skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Human Brain Project is an extreme case.

On the other hand, there are pretty hard limits to the sorts of projects that our standard model of a single full-time person[0] can do, even with some part-time collaborators (i.e., middle authors). This is especially true for projects that involve a combination of very different approaches: bioinformatics, HTS, in vivo validation, etc.

I've noticed more and more papers with multiple (sometimes 5!) co-first authors, but that's a kludge around the fact that we can't figure out how to allocate credit to teams.

[0] And, almost invariably, a trainee
I disagree that (internal) competition unequivocally leads to better-than-you mindset. If done properly, in an open and sharing mindset – one might call it scientific, with expectations and criteria defined up front and with the projects objectively compared against the criteria, then it will work. I have also this work. It takes effort to come up with criteria and metrics beforehand but that is what makes it different from throwing spaghetti at the wall .
Asking with some self-interest for a project I'm working on:

Is there anything in particular about the project that's frustrating/time-consuming? Or just the whole thing altogether?

Projecting a bit here, but your dilemma seems to resonate really well with this essay, especially when you mentioned "indulging in the fantasy":
https://www.trevormckendrick.com/essays/future-you-masturbat...

Pains me to hear it makes you dislike yourself, means next to nothing from a stranger online, but you're obviously smart, passionate, and care about your (potential) users' experiences, which is pretty admirable by itself. We see so many stories here of epic devs/biz persons moving mountains and executing their visions, but I'd be surprised if the large majority of them didn't go through a rut like what you currently are facing at least once.
> And for us in the AI community, it was something like the hand of God reaching down to bless us with a guardian angel.

I’m disagreeing as a member of the community. I think back to the original books corpus. It wasn’t Stephen King, but it was books from authors who gave away their content more permissively than King. It sucked how unreproducible it was, but that lack of reproducibility came from compliance with the authors wishes. If you compare it with the recent books3, the real difference is that the creator just ignored the authors.

> Ultimately, their actions are legal.

I worked on a project recently that dealt with the question of whether willingness to do a takedown was sufficient, and our legal team warned us that it isn’t. We threw away lots of work, which was a hard choice I’m proud of. The tl;dr was analogous to this: if your site just hosts dvd rips of all of the big studios’ movies, then Disney comes along and sends you a DMCA request which you comply with, you aren’t protected to hold everybody else’s movies just because they haven’t sent a DMCA request yet. That only protects you when it’s mostly stuff that uploader actually has the authority to upload in the first place. (It was much more legalese, of course, and I don’t understand it perfectly, but the gist is that DMCA compliance is necessary but not sufficient.) i.e. the Pirate Bay or old
school Napster can’t just start honoring DMCA requests and be in the clear.

Putting the onus on creators to request a takedown is telling them to play whack-a-mole. As someone with a pipe dream of leaving ML and becoming a novelist, our community’s popular approach to IP embarrasses me. “Reproducibility is hard because the owners of the data don’t want us to pass it around” doesn’t mean to find a way to ignore the owners. Disregarding data owners’ wishes in return for better models is how the world has gotten into this privacy hell.

So many of us act as if, because copying something is essentially free, the thing should be. It’s embarrassing because our own output is in that form, so we of all people should recognize that the cost of copying it is the least important factor. Or we just call out fair use, as if that applies to everything under the sun. The eye does more, but for me their approach still makes me feel embarrassed that my own community applauds them.
Doing an AI startup and vlogging daily progress
I am one of the lucky ones who never went back.

I got out over 20 years ago, and I was determined to do whatever it took to successfully complete my parole and put all that crap behind me.

I still have scars. I'm 47 now. Dentures are in my near future because of the fighting from my prison days.

I had nightmares about the fighting and killing (saw two guys get killed mere feet away from me) for 15 years after getting out.

As time goes by the memories are less and less, but they never go away.

It changes you permanently.
Taskflow v3.0 Released – General-Purpose Heterogeneous Task Programming System
What kids find easy or hard has substantially to do with past experience.

Watching my 2 small kids learn and grow, they can over the course of a few months go from not wanting to try something at all because it seems impossible or scary to performing competently, with the only thing in the middle being occasional short attempts (like 10 minutes at a time), spaced weeks apart. Then once they feel basic competence, they can continue to improve very rapidly, while having a better and better time.

Just before the pandemic we had gathered 4 3-year-olds together. Kid A was embarrassed at being a beginner riding a balance bike and refused to even try because kid B was already skilled at it (kid A is now also a pro 1 year later), neither of kids A and B wanted to try going across the monkey bars while kid C had no problem (because his dad had been encouraging him with candy placed further and further away along the monkey bars for a few months), kid C who didn't do much daily running compared to the others felt bad that he was much slower at running.

And the same can be seen for drawing, throwing a ball, reading, playing a musical instrument, speaking a second language, solving simple logic puzzles, building with construction toys ....

At this level, none of these differences are primarily due to "innate talent". There are multiple orders of magnitude difference in skill to gain in a very short time, with fast returns to small amount of spaced practice.
This is truly the 9th circle of Hell...
To clarify, they mean diverse as in “unconnected datasets”.
So they're making it hard to leave, creating a distinctive in-group and air of mystery, and clamping down on information to maintain strict control of the narrative.

I can't help but notice that some of these are the same reasons why cults are often so secretive.
> I removed Caffeine from the App Store when Apple started complaining

Good for you! That is exactly what everyone needs do when Apple starts being pointlessly petty. Yes, operating systems have UI guidelines. But they are guidelines - sometimes a developer may come up with something better, especially for power users, and no such developer should have to waste time trying to communicate and convince some committee of this, and worse, wait for an approval from them to launch the product.
This is an interesting project, thank you!
Not to diminish Chamath's accomplishments, I'm a big fan, but the 2020 stock market was kinda crazy. Many have seen 10X gains, specially retail investors that put some money in TSLA.
Nothing but fruit.
Most resonant for me is writing down what you do before you start, continuing to focus on that one item and agree with op it's ok to write down even mundane things. As silly as it sounds it really makes a difference
Related: Postscript is a great stackbased language to learn to program in. A good initial exercise is to write a factorial function:

https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF

http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/postscript/
Getting it to work in Latex is easy if you use Asymptote: https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/

Back in 2011 I used it to make a whole lot of figures for a multivariable calculus course; they're still in use.
That he'd prefer to pay less doesn't mean he couldn't afford to pay more.
I can think of several interesting and relevant dialogues that could occur, but I also predicted that a viewpoint on this topic not couched in SSC-compatible rationality terms would be rejected and attacked by other HN commenters. Having confirmed that prediction, I’m content not to share any further details about my biasing experiences so as not to offend further, and avoid being emotionally vulnerable to y’all in the process. Or, restated, I was able to verify that the non-logical nature of my experiences and viewpoint remains intolerable within HN’s limits as a forum. I will continue to keep this in mind going forward as I have previously but it’s necessary to recheck assumptions now and then and this served that purpose acceptably.
A more recent open source tool, NSA Ghidra can also navigate sources, and decompile assembly back to C code. See https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Except that you can't do that either because someone acting in bad faith can just say that there were other confounders, because there will always be other confounders, since we can't make a proper control group out of a society. Immigration/emigration, other policy changes on county/state/federal level, delayed effects of 30-year old policies (such as Roe vs. Wade or banning lead in gasoline), etc. There's no such thing as fair comparisons in the social sciences; we can only and have to act on imperfect information.
But he does a very good job in educating his target audience.

I have been thinking lately, because the cost of making a video is higher, there is a barrier of entry and people tends to do a much better job in research and presenting information. Comparing to blog post or mot webpage it seems we have dumped it down so much the noise are increasing while the signal are shrinking rapidly.
I'm no lawyer, but if I had to bet, I would assume that the wiretapping laws that would no doubt zealously be applied to such a recording event (if it ruffled the right feathers) wouldn't have an exception for that, as they were written before even speakerphones came into wide use.
Anyone who got any position between March and April is up by at least 5x, throw some bitcoin there and some options playing (that went full mainstream) and you are up by at least 10x

Personally, I wish I had more money available to throw at robinhood during march, I have yet to calculate my % but I believe I’m around 18x.

If only I had $370M in cash to buy stuff during those wild months.
That is ridiculous, and exactly the problem I remember from middle school (by high school the teachers had loosened up). 50% of your students are girls experiencing menstruation for the first time. Speaking from experience, in the first few years it pops up by surprise, or use go through pads (teenagers use pads instead of tampons generally, and they go bad more quickky) quicker than you expect. And since you normally change your pad in the morning before school, there’s a fixed window when you need to change it again.

Again speaking from experience, there’s nothing more humiliating than leaving a bloody mark in your desk because your teacher limits bathroom passes. And even if you think that you would make an exception, many well-behaved students won’t speak up, hoping they can make it to the next class. If you’re ‘enlightened’ enough to let your students go to the bathroom three times a week, you’re enlightened enough to call the truants on their BS without penalizing the rest of the class.
> I have to disagree with this as an Iranian working in Germany who moved with an offer on a Blue Card.

Reading up on it, I assume you got this offer while not in the EU? That is impressive. Over here (and often in Canada as well), few companies will give you an offer without you doing an on site interview - unless you are clearly exceptional. So it becomes a Catch-22.

(Of course, things likely changed in the age of COVID).

> Regarding your other point about racism, that experience is not representative of the whole of EU. I am biased as I live in Berlin but I think you are also biased (probably) if you live in the multi cultural centers of US(SV/LA/NYC/Seattle etc.).

Well, like in the EU, it is fairly nuanced here. I've spent most of my time in the US in small towns, actually - 100K or smaller, and some time in a larger city (but not as big as Seattle, etc). I've lived in both Red and Blue states. It's extremely hard to generalize. The least diverse city I lived in was also the most welcoming (I am not white) - and in a Red state. The larger, multicultural (and liberal) city I live in only like people like ma as long as my views are in line with theirs ;-)

I may be wrong. Pre-2016, it was much easier to find very open and vocal anti-immigrant rhetoric in the EU - but perhaps it's just a very loud minority. Of course, post-2016 you see plenty of that in the US. But prior to that, people really cared mostly about illegal immigration (and amusingly, the pro-immigration folks are often only referring to illegal immigrants - they do very little for those trying to gain legal immigration).

Speaking of racism in the US, here are some comments I made a while ago with more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486342

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19324589
Yes, that's exactly what I was talking about. You can't do that with a rope.
Note that PDF 3D models have a static image (a bitmap) which readers that don't support 3D (most of them) will show instead. Actually Adobe Reader shows the static image too, until you click on it to activate the 3D rendered version.
I have heard of quite a few people who write with their font set to comic sans to get this effect...
For one week average deaths per capital California is around around 20-25th highest.

For one week average new cases per capita, California is #1 or #2.

The timing of the third wave differs considerably among the states, with several states having had it hit them 30-50 days before it hit California. Those states are now past their peaks. California will probably end up somewhere between between 6th and 10th place for third wave peak one weak average when everyone is past their third wave peak.

For total cases per capita over the whole pandemic, right now they are around 26th. The might move up some, but probably not much, so should finish in the middle somewhere when this is over.

For total deaths per capita over the whole pandemic, right now they are around 40th. I'd expect them to move up more on that than on cases, due to resource limits on their medical system.
DOOM lived in Atlanta from the time of Operation Doomsday until he got deported to UK in 2010. Cheers :)
I worked on two aspects of this in my most recent position. I was responsible for implementing the javascript APIs and the feature of embedded abitrary compressed file attachments in a web based PDF editing SDK according to the lengthy pdf spec. It was an interesting technical challenge and eye-opening experience in terms of what I learned PDFs were capable of, and my immediate concern was some of the stuff this git repo talks about.
You don't even need trade in your model economy. Just one person prefers a higher banana income so they can do pranks with the banana peels, or whatever.
I have the same experience. I also overshot "assertive," but the alternative was that everyone would continue to steamroll me to the point of despair. Assertive wasn't enough to safeguard my dignity.

It is indeed exactly as you said. The world chewed me up for being innocent. I was routinely physically assaulted at school. These things were passed off as roughhousing or joking and the adults never intervened, and some even seemed to appreciate the "humor."

The adults rolled their eyes at me essentially for being weak, it was sort of like "sigh, what are we gonna do with that kid?" It occurs to me now that these were bitter, jaded people who hated a child for his naiveté.

If I defended myself, I was the bad guy. At some point I thought: "it doesn't make sense that I am the one who is right and that everyone else is wrong, so maybe I should be more like those guys." But then I got punished too. For example, it was considered funny for people to kick me in the balls at times. It had happened to me 10+ times and nobody got punished. Regrettably, I did it once to another kid and it was a scandal and I got punished.

I am in a healthy place now but I thank God I got through the teen and young adult years without becoming a criminal. I think I easily could have, because I came out of school a deeply damaged individual.
It’s tough to read Shakespeare without some annotations, and those are generally copyrighted. Which is one reason I have never been able to find a good free ebook collection.
Yeah, typo.
I find this a very American story.
Because a little bit of oil adds a lot of calories.

(And is the evidence about coconut oil conclusive? Last I heard it may or may not be good.)
I'm the one behind this project and YouTube channel. I decided to do a one year startup (or longer) and figured it would be awesome to document daily progress. I've always wanted to see up-close someone trying entrepreneurship, especially coming from a technical background.

I'm not sure this is going to work out, maybe it will, maybe it won't. Regardless, I think this would be a great learning opportunity for other software engineers to learn from my mistakes; or at least, follow along and have some fun watching.
Just a data point. VMware Workstation came out as a product in 1999, and did excellent x86 virtualisation without hardware support using dynamic translation and code scanning techniques.
Same thing at Uber

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/27/is-uber-...
I read The Age of Spiritual Machines in ‘98 with high hopes but quickly found Kurzweil difficult to take seriously. The singularity fandom has always baffled me.
Zoom Day: 4M Webcams (RCE Maybe) Just get them to visit your website (2019)
Art of Illusion: free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio
> I know I don’t give two hoots about what the neighbor does to their own home.

You don't give a damn till you need to sell off your property. Once it is in the market, you don't want your neighbours attitude turning of potential buyers, or worse, bringing down the value of your property. (I hate HOA's too, but a decently run one does help increase property value).
Its TPS reports. That what it is. And until academia gets their own Bobs to ask academia's Lumbergh, "Yeah, Academia, lemme ask yah... real quick question here... how much time wouldja say yah spend each week dealing with these papers?"
> Well we've been able to put graphics on the screen for decades, but "real" enterprise programming is still mostly pounding keys into text files and fussing over semicolons and curly braces. Visual interfaces are considered toys that "real" programmers don't need.

You should at least consider the counter-hypothesis that C-style keyboard pounding is fundamentally more productive than visual interfaces.

This shouldn't be that surprising. Text is much more informationally dense than audiovisual multimedia. There's a reason why books are still the preferred medium for information transmission after thousands of years. Sci-fi style visual coding sure seems cool. But I highly doubt that it will ever be as productive as a skilled developer typing out variables, functions and classes.
Apple like other big companies is a big corporation. What was the author expecting working here?
That particular question has shifted, sure. But in the early 90s, wasn't crime at historic highs in the country? In any case, it has shifted to the point that only twice as many people believe that we should be tougher on crime rather than more lenient. But look at the chart for the question "Is there more crime in the U.S. than there was a year ago, or less?" It shows that "More" dominates "Less" at around 65% - 20%, and has done so since the turn of the millenium. The majority still believe that crime gets worse, year on year.
I found this to be an Interesting article on the origins of an early microprocessor, before even the Intel 4004. I wonder what else from that era is still classified.

I accidentally clicked on a link and found myself looking at the Weston A Price Foundation's website. 'hmm? how odd I thought I was at Wired.com' [...] 'Oh, her mom founded the Weston A Price foundation. Got it.'

I like this quote from Ray Holt:

> “We are trying to find out what the kids are really interested in,” he says. “Some like to build, some like to program, some like electricity.”

IMHO schooling should mostly focus on helping kids figure out what they're really interested in.
Okular alerts you to the presence of attachments, IIRC. I wouldn't say "most" though.
I like the method but for me personally as a young unexperienced person, the problem usually lies in evaluating whether a task is possible in a day.

I tend to be overly excited and thus think that I can finish something that takes a week in a day. Then when I give myself more time for something I finish it more quickly...
Huh? New homes are built with wood fireplaces. People enjoy it, even if it’s not the primary fuel source.
I recognize this as show vs tell. I would rather be shown something in great detail and reach my own (guided) conclusions, rather than being told that this is how something is.

Another example is the rise of the 'reaction video', someone being told what their emotional reaction should be, rather than presenting some subject neutrally and allowing the viewer to develop their own thoughts and feelings on the subject.
Key to Global Equality: Free Education That Matters
Theory is good to make one think, but the difference is just the same as watching or playing a football game. Think of someone actually playing the game after watching it for a thousand hours with no physical experience.
Taboo – Data mining for what isn't said
I wish our government health agencies would do a better job at facilitating or running trials on potential treatments, or even just monitoring trials from other countries.
There are now several randomized trials showing ivermectin as beneficial both as a treatment and as a prophylactic.
There is a trial that showed a very good result using ground black cumin seed and raw honey.
Other possible treatments:
intravenous high dose vitamin C.
Interferon.
Quercetin and Zinc.
Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc.
Green tea, to boost interferon production.
Vitamins C and D.
Zinc.
Lactoferrin.
Cistanche.
Coconut oil.
Naproxen.

And yet here we are without sufficient data.
All of the above is likely safe too.
Some of the above is thought to have broad antiviral properties. Trials on the above could have been run years ago for other viruses.
Question to OP (thesephist): did you also get to this by checking Omar's profile from the TabOS link yesterday?
First thing I thought of was Jeremy Clarkson and the red truck they used for some arctic trip. They also had snapped stuff on the truck but they had a complete film crew off screen to help out.. but stil.
In America for people in their 30s it's the primary method of communication for personal use. I try to push Signal but haven't had much success. It's Slack (or Discord) and iMessage/SMS for the most part. I do communicate internationally though and that's nearly exclusively through WhatsApp.

Younger generation seems to be more on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, and Instagram DMs.
I got the impression from the code that this operates directly on whatever sqlite db iMessage actually uses. Is this right? If so, it's probably worth considering just making a copy, or including a script that makes the copy, when sudo'd. That way you don't need the permanent permission and there's no chance of accidentally messing up an important bit of user data. And paranoid people will probably feel better about not having a live local webserver that's poking around their personal messages.