skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The process for publishing, how a study becomes "legitimate" science, is not very scientific. Same with the process for getting funding for studies.
That's interesting, I actually have two Pi Zero's laying around I bought ages ago for another project. Though getting this kit shipped to Russia might range from a non-issue to challenging and expensive.

edit: yeah it's not on the list of countries they ship to which means if I were really insistent on buying it I'd have to use a mail forwarder which would cost like 2x the kit itself
I think "engineer" as a protected title refers more to their status as a professional in the strict sense of the word.

If you are a professional, the norms of your profession override your loyalty to your employer. Your boss cannot override your professional judgment, unless they are also a member of the same profession and willing to assume responsibility. And if something goes wrong, it can be the professional who will be held liable rather than the boss.
Looked at the first paper. I have significant concerns that, frankly, I didn't finish reading.

1. Small sample size, <20 iirc.
2. No control group at all. (There should have been a group under the same requirements and same diet)
3. They picked 'uncontrolled', and from my own experience that term is synonymous with "unmanaged." Which, translates to "patient is not compliant with treatment." As such, feeding them exclusively a vague "diabetic diet" coupled with the 5 day hospital stay- well its enough to cloud the results enough that no conclusions can be made.

4. Cont. Because people rarely intentionally make themselves feel like crap- which you will with uncontrolled type II. The hospital stay, its exposure to allegedly* diabetic friendly foods, and subsequent time for the subjects to realize "I feel better, I like this!" Basically invalidates the entire paper.

* allegedly, because I just got out of a hospital with a fantastic cafeteria. But, the "diabetic menu" had way to many items with high glycemic indexes, and nothing to maintain a steady sugar level until the next meal.

Finally:
''HbA1c was lower four weeks after the oatmeal intervention.''

Two days of fasting won't change an A1c value.
> HTTP status codes aren’t worth fussing over.

Nope. This article is great, but absolutely no on this one. Specifically even for their 401 vs 403 status code. There are VERY clear definitions for these codes. Please don't goof them up. If you do I will not be able to use your api effectively.
Don't forget the importance of data privacy. Updating a model with fresh information makes that information available to ALL users of that model. This often isn't what you want - you can run RAG against a user's private email to answer just their queries, without making that email "baked in" to the model.
The banhammer can quickly become a tool of net negative though, when actual facts are being repressed/censored.
The UBI problem, and the problem in your post, is you're engineering starting from what you want, and then assuming that there must be a solution to get there.

You have to start with what you have and build from there.

This is a subtle point and it may take some meditation and thought, possibly ever over some months or years, to understand what I mean. But if you are an engineer, life will hand you opportunities to see what I mean. You can't write down a list of requirements, then assume that exact solution exists, and then burn for it full speed. You must always start with what you actually have and the options you actually have.

The thing that makes perfect sense to me, but you would consider ironic, is that while you may accuse me of this and that, lack of imagination, lack of dreaming, lack of belief, whatever, my way builds better worlds and your way builds failures. I don't follow this path because I don't also see the temptation to build dreamscapes and live in them, I follow this path because it's the one that works.
After reading that article a while back it wasn't really clear to me why JWTs are necessarily a bad choice for authentication, aside from the issue of invalidating stateless tokens.

The main argument seems to be vulnerability to attacker supplied JS (when kept in local storage). But if you're targeted by a supply chain attack, I assume you have a lot more to worry about than token exfiltration.

The complaint about lack of battle-tested JWT implementations seems outdated as well.
It is a different issue[0]. The Linux issue from April was a Linux Kernel bug[1], that CS Falcon happened to trigger. The design to use eBPF is sound, but the implementation on the kernel side had a bug.

Also, CS Falcon didn't support RHEL 9.4 (only up to 9.3), so for this specific bug you highlighted, CS should not be held accountable for regression testing, because it was a platform they did not support.

With Windows, the design is currently poor to not be able to run code in a safe manner. Most recently, it appears MS is blaming the EU for forcing them to create an interface for services such as CS to run[2]. Rather than lean into the problem and create a good design, they didn't create security boundaries - risking the entire system.

Bugs happen, and Linux will continue to harden and be more resilient - but unless MS focussed on secure design in this area, things like this will continue to happen (same as they have with AV before).

[0] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083
[1] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3306
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2024/07/22/crowdstrike-outage-microsoft-blames-eu-while-macs-remain-immune/
this has not been my experience at all. i see them supported everywhere in london. and even supported in cornwall recently.
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Consumer Windows doesn't generate enough revenue per customer and the consumer OS space is commodified, so I'd say it's getting the treatment it deserves.
Did Harris Call Biden or Play a Recording?
How to access Chinese LLM chatbots across the world
It seems to me that used SPEED in a complicated program + macro + dunno what to inspect system and error logs on AOS/VS.

The full-screen editor was SED, which I remember as being a bit less odd than vi, but maybe because I encountered it first.
Mr. Kurtz, is that you?
I was chatting with the 405B model and got this after a few messages:

Application error: a server-side exception has occurred (see the server logs for more information).

Digest: 1138364229
CP-67 was a hypervisor, a different model altogether to the chroot/jails/zones/linux namespace evolution, the sidequest of HP Vaults and various workload partitioning schemes on systems like AIX, or the grand-daddy of chroot line, Plan 9 namespace system.
Seeing some of the code my colleagues are shitting out with the help of coding "assistants", I would definitely categorize their contributions as spam, and has had nothing but an awful effect on my own time and energy, having to sift through the unfiltered crap. The problem being, of course, that the idiotic C-suite in their infinite wisdom decided to push "use AI assistants" as a KPI, so people are even encouraged to spam PRs with terrible code.

If this is what productivity looks like then I'm proud to be unproductive.
Will managers continue to push engineers even when engineers advise to go slower or no?
I keep a backup Visa card and actually 99% of the time Amex and some petty cash is still fine in my Western EU travels.
Ask HN: LLM agents for structured data from databases?
Hi HN,

I am a complete LLM beginner but would like to get into the practical application of the technology by interfacing a GPT instance with an internal database at work.

I understand creating LLM agents that handle unstructured data is a quite common use-case. Ironically, more experienced peers also told me that going through the same exercise to make agents work with structured data can be more challenging.

Are there any resources that you could point me to wrt best practices and tools to use when tackling such a project? In my mind, I would 'magically feed' the DB schema to the LLM, have it write valid SQL prompts and translate the results into text. Does this make sense? Are there better ways to do this?
While not at the same level as any large service, I typically spin off a 720p copy of any media as a background process nightly. 720p is pretty small in comparison to 1080p or 4k source files. This way I have an immediate mobile friendly version I can stream from my phone or load up on an ipad without emptying it's storage, even if the quality is markedly lower.
> but if they market it to power users

The point is they won’t. This crap they’re pulling is not an oversight, they know exactly what they’re doing. It makes zero difference who they “market it” for, most people would want to do it if they opened the door.

> Right now they're not targeting such a thing to any users.

Exactly. By design. And it’ll stay that way until enough users leave Windows. Which is unlikely any time soon.
it doesn't—the semantics of ebpf confine it—so it isn't
As the author of another language with uses content addressable code for all source code (also to aid in shareable code - https://yazz.com/app/homepage.html) I feel that it is really good to see that projects such as ScrapScript use this technique. Well done guys!
The Elusive Pink Apple EMate
Imagine a futuristic sci-fi scenario in which AI is so advanced that it can model so deep into physics (i.e. plank scale), a scale which can't be probed by experiments but the predictions match. We would have a probabilistic Oracle of sorts. It can give answers but no way of knowing why it works.
Sounds like Nature vs nurture to me. Until there is a proposed genetic marker... it's just another item confusing the public about correlation vs causation.
Makes you wonder what we don’t know about the relationship.
Couldn't agree more. And I say this as a developer that uses LLMs in my day-to-day work.
It’s a curious trend that the ignorant demand that I do free work for them.

I see it as part of this inversion of responsibility at schools and in culture where students have not failed to learn, the teachers have failed to teach. The students have become very entitled and demanding that not only must they be spoon fed but that the information must be pre-chewed to their exact liking.

I’m not paid to teach you and if you spend your life expecting others to do the work of learning for you then you assuredly will spend the rest of your life in ignorance.

I’m far better off finding ways to shield myself from the negative consequences of a culture fostering ignorant masses than I am to try to fight that onslaught one person at a time.
Want to live a long life? Start prioritising your friends
The UCI banned some handlebars that were regarded as too far forward, they've banned elbows being too high, they've banned handlebars pointing slightly inwards. They'll ban anything that's even slightly out the ordinary and with no reasons given.
yes, i agree, except that doesn't chroot predate plan9 by almost a decade?
CrowdStrike pledges to improve testing after IT outage
Bitcoin was not VC funded
Thanks for your detailed explanation!
You don't need to update the whole model for everyone. Fine tuning exists and is even available as a service in openai. The updates are only visible in the specific models you see.
It's not really very relevant. First, it doesn't say why the jury acquitted. It mentions two different defenses that were offered. (1) The noise measurements were not accurate, and (2) the case was brought against the wrong defendant (the manager of the facility rather than the mining company).

If they acquitted because of #2 then it is completely irrelevant.

If they acquitted because of #1 then it just means that the jury didn't believe that the measurements done by the Constable were accurate. It doesn't mean that there is no noise problem or that the noise is under the legal limits.
Just write a preprint or a blog post
"I've learnt that Von Manstein (and others) paraphrased Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (1800-1891) who categorised his officer corps into four types.

Intelligent & Lazy: I make them my Commanders because they make the right thing happen, and find the easiest way to accomplish the mission.

Intelligent & Energetic: I make them my General Staff Officers because they make intelligent plans that make the right things happen.

Stupid & Lazy: There are menial tasks that require an officer to perform.. and they follow orders without causing much harm

Stupid & Energetic: These are dangerous and must be eliminated. They cause things to happen, but the wrong things, and so cause trouble."
The poster is saying that cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme. 12 years ago(or 13) in its infancy, you could've had this sentiment.

But now you have ETFs, it's as legitimate as it comes.
I think both approaches are used on HN, and I like that model.
Votes are a cheap solution that work great as long as abuse is taken care of.

I have not thought of anything concrete yet as I literally got this idea yesterday. But I am confident that most of the drivel can be kept out of the platform. The goal is to keep out people who enjoy reading sweet nothings. As long as you don't have them on the platform, bad writers won't have an audience. To do this, make the platform as boring looking as possible (like HN). When those over-stimulated entertainment junkies don't find flashy content, they will go back to scrolling tiktok.

Replacing HN is not really the goal as HN is a news aggregator, not a content-hosting platform and it works great.
"Reversal" is something I clearly don't believe, the way I read it the symptoms got less bad?
I'm not sure what you mean by that?

Just produce the same identical bikes, and assign them randomly at the start of the race?
Do you feel attacked? Nobody is above anyone. Seems like that's your defensiveness reading something between the lines which isn't implied.
> Fine-tuning and LoRAs and toying with the runtime are all directly equivalent to DLL injection[0], trainers[1], and various other techniques used to tweak a compiled binary before or at runtime, including plain taking at the executable with a hex editor.

No, because fine tuning is basically just a continuation of the same process that the original creators used to produce the weights in the first place, in the same way that modifying source code directly is in traditional open source. You pick up where they left off with new data and train it a little bit (or a lot!) more to adapt it to your use case.

The weights themselves are the computer program. There exists no corresponding source code. The code you're asking for corresponds not to the source code of a traditional program but to the programmers themselves and the processes used to write the code. Demanding the source code and data that produced the weights is equivalent to demanding a detailed engineering log documenting the process of building the library before you'll accept it as open source.

Just because you can't read it doesn't make it not source code. Once you have the weights, you are perfectly capable of modifying them following essentially the same processes the original authors did, which are well known and well documented in plenty of places with or without the actual source code that implements that process.

> Calling these models "open source" is a runaway misuse of the term, and in some cases, a sleigh of hand.

I agree wholeheartedly, but not because of "source". The sleight of hand is getting people to focus on that instead of the really problematic word.
quite simply to screen drugs from reaching the emergency shelter, which is also a school, and save you from special prosecution applied to these situations and protect themselves politically from something the media will monitor closely. if they screened you at the shelter, its worse for everyone if they find anything on premises. emergency shelters will house anyone affected, including vulnerable elderly, children, mentally ill people, and unhoused heavy drug users. everyone was likely checked which also protects you while sheltering. i volunteered for a shelter during katrina and it gets out of hand very fast with just one delusional person or drug user. i stopped a robbery within 3 minutes of starting my first shift. a deranged person was aggressively drug seeking, and robbing pill bottles away from an elderly woman in a wheelchair. could have been your mom or grandma just caught up in it. so- check everyone as a protocol, as its for public shelter safety. seek therapy for ptsd, its never too late to heal. if you have heavy bias against law enforcement, perhaps consider joining a community program or volunteering - do it as a therapy to yourself to help improve your insight which will help everyone work towards improving the situation in your community.
Why? The whole point is to standardise, I thought? They are already _not_ accommodating preferences for eg recumbent bikes. So what measure are a few more preferences not accommodated?

In any case, you can make a bunch of different official sizes.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/07/23/blackrocks-spot-...
So from a brief look they (mostly?) enable certain kernel and compile options to tailor the installation to the available hardware. What improvements can one, realistically, expect from that?
we all know frameworks are the worst right?

Eventually you end up fighting your framework....
That’s fair, and I agree that a multi-pronged solution is probably the best one.

You need programs to address the root causes (homelessness, poverty) as well as aggressive enforcement of drug laws. I’d argue the two are not necessarily at odds, and actually would complement one another.
Indeed, despite efforts to keep them there. There is a reason a passport was impossible (now just very difficult) to get. The place would be empty.
Why tech bros are backing Trump
And for Jews specifically, it might sound weird, but in Poland they were actually better off than average citizen.

It's just an artifact of our history: even in 18th century, before partitioning of Poland the social structures we like this: Polish nobles > Jewish bankers, merchants, clerks, lawyers, doctors > Polish peasants. This structure persisted through 19th century into the 1920s and 1930s. You could say, that Poland basically outsourced most of the middle-class jobs to Jews.

In the late 1930s Poland actually ran kind of "affirmative action" to get more Polish students accepted to Polish universities, which had pretty high percentage of Jewish students: 15-25%, compared to 8.5% of Jews in general population.

All this naturally created some outrage against Jews, with Polish people feeling like a second class citizens in their own country, sometimes (but rarely) resulting in violence.
Author here. You seem to be intentionally conflating the ability to post a link with my critique of how LinkedIn affects its reach through the algorithm.

To be clear: Your links will physically “work,” as in you can post them. But they lose much of their organic reach, in part because LinkedIn treats links as second-class citizens. It wants you to stay engaged on the platform.

(The guy I quoted in the piece says he figured this out through research.)

The result is that, if you’re trying to build an audience on that network, you have to spend inordinate amounts of time building lengthy content that is built for the network itself, which is why every LinkedIn post seems huge.

It’s the difference between a handful of likes and comments and hundreds, possibly thousands. Think of it this way: You are driving a car that cannot switch gears, and using that to dispute the claims of a post that is critiquing the inability to switch gears.

To be clear, you may be OK with that, but the problem is, it intentionally does not play fairly with the open internet, and it means that people have to do a lot of additional busywork to use this service that they prefer to spend on something else.

There’s a difference between being able to do something, which is what you’re describing, and it actually functioning to the best of its capabilities. Sure, you can run with a sprained ankle, but you’re going to go a lot slower and feel a lot more pain than someone who doesn’t have that impediment.

LinkedIn is artificially adding impediments to linked posts, just like every other platform. But they appear to be doing so in ways more dramatic and extreme than some of their competitors.
Something similar, u just switched to private clinic where i pay 500euros/year for general doctor(even when they work for insurance) and I pay like 100E for specialist. Never happier, fast and good communication.
>>those who can't afford electric vehicles by ULEZ

I wonder if you're doing this on purpose, or if you are genuienly unaware of ULEZ compliance conditions? ULEZ only requires your car to be Euro 4 compliant for petrol cars, and Euro 6 for diesels. Most(if not all) petrol cars that are younger than 20 years old are Euro 4 compliant, and any diesel made in the last 10 years should be Euro 6 compliant too. You are making it sound like you have to buy an EV to be ULEZ compliant, which is absolutely not true.

>>for those using polluting Diesels who we encouraged and subsidised to buy them a few short years ago

Well, you can't reverse decisions from the past - you can only improve on them. And ULEZ is one of the best decisions made anywhere in this country, its impact on pollution within London is undeniable, I wish every single city in the UK had a ULEZ zone.

>> and those who rely on them for their work or trade.

Funny, but this exact same argument was being used when leaded petrol was being phased out. And yet I can't imagine anyone would look back at that time and say it was a mistake to get rid of it.

>>skyrocketing insurance

That is one thing I 100% agree with you on - insurance industry is just a giant cartel right now, and they keep charging more and more despite skyrocketing profits. Their own numbers about increased cost of repairs doesn't line up with the increases in premiums across the board, it's all a scam.

>> high fuel prices

Fuel prices have been going down every year, even if the price of fuel has increased in absolute terms. Thank inflation for that one.
The new Leica D-Lux 8 camera has open source firmware
Yep, he has a history of not following through with donations.
I use 'busctl tree', 'dbus-monitor', 'dsub-send' etc, so far worked well
Support was never terribly high in the first place. It's the least preferable for merchants.
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A blog post won't be indexed on google scholar for other academics to reference though. Maybe a preprint would be?

In my opinion the goal is to get a record of the information and the dataset out there.
That is gerrymandered with qualifiers like some government RFP designed with a specific vendor in mind.

What most people want is an orderly, well-functioning society with a government that serves their needs. The United States is closer to a third world country on that front than Western European or Scandinavian countries. And it’s only going to get worse. The prosperity of California today, for example, is the result of inertia from the well-governed California of the 1960s-1980s. At the time, the foreign-born population had dropped below 5%. Now it’s over 15%.
because creating a company is way more effort and stress
Schumer Advances KOSA: Congress's Latest 'But Think of the Children' Crusade
No, but Android on RISC-V isn’t even considered stable. So you’ll be manually compiling a fair chunk of code to get it running. Adding a few extra tools to your build pipeline isn’t going to be a deal breaker.
Publishing null results would be great, but I’m worried about how that could also be gamed.

How do you distinguish a ‘real’ null result from one done in a sloppy study?

Would people run shoddy experiments to get null results to undermine their rivals?

Could somebody pump out dozens of null publications to pad their CV and screw up h-indexes?