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d0ne··on Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with APIs
No affiliation.

From their announcement post:

Meet Gorilla : The Language Model That Can Interact with Over 1,600 APIs and Outperforms GPT-4 for API calls

Gorilla is an open-source project, created by Shishir Patil, a PhD Student in ML systems at UC Berkeley.

It’s based on Falcon and MPT, two powerful language models that have been fine-tuned for API integration and usage.

Gorilla can parse the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) when writing code, resulting in semantically and syntactically correct API invocations. This means that it can significantly reduce hallucinations and incorrect syntax, which are common problems for other language models, such as GPT-4.

Apache 2.0 license.

d0ne··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
Accurate. Country of Origin is basis in this case which is Greece. Adequate response would be to indefinitely bar all Belarusian originating flights from traveling through any signatory's airspace.

However, this most likely only furthers the goals of the current Belarusian administration for the population there. Enforced strictly, to include diplomatic flights, it may cause measurable change.

d0ne··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
This precedent can not allowed to stand. It is a direct attack against free speech and international sovereignty regardless of your affiliation.
d0ne··on US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
No - Running enough TOR entry and exit nodes allows one to unmask initial connections[1].

One can suspect a healthy percentage of Tor nodes are operated by Governments as TOR was developed and released by the US Navy[2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2015/05/30/researchers_claim_tra...

[2] https://www.torproject.org/about/history/

d0ne··on Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces
Why is this flagged?
d0ne··on Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
11 hrs after this was submitted:

1627 points and 1263 comments yet no longer on the front page.

A moderator, please explain.

d0ne··on Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
Disclosure: Founder

https://dev.ionic.com

Utilized globally by individual developers, large enterprises such as JP Morgan & Chase[1], and integrated into the KMS services such as Google Cloud[2].

1. https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/27/ionic-security-raises-40-...

2. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/clo...

d0ne··on Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
Committing the initial capital to form a FEC recognized national political party The Privacy Party to begin direct opposition to this and related activities.

If you are interested in collaborating or learning more:

https://theprivacyparty.org/

d0ne··on Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails
Committing the initial capital to form a FEC recognized national political party "The Privacy Party" to begin direct opposition to this and related activities.

If you are interested in collaborating or learning more:

https://theprivacyparty.org/

d0ne··on Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’
Yes, I would be very upset.

Yes, it would be allowed in the US.

If it was removed for anything other normal violations of an Apps Stores TOS it would be violating several portions of the the First Amendment including freedom of speech, for the right to assemble, and the right to petition the government.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#F...

d0ne··on Key Access Justifications: a new level of control and visibility for the cloud
The teams at Google, Ionic Security, and many major enterprises spent a considerable amount of time enabling this scenario.

More details can be found in our blog about the launch: https://ionic.com/customer-managed-trust-in-the-cloud-made-s...

Happy to answer any questions here as well.

d0ne··on Facebook communication and lawsuit documents: 7000 pages leaked
Wouldn’t say “Nobody”. It was obvious to enough folks in the privacy and security sectors. Facebook, along with others in that space, received view points from some of those concerned but made the decision to proceed as they did.
d0ne··on IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy
If a worst case to simulate on a classical computer is 2.5 days (per IBM's blog) then they should either:

1. Actually preform the experiment per their approach, compare the results, and provide tangible proof in the coming days.

or

2. Retract their claims.

In either case, exciting times ahead.

[Edit: Yes, I read their published paper[1] which only claims it is possible to achieve and does not perform the same experiment.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.09534.pdf]

d0ne··on Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try
Canadian
d0ne··on DIA Study: Invisibility Cloaking Theory and Experiments
Summary:

“Such optical cloaking devices do not yet exist, but one can gauge the progress in the required technology by considering the progress in negatively refracting optical materials.”

d0ne··on Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility: Exploiting Active Light-Fields (REVEAL)
An update on the program: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/non-l...
d0ne··on China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk
This isn't new. Gait recognition has been in use for well over a decade.
d0ne··on Ask HN: Is it normal for VC to take a fee on exit?
Not normal. Walk away from this investor. Will save you a lot of time, and emotional distress, in the future.
d0ne··on Amazon’s New Customer
Was in an audience when Mark Benioff discussed Steve Jobs coming to him to acquire AppStore.com as Mark owned it at the time.

Apparently Mark and Steve discussed this concept very early on.

Just did a whois history search on the domain and it changed hands from SFDC -> Apple on 03/19/2009

d0ne··on The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)
"To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial."

- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

d0ne··on Sony’s New Toio Wants to Inspire a Future Generation of Robotics Engineers
Yes!
d0ne··on China and California sign deal to work on climate change without Trump
Agreed on both fronts :)
d0ne··on China and California sign deal to work on climate change without Trump
"...in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

Not a lawyer, but California may deem the exiting of the Paris agreement at a Federal level imminent Danger to their citizens.

d0ne··on Theresa May wants sweeping new powers to control the internet
Link to the actual manifesto: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto20...
d0ne··on Graph Databases 101
http://stingergraph.com/ - From Georgia Tech
d0ne··on 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
President Obama has extended an invite to Ahmed to show his clock off at the White House: https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656
d0ne··on Be wary of one-time pads and other crypto unicorns
"We really need an army of software engineers to work on fixing this problem"

That is what the team at Ionic Security* is doing. With about 50 open engineering positions we are hiring :)

My email is adam at our domain.

* I'm the founder/CTO

d0ne··on Ask HN: Since CitizenFour, have you changed the way you conduct yourself online?
If you don't carry around another radio enabled device then you have given yourself back a material amount of privacy as your physical movements around the world are harder to track.
d0ne··on CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked
We have reached out via twitter to this invidiual as to coordinate the delivery of the $10,000 bounty we offered. If anyone is already in contact with them please direct them to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7572530
d0ne··on The Heartbleed Challenge
We have no official relationship with CF so they will have to decide to list it on the challenge page. We are a happy CloudFlare customer though!
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