skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I am with you 100% and keep several LLaMA's on my workstation for that reason. I use Openrouter for everything else. Everything that isn't sensitive goes to one of the big kid models because they are just sooooo much better. LLaMA 400b might be the start of running with the big kids, but I know we are not close with the current available models.
small town in Indiana

I was on the north side of Indianapolis, the wealthier side of town that could afford a 30% markup on a gallon of full-serve gas.

Small Indiana town? Oh, yeah, I’d imagine they’d make a killing versus hot dogs that have been sitting on that roller thing all day. :-)
Google Search ending 'Notes' experiment
Nytimes wants more handouts, what's new?
Computer science. This is a grad level topic probably.

Nvidia literally wrote most of the textbooks in this field and you’d probably be taught using one of these anyway:

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-books-archive

“GPGPU Gems” is another “cookbook” sort of textbook that might be helpful starting out but you’ll want a good understanding of the SIMT model etc.
Furthermore, the housing supply is supposed to be responding to demand. Its failure to do so is a problem regardless of where that demand is coming from. It has been clear that we have had a growing housing shortage for decades, but it took a generation of population turnover and insanely unsustainable prices before political pressure grew to the point to change regulations and allow the housing market to be able to even begin to respond. Without the migrant population growth there is a very good chance we would have still allowed the problem to get just as bad before we finally responded, it just would have taken a bit longer.
> I speculate that congress gets negative approval ratings as they are the proxy for the federal government agencies

This is not consistent with the data (over time). Congress approval used to be much higher that of agencies, with more people approving than disapproving of congress.

My take: disapproval of congress ties directly to political polarization, and the effect is attenuated for agencies as they are seen by most of the public as apolitical.
Yeah, invented by Linnaeus to complement flora. Flora itself is only a couple centuries older.
In my area (a major metro area) there are a bunch of chargers in absolute terms, but very rarely within walking distance of any of my usual destinations.

PlugShare shows 18 total charging stations within a 10 minute drive of my home (only one DCFS). There are none near my grocery store, gym, doctor's office, etc. And I WFH.

If I wasn't able to install a charger at my home, I would be going out of my way for DCFS a couple of times a week and making up ways to kill time.

I hope it'll be different someday, but today is not that day. Or, as the quote goes, "the future has arrived, it's just not evenly distributed yet".
Cool! Does Eureka Labs/Andrej plan to offer grad/PhD-level courses (or better) with similar topics to CS236, CS224N etc. in the future as well?
Agreed - I find the credential exfil alerts meaningful. I appreciate that AWS has invested in making them better in recent years (bypass details in https://hackingthe.cloud/aws/avoiding-detection/steal-keys-u...)!

I also find the DNS based cryptomining detections pretty handy, and high enough signal.

Great point on VPC Flow Logs! With the move to SKU off various GuardDuty features (S3 protection, Runtime, etc.) ... it'd be nice if GuardDuty monitoring of VPC Flow logs were more configurable
What if the donkey kicks you?
Parts are, parts aren’t. If you aren’t able to specify exactly what you believe with regard to it, there’s not much more to say.
It's too bad that DME/DME RNAV isn't more widely available. The only real reason it's so expensive is that there isn't much demand for it since GPS (usually) works fine. Electronics-wise, it's not much more complicated than a transponder. Unlike a GPS, it does have to transmit, so it will always be somewhat more expensive than GPS.

The other problem is that there's a limit to how many aircraft a DME station can serve at a time (about 100), but I believe that could be greatly expanded if aircraft weren't pinging the DME so often. A position fix every second is generally fine, and it could be even more infrequent if you have a cheap inertial system to fuse with it that can fill in the track for a few seconds between pings.
Lago (YC S21, Open-Source Usage Based Billing) Is Hiring a ML Engineer (EU)
I think it is possible. Rather than reading it for yourself, why not get other people to read the lines out to you? And maybe even "act out" the story?

Obviously it would be expensive to get it done just for you but if you could spread the cost among a larger audience it might be feasible. Get them to record it and you could even watch it on TV! ;)
Thread a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40833645
They present this like a smart solution for some sort of fundamental problem. It's really not a fundamental problem. Advertisement has worked and still works perfectly fine without attribution in TV, in magazines, on billboards.

Adtech gaslights everyone into accepting that just because it is technically possible to perfectly track and personalize ads in digital media, that they have some sort of moral right to do it.
Well, the answer is "I do not know"

Now, if I had to guess, this are "a new kind of cookies" so they just took a name that went with it (like they did with biscuits https://www.biscuitsec.org/)

There are many chances that they got he name wrong and they meant Macaron (with one O instead of two). Those are "layered" cookies, which bring some resemblance on how "caveats" can be understood.
Shakespeare definitely doesn't need to be done in RP. It's no closer to Elizabethan English than American is.

I've seen OP performances. They don't especially move me, but I think it's because so much effort is spent on the accent. The audience does adjust to it rather quickly, but it still requires a lot of heavy lifting to make any Shakespeare play accessible to modern sensibilities. (Pacing, culture, references, etc.)

I personally find that Shakespeare can sound remarkable in just about any modern accent. I love hearing it in accents that aren't entirely common: Yorkshire, Geordie, American South, Black English Vernacular. I once got to perform with a British woman with Ghanian parents, and whose native accent was Estuary -- absolutely a knockout.
> maybe I am out of date or have read the wrong things

No, I think you have a better grasp on it than most people outside the US. Americans really want to believe we don’t have a caste system, because it’s antithetical to our origin story and what we feel is true about ourselves, but we absolutely do. So if you listen to us talk, you’ll think we don’t have a caste system. If you watch our actions, you’ll see we still do.
I thought so too. I suspected clickbait but this is a paraphrase by the submitter. The original headline is reasonable.
The feature size on chips has steadily shrunk from 10 µm for the Intel 8008 to a few nanometers nowadays. The feature size is determined by the limits of contemporary technology, which steadily improves as described by Moore's Law. Many different technological aspects need to improve to shrink the features, from the design techniques to the optics to the chemical processes.
You can run the llama 70b based models faster than 10 tkn/s on 24gb vram. I've found that the quality of this class of LLMs is heavily swayed by your configuration and system prompting and results may vary. This Reddit post seems to have some input on the topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1cj4det/llama_3...

I haven't used any agent frameworks other than messing around with langchain a bit so I can't speak to how that would effect things.
https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q2-2024-ev-sales/

Title: Despite Tesla Slide, EV Sales in Q2 Mark New Record
It's the same story with: bite mark analysis, police dogs, hair comparison analysis, firearm toolmark analysis, many arson analysis techniques, bloodstain patterns. Discredited or unproven, yet still used in court.
The Post-Valkey World
> Comparatively to the increase in house prices

That doesn't mean rent has stabilized. That just means it's the less shitty of two very shitty options.
Linux 6.11 Adds Support for Rust-Based Block Drivers and Atomic Writes
I buy Apple products. Believe me, I pay the full cost of those - but even if I didn't there are free browsers like Firefox and they are also playing with this.
MicroSD Problems (2010)
Is there a good explanation of the Mamba architecture?
My question was genuine as I'm not from the gamedev domain and I might have missed the real state of the art.

Hard coded dialogs often feel very unnatural and limiting. I can see why people want to explore LLM to try to make new experiences possible.

I can see it becoming a new dimension of game design, open vs closed dialogs, like there is currently open vs closed world. And as in the open vs closed world, they will probably coexist instead of one type replacing the other.
Afaik, all that gives you is the person running the exit node (and where the request is going) and nothing about the person who initiated the request N-hops ago.
I use the Cookie AutoDelete browser extension for this purpose, which besides the name handles more than just cookie data.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Ozy Media, CEO Convicted of Fraud After Staged Goldman Call
The other alternative is LTTng, released in 2005 (requires loading a kernel module):

https://lttng.org/
While I don't have firsthand experience with these models, I recently discussed this topic with a friend who has used tree-based models like XGBoost for time series analysis. They noted that transformer-based architectures tend to yield decent performance on time series tasks with relatively little effort compared to tree models.

From what I understood, tree-based models can usually outperform transformers when given sufficient parameter tuning. However, models like TimeGPT offer decent performance without extensive tuning, making them an attractive option for quicker implementations.
Firefox has first-party whitelisting. Block all website data and then whitelist.
> 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?

This is not how it works.

You would have to pay rent.

You'd take the opportunity cost of the difference in rent vs the cost of your house after the mortgage interest deduction (discounting principal, since that isn't a cost).

If it's an investment - you'd consider your cash-flow and principal.
I don't believe we've scratched the surface of positive applications of even the current tech, let alone any future tech

I also believe Brandolini's Law will be a major problem, though not necessarily an impossible one

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

I believe the value of curators and editors will skyrocket in the future
The probability that a user's identity would be linked up with browsing HTTP sites and an attempt to use that in an adverserial manner is higher when it's Apple than when using my ISP.

Of course, you may think differently regarding your ISP, but that's for each one of us to decide about our own service providers.
>It's something like $5-7 to fully charge an EV from 0 where I am (Washington DC suburbs), vs about $50 to fill a tank of gas.

If you drive 5k to 10k miles per year though, a hybrid Camry or Prius or equivalent is still going to be cheaper per mile over 20 years compared to an EV due to the huge depreciation in the EV due to battery replacement cost.

Even a RAV4 Prime is probably cheaper.
No Polygraph discussion is complete without Moe being subjected to the Polygraph...

Eddie: Checks out. OK, sir, you're free to go.

Moe: Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight. [buzz]

_A_ date. [buzz]

Dinner with friends. [buzz]

Dinner alone. [buzz]

Watching TV alone. [buzz]

All right! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the
Victoria's Secret catalog. [buzz]

[weakly] Sears catalog. [ding]

[angry] Now would you unhook this already, please? I don't
deserve this kind of shabby treatment! [buzz]
https://archive.today/yn8vd
Who wants to work for or with someone who pretends they can read your mind?
I read the whole article and it has great points. Almost nodded the whole time. However, I couldn't identify whether an alternative exists today.
It should be entirely socially acceptable to respond to any trivial message with "ACKNOWLEDGED" á la Picard
Gravitational lensing, velocity dispersions, etc circles back to the total mass of galaxies. So it shows up on many of the ways we calculate the total mass fraction not just rotation anomalies.
Using science to attempt to measure qualia sounds like a good way to produce whatever results you want.
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know it's built-in, I'll check it out.
<iPhone user> reacted haha to your message

<iPhone user> liked your message
Sounds like there's a ton of money to be had to someone that can solve those problems though.
A version of fallout where I can go up to people/things and just start talking to them, instead of picking from a list of things to say? :shutupandtakemymoney:
Is there any data indicating that a preference for meat is not genetic?
It is interesting that HN commentators spotted this, while peer review didn’t.

I often get great comments from peer review, but I used to worry that some critical mistake would be missed (one time there was!). My work is purely theoretical, so these days I formalise everything in a proof assistant. But in empirical science, there is no such certainty to be had. There really should be some kind of comment section under the published works.
Assembly's Perspective of C (2020)
GEN AI: Too much spend, too little benefit? [pdf]
I have located different bits of old media recorded of my grandfathers on both sides. One example being a long form interview about my maternal grandfather’s Korean War experiences. I enjoy watching or listening to these from time to time. If my father passed early I am sure I would’ve been very grateful to hear his words too.
Yes I find most people who find Shakespeare incomprehensible suddenly find it clear and simple once they read it aloud
To the surprise of absolutely no one
We used to (and I believe still) have Read Receipts for this.
Rule by minority seems implicitly less just than rule by the majority - as rule bmy minority converges towards authoritarianism.
you are stuck; over analyzing your life. I mean it's not bad to be self aware of what is wrong with you. but the point is "what's next?". yes you know all this about yourself. what are you going to do do about it?

don't try very hard because you'll probably fail. 0.01% percent improvement every day is enough. read one page, walk 100 meters, ... you get the idea.

never victimize yourself. it's a self fulfilling prophecy.

your problem is that you are unable to fix your problem. if the solution can not come from yourself why not seeking help from others?
I'm very seriously thinking about one of these (or really, its successor) when I need to replace my computer again in the next year or two - it's already optimized for several Linux distros: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite#

All I need now is a good replacement for OneNote that stores notes in an open format and supports pen input for sketching and handwritten note-taking...
No reasonable person should trust the security of an iPhone or Android when it comes to state actors. These devices likely offer sufficient protection against common theft, but they are vulnerable to sophisticated attacks from government entities.
I remember seeing that some people in the corporate world put a capital J instead of a dot in some sentences. I first brushed this off as some artificial corporate level of politeness that's not too forward (the hook of a J does indeed look like a smiling face). Turns out that 4xA, the value of J in ASCII, is occupied by a smiley face in Wingdings. I still struggle to get it how did the Outlook email client know which characters to convert in the UI.
Does that let cookies exist temporarily? If so, when do they get purged?
Is there a statute of limitations for ethical complaints in the medical field?
Argument is that KUTrace is faster, which honestly I'm not sure of.
You might be correct soon, but not quite yet. There are some positive things going on and the recent news about the EU, Apple and virtualisation is one example.
Dead Startup Toys (2021)
I did an absolute double take. The 1980s saw the emergence of personal computing. From niche hobby to ubiquitous agent of societal change.
That's an interesting read, thank you, btw I also contributed to RPG games by making this generator a couple of years ago: https://tabletopy.com
so terrible that vendors can enforce these proprietary licenses on software they paid to develop /s
Here is a list [0] of them but should give you a good idea even if it's old. It claims that Javascript is production ready but I can't find much info on Java. So Java probably has 0 support.

I know a lot of people say GDScript is close to both Javascript and Python but it's not close enough for me personally. So if you want to use Python just use one of the Python game enignes (such as Panda3D, Pygame, Arcade, Ursina) instead. Javascript and Java also has a lot of good engines too so don't feel like you have to use Godot.

[0] https://github.com/Godot-Languages-Support/godot-lang-suppor...
Bill Ackman Can Tweet His New Fund
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> Staying with the 2005 definition of private mode as only being ephemeral, such as Chrome’s Incognito Mode, simply doesn’t cut it anymore.

Yes I cannot agree more. Personally this shift in people's expectations of Private Browsing or Incognito Browsing came in a way that felt sudden. The recent lawsuit about Google tracking you in Incognito mode was absolutely dumbfounding to me: of course websites can still track you! If only people still remembered the origins of this feature in 2005 (or 2008 in Chrome's case). But even on HN the opinion was pretty split. It is indeed clear that it is now time to change what private browsing means.

However, I don't think this is going to stay this way for long. The word "private" when it comes to computing has many varied definitions and it all depends on who the information is made private to. In the extreme case, if your threat model is privacy from eavesdroppers on the network or the ISP, then a browser can easily claim any HTTPS connection is private enough; the majority of browsing is already private browsing. If it is privacy from others using the same machine, then this older private browsing already works. But I cannot help but feel that a few years down the road people are going to consciously or subconsciously substitute yet another definition of privacy.
Synthetic Image Dataset for Indian Road Signs in Challenging Conditions
Synthetic Image Dataset for Detecting Indian Road Signs in Challenging Conditions

Here I showcase the a few angles and corresponding labels generated for a sample of the dataset.

Next, I am going to add rain to the scene to increase the challenge for computer vision perception models.

I am using Unity Perception 1.0 and will write some custom C# scripts along the way.

If you are interested in generating a custom dataset for your computer vision projects, kindly let me know.
Each architecture decision record should be added after the decision of the entire team. Then one folk can be assigned to add the ADR to the repo. It will work fine even if you do feature branches (battle-tested but you need to keep you branches short). In case of trunk-based development, there is no problem multiple feature branches.

The idea of ADR is to be immutable. Having multiple, ordered ADRs that touch e.g. the database works similarly to event sourcing - you have the entire history of all changes that were done within the context.

If you want to keep the entire history with changes in a single file called "database", then that's fine but the most important thing is to keep the history of decisions.

Having a single file with only the last decision is not the optimal idea as you lose the entire history.
Hope it will enable all of us to become not just smarter, but also wiser :)
In my aviation safety work, deep learning outperforms traditional non-DL models for multivariate time-series forecasting. Between deep learning models, I've had a wide variance in performance between transformers, Bi-LSTMs, regular MLPs, VAEs, and so on.
Journia – Private Place for Your Thoughts
Can someone please provide the mentioned links? (For those without X account)
Related:

UK police increasingly using polygraph tests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39161771 - Jan 2024 (5 comments)

Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24905780 - Oct 2020 (38 comments)

Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197310 - Aug 2020 (186 comments)

We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21358288 - Oct 2019 (114 comments)

Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556201 - July 2019 (190 comments)

Attempts to Censor AntiPolygraph.org - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311040 - June 2019 (45 comments)

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18431683 - Nov 2018 (96 comments)

An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18351733 - Nov 2018 (202 comments)

Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18155548 - Oct 2018 (104 comments)

The Lie Generator: Inside the Black Mirror World of Polygraph Job Screenings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120270 - Oct 2018 (95 comments)

NCCA Polygraph Countermeasure Course Files Leaked - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277049 - June 2018 (4 comments)

Do Polygraphs Actually Work? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12951926 - Nov 2016 (4 comments)

An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002889 - Aug 2015 (64 comments)

How to Beat a Polygraph Test - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481385 - May 2015 (92 comments)

Man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests faces prison - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6308878 - Sept 2013 (152 comments)

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6307479 - Aug 2013 (22 comments)

Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating methods - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229185 - Aug 2013 (4 comments)

All lies? Scientists threatened with legal action over lie detector article - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457996 - Jan 2009 (1 comment)

My NSA polygraph experiences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428489 - Jan 2009 (46 comments)

also https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=giles_corey
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/?scr=1

SparkNotes has a clearer and more printable version but is behind a paywall.
https://archive.ph/rdZdZ