skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Some remote servers won't give you service if you do that

This is exactly my problem. Before ideas like this surfaced, the demarcation line between who controls what was purely based on ownership. The machine that I own acts only on my behalf and in my best interests, the server that you own does so for you (or atleast for PCs this has always been the case)

TPMs, attested bootchains and whatnot trample on this whole concept. It's like your very own hardware now comes with a built in Stasi agent that reports on your conduct whether you like it or not. It bothers me on a visceral level and I'm constantly wondering if it's just me.
I wish we could popularize some extension that pays a penny per page load or something using some shitcoin both as a means to support our favorite sites but also to validate that I'm not a bot, or at least if I am, I am willing to spend a lot of money in a DDOS that goes directly in your pocket
This time, the "current tool" doesn't allow searching via the web. Most discord forums I'm on are basically black holes in which questions keep getting repeated.
Outrun the friend not the bear? Hehe
I actually don’t like the example with Djano and JS: too much bad/fake SEO compounded by Googles enshitification mean that very specific search terms for specific technologies get drowned out by generic word salads like “organising and structuring djano projects”.

There’s probably a million of those already.
I know natural language is sorta the gold standard for a lot of these models, but honestly I could see a lot of utility out of a stripped down language set, similar to how you used to be able to search google back in the day before they tried to make it easier.
If your EV battery isn't pre-conditioned for cold driving, it can and will get down to low double digits. That said, it's only an issue in winter and colder climes.
Of course, most Windows 10 PCs don't have the newer hardware to upgrade to Windows 11. They are stuck at 10 and when support runs out it will run out.
I second all of that!

I wish more people would see the beauty. After a session of SQL, when I take a step back and think.

"Hold on. What I have been doing lately is just pure logic. No library dependency resolution, no concurrency problems (even though massive concurrency is certainly under the hood). No mutability issues. Just logic."

SQL obviously has its warts, some of them serious, like testability. But at the end of the day, I wish all programming was like that. Let the computer decide how to do stuff under the hood. And let the human focus on the logic.

I have somewhat half-assed tried to read up on Prolog for trying to take it to the next level, but failed sofar unfortunately. (It was also a goal to try to unlearn some SQL to avoid getting stuck in some local optimum). Maybe somewhere between SQL and Prolog is the future of programming.
I believe networks of human individuals can solve this to a good degree assuming a particular topology exists.

Like, imagine a group of professionals of decent sized, all specializing in a similar field, and having lots of strong connections between each other where they have ample opportunities to share information. It would be hard for an outsider to come in and astroturf their product without immense effort (like hiring shills to attend conferences). In-person networks also obviously solve the problem stars as reputation: reputation spreads naturally in these sorts of networks.

I think the problem comes with algorithmic scale. Maybe a solution would be to have more community building activities (maybe preferably offline).
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40 doesn't matter. There may be some pockets of ageism but ignore it (a rejection is always a mystery anyway). So go for what you want. You need a you-compatiable job not a 40s-compatiable job.

That said I am happy 40's person working at a 10k-100k person tech company. It turned out good so far. There is a bit more bureaucracy but happy to pay that small tax. Also you have to like microservices :)

It is very interesting. I have technically interesting work and a humble smart team.
The first significant case resolved differently after Loper Bright?
Requiring real ID and showing _regional_ stars like Apple/Google would be a start.
Problem is that a significant chunk of the technology industry still relies on "engagement" as its business model. The objective of slapping an overzealous bot protection system isn't to protect high-risk endpoints like logins/etc, it's to ensure a human is "engaging" and human time is being wasted by making even legitimate automated usage impossible.

From their perspective, the blocking of power users with unusual setups is actually a happy coincidence, as those are unlikely to "engage" with the product in the desired way (they run ad & spyware blockers, don't fall for dark patterns, and are more likely to fight back if they get defrauded by the corporation).
But so does a USB-connected security dongle. Does that make USB "complicit in enforcing DRM"?

TPMs are really just embedded Yubikeys. Unless your UEFI/BIOS "conspire" to supply them with boot measurements, and your OS in turn conspires with that to carry these measurements forward and provide them at the application layer, TPMs can't harm your freedom.

TPMs are a much more "freedom neutral" technology than people generally assume in these discussions.
Silver is one of the other major metals in the alloy. Odd that this is not mentioned.
How does Pie Adblock make money?

It's free so I'm suspecting they're doing more affiliate marketing stealing or something similar to Honey.
These challenges are funny - they remind me of the old days. Back in the DOS/Windows days, we used to have the .com format, which was perfect for tiny programs. One could even write a program of less than 10 bytes that could actually do something!

We've come a long way since then, and is like, at some point, nobody cared about optimizing executable size anymore
>- Separation of church/state with mandated removal of religious symbols from students and government places vs freedom of religion with removal of LGBT symbols from students and government places

>It's the same behavior on both sides, just different groups of people doing it.

I'm actually curious to understand how you came to the conclusion that non-standard sexual and gender identities are equivalent to a religion to you.

I don't mean to start an argument here, but do you actually believe that endorsing a specific religion is the same as endorsing gay rights?
I really like how clear and well laid out these rules are. It covers lots of things that I have always thought about when I write instructions in README files etc, so it's very nice to see everything neatly described/reasoned in one place. Thanks for sharing!
The current 100% tariff on EVs from China^[1] may play a large part in the US market. The latest Xiaomi seems like a pretty good deal. Even Ford's CEO said he had been driving it for the last 6 months to understand the competition better and he didn't want to go back to his old car^[2]. I won't bother though since I have to pay double.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62694325/ford-ceo-jim-far...
So now all the bots are pushing code, have SSH etc...
Utter scumbags. The google chrome & Firefox extension stores should ban the lot of ‘em.
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I wrote a cubing/containerization system in SQL, but it did use the additional capabilities in a sproc for looping etc., so not just a single SQL stmt.

But the problem actually mapped well to SQL's capabilities in some ways. The basic algorithm was:

1-Loop through items in descending size order

2-Test X different positions and orientations such that one corner is butted up against an existing corner (of container, or previously placed items, etc.)

3-Choose the winner based on some sort of point systems that encapsulates some set of rules (e.g. preferred orientation, or minimizes small gaps between sides of items, etc.)

These were some aspects that lined up well with SQL:

A-Testing of X number of positions and orientations all with a relative simple statement, using as input: existing corner points from previously placed items, some control table with the variations in X,Y,Z orientations.

B-The ability to maintain a set of previous options for each iteration (e.g. item #2 was tested in these positions with these stats and all are temporarily being considered reasonable options), add new item to each one of those previous tests and accumulate stats. It was pretty easy to configure a "window" of how many different open options were being tracked to optimize the result without overwhelming memory. The SQL to include the options was almost the same as if there was only one previous chosen option.

Some aspects were a bit painful to shift the model mentally to fit in with SQL.
If I don’t know someone’s gender and can’t be bothered to look it up I’ll use “they”. And I know Sam’s of both genders.
As a lifelong Dvorak user, for whom the keys I press have never produced the letters printed on them, it amuses me that the "M" key is one of only two exceptions (the other is "A").
It's downright cyberpunk.

> sites could refuse to serve you if your machine is running any bigcorp unapproved software

This needs to be classified as discrimination.
There’s two legal issues: sharing copyrighted data; training on it. It’s the latter that’s ambiguous. My problem is the former.

Making copies of and sharing copyrighted works without the authors’ permission is already illegal as proven in countless, file-sharing cases. The AI trainers do this with data sets like Common Crawl, The Pile, and RefinedWeb. Just sharing them is illegal for most of the content in them.

I got ideas for how to deal with that in countries with TDM exceptions, like Singapore. For now, the only things we can share with others for model training are (a) public domain works and (b) content licensed for permissive use and sharing. Gutenberg entries before a certain year should be pretty risk-free.
Do you have details on the regional pay bands? I'm unsure which geo I would fall under.
What matters is that the other guys in the group who like cars and fishing also with high probability engage with boob posts.

All this recommendation algorithm horseshit is just showing you the exact same stuff that trended with the least common denominator that you also are part of, no matter how much YOU PERSONALLY do not engage with it.
Yes, that one! Thanks :)
Fwiw, Cloudflare does do a multivariate confidence check which is why it has multiple tiers: no captcha, a one-click captcha, the annoying puzzle captcha once, the annoying puzzle captcha six times in a row.

> I'm a user, I'm logged in, I've posted before, I'm in good standing, yet when I go there, I need to solve a captcha.

Though consider the fact that taking over someone's account shouldn't give you (a spammer) unlimited access either. The spambots you see on Twitter are mostly cred-stuffed accounts. It's a hard problem. Existing accounts are more dangerous than fresh accounts.

Imo, "write your own password" should be a thing of the past. Services should just auto-gen a password or there should be a way to require the OS (like a password manager) to generate one to avoid cred-stuffing. We're letting down the average person by making them come up with unique passwords for every service instead of just helping them. Though I'm way off topic.
Yeah, absolutely -- you'll probably pull 100+ token/s.

Here's a good range of model sizes that run just fine with llama.cpp on mac: https://huggingface.co/telosnex/fllama/tree/main.

I recommend trying the Telosnex* app, it uses llama.cpp and abstracts over LLMs so you can i.e. switch between local/servers at will.

The important part for you is its free, accelerated on macOS, and very easy to use local LLMs with (Settings > AI > LLM > On Device, tap Get)

Prepare to be underwhelmed, slightly: its only when you start hitting 3B that its coherent, anything under that will feel more like a markov chain than an LLM.

Depending on how geeked out you'll be to have it running locally, you might have fun with that Telosnex can run local models on every platform, i.e. you can run local models on iOS/Android/web too.

* because it's mine :3 It is quietly released currently. I want to get one more major update before widely announcing it in Jan 2025
The newest Kia (Hyundai's sister brand) EV6 can also do massive V2L - can support 12kW power - combine that with a transfer switch, and your car doubles as your backup battery/generator.
I don't work here but have some insight. It's difficult for a lot of companies to vet the proper labor and tax laws required per state, and even city, to hire an individual. Some states even require that their rules be blanket applied to your entire corporation, which may not always be feasible.
Housing prices have historically been highly correlated with income and interest rates. That correlation seems to have broken down.

There are areas where it still is sane but much less of them than historically and concentrated in areas with very little population.
But couldn’t a knife hitting a plastic board shed micro particles into your food?
Unfortunately, your setup makes you look like a scraper: no history for Cloudflare to identify, the sort of browser / OS config someone would use to homebrew an automated "I sure am not a bot, look at how authentic my user-agent is!" bot, and so on. If you also have JavaScript disabled and clear your cookies frequently, Cloudflare can't fingerprint your machine to know you passed a trust-check in the past.

Maybe keeping a heavily-sandboxed Chrome in a VM for situations where Cloudflare is getting in your way might help?

(In the large: this has been an issue a long time coming. Quite a bit of cyberpunk predicts the future where the web bifurcates into the "regular" web that is sanitized, corporate, controlled, and used by most people... And the "everyone else" web that is not, with all the pros and cons that entails. The tech has evolved to the point that companies that want a service provider "keeping the bad guys away" for them can pay to have that done, at the cost of false-positives... But at their scale, the false-positives may not matter to them).
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I hate my job lol
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Nice article, been playing with ClickHouse a bit and really like it.

Unrelated - how well do articles like this work for driving signups to your product/platform?
I've heard of gaming GitHub stars by asking their friends to star their projects which would get around all of your bullets. Hence why I said it would be hard to game.
That’s a shame. Hard close grain would damage very sharp knives I would think.
Yep, I just spam filter the E-mails now. If that act adds 0.0001% to that sender having future E-mail deliverability problems, then all the better. If it's commercial or political and I didn't explicitly ask for the sender to E-mail, then it's spam.
Given all the obvious bots and sketchy recruiters that try to connect with me on LinkedIn, who all appear to have at least one mutual connection, it probably won't work.
The internet, or dare I say it, Information Technology itself, has not yet come to proper terms with Time Context as an implicit aspect of data. Much information is not static, but rather is a growing or changing development from year-to-year.

Using today's generic tools to search for digital information relevant to a specific version or time period of anything is very ad-hoc, hit-and-miss. And we're only a mere few decades in. I think the time context of data is going to become increasingly important and valuable.
Sure, there is a risk. But, it all depends on how great and desirable the benefits are.
They enter the public domain when the US says they do, but only for people who are held to American laws and justice system.
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Honestly I knew that that coupon websites were adding their affiliate link to links from their websites, but it never occurred to me that the toolbars would be stripping and replacing affiliate links from actual links you were clicking yourself.

I wouldn't mind if they were transparent about what they were doing or gave you the option to substitute your own code specifically. I'm sure there are a lot of situations where I've clicked an affiliate link to check something out and then that affiliate got credit for other things I've purchased hours or days later. I'd really like a toolbar that let me modify or block the affiliate code from those links.
Things are often inconsistent however there are cases where something appears inconsistent but it is only lack of knowledge of observer that displays it as inconsistent. At least that is what I have learned today in some different matter (I was that observer).
Please spend another 30s. It can an interesting bit of philosophy about competence and ambition - and humility.
> The GPL does the exact opposite of copyright; the fact that it uses copyright to achieve that is just an implementation detail.

> If you believe information should be free to share and remix, you would believe that copyright infringement is not theft

No, this is absolutely incorrect. GPL requires copyright (or similar mechanism) to function. Without copyright, anyone could take the GPL'd code and release a compiled binary without releasing source. Releasing the source is the "payment" for being granted a license to copy the original code; without releasing the source, you are in violation of the author's copyright. No one who wants to use the GPL to protect their and their users' rights would advocate for eliminating copyright, because the GPL's goals cannot be achieved without copyright.
I recently suggested a similar approach to politics, in order to address the problem that the people who WANT to be leaders are often the most unsuitable (power-hungry corrupt sociopaths).

By electring a random person, the probability of this happening is minimized.

As a co-worker pointed out, the ancient Greeks had something like thats in place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Well, there we have the whole issue that Web has literally become ChromeOS for all practical purposes of who is driving it, and browser market share.

It is called Webview2, because the first MSHTML.dll replacement was based on the original updated Edge engine, which Microsoft dropped for their own Chrome fork.

So either one cares to use portable Web development practices, or whatever Chrome does, with the side effect to increase its market share even further.
Speaking of parsing, back around y2k we were building an app that used XML everywhere, which was the style at the time, and our DBA wanted to write an xml parser in SQL (the api would involve sending XML to the database). That got vetoed.

IMO, this kind of thing is what AoC is good for - you get to play with weird/obscure stuff without affecting your day job code.
«Unfortunately, I have only seen 3 models, 3B or over, handle RAG.»

I would love to know which are these 3 models, especially if they can perform grounded RAG. If you have models (and their grounded RAG prompt formats) to share, I'm very interested !

Thx.
Surprisingly, it still works as intended. Yes, it won't keep professionals and dedicated bot-fabricators out, but that's like 5% of the botters out there; the rest are the bot equivalent of script kiddies who can't be bothered, and it filters them great. Meanwhile, the script kiddies have a process that still works on non-CF sites, so they don't need to improve their process.
Cloudflare owns kerbalspaceprogram?
> Here's a snarky response from Gore Vidal

When it comes to snark, Vidal was a true master of the craft.