skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of blogging (and creation in any form) is often exactly that: an existing idea remixed or reconsidered from someone else’s perspective.

After-all, the telephone wasn’t all that an original idea for a long while before the idea finally reached a salient and effective point.

My take has always been: just because you and I have heard the concept before does not mean everyone has. And if one person finds it helpful to read in this way, that’s a nice thing to have provided the world. :)
WebPKI is a maze of fiefdoms controlled by a small group of power tripping little Napoleons.

Certificate trust really should be centralized at the OS level (like it used to be) and not every browser having its own, incompatible trusted roots. It's arrogance at its worst and it helps nobody.
Automated agents can tail the certificate log to discover new domains as the certs are issued. But if you want to explore subdomains manually, https://crt.sh/ is a nice tool.
This is why when we wanted to build a community around our product we went for Discourse instead of Discord (even though many people asked us for Discord instead). It certainly feels a lot less "lively" than a Discord server, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Ironically internally we still use Discord for comms.

All about the right tool for the right job.
Eh, fair enough. Something like differential fault analysis would make a lot of sense in a block cipher cryptanalysis sequence.
The sort of trip it would need to go through to make that journey doesn't make survival of the fossil very plausible.
The Apollo program cost the United States $25.8 billion between 1960 and 1973, which is equivalent to about $318 billion in 2023 dollars. The Apollo 11 mission alone cost about $355 million in 1969 dollars, They had over 23,000 engineers on the ground. Now there are less than 3,000.

We can, but ...
The blog was written by product management, and most likely legal just generally told them that they got their justification from the CCPA's definition of sale, and the PR/marketing just searched for it and gave it to the blog post's author. Since Wikipedia is usually the first result in a search engine (and even has its own infobox), that's probably what they went with.
In the Netherlands, regulations forbid the use of cellular phone numbers for non-phone devices, to prevent a future shortage of cellular phone numbers.

Data-only/M2M devices get numbers in a dedicated M2M-only range, and carriers enforce this.
Oh dear. I did not know this. I don't usually browse the web using elinks or such, but maybe if I did I'd know. Or if I wrote TUIs, like you do. I do use TUI MUAs, but I rarely run into this problem there.
This actually sounds like a great idea. I procrastinate a lot. I also play a lot of Raid Shadow Legends. I should totally gate those purchases behind hitting my goals.

Thanks for sharing.
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I‘d say: reflect on how you feel after watching the news. If you feel depressed or hopeless, reduce the intake, if you don‘t, keep it as is.
Wrong, actual code and tests provided than show 10000x speed up. Users can run it themselves and have been seeing better results.

Appreciate if you didn’t make up stuff.
Both of my grandfathers in their 90s have insanely sharp memories. I feel that theirs is a lot better than mine at instantly recalling details. I have noticed this in other older people from that generation too.
Strategies for optimizing LLM tool calling
I've reached a point where tweaking system prompts, tool docstrings, and Pydantic data type definitions no longer improves LLM performance (tool args accuracy and speed). I'm considering a multi-agent setup with smaller fine-tuned models, but I'm concerned about latency and the potential loss of overall context (which was an issue when trying a multi-agent approach with out-of-the-box GPT-4o).

For those experienced with agentic systems, what strategies have you found effective for improving performance? Are smaller fine-tuned models a viable approach, or are there better alternatives?

Currently using GPT-4o with LangChain and Pydantic for structuring data types and examples. I already explain high level tool usage guidelines in the system prompt, extensive descriptions with examples in tool docstrings, and data type definitions with docstrings, field description, and examples using Pydantic BaseModel. The agent has access to five tools of varying complexity, including both data retrieval and operational tasks.

Any input appreciated!
You can already take classes for free on youtube from the best instructors in the world at the best universities.

What more do you want? People just like to complain about political issues as a type of entertainment.
I recommend watching the Internet Historian's video series on He Will Not Divide Us for similarly ingenious buffoonery.
> What's the difficulty with just having assessments be done in a controlled invigilated exam room?

Not all assessments are exams, eg: projects, and students cheat even in exams with professors present, eg: the OOP exam I mentioned before, where we had 2 teachers for 40 students.

Maybe you’re suggesting 1 professor watching 1 student on a 2,5h exam? For 40 students we would need 40 professors.. We don’t have that number of professors in out departament..
Its easy to think you have too much money in your twenties. I used to save every other paycheck. But wait until you have a family and a mortgage. The money goes very quickly.
Most things in the world require physical processes. Automating those is quite a different task, and requires resources. How would you go about automating sewing a shirt? How about picking strawberries?

Again this is tech hubris and a lack of understanding of economics and history.
Quite the opposite, Google actively featured this hallucination. Hilarious.

But what can one do now? It's no longer inaccurate :-)
How does it record?
Any time there's a question of "what are the expected value of the max eigenvalue for a random matrix from such and such a distribution" I can answer it in 5 minutes with matlab and ChatGPT (and I know I can answer it). Making a animated GIF with successive approximation of a function by Fourier transform, no problem. Integrating by parts with hyperbolic functions in it? so slow, I'm googling the quadratic formula while the kids are yelling out the integration steps in real time.
If i was that good why would i work for posthog instead of hft shop lol

Delusional web slop companies strike again

After some googling turns out it’s an analytics company but they behave ad they do fission.
Well I can't be positive, but it looks like some of the factors that support a long context length might be set wrong. https://blog.eleuther.ai/yarn/
what problem does it solve?

- However, Pulumi has a few downsides:

- You have to install the language runtimes and dependencies for the language you're using
- The code has to run on the server that's managing the infrastructure

This sounds reasonable at first, but then you come to the shocking realization that code that runs on the host machine can do literally anything it wants. This means that if a dependency gets popped, your infrastructure is now compromised and likely has cryptocurrency miners running on it.

can't you just put whatever you use to manage infrastructure in a docker container / appimage / whatever and be free of "what if dependencies contain cryptominers" problem?
Ask HN: How do I build a new social network?
I am interested in building a new social network but I want it to be limited to North America only. I dont like what platforms like Reddit has become nowadays (too much moderation and there is too many power mods fighting for control) and rampant bot abuse to grow communities. As someone that has been on the internet for a while I also dont like how political platforms like reddit has become so I want to make sure all political content is restricted or super duper limited. The internet that I grew up with wasnt this political or bombareded with political news and such, I feel like this is really bad for peoples mental health and would like to help them. What are your guys thoughts, what would make a new social network be successful? I have been modding on Reddit for a while and one of the good things the platform has done is that it hasnt turned into Twitter or platforms like Bluesky which everyone is still uncertain about. But reddit also sucks, they had the whole API fiasco and people blacked out there subs. There are still some small subs to this day that are abandoned from that period of time.
I know I don't know regex. And if you ask me for a specific regex transform, I'm not going to give you any, I'm going to tell you I don't know. Try that with an LLM.
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How is it out of their control to document what they mean by chunking in their parameters?
I know it's minor, but I love how there is a sticky summary of the application requirements next to the job description, so that I know whether I want to attempt the application earlier on.
Is it known to be compatible with OpenBSD as-is, or with minimal tweaking?
StableSwarmUI: Modular Stable Diffusion Web Interface
GPT4 frequently doesn't know what it just said, or can't act on it if asked.
A bit of a tangent, but aren’t CNNs still dominating over ViTs among computer vision competition winners?
Show HN: Ariana – A time travel debugger for PY/JS right in VSCode
Hello HN!

I've recently released and open-sourced a time travel debugging VSCode extension for Python, Javascript & Typescript.

https://github.com/dedale-dev/ariana

It's born from the pain of spending hours reproducing bugs, struggling to read parallel streams of logging across client/server, and managing print/console.log statements.

You can see a short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gZv7IOo7s

Basically its two parts:

One part CLI called `ariana` that you install with npm/pip and run alongside your code's run command. For instance `ariana python main.py` or `ariana npm run dev`. It then instrumentizes your code using our specialized parsers & small language models (self-hosted version of the server that does that coming soon).

The other part is a VSCode extension^(1). It picks up the traces left from running the code with the CLI. Then it lets you highlight the parts of the code that ran, and just by hovering any expression (or subpart of a complex expression), see which values it took.

Our goals with this are:

1. Make time-travel debugging easy to use for new coders/vibe coders that would never use a normal debugger, let alone some advanced logging.

2. Allow debugging of across the stack, across components, across languages, parallel data flows super easily (typical pain point of maintaining AI agents codebases, multiplayer web games or RL training setups). In prod even some day when we have a more robust feature set.

3. Experiment with agents using time-travel debugging to fix code accurately in one shot without re-running the code or spending tokens producing print/log statements.

4. Make time-travel debugging applicable to fullstack & frontend development (we plan to sync your frontend's visual state with the traces).

Some may ask why not interfacing with debuggers' APIs and instead rewriting code with tracing?

I think it gives us maximal granularity and expressivity in the traces we get from the code to minimize performance issue and avoiding looking at non-sensical things. It also opens the door to using this in production in the future. Of course I'd be happy to discuss that further with you if you worked on similar projects in the past :)

(1) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dedale-d...

Thank you very much for your attention!
Any leverage against the root programs in the form of angry users is also leverage against the browser devs, is it not? Either way you look at it, the root programs/browser devs receive less pushback and gain more autonomy.

My biggest concern is long-term censorship risk. I can imagine the list of trusted CAs getting whittled down over the next several decades (since it's a privilege, not a right!), until it's small enough for all of them to collude or be pressured into blocking some particular person or organization.
All you have to do is simply solve the problem of moderation and bots
I used to work for this guy. He was a network engineer by trade, and I understand a very good one.

However, his story goes, one day he was asked to design a telephony solution for a tech support call centre.

He fell in love with the call centre. He very quickly gained a deep understanding of what they were trying to achieve with the telephony solution and pulled a bunch of critical data out into a dashboard for them after learning how they operated.

He asked for a job and they gave him one. He was an effective manager because he had a deep understanding of the role of the 200 staff he managed, and was able to effectively spot issues with staff based on their metrics.

He could have done my job, but understanding it gave him the exceptional ability to add value to 200 staff at once. Neither of us was redundant.
Dies are designed in years.

This was just a coincidence.
Ooo this is very cool! Also got laid off recently and have been job hunting. It’s tough out there so I can see how something like this at scale could be useful.
You can watch a number of different SpaceX and non-SpaceX camera views from this livestream by Everyday Astronaut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edUNsegCqQs

At the time of writing this comment, Launch is T+2 Minutes. Tower booster catch is Go.
Created by NASA with consulting from Carl Sagen, and his wife, Ann Druyan, contained two culturally important works of music: Johnny B. Good, and The Well-Tempered Clavier - Bach, by Glenn Gould.

There was a cartoon, in OMNI magazine, were two scientists look at each other after decoding the first S.E.T.I Message: "Send More chuck Berry."
The equable climate problem reminds me of the exoplanetary curiosity of the tidally locked planet. For a long time, people expected that all such planets would have an atmosphere that inevitably crashed out as ice on the cold side, rendering them uninhabitable.

More recent computer models of convection suggest that many such worlds would have sufficient convective activity, cycling between altitudes from one side of the planet to the other, to maintain gasses and liquids on the surface.

To match the observations, a model simply requires something about higher CO2 levels which specifically encourage hygrothermal exchange between poles and equator, and/or significantly insulates the poles against radiative losses in disproportionate ways versus today. CO2 itself doesn't seem likely to cause this because it's in the gaseous phase for almost all of Earth's history, but substantially increased water in the atmosphere would be the first suspect because water is such a strong thermal reflector when a cold liquid, and not so much when a gas.
> Not only that, but it devalues degrees.

In the US, while sadly undergraduate degrees are used as a gatekeeper, they are not valuable. They’re absolutely not worth the money spent to obtain one.
The smarter the human is the more it knows how little it knows.
I agree, except I wonder how they'll do this securely. Imagine if a VS Code plugin could spy on everything in front of me. Opens up a whole new level of security concerns.
There are protests, but the media isn't covering them like they did with BLM. However, we need more protests. We need larger protests. We need to do more.
SpaceX launches Starship on 8th test flight, tries to catch returning booster [video]
As an [diagnosed] HF autistic person, this is unironically something I would go for in an earpiece. How many parameters is the model?
From your comment here, you clearly have a strong idea about what you want to see, so stop pretending to be offended by strong moderation. Just stick to making a forum with a niche that you like. That way you can own it and ban whoever is making trouble for you.
Most of us know the map of unknowns. Only grifters use unknowns as indistinguishable from magic.
Perhaps correlating with "ingesting more and more valuable training data"? Which is pretty much what CBT/DBT is supplying imho.
I like your point about feedback. That's how I describe my difficulties with proofs, too.
There is no way of knowing a proof is right without knowing it's right. (Or maybe I am just missing the point)

I will look into Lean that is mentioned here.
> including some largish ones

The ones I heard of were around a few thousand at most. That is not large in this context.
Hmm yes but you know that regex exists, and therefore know enough about it that you know you don't know it. That's how I interpreted this.

I was thinking more like you don't know that you don't know poop.js because you didn't know about it until I said it just now. Otherwise you'd have continued blissful in your unaware-ness of poop.. AKA you didn't know that you didn't know it.
I first noticed it around 2014 on a 1080p Dell display (maybe ~24") with an i7 MacBook Pro of the day.

It was the poor non-crisp pixels that led me to even knowing there were even RGB/YPbPr modes.
> I wonder what the research actually says about this sort of homework vs your more standard variety.

I have a vivid memory of one of the question on a final being basically “sketch the outline of this important thing we studied”. I couldn’t do it. I took the class but didn’t see the forest for the trees.

Later I met people who talked about things with each other, including the big picture. That’s the community I was missing when I took the class solo.

In retrospect, I could have gotten something more out of those problems that I thought were so hard.
> I literally said "I'm not blaming gun hobbyists for violence." Thank you for starting off with a terribly bad faith reading of my comment.

I agree with you, this is not the problem. No bad faith intended.

> Gun hobbyists in the US will argue for it based on their "rights"..."

No quotes on rights. If you don't care about rights or are happy to cede them, then there are all kinds of societal improvements you could make -- say, banning hate speech, lowering or eliminating a presumption of innocence, banning private firearm ownership, etc. However, this is antithetical to how the US is setup and its system of laws. The same arguments used to attack gun control can just as easily be turned on other rights, such as the freedom of speech.

> It's difficult for me to believe that if you remove one of the easiest ways to kill people, violence would just remain the same

It's difficult to run a proper experiment for many reasons. However, I would argue that the concern from voters is not about routine violence (eg gang violence localized to a specific community) but mass killings like Uvalde or Parkland. As we can see in Europe (or even in the US, in New Orleans), you can kill plenty of people with a car, a bomb, a knife, etc. Killing lots of people quickly is not an attribute unique to firearms.

> Because gun ownership is part of your constitution, you can easily make it seem as though those questioning it are attacking the very basis of your country. Seems like a systemic issue to me...

Yes, this is a systematic attack and many Americans see it this way. Governments have only ever moved one direction on gun control -- once the right is eroded, it is gone forever.

> blatantly silly to think that if you give a hopeless population easy access to tools whose entire function is to kill...

Again, the second amendment for everyone. We do not gate rights behind fees, tests, or onerous restrictions. I am interested in preserving (and expanding!) civil liberties for all, while addressing the root causes of gun violence.
Discussion (80 points, 12 days ago, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43139811
I'm not the one making the initial claim.

I do agree with Tyson in that the reasons for the space race were "we need to beat the Russians" and when the US won the space race, the political will to continue with the dreams / expectations that the wasn't there to continue with that level of spending.

I do not believe it was a "we are afraid of change, lets stop those things" but rather "we won, we don't need to spend on them despite the (opinion: positive) changes that they're bringing to the US (opinion: and the world)."

With the economic situations of the 70s and 80s, it was a pulling back of funding. Things that cost money without any tangible gain to tax payers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

In the 60s about 4% of the federal budget was NASA. That dropped in the 70s and continued to fall with the occasional bump.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni... I believe had more casual relationship with NASA (and other 60s ideals) budget than the fear of "rapid change".
Color revolution theory is Putin's paranoid delusion. The US frequently backfired tremendously in such endeavours, and that was when actively arming coups, not something as complicated and subtle as brainwashing a population towards revolution.

For anyone interested in understanding Putin's obsession with ghosts of color, see this excellent video essay: https://youtu.be/7OFyn_KSy80
> I'm 99% sure that apple and google both require you to give them a username and password, as well.

I have no idea about Google, but with Apple, they require you to create a local account when installing. After that, the Settings app will pester you to link it to your Apple ID, but this can be ignored, and only shows up when you are in Settings on your user account page.
Kinda with you, but outside of those two there is still a bias towards antisemitism and misogyny among other uncouth worldviews.
My experience is that 4chan is obscure and annoying enough to browse and participate that it keeps the lowest of low effort posts down. Like if you look at websites that are easy to participate, like Facebook or reddit, you're just gonna see the worst of the worst.
Original source discussion (25 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249342
Is it that they're over confident, or that we are over confident in their responses also.

LLM's aren't an all knowing power, much like ourselves, but we still take the opinions and ideas of others as true to some extent.

If you are using LLM's and taking their outputs as complete truths or working products, then you're not using them correctly to begin with. You need to exercise a degree of professional and technical skepticism with their outputs.

Luckily LLM's are moving into the arena of being able to reason with themselves and test their assumptions before giving us an answer.

LLM's can push me in the wrong direction just as much as an answer to a problem on a forum.
Sounds (figuratively, not literally) like a feedback loop when the SNR is zero.

I'd totally believe a modem from the 80's was lacking a sophisticated Control System for the idle state.
So did the Amiga, almost 40 years ago...
I think that most of the smarter folks I know on the farther and farther left realize that a lot of what we see are "structural" issues, so voting (for establishment folks) stops being a real strategy at some point. In some sense, that philosophically materialist/idealist seems to be one tool for discerning the ideological differences between liberal capitalists and left anti-capitalists.

By contrast it's not surprising to me that as we go the other direction, the far right is less able to understand that these situations are structurally necessary for the operation of the systems that they support. Convincing those folks that it's not simply who is in charge is likely impossible. It will sound stupid, perhaps, but I have heard convincing arguments that the idea that systems are defined by "who is in charge of them" is fundamentally why "antisemitism" ends up being central to both the conspiracy folks and the fascists.