skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found the greatest success with ChatGPT when I use it as a learning / exploration tool. If there is a topic I don't know much about, I can state the question in a fairly stupid way and ChatGPT will give me vocabulary options to explore.

For example, you could describe a probabilistic process to it and ask it what kind of distribution / process it is. Then, based on the extensive words you get back, you can continue your research on Google.

As such I think search engine integration is a really great idea, looking something like the follows

-> user: Hey searh engine, I have a thing that can happen with certain probability of success, and it runs repeatedly every 15 minutes. Could you tell me what kind of process this is and how to calculate the probability of 5 consecutive events in 24 hours?

-> engine: It sounds like you are describing a Bernoulli process. In a Bernoulli process, there are only two possible outcomes for each trial: success or failure. The probability of success is constant from trial to trial, and the trials are independent, meaning that the outcome of one trial does not affect the outcome of any other trial.

Here are some results on how to calculate probability of consecutive successes in a bernouli trial (result list follows)

(Note: if you try to ask this from ChatGPT it will not actually give you a correct answer for the calculation itself as there are some subtleties in the problem. But search results of "bernoulli process" will tend to contain very reliable information on the topic)

Edit: You could even just say "could you give me good search queries to use for the following problem" and use the results of that.
> If I am understanding this correctly, GDPR means that you must legally accept free riders, ie. you cannot deny service if they don't want it.

Facebook is absolutely free to charge everyone.

But yes certain business models (like Facebook’s apparently) are not legal under the GDPR. That’s the point.
It's a nice idea. I'm going to dig a little deeper in the design and developer experience choices.

That being said, I am a little curious -- what is the intended use case here? The reason I am asking is because I've been doing lots of web-development, with Go as a primary backend lang, for the last 9 years but never have I seriously felt the need to do serve the UI from Go. I guess there is some advantage reducing n (number of tools/languages in a stack) - but is there any other motivation behind it?
This is part of what Spotify did to determine urllib3 as an award recipient: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/04/announcing-the-spo...
Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?
I don't like it. It looks like early php. This doesnt mean it is bad.

I'm working on a web framework as well based on wasm in the browser. It's perfect except it's not really usuable/production ready due to high memory consumption of the go->wasm implementation. My hope is that one day there will be support for GC in wasm and somehow the issue will go away.
> Of course a "like" or any kind of data that is core to the service doesn't infringe the GDPR

I’ve heard many “of course X or Y” pertaining to GDPR that turned out wrong. Because it’s a law interpreted by twenty-seven separate DPAs.

GDPR’s aims are good. But there is legitimate criticism in its design.
Apparently in the historical Indian version, the non-noble units were infantry, cavalry, chariots, and elephants, which makes a bit more sense.

Edit: a funny note, “rook” appears to come from the Persian word for chariot. Which makes a whole lot more sense than the little bird that shares the English name.
A friend used to do ultramarathons. If we were out for a run and she didn't wish to run a hill, she would say, "ultra rules", and we would walk the hill. She covered 100 miles in less than 24 hours in one race I helped with, and she had not the least self-consciousness about walking.
Bravo. That is definitely probably the only true 'hacker badge' that I would really want. I would wear that little patch on my jacket at the little meeting for sure.
> Because I don't think this happens quite as much in other fields, like architecture, cooking or construction.

It may not be as obvious in architecture because of the time scales involved, but it has been trending in the same direction for decades and centuries.
> Edit: wow @popehat deleted all their tweets!

Yeah, he wrote about why here: https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter

He's on Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@Popehat) and coincidentally re-tweeted (or whatever the Mastodon equivalent is) the author of this piece a couple days ago talking about this topic.
That's probably closer to sysadmins magic, not average developer way of thinking when debugging.
ELRS can easily go 25km for the radio link, and DJI O3 goes ~24km for the video.

For radio it basically doesn't make sense to use anything other than ELRS any more, it's years ahead from anything else.
> Co-heads is always a subtext for executive disfunction

It's actually worked quite well at Oracle over the decades.

Benioff, who is former Oracle, hasn't perfected it like Larry has.
That's not what this case was about, though. It's about whether FB is allowed to log your behavior on their properties and use that to choose which ads to show you.
Sure, and Jack Dorsey was Block/Square & Twitter at same time and we see how that worked out. Also Bluesky which is like a Decentralized Twitter, the thing he just helped sell to Elon? All while being a big BTC pumper..

So, I think you can replace "4" with "N where N>1"
As the other commenter mentions, tactile signing is the most common. There can be differences between that and the normal sign language used in the country. When I've communicated with deafblind individuals using tactile signing, I have normally just used the normal sign language for Ireland (Irish Sign Language) while they held my hands. It's a highly personal (and can be emotional) form of communication.
No because the revenue per employee multiple has the employee costs scaled on both sides of the ratio.
Cocaine does the same thing but it only lasts ~20 minutes. Ozempic is a once a week injection that curbs appetite and makes the user feel fuller faster. It also comes in a pen (like an epipen) and is injected into fat stores so the user probably won't have "track marks."
> If I am understanding this correctly, GDPR means that you must legally accept free riders, ie. you cannot deny service if they don't want it.

Nope, that's not correct.

Edit: it is correct. Rarely I'm so happy to be wrong.
No Collusion! But if I was hiring a lot to keep people from joining my competitors, I’d also pay attention to competitors’ layoffs and take the opportunity to soften the labor market.
Are you seriously saying that Apple wiped all your “friend’s” files - completely obliterated what could have been unique work or memories - without even telling her, or asking permission first. Then effectively said “seeya!”

This doesn’t even remotely match any experience I’ve had with Apple or Apple devices in almost 25 years of use.

I’d check back with your “friend” and make sure she was telling you the whole truth.

PS: the serial number of her laptop is printed on the bottom of the case - which should address this very, very strange story implying the Apple staff slipped her a dodgy beat-up old laptop. The number should match her invoice and the box (but I guess your friend doesn’t have an invoice or a box, or probably any other way of identifying her laptop other than ‘stickers’)
The "we over hired" line is mostly made up. Many of these companies did not substantially increase their head count. This has more to do with improving P&L numbers to get their stock up, since most companies' revenue is tanking currently.
"The WHO recommends healthier diets and physical activity to reduce obesity, but medication might help when lifestyle changes aren’t enough. The new drugs mimic hormones known as incretins, which lower blood sugar and curb appetite."

Isn't eating less food (whether your appetite is curbed or not) a lifestyle change? It's not that lifestyle changes aren't enough. It's that the size of your change wasn't big enough.
I don’t see why the history of discovery of something should be a particularly good way to rediscover it.

As a concrete example, if someone asks “how do we know the Earth is round” or “how do we know the planets orbit the sun”, one could go through ways to figure this out with math and minimal technology. But one could also point out that we have spaceships and probes and have actual pictures! You can see the Earth from a satellite or the ISS or the moon, and you can see the planets from space!

I agree that a process of rediscovery can be a useful teaching technique, but that doesn’t mean that rediscovering something the way it was first known to have been discovered is the right approach.
Hey Matt,

This is awesome. Congratulations and best of luck. I remember using it and we communicated (email), about your time in Iraq and how your built[1] Preceden. You upgraded my account while I was toying with few ideas and using it to plan timelines.

Nice stumbling on it again there.

1. https://mattmazur.com/2016/01/04/building-a-startup-in-45-mi...
> So, you're addicted, maybe not even because of your own fault

Yeah, my heart goes out for all those underprivileged Harvard/Cornell/Rutgers students with loaded parents, who at some point in their ivy league degree and due no fault of their own, suddenly find themselves at a point where they just have to take up drug-dealing.

> And he didn't even harm anybody else.

It's a she. And chances are, if you're dealing heroin, you are probably harming someone.
Ahhh, so perhaps the position indicates the frequency and the brightness indicates the magnitude of the frequency? That makes sense - in that case the atricle's approach feels more like you said, a manually applied band pass or comb filter, i.e. it either removes or attenuates signals within certain frequency ranges.
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I understand, but appetite/hunger seems to be just a part of the issue. The second part being people (myself included) using food to comfort ourselves. I feel bad -> I seek tasty food to comfort myself, even if I am not hungry. The whole candy-market is built around. How are drugs to address this?
> You don't get needle marks from these sorts of small dosage subcutaneous injection.

Ah, my only experience is with things like vaccines and drawing blood; those marks last around a week on me.
Ask Jeeves 2.0!
Congressman-elect to be sworn in on the Constitution – and a Superman comic
Your argument is an assertion of the existence of a soul, but with extra steps. I've seen no evidence that the mind is anything other than computation, and computation is substrate-independent. Dualists have been rejecting the computational mind concept for centuries, but IMHO they've never had a grounding for their rejection of materialism that isn't ultimately rooted in some unfounded belief in the specialness of humans.
According to gdpr they must still offer the same service regardless of the user opt-in. Remains to be seen if FB can follow the GDPR there. Also not sure whether that point of GDPR is compatible with other kinds of trade agreements.

Probably they will go for "Please choose between 50 horrible autoplaying spammy ads or 4 personalized"
> When you take large language models, their inner states at each step move from one emotional state to the next.

No they really don’t, or at least not “emotional state” as defined by any reasonable person.
> The AI might have solved structures according to the rules it’s been told,

Wanna know how I know you don't know how that stuff works?

You don't tell these things rules. At all. Nothing even slightly resembling that happens at any point in the process. That's kind of the whole point of machine learning.

> but are they accurate with what happens in reality?

For any given protein, AlphaFold usually predicts a structure very close to what you get for the isolated protein from crystallography or cryo-EM or whatever. It massively outperforms computational chemistry or any other "rules-based" system.

Does it predict every conformation a protein might adopt in vivo? No. But those are not "protein structures known to biology", because guess where biology gets its "known" structures? It does predict the known structures. Yes, including ones that weren't in its training data.
Something I've always wondered: when you sign up for a proprietary "intelligence management" platform like Palantir Gotham, do they give you access to a bunch of OSINT datasets they scrape and manage themselves, to combine with your proprietary intelligence dataset for enhanced understanding? Sort of like how BigQuery has "BigQuery public datasets"?

If not, seems like a missed opportunity for value-add / lock-in.

And if they do provide such data, it'd be nice if one such platform would make either the scrapers, or the scraped data, open-source. It's all just cleaned+normalized forms of already-public data, after all. (Like how the Yellow Pages could always be seen as a cleaned+normalized form of phone numbers listed in public view on shop windows.)

This is on my mind recently after noticing that there's actually no public dataset of "all WHOIS data for every domain on the Internet", despite WHOIS data being something explicitly designed for public querying. Almost certainly, intelligence agencies compile such a dataset themselves in order to fill in some gaps in cybercrime network-analysis graphs. Almost certainly multiple of them do, such that the number of crawlers doing it probably hurts the WHOIS services. Almost certainly the WHOIS services would be better off partnering with one of them to act as an "official crawler" to build such an index for everyone's use.
> Users must be able to withdraw consent at any time and Meta may not limit the service if users choose to do so.

Not in this decision they did not. Meta is required to provide service even if you don't agree to the transaction.
Ditching concrete for earth to build a cleaner future
Great writeup. This is true for many if not all things humans consume.

People who make food to meet their needs vs ornate recipes and styles.

People who have a Toyota corolla from 1993 that gets them to work and back vs a Maserati.

Knife owners

Gun owners

Home owners

...
> This, among other things of course, helped sentence millions of people to poor and deprived lives for centuries.

Wealth inequality is much worse in the US than Europe, so relatively speaking, "poor" in EU is still much better than "poor" in the US.
HN does have ads: they look like posts, but you can't vote or comment on them. They're job ads for YC companies.

You can see a list of recent ones at https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
>will this mean retroactively resetting ALL users to no?

Yes, because Meta does not have explicit, informed consent from existing users.
And no one will ever give them permission. Why would you?
I use the same concept in Emacs/EXWM to launch/jump/bury X11 and native buffers, + mod.+keys for extras like F5 run notmuch, C-F5 access unread tag directly, M-F5 compose a new message etc.

That's why I damn HATE the disappearance of classic MANY-keys keyboards...
Every rule has an exception, and maybe Larry has perfected something there or has a very well managed ego.

Most Co-head situations I see are either higher-ups setting up a power struggle between 2 newly appointed co-heads, or an existing head pretending to step back by appointing someone as their co-head who they can sabotage in real-time.
I guess I don't understand the unpredictability argument. Everything that I've read since GDPR passed 4+ years ago has predicted that Facebook's data harvesting would be illegal. It was a very straightforward and predictable consequence of the law.
The users also provide all of the content.
In Arion, dependencies between services are still implicit, as at the end of the day what you're doing is generating a docker-compose.yml file.

There are other tools that model things more like the OP is thinking, though! With Disnix, you have an explicit service model where you declare those dependencies.

See: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/203347995/download/2/manual/ or maybe Sander's blog posts on it
Show HN: Finetuned StableDiffusion on product photography and launched Pebblely
'Feels like summer': warm winter breaks temperature records in Europe
Providing ads based on who you like and follow still falls under this GDPR decision. It is considered personal data under GDPR.

Maybe whether FB serves these users and the cost-benefit analysis of the value add should be up to FB, rather than mandated by the government.
> before the software actually works

How is the UI not part of the software?

This is what people get wrong. UI work is not mapping a DB to a screen and aligning things with CSS.
Ask HN: Simple web and native app in a unified code base?
What are some preferred ways to build and deploy a simple app (like a ToDo list) in a unified codebase across the web & native app platforms?

The ideal solution will have:

1) a single backend programming language

2) a unified (but fluid) frontend across web & native

3) portable, no vendor lock-in

4) open source, no fees (outside of hosting)
Looks like it stole Alex Ross style.
Could you comment on why you use both pyright and pure?
To add to this, Juan Tamariz paved the road for other great (and arguably better) spanish magicians to follow him, and it's worth watching them to see how different and amazing Spanish magic is. To name a few check Dani DaOrtiz, Mario Lopez, Rúbi Ferez, and Juan Colas on Youtube and Instagram.
Reset all preferences to 'no' for affected users, and ask them on the next login whether they would like this or not. Simple.
The post pandemic layoff was nowhere near 10%
Do you have any further news around SW collapse? From what I read (the news) slack would not have helped at all. #air issues > hey guys my luggage software crashed

With 50 same emojis attached.

SW was a systemic failure
Yeah, I struggle to keep track of where I am reading when HN stretches from sea to shining sea on my ultrawide.
Just goes to show how weird the people wearing blue shirts under red jackets were in the training images.
Since other people are asking about related tools...

Do you know about a tool for managing personas (vulgo sockpuppets)? E.g. a little database where you store facts about fake identities: Name, age, location, hobbies, favorite topics, and so on. Maybe if you click on an identity, it will connect you with a preconfigured proxy or VPN and allow you to post as them on websites.

I don't really have a use case for myself. I'm just curious because I read a couple of years ago that the US Army was developing something like that for propaganda, and wonder if the OSINT or sousveilance people have come up with a version. A less nefarious use of such technology would be to keep your (real) online personalities separate.
> Edit: It didn't help that "including" was probably an autocorrect from "inducing"

Damn the awful auto-correct on my phone! Thank you for pointing that out, it certainly made the intended meaning less obvious.
Indeed, this case was started on the day the GDPR came in to force.
Sulphur? My local hardware store sells flours of sulphur for gardeners. It's used for acidulating soil, and for combatting some kinds of fungus. I don't know why anyone would want to regulate the sale of elemental sulphur; it's not toxic, caustic or explosive. It's less flammable than a piece of wood.
> go outside and an AI will never be able to compete with you in that regard.

Why not?

> humans aren't text

Was Helen Keller human?
This is what Microsoft does, basically. Each month, $10,000 is donated to some project. Anyone who has contributed to any open source repo during that month is eligible to vote. There's a good nomination system, too. The write-ups for each candidate are done by employees.
It was pretty clever of the EU to pass GDPR, as it provides them with a continuous revenue stream of fines from American companies, while being effectively impossible to comply with. I worked at a company that completely rewrote their policies and stack to comply and they still get hit with fines.
If I promise never to call him "Doctor" again will you look through the referenced papers with me?

I just woke up, I've got my coffee, and I'm ready to go...

- - - -

Gatekeeping the term "Doctor" is uninteresting, and it doesn't make your side of the argument look good. You have nothing stronger to dun him on?

If you really want to focus on character assassination rather than truth and science, well here you go: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-29-mn-26470-... Have fun.

I'll be busy reading papers. You know where to find me if you change your mind.
Now you can think about functional things; with the laptops from that era (I had the 16 inch 2019 macbook pro), I had a hard time making it barely usable, let alone being able to think what could be nicer about it; nicer could be if it actually worked properly.
I do wonder why we have odd situations like a fridge inside a house that's using energy to keep stuff cool because the air in the house is being heated to keep people warm because it's cold outside.......

And of course that we're leaking heat in various ways such as the output from sinks, showers or baths and in the form of stale air but a heatpump cannot scavenge from these.

It would seem logical to have some sort of "temperature management system" which could move heat around from the various points to make use of whatever natural sources and sinks were available at that time of year.
The title of this post (and the original article) is very misleading. Scientists are not "reviving proteins from billions of years ago". Currently, there is no technology that allows us to sequence DNA that is billions of years old (mostly because there is no DNA that is billions of years old).

What the researchers are doing is inferring a probable sequence of the ancestor of many modern (currently existing) proteins. This inferred protein sequence can be expressed, and then assayed to test how its activities might differ from the modern proteins it was derived from.

This is an exciting approach to exploring a possible evolutionary past, but nothing has been revived -- we cannot know whether the "revived" protein ever existed.
> It's not that lifestyle changes aren't enough. It's that the size of your change wasn't big enough.

Sure, and one of the things we conclusively know about obesity is that people struggle enormously to sustain that sort of lifestyle change in the long term.

Hence, medications that help with that. In this case, by reducing hunger.
I'm not sure if I get the point of your question.

Not everything needs to be monetised (or directly monetised) to serve a purpose.
What exactly would you prefer helium to be used for other than quiet, efficient heat pumps?

Banning the sale of helium is foolish. The market is already responding to less supply, as it always does. We don't need people running around stopping innovation because they don't understand how price signals work.
> Accuracy issues will improve. Mostly likely the improvement necessary for LLMs to answer a vast majority of queries as reliably as necessary will happen quickly. Not for all cases. But for a sufficiently large set of cases to make Google alternatives very compelling.

On what basis do you say this? Is it anything more than your gut feeling?

How much additional training data will be needed in order to achieve these improvements and do you have a concrete reason for thinking that amount will be sufficient? Do you have any expectations as to how this training data will be obtained?
It's like treating an addiction by telling the addict "it's ok to have some, just pinkie swear you won't overdo it."

People who are obese or grossly obese often aren't just eating a "little extra" here and there. Imagine more like "extra pizza a day" or "eat a cake once a week because that seems like a good idea".
What's the drug?