skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ali and eBay have been at this for years.

I've got a X to sell for £100. I can also sell Y, which costs £50. I'll advertise with the main selling price of Y and the main picture/description of X ... Profit!

Most people are selling X for £75, and a real bargain would be £50, so it doesn't seem 'too good to be true' that a seller would have a X for £50, on a good day.

It isn't Ali that's doing it, they're just complicit in not closing the loophole that's being exploited by sellers.

Caveat emptor.
I figure it would be awful hard to communicate without the semantic shortcuts that comprise a vocabulary
All those things still exist. They may not be in fashion but they are not outlawed either :)

Anyway... It depends a lot on your goals. You may want to write for yourself or you may want to have a large audience. You may want to just write about this specific topic -or topics- that interests you. Or you may want to write about everything and anything.

You also need to consider your effort. Would you mind paying some money? Or do you instead want to try to make money? Do you want a turnkey solution or are you willing to tinker and customize or maybe even code some part (e.g. some CSS or a full theme)?

Depending on those answers, and maybe a couple more, there are different options you can choose.

Some examples:

- You could pay for some space, hand-code the site locally and just upload the site through FTP or rsync. An obvious improvement would be using a site generator instead of hand-coding. I currently have a site -no visitors- with Zola, but there are dozens to choose from. You'd be writing your content in, say, Markdown, and then with a command updating and uploading the site. Optionally, download a theme you like and -optionally again- customize it. Or make your own.

- Still paying for basic hosting you can go with some simple blog CMS. Probably one written in PHP, since that's what most "basic hosting" usually supports. There are a few options but I can mention Grav or Chyrp Lite. Sometimes I've used a wiki (such as Dokuwiki) with a few tweaks to produce an experience fairly close to a blog.

- You can, obviously, go for a full thing like Wordpress, Drupal, Ghost, etc. It will usually require more effort if you still want to self-host. But you can usually also find places that will host it for you and manage installation and setup. These probably won't be free.

- You can still find some free hosting, too. Neocities comes to mind, but I haven't used it and can't say anything about how well it works. I'm sure there are others. They may mean having to put up with some ads, probably, but you can still retain some control over it.

- There are also some "blogging platforms" like Blogger, Medium, Write.as, or even Wordpress. But I don't use those so I can't recommend any in particular. Be aware that they may or may not be free, or they may have some free features and some paid ones. They may also have other concerns like ads, tracking, loss of ownership, etc.
... which is linked to from the article ;)

He's right but do people really misunderstand this? I think it's pretty clear that the issue is one of over-creativity.

The hallucination problem is IMHO at heart two things that the fine article itself doesn't touch on:

1. The training sets contain few examples of people expressing uncertainty because the social convention on the internet is that if you don't know the answer, you don't post. Children also lie like crazy for the same reason, they ask simple questions so rarely see examples of their parents expressing uncertainty or refusing to answer, and it then has to be explicitly trained out of them. Arguably that training often fails and lots of adults "hallucinate" a lot more than anyone is comfortable acknowledging.

The evidence for this is that models do seem to know their own level of certainty pretty well, which is why simple tricks like saying "don't make things up" can actually work. There's some interesting interpretability work that also shows this, which is alluded to in the article as well.

2. We train one-size-fits all models but use cases vary a lot in how much "creativity" is allowed. If you're a customer help desk worker then the creativity allowed is practically zero, and the ideal worker from an executive's perspective is basically just a search engine and human voice over an interactive flowchart. In fact that's often all they are. But then we use the same models for creative writing, research, coding, summarization and other tasks that benefit from a lot of creative choices. That makes it very hard to teach the model how much leeway it has to be over-confident. For instance during coding a long reply that contains a few hallucinated utility methods is way more useful than a response of "I am not 100% certain I can complete that request correctly" but if you're asking questions of the form "does this product I use have feature X" then a hallucination could be terrible.

Obviously, the compressive nature of LLMs means they can never eliminate hallucinations entirely, but we're so far from reaching any kind of theoretical limit here.

Techniques like better RAG are practical solutions that work for now, but in the longer run I think we'll see different instruct-trained models trained for different positions on the creativity/confidence spectrum. Models already differ quite a bit. I use Claude for writing code but GPT-4o for answering coding related questions, because I noticed that ChatGPT is much less prone to hallucinations than Claude is. This may even become part of the enterprise offerings of model companies. Consumers get the creative chatbots that'll play D&D with them, enterprises get the disciplined rule followers that can be trusted to answer support tickets.
The "prey upon the poor" is just as bad, if not worse, in Brazil. Growing up there you don't really realize, but after living abroad for a while it is painfully obvious.

Just a small example, stores that sell anything >30 USD don't put the real price of goods when they advertise them. They always put "<h5>x12</h5> <h1>{REAL_PRICE/12}</h1>" (show the price of the installment, while putting how many installments really small)

I had a data scientist friend who worked at a bank optimizing how much credit he could give out to people (while staying legal with the regulations). Like his goal was to get people to get more credit (usually credit card). My Bank app constantly bombard me with notifications about taking loans and getting credit cards.

This friend was not the most moral person I ever met and even him was disgusted after a few years working there, he was making a ton of money but he left anyway.
Imagine having a backend being down 20-40 days per year, yeah that would be bad.
Companies do not care about hallucinations because text output being bad is not considered an error, and as long as it won't raise a Datadog alert it won't be taken seriously.
I don't even have that many real 'friends' (non-colleagues/family)... and I still agree. Separate is best - even if that means one side suffers. Solitude beats being taken advantage of, every time.
Yeah I think everyone noticed that a dodgy site selling questionable products has some dark patterns. Everyone in Asia, for a start.
Hey! As of right now no but I am happy to add it :) Can you tell me more about the background of how you would use the export? It is just a simple JSON export that you can then work with with scripts or are you thinking about integrating with other applications? What would be the preferred format of the export & is an import also needed?
I'll do what I wish. I have a PhD in pure math.
Politics and Social Network Success
Who would have imagined that the way to break the facebook monopoly was to make social networks political

We now have threads bluesky and X, it's looking good like the tumblr/myspace years

This is good for innovation!
Its the brain child of Dave Abrahams, who is rather big in C++.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lecIqUhEl4
This is a common fallacy around science students who use anki for the first time. Smashing a deck without accompanying learning ressources won't lead to connecting the dots like you would in a traditional learning setting. So given an exam you would probably fail as you can't connect the dots because you just memorized facts in a random order. The exception is of course language learning for which anki and spaced repetition was made originally because random order doesn't matter and connecting facts neither.
Arctic Fox – Web Browser for Mac OS X 10.6, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows XP
> The EU single market is largely a myth from the perspective of wanting to start a successful company that can compete internationally. It's not any easier now than it was before the EU existed.

That's not exactly true. The single market has been a great thing for companies producing physical products. That's also what was in mind of the people who designed the single market. They wanted to unify standards for physical stuff. Because back then, there were no digital services to speak of. "Analog" services were naturally limited in their scaling capability so they weren't in focus, but mankind had back then just learned to scale up physical production, and the single market for physical goods has largely worked out great to shape global standards and stay competitive in the area of anything that's traded and touchable.

What's been created is a bad fit for digital products and services, unfortunately. The legal frameworks covering purely digital services are far less unified than the standards for physical goods. And digital services are way more reliant on localization than physical stuff is. No amount of EU single market legislation will ever be able to eliminate the language barriers, much less other cultural barriers that are often hindering digital services successful in one EU country from being adopted in neighboring EU countries.

Therefore, for those digital services that benefit greatly from network effects, it'll be hard for European variants to ever beat their US counterparts on the domestic turfs, and virtually impossible on the global market. However, not all digital services are dependent on network effects, so there are good reasons to continue trying to make the EU single market more applicable to digital services and to foster domestic offerings whereever possible, even if that strategy will probably never lead to the next Facebook or Instagram or Amazon to be built by a EU company.
Browser fingerprinting tools for anonymizing scrapers
Now do it again, but include compile time and amortise across the number of executions expected for that specific build.

I say this as a pretty deep rust fanatic. All languages (and runtimes, interpreters, and compilers) are tools. Different problems and approaches to solving them benefit from having a good set at your disposal.

If you're building something that may only run a handful of times (which a lot of python, R, et al programs include) slow execution doesn't matter.
The Oscilloscope Music scene has really come a long way! I love the aesthetic and that got me started on a project to convert an old portable CRT TV into an oscilloscope. There's something really satisfying knowing that the visuals directly mirror the sound. Getting something visually pleasing while still sounding musical is a really interesting challenge. Hansi Raber from oscilloscopemusic.com even wrote his own software for that purpose: https://oscilloscopemusic.com/software/oscistudio/
macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium
Agreed.

Lofting up balloons, an technology from the 3rd century, carrying radios, a technology developed a century ago, and having the whole thing fail because it was a stupid idea, that's some real futuristic stuff right there.
The first paragraph of TFA:

> The week before Thanksgiving, Marshall Brain sent a final email to his colleagues at North Carolina State University. "I have just been through one of the most demoralizing, depressing, humiliating, unjust processes possible with the university," wrote the founder of HowStuffWorks.com and director of NC State's Engineering Entrepreneurs Program. Hours later, campus police found that Brain had died by suicide.

The headline is admittedly a bit weird.
That's really stupid: they got in trouble for writing down a requirement that wasn't actually a requirement and wasn't meant to be a requirement, in a human readable document, and then not revoking and reissuing those certificates which didn't meet the requirement, which still don't meet it so revoking and reissuing achieves nothing, and weren't supposed to meet it anyway so there's nothing actually wrong with them. Part of the point of having humans in a process is so that they can make sensible decisions when the process prescribes something nonsensical, but Mozilla wants to follow the nonsensical process at all costs.
> I think messenger apps generally nudge us that way - e.g. setting the name of the chat usually sets it for everyone.

That's a good point - maybe it's actually email that warped my mind.

> I'll read them in one order on receipt and in a different order when looking back

Also a good point, I was thinking more about business communication where the date the letter is received matters. Thinking back on it, I think the main difference is that the messenger apps might happily reorder message before (or while) I read them. And if only one order is to be available, the one of the most use to me for an instant messaging app is the one I received the messages in, but I get how for other use cases it would be different.
Consider this image:

https://imgur.com/a/o4OAPae

What do you think you’re buying if you press the buy button? A microcontroller for $6.93?

If you’re thinking you’re buying the microcontroller board, you’re wrong. It’s the oled highlighted lower right.

The microcontroller is $91.19.
Yeah that’s like improving the overcrowding issues in prisons by reducing the standard for capital punishment.

I should read some history books of that, surely.
Models do know things. Facts are encoded in their parameters. Look at the some of the interpretability research to see that. They aren't just Markov chains.
Reading this halfway around the globe I wonder what local area they are referring to? The globe?
Could Primordial Black Holes Be Hiding in Plain Sight?
Your thesis isn't very good. Nextjs has a huge marketing budget and that's it
I would use "Visibility chaser" instead of "Grifter".

Visibility is the single most important thing during the promotion cycle thus it is the most important thing for such people. Go write a class and then pretend that you invented the wheel and promote yourself to everybody, never spent the time on anything that can't be "sold" to management even it if it useful for the team.
All of Google Offline?
Diátaxis is a great way to structure documentation, but I think its real value is in simplifying how we think about writing docs.

It shifts the focus from trying to cram everything into one ‘perfect document’ to recognizing that different users have different needs.

Like, tutorials are for learning by doing, guides are for solving specific problems, reference is for quick lookups, and explanations dive into the ‘why.’

That clarity alone can make one write useful docs.

That being said, sticking too rigidly to any system can be a trap.
Yeah, it’s unfortunate. The same thing with wars. You know what? Revolutions are just civil wars anyway.
I like the idea of this (and have been lucky enough to meet the creator a couple of times at PyconUK - he's a talented and very friendly chap), but I have a reservation about being this rigid about differentiating between the various areas of documentation in this way.

During a sprint I was told that the docs I was preparing (not by Daniele, for the record) were mixing modalities and not acceptable because of this. Not pulling rank, but I've been a teacher for 20+ years, and I have a reasonable ida of how to explain things and how to scaffold learning so that people can both get things done and progress with understanding happening as part of that.

As long as there's not total rigidity then this is a great tool for deciding how to produce documentation and what each type of document should do. I often see examples in documentation (numpy springs to mind) where the examples could be a lot better chosen rather than 'magic from the sky'. A good, well chosen example can provide a lot of learning while illustrating usage, a corner case or other things to be aware of.
Navigating Co-Parenting Challenges: A Guide to Co-Parenting Counseling
He does get it and models do know their own confidence levels with a remarkably high degree of accuracy. The article states this clearly:

> Encoded truth: Recent work suggests that LLMs encode more truthfulness than previously understood, with certain tokens concentrating this information, which improves error detection. However, this encoding is complex and dataset-specific, hence limiting generalization. Notably, models may be encoding the correct answers internally despite generating errors, highlighting areas for targeted mitigation strategies.

Linking to this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02707

"Recent studies have demonstrated that LLMs’ internal states encode information regarding the truthfulness of their outputs, and that this information can be utilized to detect errors. In this work, we show that the internal representations of LLMs encode much more information about truthfulness than previously recognized."

This was already known years ago, by the way. The meme that LLMs just generate statistically plausible text is wrong and has been from the start. That's not how they work.
>Whenever they have a functional economy, they drop it.

Based on my research, there are a few countries which tightened their retirement visa requirements, but getting rid of it outright is actually quite uncommon. You talk as though this is a common thing. Can you name 5 countries that outright eliminated their retirement visa program? (Not just "considering it", actually eliminated it)
... why write on HN about it? What do you think the people here can or will do? There's an endless trickle of these kind of posts, I have never seen one with a resolution that satisfied the OP.
If you compare the historical rate of improvements in computing power and algorithms vs rate of improvements in building scale, you'll find one is a whole lot more likely to reach its goal, even if the rate of progress slows significantly.
Rockets are getting quite affordable, especially if you build and operate them at cost. So are satellites, when you mass produce them. If you can do both of those, you can operate an effective and likely profitable internet constellation (and various other constellation use cases if your bus is easily extended or replaced.) Amazon, with Blue Origin's help, has a decent shot. China will have an relatively easy go with it. A couple of smaller players will fill niches with smaller specialized constellations and that'll be good enough and provide internet to most people who can afford it but who live outside of fiber, cable, and cellular coverage (millions of families in the US alone and these LEO constellations are of course global by nature.)
The issue is that only the south got rich. Not "America".

The north got rich off factories and wage earning labour. To equate the wealth of America to the south is a falsehood. And not a helpful one. It misleads you into missing the travesty of slavery: it did not build a nation. It gave leisure to a couple lucky families at the expense of hundreds per plantation.

The industry and wage earning of the north is what built America.
I can only say, from this particular example, you are doing that whole parenting thing very well. Congratulations, and I wish you all the best in the near and far future.
Gmail, Youtube, etc.

Checked from Western US and Canada.
Exactly. Looking from outside, US just paints literal colors over what is really a multitude of ethnicities and cultures and thinks it’s progressive and inclusive. This black, this black, this white, this white, this asian. Awesome reduction.
Noticed no domains were resolving. Turned out Google's DNS server (8.8.8.8) is down.

Has this ever happened before? I'm scared.

Interestingly my VPS in google cloud is the only google product I can see that's working right now.
Best of luck, Google oncalls.
Tell HN: Betterstack Is Down
That's the Ted Kaczynski spirit, just don't go full Oswald Teichmüller.
Doesn't matter, as long as the language directly supports the required features.
Yep.

In my personal experience, the general sentiment of Germans has been shockingly anti fission-power. Fukushima stoked the fears that power that sentiment, and helped lead them to their current totally predictable economic plummet.

What happens when you shut down all your fission power plants, but don't have solar, wind, hydro, or geothermal power ready, and have no way of building enough storage to handle the intermittency of solar and wind? Well, you import petrochemicals from potentially-hostile foreign countries and burn them.
Defense spending is necessary, if you want to keep your globalised markets and reasonable level of international security. Europe is now experiencing what happens if drop the "useless" defense spending too low.
Great list.

Azure Data Studio is pretty good and free to use.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-data-studio

Supports of course most MS products but also:
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Apache Spark
Apache Cassandra
Sometimes revolutions are also stolen. Often people agree that the current thing needs to go down but don’t agree on what should follow and you end up with things like leftists destroying the elites only to end up in theocratic dictatorship.
These kinds of letter tricks aren't great examples to use because they're fixable and might stop working at any moment, as you just discovered. Modern image generation models for instance not only present embeddings of the input but also have parameters for each individual letter in words, which is why the latest models are able to copy words into the images much better: they see the spellings encoded as input parameters, as well as the concept vectors.

Even things like citations aren't going to work long term. The models are just being trained not to emit URLs from memory but only from their context.

It's fine to show people the current state of things, but if you're trying to get students to understand why they shouldn't use AI the only technique that will work is this: "you will be examined in a controlled room where computers and phones aren't allowed". Nothing else will be effective over the medium to long term.
Issue is “you should have learned harder” is always from office workers.

Conversely “you’re not really working” comes from blue collar workers.

Both sentences are the same and they are usually used by assholes from one or the other side that either feel attacked or feel superior.

There is no intrinsic value in any of those statements besides what it is saying about person using it - that person is an asshole.
I think that's a SHOULD in the send of RFC 2119: "There may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course."

Treating a SHOULD as a MUST even when particular circumstances are against it, is one way to fail at a task.

It's like Orwell's last rule, where many people seem to miss that it's the punchline of the whole essay: "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
> He writes like FM went away.

Absolutely. The whole genre of dubstep is based on FM synthesis :)
Help me seeing that way. Good references?
The American revolution has changed the world hugely. The French revolution carried on from there etc. It is very much better for most people (not the aristocracy).