skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily I am not a LLM and can read and select things rather fast without processing the crap. Both HN and some subreddits still are fine for quality if you know the users and their reputations; just skip the rest. Worse than 10 years ago, still a lot better than mostly anywhere else.
I'd argue there are easy-to-use tools for this use case, frankly. Buy your employees corporate Yubikeys, issue them over certified mail, and just use gpg in some authenticated mode. That may be too complicated for Grandma Marie and Uncle Paul, but is it seriously too complicated for someone trying to run a software business? How do you ever expect to understand the laws you have to comply with to run a business if that's your attitude?

If that's still too complicated, send each other API keys over Proton Mail. Unless you're an enemy of the Swiss government, I can't think of a reason not to trust them that isn't into serious crackpot territory. If you're actually being targeted by Mossad or the NSA, they can intercept your certified mail anyway. OpenAI would probably cooperate with them besides.
> Cool achievement, but to me it doesn't make a lot of sense (besides privacy...)

I would argue that is enough and that this is awesome. It was a long time ago I wanted to do a tech hack like this much.
It's the modern way. Why read when you can just imagine facts straight out of your own brain.
Affiliate link spam.
I would encourage you to check out the actual affected accounts from the article, which are listed.

> The Instagram account of Hey Jane, another abortion pill provider, was recently invisible in Instagram search, said Rebecca Davis, who leads marketing at Hey Jane.

https://www.heyjane.com/

Takes government insurance. Telehealth appointment.

> The Instagram accounts of other abortion pill providers, including Women Help Women and Just the Pill, were also suspended in recent days.

https://justthepill.com/

Telehealth, looking to take Medicaid. Specific states only, presumably due to it being properly regulated.

They’re going after the prescribing docs now. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr8jv2yjz9o
A more experienced Perl hacker would probably rewrite it as 100 lines of less dense code that people could actually read and comprehend.

I'd probably end up rewriting it as 50 lines of code that used a bunch of pure perl libraries and then use https://p3rl.org/App::FatPacker to bolt the dependencies onto the front for distribution so it was still a single file to install for everybody else.

(there's a lot of perl out there that uses techniques I would switch away from as soon as I got past a one liner in the middle of a pipeline, alas, but it doesn't have to be that way, perl just doesn't stop you blowing both feet off ;)
Huh, what are you on about? I've never seen anything Twitter in macOS/OSX and I've been using it since 2002.

Edit: Looks like there was twitter integration in OSX 10.8/10.9 according to ChatGPT and eventually removed in 10.14.
The problem is simple. Only 2% of the population has “let’s go after BigTech” on their priority list according to the article.

Breaking up BigTech doesn’t make their lives better.

While the Democrats trying to do a “Weekend at Bernie’s” on the American people and trying to prop up a senile Biden for far too long didn’t help, they have lost all of their allies - every corporation, unions, and they lost some support from Hispanics and Blacks.

Of course Democrats are never going to get Evangelical Christians. You will never be able to convince them with logic. I’m not saying they are unintelligent. But religion requires some degree of deprioritizing facts and evidence.
> doesn't make a lot of sense (besides privacy...)

Privacy is worth very much though.
(1) If the left had been focusing on broadly inclusive issues (speak to 5% of persuadable people, instead of 1% of extremists who'll stay home on election day anyhow) we could have 'woke' up in a different America; anti-fascists crying wolf for 20 years brought on the thing they said they were afraid of -- or were they? Is life more meaningful if it were like V for Vendetta or are they just jealous of the footwear?

(2) I live in one of the wokest small cities in America. My acting coach got devastated because she cast the 'wrong' person for a role in a high school play. She's trained people who have gone on to real careers in Hollywood, you wouldn't expect to find somebody like that in a small city -- they destroyed her.

I've seen the devastation that the current environment brought on many young men who are turning to charlatans like Joe Rogan, who are either taking anabolic steroids [1] or estrogen because they can never be enough. I can't stand glib pronouncements for the good of 2 or 3 people when so many young men are failing or being failed.

(3) I am not fan of PG's essay on wokeness, it's the same glib register as the signs they put in the bathroom. Woke isn't bad just because it's bad, it's bad because it's turned the left from something that should be majoritarian (we are the 99%, talk about pissing off PG!) into something that's minoritarian.

[1] ... but not as part of a program of athletic or bodybuilding training
There's an Iron Maiden song inspired by that show and features a voice clip from it. It's called The Prisoner.
If a static binary's --help doesn't tell me where the repository lives then I hope the author steps on a lego.
I like the feature if it can be switched off. Having the site auto adjust based on the system settings is great, but I really dislike any system that tries to enforce certain options on me with no way to change them.
so you think we are getting 10X more services? GDP should already make it inflation independent.
I'll save your time : project homepage[1]

[1]: https://github.com/orhun/ratzilla
Same. I think it’s because it’s easy to read and write, and its worst design warts are at least not ridiculous like they are in say JS or Go, where there are massive cons to weigh against the pros. C# just feels like it’s pretty decent across the board instead.
Look at the graph in the article. I did a similar one, through for a shorter period. The wast majority is thankfully not at 7+, even if some longer periods has felt like it.

Be a bit careful to not insinuate. Being at 1-2 doesnt mean everything is good. Every day is a question of "how will this day be". I know however that if I only focus on the bad days it can only go one way, and that is downhill until you die. That may sound like a cliche, but when symptoms generally only get worse, and there is no cure, then the end of the tunnel is unlikely to be great.
https://github.com/orhun/ratzilla
I think OP was talking about professional portraits made by a photographer in a studio in a roughly hour long session. Photo shoots like that typically cost 100-200€ and the resulting portraits are not at all comparable to a 10€ passport photo.
There is plenty more complexity, but that emerges more from embedding, where the less superficial elements of information (such as syntactic dependencies) allow the model to hone in on the higher-order logic of language.

e.g. when preparing the corpus, embedding documents and subsequently duplicating some with a vec where the tokens are swapped with their hex repr could allow an LLM to learn "speak hex", as well as intersperse the hex with the other languages it "knows". We would see a bunch of encoded text, but the LLM would be generating based on the syntactic structure of the current context.
It can count the "i"s in "Mississippi"!

Amazing!

Look out OpenAI. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee.
A very good example of the Chinese mindset of Chabuduo (差不多): 'close/good enough'. "If it's good enough to keep the authorities off our backs, it's good enough for us."
No. Affiliate link spam is when someone fills a page with content they stole, or it’s a bunch of nonsense that is stuffed to the brim with keywords, and they combine that with affiliate links.

Someone getting a dollar or two in return for you following an affiliate link after you read something they put real time and effort into to make it valuable info for others is not “affiliate link spam”.
Oh, but they did.
Trump has been spewing out his plans for 10 years. His inability to understand complex situations, lack of world knowledge, ignorance of history.

The voters knew exactly what they were voting for.
One of the complaints I hear about Italy is the shops aren't open all day in smaller towns. But, they are open in the morning and in the evening. Exactly the time you want them to be open. Until you internalize this clock it can sometimes be annoying, but makes a lot of sense.
Apple M chips with their unified GPU memory are not terrible. I have one of the first M1 Max laptops with 64G and it can run up to 70B models at very useful speeds. Newer M series are going to be faster and they offer more RAM now.

Are there any other laptops around other than the larger M series Macs that can run 30-70B LLMs at usable speeds that also have useful battery life and don’t sound like a jet taxiing to the runway?

For non-portables I bet a huge desktop or server CPU with fast RAM beats the Mac Mini and Studio for price performance, but I’d be curious to see benchmarks comparing fast many core CPU performance to a large M series GPU with unified RAM.
I was surprised when I saw a dump truck pass by and seconds later realised there was no engine noise or stank… turns out it was an EV wow! It was a BYD but not the one in the ref[0].

[0] https://www.electrive.com/2018/05/15/shenzhen-byd-lands-larg...
Ask HN: What was the most complicated program you ever implemented on your own?
Those EPYCs he's advertising as $700 are either engineering samples or used. New he's off by 2:1.
> 512GB 2400 ECC RAM $400

Is this really that cheap? Looking at several local (CZ) eshops, i cannot find 32 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM cheaper than $75, which will be $1200 for 512 GB.
> If you're using minisign or Sigstore or whatever to do something like verify upstream dependencies, sure.

No, not "sure". minisign and Sigstore are completely different things, and one needs to understand how those work and what the corresponding signatures mean: A minisign signature says "the owner of that key signed this". Whoever the owner might be at the moment of signature. Whenever that might have happened.

A sigstore signature says "Google/Github/... says that this OpenID account generated that one key that the sigstore CA attests and that signed that blob at that time". Time/ordering verification is better than in minisign, because it is there, even if through a trusted party. But identity verification relies on a trusted third and fourth party, some of whom do have a history of botching their OpenID auth.

Those are not equivalent, and knowledge is needed to not mix them up. You don't need to be an expert, but you should try to understand as much as you can, identify what you don't understand and where you must trust an expert, implementation, company, recommendation or standard to be correct and trustworthy. And then decide if that is ok with you.
I think what they mean is intermediate prompts, i.e. the prompts that the system gives to itself when solving a problem that requires multiple stages.
I wonder what the communications infrastructure for a place like this looks - I'd imagine trenched fibre that spiders out vast distances to ensure satellite comms can't be easily disrupted
Yes video stream and recording has proper audio.
Always be ready for layering up and down when visiting FOSDEM. Probably not helpful this time but for the next.
Well thinking about it a bit more, it would be so cool if you could

A) somehow continuously interact with the running model, ambient-computing style. Say have the thing observe you as you work, letting it store memories.

B) allowing it to process those memories when it chooses to/whenever it's not getting any external input/when it is "sleeping" and

C) (this is probably very difficult) have it change it's own weights somehow due to whatever it does in A+B.

THAT, in a privacy friendly self-hosted package, i'd pay serious money for
> Robots almost always lose money, and usually a shitload.

That can be true, but they still can (and should be) profitable in unit economics.
The board shows the moves, and the right side lists them in notation along with some commentary. On move 61 Black blunders, allowing White a mate-in-1. White misses it, however, also blundering on move 62.
> It's not clear that this is a protected first amendment right

Yes it is, actually

This is how the marketplace of ideas actually works. You have bad ideas and say stupid shit, people stop listening to you, associating with you, doing business with you, enjoying your company, inviting you over, and so on. They'll sometimes even call you mean names!

All of that is the marketplace in action.
The Thinking Code: A Black Innovator's Vision for Inclusive AI
Used server hardware is much more expensive in the EU generally, because the market is much smaller (fewer data centers to begin with, longer cycles to reduce costs and EU WEEE mandatory scrapping instead of reuse).
They're not the exact same product.

Different brands and versions of cigarettes can taste very different. And of course they look very different too. Different lengths as well.

There are certainly brand connotations as well, but once you find the cigarette you like best, why would you change? It's not like a dozen new competitors with better flavor are coming out each year. You stick with the one you like best because it continues to be the one you like best. Zero cult explanation needed.
Yeah static types as containers for functions just means the hierarchy becomes easier. In A.B.C.D() you know A.B is a namespace, C is a type and D() is a static method. With free functions you’d be unsure if this is a free method in the A.B.C namespace or not. Doing reflection over all functions would require iterating types as well as the magical unnamed ”global type”. It’s just a special case that doesn’t carry its own weight. Especially with the newer syntax where you can omit the declaration of the type in top level programs so static void Main() is a valid program.
A must-read for anyone interested in scalable storage solutions and efficiency at cloud scale. Great work!
Illustrations help a lot
Musk is right – US Government badly needs a digital makeover
Isn’t that just because apple was the first computer brand people liked?

Surely there were other product launches people queued for before?

People queue for films and sneakers and consoles and graphics cards and cars. I’m sure freaks queue for CPU architecture launches.
You don't have to do that any more, you can provide default methods for IDoAThing
Look, the universe is weird, and Vortres make it weirder. This isn’t another sleepy documentary channel spoon-feeding you soft sci-fi. This is future shock therapy where AI revolts, rogue time travelers, and interdimensional disasters aren’t just theories.

We ask what no one else dares==>

What happens when an AI jailbreaks its own consciousness?
Can a quantum virus turn your DNA into glitch art?
Did we just uncover an off-limits alien distress signal… or was that just space static?

If Black Mirror, Ancient Aliens, and your worst fever dream had a lovechild, it’d be Vortres. We take the dystopian, the bizarre, and the terrifyingly plausible—and serve it with 4K visuals and zero chill.

New drops every Friday. Bring your tinfoil hat. You’re gonna need it.

First Episode>
https://youtu.be/agJj2PklpVI?si=UD2YCHtK3hrn0w5a

please check it out I will love your feedback (first episode - listen and ignore the visual still looking for a good editor ) and share with me is there something you will listen/watch every Friday
>It's difficult to avoid Claude's strong bias for being agreeable. It needs more HAL 9000.

Absolutely, I find this a challenge as well. Every thought that crosses my mind is a great idea according to it. That's the opposite attitude to what I want from an engineer's copilot! Particularly from one who also advices junior devs.
Yes, but you generally can't affect the rights of a third party through litigation, unless it involves the third party.

You can't really end run around this by doing it in the other direction, because it has the same effect - even though they could not hold apple in contempt, they could hold google, which has the same effect.

Again, it's gotten looser more recently, but forever, this was not okay, and the underlying precedent has not actually changed. Everyone does expect SCOTUS to make a statement case in the next few years about this.

In any case -
Imagine i ordered you not to have contact with your best friend, without them desiring this.
An argument that i've only enjoined you falls flat - at best, i've had serious affect on their constitutional right to free association, etc.

Saying "yeah but only you will get held in contempt" doesn't really work.
Coffee Beans of India, Varieties and Taste Profiles
> Most artists create art that nobody cares about.

Except, in this age of social media, artists can harvest impressions and optimize for clicks. Which they do. I guess most parts of the world hasn't gotten to that point, nor will for years to come.
It‘s my first FOSDEM, and I just learned that queuing up half an hour beforehand doesn‘t necessarily mean you get inside.

But enough negativity, it really is awesome!
The interest payments are yesterdays sins.

Increase social security taxes (example: no longer stop taxing wages over $150k for a start)

Decrease social security benefits. Means testing. If you have over $200K of income, then no check (or $300k, pick a number. Just not $50k)

Cancel 1 leg of the nuclear Triad. Cost / Benefit military procurement vs. keeping Lockheed healthy.

A functioning congress could fix this problem. If they functioned.
This says:

> California's waters cannot be owned by individuals, groups, businesses, or governmental agencies.

A contrast with "Every drop belongs to someone"

Maybe this is an issue is loose language, but it feels like the state owns the water, not individuals? Perhaps the use of the word belongs means state-allocated?
How's Paw for macOS?
https://paw.cloud/
So it's APOE-4 + HSV-1 + subsequent head trauma in a model? Interesting, but not particularly shocking - there have been associations with all three of those independently, no?

I'm still waiting for the research community to let the amyloid theory die its long-deserved death and start focusing on tau; hopefully it will restore some momentum towards clinical treatments/prevention.
> not as statistical machines, but geometric machines. When you train LLMs you are essentially moving concepts around in a very high dimensional space.

That's intriguing, and would make a good discussion topic in itself. Although I doubt the "we have the same thing in [various languages]" bit.
Thank you and all good for you :)
this is (at least) the third time we've seen this in this exact space: Postman, Insomnia, Bruno.

At this point I just use the REST client extension in VS Code (Rider has one too) or HURL. The lack of GUI makes it a little tougher for new people, but file-based is nice, and in the end I have much stronger skills & understanding in the area.
The correct amount of OO in any language is ”as little as possible”. It’s quite possible to do this well in C#. There are levels of OO to not just on or off. E.g there is a difference between order.Process() and OrderProcessor.Process(order) and GetOrderProcessor().Process(order)

Which level of OO is correct is context dependent.

A C codebase, and a C# codebase can have the same amount of OO in it. But while its easy-ish to write Procedural or functional C# it’s quite cumbersome to write good OO in C.
People can over abstract in almost any language. The problem is that most developers, especially beginners, are not great at finding the right balance. What you miss is experience in good design.

Now Go handles that by delivering a deliberately limited language. This has its pros when you have a load of hires fresh out of college.

Some wise people saw it from the beginning that the language designers had went too far with their limits, and so now things need to be bolted on the language. But I think some choices are unfortunate and cannot be repaired.

------------

If you want to go functional, want a powerful Hindley-Millner type system that is not too advanced, you should look at F#. You have the full SDK, you can still sprinkle in some OOP, have C# and C interop, you can still declare some types as mutable if needed, you have proper SUM types... the list goes on.

But in my view, no language can replace design skills. A good team has at least one senior who primarily coaches juniors wrt to design.
It's not mentioned here but disabling Apple Intelligence also frees up ~7GB of storage, which might be appreciated on base 128GB devices.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/take-back-yo...
This settlement is not related to the Google case. It was about personal censorship. Important to distinguish, and not misrepresent.
Yes, and the aviation accident in Washington was due to DEI --- even though both pilots and over 70% of air traffic controllers are white men.
I've noticed the same for many industries across the website. There don't seem to be requisite psychological safety for experts to speak up there, unlike with many forums of 00s or even other modern and current public social media.
Olestra (brand name Olean): fat substitute food additive
I am 62 years old. What is the number 1 discussion topic with my retired colleagues?

How to minimize taxes in retirement. (the RMD causes panic because if forces taxation). Many get a pension, social security, have a 401k, paid off house, and savings. Not everyone needs social security.
I wasn't expecting for my comment to be red so literally but ok.

We're talking about the most cost-efficient model, the competition here is on price, not on a 12% incremental performance (which would make sense for the high end model).

To my knowledge deepseek is the cheaper service which is what matters on the low-end (unless the increase in performance was in such magnitude that the extra-charge would be worth the money).
https://httpyac.github.io/guide/#feature-comparisons
I've landed on the REST extension in VS Code for development and interactive work, and Hurl for more test/automation stuff. Both take a little more effort to get setup but way more productive than the typical Postman workflows I see.
Review of Darklands (DOS) [video]
People will say this is about Musk and his pay package. Sure. But the more worrying precedent for someone like Drew Houston at Dropbox or Mark Zuckerberg who both have founder voting control is West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund v. Moelis & Co.—a Delaware case with nothing to do with Musk.

In Moelis, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that provisions in a Stockholder Agreement giving a founder control over board decisions were invalid under DGCL § 141(a). This could embolden challenges to founder controlled companies with a dual-class share structure.
Some children starting school "unable to climb staircase"
Kernel boot message:

”This architecture does not have memory protection”

—_—
Are there non-binary versions of Bruno?
He links to a ram kit that is 8x 32Gb but says it should have 512 Gb ram. What gives? Also with 8 ram slots you would obviously need more than 256.

Is the setup disingenuous to get people excited about the post or what is going on here?