skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the participants in the sub did their own filtering (which they would of course) then you could subscribe to each other. And subscribe by proxy.

The emergent intelligence of the filtering could become quite large.
Can you send telemetry data through Tor, though? :thinking:
This is a very interesting perspective but I don't think it's an argument in favor of censorship. Rather I think it's an objection to the way in which current social media "spaces" are "laid out" in a functional sense. Similar to how building and fire code both take various dangers into account.

There's also an element of individual freedom involved here. If you choose to keep climbing into the boxing ring and then trying to have a reasoned discussion and failing, perhaps you are the one making poor choices. That doesn't necessarily mean that outlawing boxing rings or otherwise regulating who can participate when and how is either a good or workable solution.
Yes, that's what they're doing, by taking the money saved from layoffs and investing it into new projects.
Despite the phrasing of this title there's always been a better alternative and the problems were well known. Paxlovid is better in every way and it was approved for sars-cov-2 first.

Molnupiravir should never have been approved for sars-cov-2 caused covid-19 for out patient use. It was never given except in the context of supervised hospital care for other viral diseases. There's an argument that it could've been approved for this limiting situation but out-patient use was and is absurd.
Landfill is not the enemy!

Holey schmoley. The environmentalists have become obsessed with "keeping stuff out of landfill". "Keeping stuff out of landfill" has become the primary goal of many environmental movements.

There is nothing wrong with stuff going into landfill. In fact in many cases, putting things in landfill is the ideal outcome.

Obsessively trying to keep stuff out of landfill leads to unintended consequences that are much worse for the environment than putting it in landfill.

Consider waste plastics. People go crazy with the idea that waste plastic ends up in landfill, so they become obsessed with "recycling". But it's simply impossible to recycle the vast ocean of plastic waste.

So what they are doing now is putting plastic waste into PLASTIC ROADS, and calling this "recycling".

And then cars and trucks grind microplastics out of the plastic roads and into the water, air, land, food, animals and people. The plastic would have been much more safe in a landfill, where its toxic effects are constrained ot the area of the landfill. But hey "at least the plastics aren't in landfill, right?".

Every time you hear about the plastic waste issue it always comes with someone fretting about "keeping it out of landfill", like landfill is our most precious land that must not contaminated with waste plastic. It's just wrong.

Put waste plastic in landfill, stop pretending we can "recycle" an ocean of waste plastic into stuff.

The entire environmental movement is focused on mopping when it should be turning off the tap.
> It's something that Apple fans always told us it's impossible to build - a device that is joy to use by default while still respecting your wishes as a user.

I can't speak for Apple's fans, but as I understand it some of Apple's main user experience reasons for a walled garden were things like better power efficiency (encouraging native apps vs. battery-draining PWAs), better protection from malicious software and user error (e.g. apps can have their keys revoked, users can't mess with drivers or OS files, etc.), and the ability to enforce app privacy requirements (including non-technical requirements like privacy labeling.) And activation locks make Apple devices less attractive to thieves, and less likely to leak data.

Apple also provides tech support directly to users. Presumably the locked-down iOS devices are easier to support, which saves time for users (and money for Apple.)

You're right though that Apple's model for its gaming handhelds is basically the Switch model and not the Steam Deck model. But I doubt anyone at Nintendo or Apple would have argued that the Steam Deck was impossible to build.
This is so low-level, I think you'd just consider the respective parts "platform-dependent code", and provide alternative implementations for other platforms (possibly including a very generic one).
US Military to Use High-Altitude Balloons Against China, Russia: Report (2022)
What's next? Luxury handbags that cost more than my $1 canvas tote bag?
For my purposes (recording memories plus just a tad of artiness), my phone camera is at least as good as my Fujifilm X series big camera (and actually probably better), except for zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom. That is a very big exception. There are so many great photos I could never have got with my phone because the subject was too far away.

Another positive is that you can get a big camera that's virtually indestructable, unlike any phone (but then you probably had the phone anyway).

Also, yes, I find getting the photos off the camera does add friction to the workflow.
Thanks. That is an answer which makes sense.
Imo, the next step in ML is unleashing the electron a bit. Right now we keep probabilistic electrons on leash in transistors, so they behave deterministically. This despotic method has taken us far, but without giving electrons some freedom back, we won't advance further.
Yes, you have to have them because your rivals do. In order to make sure each other never actually uses theirs. It's all perfectly logical you see.
Ya but everybody up/down votes. So we'd base the filtering on that.
> What need do banks have for that capability where the capability shouldn't clearly be criminalised?

Banks don't legally have that capability.

The point wasn't that banks do this. It's that it would have the same-real world effect (again, outside regulatory action and law enforcement) as me writing you a trillion-dollar IOU.
You can't use them if they're not on the default application installed on your system.
Is there a way to somehow find related documents to a specific document?
You took a completely literal reading of a one sentence quote from an interview as his full opinion on the matter, and ignored that he immediately said that one sentence was not an accurate representation of his entire view. The Guardian even corrected the initial interview adding his further clarification. That seems like misinformation to me.
Inflation has skyrocketed globally in the last year. Besides commodities and energy, a lot of emphasis has been put on wages. To what extent do wages impact inflation?
Yeah I get the frustrations gamers have around buggy "we'll patch it later" releases,
And sure some level of things like lootboxes can become predatory (I don't believe they are in an of themselves: they are like crane games for toys).
Especially for kids, when dollars are like 10x-100x more expensive compared to a working adult.

But DLC->IAP/ads->live service is tempting to de-risk. Sure some behemoth publishers get greedy with it and shove it in games that have no business having those features in there. I just don't see those in and of itself as greedy.

To be fair to the other side of the argument, Hollywood has a similar problem, and have kept prices flat. Though big budget things have to be de-risked in the form of predictable-earning superhero movies (which can be used to fund riskier projects, but don't have to be).
I just don't like games becoming too much like Hollywood, dependent on huge brands and celebrities to guarantee enough sales. The budgets and expected quality moat are already approaching it
Resolving free speech and harmful misinformation content moderation dilemmas
> What's the current consensus?

The comments on HN are usually very informative, and this article is no exception. Here we have this comment:

> The IARC is the odd one out here and their results are based mainly on discredited experiments on rats that are known to be prone to getting cancer (meaning they aren't a good model for humans in this case).

It depends on how you define consensus, I guess. But the data is clear: one organisation out of many, and they drew their conclusions not from humans but from rats prone to cancer.

> It's dangerous to the workers who work on the fields, not to the consumers at the end of the chain, or both?

I don't know. But one of Glyphosate charms is it breaks down very rapidly. It means it doesn't do damage to surrounding plants that weren't directly exposed (unlike say 75-D). So my wild guess is you would have to be a field worker exposed to it directly. IIRC the people who won law suits against Monsanto were field workers who got regularly drenched in the stuff.
Yes, I get that. I don't think I can describe how to replicate your process in an HN comment (I probably couldn't replicate it even if I wanted to, though I am no stranger to DSP, film simulation and characterization, and I believe I am most of the way there). I care about this field and find myself working on the same problems, it's frustrating to know that I'm replicating work that's already been done (and done well!) because our economic system necessitates the use of artificial scarcity to extract value from information.

The things I mentioned will get people close, or at the very least set them on the right track. Perhaps some of them will be inspired push the envelope and contribute their research back to the commons instead of guarding it in order to collect rent.
You make a lot of condescending or toxic remarks on HN. You might want to consider how that affects your ability to sway others with your comments.

Please chill

> the fact that what the LLMs are doing is copying.

I disagree, the training process creates token representations and weighted connections between them. The models later produce probabilistic token sequences, not so unlike what our meat bodies do, though by very different mechanisms. The fact that certain sequences can be reproduced verbatim is likely a consequence of overfitting. They certainly cannot reproduce all training data verbatim. It would be interesting to know the features around what can and cannot be, and how.
This is good info, but damn is it obnoxious that you'd have to do all of that to keep just some of the spying at bay
I don't have a problem with people who change their claims, and willingly admit that their claims have changed. This is what I'd expect from decent humans and respectable journalists.

I do have a problem with people who change their claims and then deny that they changed their claims, like Seymour Hersh did, with respect to Osama bin Laden and stating that not a single word from the White House was true. That's disingenuous and it makes his credibility questionable, especially if he's going to rely on anonymous sources for his claims.

To address your claim that perhaps he was being hyperbolic in his statement: fine, but at least admit to that. He hasn't. He denied that he said it in the first place, which is a lie.
specifically Wildebeest. I even like Cloudflare.

I think a company like Twitter could have had a real competitive advantage if they were to have repackaged its core experience as a "bring your own domain name" hosted implementation of ActivityPub in the likes of G Suite or M365. I thought for a minute that's what Bluesky was, but I am losing all hopes they'll have sense to do that.
The University of Iowa published new surgical guidelines some time ago for eliminating nasal staph prior to surgeries.

Many surgical patients with staph complications actually infected themselves, and did not acquire their strains from their hospital surroundings.

My coworker lost a leg to an infection in 2008 after a joint replacement. It is unfortunate that this procedure was not in place at that time.

https://now.uiowa.edu/2013/06/be-gone-bacteria
Well I tend to agree but you seem to think biology evolved in a vacuum but it evolved inside an information source and we're all the information processors: ML having to process the same information but at scale, in the grand scheme, it will probably have to ressemble a brain in some ways. Just the sources we care about (colors in a picture, faces, prices, wind direction, whatever) and the output we can understand (text, images, sound) will have to skew it towards us in the way it has to model things.
Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198–1196 BC
TLDR no changes. Of the .net languages, Microsoft will continue mostly caring about C# but also supporting Visual Basic and F#.
I fuzzily recall someone writing of their visit to New York City(?), of how deeply disturbing it felt to encounter people living happy and oblivious, before flying back home to a Sarayevo experiencing horror. Family deaths can feel similar.

And then there's "out of sight, out of mind". And disaster fatigue. And learned helplessness in the face of multiple crises.

Is there something tech might do, to better support forms of community that feel more robust in the face of similar challenges? To do better than "I thought I was deeply involved in a community, in friendships, but I may well die soon, and it seems no one cares."

In science, mentor-mentee relationships often go suboptimally. Years ago there was a NAS effort to improve that, by creating training for mentees, and mentors, and department leadership, and other roles. Recognizing that such relationships are diverse, and the skills and systems required to support them are nontrivial. As we create ad hoc open source community relationships, what might an analogous effort look like? Like we do codes of conduct. A role of community facilitator sometimes exists. What else...?

This post is a day old, and at 3 points. Ah well.
Speaking as an Australian here.

I don't think you're quite right, as that might not account for those that are missing out on an admission.

Not everyone is stressed ONLY about admissions to college or University, many kids are stressed because of the pressure to be something. You might find higher rates of depression in those that don't get an admission because of the pressure to make something of themselves.

When I was in my final year (2011) I remember feeling like I was under so much pressure to know what I wanted to do and have something lined up. Each decision felt like it had significant consequences.
> that instance is too hard, so we make it easier by forcing a color in the center (this is a form of symmetry breaking)

The example of symmetry breaking in your post is "the instance of the largest color that appears closest to the center must appear in octant II".

I can understand this - by using a combination of rotations and reflections, any coloring that doesn't satisfy this constraint can be transformed into one that does. So the patterns we reject by using this "symmetry-breaking" approach are those that are identical, through one or more symmetries, to a pattern we won't reject. So far so good.

But forcing a color in the center can't be symmetry-breaking in this sense. Every symmetry of the diamond will map the center onto itself, so applying a "symmetry-breaking" rule that the center must be painted a particular color will let you rule out a total of zero patterns that can be transformed into patterns that match your rule. That is, literally, worthless.

Such a constraint will let you rule out patterns that aren't transformable into the patterns you do consider... but that's bad, not good.

What do you mean when you say that forcing a color in the center is a form of symmetry breaking?
Private 5G: A Systems Approach
More like "lightweight" in terms of code size (or hardware equivalents like FPGA fabric area), RAM requirements, and CPU cycles per byte of encryption/authentication. In some cases this means that a message could be brute forced slightly more quickly. But in practical terms that not a big deal, who cares if someone can crack your code in 2^10 years instead of 2^14.

I think for most crypto, brute force times aren't the biggest concern. What's more potentially an issue is the breakability of the algorithm (is there a way to find the plaintext more efficiently than brute forcing?) and how susceptible the algo's implementations are to things like timing attacks (which can be an issue with s boxes although maybe not as big of a deal as I thought considering the results of the competition).

In terms of NSA conspiracy theories, it would've been more of an issue if the competition had gone towards Simon or Speck (which weren't eligible because they're block ciphers, but there's ways to adapt... I think OCB mode is no longer patent encumbered.
The sun? The onion ?
I'm trying to let programmers make the call here, which is why Virgil gives you both options. In causal hacking, anonymous tuples can be very useful. I find that very true in test code, where I have a tendency to throw more bells and whistles at it to get meat of the tests really short (so I can write a lot of them). Requiring elaborate ceremonies (such defining a bunch of tuple types for no good reason) is just a waste of time.
Please please please please make something for CaptureOne
That's not what moving up means; they're cumulative from the bottom up. You can't move up to the next level until all lower levels are consistently met.

Moving up means those needs are being met satisfactorily and can be maintained without prolonged attention. And if a lower level stops being met, your level will fall to that level until it is met again.

I.e., if you're hungry and don't know when your next meal is, then who the hell cares if you're anxious, angry, or happy? You have more pressing concerns.
Some great shows, if you're talking nuclear deterrent, 'Whoops Apocalypse' was a great mini series from the same era, that I still revisit now and then.
Zelensky makes ‘wings for freedom’ plea in surprise UK visit for fighter jets
If you buy a $5 wifi-enabled lightbulb, there's a good chance it'll have an ESP32 (which can do most modern SSL) or an ESP8266 (which is short on memory, and so might use SSL with a preshared key, "TLS-PSK")

On the other hand, if $5 devices seem a bit expensive to you, because you think $0.01 parcel labels will be part of the internet of things in the future, I suppose you might be interested in this new NIST algorithm?
One less distraction tactic for the NIMBYs.
There was a math professor at Iowa State University who advocated blowing up the moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Abian
I read the article and my point still stands. Put yourself in the shoes of the patient (who largely drives their own care for these situations). You get covid, you go into the dr with a cough and say "dr, this is getting bad, and I'm obese and scared!"

The dr goes, "well, we have this drug that was proven to be slightly effective in double blind placebo controlled trials. It has no adverse side-effects. But a large scale study showed it might not actually be effective. Would you like to try that?"

The patient, who is probably on medicare or hit their deductible, is going to say yes give me that shit.

People have been saying this same thing about the over-prescription of antibiotics for ages but nothing has changed.
I love the film sims when I'm feeling arty, but most of them are so far away from realistic colours that I've ended up almost always using the plain one (Provia) unless I'm photographing someone who's monochrome. (A lot of my best friends happen to be monochrome, and then I can use film sims to change the colours of the background.)
thread from journalist, cutting software licencing

https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1623469348127117313

https://fortune.com/2023/02/08/twitter-cost-cutting-software...
4000 Character Limit on twitter?
Is this wise for global security? Forget twitter APIs, now twitter is the API, as we can so easily encrypt our data into highly compressed emoji tweets.

Was it wise for Musk to make this decision? Surely the criminal organizations cough terrorists would love it.

Elon Musk is going to create future problems he has no knowledge of, and people will suffer unknowingly.
Headline is a bit misleading, the important conclusion is near the end:

“Bloom thinks the researchers make a good case that molnupiravir treatment is yielding some highly mutated viruses with the capacity to spread. But it’s not clear whether this could contribute to new coronavirus variants, or whether it is simply creating weakling viruses that are unlikely to spread very far.”

If it’s the former then I imagine the case is pretty strong to discontinue usage and switch to Paxlovid.
This is an intriguing idea which I think you should send Haidt's way, he seems to be willing to listen to the ideas of others and it's something worth considering. Not just counselors, also, it might include overuse of medications.
They must have not been paying attention. Trump was very vocal against it and was laughed at by the genius German technocrats.
The Obama admin was also against it
Make a list of small new things to try: new restaurant, new beer/wine, new trail/park and then start doing them
Maybe it should. There are plenty of similar laws (e.g. when you sell shares to your 2001st investor you're suddenly subject to a much stricter disclosure regime, and this is widely considered a good thing).
Exactly that. Good life skills. And guess what. They still play casual and have a blast are fit healthy and pretty mentally strong. (Proud dad eeking out).
We have life long friends whos kids went more music or arts but with the same kind of attitude. Guess what. They are happy too. To us it was just helping them find stuff they liked doing.

The biggest rule was if you start a season you finish it. (There were exceptions for sure) it wasnt all roses but they learned from that too
When these people are banned for saying things that at least half of America agrees with, then it implicates more than just those banned people.
He barely lasted 6 months as a gentleman of leisure.
Java web applications I’d describe as “boring technology” if you want typical rest applications with SPA frontend or a full stack server side rendered (SSR) app. By boring I mean it works with little fuss or churn.

Depending on your scale/budget they’re a bit more expensive to host due to JVM memory requirements but performance is good. Not a Java issue but a issue if you choose a language other than JavaScript for the frontend is you need to up skill frontend devs with the Java build tools/templating libraries and most frontend devs will have a bias against Java as it’s been bashed by lots of people who haven’t used it, it’s not sexy and they think of Java aplets from the 2000s.
Already way too many tabs in the example. I could see this getting completely unreadable very quick.
In terms of thermodynamic efficiency, I'd be curious about running your heat engine the other way around, by doing cogeneration on site.
I knew a lady who, her and her two kids, make $1500 in a weekend. Oregon Coast range, don't remember what types. It's important to remember with all mushrooms there are only a few good days a year.
Exactly, its a bubble many teens feel they are in, that's the problem.

It's easy to say years later "You're in a bubble", but that doesnt make the situation any better.

I'll likely look back on my life when I'm retired and say "I was in a bubble" worrying about housing prices and the cost of living, but that doesn't diminish its importance to me right now.
I am curious, what games do not work on Windows 7 any more ?
The consequences of this process could be dire for our planet.

Maybe for civilisation, but not for the planet. The poles have flipped many, many times before. Generally speaking, the only effect has been for the upwelling rock in the Mid Atlantic Rift to have symmetrical bands of alternating South and North-seeking magnetism. https://divediscover.whoi.edu/mid-ocean-ridges/magnetics-pol...

In practical terms, as far as humans and their navigation is concerned, the effect would be similar to the world turning upside down, as North becomes South. I wonder if we'd flip East and West too. Or turn our maps upside down. Probably not.