skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
re 3: are you talking about DMARC reports? I was under the impression those were opt in by adding rua=mailto:<email address> in the DNS record. If you remove that you should not be getting them.
Seems some of these bots are behaving abusively on sites with lots of links (like git forges). I have some sites receiving 200 requests per day and some receiving 1 million requests per day from these AI bots, depending on the design of the site.
Magnesium Citrate and Oxide specifically.

Magnesium Glycinate is much less likely to be a problem in this way
When it comes to starting and stopping services I want the verb to go last. Way easier to press up, backspace backspace backspace o p to change service ssh start to service ssh top. This is a frequent pattern I follow as I start/stop/restart/reload. Having to go back at least one word adds keystrokes that aren’t necessary.
Just listened to the Physics Today podcast about this, however there don’t seem to be many tantalising web pages to convey how interesting this is:

https://physicsworld.com/a/ceryx-medical-company-uses-bioele...
In case you missed it

OpenAI does publish advice on prompting o1,
but we find it incomplete, and in a sense you can
view this article as a “Missing Manual” to lived
experience using o1 and o1 pro in practice.

The last line is important
> This will only improve when o1's context windows grow large enough to maintain all its intermediate thinking steps, we're talking orders of magnitude beyond current limits.

Rather than retaining all those steps, what about just retaining a summary of them? Or put them in a vector DB so on follow-up it can retrieve the subset of them most relevant to the follow-up question?
With the amount of "if cloud IP then block" rules in place for many things (to weed out streaming VPNs and "potential" ddos-ing) I wouldn't doubt that at all.
Ghosts in the machine is a bit of a culture thing. We covered it a bit
last Halloween [0]. There are haunted BBC Micros and parallel quantum
universes. Maybe it's smart of game developers to create a spook story
this way. There's a chance of it freaking some kids and them making
bad choices. But we all survived DnD right?

[0] Hacked or Haunted? https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=30
Gitea in particular is a worst case for this. Gitea shows details about every file at every version and every commit if you click enough. The bots click every link. This fixed cost adds up when hundreds of IPs are at different levels of clicking of every link.
By 2028 cloud free companies are going to be most valuable
AI companies are currently training their models using all the data that they could find, much is being debated whether data uploaded into the private repositories remains untouched. For instance, are git private repositories currently being used? Or your data on cloud storage drives is being used? Or device users are assumed to opt-in and data in edge devices is pulled in. Keeping this trend in mind are cloud free companies that never trusted the cloud services going to be most valuable in a couple of years?
I believe that you want to suggest places where I can ask about this, if so, then write here. I asked this here to get answers from modern Hacker News users
If I was in my cabin and the window was possible to swim out of I would probably go for it. If I was in the back of the boat and downstairs so I had to navigate corridors and stairs in the dark and upside down I would probably try and wait. Also, if I knew for sure I was in say 15m of water or perhaps 20m, I would also try and go for it, especially in tropical areas in the daytime. How light it is and shallow it is would be a huge factor for me. Disorientation is real so upside down boat in the dark is a huge nope.

Would depend. I never do cheap liveaboards though, especially in the Red Sea, you get what you pay for. I've heard soooo many stories of sketchy liveaboards or other dive shops in the Red Sea area that I would always be very careful before picking a boat.
> a cat that reacts to my code, ideally getting mad at me for writing poor quality code, and stretching/sleeping when I'm thinking

This... this needs to happen!
> a lot of people nevertheless are drawn to interact with this technology.

To look at this statement cynically, a lot of people are drawn to anything with billions of dollars behind it… like literally anything.

Not to mention the amount companies spend on marketing AI products.

> It looks as if it touches some deep psychological lever: have an assistant that can help to carry out tasks

That deep lever is “make value more cheaply and with less effort”

From what I’ve seen, most of the professional interest in AI is based on cost cutting.

There are a few (what I would call degenerate) groups who believe there is some consciousness behind these AI, but theyre very small group.
Sure, all the problems are “easy” once you identify them. As with most products.
But the majority of Show HN posts here relying on LLMs that I see don’t account for simple things like my example. Flights finders in particular have been pretty bad.

>BTW: with my new prompt, it did assume the correct airport “<<I want to go to Cuba after Easter>>”

Not really. It chose the airport you put basically in the prompt. But I don’t live in MA, I live closer to PDX. And it didn’t suggest the multiple other Cuba airports. So you’ll end up with a lot of guiding rules.
> but it still wasn't on par to the map gen in Civilization games.

Which makes me wonder... do we know how map gen in Civilization works so well?
We don't think the Chinese government is any better. We trust neither government.
Triple decoder is one unique effect. The fact that Intel managed to get them lined up for small loops to do 9x effective instruction issue is basically miraculous IMO. Very well done.

Another unique effect is L2 shared between 4 cores. This means that thread communications across those 4 cores has much lower latencies.

I've had lots of debates with people online about this design vs Hyperthreading. It seems like the overall discovery from Intel is that highly threaded tasks use less resources (cache, ROPs, etc. etc).

Big cores (P cores or AMD Zen5) obviously can split into 2 hyperthread, but what if that division is still too big? E cores are 4 threads of support in roughly the same space as 1 Pcore.

This is because L2 cache is shared/consolidated, and other resources (ROP buffers, register files, etc. etc.) are just all so much smaller on the Ecore.

It's an interesting design. I'd still think that growing the cores to 4way SMT (like Xeon Phi) or 8way SMT (POWER10) would be a more conventional way to split up resources though. But obviously I don't work at Intel or can make these kinds of decisions.
Many service reps do have some expertise in the systems they support.

Once you get past the tier 1 incoming calls, support is pretty specialized.
It's fine to demand more from a car, but to most of us it has to move us from point a to b.
Bug fix request: On the webpage (https://shapecatcher.com/unicodefonts.html) - the download links for the fonts is broken. Perhaps fix? Also, does it make sense to combine the OTF files into a single file that shows the match you make instead of having it broken down into multiple files?
That’s not true. There was not endless hype about flying to the moon when the first plane flew.

People are well aware of the limits of LLMs.

As slow as the progress is, we now have metrics and measurable progress towards agi even when there are clear signs of limitations on LLMs. We never had this before and everyone is aware of this. No one is delusional about it.

The delusion is more around people who think other people are making claims of going to the moon in a year or something. I can see it in 10 to 30 years.
Humpback whales back in Britain, rise in sightings from Kent to Isles of Scilly
Because we're all friends and we only split the money for the projects that we all worked on, projects that need, say, #X engineers, #Y designers etc, and so we split the funds. If anyone gets their own contract, by all means, they can get paid directly, but usually companies might hire us as a team.
I’m not sure why cursive would be faster given the letterforms require a lot more travel.

Maybe it would be when writing with a quill where splatter and breakage were a concern, but surely not with a ballpoint pen.
Skip: A New Open-Source Framework for Reactive Back End Services
https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html
> I’ve argued that TikTok’s biggest wounds have been self-inflicted — snooping on journalists, restricting transparency, obscuring its ties to China — and that it developed a trust deficit with U.S. lawmakers that would be hard to overcome. But I don’t think that’s why most American TikTok users aren’t protesting a ban, either.

Guy is ideologically opposed to TikTok and is reasoning backwards. I mean what’s more emblematic of that than writing a thinkpiece on a what-if?

> It’s probably wishful thinking to believe that if the ban takes effect, millions of screen-addicted TikTok users will start reading “Ulysses” and taking long walks in their spare time. But maybe it’s reasonable to see the shrugs surrounding TikTok’s disappearance and wonder if, after years of giving that app our attention, we’re ready to invest it somewhere else.

Buddhist monks of old would apparently position a novice in a cave by themselves, giving them nothing else to do than to meditate. He cannot possibly believe that the modern world minus Tik Tok is conducive to such apparently wholesome habits. There are dozens of alternatives in queue waiting to become the next pseudo-addiction.
True, but even for a fully mechanical one, the one shown seems very heavy. It looks like weight wasn’t a real concern, which is strange. The plates are very thick and a lot of material could have been removed to reduce weight.
This really brought me back.

I first came across Amit's page in middle school 20 years ago, and studied it religiously until I built a hexagonal grid with A* in Game Maker (which taught me programming from the ground up by studying Mark Overmars' amazing manual).

Today I'm directing an indie game with a team of 10 under me.
The best way to fight this would not to block them, that
does not cause Amazon/others anything. (clearly).

What if instead it was possible to feed the bots
clearly damaging and harmfull content?

If done on a larger scale, and Amazon discovers the poisoned pills
they could have to spend money rooting it out, quick like, and
make attempts to stop their bots to ingest it.

Of course nobody wants to have that tuff on their own site though.
That is the biggest problem with this.
The author's pronouns can be found here: https://github.com/Xe
We don't even get Camry in Italy, it's just Yaris, Corolla, Aygo and suvs
Based on the information I found, the % difference between two randoms humans in terms of base pairs (including non-coding DNA) is even less than the difference in terms of genes, so the distinction does not materially alter the discussion. Also the article framed its explanation in terms of genes, not base pair sequence.

"Between any two humans, the amount of genetic variation—biochemical individuality—is about .1 percent." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20363/

https://book.bionumbers.org/how-genetically-similar-are-two-...

Forensic comparisons are mostly about comparing the number of short tandem repeats at handful of loci, a very small part of the the whole genome.

If you have any information that indicates the DNA similarity between people is less than 98–99% I would love to hear it. I have not personally analyzed the sequences from the 1000 genome project to check, and am relying on summaries written by other people.
Ethnic hierarchies are a fact of history and geopolitics, especially where guns and hatred are involved.

Nat Turner was not financed to the tune of billions of dollars (inflation adjustment necessary) and employed by France to foment and continue fighting. He was not financed to torpedo any real resolution of slavery because it would mean the personal money train ends. Nat Turner did not have a Mafia authoritarian government oppressing a couple million people of his own kind.

The slaves didn't want collectively to fight and kill and jihad on their white masters. They just wanted freedom. They got reconstruction and segregation.

Slavery was only resolved with the bloody civil war. A civil war that America has the luxury of engaging in because it has no geopolitical enemies on its borders.

Does Israel want to kill a couple million of its people to resolve this in a civil war internally? When a dozen enemies would leap at the chance to attack them when they are weakened?

Look, you are dealing with more hatred, more barriers, more meddling external powers, more dangerous enemies.

Every ethnic hierarchy has ended? Us is still ethnically split along the echoes of slavery. The native Americans would also like to point out their situation. Russia is still the Rus at the core and subordinate ethnic stans, just like 1000 years ago. China is an ethnic hierarchy with the Han at the top. Turkey can't wait to reestablish a caliphate. South Africa has worse divisions than the US post apartheid.

The US native American population is basically the Palestinians. That is your analogue. Confined to reservations and poor. I don't want to hold them up as a model of "living as defeated people" but they exist, they have freedom to move in the US, and they aren't viewed by Americans as terrorists and periodically blown up. They have some economic determinism (casinos). That is the model the Palestinians need.
"I would estimate that the local llama3 inferencing uses less power than when done in a datacenter, because there simply is less power available locally"

Is this taking into account the fact that datacenter resources are shared?

Llama 3 on my laptop may use less power, but it's serving just me.

Llama 3 in a datacenter or more expensive, more power-hungry hardware is potentially serving hundreds or thousands of users.
someone should just buy bsky.nyc and sell subdomains for people that have Real IDs with a NYC address, then my handle could be @jazzyjackson.bsky.nyc and anyone who knows about the system then could trust I'm using my government name and that I'm not a russian bot.

But yeah I was disappointed with the lack of adoption there. The CEO of the onion is a prolific poster and has to deal with scambots but can't be bothered to use onion.com in his handle
Reminds me of llm-jq: https://github.com/simonw/llm-jq
The cows also “stack shit up”, building a thick layer of soil: “carbon sequestration”.

All in all, cows are around zero emissions when held outside and fed grass only.
What does a tech moat look like for a gen AI startup?
Member berries when the internet was hip and cool and UUCP was the only game in town, and everyone was a wonderfully insightful ray if sunshine? Yeah, me neither.
As a European, I am 100% ok with EU banning Facebook and other large advertisement funded platforms.

When GDPR was created there was a huge wave of people arguing that Facebook and other similar platforms would withdraw from EU. That did not happen, but if it had it would have been perfectly fine. Instead most American companies decided to create EU specific version of their platforms in order to comply with GDPR.

The next wave of privacy protecting regulations will likely recreate similar reactions. Those companies that want to stay in EU will comply, and those who don't will withdraw and give space to new ones. The trend of moving to national platforms/cloud providers has already started and been going on fairly strong in my country, especially from government organization and defense adjacent companies.
The argument to ban TikTok is for trade reciprocity reasons. Reels and Youtube Shorts are banned there, so we should ban TikTok here. Just like how if Germany banned Fords and Chevys from being sold, we should similarly ban VWs and Audis.

That they say this is for "National Security" gives the game away.
> Why not make the current output, "git branch -qq"? Is a humane interface too much to ask for? Apparently...

Yes, it is too much.

You have the wrong mentality, and I hope this can help make your life easier. Programs are made so that the simplest option is the base option. This is because there is a high expectation that things will be scripted AND understanding that there is a wide breadth of user preference. There's an important rule

DON'T TRY TO MAKE A ONE SIZE FITS ALL PROGRAM

Customization is at the root of everything. We have aliases that solve most of the problems and small functions for everything else. You default to an non-noisy output, showing only __essentials__ and nothing more unless asked. Similarly, you do no filtering other than hidden files. This way, everyone can get what they want. Btw, this is why so many people are upset with default options on things like fdfind and ripgrep.

For your problem with git, there are 2 solutions you have.

# alias git branch using git
git config --global alias.branch 'branch -vv'

# write a simple function and add to .bashrc or .zshrc or .*rc
git() {
case "$1" in
branch)
shift
command git branch -vv "$@"
;;
*)
command git "$@"
;;
esac
}

> We need to stop conflating elitism with fucked up design.

The design isn't fucked up, it is that you don't understand the model. This is okay. You aren't going to learn it unless you read docs or books on linux. If you learn the normal way, by usage, then it is really confusing at first. But there is a method to the madness. Things will start making more sense if you understand the reason for the design choices. (In a sibling comment I wrote the abstraction to command patterns that makes the gp's confusion odd. Because systemd follows the standard)

Side note: if you try to design something that works for everyone or works for the average person, you end up designing something that is BAD for most people. This is because people's preference is not uniformly distributed, meaning the average person is not representative of any person in the distribution. This is because anything that is normally distributed has its density along the shell while a uniform distribution has a uniform density all throughout it.
> You know nobody has trained a thing with your GPU's yet?

https://x.com/zealandic1/status/1877005338324427014
We need a snappy word for everything in life becoming a shitty escalating cat and mouse game. I’m hearing the word enshittification a lot these days but unsure if it’s right here
Modern AI both shortens the useful lifespan of software and increases the importance of development speed. Waiting around doesn’t seem optimal right now.
Probably the fact that the AI has only access to the ffmpeg command is a value itself. Supervision is much less needed vs something that could hallucinate using rm -rf on the wrong place
Yes pro-Palestinian content proliferated there.
You don't need soy or corn if you have cows on grass instead: much less carbon dioxide and more nutritious.
> TikTok isn’t being banned because of free speech or not but because the usage of their algorithms allows the app to influence how Americans think about different issues. China has recognized this as a threat and as such has banned foreign adversary social media companies from operating within its borders.

The “personal freedom” part would be most immediately salient here.

Free speech wouldn’t apply if the app wasn’t in use already. But so many millions of Americans use the app already that it easily is about free speech as well.
Yes nice, a dog could express its opinion by peeing on the lines of code
> Lol

Great argument

> “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

NLP professionals are also LLM professionals. LLMs are tools in an NLP toolkit. LLMs don’t make the NLP professional obsolete the way it makes handwritten spam obsolete.

I was going to explain this further but you literally wouldn’t understand.

> Do you cross reference all your Google searches to make sure they are giving you the best results vs Bing and DDG?

…Yes I do…

That’s why I cancelled my kagi subscription. It was just as good as DDG.

> Do you cross reference the results from your NLP with LLMs to see if there were any improvements?

Yes I do… because I want to use the best tool for the job. Not just the first one I was able to get working…
Why is this "flagged?" Stop perpetuating this infantile behavior.
But then they said 250/second when running multiple inference? Again I don't know if their assertions about running multiple inference are correct but why focus on the wrong number instead of addressing the actual claim?
> Life is too short for me not to enjoy the time I have to spend driving.

Or, you could reengineer your too-short life so you waste less time driving.

It’s fine if you like driving and want to have a nice car - connoisseurs abound in all fields. But for 99% of people it’s not an issue worth optimizing for.
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Author here: Yeah, I agree.

It is a bit weird. On the one hand, I understand that it makes sense to have [command] [verb] [object] on a "logical" level and that viewing logs should be a separate command (`journalctl`), but it is definitely not ergonomic.
Especially if you frequently have to switch between start/stop/restart.

> As a very occasional linux sysadmin just trying to make things work, the "typing at a console" systemd interfaces are not fun to work with. Maybe nobody should be doing that. In an enterprise, sure that's different. I think interfaces should be human, and linux should still be fun.

This was precisely the case for me. I "enjoy" playing around with systemd and am super interested in better understanding it, but the feedback loop just felt sooo slow. So hopefully this TUI can make it "fun" again :)
So happy to see Dusa on HN. Was a joy to see you work on it while in batch at RC. Congrats!
This is all correct, but it’s been fairly well known since over 15 years ago that BitLocker only really protects a computer if you configure BitLocker to require a pre-boot password, and also only after you turned off the computer [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker#TPM_alone_is_not_eno...
It’s like using ssh-keygen to generate an SSH key, and entering your chosen password when prompted. This encrypts the private key, which is otherwise completely independent from the password. Not derived from it, just used to lock it.
I installed warp, the LLM terminal and tried to track where it helped. It was crazy helpful for ffmpeg… and not much else.
The logical positivism part. It brings with it a host of assumptions. Of course, you're free to believe in them, but I don't think logical positivism is justifiable. That's generally why science today is built on falsifiability rather than verifiability.
Triggering an animation based on what's under the cursor sounds interesting. Like moving to a loop declaration starts a chase-your-tail animation. Or moving to a function signature gives the pet some paint and paper.
Show HN: I made a generative radio app with a host [video]
The hosts do everything from curating a custom setlist, reporting on news, and providing local updates through your day.
How many TB is your repo?

Do they keep retrieving the same data from the same links over and over and over
again, like stuck in a forever loop, that runs week after week?

Or are they crawling your site at a hype aggressive way but getting more and more data?
So it may tea them last say 2 days to crawl over it and then they go away?
You need to be a bit careful with zinc. A doctor friend of mine compiled a load of data showing most zinc supplements are contaminated with cadmium, which is cumulative. I'm not sure if he's published yet.

Edit, here's a paper by some other researchers: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0963748012005760...