skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conditional on it still sounding like you mean Transformers rather than LLMs, we're pretty close to agreement.

But even Transformers really are not just preditive text.

IIRC the original Google usage, Attention is All You Need era, was for translation; and while I would indeed characterise the first few OpenAI/GPT models as "autocomplete on steroids", that changed with InstructGPT, which was the first time I saw them transforming requests into actions, in the form of creating a very simple web game.

> I'd just find it really weird if a predictive engine could do it 100% accurately, using only modern resources.

I currently think there is no such thing as "knowledge" in reality, that such a state is as unrealisable as counting to infinity, that all we can really have are beliefs of varying certainty; in this regard, 100% can never happen in any system including humans — but also, I wouldn't say an AI is "hallucinating" if the error rate was similar to that of a human.

Likewise, I find it really weird how a neural network with the complexity of a mid-sized rodent is able to transform prompts in the most used languages into mostly-correct source code in most programming languages — this is not a thing I would have expected, given the observable lack of employment opportunities for rodents* in software engineering departments.

I could be wrong about both, of course.

* other than furries, who are everywhere ;)
It was an emphatic way of criticizing the political motivations behind Musk's pushes into social media and AI, not a joke.

Either way, the downvoting and flagging were almost instant, which I suspect might be the reason why this comment section is looking atypically pro-Musk overall.
I think there has to be some investments into the DX, I mean look at Ruby, it's lacking so much compared to other languages. Basic autocomplete is barely working, it's probably because the nature of Ruby but it still adds friction to the workspace.
Repos:

Snapshot - Capture a snapshot (or subset) of your Postgres database whilst transforming the data ( Link: https://github.com/snaplet/snapshot )

Copycat - Generate deterministic fake values (e.g to anonymize sensitive data) ( Link: https://github.com/snaplet/copycat )

Seed - Automatically seed your database with production-like dummy data based on your schema for local development and testing ( Link: https://github.com/snaplet/seed )
Technology disappears when it becomes ubiquitous. It never actually becomes less, because people don't want less. I can't see for example people wanting there to be fewer lightbulbs, or even refrigerators (mainly for those in warm areas). Everybody wants safe lighting and their food unspoiled after a day (once exposed to these things), and likely won't consider the means to be "tech". And it only improves over time. AI is just another tech that's in the early stage but also on it's way to ubiquity.
That's a good idea. Another idea I've had is that the state could become an investor in that company.

In shark tank if you want money you usually sell a stake in your company.

If a company needs a bailout. The executives would lose their stocks and give them to the state in exchange for bailout money.

If the company then starts to be successful again later the state gets money back by having a portion of the company.
The same can be said for folks using Clouflare or Google DNS.
Pretty funny to read the comments from xAI's initial announcement now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36696473
I don’t see why the distance between athletes has anything to do with it; they record at a fixed speed which presumably is the estimated speed of the winner crossing the line. So it’s known in advance, and the stretch factor if they get that speed exactly right is 1 anyway.

And of course when I say ‘speed’, I mean [width of strip] / [time between the capture of each strip].
You are free to do so, but your claim won't work for most of my favorite creators and streamers. Thank you.
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Yeah, especially the solopreneurs tend to ignore marketing.
It's also not clear how you would handle keys that are held down. Or rather, how you would distinguish between keydown and keyup events. But perhaps with your tensioned wire you could use a pick on the key (such as in a harpsichord) which has a different texture on each side, affecting the timbre but not the pitch.
Fun tool :) I had a good laugh
Thanks for the extra references! I'll make sure to bookmark those and take a closer look later.

Yeah, MLC already losing data after 3 months doesn't really surprise me that much. If you play with a raw MLC chip and turn off the ECC engine, the amount of bit flips you get from reading on some chips isn't even funny anymore. With one chip I tried, even with ECC, I managed to induce persistent bit flips fairly quickly just by reading the same physical page over-and-over. For extra fun: those bit flips can happen in another page that you didn't touch, because the bits are paired :-)

What actually still does surprise me sometimes, is how reliable those things can work after all, if you just pile enough software abstraction and management on top.
I've lead myself to believe that long responses are actually beneficial for the quality of the responses, as processing and producing tokens are the only time when LLMs get to "think".

In particular, requesting an analysis of the problem first before jumping to conclusions can be more effective than just asking for the final answer directly.

However, this analysis phase, or similar one, could just be done hidden in the background, but I don't think any are doing that yet. From the user point of view that would be just waiting, and from API point of view those tokens would also cost. Might just as well entertain the user with the text it processes in the meanwhile.
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> how is it any more secure than https?

Using a VPN doesn't expose the domain names you're viewing (via SNI) or the IP addresses you're connecting to to your ISP. It also (therefore) doesn't expose to the ISP the volume of traffic you're sending to a particular site, when you connect to it, or how long you stay there.

Whether your ISP is part of the threat model you're interested in mitigating is up to you personally, but this is how, depending on that model, a VPN can be more secure than HTTPS.
In today’s networked world, securing DNS traffic is crucial. DNS, being one of the core protocols of the internet, is often targeted by attackers for DDoS and DoS attacks. Monitoring DNS traffic for unusually large packets can help in detecting these attacks early. This article walks you through creating a Python-based tool using pyshark and colorama to monitor DNS traffic and alert you to potential threats.
Most of what people use personal VPNs for is to break some rules, sometimes the law. Circumventing geofencing or content blocking is most likely against some terms of service. VPN services can't really advertise for this, so they talk about evil hackers.
Similar thing with Nike commercial starring Ronaldinho bouncing the ball from the crossbar: https://youtu.be/qRWnDBN5MgQ?si=mdEYS9X9FwkwOkmj&t=90

To his credit, preparing for the shooting Ronaldinho allegedly managed to do that twice in a row for real.
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I've been in the industry for very long. Learned through experimenting and failing.
Absolutely horrible!

I teach, but only a few days per week, and definitely not the same lecture for three different classes.

I love it! It's very interactive, lots of questions, opportunity for me to check if students understand and work out solutions to problems together. A lot of humour and fun as well.

In terms of inappropriate behaviour I've found out that strict discipline, equal treatment and the backing of the school solves all problems. The ones who cannot take the discipline quit fairly early.

I of course realize that it is not possible to compare between countries and levels of education, but it does sound to me that the US system is quite broken. =(
My first users came from sharing good content on platforms and hinting users about my product.
Really cool project! I'm doing something similar at a very small scale for my personal project using TypeChat with Zod (https://github.com/microsoft/Typechat) and Unstructured (https://unstructured.io/)
Online dating losing its spark
Many people who claim to be "free speech absolutists" often seem unaware of their own hypocrisy.
Yep, that says not to include generated files in VCS.

I've also seen the bison and flex output included in VCS, and the same guidelines apply.
Iterators in Go 1.23
For the benefit of non-US users, what is a "pumpkin spice joke" please?
The DOJ suit against Apple was such a bizarre disappointment. Didn't address any of the big problems. Focused on minor stuff no one cares about (like "everything apps", or allowing third-party apps to take over SMS handling)
I’d like to see an explanation of how that is even possible to get that level of targeting without knowing the connection details of either Elon or Trump. The rest of the attack surface is surely shared infrastructure with the rest of the website.

So no I think it was just a straight up technical failure on their end.
> Some parts you ignored: "the SPLC's classification and listings of hate groups (organizations that "attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics") and anti-government extremists are widely relied upon by academic and media sources"
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> Why would academia rely on them, given that the prime currency in academia is intellectual honesty?

This is outright wrong. That is the ideal of academia, yes. The practice of academia is rather different: They're very politically partisan, and especially in the humanities (where the SPLC's input is most relevant) academia is very prone to doing things like citing shoddier studies that cater to the academics' own (liberal-left) biases and ignoring ideologically inconvenient ones:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201906...

Academics are not selected for bravery, they're selected for conformity.

Hell, the whole peer review and working off of grant money things mean you have to please your (left-lib or Marxian) colleagues to get the money to do research at all, and then to get your results incorporated into the wider body of work.
Video compression may only cause issues at the edges due to chroma subsampling, in which case bleeding chroma to transparent pixels would help. All other cases would be errors in the pipeline, such as incorrect gamma handling, wrong supersampling implementation, or mixing up whether content is premultiplied or not.

Also premultiplication is just a way to cache the multiplication operation:

// using normal image
// note that everything after the plus depends entirely on the image
out = current * (1-img.a) + vec4(img.r*img.a, img.g*img.a, img.b*img.a, img.a)
// using premultiplied image
out = current * (1-img.a) + img

Which might make sense if you're drawing same bitmap very many times.
> The majority of people, however, are extremely responsive to advertising & marketing, or it would not exist.

This doesn't follow. Plenty of things are not effective for what they're claimed to do but still exist, have active communities of supporters, make lots of money for their practitioners, are a large part of popular culture, etc etc.
I replaced my first Garmin (640M) at roughly 5 years old due to physical damage (it got mangled badly enough that the part of the case that holds the band on broke off), and it was still getting roughly the same battery life as it did when it was new.
Big enough entities, whether commercial or political or religious. From Apple via Disney, past the DNC and Microsoft towards the Vatican, 'might makes right' is the prevailing attitude. It takes a lot of 'customers' to revolt against such behemoths so they feel safe in the (mostly correct) assumption such a revolt will not get off the ground.
Great, so professional bobybuilders who are no fat all muscles shouldn't start a diet on ozempic...
For example the entire atomic composition of the stars in the observable universe depends exquisitely on the expansion parameters at the big bang. The ratios can be traced back through the expansion to the quark-gluon soup stage. Changing the expansion rates changes the delicate balance between the particles that form at that stage, and when the various particle fractions "freeze out" during expansion when the temperature cools (btw we're talking about seconds from the big bang here :) which can be subsequently observed in stars all over the universe by spectroscopy. It's pretty beautiful.

There are so many intricate dependencies between these pathways that it's pretty unrealistic to postulate anything else than a big bang + cooldown process IMHO.
Note that that’s only when the drives have hit their rated program/erase cycles, meaning completely worn out but still functioning. Does not apply to drives with lots of life left in them, which is the vast majority of consumer drives.

From the linked pdf:

>In MLC and SLC, this can be as low as 3 months and best case can be more than 10
years. The retention is highly dependent on temperature and workload.

Interestingly, while heat can increase the rate of information loss (when drive is worn out), it can also decrease wear on the drive by making writes easier and less destructive to flash cells. The controller is still going to hate heat though.
Absolutely nothing at all. I just cannot make a judgement without seeing what was actually said.
Great article! Definitely agree that engagement raises like crazy when giving something students can do during the lecture.

In my case, it was a Data Science intro course, so having the theory together with Python Notebooks that I shared beforehand was a good way to get them interested throughout the full 3h of each class. As you said, when technical problems arise it's hard to keep an eye everywhere and patch all holes, so creating smaller groups/teams on that case helps, because even if not everyone can play with the code directly, they can follow things closer.

Main point as you said is that a teaching experience is a huge learning experience.
Is there really such thing as a pre-trained model when it comes to Gaussian splatting?

I'm not familiar at all with the topic (nor have I read this particular paper) but I remember that the original 3DGS paper took pride in the fact that this was not “IA” or “deep learning”. There's still a gradient descent process to get the Gaussian splats from the data, but as I understood it, there is no “training on a large dataset then inference”, building the GS from your data is the “training phase” and then rendering it is the equivalent of inference.

Maybe I understood it all wrong though, or maybe new variants of Gaussian splatting use a deep learning network in addition to what was done in the original work, so I'll be happy to be corrected/clarified by someone with actual knowledge here.
>We need an alt-right version of AI like we need a pumpkin spice sushiccino. No thanks but no thanks.

darn muskovites downvoting deeply thought provoking, critical comments
I've heard of this, but there seems to be a lack of practical information. If this is true, then:

* Shouldn't SD cards have an expiration date? What if you buy a card that's been sitting on the shelf for a year?

* What is the proper maintenance procedure? Like should I let it sit in the reader for an a minute, 15 minutes, an hour for the controller do its magic?

* Are the translation tables better protected? Does the card return to full working order when reformatted?

* Are there testing tools for this? I remember CDs had tools that could tell you how much error correction the drive had to do.
Here is a real-world comparison for 3 startups on Supabase, showing how our Auth pricing compares to Firebase:

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https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html
"However, in many cases you can distribute the GPL-covered software alongside your proprietary system. To do this validly, you must make sure that the free and nonfree programs communicate at arms length, that they are not combined in a way that would make them effectively a single program."

I think you can interact with GPL/AGPL and retain your code propietary by:

- Don't modify the AGPL program.

- Run separatly, using docker container, vm etc

- Interact with CLI, REST API, filesystem, database etc

- Keep the AGPL interaction only to your program, non public consumption, minimum the surface of distirbution the code.

- Keep your code non directly interact, such as avoid use node npm dependencies directly, avoid library linking, use api gateway, use thirdparty module.
You can’t get a Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) if you aren’t in a hospital. I’m guessing a patient is much more acclimated to the biome of their own home than to whatever bugs are floating around and deposited by health care providers in a hospital setting where hundreds of other patients are being treated for a variety of very serious diseases (else they wouldn’t be in a hospital).
SSH by default isn't, but admins can set up their own list of allowed ciphers in their config file. Github, for example, has banned ssh_dss - I think they still support ECDSA, but they only mention Curve25519 and RSA (with caveats) on their SSH keys page.
Some alternatives include merchandise, sponsorships (Patreon etc), tipping, and organic engagement / sharing so that more people can find them and give them money.
Your pattern would not work for me, and a few other the other commenters on this thread, because we value sleep tracking.

I had an Android Wear watch years ago (2016?) that started with 36hr battery life and did great sleep tracking and fitness tracking. Between updates and battery degradation, after a year or so, it would barely make it 18 hours. Then I had to start charging overnight so it would be charged enough for my 5am runs, and so I lost the sleep tracking feature.
Now also in English: https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-08-00046-EN.html
glad you enjoyed it :) AI is unexpectedly savage
Despite also having no desire to have an "AI" phone, this feature is incredibly useful; however hard I try to avoid it, there are organisations who will insist that they contact me by telephone.
Luckily it's available on older devices so I can keep my 6a going for another year.
"The most important difference is that Serena OS is far closer to the POSIX standard in terms of functionality and behavior than the original Amiga OS was. This is most noticeable (from the viewpoint of an app developer) in the sense that Serena OS does full resource tracking. This means that the OS automatically reclaims resources such as memory when an application terminates."

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-08-00046-EN.html
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This is a terrible take, and you should have at least included the "forced" dub disclaimer from your comment below. Without at least one of sub/dub, foreign (relative to your current location!) language content basically doesn't get consumed at all except by a very small minority of people who are very keen on the content anyway - or are speakers of the language anyway.

Now, as veterans of anime forum wars will know, subtitling is nearly always better than dubbing, and I hope this tech is capable of that as well. Most media systems let you put a whole load of subtitle tracks on and then pick one.

There's far, far too much content out there for more than a fraction of it to be ever professionally translated. While we should expect human translation review and a spot of localization for officially released works, most of the internet is just free content being given away for very little return. And that's where automatic translation is going to shine: release the non-English meme champions! Let us have a look in Bilibili!
This website is called hacker news. I think you are missing the point of this post.
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It isn't a permanent solution, it's purely designed to drop weight. You have to do the mental and physical work to be able to maintain which is a different mindset.
The crust is about 40km thick. The deepest anyone has ever dug is ~12km[0]. It is quite weird to think we live on this crust which has a gigantic mass inside that we can't get to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
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I dislike the bundling of hardware and software alltogether.

In the world of laptops, we have a wonderful situation. I can select the hardware that I like, then wipe the whole disk and install the software I like. Which in my case is a Linux distribution and then exactly the applications I prefer.

I wish the world of phones was like that.
As a distance runner myself, this is accurate. I've known a few people who are hesitant to switch from Apple (or really any "smart watch"), but when they do, it's the same comment "Oh wow I didn't know these were so good!"

A common complaint I hear is "yeah but there's no apps! how do I add extra functionality to my watch?" .. they just don't believe you when you say "it's already there"

Smart watches are general purpose devices, more sandboxes than anything else.. where as Fitness/Sports Watches (Garmin/Coros/Suunto/etc) already have everything you need for Fitness/Sports, and things you didn't know existed. What's happened is that it's trivially easy for Fitness watches to add some smart offerings (Calls/Texts/Notifications) and also some apps...then it is for Apple/Google/Samsung to add fitness things.

Sure Apple and also Google did add in some training load/status/etc stuff.. which is great cool... but it's also still a device that I have to charge daily, instead of monthly. And then, when theres a fitness metric or long term stat I want to see, i have to give some third party developer my health data to do it.

An example of that last thing. I have a friend who's a triathlete, I'm going to travel to run a Half Marathon with him, he uses an Apple Watch SE, I'm on a Garmin Fenix 7x.

He's jealous of all the long term stats I have, like all the training load over time, adaptive workouts, etc etc. He's on that cusp of ditching a smart watch and getting a dedicated fitness watch. When I see him, and he sees what I can do on my watch.. he's gonna love it.
The picture already answers this question. If the earth was a bowling ball the blue sphere would be much bigger than a single drop, maybe slightly bigger than a popping boba, the size of a small grape?
You seem like the sort of person who'd know.

Are there tools available to a normal person to take a look at this stuff? Eg, is there some way I can evaluate a not yet failing SD card? CDs had tools to check for C1 and C2 errors, is there a way to do the same with a SD card or SSD?
Can T&C really exclude liability in case of a death? (Unless the deceased was accused of negligence or similar.) And would an arbitration clause be binding on the executors of a will, considering the person who accepted the terms is no longer alive?