skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly confident posts like these are artificially weighted to fall off the front page..that seems to happen when a COVID related post gets popular on HN. This post has more points and comments than the majority of stuff on the front page but it's currently on page 3.

I've casually noticed something similar over the past ~18 months with posts related to COVID.
I know. I’m saying it may not have anything to do with an “image” at all. More with “composing oneself”. But I haven’t looked up the etymology.
My comment was poorly articulated. GP said:

> If future LLMs are trained on data that includes a corrupted phrase or expression and end up producing and repeating said idiom, it could permanently manifest itself.

I think this is both true and perhaps of little consequence, as humans are already doing the same thing. One example is the phrase:

> I could care less.
Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Google and Cloudflare
Hello HN,

In my spare time I work on an experimental search engine named Ichido. Search is fascinating, there are so many features you can add to a search engine, but I find that the existing search engines are a bit limited in the features they have to offer. So I decided to work on my own search engine to test out different features, searching algorithms, and front ends in order to improve my (and hopefully others) searching experience.

Ichido includes a tagging system that provides more info on search results. For example, if a site links to Google services or uses Cloudflare, a tag is shown with the search result that let's the user know about that site's use of those services. Ichido also includes links to RSS feeds in search results, making it much easier to find RSS feeds.

This search engine is free to use, but if you like the service and want to support continued development please consider making a donation (Ichido currently supports donations through Libera Pay).
Can Neurosymbolic AI Revolutionize Self-Driving Cars? My GTA-Based Findings
The philosophical and spiritual views of Barbara McClintock
As a non-American, the whole thing seems crazy to me.

It seems like Trump said it from the start, and the media negated him based on political views, not facts.
And now, only years later, there is a reconciliation with the facts.

Now, I'm not that aware of the politics or the media in the US. But I think the way I see it may be the way many others saw this story roll.

Whether or not it's true - it is a big reason that many people don't trust the media. And this may be the bigger story for us all going forward.
As an American progressive, here's how I feel about it. I have no doubt that others will have a different take.

I don't think it was tribalized by American media; I think covid hit when much of the world, not least the US, was embroiled in tribalism. I wanted to know whether it had come from a lab leak, but at the time a lot of the lab-leak rhetoric was packaged along with racist and nationalist vitriol, to the point where people who appeared to be of Asian descent were being attacked in the street.

So sensible people who suggested the virus may have come from a lab were out-shouted by people saying things like The election was stolen, Jews will not replace us, China virus, execute Fauci, being asked to wear a mask in Starbucks is like the Holocaust. I can forgive people for not wanting to try to pick out valid points from that particular torrent of bullshit. I think the resistance to the lab leak theory was less that people were dismissing science and more that the zone had been flooded and they were up to their neck in it.
And those seem to be the ones struggling the hardest with ad-funding, at least that's what my sample suggests: full of bottom-level outbrain-level shit because their "natural" ad market (local stuff) is all gobbled up by map platforms (well, usually exactly one map platform) and the occasional "still advertises on Facebook". If being a subscriber to the local publication would take care of transparent microtransaction guest access to most of the stuff you find linked I the wide web it would be a no-brainer to subscribe.
I’m almost tempted to sign up. Is there a Hindu Amish?
This is what diplomacy is for.

We need treaties tightly regulating all biolabs around the world. Any countries not agreeing with the treaties should be blacklisted from entering entering or exiting countries that are part of the treaty, perhaps even restricting trade as well.

The decontamination protocols and entry / exit procedures for every biolab should be unified, worldwide, with strict and regular third-party circular auditing around the world. This allows labs to maintain their secrets; only the perimeter / filter are subject to this.

That would be the sensible course of action as a matter of Earth defense.
That is very manipulative framing and essentially a lie.

That Russia did not managed in 2014 to threaten Ukraine away from western direction is what happened. Russia treated Ujrainian president not to sigh EU membership, Ukrainians revolted. Not an USA coup. And prites against specific rejection of democracy bt president.

Ukraine did not became Belarus in 2014 due to protests which were against Russian meddling. USA proteats were trying to impose autocracy.
AIUI, comments count against a post's ranking on HN, in an attempt to cool the discussion of controversial topics.
Windows can also run floss and Linux software too.
While I agree, Mozilla is a horrible example.

There are bugs reports with 100s of people complaining, about simple features, or broken code, and the attitude is WONTFIX.

If you won't listen to users, seething, upset, annoyed over inane issues you created? If you won't fix bugs for years, because it's your pet project/feature?

Then how are you even paying attention to telemetry correctly?

Opt-in telemetry is only useful if you will, no matter what, implement and fix what it tells you. Mozilla, predicated upon their behaviour, clearly only uses data when it agrees with prior opinions.

opt-in is useless to such an org, and opt-out isn't why it is happening.

It's them. They are broken as an org.
How does it help with vector math?
I'd agree except that Dilbert cutouts have been tacked to cubicle walls in the tech community for decades. Finding out that your workplace art is now controversial has some value.
There is an inherent difference between a language where safety is opt-out (safe by default) and opt-in (unsafe by default).

Ignorance or forgetfulness leads to safety by default in Rust. A single failure of vigilance in C leads to the status quo of unsafety.

This is no small difference. If someone doesn't want all the guardrails of Rust, there are still options like Nim and Zig that provide better options than C for greenfield systems projects today.
The entirety of the comment is saying:

A. It’s ok because war

B. Voice of America does it so it’s ok

That is, quite plainly, whataboutism. There is no substance in the comment beyond “others do it too so it’s ok for Russians to as well and if you think otherwise, well look at these others”

I know it’s hard for you to see whataboutism when your comeback to Yandex being censored was “In any case, the problem is that anything else is also censored.” but try harder.
That honestly looks super fun and satisfying to assemble!
Many people flag these types of posts (including myself) because they get too toxic. I even flagged this one despite commenting on it.
Mertonian Norms
Roc is a new programming language written in Rust (and some Zig).

https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/tree/main/crates
if you put the correct address/encoding in the answer box, it will tell you that you're on the right track
> we have freedom of association, and a business may not want to associate with someone who has opinions counter to their own.

Yes and no. Take the Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled in the baker's favor on the grounds that forcing him to bake the cake would violate his religious freedoms. I wonder, if the baker had refused purely as a personal preference not to do business with gay couples (freedom of association), would the court have ruled differently? As far as I know the Supreme Court has not yet weighed in on such a question.
Wow, how was that sn not taken as of today?
PayPal takes ~3% - doesn't Stripe cost roughly the same?
I actually live near that small town of 1600 people she resided in. I assure you that most locals do not know she lived here for most of her life.
They are incorrect about one thing: these models are not inevitably controlled by Big Tech.

Modern hardware is getting good at AI. If a few hardware vendors can stop being so boneheaded about walling off certain APIs, and devs work harder to support non Nvidia hardware, I think local inference of big models can proliferate fairly easily.
Lookup the research of Matt Williams, Gina Poe, Rajkumar Dasgupta, Rebecca Robbins, Indira Gurubhagavatula, and many many others. The article is not directed at an audience who wants to read the scientific evidence to support the claims - just the claims themselves.

There’s been a ton of research in sleep the last 10 years and it’s easy to find the studies and results.
Improve the tooling more. Formatters, syntax highlighters, language servers, host language integration. Too many languages remain toys because their creators do not address the infrastructure issue and only work on the compiler.
Is “because I think they become too toxic” a good reason to flag a post? I flag spam, shitposts, unsubstantiated or patently false articles. You, like other people, are abusing your flagging powers.
Ask HN: Is it worth it to get a masters degree in CS for SWE?
Hello everyone. I need some advice on whether to pursue a Masters after finishing my Bachelor degree.

I've tried doing some independent research on this, and the answer I've arrived at is: it depends!

I am currently in my second year of University in London, and while studying I'm also doing a part-time SWE internship at LEGO. This will continue in my third year, and it looks like I will be offered a job once I graduate in 2024.

With that in mind, would it make any sense for me to go for a Masters degree and delay working in industry for one year?

I'm mostly thinking in terms of opportunities in the future and personal development.

I should also note that my current University is not very prestitious, but my grades are excellent, so I believe I could be accepted into a better one for a MSc.
Some accounts I've read suggest the Wuhan lab was operated under conditions more akin to BSL1. Think your High School biology lab or your dentist.
Oh yeah, good idea. Nature centers are also a good place for this as well.
> Research is not supposed to just be a resume checkmark, and a PhD isn’t just supposed to be some structured degree program where you can get “on rails” and churn out papers to get a degree proving you have above-average intelligence. But that’s what it is, and it generates tons of noise, while cheapening the value of a PhD.

Ah, this seems like the emotional core of your concern. I appreciate the honesty. You are referencing an ideal that you think has been lost. I've seen this get mentioned frequently, and I tend to believe it.

Still, one has to admit this emphasis runs the risk of appearing elitist and/or egotistical. Foundational work is important, yes. So are applications. I'm seeing strong signs of the zero sum game battle for resources and recognition here in your comment, a quality that often makes academic institutions particularly nasty and self-defeating.
Pretty much every sedative, ambian, alcohol, etc, will decrease REM sleep and increase deep sleep. I have no idea about THC but assume the effect is similar.
What were some of the changes you didn’t like?
The discussion during the pandemic only lead to the "human designed" blame game, so the similarities are striking. It is a view that everyone can share, regardless of political affiliations, a perfect way to get a mob going. It is interesting to discuss how the views on this has changed though.
Ken White, a well known former prosecutor turned defense lawyer and first amendment law expert/speaker (amongst other things), did an interesting article towards the end of last year talking about the importance of being clear about terminology in these discussions ("In Defense Of Free Speech Pedantry" [0]). I think that's very important in these online debates because "freedom of speech" has become a somewhat overloaded that people can use to mean different things. I tend to think of "Free Speech" specifically in terms of what he calls Free Speech Rights (FSR), the actual legal rights afforded by the 1st Amendment, 14th Amendment and subsequent court rulings and precedent, with what people do with it and my own opinions a separate sphere. A lot of people though are bringing in what he terms Free Speech Culture and Speech Decency as well. Just because we legally can do something doesn't mean it's good to exercise that power. Norms sometimes should be challenged, but also are usually worth a bit of thought and discretion. And legal FSR apply to everyone and preserves a forever ongoing cycle of discussion and culture, that's part of the point, and in turn protect criticism and counter criticism, exclusion as well as inclusion. The right to speak necessarily entails the right to not speak.

I don't know if his proposed terms will ultimately catch on and make the most sense, but I do think it's worth some effort in being more precise with our language because FSR vs FSC and SD involves extremely different applications of power and risk, and separating out the domains can help everyone think more clearly about the topic. In the case of this classic saying, it involves all of them in a compact manner. Someone can think speech is just plain wrong, disgusting and evil even, but not want to see force used upon the speaker or any other speaker for a variety of good reasons.

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0: https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-ped...
Your comment tries to dismiss the argument by using softer terms like “alias” (and whataboutism but that’s a whole nother issue).

I am telling you that the word “alias” is not some gotcha that absolves Yandex of their actions like you imply.
Show HN: Power-Performance Curves for CPUs
Hi HN!

Following the release of the latest generation of CPUs by AMD and Intel with rather high power requirements and the corresponding uptake in interest of undervolting / power level adjustment, I was interested to find out in more detail how these CPU models would perform and compare at different power settings. However, it couldn't find an online source that would provide a satisfactory amount of data to be really useful to compare different models. So I took what data I could find to set up a Bayesian regression model.

Find the results and more details on the linked page. Hope this is useful or of interest. Any feedback is welcome.

Especially great would be if someone knows a source for or would be able and willing to contribute data for more CPU models (especially Intel 13th Gen.).

PS.: Please not that I haven't been able to spend much time on optimizing the website.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9998
Aye. I moved from the bird to the elephant and will never go back
The crowd on Masto is a lot less toxic and theres no Musk
This isn't a totally invalid point. There are so many thousands of packages and options and the learning curve can be very steep, so much so that one 'self-fences', puts up their own guard rails. So something like Windows which is walled, but a very broad pasture, seems unwalled. Whereas, linux/open source, can seem like a dangerous jungle and requires one to build their own wall.

Kind of like old zen parable about how to control cows, give them a wide comfortable pasture and then they behave, and never question the fence in the distance.
It wasn’t closed without comment, there is a long and detailed comment explaining why the maintainers disagreed with the approach.
> The processor available in 1986 was the i386, which was supported by Linux until 2012. i486 support is on its way out just now, more than 33 years later

What could you do with it in 2012? A 2010 Core2Duo 2.66Ghz Dell laptop can run Windows 10. Browse the modern web, mine had gigabit Ethernet, could run the latest version of Office decently and had a 500Gb hard drive.

> It's not expected to do what modern phones can do. But it could still connect to WiFi, so why shouldn't it be usable for reading text or listening to music?

Yes, as far as I know, the iTunes app still supports all iPods and iPhones. You can sync your music. And you can fill all of its massive 4GB or 8GB of storage.

Even back in 2004 - 3 years before the iPhone. I had this

https://www.lacie.com/support/multimedia/classic-hd/

It was a much better NAS than trying to repurpose an iPhone with very bad Wifi.

You are going to “read text” on a 3.5 inch 320x480 Poot resolution screen in 2023?

And you want Apple to continue supporting a “phone” that can’t be used as a phone anymore?
This is underrated comment. And by looking at the knee-jerk reactions from accounts with 0-10 karma, might just be right on the money.

For me, having moved from the US to eastern Europe has been eye opening in this regard. Based on somewhat shallow sampling of parents of our kids classmates in $$$ IB school, everyone but one seem to be vocal about the fact that everything in the west is from the 'ass'. I admit that it has crossed my mind more than once that if you really feel so strongly this way, or are upset that people don't want to speak russian with you, then why are you still here and not on your way back already?
Why couldn't they take the optimizations from vs code and integrate them? VS code is open source, it's only their proprietary extensions like remote dev that aren't open.

I remember Atom in its later releases had significantly improved performance to the point I never noticed problems.
exactly. "whataboutism" is nothing more than "how dare you not let me force you to talk about/deride what -I- want to talk about/deride, and on top of it, you do it by pointing out what a blatant hypocrite I am in my rant!". The cheapest of cheap comebacks.
Larger grind size, shorter soak times, spoon off the light brown frothy bubbles at the top just before serving. All French presses will have more oils extracted than paper filter methods. The paper soaks up most of the oil
LOL. I worked for SGI in the late 1990s and was hired as a contractor in the marketing department. I recall having to share desk space on Rengstorff Ave in Mountain View —-which is, of course , where Google HQ is currently located.
People can be nominally Catholic without doing a particularly good job of actually believing in and practicing the tenets of the religion. In fact, this is sort of the rule rather than the exception in much of Europe and North America.
The operator didn’t exist but the functionality did. It was just a side effect of python’s wonky variable scoping which they gave an operator.

I’m not familiar with how it works now but the example I remember was the variables escaping from list comprehension statements, like:

x = [y for y in z]
if y != z[-1]:
bad_stuff_happened()

Or something like that, maybe I’m wrong, honestly never had a use for the walrus.
For those who want fast and lightweight without falling all the way back to emacs/vim, I’m really digging Lite-XL.

Lua for customization, thin accelerated rendering layer in SDL2+freetype, zero nonsense. Binary packages are like 2MB. The code itself is clean and readable.

The plugin collection is still young and won’t have everything you’d find in the Electron-family of editors, but that’s also a plus when it comes to it staying lightweight and streamlined like some might want in these tools.
Really? I could believe it since they're very pungent, but I don't recall having any such reaction. I even used the dried leaves in soup. Most of my foraging books have recipes using California bay laurel as well.
> Privacy used to be kind of sacrosanct in the industry. What happened?

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
A Relational Spreadsheet
The mention the asymetry is here:

"When the high energy protons in cosmic rays slam into the atmosphere, they produce particles called pions, and the rapid decay of pions is governed by the weak force — the only fundamental force with a known mirror asymmetry."

Pion decay is apparently not symmetric. I don't know much about the topic, maybe start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_interaction#Violation_of_...

It doesn't seem to be the case that "we don't have any cosmic rays with inverted polarization" - just that there is more in one direction than in the other. Even a slight bias would add up over time.
PayPal has a pretty shitty reputation too.

Perhaps GitHub have been on the receiving end of PayPal doing dodgy shit once too often, and are now going to do something about it.
Forget gender equal society, question now is about having some next generation at all. This Tinder-inequality thing means another deep reduction in birth rate. We need to get birthrate fixed before thinking of equality etc. issues
"The :sb-prelink-linkage-table works on Windows but causes test failures."

At least there is some progress :)
I guess, the vc stands for version control here...
Walking South LA
Japan is experiencing rapid growth?
What do you think of OpenAI's roadmap to achieving artificial general intelligence?
Taxonomy is the lowest form of thought.

Either it's an outrage for MSFT to do business with warmongering countries, or it isn't. Saying we only care about Russian aggressions while ignoring our own is just jingoism.
“Porcelain” in this sense seems to be a very niche term used only by Git enthusiasts. I think it just means the same thing as a “git UI”.
> the media negated him based on political views

No, the media negated it because all the notable scientists and publications (Nature, Lancet, ..) said it was a crazy conspiracy theory.
>a business may not want to associate with someone who has opinions counter to their own

I'm not sure it's so much that exactly as businesses don't want employees who make a lot of other employees uncomfortable or who hold loud (whether deliberately or because social media made something go viral) opinions or make stupid jokes in public that get associated with the company and cause PR issues.

The fact is that if someone employs/sponsors/advertises with/etc. you they can and will cut ties fast if you embarrass them.
Yet has taken out most competition and other employers in its market…
In today’s world, companies are constantly competing to deliver the best products or services that capture their customers’ hearts. But how do they achieve this feat? How do they know what their customers truly want? Enter the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework.

The JTBD framework is a powerful tool for understanding customer needs and identifying opportunities for innovation. This framework is now widely adopted across various industries.
ahhh that sounds like it would work, thanks
Discord encryption – How secure is Discryptor?
I have to agree with this now as a parent of a little girl myself and as non-liberal as it sounds.

Human values seem to have completely gone down the drain. Bravery, courage, chivalry and respect of elders. That marriage is a commitment and not to be taken lightly, and not to abandon your wife and kids.

Almost every day a new Twitter video comes out of dysfunctional children beating up on an elder for taking their toys away while cowardly students sit back and just watch.

Meanwhile women are being told that wanting to have kids and be a mother is just not enough or not desirable anymore. How can we think we are a modern society when women are the ones left raising children on their own when their partners leave them, or are the ones forced to “abort” children when they are put in a difficult position.

Maybe it is time to look at becoming Amish..