skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a bunch of comments here saying that the law is forcing them to do this. That's what's not at all true. The law is forcing no such thing.
Or that "intelligent" life is very unlikely if you consider that our planet will no longer be inhabitable in roughly the next 10% of its total existence and 7% since it's estimated microbial life appeared.

If human equivalent creatures had taken just 10% longer to appear the sun would have dried up all the water on the earth and wiped its atmosphere before it happened.
The website shows 6,841,400 total deaths. That's a very "conservative" number.

Both The Economist [1] and the WHO [2] for instance say that the number may well be way more than the official one (The Economist is at 29+ million now).

I know firsthand for certain that there's a country in the world that LIED about the numbers (not underestimated, but LIED). I won't name the country.

I think it will be in the history manuals that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most, if not the most, devastating pandemic of the 21st century (maybe of the 20th century, too, for some countries [3]).

What is also shocking is the fact that many deaths are correlated with vaccine-skepticism (or to be more colloquial, covidiocy) [4]

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/health/covid-global-death...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/covid-19-death...

[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...
No evidence yet showing which animal Covid may have come from
Whose money? What obligation do these communities have to support those educational expenses? And of course the change in culture and they’re kids’ socialization isn’t something you can fix with money.
The actual influence that a fund has on a company is not necessarily tied to its shareholding, and this is a major glitch:

1) Some individuals may retain significant amount of voting rights, that is not proportional to their shareholding interest.

Of course they shouldn't be accused of breach of their fiduciary duties, nor get a claim of waste of corporate assets.

2) Institutional fund holders may not vote in favour of their shareholder's interest

The people casting the votes during corporate actions are not necessarily the ones who hold the shares.

3) Close relationships

When you are board member in company A, and your friend is in company B. You can help him with A, and he is going to help you with B.

4) Corruption

Sometimes founders don't get the exit that they expected, and such arrangements are a good way to get extra money.

Board members may consider themselves underpaid as well.

5) Pressure

We won't give you debt financing if you don't use part of that money to purchase our other company on the other side.

I may sue you for sexual harassment if you don't convince the board to attribute me additional RSUs.

Probably many other ways.

This is why some acquisitions are total non-sense or over-priced, the same way that some employees are simply overpaid for no reasons other than being close to the board.

You see the same mechanisms with governments purchasing useless businesses.

A less extreme example than an acquisition that still gives you an idea of misalignment of interests between shareholders and board members, you can see in a video here:

https://www.quimbee.com/cases/espinoza-v-zuckerberg (the video is actually cool and easy to understand)

"We now grant RSUs to new directors who aren't Facebook investors or employees"
...

Just one example among many.

I like this topic, because it pushes you to do better due diligence on public companies, as some companies are really wasting company money, that it could feel intentional.
The problem with asteroids is the population dynamics and time required with these heliocentric orbits. Yes, there are asteroids at a lower Delta-V than the surface of the moon. There might be only a handful that are even worth capturing and mining. If this scaled up, however, you would quickly deplete this population of NEOs.

While the Delta-V might be less, it's not less by MUCH because you spend most of your fuel getting to Earth's escape velocity in the first place. The Delta-V benefit is also balanced against a massive time lag involved in sending a robotic spacecraft to capture and boost it to an orbit where we can better access and refine it. Or you send the refinery to the asteroid for larger asteroids. Problem there - you'll basically have to build a new refinery for each asteroid. Even for larger NEOs at higher Delta-Vs, the mass is not all that much. It's also not clear that microgravity will be any better than 1/6th gravity.

There are very strong arguments for Lunar mining. We're talking about ~1 week for transit time from Earth to there. The moon can build vast Earth-like industry. You get to cherry-pick a wide variety of asteroid material types (except for volatiles) without building a new factory for each. Surface transportation isn't particularly hard. Materials to build solar panels are widely available.

Asteroids will be useful at some point, but only after we can reach the frost line. Otherwise, the asteroids we get will be parched and not offer much beyond what's on the moon, or what we can lift from Earth. After we get to the frost line, we will get vast troves of organic material, but this is at tremendous Delta-V cost and outrageously remote and time consuming to access.
The issue here isn't people adding sesame and not mentioning it. The problem is that if there were something else with sesame using the same machinery, anywhere along the line, you can't simply say "this item might have traces of sesame" (you're still liable, per the FDA) and you can't say "this item has sesame" (because it doesn't; it just has possible sesame cross-contamination).

You have to either have fully eliminated the possibility of cross-contamination or make sesame an explicit ingredient. One is free; one is expensive.
1934 Ford Model 40 Special Speedster
Until the artist confessed, the 'photo' had won a photography prize.

So it has gotten to the point where contest judges think AI can (be used as a tool to) make good pictures.
This is pretty neat! I tried https://www.wikibinge.com/#Moray_eel/Sony_Alpha and I was pleased with the path it took me for first big chunk of the path. The last bit was a tour of a significant number of camera models (none of them Sony), which felt... strange? It certainly felt less-varied than the combination of animalia, history, geography, and pop culture that the first part took me through.

Fun project, thanks for sharing!

If I had a bit of feedback to share, it's that the shortest path (which shows while loading the binge) continues to be visible after it finishes loading -- maybe at the bottom of the page?
https://chess.braimax.com

Puzzle rush integrated with spaced repetitions to improve tactically at chess. I hacked a solution for myself during covid to combine those two, and achieved very good results reaching 2000 on lichess (from around 1800), which was my goal then.

In a recent break between jobs I decided to create an integrated, easy to use solution, and I've got lots of ideas about how to improve it - if it gets traction :)
The depth map from this is super sharp.
Supavisor looks great. Unclear if it can be configured to use https://github.com/pgaudit/set_user though.

That said, there are quite a lot of CRUD apps in the world that don't need to support lots of simultaneous users, or where you can just add read replicas quite cheaply. Think internal apps, dashboards, etc.
Too bad your character does not exclude baseless accusations of propaganda. But at least you don't tease people for spelling.
> Perhaps. Ought that be illegal?

I can't really explain why but I think there is a difference between doing something manually and automating it. For example, it is perfectly ok for a police officer to sit behind the bushes in front of someone's front porch with a pair of binoculars but not ok to put a hidden camera 24/7 in front of everyone's front porch.
If everyone wanted that research banned but China didn’t, where would that leave things?
Comically relevant: Clark & Dave - The Front Fell Off

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
Unless you're using the figurative definition of literal - that's simply an incorrect statement. I think you're transferring the general statement about the safety of flying to the safety of one particular model of plane. Other plane models exist without the innate flaws of the 737 max that are safer and have not had the fatal accidents the max did.
Back in the day, we got in trouble for NMAPing our own machines in our VPS...

But we signed a think with our rep to agree to only scan our own machines and then they let us do it..

Dont know if they will do that any more.
Ostensibly, the size of these social circles is fairly small.
This doesn’t look like AI.

This looks like an algorithm like how hash map is an algorithm.

It’s also being presented at SIGGRAPH which further makes me think it’s just an algorithm to map motion capture data to a 2D image. We can already map motion capture data to a 3D model.
Personally, I've been working on OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com/) for over two years - it's a set of uptime monitoring tools, with a hosted status page.

There's an open source CLI (https://github.com/onlineornot/onlineornot), and a public API under active development.
I am equally unsure. But I believe we have a responsibility to try to help the weakest members of our society become better people, and if that means locking them up for a while and trying to teach them a moral compass that's what we should try even if it's doomed to failure. It can't be any worse than what we're currently doing.
I've been working on https://webtoapp.design since December 2019. I cracked $2k/month after around 2 years.

Could've probably done it quicker if I did more things that don't scale (as people often say). Should've focused less on SEO and more on outreach or other growth channels.

I've since got my CS degree and I'm working on it full time now :)
> You've practically restated the paper's findings! :D The LLM knew nothing about othello; it wasn't shown any rules to be recombined.

Literal quote from the paper:

"As a first step, we train a language model (a GPT variant we call Othello-GPT) to extend partial game transcripts (a list of moves made by players) with legal moves."

And then:

"Nonetheless, our model is able to generate legal Othello moves with high accuracy".

So:

- it knows about the game because it was literally shown the game with only the legal moves

- it doesn't produce legal moves all the time (even though it does so with high accuracy)

That's why I say "the work done is beyond any shadow of the doubt brilliant". Because this is a definite leap forward from the status quo. However, it doesn't imply that the models can invent/predict/come up with novel ways of doing something. This is still strictly within the realm of "given existing data, give back a statistically relevant response".

Could it actually invent Reversi/Othello had it not known about it beforehand?
You seem to promote self awareness yet are judging people and a tradition you know nothing about. I'm not pro or against what was just shared - mostly just like you slightly perplexed. And I think I understand where you're trying to get to with this - but I've noticed that when I think "people don't do enough of this," I'm often projecting what I'm actually not doing enough. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> World War 2 was roughly one percent of history, weighted by person-years.

Do you mean history since WW2 has been about one percent of history?
There are all kinds of pathogens that can live perfectly happily in flowing water.
BSD was Unix people used to workstations hardware so that's what they targeted on the PC. Linux was PC people who wanted it to run on whatever cheap hardware they had
The Time Thief Who Stole 106 Rare Clocks in a Daring Heist
Help I have a JavaScript Lib that blows away competition but nobody knows of it
Hey friends,

I have written an open source JS lib named Adze that I believe blows away all of the competition. It is a logging library that runs natively in both the browser and node without any special considerations. It also offers every feature you could want for formatting and annotating your logs as well as a convenient interface for processing your logging data without requiring silly plugin API's.

The API for Adze is also chainable, fully wraps the standard console API's, is TypeScript native, supports mapped diagnostic context and micro-frontends.

My question is, what tips would you give me for marketing the library and making people more aware of it?

I'm also very open to constructive criticism on the library and codebase and would love any feedback that I could be provided.
My children 12&9 were taught at school in the UK that Australia was in oceanana
My objection to that is that the "natural" speed may not be taking into account unexpected conditions. For example, it may drive by a school or playground and the speed limit is there because of the danger of children running out. The "natural" speed isn't going to take that into account.
I sort of remember the first one I had. It came on a couple of 3.5 floppies. I promptly ignored it for a year or so then came back and it was 20+ of them now for slackware with hundreds of utilities I had no idea what they did. That was a ton of fun digging thru.
Wow, this brings me back to the crazy days of college in the fall of 1994. My roommates and I ran a mish-mosh of OSs, including Windows (3.11), OS/2, and Linux (Slackware distro). The last was certainly the biggest challenge, but once we had remote xterms to campus servers, there was no need to slog to a computer lab.

I also remember the era of free access to things. I had an account on some Stanford systems "just in case I wanted to run some stuff". It was a totally different time.
I get that this story was huge and topical and all, but now that it’s clear that there are no culture war points to be won by either side, maybe day to day trial updates don’t belong on HN?

Let’s just hope that the killer is brought to justice and Bob’s loved ones can return to some semblance of normalcy after this tragic event.
He has plenty of trufans to whom the world looks a little different. To us, he looks like a touchy, petulant little man with far more money than sense. To them, everything he's doing is part of some Master Plan.
No, I'd still say that people in those circumstances are highly isolated from programming culture at-large. I'm not saying it's not a viable career, I'm saying it's sacrificing cultural relevance.
“You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish you had at a later time.”
Super noob trap, which this article doesn't address. If you want to scan every port, do -p-. Which alot of the times you do want to scan every port. By default it only scans common ports. You can also do -p50- to scan 50+ or -p-50 to scan 0-50. You can find alot on non common ports, and if you're running a port scan, you should use it. Sad the article doesn't mention this.
Citation needed.

Oh wrong site.
Interesting. Seems like it'd be ideal if there were some way to penalize pages that are too similar to each-other (similar categories/taxonomy, maybe similar text/structure, etc.) because when it does chain a bunch of weird stuff it is very interesting.
Perhaps if you could replace the trust root with your own. But as they are now it's the manufacturer that's in control.
I saw the movie early during Covid. I think the aliens are (accidentally) the only realistic part of the film. If human corporations ever make it to a planet with sentient life, I am certain that event would be plagued by sloppiness, self-interest, in-fighting, and exploitation.
> "[...] Tarantino came to the premiere, sat with me, and he hugged me afterwards and said, ‘This is what I want to write. This is amazing stuff.’”
I tried to go from "Bronze Age" to "Mail" and it took me in a long ride including the dog from Oz. Quite fun.
https://www.wikibinge.com/#Bronze_Age/Mail
You can't debate anything about transgenderism on reddit. You get downvoted to -5902 votes immediately and no one reads it. The only people who respond are the people who are trying to get comment karma because they know it's an easy battle.

So I appreciated debating the bot, but even though it is still a large language model and couldn't delve into any depth.
Could this abuse inadvertantly lead to some level of police reform that requires officers to use more critical thought when responding to potential emergencies?

Over the years there were famous cases of overzealous police officers immediately killing unarmed elderly people, disabled people, and children upon arrival at scenes of 911 calls. There may be a silver lining here.
MonsterWriter: The most enjoyable desktop app for writing a thesis or paper
The recycling warehouse fire reminds: plastics are a pollution nightmare
I agree. About all I can suggest is flagging it and moving on. :)
the github one got a laugh out of me
Nice! My wife and I used to play a game sort of like this - find the shortest path between two pages on Wikipedia. It actually made for a fun party game too.

I really love the circuitous path though. Fantastic route to discovery and I can see those even being a neat thing for schools
Just like the underlying platform it was built for (Rails) - it is so stupidly simple to deploy Sidekiq. Performance is great and a lot of complexity is well hidden. This makes it a great product overall.
AI profs should start working with the bio folks now and making thinking materials that are orders of magnitude more power efficient than silicon.
Same thing with rail, that's why American freight trains seem to want to go anywhere except along the rails lately.
But your numbers are nonsense. People who have only listed Covid as a cause shouldn't even exist because a virus alone doesn't really kill you. It needs to make some part of your body so sick that it breaks down. With Covid we know that it caused respiratory failures (which then should show up as a cause of death), heart issues, inflammation, stroke, etc.

Looking at cause of death doesn't get you any closer to assessing the mortality of this disease.
s/Travolta/the Church of Scientology/

happy to help
Autotroph
Just because the water isn't stagnant, doesn't mean there are no bacteria or viruses (or indeed parasites like giardia or something like that)... I had to drink water from a raw source once and I wouldn't have done it if I wasn't reasonably sure I would be back in civilization within the next day. I kept an eye out for adverse effects; fortunately that time was okay. But now I don't leave without a life straw at the least, which I bought immediately after that trip.
China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high
Looks nice! NeRFs have come a long way.

The only artifact I can see is that lines, e.g. moldings become wavy. Not very jittery, but consistently wavy. Adding some line detection to force-straighten? Perhaps the same would be true for ellipses for images with large circles. These interior videos had more straight lines, though.
Well, this is a boring site, representing things with pixels isn't original, I was thinking maybe you placed the pixel geographically and one could see the spread of infections (or deaths), but it's just a boring "Get vaccinated!" PSA...

Since this might matter: Yes I'm vaxed, and with 3 booster shots.
>Relationships between poverty and violent crime, specifically children growing up in poor households, have been well known for a very long time and the relationship continues to be shown repeatedly.

On the other hand, crime went down a lot, across the board, in 2009 despite the recession. <https://newrepublic.com/article/80316/relationship-poverty-c...>

West Virginia, among the poorest of US states, has a crime rate well below average.
I got bunch of those projects:

To test social media preview:
https://ogtester.com/

To add location to images:
https://geotagseo.com/

To use dictation for learning (German):
https://www.flashdictation.com/

To decide the meal:
https://whatdinner.com/ (WIP)

To get distracted:

https://mathlegame.com/

https://learnle.net/

To use Stable diffusing in Notion:

https://slashdreamer.coom

To experiment with Stable diffusing
https://articletoimage.ai/ (WIP)

I did to solve a problem I had.
Thanks. I could've been more verbose, but my point was/is correct.
Whilst that’s true, I feel the balance does need to be addressed. When I simply pointed out on the first thread that it could have been by someone he knew I was downvoted https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=35450932&goto=threads%...
Pretty cool project! FYI for some reason search doesn't seem to work that well.

hackNY won't come up and if you try try to add a place with a comma (Lowell, Massachusetts) you can't type it you have to scroll it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackNY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell,_Massachusetts
> and combine previously unrelated relationships in reasonable and surprising ways.

We've yet to see those surprisng ways despite all the claims.

Note: what they do already is amazing and surprising in itself (such as "write me a song about quantum physics suitable for a 5 year old"). It's still very much shy of "hey there's this new thing previously unthought of".
PostGIS is a native extension mostly written in C. Since there is no C trusted language it would be hard to fit PostGIS into the TLE paradigm

Its less of a problem for well known and trusted extensions like PostGIS though because it comes pre-installed on most hosted providers (Supabase, RDS, etc)
It's strange that Lars did not mention about Yggdrasil Linux, it's probably the earliest Linux distro even before Slackware existed [1][2].

According to the article, 1992 is the year of Linux desktop by the introduction of X11 system but every year since then is allegedly the year of Linux on the desktop.

Anyway this article has taken me back down memory lane, thanks Lars.

1) The Very 1st Linux OS Ever Made?

https://www.linux.org/threads/the-very-1st-linux-os-ever-mad...

2) Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
I'd like to see a human make art after you lobotomize them.
so the dispute is that elmu can't pay and thinks this means he shouldn't have to?
Lol, this is the first website in a long while that made me feel sick after scrolling for a while. I need to show this to the folks in office and see who pukes or wipes their head.

Looks like we need to "seek professional medical advice"
Or gently nudging people not to comment on it, so it naturally floats down the algorithm…
Please don't "gotcha". This type of critique is lazy and flattens the interesting points raised in the parent. And: sometimes people are projecting, other times they're not.
I am REALLY curious about any shift in her view of reality, specifically any potential emergence of spiritual views, or the likes. Many ancient traditions have forms of "vision questing" involving usually a few days fasting in solitude. And those tend to provide the "questers" with profound insights (without any substance, only the interruption of day-to-day patterns). Similar with 10-day meditation retreats. Sadly the article doesn't touch on this - but that'd be my first interest knowing she's spent 500 days down there.
Momeni... lists himself as the owner of a tech company called Expand IT Inc. and as a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

However, a spokesperson for U.C. Berkeley told NBC News on Friday that the university has "no record of graduation or attendance" for a person named Nima Momeni.

Maybe due to attention bias, but feel this sort of thing is happening more and more, despite the fact it should be harder as our data becomes ubiquitous.
Won't it break when one of the commands returns non-zero? I think you can replace the & with ;