skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> more evidence

quality over quantity.

> Russians are allowed

...to protect fellow russian speaking folks from the slaughter by neo-nazi regime.

And for starters, russia didn't start civil war, ukraine did when they started shelling donbas.

> Because Russia gives medals to the rapists, the torturers and the people who kill civilians so why would anyone bother.

Maybe they don't know these people are horrible criminals. If you have proof present it already and stop with the excuses.

> they have done it multiple times in the past

examples?

> Stop blindly parroting Russian propaganda.

Stop blindly parroting USA propaganda.

> Not just the Russians being Russians.

Oh, so you are a nazi. Could have said so from the start, maybe we'd avoid all this argument. You just hate russians.

> Why would a Pro Russian Telegram post that if it was fake.

There are a lot of posting going on rn. Most of it is bound to be fake. Can you for example give me one example of idk... Zelensky saying something that isn't utter bullshit.
Ask HN: Has anyone suspected themselves of having “long Covid” and cured it?
I know HN is not medical forum but I genuinely don’t know where else to have this discussion; Reddit would result in nothing but argumentative discussion.

I contracted Covid very early (early January 2020) while working in SF. I handled it well and of course at the time both myself and my doctor treated it as the flu after I assured her I had not recently visited China.

It seems like since that period in time, my physical and mental abilities have very slightly deteriorated. I used to wake up early, hit the gym for a solid 90 minutes, meal prep and eat healthy, diligently work on my side projects and generally be “on the ball”.

It’s difficult to pinpoint when, but it seems like since the infection I feel generally weaker, have trouble being decisive, ambition seems diminished, general “clarity” seems to be gone.

It’s difficult to say whether this was caused by the infection or caused by the pandemic and socioeconomic changes that followed, or something else. I never got the Covid vaccine but I’ve heard it might help with “long Covid”, so I’m just curious if anyone else suffered similar symptoms and ended up curing them.

Again, I know HN is not a medical forum but I do not know of another forum for an intellectual discussion on this topic.
Yes, great foresight. One thing didn't stand the test of time:

"You’ll notice that many of my links above involve work done at Google. This is because Google is currently at the forefront of re-writing large chunks of itself into Software 2.0 code."

IMO google is dropping the ball pretty hard right now when it comes to AI.
> They couldn't explain contagious diseases then, but realised that if it can kill you, something would show up within 14 days and it's better if you don't enter community spaces.

But somehow no text suggests anything of the sort and the reasoning is always in terms of ritual purity. And the prohibition is only on entering sacred spaces which must be kept ritually pure. There is no prohibition in entering other community spaces.
Wow, and I just happened to see this movie recently...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_(film)
I assume you know how to use google, yes?

I literally just googled "what percentage of republicans believe in qanon".

This is the first result:

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-02-24/a-q...

Stop being so fucking obtuse.
For those concerned about this, the public proxy should just be considered only for demo purposes. You may also consider only using it for the YouTube portion of your Takeout too.

Unfortunately, even if people did modify their own proxies, it would quickly blow through any CPU budget on Cloudflare workers. When you finish processing and return some stream objects or whatever on Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare basically unloads the worker, stops CPU billing, and just handles shoveling bytes between two objects/sockets.

The closest thing I think would work is using Azure Storage's encryption. It's still theoretical though and I haven't tried it with block by block transloads much less uploads. Unfortunately, it's symmetric and Azure will hold the symmetric key but pinky promises to wipe it after the transfer is done. This should deter most adversaries.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/stora...

https://github.com/nelsonjchen/gargantuan-takeout-rocket/iss...

There's also the obvious thing of just downloading the archives via an Azure VM, encrypting it, and throwing it back in the storage/bucket, and deleting the unencrypted transloaded bytes. Downloading from Azure Storage to an Azure VM should be very quick. You might even be able to do it "stateless" without intermediary files in the VM! There is still a window where it's unencrypted but you can close it up afterwards.

The bytes become way more handleable once they're outside Google's URLs and on Azure. Use GTR to get the bytes out of Google Takeout's quagmire.
Jitter and phase noise are closely related.

Here the units are a bit weird, but we're talking about accumulated noise. Systems seek to reach 0.

This really means "no variability in performance", not just "tasks start at the right time".

Performance noise is the correct term for what's measured. See e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353781546_Influence... for a discussion.
Concrete is an old, old recipe though. It's hardly some complex modern novelty. I wonder how it got lost.

Does the series involve recovering this lost knowledge? Or is it just the backstory for a fantasy novel?
In 2023, labeling people as "conspiracy theorists" is a much bigger red flag for the (deliberately or not) misinformed than urging someone to "do your own research".

In fact, I struggle to see how "do your own research" would be a reliable way to spread misinformation.

Can you provide an example of how that works? Even a hypothetical?
“ plausible enough to look real to someone who isn't a watch person”

Most non-watch people aren’t looking or noticing one’s watch enough to form an impression of it. The only way I’d identify a watch as possibly being a Rolex is if someone went out of their way to show it said ‘Rolex’ although then I’d assume it was fake due to the effort they’d just spent making me notice.

If the goal is to impress people, it’s not going to have an effect unless they’re a watch person or watch adjacent person.

Watches should be worn for personal enjoyment, not to impress those who change their opinion of others based on whether they have a Rolex or not.
In Mexico, cartels set their own communication network

https://www.wired.com/2011/12/cartel-radio-mexico/
The situation invites comparisons to the obesity epidemic or perhaps (more of a stretch) the introduction of alcohol into American tribes.

Regardless, it's critical to recognize that we as a people need to develop a greater worldview/metacognition to go any further forward together.
I was referring of course to the hypothetical of the United States making deals to purchase minerals, paying in advance, then subjecting the countries in question to humiliating financial consequences when they can't deliver.
So can I finally get a house robot that will clean the kitchen and fill up & empty our dishwasher?
When a large part of the population vote based on their religion then separation of church and state doesn't really work. For example if a part of the population votes that all stores needs to be closed on Sundays because Sundays are holy days then it affects non-believers. That isn't a joke, that is what some countries in Europe looks like, how do you argue against that without arguing that their beliefs are nonsense?
I don't think that Google Takeout is a restorable service. It's more of an "Oh snap, I lost my Google Account forever and lost my data" type of recovery option.
Seems like an odd critique of LFS then, no? Your other points are super valid, i've wanted to replace LFS with my own impl for the same reasons _(also it was originally designed for HTTP servers, ugh)_. However the integration is roughly as good as it can be, no? Or rather, Oxen would suffer the same limitations no?
Tinygrad can produce 100% portable C code to run your models
# this was run on server to generate the C so you don't have to
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# this runs an EfficientNet-B0 trained on ImageNet to classify the 1000 default categories. try it at home!
curl https://tinygrad.org/recognize.c.gz | gunzip | clang -O2 -lm -x c - -o recognize && curl https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/hen-picture-id831791190 | DEBUG=1 ./recognize
The "concrete examples" he gave in the "Ongoing transition" section are traditional AI tasks. What about other tasks like program compilation and theorem proving that require more hard-core logic? I will be more convinced if neural networks can reliably do those tasks. If not, at best a human will still need to manually break the high-level task into smaller subtasks to be solved by neural networks and then somehow glue the parts together.
We have work release jail programs. You wake up in jail, are allowed to go do your job, and then as soon as you're done your job you go back to jail.
That was just hunger strike. She was fed regularly during that time period.
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Discovered this when :PluginUpdate failed in my vim. It's still in Google index so must have happened very recently. Can't find any post discussing/announcing what happened.

P.S. Hopefully the username is not available for someone malicious to squat...
I desperately want a project like this to take over my life for a few months. I'm in grad school so am juggling job hunting with coursework and other part time job duties, but I miss the feeling of giving 100% of my time and energy to one thing.
Is there any reason to believe that shifting everything later won't also shift whatever people do in the evening to make it come out as a net wash?
This is another indication that LLMs are becoming able to function as general AIs (the term AGI has a lot of baggage). Especially at the end of the real-time feedback video[1] The LLM seems to be acting as the high-level planner, based on the outputs of all the computer vision and object recognition happening at lower levels.

[1] https://youtu.be/p0fDH9zZm_c
I’m inclined to think this stuff is more correlation than causation.

Meditating is a weird thing to do. Outside of eastern religious practice at least. You get some some semi-normal people who do it, ray dalio comes to mind, but mostly it attracts people who aren’t mentally well to begin with. It’s exactly the group of people you’d expect to have these kinds of problems. The same group that should avoid weed and shrooms and for the same reasons. There are a lot of these people on hn and in the tech world, overachievers high on the neuroticism scale. A normal person doesn’t meditate more than 30 minutes a day. That alone is a symptom of deeper issues.
Nope, this just gets the ZIPs off and out of Google. My trouble is with the gargantuan size I have to deal with (1TB+). How you get the bytes back out to a format another provider can take is best handled by other already existing projects on GitHub.

And those other already existing projects are useless without the bytes :).
Your team will also pick up on the fact that you entertained exiting, then didn’t.
The GoDaddy part also makes this next part marketing speak that technically isn’t true.

> are fully supported by Fastly without any dependence on another organization.
A couple of years ago, I started a light meditation practice (10-20 minutes) and did it for about a month with good results. At that point, I read this article (on Hacker News) and spent the next two years terrified this would happen to me.

I had struggled with panic disorder in the past, but CBT pretty much fixed it for me. This article triggered my first panic attacks in years and led to a constant sense of dread and anxiety. It was so terrifying to think that a simple mental process could potentially trigger a breakdown (and like you, I had a family to take care of).

Fast-forward a couple of years, and I'm moving towards the view that these breakdowns are simple anxiety disorders that just happen to be triggered by meditation, in the same way that a panic attack triggered my anxiety disorder when I was young. I don't think there's anything particularly special or mystical about it - it's just our stupid brains activating the fear response, and it appears that the same methods for dealing with anxiety disorders work here.

I feel like in a way I was the control group for an experiment - can a fear of meditation provoke the same response as meditation itself?
Is it humans or computers with a limitation?

A single celled organism lacks any sensory perception and so, from its perspective, it has explored the depths of the universe without having to ever even move. With each step upwards in complexity, the entire perceivable domain becomes wider. That humans can experience a facsimile of something and the "reality" of something differently, would seem to imply that we have a more sophisticated input system than something that would equate the two different "inputs."
Angus actually didn't have any caloric intake during his fast. Impressive as her hunger strike was, she was force fed, which can't really be considered fasting.
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Yes, same conclusion.

I wonder if people using it for writing code are running docker at all, you read so many comments on HN of how the battery life is incredible (on any thread about comparisons between any Mac and any other laptop) while in my experience a full charge Macbook Air M2 lasts about 6 hours with Docker running instead of the usual 15 it lasts when its off.
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"premature optimization is the root of all evil"

The phrase conjures up images of tight code that executes the minimum number of instructions with the least possible memory use and efficient reads and writes. In a piece of code that's executed maybe once in blue moon. Nobody bothered to profile the program and find out where the real hotspots are, so someone optimized the wrong thing.

Writing code designed to be flexible according to how the programmer believes it will need to change is also a kind of premature optimization. The code is written in the optimal way for changes along direction X to be easy. Unfortunately, when the programmer guesses wrong about the nature of future change, that work to optimize for change along X is wasted, or worse. Worse, if it makes changes along direction Y much harder.

We're pretty bad at predicting the future.
The generalized view of Albanians is they are international drug traffickers?
Fingerprints on the mirror won't look that great though.
I agree with theandrewbailey that elderly generally speaking would likely be concerned for their kids and grand-kids.

In my opinion an alternate question might be, "What is the risk of nuclear power leaders being elderly?" as elderly tend to come to grips with mortality and world leaders may have some narcissistic and sociopathic qualities. Might that add some risk to their decision making around nuclear war?
One of the startups I worked at had a simple rule - if you wanted to complain about something being bad, you had to come with suggestions how to make it better. And they had to be real, tangible option that could be implemented, not "how about we use technology X".

If you had nothing - you could flag something as an issue - but you were expected to either say how you suggest so solve it or shut up. You did your part of flagging the issues and that was it. It was a startup working with banks & everyone knew there are issues all around, but a lot of them we couldn't solve ourselves, because of the banks being unwilling, regulation being not clear enough if we're allowed to change anything or sometimes both.

If you came with a plan how it can be fixed while minimising the risks associated - no matter if you were junior or senior, at least you'd be listed to. If the ideas are good, the other devs would pitch in to make a realistic implementation plan. Beauty of laws & banking - if something is unclear, no one wants to touch it, so as long as you pass that hurdle - you'd get the go-ahead :D

Yes, quite a few issues ended up being ignored, but at the same time - if no one knows how to fix it, what's the point of draining everyone by continuously complaining how bad it is.

We had relatively few of meta discussion that were not product related - ever since them, I do believe that devs start focusing on code quality and "the right way to do it" only when they lack the power to make any of the product decisions.
You’re saying that public sector unions can be good because sometimes their interests are aligned with that of the public and sometimes the state is not.

This does not generally happen, though the unions will say it does. On average, the conflict is as I described. On average, a typical person does not benefit from the union position. The edge case is not interesting.
This is great! Any word on acme limits and quotas?
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Credit card companies have been successful at having this considered a discount, so it's not income. At least, the IRS hasn't significantly challenged this treatment yet.

I've had a card that automatically processed it as a statement credit one statement behind, and my current cashback card automatically deposits to a linked brokerage account once the accumulated points reaches a threshold. All transactions have a cost, but for these, it's negligible and hidden from the account holder.
What's the point when the server, if it's one you're logging into regularly (or even just more than once), will already be in your known_hosts file? Let the computer do the checking for you.
Sure, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest that getting up earlier is not equivalent to a later class.
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> encompasses the Middle Ages, which are held up as nadir of history

If you think only Europe matters, sure.
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Nearly nobody who wants to use these neural nets knows how to do model risk management. These things are black boxes with edge cases that are badly understood and nearly impossible to inspect and test. At least code is logical and human readable (usually).
So you're saying you'll need to re-factor the facility as you gain more knowledge and resources?
The saddest thing about this story is that X is missing out big time here.

I say that because I started out in a small, very cool agency. However _technical_ leadership and seniority was lacking (they admitted that and made an effort to change that.) I then stagnated on a technical level and had to accumulate that skill set own my own, often on my own time as well.

X being in the presence of a veteran like your colleague should be a golden opportunity for them to learn and grow. Of course open communication and letting everyone voice their opinions has to be part of it. But everything should be weighted, discussed and criticized based in it's objective merits for this approach to make any sense at all.
Sure and I like those. But can we agree it's less relevant than decades ago?
Many students may be forced to make one of two undesirable choices when faced with early class start times: sleep longer instead of attending class or wake up earlier to attend class.

There is a third option - go to bed earlier. Farmers have been doing it for millenia. Which raises an interesting question - are early classes at agricultural schools well-attended and do those students experience these same problems?
But then they use spacers to make it thicker in order to fit the RPi inside.
Those were metaphors and considered a more intellectual view than the previous animist religions by the pre-socratics. It’s clear you don’t understand this subject, so please don’t perpetuate a lie.
He talked a little about this on Lex Fridman's podcast about 6 months ago. I'd recommend listening to him discuss it as I will butcher a TL;DR.
Snakes can hear more than you think
Automation might be viable in some places in the Americas where cartels effectivley have full control over a region, or for anyone else in a sufficiently remote region who wants to achieve something simialr. Everywhere else you would want to choose your targets carefully. It's easier for police to turn a blind eye if you don't appear to be waging war against them.
You appear to be strawmaning this piece to a large degree.

The necessity for humans to find meaning isn't ignored or argued as anything other than "how human brains work", in the piece.

The Database metaphor isn't a separation of raw data from narrative -- it's recognizing that in the modern zeitgeist, the abundance of data is so vast that a new experience has emerged that supersedes any Narrative, that's the Database: a super collection of all raw data as well as the known paths through it.

The existence of the Database then calls into question the validity of any one Narrative, and the rest of the piece follows.

* No need to reference NIH.
What's the reasoning for reducing reliance on Let's Encrypt?
So, why would you want to rely on business logic embodied directly as a chaotic ML model (in the Chaos Theory sense of “chaotic” — subtle changes in stateful hyperparameters making for discontinuous shifts in output space), when you could instead ask the model to precisely describe a rigid decision workflow (i.e. “Software 1.0” business logic) it would implement if needing to explain its own decision-making process as parsimoniously as possible?
I think we need to train people to write formal specifications before we're going to see machine learning techniques generating useful programs.

Sure sometimes an LLM generates a correct program. And sometimes horoscopes predict the future.

I will be impressed when we can write a precise and formally verifiable specification of a program and some other program can generate the code for us from that specification and prove the generated implementation is faithful to the specification.

An active area of research here, code synthesis, is promising! It's still a long way off from generating whole programs from a specification. The search spaces are not small. And even using a language as precise as mathematics leaves a lot of search space and ambiguity.

Where we're going today with LLM's trying to infer a program from an imprecise specification written in informal language is simply disappointing.
Lost me when he started talking about gods. Five minutes reading about modern religious practices would dispel his notation that religion was mostly pragmatical.

My neighbor burns sages to remove evil spirits from her house. She fully believes this is real.
Nothing - you let it run it's course while mitigating inflation with Fed actions. Money will rescale as it's always done, and people will go on their way (as they're doing right now).

This is how it's been done the world over, and it works pretty well, despite pop articles creating more panic than is warranted. Money has been added in the past to smooth out the 18th and 19th century boom and bust cycles, and it has worked extremely well compared to past pain.

Every country on the planet has chosen central banking since the evidence it's better than the alternatives has been overwhelming for almost a century.
That’s a good way of putting it. I enjoy a board game once in a while, or doing some random sport, but when an activity is “mandatory” and the person is averse to anything else, it can be a bit much. In the end those relationships just fizzle out.
> she was nasally force fed in jail

As another commenter pointed out, this wasn't a 16 year fast, it was a 16 year hunger strike.