skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they fine tuned an existing model using its own completions to produce the training set for the next run which uses the fine tuned model as the base. They mention catastrophic forgetting so they are aware of it. I suppose they wanted to get results as quickly as possible but this isn’t an accurate model of reality (pun not intended). They’ve only succeeded in demonstrating something that is well known. If they had made the effort to simulate mitigation of bad data and a growing corpus that included proportionally more synthetic data over time it would have been interesting.
I'm concerned multiple ways by this, but I also could see some positive fallout from this, if it sets precedents that help protect 'content' owners from AI goldrush companies just taking everything.
I run it from a docker container on my Truenas system. It works pretty well as all of my media is stored there.

I use folders to separate out TV shows / Movies on the Nas and then set a collection for each one.

Identifying the media was 80% automatic, the last 20% I had to do via identify and imdb searches, but that was a small hassle.

I've had a few videos not play due to formatting issues. When that happens I fire up handbrake and re-encode for mp4 web playback and ~20 minutes later I'm in business.
If the income really is guaranteed, competition in UBI-secured lending should eventually drive margins down to the point where the borrowing cost approaches the risk-free interest rate, so at least people are getting a reasonable deal on their loan.

Of course, it's still a serious social problem if people borrow against their future earnings to buy expensive things and then go years without enough money for food. It might not even be irrational, for example someone might borrow to pay for a life-saving surgery for a family member.
I've worked worked through the issues in a couple of "brilliant jerks" in my career. Although really none of them were jerks, in both instances just frustrated humans who cared a lot about the work they're doing and nobody had taken the (hours) to fully work through what was going on. With one of them, we worked through stuff for 4 sessions over 2 weeks and by the end got to some version of "wait, so that's it, there is nothing more to it than that, it's just that's the way it is?" and once that acceptance came, the frustration was resolved and the situation was fully understood the homie inside re-emerged.
To me it actually sounds like a better approach than blindly following "everything is a file" mantra.
gl is greenland
My Discover card has actually benefitted me more than my (entry -level) AMEX. Discover has 5% cashback categories every quarter, and most of them are for common charges. I've had the bonus on "gas" two or three times already. Also Amazon, grocery stores, paypal.
> Possibly, but would null publications be cited as often?

Don’t underestimate an academics ability to cite ALL of their previous publications each time they publish
I would counterargue with "that's the model's problem, not mine".

Here's a thought experiment: if I gave you 5 boxes and told you "how many balls are there in all of this boxes?" and you answered "I don't know because they are inside boxes", that's a fail. A truly intelligent individual would open them and look inside.

A truly intelligent model would (say) retokenize the word into its individual letters (which I'm optimistic they can) and then would count those. The fact that models cannot do this is proof that they lack some basic building blocks for intelligence. Model designers don't get to argue "we are human-like except in the tasks where we are not".
I agree with that. I just was noticing that the article takes the easy route (bashing jerks that are maliciously jerks) but accurately avoids the hard problem (jerks that are jerks because they are neurologically atypical).
Based on the title I thought this was about the band and was very confused.
I have a story on using weird/fishy/phishy TLDs: Recently my colleagues and I started collecting information on all the available compression methods for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS, a popular method for 3d scene representation). There were quite a few works in the area with naming conflicts already, so I thought to give it a unique short name to refer to - and came up with “3dgs.zip”.

A few days later we started putting together a web page, and I noticed that .zip actually is available as a TLD. Impulsively I bought the domain, https://3dgs.zip/, launched it and printed it on a few shirts before heading off to a conference. Felt a bit weird that there is a .zip TLD, but I was in a rush and I didn’t ponder its existence any further.

But strange things started happening: setting up the domain for a GitHub page worked, but in the process downloaded a 0 Byte file called “3dgs.zip”, when submitting content one of the GitHub.com forms. And a few days later colleagues told me they had trouble accessing the site. After some DNS sleuthing and then some back-and-forth with our IT dept, it turned out that our organization has blocked the whole TLD - for every Windows user, out of phishing concerns of people being confused.

I’m no security person, so the reasoning felt a bit weird to me, as I guess the .zip TLD can’t hurt anybody; downloading a .zip might, which you can attach to any link name? But in any case I wasn’t able to find any .zip URL with a purpose, but lots of Reddit posts of angry sysadmins who bemoaned the influx of terrible TLDs with mostly phishing use and vowed to block them all. So they probably have a point in downright blocking the whole TLD.

Now I’m sitting here with my .zip url. Had to revert the page to use github.io, so people in my organization (and similarly thinking ones) would be able to access it. Guess I’m cured for a while, won’t be using any novelty TLDs anytime soon…
For a business that targets upper middle class and HNW individuals, Greater London, the affluent parts of Southwest England, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Northeast Scotland are all that matters.

Realistically, Amex works in most metros in the UK I've travelled in. Maybe the local kebab shop doesn't accept it, but the overlap in customer base probably isn't there anyhow.
> That sounds exaggerated at best. People on the spectrum might not be emotionally aware of their behaviours effect on others, but they're intellectually / logically aware of it.

Based on my own extensive experience of living on the spectrum and years of participating in support groups, I would say this is absolutely untrue or at best extremely pedantic - the end effect is the same.
I'm not surprised you can't use it to make it better, but one might imagine gradients would go to zero as you fed the model its own output.
Try asking a young child...
Oops, so it is. Not sure how I got that mixed up.
Anyone can ask for licensing deal. I'm sure NY Times, Conde Nest all have licensing deals. Mr. Beast signed a deal with Amazon. Joe Rogan with Spotify. Why is it hard to understand?

Even HN can get a licensing deal if they want to.

If you are producing content, you have every right to do what you want to with the content.
>Honestly, it's strange to me how hard people are trying to make distributed anything happen.

IMO, something federation is very good at is solving one slow-moving problem - enshittification of social platforms. It's not immune, of course, but an Elon Musk-style takeover is much harder with Mastodon than Twitter, and it would be hard to run it into the ground in other ways because the platforms are owned by different people and groups.
Okay, we’ll just agree to disagree on this one.
I don't have it. Last year I visited family in India and surprised to see so many of my tech illiterate family and relatives are all Alexa users. Mother used it to play devotional songs every morning. They don't have anything to order from Amazon , neither there is any notion or concern about privacy. Its pure convenience and work like magic.

As an aside they do seem to be heavily radicalized by social media and hilariously think they were always like this.
> I wonder if it might have been a beast at some tasks, but not others?

Domain OS was a multiuser, multitasking OS running on a Motorola 68020 with 4 Megs of RAM with distributed filesystem and diskless clients which did swap over the network. Ah, and with versioning filesystem. And Spice simulations were resonably fast compared to a 386/40 running Pspice on MS-DOS.
Not fully on topic but does any one know why people use seatd over logind? I noticed that when you use swaymsg exit and you exit the window manager to go back to sddm I noticed that the logind session is not closed. Why is that and how should that be fixed ?
Why the link searches "startups"? Seems like the page requires too modern browser.
Interesting to note the particular judge in that case:

> jurors sent a note to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon stating “we are deadlocked. We are unable to come to a unanimous decision.”

> Cannon encouraged them to continue deliberating.
I always preferred sugar and shit. Obviously, that is profane. But, I consider profanity be seen as the part of speech it really is.
> NVidia doesn't treat their software engineers particularly well since hardware is their core competency.

Care to explain?
I saw that movie. Not much scares me, but that did!
I worked with some of the top people in the world, in my field. Some of them were generous, self-effacing, humble, and a joy to work with.

Others ... not so much.

One thing that they all had in common, though, was not suffering fools. Sometimes, they would yell and cuss, other times, they would just never work with you again.

I generally preferred the first.

I won't do it to others, because that's not my style, but I would get a dressing-down, followed by "Don't let it happen again." I'd still be in the Circle. I haven't been ejected from the game. If they just transfer me out, I'm down for the count.

I have found, that, if we want to be top of the game, then we need to work with those that are already there. We have to take the risk that we will be rejected, or told that we're not doing a good enough job. We should definitely not expect participation trophies. In fact, it's likely that we may not get a huge amount of positive feedback.

Pretty darwinian, but that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.

I feel that a lot of the lessons that I learned, also helped me to be a better leader and mentor. Some of those lessons, were on what not to do.
If I could go back in time and change how domain names work, I would probably do 2 things:

1. Flip the order of parts, ex. com.ycombinator.news - this makes the whole URL big-endian, instead of the absurd middle-endian system we have now.

2. Either

a. drop the requirement to have TLDs at all - gmail would just be "https://google.mail/inbox" (including my first suggestion; "google" is the root domain), or perhaps just "https://gmail/inbox"

OR

b. actually commit to a small number of strictly-enforced TLDs - com is not the default, it requires a corporate entity to register, we probably push on having a single TLD for individual humans so ex. blogs tend to live under... actually the "name" TLD wasn't a terrible idea but I'm flexible on exact details of that TLD, just so there's only one of them. Second-levels like us or eu are fine but should again actually enforce having an entity in that country so almost nobody ends up using io or such.
That's what Google Books was and then it all got mothballed for copyright reasons. The future of AI belongs to societies that DGAF about IP.
Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison...
> Everyone knows that big developments bring crime, traffic/more cars, environmental concerns, burdens on the school system, etc. If you say otherwise, you're delusional. Build vertically in urban areas with jobs/resources/retail around.

I am confused what you are talking about. A single mid-rise building brings far more tax revenue than the equivalent land in single family homes, which supports a lot of the initiatives you are referring to. Also, environmentally, the benefits of heating and cooling and fewer cars on the road etc for a dense development are far greater than single family.

And crime… I have no idea what you are referring to. But go to Jane Jacobs’ work in the 60s and the idea of “eyes on the street” and how more density means fewer opportunities for crime (per capita) and particularly when accounting for socioeconomic status.

Anyways, I think you’re wrong but I’d be interested to know what you are basing your thoughts on.
I was born and grew up in single-family detached homes in California, and when I had the means I moved to a dense, walkable, bikable home in the Netherlands because I remember how isolating it was to be a kid in suburbia, and wanted different for my own kids.

But aside from my own anecdatum, it is truly bizarre you for you claim this as "irrefutable, unquestionable" when homes in dense places are very expensive, which can only be the case if lots of people want to live there.

Though I do agree with you on the dark skies, and wish cities cared about light pollution. It's the one thing I miss about living on 3 acres in the Irish countryside, which was a time in my life marked primarily by profound loneliness.
But of course there is no option for that as they think advertising is more valuable. Worse they have set the initial price as free and so now most people will object to paying despite how useful it is (I've seen some uses of Alexa that are probably not worth a monthly price, can they make money on $5/year for 10 devices?)
>> One other reason is that the quality of Amazon listings has really nosedived over the last decade.

I stopped using Amazon years ago when I had four purchases of completely different and random items all turned up to be counterfeit. One was a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard, the other was a pair of Lucky brand jeans, the other was a pair of Ski goggles and the last thing was a Topo Designs backpack.

I've also noticed that when I came back looking for something simple like a charging block for a new phone, I had pages and pages of Chinese merchants who all had similar looking products but just different brand names stamped on them.

But I agree with everything you're saying, its not just logging on, finding what you need and ordering something. It takes ungodly amounts of due diligence to make sure what you're buying is a) a legit product and b) its not some suspect seller that's paying people to write fake reviews.
So a couple of questions

1) Is CrowdStrike Falcon using eBPF for their Linux offering?

2) Would the faulty patch update get caught by the eBPF verifier?
> Sure, I could do it myself, but it would take more time, each step would have less momentum, and I'd have to think more while I do it. Which, there's a place for that too, of course.

You just start faster, but end at the same time. If you really need to understand something there is no LLM shortcut. I spent hours interrogating Claude, in the same time I could have studied from a book and gotten even better grounding.
Is this just coping with the fact that commies did something nice ?
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A big reason why .top is used so much is because it is so cheap. Phishers can rotate through many more domains using .top compared to other domains.

IMO this isn't a particularly big problem, it's cool to let people buy cheap domains. It also doesn't really save the phishers that much money. You aren't going to solve the problem by making domains more expensive, it might impact phishers' margins but they will continue phishing.
Or plain old cmd.exe:

wmic CPU get NAME
Interestingly enough much simpler models can write an accurate function to give you the answer.

I think it will be a while before we get there. An LLM can lookup knowledge but can't actually perform calculations itself, without some external processor.
Snark aside, replication is a cornerstone of science. If someone doesn't want to be involved in science because they think it's soul-crushing, perhaps academia isn't the right place for them.
Binding energy = energy released when the nucleons bind together.

In other words, energy required to break them apart.
Well I find the gesture really nice. 10 USD per node that went into a boot loop, this will be a very, very good dinner for the team who worked on the recovery, for years to come. Not sure why everyone is complaining.
So, here's 10 bucks, we good?
> a lot of tools are made primarily for Linux. Surprisingly this even includes very popular ones like Git

A bit off-topic but this particular example becomes less surprising if you look up who created git :)
This is tricky! We've got someone who some might classify as a jerk on our team, but in so many regards this comes down to how they interact on slack. Every effort to improve slack comms has failed here, but enough of the team has worked with them for long enough to know that they're actually kind. However, we often have to warn new team members, or those who work in distant parts of the company that rarely interact. They are so valuable though; its a hard trade off.
Agreed. Yet~

>Let's define the term "jerk" here as someone who is both intentionally, and obnoxiously aggressive. Aggressive in their enforcement of their own opinions and dismissive of others'. Obnoxious in the frequency of unnecessary negative interactions with them. Intentional in that they understand their behavior is aggressive, and choose not to adjust it.

Intent is impossible to prove (or so I've been told). He uses the implicit heuristic of, "They keep doing it." However, it (obnoxiously aggressive behavior) is in the eye of the beholder (or, often, in the appearance of the accused). What is "frequent" and "unnecessary"? By who's metric? What's the line between "opinionated" and "browbeater"? Does it shift depending on the identity of the individual? (Yes.)

>Ultimately, you know you're dealing with someone who is acting like a jerk by how you feel after interacting with them.

This criteria is just asking to be abused by people who hold prejudice. Some people are irrational or traumatized, and it's okay to sympathize with their take on an individual while also understanding that they're not being reasonable. Likewise, it's possible for a charismatic and energetic individual's behavior to be deleterious; coworkers don't necessarily walk away feeling overtly attacked, but their tendency to self-police to the bully's desire might be raised. Such jerks often also zero-in on "fair targets", leaving them as the only people to feel abused, while everyone else rationalises their treatment as deserved.

IME, the best way to root out actual jerks is to focus on people with power (by however mechanism, they are able to get people to do what they want them to do, more so than those people are able to get them to do things) who are quick (within one or two negative interactions) to blackball others (maintains a sh*t list, ghosts, verbally harasses, particularly in a way that isolates the target).
I built this tool as a sort of explorer of Claude's inner concept space. Try entering a word or concept, and then use the buttons to explore outwards from there and see the range of associative links and connections you can uncover.
Not me.

One: I don't want to pay a yearly fee to use a hardware device I paid for. Especially when that price will inevitably increase.

Two: Paying a monthly fee for the privilege of saying "Turn the lights on." in my own flipping home. That is very hard pass.

Three: Amazon already EOL's several smarthome products (CloudCam, Amazon Key come to mind).

I'm glad that Amazon would take a huge L if they decide to abandon their Alexa ecosystem now.
Where will those 100+ people live instead?
Rereading the zones paper now makes me cringe, but I was in my 20s, what can I say. I think the argument we made that holds up is that this was designed to be a technology for server consolidation, and the opening section sets some context about how primitive things were in Sun's enterprise customer base at the time.

I have a lot of admiration for what Docker dared to do-- to really think differently about the problem in a way which changed application deployment for everyone.

Also I can tell you at the time that we were not especially concerned about HP or IBM's solutions in this space; nor did we face those container solutions competitively in any sales situation that I can recall. This tech was fielded in the wake of the dot-com blowout-- and customers had huge estates of servers often at comically low utilization. So this was a good opportunity for Sun to say "We are aligned with your desire to get maximum value out of the hardware you already have."

It's a blast to see this come up from time to time on HN, thanks.
This is article is the rhetorical equivalent of saying "Long string isn't worth it" and then proceeding to complain about how hard it is to work when someone ties you up with string, or leaves 5000 yards of tangled string in the kitchen. We've all been there, right?

For every such article you could write one called "Short String Isn't Worth It."

Obviously, depending on your context, working with difficult people is necessary and worth it. Sometimes it may not be worth it to you, but it's worth it to other people.

Lots of people at Apple did not want Steve Jobs to return, after he left. But lots of people did, and he arguably made everyone there (whom he didn't fire) a whole lot of money. Was it worth it or not? Depends how you feel about things.

Articles like this can be better written when the author reminds himself to focus on the elements and forces, rather than reifying and polarizing the topic into a garish stereotype.

The point of an article like this ought to be to help people examine themselves and their situation so as to reconcile themselves to it or to take productive action. Pitchforks and torches aren't helpful.
Doesn't your smartphone have both of these already?
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And if your CPU is older than October 2022, you don’t have to check.
For personal use, and on the topic of Obsidian, I rolled my own form of this... Its quick and dirty, but generally works for my usecase. I tend to push a page through turndown [0] to generate the markdown, then write this into obsidian (also storing things link a copy of the rendered page, link to the source, etc).

[0] https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown
Thanks! Macro-expanded:

July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039708 — 203 comments
This is encouraging. We have a big tender (procurement) scam in our country, and I receive at least 10 different emails daily about fake procurement requests (the central gov database was either leaked, or the criminals are working in tandem with its administrators).

At times I have reported the impersonating domains, and I'd say that registrars have acted on under 5% of my complaints (within reasonable time). If they use a local domain name, it's easier to complain directly with our country's registry administrator.

My problem is often with registrars that are in random countries. It's encouraging that some action is being taken, and I think in future I should also lay complaints with ICANN.
Only if you select a random domain from a list of all .com or .top domains. No one does that of course. The chance a random .top (or .com) you encounter is a phishing domain isn't so easily calculated, depends on where you see it, etc.
Yes.. Another fine idea, just more work than a 2 character edit. :-)
> let's assume firefox is forced to allow people to make a choice of the default search engine

Firefox has always allowed people to make a choice of the default search engine, since before it was even called Firefox. I know. I was there building it.
Thinking from reddits perspective they have nothing to lose really. It’s not like other search engines are going to pay any attention to the robots txt and Google’s AI would have still scraped data from Reddit regardless of the deal. Now they will just feel less bad about not citing sources possibly, depending on the user experience they want to deliver.