skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
llama3 at 8billion params is weak sauce for anything serious, it just isn't in the same galaxy as Sonnet 3.5 or GPT-4o. The smaller and faster models like Phi are even worse. Once you progress past asking trivial questions to a point where you need to trust the output a bit more, its not worth effort in time, money and/or sweat effort to run a local model to do it.

A novice isn't going to know what they need because they don't know what they don't know. Try asking a question to LLaMA 3 at 8 billion and the same question to LLaMA 3 at 70 billion. There is a night and day difference. Sonnet, Opus and GPT-4o run circles around LLaMA 3 70b. To run LLaMA at 70 billion you need serious horse power as well, likely thousands of dollars in hardware investment. I say it again... the calculus in time, money, and effort isn't favorable to running open models on your own hardware once you pass the novice stage.

I am not ungrateful that the LLaMA's are available for many different reasons, but there is no comparison between quality of output, time, money and effort. The API's are a bargain when you really break down what it takes to run a serious model.
There's at least one thing that GuardDuty does that is much more difficult to do without it: the detection of instance credential usage from outside the account/VPC. I'm sure there's a way to do this with cloudtrail logs but it's not straight forward.

My biggest problem with GuardDuty is that it's all or nothing (for the most part). We'd love to have the cloudtrail/DNS/ML monitoring but disable flow logs, which are by far the most expensive part of GD for large orgs. AWS refuses to give us that option. And if they're going to charge us a fortune for flow logs with GD at least let us download or view them.
I'll grant that.
Optimizing a bignum library for fun
@radicaldreamer, I don't live in the US, same goes with a large number of Apple's customers.

A user's residential IP address is in many cases almost static, and doesn't change that often. If you use the same residential IP for other services from Apple, or sites that are protected by Cloudflare's MITM DDOS protection, the content of the HTTP site can be linked back to you with a high probability through your IP address, and possibly in combination with other metadata such as the user-agent, or other headers.
The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet (2023)
Eliminating Hardware with Load Balancing and Cloudflare One
My most-wanted feature in Safari (and Orion) is first-party website-data whitelisting. I have a limited number of sites whom I trust to store data. Everyone else should be a tabula rasa each visit.
"reductive" isn't an insult. And note the "just" in the parent post. It is an adaptation, but it is more than just that.
Congratulations on trusting your ISP, you are in the minority.
not + -
The lyrics, for those that don't speak metal:

I want to keep my money

And give away absolutely nothing

To the government

Who moderates my spending and obilterates it

Depending on the time of the year

Brutality is near

In the form of income tax

I'd rather take a fucking axe

To my face

Blow up this place

With you all in it

I'd do it in a minute

If I could write off your murder

I'd save all of my receipts

Because I'd rather you be dead

Than lose a tiny shred of what I made this fiscal year

I'd rather you be dead

Than ponder parting with my second home

I'd rather you be dead

Than consider not opening a restaurant

I'd rather you be dead

I'd rather you be dead

Prepare the laser beam

We're gonna use it tonight

Engage the laser beam

It's gonna end your life

We're gonna use it tonight

If I could write off your murder

I'd save all of my receipts

Because I'd rather you be dead

Than lose a tiny shred of what I made this fiscal year

I'd rather you be dead

Than ponder parting with my second home

I'd rather you be dead

Than consider not opening a restaurant

I'd rather you be dead

I'd rather you be dead

Be dead now

Be dead now

Be dead now

Be dead
Oh no. I think all I mostly mean here is "plays more nicely with current stuff."
It only became a standard practice because of a misguided desire to rely on trusting the client.
> What seems contradictory, not sure I understand?

In-process embedding implies making the DB engine part of the program itself, within a single runtime instance, in the same way as you'd import any other library. Client/server architecture is a situation in which one program is communicating with another one, running somewhere else, over some sort of messaging channel. On the surface, these seem to be mutually exclusive usage models.

> I'd love it if we had the same DB engine have an embedded and client-server variants.

It sounds like you want something that uses similar syntax and defaults as Postgre, but is used in an embedded fashion, a la SQLite. This is a reasonable idea, but it seems like you want to focus on embedded use cases, not client/server, and this sounds like something that would be best implemented as a third solution entirely, not a fork of either SQLite or Postgres.
Why would you say that? It’s an archaic framework which sticks around because it’s “good enough” for anything with a complexity low enough to be handled by its “magic”. As soon as you need something to scale or handle real complexity where you have to step outside all the comfort zone .net developers tend to operate in, it’s one of the worst frameworks that will constantly get in your way.

It’s also an ecosystem riddled with traps that is still so stuck in its OOP past that very few programming languages operating on it are even capable of having functions without a class object.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s a good language when you’re building relatively simple backend APIs that are small enough that they can actually use things like entity framework. Even more so if you’re putting them into Azure and letting your security be handled by EntraID.

But how many people on HN do you expect that is?
marketed as a forecasting tool, so is this not applicable to event classification in time series?
> he legislative branch is not interested in making reasonable laws, and/or creating capable regulating bodies like most other modern countries

That’s the point of a common-law system. Not that I’m defending Congress and how little they get done—I’m not, they’re terrible right now—but we don’t have case law because Congress is terrible. We have case law because that’s how our legal system is meant to work. The legislation lays out the theory, and the details get worked out by judges after theory meets practice. It’s not somehow inferior to civil law, just different.
Or Washington, DC. The Smithsonian museums are world-class, and free.
How long does it take to run your scraping pipeline?
Can we stop dismissively projecting pet peeve interpretations onto posts that aren't worthy of them?

I didn't say "you are depressed". I said "have you considered that you might be...". When did that become diagnosis?

FWIW I said "clinically depressed" to draw the specific distinction between colloquial use of the word "depressed" meaning "down", and the medical notion of depression that covers this sort of stuff -- long term loss of direction, low self-esteem negativity etc.

It's just a suggestion to consider the whole picture and maybe seek advice.
Shakespeare is modern English. Linguists describe it as "Early Modern English". It's contemporaneous with the King James Bible, which is still widely read, without translation.

The difficulty with Shakespeare isn't that it's in Elizabethan English, but that it's in poetry. The Russians and French have strong poetic cultures. They enjoy reading poetry, and the challenge of writing it, including translation. That just doesn't exist in Anglophone cultures.

But Shakespeare wasn't meant to be read. It was meant to be performed, and a native speaker watching a good performance has no need of translation. The emotions and flow of the story are clear. They may not understand each and every word, but that's often true of even the latest movies. (The dialogue is often mixed in a way that makes it hard to understand -- by the director's choice.)

I regularly perform Shakespeare for audiences who have never seen it before, and I never translate a word of it. I generally edit it to make it move more briskly than Elizabethan audiences wanted, but the only time I'll change a word is to make the pronouns match the actors I cast (and not even always then).

Shakespeare's stories are rarely worth preserving for their own sake. The stories themselves are dated -- not the words, but the culture. There's no "translation" that will make Claudio not an asshole for the way he treats Hero, or make Hero not look pitiful for taking him back.

Shakespeare's plays in modern words are always flat, dull, and penitential. If you're going to modernize the language, modernize the whole thing -- go see the delightful "Ten Things I Hate About You" or the magical "West Side Story".
Indigenous leaders frustrated despite cloak's return to Brazil after 300 years
I can relate, 67yrs of dealing with the same. Have always tried to ensure I have external guidance and pressure, keep me on track and focused. Control your environment to set up for success, good managers and plans, remove distractions. We need others to help focus our power!

But the real suggestion is pick a passion - paint, write, run, write, act.... anything that can motivate you to focus, develop new physical and mental skills, generate lots of dopamine. Mine has always been music, but working on art now. Give your mind and body a different place to go for that part of the day, your brain is learning constantly. Your executive system will thank you.
Dear New Designers, It's Not You, It's Them
possibly they did not, and this is how Taboola loses the deal?
Random Song Generator
Yes, I'd agree with this. The phrase is just a little too blunt to be fully accurate, which is why I like it.

Many things in life seem to work optimally when we take them with an "ebb-and-flow" style pattern. For example, I'm a fan of seasons of feast and seasons of famine when it comes to trying out new software: In seasons of feast, I throw caution to the wind and try anything new and shiny which looks appealing to me, and then in seasons of famine, I prune, prune, prune away anything which doesn't directly serve my purpose.

There's a similar ebb and flow here. The largest community is very "means to an end" oriented. The power users often view the tool as a thing of beauty in itself, at least for a little while. That's the "end in itself" ebb. The hackers transcend this and view the tool as an imperfect, vexing beauty, and wish to create something even more beautiful -- but that's where things wrap back around, because the beauty does ultimately come from how well it is suited as a means to the end!
No, “evolutionism” is actually the most correct characterization. The quip about scientology was meant to caricaturise the belief more than anything. Your claims 1 and 2 are both incorrect.

Creationists and Evolutionists can both agree that scientific process creates good results and is a generally well-reasoned approach to learning about the current state of the universe and making predictions for the future. Where they disagree is the extent to which this is true, especially as it relates to the ability of those predictions to track reality going forward and backward in time, but that’s more covered in a sibling comment.
I have found that one common element in the things I want to build or fix is that I am opinionated about that thing. I am going to claim that having opinions is a prerequisite to being motivated to shape the world to suit my opinions a little better.

If I think about everything that I don't have an opinion about, it's things that I don't understand very well. For example, car washes. I do not care what a car wash tunnel has, if it is brushless or not, if it uses some fancy shampoo or not - I have zero opinions. I can never find motivation to want to go redesign it, fix it or develop software for it.

But something like Github's pull request review? Oh boy. It's absolutely insane that you can not comment on an unchanged line in a file you are reviewing. If someone changes a function call 3 out of 4 places, and you want to leave a comment on that unchanged line of code saying "Hey, you forgot to change this too" - guess what? You can't. In my opinion, this is insanely moronic. An opinion like this can easily motivate one to want to go fix a thing or build a thing. (I don't want to solve this problem for other reasons, but that's unrelated to this discussion).

How do you form opinions? I don't know, but my guess is that listening to opinionated people with good taste really helps. Dan Norman's book "The Design of everyday things" [0] is one example of a very opinionated work. Bryan Cantrill of Oxide is also often very opinionated on system design, and his podcasts and talks are really fun [1]. When Steve Jobs was talking about just anything, he couldn't help being opinionated af [2]. I love "In praise of Shadows" by Junichiro Tanizaki where he just talks about experiences but you can tell he is deeply opinionated [3].

I don't know how one can develop good taste. Being around art, music, movies, people who obsess over details, people who care, people who expect perfection and accept nothing less - I believe there's some sort of osmosis where you just absorb aspects. I believe surrounding yourself with fantastic art, hiking through majestic trails, chilling with inspiring people - all help reset your acceptance of mediocrity down to 0. I am convinced that this is essential.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expand...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVfAMRj-7E

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdplq4cj76I

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Shadows-Junichiro-Tanizaki/dp/...
Sounds like

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect
And based on their license acknowledgments poly.cam uses nerfstudio and gsplat, in case anyone else was wondering

https://learn.poly.cam/third-party-libraries
I'd be interested to see how much of that malware targets and is effective on big OEMs' devices using Google Mobile Services compared with non-GMS Androids mainly in the China domestic market. In principle the non-GMS devices can be just as secure, but in fact do they give privileged access to vulnerable code?
Whose bug is this anyway? (2012)
Why Your Rights Are at Stake in the Tornado Cash Trial
In case of monorepo where there are several independent deployment units, separating it via dir is quite simple solution. Additionally, if you move the code to some other provider, you move it together with the code (what is not guaranteed with e.g. GH issues).

However, I don't say NO. It all depends on context, if you decide to use issues - go ahead. I am a fan of pragmatism - do what you need in your context, don't blindly follow the rules
> Except that you don't have a 5:1 leverage,

Except if it's your primary residence, you can get close to 30:1...

The fees on $1m homes are usually less than 1.5%. It's essentially 5:1 unless you're investing in very low value homes which are a completely different type of investment - that you're usually going after cash-flow instead of appreciation.

> House Price Index YoY in the United States averaged 4.63 percent from 1992 until 2024

4.63% on 5:1 leverage is... 23%... And you cherry picked at the start of a recession...
Then sell me the hardware at cost. They won't ever do that. Let's not kid ourselves.
it is incredibly slow and is interpreted not compiled.
You can try this model out using OpenAI's API format with this TypeScript SDK: https://github.com/token-js/token.js

You just need a Mistral API key: https://console.mistral.ai/api-keys/
Show HN: Try Codestral Mamba (Mistral's new model) using OpenAI's API format
1. Head over to https://github.com/token-js/token.js

2. Install the package (MIT licensed)

3. Set the model to be codestral-mamba-2407 and the provider to be mistral
I always thought that I should do the translation myself to current colloquial English, for my own better understanding.

I didn't know about that link, thanks! Anyone know if there is a printed version that is similar? And, extending that request to other classic works too?
Really appreciate the work you do on documenting these chips. It's awesome to see how the stuff I only worked with from the programming side works at the hardware level.
Don't scientology go around with a similarly fake device?
In terms of the words they use sure but the grammar/sentence construction is quite different and hard to parse for modern readers. That's their point the translations make decisions to make the language more understandable for their target audience so it's more accessible to them in some ways than it is to English speaking audiences who are usually expected to read it in the original without modification.
'AI washing' in HR: How to buy legit AI
So how exactly is using unencrypted HTTP better? Which was your original claim.
You're most likely overthinking it.

For your use case, you are primarily concerned with fireblocks. They are unlikely to exist in an older home. They can be detected with a simple stud finder, which range from $30 for the simple (good enough) kind, to $1000 for the radar kind. Simply knocking on the wall is also good for this purpose.

You likely have pretty fixed locations where you want the wires to exit into the room, so you can run a borescope through those places. These are also pretty inexpensive.
I wouldn't say that I trust my ISP. I'm saying that to me, they are more trustworthy than Apple.
I remember a few years ago when some starry eye coder on Reddit made a page that would load and display the latest uploads to Imgur as tiles.

It soon became apparent that this is not ideal.

Same thing with tools that would try to archive Imgur, the results basically need manual review because the resulting dataset is a loaded gun.
The retracted study in TFA was on HN's front page several times late last year [1][2]. Commenters in both threads pointed out the problem that eventually caused the retraction:

> They use the generic SHCal20 calibration curve for the southern hemisphere which is generally fine for testing bone and some plant matter but they didn't find any fossilized plants and I doubt it's accurate for soil samples in a volcanically active area. Gunung Padang sits atop an extinct volcano and Mount Gede is miles away uphill with active vents and hot springs. Local emissions of C14 depleted carbon dioxide and dissolution of ancient carbonate minerals in groundwater usually throws those numbers way off. The samples will appear older because the volcanoes are constantly dumping C14-poor carbon into the environment from deep in the earth. -civilitty [1]

> It looks like all 7 of their C14 dated samples were simply "organic soil", no artifacts or charcoal. If you're going to build a pyramid by piling soil and rocks, then the soil will be older than the pyramid. The authors don't mention having done any core samples away from the pyramid as a control group. It seems like they have, at best, proved that Gunung Padang contains old soil, without proving anything about the age of the pyramid itself. -driggs [2]

From the retraction:

> This error, which was not identified during peer review, is that the radiocarbon dating was applied to soil samples that were not associated with any artifacts or features that could be reliably interpreted as anthropogenic or “man-made.” Therefore, the interpretation that the site is an ancient pyramid built 9000 or more years ago is incorrect, and the article must be retracted. [3]

[1] New evidence strongly suggests Indonesia's Gunung Padang is oldest known pyramid (40 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38186510

[2] The pyramid of Gunung Padang began construction in the deep past, study claim (40 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181200

[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1932
Maybe it is because the games industry evolves more slowly now and depends a lot on legacy technology. You don't see a bunch of new game engines being built and the two most popular ones use C++ and C#. The emphasis is much more on content now and much less on technology.
There should be zero private cars on the island of Manhattan. Build giant park n ride structures in NJ/Bronx and Queens. And while we're at it, do that cool infill project to extend Battery Park.
This is hilarious. Money doesn't stink even for Apple, I guess. Although for them, this would really be a reputational hit.
We pay attention to the Supreme Court (and Circuit Courts) in the US because those cases set legally binding precedent.

Cases at both levels are well covered in the media with open access to dockets via PACER - and people should be paying attention to the results of these cases because they have real impact on the law.

On the other hand, District Court cases do not set precident.
It is used for some of the RPG Maker engines [0]. There's also DragonRuby [1] which I believe is made by someone heavily involved in SDL.

I'm sure a lot of people will say it's too slow, etc. but the truth is that great games come from a very wide range of tools and if Ruby fits your needs then you should use it.

[0] https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/

[1] https://dragonruby.org/toolkit/game
Mangrove trees are on the move, taking the tropics with them
YYMMDD is also a cool idea! I used it in one of previous projects.

What I don't like in your proposal are initials - since 2020 I worked in the environments where all folks were invited in making architectural decisions (that's the way I always try to push as an architect), therefore it would make no sense to add any initials :)
Building a Galaksija
I came across this as an interesting curiosity several years ago. Recently it showed up in a personal reference and I thought it might be of interest to the HN community. Really amazing story behind this and the community that was created around it is fascinating.

Part I (linked): https://blog.vladovince.com/building-a-galaksija-the-1980s-y...

Part II: https://blog.vladovince.com/building-a-galaksija-part-ii-the...

Part III: https://blog.vladovince.com/building-a-galaksija-part-iii-au...

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija_(computer)

Internet Archive Magazine Collection: https://archive.org/search?query=galaksija

Emulator: https://github.com/mejs/galaksija

Another: https://github.com/nikp123/Galaksija-Emulator

Libretro core: https://github.com/libretro/galaxy-libretro
Benchmarks are pretty flawed IMO, in particular their weakness here seems to be that they are poor at evaluating long-tail multiturn conversations. 4o often gives a great first response, then spirals into a repetition. Sonnet 3.5 is much better at seeing the big picture in a longer conversation IMO.
> The deal doesn’t mean Apple News will soon be littered with chumboxes — those ad boxes formatted to look like news stories that you see at the bottom of articles (including at The Verge) with low-rent, often ridiculous clickbait headlines. Taboola makes those, and they apparently do quite well. But it also sells “native” ads, which are meant to blend in with surrounding content

Those are even worse!
Again, I'm not disputing the leverage.

I'm disputing the fees that are removing at least 3 or even 4% a year, and that is on top of the interest. (I'm in the housing industry and I can tell you for a fact that everybody underestimate the fees until the tax increase, insurance increases and you need a new roof)

Now, your house is going up 4.63% a year. You have 3% of fees and 3% of interest a year (or 7.5% if you buy today). How is your 5:1 leverage going to help you?

You quickly realize that in order to make the math work you need your house to go up AT LEAST 5 or even 6% a year. In the current environment your house even needs to go up close to 8/9% a year to just break even.

And you are right that you use leverage so if it goes up above those numbers you start to make up equity very quickly. But there is almost no chance those type of returns will hold in the future.