skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bikes are at a point where they can be lighter than the UCI mandated minimum weight. Aero has been the name of the game for a while as well, so it's possible that a riders bike already is heavier than expected for aero benefit
Every time I see videos like this I’m astonished by how blasé onlookers are about the whole thing.

I know it’s armchair quarterbacking but please don’t be like the people in the video. If the Earth is erupting in front of you: turn and run. Don’t stay there filming. Don’t gently jog while constantly checking over your shoulder. Turn. And run.

I’m not saying panic. I’m not saying trample anyone in front of you. But get to a safe distance with alacrity. You have no idea if the situation will rapidly escalate, and you may only have one opportunity to put enough distance between you and the unfolding situation. Assume the worst until you know better.

In this scenario, falling rocks are a concern. Superheated steam is a concern. Poisonous gases could have been a concern. Corrosive liquids could have been a concern. Lava could have been a concern. Further eruptions could have been a concern. For all of these your odds are improved with distance. In the moment you have no idea of the full extent of the dangers and in many cases by the time you realize it’s too late.

That said I’m very thankful nobody was hurt in this incident.
Bikes can already be built WAY below the minimum weight set by UCI (6.8kg), so that doesn’t help - it’s easy to install a motor, battery, and still come in right at the limit.
How’s only sharing the binary artifact is open source? There’s the data aspect of things that they can’t share because of licensing and the code itself isn’t accessible.
The Age of Magical Overthinking
I think the EPC (energy performance certificate) dataset in the UK is a nice example of this. Anyone can download a full dataset of EPC data from https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/

Admittedly it hasn't been cleaned all that much - you still need to put a bit of effort into that (newer certificates tend to be better quality), but it's very low friction overall. I'd love to see them do this with more datasets
This is magical thinking. Like, the laws of physics still apply. Computation depends on power generation, and both *require* physical objects that break and decay. Who fixes the broken stuff when all the humans are dead?
So let me get this right...

Google introduces a lot of "privacy protecting" ideas like removing third party cookies, moving extensions to manifest v3, etc. Then they backtrack on removing third party cookies and keep the manifest v3 roadmap.

Essentially, they are getting their cookies and eating it too.
> They do tend to cause an increase in blood clots though.

That risk factor is specific to the oral route, and/or conjugated equine oestrogens. Injections, patches etc. of synthesised oestrogens don't seem to have that problem. https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k4810

> Transdermal preparations were not associated with risk of venous thromboembolism, which was consistent for different regimens

Don't eat your HRT: rub it on your gums!
If your shared copies of your brain in that state, it seems like that would. Lots of LLM models can be downloaded.

If you had memorized the textbook from a stash of torrented epubs, as a commercial activity with intent to monetize, that likely wouldn't go over well for you either.

The "big AI" companies are trying to create a world of rules for thee not for me by claiming that when copyright infringement is large scale enough, it somehow becomes fair use.
Why Llama 3.1 is Important
Yes I do. https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-h...

> CrowdStrike states "Boot into safe mode. Delete C-00000291*.sys." That's the file(s) with the zeroes

That's potentially multiple files, but do we know only one comprises just zeros?
anecdotal / N=1 here, but I've uploaded standard 7z encrypted backups to personal Drive without issue
That is the epitome of lack of will. After the last major earth quake on LA,major highways were destroyed into and around down town LA. Those were repaired in less than a month.

When there's a will to get it done, it gets done. When her isn't, planning and permitting takes a butt load long time.
There's a difference between creative engineering enabling the whole sport and creative engineers competing with each other behind the scenes.
Thanks, it does look a great part of the world to live in.

I’ve taken liquefaction maps into account previously when finding places to live, but not had to look up magma chamber reports yet.
https://opensource.org/osd

"The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed."

> In the case of an LLM I would expect that to mean the code run to train the model, the code for the model data structure itself, and the control code for querying the model should all be available

The M in LLM is for "Model".

The code you describe is for an LLM harness, not for an LLM. The code for the LLM is whatever is needed to enable a developer to modify to inputs and then build a modified output LLM (minus standard generally available tools not custom-created for that product).

Training data is one way to provide this. Another way is some sort of semantic model editor for an interpretable model.
Just checking where AI is today and found this
I would hope they still use physical interlocks instead of implementing it in software, even though it’s semiconductors instead of relays controlling stoplights these days.
Print resolution is far higher than 300 DPI, floor for the cheapest is 1000, most will do 4K. (not a correction, I am only sharing this because I think of this often because it seems leverage-able for something unique, and HN is a good place to share that sort of thing, in case someone is inspired)
With built-in AI, we shouldn't be writing SQL queries directly right?
The technology really isn't there. Individuals' subjective experience of safety is totally irrelevant when you're talking about a system as huge as "automobile travel."

Even 99.999% reliable miles is still dangerous at 3.2 trillion miles per year
This is going to sound like one of those self help books, and I realize that in saying that "no my advice is actually the one true piece of advice everyone should follow" is meaningless, but regardless

This is the one most important piece of advice everyone should follow, and it results in a much better life overall (including not being subject to being in echo chambers.

Make it a core value to follow truth. For everything you do, everything you know, and anything that comes your way, ask yourself "to what certainty do I know that this is true, and why?"

For example, you may think that eating a certain food is good for you. Do you know this is true? Do you have a reliable metric that you can validate whether this is true or not? Reading a research paper, that has a percentage of people that felt better isn't it - how do you know that you are not in the smaller percentage group that didn't feel better?

If you adopt this view of the world, its pretty easy to not get stuck in echo chambers. You naturally start to see all your personal biases, realize stuff you don't know, and adjust your thinking and actions accordingly. Obviously it takes practice to do so, and its hard to break out of those patterns, but generally, once you get started on this path, its a self rewarding loop.

A really good test along the same lines is asking yourself or another person about yours/their viewpoint "what would you have to see to change your mind?". You will find that the more intelligent a person is, the more they can answer this, because it indicative of the above thought process.

Meanwhile, for average people, they will often answer "there is nothing you can say to change my mind on something", which to them seems like a virtuous statement, but ironically you can trace this sentiment as the root cause for a number of problems in their life.
1. This is a reseller opportunity - teach small ISVs what is under the hood, why it’s smaller cleaner better

2. Linked to the above, this is not a competitor to Active Directory. It’s the antithesis. It’s not for a small office of PCs on desktops. It’s to properly secure IoT devices in different locations - sensors, telemetry that niche businesses sell - they sell the service that the device provides, and want a reliable small footprint security solution. Maybe you are it

Edit: I may have misunderstood the use case however - you mention zero trust but I may be missing how it validates at different layers - would love to know more however ! DM me if need be :-)
Ugh.

Government distorting undeveloped markets that have a lot of room for competition to increase efficiencies is a bad thing.

Government agencies running programs that should not be profitable, or where the only profit to be left comes at the expense of society as a whole, is a good thing.

Lots of basic medicine is the go to example here, treating cancer isn't going to be "profitable" and attempting to make it such just leads to dead people.

On the flip side, one can argue that dentistry has seen amazing strides in affordability and technological progress through the free market. From dental xrays to improvements in dental procedures to make them less painful for the patients.

Eye surgery is another area where competition has lead to good consumer outcomes.

But life of death situations where people can't spend time researching? The only profit there comes through exploiting people.
Got it, that makes sense. I still wouldn't expect them to have to publicly share the data itself, but if you can't take the code they share and run it against your own data to build a model that wouldn't be open source in my understanding of it.
That sounds like they're both correlated with oestrogen levels.
The same as the conversation that leads to athletes doping their bodies.

Somebody in the athlete’s inner circle suggests “hey, you’d be faster/stronger if you did X…” and it goes from there.
Agreed and what you say is true for many, if not most workers. I think this brings up something we're all a bit reluctant to add to this conversation about UBI: the reason to do it at all.

As practiced, capitalism is just high stakes musical chairs. Everyone, rich and poor, works fervently to ensure they aren't the last ones standing with no chair. UBI asks: what if everyone always has a chair?

Its a very unsettling question, one can almost hear the record scratch when its posed. So unsettling, we start asking who deserves a chair!

And suddenly we're not talking about capitalism OR UBI at all. This is something else entirely: class. The allegedly unwashed lazy hordes versus the Ultra Clean Society of the Diamond Shower Faucets.

The primary incentive for anyone to work (as we understand the term today), is to maintain food and shelter above all else. That's it. Proponents of UBI want everyone to have food and shelter, be less of a slave. Opponents worry about whether we can afford to give everyone a chair.
Can a human programmer edit the weights according to some semantics?
> Release the data, and if it ends up causing a privacy scandal...

We can't prove that a model like llama will never produce a segment of its training data set verbatim.

Any potential privacy scandal is already in motion.

My cynical assumption is that Meta knows that competitors like OpenAI have PR-bombs in their trained model and therefore would never opensource the weights.
If it was a sign of something larger it probably would not be so isolated, all the geysers in the area would have gone off. I would guess this is either the formation of a new geyser or an old one which has a long duration between eruptions or just a one off.
This domain name is unfortunate.
Single C file Llama 3.1 Support in Llama 2 Everywhere
What a massive irony and a cruel joke. The headline should really be "Google Drive scans your files for copyright infringement", because this is copyright for me not for thee, at its absolute finest.

I'm not even talking about Gemini's training data.

Recall that it was Google that utterly nonchalantly scanned & stored some 40 million books, without seeking and obtaining permission from a single one of their authors. [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....]

Is the internet as we knew it drawing to a close?
Hate is maybe a little strong. I don’t hate LinkedIn, though I barely have an account. LinkedIn is like being back in business school - everyone is the next CEO of $household_name and they all have this incredibly profound wisdom to share on how you too could be the next CEO of $household_name.

I went through business school once and every second was a little worse than the last one. I’m good without LI.
Small scale personal use can be fair use while large-scale commercial use is not.
Can you tell me more about your specific use case?

You can already call an external API from Briefer and use its response within the notebook.

You could also upload any types of files and read them from disk - or even query those files using DuckDB if you want.
One counterpoint is that
major publications (eg New York Times) would have you believe that AI is a mildly lossy compression algorithm capable of reconstructing the original source material.
It's wild that Youtube makes $8.7B in ad revenue a quarter, and adding in another $15B from subscriptions it is touching on $50 billion in annual revenue.

Which is more than:

* Netflix – $36.3B

* Warner Bros Discovery – $40.57B

* Paramount Global (ViacomCBS) – $30B

* Disney Entertainment (excluding theme parks and sports) – $40.6B

All without spending a single dollar on content creation.
Facebook is way ahead on this--humanoid robots have been running the company for years.
Ask HN: Why the Hell Would You Validate an Area Code?
Area codes get added in the US. Why do so many computer systems reject area codes that it thinks don’t exist? What is possibly the advantage to guessing that the user might have typed their own phone number wrong vs the possibility that you actually don’t know what all of the area codes are? /rant

I am the proud owner of 1 year old area code phone number and I am routinely locked out of text and phone systems. I just found out a major delivery has been waiting for me to set up a time for two weeks because their automated call system can’t contact me and just logs it as didn’t answer.
That... is true though? https://insideevs.com/news/706730/us-non-tesla-bev-sales-202...

If you remove Tesla, EVs are continuing their climb.
60% increase YoY in 2023.
My uncle used to be a federal prosecutor. Now he defends clients for a private law firm.

He was describing a case to me that involved the government suing his client over something. It turns out that the prosecutor's case was based on a misunderstanding of the relevant laws. Millions of dollars and potential jail time were on the line.

I asked my uncle "do these prosecutors, their office, or anybody face potential retribution for nearly ruining this guy's life and likely ruining his business?" My uncle replied "no, there is nothing that can be done to them." I asked "so if some asshole in a prosecutor's office doesn't like you or is a dumbass, he can just ruin your life and that's it?" "Yes," he said.

I can understand why this is. If law enforcement, generally, were subject to the same liability as regular citizens, that is all anybody would seek to do when the law looks at them. The result would be "playing it safe," and prosecutors would only seek the easy cases, leaving the bulk of crime to happen without repercussions. I don't know what can be done, and there is likely no general solution, but thinking about this makes me realize that "freedom" is not exactly a thing. At least in this case the guy could hire a good lawyer and avoid the worst.
Yeah, seems OK now, must have been a temporary (CDN ?) fluke.
Comfort has already been mentioned.

There is an observation that if you replace a bus line with an equivalent tram / light rail line, the rail line will attract more passengers. The reasons are not fully understood. Comfort probably plays a role. Another reason might be that rail lines are easier to understand. Buses are almost universally confusing, while tracks make it obvious where the rail line goes.

Trams also have a capacity advantage, because the vehicles can be larger. And operating them is cheaper in the long term, because the vehicles are much more durable.
Windows Vista: Insights from a forgotten trove of internal Microsoft emails
There truly is a website for everything:

https://hypotheticalvolcanoes.fandom.com/wiki/2081_Eruption_...

I’ll be sure to give it a wide berth in 2081
I smell a supertask
OpenAI removes AI safety leader Mądry, a onetime ally of CEO Altman
The human rights declaration

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

There are reasons, although one might disagree with them.
I don't care for the attempt to find a new catchy phrase.

But I do care about the phenomena being described. This is very common with teachers, and especially so with those teaching small kids. When violin and piano teachers couldn't keep attention of my (and other) kids long enough to teach them to learn musical notation at 4 years old, they just gave up and started handing out stickers for kids to put into them even after they turned 6 (these where part of the optional pre-school classes). Now, my kid has a good musical ear (unlike me or his younger sister :) and always had a knack for learning symbols (it intrigued him, so he could read all the digits before he could count; similarly for letters), but persistence is not his strong suit. All the stuff my kid learned to play on the piano was really the stuff he learned at home, and not in the class (and he loved the stickers and mucking around on the violin and piano).

Now, there was one student that really persevered through the messy, unmotivating teaching, started practicing at home, and this seem to have validated these teachers' approaches (when we complained they are not learning anything, they kept pointing at this kid — he was indeed great).

So basically, they filter out for those who are persistent by nature regardless of their motivation to achieve a particular goal, and they start to believe this means their approach is good — but they lose out on those who might invest enough, might even have more talent, but are not properly motivated.

This is what we talk about when we talk about adapting teaching to every individual, and that's freaking hard in a classroom setting — but must be the default in individual classes, yet so many of those classroom-teachers can't figure a single kid out.

This also happens in sports and any other learning/upskilling.

I try my best to recognize among engineers in my teams who learns best by being thrown at the problem, who needs to be paired up to have someone to bounce their ideas off, who needs to be given some upfront material so they would build up confidence before attacking a problem, or maybe build a toy example first, etc — and I also ask directly, because we are adults and we should have an idea about what works for us by the time we get a job. All of these are valid approaches to learning, and each one of us has an approach that usually works best for them. I do try experimenting with asking people to approach problem in an "unusual" (for them) way too, to see what they gain (if anything) from the approach compared to the stress they end up feeling.

What do we need to do (as a society) to ensure that anyone doing any teaching anywhere is at least aware that there is no single-approach-works-every-time solution, and that you at least let your students do a couple of different things. I feel like we should be putting students through a number of approaches and look for signals which has worked best. But how do we get there?
Nice explanation and execution. Looks super Pro ! Congrrats !

One question : how do you manage database credentials ? That's a question I've had a lot working on my project so I'm pretty sure customers will have the same for you.

Especially given the latest Snowflake security issues.
Agreed. However, doing things that reinforce ADD are an anti-treatment.
LinkedIn straight up stresses me out when I think about using it. So many things that work counter-intuitively to the way you'd expect any social media platform to work.

From the emails they send you, with the sender set to the name of someone you know, and the subject written in first person asking you to add them, even though all they did was click an "add" button. Obviously because they get better engagement if their automated emails look like they were hand-typed by a person reaching out to you specifically by name.

Or the fact that viewing someone's profile notifies that person that you did so. I'm too scared to just click around, let alone post because last time I snooped on what some ex-coworkers were up to now they started sending me messages to try and recruit me for their startups. And now I look like I've committed an act of rudeness by snooping the profile of a guy I knew but not taking the time to reply to his messages.
Yeah, let's let people fuck themselves up for our entertainment! Which movie was that again?

Seriously, let's not. Those drugs are bad. Let's protect the people from the ridiculous pressure to win. Let's have some dignity.
Ebikes are fantastic, but this would be like having a motor on a rowing competition.

Nobody is hating on ebikes here, just using them to cheat to gain an advantage at the olympics... in a sport ripe with doping since day 1.
I did not have the same experience with the free trial. It tried to crash in to curbs, and really drives in ways that make you think it isn't really planning very far ahead: driving towards parked cars and swerving at the last second instead of making an early correction to move over in the lane slightly, driving too fast for conditions, hard braking at stop signs, stopping very early, or very late for stop signs. This is in addition to all the other bad behavior: getting confused about where lanes are and blaring the alarm sound, taking no regard for other cars when merging, trouble following curves smoothly and respecting limit lines.
Indeed! I forgot that the BRs mandate the CRLDP extension if the certificate lacks OCSP AIA.

So all (non-short-lived) certificates will continue to have a standard revocation checking mechanism encoded in them.
If only that were the case. I can think of many instances where someone pushing for a bad deal/acquisition/product were rewarded for the visible outcome. Killing a bad idea is incredibly valuable, but I am struggling to think of an instance where that was used to justify kudos. Especially if you are the one who torpedoes a big wigs initiative.
It's up to you.

So far, there seems to be an even split between the people that always go for the AI and the people that write everything themselves.

Personally, I use the AI whenever I need to write anything other than `SELECT * FROM xyz WHERE`. It just saves me so much time.
It's still making a political statement.
Great work Lucas;

You're going in the right direction! for the near future, I suggest you to add a cli, connectors, simple symbolic calculation on notebooks (take some inspiration from calca http://calca.io/examples), offline support and fully encrypted namespaces.

That will put you miles away from everyone else in the field :)

You're probably busy with the launch, but you can contact me if you wanna discuss the list above,

Abraços
I don't understand the psychology of it either. It's like they think that appearing overly concerned about something potentially dangerous is more embarrassing than being killed by something actually dangerous. That or they have lived such safe and sheltered lives that they cannot identify real danger. I don't have any other explanation.
Ah so if I compress an IMAX movie release with hevc with medium quality settings at 1080p I'm good to go. Thanks!