skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you referring to this Wired article as "doxxing", or to something else?

I think the article we're discussing only reported their names, right? That is not "private information" about people who are public employees. And it is the role of journalism to report on public employees, not "a form of punishment or revenge".

They are high level officials! That's exactly the problem. They probably thought they were just taking technical roles, and I'm sympathetic to that, but that's not what they are doing, by the reporting in, again, the article we're discussing. (Did you read the article?)

They are reportedly joining high level meetings and have high level clearances in the agencies where they're working. Again, I'm sympathetic if they got there and were thrust into this stuff and are thinking "this isn't what I signed up for! I'm in way over my head!", but if that's the case, they should have said that and bowed out of this as gracefully as possible. Again, I'm sympathetic that this is a very difficult thing for a very young and ambitious person to have the wisdom to do, after taking what appears to be a dream job with a person they have probably looked up to their whole lives. But that's both exactly why they shouldn't have these high responsibility roles, and exactly why they are such useful patsies for the powerful people using them. This is why powerful people like to use young people (especially young men) to do their dirty work!

Your link on FOIA contains the quoted text, but not the claim that it "in practice means personnel names, among other things". I don't believe that is accurate, but would be interested in further citation.
The Santiago Boys: a dizzy ride through Salvador Allende's Chile –podcast review
That's about the least-bad thing about the code here - it's a workaround for the fact that Java lacks runtime support for generics.

Other than its indirect use in `copy` (which in Java normally takes the parameter itself), it's probably not actually necessary here since you could just use `Object[]`? But I don't spend enough time in Java (thankfully) so I'm not sure if there are intricacies involving the runtime overhead of casting.
> Did you forge[t] to add /s or were you actually expecting Musk to be transparent and truthful?

Do you remember all his promises about full self driving Teslas? He's one of the most honest and truthful people in the world, and has been for years.
I’ve not heard this claim, but even accepting that, it does not support your assertion, “There isn't a single story of a successful band that wouldn't hinge on having a big publisher exec approve them and work with them to change their music for acceptance.”
If it doesn't use any new features then there's no reason to target anything newer, and you'd just be restricting who could use the library.
Your solution to a supply and demand mismatch is that everyone regulate their demand to match the local supply?

Your solution is for a problem that doesn't exist.
Every fortune 500 company has a team of lawyers working for it.
Then that's not tinfoil bat that's just "oh they had a small marketing budget"
As another comment pointed out, some of them will never be implemented on purpose. These tests aren't all backed by web standards. E.g. one test suite is for compatibility with non-standard Blink APIs

Also there are new tests being added all the time
I'm curious about that now, too. Is there the equivalent of Python's ruff or Rust's cargo clippy that can call out code that is legal and well-formed but could be better expressed another way?
You've got this great opportunity to outcompete Aritzia and you're not doing it? They have no hold over you. When they conspire, just don't play along, like Zuck rejected Apple. Pick 50% their margin. You'll be a billionaire in a year.
Everyone saying that US and Chinese companies both do this therefore it's the same probably think that a lumberjack and a serial killer who both happen to be standing in front of them wielding an axe are threats of equal merit.
> I think it’s ultimately about whether training on copyrighted content is legal or not.

It is.

The bulk of the complaint is a narrative; it's meant to be a persuasive story that seeks to put OpenAI in a bad light. You don't really get to the specific causes of action until page 60 (paragraphs 158-180). A sample of the specific allegations that comprise the elements of each cause of action are:

160. By building training datasets containing millions of copies of Times Works,
including by scraping copyrighted Times Works from The Times’s websites and reproducing such works from third-party datasets, the OpenAI Defendants have directly infringed The Times’s exclusive rights in its copyrighted works.

161. By storing, processing, and reproducing the training datasets containing millions of copies of Times Works to train the GPT models on Microsoft’s supercomputing platform, Microsoft and the OpenAI Defendants have jointly directly infringed The Times’s exclusive rights in its copyrighted works.

162. On information and belief, by storing, processing, and reproducing the GPT models trained on Times Works, which GPT models themselves have memorized, on Microsoft’s supercomputing platform, Microsoft and the OpenAI Defendants have jointly directly infringed The Times’s exclusive rights in its copyrighted works.

163. By disseminating generative output containing copies and derivatives of Times Works through the ChatGPT offerings, the OpenAI Defendants have directly infringed The Times’s exclusive rights in its copyrighted works.
“Just let me know how much I should be contributing to my child’s egg fund.”
Statements like this seem to originate in that environment polluted by propaganda that the previous comment mentions. For example, I genuinely don't know how someone can look at something like the dismantling of USAID as anything but an increase in "large pain". Sure, there are almost certainly individual programs within that organization that are wasteful and aren't the best use of our tax dollars, but there is (or at least was as of a few weeks ago) broad bipartisan support for this type of investment in humanity and stopping it will clearly inflict pain on people and this administration is at best indifferent to that pain.
Agree. No code standards is a red flag. It betrays a lack of leadership and efficiency. It means the person in charge either doesn't enforce standards, or doesn't see the value in them.
When I saw it involved a downloaded client, all sorts of alarm-bells went off.

But, thankfully, the python code is short enough to feasibly review... Although I suppose another angle is to check if any of the dependencies are untrustworthy or typo-squatted.
…which the public sector is not. It’s highly regulated.
@smgit provides a good recommendation for the podcast here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944436

Direct links to the podcast:

* On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xlRxnooUnl48JVo726YXn

* Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcZfiOunO5GkYGmTDMTy...
Ask HN: Alternative to Shush?
I've been using Shush[0] for years as a quick and easy way to mute and unmute my mic as needed for meetings with a global hotkey. It's last update was 2014, and it has only recently stopped working with latest macOS (rather impressive).

Does anyone know of any similar solutions?

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shush-microphone-manager/id496437906
The suspension has already been suspended. Packages are again being accepted for delivery:

"Effective February 5, 2025, the Postal Service will continue accepting all international inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts. The USPS and Customs and Border Protection are working closely together to implement an efficient collection mechanism for the new China tariffs to ensure the least disruption to package delivery."

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international...
My take is almost the opposite, that it's important to develop healthy social networking insofar as there is some alternative to the outrage. It takes effort though.

I'm going to offer my two accounts as examples

https://mastodon.social/@UP8

https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social

both of these are 'cyborg' accounts in that I have my RSS reader, classifier and autoposter. I am looking to build a lot more automation.

My Mastodon feed took a large set of rules to block out #uspol and certain communities of miserable people. My feed has stayed outrage-free since last month.

My measurements showed that Bluesky's 'Discover' feed blocked about 75% of emotionally negative material before Jan 20, since then people are inflamed but looking closely at my feed it seems they are deliberately trying to help certain people who felt stuck on X to migrate, that is, giving huge amounts of visibility to journalists, journalism professors, activists, and such so that they can run up 200k+ follower counts.

I understand. (I've been brainstorming ideas about "how to get people off X" with a friend and tonight I'm going to tell him that Bluesky has it) I've used "less like this", "unfollow" [1], "mute", "block" and such and my discover feed is getting good again.

I have two classifiers in the development pipeline, one to detect "screenshots of text" and "image memes", also a text classifier that is better at sentiment than my current one (I think ModernBERT + LSTM should be possible to train reliably, unlike fine-tuned BERTs.) I'm not so much interested in classifying posts as I am in classifying people; some of them are easy, there are 40,000 people who have a certain image meme pinned that I know I never want to follow. Just recently I figured out how to make training sets for these things without having to look too closely at a lot of toxic content.

I'm also eliminating the dependencies that are keeping this from being open sourced or commercialized so I may I have something to share this summer.

[1] one strike for an outrage post
Anyone who cries “<service> is dead” after some new technology is introduced is someone you can safely ignore. For ever. They’re hyperbolic clout chasers who will only ever be right by mistake.

As if, when ChatGPT was introduced, Google would just stay still, cross their arms, and say “well, this is based on our research paper but there’s nothing we can do, going to just roll over and wait for billions of dollars to run out, we’re truly doomed”. So unbelievably stupid.
I wasn't thinking IR terms. I think they're perfectly willing to crash the US economy in order to consolidate domestic power, even if it causes an overall loss for the US.
That's not really my experience. Error rate goes up the more stuff you cram into the context, and processing gets both slower and more expensive with the amount of input tokens.

I'd say it makes sense to do RAG even if your stuff fits into context comfortably.
Probably 20-30 grams. Average lab mouse is around that weight and length [1]

[1] https://www.jax.org/jax-mice-and-services/strain-data-sheet-...
> They're not being dismantled.

O RLY? You might try reading literally anything the people involved are putting out there. They're open about trying to shut down USAID and the department of Education, and interfering so deeply in places like NIH is beyond the plausible legal limit (which is part of the point during an authoritarian takeover).

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/03/usai...

USAID was codified by 22 U.S.C. 6501

> and the audits are showing very concerning waste

Giant flashing neon sign saying "Citation Needed". Visible from fucking space.

I know that HN is supposed to be a place of reasoned discourse, but your takes are so removed from reality I can't take you seriously. I hold your authoritarian apologism in utter contempt and disgust. Be better.
I noticed from the docker overlay filesystem that the container was spraying files all over the disk. (Ephemeral, destroyed on container shutdown, sure, but I wanted to reduce write-wear on my ssd...)

I tried setting it up with /tmp as a tmpfs (ramdisk) but it then refused to start...

Anyone know any broad-spectrum docker incantations to force all overlay writes to RAM, for a container?
Google says commercial quantum computing applications arriving within five years
Why is that pointless?
How did you know it was all but one correct?
Yes - and states actually control much of the curriculum.

However, the DOE does things like make sure there is funding for children with additional needs, which lets be honest, are not going to be replicated in certain states if the DOE is indeed disbanded.
China is an economic giant that strongly competes with the the supremacy of the United States.

"Correctly" is a hard test to pass, because everyone is going to have a different opinion of what is "correct", but it's impossible to honestly say that China's government hasn't been effective and successful, policy disagreements notwithstanding.
That suggestion seems rather conspiratorial. Do you have any reason to think that's the case, or are you just throwing it out as a wild possibility?

Also, has anything changed WRT Ian Miles Cheong's credibility? He's been a far-right grifter for years, I wouldn't trust any data he puts out without a corroborating source.
CTO of Reducto here. Love this writeup!

We’ve generally found that Gemini 2.0 is a great model and have tested this (and nearly every VLM) very extensively.

A big part of our research focus is incorporating the best of what new VLMs offer without losing the benefits and reliability of traditional CV models. A simple example of this is we’ve found bounding box based attribution to be a non-negotiable for many of our current customers. Citing the specific region in a document where an answer came from becomes (in our opinion) even MORE important when using large vision models in the loop, as there is a continued risk of hallucination.

Whether that matters in your product is ultimately use case dependent, but the more important challenge for us has been reliability in outputs. RD-TableBench currently uses a single table image on a page, but when testing with real world dense pages we find that VLMs deviate more. Sometimes that involves minor edits (summarizing a sentence but preserving meaning), but sometimes it’s a more serious case such as hallucinating large sets of content.

The more extreme case is that internally we fine tuned a version of Gemini 1.5 along with base Gemini 2.0, specifically for checkbox extraction. We found that even with a broad distribution of checkbox data we couldn’t prevent frequent checkbox hallucination on both the flash (+17% error rate) and pro model (+8% error rate). Our customers in industries like healthcare expect us to get it right, out of the box, deterministically, and our team’s directive is to get as close as we can to that ideal state.

We think that the ideal state involves a combination of the two. The flexibility that VLMs provide, for example with cases like handwriting, is what I think will make it possible to go from 80 or 90 percent accuracy to some number very close 99%. I should note that the Reducto performance for table extraction is with our pre-VLM table parsing pipeline, and we’ll have more to share in terms of updates there soon.
For now, our focus is entirely on the performance frontier (though we do scale costs down with volume). In the longer term as inference becomes more efficient we want to move the needle on cost as well.

Overall though, I’m very excited about the progress here.

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One small comment on your footnote, the evaluation script with Needlemen-Wunsch algorithm doesn’t actually consider the headers outputted by the models and looks only at the table structure itself.
Some of my saved bookmarks:

- https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

- https://www.prollm.ai/leaderboard

- https://www.vellum.ai/llm-leaderboard

- https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard
To train the model, OpenAI had to make a copy of NYT's works in order to do it. (Running a scraper to dump websites onto your local storage is making a copy.) NYT's first theory is that the act of copying is a prima facie copyright violation.
> Well, it supports bigger images, read statuses, and fun effects that aren't a part of SMS. But what's important to a lot of people like me is that it's automatically E2EE if all recipients are on iMessage.

Yes, obviously it's better than SMS. That's a 40-year old standard. I don't think I've sent an SMS to a human in over a decade. I mean is it better than other modern messenger protocols.

> Are you holding Google to this same standard? RCS is open-ish, but the E2EE extensions are proprietary and the key exchange is managed by Google. They are not opening that up, or at least they have not said that they are.

My objection to iMessage isn't that it's proprietary. It's that it's closed, and restricted to one platform.

> But I think their approach is correct. You get a default E2EE experience that works between Apple devices. But you are not prevented from any other messaging network you might want to use.

There is no way to justify restricting it to Apple devices aside from vendor lock-in. They say they care about E2EE, but then make it impossible to work with conversations with most devices in the world.
If HN is social media, then old online forums from the time before "social media" are also social media.
Andrej, I like you much more now than when you were at Tesla. You have been adding real value to my life and many others. Thank you.
this is definitely an issue for the editors of the ACM journal
> Unfortunately Gemini really seems to struggle on this, and no matter how we tried prompting it, it would generate wildly inaccurate bounding boxes

Qwen2.5 VL was trained on a special HTML format for doing OCR with bounding boxes. [1] The resulting boxes aren't quite as accurate as something like Textract/Surya, but I've found they're much more accurate than Gemini or any other LLM.

[1] https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl/
Australia's ABC makes it fairly clear who is killing who but also manages to avoid taking sides.
> Amazingly, so far, it hasn't hurt his approval numbers.

He started with (I think) the lowest approval numbers in modern records so to an extent it was probably priced in from the outset.
I would classify the end of term web archive (which archive.org is, in its typical fashion, taking far too much credit for) as an example of entities doing things right.

https://eotarchive.org/partners/

And saying "archive.org is outside the reach of the US government" -- hell, it's not even outside the reach of the RIAA or the book company with the little penguin on the cover.

We should have proper supervised federal archiving and archive.org should be far better run, too.

And I don't know what Archive Team is but maybe they could update their site to provide some information on the people involved. And perhaps update their understanding of what's possible with docker containers while they're at it.

Because the counterpoint to a radicalized Musk screwing around with government databases isn't an opposing group of anonymous radicals screwing around with commercial databases.
If they just wanted to throw this stuff out there at minimal bandwidth costs, a page of .torrent files and a seedbox would get it done for pennies.

"Streaming", who gives a hoot, just download it like everything else. "Service" can take a hike, video player software already exists and all the UI work is done. That part is utterly superfluous.
On top of that, large operations tend to be hell on earth from an animal welfare perspective. The air alone is toxic and hard to breathe because there's so much avian poop everywhere that is constantly decomposing.
I looked at the source. Is it right that it overwrites when it reaches full capacity? That's scary!

Aren't there concurrent versions of this that block writers until space frees up?
Newspapers have nearly identical newswire columns printed in 100+ newspapers, but with slightly different headlines and content. Or OCR breaking due to words being physically next to each other but in separate stories. The Newspapers.com search has fine OCR but is difficult and time consuming to use because of those issues. Seems like something "AI" could solve easily.
The difference between "I can probably generate everything" and "I can definitely produce this copyrighted work" is substantial and in fact the core argument in the case.
If the goal is financial security to the extent that you could not work (if you still need to work you're not really secure since you could lose that job) then I think you actually would need about $10M. By the time you buy a house, pay for your kids school (elementary through college) and medical insurance for the rest of your life theres not a lot of change left. That to me has always been the goal, I've never truly felt financially secure my entire life and even on a good tech salary I still dont cause I'm one layoff in a bad market away from being in a pretty dire situation, with a family to support too.
> People voting for an elected official is different than that elected official breaking the law

Not if the elected official pledged to break the law before being elected.

> People can't vote to break the law.

That's exactly what they did.

> As far as I know, that's not how the rule of law works in representative democracies.

I fear that's also not what the US has become now.
Try exp-1206. That thing works on large context.
This is the first time for me where a website hijacked the scroll wheel, and it's actually _really really_ well done. This is amazing. Thanks for posting it.
Of course, if they decide to not pay you it won't matter if you took this or tried to keep your job. So you may get a head start and turn your time to searching for a new job now. If they do end up following through with the buyout payments in the end, that is an added bonus.
Which is exactly what Canadian government has been doing for a while now after the service ballooned during the pandemic, e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPublicServants/comments/1g9qy...
on the home page they were next to each other, i thought i had clicked on the wrong one ;)
Thanks, the S4 looks really nice. But it seems like they shafted their kickstarter supporters. Risk is of course part of the deal but Sunlu is an established brand and is actively selling the same device they don't deliver to the people that helped to fund it...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunluofficial/sunlu-fil...

Also, Sunlu (S2) didn't seem to impress that much so overall, not too eager to support / try them out.
Do you know who the President and his crony is? Have you seen Musk and Trump lie, repeatedly, about paying invoices and stiffing people? Have you seen Musk not pay his Twitter employees after he took over? Do you have a memory problem?
It is already an established business model.
I can't deny that person's experience but mine has not been that at all.
Based on a first hand account I read (but cannot source offhand) Rust's slow compiles are because anytime there was a tradeoff involving compile time at the expense of something else they'd always choose that something else. Not cause they hated fast compilation, guess it just wasn't high on their priorities.
One benefits of startup culture is someone can think say I think the world needs a supersonic jet and go ahead and try to make it happen without government planning, a bit like the beavers and their dam. You can like that without being a Rand nut.
Similarly, GasBuddy uses crowd-sourced data from their app and exposes that data here:

https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
That depends: Are you underpaying them? The question, "why" matters here a lot.

"I tend to prefer minorities because I can underpay and get away with more" is a thing that exists in the real world. See: Immigrant farm workers and H1B visa holders.

Is that discrimination against white/majorities or is it a kind of discrimination against minorities? It's injustice, for sure but I point it out because DEI policies, discrimination, racism, and sexism come in many, many forms. There's a ton of nuance and grey areas.