skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mornings that I spend outside experiencing my five senses and staying in my body leave me feeling refreshed, grounded, and energized[1]. From this place I tend to have more attention and patience. I seem to have better access to empathy.

Mornings that I spend from the minute I open my eyes glued to my phone screen leave me feeling basically the opposite. My attention is completely fractured. My general sense that I'm okay is harder to access and instead I often feel baseline anxiety and uneasiness. I feel less patient and more judgemental.

I can't claim that this causes me to be more caustic online (and offline) with people that I disagree with, but I certainly can see why that might be true. Especially when I'm bombarding my mind with divisive, provocative news headlines that are designed to get a rise out of me.

[1] I've started doing this more since listening to the Huberman Lab podcast about the health benefits of exposing yourself to morning light. Here's the first Google result going over this info: https://medium.com/@podclips/andrew-hubermans-light-sun-expo...
At least my nextdoor isn’t filled with covid garage breakins anymore.

Thanks, tourist prey.

Now if we can just get rid of all the Audis.
This history seemed dubious, so I looked up a random 1989 allergy journal: "Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies and probably the most common cause of death by food anaphylaxis in the United States."

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Allergy_Proceedings/ecU...
Hm, on second thought this might be a German regulation. German imprints definitely do need to contain a monitored email address (which somewhat hilariously is often imprint@company.com or impressum@company.com).

This used to be the only way of reaching my phone operator for a while (they had chat support, as well as a phone number, but ironically that one would only text-to-speech read out "helpful" FAQ articles and then hang up, only forwarding callers to a support agent if they know the secret incantation producing zero FAQ hits).
It's brought me an outlet for my thoughts and a place where I can look back on all the ideas I've had at certain points in my life.
The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe
Project P3OL – An America Online compatible server written in Python
Its Samsung phones that were caught doing that. It is most certainly not a lie.
I got incrementally better at writing, if for no other reason that I could look back at what I wrote 10 years ago and wince.
For me, it's been mostly nightmares. I will say though that chat via a third-party messenger (e.g. WhatsApp, iMessage etc.) is significantly less frustrating than in-app or web chat, which frequently times out ("please respond within 30 seconds or we will consider your issue resolved" after having me wait for 15 minutes for an agent etc).
Entropy only increases on average. You can decrease it locally, for example, making steel from iron ore. You generate heat, so you still get a net increase, but you could easily redefine your boundary to only include the local decrease in entropy (the steel from ore).
So the regime in Kyiv isn't Ukrainian, it's "Western". Got it. Makes total sense.

And to defend against the Western world, they need to shell checks notes dozens of Ukrainian cities, which were controlled by the government in Kyiv. Right. Which isn't Ukrainian, it's "Western", which are definitely two different things. Huh.

I'm quite confused by how you've twisted things. Is they Kyiv regime Ukranian or not? Is Ukraine Western or not? Did they have to defend themselves from Western world? Did they have to defend themselves from Ukraine? Are those really separate? Isn't saying they had to defend against the Western world and the Kyiv regime acknowledging they're one in the same?

I'd love if you'd spell out what you really think about the topic.
Using seaweed as a natural fertilizer has been known about for a long long time, and seaweed "farming" has been occurring since at least the 70's [1].

The farming in this case is less "planting new crops" and more "harvesting crops that already exist in the wild, in a sustainable way."

Coastal communities where I grew up would regularly collect washed-up seaweed, and then bury it in the garden.

But as the article points out, while the properties of seaweed are well known in some places, to most Americans it's a pretty unknown resource.

[1] https://kelpakusa.com/
How much $$$ is generated from the labor? My impression is that the (very bad) slave labor aspect is a small grift on top of the system. I have seen people start to talk as if it actually drives the system in a fundamental way, but I have not seen evidence for that position.
It's in the original Bitcoin whitepaper
With this project and the collapse of the Arecibo antenna it looks like the search for extraterrestrial life is on hold for the forseeable future. I loved the concept of the software though. It made people invested in the project even though they never took part in the academics. It was great PR even if it never produced any results that I know of.
I'm on a forum that's supposed to be the opposite of toxic social media and it's tearing itself apart right now. Actually, two forums are, and one of them is just a place to politely get some software help. People are having trouble discerning individuals in the collective activity, which leads to angry/snippy posts about what the site itself believes and is doing, which leads to individuals who don't ascribe to that, or see something different in the shadow, fighting with them, which leads to genuine acrimony and enmity between individuals, and so on. And these groups are almost entirely composed of people who hate social media and think Instagram/Twitter/Tiktok is destroying society!

It's very hard to productively discuss and troubleshoot, and even the best advice (less Internet for awhile) sounds like a personal attack.
This is my feeling as well. For some reason online community feels more "trustable" in the early 2000s. That is definitely NOT true today.
The second link seems pretty cool, and cheap!!

Have you experience playing with it?

In particular, I wonder how usable it is with e.g. a Linux laptop.

It looks like the device uses a I2C interface.
>Go outside and it's more or less the same as it has always been

That's because the author is living in a bubble.

And also because, go figure, your cashier's depression isn't visible when they're forced to smile at you, and people with crippling depression are more likely to not get out of home at all (unless it's for work, if they have it and it's not remote).

And because people mask their symptoms of anxiety, but (go figure!) would be more willing to be open about it online, where they're anonymous and won't be judged by people who don't understand what the problem is because things are the same as they ever were.

They aren't, and we aren't.
YouTube Restores Donald Trump’s Account Privileges
The Google-owned video platform became the latest of the big social networks to reverse the former president’s account restrictions.
One of the things that helps me stay sane (to the extent that I can be said to be "sane". Now STFU, peanut gallery!) is... wait for it... fishing. Wait, what? I know, I know. But hear me out.

There's a spot where I go to fish a lot, because it's very convenient to access. Because it's very convenient to access, everybody and their cousin fishes there. Due to the fishing pressure, the fishing at this spot isn't really great, at least not for largemouth bass, which is usually what I'm targeting. But still I go. And you know what? The point isn't really the fish. It's about being outside, being near the water, having other people around but mostly not having to interact with them unless I choose to, having the ability to fish right up until dark, then start a little campfire and sit back for a while and listen to the fire crackle and pop while watching the stars come out, etc. It all helps me stay grounded.

Even more, another aspect of hanging out here is that it's such a "community hole" kind of place, that you get a really diverse crowd. You get white guys (me), black guys, hispanic guys, black women, hispanic women, old guys, young guys, little kids, asian guys, etc., etc. And out here, I've never so much as once seen race, gender, or age matter to anybody. We all fish, we talk about fishing inasmuch as we talk ("Hey, anybody seen any white bass starting to show up yet? The spawning run should be starting about now?" or "You catching anything today?", or "What bait are you using?", etc.) and that's it. Some people are out there fishing for food, some are there just fishing for sport, some were born and raised in the US and are college educated, some barely speak any English at all and are possibly undocumented migrant workers, but yet at the end of the day we're all just a bunch of people hanging out on a dam by a spillway, trying to catch a fish.

It's good to be reminded that there are times and situations where you can throw a bunch of people together in a (relatively) small area who probably have very little in common in many ways, but yet they can be united by their humanity and by a simple common interest.

The moral of this story? Take up fishing, I guess. :-) Or if not fishing, at least something to get you outside, away from computers and social media and "tech stuff" for a few hours here and there.
anybody running them would have the same operational costs, probably far higher since miners gravitate to the lowest cost power source
They won't bother fixing the system.
As they can bail it out repeatedly.

Till the time the World uses your currency as the Global Reserve, you can print all the money you want.

When the actions of politicians in one country, make the rest of the world suffer, wonder how long will that privilege last.
good luck with this, looks good so far
I know! $1.30?? Some crazy subsidy magic is happening at TJs
for a fraction of a percent of the problem that isn't even in use anymore?

misdirected angst
Tbh wars like Iraq war, Vietnam war are basically genocidal actions carried out by our government. What a bunch of savages.
Yeah. They are.

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2023...

The only time a senior DOD / military official uses the word "possible" is when it's either happened or is going to happen.

"It's possible you guys will be deployed within the next year." means "You guys are going to be deployed sometime within the next year."
What a complete waste. It (and subsequent misadventures) left the entire region in a much, much worse place. Also why we can’t have nice things.
Agree, with the odd doomer exception.
Also, the incentives are real.

Unity, generally makes money by convincing more people that they could make video games, and keeping up that belief so they keep paying for versions or subscription fees.

Epic only makes money after games have actually shipped.
> Every major banking scandal over the last decade has happened there.

That's not fair. Deutsche Bank is going to feel forgotten and slighted.
What are some examples of efficient packing results that led to or inspired practical solutions?
The device that comes closest to what I'd like is the NitroKey HSM (and the underlying SmartCard-HSM applet it's based on). It doesn't have any secure PIN pad option that I'm aware of, though. Buying a random USB keyboard from an office supply store would be good enough for me.

The tamper-evident envelope thing was for CA root keys for a DRM system to 'protect' embedded device firmware (read: revenue model) that we implemented for a Customer.

The product line has a 25 year field service life. It was a requirement to be able to issue new intermediate CA certs for that period. We met with a couple large HSM vendors and decided the lock-in risk with the proprietary HSM platforms was too great.

Instead we opted for a key generation and HSM commissioning ceremony modeled after the DNSSEC root key signing ceremony. It was the best way we could come up with to have the key material available for loading onto other HSMs down-the-road.

I guess it turned out to be good idea (so far). I heard the Customer switched HSM in the last couple years.
The nature of the scam has evolved, and possibly the parties involved have changed, but the scams were always there.
How to own your own Docker Registry address
CPU Adventure – Unknown CPU Reversing
There was a great deal of "off the books" quid pro quo in the post WWII Cold War landscape.

The greatest source(s) of raw yellowcake for building the thousands of atomic weapons tested and stored for use during that period was former French | Belgian African territories from mines that were operated with no apparent direct US control.

With US backing and former French administrators, intelligence services and military many coups were staged and puppet governments shored up to ensure the yellowcake must flow.

The following articles barely scratch the surface of the story and region, covering just the early supply period in the better known source:

https://theconversation.com/how-a-rich-uranium-mine-thrust-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkolobwe
Why would they have to fabricate in secret or use crashed bombs? The number and location of nuclear weapons is tightly held secret. There are so many that there is no way someone else could track them. Anyone in US would wonder where why bombs are at "storage facility".

Also, putting nuclear bombs in foreign cities is a dumb idea. What happens when Russia or China finds one? That is an act of war. It is also unnecessary since US, and Russia and China, have hundreds of ICBMs and SLBMs. Enough to survive any first strike and produce more retaliation than a few hidden bombs could. I could see people in early Cold War thinking it was a good idea, but they would worry about losing control of weapons.

The one place could see hidden nukes is shipping containers. Not ship them around the world, but hold them for retaliation. Keep them in safe location away from targets and has access to untargeted port. Then send them out when shipping resumes after lose nuclear war. But that is very modern.
I am no fan of CCP yet would like to learn whether USA high tech media has a similar tarnished view from perspective of say the average European or Asian in it's inevitable pure capital extraction muscle maneuvers in those regions
I concur, Command and Control is a very interesting book. Also, while the Damascus Titan missile explosion is well known, there was also a horrific fire in a Titan silo in 1965 that killed 53 workers. (Weirdly, the missile present at the time was the same one in the Damascus explosion, although it wasn't armed with a nuclear bomb in the first incident.) On the topic of Titan, the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson is worth a visit if you're in the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Searcy_missile_silo_fire
It's just not worth it. Writing programs in a distributed fashion is hard, setting up compute servers on employee machines is awkward, and few companies actually need to run large compute jobs. So while it's in theory possible, the non-compute costs of doing this would eat up any compute savings.
"And no practical amount of shaking the jar will ever return the marbles to a high order state again."

Im not saying you're wrong, but then there's Poincare's recurrence theorem. Entropy is funky. (Certainly not practical amounts anyway)
I learn by taking notes, but keeping up with AI developments was becoming challenging. To stay updated, I began a daily blog in April last year to cover various topics and create a repository of notes for future reference.

Initially free, the blog eventually became paid and grew into a very active WhatsApp group of over 700+ members.

This week, something that started as a personal blog is evolving into a product for me.

The blog helped me in many ways:
- Increased learning by actively looking for newer topics and exploring more about them

- After having a few users it put pressure and discipline to blog daily

- Led to many interesting conversations and connections

- Give lots of innovative ideas and a boost of confidence

- There are lots of learning on entrepreneurship as well

For those who might be interested, I maintain it here: http://everydayseries.com/blog/
The total loss is incalculable. I do appreciate the attempt at quantifying it though. What an utter disaster.
bc carries so many of my scripts, I was just using it yesterday! Thank you so much for the work you've done on it.
I have to agree with this notion. Fishing seems to be a community building shared relaxation space, one of my favorite activities to fill my increasingly limited free time. It's very offline and accessible to all, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Aldi sometimes sells these here in the us. They're similar to Bamba, but not as fluffy. It's a coarser-ground corn, I think. e.g. https://aldithings.com/deutsche-kuche-peanut-puffs/
Yeah, that's either a typo or bull ... or maybe one of the top 5 ETH miners is among us.
DNR/LNR isn't in Russia though, it's Ukraine according to treaties Russia agreed to. Same thing with Crimea.

Next thing I know you're going to tell me Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia is a real, sovereign country and totally not just Russia invading a neighbor.
This is the worst of both worlds - those who could pay would just go to a private hospital (and pay for the best they can get). This just leaves those who can't pay at the public hospital, incurring the cost and the burden onto the few existing payers.
Would it be OK to buy a truck for very infrequent towing, but then only use it when hauling or towing. Perhaps bicycling or running to work on a normal daily basis? Or having a responsible vehicle such as an EV or hybrid? Or maybe an E-Bike?

I wouldn't want to inadvertently do something immoral like improper daily use of an inappropriate tool.
That is actually a great idea. One of the issues with a network, however, is how the output would be produced in such a scenario and how the dictionary would be controlled and how the training data could be managed. The transformer model allows different RNNs to be separated, but it would be challenging to 'put it all together'. Furthermore, bad actors could intentionally poison the network during the training process.

Furthermore, how would upgrades work? When new techniques are discovered, it would be hard to upgrade it. We see these challenges already when it comes to major changes in cryptocurrency networks.
The fact that energy hasn't gotten more affordable really demonstrates a deficiency of planning.

We've had access to a source of energy that is cheap, zero-carbon and essentially limitless, since the 1950s: nuclear power.
When I saw this headline I said out loud "God, do I even want to click on this link?"
I started a personal blog two years ago, roughly. Even if nobody had read it, I'd feel successful, because I only write about things I'm confused about or learned recently. Then I can link them to my coworkers and they get an exact guide about this particular issue.

But, people _have_ actually read it, which is nice. I've hired at least one person through my blog (he emailed me after reading it), and he was awesome to work with. A lot of coworkers have messaged me saying "hey, I was googling for this problem I'm having, and I found your blog, and I realized you work at the company, so thank you!" I've benefited so much from reading developer blogs throughout my career, so it's nice to be able to give back and help others too.

I think it's helped me get better at technical writing and show employers that I can do more than just write code too.
Listening to the Creatures of the World
Apocalyptic thinking does not help even if it has a good chance of being correct. This is similar to how a panic attack can dramatically worsen your situation even if it is potentially in response to a real threat. Are we doomed? Very possibly. Is adopting an attitude of 'we're just selecting the speed at which we drive the Titanic into an iceberg' healthy or helpful? No.
If you don't know how your program works, in the sense that you don't know how it arrived at the answer it gave you, IMHO that's as good a reason as any to call it "AI."

The days of understanding our own code are rapidly coming to an end. As developers, we now have the same problem that the mathematical community has had to deal with for some time, as proofs become complex enough to demand large chunks of peoples' careers to comprehend and evaluate.

Prompts may or may not be the next revolution in the graphic arts, but they will be the next revolution in programming languages. I've seen more than enough to conclude that.
Maybe we need a fork of `man` that reads the page in a sexy tts voice while showing minecraft footage on half the screen.
If you have time to write more about this, or even as a blog post to submit to HN, I'd be very interested to learn more.
Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software
The cheerful and polite writing of AI in sync with marketing and corpo-speak will push real humans to adopt minimalized and bitter communication to differentiate from the fake one.
If there’s an accident between an F150 and a Prius I’d rather my family be in the F150. The premise of OPs video is nice but it’s utopian. Once only mid size sedans are on the road, I’ll drive my family around in one. Until then, I’ll keep them in a much safer vehicle.
I don't mean to sound like a dunce but the naming is very confusing to work out. I've spent an embarrassing amount of time reading the blog posts, glossaries, wiki, and comments and I'm still left a bit confused on the naming choices being the way they are. Part of that may be each explanation tries to teach me about the component in relation the entire project instead of pieces making sense standalone.

Few will gain clarity by an old english meaning of "oils" and "old shell"/"young shell" isn't really gaining many favors in searches even versus the infamous "oil shell"/"shell oil" problem. If it's an extended bourne compatible shell everyone is already used to the pattern of sh, ash, and dash/bash so why not just let osh be "oil shell" as people have already been expecting. Instead of "ysh" it could be something like olang (or maybe oilang, but that's a tougher topic because of the l/ll dilemma) for the programming focused incantation? Searches would be "osh shell" and "olang" just like people Google search for "fish shell"/"bash shell" and "golang"/"ziglang" today.

With osh/olang it's clear what each is intended to focus on, they use existing intuitive naming patterns, search patterns match how people already search about shells, having 2 separate incantations nearly explains itself by name, and you don't need to know about the overall "oils" but when you do the differences already makes sense.
Not sure if anyone here appreciates leftist news, but someone called into the Majority Report recently predicting Credit Suisse would fold next. As a normal person I found his comments on regional bank stability interesting.

"flashback: Caller Predicted Credit Suisse Would Be Next To Fall" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDFKvzXdLcA

(Not a banker, so maybe lots of people expected this?)
To anyone knowledgable. Are theories of retrocausality also related to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

?
As a European who has visited the US, I mean, they're just nice though.

It's fun to drive a truck. The experience is better than driving a little city car like I do here in the UK. I would have one here if the roads were wider.

To me this just feels like another one of those "we could just have a lower quality of life" things that seem super popular amongst a small subset of people.

I don't need one, but I want one, I can have one, and you can just fuck off if you don't like that. I mean, that's about as American as it gets.