skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really would like to know what exactly you consider a "clear difference" between how Usenet and differ conceptually (e.g., ignoring the GUI, the # of users, and mechanics, [e.g., usenet updates diffused around the globe because we didn't have cloud servers]).

Please back that statement up with some facts.
How do you explain North Korea?

And there is always prison labor that you can depend on. Especially with private prisons. Prison labor is already being used to fight wildfires in LA for instance and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. That’s cheap labor and another benefit it’s all those “drug dealing thugs” anyway.
I am not I would imagine the federal government getting involved would only make it worse. (BC)
You're confusing state and federal employees with your teacher example.
It doesn't for workspace users. No dropdown appears.
Sure, that's fair. If you're aiming for state of the art performance. Otherwise, you can get close and do it on reasonably priced hardware by using smaller distilled and/or quantized variants of llama/r1.

Really though I just meant "it's a no-brainer that they are popular here on HN".
FiveM uses CEF and let's you replace much of the built in GTA V scaleform with it.

It's incredible what can be done but can be far less responsive than the scaleform it replaces, but this may partially be due to it being a third party mod to the game.
Probably primarily a business and cost-cutting measure (certain there's loads of DEI-related staff; NOT DEI hires, roles that exist to foster DEI policies).

I've a prediction somewhat related to this.

We'll see, in the coming year(s), a large portion of positions at the FAANG(s) being moved overseas as cost-cutting measures. Paired with the impression that LLMs reduce the need for programmers, we (domestically) will see a substantial reduction in the number of developer (and related roles) in the States.

From what I've heard/seen wrt roles at these companies there's a substantial imbalance in locations for hiring (huge increases in India, Mexico, Brazil, and others) and less and less in the States.
This is all the Curtis Yarvin influence. There is that period in US history that the president was acting more like a king, Taft to FDR. They were doing much more executive orders then that we have been use to the past 80 years.

It all is quite unsettling. Then the fact it is Trump doing this is just something else all together too.

I am a bit worried how the country is going to deal with this level of change. We aren't even 3 weeks in.
I can see the Founders of the US now, one of the things they did when setting up the government was organise it so a South African billionaire should be able to take over and reorganise it with zero accountability.
Hrm I've been using a combo of Textract (for bounding boxes) AI for understanding the contents of the document. Textract is excellent at bounding boxes and exact-text capture, but LLMs are excellent at understanding when a messy/ugly bit of a form is actually one question, or if there are duplicate questions etc.

Correlating the two (Textract <-> AI) output is difficult, but another round of AI is usually good at that. Combined with some text-different scoring and logic, I can get pretty good full-document understanding of questions and answer locations. I've spent a pretty absurd amount of time on this and as of yet have not launched a product with it, but if anyone is interested I'd love to chat about the pipeline!
The Loop of Progress
Congress deadlock is part of that idea, that people have to find common cause to work together.
All of the Internet does not include everything you can extrapolate from it. When I ask it to help with my code or writing, I am not asking it to reproduce anything.
Yeah, you don't have to follow the hype, unless of course you got coworkers blinded by the hype and managers, who do not know how to discern who actually knows something and who is just jumping on bandwagons. Suddenly you will seem like the backwards guy, who does not want to learn the new shiny thing. Then suddenly you do have to follow the hype, even though you warned them.

As a full stack developer, your chances of being or becoming the frontend lead are reduced, as you don't have focus like a frontend only person, who will play that card subtly, that they are the specialist and you are not. And frankly, as a full stack developer, why would I even want to become a frontend lead and sacrifice the part of development, that is much saner? For the frontend lead it also pays well to follow the hype, raise the frontend to "modern level" and get paid senior salary.
It's not just target guidance at this point. There are prototypes of drone swarms, for example.
Binding on illegal contracts is tricky. If I offer X for murder, and you do the murder and I don't pay you; you can't seek recompense in the courts.

If the government's offer is illegal, those who accepted it and performed their part of the contract may not be able to force the government to perform its part.
We’re, what, two weeks in? If the most powerful person in the country threatens jail time, says his enemies are the enemies of the country, absolves the crimes of those who attacked the capital and assaulted police officers, etc etc I sure as hell will take those the threats he makes seriously.
That is not deliberately hiring whites? That is just hiring whites by happenstance. I am talking about choosing the white candidate because he is white.
Is it still the case that it doesn't really support video input?

As in I have a video file I want to send it to the model and get a response about it. Not their 'live stream' or whatever functionality.
> If doing nothing is more profitable than doing something then society as a whole will gravitate towards generating no economic activity.

You're operating off a false premise. Do you think all economic activity would be less profitable than the interest rate offered by deflation?

The whole point of investing in any business is to make a return. Giving businesses competition in the form of deflationary currencies will not eradicate businesses from being formed, and there's no evidence to suggest these businesses will be less profitable than holding a deflationary currency.

We see this in various cryptocurrencies claiming to be deflationary with the concept of 'yield', which shows investing to be a function of their wealth, interest, and expectation of return. Inflation does not need to be in the equation for this type of development.
The entire egg industry is a conspiracy, like when that one guy at ADM price-fixed the lysine industry, except keyed to outbreaks of HPAI. I see.
Google removes restrictions on military AI development
It is only possible to "socialy engineer" people who are genualy unsatisfied with what they have and how they are living, and who are looking for a prompt that will improve there lot.
The "solicitation" is absolute proof that the government has failed to provide and support the most basic requirements for a stable society, and is floundering around trying to spin the whole mess, and blame someone else.
And 10 mill to one of the major media distributors is on top, of what is realy billions worth of free media coverage for anything the government want to promote. Which means they are panicking.Not that that isnt totaly obvious.
They should panic, a lot, because after bieng lied to and cheated for generations now, many ordinary people have come to the reasonable and rational conclusion, that in the face of informational chaos, they can just go ahead and
believe ANYTHING, that makes them feel a bit better....for now....and then believe something else later, maybe, or just make stuff up, that they believe, and there friends like, and 27 min latter, its been seen by 37 million others.
And they like it, and speak directly to this, and
are doing it consiously ,and dont give a rats ass about most of what is happening, and at any moment go bat shit crazy for some new revolutionary type of chewy candy, and since china is the only one who can tool up to make 4 billion dollors of candy
overnight, they will get the order, and china will mint another billionair....happens every few days
there is no defence
I have fond memories of Pascal. As a 16 - 17 year old in the late 90's I developed a primitive drawing package in Turbo Pascal for a school project. The only reason I was able to achieve this was thanks to a unit (library) called VGraph which I came across on a floppy disk at a random computer fair. It was a game changer, allowing me to access high resolution modes (640 x 480 ha) previously unattainable to me, along with some other graphics primitives around line drawing and mouse cursors.

I still have the program source, but the required Vgraph dependency has been lost to time, so I'm sadly unable to run it. I've searched online but never had much luck. If this lib sounds familiar to anyone, I would love to hear about it.
How did these organisations make people vote for Donald Trump?
They do not support major browsers. They support "major browsers in default configuration without any extensions" (which is of course ridiculous proposition), forcing people to either abandon any privacy/security preserving measures they use, or to abandon the websites covered by CF.

I use uptodate Firefox, and was blocked from using company gitlab for months on end simply because I disabled some useless new web API in about:config way before CF started silently requiring it without any feature testing or meningful error message for the user. Just a redirect loop. Gitlab support forum was completely useless for this, just blaming the user.

So we dropped gitlab at the company and went with basic git over https hosting + cgit, rather than pay some company that will happily block us via some user hostile intermediary without any resolution. I figured out what was "wrong" (lack of feature testing for web API features CF uses, and lack of meaningful error message feedback to the user) after the move.
RA.Aid
I don't think it's a good idea for people to adopt new bcrypt constructions so that they can use it to generate cache keys (or, worse, other keys).

(I need that "man standing up in the town hall meeting" meme for this.)

Just use a real KDF, if that's really what you want. I'm still confused what password-derived material is doing in a Redis key.
LTSC doesn't come with Microsoft Store installed (a pro or con depending how you look at it), but it can be installed by running "wsreset -i" in Powershell.

Bonus: LTSC gets extended security patching support lifespan.
Yeah but thats not how any quota based system works. Thats the strawman of quota systems. The article itself showed that the quota is some fraction of total applicants that results in minimal impact to performance.

Also I heard "math" with a youtube overlay.
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Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop.
i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings.

then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its head hanging down, attached by a quarter of the neck from it's body with the blood jumping out and the chicken running in circle for quite a lot of time.

it's also rare but sometimes even when you cut perfectly, the chicken will manage to get out of your hand and again you got to watch a headless chicken running in circle for some time.

If you are the kind of animal loving people in city, i'm not sure it's worth it.

bonus point, in summer you get a lot of fly because of the chicken shit, they reproduce in that. you can get in there and clean it everyday but it's a lot of work, and fly traps barely works when the heat is shinning strongly on the chicken shit. fly reproduce too damn quick.

Also chicken have hierarchy where all the up top chicken will bite on the ass of the chicken under it, so if you are the top chicken you got a nice ass but the one at the bottom it has a bleedy ass and sometimes they manage to kill them.

if you got to buy another chicken to replace it, it may not be accepted by the old one and so again -> bottom hierarchy, death by ass biting lol. it's funny but it significantly decrease the economic worthiness when you got to replace you chicken once in a while.

Beside i don't know what you do with chicken corpse in city, you aren't going to put it in recycling can.

Support your local farmer.
I have music/noise on all the time, rarely in silence. I play the same playlist/song over and over when focusing. Unfortunately working in an open office it sucks people having conversions (to each other or to computer)
It is incredibly foolish to entertain this offer. OPM v Richmond[1] held that the government has effectively zero liability for lying about financial benefits that haven't been specifically authorized by Congress.

[1]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/496/414/
You should aspire to greater things instead of dragging others down.
Thank you for the suggestion. I will give it a try.
> This is not "just" machine learning because we have never been able to do things which we are today and this is not only the result of better hardware. Better hardware is actually a byproduct. Why build a PFLOPS GPU when there is nothing that can utilize it?

This is the line of thinking I'm referring to.

The "context" problem had already been somewhat solved. The attention mechanism existed prior to Transformers and was specifically used on RNNs. They certainly improved it, but innovation of the architecture was making it computation efficient to train.

I'm not really following your argument. Clearly your acknowledging that it was first the case that with the hardware at the time, researchers demonstrated that simply scaling up training with more data yielded better models. The fact that hardware was then optimized for these for these architectures only reinforces this point.

All the papers discussing scaling laws point to the same thing, simply using more compute and data yields better results.

> this is not only the result of better hardware

Regarding this in particular. A majority of the improvement from GPT-2 and GPT-4 was simply training on a much larger scale. That was enabled by better hardware and lots of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
Context provided by the vaunted journalists at Politico, I'm sure.
Rust doesn't "depend" on LLVM in the sense you seem to imagine, you can instead lower Rust's MIR into Cranelift (which is written in Rust) if you want for example.

LLVM's optimiser is more powerful, and it handles unwinding, so today most people want LLVM but actually I think LLVM's future might involve more Rust.
I'm not unduly alarmed. Better the jews and palestinians can be united in asking wtf Trump is on about than they be killing each other.
Great work! I love your videos; they've taught me so much. Any plans for a Mixture of Experts (MoE) video? My understanding is that starting from GPT4 most advance models use MoE to some extent. For example, can I take the model from your GPT2 video and just change the feed forward layer to an MoE layer like the one found here (1)? I guess I can just try it myself but I enjoy the expert guidance you provide in your videos. Please don't stop! great content!

1. https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-inference/blob/main/src...
Some people can't keep chickens because of city or HOA regulations or because of space requirements, but they would like to.

A good option for those people might be Coturnix quail. Quail eggs are especially delicious, and so are quail (if you can stomach cleaning them, it is pretty easy). These birds take up a very little space and are extremely quiet. Eggs are about 1/3 the size of chicken eggs. It's a really good way to sustainably have top quality eggs in a suburban setting (and possibly even indoors).

We keep chickens and wouldn't go back to store bought eggs even if they were 50 cents a dozen. Not the same egg. It is a little bit of work, but not bad once you are set up. It helps that we are also avid gardeners and so chickens get a lot of waste and greens (which also makes much nicer eggs).
I think specifically hiring somebody because of their race is not just problematic but outright racist. I don't care if you are doing it because you want to underpay them or because you just dislike their race.

If somebody decided he wanted more white people because he prefers whites, that would be discrimination. Nobody denies that, but when the races are swapped, suddenly it is nuanced? Give me a break!
If you left it at the initial question this might have been an entirely different thread.

"There are already so many Unix like operating systems of all sizes written in C... If I were to go to such an effort, I would try another language...It is meanwhile more than clear that it can be done in C...so it would actually be more interesting to explore the suitability of other languages for such a task."

Based on your earlier remarks why not say knitters should use different material or needles to make it more interesting? Why do the same pattern over again when so many knitters have probably knit the very same pattern already.

Because the statements above miss the point of what hobby means to most people.

>> and apparently you can't answer the questions either

No one is required to. Not anyone on HN or the hobbyist in question.
its fascinating how certain political movements avoid that Wait moment...
I am happy to learn about better alternatives.
I'm imagining a text-to-speech model that only speaks in the Transatlantic Accent
Interesting. Perhaps that is what I did.

I did do that to design the UX, but for algorithms, I am not so sure. I am really bad at coding competitions, for example.
> the SCOTUS ruling on immunity for "official acts" gives him broad protection for basically anything going forward

How is this any different than the qualified immunity given to many law enforcement officers? I mean, personally I am in favor of qualified immunity going away…but why is it surprising that the president wouldn’t have something similar?

Seems to me that both a LEO as well as the president can lose their immunity if it’s determined that what they have done that they need immunity from falls outside of “official acts”. Might be harder to prove for the president, but not insurmountable.
“ I have endured a sustained campaign of abuse from members of the VOGONS forum, been labelled a "clout-chaser", had threats sent to my personal email address, code been used in other projects without proper accreditation, my 3D print designs stolen and sold by faceless eBay/Etsy sellers, personal attacks made towards me when people don't get their feature request... the list goes on and on.”

I mean, perhaps they have depression, but this is pretty awful. It’d make me want to quit.
They are pretending to be an ancient Mozilla version from the time after Netscape but before Firefox, KHTML (which was forked to webkit), Firefox (Gecko engine), Chrome and Safari. The only piece of browser history it's missing is somehow pretending to be IE.
Thanks for your effort.
Ask HN: Did you change your digital habits since Trump's election?
This is initially directed to US citizens and companies but is actually relevant for everyone worldwide.
For sure something big is happening in the USA. Did it make you change the way you are working, studying, chatting with friends... ? Because you disagree and want to boycott, or because you are now scared that your communication could put you / your company in trouble, or for whatever other reasons?
Digital is everywhere in our lives, and I am very curious how things are going in the US now.
Wonder how this compares to Docling. So far that's been the only tool that really unlocked PDFs for me. It's solid but really annoying to install.

https://ds4sd.github.io/docling/
This will come out in due diligence if the investor is not just throwing money at whatever moves.
That's defense of the government apparatus in the same sense as “Continuity Of Government” — not defense of constituents themselves.
If you work for a local government, say, and your boss says ‘hey, here’s my plan: you stop coming to work, and I’ll make sure you get paid anyway for a few months’, if you accept those terms and go along with that plan, and then later on it turns out your boss was not allowed to do that, and you got paid a bunch of government money illegally… Normally that might come back to bite you, potentially years later. That’s the exact kind of shape and form of various public corruption scandals.

I would be very nervous about personally benefitting from what might amount to a scheme to embezzle government funds.

Just because nobody in government today is interested in looking into whether or not this is legal doesn’t mean it will never come under scrutiny.
Gut feeling (kind of).

There are rulings that access providers are/were allowed to save full IP addresses for up to 7 days to handle misuse of services etc. and any longer storage seems unnecessary and unlawful.

In other cases there were recommendations of up to 30 days, ideally with anonymized addresses where the last one or two triplets are automatically being removed. I've also seen 30 days as kind of the default setting for automatic log purging with shared webhosters.

Our lawyer told us that he estimates that saving full IP addresses for 14 days in logfiles would be fine in regards of preventing/tracking misuse of services or attacks against the infrastructure.

If this would ever come to court it would most probably be up to the judge to see whether this is really fine or already too much. Therefore we had to document the process and why we think 14 days is reasonable and so on.

The GDPR lacks a specific time frame and I think that's okay. There's always some "wiggle room" in European laws, it's about not misusing that room and sincerely acting in the best interest of everybody.
The sad irony of members of a forum named as such harassing someone who is indeed building a very old MIDI synthesizer for new hardware.