skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has never been argued that copyright law should apply to information the people learn, whether that be from reading books or newspapers, watching television or appreciating art like paintings or photographs.

Unlike a person, an large language model is product built by a company and sold by a company. While I am not a lawyer, I believe much of the copyright arguments around LLM training revolve around the idea that copyrighted content should be licensed by the company training the LLM. In much the same way that people are not allowed to scrape the content of the New York Time website and then pass it off as their own content, so should OpenAI be barred from scraping the New York Times website to train ChatGPT and then sell the service without providing some dollars back to the New York Times.
‘Like cloud-scale, no-code scale or NoSQL scale’.

That is the dumbest statement I have heard this week. You should perhaps refrain from commenting, at-least until you gain the modicum of intelligence that you currently don’t have.
> Do you understand that those private functions are often called from multiple places in your private binary? Do you expect the compiler to emit different prologues at each call site? And even if it did, one side (callee) is fixed right?

Yes, I understand all that. But this optimisation is clearly possible to write. On the face of it, it sounds similar to the register allocation problem within a function, but it needs to make decisions globally. Rewriting each caller's code would be easy. The hard part would be deciding which registers to use for each emitted function's parameters. You'd have to look at all of the callers to figure out the best choices. And each choice affects all the other choices.

So yes, it would be a very, very difficult optimisation to implement. Especially given how modern compilers are architected, using code units and a linker. The compiler needs to look at the functions "all at once".

Inlining isn't the same. But I agree that you'd get the most benefit from this optimisation in small, hot functions. If those functions are already being inlined, all of the benefit of this optimisation would disappear.

> The reality is that neither compilers nor compiler engineers are dumb and if you (one) has a bright idea that hasn't been implemented widely then it's highly likely someone has already considered it and there are flaws.

Compiler engineers are smart. But they were also smart 20 years ago, and its clear in hindsight that the compilers of the time left a lot of performance on the table. I bet we're still leaving a lot of performance on the table.

The question in my mind is simply, would the juice be worth the squeeze? It sounds like we agree that it would be a very difficult optimisation to implement. I think the commenter above is right that it would make programs smaller. The remaining question is, would it make them significantly faster? Would it make programs faster enough to justify the implementation complexity?

I personally doubt it. Look at Rust. Rust binaries are often much bigger than their C equivalents because of bounds checks and various other runtime checks. But in my experience, the bloated binary sizes don't seem to make much of a performance difference. If anything, rust code is often (somehow) slightly faster than the equivalent C when I've measured it. (And this was true even before noalias was enabled.)

But it would be a cool thing to try out. Godspeed to anyone interested in giving it a go.
I know of a few, they are using Ubiquiti, TP Link, and Calix. They are however all small.

BTW, if you’re in UK altnet scene are you in… the Slack?
I'm a rock climber, not a tower climber, but I've been on climbs that are >1k feet above the deck. For me (and I gather most climbers), just hanging off an anchor at 1000 feet doesn't feel particularly scary. You're firmly attached to the rock with gear that you (hopefully) trust. For a tower, I'd expect it to feel even safer since the gear will be far more solid than some cams[0] jammed in a crack.

I (along with most climbers) still feel fear though! But it's specifically fear of _falling_ rather than just fear of being high up. In climbing, that comes when you _lead_ past your point of protection (where your rope is attached to the rock), creating the possibility of falling >2x that distance. In big wall climbing you might climb 10-50 feet before placing protection, so you are risking a potentially very big fall.

In tower climbing falls aren't possible (unless you screw up the system), because you are always clipped into at least one point of protection. I'd imagine that it feels more grueling than terrifying for most people comfortable with the heights.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-loaded_camming_device
What counts as multiplanetary? Landing as small group of people on Mars who don't last very long probably doesn't meet the criteria.
Let's not conflate running one off scripts with software development. If LLMs can help people do something with Python that would be just a lot of boring clicking around or whatnot, great.

The conversation in this thread was about how LLMs will change software engineering as a profession tho...
I'm going to respectfully disagree, I personally want to know as much as I can about this weasel!
The definition of social media from Oxford is "websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking". I think that describes HN. We participate in social networking on this website, and we can share content, and create content (in the form of comments, Show HNs, etc).

Personally, and this is a bit of a "hot take", but I think some people trying to define a difference is just trying to justify continue using HN and forums like Reddit while still hating on social media or wanting it banned. To be consistent with getting off social media, I think one ought to get off HN and Reddit completely as well (use a site blocker extension). But yeah this is a bit of an inflammatory opinion, I understand.
> Acknowledging that will help frame whether the respective countries have the political appetite to temp or undo those policies.

What does framing matter? Things are going to happen, trying to “frame” them is why journalism is miserable.
But the conclusions are bang-on correct vis a vis human achievement.

We can choose to be humble craftspeople that know we can always improve some more, especially as a software engineer; such humility naturally leads to undervaluing our expertise.

And then there are the people who are in the job for the money or social perks and that's all they ever really wanted, so, because they already have the status/money they desired and that's "good enough" for them, they overvalue their expertise.

I'm not a study designer but as a student of human nature, the results they reported are just absolutely correct. Humility and hard work are both causitive and correlated with excellence, whether the person is a physicist, mathematician, engineer, musician, programmer, or just a regular old human being.

I mean, look at the lying, know-nothing, big-talking turd-sandwich we just elected President, my friend. And then look at the people who elected him, and know those fools are just a bunch of rubes who think they're "real smart".

It is said that it is far more difficult to convince a person that they've been fooled than it is to fool them in the first place. The low-expertise folks think they're fooling people with their confident self-assurance.

It is possible to achieve the level where one knows that one knows, and the idiots will attack such a person out of their lack of humility. Eugene Parker dealt with that, as do I, my friend, but I know that I know. And my advantage is that I am always ready to learn more. Always.
I agree this is the current plan from Trump adversaries. They recognize the combined power of Trump's POTUS authority and Musk's money and they're anxious to try and exploit any opening they can find no matter how small. Frankly this combination will be very damaging to left wing priorities and I can see why they're anxious to try and sow division.

Remember Trump has vowed to primary Republican reps who don't get in line with the current party agenda. Musk has vowed to fund these alternative candidates, even funding moderate democrats in blue districts. Trump will need Musk's money to make these things a reality.

From my reading of the news, its seems more of a made up "rift" than an actual thing, though I get the impression opposition badly wants to sell it as a factual thing. The more the left tries to sell the narrative that "Trump is Elon's bitch" the more they look desperate and afraid of the power the two of them working together represents. The Left appears to be properly terrified of this, even from my far off point of view just having access to The News. They're not scared because they're winning and I can see that from here, so surely the main people involved can see it too.

Its a pretty good life rule that the person screaming the loudest is generally losing. This is really just a variant of the ole "Putin has dirty pictures of Trump and he owns him!" narrative all over again.
The actual dental work was $23K, so about 35% of the US quotes.
It's funny that you said TFA a few comments earlier, because you seem to have not read the article either, or are making some great leaps here.

If the break in happened as you would explain the article would also mention that:

* the attacker gained access to the postgres user or equally privileged user

* they used specific SQL commands to execute code

* would have not claimed the vulnerability was about docker containers and exposed ports

And the take away would not be "be careful with exposing your home server to the internet", but would be "anyone with admin privileges to postgres is able to execute arbitrary code".
Isn’t that the point of Axum? It’s the convenience of route management (and more) built on top of an underlying HTTP server, in this case Hyper.
Always happy to see other thermal printer projects :D

I have my own project for using these for TTRPGs: https://sales-and-dungeons.app/
While I suggest reading the whole thing, the money-quotes:

> So yeah, these [keyboard manufacturer] madlads made a shell that runs on top of MIDI SysEx messages on top of USB.

> [T]he most interesting commands that we have are arbitrary memory read/write commands. So, if we really wanted to, we could just peek and poke the memory of the synth via MIDI.

> If we wanted to, we could write these messages to a MIDI file and play it on the synth like any other MIDI file. Hey, that gives me an idea.....

> From the countless sleepless nights of digging around in the firmware I’ve discovered a function that sends arbitrary data to the LCD controller.
US Treasury dept sanctions Chinese cybersecurity company for multiple intrusions
> Obnoxious tweets and incendiary messaging does not mean we ought not appreciate his impact.

Nobody would pay attention if his words didn’t make any impact. But they do and I think even he doesn’t realise what the consequences of his actions may be. It’s one thing him controlling the president of the US, it’s another thing him trying to have impact half a world away.

Does he really think that nazis from ex-DDR will be buying teslas when AfD comes to power?

What’s his angle? Ego because the son became a daughter and he blames it on woke culture? The man is risking destabilising the world for who knows what reasons. Most Germans loved Hitler, remember that.

I absolutely don’t care about SpaceX, neither Tesla. Shrug, don’t care.
they will have to block the signal in the bathrooms, or those will be used as an "office"
by the true optimise and take advantage of everything crowd
Dude you're flat out guessing about how they work, and you're embarrassingly wrong about the results. V3 Superchargers reliably output 250kW every time you pull up. Their power sharing between cabinets ensures this. Environmental conditions don't affect them due to very efficient thermal management and preconditioning.

They explicitly said this about their new V4s:

> Posts can peak up to 500kW for cars, but we need less than 1MW across 8 posts to deliver maximum power to cars 99% of the time
It's disappointing to see your comment downvoted because although I strongly don't want people making calls on the plane, your perspective is interesting and you make a good argument :-)

I would definitely agree I don't want arbitrary restrictions, but when jamming a ton of humans from all walks of life into a narrow metal tube, sealing it, and sailing it through the air, we have to have some common rules of conduct to prevent it turning into an unbearable hell for some of the people. Definitely don't want to see governments pass laws or even ISPs, but the plane owners I see no issue with and in fact think it is an important thing to do.
But it's a marketing win. Imagine an ISP that blocks most ads automatically, and what it doesn't block is excluded from your data cap. Shut up and take my money!
Mostly accurate, except I would change the last sentence to:

"We take safety very seriously. Look how much safer our SOTA model is based on our completely made up metrics. We will also delay releasing these models to the public until we ensure they're safe for everyone, or just until we need to bump up our valuation, whichever comes first."
I often scroll with the space bar instead of more modern contrivances like arrow keys, scroll wheels, trackpoints, or trackpads. Sites with these header bars always seem to scroll the entire viewport y size instead of (y - bar_height), so after I hit space I have to up-arrow some number of times to see the next line of text that should be visible but is hidden under the bar.
The part 107 exam has a question about radio towers and the answer is 400 feet above with in 400 ft of the tower. Or up to the point you hit controlled airspace.
I used to have an ISP that would inject ads into HTTP sites. Every site needs HTTPS.
Ask HN: Best sites to get featured in for a casual mobile game?
Hey HN!

2 months ago I launched Tic! - The world's first game you can play without anyone around you knowing. (It has no visuals / sounds, just haptics)

My game reached the top of Hacker news. I had only made the iOS version at the time, but now the game is on Android too.

I am struggling to find more ways to market it as a solo dev. I made a YouTube channel but growing that takes time (I have 600+ subs and will keep working on it). I wanted to ask if anyone knows of any specific sites I could reach out to get my app featured.

I have added links below for reference if anyone wants to take a closer look or is interested in buying the app (it is paid).

Thanks!! ;)

What is Tic? Link: https://youtu.be/sKqH4Ps7huM
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6720712299
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rohans.ticapp&pcampaignid=web_share
> I thought we don't want to be like China?

Tired: "spreading" democracy.

Wired: battening down the hatches so you don't lose your democracy.

It's a new world, you just haven't received the memo yet.
Sex and the City saved me from a lifetime wasted with self-help books by one wonderful scene of some pathetic lady crying in the self-help section on the floor. It made me realize that is pretty much every self-help reader ever. They are never helped, they are just on a hamster wheel to the next self-help book, a little of their wallet moved from their pocket to the author.
That doesn't justify casually doxxing another person who is not Musk and might or might not be the same Adrian Dittmann, though.
Learning Laravel by building a postal code finder
> Absolute nuts. But the high point of dead-silent, powerful, smooth conveniences no matter the maintenance cost.

Wife's car broke down (probably the water pump or just a loose hose) on the highway while coming back from vacation. As it was a very busy day where we were (France), there were not any regular cab left so the insurance company sent us a driver with... a Mercedes S class 550 (not a taxi but a private driver: no "cab / taxi" thinggy on the roof). It's still as you wrote: dead-silent, powerful and silky smooth.

Diesel engine but as a passenger I honestly couldn't tell, even though I'm a petrolhead and tend to notice these things.
You can often times find them for really cheap on the secondary market. Like old ones from a restaurant. I got quite a few for very cheap over the years. One was 20$ for a 80mm one.

So maybe that's a low budget option to tinker for you? Or is the problem buying one at all?
His rebranding of Twitter/X was probably under budget given they didn't do market research, didn't hire product design consultants and didn't use common sense.
I think you can s//g that in various ways, and it would be true:

* Music, musicians

* Publishing/journals, academics

* (and more that I can't think of right now)
From my experience as a parent of a 11 year old with ADHD:

- we start the diagnosis process because he was very depressed as being bad at school, everything was hard, while there was no need.

- meds are fantastic, they let all his qualities shine. They do require some experimentation at the beginning. At the beginning I was not at ease with giving him meds, but it turns out there's no lasting effect, and the difference is night and day. Depending on the severity, meds are not mandatory when he will be adult

- ADHD people often have issues with handling emotions, that's why he sees a psychologist (avoid psychoanalysts at all costs, they cause so much damage) twice a month, to help him process, vent and learn how to manage them. That part is slow to improve but that's normal.

- if we hadn't done the process by ourselves, school wouldn't have detected it because it wasn't so explicit,and there's a lot of misconceptions. I strongly suggest reading books/blogs, to have the correct words to describe what kind of ADHD your nephew has. He needs to understand it too, that his brain needs glasses, it's nothing to be ashamed of (even if it's not easy)

- I really like this short book : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35888681-my-brain-needs-...

- you will have to monitor teachers and school, because some will be downright abusive, or will ignore your nephew 's disability. Others will be great of course, but school in general has troubles adapting...

- tools and methods will help a lot, actively experiment to find out what works and alleviate your nephew specific issues (attention? Excitation? Time blindness? Social interactions? Etc)

- sleep is key, melatonin is great

To finish, ADHD is not easy everyday (especially in normative contexts like school), but as others hinted it is also a strength, with lots of great qualities and intense emotions.
I don't think it's particularly fragile. Big systems have big dependencies, and moving those dependencies takes time if you want to minimise risk.
Not possible in the US. Musk isn't a born American but a naturalized citizen. He can never be president without a constitutional amendment and that isn't going to happen ever.
An alcoholic must stop drinking, or they will die from it.

The solution is to stop drinking.

How to succeed in making that solution happen is a separate problem, but the first step in solving any and every problem is identifying its root causes.

For our world, not understanding that compassion must be the fundamental factor under consideration is the primary problem. Once that essential fact is understood, we can then haggle out the solution, but not before then.

With love, all things are possible, if we so choose.
Boosting Long-Context Management via Query-Guided Activation Refilling
They team specifically "use AI agents built from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet". The question here is "how did they manage to do so" not "what else can do it with less effort".

As those two are run by companies actively trying to prevent their tools being used nefariously, this is also what it looks like to announce they found an unpatched bug in an LLM's alignment. (Something LessWrong, where this was published, would care about much more than Hacker News).
Information on how large language models are trained is not hard to come by, there are numerous articles that cover this material. Even a brief skimming of this material will make it clear that the training of large language models is materially different in almost every way from how human beings "learn" and build knowledge. There are still many open questions around the process of how humans collect, store, retrieve and synthesize information.

There is little mystery to how large language models function and it's clear that their output is parroting back portions of their training data, the quality of output degrades greatly when novel input is provided. Is your argument that people fundamentally function in the same way? That would be a bold and novel assertion!
You're right, just added it and it debuts at #6!
JS progress bars also generally show you your progress through the main-content div or whatever, so even if they have a particularly egregious footer (I've seen footers that are over 1000px tall, with embedded youtube videos), the progress through the actual content is still somewhat faithfully reported.

Better would be to ditch the absurd footer, but still.
I am appropriately corrected, thank you.

After 20 years, I don't understand why that issue isn't at the forefront of the discussion, given how having a self-sustaining independent ecosystem here on earth is much more likely to help with most of the global catastrophes people use to advocate for being a multi-planetary species.

New plague that's 99.9% fatal? Button up and work on a cure.

Asteroid impact that destroys surface life for 10,000 years? Good thing we have several self-sustaining independent ecosystems built underground.

Need a place for 100 million climate refugees? Good thing we know how to build settlements that require little more than bare land and solar power.
The Rebels Need to Topple the Literary Establishment
I wonder if advertising really is a waste of time and money for the most part, and it's just that the advertisers are really good at convincing people otherwise.
I can't remember where or how I pieced this together, but I'm guessing that each plane will have two dishes (which will be bonded together), and Starlink is expecting bandwidth to improve to Gbit speed, so it will probably be 2 Gb/s down for the whole plane. Still not great if every passenger is streaming HD video, but I imagine with some "traffic shaping" (aka throttling) it will be pretty snappy for web browsing and small file downloads.
Humans like to sit in saunas.
How about

- forbid companies from laying off H1B people for a number of years after hiring them
- allow H1B people to change jobs at will
- maintain the higher pay requirement

thus giving them even more power than American employees, disincentivizing replacement of Americans?
Only if you’re ok with an empty page after server restart.
> a pill that reverses male-pattern baldness and makes you lose weight without exercise

Sadly only one of these exists.
Wow, been thinking about creating the same thing for a while now. What did you build it with? I'd definitely love to see some of the code!
I hate the InfoSec generated phishing tests.

They all pass DKIM, SPF, etc. Some of them are very convincing. I got dinged for clicking on a convincing one that I was curious about and was 50/50 on it being legit (login from a different IP).

After that, I added an auto delete rule for all the emails that have headers for our phish testing as a service provider.
Golden Gate Bridge Was a Nightmare for the 11 Who Died During Its Construction
I would pay a monthly fee for the reverse, setting up a paywall for companies to interview me; by which I mean paying a recruiter actively sell me on the job market and set up interviews with matching companies only after I passed an initial screening. But given my horrible experience from even the most expensive recruiters and their unfocused shotgun approach, this product will probably never exist.