skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should we consider that the engineers who work there are indirectly condoning the no-privacy, ad-infested dystopia that HN hates, and should they be penalized.
> [..] then that's only because rejecting them is a no-risk, no-cost, easy thing to do.

Exactly as you say. It's less about enforcing ethical behaviour than getting safe revenge on what is perceived as an easy target. For example considering the rise of LLMs, people affiliated with google search are probably about to feel the full force of 10+ years of increasing frustration with declining quality, rather than being legendary high value hires. Unhirables that are completely ostracized? Of course not. But a black mark? Yes, probably.
White House weighs executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining, sources say
Hmmmm, no more service worker for web push it seems. I've only played with demos, seems like an upgrade?
Mysterious Giants May Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists
This is a 20-ish year old game. It really shouldn’t matter.
> Filming a movie on an iphone is just using the camera.

Not really. And this is why native apps are necessary. You can't use the built-in camera on an iphone successfully in this way, and I don't know any director who has. They use specialized third-party apps which give them the appropriate control.
Don’t kid yourself about the intentions. It’s only so enterprise customers can deploy a shitty chatbot on premise for their "secret data". The models will be free for commercial use until 1 mil turnover or something like that.
I remember having a brie-like cheese cut in half and left forgotten in the fridge for more than a month. The mold had reformed completely, as if it they were made like this in the first place.

It tasted fine, no one got sick. Kind of underwhelming to be honest, but it wasn't particularly tasty to begin with: industrial cheese, pasteurized milk. It fact, that it still had some life in it surprised me.
30% is non-chlorine pool shock, and readily available where I am (VT). As it happens, it's also one of the parts of two part wood bleach. The other part is a solution of NaOH (lye, available in solid form for drain opener). Works great, best used while wearing gloves and a face shield.
If you have a business selling hamburgers, does it make sense to ask vegetarians what should be on it?
Cost caps are about how you can cheat. You still develop and test everything you want in the lab. Those that turn out useful get told to the F1 team.
The twitter files were well curated by Musk and team to tell a certain story. Is that not the definition of a partisan smear job?
SLAPP at its finest, eh.

It's time libel laws get reformed, so that not only huuuuge ass international newspapers can afford to report shady shit by BigCo.
You are transferring rotational energy to the ball. Rotational energy is proportional to square of angular velocity. It is only linearly proportional to moment of inertia. So bat speed is more important than weight, all things considered.

From what I can tell this is more about making it easier to make solid contact. Even if it lowers the moment of inertia, it’s more important that the ball goes on a decent trajectory rather than e.g. directly into the ground. A bigger radius means the ball will be exit closer to the plane of the swing.
Ask HN: Am I a bad person if I give up on Docker Compose?
I used to just put my servers together with some systemd files and scripts. But I recently decided to finally follow the herd and do the docker thing.

It has been so frustrating for me. I get the supposed plus (encpasulation, isolation, etc), but I just had a build that regressed for reasons I can not figure out (it's just an Elixir Phoenix app with a timescaledb). Out of the blue, my db init scripts aren't running all of a sudden (I did apt update the servers).

I just find myself staring at so many layers of tools. We're a (very) small team and I just need tech that can be understood and managed and that I don't have to arguments with LLMs about how to diagnose/fix.

Is this just a rough spot, and I need to be cheered on and I'll eventually "get it all"? Or would I be better just using my oldtimer knowledge skills to set the thing up?
>"That's what Kagi is aiming for but they can only do so much."

Not sure why my argument is void, but you restating my exact point with different words is valid?
"Hallucination" is just to term we use to say "this result is not what it should be". The model always uses the very same process, it does not do one thing for "hallucinations" and something else for "correct" results.

In a nutshell it is always predicting the next token from a joint probability distribution. That's it.

All other interpretations are speculative.
Yah this is what I was afraid of. The UI is kinda rough. I need to go back to the drawing board with building trust in that regard.

I guess technically you could put a spending limit on it, but from your perspective that's a really long onboarding flow.

See the " ...why install? " link.

The PWA really is only useful when it's installed. It makes it really easy to send a recipe from the browser directly into the pwa. Bypassing having to scroll through any ads.
So happy to see this, thank you Ron and Alan.
I am not sure about Turso but I've seen a few different approaches to this with other sync engine architectures:

1. At a database level: Using something like RLS in Postgres

2. At a backend level: The sync engine processes write operations via the backend API, where custom validation and authorization logic can be applied.

3. At a sync engine level: If the sync engine processes the write operations, there can be some kind of authorization layer similar to RLS enforced by the sync engine on the backend.
most of my pre-shreded cheese has no such grainy flour like stuff all over it... Harris Teeter, but Kroger before that... I think I can remember once getting a bag with some noticeable anti-caking agent... in my life.
Ha ha. Internally, the successor to the Pentium (P5) had the codename P6, but it was called the Pentium Pro externally rather than anything six-related.

Instead, Intel decided to go with an incomprehensible system of naming: Pentium Overdrive, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium III Xeon, Pentium D, Pentium M, Pentium Extreme Edition, etc. Good luck trying to figure out the ordering of these processors.
Big brands are cowards.
I have "reversed engineered" dockerfiles in order to avoid containers. Any software should be installable without docker, it just takes more knowledge and time. Also sometimes it doesn't, there is a binary (like with go and rust and .net) or other times the long route is pip or apt and some conf fiddling. Databases are the worse part maybe but once you get it is more control for you and what you want to do with your setup. Moving database server to other dir o server? no prob.
Sometimes dockerfile deploys postgresql when you can configure it for home a simple sqlite.
If you end up modifying the dockerfile you understand what are the application requirements are and you can install raw.
another privacy violation:

• download another browser on iOS

• make that browser a "hidden app" that is only available with FaceID

• open a tab in that browser on your iPhone

• bring the iPhone near to a "Continuity"-enabled Mac and see that private tab of that hidden app being brought up on your Mac, without authentication either via password or *ID
would you write a response just to be read by an LLM?
That is borderline tautological. Apple should comply with the regulations, because they are the regulations. The regulations are there to protect users, a 3rd party application is more likely to harm the user, so less trust is warranted.
Many things are used as rocket propellant not least of which O2. As in all things dose makes the poison.
Thank you. Yes she’s been enjoying them a lot now that we don’t have to repeat the same stories every night :) I’ll share on here once I’m done and also the right up.
So how long until Safari adopts this?
> That adds a lot of complexity to the kernel, which also makes the isolation itself have more of the attack surface.

Not if you remove auth from the kernel: https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/auth The Plan 9 kernel is very small and portable which demonstrates that you don't need complexity to do distributed auth properly. The current OS hegemony is incredibly dated design wise because their kernels were all designed to run on a single machine.

> OTOH you can write your logic in a memory-safe language today.

Memory safety is not security.
Something that has been making the sponsorship rounds now is Ground News[0] which I have found very useful with just the free tier. But given how many people I have seen sponsored by them, I wonder if there is some catch, especially because I can’t imagine that many people sign up for the paid service. I can’t think of what that catch would be though, they do not have unique access to personal data, and I haven’t seen anything that would indicate that they have any information agenda.

[0] https://ground.news
CrystalMark Retro benchmark extends support all the way back to Windows 95
Unfortunately that's not a review but a hype-driving oversimplification of what the paper says.
Perfect example of what I was angling at:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-says-mahmoud-khalil...

(Read the 5 paragraphs that begin with "He allegedly did not disclose".)

Everyone was up in arms about this guy a few days ago based on "how things looked"; turns out he was willfully hiding multiple affiliations that would have raised red flags against his visa. Which, of course, now raised a giant red flag against it. There is no government on the planet that would have been OK with misrepresenting yourself as a visa applicant (this is also known as "lying"). But because the US did, and because the news is so hyper-polarized, tHe gEsTaPo iS cOmInG yOu gUyS!1!!!!1! /eye-roll

Now you might disagree with me on whether these affiliations had merit with regards to invalidating a visa, but lying or withholding information to give your visa a better chance to pass is something that you must surely understand might be a problem.

There is so far no reason to assume that the woman arrested didn't make similar mistakes. That's all I'm saying.
Boone can't even cheat well
I would like to see some realistic example scenarios where this could actually lead to a speedup and how much it actually speeds up.
> If you're a batter and can't hit the ball with the right part of the bat

But that is what they are doing? The bat is within size and volume limits. Many bats come in slightly odd shapes or weight distributions. Is it because this is "optimized" that it's bad?
They are not fast enough and there is no reason to think machining ever will be.
I have been always stuck with C99, what is the "post" C23 way that will zero initialize a full union?

Or am I misunderstanding this?
I've seen Apple do this with Chrome tabs for some reason. It's weird.
Velveta on its own is pretty rough (imo), but if you start adding anything to it, it helps a lot. Like salsa is the easy one.
This is such a bizarre move from Apple honestly. They're acting like they're letting users make a choice when realistically all users are going to choose not to get tracked. It's like a "do you want to install malware?" button. They just did it for the lulz and to hurt the finances of companies they don't like.
Thanks! Yes, absolutely. OpenAI already has a reinforcement learning fine-tuning API in closed beta. However, historically, they’ve always left significant room for integrations into users systems. E.g. in the current demo of their RL fine-tuning platform, you can only select predefined reward functions and must manually upload the query datasets. I think that's the reason why so many open-source supervised fine-tuning companies exist.

My long-term take is that the agent economy will be around a few labs providing (partially open-source) foundational models where you don’t want to be part of the competition, as this will be the AI equivalent of the high-frequency tradings arms race).
And above that will sit an infrastructure layer, specializing these very models to the users domains. OpenAI/Anthropic/… RL finetuning will be a part of that infrastructure layer, but so will open-source-model alternatives like ours.
We started our async Python migration
Will do. Hn has no way of tagging people or following up though so I’m not sure how to share once I go live. But if you shoot me a message I’ll update you once done. amrangaye at gmail dot com.
It's a shame that apps like these are "illegal". There's so much fun innovation to be had.
> But no, it's not really ok when your servers have an average lifetime of 30 days. It's very hard to offer a stable service on an unstable substrate.

The whole cattle mindset because at the end of the day everything is a "unstable substrate" your building a stable service on unstable blocks pets don't solve the issue that each pet is fundamentally unstable and your just pretending it's not.
I would think it makes some amount of sense if you think they're vegetarian for some moral reason and you think you could court them to become customers.
That is what padding gloves help with. Though I suspect thick padding causes less control of the bat and so overall isn't worth it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_World_Series
> The observable universe is expanding into the unobservable universe.

Is that so?
My understanding is that it doesn't expend into something. And that it expend so fast that the edge of it becomes unobservable.
I found that most of the content on YouTube kids existed as a means to advertise products. I don't necessarily care to understand the economics of it because it just doesn't provide enough value to bother.

What I do understand is that I don't want my kids being tricked into watching ads because something about watching adults open toys is entertaining.
The biggest use case of open-source LLM is that your use of it is private and input is not sent to third-parties. For a personal perspective, it means it's free and accessible forever (and yes can be used for NSFW stuff), and from a business perspective, it matters both for legal reasons such as finetuning on propritary data and it mitigates the business liability of issues with the third-party LLM provider such as random API outages.
Bleach, when people refer to the general product you can buy in the grocery store called "bleach", is sodium hypochlorite, not hydrogen peroxide.

You can call hydrogen peroxide bleach, or a bleaching agent, but if you ask your significant other for "bleach" you're not going to get hydrogen peroxide.
I actually get asked for screencasts a lot, so I made recently made some [0].

The recording of adding support for 100+ new coding languages with tree-sitter [1] shows some pretty advanced usage. It includes using aider to script downloading a collection of files, and using ad-hoc bash scripts to have aider modify a collection of files.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/recordings/

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/recordings/tree-sitter-language-pack...
I think that when learning privacy and being able to run things oneself is less of a problem.

Keeping ones work confidential becomes interesting once one starts doing new things, so while it would be fun, I don't think that's the most useful type of open model. I think code models are probably the most useful.
> they make the game a lot more boring to watch.

I disagree. Go watch some of the old games before 3 pointers. Teams would pack the defense into the key and the game would get really boring. It was also brutal--driving to the bucket on a packed defense like that would get you mugged.

3 pointers force defenses to move outward. Illegal defense penalties also helped.
But within the same example its not as good as if you ate the exact same meal freshly served - things won't be as hot and certain textures will be lost in delivery (eg crispy things going soggy)

You mentioned a chef which is less specific but I generally consider restaurant food less healthy than what I'd cook for myself due to differing incentives which is another dimension for convenience
> everyone who worked there has a black mark on their CV. Yet they persist, continue leeching off companies too scared to make the jump elsewhere.

This is just your opinion. Most people I know who work there feel just fine if not very happy. Pay/benefits are good. Work is about same everywhere. In fact depending on group there maybe good, challenging technical work there.

As far as CV is concerned working there is mostly positive or at best neutral in term of job change.

> Nobody buys Oracle because they like them or their good reputation.

Oracle is quite expensive but they have reputation of solid database for enterprise workloads.

Also their cloud business is doing fine and growing and not irrelevant. One can see that from their quarterly results.
Population density maps alone will always lead you astray when it comes to building things like HSR if you don't also map in the terrain. It's not super challenging to build light frame buildings and asphalt roads on steep grades, marshes, curvy river valleys, frozen tundra, or even cliff faces. It's much harder to build train tracks, factories, skyscrapers, and other heavy buildings in such places.

A lot of people can live in a place it's where it's difficult to build traditional rail, let alone HSR. Also places where HSR might work can be filled with people and existing construction which you can't always just uproot for rail.
Maybe the legality is clearer if they are self hostable? Then all the liability is on the user who downloaded the movies in the first place
It's a kind of an open secret that there's no 'training' protocol for these state of the art models.

Researchers behave like alchemists when training these models, and the actions are not really reproducible.
Not yet as I’m still finessing it to her needs. She has a problem getting rid of thumb sucking, and finally asked for a fairy tale with a thumb sucking princess who eventually stops sucking her thumb lol. It’s a fun activity and also letting me learn about LLMs.
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>people who don't realize it's still installed but also don't interact with the extension at all.

This is still making Honey money through the hijacking of affiliate links.
Disclaimer: I am a happy paid Kagi subscriber and absolutely am an advocate of their product. I really hope the company makes it work financially because we NEED something like it.

I have two young kids of my own (4, almost 2) and have so far been able to avoid the issues of letting them free roam on the net, but it's obviously something that's coming. This was not something I ever paid attention to in my youth but now as a parent the open internet completely terrifies me. And I say that as a core millennial that basically grew up with the internet.

The current status quo of "kids friendly" content (eg YouTube Kids) is mostly awful. I would still never let my young kids browse something like that without supervision.

I am appreciative that Kagi knows this is an issue and is investing into the area.
>The principle behind this is the defensive democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_democracy

Excuse me but what in the hell? To come in here and redefine a corruption investigation as being in that camp is not only an insult to the reader but it an insult to everyone who both cares about civil rights and government corruption at the same time.

Defensive democracy is just marketing spin on exactly the sort of civil rights violating process that gives the establishment huge advantage over any challenger and exactly the sort of crap totalitarian regimes love and leverage to great effect.

The wikipedia page that you linked lists the following examples of "defensive democracy".

>Surveillance by the security corps (especially military and police intelligence) of activists who are considered dangerous, or after entire associations outright;

>Restrictions on the freedom of movement or action over bodies suspected of endangering democracy;

>Deprival of the rights of individuals and parties from running for election

>Outlawing of organizations considered a danger to democracy;

>Cancellation of elections as a last resort ""

Does that sound like the kind of stuff that fair, well run by rule of law, stable democracies with lots of buy in from the populace do to you? Because it sure doesn't to me. It's basically a list of stuff unpopular governments use to stay in power a little longer.

To come in and lay claim to the credibility of of something that everyone can agree is good (prosecuting corruption, equality under the law) and siphon some of that off onto a subject that is highly controversial (selective violations of civil rights, nominally for a good reason) by just falsely claiming the good thing is a subset of the controversial thing is dishonest and morally reprehensible.
As lampooned in Austin Powers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiP_jN1Pv4
I mean for large enough buyers that was already an option, they wouldn't need to release a new model just for that.
At Chrysler I Kept a Glossary of Ridiculous Corporate Terms Engineers Overused
Makes me want to switch CC every time I log in and see their dumb banner asking me to install the extension.
> The NSF itself said that sexual harassment
> is a problem at the base.

I'm not claiming otherwise, I was commenting on how bizarre it is to work this into an article about a transport bus in Antarctica.

> They surveyed women there and 59 percent
> said they had been harassed.

I don't think they did. Did you read the report?

The survey[1] had a 24% response rate, so that 59% number is extrapolated from that, it's actually just over 14%.

The report certainly contains some deeply troubling anecdotes, but (no surprise) there's a wide chasm between what it claims, and how it's been reported on.

But don't take my word for it, read what they have to say on page 28:

"[...]it is important to note that the survey
and focus group questions were not
designed to elicit information regarding
the prevalence or incidence of sexual
assault within USAP. This remains an effort
for the future. Instead, the qualitative
and quantitative data elicited extensive
information regarding individuals’
experiences and perceptions. Team LDSS
did not independently investigate or
otherwise seek to verify the accuracy
of individuals’ reporting."

That 59% claim comes from a footnote on page 33 of the report. 33%/47% of men/women said "sexual assault" was a problem in the USAP, and 48%/72% of men/women said the same of "sexual assault".

The 59% is then women respondents who had a "negative experience" with either assault or harassment.

I don't believe that means, as you claim, that "they had been harassed". Earlier on page 30 they say:

Approximately 40% of all focus group
participants discussed a personal
negative experience with sexual assault
or sexual harassment

Neither of those percentages in footnotes appear to be supported by accompanying source data. But since they go out of their way to distinguish between a "negative experience" and "personal negative experience", the 59% appears to refer to some broader category than personal experience with harassment or assault.

1. https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/documents/USAP%20SAHPR%20Report....
Agency > Intelligence: Andrej Karpathy
It's considered acceptable within bounds (i.e. no tricking the user into tapping "accept"), but not required. At least, not by Apple.