skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to reply to every comment I make in reply to someone else in this thread, just FYI.

> Make a good product that does not rely on exploiting user data. Advertise in relevant locations without tracking (e.g. if you sell cars, advertise on a car-centric website/forum/magazine).

No, none of this is a light pattern. It's just abstaining from the activity entirely.
Yes. However it's not at all obvious that there is a clean separation between Linux and user space.

You look up the manual entry on some Linux system call and it gives you the glibc documentation. You look up the init system in the manual, expecting details on what the kernel requires of PID 1, and it just gives you systemd documentation. This stuff is completely mixed up.

You look Linux up on Wikipedia and the article eventually starts telling you about standard C libraries as if they were part of Linux. In some articles there's even a diagram showing glibc wrapping the kernel, as if it was Linux's equivalent to the Win32 API.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Linux_ke...

In reality, you can trash that entire thing and remake the entire user space in Rust or Zig or Lisp if you want. No libraries are necessary.
"were wearing wool, wood and leather and somehow even managed to do something like mountaineering"

Serious mountaineering is still done with merino wool.
Are these filters sufficient to filter out microplastics?
How come we never hear of PyPy anymore?
'alternate' python implementations seem to come up every so often (including today) but we never seem to hear about PyPy(1) any more...

Is there some issue with it I'm unaware of? It sounds pretty awesome on the face of it...

1) https://pypy.org/features.html
no I mean what part of twitter, the main application? We're saying it's running off of CF pages and workers now?

Elsewhere I've seen only the t.co domain link shortening/forwarding... which could be a small worker app running there, not the main app.

From what I can see some locations in Brazil route to CF, but not all. And only from x.com, not twitter.com
And is light like plastic and not heavy like glass
you mean inferring the website based on packet traffic pattern if you are the guard? yeah maybe possible, not sure how distinct each website footprint would be in practice

seems like it would also be challenging to hold up in actual legal proceedings
How would you even know which network a pager was on just by looking at it? They were thousands of bombs disguised as consumer devices in circulation in public. There are new reports that other consumer devices may also have been rigged with explosives.
That's not a light pattern, that's giving up the activity entirely.

If an activity is explicitly legal, even with regulations, then there should be a light pattern for that activity is there is a dark pattern.

Look at selling cigarettes in the 80s. A dark pattern would be trying to influence kids on the low, which mascots like Joe Camel.

A light pattern would not be abstaining from selling cigarettes entirely, analogous to what you suggest, but rather voluntarily adding labels to packaging and taking other precautions.
Go into your LinkedIn profile settings under "Data & Privacy". The controls for turning off data sharing, including for AI training, are there.
My desire for the bottom of my taps to be descaled is not explainable.

I can make up reasons - I can say, it looks better because it's more visually ordered, it's shiny and it looks nice, family and friends I invite over have this arbitrary bias too and so they'll look more kindly on me... etc.

But at the end of the day I just want the taps descaled and my cleaner does it for me.

It sounds really as if what it comes down to is that you want more ownership over your job than what is being offered. Amazon are saying, explicitly, this is our decision, agree or disagree, we're doing it.
Was this started or proliferated and promoted by Zero Hedge
14B with Q4_K_M quantization is about 9 GB.

Remarkable that it is at all comparable to Sonnet 3.5
...what are those sha512 hashes doing in the author list?
Because you're an enemy of the Iranian, Saudi, North Korean, etc. gov't.

Because your ex-spouse wants to murder you.

Because you just escaped Scientology, or another cult.

Because you're a criminal. The NSA doesn't handle that.

Because you're a journalist talking to sources in the industry you're investigating.
LinkedIn is an business card / CV storage site, where you can find a job.

If it was just a bunch of linked profiles with a job matching function, it would still be LinkedIn.

But of course, you can't work at a place that does something that mundane without suggesting something that makes you look like Facebook or Twitter. You have to at least give people some sort of reason to see what their old colleagues are up to.

Nobody really wants to read the LinkedIn feed, so it's perfectly acceptable that it gets flooded with AI generated content. In effect, the content on LinkedIn is that picture of a happy family on your insurance brochure. You can't not have a photo of something on that kind of marketing document, and you can't be a social network without some sort of doom-scrollable content.

This is just a cheap way to generate some wallpaper.
vcpkg: C/C++ dependency manager
Hezbollah is a militia and has more manpower and equipment than the Lebanese army. They get high tech supplies from allies like Iran and they have more military power than a lot of the surrounding countries, who also fear them for that reason.

They aren't a civilian force and they are a serious military threat, especially with the backing of Iran.
If you have not yet read "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears," I highly recommend.

https://avogadrocorp.com/
Anonymous publishing
most governments retaliate to some degree against journalists, whistleblowers, etc. - no pogrom needed
We have clear evidence that asbestos and lead are very harmful.

I don't think we have that evidence for plastic (yet).

Also you totally can start buying plastic free clothes here and now. Just more expensive usually.
For the same reason we have SSL on this site, despite the fact that it has no sex, no storefront, nor any access to my banking or private information.

If everything is SSL secured, then we don't have to explain why any specific thing is SSL secured. The same reason can be applied to use of TOR.
To be clear, Fed Soc itself doesn’t take policy positions. (And it’s not clear to me what the “conservative” position on patent issues would be. Traditionally, plaintiff’s lawyers are liberals.)
Maybe OP means that tyranny tends to abuse the safety reasoning, not that all safety reasoning comes from tyrants.
Celery is an over engineered pile.. Rather move lower down the stack, with your first step being Kombu which powers celery under the hood. It's oddly "configurable" so if you need to optimize and adjust connections this is where you should go, and it's pretty interchangeable between Redis and AMQP. Really, almost a drop in replacement that should just be a config change.
No it supports less actually. Obsidian is only a markdown editor, it does allow you to edit code fragments like code (so there is basic code highlighting, auto-tabbing etc) but that's it. I personally find this a lot easier in some cases. I find that sometimes if the code is too complicated that you need anything more than just "seeing" you probably need to break it further down to its atomic elements. For certain kinds of development, I do find myself needing to be in "programming groove" then I use Emacs. But other times, I accompany the code with a story and/or technical description so it feels like the end goal is to write the document, and not the code. Executable code is just a artifact that comes with it. It's definitely a niche application as far e.g. the industry goes.
I can get to that setting (when logged in) at https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...
per apple dev forums it seems like they have a history of breaking this and then fixing it. additionally, while IMAP is broken, calendars and notes seem to work just fine so hopefully it's not deliberate.
> If you were writing a Java application, would you do your own DNS resolution,

Java isn't known to nanny the users of apps developed in it's language. It's never even tried IMO.

> If the threat model you’re coding for is “Apple is a hostile actor intercepting and modifying dns queries” then you really can’t trust their provided posix calls either.

Sure, but that isn't the threat model. I described the threat model above, which is closer to "I don't trust a company famous for trying to nanny not to try to nanny if using their preferred developer frameworks, while I kind of trust they won't for a legacy API they barely pay attention to".
If you signed a contract, they could pursue legal action. Whether they would or not is a different question, but the possibility of legal action from someone with such deep pockets would give most people pause.
Thank you.

Obviously it doesn’t sound human but that’s extremely impressive for an 8B model. Compared to the Moshi model also on the front page now, this model seems to be more coherent, but maybe less conversational?
No. I mean the Mail app itself. It can be used like a lite version of Outlook.
The app can be used as a client for standard IMAP/POP mail servers. It also has GMail integrations.

The mail is usually downloaded into local mbox files.
Does any of the model-runners support this? Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp?
This is likely a restriction that applies whether or not they put it in the terms and conditions.
this is not a gated community at all
You're wrong here. Meta has released state of the art open source ML models prior to ChatGPT. I know a few successful startups (now valued at >$1b) that were built on top of Detectron2, a best-in-class image segmentation model.
I think you could still expect the ground invasion, possibly the day after tomorrow or early next week.
> It isn't legally possible to "just" take a pension away.

Is that true?

I simply point out the common TV trope of police officers, essentially, "trapped" waiting to, I guess, vest and get their pensions. They seem to use it a lot as a discipline incentive, for example. "Don't do that Hank, or you'll lose your pension!" etc.

But I know my mother got a pension working for a company for only a few years, so I don't know how that all works. "It depends" I'm sure.
It's a good question.

Its really because on the back of my mind I was wondering if there's a way to have revenue without intrusive advertising or anything.

And, inspired by the games industry where people seem very willing to buy digital good to make their characters look good, I thought well thre are people on the internet who really value having exactly the username they want. And then I thought well maybe I should hold off giving away what might be a practical, non intrusive way to generate revenue. Thus I though, well the easy way is just to put a number on the end of the username. That's the thinking. If you've signed up, as an early joiner I'd be happy to give you your username without the number - email me at developers@crowdwave.com and I'll fix you up.
With the fed rate cuts, IBM will probably be hiring back those same folks
Are these the jobs axed by AI? Would seem to make sense, since the CEO said they were going to replace 5800 jobs with AI.
I do hate fast fashion, but I can think of many exceptions where natural fibers won't cut it. There is no natural fabric product on the market that can properly replace lightweight, waterproof clothing. Waxed cotton is waterproof but heavy. Rubber is not breathable. Technical synthetics like Goretex have its issues (low durability, high cost, coated with PFAS), but it sure beats getting hypothermia.
Let's at least try to not devolve into name calling.
Orbit by Mozilla – AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
You worked at FB, but you call yourself an SRE, not a PE? ;)
> About 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%. ; While it's true that a record high 58% of American households do own stocks via mutual funds or as individual shares, in the aggregate the amount of stock most of these folks own is tiny.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/wealthy-own-record-share-st...
> If anyone tries to convince you Tor is not safe, ask yourself: cui bono?

It could be for insidious reasons, or because the speaker legitimately believes it. "If anyone tries to convince you you shouldn't use Rot13 as an encryption scheme, ask yourself- cui bono?" Silly example, but the point is, just about *everything* could be explained equally by either evil lies or honest warnings.
The concern isn't that Apple controls the OS and so could do nefarious rootkit type stuff, but rather they may try to nanny through the framework they prefer and push for all apps for their platform to be developed in.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40761301>

Mods on HN are people, and there's one person who posts publicly and responds to emails (dang). Moderator comments are not automated AFAICT, though they do lean heavily on standard language for all manner of self-evident reasons.

Mods also tend to get overwhelmed with busy threads and we've had a few particularly contentious ones in the past couple of days (middle-east conflicts).

Most HN moderation overall is accomplished through member votes and flags, and some automated tools to up- or down-rank submissions and automatically flag or kill submissions. There are a number of other factors at play, including the flamewar detector (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40437018>, generally, posts with more comments than votes), and banned sites / userIDs. But none of those result in moderator comments to the thread.

If you have further questions, email mods with your concerns at hn@ycombinator.com. They're quite patient in explanations, which is how I know much of what I'm saying here, along with reading dang's mod comments, as I did when I found this thread.
Hot take:

Any and all benefits / perks that OpenAI got from sailing under the non-profit flag should be penalized or paid back in full after the switcheroo.
If someone thinks to themselves: "I really don't like the ways twitter is changing. I'm leaving, but is there anything I can do to avoid the same thing happening with some other app/company?"

If they search around for an answer to that question, pretty soon someone is going to tell them to "self-host a Mastodon instance" or in the near future "self-host an ATProto instance".

My point is that the term "self-hosting" is unlikely to get them what they want, unless they happen to be interested in learning about DNS, IP addresses, ports, port forwarding, routers, firewalls, NAT, CGNAT, TLS, TCP, HTTP, web servers, Linux, updates, backups, etc, etc.

I don't think "web hosting" is going to help them much either.

What most people want is something like a Mastodon instance from masto.host[0] that integrates with a service like TakingNames[1] (which I own) to delegate DNS with OAuth2. I think we need a new term for this sort of setup. I think the term should also include self-hosting solutions, as long as those solutions focus on the outcomes (having a car to drive), not the implementation (building a kit car).

[0]: https://masto.host/

[1]: https://takingnames.io/blog/introducing-takingnames-io
Django is going to get you up and running and in business, while springboot is much harder to deploy.
>Edit: For all the cynics and doomsayers here, consider this: Tor has been around for a long time, but there has never been an uptick in arrests that could be correlated to cracking the core anonymity service. If you look closely at the actual high profile cases where people got busted despite using tor, these people always made other mistakes that led authorities to them.

Yeah, the stated reason is always something else. But this just reminds me of "parallel construction" - what if they were found in on way and then (to hide the source) the claim was that they were found in another way?
How to deal with people who are bad at explaining?
At work, I frequently find myself in situations where I'm pulled into some meeting where I have absolutely no idea what is going on and what people are talking about. I came to the conclusion that this is because most engineers are simply terrible at explaining things in a clear and concise way.

Same example of things that I encounter all the time:

- Completely not giving any sort of context. This happens often when I'm pulled into a meeting to talk about feature X, and where the other participants are already knowledgeable about feature X. It would help a lot of they would give me some context on what the feature is about, but at this point it's already a meeting with 10+ people, talking about the finer details so I can't really ask them to start all over from the beginning to explain it.

- Trying to explain things by going into the details instead of talking about the higher level principles. For example by showing me lines of code, instead of showing me schematics of what goes on at a higher level before showing me the nitty-gritty details.

- Not explaining the WHY. Often, people explain all sorts of solutions without even discussing what problem the solution solves.

- Relying on mostly text instead of images. I often have to read walls of text that describe a system. Or I have to listen to someone rambling on about how a system works. But it's very rare that they pull up a quick sketch, some diagrams, some screenshots, or whatever.

This happens in 8~9 out of 10 meetings. It's extremely rare that people explain things in a clear way, and it's starting to exhaust me. These days it often leads to me just mentally checking out and thinking about what I'm going to have for lunch/dinner. How do I deal with this? What are your strategies?
> Just like a blind programmer could code a program to tell if an image is red or blue

Uh I'm sorry but I think it's not as easy as it seems. A pixel? Sure it's easy just compare whether the blue is bigger than red value. For image, I don't think it's as easy.
I wish they could break Snapchat, Facebook etcs ‘s self-signed certs. I own the device, why can’t I see the traffic to and from all of these apps if I add my self-signed cert and approve to use a MITM-proxy.

Most apps work, but not everyone.

Often called certificate pinning.
I think it is just leaving the bag for picking up on the way back. Not really that complicated.
My brother from another mother, I thought I was the only one left who distinguishes much from many. (I wish I didn't know that it's technically an initialism not an acronym...)
> the female contraceptive pill is free to whoever wants it. Because that is a whole lot cheaper than extra (unwanted) pregnancies.

Abundant contraception encourages and promotes promiscuity

> the NHS has spent money on reducing smoking because that's cheaper than dealing with the health effects.

Reducing tobacco usage makes more room for nicotine OTC and vaping to replace it. Among other stimulants.
Facebook is more open with their models than almost everyone.

They say it's because they're huge users of their own models, so if being open helps efficiency by even a little they save a ton of money.

But I suspect it's also a case of "If we can't dominate AI, no one must dominate AI". Which is fair enough.
Thanks yes I have to say it was a micro moment of fun.
By "everyone", they mean LinkedIn customers, correct? Or is LinkedIn scraping the Web now?
Should be fixed now - https://discord.com/invite/R63PTQ6CFh
It's well known that the TSA does jack-all for security. A "POSIWID" analysis reveals that its primary purpose is the normalization of tyranny in the broader public by ritual public humiliation.
Well would you claim that Python 3.5 isn't python?
For me, Claude seems a lot better at understanding (so far as "understanding" goes with LLMs) subtext and matching tone, especially with anything creative. I can tell it, for example, "give me ideas for a D&D dungeon incorporating these elements: ..." and it will generally match the tone of theme of whatever it's given without needing much other prompting, while o1 will maintain the same bland design-by-committee style and often cloyingly G-rated tone to everything unless you get into very extensive prompting to make it do something different.
Don't worry, we got rid of BPAs and replaced them with substitutes that probably do the same thing!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6387873/
I was curious whether this used a locally-hosted LLM because I knew of Mozilla's sponsorship of Llamafile. Was funny to see that they use the term "locally hosted" in a novel way:

> Orbit currently uses a version of Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) that is locally hosted on Mozilla’s Google Cloud Platform instance.
> Wasnt it created by the AirForce or something?

No, don't be silly, that's ridiculous! It was the Navy.
Yeah, google does it too. I could not use certain Hetzner IPs to download container image on my kubernetes nodes at all. Even the official registry.k8s.io registry is hosted on Google Cloud Services and basic stuff like the pause image cant be pulled.
how are you renewing the LE certificate if the domain is resolving to an internal ip? this seems like a big hoop to jump through.
LLM costs are indeed a significant part of our operating expenses. While I can't share exact percentages, I can say that they constitute a meaningful portion of our revenue. We continually optimize our usage and explore cost-effective strategies to manage these expenses while maintaining the quality of our service.
Microplastics seem bad. The evidence of adverse effects seems marginal. But in the bigger picture, plastics provide enormous wealth to the world. We should look for ways to mitigate any adverse environmental effects, of course, but it's not at all obvious to me that the ROI of doing so in my personal life is positive.
Was Nelson Mandela a terrorist?
> Left out of this rant against the FDA is that the original product failed because it wasn't effective enough in rats to justify the expenses of a human trial.

Source? The article says something else.
> As with prior layoffs

When all of your outcomes result in same treatment of the same group of individuals, there just might be a little fire to that smoke.
there is almost certainly organic growth as well as more people in Nigeria and other SSA countries are getting very good internet penetration in recent years
Seems rather tenuous to base an application on this API that may randomly decide that you're banned. The "decisions" reached by the LLM that bans people is up to random sampling after all.
Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System
It can create invoices and receive payments.

Not quite production ready, yet.

Only need PostgreSQL installed to try.

I will add support to choose SQLite when they add native support for geography types.
One doesn't reduce the use of plastics without using something else as a replacement.

If we replace all plastic cups with glass cups, might we get micro-glass inside ourselves instead?

Glass, mostly silicon dioxide, might sound harmless, but glass can chip off in microscopic sharp fragments (think fiberglass dust - which some suggest might be as bad as asbestos). Glass also slightly dissolves in water (this is how glasses start to look frosty after enough dishwashing - they're dissolving), and slightly evaporates (everything has a vapour pressure!). And obviously the glass isn't pure - there can be all kinds of deliberate and accidental additives.

Am I worried about glass? No. But it seems naive to wholesale replace plastic with something else until there is a decent understanding of the replacement.
I mean, so? Why should it matter where they are located?
Mac Setup for Sequoia
How do you control an exit node?

I had the impression, with onion services they are a thing of the past.
Probably better said as "BEAM is a secret weapon".

BEAM languages (including Elixir and Gleam) share the benefits Erlang enjoys by also being part of the ecosystem.