skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had as a comment to a comment, but I'll repost it at the top level:

They use "open source" to whitewash their image.

Now ask yourself a question: where does Meta's data come from? Perhaps from their users' data? And they opted everyone in by default. And made the opt-out process as cumbersome as possible: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1794863603964891567.html And now complain that the EU is preventing them from "collecting rich cultural context" or something https://x.com/nickclegg/status/1834594456689066225
There’s no public announcement yet but from what reps say to customers and what people working on azure say is app insights is more or less being wound down in favor of building out open source solutions because it’s more favourable and less maintaince / dev than building out their own solution. Think more OTEL/Grafana. Basically word on the inside is MS doesn’t want to pay to build out app insights.
or the humans involved are in disastrous cults of personality for the sake of greed and the non profit structure is not strong enough to curb that
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Did you use much off the shelf software? I mean, I'm guessing you used databases and frameworks, but were the business process and UI components off the shelf or custom?

Because it's a tradeoff.
Just give it more human-like intelligence.

Kid: "Daddy why can't I watch youtube?"

Me: "Because I said so."
Got it, Thank you. It's quite the hallucination, we'll continue looking into ways to keep the model on task! Please keep the feedback coming, these small models behave a bit differently from their large, cloud hosted counterparts.
> Do people, like, realize that their whole process for protecting scraping the social network via third-party app integration is the honor system?

That sentiment goes back pretty far in Facebook's history

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-branded-early-fac...
I don't sadly. I did it empirically (my oil-based modeling clay would separate and become hard, so I started heating it and adding oil, and then started making new modeling clay from scratch).
I used clay powder, but I just looked at some websites for making homemade modeling clay and they use calcium carbonate or talc, so I'm not sure what to suggest. My clay turned out fine (but theirs might be better).
Also the one in the film looked more like a jerboa.
Thank you very much. I'll check it out :)
It seems to me that the reference to NFS is a red herring. If I disconnect a disk after a program has terminated and before the OS has completed write back, the data is lost, no matter what close has returned. This was well known when removable writable media was more common. Still possible with hot pluggable disks.

If you want to make sure that the data is on stable storage you need fsync (and even then there is no guarantee that the disk will not just die or corrupt data).

If you are writing to a generic FS and don't know if what's on the other side is even a file, then it is not your responsibility of guaranteeing persistence. Some higher level component (for example the script invoking your program) will implement the transactional behaviour.

Remember that your program can always be kill-9'd: you can never guarantee that your output to a pipe is consistent.
This should be the top reply. Thanks for digging into it.
And it's the absolutely worst system ever, a complete pain in the ass in every way. If you've never touched PeopleSoft, they not only spent hundreds of millions on a system, but on a system that sucks away years from your life-force.
As a non-Tesla EV owner, I would happily pay surcharges for charging on Tesla's network if it meant I could reliably use my vehicle on extended trips out of town. Tesla charging network has a very good reputation for reliability, which is a primary concern if I'm traveling on the highway. It's not something I do often, so paying a premium once in a while to use my EV instead of my ICE vehicle seems like a decent tradeoff.
Co-Founder & CTO here. Happy to take any questions!
Now you have two problems: rolling out the new system and changing the business process. And you'll solve them simultaneously, and if anything goes wrong, you'll roll both back...
Related official release: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Gaza is not restraint. This pager operation proves that. Gaza is genocide.
The vulnerability is mitigated by shifting the economic incentives, not fixed by making it impossible. It can't be fixed without a completely different network design, like in Mixminion or Katzenpost. Someone suggested I2P, but it's mostly fundamentally the same as Tor. It uses unidirectional tunnels, which might help.
> I don't think anyone growing up in developed countries can emotionally understand that, even though there's high competition for great universities, top jobs, etc., you can still live a very fulfilling and decent life without getting into Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Oxford, and so on. That's not really an option in poorer places, you either make it or you will live in some limbo where you earn enough to sustain yourself but don't have access to much else, it's a constant state of surviving to work without seeing upwards mobility.

I'm from Poland. 20 years ago, a friend of mine went to US for the summer to do menial jobs (we were both students at the time) and came back with all sorts of stories. His biggest shock though was "OMG I lived next to this guy who was a postman, and he could live a completely decent live on just his postman salary!". Whereas, in Poland back then, with 20%+ unemployment and depressed wages that come from that, you needed to be extraordinary just to be able to afford an ordinary life.
best example: the €500m disaster Lidl had with SAP
[1] https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446965/Lidl-dumps-500...
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583327
Combined with pictures for what each step should look like. I had a few of these pages printed out back in the '00s for some recipes that I did.
This has always been the end-game for the pseudoscience of "prompt engineering", which is basically that some other technique (in this case, organizational policy enforcement) must be used to ensure that only approved questions are being asked in the approved way. And that only approved answers are returned, which of course is diametrically opposed to the perceived use case of generative LLMs as a general-purpose question answering tool.

Important to remember too, that this only catches those who are transparent about their motivations, and that there is no doubt that motivated actors will come up with some innocuous third-order implication that induces the machine to relay the forbidden information.
"For your safety" is _always_ the preferred facade of tyranny.
> Non-goals: Drop-in replacement for CPython: Codon is not a drop-in replacement for CPython. There are some aspects of Python that are not suitable for static compilation — we don't support these in Codon.

This is targeting a Python subset, not Python itself.

For example, something as simple as this will not compile, because lists cannot mix types in Codon (https://docs.exaloop.io/codon/language/collections#strong-ty...):

l = [1, 's']

It's confusing to call this a "Python compiler" when the constraints it imposes pretty fundamentally change the nature of the language.
Not the parent, but I would. We've been using NATS for about five years at my company, and we recently adopted JetStream, and have been really impressed with it.

NATS, especially with JetStream now, is a Swiss Army knife of messaging. It can do RPC, Kafka-type batch streaming, low-latency realtime notifications, large-scale network transfer, offline sync, work queues, mirroring, weighted routing, partitioning... it's incredibly flexible. The simple but powerful primitive you have around subject routing/mapping/transforms, stream placement, replication, offline lead nodes etc. are just fantastic. It's super reliable. It scales from tiny apps to huge ones. The CLI and API tooling around streams and consumers is also fantastic.

Everything just feels well-designed and sensible. The new key/value store and blob store (both built on top of JetStream as client-side abstractions) are also super neat, and we've started using this functionality.
Here you go: https://anchor.fm/s/fb0d9ea8/podcast/rss
Taiwanese made
Photorealistic Synthetic Data for Object Detection in Urban Streetscapes
War and terrorism aside, for the rest of us, in practical terms, Israel can now never be trusted commercially for its software or hardware. Not only are they backdoored and exploited, but they also blow up and kill the user.
It's a cost analysis thing, I think. If I'm already working it's fine to want the company to do good so I do my best.

But even outside of remote work stuff people do this analysis. Like if I take on more work related to X people might get the impression, I own it, and then I'll get way more emails and my workload will be too large. Or if I finish feature Y in Z time then the customer might get the impression that's as long as it takes when really, I got very lucky, so they might tighten their expectations. So, sometimes, you make decisions that are "worse" for the company to save your own sanity and workload, depending on the issue and scope. It's complicated, but what's good for me is also good for the company to an extent.

Working in an office 2 days a week has a cost. The drive could add up to 4+ extra hours dedicated to work a week (that's a lot!). If the improvement to the company is only marginal based on my perception, I might say that's not worth it. Of course, in these bigger scenarios, we don't necessarily make this decision. But we make very similar micro-decisions almost every day.
Moshi is CC-BY. Another similar 7b (speech-text real-time conversational) model that was recently released under Apache v2: https://tincans.ai/slm3 / https://huggingface.co/collections/tincans-ai/gazelle-v02-65...
I don't know how widely it got reported on, but attempting to jailbreak Copilot nee. Bing Chat would actually result in getting banned for a while, post-Sydney-episode. It's interesting to see that OpenAI is saying the same thing.
the reason - i'm a little bearish on AI is due to its cost. small companies won't innovate on models if they don't have billions to burn to train the models.

yet when you look back at history, things that were revolutionary, it was due to low cost of production. web, bicycles, cars, steam engine cars etc.
RSS Feed - https://anchor.fm/s/fb0d9ea8/podcast/rss
Could also be a third party service compromise (ex: one used for marketing/scheduled posts) seeing that some of them are business or organizations.
Yeah Runpods cold start is definitely not 250ms, not even close. Maybe for some models idk but a huggingface model 8B params takes like 30 seconds to cold start in their serverless "flash" configuration.
The larger GPT-2s were also considered too dangerous to release publicly at first.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41534474
You reckon you could even use Github to archive some small things? If Github or GitLab suffers, then some parts of the internet will also have problems, correct?
Legitimately asking, is there any way for Github to go around searching for "no-code" content through countless private repositories?
ISPs tell Supreme Court they don't want to disconnect users accused of piracy
Taiwanese brand but produced in Hungary
Why water? It's not lost, it's endlessly renewable, specially since it's mostly just evaporated.

Energy or carbon released is much more interesting.

Do they mean evaporated?

That's 2.45 kJ per gram starting at 20C or 1.2MJ per half liter water bottle or around, roughly 340 Wh per email.

So, at an average price of let's say, a dollar per kWh, that's 34 cents of energy spent on the response.

Something is off in the cost (unless I messed up in the math which is likely).
That needs to be http://literateprogramming.com/ at the moment because their certificate / HTTPS setup is borked.
The advantage of working from home was that you could take care of kids and do all the housework, this worth thousands of dollars per months. For years companies didn't adjust salaries in accordance to inflation and the cost of outsourcing kids care and house care, all that while keeping interest rate low and bailing rich bankers with printing of money. This caused funneling of wealth from the workers to asset holders which increased house and stock prices rather than creating new actual wealth or GDP per capita while destroying almost every class of society except the 1 percenters who became richer. It is about time the system will balance itself otherwise the western world will go back to de facto feudalism.
If they paid WITCH company to realise it...well, they got what they paid for
When half the official death toll are children and medical staff, calling this an attack on "Hezbollah" is a clear form of IDF-leaning bias: https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1836428722381164935
Correct! Sorry I did not mean to imply that the glass itself was the problem, just that choosing glass doesn’t mean that the product is phthalate-free. So many foods contain these chemicals because of some contamination during processing.
You accuse me of whataboutism in a post about communication devices blowing up in Lebanon, where you yourself shift the blame on Israel because of the conflict with the Palestinians and settlers… you’re the only person shifting topics and using whataboutism so long…
The speed looks very nice. I just recently setup LMStudio + AnythingLLM to try out local voice chat and its still a little slower than I'd like but the PiperTTS voices are nicer than this.
One thing tech people absolutely don't understand is how much 2024 medicine is know-how and not science. And that's not for lack of trying to make it science. There are certainly things that could be improved, even through trivial stats. But for the most part, our information retrieval capabilities are so bad that the ability to actually walk the corridors and see the patient IRL is currently not something current state-of-the-art AI can compensate for.
Why do you call prompt engineering pseudoscience when it has been extraordinary successful?

The transition from using a LLM as a text generator to knowledge engine has been a gamechanger, and it has been driven entirely by prompt engineering
I am in it for the money. And usually the best way to make more money is to get promoted. And to get promoted it’s best to have visibility within the company. And the easiest way to get visibility is to be at the office and chat with the right people.
Bulgarian made, through a one-person trade intermediary for a Taiwanese company. The Bulgarian co is owned by a Norwegian btw.
Not only that, today there was another round of walkie talkie explosions, same type of targets, similar results. How dumb you have to be in this situation...
Which is extremely common.

A ton of companies moved away from defined benefit plans. There's still on the hook (in general) for existing obligations; they can't just go "never mind" for the most part. They've just focused on different retirement benefits going forward.
Amazing that people can't even read these days. Literally in the article, this wasn't all walkies.
Yeah, it feels closer to something like Cython without the python part.
Infinite zoom art turned into a game so fun
Not everyone is interested in genealogy, that's up to them, but to those of us who are, finding an unknown nth cousin may be worth a lot to untangle the lives of our ancestors, write the stories of our families, and find out where we come from, in a far wider sense than merely the genetic one.

But Ancestry is a roach motel. Of all sites that sell user-contributed data back to their users, and they're all scummy, I don't know any which are more scummy than Ancestry and MyHeritage.
Just went to get some BIOS files for the 5th gen Intel NUCs and they've purged them from the site. It's like when Microsoft purged the KB of everything not in current support. Burning of libraries, it's sickening.
3D printing experts warn of fallout from Stratasys and Bambu Lab lawsuits
I would be happy with incorporating Mac mail search into your tool. So you just proxy spotlight/mail search capabilities.
Norwegian here. While I do not have an electic car myself (yet), I would more or less agree that roughly half of the cars I see on the road (in my area) are electric.

There are a lot of Teslas (easy to spot), but also cars like Volkswagen Golf where you basically can't see the difference unless you either check the registration number (most of the electical cars have a plate that begins with EB, EC, EE, EV, ...) or notice that there is no air intake in the front grill.
Just an anecdote, hunchentoot on ecl was fine on embedded setup...except for file uploads. Too slow due to CLOS dispatch called for every char somewhere in flexi-streams too deep in the stack to optimize (and for me to figure out type declarations). Easiest way out was to switch to websockets (hunchensocket) which did not suffer from that somehow.
Right, there are offenders everywhere but the chief offender is the US by far (many don't have a clue about SI let alone metric, ask an American what 20°C is in Fahrenheit and they've no idea).

The UK is also troublesome in that whilst supposedly a metric country Imperial is still commonplace. For example, there's widespread use of antiquated units like the 'stone' (14 pounds)†, even BBC medical programs still regularly use the term.

Re Gaussian/cgs, in physics it's still widely used especially in field theory/Maxwell, SR (Special Relatively), etc. because in charge calculations and such involving permeability, permittivity, speed of light certain terms can be restated as 1 instead of their actual SI values.

Personally, I understand why this is done but from my perspective it's confusing if not misleading for reasons well outside this discussion (but who am I to argue with those more learned than me?). This Wiki provides justification of sorts (see Unit of charge): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_units.

† In Australia where I am, only people of my generation who've been around for decades would even know what a 'stone' was. Anyone born after say the mid 1970s would likely think you're talking about a rock. Trouble is, we see BBC/UK programs here. Fact is the UK is oblivious to the problem or it'd first correct its exports.
Well, yes. They are a company, with shareholders and all. So while not breaching any law, they should indeed pursue strategies that they think would be profitable.

And for all the negativity seen in many of the comments here I think it’s actually quite remarkable that they make model checkpoints available freely. It’s an externality, but a positive one. Not quite there yet in terms of the ideal - which is definitely open source - and surely with an abuse of language, which I also note. But overall, the best that is achievable now I think.

The true question we should be tackling is, is there an incentive-compatible way to develop foundation models in a truly open source way? How to promote these conditions, if they do exist?
The word "just" is doing a lot there. How easy do you think it is to "just" switch?
In the past, I've used this to generate HTML outputs to reflect a series of calculations and visualizations so that we can share with clients.
Okay, you've definitely nerd-sniped me here. Actually producing my initial reductions is not as trivial as I thought. Still, I came up with a solution that works for n>2:

d = λλλλ(3 2 (1 0)) # common
d' = λλλλλ(4 3 2 (1 0)) # common
weird = λλλλλ(4 (d (3 2)) 1 0)

Here I use de Bruijn indices instead of named variables and write Church numerals as <n>.

Then,

(<n-3> weird d' b) ~> λ^{n+1}(n (n-1 (n-2 ... (1 0)..)))

I could explain it in detail if anyone's interested. There should be some more elegant solutions though, so give it a try!
Attempting to jailbreak Bing's AI is against Microsoft's TOS. On the flipside, they get rights to all your data for training purposes and the only surefire way to opt out of that is to pick a different tech giant to be fucked by.
Ask HN: Kotlin SpringBoot vs. Python Django for Min Viable Product
Hi everyone, I am a backend developer using Spring Boot and Java. I also know some Angular. I had an app idea and wanted to build out the backend in either Kotlin+SpringBoot or Django+Python. I already know Python from prior experience but was wondering which one of the two combinations would be faster for prototyping. I know Django works well since it was used for Instagram. It would be easier on me if Spring Boot+Kotlin is a comparatively good choice since I already use Java+Spring Boot. I dont plan on using Java for the app since it can be a bit verbose at times and Django already has authentication included unlike Spring Boot with Spring Security. The app idea is a social networking application so it would need users, likes, comments, messaging and an activity stream/news feed. what are your thoughts?
I call it self-hosting when it's on your server, and hosting at home, if we want to be specific that the server is at home.
Auto-applying security updates is actually a major threat vector. It's often easier to compromise a cloud deployment system/key rather than thousands of edge-deployed devices.

An EOL device that has withstood the test of time, and has had many security patches but is no longer connected if often one of the most secure devices.
My understanding is that Google Ads are what makes Google Search unassailable.

A search engine isn't a two-sided market in itself but the ad network that supports it is. A better search engine is a technological problem, but a decently paying ad network is a technological problem and a hard marketing problem.
Perfect comment, it's important to celebrate but more important to keep in mind it's a tiny piece of the public infrastructure and government inertia we need to do this correctly. We need exactly what you describe, and I want to bolster the mention of education. China produces 2x the stem phds we do every year. Sure, bigger population, but they also have a growing share of citations. (source for both is suleyman's book "the coming wave")
The companies I had direct involvement with that outsourced R&D at least partially had names starting with J and N.

At least with J, if they outsourced the full part of one of the project, we would have it done faster and better XD
Might one mitigating possibility be to use a VPN that uses padded and rate limited packets, so that it is always sending and receiving user_defined bit rate and your real traffic would be traffic shaped to take priority but not exceed the padded streams? Maybe this assumes one is running their own tor daemon on a server somewhere and the vpn terminates on that node. I assume this could be done with tc sch_htb class shaping or perhaps sch_cake and tagging packets with iptables mangle rules and two never-ending bi-directional rsync streams reading /dev/urandom or big random files.

e.g.

Port 873 (native rsync) bulk traffic, low priority
Port 3128 (squid mitm ssl-bump proxy) high priority
> yet when you look back at history, things that were revolutionary, it was due to low cost of production.

Nuclear everything, rockets/satellites, tons of revolutionary things that are very expensive to produce and develop.

Also software scales differently.
Business processes change all the time. Often you are better off changing - if you are more like everyone else you can hire someone who knows your processes and they are useful without a lot of training. So short term costs, but long term better.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205.
1. Federal Reserve cut rates by 50 basis points, first since 2020.
2. Projected unemployment to rise to 4.4%, indicating labor market slowdown.
3. Inflation projections lowered to 2.3%, showing easing economic pressures.
4. Federal Reserve's decision may influence other global central banks.
5. Market volatility followed, suggesting investor uncertainty about economic outlook.