skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had various levels of interest, optimism and investment in crypto from 2011 (quite a lot) to now (zero). Much of its promise has been undelivered and yet it has prospered. The people that I speak to who are involved have changed from developers/entrepreneurs/tech-savvy financiers into almost exclusively deadlegs, hustlers and grifters.

At the same time, I feel like it's a race as to whether Bitcoin comes tumbling down before it's revealed that a significant amount (most?) physical cash is being printed by adversaries, and the national mints merely act as a top-up/shredding service.

I wrote this eleven years ago and it's largely proven to be accurate.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014736if_/http://alexmui...
> You can't lol. How do you wanna restore a blown fuse on nanometer level INSIDE the GPU die. Its simply not possible.

I wouldn't dismiss this so aggressively.

Frequently (more frequently than not), efuses are simply used as configuration fields checked by firmware. If that firmware can be modified, the value of the efuse can be ignored. It's substantially easier to implement a fused feature as a bit in a big bitfield of "chicken bits" in one-time programmable memory than to try to physically fuse off an entire power or clock domain, which would border on physically irreversible (this is done sometimes, but only where strictly necessary and not often).
Easier to detect the ferrous metal, given the size/strength requirements mean steel.

Magnetic anomaly detectors have been used since the WWII airship days. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_detector

Related fact: the first Goodyear blimp was a repurposed ex-Navy submarine hunter, that likely had a MAD device fitted. You can see the restored gondola from it in the New England Air Museum.
It's more likely that any defect in a core causes the whole core to be disabled. Especially in the this case where I assume the FP16 x FP16 -> FP32 path uses the same hardware as the FP16 x FP16 -> FP16 path.
Am I missing something then? Is there some context to the linked tweet and screen shot that didn't come up?
It looks like it, but LLMs still lack critical reasoning by and large. So if a client tells them or asks for something nonsensical it won’t reason its way out of that.

I’m not worried about software as a profession yet, as first clients will need to know what they want much what they actually need.

Well I am a bit worried that many big businesses seem to think they can lay off most of their software devs because “AI” causing wage suppression and overwork.

It’ll come back to bite them IMHO. I’ve contemplated shorting Intuit stock because they did precisely that, which will almost certainly just end up with crap software, missed deadlines, etc.
Alcohol sales and laws are fairly draconian in North America, compared to equivalents in Europe and Asia. Once again, I don't think there is right or wrong approach to it, and all the discussions will stem from cultural beliefs and predispositions. Your "freedom" and my "freedom" will always be conceptually different as well, the interpretation of the idea and making policies around it is the job of the government. By the way, I'm actually on your side when it comes to this specific topic, but growing up in different continents, I can understand why different policy makers approach it through different lenses.
Is the certificate for that domain pinned? If not, just host it locally. In fact, I'm going to try doing that. Have you already checked the Docs? Somebody probably already published a gist somewhere with the needed path
storing massive amounts of unstructured data
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I don't think FUD is on the table at this stage in the discussion. And I'm not sure why you chose a confrontational stance for your question.

But for an answer, I've done what folks do - spent decades carefully listening to legislators (and judges!) reveal their expertise in the fields I work and interact with.

Ron Wyden aside, authentic technical competency from legislators is so uncommon it stand out. Glaringly. What technical acumen we do get pretty much always rhymes with lobbyists talking points.

I expect my perspective to be boringly familiar here.

And AFAIK, we don't have any other Ron Wydens serving in Congress or coming onboard.

That is, someone with the basic technical understanding to foresee reasonable downstream consequences of the laws they vote on. Not someone with a minimal technical awareness that was crafted to be a lobbyists tool.

I will be genuinely grateful if someone would correct me here.
Show HN: Potarix – AI-Powered Web Scraping and Data Extraction
Hey guys,

I wanted to show what we have been working on for the last few weeks. We have done data extraction/web scraping for the last few months, and we built this internally to help us. However, clients requested a SAAS tool, so here it is!

You guys can test it out here (app.potarix.com). Everyone who signs up gets 5$ credits. Scraping each page takes up $0.10 of your credits. You are not charged for unsuccessful scrapes!

We launched last week, and our platform was super buggy. We initially launched without the concept of "jobs" in our product, so every time you wanted to scrape a platform, you would have to wait 5 minutes on one screen to get your results. Something is bound to happen in those 5 minutes, so the task would fail for some unknown reason.

Looking ahead, we built stuff in-house that we would love to include in the SAAS platform shortly. We have built functionality to click, type, scroll, etc. on the page. AI also tends to be wrong sometimes, so we created a tweakable script in the backend to control the agent's actions. That way, you are in control and can bring the script to 100% accuracy. We have also seen people battling to build infrastructure for their large-scale scraping projects. We wanna autonomously let folk set up parallelization and choose the infra for their project so everything is scraped as quickly and succinctly as possible from the SAAS.

If any of these future features sound interesting, feel free to book some time, and we can discuss how we can help you with these now!
You can also look at 8086 segment/offset addressing as an attempt to avoid wasting 12 bits when using pairs of 16 bit registers to represent a 20 bit address, by allowing implicitly-sized <=64k byte segments to align on arbitrary 16 byte boundaries vs. the 64k byte alignment implied by segment<<16 + offset.
In general, I absolutely agree with you. It’s basically an instance of “the customer is always right”: if a smart customer can’t get our product working, there is a problem with the product. But this post made a much bolder (and wrong) claim: “the product has a number of major design flaws that mean that it literally cannot work”.
I spent approximately a decade trying to get the experience and schooling necessary to move out of being a "linux monkey" (read: responding to shared webhosting tickets, mostly opened by people who had broken their Wordpress sites) to being an SRE.

Along the way I was an "incident manager" at a couple different places, meaning I was basically a full-time Incident Commander under the Google SRE model. This work was always fun, but the hours weren't great (these kind of jobs are always "coverage" jobs where you need to line up a replacement when you want to take leave, somebody has to work holidays, etc.). Essentially I'd show up at work and paint the factory by making sure our documentation was up to date, work on some light automation to help us in the heat of the moment, and wait for other teams to break something. Then I'd fire up a bridge and start troubleshooting, bringing in other people as necessary.

This didn't seem like something to retire from, but I can imagine it being something that comes back, and I may have to return to it to keep food on the table. It is exactly the kind of thing that needs a "human touch".
I could see blue collar workers making up that segment, especially if they are self-employed.

A young plumber or electrician who doesn't know the value of compounding interest.
My experience so far has been: if I know what I want well enough to explain it to an LLM then it’s been easier for me to just write the code. Iterating on prompts, reading and understanding the LLM’s code, validating that it works and fixing bugs is still time consuming.

It has been interesting as a rubber duck, exploring a new topic or language, some code golf, but so far not for production code for me.
yup, and thank you for the kind words
> Monitor Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta stock. Notify me if any of them start trending toward being undervalued

If you actually had a system that could detect when a stock was "undervalued" you should just trade directly on that system instead of selling it to consumers. This is pretty clearly scammy/predatory towards retail investors.
... and who knows why Qualcomm canceled their Snapdragon X Elite dev kit? Very suspicious. Can they not get enough yield for the highest spec Snapdragon CPU?
Interesting that it's entirely failed to do that so far.

Nvidia is helping power the next generation of big brother government programs.
Don't look at the front page, go to the Market Digest and look up yesterday's changes in currency exchange rates or CME futures. Bet on those with 100x leverage and voilà!
The keywords you're looking for are 'active PoE splitter'.
Firefox with canvas fingerprinting protection enabled.
Several payments and financial posts within as money mistakes often leave impacting memories for those involved.

As a dotcom kid who founded and wrote the core systems for several payment processing companies over the decades I recall 2005 when a company using one of our partner banks was breached. This was CardSystems, the largest publicly known breach at the time, and I was tasked to perform a full code review of their systems to find any issues. The payments gateway contained a valid crc nontest card number compiled into authorization logic that had no deployment switching control and recorded no transaction information when that card number was used. Any merchant using CardSystems under this payment gateway suffered unknown losses from approved transactions that were never recorded into any system. I postulated who had done this but federal law enforcement around the breach buried this and other key discoveries I had found since the company was being dissolved and my findings were therefore deemed immaterial.
Maybe I'm a lousy developer, true. But I do know now that your code does not matter. Unlike any other creative profession, what matters is the final output, and code is not the final output.

If companies can get the final output with less people, and less money, why would they pass on this opportunity? And please don't tell me that it's because people produce maintainable code and LLMs don't.
I have friends who routinely go for #2 or #3 (occasionally even further down). The typical justification they gave is that one's paying a lot of price premium/marketing cost for #1, whereas with #2/3 one gets comparable or slightly worse quality for a lot cheaper.
LLMs have not affected my day-to-day at all. I'm a senior eng getting paid top percentile using a few niche technologies at a high profile company.
The Pentium math bug, Puma cablemodems, their shitty cellular modems that are far worse than Qualcomm's, gigabit chipset issues, 2.5GB chipset issues, and now the 13th/14th gen CPUs that destroy themselves.

And we just gave them billions in tax dollars. Failing upwards...
Interstellar travel is not a prerequisite for K1 or K2.
This is true but that's why the firmware is signed so you can't patch it.
That sounds like a classic Anti-trust suit waiting to happen. CAD company and NVIDIA colluding to drive sales exclusively to each other. That's illegal and exploitative.
How much do they spend?
thank you for removing the deadname.
I use Copilot a bit, and it can be really, really good.

It helps me out, but in terms on increasing productivity, it pales in comparison to simple auto-complete. In fact it pales in comparison to just having a good, big screen vs. battling away on a 13" laptop.

LLMs are useful and provide not insignificant assistance, but probably less assistance than the tools we've had for a long time. LLMs are not a game changer like some other thing have been since I've been programming (since late 1980s). Just going to Operating Systems with protected memory was a game changer, I could make mistakes and the whole computer didn't crash!

I don't see LLMs as something we have to protect our careers from, I see LLMs as an increasingly useful tool that will become a normal part of programming same as auto-complete, or protected memory, or syntax-highlighting. Useful stuff we'll make use of, but it's to help us, not replace us.
I'm trying to give this comment a gracious reading. You can find videos on YouTube from the last couple months of police talking to people about comments they left online, and tweets, and FB posts, etc. So saying that practice "was put to an end a couple of years ago" is a complete fiction.

The freedom/security quote, why should that be uniquely American? Human rights are human rights, and if something infringes on them what does it matter whether or not a particular government acknowledges it? It's still an infringement and should be fought.

> It is much harder to make glib assertions that principles are more important than physical safety when the violence happens in your city.

Or maybe that's exactly the time you should make those assertions all the more loudly. Principles don't mean anything if you only hold them when it's easy, and we should all stop treating people who drop their principles at the slightest road bump as some kind of warrior for safety or whatever they'd like to frame it as, and treat them as they are - cowards and authoritarians.

This is the first I've heard about the Forbidden Meatballs, thank you for the chuckle.

> For those who are concerned that they will have to engage a solicitor to write reams of policies for their small Mastodon instance, need I remind you how utterly half-arsed everything in this country is?

Oh so the hope is just that the government is too ineffectual to prosecute something they're completely within their rights to prosecute? How is that not absolute madness?

Why in the world would you trust a government to enforce this fairly? What's to say your Conservative Party doesn't use this to target prominent supporters of Labour, or vice versa?

> The Act requires protections for free speech

As an American (the horror, I know, that I deign to comment on something British), I'd love to know where your freedom of speech is codified and what a government would have to do if they wanted to change what counts as speech, what doesn't, and what's protected and what isn't. I suspect that you and I have very different definitions of what qualifies as free speech.

At the end this seems like the same thing we see in the US a lot - this is something my side of the political divide supports, so I should support it, so I'm going to twist myself into a mental pretzel to support it, even if it solves no real problem, opens up a huge door for future government abuse, and further erodes the rights of everyone.
Internet archive has it too https://archive.org/details/The.adventures.of.Tintin.animate...
> This is ego speaking.

No, it really isn't. Repeatedly, the case is that people are trying to pass off GPT's work as good without actually verifying the output. I keep seeing "look at this wonderful script GPT made for me to do X", and it does not pass code review, and is generally extremely low quality.

In one example, a bash script was generated to count number SLoC changed by author; it was extremely convoluted, and after I simplified it, I noticed that the output of the simplified version differed, because the original was omitted changes that were only a single line.

In another example it took several back & forths during a review to ask "where are you getting this code? / why do you think this code works, when nothing in the docs supports that?" and after several back and forths, it was admitted that GPT wrote it. The dev who wrote it would have been far better served RTFM, than a several cycle long review that ended up with most of GPT's hallucinations being stripped from the PR.

Those who think LLM's output is good have not reviewed the output strenuously enough.

> Is there some expectation that these things won't improve?

Because randomized token generation inherently lacks actual reasoning about the behavior of the code. My code generator does not.
You should show the time zone, or convert to UTC. Chart sightings over time. Show user names. Use an LLM to parse narratives into structured information.
I imagine though they might replace 3 out of 4 senior programmers (keep one around to sanity check the AI).
Drivey.js | An ECMAScript port of the graphics demo "Drivey"
Cutting to the chase: a USA bitcoin reserve would transfer large quantities of borrowed USA taxpayer funds to current crypto owners. A number of things could go wrong for the taxpayer, and it's hard to see what could go wrong for current bitcoin owners. It's hard to see what could go right for the USA taxpayer, and very easy to see what goes right for USA's adversaries, all the criminal enterprises that rely on it, and other unwanted actors.
> It's provably true that LLM's can produce working code.

This is correct - but it's also true that LLMs can produce flawed code. To me the cost of telling whether code is correct or flawed is larger than the cost of me just writing correct code. This may be an AuDHD thing but I can better comprehend the correctness of a solution if I'm watching (and doing) the making of that solution than if I'm reading it after the fact.
Programming is about coding an idea into a set of instructions. LLMs are the same, they just require using a higher level language.
Sounds like a legally risky environment. One of the biggest things we've understood about the world over the last century has been that commerce flourishes under an environment of legal certainty.
If there are no payouts, then they have to return all premiums. They only get paid a percentage of covered care.

This presents it's own set of tradeoffs, namely between decreasing premiums to attract subscribers, and what is covered, to keep subscribers happy.
Arguably impoverishing the students, too. The impulse to pander to keep both the kids and parents interested is too strong, I guess.
See, every day we get new data to train LLMs. Just think, all of the current LLMs were trained without Popeye, Tintin, Faulkner and Hemmingway. Just imagine how much better they will be with all this new public domain data to use for training! /s
Not that our muscles aren't important, but I'm less worried about our muscles atrophying as a result of technology and more worried about our brains atrophying as a result of technology.
In 2000 Intel had a huge software moat: Microsoft Windows, and the large install base of x86-only software.

Rich webapps hadn't been invented. Smartphones? If you're lucky your flip phone might have a colour screen. If you've got money to burn, you can insert a PCMCIA card into your Compaq iPAQ and try out this new "802.11b" thing. Java was... being Java.

Almost all the software out there - especially if it had a GUI, and a lot of it did - was distributed as binaries that only ran on x86.
Yeah I almost installed it, ripped apart my vacuum, just to realize there are many different roborock S7 versions with different SoCs, and my variant wasn't supported. Also roborock doesn't even support scheduled cleaning without cloud :(
Aren’t we like 0.000001% in the journey?
I'd also mention that Tom McCarthy's "Tintin and The Secret of Literature" completely changed the way in which I viewed the series - genuinely exciting stuff.
I love TinTin! I feel like we're going to see a ton of AI drawn TinTin fan works pop up, will be interesting to see.
That's been my experience too. The main complaint I hear about this workflow is that venvs can't be moved without breaking. I just rebuild my venv in each new new location, but that rebuild time can add up for projects with many large scientific packages. Uv solved that pain point for me, since it provides a "pip install" implementation that runs in a fraction of the time.
It's possible to call the API locally:

const response = await fetch("http://localhost:8000/api/jobs/run", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
workflow_id: workflowId,
params: params,
}),
});

const outputs = await response.json();

See here for more details: https://github.com/nodetool-ai/nodetool

We'll be launching a cloud version soon that let's you deploy your workflow in the cloud with easy API access.
objects undergo processes. atoms in your body are replaced over a period of hours-years.
Seems to be https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/why-companies-need-a-data-str... slightly reworded.
Meta's new Video Understanding Multimodal Model used Qwen model for training
Here's a video by Mick West, who's an expert in analyzing things people see in the sky, that does a great job of explaining what's happening and making it seem obvious in retrospect. It's short (< 4 minutes) and if we could figure out a way to make it required viewing for media that would help a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK4HFxzsjgo

tldr: People aren't seeing drones. It's collective delusion.
Never read that before! Thanks for the rec!
There being a gravity towards efficiency does not mean that everything is equally spaced.
> pays stupid amounts for Disney scripts

How much do they pay exactly? Does it come out of a specific program’s budget, eg drama? Just curious.

To play a devil’s advocate:

Perhaps the plays generate some money for the school or the drama program. Disney might draw a larger audience.

Also, for better or worse (probably worse), Disney is “safe” and designed for mass appeal.

Small schools probably have a harder time with these sorts of decisions. Ideally, a school might encourage adaptations of classics, to foster deeper understanding and creativity (as well as to ensure that there aren’t too many “re-runs”, furthering student and audience interest). But a larger student populace makes that easier via access to more ideas, more interest, more hands.
No, math is major part of writing good code, but when was the last time you've seen somebody put effort into writing O(n) algorithm? 99% of programming is "import sort from sort; sort.sortThisReallyQuick". Programming is mostly writing code that just compiles and eventually gives correct results (and has bugs). You can do a lot of programming just buy copy-pasting results from stackoverflow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

https://old.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/35prfv/designer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U
Let's don't ignore context. In 2000 JDS Uniphase was worth $125 billion. A lot of things were "worth" a lot of money in the year 2000. Anyway Intel got their ass handed back to them in 2003 with the AMD Opteron. Today is not Intel's first struggle.
I don’t idolize any government national or foreign, that would be silly.
> I am constantly surprised how prevalent this attitude is. ChatGPT was only just released in 2022. Is there some expectation that these things won't improve?

Is there any expectations that things will? Is there more untapped great quality data that LLMs can ingest? Will a larger model perform meaningfully better? Will it solve the pervasive issue of generating plausibly sounding bullshit?

I used LLMs for a while, I found them largely useless for my job. They were helpful for things I don't really need help with, and they were mostly damaging for things I actually needed.

> This is ego speaking.

Or maybe it was an accurate assessment for his use case, and your wishful thinking makes you think it was his ego speaking.
Thanks for that! It was a pretty crazy time. I had Zip drive add an my data disappeared with the dreaded click of death.