skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how perspectives can shift, especially with figures like Musk at the forefront. While his stance on H1-Bs may seem bold, the irony of his own immigration story adds an intriguing layer to the debate. It's true that the future of immigration policies could change depending on political dynamics, but for now, it does seem like Musk's influence could have an impact. The uncertainty ahead, with shifting advice from all corners, definitely keeps things unpredictable. Let's see how it all unfolds in the coming months!
> it only works well for well defined use-cases.

Sounds to me DynamoDB works well for well defined use-cases.
That to me is a plus!
The flaws and strengths of the 'woke mind virus' are the same.
It prioritises ethical behavior annoyingly. 'I am more humble than you are!'

Turing a 180° leads to an capitalistic ethic free stance: I am right, because I am strong. This is ironically causally reversed. I am strong when I am right.

Maybe the age of aquarius is still far away.
Hey society: That is fine. I can be quite strong to. So fuck off.

I think our billionaire are not grokking what they have done to themselves and it already shows.
I know I struggled on getting a good command to “simply” make the videos from my Z8 smaller (in file size).

Usually the color was wrong and I don’t care enough to learn about colorspaces to figure out how to fix it and it’s utterly insane how difficult it is even with LLMs.

Just reencode it as is but a little more lossy. Is that so hard?
In some sense a large amount of law is closing loopholes in earlier law. You're right that my wording was a bit loose, but what I'm saying is Nevada could pass a state law saying "Any attempt by law enforcement to carry out civil asset forfeiture in any way is a felony."
Dylan was on the one can that Bud sent her, not publicly sold cans. They did similar promotions with other influencers. The reason this one struck a chord is that right-wing agitators found it a useful way to polarise and confuse the discourse.
Calendar is the one feature of Proton I don't use. For my calendar, the issues caused by encryption are not worth the additional security. But I don't want my calendar to be on Google, or some other large cloud provider, either.

So I ended up just self-hosting my calendar.

It's pretty easy to self-host a calendar, it can be as easy as dumping a bunch of PHP files on a server and connecting to a MySQL database (e.g. using Baïkal).
Gun Control – Probability Puzzle
This guy picked a fight, noticed he's losing, then goes running to the people who are collateral damage in his silly power game?

Man up and take your medicine.

'Don't be a dick'. Here endeth today's lesson.

Also, long live the fork(s). Don't be beholden to one plugin supplier, no matter how benevolent they seem when you start using their wares.

Behold the field where I grow my 'fucks'; 'tis barren, sire.
> Civil forfeiture completely contravenes that principle and is therefore essentially extortion and corruption

I hate civil forefeiture, but let’s not get lost in hyperbole. It facilitates extortion and corruption, but so can almost any police power. The problem is in its conflicts of interest and abridgement of due process, particularly, that of elevating probable cause to grounds for the public taking of private goods without compensation.
You can’t edit on iOS either
Ex falso quodlibet - "from falsehood, anything follows". If you start with a false assumption, you can logically derive any statement from it, even if that statement is absurd.
db-engines.com is the Website of the Year 1994
My country uses a national funding model but most people would still strongly prefer to go to a public school in an affluent neighborhood. Even if the funding is exactly the same, you are still much more likely to get more "desirable" classmates (fewer chance of migrants, drug use, etc. as well higher overall academic motivation, more involved parents who contribute to the school community, etc.).
In my experience, these proprietary encrypted systems like Proton or Tutanota all have their shortcomings caused by their mandatory client software.
This may be the best path: balance bike -> two-wheeled scooter -> real bike. A scooter is too hard for age 3 because it has no seat; the balance bike lets either foot instantly contact the ground no matter which way the bike is falling. Once the kid starts to coast on the balance bike, introduce a balancing scooter. That's the ideal intermediary. It allows for longer coasting with the free squarely off the ground and on the vehicle: yet offers the psychological safety of always being able to jump off. Scooters also have brakes; the kid can learn the concept of braking. That allows them to coast the scooter down hills with confidence. The main remaining challenge on a bike is starting and to some extent stopping. The way you set a bicycle in motion is scooter-like. You don't sit on it and start pedaling, but rather stand on a pedal and push off with the opposite foot. The scooter teaches this, more or less.
I just googled the same thing. Quite frankly I don't blame OP for getting it wrong, because the top result is from Cornell University.

> The accepted view: Bicycles are stable because of the gyroscopic effect of the spinning front wheel or because the front wheel "trails" behind the steering axis, or both.

https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/summer11/researchspotlight....

If you're not already read into bicycle or motorcycle dynamics, the top google result sounds reasonable. Which makes it all the more ironic because they're talking about research which demonstrates, among other things, that it's a misconception to believe that gyroscopic forces are necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZCzr9ExKk
This is the kind of contemptuous skepticism of facts from, and lack of trust for, folks trying to help you understand something that permeates neglected communities and interferes with the educational process.

That attitude is prevalent in poor schools, but rare in rich schools and is properly dealt with by better educators that prefer wealthy schools with good salaries.

That sort of antagonism toward authority is incredibly disruptive in a community of People who want to achieve something.

Parents want to get their kids away from it for a reason. It's unhealthy. You're an example of the point. I don't mean any offense by it, just that it's easy to sniff out that you haven't experienced both sides of the coin so you reveal stubborn ignorance.

It inhibits learning and communicating. It's repulsive.
It is a massive turn to the right for all Meta products; and underlines the futility of an omnibus platform.

What is needed is a plethora of platforms, just like we have multiple newspapers. Ultimately this will lead to an end of big tech (at least for social media).
In the past, I used this one too: https://musopen.org/
I wonder what happened. Traffic stop, seizure of "life savings," something about the drug enforcement agency.

I can guess what happened, but it would be nice to know the story behind the lawsuit. Like... cop did a search, found a ton of cash, took it as if it were drug money, gave the money to feds, never charged anybody with a crime, feds give most of the money to the cop's precinct. But I just made that up.

On the other hand, the point of the post is to explain the legal argument that won, and its implications for upholding the right against unreasonable search and seizure. And it did that.
> Nevada could pass a state law saying "Any attempt by law enforcement to carry out civil asset forfeiture in any way is a felony.”

Given felonies require prosecution, this gives prosecutors draconian enforcement powers over police. Maybe that’s okay. I suspect it would facilitate corruption.

Better: remove qualified immunity for asset forfeitures.
Friend, I've got some news about the leadership of the majority of tech services you will use over the next 4-8 years...
Seems like a typo in the first sentence of the abstract: "...close timelike curve..." vs "...closed timelike curve..."
FWIW, Proton has no billionnaires, crazy or otherwise. They are governed by a non-profit foundation, though:

https://proton.me/blog/proton-non-profit-foundation

I do agree that self-hosting is best, but particularly for email, that's not trivial.
Pony & trap could be largely self-driving, after an initial training period. That would have been a distinct negative to "upgrading" for some, I'd imagine.
but this ultimately just converts to json schema, or the openai function calling definition format.

One question I always had was what about the descriptions you can attach to the class and attributes? ( = Field(description=...) in pydantic) is the model made aware of those descriptions?
There are people ready to be hired that aren't checked out
A balance bike is a way of transportation for kids, they can use balance bikes for a long time before they are comfortable with biking with pedals. We are talking years with a balance bike and then there is an overlap where they prefer the balance bike.

It is also alot more light weight than a normal bike so it is actually better for you and the kid. I transported a kid and a balance bike easily on a normal bike for more than 20 km, they managed about 10 km on their own.
Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors say
I like this insight, but TUI is something graphical while ffmpeg is just CLI.

It would be cool to see if a TUI tool existed. Something like https://github.com/Twinklebear/fbed but more feature complete.
Documentation Is Marketing
> static pages

I'm not sure I agree that it's a static page if there's a web extension running JS involved in the page render. I guess it's a grey area.

> almost no advertising, fewer working paywalls

We're talking about Mastodon, right? I thought it would not have those.

> smaller attack surface

This one I'll give you, but what kind of attacks would you expect from a Mastodon instance?

If all of this is a big enough issue to make you disable JS in the browser, wouldn't it be reasonable to whitelist Mastodon instances that you use?
TV and early computer games were not designed to drive addiction.

Well tv was looking for ways to attract people and also game makers.

But it wasn’t like it is with social media YT specifically designed to suck as much attention as possible. Games nowadays are include much more addictive mechanics like loot boxes.
some days i get sad and then i log into HN to read about their take on eugenics and history and that cheers me up
Amazon places its largest-ever order for electric semi trucks
Open Source Honey Alternative
hey! first post here but i have been a lurker for a while.

recently with all the honey drama i really wanted an opensource version. however all the versions i saw at the time were either for-profit or no longer supported. so , i decided to make my own.

over the past few weeks a couple more opensource honey alternatives have popped up. however they all worked on a web scraper that feeds you coupons when it finds you on one of the listed websites.
I feel like i can potentially do better by crowd sourcing coupon codes.

this post is part promotion, part discussion forum on whether such an approach is viable and any suggestions to move forward with it.

i feel like many of the coupons finders out there boast large number of supported websites but have ultimately been low in usefullness. during the creation process i tested out a bunch of these coupon finders on real products i would be advertised and would potentially consider buying (probably about 50+ different products). not once did i get a natural hit.

the only ones i have ever encountered being useful is honey itself, in due large part to the fact that they source their coupon codes from participating websites directly. for any standalone project that plans not to involve scummy tactics, is largely impossible to reach the audience of honey through regular means
That's not how llm training and recall works at all so I'm not surprised you are not getting good results in this way. You would be much better using a conventional search engine or if you want to use an llm, use one with a search tool so it will use the search engine for you.

The problem you're encountering is not the model being unable to determine whether a quote it knows is responsive to your prompt but instead is a problem to do with recall in the model (which is not generally a task it's trained for). So it's not a similarity problem it's a recall problem.

When LLMs are trained on a particular document, they don't save a perfect copy somehow that they can fish out later. They use it to update their weights via backpropogation and are evaluated on their "sentence completion" task during the main phase of training or on a prompt response eval set during instruction fine tuning. Unless your quote is in that set or is part of the eval for the sentence completion task during the main training, there's no reason to suppose the LLM will particularly be able to recall it as it's not being trained to do that.

So what happens instead is the results of training on your quote update the weights in the model and that maybe somehow in some way that is quite mysterious results in some ability to recall it later but it's not a task it's evaluated on or trained for, so it's not surprising it's not great at it and in fact it's a wonder it can do it at all.

p.s. If you want to evaluate whether it is struggling with similarity, look up a quote and ask a model whether or not it's responsive to a given question. I.e. give it a prompt like this

I want a quote about someone living the highlife during the 1960s. Do you think this quote by George Best does the job? “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
this.

some people cant even wrap gheir heads around it, taking hours and hours of discussions. still my favourite problem though.
I took a quick look at your app. It's very clean, fairly straight-forward to get started, pretty nice interface. I like that you don't ask for payment details for the trial, thumbs up for that. I'm not currently in the market for a task tracker like this, and Jira is free for me as a single user, so my needs are met at no cost right now.

Some feedback that might be of help:
1) I personally like to be able to see some screenshots/video of a product before I sign up. I prefer to get an idea of whether or not it looks suitable for me before giving away my e-mail address. Screenshots and video also make it easier to get an idea of what the capabilities of the tool are without having to figure it out on my own. My time is valuable to me.
2) A generic Pause button for a task without a specific reason would suit me better than the currently available options.
3) Make it possible to change an existing task to an urgent task and vice versa.
4) Add sorting of the task list by status, due date.
5) Make it possible to move tasks up and down the lists.
6) Add a view showing all tasks, urgent and not, in one place.
7) The price is currently a bit steep for me here in South Africa, especially for limited features provided. I'm also trying to grow my own product user base (Novel Goggles, for writers to plan and write stories), and purse strings are a bit tight.

I've been struggling to get feedback from users myself, so I understand the frustration. I get definite interest, people signing up for trials, but I'm not converting enough of them. Getting those same people that don't convert to respond to an e-mail to tell me why they're not subscribing to my product is something that I haven't quite figured out yet. It's possible that the response rate is for that type of email is so low that I simply haven't had enough people try it to get a meaningful number of responses but I'm still figuring that out.

My strategy right now is to keep getting new eyes on my app and periodically sending out an e-mail requesting feedback. I don't want to spam people, so I don't e-mail too regularly.

My next idea is to add a popup poll within the app itself to try and get feedback while a new subscriber is trying it out. I suspect that this will probably be my best bet for getting meaningful feedback. I already have a feedback section, but a user has to go find it to send feedback, which is probably too high a barrier for entry.

Anyway, I hope you manage to get more traction. Maybe someone else on here has some useful advice for the both of us.
...although python 3.13 can be built without the GIL and it really does make threading useful. I did some comparisons with and without.

I suppose one excellent thing about this would be if you could just change 1 parameter and switch from multiprocessing to threaded.
Say I generate embeddings for a bunch of articles. Given the query "articles about San Francisco that don't mention cars" would cosine similarity uprank or downrank the car mentions? Assuming exclusions aren't handled well, what techniques might I use to support them?
>> I'm still looking for better/faster lossless YUV encoding.

> I wasn't able to produce results that were convincingly better than libx264

With "-qp 0"? Otherwise, it's not a valid comparison... "-crf 13" is nowhere near lossless (though it might appear so visually).

FFV1 is much better than H264 at lossless compression in my experience. Here's a random sample of a ten second 4K input I had handy (5.5G uncompressed):

h264-ultrafast 1.951s 850M
h264-veryslow 46.528s 715M
ffv1 8.883s 637M

But yeah, if you don't actually require truly lossless data, it's a huge waste.
You need to contrast suggested ideas to the current systems, not an idealized standard that the current system is nowhere near achieving.

For instance NAEP scores consistently demonstrate only about 25% of students achieve "basic" proficiency in math, reading is even worse. Its going to be difficult to do worse.

And I mean that very literally - some percent of people would become competent in e.g. basic math with 0 public education due to family or personal interests. I can't imagine it's "that" far from 25%.
Bush's no child left behind was catastrophic. Terrible strategy.
I visited sweden same issue i faced.
will gift this to someone someday, along with some liquor.
Video Subtitle Generator in the Browser
They're talking about the division between Gymnasium, Realschule, and Hauptschule. It's actually state to state nowadays whether they have separate schools or Gesamtschulen, but I understand even in Gesamtschulen, in many Bundesländer there's some internal separation.

Where are you in DE, that this is unknown to you? In Köln just 15 years ago I knew parents who had the horror scenario: a 4th grade teacher who quietly believed that girls shouldn't go to university. They switched their daughter schools that year.
This is disgustingly cool, and if I wasn't already very settled on my Voyager I'd be all over it
Drug sniffing dogs hallucinate far less than Ai
That would make legitimate civil asset forfeiture impossible to execute.

Better, I think, would be to pass a law that says "civil asset forfeiture is no longer a thing." The problem then would be "so what do we do with property that should be seized by the state?"

The fire department gets called to an exploded meth lab containing a few dead bodies and a safe containing $200,000. What do?
I wrote "I love you" on the CCC Blinkenlights in Berlin to my then girlfriend, who has been my wife now for 20 years. The most romantic thing I ever did :)
people pretend to be this welcoming learned creatures but in reality it's still referral by people, who you know, like working with people that look like us etc

no better place to see that than in tech and HN
The problem’s deeper than that: and financial incentive you design, you provide a financial incentive to abuse it. This is why so few people recommend metric-based compensation.
Electromagnetic radiation is about 1.5 times faster in air than in glass (depending on wavelength a bit).
Having said that, you can self host only calendars and contact, this is nowhere as complicated and maintenance intensive as emails. Or use one of the many nextcloud providers available, the free tier is usually enough for that.
Really small kids get balance bikes these days, that come without pedals then at about age 3 or 4 you can go to a bike with pedals and no stabilisers are needed.

At least that's how it is in London for the last few years, while my kid was learning.
I was under the impression that log probabilities don't work like that / they aren't really useful to be interpreted as probabilities?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684629

> the logits aren't telling you anything like 'what is the probability in a random sample of Internet text of the next token', but are closer to a Bellman value function, expressing the model's belief as to what would be the net reward from picking each possible BPE as an 'action' and then continuing to pick the optimal BPE after that (ie. following its policy until the episode terminates). Because there is usually 1 best action, it tries to put the largest value on that action, and assign very small values to the rest (no matter how plausible each of them might be if you were looking at random Internet text)
Exposure to Diverse Perspectives: Diverse classrooms can expose students to different viewpoints, problem-solving approaches, and ways of thinking. 1 This can broaden their understanding and enhance their critical thinking skills. 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262420245_Effects_o... Gurin (1999,college is significantly linked to
> The energy is exponential.

No, kinetic energy is only quadratic in the velocity, E = ½ mv².

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy
> Yes, you must copy and paste content and not having layout page is annoying at times. But the overhead of just doing it yourself is surprisingly small in terms of the time commitment.

This calls out for server side includes[0]. I so loved server side includes back in the late 90s. You still work in plain HTML and CSS, boilerplate can be centralized and not repeated, and clients receive the entire page in a single request.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
I work for IPinfo, and we run active measurements through hundreds of servers. Allow me to highlight the fantastic points you made.

> Not all traffic goes through fiber - there are microwave links operating closer to the speed of light, though these are mostly reserved for high-speed trading. There's also satellite connections, but as long as they don't do satellite-staellite, they're slower.

That is a valid point. In that case, we have to fall back on the geofeed, WHOIS, or other methods of geolocation information. We are actively researching this area, though.

> There are middleboxes messing with traffic, especially TCP, which add delay.

This accounts for some problems but not all of them, as we have multiple servers running active measurements on individual IP addresses.

> If you rent servers in datacenters, you might not really know where they are. We had VMs relocated without our knowledge.

That is normal. At the scale at which we operate, server location validity is extremely important. We run daily checks and actively flag these issues. If things don't add up, we communicate with our vendors and try to understand whether it is a network-related issue or something else.

> Anycast prefixes have IPs in multiple locations.

Yes. With anycast IPs, we have hints of all their available locations, but when it comes to picking one, we default to the ASN-reported location.

> My experience was that with a lot of observation points, you could get within 10ms, 1000km in most places.

We have been significantly reducing the number of ASNs where we have high RTT by getting a server "networkly" close to them.

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I understand that this is not the absolute best location system possible, but within the scope of our industry, we are miles ahead of everyone else. We are continuously investing in research and infrastructure to improve our data even further.