skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which I self-host using foss software as much as possible

Out of curiosity, which parts aren't possible to self-host with foss software?
The slim doesn't red ring.
I’m sure that’s negotiable in their Enterprise offerings.
Oh neat, thanks - I hadn't seen that. Looks like their version of an "agent" is a model with pre-baked system prompt and some examples.
"nobody cares" except if you've been rejected, then life has some sort of blackball effect on you?

I'm sorry but nonsense. You need to find someone to slap sense into you, you're too far down this dark hole.

You got the job to keep the wife who left anyway and apparently took the house. The job sucks. This seems like two parts of the equation that cancel one another out -- so dump the job. Work as a walmart greeter or something for a bit. go travel, backpacking, hosteling, hey, be one of those traveling beggars that I hate so much -- I bet they don't wake up every day and think about societal black marks on some imaginary scorecard. They think about bumming a ride to that badass glacier over yonder because they want to yell at it and listen to the echo.

the rut is deep, but you can walk right out and reinvent yourself. I hope you find a path to do so, even if it sucks for a bit. It sounds like it can only be better over yonder, wherever that is.
I'm glad to hear that badgers are doing well somewhere at least. They used to be common in the western US but their numbers have plummeted due to over killing, habitat loss, vehicle deaths, and other causes.
SPF records have flexibility. It's possible to specify a domain name. Then any host which has an A record under that domain will pass.

In my SPF record I have novus.ca.

So I don't care what IP addresses Novus's mail servers use, as long as they identify as <host>.novus.ca.

DKIM-signed messages can pass through SMTP hops. I'm not briefed up on the details of DKIM, but to my best current understanding, the originating domain signs the body and certain headers (not all of them) with its private key. When the message passes through multiple SMTP hops, some headers get added, like "Received: ...". I believe, these headers do not invalidate the DKIM signature. The relays just cannot be messing with the body of the e-mail, Subject:, From:, Date: and such. SMTP relay is not like a mailing list repost.

I'm now looking at some raw e-mails with DKIM signatures. It looks as if the signatures plainly specify the names of headers that are included in the signature, via a field that starts with h=, listing colon-separated header names.
Starlink benefits as Trump admin rewrites rules for $42B grant program
Computer runs on living human brain cells [video]
I don't think getting booed off the stage is a good way to end the discussion. The US is already a major exporter, of the goods we have an advantage at producing: simple foods, refined oil, advanced machines. Forcing farmers to plant avocados in potato fields isn't really going to help anybody, and neither is transferring oil refinery engineers to working on optimizing garmet factories. This will all take place against a backdrop of a poorer world with fewer dollars to spend on our goods, so it won't help our export sales either. Europe and China need to earn the dollars they buy our wheat with somehow - and without buying from them, I don't see how they'll do it.
I came over to Discord in January 2016, from a combination of TS3, Forums & Skype for the purposes of both online and personal gaming groups. It decimated all the competition in gaming spaces for voice chat, async text chat and sync text chat within 6 months. Every single guild or group moved over almost overnight. That should go to show how absolutely revolutionary Discord was, and that it was an actual, huge software innovation. People _loved_ the UX & UI. Users loved the chat and channel interfaces, admins loved the fairly easy to understand moderation tools. Its gotten a little less loved as the app has gotten less and less reliable, the VoIP quality has been reduced (especially for non-nitro boosted servers) and new, unwanted features are added. However, I don't understand how the core UI is bad. Its not puke or emoji ridden beyond what users make of it -- avatars, server icons & banners, role colours, emojis in channel names etc are all user defined. Everything else (beyond the shitty new features they rollout for 6 months then kill) is pretty standard contemporary electron app design, and honestly minimalist in some ways. It is certainly minimalist and easier to navigate compared to something like Element.

I think that HN users seem to not fundamentally understand the needs of online groups beyond what is necessary to carry out an asynchronous open source engineering project. Much of the "bells-and-whistles" that discord offers are _essential_ to both the day-to-day communication of these groups as well as to moderators. Element does not come fully replicate some core features offering an outright less stable experience. Slack/Teams are not accessible to private users. Telegram has even less features than Element/Matrix.
A previous company tried to do this with a single “clean_xss” function. It’s not possible because different contexts of code have different sanitization logic. JSON encoding, URL encoding, DOM sources and sinks, HTML attributes, SCRIPT tag, CSS, etc all are escaped or sanitized in different ways.
Trying to make a single function/script with no knowledge of contexts just makes the developer sense more security than exists.
They are quite common in some municipalities. There are folks who talk about this at length in cybersecurity circles every year at conferences, it’s been an issue for a long while and the scope of the problem continues to grow.

The EFF also writes in the topic from time to time. See: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/next-generation-cell-s...
Really interesting benchmark, thanks for sharing! It's good to see some real-world comparisons. The hallucinations issue is definitely a key concern with LLM-based OCR, and it's important to quantify that risk. Looking forward to seeing the full benchmark results.
We ran some benchmarks comparing against Gemini Flash 2.0. You can find the full writeup here: https://reducto.ai/blog/lvm-ocr-accuracy-mistral-gemini

A high level summary is that while this is an impressive model, it underperforms even current SOTA VLMs on document parsing and has a tendency to hallucinate with OCR, table structure, and drop content.
> There are a couple of generations of filesystems in between FFS and ZFS.

Quite true. I did not mean to imply ZFS was the immediate successor to FFS, but instead that it is a superior choice currently.

> And for modern filesystems it's also worth looking at btrfs, Microsoft's Resilient File System, and Apple APFS.

All good options and which to consider is applicable when running Linux, MS-Windows, and macOS respectively. If FreeBSD+ZFS is a possibility though... :-)
But you do for virtually all other cloud pricing pages.
As an old-school signal processing person, "wavelet" and "FM" are throwing me for a loop. I can see FM is named for the authors. "wavelet" - I don't see at first glance what the name means or if it's related to the signal processing concept.
I absolutely respect your frustration and where you're coming from, but I'm not convinced that deceiving interviewers using AI is a good avenue forward. For one thing, a tool like this would be very appealing to an "Ivy League grad who barely got any experience" (to use your words) with disposable income, probably more than it would to an experienced programmer. If your argument is that inexperienced programmers do _better_ than experienced ones in coding interviews, I think data to back that up would be very helpful. And (to a lesser extent) if the company _really_ only evaluates you based on your ability to invert a tree, then you may not want to work there anyway because of the quality of engineers they hire.

Anyway, the product looks very well designed! I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
> [...] about to be initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus, the god who dies and is reborn and who promises the same destiny to his followers.

Sounds an awful lot like Christianity.

I remember growing up, pastors lecturing me that "no other religion is like Christianity".

It would appear there are a lot of similarities to contemporary cults.

> the frieze can be dated to the 40s-30s BC

> In antiquity, there were a series of cults, including the cult of Dionysus, that were only accessible to those who performed an initiation ritual, as illustrated in the Pompeian frieze. They were known as “mystery cults” because their secrets could only be known by initiates. The cults were often linked to the promise of a new blissful life, both in this world and in the afterlife.

How related are the ideas of Christianity to these mystery cults?
Would be great if some details given about how exactly model is penalized for staying off-track.
Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully puts French spy satellite into orbit
Like you, I find those terms awkward, at best. I refuse to use them.

Yet, "what should have been produced" is no better. Everytime I hear it, from you and anyone else, it sounds like numbskulls all too pleased at themselves for what they believe is a clever definition, without realizing it's merely "because I said so".

Maybe I'm missing something, and one day I will hear it differently. Not many such things change for me after years. Maybe I'll win the lottery, too.

Since you mentioned fingers... I used to know a shop teacher who adamantly wouldn't count themselves among the 10-fingered, and would give you a safety lecture if you brought it up. Just like that lecture would ignore your joke about opening soda cans and proceed into a near-diatribe that, 30 years later, is still an effective reminder on machine safety, this exemplifies the crux of the gender terminology problem: you're focusing on the wrong thing.

Why are you so insistent on telling other people about their bodies, to the point of declaring to them what their body "should have produced"?

You appear as the middle-schooler that thought youself clever, and your close group of friends seemed to agree, but most everyone else is trying to ignore you. This only became a problem when that close group of friends started stealing lunch money, saying it "should have" been given to them.
Yes you're right. I'd assumed that tokio was used internally in the UI but from a cursory read it doesn't seem to be the case.
That phrase is a thing because K-12 is structured as just learning what the teacher tells you. In undergraduate degrees, the professors are more like guideposts and you can't learn everything in their lectures - you have to figure out and understand the material yourself and most people upon finishing K-12 can't do that.

I also wasn't one of them, so I also had no trouble in college, but I knew a lot of people this applied to.
Long article but the likeliest scenario in the article is that the has studied the printing sheet location and sales time distribution of winning tickets to work out when they will appear on the market, then buys up all the newly issued scratchies from compliant shop owners.
I don't understand, because the user has control over the browser store too.

(As an erstwhile pentester, btw, fuck the OS certificate store; makes testing sites a colossal pain).
Tolstoy's Critique of Great Man Theory
In the ElGamal example I linked you'll see that we use the same key for encryption and decryption. However, we perform a modification on the cyphertext using known values. This has a similar effect.

It's also somewhat definitional. We're taking an established encryption scheme in both cases and constructing a new algorithm on top of it. Above where I say we're performing decryption with a key set to key^2, we could also think of it as doing Dec(key, key*m) where the key is the same but we've done some operation on the cyphertext.
The writing and clarity of thought in this article is exceptional. I feel smarter for having experienced it.
Russel Barkley's ADHD book & YouTube channel is pretty good.
ver wondered how much time you really waste scrolling TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube? I built GoTouchGrass.ca—a site where you upload your screen time, see how you rank, and maybe get inspired to step away from the screen for a bit. It’s free, fun, and brutally honest. Curious to see if you need to touch grass?
Yes - in Australia's lotto system at least, the physical tickets are inserted into the database then printed once they are confirmed to be committed.
I actually think that diffusion LLMs will be best for code generation
> The nice thing about the latter solution is that it scales up to more goblins and an arbitrary ratio of liars. Let's say there are four goblins, Ann, Ben, Cat, and Dan. Two always lie and two always tell the truth. You can ask "Would Ann say that Ben would say that Cat would say that Dan would say that door 1 leads to the castle?"

> In this case, the answer tells you if door 1 is correct because there are an even number of liars so the negations cancel out. If the number of liars is odd, you flip the result.

That's worse scaling than the alternative approach, not better scaling. You need to increase the size of your question every time the number of goblins increases. But "what would you say if I asked you whether [this door] leads to the castle?" shows perfect scaling; it works without changes no matter how many goblins there are. It also isn't necessary to know how many of the goblins are liars.
Lemmy has grown quite a lot and it has been easy to replace reddit with for things like tech focused news and discussion. Unfortunately smaller community focused subreddits still don't have a great alternative but with lemmy slowly growing who knows maybe new communities can pop up.
In Australia at least the balls are drawn an hour later.

No idea about the computer RNG games though.
I don't know if I agree, but I'm not as smart as PG or Garry Tan to evaluate what incoming infrastructure startups could make the cut for YC funding. Put it this way, if we as a tech community can band together and create protocols for various bits of infrastructure, then each startup is free to build upon that protocol so we can standardize what we need. That way we get the benefits of the free market while also gaining efficiency in government. Eventually I envision a world where the best implementation wins, but others are still free to compete. If I wanted to create a startup if I had better ideas for road protocols or standards, then I am blocked by government. It's effectively a non-starter, and a gap in the ability for the US to innovate.
Why VCs ghost founders, or reject deals and never speak to the founder again
Big laugh, JD site is refusing to accept feedback from canadian IP's, or at least making doing so very difficult.
What, specifically, would protests accomplish? The people in power, in every level of our government, do not care. No one else has any power to do anything. The media provably doesn’t tell the truth about protests, and just looks for the clicks.

This isn’t a civilized European country. Protesting only works when the people who can affect change are listening to the people.
Unless I’m missing something this isn’t online RL. They are collecting outputs in one pass and then doing a separate offline GRPO training run on those.

The results of this paper would indicate doing what they did, but online could return better results

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04792
My MBP is physically uncomfortable to hold in my lap because it runs so cold ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it definitely would be, that was my intention. By passing in a runtime you can either block or schedule. Giving you control on what you want to be concurrent and what you don’t.
AI read latest financial news and analyze
Lately, AI-driven quantitative finance has been getting a lot of attention, with projects like this AI hedge fund (https://github.com/virattt/ai-hedge-fund) gaining popularity. Inspired by this, I built a website where you can enter a company name, and AI will search for news about it, analyze sentiment using BERT, and provide a final investment decision.

That said, I’m not sure if BERT is the best choice compared to a large language model (LLM), so I’m thinking about switching to an LLM-based approach using LangChain. Would love to hear your thoughts on this!
> I know the r-word is coming back in vogue

This is so utterly fascinating to watch.

Three years ago this would have cost you your job. Now everybody's back at it again.

What is happening?
Even without considering the reasons already mentioned... isn’t it more fun to be cited as an Anonymous 4chan poster?
"To continue to demonstrate why tools like this are essential to our mission, we need to use them ... I urge everyone to continue to look for ways to appropriately use US person queries to advance the mission"

- 2024 internal email by FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate

(https://gizmodo.com/leaked-fbi-email-warrantless-wiretaps-se...)
It sounds like a lot of religions. It's a pretty common idea.

Christianity certainly had mystery cults, but so did all of the other Mediterranean religions, including its immediate ancestor Judaism.

It's hard to tell how much Christianity cribbed from other religions and how much is just the same idea recurring over and over because it's a common human theme.

Your pastors were wrong to say that Christianity is totally unprecedented. But neither is it just a cynical pastiche of existing ideas. It arose out of the time and place that surrounded its creation. Like all human ideas it's a blend of old and new thoughts.
>>please please prioritize financial freedom if you don't have a clear objective in mind

This. To Infinity.

Please prioritise financial freedom. I missed a few steps, but as I get old, I realise this is the biggest blocker to almost anything.

Money == Free time.
Everyone values different things and has different requirements, so I’m glad your laptop works out for you. I’m just cautioning against an emphasis on performance: even if the laptop is plugged in, other design considerations will dictate and limit the raw performance.
> There is another version of this puzzle with a third goblin who flips a coin and depending on the outcome he will lie or tell the truth. The player is allowed 3 yes/no questions

But this won't work in the context of the puzzle as stated. The puzzle here requires you to ask about what a goblin will say; your puzzle can't allow that because such a question cannot in the general case be answered yes/no.
Is it possible that combining multiple AIs will be able to somewhat bypass scaling laws, in a similar way that multicore CPUs can somewhat bypass the limitations of a single CPU core?
When these apps were rolled out, they were specifically advertised as private and only used for contact tracking and nothing more on the basis that we as a society want to maximize their use for tracking to be effective. Reneging on this promise will backfire in any future pandemic.
The model is rewarded for accuracy. For each puzzle there are a few multiple choice questions. If it got 1 out of 4 correct, for example, its reward would be 0.25.

Then group relative advantages are calculated. If you have 16 different responses and the average accuracy is 0.5, then you subtract that from each reward and divide by the standard deviation. Say it's also 0.25. Then the advantage for our example would be (0.25 - 0.5) / 0.25 = -1.

The advantages are then used to increase (or decrease) the probability of sampling those tokens again. Since our example was negative, we penalize the model for underperforming with that response.
3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)
I like that they are unobtrusive and low cost. Easy to spin off a small discussion without bothering others.

In discord, a thread becomes a big visible thing in the sidebar. More than a couple and you're annoying everyone on the whole server. Completely the opposite of what I want.
Nah Facebook doesn't have swatting and pedo communities.
Consider the recent advancements in reasoning models, I’d say your method is a bit inefficient ;)

It’s equivalent to the LLMs reasoning in the output and not in the latent space before the final output, which gave the rise to the reasoning models we see today. So speaking out loud might not be the best reasoning method ;)
Is my understanding here correct? Could this be the reason?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43287312
These are some of the most useful tools ever made. I've been using index cards to help think and communicate and organize and remember for decades now.

I carry 2-3 3x5 cards folded in half, in my back pocket every single day. They form a small pouch to put small paper receipts into. Jot down shopping lists, notes or reminders. Of course, there's an ever present pen for this task.

I also carry a new package of cards (or two) in my bag. Just in case some idea or conversation or thinking or project comes up wherever I happen to be.

I don't understand how anyone can live without them.

I make a habit of spreading cards out over tables and surfaces when talking through a new or poorly understood subject. It helps clarify and organize and share and talk and think more than any other tool I've ever seen.

There is no digital facsimile that works anywhere nearly as well for people.

If you want to see what index-card-maxxing looks like, I present to you, the Hagoromo of Index Cards:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Collected-C-531-Info-Cards-Plain/dp/B07GZMRNLS

No idea how to find them in the US, but I bought about 30 packs on my last trip to Japan and I've been sparingly using them for special projects.
For anyone interested, SpaceX has receives tens of billions in government contracts.

"SpaceX: Provides launch services to the DoD, including the launch of classified satellites and other payloads. SpaceX's CEO Gwynne Shotwell has said the company has about $22 billion in government contracts. The vast majority of that, about $15 billion, is derived from NASA."

"SpaceX's biggest Pentagon contracts include the $733 million National Security Space Launch contract awarded in October to lift satellites into orbit. The company has been tapped for more Pentagon launch contracts potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars more."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musks-us-department-de...

For comparison, SpaceX has raised 11B in private funding since 2012:
https://tracxn.com/d/companies/spacex/__UIpPfXSDe2O53VUbJNlN...
https://landtrustalliance.org/blog/as-temperatures-rise-farm...

"As temperatures rise, farms are sprouting in Alaska

Even as farms decline across the U.S., a longer growing season is bringing food security to a state that has long relied on sustenance from afar."
> Bitcoin fell nearly 5% to $85,000 in the minutes following the order, perhaps over disappointment the reserve consists of tokens already held by the government, but — for now — includes no new buys.

Perhaps over this disappointment. Perhaps not. Who can say?
Self-Driving Cars: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [video]
> We developers seem to really dislike PDFs, to a degree that we'll build LLMs and have them translate it into Markdown.

Why Jokes aside? Markdown/html is better suited for the web than pdf
there's probably a huge market for novelty AI glasses that just show messaging from "they live" superimposed over all billboards
I hope there is a specific order we should look at these threads.
Technically yes, only if you do a gradient step with data sampled from the exact same weights is it an online step.

With our training recipe this can be easily done by accumulating the gradients across the entire batch and only doing one step with optimizer before sampling more responses.

In our experiments, however, we found the advantages of doing multiple gradient steps outweighed any potential drift in policy.

Ultimately the online-ness of data is on a spectrum and while more online data is better, other factors may be more important.
Another stakeholder meeting.
I see the devices vary quite a bit in price on eBay: Verizon, Unlocked, etc. Anyone know if it matters whether locked, Verizon, AT&T, etc.?