skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the technology gatekeeping to be appalling. How can people make the argument that this is “blatant theft from Greg Rutkowski“ but turn a blind eye to Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E, etc?

At least Unstable Diffusion isn’t predominantly used for the same fantasy/illustrations that people love to generate on the other services.
> - Major world leader dies in plane crash in France in March. Part of an attempted coup.

This is, errrr, very specific.
How do you know which admins to trust?
If you are trying to optimize for income, then go for it. If it doesn't work out, try something else. There's an abundance of opportunity and not enough people willing to take (measured) risks, so if you're smart and willing to take on sufficient but not excessive risk, net over the long term you will succeed.

If you are risk averse, or poor at assessing risk, or not very smart, then don't chase money: you will most likely end up poor, unless you're incredibly lucky, which you cannot control.
I'd say that if you want to write well, read good writers.

There's different styles of writing, for different purposes. Entertainment, intellectual debate, instruction etc. You didn't say what you wanted to write about.

What's a good writer? Well, someone who writes well, to your taste, and in your domain. Or if you want to write commercially, someone who is commercially successful; whether or not they write well, I suppose.

For many purposes, a knowledge of logic and rhetoric is probably going to help.

It's hard to say - you haven't given much away.
Ask HN: Is Game Theory just Polemology (study of war)?
Obviously, games are more friendly than war and are more like good-hearted skirmishes. I just had the random thought that Game Theory is kind of silly when you realize that it is just the study of war under friendlier circumstances.
>No one is trying to hack the attention of Mastodon users for profit, no one is bombarding us with ads.

This is what happens when a new community springs up. It finds and audience, it grows because it’s a safe, interesting place, it gets critical mass, and then people become desperate to exploit it - because it’s where everyone is. It’s a newly discovered mine full of ore.

It’s not that no one is trying to hack users attention, or advertise. They just haven’t figured out how to do it yet. Because of its nature, Mastodon might end up being a little more resilient, but who knows. The instance I’m on is fairly small and they’re already feeling the pinch of hosting expenses.
I agree that learning to work through boredom is an important skill. But I also think the internet has made it substantially less important because so much more knowledge has been made available in non-boring ways.

I work through boredom not because I like boredom and not because it's "foundational" to somebody else, but because that's the only way for me to accomplish a goal. So to the extent that somebody's particular work still requires it, I think we're going to have to find new ways to structure things to bring that experience forward in time for them.

I think the other option is to restructure things so that being bored is even less necessary. For example, the common way to think about "foundational" concepts is to structure education with a lot of boring and apparently pointless stuff up front, the promise being that it will pay off later. To me that looks like privileging the convenience and perspective of the instructor over that of the student. Can we instead swap it around so that "fundamentals" are taught in slices in close relation to purposeful activity?

As to the Montessori question, I think it depends on your understanding of boredom. My understanding is that as the student gets older, they take on larger and larger projects, so they learn how to deal with the sort of boring that comes from purposeful hard work, but not the sort of boredom that comes with blindly following authority. To me those feel pretty different, and I might more accurately call the first "tedious" rather than boring.
Pareto Distributions are Everywhere. Very few Stars have most of the Planets. Very few Planets have most of the Life. Very few Humans have most of the money.

Even Most of the Universe is "Empty Space", with astonishingly little of ANYTHING actually being "Solid Matter".

In a simulation where everyone starts equal, and starts trading, money distribution naturally becomes skewed towards few agents owning most of it.

Inequality is an inevitable result of Nature in many cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
It's more subtle than that. The AIs and algorithms are being employed to influence our behavior (in the most common case - to make us purchase things). We manifest AI into the real world through our behavior.
It's literally not though. The image in the tweet shows a paper that's cited nearly 3 times more than the paper that the tweet is about
Missed opportunity
James Lindsay goes into the history and mechanics of woke starting with Herbert Markusa and the start of the new left in the 60s. It's a long long back story. If you want to get deep in the weeds as he goes line by line through all the founding works of the new left you can listen to his excellent "New Discourses" podcast. Thousands upon thousands of professional activists have been trained in these teachings, done PHD theses on these subjects and infiltrated vast networks of charitable foundations and higher education in their so-called "long march through the institutions" to spread the woke ideology and create generations of ready-made grievance entrepreneurs.
The web based reader will refuse to display some books, unfortunately.

In my case this was the sort of book than can be only realistically read on a big screen tablet, not on a Kindle.

Well, I've shrugged and downloaded the pdf from libgen
Reading good writing is the first step towards improving your written output. Observe the techniques that resonate with you and incorporate them into your style. It will feel clunky at first, like any new exercise, but over time will become more fluid and seamless. Reading also builds a large vocabulary, which is essential to achieve fluid prose.

Read the best authors for the intended style, be it story-writing, critical analysis or business communication. It all depends on the style of writing you would like to master. It's theor techniques that you want to emulate and make your own.

Write to evoke an emotion. There must be a purpose to your writing. If to inform, guide the reader to an ah-ha moment. Your writing will be memorable if the reader feels something.

Cut fluff. Every word must have a purpose. Less is more.

Good writing is about refining your own voice. Write as you speak, speak as you write, and both will improve.

Ultimately, have fun with it. Experiment with different styles. Writing is an art, it requires creativity. This must be cultivated and grown. In time, over many poorly crafted drafts, a unique voice, all your own, will emerge.

Best of luck!
Somebody smarter than me once quipped that measuring a software developer's performance based on lines of code is akin to measuring aerospace engineer's performance based on the mass he adds to the vehicle.
I assumed that anuone who knows more about Christmas than the tune to "jingle bells" knew christ was not born on Christmas day. It's not even a 1/365 chance either since there's some evidence it was during the fall months.

The census decree by Caesar that Jesus parents traveled to their city of birth for was probably not issued when it would have been difficult to travel in Winter. Shepherd keep their sheep out in open fields in that region from early spring to late fall. Pretty light evidence but should still shifts your priors a bit.
I've got an open source Twitter and Mastodon app that's as vanilla as possible. Python + HTMx.

Just added video support this morning. Total page load is 200kB. Double-click loads the video:

https://twitter.com/iSpoogeDaily/status/1607038383318081537

I'm releasing every week or two to Glitch unless I can get more funding. Latest version is on https://glitch.com/~hogumathi, there's supporter links and licensing info in the readme (public releases are AGPL).
Wishing corporations of the world to be weened off Windows is like Immortan Joe telling the rabble below not to get hooked on water.
Complains about tracking, uses google assets.
It’s like IRC you need to pick the lowest latency server
How to Polish CSS?
I've came to deep realization that CSS is the most important thing for building a website. It holds the key to becoming full stack developer or just a backend developer. It's everything in frontend.

Sooner or later, you'll need vanilla css. You can't depend on bootcrap or failwindcss. Your site looks like same if you do so. And many components aren't available there.

There are components like carousel, cards hover etc etc..How to polish all these skills?

Is there a course for it?

I try to practice it like randomly, but there are no tutorials. I'm not at a phase where I can read complex long code and decode it.
When I last was looking at signing up, one of the top recommended servers was for furries. Maybe grandma discovers something about herself very late in life, but mostly likely that's going to be a hard bounce.
The hit rate of AI is still in that phase of being right almost all the time and being spectacularly wrong 2% of the time. So actually pretty close to a good DevOps engineer.
> - NATO directly intervenes in Ukraine and pushes Russia out. WW3 trends on Mastodon.

You can do this right now with 4 friends depending on the instance!
'Seems like every search engine this year got markedly worse'

Maybe the sum total of available content got worse instead?
Will 2023 be better, I suspect not.
- It turns out that a shocking amount of TSLA’s value was tied up in Elon’s personal brand. Tesla keeps crashing, hits a low of ~$50 (it’s currently at $123)

- The rumours about Putin having a serious medical condition are true, he dies of natural causes in 2023. Russia pulls out of Ukraine shorty after

- The recession ends, though not until late 2023
Just pick one and try, there's no commitment anyway. You can access content from other servers anyway
Why do you think reporting about the war is awarded with a one way ticket to Gulag right now?

Putin controls all media, that's why most Russians still belive they have been attacked by NATO and nazis and are only defending themselves.
Switching to a different password manager now would do nothing to address the concern that someone has an older copy of your password database and has cracked it.

The way to address that particular concern is to change the passwords of all your services themselves. If you do that, it would a good time to change password managers too—just save the new passwords in the new manager.

Another approach would be to turn on MFA for your services, if you have not yet. Then even a cracked password will not be enough for a bad guy to get in.

All that said, if you have been using a long and complex master password, it’s unlikely that it could be successfully decrypted in the first place.
Stable Diffusion removed Greg Rutkowski et al from the training data per their request, Unstable Diffusion is a project to fine-tune them back in.
Fair points, if I'm expecting an email though and don't get one I just check logs, which I do regularly anyway as often mail isn't delivered due to sender's provider incompetence (dkim is hard apparently) - but I guess it also depends if you're expecting mail from random people in which case you'd probably want to be a bit more lenient yeah.

Also re Gmail etc that is also true, but the difference there is it's limited to a couple whereas do also emits general abuse under the guise of "researchers" without identity or contact details etc - until they stop doing that they'll forever remain dropped entirely
Having the controls is great if you’re a technical person who knows what to do with them.

99.9%+ of people aren’t that technical person. Safe defaults need to be used and kept up to date for them.
https://github.com/guysoft/PleromaPi/

you are in luck... i've used this and it works out of the box
Jaynes has a good chapter on the topic of the distinction between randomness and ignorance within the Bayesian framework [1] in "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science".

The distinction between the two is that in the context of ignorance your belief state is very unstable and susceptible to change with the injection of new information. On the other hand, in the context of a "random" event like a coin flip, your belief state is very stable and unsusceptible to change with the injection of new information.

Whereas you may initially apply the same probability to both a coin flip and the outcome of a wrestling match, those probabilities will evolve in very different ways as you acquire new information such as inspecting the coin/combatants. The probability of the outcome of the coin flip is unlikely to change at all, whereas the probability of the outcome of the wrestling match could change substantially.

This can be modeled by assigning the probability of an outcome to a continuous rate parameter, and assigning a probability distribution to that rate parameter. The entropy of that probability distribution can describe how ignorant your belief state is, and hence how susceptible it is to change.

[1] http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cc18i.pdf
given the number of reporters and public figures that joined Mastodon in the past 30 days that seems to counter your narrative.
Boogie, Robo-Boogie
China stages 'strike drills' around Taiwan, citing provocation
Yeah. I mean I don't know what to do with Mastdon, and I have a few Linux servers in my closet. That's partly because I haven't used it, but more that Mastodon is still in the process of becoming whatever it's going to be now that Twitter is burning down. The story is still incoherent because the reality has not yet cohered.
I think the implication is that people don't know they're AI. Everyone knows Hatsune Miku is a fictional character, namely due to vocaloid.
And the reason for this is because Vitamin K (a major clotting agent) is at its highest levels in humans around the 8th day of their life. Ancient societies didn't know what Vitamin K was, but through trial and error they no doubt discovered that the best day to circumcise a child was therefore on the 8th day of their life.

Since circumcision represents "a new beginning, a new covenant" it made sense for this to begin the New Year. Or conversely, counting back from January 1st it would make sense to have Jesus being born on December 25th.
Repeating a falsehood does not make it true.
Yes. If you're not logged in with Google, you won't get these prompts in the first place.

edit: Some comments below suggesting this is mistaken. Sorry, I hadn't noticed that in the past.
My bad, maybe they were investing in it and pushing to their customers? I recall some ibm connection
> How cash strapped?

Zero budget. Hosting on services like AWS can cost a lot.
"Fire Upon The Deep" was great until it got to the part about the dog kingdom.
"pick any instance" ignores that you're potentially subjecting yourself to really bad moderation, future defederation/partitioning, having your friends' posts hidden from you, or even (in the worst case) not being able to migrate your account to another instance later
It's fine if the public barely understands web browsers, so long as they are not journalists or other people with a facade of seriousness and stature writing articles explaining how web browsers work and why they're better or worse than gopher browsers or whatever.
- Ukraine war spills into a mini world war 3. this will be the biggest news of 2023

- tech companies layoffs etc seems bad in retrospect and companies start hiring heavily

- twitter is back with bang

- every car is now EV ready for market in next few years

- india prepares for a massive election in 2024 and facebook pumps money into india

- covid is normalized

- Trump is no more leading candidate for GOP, Biden not a contendor for elections as well
> The official narative is: China bad, America good.

This isn’t accurate. The official narrative is that America’s way of life is under threat from China. This is just true. China would say the same thing, and that would be true too.

There is an assumption that most US citizens prefer America to China, also true. Can we assume that most Chinese nationals prefer China to America? Presumably.
This is probably how the fediverse will turn out too
deepfakes and pencil sketched nudes are thoroughly different in multiple ways
How to make a pitch-deck and pitch anything in the world
There are plenty of templates for pitch-decks on the internet. Each founder who made at least one pitch-deck is ready to give a bundle of pieces of advice. Each fund and accelerator has its template. But there is no still no answer to “How to make a pitch-deck to make an investor answer “yes!”
Usually it's

> We've actively worked on making the website a worse experience than the app

e.g. by constantly nagging you do download the app
Be careful about the rosy picture he's painting for himself and others here. When he wrote this he was probably already rich and into the pontification phase of his career. I'm going to go ahead and bet had plenty of ways to escape his kids when desired, plenty of help with childcare, etc. If you are really just looking at your phone while you're at home, great, but if you are (like many people here , I'd guess) interested in doing creative or focus-intensive, non-kid things while at home, those things are seriously going to suffer when you have kids.
If that's a genuine question: don't think too much about it. Just join the same one where your friends are, pick one with a cool domain, or roll a dice or something.
It's not a moral problem, the morality angle is an excuse, these are just artists who don't want to be out of a job because of technological advances
I make good use of my F12 button and Layout debugging in Chrome. Most browsers should have a debug mode, and then allow you to hover over CSS elements to select them. You can even edit CSS/ HTML on an a page to test edits. I'm fond of selecting a setting and then hitting arrow down to cycle through all options to see what they do.

w3schools.com has a lot of useful info and interactive thtorials.

chatGPT it also fairly knowledgable, but I've definitely been left in useless chat loops 2-3 times if chatGPT is outdated/not knowing something important is relevant. In those cases, formatting my chatGPT questions into Google-compatible (simpler) questions got me better answers.
I find that people being confused by federated network really telling on what it mistake it has been to let a few companies getting there hand on most of the content creation and distribution.
I don't if it's the fact of having known the prime time of IRC, BBS, Usenet, and overall the web being a network of diverse communities, but I'm much more confortable with Mastodon than Twitter.
Not having the possibility to host the service myself feels wrong. It's not that I want to, but I should be able to.
When $100k electric cars go racing down the HOV lane on 101, you have multiple lanes of stop and go ICE cars. A complete inversion of the efficiencies of each platform.
I'd say latency doesn't really matter with Mastodon, no.
Yeah, I don't know when the drive started failing, so in practice my backups are probably all screwed too. My only option would be to get a spare drive, restore a backup to it, then do a block level diff of the current and backup volumes and try to figure out whether any of the differences are file corruption.
> ZFC hasn't been "replaced" by anything.

My experience is the opposite: ZFC hasn’t been “replaced” in the sense that it never was - we always used an intermediate language of established theory which we compiled to ZFC. ZFC never formalized all of mathematics, as the high level congruences that drove category theory were always developed on an independent framework. Further, computers always were grounded in type theory and diagram equivalence (literally, the correspondence between circuit diagrams and type theories).

> But the study of set theory has led to large number of metamathematical successes, such as forcing and the independence of the continuum hypothesis.

Are there any which don’t exclusively apply to the mechanics of set theory itself?

> The first two things you listed are not metamathematical statements.

I noted fruits ranging from applied mathematics (eg, computer products) to meta mathematics; I think it’s important to understand applications as well.

> OK, so what's the actual concrete statement an ordinary mathematician should be interested in?

That the equivalence of algebra/geometry commutes with the equivalence of proof/computation has two practical effects:

- we can encode proof engines as difference equations to run in GPUs

- we can extract some “effective type theory” from difference equations interpreted as diagrams, which preliminary results suggest also relates to convolutions
The mass attacks on gay groups we’ve seen to date resemble hate crimes more than politically motivated terror attacks, so “political tension” isn’t really the right term.

The issue is that the right wing has steered very hard into anti-gay rhetoric in the last couple of cycles which convinces the sort of deranged people who commit mass hate attacks that they are doing something for a cause.

Combine that with the fetishization and availability of military style weapons and it’s pretty easy for a lone miscreant to kill a lot of people fast.
According to ChatGPT (sorry!)

Give me a summary of `Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[indent="0"]')).map(a => a.parentNode.querySelector('.commtext').innerText).filter(a => a.length > 10 && a.length < 550).map(a => a.replace(/reply$/, '')).join('\n');`

«These predictions discuss various expected events and developments in the year 2023. These include the rise of robotic beings and the end of human rule, changes in language and animal treatment, the rise in enrollment for history classes, the use of artificial intelligence in video game development, the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in political leadership, the decline of single-page applications and client-side JavaScript, the potential for conflict between humans and artificial intelligence, and infrastructure changes within the technology industry. There are also predictions of changes in social media platforms, the adoption of Rust programming language, the decline of Tesla, and the end of the recession. Some of the predictions are cautious or negative, while others are more optimistic. It is not clear if these predictions have been accurately fulfilled or not.»

No idea why it gets the "tense" of the predictions wrong.

edit: larger sample
Exactly, these flaws feel like the kind of thing that pops up due to a conflict between product UX people and security people. Surely they had at least 1 engineer who was aware that unencrypted website URLs, EBC Mode, and not upgrading work factors was a bad idea. They just likely lost out to some product owner who thought displaying favicons, detecting reused passwords on the server, and not bother the user to upgrade on login were more important than security.

At big companies, too often do the people in charge of the product seem to forget what core product really is.
KeePass with the database stored locally on your device(s).

I then use syncthing to synchronize the database between my devices (laptop, phone, in-house server, backup).

The data is all under my control and does not reside on any third party computer or data storage. The only exposure to third parties is when the database is synced between devices... but at that point it is encrypted and ephemeral.
Anyone know who designed the SUN logo. It is a very clever arrangement of the characters S U and N. You can see SUN from any angle; and it also looks like electronic circuit. Very clever design.