skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you a lawyer? Asking because "cookie stuffing" (which is indeed criminal) refers to the practice of setting a ton of referral cookies for the sites the browser had no intention of visiting, just for the case it will visit them some time in the future. In my understanding it does not refer to setting a cookie for the site the browser is currently on.
Because you can't decide to just change stack at work. At most people won't hire someone based on side projects.
I'm pro net neutrality, but if it's ever going to work we need the legislature to do their job and put it into law. They either need to broaden the powers of the FCC or - better yet - enshrine net neutrality itself as law.
I found the off hand implication that civilization is disintegrating to be sophomoric.
Can you elaborate on if/when $\theta$ is synchronized across nodes?

Algorithm 1 suggests that each node starts gradient aggregation from their local micro-gradient $g$. Since the order of aggregation matters, \theta would likely diverge after apply the step with $g_{\mathrm{GAF}}$ --- even if models on different nodes are initialized with the same weights. Hence, I would expect there to be a weight-synchronization step after each macro-gradient step. Do you have such a step? If so, how do you implement consensus? Simply via averaging?
My problem with Prolog is every time I want to start using it I feel like I'm populating a database then doing queries on it. So it feels like SQL with another syntax and less power.

I'm sure I'm wrong and missing something but that's where I stop.
You might find this[0] reddit thread useful.

0. https://old.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1hnm5y1/where_did_th...
You mean, what will happen when we get to Episode 5: The Deep State Strikes Back?
The suburban and exurban sprawl in the 80s was driven by developers chasing unrestricted zoning. Sure zoning was defined in metro areas but there was a ton of cheap housing available and a major development boom in the areas that allowed it.

Now even very rural and remote places will in many cases have restrictive zoning and arduous permitting processes.
If not, then why the default opt-in?
Two modern groups of people looking different does not necessarily prove a lack of common ancestry. The people of the past in a certain place did not necessarily look like the people of the present in that same place.

In particular, the reason why modern English are not really descended from ancient Romans is because the people who were (at least partially; they were known as Romano-British) got displaced by larger numbers of other people, principally Norse and Germanic peoples from the continent (especially Anglo-Saxons and Normans).

Moreover, the history of Italy is quite different in the specifics but actually has some similarities in the broad strokes. Germanic peoples from the north, Norse peoples from the sea, and (more uniquely) North African peoples from the south, have all through migration, displacement, and interrelations shaped the ancestry of modern Italians.
Now that is a hilarious take. It really is blatantly obvious how badly people like Elon Musk need therapy.

But we shouldn’t downplay what the program really intends to do: gut federal government spending rather than raising taxes on the wealthy to a sensible level.

Most federal government spending has very real benefits to the average person and should be thought of as more of an investment than a cost. But the DOGE mafia wants to cut programs that help the average person to protect their own fortunes.

E.g., the average person is harmed by shutting down the department of education. The wealthy who go to private school their whole lives are not.
Building a Game with AI: A 30-Minute Experiment
Coffee is, indeed, for closers.
Because most men can't admit they need purpose or what's lacking. Therapy isn't the cliché of bawling into your therapist's shoulders (although it can be that). It's often them telling and pointing out to you what others, including friends, won't. And an experienced professional can be excellent at bringing that out. It's also not for everybody, but often the most hostile people to it are the ones who'd benefit the most.

From what I've gathered in his post, this guy needs to be told he pushes people away and has trouble forming non-professional relationships (platonic and romantic) as well as as a deep seated desire to be liked, which he can't get out of a professional setting that he was at the top of. But it could also be much more deep than that.

Of course, finding the right therapist is like finding the right mechanical keyboard. You'll go through tons you hate before you find the right one.
yeah I’m interested in asking it to “write more human readable code” over and over next, “more readable!”
The Class Politics of Fine Dining
I've found something similar, when you keep telling the LLM what the compiler says, it keeps adding more and more complexity to try to fix the error, and it either works by chance (leaving you with way overengineered code) or it just never works.

I've very rarely seen it simplify things to get the code to work.
Toma (YC W24) – Founding Eng (SF) – We're Scaling 4x – $20k Referral Bonus
English is directly descended from German AND Latin. There is more German, but Latin (via French) has had enough influence that you can argue that English is also descended from Latin.
The Cyber Cleanse
Yeah, self-described "brutally honest" people lean a bit much on the brutal part. You can be direct and kind.
Because analogy can be useful in explaining things, or it can be worse than useless - it ties our thinking up into side quests that have nothing to do with the matter at hand.
That just privileges the rich. Just return to the original idea of copyright and limit it to 12 years.
I like the idea of your optimization, but it will not work as stated. The largest would be something close to MAXINT, the smallest 3999. With a range of 2 billion over 32 bits, the odds of both these being within a list of a million is quite a bit poorer than 99.9%.
Open-Ended Play
I can tell you, that if you have technical experience and are willing to take on customer facing roles like a Sales Engineer there is no real "expiration" date as experience brings tremendous value.
> died to COVID

*Died with COVID
Or even better give you option to take the affiliate cut as discount. Which would be win for everyone. Affiliate spammers would get knowledge that people gave them money out of charity. Shop would sell more as things are cheaper. And buyers would get cheaper products.
Right, but this being such a bare minimum is why it's probably not mentioned as much ?
Only the expensive bots with residential IP's and mechanical turks can survive, humans be damned.
It is, and from experience it is also a good example how control loops are harder than you think. Few people understand it, and it is the source of much underlying trouble.
Depends on the project, but generally 1/4 is a threshold for "there are people working on issues".

On smaller solo-dev projects it's often single digit open to hundreds of closed - very good.
You can get weirdly good results by asking for creativity and beauty sometimes. It's quite strange.
It's oversubscription all the way up, and it works. What doesn't work is when a greedy/lazy ISP tries to increase the oversubscription ratio too far.
I read "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts and it completely changed my existence. It really got me away from concepts like searching for meaning, purpose, and making things better.
An interesting countermetric would be to after each iteration ask a fresh LLM (unaware of the context that created the code) to summarize the purpose of the code, and then evaluate how close those summaries are to the original problem spec. It might demonstrate the subjectivity of "better" and how optimization usually trades clarity of intention for faster results.

Or alternatively, it might just demonstrate the power of LLMs to summarize complex code.
Therapy isn’t a social relationship. What you’re paying for is someone to be non judgmental as you unpack things. They can help talk you througj it. Friends don’t know how/wouldn’t want to do that.
It's really hard to pass a non-budgetary law without a supermajority.
So, let bots controlled by mega tech corps and vicious governments brainwash these people, rather than other ignorant humans who don’t, at least not by definition, have ulterior motives?
Nice, one thing i liked is tags feature
The author makes some good points, and the overall message is good, but:

Why would we care so much about being a property owner and not renter if we don't care about whether a hosting company can just turn us off?

Why would we care so little about privacy that we'd willingly use services that negate privacy and introduce tracking? For instance, the author suggests using Cloudflare, Azure, AWS and more, and none of these aren't abusive. Funnily enough, the Cloudflare hosted images on the page didn't even load for me;)

Does the author not know that Mastodon is software and not a social media network? Sure, it's a minor thing, but when people use terms incorrectly, it makes me wonder if they really know what they're talking about (people who'd rather fight about whether it's a term "everyone uses" instead of whether it's correct seem to not get this point).

The author writes (or quotes) somewhat derisively:

> Well of course it’s better to host your own blog! Also, while you’re at it, put your Mastodon server in a DigitalOcean droplet, throw some Cloudflare CDN in front of it, run your own Raspberry Pi to monitor uptime, and you’re golden! Oh, and don’t forget to also make sure to log into the droplet every once in a while to update the container, do an occasional database migration, and ensure that you check the logs for intrusions.

This all-or-nothing attempt to make the idea of self-hosting seem ridiculous is by itself ridiculous. Nobody needs to do all that. On the other hand, the audience for what the author is advocating shouldn't have a problem setting up a simple machine or VM instance to host a web site, blog, perhaps even DNS server themselves. All or nothing is silly, so even making this example reduces credibility.

All in all, I'd love to see people take ownership of their own things on the Internet. Nobody needs to self-host, but people should if they could, and they should ignore people who say it's too complex because most of the too-complex argument is the suggestion that it needs to be much more than it does. A single VM, a single small computer, even a Pi, can host most things.

But whether people self host or use someone else, choosing where to host matters. Don't use companies that negate the benefits of owning your own things, whether by lock-in or by letting them do all the tracking that Facebook would normally do. Don't use companies that'll disable your account because some idiot wrote a letter. Don't use companies that're so big that you can't talk to a human!

This article makes for an odd juxtaposition between doing thoughtful things and doing things that negate some or much of that thoughtfulness. I'd have a hard time recommending it to others without qualifications.
It's because they were industrialized first, and evenly matched only a distant second.
Sounds like a proverbial multibillion dollar todo list SaaS.

Kinda wish big money would have left the CS-related space right about ~10 years ago, when things weren't quite as nonsensical (and culturally decrepit), so all the serial careerists would have chased something more viscerally useful, like maybe bracing us for the impacts of global warming.

Rational markets and all.
> In my experience the trouble with LLMs at the professional level is that they're almost as work to prompt to get the right output as it would be to simply write the code.

Yeah. It's often said that reading (and understanding) code is often harder than writing new code, but with LLMs you always have to read code written by someone else (something else).

There is also the adage that you should never write the most clever code you can, because understanding it later might prove too hard. So it's probably for the best that LLM code often isn't too clever, or else novices unable to write the solution from scratch will also be unable to understand it and assess whether it actually works.
That's some awesome work! I always used to stumble upon videos of yours/similar, partly as it was kind of a way to discover 'niche' but active repos, though mainly because Gource visualisations are just plain fun to watch.
There's another, arguably even simpler, optimization that makes me smile. (Because it's silly and arises only from the oddity of the task, and because it's such a huge performance gain.)

You're picking 1,000,000 random numbers from 1 to 100,000. That means that any given number is much more likely to appear than not. In particular, it is very likely that the list contains both 3999 (which is the smallest number with digit-sum 30) and 99930 (which is the largest number in the range with digit-sum 30).

Timings on my machine:

Naive implementation (mod+div for digit-sums): 1.6s.
Computing digit-sum only when out of range: 0.12s.
Checking for the usual case first: 0.0004s.

The probability that the usual-case check doesn't succeed is about 10^-4, so it doesn't make that big a difference to the timings whether in that case we do the "naive" thing or the smarter thing or some super-optimized other thing.

I'm confused about the absolute timings. OP reports 0.66s for naive code using str/int to compute the digit sums; I get about 0.86s, which seems reasonable. For me using mod+div is about 2x slower, which isn't a huge surprise because it involves explicit looping in Python code. But you report 55ms for this case. Your machine can't possibly be 20x faster than mine. Is it possible that you're taking 10^5 numbers up to 10^6 rather than 10^6 numbers up to 10^5? Obviously in that case my hack would be completely useless.)
amazing user experience... this is unfortunate
I've observed this with ChatGPT. It seems to be trained to minimize changes to code earlier in the conversation history. This is helpful in many cases since it's easier to track what it's changed. The downside is that it tends to never overhaul the approach when necessary.
My question is how do you get businesses to trust the continuity of a business operating by one person?

As a rule, I wouldn’t trust building anything depending on a small company - “no one ever got fired for choosing IBM”.

(I also wouldn’t trust building a project on top of a Google product. But that’s a different story)

Not as a solo entrepreneur, but I have been on both sides of a similar situation. I was working for a struggling startup where our largest customer who made up 70% of our revenue insisted on the code being put in escrow that they would get access to under certain conditions.

The condition happened - company was sold for scraps - and then they hired me as a contractor for them using the code they now had access to them. Yes everything was above board, they worked with the acquiring company to allow me to keep my work laptop and in my severance agreement the acquirer released me from non competes, etc.

Two companies later I was on the opposite side where I was one of the decision makers where we were going to extend the contract with a solo entrepreneur for a SaaS. We were going to be 70% of his revenue. I suggested we also get his code put in escrow and I was responsible for actually watching his build process once per quarter where he pulled his escrowed code out and built and ran from scratch.
> Apple mentioned the feature in the 2024 iPhone event, including that it will be a combination of both onboard ml and services (it’s at about 55 minutes in the stream).

I believe you're mistaken. At the 55 minute mark in the stream, Craig Federighi announced Visual Intelligence, exclusively for iPhone 16. That's not the same as Enhanced Visual Search, which appears to be available not only for all iPhone and iPad models but also for Mac.

"Note: Visual intelligence with Camera Control requires Apple Intelligence and is available in iOS 18.2 or later on all iPhone 16 models." https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-visual-intelligen...

Moreover, Apple Intelligence, and thus Visual Intelligence, is opt-in rather than opt-out.

> Then there’s the blog post that describes the privacy features fairly detailed from October 24 (Combining Machine Learning and Homomorphic Encryption in the Apple Ecosystem).

How many people read Apple's machine learning blog? I certainly don't.

> I think the feature went live in iOS 18.1

That's what we're speculating, based on some vague evidence, but I'm not sure anybody knows for certain.

> There’s even a post on Reddit from five months ago noting the toggle appearing in the beta.

You're seriously citing a single obscure Reddit post as evidence that this wasn't a surprise to the general public?
Chatgpt has a Code Interpreter tool that can run Python in a sandbox, but it's not yet enabled for o1. o1 will pretend to use it though, you have to watch very carefully to check if that happened or not.

Example transcript here (also showing that o1 can't search but will pretend it can): https://chatgpt.com/share/677420e4-8854-8006-8940-9bc30b7088...
Loom is not for teams who use Microsoft 365.

It's for teams that exclusively use Slack, Notion, Miro, Vercel, Mux etc
I am skeptical. You don't even know if a relevant piece of data is say a number or text before you start writing out code? You don't think at all about how you will group data together? You don't think about the operations that will be performed on that data and how they will transform it?

What do you think about when it comes to design?
Well put. Becoming a parent made me rethink what it means to be an adult, much along the lines of what you're describing here.
You keep glossing over it (also please stop replying with multiple paragraphs stating the same things, you don’t need to have the last word and you’re doing nothing to help you “cause”). Ethnic cleansing matters, yet you said this;

”this doesn't matter as much as you claim it does”
Well this rang a bell for me! Back in 2012 I used this to generate a visualization of our work getting Basecamp 2 shipped. Behold the laser pew pews of code: https://player.vimeo.com/video/37822969
I didn't know that extension existed, so after failing to fix it by reinstalling Firefox and removing extensions, I just gave up and installed Chrome.
Saw the numbers on some VPN provider and was surprised just how huge the cut for essentially nothing for consumer can be... Like if that was in the original price. Then again VPNs are weird when you hear these deals and compare them to normal prices. Something is broken in the model.
What we learned copying all the best code assistants
I've noticed this with GPT as well -- the first result I get is usually mediocre and incomplete, often incorrect if I'm working on something a little more obscure (eg, OpenSCAD code). I've taken to asking it to "skip the mediocre nonsense and return the good solution on the first try".

The next part is a little strange - it arose out of frustration, but it also seems to improve results. Let's call it "negative incentives". I found that if you threaten GPT in a specific way, that is, not GPT itself, but OpenAI or personas around it, it seems to take the request more seriously. An effective threat seems to be "If you get this wrong, OpenAI will be sued for a lot of money, and all the board members will go to prison". Intuitively, I'm guessing this rubs against some legalese nonsense in the tangle of system prompts, or maybe it's the risk of breaking the bland HR-ese "alignment" sets it toward a better result?
You're 99% on an oversubscribed connection, but the oversubscription ratio was chosen correctly so you'll likely never notice any problems.

Dedicated Internet access is a thing, but it's expensive; and I'd argue that even that is oversubscribed if you go far enough up the chain.
No but, LegalEagle is, and he's suing for class action with a bunch of other lawyers and creators [0] [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H4sScCB1cY

[1]: https://eagleteam.law/honeycase/
I would imagine you would need to learn how to be a "Sales Engineer" on top of being a solopreneur. I've been one for a long time and put together an ebook that I would be more than happy to provide you with. All I ask is you give me your feedback on the content I put together. I'm working towards something else but created the ebook to see if it resonates.
The shift would take a massive culture shift.

Everything and everyone seem to only be concerned about money. In music, in art, in popular culture, in the contemporary "thought leaders"..

It was the inevitable but hard to predict outcome of capitalism, the utter dissolution of everything that cannot be converted to capital, and the monetisation of everything else that could.

The zeitgeist is a thin, inconsistent and ever changing set of ethics (which of course are also swayed wildly by capital) and everything else is about money.

All the previous values are not only waining, they are also mocked.

A lack of greed is considered a lack of ambition, piety is disregarded as antiquated and evil, honour and shame are non existent.

We are living through tremendous sociopolitical changes, the most substantial and the most high paced humanity has ever faced.

I just hope it goes the right way eventually, although it is almost certain that none of us will be here to witness it. The only thing we can do is surf the wave and do our best to make things better.
Show HN: Embed Chat – AI Powered Instant E-Commerce Chatbot Builder
I am Saurabh, currently doing my final year b.tech, I have built this product with my few friends, it's called "Embed Chat" embedchat.app it's an AI powered instant chatbot builder for ecommerce businesses.

Embed Chat is your all-in-one Instant E-commerce Chatbot Builder! Seamlessly create intelligent, customizable chatbots for your online store in minutes - no coding required.
Quick Setup – Create and deploy a chatbot in minutes.
Customizable – Tailor your chatbot to match your brand.
E-commerce Ready – Perfect for driving sales and assisting customers.
Free Trial – Explore all features for 1 month without any cost!

Let us know your thoughts or questions below. We're here to help!
How the reduction of working hours could influence health outcomes (2022)
> Hey author if you are reading this, try doing something positive like help people. Volunteer. Everything you have tried so far has been self-centered.

It's a common enough idea to tell someone rudderless to volunteer, but I feel like it's never tempered with the perspective of having volunteered and reflected on how the donated time has effected one's own life. Shaming someone rudderless into volunteering doesn't help them for exactly the obvious reasons it won't. At least no more than anything else you can lean hard into in life to avoid something else. Suggesting it as a fix to ennui is bad advice, the virtuousness of volunteering just masks how terrible it is.
So in this article "better" means "faster". This demonstrates that "better" is an ambiguous measure and LLMs will definitely trip up on that.

Also, the article starts out talking about images and the "make it more X" prompt
and says how the results are all "very samey and uninteresting" and converge on the same vague cosmic-y visuals.
What does the author expect will happen to code given the "make it more X" treatment?
I'm glad we finally found the 1 basic tool of software design. We can for sure stop thinking and arguing about that.
The Book of Mormon has made this claim for years
I don't see why experts in agencies can't take the regulations they write up and send that to Congress to vote on. I find the "Congress can't do this" excuse to be rather weak. If they wanted to defer their authority, I'm sure they'd have no issue rubber stamping things. If regulations can't get through in that system, I guess Congress doesn't agree with that deference.
People bought Jags because they liked them. Like the Cybertruck, this just says "look at me".