skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Deal can't lessen competition if AI minnow wasn't much of a competitor

Well sure, and if you allow acquisition they never will be.
I never thought of it that way. Are they going the way of Raythoen/Boeing?
Intense heat of a fusion plasma may require a well-placed metal evaporator
I’m struggling to see your point. My interpretation is that in each of those times, we used some math to talk about things we couldn’t observe until we were able to make experiments to observe them.

Are you saying that one day we will be able to devise experiments to observe these things?
It is not the mere "brain" which does that discerning, croes my friend; higher functions and faculties are engaged when moral judgement is involved.

But yes, with therapy and rehabilitation, I trust my brain, and other faculties, more than I used to, and we can indeed employ methods that would falsify those judgements, so that they can be proved good and correct empirically, rather than just feelings or impulses.
Expecting the rate of progress to drop off so abruptly after realistically just a few years of serious work on the problem seems like the more unreasonable and grander prediction to me than expecting it to continue at its current pace for even just 5 more years.
The geopolitical bit of all this is the real wild card. No one really knows what's going to happen there.
AI and the Technological Richter Scale
> Kubernetes allows you to mount block storage volumes for storing files. But each volume can only be mounted to a single server instance (pod). So if you want multiple pods to access your volume, you need to configure and deploy an NFS service. In which world is this simple, convenient, or straightforward?

If you're running your software on multiple VPS's you still need an NFS.

The only moment you don't need an NFS is when you have 2 processes running on the same machine touching the same folder.
Wouldn't that violate the concept of zero trust?
I can recommend Lockstep from Karl Schroeder. Scifi books rarely tackle the problem of huge distances, slower thab light speed travel and the resulting long time scales and their effects on multi-star civilizations (FTL is the usual boring cop-out). Lockstep provides an interesting take on the problem.
Yeah I should have specified they are related by an inversion
Tell HN: Freepik doesn't refund your money
Last year, I bought an annual subscription to Freepik, which was automatically renewed a few days ago. Since I won't be using the service, I contacted Freepik to request a refund.

However, they told me that since I had made downloads in the last few days, they couldn't issue a refund. It doesn't matter if you made one or a hundred downloads, if you made at least one download, they won't refund your money.

I told them I didn't know, that I could delete the files and not use them in any way, but their response was firm—they don't refund the money.

I asked them to refund the money for the annual subscription (since I was prepaying for a service I wouldn’t use) and switch to a monthly subscription, charging me for just the month. They also refused, telling me they don't refund money.

In conclusion, look for an alternative to Freepik or urgently canvcel or switch your subscription to monthly; otherwise, you won't be able to cancel it or request a refund.

By the way, does anyone know to which organization I can escalate this complaint? Freepik is a Spanish company, but my business is not part of the EU.
employees often aren't allowed to have them onsite in these circumstances for this precise reason.
Watching that video actually makes me completely unconvinced that SSI will succeed if they are hinging it on LLM...

He puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that 'to generate the next token you must understand how', when thats precisely the parlor trick that is making people lose their minds (myself included) with how effective current LLMs are. The fact that it can simulate some low-fidelity reality with _no higher-level understanding of the world_, using purely linguistic/statistical analysis, is mind-blowing. To say "all you have to do is then extrapolate" is the ultimate "draw the rest of the owl" argument.
The math is complex, but this approximation is true enough for government work:

You don't need to get high to get to orbit per se. You need to get flying horizontal, much faster than the atmosphere will allow you to sustain; This is the only reason you need to get out of atmosphere. About 10% of the work in conventional spaceflight is attempting to get to >100km above your head, and about 90% of the work is in attempting to get >100km above your head, flying parallel to the Earth's surface at ~8000m/s.

Those wings are useful at mach 0.7 and much less useful at mach 2 and a loss-creating pain in the ass at mach 5. You need to get to mach >20, and the longer it takes you to do so, the more you pay to the aero and gravity gods. Wings with a glide ratio of N at low speed allow a plane to divide what they pay to gravity per unit time by about N, at the cost of paying a bit more to aero losses. But as soon as you get significantly supersonic/hypersonic, the aero costs ramp to impractical levels.

In airplanes, that reduction in gravity losses per unit time translates to lower needed thrust to weight ratio. Most planes fly with a TWR much lower than 1, being incapable of flying straight up. This is useful because jet engines are incredibly expensive, complex pieces of technology compared to rocket engines per unit thrust. Rockets more often fly up at a craft TWR artificially limited to "Whatever the humans and the structure will tolerate without falling apart", which changes as the craft gets lighter.
Semantra: Multipurpose tool for semantically searching documents
The article discusses how Knot Theory was once conceived to explain different atoms and their properties. This physical explanation was abandoned after the electron was discovered (demonstrating the existence of sub-atomic structures). At that point, Knot Theory was correct math with no physical application.

I’m sure there are other examples but I’m not a mathematician.
> I have a remarkable 2 and it's basically a stripped down version of Linux that you can SSH in and install whatever you want on it.

Could you for example mount a NFS or CIFS directory on the LAN, then access .PDFs and documents in other formats without signing to any external service? I was looking for something like that and have been waiting for years for the PineNote to become ready, usable and available, but have given up. Unfortunately all readers out there are tied to this or that cloud service subscription, and I would use them only locally.
(I call them readers because I don't need the note taking feature; being able to place bookmarks would be more than enough)
The normal top speed nowadays is 40mph and you would see that mostly south of the city. There is work being done to (optimistically) allow 50mph in some sections in the future.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/07/19/mbta-red-line-closure-b...
Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with govt of 'high-status males'
Agreed! Maybe we can push chrome down too…

Where are you getting Linux desktop share data?
Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

— V.I. Arnold: "On teaching mathematics" (1997)
Than you for open sourcing this!

You are definitely onto something here.
> These intimate broadcasts are a new medium.

You hit the nail on the head here. I mean live streaming is already quite big but it seems like it's going to be going up 10x - 100x next few years.

It's really an amazing thing that makes the Internet more human.
I haven't gone through the whole article, but it seems to be conflating chroma and saturation. If lightness of a color is scaled by a factor c, then chroma needs to be scaled by that same factor, or saturation won't be preserved, and the color will appear more vibrant then it should.
Anterograde amnesia is a significant disruption of plasticity, and yet people who have it are still intelligent.

(That said, I agree plasticity is key to the most powerful systems. A human race with anterograde amnesia would have long ago gone extinct.)
Hiker Photo Archive
Be still, my heart! I'm so glad PZ is still out there doing his thing
Given the audience on HN, I think we can presume any readers of my comment are not trying to execute completely random untrusted binaries. There are legitimate cases when you need to do this to run a binary you trust, but the system doesn't.
What is the key of electronic music?
Witten has revolutionized mathematical physics, and his development of topological quantum field theory was nothing short of monumental.

Much of Witten's own point above is that advancements in string theory have cashed out in revolutionary new mathematical approaches that would be of lasting value even string theory itself never receives any experimental confirmation.

I think article highlights something very beautiful about how physics, including string theory, have lead to the creation of new math, and how that is suggestive of an unmet promise. To ignore that just to come in and repeat for the 1000th time the world's most repeated thing about string theory, and take a completely unnecessary cheap shot at Ed Witten is the perfect embodiment of why comment sections can too often be a depressing waste of time.
My initial reaction was that there’s no way the current generation can do everything your “AI assistant” can do. Looks like my impression was correct.

Your real competition is virtual personal assistants. The advantage of hiring them over you is that I can have a long-term relationship with them. Sorry to be pessimistic, but I don’t think you have anything here.
Maybe closer to energy positive fusion?
I move SSH to a different port... I know it's easy enough to discover through a port scan, but it cuts a LOT of noise down. For home, I only allow the wireguard port from the outside.

I tend to start with Ubuntu Server these days as the SSH config is pretty much where I want in the box and will import my public key during setup. I also now use Caddy for reverse-proxy duties over Nginx.
I've never had knockd fail me, can you fill me in on what pitfall got yours to go down? Just in case.
How come Stack Overflow posts are fair game for AI without user permission?
Great point!
Fine-tuning is the lowest level in the hierarchy of LLM control. Initially, people try prompting and that works well for a lot of use cases. When prompting is insufficient or the LLM hallucinates too much then you would resort to RAG. RAG is essentially doing a vector search over some data and then feeding the results into the prompt so that the LLM has the relevant context. This can significantly reduce hallucinations. However, RAG has its limitations. Perhaps you want the model to learn a particular behaviour (or get extremely good at it) or you want to fine-tune a much smaller (and therefore much cheaper) model to get very good at something (as good as a much bigger and smarter model), in these cases you would explore fine-tuning.

So currently I'm mainly targeting researchers or startup founders who are at the cutting edge of AI as they will likely want to explore fine-tuning.

I suspect that fine-tuning will become much more ubiquitous over time.

But thank you for the great question
I had a similar notion, as I prior worked with a large southern California municipality that was into "smart city" things as a solutions architect, and they would have loved for something like this for the same reasons you stated, particularly visual changes or features, adjusting pedestrian/bike/car traffic flows, points of interest, etc.

I would love to know how large of a city would be possible to "import" and run with enough of a like data set. I would imagine it would give any GIS nerd a boner if they could do so themselves.

Even remotely close I would consider a feat, so bravo to the team that did this!
That's quite a larger fireball than I was imagining. If I were in that general area and not given a heads up, I would have certainly freaked out.
Check my other comment
Is there any way to change what "user" I am chatting as in the playground? I created some memories in the onboarding process under a specific user, but it seems like my chats in the playground are using a different user.
Last few hours of some of my projects
Rather embarrassingly, these chips are actually produced by TSMC :-)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2355435/intels-lunar-lake-is...
IME IP addresses handed out by my phone’s tethering mode aren’t stable, so it’s sorta more of a hassle than just fishing out the little cable and letting my script run. (The device assigns itself a stable IP address on the USB interface.)

Although I haven’t looked at those addresses in some time; perhaps they are more stable now than they used to be.
Thanks but ninety-seven percent windows why are we even having this conversation.
If they spin a defense product at some point they could make a very good case that they're a necessary company given Boeing's utter incompetence here of late.
The Island: WH Auden and the Last of Englishness Review
The real world determines which geometry applies. That's the crucial difference. Sometimes physicists use mathematical reasoning to figure things out that map onto the world and later observation validates their reasoning. But observation can also invalidate, and then physicists have to go back to the drawing board or devise new experiments.
The fact that the world hasn't ended and no nuke has been launched since the 1940s shows that the system is working. Give the button to a random billionaire and half of us will be dead by next week to improve profit margins.
I really hate how disconnected subscription prices are from actual value delivered. Imagine a world where you're billed proportional to usage! What a halcyon dream.
Exactly. Recycling shouldn't be implemented if it uses dirty energy. There should be accounting and accountability. Don't pretend an operation is green unless it really is.
Yes, it's mostly family-based. If you look at the distribution of the categories of the issued green cards, ~2/3 are through family. Employment based green cards are less than 15%.
Chapati Movement mysterious chain that psyched up the British 1857 Mutiny Rising
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160829022829/http://thevoiceof...
Pipefunc: Minimal-Code DAGs for Scientific Python, from Laptop to Supercomputer
In other words, assholes should rule the world?

Yeah, we did that. When we stopped, the world experienced the greatest growth in wealth it had ever known. It's almost like this is another one of Musk's Bad Ideas.
The "CIA triad" definition of security (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability ) is most often violated by loss of the Availability component. Very often by "security" mechanisms that effectively serve as a Denial of Service attack on the users.

A system which is easy to use securely will stay secure, a system which is difficult to use securely will be insecure.
Nowadays the trains require positive control - it will stop if you pass out and let go of the controls.

Also if that happens again you can try yanking the emergency brake :)
Debian can run with SELinux if you like that.

Debian uses AppArmor by default, probably because of the Canonical influence (there are more Debian developers and maintainers paid by Canonical than by RedHat).

But you can run Debian with SELinux (as well as with other LSMs, MACs, etc like Tomoyo).

At my last jobs, we disabled any of SELinux, AppArmor and Auditd on Debian/Ubuntu, just for the sake of performance. And we never detected any security issue for our usage and requirements. So I'm not an expert in this field.

Not sure what the purpose of the article, or the whole blog, is. You want to influence the choosing of Debian Vs RHEL Vs Oracle Linux in some place? As I'm not sure, will stop here.
2 is pretty easy to explain in my opinion. It's not hard to find people who are passionate about aeronautics who want to build a radical new product, rather than be cog number 13482 in the machine of Airbus making fixtures for testing wing spars or whatever, but there aren't many opportunities to actually do that because the cost barrier is so high. But that rolls around to how is 1 possible, so I see your point there.
Textra: Extract text from images, PDFs, audio files using Apple's APIs
There are at least 3 companies with staff in developed countries well above minimum wage doing tagging and creation of training data, and at least one of them that I have an NDA with pays at least some of their staff tech contractor rates for data in some niches and even then some of data gets processed by 5+ people before it's returned to the client. Since I have ended up talking to 3, and I'm hardly well connected in that space, I can only presume there are many more.

Companies are willing to pay a lot for clean training data, and my bet is there will be a growing pile of training sets for sale on a non-exclusive basis as well.

A lot of this data - what I've seen anyway, is far cleaner than anything you'll find on the open web, with significant data on human preferences, validation, cited sources, and in the case of e.g. coding with verification that the code runs and works correctly.
US chip production really needs its SpaceX moment, but it seems like it will never happen, and we're left with the crumbling empire of Intel.

By "SpaceX moment", I mean a startup entering an impossible market, where the barrier to entry is billions of dollars of research and manufacturing, a market dominated by industry giants from the 60s, and yet still coming out on top somehow.
This seems correct, and I suffer from the same issue as the author, but I'm curious if it's as simple as "you don't believe in the projects". Does Pieter Levels believe in all of his projects so much that they burn a hole in his brain, or does he just think "this seems like a good idea, I should do it and see if it works" and that's enough to get him to the finish line. I assume the latter, but it's just a guess.
I mean, if you're going to make that kind of political argument you can claim that Western Europe's postwar prosperity and relatively strong welfare states are a by-product of America footing the bill for defense (plus the seed investment of the Marshall Plan).
Misinformation about misinformation from the NYT

Iran has no horse to back in the US Presidential Election. You can put Iran at the bottom of the list of state actors which has the ability to influence US foreign policy, regardless of whether Biden, Harris, Trump or Kermit the Frog is in the White House. This is simply a routine hit piece on a country which is a perpetual target of regime change.
Spoken like someone who has absolutely no idea whatsoever about the Brazilian body of law or constitution.
> Are you saying that one day we will be able to devise experiments to observe these things?

The problem is that we might be on an exponential scale. So instead of decades it could be centuries assuming the humanity survives and keep develop new technologies and tools.
Could be more comparable to Clubhouse, which VCs quickly piled $100m into[1a], and which Clubhouse notably turned into layoffs [1b]. In this case, the $1b in funding and high valuation might function predominantly as a deterrent to any flippers (in contrast, many Clubhouse investors got quick gains).

Moreover, the majority of the capital likely goes into GPU hardware and/or opex, which VCs have currently arbitraged themselves [3], so to some extent this is VCs literally paying themselves to pay off their own hardware bet.

While hints of the ambition of the Manhattan project might be there, the economics really are not.

[1a] https://www.getpin.xyz/post/clubhouse-lessons-for-investors
[1b] https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23701144/clubhouse-layoff...
[3] https://observer.com/2024/07/andreessen-horowitz-stocking-ai...
I don’t agree with this. I think there are definitely people like Michio Kaku who have books to sell who spend their time pontificating. People just think that physics looks like pontificating because that’s what it looks like on TV.

But there are also active researchers doing real research. Physics postdocs aren’t just sitting around in a circle making up stories about what the universe is like.
I see the semiconductor industry becoming a bit like the auto industry. A geopolitical pawn, heavily dependent on subsidies and in turmoil due to market forces (switch to electric in cars vs. switch to ARM/RISC in semiconductors)
TensorFlow Lite is now LiteRT
You probably will be able to, and then it will magically turn itself back on after some updates.
A lot of APIs changed in response to OpenAI hoovering up data. Reddit's a big one that comes to mind. I'd argue that the last two years have seen the biggest change in the openness of the internet.
If you want to bring physics and mathematics closer together, then string theory is a rather bad example to follow.
Introduction to Dynamicland (Bret Victor)
> Games work

This is not a boolean.
Games work, just with way less framerates.
What is the actual point of this?
I'm not talking about in the context of a job application, obviously.
> GE Additive doesn't sound like they're doing any design work, just manufacturing.

Not even that; per the article it's "manufacturing consulting." Presumably someone else is doing the actual work - I'd guess FTT.
Async Rust can be a pleasure to work with (without `Send and Sync and 'static`)
It's not necessary, it's a stupid dick move. cPanel was just not capable to tune the selinux profiles for their services, I've worked there.

My servers all run with selinux, it's really trivial. Just the ssh client and tailscale recipes are missing by default. Selinux gives you precise choices if something is rejected.
This isn’t even accurate anymore as I’ve had copilot reappear several times after using GP to disable it.
I love to write, actually I think I have to write as it’s the only way I’ve figured out on how to put guardrails on my thoughts.

I got my first remarkable a few years ago and I was super excited, I thought it could be the bridge between my need to write and the digital world.

I gave up, I also tried an iPad too but again I gave up.

I ended up using a cheap fountain pen and the paper that I like its texture.

I think the problem with all these devices is that from a product perspective they focus on the wrong things.

I don’t care about colors and syncing with the cloud or whatever else.

I care about emulating an as close as possible experience to natural writing and that means latency of the device and the tactile feeling I get when I touch the screen with the pen are the most important aspects.

I haven’t seen much there happening and maybe these are just too hard problems to solve.

Or maybe I’m just a member of a too niche group of people.

But until I find a digital writing instrument that gives me the sensory feedback of a pen an a paper I don’t see me going back to these devices.
As long as you can see them in time.
They literally founded the country.
How does Mem0 handle the potential for outdated or irrelevant memories over time? Is there a mechanism for "forgetting" or deprioritizing older information that may no longer be applicable?
> I think the other piece going into it is that hardware keeps getting faster.

It's also that you're expected to update windows whether or not they've actually improved performance. Why would microsoft prioritize that when the bulk of their sales are driven by other concerns, like enterprise sales and what some might call basic functionality (e.g. Windows Defender, when it was first released).

Hell, now they're moving to a service model and there's even less reason to court consumers directly.