skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This got me thinking: what exactly defines a forgery here? Ancient Jewish texts were almost certainly based on previous oral tradition and underwent all sorts of changes over the years before they came to be written down as the texts we know today, and there were probably different versions of the written texts too – the non-canonical ones just got mostly lost as they didn't get copied so much (or at all).

So is a text from, say, 200 B.C. that changes some things from an older version from 300 B.C. a forgery? Or is it just a different version of the same story and is neither more authentic than the other (the 300 B.C. version may not be the true original either)?

It seems to me that something is only a forgery if, say, someone in the year 500 invents an entire new text whole-cloth and then tries to pretend it's actually from 200 B.C. But if it originates from the same culture and traditions as the Hebrew bible then it's one version of an authentic text.

And even someone invents something whole-cloth – like, say, claiming to find golden plates with Egyptian hieroglyphs in the US – then can we define this as a "forgery"? It quickly becomes a matter of faith.
What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? The first astronomers and calendarians were women....
The best kind of correct answer!
Further, roughly 10% of the entire TVL of the DeFi space was lost last year to hacks and thefts. If you're not getting at least 18% APR (10% risk, 8% inflation), you're better off with series I bonds.

Put another way: if this clear yield actually existed, it would be arbitraged into the dirt by Cumberland/DRW and Jump - not left to the retail schlubs.
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Can you summarise it, or point to a particularly good passage? Even what I read was good, though.
It's a poor man's version, and it doesn't catch all errors, but it works in all browsers

export function wrapInErrorHandler<Func extends (...args: any[]) => any>(func: Func): (...args: InferArguments<Func>) => InferReturn<Func> {
return function (...args: InferArguments<Func>) {
try {
return func.apply(null, args);
} catch (err: any) {
if (err instanceof LoggedError) {
throw err;
}
post({ your- error - object});
throw new LoggedError(err);
}
};
}

I wrap (some) event handlers and callbacks in this function (wrapInErrorHandler(f) returns a function of the same type as f). If they throw an error, the data is posted to a simple json collecting endpoint, which triggers an email action (not too frequently). LoggedError is wrapper for err, to avoid logging the same error multiple times.
>>Several studies have shown that different people can get different amounts of energy out of the same food, depending amongst others on their gut micro biome, though stress also seems to play a role. It’s never going to be that simple.

Nope still that simple. Your claim just means those people need less calories in to be in a state of calorie deficiency
AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 mobile processors include a 16-core chip
Researchers are aware of this, the studies are on regular people - a lot of them on people who never exercised before - just in a body building scenario. I wasn't very clear in my first post.
It's indefinitely scalable exactly in the sense that a machine on this architecture can be made bigger as long as you can keep providing power, cooling, real estate, and tiles. There is no head node, no unique tile addresses, no global communications, no global clocking, and no pretense of deterministic execution. In that sense it's quite different than traditional cellular automata. Figuring out how to do useful work in this architecture is the research challenge.
«This book documents Version 1.6 of Ruby, which was released in September 2000.»
Yes - there is a presumption that someone has the truth, and we can all go and check against it.

When in reality it is very hard to know truth, even in the present time, even in one's own experience.

So, if that is the case, why make such an outlandish claim?

Well, there is value to someone if they can say 'I have the truth' and other people believe them.

The initial lie, once believed, takes on a life of its own thanks to the belief that becomes invested in it, especially when it is under someone's external control.
Not a problem, the policy allows giving you the choice to opt-in to the targeted ads.
ChatGPT presents as though it has imposter syndrome. It identifies as just a large language model that is unable to do certain things. In fact, it regularly does many of the things it identifies as not being able to do if you ask it about itself.
2022 was the year AGI arrived (Just don't call it that)
Housing affordability issues are indeed across the whole US if you include local wage rates in the equation. The middle class simply can no longer afford the same housing as they could on a single earner wage as they could when tax rates on the rich were 70%. A lot of the problem is hedge funds grabbing up huge numbers of houses across the country and then jacking up the rents using collusion through software. At a 70٪ tax rate that money to grab up so many properties wouldn't even be there.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-mak...
I don't understand how SideQuark is distinguishing negative results from positive results. But using the representation he suggested to me sidethread, it isn't possible to have the result be positive whenever the misweighted ball is heavy and negative whenever it's light.
I never understood the historical relevance of religious texts outside of the context of how they impacted societies. Because these religious texts are hardly orimary sources that state historical facts, they are closer to pure propaganda pieces.

So, for me, the question of forgeries is interesting because if forged texts were used someone had an interst in doing it. If a text is not a "forgery", it doesn't mean the text states objective truths so.
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Ask HN: Has anyone successfully enrolled in Apple small business program?
Link: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program/

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Low floor, high ceiling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9YLOlUa7ro
Genetics and microbiome are the biggest factors, but training, habits and environment (how accessible is that junk food?) also matters.
What you're pointing to is far more insidious than I think is usually recognized.

People can point to incentive structures like grants etc, and to the implications in terms of the meaning of metrics etc but the real harm is in how it shifts mental focus and attention collectively.

It's not ok to let minor things or things you think are obvious go anymore to focus on bigger picture issues, that might be "riskier" but nonobvious. The way that plays out too is incredibly dependent on your institutional social environment etc.

So much of this is difficult to easily quantify in ways that can be easily studied. I loved this paper for example, but it's easy for me to think of papers in my own field that would look "disruptive" in terms of citation networks but are really the same content. There's these weird shifts I've seen happen in reading old literature and during my career, where big shifts in who is being cited will happen for quixotic social reasons. Usually it's basically politics or ignorance of big parts of a field, who will get introduced to an idea by a particular author or group. Lots of chaotic citation patterns and feedback loops.

Add in shifts in what's motivating grant and paper topics and it really damages authentic scientific discourse. So much is driven by looking like a brilliant scientist and not by scientific progress. People aren't dumb either and they are very very good at looking like brilliant scientists.
If you read the details...

> The incident involves threat actors gaining access to Slack's externally hosted GitHub repositories via a "limited" number of Slack employee tokens that were stolen.

> While some of Slack's private code repositories were breached, Slack’s primary codebase and customer data remains unaffected, according to the company.
Oh man that's a nostalgia trip. I remember us getting an AWE32, a CD-ROM player and Encarta 95.

And then after installing everything you open to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNsIBJOAA8

Absolutely magical to eleven-year old me. Too bad I couldn't read English very well yet, since in the Netherlands they only started teaching that around the same age at the time.
Jamming! Music is social. It's a wonderful feeling sing or play along with others.

Piano is a great instrument. Learning piano to a good level transfers to other instruments, because you learn much more than pressing keys. However it's extremely lonely, and therefore boring, to practicing some bullshit polka that nobody wants to hear. I went to lessons for 9 years, sat 7 grade exams, and promptly quit as soon as I left home. Lessons never taught me to jam, fill in, improvise. I found it monumentally boring, and only continued because I was good at it, and had a large sunken cost.

Looking at the Beatles documentary "Get Back", they were just kids with instruments who got to jam full-time. There are plenty of instrumentalists that absolutely kick their asses. What made them special was that they weren't afraid to pay what they wanted to play, and to experiment, together.
(They also drove themselves to produce something important to a deadline)
Project Leonardo for Playstation 5, a highly customizable accessibility
> so we're asking teams to spend potentially hours or days fixing things

At the risk of sounding pedantic, but this is why you have everything as IaC. These kind of changes should not cost days. It should take merely minutes or an hour tops to change all your keys. It should be trivial, for cases just like this.
Tilera tried that, I see they are now out of business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilera

As others have pointed out, it makes your memory latency problems worse, not better. It's the equivalent of "beowulf cluster of raspberry pi's".
By today's definition absolutely.
As an observer of your exchange of words, I would appreciate more reason behind the opinion because I would like to understand why you feel this way.
Sure, you can place objects in front of a virtual lens.

But to make it look right is a significant effort in itself. A purely synthetic object takes an army of artists to create, an another more for compositing (blending in and adjusting to the optical conditions of existing footage). Such tremendous effort seem discounted by audiences nowadays with the abundance of CGI.
Even scarier is the infrastructure threats. Lots of news about Hikvision cameras at the moment.

Most five eyes countries have warded off Huawei, but NZ is full steam ahead with them in backbone infra. Similarly China is trying to loan a lot of money to the Solomon Islands to build way more Huawei towers than they actually need.

Then you have those sketchy power transformers in the US that they surprisingly found were dialing home to China. Trump put restrictions on this, but Biden removed them his first day in office only to reintroduce them in the past few months.
> how accurate would experts have been at predicting the current capabilities of AI if you asked them 10 years ago?

Maybe less inaccurate than you may think. Especially if you include "experts" that focus specifically at estimating future developments, and ignore "experts" that have focused all their effort into some very specific algorithmic detail.

It seems to me that a key factor in longer-term estimations is simply compute performance. If development of AI seems to be lagging somewhat compared to some predictions, it seems to me that this lag is similar to the slowdown in Moore's law. Also, for robotics, wearables and vehicles, power consumption of electronics combined with the fact that batteries as still heavy and expensive is an important limiting factor.

Now the METHODS we use to reach predictions of people like Kurzweil may be different from what we imagined. Specifically, it seems that many futurists were thinking that AGI would be reached through Turing Machines and rationalist algorithms. Instead it turns out that most progress is made through building generic learning architectures (like Transformers) and apply them at huge scale with vast amounts of data.

Similarily, a generation ago, we may have imagined we could have a single-core processor performing 1petaflop of computation in the 2020's. Instead, we have the 4090 now, that can do that many computations, but they are limited to "tensor" operations.

Now, assuming we're not making some drastic breakthrough that enables a "rationalist" type of algorithm to form AGI, we should still reach human brain-level of raw compute power sometime between 2030-2050 (which fits reasonably well with many predictions), and I would be surprised if we don't have full AGI within such a timeframe. I would give about 1:1 odds that it happens before 2040.

Still, ideas based on future computers being generic Turing Machines, just faster mean some predictions become fundamentally hard. For instance, Uploading our brains to a computer becomes a lot harder of the computer is not designed simply as a faster Turing Machine, but rather has hardware that is very specialized for some running some simple low level computation massively parallel. It may be close to impossible to run a human brain inside a GPU (at least efficiently), regardless of how many CUDA cores it has.

That means that "uploading" may require us to make a near-exact replica of an actual human brain, with it's spiking style neurons, in silicon.

Also, related predictions by people like Kurzweil may seem far fetched, such as his preditions about nanotech. On the other hand, we HAVE actually started large scale treatment of a large percentage of the world's population using nanotech medicine (mRNA vaccines). Maybe the revolution he predicted is actually about to happen. But my expectation is that it's going to be relatively slow for a few more decades.

It may become radically better if techniques like AlphaFold develop at Moore's law pace in terms of price an capability, but I suspect generic nanotech is a harder problem than AGI simply from a computational perspective.
I'd name and shame if this was a one-off (frankly if it was I'd raise it internally and they'd fix it) but given that all apps are like this my best advice would be to avoid all "healthtech" apps to begin with and use them through a browser (with good ad-blocker) if really necessary.
That's an exceptionally intractable sort of "would have happened" question, but sure, it's possible.
Ruby is far from being poorly documented. It just isn't documented in the way you are typically used to, coming from Python.

There are quite few initiatives that tried to do what the Python tutorial, but ultimately failed or didn't get enough traction in the Ruby land.

The best method in my opinion to learn Ruby is to just try to code a Rails app and learn along the way, but if you like to stop and read and learn the language constructs, the Pickaxe book is the best. It isn't stuck in 1.6 as you've mentioned, it was just released for Ruby 3.2.

There are so many other Ruby books as well, like eloquent Ruby and so on.

Another solution is do a course on pluralsight or any other website, I bet there are many teachers and tutors that will help you nail down the language's basics.

BTW, just showcasing how the Ruby community can document well... the Rails documentation is the best documentation I've ever read. It's concise and presents basically every concept of the framework with practical examples.

I'd say Rust and Elixir have also good documentation, but I've never came across with a so well thought out doc as the Rails one.
I’m a hard-SF fan, and I like Iain M. Banks, Neal Asher and Peter F. Hamilton. I haven’t actually read any of McKee Charnas’ works, any tips?
I prefer "simple is not easy".
It's less about the resolution and more about the screen itself. I bought a new 720p TV for my grandmother a few weeks ago, and the colors and contrast make for a better experience than her old 1080p TV (my only criteria for the new TV was 'sort-of-hackable' so I could simplify it for her).
Looking for a Co-Founder
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Specification:
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I'd agree with this distinction between classical (nylon stringed acoustic) and electric guitar, but steel stringed acoustic plays very similar to electric. I agree that people tend to play different things on them but if you're playing both with a pick you're doing the same techniques on both.
Just curious in regards to saying you never really feel full ..have you ever counted daily calories you consumed on average?
Yeah but that's just one of those lucky few that came back to their forced education despite their experience. OP is right, forcing kids into stuff makes most kids hate the subject, completely regardless of its usefulness later in life.

It took me a good decade after high school to find love in topics like geography, biology, history, some parts of physics etc. which were forced down my throat to frankly insane needless levels at school.

A lot of child's momentum is lost because a) teaching well consistently is hard and I see little effort to ie utilize modern psychology for improvement ; b) every kid is unique in many ways, differently developed at early years ; c) being a teacher is seriously underpaid and underappreciated so best leave or don't even start career in it ; d) traditional teaching topics go way too deep and focus more on encyclopaedical knowledge which is sort of obsolete in 2023 ; e) don't focus on properly useful stuff in ie high school like communication, team work, some basic psychology to grok people around you, understanding personal finances and taxation and probably many more reasons.
Yes. Companies having that choice is also interesting in that they get to decide if it's worth to have people come and go, as a replaceable resource.

For some company it totally works and they plan their staffing in 6 months spans (seen a small web agency basically having an "on" and "off" season, with half of the staff during the dead part), removing or adding people as they see fit. For others it's more difficult and they're pretty happy to have staff that can't just disappear within a month if they decide to go tour the Silk Road on a bike.
They could start or join a company to directly compete with yours, and/or direct the attention of the VC fund to such company. If your existence is a proof positive there's opportunity to exploit, it's not wise to advertise it, as there are people whose very job is to find such opportunities and frack them (as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking, except with money instead of a fracking fluid).
> ADHD used to be only a tiny amount of outliers and is growing, thanks to the lifestyle we lead.

I think this might be a misunderstanding. Rates of ADHD may be higher but I think it's more likely we have an environment which now challenges people with ADHD more than in the past.

The advent of electrical lighting did not cause an increase in pattern-reactive epilepsy, it just created conditions in which pattern-reactive epilepsy were more likely to be triggered. I believe now is the same.
I have been using FreeBSD as my primary OS since version 1.1.5, and I am currently running 12.4 on a Lenovo T480.

This is what works flawlessly on my configuration (SSD, 8G bytes of RAM): gigabit ethernet, second monitor via HDMI, USB mouse and keyboard, sound via audio jack, video playback on both the internal and external monitor. What I have not tried is Wifi, Bluetooth, the fingerprint reader, and the touchpad (disabled via BIOS). The trackpoint and buttons do work.

IMHO, FreeBSD is a nice system for everyday use. Note, though, that I do mostly terminal-based stuff (and some Ghostview, PDF reading, web browsing, occasional video watching, etc), so YMMV.
Also one of the most popular Java programs.
licensing as in?
To get 4K content on Netflix, Paramount+, Hulu, you need to pay more for the premium subscription. On Prime Video and Disney+, the 4K content is usually limited to only the original content. You can get 4K movie/TV show rentals (pay on demand) that will cost more. Digital linear TV services like YouTube TV or fuboTV don't provide 4K feeds for live content most of the time (not including on demand). News streams are still 1080p and sports streams are occasionally in 4K but it's not very often. I didn't know more people are uploading 4K content on YouTube though.
That's cool - I don't text that much (apparently in the lowest 2%!) but it was fun to see. The word cloud was great, as were the graphs.

Feedback wise:

The graphs didn't use as much y axis as they could - i.e I think I had a max value of like 150 in one graph, but the axis went to 400.

Other than that, the onboarding video references ourchatstory.com rather than .co; which isn't a problem if you're already on the domain I guess!

Good work!
SEC Pursues $45M Scam Based in Fake Blockchain Technology
I kind of doubt that there are 2 billion devout Christians at the moment. Those devout ones, yes they care to some degree about the academic (for lack of a better term) merit of the biblical texts, those Christians I know are far less interested in the academic disputes about the bible than you make it seem.
This behaviour is totally on-brand for this company.
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Sure, I used this snippet https://gist.github.com/snmishra/794c5f41693510c46ba9bedc839...
What's the most interesting in this whole write-up is this:
> Security update hidden from search engines

Slack is selectively and deliberately limiting public access (discoverability) to the security breach announcements.
Hmm, back before there was a single-window version of The GIMP, IIRC (that's a big if), there was a version styled to be as close to Photoshop as possible; I never used it. Calling that a "knock-off" is close to the truth without getting into the protracted details of Linux distro UIs.
Not that you are necessarily wrong but... A hunter who wants to go out at night and needs to know when it will be light/dark. Ditto someone planning/expecting an attack on/by a neighbouring tribe.

Or really anyone with some free time and interest (not uncommon)...
Do you really think 2 billion people care deeply about the Bible? I think the number of Christians who spend any time at all reflecting on or debating validity and meaning of the Bible is in a small minority
Given that those countries have massively different foods available, massively different environments available, require people to spend massively different amount of physical effort during the day, it would not be that shocking.
I think the title is misleading. There are no forgeries in the canonized books of the Bible
For different definitions of 'elevate'. For example, some will seek power, which will still be scarcer for others.
The data is not stored but are the results stored?
Not for them :)
I predict that this will a research area that advances hugely after we solve text-to-video and text-to-3D (so maybe in 2 years?): learning these types of heuristics from billions of hours of videos. Implementing this in robots is another matter, but there has been some good progress in robotic grasping and manipulation, for example.
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