skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you use ctx.Value in my (non-existent) company, you’re fired

Yeah, okay. I tried to find reasons you'd want to use this feature and ultimately found that I really, really dislike it.
So you are using a local small model to remove identifying information and make the question generic, which is then sent to a larger model? Is that understanding correct?

I think this would have some additional benefits of not confusing the larger model with facts it doesn't need to know about. My erasing information, you can allow its attention heads to focus on the pieces that matter.

Requires further study.
Running Generative AI Models Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI
As far as I know it remains an unsolved problem.
I'm not buying that; it's pre-emptive laziness, you don't want to attempt to even bother to see a spirit of discussion fostered on this thread because of your hunch that there will be some bad actors in the comment section that will cause moderators and high-karma users to, well, moderate.
System76 accidentally built the fastest Windows Arm PC [video]
Would be cool to have such a tool, maybe an extension using chrome's built-in AI APIs?
I'm a bit confused as to why you are pretending that the word "gender" and the concept of gender either doesn't exist or is part of some very recent flimsy social construct. The concept of gender being used to categorize things as male/female/masculine/feminine is not new, and the concept of gender roles being used for general (not rigid) categorization of male and female traits is not new, either.
Onion protocol.
Some very impressive ones to look at here:

- Colombia is about as tall as the USA's West Coast.

- Brazil is comparable to Canada.

- Indonesia is wider than Europe.
What makes Bitcoin a scam?
It's not that long ago this was the norm.
This is an electrostatic field, which has no magnetic component in the classical model.
I didn’t change that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42773763

> Honestly, that feels like copium.
It’s like anecdotes you hear from religious people during a disaster. “I lost five of my kids. But I’m so thankful that God looked out for me and saved one”

It still says “copium”

> Anyhow, your 2008 failure was, sorry to say, 100% your fault.

Isn’t that what I just said that they were my mistakes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774270

> And not being willing to admit your mistakes and assess your weaknesses means that you continuously make the same mistakes.

And then I went on to admit my mistakes.

In the very comment that you replied to I said It was definitely a personal failure

> Interestingly enough, that's what pushed me towards entrepreneurship. I had to earn more money

And I decided to upskill and I knew when I signed the offer letter at each job, how much I was going to make without any risk.

> Like you, I wasn't making enough money at the time to survive that. I lost the house a couple of years later.

I didn’t say I couldn’t keep my house. I made more than enough to keep my primary home. It was very much a strategic default. I had another house built and got an FHA loan three years to the day after my last foreclosure. Money is never personal to me
Yes, it is false

Citing Shellenberger, laughable
What kind of prompt injection attacks do you filter out? Have you tested with a prompt tuning framework?
That post wasn't deleted. If you turn 'showdead' on in your profile, you'll see it. (This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)

We never delete a post outright except when the author asks us to (and not necessarily then, either, for example if it got replies).
You are mixing up "addicted" with "habituated". Anyone who uses such stuff for a long time will have adapted to some degree and there will be issues from suddenly stopping. That does not mean that they are using the stuff recreationally, though! Did it not occur to you that perhaps they will be rather non-functional from a lack of sleep if they don't have them?

When sleep issues are caused by mental conditions you can generally address them. But when it's the side effect of something physical the attempts to address such things without drugs do not fare very well.
Merit order is a hidden subsidy. Other means of producing electricity that have a theoretically lower marginal cost will need to curb their production.
That is so kind! Feel free to share it around. Appreciate the support!
Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions
Goodbye Commercial Social Media
I like the simplicity of yours!
Ruby takes the cake for beauty. But if God wanted a real workhorse with a good memory he would choose Golang.
oh my god, today I learned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
This comes up on HN all the time [0] and it's complete garbage. Japan has a fiat currency; how have they dodged inflation? Where are the successful non-fiat economies? If there's some kind of moral hazard with printing money, why is one of the Fed's 2 mandates to keep inflation at 2%? Why aren't they constantly printing money? Why isn't inflation 1000%? How long do we have to wait for this conspiracy theory to prove out?

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If you scroll down, in small text you'll see:

*Prices and participation may vary.

That said, McDonalds corporate isn't running promotions unilaterally. Instead, promotions are proposed by committees elected by franchisees and voted on by franchisees themselves, so participation rates tend to be high.
> Singapore relies on a large underclass of underpaid non-citizens. Around 40% of the country are non-citizens.

There is nothing stopping other wealthy countries from doing this besides egalitarian values, it could take the place of illegal immigrants in agriculture in the US for example
You can train that size of a model on ~1 billion tokens in ~3 minutes on a rented 8xH100 80GB node (~$9/hr on Lambda Labs, RunPod io, etc.) using the NanoGPT speed run repo: https://github.com/KellerJordan/modded-nanogpt

For that short of a run, you'll spend more time waiting for the node to come up, downloading the dataset, and compiling the model, though.
Did you finish your shift that night? (Some 2cm arc from an electric fence brought me to my knees one time.)
Sometimes because the company investors are overwhelmingly short-sighted, which IMO ties back to the whole "financialization" of our economy into a quasi-casino.

I wonder how things might change if short-term capital gains tax (<5 years) went way up.
Would it need to compete against the government subsidies that other forms of power generation receive?
Most atheists and agnostics struggle greatly to replace the meaning and moral guidance provided by religion.

First and foremost the community aspect. There are countless benefits to being part of an active faith community that atheists have had a very hard time replicating.
Is it not available in the EU?
Yes, you can make mayonnaise with a whisk.

It's so much easier to do it with a hand blender though. It takes longer to clean up afterwards than it takes to make. And no maintaining a steady thin stream of oil, you just put it all into a container and blitz it.

You can make meringues and cakes with a whisk, too, but most people I know have electric mixers for that.

Mechanical eggbeaters with little flywheels were popular before the electric ones, too!
Yeah absolutely, I went with the profiles logic switch so I can add other forms of activations for blocking and unblocking, like QR codes, timers, etc...
Use Lu.ma for the calendar + newsletter, and whatever platform has least friction for the most people for peer-to-peer communication (WhatsApp would be the answer in Europe, I dunno about your rural community).
Also see the video of Veritasium of 5 hours ago where his team visits this lab and the technology is explained in more depth.

https://youtu.be/H6q6pYZ9Fho
Wow, straight up propaganda. Lame
I have a tiny device that listens to conversations between two people or more and constantly tries to declare a "winner"
No reason, just messed up the listing haha. I've had a few people reach out and I'm going to open it this weekend!
Well then your difference with Christianity is only one of degree.
Thats so kind! No need to donate, just use the app and give me any feedback. I love developing things like this!
The chair got chairier.

I don't recall what that means.
From Google:

> Partiful does not make money yet. They are a venture-backed startup with many millions of dollars of funding. They will eventually offer a premium version, an ad-supported model, or be acquired by a larger company like Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, Snapchat, or one of these other potential acquirers.

Basically, enjoy it while you can. There is nothing wrong with using a free service like this while you can. Best case IMO is that they monetize it with low fees and have a product that is actually worth paying for.
Yeah exactly! I use this everyday for work and gym.
They didn't tell them to censor anything, they warned them that misinformation was coming, and FB on their own decided to temporarily suppress it from "Trending" before changing their mind. You're free to read all of the evidence. Zuck lied and tried to conflate the Instagram bug with the laptop story and/or the COVID stuff
Thank you! The app doesn't have such a feature yet, but I think it will be needed eventually, and it has been recommended before. I will add this to the roadmap.
Woah never heard of these? Gonna check them out...
I agree. But also at the root of it is that a problem can't be escalated such that a thinking human that has actionable power can be involved.

The fallacy here is a belief that the filter is perfect. Or really, that any process can be perfect. Even if one could be perfect at a specific moment in time, well time marches on and things change.

I'm all for automation but it has to be recognized that the thing will always break and likely in a way you don't expect. Even in ways you __couldn't__ expect. So you have to design with that failure in mind. A lot of these "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About <X>" could summarized as "Programmers Believe They Can Accurately Predict All Reasonable Situations". I added "reasonable" on purpose. The world is just complex and we can only see a very limited amount. The best way to be accurate is to know that you're biased, even if you can't tell in which way you're biased.
Yeah sorry about that, I messed up the listing and I'll work to get it out to more countries
C.E.O.s, and President Trump, Want Workers Back in the Office
Nope, the right analogy is: "it's like saying a model will find it difficult to tell you what's inside a box because it can't see inside it". Shaking it, weighing it, measuring if it produces some magnetic field or whatever is what LLMs are currently doing, and often well.

The discussion was around the difficulty of doing it with current tokenization schemes v character level. No one said it was impossible. It's possible to train an LLM to do arithmetic with decent sized numbers - it's difficult to do it well.

You don't need to spend more than a few hundred dollars to train a model to figure something like this out. In fact, you don't need to spend any money at all. If you are willing to step through small model layer by layer, it obvious.
> 9FRONT (Plan 9) "This Time Definitely" Released

Wow. I can wait to try it. Does Acme runs on new hardware ?
https://archive.ph/wZLyy
You won't get folks to move, because people tend to "stay stuck."

Us tecchies (typical HN members) literally can't imagine what non-tech people go through, when encountering tech.

It's terrifying, humiliating, and intimidating. The reaction from us techs, does nothing to help, as we tend to sneer at them, and do everything we can, to humiliate them. Fairly typical bullying, but we don't want to admit it, because we were always bullied, and don't want to admit that we are just doing the same to others.

Most folks painfully learn rote, then get terrified of changes. This is why so many folks don't want to upgrade, or add new features. Just learning the ones they have mastered, was difficult enough. They can't deal with doing it on a regular basis (like most of us tecchies do).

Until we accept this, and keep it in mind, when we design solutions, we won't get much traction. People who do understand it, and design for it, tend to make a lot of money.

This is also why we need to introduce changes S L O W L Y, even when we feel that it doesn't make sense.

Basic human empathy. It's kinda rare, these days.
"The Band" had toured with Dylan, who raked in the bucks as a songwriter, then Dylan pretty much acted retired for quite a while.

So they worked on their own material, came out with records of their own, and kept going along. They really didn't get as much recognition until they appeared at Woodstock in 1969, then they were all over the radio with Santana and everybody else.

Their farewell "documentary" movie from the '70's was made by Scorsese and is quite legendary.

"The Last Waltz"

As the name implies, a certain amount of burnout is captured, but on the DVD everything about it is worth watching. Incredible guest performers, including Muddy Waters. The music/video is phenomenal.

There is one interview where it turns out that Hudson's old-fashioned parents would never have let him join a ragtag band of aspiring independent folk-rockers. He had to tell his mom & dad that the band was paying him to give them music lessons instead :)
Also, "this whole section on Wikipedia is just false?" is a very funny sentence
Or go for the small-town gossip feel and have fun with $10 in LLM credits.

"Generate a quick (salacious|funny|sad) story involving (random group member) and (random object) happening at (randomly selected location)."
I managed to get people over to Telegram. Signal was a no go. It’s still a bit inconvenient. Mobile only unless you link a desktop is a non starter for me period. Majority of people don’t care about e2ee. They want an easy to use app that syncs everything and doesn’t require reading a manual.
Comparing 13 Rust Crates for Extracting Text from HTML
Not yet, but working on it to get it out! Appreciate the feedback
Organizing people takes work, and passing off a single set of credentials to someone else doesn't mean that work will still get done - whether its all in one place or not. Look at all the subreddits which are lost because of no moderation, even when they used to have a team.

When they eventually get tired of managing all this, they will eventually need to hand the reigns off to someone else. Hopefully someone will step up, because if someone doesn't it won't matter if the group is in 4 places or one.
But that's the thing, I don't need my ML model to be able to write me a sonnet about the history of beets, especially if I want to run it at home for specific tasks like as a programming assistant.

I'm fine with and prefer specialist models in most cases.
I think that all postdocs should stay in academia, why else would you do a postdoc? I assume (maybe wrong?) that most of the postdocs had intended to stay when starting the postdoc.
This was the norm. It just changed in the last few years (say, 10). And it could be the norm again. I still play games with zero cheaters because I return to the same server every night, playing against 63 other players where I usually have seen most of them before. And there is usually an admin there, or someone who can ping one if needed.

I have no idea why this changed in more recent games. While every other online thing moved to have users create content abd self-moderate, games for some reason moved the other direction.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Perl yet. It is named after the Parable of the Pearl from the Gospel of Matthew. But Larry Wall dropped the E because he discovered there was already another language called PEARL (a rather obscure real-time programming language from Germany)
> Almost by definition, if you're doing a Postdoc in a STEM field, you're probably qualified for a relatively well-paying job in industry

Be careful: many people who are great postdocs are rather overqualified (and thus rather not suitable) for many jobs in industry.

Getting well-payed in industry requires in my opinion skills that are opposite to those that make you a great postdoc:

In industry you must not be a truth-seeker who can deeply absorb himself in problems. Being a truth-seeker makes you an insanely fit in the brutal office politics.

Also, while I do insist that in graduate school you actually learn a lot about leadership (in the sense of being able to push people to do great things), the abrasive and highly demanding leadership style in graduate school and academia is commonly very undesired in industry (but in my opinion not bad: a very particular kind of people (who will love graduate school) flourishes in such an environment).
my postdoc advisor (a tenured professor at berkeley) made us clean the air vents in the office by standing on a tall ladder with a vacuum as well as clean the floors.

I didn't leave academia, but I did leave that lab. That's some sort of power-play I have no time for.
How many tokens/s?
First let me apologize that I posted in a way that you took that feeling from it. It was mean to be ironic humor to foster communication not smug and stifle it.

'too political' is the policy label HN uses. That I am referencing the term used seems like good faith and it would be odd and reduce comprehension for me to invent a new descriptor.

My intention with linking to a boring 1940s 'nazi's bad' film that has been non-political consensus for 80 years as a starting point that no one could possibly think is political was to be ironic not sneering. I thought I was asking 'between the clearly not political consensus that nazis are bad... and the richest man on earth flaunting nazi symbolism multiple time at the current President's inauguration... where does the 'too political' HN flag kick in?'. I'll try to avoid humor when making statements that people can feel judged by.

I think the I/P conflict being a special case immune from HN flagging is what threw extra confusion in the mix for me. The multiple I/P posts left up which have way less relevance to tech and are way more political than yesterday's events (because for 80 years before yesterday 'sieg heil bad at Presidential inaugurations' wasn't considered political and I still don't see it as political just horrific, to be honest.) gave me the impression ongoing exceptions were routinely made but now I understand those were special I/P conflict exceptions that this didn't rise to.
Scurvy too.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/scurvy-canadian-medical-assoc...
I was expecting a program, not a web app.
Gyms for All the Skills That LLMs Are Eating?
This is basically how my mind works. Mind projection.
Found it:

https://www.ultorg.com/
https://x.com/hernantz/status/1521930369012047873
It isn't caching, it's CDNing. It is just an artefact of CDNs that they act as caches for the original content, and for improved distribution response time they cache to the nearest server from the response. ('Nearest' being an approximate heuristic, it is property of the anycast route tables in the BGP routers the request passes through, it is actually a 'best route'.)
I'd love to hear more about the hardware behind this project. I've had concepts for tech requiring a mic on me at all times for various reasons. Always tricky to have enough power in a reasonable DIY form factor.
Ask HN: Anybody using AI tools for taxes this year?
Yay! it's US tax season again.

I'm a US citizen who has moved out of the US but still needs to pay/file taxes (despite living abroad for almost a decade, having left immediately after Trump 45 was elected).

I have US investments, mortgages, bank accounts, coinbase, etc. and I find downloading and auditing each of them tedious and a waste of time each year. Like many here I have mild ADHD and when that is coupled with my feelings on the US autocracy it triggers depression. The toil of performing US taxes creates an intense emotional pain -- and like any dev/ops person I want to find a way to automate. I thought this would get easier as the years passed but it's actually gotten progressively worse each year.

Being offshore I experience wildly different targeted advertising and have no friends/social group (beyond HN) to seek advice from.

What (if any) open-source AI tools exist to speed up parsing the data, generation of reports etc. I'd prefer CLI and OSS tools that don't require subscriptions. CLI/TUI preferred.

Examples might be converting PDF's to CSV using OSS, but what else (ex: categorization, expenses, summaries), agentic workflows, etc?

Due to complexities of being offshore I use an accountant who specializes in ex-pat. I don't think software like quicken will be helpful (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Others in similar circumstances what tools do you do to make managing US financial accounts & taxes obligations less tedious/painful?
The much greater problem is that they are not employed. They are just self employed people, who take on gigs from various platforms.

They can, by definition, not unionize. Even striking is basically out of the question, as organization is near impossible and most of these people could not sustain months with zero pay.

This needs to be just made illegal, it is just a subversion of labor laws.
From TFA, ...the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python
there is no money back from the cheat makers, its paypal, visa et al which does that.
What I learned after running the wrong set of migrations on the database (2022)
> Is there really anything particularly Japanese about these women's methods or is it just Orientalist branding?

I don't think these two are mutually exclusive, something can be authentically Japanese and be branded that way in particular to foreign audiences.

Kondo's "spark joy" method doesn't seem that Japanese though, if anything it seems almost made for Western audiences which isn't suprising given that she's three decades younger than Yamashita but the latter seems to genuinely have Buddhist influences, as she says herself in the article. It's probably also the reason Kondo is more popular.

But there really is a big emphasis on detachment, ephemerality and circularity in Japanese aesthetics, you can go back to writers like Tanizaki (In Praise of Shadows) and I think that comes through in the motivations that Yamashita gives for her method.

edit: and by the way the observation about Newton isn't unfair at all. English is too narrow, but philosophically Newton's deterministic and mechanical laws of motion are the geographical and philosophical product of modern European thinking. They would not have made sense in the world of Aristotle, which is why it took so long!
> This means now that the USD is completely and absolutely free floating with no backing, indirect or direct.

All fiat currencies are backed by the strength of their economies. The US denominates its considerable goods and services in USD. That's not nothing.

Literally all advanced economies use fiat currency, but only one benefits from petrodollars. Shouldn't whatever bad thing you think will happen to the US now already have happened to them?
OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank Team Up for Stargate AI Initiative
This made me actually laugh out loud. Can you share more details on hardware and models used?
Is that still true if the costs of oil/gas stop being socialized? Basically the people pay for oil cleanups, for air polution, etc, the cost is still there it's just not currently born by the oil companies. Also, how do the costs stack up if you drop all oil subsidies?
Could you elaborate on these tendrils (?) - I haven't looked at the Romanian situation from that vantage point.
Does the 40% include parents leaving the workforce to raise their children?
Right, does that include $30 NVIDIA GPUs?