and how much can you prove the value of it.
Lots of people on HN love to say how much X or Y is worth. What can you actually prove in terms of real loss?

It's fun to argue speculative loss (ie the value of your personal information maybe being stolen in the future, etc), but most cases are about real loss.

In practice where it's too hard to calculate we often end up with statutorily set damages. That also hasn't happened here.

Sorry to burst your bubble - without a bunch of legislation here, nothing is going to happen outside of the regular old class action lawsuits and $5 coupons.
morally: providing more of something that has no societal good is not commendable.

logically: this argument isn't sound at all. looking at what happened since Oxycontin was regulated is not a proper counterfactual. you would have to look at a universe in which it was never introduced to begin with
Self-hosted Mesh Central.
I dumped TeamViewer a few months ago in favor of Google Remote Desktop. It satisfies my occasional low bar requirements, and doesn't make me feel guilty for using it without pay. I connect between iPad, Windows, Linux, a couple of times a month. Easiest thing I've found so far.
I agree that this proposed regulation seems like it probably won't help. Defining what counts as an ultra-processed food is challenging, and the actual causal link to health outcomes is far from clear. This article from Science-Based Medicine makes a good case against this kind of thing.[0]

What can we actually do to make people eat healthier though? Rising obesity rates are one of those societal problems where I'm not sure what the solution is. The best strategy I can think of is something like "do our best to solve poverty and hope that this helps with obesity as well".

[0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ultraprocessed-foods/
Don't forget about the six beach towels for $4650:

https://www.theknot.com/us/jeff-king-and-lexie-gehrke-feb-20...
Victory is not guaranteed, and even if the victims do win, going to court takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money. The victims agreed to the settlement because they preferred that option to going to court.
> The stronger dividing line is textualism vs pragmatism.

Except when it came to "textualism vs pragmatism", I've seen that the "textualist" judges have, in many cases, no problem being "pragmatists" when it suits their desired outcome on an issue.

For example, when Scalia dissented in some famous gay rights cases (I'm thinking of Lawrence v Texas specifically) his basic disgust at the thought of same sex relations was laid bare. Ironically, in Lawrence v Texas his dissent was basically correct - striking down laws against sodomy was a step towards gay marriage - but the gist of his argument was that gay marriage was such a god awful, horrible, unthinkable thing that any decision that allowed it must be prima facie wrong. He was basically warning "This decision will force us to allow gay marriage" as if, instead of that being a good thing, it was akin to allowing the apocalypse.

Scalia also authored the 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, a major second amendment case that held, for the first time, that individuals had a private right to own guns (not just "a well-regulated militia"). Read up on that case, as tons of "conservative" judicial scholars argued that it was "pulled from thin air" just as much as Roe v Wade was. From the Wikipedia page:

> Richard Posner, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, compares Heller to Roe v. Wade, stating that it created a federal constitutional right that did not previously exist, and he asserts that the originalist method – to which Justice Antonin Scalia claimed to adhere – would have yielded the opposite result of the majority opinion.

>> The text of the amendment, whether viewed alone or in light of the concerns that actuated its adoption, creates no right to the private possession of guns for hunting or other sport, or for the defense of person or property. It is doubtful that the amendment could even be thought to require that members of state militias be allowed to keep weapons in their homes, since that would reduce the militias' effectiveness. Suppose part of a state's militia was engaged in combat and needed additional weaponry. Would the militia's commander have to collect the weapons from the homes of militiamen who had not been mobilized, as opposed to obtaining them from a storage facility? Since the purpose of the Second Amendment, judging from its language and background, was to assure the effectiveness of state militias, an interpretation that undermined their effectiveness by preventing states from making efficient arrangements for the storage and distribution of military weapons would not make sense.
US gov't sends 3,940 Bitcoin to Coinbase exchange
If only we can be faster to detect health care fraud.
Oh, well, if i had known this, i would have checked the typos and the grammar. Didn't even think people would comment on my weird ramblings. So:
Sorry for bad english quote now in you mind forever!

But seriously, thank you for taking the initiative & time to comment & letting me know this. Weirdly, it means a lot to me. And actually touched me. Which sounds even weirder, but it's true. That someone liked & resonated with this, even when in such a bad form...

Anyway, I really appreciate it & you. I try to leave out no chance to say something positive or let people know they had a positive impact on me, even if it's just such a small thing. Probably because i wish people would let me know more often, as confirmation that all my efforts aren't for nothing.
But your comment is actually the only confirmation of me leaving just the slightest trace... you've helped this lonely, broken soul. A lot.

Please keep this in the back of your minds eye as well, when carrying the words there.
Granted, I'm biased (being a frontend dev), but I think there are many apps and dashboards in popular usage that aren't a great fit for the document model, like Figma, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps/OSM, Discourse, Netflix, YouTube, games, Slack/Discord, Spotify, VSCode... to go on and on.

I don't think the web is necessarily the best consumer desktop platform, but it's what we ended up with after Java, .NET, etc. failed. But I guess the flipside of it is that a lot of apps that formerly would've required a native executable can now just be a JS app that contorts the DOM (or draws to Canvas). That's cool, since it eases distribution a lot, way better than Java web start or Microsoft's ClickOnce could.
♫ "And when they turn the power on, it's sure to dim the lamps / At plus and minus 16 volts and fourteen hundred amps." -- Frank Hayes
Go makes heavy use interior pointers, which WasmGC doesn't support.
Why can we assume that?
Tried RustDesk?
AI is a nebulous, undefined term, and many people specifically criticize the use of the word intelligent.