skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has nothing to do with encryption. If Putin's teenage recruit-a-troops had used encryption to plan their terrorism Bloomberg wouldn't know about it. Nor is anyone outside France aware of or invested in what's going to happen in a French court.

Telegram is the enemy's platform. You can use it (and Kaspersky and whatnot) in Moscow all you want. The days of using it in the US to plan attacks against the power grid have to come to an end.
its so long, so much waste of compute during inference. Wondering why they couldn't finetune it through some instructions.
Windows 11 upcoming 24H2 Update will increase Ryzen CPU performance by 10-11%
The Gilbreath Principle
Sure, but it's important to notice that the biggest off the shelf computers keep getting bigger.

Dual socket Epyc is pretty big these days.

If you can fit your job on one box (+ spares, as needed), you can save a whole lot of complexity vs spreading it over several.

It's always worth considering what you can fit on one box with 192-256 cores, 12TB of ram, and whatever storage you can attach to 256 lanes of PCIe 5.0 (minus however many lanes you need for network I/O).

You can probably go bigger with exotic computers, but if you have bottlenecks with the biggest off the shelf computer you can get, you might be better of scaling horizontally, but assuming you aren't growing 4x a year, you should have plenty of notice that you're coming to the end of easy vertical scaling. And sometimes you get lucky and AMD or Intel makes a nicely timed release to get you some more room.
Historically speaking, a great deal more crime was impossible to combat in practice simply because no state could afford a police apparatus extensive enough to monitor everything. Coincidentally, this also extended to things like political dissent.

Now that automated mass surveillance actually makes it possible for the states to keep tabs on just about everything, E2EE, if anything, merely rebalances the scales (although even that is overselling it - in practice, with modern surveillance tools, the scales are still much more heavily tilted in favor of those surveilling).

To what extent people really want to embrace the panopticon is not so clear-cut. It is certainly something heavily pushed from above, and in many societies that does seem to be reflected in public opinion (e.g. UK) - but not in all, so I do not think it can be reasonably assumed to be the default.
I guess by distributed they mean everything you do is stored in the cloud.
Ask HN: What Happened to Tech?
I live in the Silicon Valley so maybe this is just my warped perception of things, but where is all the actual life changing technology?

My dad is in his 60’s and talks about all of the unbelievable things he saw during his life: watching the first member of our species walk on the moon live on television, the invention of computers and seeing them go from the size of a house down to being able to fit into your pocket, the internet allowing people to communicate almost instantly across the planet at any time, the list goes on…

I’m 35 now and I don’t feel like my list of incredible technological achievements I’ve witnessed will ever be close to his. Yes I’ve seen the internet get much faster, yes I’ve benefitted from computers and chips getting way smaller, yes I’ve ridden in a self driving car even, these are great achievements but these don’t seem to equate to the level of human achievement that has come before them.

I’m not sure if everyone is just greedy now and only wants to cash out instead of work on hard problems, but I’m thinking of companies who are really trying to innovate and do new, big things that would improve the world around us and I can’t really think of more than a handful…

What am I missing here? Should I just shut up and start my own LLM wrapper company so hopefully I can dump it on someone else after getting rich? Where are the people who are working on real, meaningful problems?
Without getting into the weeds; privacy concerns remain after "stripping out any PII" simply due to the power of post analysis and combining masses of data looking for things that line up.

There are various long articles on this and it remains the case that patients have a right to confidentiality.
The fraction display implementation has been entirely redone. For instance, where the HP-32SII displayed things like 8 16/16, the DM32 displays 9 0/16.
We did the English route without even thinking about it. LOtR is very strange in Swedish...
The Rstudio project Positron isnt quite the same - but its super dope: https://www.appsilon.com/post/introducing-positron

https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/blob/main/README.md
As I remember that it was only matching bits of text that are displayed in the view and not all text within each panel (such as
“gateway”) . E.g as shown here
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/imag...

I may be misremembering though.
> My future self is looking at my net worth wondering how long it takes to come back from the write down.

The positive side of this is that real estate costs are a component of all other costs. So if real estate prices come down, so should all other prices. If your net worth is nominally 35% lower but now everything costs 35% less, what have you lost?

Not only that, artificial scarcity inhibits real growth. So the sooner you do the write down the sooner the real value of your net worth can reach the hypothetical value it has now.
You also need to take into account other constraints, like recovery time. If one of your companies datacenters gets destroyed, then it's great to be able to recover from the other 6 using clever erasure codes, but if that recovery requires reading every byte of data in every other DC and sending it over the network, it's gonna take 6 months+ to transfer all that data over a cross ocean fiber which might only be 1 Tbps.
Well gave it 2 tries before giving up. Does not do anything in FireFox and in Chrome it also failed after loading some data. It told me to restart Chrome with some GPU unsafe flag.
I'd like to add that I'm seeing more and more companies unifying synchronous and asynchronous APIs. With the concept of GraphQL Federation, it's possible to "extend" Entities by defining their (primary) keys in a GraphQL Schema. If we're combining this with Async APIs, e.g. NATS or Kafka, we can enable teams to build APIs around events, while still being able to distribute the implementation of how certain fields can be resolved. The Federation Router then joins the Stream with additional data from synchronous services, a very powerful pattern I believe. I wrote a bit more on the topic here: https://wundergraph.com/blog/distributed_graphql_subscriptio...
It will get a refresh, with the latest USB-C PCB and normally also a front graphics facelift.
> That's how it works in Linux anyway.

But it's not necessary even in Linux. Many (most?) DEs offer control panels that let you do pretty much everything a normal power user will want to do.
First time I see this, by the first impression I think the output quality of this one is better than mine and my code is only based on one model

In my understanding, It'll possible if the model's author build to https://onnxruntime.ai ONNX Runtime. And maybe the downside is user will need to download ton of data to their device, currently it's ~100-200mb
That's pretty good already for a model that isn't specialized or finetuned. I'm sure things will get better.
I work an app that lets me download and convert my plex music collection on my computer. I have a large collection that is mostly in flac. And I have a cheap mp3 player that I use for sports. However that mp3 player has only 8gb of storage, which is very little if filled with flac files. So with my app I can browse my music collection and select albums which then get downloaded and converted to mp3.
Yes, well done, the canon is winning the most amount of scorn from academics, HOWEVER. The desire for quality will outlive them all, including big tent slop and long-tail slop.
Things I have come to know about distributed systems:

The S3 API (object storage) is the accepted storage API, but you do not need AWS (but they are very good at this).

The Kafka API is the accepted stream/ buffer/ queue API, but you do not need Confluent.

SQL is the query language, but you do not need a relational database.
Life is a mystery.
So much things to learn and discover that require unified efforts from all people around the world.
Yet, we prefer to kill each others instead.
These seem rather long. Do they count against my tokens for each conversation?

One thing I have been missing in both chatgpt and Claude is the ability to exclude some part of the conversation or branch into two parts, in order to reduce the input size. Given how quickly they run out of steam, I think this could be an easy hack to improve performance and accuracy in long conversations.
Hi there, it's because I copied the project template from my previous project, will check and try to upgrade to the React 19 soon if it'll work with the libraries
Related Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer (260 points, 24 days ago, 267 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41143322
The explanation I read: banks lend against a percent of value, eg 90%, and require the owners to maintain 10% ownership (numbers just for example). They also calculate the value of the property via the rents. The commercial mortgages require the property owners to recollateralize the loan if they accept reduced rent, ie pay the loan down until the banks have only lent that 90% of value.

Thus accepting reduced rent means the owners must immediately cut a check to the bank or negotiate with the bank to change the terms of the loan. Except the bank doesn't own the loan, it's been sold to investors as cmbs, and the language on the cmbs requires a high threshold (80% or more) to approve an alteration. So that's functionally impossible.

Additionally, you can often add unpaid rent on to the end of the loan and extend the terms. If you expect valuations to rise over time, not being able to rent units at the value you promised the bank (and perhaps that value was inflated to make it easier to get the mortgage) is often much more easily dealt with by extending the loan rather than writing the bank a check to recollateralize.
My brief insurance experience with Medicaid was the best I ever had. It was through State of NY. I happened to break my wrist during that time. It was easy to find a doctor, low/no copays or deductible, and they were comparatively easy to contact.

Every other insurance company I've dealt with has actively cost me money, time and unnecessary pain through ineptitude or beurocracy. My FAANG healthcare was good, but had relatively fewer health issues
most people don't know the convention
>hard evidence demonstrating weaknesses

The weakness is that e2e encryption is disabled by default, and is a giant pain to enable.
This isn't generosity. They probably need it for a bank or something.
Ah, I didn't realize that there is any product with a similar name, and in case I already know, I think I'll still pick this name since it's only an experimental open source project with WebGPU. Remove-bg is quite common IMO, but definitely will affect SEO if I want to do more for the project, but I have no plan yet
For some reason, I didn't really get your comment, and here is the quote from the article you linked that fixed it:

> Aucsmith said that more and more, software companies and content creators are targeting users as a major threat to security. The reason? With a few keystrokes, users could freely distribute "bits that have value," said Aucsmith -- copying such content as software, DVD video and other valuable data.

Ugh.

And that's not security. Nobody is compromised when someone copies those bits.
Whoa, someone else who doesn't believe that the RISC-V ISA is 'perfect'!
I'm curious: how the discussions on the bitfield extract have been going? Because it does really seem like an obvious oversight and something to add as a 'standard extension'.

What's your take on

1) unaligned 32bit instructions with the C extension?

2) lack of 'trap on overflow' for arithmetic instructions?
MIPS had it..
That screenshot shows 31 gb of ram which is distinctly more than the mentioned dev board at max specs. Are they using something else here?
I think Roald Dahl had one story about a man who went to great lengths to eat a ghost.
Man that was fast, I thought it wa going to take them 5 years to re introduce it.
I get your point. Paid school is problem and people should be free to find their purpose.
Thank you, looking forward to this, if you have any feedback please let me know
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> You can't just easily go buy a townhouse for cheap.

But this is precisely the issue. The issue is not cities, it's housing scarcity. Housing scarcity just tends to be correlated with cities because demand there is typically high and then land owners capture the local government to constrain supply.

The problem isn't housing in cities, it's the lack of housing in and around cities. What would happen if there was enough for it to be cheap?
But that's kind of ok? I mean, insurance is ultimately about amortizing the cost of unexpected adverse events. It's not a way of fobbing off the cost of expected damage onto someone else, even though many people intuitively think of insurance this way.
Microsoft Backtracks on Deprecating the 39-Year-Old Windows Control Panel
I've wondered about this - you'd naively think it would be easy to run the model through the system prompt, then snapshot its state as of that point, and then handle user prompts starting from the cached state. But when I've looked at implementations it seems that's not done. Can anyone eli5 why?
No songbirds drowned in cognac, eaten whole with a napkin over your head?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting
Free economics would fix this.
The beak is the best part!
With things like James Bond and Star Trek. Is what is popular their original iterations or later ones? With Star Trek Movies yes, but the original series? Or something reasonably modern like TNG and DS9.

Same could be asked with James Bond, how well do all of the movies do? Or is it some specific pieces that still somewhat resonate.
This article from earlier this year covers much of the same ground:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/03/1090603/how-to-r...
can you raise this issue on Github? I will take a look into this later since it's not common error. I think it's because some settings on the browser

I've heard someone reported that Arc had a similar error
Whenever a new tool / library / plugin / whatever is evaluated by myself or my team, I spend some time on gathering some github issue / PR stats. I think this is now part of my "software engineering toolset" / best practices.

If there are too many open PRs, or unresolved tickets, OR there are too many _new_ ones, I would rather start searching for something else
has anything been done to like turn common phrases into a single token?

like "can you please" maps to 3895 instead of something like "10 245 87 941"

Or does it not matter since tokenization is already a kind of compression?
Hey HN,

I’m excited to share the MVP of a project I've been working on: Planner.so – a straightforward web app to help you manage yours travels.

What You Can Do Now:

- Add Expenses Manually: Quickly log your expenses on the go.
- View Expenses by Day: Keep track of how much you're spending each day.
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What's Next:

This is just the beginning! The roadmap includes:

- API Integrations: Seamlessly pull in bookings from platforms like Ticketmaster and Expedia.
- AI-Driven Suggestions: Get activity suggestions tailored to your budget and interests.
- Budget Management: Set and track your travel budget to avoid overspending.
- Checklists: Stay organized with custom packing and to-do lists.

I built Planner.so to fill a gap I noticed in existing travel planners – they often lack robust expense tracking or overwhelm users with too many features. My goal is to strike the right balance, keeping it simple while adding useful tools over time.

I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas on what features would make Planner.so even better!

Check it out at Planner.so and let me know what you think!
I used to take a lot of courses on cousera and EdX. I still take some here and there, but not as many as before. Some of the courses are amazing and unbelievably rewarding, like Daphne Koller's Probabilistic Graphical Models, Robert Sedgewick's Analytical Combinatorics, and Gerald Sussman's course on system optimizations. I'm very grateful for such learning opportunities. Unfortunately over time, I also found that these courses had diminishing returns for the following reasons:

- Due to the nature of MOOC, the assignments are largely either multiple-choice questions or programming assignments that merely asked students to fill in some blanks in some functions (there are a few exceptions of course). What a descent US university does really well is challenging students with tough yet insightful and inspiring assignments. That's how students learn deeply and retain the knowledge, at least for me. Merely listening to lectures and ticking off a few ABCDs hardly helps real learning.

- Lack of feedback. A university course assigns TAs, gives tutorials and office hours, grades assignments with detailed feedbacks, and it is so much easier to form study groups and have high bandwidth discussions. MOOCs try their best to offer such help, but they don't work as well or at least not as conveniently.

- Many courses are watered down. For instance, Andrew Ng's ML course on Coursera is far less rigorous than that (229? I forgot) offered in Stanford? The course is great for students to gain some intuition, but I'm not sure if it's good enough for one to build solid ML foundations.
Design patterns: composition inspite of inheritance
What is Vercel’s business strategy or recent influence on open source?

Found this discussion - perhaps related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682711 “Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice”
Just an example his ridiculous regulations could evolve.
> Sovereign Transportation Fund to invest €686,400 into Highway Infrastructure

This isn't generosity. They probably need it for a Hospital or something.
> whose only purpose is to fulfill the whims of its human conversation partners.

> But of course that’s an illusion. If the prompts for Claude tell us anything, it’s that without human guidance and hand-holding, these models are frighteningly blank slates.

Maybe more people should see what an llm is like without a stop token or trained to chat heh
The only mention of generations in the article comes from an initial quote, which describes how the quoted party has anecdotally experienced many of a specific generation wanting to climb the seniority ladder in a very quick time.

The rest of the article then goes on to explore what the depth of knowledge and maturity of behaviour should preferably be for anyone claiming to be a senior engineer.

It does so without ever referencing generations again.

I think this is a worthwhile read.
I have a video on how to setup Dokku via Docker, so you can launch it in any server like aws or digital ocean without paying extra for other services.

https://youtu.be/O_-KxC9FjuA
Tokens are mapped to keys, values and queries.

Keys and values for past tokens are cached in modern systems, but the essence of the Transformer architecture is that each token can attend to every past token, so more tokens in a system prompt still consumes resources.
My long dev session conversations are full of backtracking. This cannot be good for LLM performance.
What? It's that a encyclopedic article?

Well, it seems that this happens too in the free world. I thought it was only my shitty hole barely third world puppet state.

We are doomed.
The best MOOC Í‘ve attended was Balaji Srivivasan’s Startup Engineering, 10 years ago. Like many, I dropped out in the middle - in my case I wanted to spend more time with my little daughter. I still think it was the right decision, but I probably would not have dropped a presence course.
Is it declining?

Spam sites that scraped SO content where a big problem for a while, so that would have certainly pulled traffic from SO.

If I had to guess about other reasons, I'd say we've moved on from giving our knowledge and content away for the benefit of corporations.

What does being an SO contributor actually get you?

Whats the point in monitoring new posts and answering questions?

The economy is hard enough as it is. I dont need to be giving my time away for free to help corporations generate more billions from Ad Revenue.

But whow knows!?

Like I say, is it actually declining by any metrics that are public?
(genuine question)
Hey there, sorry for the issue, does it show status "Error"? if so can you try to enable WebGPU using this flag "--enable-unsafe-webgpu --enable-features=Vulkan", if not it doesn't seems like a common error and I will spend more time on testing later

Feel free to raise an issue on Github to keep track progress, it helps open source a lot, or you can DM on x.com/duc__an anytime
The PR is being worked on steadily. People use it on their own fork. The Helix team does not provide any target dates for features.
Fwiw it would affect my decision to go to the beach even if only 70% accurate
Someone mentioned
> Looks like WEBGPU is only on nightly for FF, for now
It def is done (kv caching the system prompt prefix) - they (Anthropic) also just released a feature that lets the end-user do the same thing to reduce in-cache token cost by 90% https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...
and a lot of people stopped using them _HelperClass just doesn't look nice ....
Because they can be content and get by with what they've got without wasting time complaining. Also the mindset that there is no difference between use and misuse - intended purpose is meaningless, creative reuse is a virtue.
Yeah. Go ahead.
Mark Zuckerberg says White House pressured Meta over Covid-19 content
1. aarch64 does this right. RISCV tries to be too many things at once, and predictably ends up sucking at everything. Fast big cores should just stick to fixed size instrs for faster decode. You always know where instrs start, and every cacheline has an integer number of instrs. microcontroler cores can use compressed intrs, since it matters there, while trying to parallel-codec instrs does not matter there. Trying to have one arch cover it all is idiotic.

2. nobody uses it on mips either, so it is likely of no use.
Discussion (13 points, 13 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359425
Why do the three models have different system prompts? and why is Sonnet's longer than Opus'
> This isn’t some kind of massive win for MakeMusic, nor is it greed if they get a little money for moving people to another product.

Yeah, this doesn't smell like a typical financial or strategic move. My guess would be that this is a team that really cared about the product domain to recommend a competitor going forward but also came to recognize retirement needs among their codebase and/or the team itself.
Is anyone aware of similar funds or structures from different countries?

Sovereign Tech Fund is German, but I did not find (albeit not looked too much) any in other European countries.
> What am I missing here?

When you reach your 60's you'll talk about the unbelievable things you saw during your life. It's just about being in the moment vs thinking back.
Ford Loses $44,000 on Every EV Sells as It Switches to Hybrids
No. The way I see it, I'm downloading an open-source, *always* end-to-end encrypted desktop-application Signal from official repository, instead of downloading an open-source *never* end-to-end encrypted desktop-application Telegram from official repository. Having to add the ppa is 10 seconds of additional trouble. I'll live. Without end-to-end encryption, a lot of dissidents however, might not.
> and the rest is completely demotivated and doesn't

Which makes them complicit.