skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll sign up for the global wellbeing optimization AGI, honestly, though. If you have to pick a goal, global wellbeing is pretty much the best one.

Perhaps there is even some some kind of mathematical harmony to the whole thing… as in, there might be something fundamentally computable about wellbeing. Why not? Like a fundamental “harmony of the algorithms.” In any case, I hope we find some way to enjoy ourselves for a few thousand more years!

And think just 10 years from now… ha! Such a blink. And it’s funny to be on this tiny mote of mud in a galaxy of over 100 billion stars — in a universe of over 100 billion galaxies.

In the school of Nick Bostrom, the emergence of AGI comes from a transcendental reality where any sufficiently powerful information-processing-computational-intelligence will, eventually, figure out how to create new universes. It’s not a simulation, it’s just the mathematical nature of reality.

What a world! Practically, we have incredible powers now, if we just keep positive and build good things. Optimize global harmony! Make new universes!

(And, ideally we can do it on a 20 hour work week since our personal productivity is about to explode…)
Ask HN: Idea for serverless Git CMS with backblaze image host
i have been asked by a small music venue to see if i could simplify their drupal install

since i dont know php, and since the website is mostly just a bunch of bloglike posts with events, i thought it would make a good candidate for a static page

THAT is until i figured out the backcatalog of posts going back to 2011 with huge image assets.

so i came up with this plan:
https://github.com/sloev/research-into-serverless-git-based-cms/blob/main/README.md

which roughly is to create two repos:
one repo for a single file cms in the form of a cloudflare worker that does ultra simple access control together with image upload (presigned backblaze urls) and form submit (musicevents new/updated) as json

another repo for keeping the layout plus all the music events json etc
this repo can be public andwill build static html on each push

my question is : "is this gonna make the site more maintainable in the future?"

currently they have no person responsible for the website s it has to be easy to get into and maintain for an occational dev
> I'm surprised they allow alcohol at student organization events, period

According to the link above, "student organizations" also includes fraternities/sororities and athletic teams. Never heard of fraternities/sororities not being allowed to have alcohol at their parties before, outside of schools with a religious lean (e.g., BYU) or edge cases. I didn't go to college that long ago either, been barely 6 years since I graduated.

The only relevant thing I remember we had was a "dry week", iirc during the first week of any given semester. During "dry week", fraternities/sororities weren't allowed to have alcohol at their events, period. Which made sense, because it was also the rush week, and the school didn't want fraternities/sororities to entice students with alcohol during their recruitment week.
I don’t necessarily agree that you’ll end up with drunk and stoned people with nothing to do. The right education systems to encourage creativity and other enriching endeavours, could eventually resolve that. But we’re getting into discussions of what a post scarcity, post singularity society would look like at that point, which is inherently impossible to predict.

That being said, I’m sitting at a bar while typing this, so… you may have a point.

Also: your username threw me for a minute because I use a few different variations of “tharkun” as my handle on other sites. It’s a small world; apparently fully of people who know the Dwarvish name for Gandalf.
Tangentially related - I signed up for DSL through Deutsch Telekom while living on a US military base in Germany, in 2002. I signed up in person at a DT location, and due to the language barrier, I did not get the 'unlimited' plan that I asked for. Instead, I got a 10 hour per month plan, with hourly overage charges once I passed 10 hours. I did not discover this mistake until I returned from a deployment several months later, during which I left my DSL connected. The bill from DT was over 10,000 euros. I never paid, and I had to use creative methods to get online from then onwards. It was annoying.
How about those sneaky add-on subscriptions in Amazon Prime (via Prime Video and Music)? Lots of people complaining that there was auto-enroll happening.
> Then Microsoft threatened to sue

Threatened to sue on the basis of what? Do you have links?
The market will sort this out. If OpenAI decides to make shovels rather than digging for gold (like it should), then the customer facing apps will fight it out for very little margin on top of marketing expenses while OpenAI (or equivalent) is rolling in money.
Heh, I guess old habits die hard. I first began using Emacs on a Mac keyboard, so now I am too used to it.

I guess my rant is more of a wish for Framework or some other manufacturer to offer this kind of layout, without needing a software solution like xmodmap. The moment Framework sells keyboards with modifier keys in the "correct" spot is the moment I'm ditching my Macbook.
Wish it better luck than x.ai have used the latter for a year and it has saved me so much time. Joined the beta, looking forward to trying it!
> However, since SSR is becoming a more important topic these days

Is it? This is the first I’ve heard of this fantastic news. What’s changed to have caused the increased importance?
As long as you're fine with people and corporations treating you that same way if your beliefs ever become socially unacceptable.
But the stakes seem very low: we're talking about procedural due process protecting the rights of fraternities to host parties with alcohol.

No? The quote is in reference to a lawyer defending students accused of cheating on an exam and facing an administrative process with no presumption of innocence or right to a proper defense. A process which could permanently destroy their college education and career prospects.
I've done it or I wouldn't have recommended it.
I think that google could use a LLM with wxmaxima and some database, for example using maxima the LLM could show the source code used and perhaps it could adapt the code to new problems.
> How is reprinting the final automated tally supposed to represent a "recount" of the original automated tally?

If you want to detect tampering in the central totalling, then all you need is the end of day receipt of each ballot. Exactly like in OP's case.

If you want to detect tampering in a ballot, then you manually recount the individual printed paper votes inside that ballot. That is something that you should do to a random sample of ballots, plus ballots with unusual totals.

> As Tom Scott puts it, "The key point is not is that paper voting is perfect - it isn't - but attacks against it don't scale well"[0].

That is simply not true, large scale paper ballot tampering scales very well to the point of turning elections, and is much easier to pull off because it happens in the fringe where no one is looking (while tampering the electronic system would require pulling your heist in the IT room where everyone is looking).
I did not realize this until I cancelled a card that I'd had for 15-20 years, much longer than any others, because I'd switched to another card from the same company (AMEX) and wasn't using that old card anymore. My score went down quite a bit, and I was so upset at Amex for not telling me when I was trying to cancel that old card. I would have just kept it and not used it.
Apparently the Amish aren't human.
It's a common antivax meme to round 95% down to 0%. But even if it didn't reduce infection, the real selling point for me is that they reduce the severity of infection. I have had covid, I will probably get covid again. Reducing the amount of brain damage from all sources is pretty high on my priority list.
Yes we were:

> Provide an alternative title for "Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans" so that layman people would understand.
"you can fine-tune RWKV into a non-parallelizable RNN (then you can use outputs of later layers of the previous token) if you want extra performance."

Is that 61% using the non-parallelizable RNN mode or the standard mode? I wonder if it's the latter.

This new model may be a viable alternative to ChatGPT, which is not only closed sourced but can be shut down in the future just as they did with the older text-davinci models.

Plus, the alignement and safety has rendered ChatGPT useless for helping with areas such as critical analysis of social issues (that go against the aligned views) and any and all critical thinking that goes against the aligned views of those who own and program ChatGPT. This could a viable free (as in freedom) alternative.
A dystopian digital currency as CBDC will come after FedNow.
I just built a ChatGPT-powered Spanish tutor for my son using Fresh from Deno and it was overall an enjoyable experience. Once I grok’d how islands worked it was pretty smooth sailing.

I do love NextJS but I will try a few more Fresh projects soon.
Last time I was in a thread with homesteaders doing sketchy things with water, one of the voices of reason invoked Legionaire's Disease.

Legionaire's disease being a rather nasty bacterial pneumonia, grows in water and needs to be aerosolized to get into the lungs. Like might happen when using a low-flow showerhead.
Should an individual be allowed to choose the risks they want to take with their own money? Yes or no. “But we voted for it” doesn’t change the fact that I don’t consent to something on the basis that enough people disagree with me.
That was my point more or less, is that Bitcoin is a publicly traded fiat currency.
Henry Rollins: ‘I wouldn’t go back on stage with a band for anything’
My understanding is that PTSD quite commonly includes nightmares, which must be very unpleasant even if it has no further consequences. I see that, in your paper, you briefly consider PTSD nightmares, distinguishing them from normal dreams in that in the latter the dreamer's behavior seems odd, while in the former case, it is the environment that seems odd. For what it is worth, in my dreams (non-PTSD not-nightmare), the environment usually seems odd and I am just trying to cope with it as best I can.
OpenAI has been collecting a ton of evals here https://github.com/openai/evals with many of them including some comments about how well GPT-4 does vs GPT-3.5.

You could clone that repo, adapt the oaieval script to run against different APIs, then run the evals against both and compare the results.
This is exactly how most people operate. Reactive instead of proactive.
can't sideload into iphone that easily.
No they didn't but giving Gregory Peck an Oscar over Peter O'Toole should have destroyed any notion of credibility.
Depends on the height of the S-curve — that is, how long the exponential uptrend continues. If not long, then they will converge quickly. But if it continues for a long time, then always being a few years behind then might as well give up. Still, following a different path might lead to a bigger step change and catch up.

I would worry more for Apple than for Google.
yeah when getting DL up and running on AMD requires using a datacentre card then it's no wonder CUDA is more popular. AMD is enabling ROCm for commercial GPUs now but it's still a pain to get it up and running, because of the inertia that CUDA has.
I don't accept either of these premises.

Stanford students are adults (indeed, many of them aren't even young adults). It is not principally the mission of Stanford to insulate its students from consequences. We just had a story here earlier today where HN is up in arms (somewhat reasonably so) because of Stanford's refusal to visit consequences on students who protested an odious speaker. Here the consequences we're talking about are even sillier: it's the right to host official school-sanctioned parties with alcohol service. Who gives a shit?

Second, it indeed may be a subtextual benefit of Stanford that attendance cements your status among an elite (this touches on the "human capital" vs. "signaling" debate). But to whatever extent that's the case, it's a bad thing. Stanford attendance is an unimaginably rarified privilege. If Stanford's disciplinary process happens to mute some of the status benefit of making it in, so much the better.

I don't have much to say about the coffee-cup case, which is very sad, and which fortunately doesn't occupy much of the attention of this article the way the frat party case does. So: let's just focus our attention on the frat party. And in response to it, I'd just remind you of the scene in The Social Network, where the Winklevii attempt to escalate to the president of Harvard their concerns about Zuckerberg stealing the idea for ConnectU. Retaining lawyers to fight sanctions against underage drinking is that, but like 6 times dumber.
Off topic, but related. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110024854706734967
I've used it extensively for hosting the heavily-modded Minecraft servers we play with. Those things can take easily 5-10 minutes to boot up fresh, as opposed to the very quick resume.
Where do you find 10,000 more data?
What I want to know is, what gives OpenAI and other relatively small technological elites permission to gamble with the future of humanity? Shouldn't we all have a say in this?
Eggplant parm is such a fascinating dish for its mix of nightshades.

Relatedly, I've known Americans that rate Italian-American restaurants on their eggplant parm as their preferred benchmark dish.
CISA, NSA push identity and access management framework as risks grow
Probably doesn't matter if you live the life of a sage. Negative news travels more effectively than good news. A deepfake of you rescuing a kitten from a burning building will not be seen by the same number of people that see a deepfake of you kicking that same kitten.
No. It’s dehumanizing to get laid off in the middle of the night. The thing that matters is treating you like a person and telling you to your face.

How would you feel if your wife left you in the night without having the courage to tell you to your face?

That’s how getting laid off by 2am e-mail feels.

Google crowed for years about how employees are family. Middle of the night firings showed that was a lie.
Very cool. Why are you using a neon purple theme for the plots and your web page ? I ask because that color scheme seems to be popping up everywhere.
I suspect that a lot of decent people go to jail nowadays. That would explain why jails aren't so bad and why different facilities are so inconsistent. I can imagine a day when good people will be in jail and bad people will be outside running them. I think in some countries, this is not far from reality.
So everyone should have a hydrogen bomb at the lowest price the market can provide, that's your actual opinion?
Russia didn't have PM at all until Putin decided to work around the constitution.
Show HN: Create a “rogue” WiFi AP & Captive Portal with a Raspberry Pi
This project makes a Raspberry Pi pretend to act as a WiFi hotspot with a captive portal. It does not actually provide an internet connection to connected clients, but simply triggers their captive portal detection, which causes them to present users with a browser window containing content of your choosing.

I created this for security tinkering purposes, but also because I found the documentation for similar projects lacking. I've attempted to document and explain the salient points of the entire Raspberry Pi Linux configuration relating to the captive portal.
Groups like Team Jorge[1][2] are about to get a lot more powerful.

>‘Team Jorge’ unit exposed by undercover investigation

>Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles

>Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world

>Mastermind Tal Hanan claims covert involvement in 33 presidential elections

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disin...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheOilps2zQ
Do Kwon Charged with Fraud by US Prosecutors in New York
https://archive.is/5km1E
>Was there a manager in charge of the stores who did not notice the problem?

Along similar lines why did the manager's manager not notice the problem? IF the CEO can spend time investigating how the lowest tier workers operate, surely every manager can spend time looking at the tier of workers below his immediate tier.
>The conversational UI is a lot less convenient to include advertisements

How so? Surely people are going to ask this thing for product recommendations, just recommend your sponsors.
That is true of real engineering; unfortunately "software engineering" has been defined differently by some authors, with quite the opposite meaning.
I did say “almost”. But in general in the US, the FTC regulates interstate commerce. IANAL, but for an overview of e-commerce regulations (assuming you’re talking about online sneaker exchanges), check out https://iclg.com/practice-areas/digital-business-laws-and-re....
Most methane cows emit is through belching: https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/33/which-is-a-bigger-methane-so...
Xi, Putin declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec
"Stanford's aggressive crackdown on its own students" ?
Holy sh*t. Even though it didn't work — damn that's neat.
They would change taxonomy to archea (see MatrixMan’s comment) thus no longer being bacteria.

These are all human issues, the “archea-bacteria” wouldn’t care what we called it, but fun to think about.
> ChatGPT access to your existing humongous codebase and having it submit PRs

I'm sure that's just around the corner. In 2 years tops it will very likely exist and be useful for some percentage of your JIRA issues.
So police make up “justification” for a warrant, the violent armed invasion of his home turns up nothing because they made it up the reason for the warrant.

Now they’re saying his making a video with their faces in it is making their jobs harder. Like dude you made your jobs harder when you commit perjury to get a warrant. You make your jobs harder when you smash down the victims door and swarm his home with guns.

If the cops didn’t want to be famous for violating other people’s rights maybe they should stop violating people’s rights?
Is there a chance you could have individual scissor switch key modules made for DIY ergonomic layouts on a custom PCB?

The height limitations of the 16" laptop are too low for low-profile discrete mechanical switches.
@ParetoOptimal this is helpful in that haskell/ghc throws these error but how do you read the error message and how do you use it or infer next steps from the messages regarding the typed hole?
For some further related reading:

"The Memorandum as a Management Genre" by JoAnne Yates <http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch6_YatesMemoMgtCommQtly1989....> (PDF)

Organizing America by Charles Perrow is Yet Another Book Exploring the Origins of The Corporation: <https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400825080/organi...> <https://archive.org/details/organizingameric0000perr>

The New Books Network is a great resource generally for academic books and author interviews. Search on "history of corporation" yields: <https://newbooksnetwork.com/search?+q=history+of+corporation>. And I see a number of future timesinks, starting with Counter Cola: <https://newbooksnetwork.com/counter-cola>

David Hounshell's Science and Corporate Strategy is one of several books about major industrial R&D labs. His covers Du Pont. <https://archive.org/details/sciencecorporate0008houn>

AT&T's Bell Labs is another notable topic (Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory, though I've not read it). I believe there are likely books on Xerox, Kodak, and IBM. Rand Corporation hosts its own very extensive publications library: <https://www.rand.org/pubs.html>

I'll add Mickelthwaite's book to my own rather imposing pile.
That only tells us about when it does happen. We also need to know how many times it doesn't happen. If we see 250 suspects per year shooting at cops when served a warrant, but 50,000 surrendering relatively peacefully, then I don't know that we have a big problem.

Sure, 250 per year might support the statement "Almost every day in the US you see someone who decides to go out with guns blazing rather than go back", but that doesn't mean it's common.

Put another way, 250 people doing this per year could be considered "almost every day", but I'm not sure 250 people in a country of more than 350M doing something exceedingly, dangerously irrational is cause for concern, or even more than a shrug.

Also: your search result page doesn't say what you think it does. I clicked through a few of them, and many of them just talk about warrants in general (even search warrants, not arrest warrants) where no shooting occurred at all. On one of them I noticed that the word "shot" appeared in the "related stories" links at the bottom, in a case that had nothing to do with an arrest warrant or police.
it's easy to accidentally create chlorine gas (this will easily and painfully kill people) and if anyone read the article that's exactly what the concern is here with bleach.
I think they allow social media, but they have so strict regulation and requests that US companies won't operate there. The cost is so high with less revenue.
With great power comes great responsibility? Today there's nothing stopping grandmas from driving, so whatever could go wrong is already going wrong
A bit unrelated, but what happened to Angular?
TIL, no one moved anywhere until American highways were built.
Is Jack Dorsey going to get blown up by Hindenburg Research?
But in this case the measure is clear.

Sales is another job where value is very clear, hence good sales people are often some of the highest paid people in a company.
Although I don't like some features of nextjs, it works for me. (things like server side prop management)
> Once you take away the D.R.M.

But that's the thing - nobody who has copyright to books is willing to take away the DRM. In essence, DRM is what distinguishes an Ebook from a random file with a .pdf suffix.
Something can be both expensive and trivial. If the market is huge they will bear the cost. The tech is well understood even now.

The parameter size will likely be an order of magnitude less for gpt4 level results in a few years
A re-hash of Firefox?

I am a Firefox user now, and I was a Firefox user when Chrome came out, but Chrome was miles ahead of Firefox in pretty much most things that mattered for most people, especially performance and usability.

Chrome was a revolution for the web.
> I firmly try not to eat things that I couldn't make myself 150 years ago.

Such as (in much of the world) fresh fruit and vegetables in the winter?
The point is that the vast majority of Stanford undergrads live on-campus. That is presumably not true for universities in NYC. Given that Stanford undergrads live almost entirely on-campus, it is not surprising that on-campus parties form the backbone of the party scene. And given that most undergrads in NYC do not live on-campus, it is not surprising that their party scenes are not as impacted by campus rules.
So we’re back to the old pre SPA web and even have a term for it: MPA

If I build an MPA, why should I choose Astro if I can choose Rails? That’s a serious question to the HN community, not a rhetorical one - would very much love to learn if there’s something new here.