skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most folks here are probably tired of hearing about it, but I work on https://onlineornot.com - uptime monitoring and status pages for software teams.

My aim is to build something better than what's already out there.

I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised by how bad existing products were. Adding AI isn't going to help them.
If SLS is only getting a few launches, and we’re planning to establish a permanent presence on the moon, what will replace SLS? Starship and New Glenn?
What libraries are you using for PDF Generation?
I've used every single PDF library that you could possibly name in python and c++, and I haven't found a great solution for generating good looking pdfs. Would love to know what y'all are using.

Example: Generating an invoice. Generating a user-facing report.

I'm currently using reportlab, but am struggling with poor examples, And converting HTML to PDF has not been reliable.
In Cherryh's Rusalka series, the trouble with magic is it has side effects, so wizards document all their magical actions, and while young wizards may cast spells with wild abandon, old wizards are tied up with heaps of magical debt and must carefully consult their lore before attempting anything new.
https://github.com/miaogecm/BonsaiKV
This is wild, apparently this stuff is in the Debian repos now? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-... So you can just apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0.

This must be the most unfriendly Linux install documentation I've ever seen though, it was not easy to find the names of those packages.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41370982
Architects' whimsy doesn't always "make sense" from a practical standpoint but often has some kind of reasoning behind it. In this case it's right there in the article - for purely aesthetic reasons, to invoke the sense of entering an underground "crypt" sort of space when the real treasures (the artworks themselves) lie on a floor above. Makes a little more sense when you know what the article doesn't obviously state, that the whole extension uses a lot of pastiche of ancient Egyptian style, Tutankhamen's tomb and all that, and that the street level entrance is lower than the original main entrance of the National Gallery itself.
>Legal request

A legal request comes from a legal authority: a judge.

>Cooperating with law enforcement

Law Enforcement (that's the police, right?) are not judges and are not authorised to rule on legal matters.

Hate has not logic.

So you are trying to cover the whole spectrum of things to ensure your belief that Durov is being legally detained.

Sorry for editing instead of answering. Reddit says I "post too fast".
An implementation of the game engine in the model itself is theoretically the most accurate solution for predicting the next frame.

I'm wondering when people will apply this to other areas like the real world. Would it learn the game engine of the universe (ie physics)?
> Static analysis is good, in moderation;

Care to point out your best example on when static code analysis ceases to be good?

I don't think there is possibly any copout to justify away the benefits of static code analysis. Either your code works by complying to the interface, or it doesn't and violates interfaces. The only thing static code analysis does is force you to acknowledge the real interfaces.
Not trusting the clients and redoing all calculations server-side would require massive processing on the server side.
Your idea then multiplies the load on the server.
> STARTTLS is massively used to secure internal comms as a (cough) "best practice"

Well, I've seen it be a "best practice", because of some legacy component that only supported ldap with starttls or plaintext. It wasn't so much "starttls is great" as "starttls is the best we can do right now".
Because of its systems filter for toxic rule lawyers as a free workforce and that sort of company becomes a filter for new things,approaches and viewpoints?
What jurisdiction are you living in?
It is kind of hard to explain but the first time I learned about digital/analog conversion and wired up a very simple speaker and made it play any note I wanted by simply tweaking the processor’s clock, the magic left me. Before then I couldn’t even fathom how that worked, then it was like “that’s it?”

Just an overwhelming sense of disappointment in how much sense it made that it worked that way and not a myriad of more spectacular ways I’d imagined when I was a kid taking apart ancient IBM color monitors for fun
Doubtful that he’s “frequenting” there given how he left the country. When the FSB (Russian FBI) demanded he comply with the laws and provide the decryption keys he had his lawyers send a prank letter to the head of the FSB with two physical keys (as in, the actual keys you open your door with) attached to it as a sign of “compliance”. Try that in the US and see if you can “frequent” the country after that.
Whatever it takes to spin a 6-3 decision man. It was clear from the start that this supposed government “pressure” doesn’t and never did exist.
None of those are good enough to store even just a few days of a country's production, let alone weeks or months.
Why would they use Wine when they have free and unlimited access to the real deal?
A manual analysis was conducted on 2,364 sampled questions, leading to the development of a taxonomy of challenges that includes 27 distinct categories, such as:

- Prompt Design,
- Integration with Custom Applications, and
- Token Limitation.

Based on this taxonomy, the study also summarizes key findings and provides actionable implications for LLM stakeholders, including developers and providers.

The Six Challenges Working With LLMs

1. Automating Task Processing: LLMs can automate tasks like text generation and image recognition, unlike traditional software that requires manual coding.

2. Dealing with Uncertainty: LLMs produce variable and sometimes unpredictable outputs, requiring developers to manage this uncertainty.

3. Handling Large-Scale Datasets: Developing LLMs involves managing large datasets, necessitating expertise in data preprocessing and resource efficiency.

4. Data Privacy and Security: LLMs require extensive data for training, raising concerns about ensuring user data privacy and security.

5. Performance Optimisation: Optimising LLM performance, particularly in output accuracy, differs from traditional software optimisation.

6. Interpreting Model Outputs: Understanding and ensuring the reliability of LLM outputs can be complex and context-dependent.
A shoggoth on the roof? That's tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2csnVNai-o#t=40
If you want to feel victimized (?) by a hypothetical tax on people with >$100M unrealized gains go for it I guess.
Some of us prefer the alternative. I ate meat, then made a change but still crave meat. Things like veggie burgers fill that space.
Sibling comments talk about self-contained. I'll just be pedantic and say that this has nothing to do with the language itself.
> Greenpeace and Sierra Club are not green parties, but non-profit organizations.

The line is much blurrier than you might think. The green parties originate directly from those movements and there's significant exchange with the non-profit world.

And yes, whaling or coal plants aren't pushed as much as nuclear as a subject, that's not even close.
I think you're mistaken. The abstract says it's interactive, "We present GameNGen, the first game engine powered entirely by a neural model that enables real-time interaction"

Further - "a diffusion model is trained to produce the next frame, conditioned on the sequence of past frames and actions." specifically "and actions"

User input is being fed into this system and subsequent frames take that into account. The user is "actually" firing a gun.
> But there was a lot of misinformation that the studies themselves were fake

That was not misinformation. The idea that Ivermectin was helpful in dealing with CoVID was determined from a meta analysis that included a fake study that nobody can confirm happened and even used dead people. It was pushed by grifting doctors who sell Ivermectin.

Yes, if you have parasites and take an anti-parasite drug you're gonna feel better, whether you have CoVID or not.

> the tide of misinformation saying that the vaccine would halt COVID

It halted it as much as it could considering 30% of people didn't complete vaccination. I finished and have had every booster and never got CoVID despite all of my family members getting it (who refused to get vaccinated).
Telegram is widely used in Ukraine too, and that includes a lot of anti-Russia material.
What logic ? Where is the hate ?
OMG, this the startup idea I have been pitching for 10 years, and everybody laughs at me when I pitch it.

Newspapers need to pivot away from "telling stories about things that happen" in articles and headlines, to organizations that gather information into some large interconnected database. They should collect and record testimony from witnesses, press releases and statements. Court recordings and findings. They should be able to take any "fact" and trace back to who claimed it, where, and when.

Then, when you have a solid foundation, you can put a front end on it with commentators musing on various topics, or digging deeper looking for meaning, or cause and effects.

Newspapers could be the organizations we go to when we want to know who said what and when, and what happened as a result. They should be neutral, and trustworthy.

The role of newspapers should be to record history as it happens.
I’m working on a product for a client, and the amount of pressure I’ve been under to “make it AI” has been tremendous.

“Could we add a chat bot?”

“What about AI generated images?”

This is for an extremely regulated industry, where content needs to be approved by dozens of people prior to being used.

(I realise without the context of the actual product this sounds less impressive than it does to me)
“…now it can implement Doom!”
> We could have mods for old games that generate voices for the characters for example

You mean in real time? Or just in general?

There are a lot of mods that use AI-generated voices. I'll say it's the norm of modding community now.
> that there aren't really technical blockers to E2E encryption anymore

There are several disadvantages, and Telegram would lose its key features:

1. Cloud Sync

2. Instant Multi-device login

3. The ability to create large group chats, like thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in a single place.

4. Sending files up to 4GB.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41367964
Quite the illustrious kareer (sorry I had to).
This is unfortunately also true for lots of non-Canadians(that are not Americans). That includes me - the number one source of news i use is the NYT, and I think I can tell you more about American politics/politicians than I can about any other country
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Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41339308
Software Awards (2007)
https://github.com/frankroeder/parrot.nvim is another one.
> It makes me wonder if humans are just next moment prediction machines, with just a little bit more memory built in.

Yup, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
> There were a large body of studies showing that Ivermectin helped with COVID

No, there wasn't.
ALL THE TIME. Instead of answering, they just badger you about WHY you want to something.
The fact that the French president invited Durov to dinner and then arrested him, is so strange. They want to control Telegram, the arrest is just an excuse.
I had terrible grass and pollen allergies until I started mowing my own lawn and gardening without gloves. Exposure therapy is a thing. It works at least for some people.
Nuclear Now (2023) [video]
It looks like ascii, but this doesn't mean programs don't receive the filename from the os in ascii.
Fine. I also understand that some people don’t want to eat animals.

All I’m saying is that if we ate less meat, we could probably raise animals in a nicer and less industrial way, with less harm to the planet and probably a better nutritional balance.
Lol, she's discussed far more of a platform than Trump. Trump never gets into specifics. The closest we've gotten is his insane plan for a flat 10% tariff which would be devastating for the middle class.[1] Other than that, he deals solely in empty platitudes.[2]

Meanwhile, Harris has made specific policy promises on a wide range of issues.[3]

[1] - https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/trumps-bigger...

[2] - https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform

[3] -https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/08/politics/kamala-harr...
Usually it's a power or money profit motive. Just think what tasty things some large corporation or government could do with that data. They could sell ads! Or hold dissidents hostage. All sorts of things.
> It's not a misappropriation; for a company founder, they _created_ those resources

Created, or taken the fruits of others’ labor? Obviously, no Amazon-sized company is the work of a single person. Was the pharaoh, sitting in luxury, more responsible for the creation of the pyramid as the architect or the common slave building it?
> “This is a live attenuated intranasal vaccine, called CDO-7N-1, designed to be administered intranasally, thereby inducing potential mucosal immunity as well as systemic immunity with just a single dose,” Professor Mahalingam said.

Fourth paragraph.
Reversing ordinary client software is table stakes, sure. I'm not so sure about reversing client software which has a deliberately hidden backdoor. (You can hide a backdoor in source code too, of course, but I think it's easier to hide one in a binary because you could e.g. ensure that a buffer overflow overwrites cryptographic keys, where a C compiler would have the freedom to change the memory layout.)
The programmer's obsession with verson numbers
The Tyranny of the Bottom Quartile
Why games? I will train it on 1 years worth of me attending Microsoft teams meetings. Then I will go surfing.
I see this argument a lot, but it falls apart when you realise Ukraine also extensively uses Telegram. Maybe not for official state business (Zelenskyy chatting with his intelligence chief), but many times officials communicate with civilians via Telegram channels.
It does take some patience, but once it clicks, it's just awesome.
I remember Copy2PC that copied Copy Protected Disks. Or Locksmith that removed the copy protection.
Exactly this

Conspiracy bros failed math hard

I'm surprised (in a bad way) when people display limited ability to compare magnitudes. We see this all the time in discussions like clean energy and stuff. Sure, sometimes it is malicious or misinformed.

But in general it seems like some people can't do it (hence leading to things like payday loans, failure in managing finances, etc)
In a distributed system, which is often a place CRDTs thrive, deleted history means a new client cannot be brought up to the current state unless there is some form of state summarization. Doing this summarization/checkpointing in a consistent manner is difficult to do without some form of online consensus mechanism, which is also difficult to do in a distributed system with clients popping in and out all the time.
No they stay up for weeks after dozens of reports. I suspect the ads are only taken off once the stolen credit card used in AdWords gets declined.
> What makes that delivery method so effective?

This seems like an easy one to guess - your immune system has been developed over a very long time, is highly complex and has layers of defences everywhere that are all a little different. Training it to look for coronavirus in your muscles is less effective against coronaviruses than training it to look for infections in nasal mucus where said virus is actually trying to enter and exit the body.
So, any given sequence of inputs is rebuilt into a corresponding image, twenty times per second. I wonder how separate the game logic and the generated graphics are in the fully trained model.

Given a sufficient enough separation between these two, couldn't you basically boil the game/input logic down to an abstract game template? Meaning, you could just output a hash that corresponds to a specific combination of inputs, and then treat the resulting mapping as a representation of a specific game's inner workings.

To make it less abstract, you could save some small enough snapshot of the game engine's state for all given input sequences. This could make it much less dependent to what's recorded off of the agents' screens. And you could map the objects that appear in the saved states to graphics, in a separate step.

I imagine this whole system would work especially well for games that only update when player input is given: Games like Myst, Sokoban, etc.
> Nothing about LLM architecture is biased towards facts.... If they're factual at all, it's only because most things written by people are true

That's like saying "if you observe an LLM perform well, it's only because the idea as a whole is good, rather than any one aspect in isolation." Yeah, duh.

I don't know how technology people or the press can on the one hand say that these AI systems have biases, but on the other hand, that they are incapable of ever having biases towards e.g. facts. Of course you can make them do anything, all these problems are surmountable. Tough cookie NYTimes! But I think they will have the last laugh, because one thing that is insurmountable is getting an LLM a Columbia Journalism Masters or an important dad from Manhattan, which is the only thing that really matters to the NYTimes.
https://istories.media/en/news/2024/08/27/pavel-durov-has-vi...

Telegram is FSB project, lost all my doubts about.
Not really? They control the ToS and are not under special obligation to enforce them correctly from the government.
The client need to have more state info than the player to render accurately, for example, to render an opponent passing through a window without lag. And also, there are also cheat that doesn't need to spy on the state, like aim assist tool or HUD improvement.
Search his tweeter feed or Mastodon for anything MAUI.
I could be coerced into adding a back door in future versions of Tarsnap, yes.

But I can't be coerced into adding a backdoor into past versions of Tarsnap, because I don't have a time machine.
AFAIK, the main bottleneck on training is memory bandwidth. Distributed gpu compute has multiple orders of magnitude less than an equivalent number of GPUs colocated, because they don’t share a physical bus, but have a network connection instead. This work improves on that, but the fundamental limitations remain.
Given that Canada is in America one would assume they consume much American news.
After seeing a recent HN post about Dokku, I started going into the nitty gritty of deploying it before finding out there is no multi-node support at all. So if you ever get to the point where you want to scale beyond one server, dokku can't do it which seems like most of the point of using a Heroku-ish tool (I've tried k3s in the past but Kubernetes always seemed like overkill for a non-enterprise setup).

I'll check out dokploy now that I see it has multi-node support.
Oh wow, this is insanely good. Are there any model details?
> an IB switch is in the same ballpark as an ethernet switch with the same port speed

And both price tags will make Elon's "someone's scamming me with a 'you're an enterprise customer' surcharge" sense tingle. The price tags for anything enterprise networking related are seriously inflated, and I would not be surprised if just making your own NICs and switches is cheaper once you hit a certain deployment size.
Opposite for me, the more I learn internals, the the more amazing it is -- how some useful complexity can arise from such simple things (e.g. electron/hole pairs jumping over PN junctions -> transistors -> NAND gates -> CPUs -> programming languages -> high level architecture)
Some SO users just run around downvoting everything, and of course the cowards leave no comments.

If you dare bring this up in the SO forum, perhaps suggesting or asking about a way to mitigate this behavior, pedantic douchebags go apoplectic with "Oh THIS again" as if the problem were solved.
1. Is encryption itself a crime?

2. Presumably Durov was in a meeting with Putin.

2. 1. But there is no war, the war against Ukraine is not a war in legal terms.

2. 2. And there is no charge of meeting with the enemy or anything like that.

2.3. So you are saying that we are talking about the charges in vain, because the political underground is obvious.

2.4. Yes, you are right, that is why we are talking about the charges.
And Godot!
I applied to help a friend who is looking to see if I should recommend it. I did not recommend it for reasons you state. Guess it is just data collecting on skills, worth selling to recruiters.
While I am indeed working on an LLM interface, my other big project at the moment is a tab manager for Firefox which doesn't have a single AI feature, and it will likely never have.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
e2ee is not a panacea. Law enforcement is more interested in metadata than content: who messaged whom and when, which account corresponds to which phone number etc. This data is still sitting on whatsapp and signal servers, so not much safer than telegram. I'm looking at Element now: at least it doesn't ask for phone number and I can host my own server.
what… and the solution for this? Find all processes with this name and pkill them???
I think they mean when you learn the shortcuts for selecting and manipulating entire blocks between matching parentheses in an editor that helps balance them and so on, making it rather easy to test things out and refactor Lisp-like code.
Yeah, a lot of people, commentators, HNers, Redditors invoke US laws and procedures as reasoning and for comparison. Which is bordering on the useless - okay, you think he wouldn't have been arrested in the US, cool, what does that actually tell us about him being arrested in France? Nothing? You didn't even bother to look up how warrants and arrests and criminal proceedings work in France? Thank you for wasting my time with your commentary.
that might work for some applications, especially recreational things, I think we're a while away from it doing away with all things, especially where deterministic behavior, efficiency, or reliability are important.
It seems that the algorithm mentioned in the article is here [1], [2]. It has been close to 20 years before a working prototype being implemented, I wonder what caused the delay in the implementation?

The original underwater channel model and propagation however, fittingly the Professor's most cited paper, came later which kind of strange since you usually come up with channel model and propagation first before the modulation, not the reverse [3].

[1] Low Complexity OFDM Detector for Underwater Acoustic Channels (OCEANS 2006):

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4098993

[2] MIMO-OFDM Over An Underwater Acoustic Channel (OCEANS 2007):

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4449296

[3] Underwater acoustic communication channels: Propagation models and statistical characterization (IEEE Communications Magazine 2009):

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4449296
Not a meaningful amount :). Their “AI chips” are, for now, marketing.
Controversial Chinatown Project Heads for the Finish Line