skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the server operator.

Threads was preemptively shitlisted just for thinking of connecting to Fediverse, because a lot of instance admins are ActivityPub or Mastodon maximalists[0] and believed that everyone would just flock over to Threads immediately.

Then it was shitlisted again because Mark Zuckerberg started zucking on Trump, and decided to take their already threadbare moderation team and tie their hands further. This is a more practical concern as most Fedi admins do not have the time or ability to deal with one mega-instance that happens to be both indispensable and willing to flood everyone with garbage.

I could see Tumblr getting shitlisted purely on the grounds of "fuck Matt Mullenweg", because Fedi admins are also hilariously petty[1]. But in practice, "just link Tumblr up to Fedi" is going to be just as much of a problem as "just link Threads up to Fedi".

There's an underlying tension between the Fediverse's technical underpinnings - ActivityPub - and the community of Fediverse servers that use it. The technology wants to be widely adopted, but the community wants to be small enough to avoid harassment and attacks[2], and these are in conflict. The Fediverse's structure is already a lot more centralized than anyone would like to admit, and scaling the network makes this problem worse.

[0] As opposed to general enthusiasm for federated communications technologies. See also the pushback Cory Doctorow got for backing Free our Feeds, a plan to make good on BlueSky's currently vacuous federation promises.

[1] This is why I self-host Mastodon even though it's a total pain in the ass.

[2] Like that one time a bunch of Japanese skiddies decided to spam literally every server from whatever accounts they could register
Secrets Management in Homelabs
https://archive.today/zTYsu
I assume Honduras was a country desperate to attract foreign investment?

Special Economic Zones worked very well in many other countries.

It's not hard to understand why - give long term regulatory certainty, with strong protections for the the wannabe capitalists who want to bring things there and promise them stable very low taxes, and they will eventually flock to the place, bring a ton of money and build a lot of things there if you let them, creating a ton of economic activity in the process, minus the huge tax contributions, but still a net economic benefit because of all the surrounding economic activity and employment etc.

But then a place like Honduras reneges on their ZEDE promise, so now you can basically never trust their promises again?

At any moment in future they could make hard turns towards socialism and confiscate, tax away, and regulate to death - anything that you invest there.

So I guess Honduras will have to grow without huge influxes of new FDI or the stimulus effects one can sometimes get from lower regulations and taxes.

Honduras doesn't strike me as the type of place where people with money are excited to invest? I wonder how this will affect it's future attractiveness?
It's quite nice. However a few basic functions are missing, like separate history for each instance.
They also release a YouTube video and it looks heavily AI generated. The conversation sounds like Google’s podcast AI.

The statistics, graphs, and conclusions don’t make any sense.
I haven't tested programming tasks with a local LLM vs. say, Claude 3.5. But it is nice to be able to run 14-32B LLMs locally and get an instant response. I have a single 3090.
Gosh. Good thing I haven't bought a GPU in almost a decade. With a little luck I'll catch this wave on the back end. I haven't had to learn web or mobile development thoroughly either
That's the thing, I think it is terrible, but companies are extensions of the government. They do those things so they can keep getting the sweet sweet tax deals and government contracts.

I am aware there's no law, but I think most replies missed this point. It's not about there being a law, but what is implied if they don't get in line.

Just like how all big techs are "anti woke" now whatever that means.
Redditors are laughing at the idea -

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ipe74t/reddit_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1ipfctm/reddit...
There are text editors that will. I'm not disagreeing, I'm just curious about the specific differences. Anyway, happy editing!
While true, a lot of the time the problem is organization. Complexity exists and our job as engineers is to wrestle with it and organize it into a grokkable whole. Something being messy and needing a rewrite or significant refactor is often down to inexperience of initial implementers or too-short timelines causing entropy explosion rather than taking the time to build structure for arranging and organizing the complexity.
lol these are my tax dollars! I’m sorry, I have nothing against gay people, but I do not want my tax dollars going to sex change operations in Guatemala.

We have people in CA affected by fires, people in Carolina who still need help rebuilding after flooding, people in Hawaii that need to rebuild after their own fires.

Did you know that most of FEMAs budget was spent housing migrants who crossed the border illegally instead of helping Americans affected by hurricanes?

The current situation is one where bureaucrats and NGOs enrich themselves off the back of taxpayers and the problems that actually need solving in our own country go completely unsolved.

We voted to cut all of this garbage, if they can’t spend it wisely then just pay down the national debt, which is at crisis levels BTW, or give it back to the taxpayers.
Sure, the issue is the non-free ones they endorse.
That other code is still taking up address space and making the symbol table bigger (and therefore slower to use). And someone might want to use your program in a context where they don't have so much disk available. More importantly these giant libraries become hard to upgrade and therefore hard to make changes to.
> Nowadays it hardly matters, because the netboook market audience nowadays rather use Android and iPadOS.

How did Microsoft deal with that?
> I would love to hear justifications for things like this and how they help US global influence.

Largely the justification is the programs don't do what Musk says they do.

You've got to understand the source of your information is from habitual liars. The Tesla's autopilot [1] marketing video still starts of with "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself". That person in the driver's seat had to take control of the car numerous times include one time where the car drove off the road and struck a fence. These are not people whose word you can take at face value.

Anybody can throw together a list but it doesn't make it real.

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
If you're damaging the muscle while stretching… Okay, I'm gonna assume you're not letting any of you're stretches produce pain. You should feel tension, only, which should not be harmful.

In my experience and training, stretching every day is practical and effective. Skipping a day can cause noticeable tightening. Tension for the purpose of becoming more limber should be held for a minimum of 10 sec, but 30 sec. is a much better basic level. There should not be tremor or pain; either of those will be counter-productive and potentially result in injury.
Back in my first house, we upgraded our bed and triedto move the old bed into the basement. We had a very small hallway with a door leading ti the basement. The mattress fit, of course, because it flexes. The frame fit because I could disassemble it. The box frame, made of iron and wood slats, could not fit. That day, I cut all the wood slats in half, bent the metal, and got that box spring downstairs. Then I but bracing brackets on the slats and unbent the metal. A few years later, we did the same process over again when moving.
"Told you so."
> The creator loses potential income

Okay. AI books make books 1 million times faster, let's say. Arbitrary, pick any number.

If I, a consumer, want a book, I am therefore 1 million times more likely to pick an AI book. Finding a "real" book takes insurmountable effort. This is the "needle in a haystack" I mentioned earlier.

The result is obvious - creators look potential money. And yes, it is actually obvious. If it isn't, reread it a few times.

To be perfectly and abundantly clear because I think you're purposefully misunderstanding me - I know AI is not piracy. I know that. It's, like, the second sentence I wrote. I said those words explicitly.

I am arguing that while it is not piracy, the harm it creates it identical in form to piracy. In your words, "creators lose potential income". If that is the standard, you must agree with me.

> how silly they sound to others

I'm not silly, you're just naive and fundamentally misunderstand how our societies work.

Capitalism is founded on one very big assumption. It is the jenga block keeping everything together.

Everyone must work. You don't work, you die. Nobody works, everyone dies.

Up until now, this assumption has been sound. The "edge cases", like children and disabled people, we've been able to bandaid with money we pool from everyone - what you know as taxes.

But consider what happens if this fundamental assumption no longer holds true. Products need consumers as much as consumers need products - it's a circular relationship. To make things you need money, to make money you must sell things, to buy things you must have money, and to have money you must make things. If you outsource the making things, there's no money - period. For anyone. Everyone dies. Or, more likely, the country collapses into a socialist revolution. Depending on what country this is, the level of bloodiness varies.

This has happened in the past already, with much more primitive technologies. FDR, in his capitalist genius, very narrowly prevented the US from falling into the socialist revolution with some aforementioned bandaid solutions - what we call "The New Deal". The scale at which we're talking about now is much larger, and the consequences more drastic. I am not confident another "New Deal" can be constructed, let alone implemented. And, I'm not confident it would prevent the death spiral. Again, we cut it very, very close last time.
Pivot! Pivot! PIVOT!
This is one of those moments where, thanks to the internet, you catch a glimpse of another persons world. It gives some perspective.
It's really a shame GPU slices aren't a thing -- a monthly cost of $1k for "a GPU" is just so far outside of what I could justify. I guess it's not terrible if I can batch-schedule a mega-gpu for an hour a day to catch up on tasks, but then I'm basically still looking at nearly $50/month.

I don't know exactly what type of cloud offering would satisfy my needs, but what's funny is that attaching an AMD consumer GPU to a Raspberry Pi is probably the most economical approach for a lot of problems.

Maybe something like a system where I could hotplug a full GPU into a system for a reservation of a few minutes at a time and then unplug it and let it go back into a pool?

FWIW it's that there's a large number of ML-based workflows that I'd like to plug into progscrape.com, but it's been very difficult to find a model that works without breaking the hobby-project bank.
Side-Eye – a production debugger for Go
Are they going to make one that turns Gulf of America back into Gulf of Mexico?
There is value in perceiving and responding to the inherent complexity in things, as it meshes you closer to reality giving you a greater predictive and responsive capacity.

This doesn't work as well with other people, with society. Even if they individually all try to approach reality as above.

Manipulation and coercion are just much more efficient at creating a predictive capacity with other people, because you don't need to deal with reality or complexity. You already know where people are going to (metaphorically) run if you are leading them and herding them.

I did enjoy the finer point Terry alluded to though, that even these simplified coercive memeing systems are based on a complex underlying system of reality. And when they get stretched too far, they break in unpredictable (complex) ways.
you guys have all this juicy GPU and infrastructure. why not offer models as apis?

i would pay to have apis for:

sam2, florence, blip, flux 1.1, etc.

whatever use case I would have reached Fly for on GPU, i can't justify _not_ using Replicate. maybe Fly can do better offer premium queues for that with their juicy infra?

you're right! as a software dev I see dockerization and foisting these models as a burden, not a necessity.
what does neofeudal mean in this context?
Integrating AI
AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.
This is different from immunity. What’s supposed to happen is the action is stopped, as though the EOs never happened. It’s not illegal to issue illegal EOs, they just can’t be followed. The only real point sanctions come is when a judge says “stop” and the people involved don’t. This is violating a court order, which is contempt of court. But Trump wouldn’t be violating it, Musk would.
No law, although my original comment could be interpreted as what the law says, I meant what the acting government decides so they can "show good will" and make things easier when negotiating tax breaks and government contracts.

If there was a law then there would be no discussion, companies definitely can't break laws.

But this is about "falling in line" to get in the good sides of the current administration in this particular country.

As it always has been in any place. Check whatever Google/Meta/X/others do in several different countries on things that are not law, but it is implied that they should do whatever they are asked or else.
> I haven't seen them touch DoD or any of the massive medical programs, etc.

Have you considered that they are going after the low-hanging fruit, getting in "reps & sets" before they attack programs that have vastly greater inertia and potentially bi-partisan support? DoD and healthcare cover a ton of jobs, and might actually trigger pushback from Congress, in ways that annihilating the CIA's propaganda arm (which is basically a handful of overpaid bougie Dem-leaning "journalists") doesn't.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wikileaks-usaid-has-been...
There is no market for MIG in the cloud. People talk about it a lot, but in reality, nobody wants a partial GPU (at least not paying for it).

One interesting thing about all this is that 1 GPU / 1 VM doesn't work today with AMD GPUs like MI300x. You can't do pcie passthrough, but AMD is working on adding it to ROCm. We plan to be one of the first to offer this.
I write a lot about history, and as part of that work I occasionally file FOIA requests. There was one occasion where the FBI's response contained dozens of pages that were typewritten memos consisting of:

To: [recipient name]

From: [sender name]

Date: [date]

[Multiple paragraphs of redacted text]

...and that was basically it. It was funny, but frustrating (funstrating?).

Example: https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/memo.jpg
Yes, it does seems reasonable to destroy seven decades of US global influence buildup because there was a twitter clone made in 2010.
Wait what do you mean you can't do trans-Pacific non-stop? Are you not including California to Japan for some reason?
Someone should do that! Doesn't need to be us, though.
>To make the planet, the world, a better place for Americans.

What does this mean?
I did...?
That’s nice if you’re Norwegian I guess
This is what services like Vast.ai are for - super cheap GPUs you just use as long as you need etc etc.
Oh, cool -- this is made with golang! I'll have see if I could wrap it in a desktop gui using wails.
It's one thing if Kevin Motnick knows and the other if all of the internet knows and it's indexable
I tried... it started with the idea was that log loss might not be the best option for training, and maybe it should be a loss related to how wrong the predicted word was. Predicting "dog" instead of "cat" should be less penalised than predicting "running".

That turns out to be an ultrametric loss, and the derivative of an ultrametric loss is zero in a large region around any local minimum, so it can't be trained by gradient descent -- it has to be trained by search.

Punchline: it's about one million times less effective than a more traditional architecture. https://github.com/solresol/ultratree-results
What about Microsoft's AR goggles for soldiers? DoD has been investing in that for years and through multiple iterations; iirc it's been fielded for tests and is moving steadily toward production. I saw a headline that someone else was buying it from Microsoft for billions of dollars, so it seems to be worth something.
Productivity going up and wages stagnating is a skill issue. got it.
Which brings up a good point. This is only about 2d sofas. That episode involved a real world 3d sofa, a much more challenging problem.
Indeed, there's no law.

But if you wanna make business in a certain country it is kinda expected and their normal behavior.

Mind here, this is not just google. Hence why all big tech overnight switched from "woke" to "anti woke" despite this having zero impact on their products, it is just sinaligning to the new chief.

And this behavior happens in every country they operate as well, of course since they are American companies (with stocks in the American market) this is much more pronounced in the US.
Lessons on thinking from large language models
I don't know. I think it is a fantastic editor and yes, I do some python as well.
For wazero (mentioned in the article) WASI capabilities can be granted piecemeal: (e.g.) the host can grant/deny access to the clock or implement a virtual one. Obviously, you can do the same with the file system, etc.

Guest crashes become panics the host can recover from.

Finally, you can use a Context to abort execution of the guest, although this option introduces a performance penalty: every backjump must read a counter to periodically poll this context.

That said there are issues when running adversarial code.

The default WASI filesystem implementation is not really meant for sandboxing. When you mount a host folder in the guest, it's possible for the guest to escape the root. You can improve the situation by using virtual files, but that's more work if you want anything sophisticated. WASI is simultaneously too sophisticated to make it hard/slow to emulate+sandbox (symlinks and Unix path resolution), and lacking important features.

There are little to no protections against speculative execution (i.e spectre) attacks. With memory bounds checks implemented in software, you're bound to leak information that way.

So please: don't mix multiple customers custom code in one Go host process. It's not really meant for that.

Allowing your single customer (per host/VM) to customize your product with some plugins, giving some tought about filesystem access (to prevent privilege escalation), is more realistic.
> A whole enterprise A100 is a compromise position for them; they want an SXM cluster of H100s.

For a lot of use-cases you need at lest two A100s with a very fast interconnect, potentially many more. This isn't even about scaling with requests but about running one single LLM instance.

Sure you will find all of ways how people managed to runt his or that on smaller platforms, problem is that quite often doesn't scale to what is needed in production for a lot of subtle and less subtle reasons.
Nobody is saying those threads aren't getting flagged. The issues are who is flagging them, why they're flagging them, and what we should do about it. I've been posting about that a great deal.

If you want a serious answer, I need you to engage with what I've actually said and explained, not some imaginary substitute which you then find hard to believe. If you follow the link in my GP comment, and the links there, you'll find all you need to know and then some. You're welcome to disbelieve any of that, but please at least disbelieve something I actually said.

Sorry for being tetchy—I'm happy to answer any HN user who has a question, but I need you guys to do a bit of work too. There aren't enough hours to always repeat everything from scratch. If there's a question that I haven't already answered many times, I'd like to know what is and I'd be happy to try to answer it. Cross-examinations, though? not so much.
I forget how many PE sessions I had with cup stacking but it’s definitely ingrained somewhere in my head. If anything I thought at the time it was for hand-eye coordination without having a ball flying at you and it was surprisingly easy to pick up with those competition cups.

Nowadays it makes for a fun free for all drinking game as everyone fumbles stuck together red cups.
Hard to take anyone seriously who rambles about anything other than corporate welfare and income inequality. Anything to distract from class. Now you're sitting there typing up diatribes about sex change operations in Guatemala.
I have an internal repo that does guided window attn. I figured out that One Weird Trick to get the model to learn how to focus so that you can move a fixed window around instead of full attn. I also built NNMemory (but that appears to be an idea others hae had now too [1]) and I have a completely bonkers mechanism for non-determanistic exit logic so that the model can spin until it thinks it has a good answer. I also built scale free connections between layers to completely remove residual connections. Plus some crazy things on sacrificial training (adding parameters that are removed after training in order to boost training performance with no prod penalty). There are more crazy things I have built but they aren't out there in the wild, yet. Some of the things I have built are in my repo. [2] I personally think we can get .5b models to outperform 8b+ SOTA models out there today (even the reasoning models coming out now)

The basic transformer block has been good at kicking things off, but it is now holding us back. We need to move to recurrent architectures again and switch to fixed guided attn windows + 'think' only layers like NNMemory. Attn is distracting and we know this as humans because we often close our eyes when we think hard about a problem on the page in front of us.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06049

[2] https://github.com/jmward01/lmplay
… what?

The Republican Party was the one saying “either agree with us unconditionally or you are a Nazi” for the last 10 years?

The Republican Party was the one ignoring the many crimes of Biden’s son because it would hurt the party?
The best bang for the buck on VRAM is a maxed out Mac Studio.
basically bring your own domain like Google Workspace or O365. I'd love to see the Mastodon project (or any other AP implementation) adopt that managed services model.
The problem is that some tasks really do require cooperation from a large group of people working on the same thing. And that requires capital, and that capital is going to be asking "Why did you hire so many engineers? Accenture says you can replace 40% of them with AI, I read it in a white paper, so you'd better start showing more efficiency or we'll find a CEO who can move with the times."
The 'other people' agree to it, via the democratic process. It's not stolen money.
>I've always heard that "security through obscurity" is discouraged because, well, there's no stopping someone from digging in and figuring it out.

This should tell you enough about the person.

Obscurity very often increases security. The question is - by how much?

It is fine to add obscurity AS ANOTHER layer.

It is the same story as the "open source software is safer"

No. If you are open source & you have significant community then it is, otherwise closed source is harder to attack.
Context: This is remembering his daughter, Rebecca. (2008-2014)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Meyer#:~:text=In%20201...