skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Achieved by “applying convolution operations over queries, keys and heads, allowing nearby queries and keys to affect each other's attention weights for more precise attention”

Cool to see convolutions making such a comeback lately in the llm world. See also the recent striped hyena2 architecture, which uses the conv-based hyena operator to great success:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01868
HN is crazy for outliers. We have the lady who gets wired off a chocolate bar, and the guy who drinks over a gallon per day.

But anyway, I've been to a coffee shop or two, and I've never seen a "standard cup" as anything other than 12 ounces.
This is my experience as well. In the late 90s/early 2000s I had the luxury of a lot of time to deeply and learn Unix, Perl, Java, web development, etc., and it was all self-directed. Now with Agile, literally every hour is accounted for, though we of course have other ways of wasting time by overestimating tasks and creating unnecessary do-nothing stories in order to inflate metrics and justify dead space in the sprint.
> We want AI automation everywhere

Who is we? I definitely don’t want AI automation everywhere
I think he's majority shareholder or something, so that's hard to do. I think we'll simply see more top investors start to cash out over the year so they can profit before they make any big statements.
Going through my junk box the other day I found a USB to two port RS-232 converter from that era - that came with 4 colorful snap on front pieces to match your iMac.
If you are interested in learning more about the organization, here's an article about Jerome Hardaway, the founder: https://github.com/readme/stories/jerome-hardaway

And here's their GitHub org: https://github.com/Vets-Who-Code

Jerome also was kind enough to write a post for my Letters To a New Developer blog a few years ago: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/09/21/youre-gonna-be...
I wish that mattered.
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No, that isn't how language works.

Besides, we already have to take "enshittification" seriously as a technical term of art, I don't see why "vibe coding" should be improved upon.
sounds like bit of a death spiral
Well even his family is pulling out: https://www.investors.com/news/tesla-stock-elon-musk-brother...
This is not what I'd intended to communicate with this article. The Kilpi.filter pattern is not the primary point of this article, it is only a minor utility provided by Kilpi for special cases. I do not suggest to fetch all rows and return only authorized rows. The inner query function should still be performant and return only the requested data.

My point was to show how you can co-locate your queries and authorization logic, just as you would with any sensible data access layer. However, this approach keeps the inner function pure and e.g. easily cacheable with the upcoming Next.js "use cache" directive, and also allows easy bypassing of the authorization logic when required by your application.

I hope this clarifies my intent.
This feels fairly close to Idiocracy (2006).
Works for me in Firefox!
It is rather awkward that the US right-holders chose to sue TuneIn in the UK, rather than US radio broadcasters that stream online without appropriate licenses. However, TuneIn was profiting from the premium subscriptions relating to content they knew didn't pass muster legally, and their service foundational was based on such content. There are certainly many things to be said about it. But unfortunately the debate is already settled by the appeals court in the UK.

Overall, the UK TuneIn service was valuable to the public. And it is an example of such value being destroyed by copyright laws. This is yet another topic that many people have said much on.
So, market/companies refused to regulate themselves (by adhering to the robots.txt) so we're now forced to innovate some solutions against them.
oh. i used to like that channel. sad to see it devolving into trad right great replacement fear mongering.

ironically the previous video was one of the highest production value they ever put out. wonder if there's a connection and new patrons.
Again, cryptocurrency would allow a proof-of-work mechanism but offload it so it needn't be real-time.

That is, do the proof-of-work before visiting the website, then present the currency token that proves the work has been done. The blockchain is there to prevent double spending of the currency token.

I do feel like this is a kind of "those who don't understand it are doomed to re-invent it" type of technologies.
Agents at Bloomberg [video]
> high standards of encryption

Security is far more than that and Signal does the 'far more'. Every independent security expert (I can think of) recommends Signal for security, including CISA, and now the CIA, NSC, etc.

One security pundit, I think Schneier, said that focusing on encryption is like putting a titanium door on your house and saying it's secure. Yes, nobody can damage that door, but there are windows, hinges, a lock to pick, the chimney, remote listening devices, tracking Internet usage, searching your garbage, ...
This Hacker News thread is already a great example of what always happens when this topic comes up: I count SIX definitions of agents in this thread already, each slightly different from each other but each expressed with a confidence that suggests that the author thinks their definition is clearly the correct one.

(The OP did that as well.)
> At Fred Meyer, our local Kroger-owned grocery store, a bagger in his 70s put all my frozen items in a normal bag, and my chips in the cold storage bag I’d brought from home.

A) Having to work a job (obviously not done out of passion) 70+ is really disheartening
B) I don´t understand why this even is something that has to be done by a worker.
I bought the groceries. I know where I want my stuff in my bags.
Or I just toss them back in the cart and load it properly at the car.
I wish there were photos...
I learned Musk bros are going to flag even simple stock news these days. They must be desperate.
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> prove to itself it is on a highway or a high-speed street it can only go 25 mph.

GPS attacks are real and even common in some areas. Do you know how much havoc could an adversary cause on traffic / cargo transport if this was implemented? Imagine a large American highway near a big city being blocked that way for days.
The gig economy is way worse than the author describes.

Gig workers can't advance with the companies they work for.

Gig workers can't build a network with their coworkers because they don't have coworkers...and there's a good chance that they are competing for work with other people working for the same company.

There are dead end day jobs, and then there is gig work.
Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete
Much worse.
We recently changed our tui framework and the functionality for focus is a bit different. You might have to hit <tab> until `ADD` is highlighted. You can also rsync/scp/sftp an authorized_keys file and we'll add that to your account!
L'etatt, c'est M'att.
> Does the AI system perform actions under its own identity? If it does, it’s an agent, and the audit logs will name the agent itself. And if it doesn’t – like most copilots or in-product assistants – it’s not.

God please no, let's not normalize this idea.

1. That's not really a good definition of an agent;

2. The only agents I care about are agents acting under my identity, for me, in my interest. You know, like browsers were supposed to - that's where the name for "User-Agent" header comes from. But in short - whether I'm accessing your service directly or using an agent (AI or otherwise) to do it for me, is none of your business. Letting service providers differentiate based on that was a cardinal mistake of the early Web.
There’s no one-size-fits-all answer here, but in my experience, for long contexts, perf for conv-based methods outperforms strictly attention-based methods. See evo2:

“With the current implementation of Evo2, we do not have the heavily optimized kernels in place for convolution operators like we do for attention layers in a model like llama2. Even with this shortcoming, we see that the benefit from including more convolutional layers makes up for the earlier stage of optimization at around the 64k context length. Beyond that point we see an improvement in performance even compared to a highly optimized transformer model.“

https://docs.nvidia.com/bionemo-framework/latest/models/evo2...
Looks promising but the license, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives is pretty limiting..
That is natural canadon decay. Think uranium slowly turning into lead, that sort of thing.
There are email providers based in Switzerland. My current favourite provider is Migadu :-).
Hey, I was just reading your docs, maybe prose.sh will be what I'll use to finally start a blog !

I noticed this mention here [0]:

Because in our Go SSH server we re-implement rsync, many options are currently not supported. For example, --delete and --dry-run are not supported.

But on your front page it says :

Upload your static site to us:
rsync --delete -rv ./public/ pgs.sh:/mysite/

So do you support delete ? One of these pages is outdated or did I miss something ?

[0] https://pico.sh/file-uploads
Crawling is important, and PoW incentivizes the creation of a data broker as a cached middle layer to reduce negative effects on the website by amortizing PoW cost among crawlers.
Sorry, this is a focus issue with a tui which we'll fix up soon! Should just need to hit <tab> until OK is highlighted and then press enter
Apple has its own trackers and ad services. But it treats itself specially. While other apps need to ask. Maybe I don't want some apps from apple to have the same permissions, as other apps from apple. It is basically bundling. I agreed for one app from apple to share data, not for all apps from apple. Oh, and don't let me start about wording they use on these pop-ups... Like when I download some app from the internet, which is signed, notarized and so on, it still asks: oh, you downloaded this app from the internet (surprise!)... Instead of: "ok, you downloaded from internet, it has sign, notarification, developer is already delivering software for 10 years and have 20 million users, so looks safe to run...". Basically, fear inducing messages instead of actually useful from security sense.
> The US loses the most however, both economically and in soft power.

Yes. It loses most because 10-20% of world trade is for value added in the USA. The one exception is the USA of course, because their percentage is 100%. So USA is 100% effected, the rest of the world is 10-20% effected as they continue to happily trade with each other without tariffs.

I dunno about everywhere else, but in Australia the effects are already noticeable. Trade with the USA is dropping, and trade with Canada is growing.
I officially use https://news.ycombinator.com/active as a bookmark now, which is the same as the front page except shows all the posts hidden by the flag squads.
They are using white-labeled Anubis or stock Anubis?
oh that's fantastic
You could do like a captcha but for computers. Here are some molecule, find the ground state geometry of all of them. You give some you already solved just to root out whether the solver is actually solving or faking it.
Could be. There’s that software engineer that is touting the king Trump thing. I forget his name. The whole idea is ridiculous. Imagine folks that want such a thing just imagine an AOC queenship.
The buisnessmodel is speculating that your average Joe does not have the energy or knowledge to go after the shobby work.
I notice this trend a lot and while I can push back I feel sorry for the people that are not able to do so or do not know their rights.
its not tariffs

Trump took the trade surplus the US has with those countries and calcuated the percentage from that.
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Huh? Productivity per worker in the US is at an all-time high and is, I believe, the highest in the world?

Can we please shit-can this notion that US workers are lazy/bad/whatever? That's not the problem. US workers are being squeezed to death. Corporations have gone from 50% tax burden to paying little taxes, the money is flowing almost entirely to the top 1% earners, C-suites, investors, private equity, etc and we're seeing record levels of corporate welfare.

Corporate welfare like..full time or nearly full time employees getting welfare because their employers refuse to give them livable wages, so taxpayers have to step in. Amazon and Walmart are the biggest welfare recipients in the country, and that doesn't begin to count all the sweetheart deals they get on property taxes, the taxpayer money they get for setting up training programs, free infrastructure improvements to support their business.

We have $8BN to give to a lumbering incompetent dinosaur like Intel, $500BN for "AI" crap (which will consume massive amounts of power, land, water...)

...but apparently we can't afford $4BN for LIHEAP which is half as much and keeps elderly people from freezing or broiling to death?
I thought it was a Windows SSH / terminal tool. I’m probably remembering wrong.

Edit: Found it already. I was definitely thinking of Putty.
Pretty sure the AI crawlers aren't botnets
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Generally they want to know is this paper worth publishing and what are things that need fixing, clarification, etc. The reviewers should be people that understand the topics in the paper so they can identify issues, these are usually people that have published articles on similar topics, or people those people recommend. It's more in-depth than grading a paper.
Took me quite some time to find back where I read about that.

Check that out :

https://inrng.com/2017/12/chris-froomes-salbutamol-case/

https://sportsscientists.com/2017/12/brief-thoughts-froomes-...

The article you gave, they only state the principle of PEDS evasion tactics, some used a fake dick when it's time to urinate, some used compound modified, but it can't possibly tell every single way that scientists found to avoid detection.

Froom is an actual athlete that got caught, that speak louder.

Beside i heard it too in completely unrelated sport circle, running (sprint) and boxing from athlètes competing.
> In SW development in the 90s I had much more time for experimentation to figure things out. In the last years you often have some manager where you basically have to justify every thing you do and always a huge pile of work that never gets smaller.

Software development for a long time had the benefit that managers didn't get tech. They had no chance of verifying if what the nerds told them actually made sense.

Nowadays there's not just Agile, "business dashboards" (Power BI and the likes) and other forms of making tech "accountable" to clueless managers, but an awful lot of developers got bought off to C-level and turned into class traitors, forgetting where they came from.
That particular display that they use is around $40, and then there's a $3 ESP32.

I bought one because I think the software and the ecosystem is worth the price, but it's not terribly hard to make one of these for much less than $150.
> What I learned is to not to be afraid. Regardless of what is happening around you.

Were you perhaps financially secure enough not to have to fear anything? Or tenured (Bell Labs!) that unemployment wasn't actually a threat to you? YMMV.
What a bizarre explanation. Element does E2EE just fine, with the caveat that you have to record your own encryption keys. But if you want E2EE and backups, what would you expect?
North Americans (my exp only) value cheap goods and services so highly, they don't care how the sausage is made.
Because they used wall clock time, not compute time, flops, or watts, to standardize. 24 hours and 36 hours of compute.

They could build a system which gives them equal compute time by ignoring time spent rate limiting and such, but they chose not to.
The jobs are bad and people get blamed for it.
We've been through a credit bubble where everything was borrowed out of debt, in the hope that it would deliver massive-scale automation in the future.

But reality is that everyone has been rushing out brittle solutions, creating a brittle, fragile architecture... And now people entering the job market have to spend so much time fixing the mess that they can't make progress. Worse, they take the blame for the slow progress and they have no say over foundations. We are asked to do impossible things given the current foundations and so every job becomes about politics; how to foist the impossible/infeasible tasks onto someone else so that they will take the blame. Because it's all political, the people who can actually create value and thus aren't good at politics get wiped out of the market; then all that remains in every company are political operators.

The value creators are forced either to become political or to keep hopping between companies... Who make good use of them... for a short time until they burn out and hop on to the next company. Nobody acknowledges the value they contribute during their brief tenures; in spite of the fact that they're the only ones adding value. Only the political operator can rise through the ranks; getting credit for managing the constant churn of burnt-out value creators.

Worse, as the political operators get into positions of power; who do they help? People who are like them; also political operators who don't know how to add value.
>That does not generically 100% solve the problem of "is this person a human".

you don't need 100% generic problem solvling. a "good enough solution" will block out 90% of low effort bad actors, and that's a huge relief by itself. That 9% will take some steps and be combatted, and that last 1% will never truly be held at bay.
We will remember the American general indifference to this idiotic and destructive trade war.
Maybe like spices. First they were something special in the western world, then they became abundant and cheap.
I don't understand. You don't control any Mx records. You have an account with some company. You might lose it just like you might lose your Gmail account.

Also... You can use Gmail with your own domain. I don't get the meme with mx records.
>> literally every hour is accounted for

I saw one company where early-career BA/PMs (often offshore) would sit alongside developers and "keep them company" almost all day via zoom.
i'm not deep on this world so thank you for this.

honestly yeah its declined some but not as bad as feared. it's still well above pre covid trendline.
Demonstrably false with a payment service like PayPal but could still be an option for some type of online payment. One can imagine a payment method that's transparent, integrated and seamless. Maybe something like limits can be set with features to allow, prompt or flat out deny websites that violate some payment policy.

My view is that when the payment threshold is so low, the issue is inconvenience or user friction, not the amount of money involved. I suspect people would be fine with small payments if the user experience was better. For example, Amazon, Netflix, iTunes or Spotify.
previous small discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549273
> Overall, the UK TuneIn service was valuable to the public.

I agree about stream directory services in general, but I'm a bit on the fence about TuneIn in particular.

It started out very useful, especially as the de facto backbone for Google Home devices – I believe they back or at least used to back "Hey Google, play <station name>".

But lately they started playing "pre-roll ads", and I think lately even playing ads over the live content, and I'm not entirely sure if they even share the revenue of those, or of premium subscriptions that avoid ads, with the underlying radio stations.
It wasn't just the lack of a primary: They just look like losers. They were going all in on a losing candidate and didn't seem to care. It's bizarre.

Many Dem leaders don't seem to care now, complaining that people are pressuring them to be effective.
> that dark and washed out TV is just a choice everyone's making for... unclear reasons.

It's just a question of aesthetics. TNG was lit almost more like a sitcom, with bright even lighting coming from all directions. In the 1990's, that made TNG look like a TV show, and look very different from dramatic movies.

Then with the rise of TV as an art form rivaling movies, certain dramatic TV shows have been lit more like dramatic, dark movies. Lots of highlights and shadows, instead of even lightning. It's meant to seem more sophisticated, serious, and artful. It also demands that you be watching in more of a cinema-like environment -- a bright, high-contrast TV in a dark room, so you can see the darks. Not a crappy low-contrast screen in a bright room.

But again, this is only certain types of shows. Comedies and "lighter" dramas are still lit more like TNG. It really depends on the show, and what mood the creators want to evoke throughout.
Issue of the Commons.

Weather models are good because if we know about it the weather doesn't care and doesn't change what it is going to do.

Anyone who has an accurate financial model is keeping it to themselves.

Anyone who has an accurate financial model and make it public... invalidates their model as everyone takes that information and plans to take advantage of it accordingly.
How infuriating for anyone recently hired caught in this trap.

It seems to me the obvious, from both a business & human perspective, is to stop hiring at first signs of trouble, before layoffs. To do so otherwise is cruel.

I doubt Matt had zero idea about this possibility two months ago.
A term can be still used in literature for historical reasons. Both concepts are not mutually exclusive.
One of my key metrics for evaluating employers is Time To Second Monitor.
Not seeing very much in green
TOR used to make the same claims, turned out the NSA actually can to a degree correlate traffic given that they have their eyes literally everywhere on the planet.

I wouldn't trust anything to be safe from the dragnet surveillance apparatus of FVEY.
I did something similar for my daily calendar. I don't have a writeup of the actual device, but here's the firmware that generates the calendar image:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/calumny

It's a really fun project, but I wish these Waveshare displays had more open firmware. I didn't really manage to get the ESP32 to talk to the display (or even to connect to it, as I don't have the right adapter), so I used their sample code with its weird API and I'm sending an image straight to the ESP32, rather than have the ESP32 pull it from an HTTP server, as I wanted.
As someone who is more in the middle of my career rather than the end of it, I would like to echo your sentiment. I have had plenty of roles where I was tasked with things that were out of my depth, and the answer is to just not let it be. There is always a path to get the answers/skills you need to do what is asked of you, you just might not know the path yet, so the core skill (and where I think fear comes into the process) is accepting that not knowing something now is never a hinderance so long as once can do self-directed learning. The rest is reality testing if what you just learned is actually able to solve your problem. If it isn't, then repeat ad infinitum until it is.