skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that one day they'll be. But to me it's very obvious why LLMs are better at writing human-readable code than binary code.

The hype around LLMs come from the fact that you can command them in natural language. To make it possible, LLMs have to be trained mostly on natural language corpus. And human-readable code is closer to natural language than binary code.
I'm using DNS66 on Android to block ads at the DNS level. I wouldn't browse on mobile without it.
No, but you wouldn't expect them to just hand over a users data just because some individual doesn't like the opinion someone has of them. There are consequences for free speech I totally understand that. Unfortunately the consequences for me are not going to be good.
I’m due for a new phone and I’m strongly considering going to a dumb phone with a tablet around the house for browsing. I can carry a Kindle or something to kill time waiting for a train.
> we have no clue how to organize people, or how we could put modern technology to good use

But I do, friend, I really do.

It all starts with compassion; profit-motive being prioritized over compassion is the source of all this world's problems, from strife to pollution to fascism to oppression of minorities or other ethnic/religious groups.

Both political parties here in America are on the take from various moneyed groups, though the Dems have less disdain for the poor, to be certain. Their prioritization of those interests damages how our government behaves, how it should serve the people of both our country and the world at large.

And look at the fools who are about to run America now, as well as the majority of the commentariat around here, burning up the Earth for their "coins" and "near-worthless" LLMs, worshipping dangerous fools like Musk.

If you want to be a part of the solution, connect yourself with our Creator and learn how to become more compassionate, for EVERY SINGLE ONE of our problems is solely and completely due to a lack of compassion.

So, tech is great to help people but can be (and is being) used to oppress others (e.g. rent collusion), amplify mis- and disinformation, cheat consumers, and so on and so on.

Steel yourself in compassion for all innocent human beings, i.e. the ones not oppressing others and destroying the Earth.
Yes I spent a good decade writing domain specific languages and some time maintaining a commercial compiler and code generator for complex state machines.

We can do a lot better. More time solving problems, less time satisfying what is effectively a trite extrapolation of theoretical languages from the 60s
the bot is echoing sentiments of comment sections it was trained on and had no idea of its origins

its acting aware and sensitive but only has information about the tech sector as a whole

my critique is about how the standards being applied are dumb all the way down. the standards are not actually that enlightened even if there was more representation congruent with the race/identity being caricatured as representation. nullifying the whole criticism.

the training set is the only thing thats important with a language model. and its just a symptom of dead internet theory, as even the persona’s byline was probably generated by a different language model.
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This people would be 100% better off. Not consuming the garbage. I tried to just follow tech peeps on X.
Now it is nonstop propaganda even just following a niche.
Shuffling numbers in networked personal computer devices has diminishing returns and we're hitting them. LLMs are a hail mary, throwing compute at the wall to see what sticks. No, Silicon Valley, the world doesn't need more compute. It has ceased being a limiting factor several years ago, and the consumer experience has been worsening for quite a while. Just for an example, consuming media on a smart tv using a streaming app is a vastly inferior experience to just using bluray discs.
> Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China

...and continue offering the same service by reselling Tencent's CDN.

Looks like they're making this one of the things in China that has to be provided locally?
Can websites detect this?
Sorry to hear this, my heart is with you.

I heard quite a few folks run political dissident content from non-western countries. I wonder if they are in danger too, given how easy Cloudflare share info without any notification.
I listen to How I Built This.

It's not unusual to do this. Especially when they're trying to get a retailer to carry their items. They'll create fake buzz. Stuff like getting all your friends to go to a store asking "Do you carry X?" soon after you've pitched X to the store is a method that's worked for over a century.
https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ254/PLAW-115publ254.p...

Section 403, passed in 2018. Search for "41725" for an easier search through the PDF. Installed phones are not prohibited, it's more about restrictions on personal, portable electronic devices brought on by passengers. Crew are also exempted.

> ‘‘(2) MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE.—

>> ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘mobile communications device’ means any portable wireless telecommunications equipment utilized for the transmission or reception of
voice data.
The US court doesn't really examine the complaint prior to issuing a subpoena, the plantiff has a dispute with you and wants to contact you but can't. So they've gone to court to ask how to contact you.

Cloudflare could move to quash the subpoena, but unless your contract says they must, that's at their discression, and unless your contract says you'll pay for it, something they would have to pay for.

If you had representation, you could move to quash the subpoena, too. And then it would be challenged.

Free speech doesn't necessarily imply anonymous speech either.
Flagged? In what way?

I did think about blogging about it. Unfortunately I don't think it will help.
Is that not what the courts are for?

Do you want Cloudflare to act as a judge? If they find your calling out misinformation resonable you then want them to act as a legal shield for you?

I do understand and accept the need for privacy when running such a blog. But who should judge whether you got your facts wrong?

Surely it is no fun going to court. But around here I would not be afraid to go myself for a simple case. And I do mean simple: If you are damn sure what the facts are.

But then it might be the thing with judicial lineage: Objective vs subjective truth. French or British style system. In the US I would be scared senseless without representation. Is that inherited from the UK way of thinking?
Why is Meta relevant? In Vegas, why is Cyber Truck and a Trump hotel relevant? They don't consistently mention the make and model for NO. I haven't heard a single mention of what business(es) were on the NO driver's route.

Why can't the status quo media focus on journalism instead of TMZ'ing everything? Have they no shame?
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/css-css-gri...
I love that the mobile version of the brave browser tells you how much data it saved you and how much time too.
I used something close to this to implement a whiteboard marker with texture and transparency. If your browser supports WebGL, feel free to try https://limnu.com/d/new.html (BTW It’s a multi-player whiteboard you can share & collab.) Is that a shameless plug? I’m not involved anymore and won’t make any money, but I’m proud of the implementation, and happy if the current stewards of the site get some traffic or business.

Aside from that, for the sake of discussion and playing devil’s advocate I’ll take a small pedantic issue with the very first sentence. There are multiple ways to do this kind of thing without triangulating. (And I’m currently working on making one available publicly.) Clever shaders are one way to render lines without triangles. Ray tracing is another. Triangles are useful and easy and have broad support, so they make sense, but they aren’t the only option.
Really big broadcast towers are a specialized niche... Your average tower crew is working at 200' and less. Many will never see the absolutely huge gin poles used to send up gigantic VHF (fm and tv) band antennas. If I had to guess, crews and people who work on the 1000' class guyed towers are maybe 2-3% of the industry. Everyone else is cranking out new sectors with RRH on monopoles for cellular carriers.
Yeah, but that's also true for a mediocre (human) SWE...

edit: My point was that, since mediocre SWEs make up a large proportion of the workforce, an LLM that performs at the level of "mediocre human" will still have massive implications for the labor force.
That’s what I was thinking too. There are whole subreddits setup to work this kind of hustle. These people see nothing wrong with what they do, even going so far as to claim that they’re doing a service to the world. In my eyes, they’re bottom-feeding scum no better than scalpers, car salespeople, or MLM huns.
My issue with flexbox is that I can't seem to memorize all the settings I need to get boxes within boxes and content to either fill a box or the box to surround the content.

This is particular important on an SPA where I want the boxes to fill the screen but never overflow it. I manage eventually. I need to put the totally intuitive (sarcasm) min-width: 0, here and there, and a few other things here and there and eventually I get it.

I feel like I should be able to make a few css classes to cover all of this but I have yet to figure it out for every case.
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Is Cloudflare here acting in an inappropriate manner?
If the poster had instead been hosted by any regular
host in the US, Dreamhost, AWS, Squarespace?

Would they most likely do the same?

Is Cloudflare in this instance acting a midle layer between
the actual hosting entity and the Internet?
Or is Cloudflare the hosting company as well?

I do know that Cloudflare have at times done more for some of
their users I would not expet them to fight a court order
evertime they recieve one.
> The Matrix Foundation has not “closed the ecosystem”! The ecosystem is healthier than ever - just look at all the independent folks building away at https://2024.matrix.org/watch etc. You seem to be conflating Element switching its development to AGPL+CLA with Matrix itself, which is categorically not the case.

I'm satisfied with this reply. I disagree and I vote with my feet. It isn't the first time something started off very open, became significantly less open, and still had participants who were OK with it being significantly less open, nor is it the first that doesn't seem to be a true non-profit. It's well known that a non-profit sitting close to a for-profit just is often just a structural maneuver at this point. A case in point is the recent WordPress controversy.

So it has an ecosystem with a subset of its former participants. Some of those who are gone see it as closed. Probably not just me.

> Nobody “transferred Synapse”. Element effectively forked it in order to continue working on it as AGPL+CLA, purely so it could sell AGPL exceptions to fund the dev.

The repo was literally transferred, though? With all its issues? As well as the trademark?

I don't mean this just to attack Matrix, just to use it as an example of a type of FLOSS that doesn't interest me, to the point where I'd rather use proprietary platforms than get emotionally invested into open source I don't believe very strongly in, so I'm ready for open source I do believe strongly in. https://sive.rs/hellyeah I also hope to inspire people to look for and seek to develop the next great open messaging platform, or participate in existing ones like IRC. Ergo Chat looks sweet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447071

> To be clear: the only reason I’m responding here is to try to give a view based on reality to anyone unfortunate enough to read this thread. It’s incredibly depressing to see how you have misrepresented the situation.

I'm representing my perspective, and you're representing yours. You know, some see Discord and Slack as an open ecosystem, because signup for APIs are open. It's far better than the situation for some other communication tools like Facebook and X.

> Fwiw, if there had been any way to keep Synapse Apache and keep the team alive to develop it, I would have taken it.

So the ideal FLOSS messaging platform is yet to come.

My standards are pretty high BTW. I have been turned off to Go and Swift because they were developed at Google and Apple. So Matrix probably won't win me back, with its purported shift towards open governance. https://matrix.org/blog/2023/12/electing-our-first-governing...
Cloudflare are open about their compliance with these type of requests: https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/law-enforcement/

If you're unable to find a lawyer, contact the court directly to seek advice on responding: you should be able to file a response yourself.

That said, keep in mind, if the person chasing you is willing to hire a lawyer to file in California, they're probably not going to stop pursuing you. They'll file again and again for different reasons in different jurisdictions. Cloudflare have your identity and will give it up every time they are asked to by a court, it doesn't take much for an enterprising adversary to get access to it.

At a minimum, get off Cloudflare immediately.
I can't say much about your legal situation and wish you no misfortune whatsoever but this is a gossip rag. You could and should have done more research to substantiate such a wild claim before publishing it. Surely there is ample documented evidence of this behavior.
A lot of web pages only work for me on my iPhone if I use reader mode. Otherwise, the page keeps resetting over and over again. Firefox, but I assume Safari is probably the same, since Apple mandates they all be based on WebKit.
The Register are actually doing a story on it tomorrow I hope.
I was hoping this was going to be about patches to code.
He has been conditio sine qua non.

For ChatGPT, too, arguably (impetus for founding of OpenAI as a counter balance to Google, hiring of Ilya Sutskever, funding, all-in position on Andrej’s belief in the superiority unsupervised learning).

A child? For sure. But in the sense of Nietzsche’s parable (“Of the three transformations”).
This is the #1 reason for ad blocking in Eastern Europe and Asia (eg dolphin browser). It’s also why the current “solutions” big tech is providing viz. privacy and non-annoying ads doesn’t move the needle there.
It is still inspiring for someone like me who wouldn’t even know where to start for something like this—-that is can be done by an individual nobody.The author knew a few important things, but more, did their research, asked questions, and pushed forward. I myself would love to move beyond web apps to a physical product.
This reminds me of the very first prosecution against "Hackers"
according to the lore of Bruce Stirling [0].

Since there were no cyber-laws to charge trespassers on digital estate
the intruders were charged with "stealing electricity".

Perhaps we forget that ads are also a crime of resource
misappropriation. Advertisers are not like vampires that are off the
hook if you invite them in.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown
As far as I’m aware, at least what has been explained to me, storage is a smaller problem. The bigger problem is how do you transfer that energy from where it is stored to where it is needed. Wind farms in the sea help nothing in Bayern.
Some humans can do it consistently, other humans can't.

Versus how no publicly-available AI can do it consistently (yet). Although it seems like a matter of time at this point, and then work as we know it changes dramatically.
Assuming I correctly understood the argument in the link:

Even if the space was truly empty, the expansion of that space would have gone on for longer, and thus things on opposite sides would eventually notice they were more distant.

But also yes the space isn't really totally empty.
Abstractions are not a dichotomy between "forget everything bellow the level in which you wish to operate" and "I need to be able to follow the path of each electron". Which abstractions are used and how you traverse them are relevant discussions that a lot of professionals seek to avoid by using framework, jargon and box diagrams.
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It looks like they filed it themselves and are not using lawyers.

I intend to get off Cloudflare if they are going to behave like this.
You can kinda see an agent that automates a 'best practices' AI-assisted workflow to iterates with AI to generate and run tests, optimize code, and feed in the right examples or signatures so it can generate code that properly uses existing APIs.

Maybe trying to use cheaper models first and then calling the more expensive models to iterate and get through tests or errors.

I haven't really seen anything like this so I imagine it's a lot harder than I'm imagining.
Quick fun. Not sure if this was a bug though:

I got to the O'Neill Cylinder stage and then stopped playing for a bit (closed the tab). Came back today and played some more, and when I bought another cylinder, the "buy an online ad" option for selling games came back under executive decisions.
I think ads on mobile apps is a much bigger problem for these users.
yeah, i'm assuming this is up to 220Mb/s for the whole plane, not for each passenger.

airplane wifi is still going to suck.
C++ ABI compatibility: the day the standard library died
Suddenly Germany not having google mapa due to privacy all those years sounds less silly now
Hebrew speakers also read top to bottom and left to right, when they're reading code, because coding is (almost always) in English languages. :)
"Don't worry. Now that net neutrality is certainly no longer a thing, arrangements can be made for adtech companies to pay ISPs directly to zero-rate their traffic. You won't benefit from this with any less ads or tracking, but your Internet bill may increase slightly less over time, at least until it's as high as your cable bill used to be."

Ridiculous thoughts from my grandmother. I disagree. People still watch TV even though there are ad breaks, ads on top of the show you are watching, and product placement within the TV shows. People clearly want ads otherwise they would use alternate means to get the information, such as DVDs, books, libraries, non-online classes, or seminars. If mobile data pricing goes up and the cost of ads to the end user is too high, the free market can sort it out. Honestly it's hard for me not to believe that blocking ads is anti-capitalist and against the free speech rights of advertising companies.
"Obsolete" which I guess for you means for the bleeding edge? Larger nanometer processes will still be in use since their cost will come down. For example when automakers stopped their orders for chips during COVID they pivoted (ported?) to higher nanometer designs because it wasn't a core requirement.
> Can you imagine being stuck for hours with loud and obnoxious human being who thinks that they are in their right to explain all of their work and family problems

That describes the current situation in lots of everyday setups, like waiting room in a clinic, bus, train…

Sometimes I wish the world was more like Japan in that regard…
Is that why they kept beating up cops?
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Its not technically DEI , but if you tried to build a dam in the US some tribe would object it because (of course) that was the site of a sacred burial ground, or it would (allegedly) impact some specific animal that is sacred to them. Then CNN would rail about how the eminent domain "disproportionately affects PoC" and how "far-right congressman Badman voted to cut govbux to the poor women and children affected by this horrible infrastructure project".

Of course the energy company would only do it with liberal corporate welfare, awarded only on the condition of guaranteed DEI positions or strong preference toward subcontractors that were "women-owned " or Black owned.
I'd say no really "very smart people" agree with that idiocy in the first place. Most people just believe what they want to believe, regardless of the truth, and what they want to believe is usually primarily due to what they figure they'll get out of those signals they send.

People's confidence is no indicator of their intelligence. See Dunning-Kruger's landmark study for how human nature in modern engineering corps manifests itself in two diametric ways, depending on one's humility and actual hard work.

A major problem is that when someone has the expertise to actually know the truth, the fools of the world deride them mercilessly. See Eugene Parker for a perfect example.

Most people are simply far too stupid to know how stupid they are, and trying to tell them how stupid they are makes them really, really angry.
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When the Greeks invented the games the competitors were all buck naked and oiled up.

You ever think we should just cut out the middlemen? Skip the governments, the international organizations, the television networks, and get back to the basic principle of fit naked people doing fit naked things in front of an admiring audience.

At Strigil (YC '25) we're disrupting the Olympic market by combining best-of-breed athletic performance, carbon-neutral plant-based olive oil, and blockchain-enabled generative AI into a powerful democratized platform for distributing nudes of greased up hardbodies.

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Each of our events is held in modern athletic facilities crowdsourced from areas of town your mother told you not to drive through at night, and streamed to viewers via our unnecessarily custom scalable streaming architecture written in Rust.

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As part of our sustainability pledge, we've replaced the traditional Olympic medal made from non-renewable materials with fully digital NFT medals, allowing the victors to show off their accomplishments in their virtual trophy case in the metaverse. Launching Q3, athletes will even be able sell their valuable medals on the bustling NFT marketplace to when they're inevitably driven into crushing medical debt.
Then you have to answer for yourself if/why you believe Elon would/wouldn't lie about having an alt account to attempt controlling a narrative or keep a troll running longer than it could?
I just turn on Ultimate Data Saving mode, and then I add some apps to the exception list. I always also have Power Saving mode on, and that restricts background data usage significantly.
OP brought a rational argument, you didn't. It sounds like you are defending your optimism with emotion.

> We are groking how to utilize them.

Indeed.
Self hosted onion services.