skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're attributing this to "woke," while the only thing this has in common with something most other people would call "woke" is a penchant for linguistic prescriptivism. I think very very few people see jellyfish as in any way political.
The network effects of any sufficiently large technology means that once it's got enough adoption, and individual cannot really opt out in a meaningful way. Social media and smart phones are an example of this: yes, and individual can opt out, but 1) this is incredibly inconvenient, and 2) everyone else they know will _not_ have opted out, so the secondary effects of those technologies will still impact their personal and professional lives.

AI feels much like smart phones and social media in that regard. Another net negative for society because some people wanted to make their mark on society.
no mention about the runtimes
Wasn't that the goal of both the New York Times lawsuit and other class action lawsuits from authors?

https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2024/04/nyt-v-openai-the-t...

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p...
in terms of invention, sailors had been wearing bell bottoms since the US Navy introduced them 1817 and sailors tromping around seaport cities would have been more of an every day event through WWII. That US Navy uniform is informally called "Cracker Jacks"

https://www.shopthesalvationarmy.com/Listing/Details/2645572...

They were intended to allow sailors to roll their pants up above the knee while swabbing the decks

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/this-is-why-t...

But we can see "bell bottomed trousers" referenced in popular culture in the 1940's, here's Louis Prima's band doing the song Bell Bottomed Trousers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QXmdbc5sx0

and here's a painting used for the sheet music

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bell-bottom-trousers-alb...

https://www.ecrater.com/p/42407644/vintage-1944-bell-bottom-...
I suggest edible hats for your next project.
Today I took a stroll through a tree-infested forest…
Scraper – Rust lib for HTML parsing and querying with CSS selectors
I doubt your baby is going to be holding glass objects 5 feet above a tile floor and also being significantly heavier they are pretty hard for babies to throw. So I don't think breakage is nearly the problem you are imagining.
Amazing piece. Full of gems like this sentence:

It was the Y2K-adjacent midpoint between the door-to-door salesmen of the boomer era and the present-day dystopia of A.I.–enhanced robocalling — the last few years before American credulity (and disposable income) was decisively strip-mined by post–9/11 disillusionment, the emergence of the internet, an economy that seemed to lurch from crisis to crisis, and, well, petty cheats like me, the bedrock of this nation.
Cut and cover only works if your subway follows streets. Yeah, I think we should do that where it makes sense but quite often you need to go under buildings or hills.
We designed https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt to ground the agent to human demonstrations, so that if you as a human don't engage in the dark pattern, neither will the agent.
> This is pretty common, developers are focused on making things that work.

True, but over the last twenty years, simple mistakes by developers have caused so many giant security issues.

Part of being a developer now is knowing at least the basics on standard security practices. But you still see people ignoring things as simple as SQL injection, mainly because it's easy and they might not even have been taught otherwise. Many of these people can't even read a Python error message so I'm not surprised.

And your cybersecurity department likely isn't auditing source code. They are just making sure your software versions are up to date.
But you can bake a cake with a mere 60w light. That 250w is also much less than what it takes to run modern GPUs. so it's all relative.
I went on Twitter years ago and almost exclusively followed people interested in programming language research, functional programming, and various hard sciences - tried to stay well away from the political nonsense. A year or two later many of those same people started posting as much about things like heteronormativity and trans issues as much as they did computer science. The authors I followed started talking mostly about how JK Rowling is the devil. Such discussions aren't what I was there for so I was very disappointed that everyone got sucked into the echo chamber and spent all their time talking about that instead. Twitter/X is optimized for zingers and gotcha responses about emotionally charged topics, not thoughtful and nuanced discussions about deeper topics. I think in the past it was legitimately a left wing echo chamber and now it's Elon's echo chamber.
We can preserve their function, but the physical experience of using them requires the ability to produce a physical approximation. I can say the C64 Maxi is a low-cost and pretty good approximation of both a C64 and a VIC20 computer. I only wish it could also be a C16 and a Plus/4.
Well that was not the point I was replying to :) but sure.
that’s true. But IMO it doesn’t really matter where it comes from. once it’s in the ocean it travels and affects everyone eventually.

Having people in north america pay less for plastic just because we do a better job not throwing it out isn’t fair either. That would basically be north america “outsourcing” our problems to the poorer countries that don’t yet have the infrastructure in place to properly deal with garbage.
I think he's talking about the very real possibility of humans ending up spreading to -1 planets.
In competitive markets, the services should get cheaper, in the end, the consumer profits from AI-increased productivity.
Not program it, read the program out of it.
This is what Aider doing out of the box
Determined mostly by on the airfields they use and geographic areas. Weather conditions and other things are important factor regionally.
> I'm very very concerned that marketers will be able to insert very compelling and very nuanced advertising into our experiences with it...

But this isn’t new—it’s been happening for a long time without AI, and it’s scarier than we often realize. With just a few data points about your life, marketers can accurately identify your traits, even if you think you belong to a very specific niche or tribe.

What’s worse is the deceitful and unethical practices behind this: many companies have been sharing your data to build detailed profiles of you, often without your knowledge or consent.
When giving money to the content creator is the game mechanic that allows the cc to "win", it becomes something else imho.

There is "I tell stories and here's a hat you can put some pennies in" and there's "I'm in a contest, the one with the most money in their hat wins". I feel like there is some abuse of human traits to extract money going on here.

But I agree, there's many wat more sketchy MOs around. In a way I have to respect this one, they make it work with so few moving parts.
To both of you, wireguard is the way to go.

So, parent poster: yes, you are doing it right.

Grandparent: Use a VPN, close everything else.
You don't HAVE to, but you aren't going to be making clear glass again if you mix it with other colored glasses. Im not an glass expert though and it could be more of a cost consideration in not having to chemically separate out colored elements from glass when you can much more easily just get clean sand again for significantly cheaper.
Why couldn’t nodejs with uWS library or golang + gorilla handle 10s of thousands of connections?
> In addition, you are making the situation dramatically worse for migrant origin countries as their young people leave to be workers somewhere else.

I did not disagree. But I also think this is a whole other argument.

> German culture, norms, morals, and ethnicity will be a tiny minority in Germany the economic zone.

Ethnicity I really don't care about. Why do you? I'm also fine and actually glad about people bringing along their culture as long as it doesn't get in the way of life of other people and most importantly respects everyone's human rights. The other ones are a question of integration. There is certainly a lot of room for improvement, but making it sound like they come here and will replace German culture is a big stretch. If anything is killing German culture, it is increasing cost of living and it being somewhat outdated, e.g. a lot of meat in cuisine, outdated values from Christianity and alcohol consumption. If any culture is replacing ours, it is US/consumerism.
Is there any reason to think they will be able to? They are just going the same thing as everyone else but started later. Another player might lower costs slightly but not much.
>... It is impossible for independent resellers to compete with the manufacturer.

Yes, those who manipulate the legislature to do rent seeking, might lose those profits when the law is removed. That is actually a feature, not a problem.

>...We do, because these dealers make the market more efficient.

Again, independent economists and the Dept of Justice don't agree with you.
I made one that uses purely GH Actions so no need to host anywhere
https://github.com/zetta/dots
You wouldn't train a LLM on a corpus containing copyrighted works without ensuring you had the necessary rights to the works, would you?
I've settled on good old fashioned spreadsheets.

Why?

One, I pay cash as much as I possibly can (fuck surveillance finance), so using something that brings in my transactions isn't that much of a time savings. I have a minimal number of monthly scheduled transactions, so bringing those in manually just isn't really that painful.

Two, it adds a tiny bit of friction to my spending. This is a good thing (at least for me). If I know I have to write down the amount, and if only briefly think about what I've already spent this month, it slightly dissuades me from conducting the transaction.

Again, this works for me. Sharing in case it works for you.
Agree that 1% is too small. Would be happy with 2-3% plus the cash
Big countries must have several timezones.
I think we've just passed the point of momentum on reduce. There's only so much reuse/repurpose that can be done with single use plastic.
Maybe Vernor Vinge was right.
Interesting article. This bit was not what I was expecting:

Today, rock tunneling machines have achieved tunneling rates of over 700 meters per week, and soil tunneling machines have achieved rates of over 200 meters per week, though this is dependent on the size of the TBM

Ie, that rock tunneling can be > 3x quicker than soil tunneling.
YNAB generally gets mentioned as one of the de factor budgeting options. I used it a lot a few years ago and it works. Their system is a little wonky if you aren't used to the envelope method but they have great docs, a great little podcast and a healthy community.
Expressive Vector Engine – SIMD in C++
I've tried a variety of tools over the years and always end up going back to a low tech approach: spreadsheets. I set up my credit cards to email me after every transaction, which I then manually copy over to my spreadsheet with additional category information. Pivot tables give me a breakdown by category / month.

The added friction of having to manually copy everything over is a nice incentive to buy less stuff.
Anyone working on this should either efficiently sabotage or quit the effort, and be socially isolated from their communities until they do.
The Bitter Lesson states that you can overcome the weakness of your current model by baking priors in (i.e. specific traits about the problem, as is done here), but you will get better long-term results by having the model learn the priors itself.

That seems to have been the case: compare the tricks people had to do with GPT-3 to how Claude Sonnet 3.6 performs today.
> What projects in developed countries have used cut and cover recently?

I know in Sweden the Västlänken project partially used cut-and-cover at least for the part going southwards..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Link
Thanks, Benny!
And that’s totally valid. Numerous groups have complained about over regulation causing this issue too.
Maintain an active contribution graph with this repo
The driving CO2 amplifier should be already beyond that figure alone
Parallel-hashmap: drop-in replacement for unordered_map, unordered_set
Also Pioneer Anomaly was solved, after dropping simple models treating the space probe as a simple or spherical particle, and accounting for the 3-dimensional shape of the probe.

Because of the shape of the space probe, part of the thermal radiation emitted from its surfaces were hitting some other surfaces, and thus the probe did not emit radiation evenly into every direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
justify-content should be called main-axis. align-items should be called cross-axis.

Once you understand this, all of flexbox becomes easy.
Because its bad to have a single point of failure in our supply chain
Assuming English is not your first language your reaction is extreme for two reasons: firstly I was clearly referring to the future, and secondly it is happening anyway.

Sadly for you AI griefer bots are a thing, so that side of your reason to exist is also under threat, but you can deny the existence of those too if it will make you feel better.
Reverse proxy is pretty good - you've isolated the machine from direct access so that is something.

I'm in the same boat. I've got a few services exposed from a home service via NGINX with a LetsEncrypt cert. That removes direct network access to your machine.

Ways I would improve my security:

- Adding a WAF (ModSecurity) to NGINX - big time investment!

- Switching from public facing access to Tailscale only (Overlay network, not VPN, so ostensibly faster). Lots of guys on here do this - AFAIK, this is pretty secure.

Reverse proxy vs. Overlay network - the proxy itself can have exploitable vulnerabilities. You should invest some time in seeing how nmap can identify NGINX services, and see if those methods can be locked down. Good debate on it here:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/252480/blocking...
I would appreciate if the article spent more time actually discussing the benefits of websockets (and/or more modern approaches to pushing data from server -> browser) and why the team decided those benefits were not worth the purported downsides. I could see the same simplicity argument being applied to using unencrypted HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP/2, or TCP Reno instead of CUBIC.

The section at the end talking about "A Case for Websockets" really only rehashes the arguments made in "Hidden Benefits of Long-Polling" stating that you need to reimplement these various mechanisms (or just use a library for it).

My experience in this space is from 2011, when websockets were just coming onto the scene. Tooling / libraries were much more nascent, websockets had much lower penetration (we still had to support IE6 in those days!), and the API was far less stable prior to IETF standardization. But we still wanted to use them when possible, since they provided much better user experience (lower latency, etc) and lower server load.
Just it is not , those are peak events only
> It is quite remarkable and more than a bit surprising that the primary tenet of general relativity -- that spacetime behaves differently where there is curvature vs where there is not -- was not sufficiently accounted for seemingly by any researchers this entire time.

This was also my first thought when I heard about this paper. It seems almost impossible that nobody in the entire contentious field of physical cosmology had considered whether our current consensus models account for the relativistic effects of the (known!) large scale structure of space.

Following from that, my second thought was that maybe there is something more subtle about this analysis---maybe the question the researchers asked is less obvious than the headline makes it seem ("we forgot about relativity"). Obviously the subject matter is beyond me to answer that question myself, and I haven't found any good answers elsewhere.
How has the server been blinded from the hashing mechanism? Is this happening on different hardware, or facilitated through API calls to another server or something?

Genuinely curious as I think anonymous discussions are awesome but hate the kind of stuff that comes along with other anonymous image boards. Truly hope this is successful and results in a wonderful thriving community.
It would be interesting to read more about the power generators that aren’t disconnecting. How much of that is retail solar?
If you configure your server(s) through nix and nix containers, then even without another host OS you are basically running nix.
One of the references in the article mentions using better alloys ("modified tool steel") and 20" discs produces better results and lower overall costs due to time between disc replacement. This could be A8 "chipper knife" steel.

https://www.robbinstbm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Smadin...

https://www.litechtools.com/products/tbm-disc-cutter/
H1B visas?
There are already colleges like this that are basically ignored by the status quo. For example, the College of the Atlantic has a single degree in human ecology. It's a requirement to have a multidisciplinary course selection plan that includes multiple fields and both arts and sciences.
How a wildfire monitoring app became essential in the US west
The "No-Code" Delusion (2020)
Show HN: Deep Sequencer Prompt Chaining Tool
I have published novels and awhile ago an Amazon recruiter reached out to me for a tech role on a team building story tracking software.

It never went anywhere but I did wonder at the time how they view employees writing their own novels or movies etc. For example, would they have any possible claims on any future novels based in those existing worlds and characters in my previous works.

Obviously they have the funds to outlast you in any claim if by small chance you happen to have a hit at some point.
Discussed here in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22033827
That’s even a better argument for extending the time they have to find another job.
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography
It's hard to tell I can imagine some motivated individuals could utilize all sorts of packaging systems and embed them in third-party applications and so on, and extract pertinent information using this type of surveillance, and then sell this data to data brokers which would sell it to the large ad networks. I mean there's lots of ways to transcribe even most of the whisper models can run all the way down to 150 megabyte file not to mention the quantization versions of these models. I have something that I run on my computer for my server not throughout my house that does real Time transcription and whatnot but I use it for my own purposes, so you know someone who makes money off advertising or even selling insights about people, would certainly find ways to do this. I mean it's simply not regulated is it?

https://huggingface.co/spaces/jilangdi/whisper-web
The data doesn’t have to be unbiased to be useful. For anyone who’s actually ridden in a Waymo this confirms the intuition of our experience that it’s much less likely to do something stupid than your average human driver.

No activity has perfect safety. That’s not the bar and never has been for new technology.
Trip to Westwood Studios (2001)
This December, my wife and I took a road trip through Southern California and accidentally passed by a few iconic gaming studios. Knowing I'm a gamer, she suggested we try visiting some of them. After a bit of digging, we realized that most of these studios don't offer public access anymore.

One funny moment: we found a Google review complaining that a Starbucks inside Blizzard HQ shouldn't appear on Google Maps if it's employees-only.

As we continued, I spotted the Electronic Arts campus and couldn't help but mention how EA had acquired and eventually shut down one of my favorite game developers, Westwood Studios. This got me thinking--did anyone ever do a proper tour of these gaming landmarks before they closed or became inaccessible?

That led me to a fascinating discovery: a nostalgic tour of Westwood Studios back in the 2000s, captured by VL. Anyone else feel like we missed out on experiencing these studios in their heyday? Would love to hear your thoughts or stories if you've ever done something similar!
Another reason: there is a patent troll suing companies over usage of websockets.
They have a say insofar as they can participate in the same standards process as everyone else. But no, the PSF has no unique say in how PyPI is run, or how pip behaves. This is a pretty fundamental aspect of how Python-qua-ecosystem works.
https://archive.ph/kERoW
https://healthylongevitychallenge.org/winners/multi-modal-mi...
I really think there is no way out of it. Things will continue to get worse before they get better. Eventually there will be so many unemployed working age people that violence will be the only logical course.
It's normal and logical for the same information to be met with different levels of skepticism based on the reputation of the source.
No, copyright violation occurs at the first unauthorized copying or creation of a derivative work or exercise of any of the other exclusive rights of the copyright holder (that does not fall into an exception like that for fair use.) That distribution is required for a copyright violation is a persistent myth. Distribution is a means by which a violation becomes more likely to be detected and also more likely to involve significant liability for damages.

(OTOH, whether models, as the output of a mechanical process, are subject to copyright is a matter of some debate. The firms training models tend to treat the models as if they were protected by copyright but also tend to treat the source works as if copying for the purpose of training AI were within a copyright exception; why each of those positions is in their interest is obvious, but neither is well-established.)
He wasn’t criticizing the FDA or the makers. He was critical of Trump trying to pressure the FDA.
This video did the rounds many years ago now, still quite an uncomfortable watch especially when he gets to the top! I understand they don't allow 'free climbing' any more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM
I have actually just printed out codebases and read them cover to cover before (sometimes referencing ahead for context), as a senior engineer. If you need to quickly understand what every line is doing on a small to medium sized body of code, it's a pretty good way to avoid distraction and ramp up quickly. I find that just reading every line goes pretty quickly and gives me a relatively good memory of what's going on.
This is just a garbage "Subscribe to keep reading" blogspam on a story everyone here can answer without even clicking.

Spoiler alert -- the reason is H1B visas
I could see the endgame of AI as surveillance and manipulation of information to achieve political goals. In the old days, expensive intelligence agencies and security services had to work hard to figure out targets' affiliations and beliefs, to propagandize, and to subvert opponents (or one's own society). Social media then persuaded users that it was a good idea to list their family, friends, and associates in a giant database along with their political beliefs, hopes and fears, and pictures of their lunch, and its algorithms surfaced whatever the makers wanted (cf. TikTok). Now, AI is poised not only to comb through what e-mails and files hadn't been available before, but also to surface or even generate information, giving it a prime spot to censor or manipulate what we see.
Important to note that, even if you use Tailscale, the firewall punching happens regardless, so you still have to make sure you either:

1. Have some external firewall outside of the Docker host blocking the port

2. Explicitly tell Docker to bind to the Tailscale IP only