skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a part of me that strongly identifies with the "Grizzly Man" and Supertramps of the world. Yeah, often they make stupid decisions and go into things unprepared. But they are willing to go into the unknown in a way the vast majority of society is not. They are trying to experience the world as humans throughout history have experienced the world. And their experience ending in their death isn't the condemnation that people seem to think it is. Because that's where we all end up. And they reached that point by doing things that were not just outside of their comfort zone but the comfort zone of every normie in this country. They are easy to ridicule from the safety of a youtube video, but these people actually lived in these places and experienced these things in a way the vast majority of modern humanity never will. It's easy to judge. It's far more difficult to live in a way that defies society. Even when those lives are cut short, I think it's worth exploring and celebrating. They were trying to buck the trend. They were real hackers in a way most on this site cannot really comprehend.
Given the past couple years' events in Ukraine, separatism or succession might look pretty unattractive to Russians.

A far more enticing scenario would be a second Wagner Group Rebellion...one that was competently organized and lead, and successfully replaced the current regime. Putin most certainly remembers how disinterested both his citizens and his military were in opposing the tiny, ragtag Wagner Group's march toward Moscow.
Not sure how "need a few more to get 56, well 6 would be enough. So 26 bits?" is a solution.

If he remembers that max signed int is ~2 billion, than easier to divide 4 billion by 2. 2b/1b/500m/250m/127m/64m - got 6 divisions, 32-6=26.

If you think that max int is irrelevant to the position - it is so relevant, I can't even describe, this number is everywhere, from database design to js-wasm (limited by 32-bit), from deep-learning (where some libraries still limited to 32-bit buffers) to networking (hello ipv4)
Show HN: After 3 pivots – We found some traction
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We have finally been working on an interesting product with a few customers.
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One of the Top 5 food delivery platforms in Malaysia used Bubble: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.misirakyat...

They were hit with a pretty damn huge bill, which ended up with the tech bro community pointing and laughing at him for not using a proper platform.

So I think it work. It's been done in practice. But be careful where you're headed because low code tends to have a long free tier then suddenly spikes.
Erh What. There is only one foodstore on Kodiak. I had what I could carry in one dry-pack. I sometimes made bear-proof stashes, because coast guard nannies so suggested, but it did not seem to matter. Only foxes were real nuisance, they chewed my wetsuit for example.
> Cloud? Why? You can literally do anything on a VPS with Postgres!

In my case I don't want to maintain a server, but a web service, hence I'd prefer cloud most of the time.

> AI? Not on my watch! I can't imagine a tool that does more than VIM two decades ago!

There are a few instances where it's useful, but if you abuse the use of AI (copilot and co), then you will most likely not understand the code the same way if you were the one that wrote it, even if it is a 1:1 match.

> Javascript?! What a shit language.

Indeed Javascript is bad language, but it's hard to avoid if you work on the frontend, WASM is not yet there to be an alternative for most use cases.

> Everything should be written in Java or C++.

I would say at this point in time you will most likely to get away with Go (instead of Java) or Rust (instead of C++).
The orders of magnitude needed for storage are not competitive with nuclear in any reasonable scenario.

Nuclear exists and is proven technology. Battery storage at the capacity and price scale required are not. That remains true even if you want absolutely to believe we can't build nuclear reactors faster than in 10 years, and we almost certainly can by starting mass producing them again.
I mean, see the tobacco industry.
With limited exceptions*, [sometimes even egregious] factuality trumps self-censorship.

I myself tend to name-and-shame regardless of how it may turn out, whether "positive" or "negative," when I feel compelled to be posting online about a thing I have encountered in my personal life. I think that openness and clearly-evident facts are very important parts of supporting the story that I wish to tell. (And if I did not wish to tell the story, then I would not have done so.)

* But a line must be drawn somewhere.

My own line is this: When I encounter a fucking nazi in real life, I make sure to not propagate whatever it is that this fucking nazi has to say, even if I have a story to write about that fucking nazi. (And we rather unfortunately have plenty of these fucking nazis here in Ohio, so I do get opportunities every now and then to exercise this self-restraint.)
The Nord Stream 2 pipelines where blown up and Reuters were reporting that Russia did it.
This differs for different template engines.

In Angular, for example, the template is parsed into a DOM tree, and then template variables are placed in the correct place. This makes injection really hard. In the above example, it would be impossible to break out of the div.

Other template engines just do a string search/replace, and this makes injection easy. Then it's indeed possible to break out of the div just by injecting </div>.

The example you quoted comes directly from the HTMX docs. They don't specify which template system is used, and I don't immediately recognize the syntax to limit it to a specific template system.
Seems like a good way to filter out troublemakers.

Generic “he” is correct 20th century English. Singular “they” is correct 21st century English. Some people use “she”. I thought the current zeitgeist was to not judge people based on which pronouns they use :)
Petty change to have the possibility to disrupt one of your biggest rival on the world stage without having to shed a single drop of american blood ? Looks to me Like a pretty good deal.
You had a ton of meat on your bones.
If I'm an application developer or manager, at any >100 person company, it normally doesn't fall into my remit to go out and pick a new company to contract with to provide services. Typically, it gets harder and harder to do that. Even with LLM stuff, we're contracting that through our existing relationship with Microsoft. When evaluating infra options, it therefore is a huge barrier to entry for most developers if there's a 'good enough' option on one of the main cloud providers
This is why the internet as we know it is going to be driven into walled gardens. Closed by default.
You could have named this an Electronic Monk!

Quoting from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams):

> The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
I don't identify with it at all, but I'm glad some people do.

When we finally get our shit together and send people to Mars despite that being a one-way trip, I'm glad there will be volunteers who will sign up for that and go be pioneers. I hope they get a school named after them.
It was a weirdly structured deal that in effect was an acquisition. The investors were paid off.
>public conversations

Not public. Got to register an account and accept Discord ToS first.
Not to mention that fine tuned smaller parameter models are much cheaper to run. See: Google embedding a model into the latest version of Chrome, accessible through dev tools.
> However, there is only one kind of noise that is noise for everyone: literal noise.

I feel like you're a bit too literal here. When people talk about noise it doesn't mean mathematically pure noise. A signal-to-noise ratio close to 1 is also colloquially called noise.
This rings so true! I think it's natural whenever there's a new technology that a lot of start ups spring up with a vibe of "GenAI is cool, let's do something with that!", which is 100% the wrong way to go about building something.

Starting by investing yourself fully into a given problem, and fixing it with the most appropriate tool (might be GenAI, might not) is much more likely to end in something people actually want or need.

Doing the reverse, and trying to find an existing problem that matches a solution you've already picked is how you end up with hundreds of companies selling thin API wrappers for ChatGPT.
Humans Drove Megafauna to Extinction
> Almost all enterprises have pre-committed budgets for cloud which means unless your product is FOSS it's going to be hard to convince someone to bet their business on it.

This isn't a death knell.

1. If you get into the marketplace, enterprises can spend their commit against you.

2. A few million in ARR is ~nothing to a hyperscale cloud, but meaningful to most startups. If you find the right positioning, you can get their sales team selling your solution on many deals.
Remarkably little. Under 60 kilos after 3 months on fish diet.
Very cool! Could you go deeper into your setup?
Which email client do you use to view/manage the catch all emails?
Did you host the email on Google Gsuite or AWS SES or something else?
It bugs me that all we are seeing in the vc-backed startup scene seems to be ai infrastructure startups. We got something close to ai and all people come up with is they want to be the next ai marketplace store or the millionth infrastructure startup that does exactly the same like their competitors. How boring.
Sincere query: Why are you ‘not happy for Hindu Nationalists pushing for India to implement Hinduism as a state dogma’?

It’s not your religion. It doesn’t affect you. India is a democracy. It would involve an election.

Should there be foreign interference in a democratic nation’s elections and how the citizenry want to run their country ?

It’s very strange. Why is everyone bothered about India? Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country. There are over 50 countries in the world that are Muslim and follow Muslim law. What are your thoughts on that?

India was invaded and then colonized by outsiders. First with guns and then trade and then by religious conversions. This is history. Many Indians don’t like that.

It has barely been 80 years since India was released from the clutches of 250 years of colonial rule. India has the right to define herself and find her own identity using the chosen democratic process.

I find it very strange that so many non Hindus of the world are so upset about a country of one billion Hindus wanting the remains of their splintered partitioned and battered country to remain Hindu in identity.

One billion Hindus. Thousands of years of civilizational history and people who embraced new abrahamic faith in the past thousand years after giving up their pagan roots want India to give up her roots.. for what? India has resisted the cultural and civilizational and religious assaults and that is only due to lthe tenacity of the unified Hindu identity and faith. It won’t be weakened.

Our ancestors did not fight and resist invasions and assault for us to give up on our civilisational inheritance and Hindus have a duty to honor those sacrifices and generational trauma by keeping Hinduism and Hindu homeland and Hindu identity intact for our future generations.

Many gave up and embraced new faiths. Our ancestors did not. Hindus exist today because our ancestors thought Hindu identity was worth protecting. And we will. For our descendants.
They can contact you for legitimate reasons, which could be "hey, your website has content from me that is copyrighted" they can't contact you for sales reasons without your consent.

The law for that, at least in my country, is very clear:
https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnor...
curious what GUI framework they are using. I have a sublime merge license, everything feels really snappy
Going to be vague, but I'm using it to scale out human processes in ways I couldn't using humans (because they cost too much) or regular code (because it's unstructured). Early results are promising, we've found a bunch of stuff which has been buried... and is potentially worth millions. Not a chat wrapper, just breathing new light into our regular old business.
Following fashion has nothing to do with hacking.
Sorry, but it sounds like you're shilling for Fork.
Fritzbox is a shit show. Their router is not yours (no access to the OS). Their router only works with their DECT telephone (ask me how i found out).
Fritz is the Microsoft of internet access in Germany.
Half Life Alyx bakes everything on textures and is the best looking vr game.
My programs are single atoms
It's hype. Just a few short years ago various crypto scams claimed to solve climate issues, too (and to lead the revolution in renewables).
I'm surprised no one mentioned Indonesia, which is about 5k km west to east, compared to Chile about 4k north to south
We already have non-integer timezone differences. We could allow for leap seconds in that. Europe's timezone could be UTC+2:00:01 while the UK is still UTC+00:00:00
does anyone know if this is due to fleet growth (ie the existing commitment to going to zero emissions is still happening, quickly, but growth is so high it's swamping that in absolute terms) or has Urs gone back on his promise and is using emission-y energy?
They've probably just setup that once you've opted in for them to send emails on behalf of your domain, they will use it for everything relating to your account.
Solar and wind are by their very inherent nature intermittent sources of power
It actually adds some cost to the spammer, so that could be good.
Phil Schiller to Serve as OpenAI Board Observer as Part of iOS 18 AI Agreement
>That would be great.

Well whats stopping you?
There are laws to mandate unsubscribe links on emails. There should be laws to mandate disclaimers when emails were sent through an automated process.

No one believes the CEO has taken the time to email you with onboarding instructions immediately after signing up anymore. But outreach tactics like this are still quite manipulative.
The Ukraine War though has been now transformed into an Afghanistan War. No end in sight, wasting a lot of money, and a distraction to important issues.

Also it has been empowering the opposition against the dollar. The US cannot support a 34 trillion dollar debt if fewer countries use the dollar.
Nvidia and Microsoft leap frogged Apple
Over 250 use cases for AI in various industries
Quick shoutout to slhck for helping me debug and resolve this issue. Thank you!

tl;dr: Ran into issues because the DB was expecting a profile picture URL from Google auth (string) or NULL, but JavaScript being JavaScript tried to insert "undefined".
Interesting, In my country that also seems to be illegal, e.g. cold calling can never be a valid reason(without consent).

https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnor...

Edit:clarified never
Archive.is unfortunately does not have the full version of the article
There are no rich countries that are also energy poor. You cannot reduce energy use without reducing quality of life.
I'm curious to know how are the gas emissions measured
> The West can push back. Here's a 2023 list of separatist movements within Russia.

I'm not sure you necessarily want to fight fire with fire?
I think there is creativity as a process (which is not what I think the machines do) and creativity in the output as a perception/judgement on a work. What I meant is that I see machines as emulating human creativity, as in producing something that has some of the characteristics of work that is usually seen as creative. The quality of creativity, in this sense, is to be seen in the output, not the process. AI is trained on human (creative) output, thus results of it can seem "creative" because of that. AI does not transform multisensory inputs and lacks any sort of experience or coupling with the world. It cannot be really creative not (just) because we have not figured the right algorithm, but also because it is not transformative enough. But the emulation itself can produce outputs where humans will see as containing creativity.

Maybe the conclusion is that we do not really need creativity for some tasks, what we need is certain aesthetic and other rules that the AI can learn through is training. If that makes a more or less boring future where everything is the same and nothing really changes is left to be seen.
It's just magical thinking, imagining some kind of heretofore unknown technology that will solve everything quickly and cheaply in the future.

The sad truth is we already have most of the technology needed to fight climate change. The technology could always use incremental improvement, sure, but the main challenge to be solved is not technological, it's political and economical. It's a question of actually adopting the solutions we already have.
Wasn't there something going on in Ukraine in 2014?

I remember a certain leaked phone call[0] suggesting heavy US involvement in the country after the change in government happened rather abruptly[1] and by looking closely at what happened during the escalation of violence during the Maidan protests[2], it leaves a different impression than what I can read in most newspapers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE
[1] https://www.voltairenet.org/article182308.html#nh1
[2] https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-mass...
>Peter Hitchens blog

He's a well-known Kremlin apologist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hitchens#Ukraine
Native UI libraries using Google’s Skia graphics engine → https://skia.org/docs/

OpenGL → https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat...
I don't use mac right now, but this looks nice.
>"Doing the right thing" for the user's best interests is the job of the user agent. It's just that simple.

No, a user agent's sole job is to represent its user. It's right there on the tin: User Agent. Forcing no DRM is just as bad as forcing DRM, it's not the user agent's business to decide for the user. The fact that most user agents today are actually developer/publisher agents is part of the problems we are having.

>I am objecting to the inclusion of DRM technology in web standards, where this pitiful semantic debate about what a user agent is for doesn't even apply in the first place. What is fit for the open web platform and respective standards has nothing to do with decisions made by user agent developers.

Commercial interests are not going to fly the free-as-in-beer pirate flag no matter how loudly you bang that drum, and if the internet is open then those commercial interests also certainly have a right to be part of it.

It's ultimately not a problem if internet standards allow room for DRM schemes, because in a properly functioning system the users will decide through their user agent if they want to engage in DRM schemes or not.

So long as you are fueled by self-righteous dogma with a seething hatred towards people just minding their own business, you're not going anywhere and I would even argue you're actually contributing to the very problems you want to see resolved.
one man's spam, is another man's career.
I thought the whole point of Lisp was that it allows you to compose bigger programs out of smaller pieces?
It was nice to get to the end of one of his articles and it to stick to the tech.
Multiple Instances of LLM Model
I'm currently attempting to use llm models like llama3 and mistral for an inovative healthcare app. However, I'm running into issues with multiprocessing- I need to be able to hit 15 instances simultaneously with at least 200 QPS. I have 8 available GPU- any suggestions from someone with more experience?
Eh, I’m fairly certain that point was passed many seasons before he finally got eaten.

Good point though!
A bit of an unfortunate first 3 paragraphs resulting from the writing style (emphasis mine):

> A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the US election, a BBC investigation can reveal.

> A former Florida police officer who relocated to Moscow is one of the key figures behind it.

> It would have been a bombshell report - if it was true.

> [...]

I had to do a double take before I realised that the emphasised paragraph was referring to the following text yet-to-be-read and not to the preceding opening paragraphs.
Both sides use propaganda.
You don't think a fee of USD $27000 (fee for family of 4 from article) is a problem for a scientist? Just how much money do you think scientists make anyway? Even for a well-paid software engineer, that's easily enough money to make them not bother looking at jobs in that country, and the UK isn't known for high salaries either so it's even worse.
How Does DataFusion Compare with DuckDB, Polars, Velox, Databend
Bitcoin is literally turning greed into money, by means of wasting exponentially increasing amounts of electricity. It doesn't just not create value - to be able to allow exchanging value, it fundamentally requires ever increasing waste, as the waste is what gives its mathematical guarantees.

LLMs deliver value. Right here today, to countless people across countless jobs. Sure, some of that is marketing, but that's not LLM's fault - marketing is what it always has been, it's just people waking up from their Stockholm syndrome. You've always been screwed over by marketers, and Internet has already been destroyed by adtech. Adding AI into the mix doesn't change anything, except maybe that some of the jobs in this space will go away, which for once I say - good riddance. There are more honest forms of gainful employment.

LLMs, for all their costs, don't burn energy superlinearly. More important, for LLMs, just like for fiat money, and about everything else other than crypto, burning electricity is a cost, upkeep, that is being aggressively minimized. More efficient LLMs benefit everyone involved. More efficient crypto just stops working, because inefficient waste is fundamental to cryptos' mathematical guarantees.

Anyway, comparing crypto and LLMs is dumb. The only connection is that they both eat GPUs and their novelty periods were close together in time. But they're fundamentally different, and the hypes surrounding them are fundamentally different too. I'd say that "AI hype" is more like the dot-com bubble: sure, lots of grifters lost their money, but who cares. Technology was good; the bubble cleared out nonsense and grift around it.
I am more lazy open email tuan hacker news. Btw I use harmony as my hacker news client.