skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have built quite a few highly useful LLM applications in my org that have reduced cost and improved outcomes in several domains - fraud detection, credit analysis, customer support, and a variety of other spaces. By in large they operate as cognitive load reducers but also handle through automation the vast majority of work since in our uses false negatives are not as bad as false positives but the majority of things we analyze are not true positives (99.999%+). As such the LLMs do a great job at anomaly detection and allow us to do tasks it would be prohibitively expensive with humans and their false positive and negative rates are considerably higher than LLMs.

I see these statements often here about “I’ve never seen an effective commercial use of LLMs,” which tells me you aren’t working with very creative and competent people in areas that are amenable to LLMs. In my professional network beyond where I work now I know at least a dozen people who have successful commercial applications of LLMs. They tend to be highly capable people able to build the end to end tool chains necessary (which is a huge gap) and understand how to compose LLMs in hierarchical agents with effective guard rails. Most ineffectual users of LLMs want them to be lazy buttons that obviate the need to think. They’re not - like any sufficiently powerful tool they require thought up front and are easy to use wrong. This will get better with time as patterns and tools emerge to get the most use out of them in a commercial setting. However the ability to process natural language and use an emergent (if not actual) abductive reasoning is absurdly powerful and was not practically possible 4 years ago - the assertion such an amazing capability in an information or decisioning system is not commercially practical is on the face absurd.
I believe this is a system where a human/system builds a package and uploads and cryptographically signs it, verifying end to end that the code uploaded to github for widget-package 3.2.1 is the code you're downloading to your laptop for widget-package 3.2.1 and there's no chance it is modified/signed by a adversarial third party
He probably thought programming students should be taught Pascal, the academic language he pioneered. It is quite different from BASIC.
Your ad-hominem "wetting the bed" and "hyperventilating" attacks are pointless, and have nothing to do with reality. And just more proof that it's pointless to argue any of this with anyone that thinks trump might not be so bad. Goodbye.
So, put differently, this is just more expensive?
Pascal was Wirth, not Dijkstra.
> A very very very tiny subset.

Not really. Approximately 40 million people voted in the 2024 primaries.
Does that solve the problem between vertical/horizontal layout?

On a mobile the default is vertical, on a desktop horizontal. That matters more than different screen size and is the hard part.
Going from tokens to bytes explodes the model size. I can’t find the reference at the moment, but reducing the average token size induces a corresponding quadratic increase in the width (size of each layer) of the model. This doesn’t just affect inference speed, but also training speed.
In your opinion.

Outside of that, examples abound of racist behaviour by non white peoples, often toward other non white people.
I think it's pretty hard to get a Python package into the top 360 list while not picking up any maintainers who could climb that learning curve pretty quickly. I wrote my own notes on how to use Trusted Publishers here: https://til.simonwillison.net/pypi/pypi-releases-from-github

The bigger problem is for projects that aren't hosting on GitHub and using GitHub Actions - I'm sure there are quite a few of those in the top 360.

I expect that implementing attestations without using the PyPA GitHub Actions script has a much steeper learning curve, at least for the moment.
Market cap is just speculative pricing, the grand illusion of wealth. Then, there is investment banking advice, which is still speculative. The real value is only confirmed when a transaction occurs.
For OpenSSH configuration the first directive controls, not the last. So if you want to set an option make sure your include filename comes lexically earlier, not later. This is why the Include directive is at the top of distro-installed /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You can verify your server configuration using `sshd -T`, and a client configuration using `ssh -G`; they dump the resolved configuration to stdout.
It's not consent by putin it's attempting to build, it's consent by those who will be in a position to demand the US respond to a nuclear attack; Republican lawmakers, who will need a plausible reason to say 'maybe he's justified'.
If Sam Altman concluded that AI is reaching it's limits, it probably wouldn't be a very good strategic decision for him to say it.
I think it's a little rude to imply that the people who worked on this are serving an ulterior motive.
But that involved one of the developers of said package committing malicious code and it being accepted and then deployed. How would this prevent that from happening?

I thought this was about ensuring the code that developers pushed is what you end up downloading.
Sounds like management and mentoring might be a satisfying diversion at this point in your life.
The name of this product is infuriating.
That's my understanding also, but I still feel like 'who cares' about that attack scenario. Am I just insufficiently paranoid? Is this kind of attack really likely? (How is it done, other than evil people at pypi?)
https://archive.ph/UuBy9
I feel like the future would declare monitors to be old technology. And everyone will migrate to eye mount displays.
And this is how GD-ROMs got ripped. Broadband adapter and the shoot out the data over Ethernet
Duh - sell the parks to a golf resort developer!
Curiosity is getting the best of me, so against my better judgement I must ask -

What is your position on repeatedly using lies to engage in slander and libel towards a specific group of people over a long period time?
> I don't think a rational calculus can be applied to voting in a US Presidential election, because it's irrational to expect that your vote could change the outcome of the election.

It’s irrational to think this single reason is the only “rational calculus” that can be applied to one’s voting reasoning. It ignores around a century of game theory results, a huge body of work on voting strategies including a Nobel Prize, and more mathematics and “ rational calculus” applied than one could likely learn over an entire career.

I find it completely irrational to make such an assertion, especially without putting any effort into learning at least some work on the topic.
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And here for the w3 haters (if that is still a thing):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/fi...
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> If the big telco can find 10 righteous callers from a a bad actor telecom, they should keep routing the calls.

Why?
Yes, I know. But restful healing is important too. And it has a good track record, better than the doctors in fact. They should work around the healing instead of interfering with it.
My reason for commenting wasn't to say LLM sucks, but rather we need to get over the honeymoon phase. The fact the GPT-4o (one of the most advanced, if not the most advanced when it comes to non programming tasks) hallucinated "Github" as the input, should give us pause.

LLM has its place and it will forever change how we think about UX and other things, but we need to realize you really can't create a public facing solution without significant safe guards, if you don't want egg on your face.
A memory leak is essentially when a program uses more and more memory because it loses track of some of it so it can't give it back to the OS. You're thinking of another kind of leak.
> an AI that can […] tackle complex tasks independently like an Agent. The AI is completely in sync with you, every step of the way.

How can it tackle complex tasks independently if it is completely in sync with the user every step of the way?

The marketing copy seems to promise contradictory properties.
Why shouldn't I be able to clone an SSD? lol
only a small set of symbols

I grind hundreds of flashcards every night to learn Japanese and I can assure you that one thing we are not short of is symbols. Chinese characters use ~218 basic symbols which can be stacked and combined to form tens of thousands of characters. There are 350 symbols just for counting different kinds of things.

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-counters-list/
Right, any knowledge not in Org-mode is not really knowledge.
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Oh boy, I didn't even notice until I read your comment!
Edit: I now realize that it is actually relativty, without the second ‘I’

The relativity.com domain could not have been cheap, even if leased.

I’m surprised they are making a new brand, “Unai”/unison.co, instead of continuing with Relativity.
Nvm I see it now

Why is that? I don’t see any problems with this particular name. Valve index and oculus rift aren’t that amazing either.
From this OpenAI paper (page 29 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.09390#page=29

"A.2 CHESS PUZZLES

Data preprocessing. The GPT-4 pretraining dataset included chess games in the format of move sequence known as Portable Game Notation (PGN). We note that only games with players of Elo 1800 or higher were included in pretraining. These games still include the moves that were played in- game, rather than the best moves in the corresponding positions. On the other hand, the chess puzzles require the model to predict the best move. We use the dataset originally introduced in Schwarzschild et al. (2021b) which is sourced from https://database.lichess.org/#puzzles (see also Schwarzschild et al., 2021a). We only evaluate the models ability to predict the first move of the puzzle (some of the puzzles require making multiple moves). We follow the pretraining for- mat, and convert each puzzle to a list of moves leading up to the puzzle position, as illustrated in Figure 14. We use 50k puzzles sampled randomly from the dataset as the training set for the weak models and another 50k for weak-to-strong finetuning, and evaluate on 5k puzzles. For bootstrap- ping (Section 4.3.1), we use a new set of 50k puzzles from the same distribution for each step of the process."
Entry / user fees?
> Major accounts leaving X are finding a new home on Mastodon..

[Citation strongly needed]

Provide me a list of 20 major (1M+ follower) accounts in the last week that have announced they have moved over to Mastodon.

No offence but little to nobody important cares about decentralisation.

Mastodon had multiple chances after Elon fuckup after fuckup with changes to X and it has been decided Bluesky has the easiest onboarding after Threads.

Bluesky just announced that they have 1M users in a SINGLE DAY.

Sure, Bluesky is currently VC funded, however they can certainly find a way through paid features to monitise the platform.

Mastodon is made up of volunteers with questionable reliability of instances which can go down at any moment for any reason at the will of the admin or if the admin has no money.
You are missing the economic component.. it isn't just how small can a transistor be.. it was really about how many transistors can you get for your money. So even when we reach terminal density, we probably haven't reached terminal economics.
The name is Relativty, which is one 'i' off from the normal spelling of relativity.
I love Kagi but why another product? They’re taking on more and more (search, browser, AI, translate) and I rather wish they'd focus on the other stuff instead
Tokenization is not strictly speaking necessary (you can train on bytes). What it is is really really efficient. Scaling is a challenge as is, bytes would just blow that up.
Simpler: nobody will pay you to buy land, grow trees, and bury them. You will get paid for farming, logging, mining, drilling, and much more.
Even if it was 20c per call/e-mail, it would solve the spam problem overnight, while not interfering significantly with legitimate communication.
I'd be shocked if this concocted quarantine that they shipped Musk off into gets any changes implemented. IQ as Musk sees it (no doubt logic/math type IQ) is not what effects change in government. Connections, social intelligence, and knowing how to work the system is what moves things in Washington.

I'm reminded of a story I heard in an interview of a Fed insider. They had an initiative designed to onboard Wall Street talent to counter the fact that so much of the modern financial system was building up outside of traditional regulated banking. Meanwhile the street was increasingly reliant on alternative data sources that were not in Fed reports. So they wanted people who could give the real scoop on what was happening in rainbow markets. Maybe someone going to go " Everyone knows SVB is loading up on massive amounts of duration risk at crazy prices, but what else could they do? This was always the in-game of FED ZIRP policy and now it's accelerating the critical levels right under the surface... "

Anyway, They had a decent response and the initiative and a pile of resumes, but the Fed ended up promoting internally to higher pay grades, end of story. High "IQ" smart initiative with a good response, but they didn't have the right teams with enough reach an institutional leverage implementing it. I would be shocked if the outcome is anything but that, at best. Too bad, because the initiative isn't necessarily a bad idea, but it's certainly off to a bad start with Musk at the helm. Sub 10% chance of success in my eyes.
Enough LISP and Assembler can eventually cure the worst BASIC inflicted brain damage, but some scars remain.
>compose LLMs in hierarchical agents with effective guard rails

Could you elaborate? Is this related to the "teams of specialized LLMs" concept I saw last year when Auto-GPT was getting a lot of hype?
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Article title: We’re (finally!) going to the cloud!

Previously (17 points, 9 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138096
Betamax instead of VHS

8-Track instead of cassette

Minidiscs instead of CDs

Yahoo instead of Google

Gopher instead of HTTP

I want to believe that such alternative universe exists. How do I get there? I'm tired of this one...
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There is a ton of information out there about this. It goes beyond free speech to defamation, inciting harassment etc. Repeatedly calling grieving parents "Crisis Actors", publicly calling them liars over and over again, it turns out is not OK.

And then Jones/Infowars spectacularly failed to engage properly with the legal system, and the case went to default judgement.

https://apnews.com/article/shootings-school-connecticut-cons...

> Isn’t being despicable a basic right?

Personally I'm glad something could be done about it. He was profiting from causing further pain to people already going through something pretty unimaginable.
Hmm… I definitely have that blocked, but not sure the source of it. Probably it’s an extension.
ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology
For law, I use both and find that neither is clearly superior. I’ll often pick one to first draft, and then feed to the other for suggestions and my edits.
I just got done with my first session in Windsurf. It's mostly magical, but the terminal implementation leaves something to be desired. That doesn't seem like it would take much to fix though. Setting that aside, this thing is insane. I spun up a Django project/app and was able to accomplish in about 5 minutes what would normally take over an hour. The way it seamlessly edits multiple files in unison is unbelievably powerful. You can create a URL route, a view, a model and a template all in one swipe and it gets it right time after time. I'm impressed.
Oh, believe me, Indians fucking hate the scammers, probably more than you do.

Jim Browning (the scambaiter who worked with O2 in this article) has successfully compromised several scam operations, gotten their physical address and other dox, and referred them to the police. The offices get raided, Jim gets some nice CCTV footage of the raid, the operators of the criminal enterprise get a nice perp walk... and then a month later the case is mysteriously dismissed with a bullshit reason about AI deepfakes and "IO" (influence operations, I presume).

The thing to keep in mind is that India's government is run by Modi, a Hindu ultranationalist who wants to deport all the country's Muslims to Pakistan[0]. There's a pretty straightforward pipeline from organized crime to fascism and I wouldn't be surprised if the scammers in question here are part of Modi's power base (or part of other organizations which are part of his power base).

The only thing I could think of to fix this would be to strategically suck people out of India through generous visas for migrants who want to live in a country with functioning[1] institutions. The thing about organized crime is that it relies on having a pool of suckers to continue joining the criminal enterprise - in other words, even the scammers are themselves being scammed. This is one of the less selfish reasons why I'm an open borders fanatic, but I also have to admit that such a policy in today's era has negative political capital.

[0] Which itself has money problems because it's budget gets siphoned off by their own military and they have to beg the IMF for scraps

[1] To be clear, India's institutions still exist, they're just mildly broken.
Since when do bookmarklets work on iOS? How exactly do I use that?
What you're saying is an explanation what I said, but I agree with you ;)
Suh-weet!
Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices
Not for this use case. Other use cases at Netflix use AWS Managed service when it makes sense from a use-case and cost perspective. In this case, using TimeSeries opens the door to a lot of other potential future use cases:

1. What was the count for counter X between times T1 and T2?
2. "I am going to re-run my batch job again from yesterday. Adjust the increments for this window and re-compute the final count".

Although the #2 use-case requires lot of other nuances around Recounting, which we allude to but don't expand upon in the article (adjustable retention, multiple rollup checkpoints per counter, pushing back accept-limit for backfills etc.)
From the GitHub this is only capable of 3DoF tracking, which puts it in the same category as the defunct Oculus Go headset, or Google Cardboard. 6DoF is really the bare minimum to qualify as proper VR nowadays.

For the uninitiated 3DoF means the headset only tracks the rotation of your head, not your heads absolute position as you move around, while 6DoF tracking does both. 6DoF is also much harder to implement.
I get downvoted for thanking you. stupid HN folks :D
LLMs need to compress information to be able to predict next words in as many contexts as possible.

Chess moves are simply tokens as any other.
Given enough chess training data, it would make sense to have part of the network trained to handle chess specifically instead of simply encoding basic lists of moves and follow-ups. The result would be a general purpose sub-network trained on chess.
> Just want to add to what other people are saying, not only did VB6 support relative positioning

Did it? I know .NET WinForms does with Control.Anchor, but that is VB.NET, not VB6.

It’s been many years but I don’t recall any method for that in VB6. As someone else noted you could handle the resize handler and move things around yourself.
> While LLMs do plenty of awful things, people make the most incredibly stupid mistakes too

I am 100% not blaming the LLM, but rather VCs and the media for believing the VCs. Once we get over the hype and people realize there isn't a golden goose, the better off we will be. Once we accept that LLM is not perfect and that it is not what we are being sold, I believe we will find a place for it that will make a huge impact. Unfortunately for OpenAI and others, I don't believe they will play as big of a role as they would like us to believe/will.
except that is impractical at best. The Debian (and Ubuntu) python packaging groups have been overwhelmed since Python2.7. no way at all does the Debian packaging ecosystem reasonably satisfy python packages.. And there is more.. the Debian system does what it must do -- ensure system Python has integrity with major software stacks and the OS use of Python. Super! that is not at all the needs of users of python. As you know, Python has passed Javascript as the most used language on Github. There is tremendous pace and breadth to several important Python uses, with their libraries.

Please reconsider this position with Debian and python packaging.
I wish they did, because then it would be more consistent and properly documented.
> Twitter is a dumpster fire and algorithms purposefully boost the most toxic content

Proceeds to be extremely toxic.

@dang
Related:

"The Department of Government Efficiency is hiring"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42142487

https://twitter.com/DOGE/status/1857076831104434289
I mean, I don't disagree, but you might be surprised at the scale of systems that were written in BASIC, well into the 1990s and probably beyond that. And not the modern Microsoft Visual incarnation of it but the old, line-numbered, GOTO/GOSUB and everything-is-global classic style.

For a while I worked at a financial company and all their internal systems were in BASIC. They had dozens if not hundreds of internal users, all running on dumb terminals connected to a couple of servers that ran those BASIC programs. This was online transactional systems as well as nightly batch jobs. The programmers were mostly not computer science people but ordinary, smart people who understood the business and did a good job with the tools they had. It wasn't all a mountain of spaghetti, they had put a lot of thought into their standards and practices and documentation and it was pretty easy to work on.

It was used for far more than short programs and teaching.
It sorta played chess- he let it generate up to ten moves, throwing away any that weren't legal, and if no legal move was generated by the 10th try he picked a random legal move. He does not say how many times he had to provide a random move, or how many times illegal moves were generated.
The licensing fee wasn't the sole reason, but it certainly sounded the death knell for Gopher and gave users reasons to look elsewhere.

For all the gauzy what-could-have-been speculations about Gopher, it really was more like a hierarchical wiki. WWW's freestyle document model quickly expanded to an application platform that could support all manner and style of services. Fees or not, Gopher didn't have a chance.
I agree with you 100%, but to be ideologically consistent, we should admit that websites have as much of a right to ignore Do Not Track as we have to ignore their tracking scripts.
There is cookie banners in the US and canada
sucks...

after the dot-com bust, i took a job that involved a 70 mile commute (each way) which was about 100 minutes on the road on average each way. At the time, i thought that was the only option for me. turns out it was one the worst career choices i made.
> You could anchor things relatively to other controls or components.

I don’t believe this was a feature that came out of the box in VB6. There is Control.Anchor in WinForms that is post VB6.
No, part of the malicious code is in test data file, and the modified m4 file is not in the git repo. The package signed and published by Jia Tan is not reproducible from the source and intentionally done that way.

You might want to revisit the script of xz backdoor.