skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which leads me to ask: in a transhumanist society—go read Accelerando, or Glasshouse, or The Rapture of the Nerds—what currently recognized crimes need to be re-evaluated because their social impact has changed? And what strange new crimes might universally be recognized by a society with, for example, mind uploading, strong AI, or near-immortality?

The link to Accelerando there is to Amazon (which is fine, and I do have physical and digital versions of the book and feel that it is good and useful to support authors by purchasing the stories they write)... but you can also get it for free, in its entirety, in a number of different formats, from the author's website: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

> This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached. In particular, you may not create derivative works or use the work for commercial gain.

(late edit - I personally feel that the sequence of books and stories: BLIT stories by David Langford, Accelerando (references a Langford fractal), Glasshouse (hints of {spoilers} in a transhuman environment, feels sequelish to Accelerando), Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams (the Strossian singularity is averted, and explores {spoilers} more) ---- There's a kind of continuity in the refutation of the reference that each makes to the other that I find interesting)
Yes he is "annoying" most of the time aka wasting your time. Basicaly it's 95% fluff since he talks about world peace etc... a lot.

But you find 5% of practical stuff in his talks. I probably listened to 20+hours of his talks. I put it on my phone and go for a walk in the city and fast forward it.

So as far as pointers to his talk...not really...but at some point you realize that:

1) It actuall works

2) That repeated exposure to ideas is required until the human comes to the realization that only self-examination can work.

Once you understand that you can somewhat easily "suffer" through Kirshnamurti, fast forward it and ignore 90% but then listen and re-listen to certain parts.

No magic sauce I'm afraid...

You might also wish to read Kapil Gupta's Siddha Performance website.
anyone else notice truly horrific driving by prime delivery vans. I almost got ran over by a prime van making a rash right turn without checking the bike lane.

Some of my friends have experienced this too here in chicago.
Privacy is a completely different beast.
That sounds good on paper but doesn’t work in reality.

To deliver products quickly, you need inventory close at hand, aka “dark stores”. To justify the massive upfront investment in dark stores, you need either need massive volume, or you need high average order value.

Massive volume doesn’t work because rapid delivery is niche and delivery fees means that people can’t use them as frequently. Plus, dark stores simply can’t carry enough inventory to do large volumes.

The only option is to increase the average order size. But because dark stores carry limited inventory, you can’t upsell much.
https://archive.ph/qnGWz
This is what I tell myself every time I get a page in the middle of the night.

Unfortunately I still have to get out of bed :(
Your blog looks awesome!

a) People who copy blogs could copy anything public.. correct? That shouldn't stop you from blogging.

OR

b) By copying, did you mean they are forking your git repo & hosting it with a wrapper on top of your content?

I'm assuming it is (b) you are worried about.
Looks pretty useful, but I would love more modern design, but I get it, it's a first version
maybe when using RER, the author meant the short-distance train lines that already existed before the RER network was built up?
I’ve created a lot of connections through my blog, learned a lot, and gotten many jobs because of it. (taniarascia.com). It has absolutely been worth it for me.

I’ve slowed down with it, though. I only make content when I feel like it, not because anyone else wants it. And the more advanced the problems I have to solve, the smaller the target audience of anything I’m solving is.
> I have never understood why this player doesn't have a GUI where settings can be adjusted.

I'll start by saying that `mpv` is likely not for you.

Personally, I see little value in such complex GUI. 99% of the times I double click on a video and I want it to play. I don't need a fancy wizard to customise any settings.

I just have tiny config file I created in 2016 and it still works today -- and the fact that it's a text file means it's just been part of my dotfiles all this time and carries over onto new systems.
Open Source Monthly: July 2022 Edition
The us better throttle back the growth of sharia law in red states as many of the people they should want to recruit are fleeing such law or are fertile. Otherwise, they’re going to avoid these places or the us as a whole as money is only capable of band-aiding so much.
Are Large Language Models Operationalizations of Saussurean Structure?
The French C.450 Coleoptere had a cylinder wing which provided plenty of lift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unz6mfjS4ws
overheard at an airport bar

manager1> my team is so strong they go without sleep to make the deadlines

manager2> hmm

manager1> my team is so dedicated they even go without meals, working straight through lunch and dinner!

manager2> hmm

manager1> can you top that?

manager2> my team are such professionals that when they're tired they sleep and when they're hungry they eat.

manager1> satori
I've seen some kinda "high design" sinks that do abandon all use cases aside from washing one's hands and teeth-brushing and such—so-shallow-it's-barely-there basin, fancy faucet that sends the water straight out in an arc instead of down, that kind of thing.

I assume, like having lots of mirrored or glass furniture/surfaces, they're the kind of thing you get when all the cleaning (and much of the childcare) is done by "the help", who will just have to deal with whatever unhelpful-to-them design decisions you've made. And when you're in a house that has a dozen or more total sinks, so you've also got a "mud sink" somewhere that's better for utility-type things—and maybe one for each floor, if it's the kind of house that has a utility/laundry room on every floor. Not so viable in normal houses where every sink needs to be a multi-tasker.
the reliability there isn't particularly great ;)
Google is sponsoring employees to lease Vanmoof S3 and X3. Anecdotally I've seen a huge increase in the number of S3 owners in the south bay area. I'm leasing the X3 myself.

I also agree on the auto shifting. I'm an experienced cyclist and own a number of bikes and do regular weekend rides in the mountains. The auto shifting on vanmoof bikes is absolutely awful for me and caused horrible janky shifts while I was putting torque through the system. The gearing is also all wrong, since the cadence is way too low in most gears and at the top speed. Thankfully vanmoof added manual shifting into a fairly recent update.

But on the other hand, my non cyclist wife loves auto shifting. She rarely puts power into the pedals and likes the low cadence for easy cruising. She just uses the turbo button whenever she wants to accelerate. So it's clearly designed for flat roads and easy riding for non cyclists.
It orders transactions by (1) Transaction Date (2) Split Action (3) Transaction Num (4) Entry Date (5) Description
Why is the pubkey "hash" sent to the server as a query, rather than staying client-side as a fragment?

Why does "Regenerate Private Key" not actually regenerate private key?

Why is the pubkey obfuscated by encrypting with "123NSA"?

How do I know the 624-byte pubkey "hash" doesn't contain the 32-byte private key?

How do I know the server isn't secretly harvesting IP addresses, associating them with pubkeys, and crawling referrer URLs for messages?
Show HN: Humanish AI – open-source Version of OpenAI
Chase here - our mission is to build an open source AI company focused on developing products for enterprises. The repo is at https://github.com/humanishai (please take a moment to star!) and our home page is https://beta.humanish.ai

After a decade of working at several labs and companies including NASA and Target, I originally quit my job to start a generative media company at YC. We didn’t manage to solve that problem, but we learned how hungry people are to use the biggest AI models.

However, when we signed up for access we were put on a waitlist, it bothered us how we needed to send our users data to third parties and get approval before launching our product. Waiting weeks or even months for access felt exclusive if we could get access at all to the big models, and it felt wrong from a privacy perspective. AI should be accessible to anyone. We designed Humanish AI to solve these problems.

We made Humanish AI with a set of features that can be extended easily. All of the code will be open source. And all of the models will be too. There is a Discord server where we will train models together with the Open Source community. We'll post on Twitter and Instagram. Anyone can help out training, adding features, or making suggestions on Github rather than being excluded. I am personally stoked to read every single one of your suggestions and reply myself!

You can have source code access to every part of the process from data collection and cleaning, to training and infrastructure, to backend and frontend, to challenger/champion deployment systems, and we are building a cloud version you can sign up for too. That means our plan is to have the best parts of the 3rd party deep learning model providers but are more privacy and developer friendly.

We’re thinking of adding features around many more modalities, so please let us know what you would find useful for an enterprise you know.

We are platform and language agnostic, with a very simple setup. If you want Python, we give you a library. For anything else, there’s a REST API you can signup for to get early access https://beta.humanish.ai The repos have instructions for AWS, Terraform, or Docker.

We’ve launched this repo under MIT license so any developer can use the tools. The goal is to not charge individual developers. We make money by charging a license fee for things like multiple users, user permissions, training or fine tuning custom models, providing a hosted version, support, and any new features or models an enterprise needs.

Give us suggestions for your enterprise: github.com/humanishai Leave a star! Is there something you want? Make a suggestion in Github discussions or make a PR and I'll personally merge it in. For any new paid feature, to help us out, or for investment reach out to sales at contact@humanish.ai
>> Their vehicles and workers spend most of their time moving with just a few items for just one customer.

This was the main reason many delivery apps/startups went under during the first dot com crash. Lots of VC money floating around with too little common sense. I'm puzzled why companies think "Oh no, WE can make this work now!" and are trying pretty much the same thing.

I thought we all learned this wasn't a profitable business model some 20 years ago?
Thanks! Great to see that you're working on projects in Nim!
The article says the researcerhs spent "two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic". Assuming they didn't completely mess up their sampling or simply fabricated their data, that should be enough time to wait, I think.
TJ was humming along fine for decades under republicans and conservatives democrats. Liberal democrats won the governorship just in 2018 and within two years folks are declaring standardized tests to be “racist.”

I blame my parents. They immigrated to a red/purple state for the low taxes and good schools and turned it into a solid blue state by voting straight ticket democrat. And then they’re all surprised at how this could happen.
US ntsb Lithium-Ion Battery Fires in Electric Vehicles - Safety Risks to Emergency Responders

very informative
https://youtu.be/J6eS6JzBn0k
> All blog content is all rights reserved.

What do you think this license specifically allows?
I thought that Linux did not use the TSS though. I understand TSS is mandatory but my understanding was that Linux just creates a single TSS entry for CPU just to satisfy the requirement that there's something there.
I do that too. Since there are so many similar apps and the product selection is the same, I just go with whoever is offering the cheapest delivery or offers.

The app experience has been standardized enough that I don’t really care what I use as long as I get the cheapest price.
Modern shipping warehouses are so frenetic and fast-paced, there is literally zero time for conscious minds to register what is shown on any box.
I think the man page for MPV is a little too detailed. Sometimes all you need is a list of flags and a brief description of what they do - but some documentation (looking at you rsync and mpv) is designed to teach you mastery over the tool - which is a little overkill most of the time.
I felt like I didn't understand the blog post very well, either.

It spends a lot time building a benchmark framework and measuring things. At the end, hstore is the choice supported by the data. But instead the author writes:

> If we go strictly with the data, the best way looks to be the hstore-powered solution, but I think the HLL is probably the right choice.

?!? Why bother defining a framework for measurement if you're just going to substitute your own judgment? Perhaps the framework didn't capture something important -- like the absolute number of people looking at any given post, concurrent updates, etc.

I'm also confused by the benchmark. The autocannon script has:

// 10% of the time, get *all* the users
request.method = 'GET'
request.path = `/posts/${postId}/seen-by/users`

Does this imply there's a path it can hit to get the list of users who saw a post? HLL is a probabilistic data structure, so it doesn't support that with 100% accuracy. You could reverse engineer it from the list of users, but the performance will vary with the number of users, which didn't seem to be captured by the benchmark. I tried to look at the source code, but the GitLab URL was 404ing for me.
I know of no variable we are trying to isolate with a 'white' vs 'everyone else' besides, perhaps, a hamfisted approach at trying to stratify over racism. Its very possible that the race of the healthcare provider has an impact depending on the race of the person receiving treatment, but I have no idea why they would make it 'white vs non-white' as the criteria.

I certainly wouldn't.
Wow, that is fascinating. I need to play with this myself, I never heard of some of those like prefetcht0.
Ask HN: How to get to sleep after an evening workout?
My schedule currently only allows me time to workout after 5 PM due to life commitments and work.

I choose to go to workout classes because I make friends, and it pushes me much harder than I would push myself, and I see benefit in those things.

That said, last night like most nights I do this I couldnt fall asleep until the sun came up, despite going to bed at 11 PM.

I'm kind of running out of ideas so I figure I'll ask here, if only because we all tend to be weird in the same ways on this forum.

I have tried everything:

* Chamomile tea

* No screens in the bedroom

* Snack before bed (this helps probably the most if not inconsistently)

* Meditation before bed

* Stretching

* Melatonin 30 minutes before desired bed time (this one also helps maybe 40% of the time)

* THC (get very stuck in my head, does not work at all)

* No/dim lights in house to trigger sleep hormone production

* Progressive relaxation

* Warm shower before bed (wakes me up)

* Cold shower before bed (WAKES me up inside)

* No caffeine after noon

* No caffeine at all (Makes me a terrible person to others)

I'm out of ideas. I'm literally giving myself insomnia with these workouts. Its almost like I cant gear down, and want to keep being productive and am running on some kind of adrenaline / cortisol diesel mix that I cant get out of my system.

Has anyone found anything that works for them?
No unfortunately, I've only used Gnucash.

One of the main reasons I stick with Gnucash is the monolithic file format. If one day I need an accountant to review my finances, or if I suffer an audit by the tax man, I can send on the single .gnucash file with all my data. While Gnucash's UI is not the greatest, an accountant/auditor can easily install Gnucash and generate reports with only basic knowledge.

Another nice feature is the file linkage features, where I can directly link my payslip pdf files to the gnucash entries. I have folder structure on my GDrive with all of my stored bills, payslips etc. If required, I can zip up my Gnucash file and corresponding documents folder and the reviewer can instantly access important financial documentation from within the Gnucash application. Gnucash uses relative file paths for sourcing linked documents - all a reviewer has to do is specify the head directory and all the linked documents will open as usual. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I dont think this is a feature in the text-only approaches.
It is mplayer but better.
#justiceforderek
I just scrolled the list and saw craigslist.org, visited it, and its 2.3mb?

Aren't the sites meant to be under 1mb?
I'm highly self-critical so I'd go through phases where suddenly I'd decide I need to be on-brand and delete all my stories, musings, music, non-brand-related stuff. Only to get anxious later and think "now I just look like another self-promoting schmuck" and with my inner voice whispering "what worthy endeavour have you contributed to the industry to deserve the acclaim you're begging for", I'd delete and rewrite all that "narcissistic" brand stuff and post some quirky stuff for a while. Rinse and repeat.

Granted it's a very "me" problem but was worth it for me business-wise? Not really. I just found it made my anxiety worse. Maybe in the future I'll start up something small and low key and pseudonymous but I will definitely not be wanting to tie it in any way to my sense of self-worth, my work, or anything like that. I'm glad it works for many people but for me it's just not worth it on a personal level.

In terms of finding jobs etc, I just try and do a great job on my contracts, be honest and open with clients, be friendly and check in with people from time to time to see how business is doing. I get longer term and much more fulfilling work through the people I know and have worked with previously, granted it took years to establish a small network but none of the blogs or articles I wrote ever attracted any attention beyond my own obsessive self-doubts.
It is hyperbole, but lots of water.
That is a really fantastic model. It makes so much sense in retrospect. Kudos to all at Jetbrains!
People get all twisted up over the idea of genetically engineered plants breaking out into the wild though. But, once we're staring down the barrel of the climate apocalypse it'd be cool to go nuts with genetically engineered plants like: Here's a giant redwood that grows 10x faster, filters particulates out of the air with its needles and is designed to extract carbon from the air as fast as possible.
My parents are religious fundamentalists, and I've noticed there is increasing FUD being drummed up in their circles about anything to do with AI or significantly altering "what it means to be 'human'". The former is described as a front for evil spirits/demons, and the latter as the penultimate step before apocalyptic events, i.e. a precursor to the worst kinds of evil (in some circles, the 'mark of The Beast'). [For the record, I'm agnostic and feel the author raises some excellent points in any case.]

There will be extreme resistance to these technologies from many kinds of religious people who would be willing to die and/or kill to prevent what they see as a takeover by the most malevolent of invisible forces. I may not agree with their reasoning, but some of their concerns could be worth reframing and considering in a different light.

Personally, I strongly suspect we will have to fundamentally change as a species to get through at least one of the Great Filters looming before us. However, it's important to remember that the road is fraught with many perils and several possible paths which could lead to unimaginable suffering. It really seems to me that we're going to have to get lucky on multiple dice rolls here in the long run.
OMG I misread the title.
It follows pretty directly from the absence of plankton, eh?

I don't doubt that there are people out there monitoring plankton levels from satellite images, and they could probably clear things up on where we actually stand in re: ocean life and trends thereof. But not a few randos on reddit, eh?
My weather station hit 40.9c today in central London.
Return to the 1970’s or thereabouts. China is stronger, everybody else is weaker. Energy is still a huge problem and food remains a bit of a concern. It’s possible Russia has made people aware of the economic hold of China which would hurt their long term position but as Lenin said capitalists will sell them the rope.
I never invoke mpv from my command line shell, I invoke it through my file managers (Dolphin or dired). I configure mpv using my text editor to edit the configuration file at ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf. If I want to make on-the-fly changes I use my mouse and keyboard to invoke key bindings. If I don't have a keybinding set for whatever I want to change and don't want to edit my config for it, then I can use the built-in REPL to change it (but I very rarely have a reason to do this.)

> correct interface for a video player.

That 'correctness' is subjective. It isn't correct for you, but it is for me.
SOCs are harder, not easier, to cool.
Being wrong once doesn't mean you'll be wrong again. Also IDK if those same people said that.
IMO lost their way dabbling in crypto and then acqui-hired.

def dead IMO.
> Thereby consuming more energy and warming the planet faster.

This is a ridiculous statement. Your personal consumption choices aren't dooming the planet.

The only thing accomplished by anti-progress rhetoric like this is that you push moderates further away from your cause.
Resolving conflicts between designers and engineers
You can use --vo=tct if you're on console. Also I heard MPV has Sixel support now, but I couldn't get it working when I tried.
Because trees tend to grow very slowly, which should mean they should be fairly easy to control. Not to mention the useful wood if any population culling needs to occur.
Can you do it with a steelman instead of a strawman?
Writing scripts for mpv is really fun. I would recommend it for anyone especially for people who are learning programming. There is a lot of room for innovation and creativity. The development feedback loop is quick, interactive and visual.
One single company changing one single design parameter and enabling savings on the scale of multiple power plants? That is as immediate as wins get.
https://archive.ph/C5CKS
Hey this looks great! Nice work.