skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it makes you feel better, my college graduation was the only one where my school decided to have an outdoor ceremony...in May in the deep south.

Needless to say, wearing a black gown over dress cloths is not great when its 95F and humid out. For our families of all ages, sitting in the football stadium for hours in the middle of the day was even worse. Multiple people were taken to the hospital for heat stroke.

Graduation was a decent excuse for my uncles and brother to come into town for a visit, but I would have happily celebrated graduation at a Mexican restaurant with air conditioning and a margarita without the big ceremony.
The German government caused Let's Encrypt to issue fraudulent certificates to xmpp.ru and jabber.ru by physically intercepting the server's network connection. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37961166
IBM 7090 Mainframe Computer in auction by Christies
that’s the worse comparison someone could think of. if tailwind is a van, CSS is a bus and your family has 40 people.
You pay for the pipe to your house (which in turn pays for the backbone). However the content is mostly things you don't pay for.
It's a good point, I never really thought about it. In my case I'm reluctant to use my ISP servers because my country tries to practise censorship via DNS, but I also didn't really feel like using something like Google. I will do some research and experimentation with upstream caches like Quad-9 and Cloudflare to see what it's like.
> These kinds of things are deals negotiated at the highest level of the companies involved

To me it just seems a more or less natural outcome of the major structural flaws in the whole business model. I’m not sure you need an explicit conspiracy for credit agencies to begin behaving in such a way that maximizes their revenue, it was mostly just a natural outcome of competition and extremely useless and inefficient regulation. If anyone deserves to go to prison it’s the people who were supposed to be regulating the banking industry.

Obviously the Federal government had zero interest in doing that but if they only went after the bankers it would have quickly become obvious that they are not the only ones to blame.
Something similar is happening in academic papers. With different dialects in different fields.
If you want to use proprietary software, yeah, you should use Windows. It's built for that. For better or worse, Linux really isn't.

Edit: Or use Windows binaries with your distro-provided Wine. Win32 is the only stable user-level Linux API.
Agreed. Using a metaphor of hiking a mountain generally works for me. Most steps you can make from any given spot are generally not that impactful. And sometimes you do have to make a lot of neutral steps in order to get on a path that will take you farther. Sometimes, you even have to backtrack. And all choices are highly dependent on where you, specifically, are.
Yeah just like this here, except this guy will travel 3200km 3 times a week!
Introducing The Pigweed SDK
> If you were on Jupiter measuring Voyager’s speed before and after it interacted with Jupiter, you wouldn’t measure a net effect.

Again that's not something I'm claiming.
> async/await is kind of viral

Exactly part of my concern. Hypothetically we've got 2 competing viruses now.
Fairly sure the linters would catch that (unless you referenced both of them in later code).
I could see that too, but in most f2f interactions, you also start with a greeting. What does the greeting accomplish? Nothing substantial, but it probably has some broader cultural value akin to establishing goodwill or the like.
> It was free before the insane amount of advertising.

It was free to users, but the operators were paying hosting fees. Maybe the did that out of love or charity or simply because nobody knew how to make money with it. First gen ads came from companies buying banners directly with the host based on user metrics which ultimately landed with GoogAnals installed every where. Hosts used that to offset their out of pocket expenses. But the content was still the content. The wheels started wobbling when blogs started chasing topics for the metrics. The wheels came completely off the bus when socials introduced algos tweaked to feed your addictions.

It was never free. The form of payment has moved to unsuspecting users' data instead of money out of pocket.
In the most basic sense - they should be concerned about malicious code because they're busy advertising and distributing those apps for a cut of the profit.

If Google were to say "No more checking for vulnerabilities in FDroid... (or insert other)" I would agree with your take - that seems like common sense. Not their store, not their problem. Same for side-loaded apps.

But that's not what's happening. They're busy selling those malicious/vulnerable apps for a cut of the profit.

Now - Google can be a responsible party here without having this program (there are plenty of valid discussions around whether this was really an effective way to combat malware on their store) - but to recap...

The store doesn't get to absolve themselves of responsibility for the things it's selling.

"It's the store's responsibility not to sell me malicious/defective products". If they can't do that... maybe they shouldn't be allowed to operate that store anymore.
Show HN: Create RAG-powered pages to get answers from your docs– without coding
Hey folks!

I wanted to share one of the latest projects I worked on, called Vectara Portal.

It's an application that allows users of our platform (https://vectara.com/) to create shareable pages that let you and other users (privately, if you wish) chat with, search through, or get answers from your documents.

This began as a side project resulting from a question over lunch: "How do we put the power of our platform into the hands of users, without requiring them to code?" One hackathon weekend later, plus a few more days' worth of improvements, Portal was born.

It's open-source too! Feel free to check out the repo at: https://github.com/vectara/portal
That's the rub. You do pay for it. By the intention and definition of the business, advertisement eventually extracts money from you. It wouldn't be profitable otherwise. The fact that it happens more subtly and enables them to extract money from you in ways that you don't notice doesn't change the fact that it's still paid for.

An advertisement funded Internet is still you paying for your content, it's just built so that you don't feel like you're paying for it. Advertisement is not free money, and it can not be free money. It's for-profit.

So with advertisement, you're still paying for the Internet. We don't have a free Internet. We have an Internet built around businesses that make their entire business around psychological manipulation and extracting money from people without being noticed. The fact that people still push the myth that advertisement enables a free Internet like ad companies are somehow a public service shows how good they are at manipulation.
Last year MS went to discretionary time off, which basically is unlimited(potential) vacation days, based on negotiations with your manager.
Personal blogs. Smaller online retailers. Not a web site, but Usenet and mailing lists.
I’ve fond memories of the Flip Camera. I got mine as a swag/gift from Adobe. Many of my first daughter’s activities were captured on this camera. It was handy, easy to use, and was around (thought quality was not the best) more than the Camcorder.
The only way this could be an issue is if it's entirely relying on security through obscurity.
I suspect that Kafka paid off for linkedin long before the authors left to start a Kafka company.

RabbitMQ et al were so hard to scale/operate at volume.
As you say, these are just ancedotes. There have been studies though.

Even if you subjectively "feel" that spontaneous creativity is increased, these chats don't make companies more profitable. So I'm guessing that this "creativity" doesn't have much actual value, and forced in person work certainly has a high cost to the employee and society.

Hard to justify the cost/benefit.
With respect, it's not particularly relevant how you use "inherent". It's a standard usage. Rather than asking the whole rest of the world to change, you should probably learn the definition.
> shouldn't your willingness to pay/not pay be a function of your experience and the value the product delivers you, rather than an implementation detail such as fine tuning vs prompt engineering?

bullshitting/lying isn’t implementation detail, it’s a mindset and I understand people who actively try to avoid it. Prompts and rag don’t make it a new powerful model that is superior to say ChatGPT
Isn't the proof just claiming that you can't divide an integet infinitely many times by 2, and still expect it to be an integer?
> it is now clear that the vast majority of people (including tech people) just don't give a fuck.

This is a fallacy. Sounds like you're invoking "revealed preference."

I care strongly that decentralized tech like Lemmy exists... but Lemmy is a dumpster fire project badly managed, so I've given up on using it.
Backblaze Network Stats: Ingress Trends
Biofuel-fueled jets aren't carbon neutral.

The building of the jets, the material extraction, the maintenance, the work around growing the fuels, the processing, the transportation, most of that is not fully sustainable.

It's only "less bad" for the climate crisis, not better. Definitely not perfect.
I don't know that Israel is losing everywhere else. A lot depends on what will happen in the next year, its still possible for Israel to turn this around and create a better reality both for itself and for Gazans.
Israel took 2 major hits - one was the terrible loss of lives and the hostages situation on October 7th which traumatized and will continue to traumatize Israelis for many years to come.
The other is the diplomatic hit and Israel's image in the West which now seems to have stabilized in the current low its at.
Both of these are not terminal hits, depending a lot on what Israel chooses to do next and what will transpire.
Israel never had great alternatives after October 7th happened, it could have tried fighting more surgically perhaps but would have paid with this war lasting much longer and many more soldiers dying. Hamas is so entrenched above and under the ground in Gaza this doesn't really seem feasible. Or, Israel could have avoided going to war with Hamas altogether and tried to release the hostages with a deal by giving in to all of Hamas demands (after suffering a huge massacre). This is obviously a bad choice and would have only postponed this war a few months or years ahead since Hamas is bent on bringing Israel down by force. I can't imagine any other country on earth taking that option - should the U.S have negotiated with al qaeda after September 11th?

So long story short this is a complete mess but its very early to declare winners and losers.
RunReveal Enrichments because every log needs a little more context
Open comments, grep 'nazi', sigh, close tab.
I don't disagree substantively, but I do think there are uniquely modern aspects to the question of "am I enabling bad behavior right now?". It's not just ethics, it's education.

Consider for instance the remote support features that Intel is so keen on advertising these days. Microcode level remote access is a small help for IT departments and a huge help for authoritarian regimes looking to spy on their people. But I don't think that most people are prepared to consider what they're enabling by paying Intel to continue to grow into a telescreen vendor.

Sure, we shouldn't blame the computer's soul for bad behavior. But if it's being used as a weapon, it's not helpful to remove the computer from the conversation and say "well it's actually bad people." Mitigating bad behavior via computer means hacking that computer, and that starts with blaming it for the bad behavior to some degree.
Maximum packet size is already configurable on most NICs. 9000 is a typical non-default limit. If you increase the limit, you must do so on all devices on the network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame
Same. It's been over 2 decades. I was practically a different person.
Baseless, meet cookie jar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727293
Sure. And the laws could change in any given European country and remove certain protections. Just because a possibility is there does not mean there is any real likelihood of that possibility happening.
A model trained on BF16 that within the range of FP16 have effective bit rate of 13-bit at max (e5m7). Reasonable quantization (at 8-bit) gets you weight error (i.e. L2 distance on weights) down to < 1e-3, and full diffusion run (30 steps) have result with L2 distance (comparing to unquantized) < 5e-2.

I think there is a line somewhere between 4-bit to 8-bit that will hurt performance (for both diffusion models and LLM). But I doubt the line is between 8-bit to 13-bit.

(Another case in point: you can use generic lossless compression to get model weights from 13bit down to 11bit by just zip exponent and mantissa separately, that suggests the effective bit rate is lower than 13bit on full-precision model).
If I need to contact sales to see pricing information, it’s an immediate pass for me.
You can set up secure boot on NixOS with lanzaboote: https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote
Abandon your beta and ship to GA faster
I had the same question, it seems silly to build a collection of copyrighted content and apply your own copyright to it.

I guess the argument is the same one all the AI people are relying on: I built this collection of fair use material and I am applying my copyright to the product of my work. I wouldn't want to argue that one in court.
> I think the celebrations are more for the parents, really.

This is important, and not to be brushed off.

During my PhD, my program had what’s called a “white coat ceremony”. This is typically a medical school ceremony, but my grad program does it after the second year of study to recognize the transition from being a graduate “student” to a graduate “research assistant”.

I was a very isolated and focused student, spending the majority of my waking time in lab from day one of school. By the end of year two, I already viewed myself as being fully immersed in research. So, the ceremony felt trivial to me, and I didn’t plan to attend.

However, at the last minute, my advisor told me he wanted me to attend despite my protest.

Due to the last minute change, I didn’t invite my parents to the ceremony, as they lived several hours away and I didn’t want them to feel obligated to travel on short notice.

As the ceremony started, I immediately realized that it was just as much for the parents as it was for the students. So many parents were there, with clear pride at their children’s growth and success (even though most had no clue what their kids were even studying).

I immediately and deeply regretted not telling my parents about the ceremony. I realized I had made a unilateral decision for them, and that my behavior was very self-oriented and inconsiderate of their desire to see me succeed.

They were disappointed when I told them about it, and I apologized for not inviting them and acknowledged that it was a selfish thing. They’re chill people and didn’t make a fuss over it, but it was a closed door that could never be reopened.

Two years later when I defended my dissertation, that was the moment I wanted my parents to be present, and of course they were. We had a blast celebrating afterwards, so all’s well that ends well.

I strongly believe “maturation” happens in discrete moments, and the start of that white coat ceremony was one of those moments for me. I grew up a lot that day.
He does have a point though. Easily "recordable" communication is bad for office politics.

Remember that old advice to email the boss with a summary of what he told you to do verbally - asking for confirmation that you understood it right as a cover - to cover your ass?
you != the rest of the world. When google has ~90% of the search market that makes it a monopoly.
"Complainants and their critiques can be safely discarded because they need to git gud."

She states in the first three minutes of the video linked above that she was excelling academically. How bizarre to observe a lack of research in a thread complaining about how the academy has drifted from the conduct of pure research. Three minutes. One hundred twenty seconds. That's all it would have taken.
not sure what your point is. let's assume it's true. That still means the ads are paying for YouTube to host the videos. Without that those channels would have to pay for hosting themselves and could not afford to make the content.

Further, most of them would have never even tried if it wasn't free to start

Then, I don't buy your premise. Most of the channels I watch insert ads directly for Brilliant, NordVPN, etc... which means even without YouTube's ads they're still ad driven
No hands left.
Part of this has a decent reason: If fuel is much cheaper in e.g. Dubai, airlines will chock their planes full of fuel instead of the optimised amount, leading to overburning of fuel due to excessive transportation of it.

And the opposite, they will skimp on fuel going inbound to there. Of course fuel qty is the captain's decision, however a lot of airlines already pressure those. As one example Ryanair had a "list of shame" of captains bringing too much safety fuel in their eyes.
Great post. If the Backblaze folks come across this thread, I would love to hear how this information drives peering/IX decisioning and other network interconnect strategy.
They did a clever thing, they used Discord and their servers as CDN

No hosting of the generated pictures, just send them via discord message and forget them. No S3 or big cloud lambda functions.

Easy to start to make a minimal working prototype.
Conjecture: consciousness is the inflection upon the analog potential of existential being (neural substrate). It is the very act of perturbing the quantum disposition as an echo chamber for our biological machinery. With many levels of specialization in between that and superficial awareness.

Consciousness is the echo of the quantum sieve. It is possible that universal consciousness (over the billions of years of quantum dispositioning) emerged life rather than the other way around.
I've written on this matter before[1]. Code being appreciated as an artform would, to my mind, benefit greatly both the worlds of fine art and programming.

[1]: https://istigkeit.xyz/static/writing/essays/hello_artworld.p...
Ha! At least OP is honest.
Landlines still exist.
Of course.

The discussion regarding Goroutines is to highlight that, despite prevalent claims of otherwise, they are not doing something unique and for developers who are used to languages with powerful concurrency primitives look like an incomplete task abstraction. "Green Threads" really is an implementation detail, in many ways orthogonal to pros/cons of implicit and explicit suspend points.

I hope your opinion about C#'s task system has improved since the last time[0], given what Gleam (and, in many ways, Elixir) does looks practically identical :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427935
That assumes that every fraction has a unique simplest form. The first section of the article makes no such claims about the existence of a simplest form of fraction. The proof uses just algebraic manipulation, the fact that a sequence of strictly decreasing positive integers is finite in length, and the definition of a rational number (there exist integers p, q (q != 0) such that the number can be expressed as p/q).
I failed to account for HN parsing asterisks to make text italic, eating up the leading and trailing one I believe.
There's no such thing as 'developer ROI'
Active Directory is not based on X.500 and LDAP was directly created as an alternative to the DAP standard that is part of X.500.

While X.500 is a precursor to both of these things, and influenced both of these things, and both of these things interoperated with X.500, they are not X.500. X.500 is for all intents and purposes pretty much dead in 2024, although I did deploy an X.500 based directory service in 2012 and it's probably still alive and running.
hard disagree. the majority of the channels I love the most have become full time jobs.
> it is going to be very difficult to get your browser back into its prior 'ready to use' startup, state

Creating a backup before making any changes would solve that.
On the other hand, I just don't see any "artistic" part in software engineering, but again, it boils down to what exact definition you give to the art word.

To me, code has none of the characteristics of true art.

I can applaud the craftsmanship, creativity or originality, but at the end of the day it just does not generate strong emotions nor communicate political, spiritual or philosophical ideas, nor it generates any sense of beauty at all.

If you stretch it literally anything can be art, but I really feel like what we're looking for in general is craftsmanship, not really artistry.
Fine-Tuning OpenAI's Small Language Model
I have seen some comments on the web as to why someone would fine-tuning the new Small Language Model from OpenAI.

I guess the biggest reason for someone to do this is if their organisation is already a corporate type user of OpenAI.

But, I must say fine-tuning is really easy and the results are really encouraging. Especially if an organisation have some standard contextual data (which does not change much) imbedded within the model.
Most of my favorite channels make more money from one or more of:

1. Premium subscribers

2. Direct support on Patreon

3. Direct video sponsorship (a form of advertising, but wholly tolerable IMO)

4. Direct support by joining Nebula, which has no ads
I bought the lifetime and have not regretted it, definitely my favorite lifting app!

(not a sockpuppet, not paid to post this, just a fan)
Personalized advertising has one key property that is very useful to this generation of Internet companies: it moves the ad dollars away from websites selling ads (aka "publishers") and to the networks (Google/Facebook).

If you're, say, the NYT, you can sell ads, of course. But anyone who wants to buy ads on NYT can instead buy ads on other websites that only target NYT readers. Which are much cheaper.

This is why news organizations all went paywall a decade ago. When you had to buy ads on a website to advertise to that website's audience, news was rolling in money. That's why they gave everything away for free, it'd be really dumb not to. But then Google and Facebook pirated[0] their audience, meaning all that free website traffic from the search engines is completely meaningless and provides no revenue.

[0] Piracy as in "stole our lunch money", not piracy as in copyright infringement. We're making a moral judgment, not a legal one.
Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military Contracts
Interview with DHH (Creator of Rails)
Shifting E2E Testing Left at Uber
that is wrong, there are communication protocol standards already. a quick google search could tell you that.
https://medium.com/@wiprodigital/talking-cars-a-survey-of-pr...
perhaps you haven't seen the xkcd about standards? i can google it for you if you need.
my point was, teslas could communicate with other teslas (and waymos with other waymos) by using any proprietary technology or method they choose. and yet they don’t. they honk at each other at 4am instead.
In these types of things, especially as the CEO was described as very intelligent, they should assume the cryptowallet is actually in his own control.

There is little reason to assume the CEO in fact didn't orchestrate this whole purported "scam".
One of these "convolutions" is called center-embedding. It's discussed on Lex Fridman's podcast:

https://lexfridman.com/edward-gibson-transcript#chapter9_cen...

It's objectively less comprehensible, and there is no benefit to it other than sounding legalese.