skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A conference I helped organise had a lot of “AI” and “LLM” submissions. We had a blanket rule of ignoring all of them since they mostly sucked anyway.

Meanwhile another conference I am going to has several “machine learning” talks which could have been titled something more informative like “image analysis” or “regression modelling”.
What if it isn't an app, though. They're still taking a cut of it, even though they're not paying for anything related to apple. The only thing apple is doing is hosting the patreon app, not the thing being bought.

And if you think that it should be different when buying something that runs on an apple device, logically that should also apply when buying it from a computer.
You're offended if someone wrote "testicle" in source code? Are you also offended about "ankle" or "hair"? The puritanism...
How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)
Not everyone works extensively with GitHub, especially outside SV culture. I only do when I must.
I’m working on this now, I literally have another window open beside this browser window with the Multi-agent LLM logs outputs scrolling.

A few differences through - I’m working on Materials Science only. Mine has vision capabilities so it can read graphs in papers. Mine has agentic capabilities too, so can design and then execute simulations on Atomic Tessellator (my startup) by making API calls - this actual design and execution of simulations is what I aimed for at the start.

Long way to go, but there’s a set of heuristics that decide which experiments to attempt which means we only attempt ones more likely to work, lots of fine tuning prompts, self critique, modelling strategies and tactics as node graphs to avoid getting stuck in what I call procedural local minima, and loads more…

I started with MetaGPT framework but found it’s APIs too unstable so I settled on AutoGen, you don’t really “need” a framework, just be sensible about where your abstraction boundaries are, make them simple but composable, Dockerize and k8s for running, and I modified the binaries of a bunch of quantum chemistry software so that multi GPU arches are supported without re compilation (my hardware setup is heterogeneous)

Even if the LLMs can’t innovate in a “new sense” certainly having them reproduce work in simulations for me to inspect is very valuable - I have the ability to “fork” simulations like you can fork code so it’s easy to have the LLMs do a bunch of the work and then I just fork and experiment myself
100%, hacking is as much technical prowess as it is social engineering.
>You cannot change it and run it yourself, without hosting the source code.

Yes I can. It's only if I let other people use my changed code that they become entitled to a copy.

>You cannot combine an AGPL program with proprietary code and operate it, because you cannot release the proprietary code.

hmm, gotta say that sounds like the proprietary code is the thing infringing on my usage.
Let me state upfront I do understand the desire to make money from a channel, and much of the YT content I enjoy would not exist if that was not possible. But allow me to make a few hopefully nuanced remarks.

First of all it is not just the VPNs. Briliants, RSLs etc. that annoy, it is all sponsor reads. Even those channels that try to be creative with it, there's only so many times you can be funny about it, and then it turns into just another piece of formulaic slop.

But another reason why sponsor reads annoy me is that it breaks the youtube premium deal. I pay YT for an ad free experience. YT pays you more for my view than a 'free' watcher, and then you shove in ads anyway. Now I do get your argument that "it's not enough", but that does not change my end of the deal.

Idealy ad reads would be autoskipped for premium subscribers. If that meant premium being a bit more expensive, I would be fine with that personally.
If you do really have that much surplus power you should think about getting an EV.
> Then again, I do recall a famous post on here about australian politician and someone jusing using view source to verify a quantas ticket.

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...

No "view source" level hackery, but presumably what you're referring to.
These are all things not people
> unreasonably effective

I'm really tired of this PR speak when it comes to programming languages. Why / how is it unreasonably effective? More effective than what?
Naughties 2000-2009?
In Python, exceptions are effectively free, unlike JVM or .NET. Every for loop in Python relies on those exceptions.
I keep getting Intel ones with Molly Caudery, the pole vaulter who didn’t get over the bar once, explaining how AI helps her analyse her performance.

It’s clearly working well for her.
Exactly, it's the percentage that's just too damn high.
So what. In order to be a truly authentic goth you'd need to sack the Vatican.
Going out on a limb and say that’s not a majority opinion.
There ought to be an SNL Western sketch where robbers and cowboys act and interact like FOSS software developers revolving around a theme of "Agree with my social framework and do as I say, or I kill you!"
Fake? !! If you kick it, does not your toe swell? *

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

To address your point fairly, the Goths of the 80s had their music and their appearance whereas the Goths of Tik-Tok have their music (that music of the 80s) and mostly their appearance ...

ergo more of the same with less and less that's original.
Makes me wonder if they (points.com) have some key-word alerts on incoming emails. I know for sure that at some companies, this would have taken hours (to days!) to detect, if the tip had come through a regular info@ or contact@ inbox.
related video:
Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong SNL Sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQCyrXt4CM
What customer has paid the company for IT's services directly?

None?

It's a cost center in the same way the janitorial staff or legal are. The company won't be there without contracts or with overflowing trashcans, but it doesn't mean the company is making money off of janitorial services or drafting contracts.
With no universal healthcare, no free higher education, very little social safety net and a raft of other holes in society to fall through, America is the poster child of “F$$k everyone else, I got mine”

People have to behave this way just to survive.
we already have a wave of papers that no human has the capacity to verify
perl I'd agreed with up to somewhere 2010.

Python it is, these days, for maintainability. one shot quick regex things? sed. anything else python.

and I don't say "switch", btw, if you're proficient I there is no value and no need ditching it.

however if you're new to the CLI game, then I'd _not_ suggest perl but python instead.
Google Search doesn't, but Youtube does. Google Mail kinda does too.
Some of these examples are genuinely hilarious -- I honestly laughed aloud at the example file given for csplit (https://blog.robertelder.org/intro-to-csplit-command/), one command I don't routinely use but now shall certainly do so more...
I think you'll be disappointed in little many users care once it's not 2 buton click convinient. Truly sad state of affairs for modern society.
I love it if there were a sequel. I think it could be called “The Antimemetics Division Division”.

(Yes, I typed that correctly).

Would make for a very interesting read.
I'm being slack .. post 2000, the years with more noughts than the 1960|70|80|90s

Strictly speaking, you'd be correct.
It works in MariaDB.
I think the key word here is acausal? How can it coerce you in a way that you can’t just, be committed to not cooperating with, without first having a causal influence on you?

Acausal blackmail only works if one agent U predicts the likely future (or, otherwise not-yet-having-causal-influence) existence of another agent V, who would take actions so that if U’s actions aren’t in accordance with V’s preferences, then V’s actions will do harm to U(‘s interests) (eventually). But, this only works if U predicts the likely possible existence of V and V’s blackmail.

If V is having a causal influence of U, in order to do the blackmail, that’s just ordinary coercion. And, if U doesn’t anticipate the existence (and preferences) of V, then U won’t cooperate with any such attempts at acausal blackmail.

(… is “blackmail” really the right word? It isn’t like there’s a threat to reveal a secret, which I typically think of as central to the notion of blackmail.)
Maybe you'd also be interested in the Kindle Flare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBzQkWeQ5g
Well, that’s your call, of course. And when it comes to regular YT ads I don’t really blame you, “the algorithm” and the way monetisation works encourages us to set up aggressive mid-roll placements etc that must be incredibly annoying if one doesn’t pay for premium.

One of the nice things about sponsor segments is that they don’t involve YouTube, so the creator gets more benefit from the deal, but of course done badly (and I assume this must be the case with many of the generic irrelevant VPN ads for example) they will harm retention and thus limit reach.

Your “whole video” suggestion is really “advertise smarter” IMO, which I completely agree with. Personally I’ve never done a “reading a 30-second script about how great product X is” type segment, but I have done videos where I try out “product X” in some way that’s relevant to my audience. It’s more product placement than direct advertising, but I guess even that is unpalatable to some.
I never really bought the whole AI marketing spiels either, but I kinda understood the angle. They don't really know what they're selling, etc.

But what really shocked me, was when people on the client side are asking suppliers if they're not working on anything AI-based, since everyone is doing it. But those people did always give me the vibe you're talking about: "they don't know what to do and are desperate".

I guess my point is that maybe, at least some of the time, marketers aren't that stupid.
> (supposedly because they didn't like to type long words)

It’s possibly more to do with the imposition of having to send commands with a teleprinter running at 75 baud than a preference for terse commands. Terminals in the very early 70s weren’t much better. Limited to 72x20 characters and not hitting the heady speed of 9600 baud until much later in the 70’s.
Someone didn't bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords. Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and...
It's in the cgo docs: https://go.dev/src/cmd/cgo/doc.go#L880
Mormonism is not hard to change, it takes 5 minutes to install, all the hardware is supported, and I never had any problem with it. Plus I lost weight.
Show HN: The "An Application Worker Being the Main Actor" Paradigm
'Cloud VPS' is generally a lot more expensive than the cheapest old-school VPS providers— sometimes like 10x, similar to the numbers commenters elsewhere were discussing for dedicated servers vs. EC2.
Time to email exec team

https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/hilton/
The clear issue with your post is that doesn’t mention the several high profile cases in which X clearly was banning accounts and posts related to things like rival services or for criticizing musk. I’d post a summary here but there are lists you can Google.

Also you seem to be falling into the trap of “if you disagree with me then you must be biased”.
Apple Pay and in-app purchase are different.

Apple Pay is a percentage paid by the bank, not the merchant.

In-app purchase is for an app being used to buy digital goods and services consumed in-app. The agreement for publishing apps says that you will give Apple a cut, and upfront purchase price and in-app purchases are how they collect it.

You can’t use in-app purchases to say order dinner to be delivered.
The Kindle Flare [video]
Can someone please explain why this is a high quality welding job? In India, welders are not paid handsomely and are rarely rigorously trained but I'm unable to distinguish between a welding job done by them compared to these photos.
In the same way, you should stop mentioning mobile, apps, the web, and other past over hyped stuff. That doesn't mean you should stop investing in doing those things well. It just means that you need to focus on the value you deliver to your customers through doing these things well. Everybody has an app. Having an app is not a distinguishing factor any more. In the eighties and nineties, companies slapped the word digital on just about anything. Especially on things that were very much analog. That doesn't mean computers flopped; they are very useful. It's a meaningless distinction to add the digital to a brand.

AI is the same thing. It's a means to an end. You need to be talking about what you deliver with it. Not about how you deliver it.

In the case of CNN that hosts this article, a lot of their content probably is at this point passing through some LLMs at this point. They don't have to advertise that of course. If they do their job right, you barely notice this. Arguably, they should be doing a lot more with AI than they are doing already. The news business is fiercely competitive. Margins are small, and they have to produce more content with fewer people. LLMs can help them do that.
For clarity, these are the two protocols listed in the documents shared, purportedly from Resorts World, for stays during Def Con, stating how security would act in block vs. not-obviously-convention-attendee rooms.
fcking apple... has itself become the IBM of 1984. What a fall!
Taco Bell is not nobility. Nobility = warriors
Yep. I was banned from the Ruby community on Github for literally nothing misinterpretation without any chance of clarification. That's the sort of standard FOSS short-shrift, rude, humorless, victimhood-point counting, cliquey, infantile elitism that is the norm rather than the exception. Communities who let in the crybullies, dramatic lawyers, and narcissists to run things dissipate into shit. Forgiveness, tolerance, chill, and benefit-of-the-doubt are lost arts.
I revisit LLMs a couple of times a year to see if they have gotten any better and it's not a great experience, but I will admit they have gotten slightly better. Still lack and will lack ability to understand what they are processing.
Thanks for your insights - what tools do you use for tracking all this? I started used RB2B plugin in slack which identifies linkedin and email ids of website visitors. And I have my own tool Zipy.ai which captures user activity session recordings on the website. So we map both of them to identify users and see what they're doing. Planning to build an integration of both the tools soon. What is the tool stack that you use?
Study finds that 'Sent from my iPhone' can drastically improve your image
Maybe, maybe not. It's a tiered system - you get the deluge at the unfiltered bottom and a narrower selection the more prestigious and selective the outlets / conferences / journals are.

Problem is, of course, that selection criteria are in large parts proxies, not measures of quality. With AI, those proxies become tainted and then you get an explosion of effort.

If anyone has a good recommendation for scalable criteria to assess the quality of papers (beyond fame haha) I'm all ears.
It's not about including multiple web engines (like e.g. Sleipnir does) but multiple JS engines in a single web engine.
When I saw the title I thought it came out of one of those online bullshit generators...
Most newer GUI libraries entirely neglect accessibility and focus exclusively on rendering. Maybe accessibility is seen as too much effort for too little gain?

It's kind like most CLI programs nowadays don't come with a man page (nor an info page) and think that an autogenerated `--help` is enough. Except that nobody is excluded from using your application just because it doesn't come with proper documentation
Author here.

I’d maybe phrase it as “Spice is not optimal” instead of “Spice is not suited for”, but yes, that’s the conclusion for this benchmark.

I’m hoping/assuming that for a more typical case (more CPU work being done) Spice will scale better, but I haven’t done the benchmark yet.
My critique is having a largely inefficient middleman (EU) in distributing funds, and that it would likely be much more effective and transparent to have, say, business grants handled by the local governments. You did not address this at all, rather talked about some alternative EU-centric funding models.

The fact that you are not even considering that dismantling some of the inefficient central planning could help is rather concerning, but perhaps such is the way of life in Brussels. In that case I only wish you enjoy it while it lasts, since the EU is very rapidly becoming a largely obsolete player in the global economy.
Gitlab does too, IIRC.
From the little I know about ML in general, you always want to introduce randomness so you don't get stuck in a local minimum/maximum. So they're all risk seeking?
Heh, Safari may lack some APIs, but it’s irrelevant for 95% of apps including Patreon.

It’s not like Patreon would be unusable on iOS without an app.
If only there was some middle ground between a golden parachute and gulags.
The Challenges of Getting Neural Humans to Hug
Is anyone else unable to get past the cookie banner? Enabling the uBO 'cookie notice' option just hides the banner but can't scroll on the page.
And every politician sponsored by Carls Junior
It should be more lightweight, not being bloated with unnecessary functionalities.
Are you implying a significant portion of the population who stop paying things like their water bill when they find no hits within the iOS App Store?
I don't understand.

It is a sequel.

You don't remember the first book?
If it was a device I was actually making I'd put in really itchy micro-tendrils that pierce the skin, but in Dune there's plot reasons it has to be dramatic, and anyway "I survived the itchy box" is way less cool than "I survived the pain box".
They say fashion goes in cycles. That cycle is ~ 20 years to start and ~ 30!years to complete, the approximate time it takes for a generation of teenagers to raid their parents old shit. Which just so happen to hit the second hand market around the same time.

1984 -> 2004 -> 2024. Emo and goth cycles.

1964 -> 1984 -> 2004 -> 2024. First, second, third, and… fourth? waves of ska.
He just happens to prefer Taco shaped diagrams.
Long term vision should support both but in short term you can focus on your hypothetical ICP or beta customers. If you are focused on customers who prefer self hosting, that could be your MVP version but in the long term cloud may give you scale. Some upfront Pros and Cons of Self hosted vs Cloud.
Self Hosted ( As assuming stand alone or cloud self hosted)
- Pros: Cost to serve customer is less for you as you pass on infra cost to the customer.
- Cons : Maintenance and continuous support will cost you more as every deployment release and support will be specific to customer.

Cloud
- Pros : Easier to get started and scale if it is a self serve product.
- Cost : Infra cost is added to your cost to serve customer.
How would you know, unless you were in the room the whole time?
vi does have it. https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/hacks/vi.html
Yep, as a paying customer, I'm still waiting for a way to reach each project page from any other page. Literally the easiest thing to make in the world, but still in limbos...

As for Gitlab and Github, I left ridiculous Jabbascript abominations behind and never looked back; Github now overriding usual keys like PageUp/Down and Home/End SPA style and not being able to display most stuff without JS is the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
Livestream of Waymo Depot
The US continued to burn coal in powerplants just due to misaligned incentives, at a cost of tens of billions in energy costs alone (i.e. not counting pollution health effects or climate change), when gas and renewables were cheaper.

Similarly China, although building lots of solar/wind/batteries hasn't really had state of the art grid regulations for capacity planning and has local state governments sometimes working at cross purposes.

Both are in the process of shaking free of these historical mistakes, but your assumption of an instant reaction of perfectly responsive energy markets is mistaken.
> It’s technology in search of a problem

Great way of putting it. It’s the shiny new iThing that nobody asked for. Feels more like a poor excuse to fill their quota of releasing something as significant as the iPhone. Especially considering everything else is just a rehash of iPhone technology.
I just think we should have standardized naming conventions in order to allow clearer communication, while the CS field is moving exactly the opposite way because every company wants to have their own, unique nomenclature. This is ridiculous and only creates friction.

Imagine mathematicians having ten different names for "a curve", half of them considered offensive because why not.
Gitea is what you want.

Gitlab is for when you want to self-host a godawful corporate "CI/CD pipeline".
The README covers this. Its argument is persuasive. If your point is that the constant is badly tuned for theoretical 1000 core machines that don't exist, I'm not sure I care. A 100ns stall at most every 100us becoming more likely when you approach multiple hundreds of cores is hardly a disaster. In the context of the comment I replied to, the difference between 8 and 16 workers is literally zero, as the wakeups are spaced so the locks will never conflict.

Actually, if you did have a 32k core machine somehow with magical sufficiently-uniform memory for microthreading to be sensible for it, I think it's not even hard to extend the algorithm to work with that. Just put the workers on a 3D torus and only share orthogonally. It means you don't have perfect work sharing, but I'm also pretty sure it doesn't matter.
Homebrew primarily.
password????
Random note: Antifragility is called hormesis in living organisms, a concept that existed since the 1950s when the wrong dose - too low - of herbicides made the plants stronger.
> B) CPUs were slow. It's hard to fathom now but not only were the CPUs slow they were shared (in many cases) by multiple terminals. Simply processing extra letters, matching strings to known commands, goes up the longer the command.

DEC systems often had (at least) two options for serial communications, a cheaper PIO-based one and cards that could do DMA (yes, DMA for 300-9600 baud serial lines). The former would cause more CPU load. Yes, minicomputers where so slow that handling a 9600 baud serial line (~900 characters per second at most) wasn't negligible.
I often pay for Patreon to get uncensored videos. Youtube by itself already devalues videos in various ways and avenues like Patreon let creators provide what they actually want to provide, not just what YouTube allows them to.
So Patreon will need to become a reader app like Spotify/Kindle then that can do all this offline but you cannot subscribe or pay in the app.
They said "additional 90m"
This is way more common than you'd like, here's a scenario where it can happen even without outright incompetence:

Someone (or some AI) copies an example auth implementation from stackoverflow. Being sensible they realise they shouldn't put key material in source code either, so they leave "secret" in place, and pop a ticket in JIRA to update with the key material from the vault before it goes live.

Employee falls ill, everything gets re-assigned. Leaves before it gets actioned and that ticket slips through the cracks, with the person taking over their duties not realising how serious "J10243: Populate secret from key vault" actually is, perhaps assuming it's currently coming from a different configuration location.

There's little chance that the regular testing are discovering the flaw as the key gen based on "secret" goes live.