skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering how they could afford 8000 H100’s, but I guess I accidentally skipped over this part:

> We’ve raised a total of $465M, including a recent investment of $320 million from new investors Eric Schmidt, Jane Street, Sequoia, Atlassian, among others, and existing investors Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Elad Gil, and CapitalG.

Yeah, I guess that'd do it. Who are these people and how'd they convince them to invest that much?
I am praying for the day when Airbnb disappears entirely. Another type of cancer in our current society.
The author is using https://k3s.io/ not the full k8s, so it doesn't have to be extremely expensive.
'World's largest' piracy ring Fmovies shut down by police in Vietnam
https://virginia-eubanks.com/automating-inequality/

> In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. Deeply researched and passionately written, Automating Inequality could not be more timely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxm7JYjk8M
Context windows are becoming larger and larger, and I anticipate more research focusing on this trend. Could this signal the eventual demise of RAG? Only time will tell.
I recently experimented with RAG and the limitations are often surprising (https://www.lycee.ai/blog/rag-fastapi-postgresql-pgvector). I wonder if we will see some of the same limitations for long context LLM. In context learning is probably a form of semantic / lexical cues based arithmetic.
Algorithmic libel detectors don't exist. The second option isn't possible. The result will be the separation of search and recommendation engines from social media platforms. Since there's effectively one search company in each national protectionist bloc, the result will be the creation of several new monopolies that hold the power to decide what news is front-page, and what is buried or practically unavailable. In the English-speaking world that right would go to Alphabet.
Team New Zealand boat damaged in crane accident at America's Cup base
voat wasnt exactly a single place, any more than reddit is
My parents spent $18K on rooftop solar in the Boise metro area. One Tesla powerwall battery and install on top of that will be another $15K.
Converting your personal daily conversations to learning opportunities
You're aware that there's a registry per country, no? And that that each country can choose to set aside a subdomain for all government services?

Yes, it's unfair that the US gets naked .gov - but that doesn't preclude the rest of the world from doing the right thing, and it certainly doesn't excuse the US government doing the stupid thing.
These aren't two dudes acting ethically, these are "two hackers arrested by the FBI for breaking into TSA security", good job FBI!
TBH, Reddit really shouldn't have 230 protection anyways.

You can't be licensing user content to AI as it's not yours. You also can't be undeleting posts people make (otherwise it's really reddit's posts and not theirs).

When you start treating user data as your own; it should become your own and that erodes 230.
What I want to sink in for people that whenever people talk about an "algorithm", they're regurgitating propaganda specifically designed to absolve the purveyor of responsibility for anything that algorithm does.

An algorithm in this context is nothing more than a reflection of what all the humans who created it designed it to do. In this case, it's to deny Medicaid to make money. For RealPage, it's to drive up rents for profit. Health insurance companies are using "AI" to deny claims and prior authorizations, forcing claimants to go through more hoops to get their coverage. Why? Because the extra hoops will discourage a certain percentage.

All of these systems come down to a waterfall of steps you need to go through. Good design will remove steps to increase the pass rate. Intentional bad design will add steps and/or lower the pass rate.

Example: in the early days of e-commerce, you had to create an account before you could shop. Someone (probably Amazon) realized they lost customers this way. The result? You could create a shopping cart all you want and you didn't have to create an account unti lyou checked out. At this point you're already invested. The overall conversion rate is higher. Even later, registration itself became optional.

Additionally, these big consulting companies are nothing more than leeches designed to drain the public purse
They have test environments. Where did you get "Test in prod" from?

But what they need to install depends so much on the project, and they all have pet machines. C# very different from C or something, right? :)
To me this decision doesn't feel it is demolishing 230, but reducing its scope, a scope that was exanded by other court decisions. Per the article 230 said not liable for user content and not liable for restricting content. This case is about liability for reinforcing content.

Would love to have a timeline only, non reinforcing content feed.
This is outstanding, thank you.
I guess it depends on the school district. My kids were doing video and photo editing, using and creating spread sheets, using other software and accessing science web sites that I'm sure would be nearly impossible or extremely difficult to run on a monochrome screen.
Love this!

I'm going to try using for programing.
As a competitor, let's add that they are ad company too.
It's really really not, you can see it in the data. I took GDP per capita and kg oil equivalent energy consumption per capita and in 1970 the very year the article highlights as us falling off the HA curve and representing 'lost' GDP the exact opposite happens. We begin producing way more GDP per capita using the same unit of energy.

It's basically a piece wise function if you graph it. 1960 to 1970 the GPD/energy unit ratio is largely stable then after that it begins increasing monotonically going from .69 to 7.94.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392222
That doesn't make a bit of sense. There's plenty of browsers, there's chrome, brave, firefox, opera, edge and safari, those are the big ones. There's also a ton of spinoffs like ice weasel or that browser Kagi is developing that I can't remember the name of.

Way more than just two chromium browsers in existence.
I don't think you can make that conclusion.

I think you're making the assumption that all three data points are needed for all 87%. But obviously some people can be uniquely identified based on just {zip, date or birth}, such that gender isn't necessary.

So the distribution could e.g. be 8% same, 8% opposite, 5% both, 79% neither, and explain the original numbers without triggering the paradox.
Yes. I know how this works. This doesn't change that's it's stupid. You can't outsource stupid and then claim it's not your problem.
I've used Kagi for a year and it was better than Google for most of the searches.

However I think the model will be changed to something more like Perplexity.ai

I've switched to Perplexity and for most of the searches it works better than Kagi.

They'd need to add something like this to survive in the long run, because for exploratory searches tools like Perplexity are really good.
> CCP subsidizing solar panels well below cost

So we should allow them to subsidize the Western energy transition? And cost the CCP money at the same time? Literally have the Chinese taxpayer pay for cheap Western energy?

I see the same dynamic playing out with EVs:

"EVs are too expensive we have to subsidize them!"

<China produces EVs that are cheaper than Western cars>

"EVs are too cheap, we have to tariff them!"

This is just handing taxpayer cash to Tesla shareholders with extra steps.

> many of the technical innovations that make cheap solar possible today

Name some? Because it looks to me like a straightforward learning and scaling curve in Chinese factories. If they were actually infringing US patents they'd be blocked on that basis, which tells me they aren't.
Not allowed in Finland, at least not in the KSOY service area. Lamous.
This is what I am getting at, thank you.
any chance you use phone for authentication and you have changed phone numbers and someone else is using your old num? or that you reuse a password with airbnb that was in a password breach/leak? could be account takeover.
Wow, admin of the Shufflecake project here, super excited to see this on HN again! Feel free to AMA, Elia and I are busy right now working on an upcoming major release, we will give announcement and more details at the upcoming Swiss Crypto Day event in St Gallen next Monday: https://swisscryptoday.github.io/2024/

I will also reply to comments below.
> Think it’s meant more as a broad generalization than something that is always true.

I think you're right, but also that the majority of the problems with the worlds economies (in the richer nations) are because of similar generalizations, and as such I think it important to rebuke them.

Having more cheap energy available is good (all else being equal), but optimising for higher energy usage is absurd.
Just goes to prove that old saying true: "With friends with helicopters, who needs more friends!"
The military should just build right to repair into their RFQ processes.
I mean those optiplex typ desktops. Now everyone gets laptops or big workstations anyways. Mini PCs are for POS and singage.
What’s so special about bar codes that the testers couldn’t create one themselves?

Are they cryptographically signed by a system that was inaccessible?

Or is it just a matter of figuring out the bar code format and writing out some KCM id?
We're only going to suffer more from this if businesses continue to scale their size and revenue but not actual customer service performed by people. We're being boiled alive by automation.
Another developer here who writes in C and C++, same. I think a lot of people have this complaint. I'm sad about it because what Rust provides in principle sounds great. The language is hideous though, and I really don't want to write anything in it.
That's correct, our server just routes calls directly to Anthropic. Some users requested an option to input their own API key and talk to Anthropic directly. I'll add this by the end of the week, maybe today if time.

Local LLM is still the end goal
IMHO it's not, it just parrots the same old arguments for "safety", arguing against straw-men and framing the other side as having wrong assumptions about AI safety/being unfair/etc, all while not going into the principled counter-arguments and their own assumptions at all.

Here are some counter-points:

Regulation:

- Very little effort is made to evaluate risk of over-regulating, regulatory capture and counterproductive wrong regulation

- The downside of under-regulating is vastly overemphasized, most arguments boil down to "we have to act FAST now or x BAD thing might happen"

- The risk of over/wrongly regulating is vastly under emphasized with the same FUD reasons.

- according to one of the many straw-men argument in the pod I'm a libertarian against any and all regulation because I criticize possible regulatory capture, I would enthusiastically support regulation that foundation models have to be:

-- given freely to public researchers/academics for in-depth independent safety-research

-- open weighted after a while (e.g. after ~ a year, safety concerns should be mostly ruled out and new generations are out so ROI is already likely there. [e.g. there's NO safety reason at all for ClosedAI to not release gpt-3.5, llama3 is better already])

Proposed FLOP cut-off of SB 1047:

- according to the pod, the cut off is much more advanced than anything currently released.

- The 10^26 FLOP cutoff is way to low, llama-405b is ~4×10^25 FLOPs

- 405B is maybe 20% smarter than 70B, while taking over an order of magnitude more FLOPS to train, the cutoff itself is very likely not much smarter than the current SOTA.

- IMO none of the current SOTA models are very dangerous, but kill switch regulation is.

Kill-Switches:

- SB 1047 is (non-explicitly) calling for kill-switches over the cut-off due to liability of the model creators and market dynamics

- Any kill-switch regulation means a complete dead-end to any advanced open-weights AI. This means that huge corporations and governments will control any and all advanced AI-development. This is top-down control of the maths you are allowed to run on your computer IMO that is Orwellian as fuck.

China:

- mentioning china is FUD 101, it's basically AI's "think of the children"

- If they think they can stop china from building their own advanced LLMs, they're delusional. This regulation might even help them to get there faster. They don't even need to steal, there maybe a year or two behind the SOTA and catching up fast.

I just don't get how so many people on a site with "hacker" in the name want to make it impossible to hack on these things for anyone not employed by the big corporate AI research labs.
> Can't imagine why any of this would imply they would need to stop deriving Chromium: they can develop and deploy whatever cookie policies and defaults they want.

Maintaining a very diverged fork can take even more work than building your own browser. I think they don't want to stop receiving upstream updates when the upstream is one of the biggest software projects in the world.
renewables have never been subsidized nearly as much as oil and nuclear.
Private healthcare/medical services should be illegal. Nationalise it. So broken to be in 2024 and people still have to pay for Healthcare. Thank God I don't live in the US. Our healthcare ain't great but it shits on theirs (Aus).

There are zero arguments that private Healthcare should exist.
I have run consulting before and was thinking of getting back into with a similar arrangement. Having been involved tangentially in government procurement for small software projects, you get first had visibility into how the normal predatory ISVs operate. Their single site licensing cost is from my experience 20-30% below what it would cost to build it yourself. But then you don't own the software and have to pay for ongoing maintenance. It looks cheaper but ends up costing more for worse software.

This whole sector is ripe for getting flipped because every actor in it operates using the same set of greedy rules.
May be resolved, or just spotty? I was able to load the page itself but tweets and any trending information were all out, seeing a lot of similar reports
True, I didn't realize how much panel costs have declined since then[0]. Also tax incentives for renewables have doubled as well (rightfully so)[1].

[0] https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/chinas-solar-producti...

[1] https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/
Far from "civilization", but still surrounded by lawfulness so you don't have to deal with warlords taking your solar panels.
That's what I used for a year or so before switching back to Firefox. It's OK, but doesn't come as close to meeting my needs as Firefox does.
there is a codevis application in the open for almost two years. it generates large scale software visualization for c, c++ and fortran (but it accepts other languages as plugins).
i am the main developer of this tool, and im a bit shocked that another tool with similar intent and same name exists.
woyod you be ok for me to demo what codevis (the kde one) do to your team?
you can reach me at tcanabrava at kde.org
the source of codevis is at invent.kde.org/sdk/codevis
That's not an option unless you're an Apple user, though.
I'm pretty sure going from X to Threads had very little to do with the feed algorithm for most people. It had everything to do with one platform being run by Musk and the other one not.
The name association is a genuine concern of ours :)
Jeez, I just read about him. Was he the first who went down the alt right pipeline? What happened there?

From goatse security to the Daily Stormer.
CSMA/CD does use exponential back off, though I'm not sure if anyone is still using it.
How to audit the 8000 packages in node_modules
I've been running my services on a single Lenovo M600 tiny for years now. Low power, fanless, runs great.
I've heard that AAPS is more sophisticated. I'm definitely not too happy with the Tandem system. Some people say they get better levels with Control IQ, but I don't. The T:Slim does have the ability to set basal rates for different times of day, and takes as input your insulin to carb ratio, correction ratio, weight, and tracks IoB. I don't think the insulin on board algo is very good... it starts decreasing before I see any effect on my glucose, and dissipates quicker than I expect. They base it on insulin lasting 5 hours, I think, but it seems to calculate less time. It's not a 'learning' algorithm either afaik.

The lack of carbs is perhaps the worst for me. Even if I track then on the Dexcom app, it doesn't use them. The automatic boluses are often wrong. When I had it anywhere near my real ratio, it would 'predict' I was going over 160 and automatically dose me. So, say I was at 85, and had 15 grams of potato chips. My glucose would rise quickly and as it went over 125, 140, the system would predict it was going up past 160 - or who knows, since it doesn't know how many carbs I ate. So then it would dose me with say, 1.1 units, which was enough to take my glucose -back to 85-. That sent me in loops a couple of times... 85, eat, up to 145, automatic bolus, back to 85, eat, up to 145 - very annoying when it happened at night. I had to set my carb ratio so high that the automatic boluses are now insignificant amounts like .16 units. It also doesn't notify you on your phone about automatic boluses, which has caused me major problems when I'd also manually correct. The automatic basal reduction (Basal IQ) is useful though.

Anyhow, I'd love to try AAPS but I don't have an Android phone. I also used to follow someone on Twitter who was developing his own software that he said removed the need to pre-bolus at all. Not sure about the details though.
I’d rather understate a medium-confidence opinion than overstate it.
So, yes, the TikTok FYP is different from a forum with moderation.

But the basis of this ruling is basically "well the Moody case says that curation/moderation/suggestion/whatever is First Amendment protected speech, therefore that's your speech and not somebody else's and so 230 doesn't apply and you can be liable for it." That rationale extends to basically any form of moderation or selection, personalized or not, and would blow a big hole in 230's protections.

Given generalized anti-Big-Tech sentiment on both ends of the political spectrum, I could see something that claimed to carve out just algorithmic personalization/suggestion from protection meeting with success, either out of the courts or Congress, but it really doesn't match the current law.
Before he spent some time in Transnistria as well, which is also a weird choice.
Introducing: Support for Using Any Terraform Provider with Pulumi
Depending on your needs, Chromebook + headless workstation tucked away in a different room or garage could also work (with WoL/smart plug)
If there are only sellers and no buyers the market collapses entirely. Luckily though people buy and sell stock all the time and even if the entire OMB estimated revenue from the tax (about $500b) was funded by selling stocks, that would represent less than 1% of total market volume.
I disagree with the part where you say "complex systems can be reduced to smaller and simpler ones where making a decision doesn't have to mean unleashing a cosmic horror."

That's the whole problem with reductionist thinking, which fails when analyzing a chaotic system or a complex system. The behavior of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts because of hidden interactions between the smaller parts of the system. There are too many variables to account for, and small variations in initial conditions rapidly became very divergent outcomes.

I get the sense that you may not have studied chaotic systems or complex systems in any level of detail. It might be a worthwhile effort to learn more about those systems, because they are essentially a refutation of reductionist thinking.

You may understand your codebase completely, but I assure you, if you released it to a large enough group of people, they could find errors and bugs in your code because they will try things that would never occur to you.

I am reminded of a video where a programmer spent three years training an ai model to beat an "impossible track" in trackmania, where he finds out that chaos built into the deterministic physics engine behind the game made his pursuit much more difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kojH8a7BW04
You're missing radio and TV. Social media is mostly giving everyone a megaphone and the platform the one in control of the volume.
This is wrong.

All settings in Brave with an impact on user privacy are opt-in. They even inform you of their product metrics, when you first start it, despite having a paper on how they anonymize that data. Versus Firefox, which never bothered. Firefox, which also added metrics for ads, similar with Privacy Sandbox, without informing users.

I've never seen a browser with such a strong focus on privacy, the only contender it has being LibreWolf.

The hate against Brave on this forum is completely unjustified and based on falsehoods, as if the issue isn't about Brave itself.
I've been either stunned, or disappointed depending on the word.

"hello" gives four images of the same building with "hello" clearly written, as well as a few images of "hello" grafiti. Impressed

"table" gives six results- four of which are clearly pictures of either leaves or the sky. Two are blurry buildings, but I cant seem to find the text "table"... it could be there though? Not impressed

"car" gives Six unique results, some of which "car" is the prefix of a word. Impressed

Either way, really cool project.
Especially when you're dealing with real property, which is governed by municipal agencies. Revoke their immunity from small claims court (or all claims, i.e. say arbitration doesn't apply if the dispute has to do with real property in a physical place). If you get ripped off by Airbnb sue them in whatever location the property was in for the amount you are due, plus treble damages.
The site is simple and fast. Love it.
Elasticsearch is open source, again
This is what the internet is for. Thanks, and fuck that company and the entire industry for that matters.
Iceland too. It takes a few workers and a lot of energy. Very sensitive to market conditions though. Peaky.
> Cherry on top some powerful player blew up Nordstream forcing Germany to buy exorbitantly expensive LNG.

Germany was forced already before that, since Russia used the Gas to blackmail Germany
Yeah those NAV buttons drove me nuts. Such a wart on an otherwise great upgrade. Wm5 had one handed navigation and you didn't have to worry about a dead battery wiping your applications.
> $400M of humans

Weird.
I suppose. That is a matter of business model, whereas I was addressing purely technical aspects.

I've been using Brave as primary for years. At this point I'd pay for a license if it were necessary. Frankly that would be an improvement: if it's free, you're the product. Brave just monetizes you differently.

I no longer argue with the legion of Brave haters. I've decided they're a benefit: the more people that don't use Brave the less likely Google et al. will be compelled to destroy it.
When the other app has even taken this apps trailer and not bothered to replace the name then I side with the original dev -
https://x.com/LorenLemcke/status/1829065192296120502