skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how does the whole LLM market come to fruition?

I'm paying for chatGPT and use it quite often. I find it very useful. I don't pay for chat because there have been free options since the 80s. I don't pay for voice(chat) because there have free options for ~10yrs?
They discuss dogfooding “Sensor Content”, which isn’t “Rapid Response Content”.

Overall the way this is written up suggests some cultural problems.
Does the smiling face emoji look like a real face? No, it's a cartoon representation. Same for the handgun, which was replaced by a handgun that is also a cartoonish toy water gun. If anything it was brought more in-line with the rest of the icon style.

It wasn't removed, it was augmented.
When? I’ve used various customer service chat bots and they just point me to the knowledge base. They can’t take any actions. You have to talk to a human for that, and if I just wanted info I wouldn’t have contacted support in the first place.
For both sides it turns into a net negative. Better to keep your bugs and use them when needed or sell them to others to use if possible.

Lets get back to what we had before when multiple people can find the same bug and exploit if needed. Now we have the one person who finds the bug it gets patched and they don't get paid.
A ring forms an Abelian group with just its additive operation, so you basically have subtraction there. As far I can tell the structure we have formed by these datatypes is a semiring.
Hard disagree here. Are you writing production code, or are you building mockups/prototypes?

I don't want non software engineers touching production code. It's too hard, and the depth of skillset for a product/UX designer is already huge.

If you find css and js faster for prototyping and mockups, then sure. I'm doubtful and still yet to see that work in the wild.
I've already pointed out that may have been the wrong phrase, but, I'm not suggesting anyone's winning, but plenty are losing by stupid decisions consistently being made, that disproportionately affect the under-privileged.

I'm not talking about drivers vs cyclists, or whatever, I'm talking about people who _need_ to drive for their livelihood; it shouldn't be reserved for those of us who can afford the annual insurance increases, nice new or electric cars and what-not, UNLESS something is being done to replace the need to drive, and it just isn't.

I'm not pro-driving and drivers, I'm pro not making stupid moves from a position of privilege while others are left in the dirt. "War on drivers" was just the catch-phrase that came to mind, and I failed to elaborate my point, that was my mistake, but it seems everyone has latched onto those three words and missed the forest for the trees, or just made some other assumption like I'm hating on cyclists or something that is sometimes associated with that phrase.
They are desperately trying to get it entrenched in company workflows, so when they close it off people pay no questions asked. It's not clear to me if people find it useful enough to pay for, and even where it is, I can't make the basic economics work at this sort of cash burn rate.

Like at the moment there's little chance our org would pay more for it per head than we do for our groupware (about $20/mo).

I guess if every single business does it for every seat it'll pan out - and that's why they're keeping it free - but it seems more likely the useful bits of it are gonna be embedded in all the other software we already pay for.
Commit hashes are essentially capabilities, you should be able to access any data that you have a capability for. But allowing access via a 16bit prefix is just idiotic, and equivalent to accepting just the first two bytes of a 256bit cryptographic signature...
this species really find time to fight about everything.
You might be interested in reading up on DNA sequence llm models and tooling.
>stock price has been sinking for the last week over this news

What? their price has been around 30 for months and it recently went up to 35 and now went back to 32~ although today many companies went down for significant %
It amazes me that this discussion is so heated instead of a topic like X (and most other social platforms) requiring you to have an account to see anything. X only exists because of users contributions, but almost all of them have decided to lock it behind a paywall.
Don't worry...they're handing out $10 vouchers to make up for it

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-ap...
Soviet Frigate Storozhevoy
This used to be the Sears Kenmore & Craftsman model where appliances were really Whirlpool, or Maytag, Carrier{1}.

Hand tools variously came from many OEMs like SK, Plumb, Knipex, and Williams{2}. I suppose they still do, now at Lowes, but the OEM is Chinese.

{1}https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/How_to_identify_who_made_your_Ke...

{2}https://forum.toolsinaction.com/topic/2118-craftsman-date-co...
Author here. I had a brain farther when posting this to Hackernews.

It should have Why in the posting title
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You've never had to set a timer while cutting meat (which inherently takes two hands)?
I buy on Gandi, then set up through Cloudflare. I have scripts making good use of the Cloudflare API’s.
Twitter Okta Leak Exposes Class of "Protected Users"
I work for a smaller player and we have solved the problem that took crowdstrike down from the get go agent will rollback to previous content version if it crashes on the content related steps. That had 0 value for marketing till now. Crowdstrike has never being at the top of the pile on efficacy of detection either so your idea that market position is even remotely related to some secret sauce is a fantasy.
I think thats a great use case put AI tasks in the background for document processing and indexing into structured data.
Is HN having technical issues? I notice that my replies to comments simply aren’t getting any replies themselves, but when accessing from a different hotspot I noticed my comments are not even there to be seen.

Brand new accounts usually need a vouch for Ask HN. I don't know the specifics, you would have to email dang to find out. I only see one (this) comment from this account created 20 minutes ago unless you are referring to a different account. Either way only dang would know. hn@ycombinator.com
This is super helpful feedback!
If only my late night existential crises were based on realistic apocalyptic peril, rather than some kind of unknown that's impossible to put into words. At least then, there's some kind of science and "natural rules" to limit the exposure.
I think we remember that differently. At the time I recall people caring quite a lot. You can find articles written about it on just about every mainstream media organization.

I'm still a bit unclear on your position towards the current changes. Your post makes it sound like you oppose changes in general, but your tone makes me think it's specific to the change from 2016. How do you feel about the current changes?
Even when amazon shows that you're on the manufacturer store, it still may not be genuine. I bought an intel wifi card off what looked like the official intel store on amazon, but it turns out that it was an out of production model sold by a third party, but amazon showed that it was "Intel". Very confusing and frustrating if you don't know what to look for beforehand.
It's a very old joke, by computing standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive_Tape_Recorder
Surprisingly no one stopped to take selfie:)
> As the article pointed out, GitHub already publicly documented this vulnerability.

I'm honestly not yet convinced that is enough here - I've fallen victim to this without realizing it - the behaviour here is so far removed from how I suspect most user's mental model of github.com works. For me none of the exposed data is sensitive, but the point remains I was totally unawares it would be retrievable like this.

If the behaviour flies so against the grain, just publishing it in a help doc is not enough I'd argue. The linked article makes the exact same argument:

> "The average user views the separation of private and public repositories as a security boundary, and understandably believes that any data located in a private repository cannot be accessed by public users. Unfortunately, as we documented above, that is not always true. Whatsmore, the act of deletion implies the destruction of data. As we saw above, deleting a repository or fork does not mean your commit data is actually deleted."
Thanks for mentioning the Amazon package alert. I hadn’t set mine up.
This is why the important thing is diversity. The more diverse your ecosystem they less likely you are to suffer a catastrophic failure

If half your tills are windows/defender and half linux/crowdstrike then half your tills are going to be working.
Meta's Agentic System: Multistep reasoning,websearch,code interpreter for Llama3
Shadow banning on HN is as random and arbitrary as anywhere else.

The public should decide what’s of value, not some random, faceless dude with too much power.

The same holds true for that ridiculous flagging mechanism used here.

Silicon Valley is pretending to be liberal while behaving dictatorial.
Nice design!

Small suggestion, I would preload the contents of each tab and the images in the circle after the main content is loaded. There was a good two second lag loading the images here in Australia.
Cool, another way to access youtube-dl next time it gets deleted from GitHub.
You can always just laugh in your head at those absurd people on here. Plenty of useful and interesting stuff on here.
Very old paper tends to stay white: https://bookcollecting.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/paper-cotton...
I mean, pick basically anywhere east of centre, or anywhere served by Southern or Southeastern, some of the worst rail operators, or anywhere more than ~20 minutes walk from a station. Being a London borough doesn't mean much in some parts, other than being subject to the will of London, despite a very different landscape.
That's just bad designing. Good designers use the Figma equivalent of flexboxes and develop responsible designs.

How is this react related? You could always write crappy css. A team creating non responsive react apps would not create responsive non-react apps
Doesn't work with Firefox

Does work with Firefox. I just tried it:

https://beta.maps.apple.com/?ll=33.97329999536968%2C-118.248...

The document you linked to states "Maps on the web works best on the latest versions of these browsers"

"works best" !== "Doesn't work"
"Faʻafafine (translated: "in the manner of a woman") are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. Fa'afafine are not assigned the role at birth, nor raised as girls due to a lack of daughters, as is often claimed in western media. Rather, their femininity emerges in early childhood, and Samoans recognize them as distinct from typical boys."

Anglo culture would do well to discard binary absolutism.
Loud noises slowly hurt the body from ears to brain. The effects are not instant but they are real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNd3Eo5bvvw
They aren't gone, just banned, turn on 'showdead' in your profile to see them.

You can just mail hn@ycombinator.com to get someone's attention, chances are someone did as a result of this post.
What's the Hacker News of the financial industry?
Basically title. Ever since I've been digging into passive investing and the world of finance I've been crawing for an objective site/subreddit/resource like hackernews.

For example I'd love to open this site and see why the magnificent seven has falled x percent today, read a thread about it, see people discussing it.

What do you read? Is there anything similar?
Why can't they just do it more like Microsoft security patches, making them mandatory but giving admins control over when they're deployed?
They’re trained on the available corpus of human knowledge and writings. I would think that the word calculators have failed if they were unable to predict the next word or sentiment given the trillions of pieces of data they’ve been fed. Their training environment is literally people talking to each other and social norms. Doesn’t make them anything more than p-zombies though.

As an aside, I wish we would call all of this stuff pseudo intelligence rather than artificial intelligence
I am not sure if you are joking but there is whole set of techniques called fluid typography that does this (using css math functions mainly clamp) https://fluidtypography.com/
It's not a silver bullet and many people simply don't prefer it to having a few breakpoints (that includes me too).
Author here:

The title "Why big companies like Meta want to commoditize open source and open weight models to increase demand for their complimentary services" did not quite have the same ring to it to be quite honest
When I had my wallet stolen in London about a decade ago, Amex was far faster, easier, and friendlier replacing my credit card than was Citibank. Did it at an in-person Amex office.
There is the model that you end up fine-tuning, which produces reasonable continuations of almost anything in its training dataset, whether it is something any approves of or not.

>Even this example, what sources do you trust that is or is not "in the readers best interest", what is propaganda or what is an implicit value in a society, when you tune an LLM does that just mean you're steering it to give answers that you like more?

You tune the model yourself. You tune it to find the things you're looking for and which interest you.

>Creating an unbiased LLM is as much of a fools errand as creating an unbiased news publication

It's what you do before pretraining. You model human-written texts with metadata and context with the intent of actually modeling those texts, rather than excising something which isn't just causing the model to fail to learn other things.

It's like, asking "what's a cake, really". We can argue about lines etc., but everbody knows. An unbiased language model is a reasonable thing to want and it's not complicated to understand what it is.

Can you imagine unbiased courts, as an ideal? Somebody who just doesn't care about anything other than certain things? Just as such a thing can be imagined, so can you imagine someone who doesn't about reality and just wants to understand human texts.
> I ordered automated cat feeders and had bought the “honey guaridan [sic]” which is a Chinese knockoff when I thought I was buying “HoneyGuardian” brand automated cat feeders.

I have to admit that's hilarious, but I'm pretty sure HoneyGuarDIan (correct spelling) too is a Chinese company, based in Shenzhen.[1] Edit: Actually I'm increasingly convinced HoneyGuarDIan and HoneyGuarIDan are the exact same company: take a closer look at the URL https://www.honeyguardian.com/pages/honeyguaridan-app and compare the second-level domain name with the last part of the URL pathname! Maybe it wasn't a knockoff after all :-D

[1] Go to https://www.honeyguardian.com/pages/honeyguaridan-app and click either of the appstore links to see the company name (Shenzhen Hailong Zhizao, whose corporate website is at https://www.pdpets.com/)
Seems like you had another one when writing “fart”
I think that gravity starts winning once it becomes strong enough to encourage the positive charges to evacuate, leaving neutrons where there once were protons, like the juice leaving a squeezed orange.
This also may play to their advantage by delaying the release and review embargo until after Intel delivers their microcode patch so they can have reviews of 9000 series performance stacked against an voltage-capped Intel generation.
Fun fact: my local store uses different units for the comparisons. Not that you can choose from that many different units, but for example brand A corn flakes comparison price is price/serving while brand B corn flakes is compared by price/kg. Sure, the serving is based on weight but I still need to do some math to figure out which one is cheaper :)

This is one of the biggest food chains in Sweden.
Linux 6.11 makes it easy to build a pacman kernel package for Arch Linux
when a service is free, who is the customer and who is the product being sold?
Exactly. It's a dreamland where frontend styling is completely decoupled from logic and behaviour. Sounds good for a 2005 web designer.
Look I never said it was a good idea.
The parameter is immutable so if you pass a pointer, the pointer is immutable, but the pointed value isn't..
If the pointer alias another 'immutable' parameter, this parameter may not be immutable anymore..
The thing about SFC addressing is that two places near each other always share a prefix, and the closer they are, the longer the common prefix. It's sort of like Gray coding. Quadtree addressing, for example, also has the property that you mentioned (as do, of course, normal lat/long coordinates!) but two adjacent locations may not have similar addresses at all if they happen to straddle a subdivision boundary. (Again, compare to "normal" numbers where, say, |2000-1999| = 1 but there's no common prefix at all!)
Tailwind doesn't to anything special here. Its just css media queries.
Returning null instead of throwing an exception when an error occurs is the quality of programming I see from junior outsourced developers.

“if (corrupt digital signature) return null;”

is the type of code I see buried in authentication systems, gleefully converting what should be a sudden stop into a shambling zombie of invalid state and null reference exceptions fifty pages of code later in some controller that’s already written to the database on behalf of an attacker.

If I peer into my crystal ball I see a vision of CrowdStrike error handling code quality that looks suspiciously the same.

(If I sound salty, it’s because I’ve been cleaning up their mess since last week.)
I don't find the Medtronic solution to be that off. But the closed loop solution can't raise your blood sugar, it can only lower it. It only has insulin which it can dial back or increase. The real danger would be if it detected you very high and then tried to rapidly decrease it.

The FDA approved systems do have safeties in there that alarm persistent highs or on any lows. They also won't provide more basal than a multiple of the pre-configured setting you have.

The biggest thing for me was the 780G alarms less than 680G when there is nothing that I actually want to do to change it. Waking up all the damn time is no fun.
Oops. TIL I've been doing it wrong for years. Thank you for sharing this tip!
Anecdotally, Discover took less than 10 minutes from dialtone to ending the call to return $1k back to my credit after having been hacked and texting "ACCEPT" at 4AM to an insane $ amount that I assumed was a bill.
What I want is a truly personal assistant (which LLM's should be capable of). Alexa can barely get me answers to google-able questions.

If I could be assured of privacy issues, I'd be happy to give it access to my email, calendar, bank accounts etc. and then let me just use it like a Chief of Staff.

I know another company is going to come do this, but it's crazy that that company may not be Alexa/Google.
Why is Mercedes abandoning the EV platform?
It'd not even that I care much about small deviations--I just don't trust that something really crazy won't happen if I put it on autopilot. If I walk into Walmart and grab a big armful of Bounty I'm fairly confident things will be fine.
That is true, hundred companies have no backup process in place :D
i think you are getting too carried away by that phrase. I dont have any moral qualms about "sucking up". i adressed this here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41061026

I presonally think "sucking up" is a better phrase because you "build relationships" with your peers and equals not with someone who can take food away from your family table just because they don't like you. What kind of relationship is that where you are always inferior.
In fact, there is a process to request complete removal of data, but it involves sending an email that will be reviewed by github staff: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...

On the other hand, once an API key or password has been published somewhere, you should rotate it anyway.
thx

the reminder and the memory finction (which can be used for task mamagement)

yeah, a forward / reply and ticket/thread feature is the next step which would enable all that you said is the next step.
which then enables all the complex behaviour of email interaction that you described.

but probably would need to be a paid feature as otherwise there is too mich potential for spam miss-use.

currently i do not plan any google calendar / other services integration. i want to mimik / support all email only workflow first.

also I think users that will do enable these kind of integrations can use one of the 1000 meeting / calendar management tools anyway.

i want to really mimic a virtual assistant that can only interact via email.
Hang on, please don’t misread what I wrote as implying that Crowdstrike had some “secret sauce.” They suck, so much. I have been beating that drum for the better part of a decade. (My former boss founded Carbon Black, and my background is in vuln RE and exploit dev/weaponization)

I agree - them being at the top of the market implies exactly nothing about whether their product is any good or has any special moat or differentiator.

All I am saying is to beat them, you’d need something new. “The same as Crowdstrike but we use 2-stage recoverable updates” is fine, but not enough of a compelling pitch to swap vendors en masse. Not even now.

And given that it’s a pretty commoditized space (to which I think you’d agree, at least for “classic” tools), it may not be worth beating if you don’t have anything new.
The test problem is emblematic of a type of synthetic query that could fail but of limited import in actual usage.

For instance you could ask it for a JavaScript function to count any letter in any word and pass it r and strawberry and it would be far more useful.

Having edge cases doesn't mean its not useful it is neither a free assastant nor a coder who doesn't expect a paycheck. At this stage it's a tool that you can build on.

To engage with the analogy. A propeller is very useful but it doesn't replace the boat or the Captain.
While we hear a lot about isotopes (nuclei with same proton count but different neutron count), we don't hear as much about nuclear isomers (nuclei with the same proton count and same neutron count, but somehow having different configurations).

1. Are nuclear isomers a thing?

2. Corollary: Could it be the case that some nuclei are stable and others are unstable, even though they have the same numbers of protons and neutrons?