skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep wanting Tailscale to offer a "tailnet API" whereby you can bundle a tailnet into your app, and users can connect to other instances of the app (whether their same account or other people sharing parts of their app/data) seamlessly: E2E encrypted, NAT busting, it just works.

Think about it: mobile and desktop apps no longer have to upload things to some third-party service to share with yourself or a group of people. You could set up your own server of course but that requires technical expertise. The mass market could share data, sync, and communicate, straight from their devices, without any service hosting their data. It's just all on the private network.

There's probably a billion-dollar market there (or more) if someone can figure that out for a lay audience: virtually unlimited, encrypted private networks on-demand that require no setup.
Honest question: are we sure that it doesn’t do logical reasoning?

IANAE but although an LLM meets the definition of a Markov Chain as I understand it (current state in, probabilities of next states out), the big black box that spits out the probabilities could be doing anything.

Is it fundamentally impossible for reasoning to be an emergent property of an LLM, in a similar way to a brain? They can certainly do a good impression of logical reasoning- better than some humans in some cases?

Just because an LLM can be described as a Markov Chain doesn’t mean it _uses_ Markov Chains? An LLM is very different to the normal examples of Markov Chains I’m familiar with.

Or am I missing something?

In any case, coemu is an interesting related idea to constrain AIs to thinking in ways we can understand better:

https://futureoflife.org/podcast/connor-leahy-on-agi-and-cog...

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ngEvKav9w57XrGQnb/cogni...
This man is doing God's work. Bless him.
At some point the Final Cut Studio package was like $1000. Still not as bad as AVID back then…
how do you bootstrap all the downloads from your ant/mvn/gradle to run anything besides hello world?
This is the sort of automated surveillance/enforcement I can get behind. Civil liberties are reserved for people who behave civilly.
Validation is a mirage
What do you guys think of this Jason Fried article? It's basically shooting down customer validation...interesting perspective
Hah. That's funny, but that's not what I meant. I mean when they play silly games like who can bowl a tennis ball into a trash can, who can build the biggest pencil tower, who can build a paper airplane that can fly the furthest, etc.

"Office supplies," we might have created a new term for an "office NPC."
2x is too big for me. Then adjusting the secondary magnifier to bring it down is still butt ugly. I suppose I've been conditioned by using MacOS for the past 15 years.

Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop has beta support for 1.25x 1.5x scaling... it's on the right track but has ways to go - the menus don't adjust, there's work to be done for sure.

I wish I had the skills and time to help out, but for now, all I can do is point out the irregularities, I'm afraid.
> It’s also worth noting that there is a reason Microsoft offers heavy subsidies for education: it’s because if you indoctrinate people into your platform early on then they’re likely to keep buying your platform for years to come because change is scary.

That was Apple in the tail end of the 70's and 80's. Just about all grade schools where I am had Apple ]['s and few to no PC's. Apple heavily discounted the hardware and software for education. It was the same through Jr. High and High school (graduated in '90), except by then we had Mac's in the school "labs." As a kid and teenager, I didn't even know there was an IBM or Microsoft until the 90's. Everything was Apple in education. I was heartbroken to receive a 386sx/16 for my graduation present as I was heading off to software engineering in college. Until I got to college and hardly anyone had Apple's and the whole college was IBM clones.
This is also why I go into chess matches against 1400 elo players. I cannot conceive of the specific ways in which they will beat me (a 600 elo player), so I have good reason to suspect that I can win.

I'm willing to bet the future of our species on my consistent victory in these types of matches, in fact.
> EDIT: This last part isn't true. I think they are only looking at the intermediate layer of the FFN which does have a privileged basis.

it does?
> They're really hard to use if you didn't grow up using them and also haven't put in quite a bit of practice.

This is true with most tools. If you have never used it in your life even a tool as simple as pencil can be challenging.
Some company hands out 4 month severance package to 2 month employees?

A gift indeed.
I spoke with a house finding agent today to find us a place in Utrecht this summer.
> Eating a varied healthy diet is a lot more expensive than eating a varied unhealthy diet (if you can eat kale, rice, and beans all day then good for you but most can't)

Eating healthy is not more expensive. Potatoes, rice, beans, carrots, etc. are all inexpensive. I was in the store today, and a can of Nalley chili with meat and beans is $2.19. It's more than enough for a meal.

I also buy whatever's on sale, including the day older steak which is around half off. A half gallon of milk is $1.99.
How's your focus now?
No, that's "doing your job". Quiet Quitting means not doing your job, and getting by as long as no one notices.
I don't find this too be very controversial, Google sponsored the invention of Transformer, they deserve to enjoy the benefits for a period of time.
Show HN: Practice Romance with ChatGPT
It costs money and won't necessarily do anything about the levels / the things that were causing the levels to be low in the first place. Highly recommend this deep dive:
https://soundcloud.com/user-344313169/vitamin-d-mixdown-1
Is there a sweet spot between parts commonality/compatibility and proper reliability engineering? I get the feeling that cars before the 90s had parts commonality but reliability was more of an afterthought.
What do you use for tracking your blood vitamin D levels?
Show HN: Vector Data Marketplace for LLMs
Discover, evaluate, and access relevant embeddings in your go-to framework. Skip all the infra for scraping, cleaning, indexing, and updating high-quality embeddings.
Applied to much more than your garden is very true. I related all the principles of permaculture to my jiujitsu class. Hard to say if they helped, since I already had been practicing them in a different 'bundle', but definitely speaks to how universal they are in systems with complexity and feedback.
Corn is heavily subsidized by the government.
nope, there's a $4.99/month option and a 49.99/year option
This could be side channels such as rowhammer, not necessarily backdoors. It could also be a technical pretense for political posturing.
Attention is all you need. And a gigantic army of lawyers. But mostly attention.
This is the most amazing hacker story I’ve read in a good while.

Can’t wait to hear how this ends up eventually!
So? That's price signals. People value homes more than parking, which makes sense, especially now. If they're willing to pay more for parking developers will build it.
> And pretty much always the new guy will fail because he can’t do miracles in a bad organization.

Or the individual only appeared talented as a result of the structural support from their original organization.
I am also curious about the logistics of the club. It seems to be this: https://circle.so
The title should be in the ask somehow. Ask HN: "validation is a mirage" right? or some such.
Any thoughts about possible applications of this model?
Why do they made this source available?
But the effect is mainly in sugary drinks, not diet. In fact, a study found that diet cola decreased kidney stones, although not meaningfully, so it's probably zero effect at all [1]:

> "There was a 23% higher risk of developing kidney stones in the highest category of consumption of sugar-sweetened cola compared with the lowest category"

> "Artificially sweetened sodas were marginally associated with kidney stones, with an inverse relation for colas and a direct relation for noncolas."

So no worries about your Coke Zero giving you kidney stones. The culprit seems to be the fructose, rather, which Coke Zero doesn't contain:

> "Higher consumption of sugar-sweetened soda was associated with a higher incidence of kidney stones, which may be because of the fructose content. Fructose has been shown to increase the urinary excretion of calcium, oxalate, and uric acid, thus increasing the risk of stones."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731916/
It's well worth studying the background of the author of that piece before drawing conclusions about its content [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya
Do you get access to the mac version if you pay for a subscription?
Reminds me of this article which talks about how the introduction of the 'western' diet corresponded with a systemic deterioration of societal health: https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/04/the-modern-diet-is-a...
We should but many schools are so behind on teaching stimulating info that kids are bored out of their minds. You got future engineers sitting in class with future car wash employees, and classes are taught to the standard of a struggling car wash employee
The FDA likes to rely on well-supported, highly controlled studies before they put tons of resources into performing long term testing of products. Remember that the FDA not only does consumer food but also pharmaceutical drugs, medical implants, vaccines, etc. with only a $3.4 Billion yearly budget.
Or, you know, most of the UK, and in particular Scotland, where most of the farmland is hill grazing.
> I also believe that paying for something brings more commitment, so this is why we have decided to introduce a small fee for joining the community.

Absolutely. People that are willing to pay are more serious and generally more likely to positively contribute. Paying is a way to signal that to oneself, even.
Speaking of Lotus 1-2-3, the best computer I have ever owned was the HP 200 LX Palmtop - https://www.palmtoppaper.com

It was about the size of a graphing calculator, and ran MS-DOS 5.0 with a black and white CGA display, and had Lotus 1-2-3 and rudimentary task-switching.

Simply phenomenal for 1994. Nothing has ever really come close; maybe someday I'll modify one so I can use the keyboard and replace the screen with a modern phone.
> Feature-wise, Google Docs shows that great software programs hew more to a logic of elimination than of addition. What makes them great isn’t always a larger feature set but how they make certain categories of problems impossible by design. (Similarly, one celebrated “feature” of the Rust programming language is that it makes memory leaks nearly impossible.)

Really? Please, tell me more about this “Rust” programming language in the middle of an article about Google Docs.
There doesn't need to be any advantage. They're not causing any disruptions - nobody should be telling them where to put their property.

A phone contains private photos and conversations, has authorized access to email, chat and (in other cases) social media accounts, it's a second authentication factor, it has payment cards, saved passwords, browser history, potentially health data (for example, period or medication notification app) and other data that they might not want anybody else to access, or could even cause them problems if the wrong person saw some of it (which doesn't mean it'd be something illegal or inappropriate - but some teachers have really weird ideas about how the life of a student should look).

It's perfectly understandable they want to have it under their own sight and control. Touching it without permission is unacceptable.

I have seen kids steal stuff from the teacher's desk/other school property when I still went to school - one kid even stole a RAM stick from a school computer right during class. I would never trust the school's ability to keep my phone secure.

Also - the school day is not 100% class time, there are breaks in between. What they do during breaks is their own business.
Why not get Open AI to do labeling for Chat GPT. It would do a pretty good job.

Then get Chat GPT to do labeling for Open AI.

You could collect 2x the salary of a labeler, and slowly degrade the performance of both bots, and nobody would be the wiser.
Learn to research and understand what already exists before starting a project.
The biggest problem with the current popular idea of “free will” is that people think it means they’re ineffably unpredictable. They’re uncomfortable with the notion that if you were to simulate their brain in sufficient detail, you could predict thoughts and reaction. They take refuge in pseudoscientific mumbling about the links to the Quantum, for they have heard it is special and unpredictable.

And that’s just the polar opposite of having a meaningful will at all. It is good that you are pretty much deterministic. You shouldn’t be deciding meaningful things randomly. If you made 20 copies of yourself and asked them to support or oppose some essential and important political question (about human rights, or war, or what-have-you) they should all come down on the same side. What kind of a Will would that be that chose randomly?
Is there a good documentary film or series about this period, which you could recommend?
The MSDOS manual is really good too. Some of the trees used for cigarette paper were also used for books.
what's the saying? "the average person commits three felonies per day without even knowing it"? So while I despise litterbugs this won't stop at people tossing trash out the window.
It would have to have mic privilege to make a call.
I've got an A770 16GB LE and A770M/A780 from a 13700K, purchased at launch for OpenVINO, OneAPI, and Intel-specific ML/GAN research.

Just switched back to Linux to try the i915 driver and kernel 6.2 updates, and it works really well. AV1 and VP9 encoding is killer.

There's an Arc bug where displays either don't initialize on boot or after sleep, but it's common to Windows, as well. There are some other quirks, but the painpoints at least aren't driver related, like fglrx or proprietary nvidia.

Honestly, it's a good arch that's steadily improving to very little fanfare.
I don't tell my parents how much I make. I'm definitely not telling some random recruiter.
> Startup idea, anyone?

There are a few of these in the USA especially the Bay Area. Hell you can even pay for a full check up that even includes an MRI. Last checked the full service was like ~$5-6k and that includes pretty much everything you could want to know.

I've also been told you can get the same work done in Korea for a fraction of the price if your willing to take a vacation.
Are people actually curating the content? The website sounds like the members are the ones suggesting books. It is unclear to me what managing needs to be done if the members are pairing up on their own.
Global Universal Basic Skills: Deficits and Implications for World Development
I like SearX(NG) and don't mind they are using my API, but I wish they would be more open to dialog. Would get much more use out of my search engine if they did.
I think the point is that, in a non-healthy brain, the brain can create a balanced and flexible reasoning system that creates inferences that have explanatory power, but which may not match external reality. Oliver Sacks has a long bibliography of the weird things that can go on in brains.

But the bottom line is that introspection is not necessarily reliable.
…and bias:

“Future AI-based screening tools for pancreatic cancer will have to be trained on specific local population data, the study found. A model trained on data from Danish patients, for example, was not as accurate when applied to US patients.”

That’s probsbly because it only works when training data are extracted from the “test” data set.
Lots of people here are assuming that supplementing vitamin D will "treat" a low level of it, which isn't necessarily true. The level might not change, but you also might care a lot less than you think about the level specifically. Many problems can cause the level to be low, and won't be affected by raising it.
Highly recommend the Barbell Medicine podcast on Vitamin D: https://soundcloud.com/user-344313169/vitamin-d-mixdown-1
I set it to 2x, which was too big.

Then I brought it down with some xrandr setting... the size is right but a bunch of other things are incorrect.

I wish it were one incremental setting like it is in MacOS? Very easy to use; very easy to adjust for each monitor.
I’m sure that’s what happens in theory but there’s absolutely no way any of them are actually handing their phones in
Show HN: Card game where players write their own cards that get parsed into code
Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community.

It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games like Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), where players write their own cards in natural language, that gets parsed down to JavaScript. The English-to-JavaScript translation is handled by a semantic parser operating on a hand-crafted CCG grammar – kind of an “old-school” approach in this age of LLMs but one that performs quite well on the very constrained language of Wordbots cards.

The resulting game gets pretty wacky as players can create all sorts of cards, though there are some game formats that try to produce more balanced gameplay as well (e.g. one format in which both players shuffle their decks together, and various draft formats).

If you're curious about how it all works, I made a write-up about it here: https://app.wordbots.io/how-it-works

And if you want to chat about Wordbots beyond this thread, please don't hesitate to join our discord at https://discord.wordbots.io/ . I'd love to hear any and all feedback.

-Alex
> Can anyone explain the deep nostalgia and longing for old DOS era software, and in particular VGA text mode interfaces?

I’m not using any of those other old things you mention, but I love how I can run my full Emacs-configuration locally in a TTY, remotely over SSH or whatever with no loss of functionality.

Having that capability is IMO a strength, not a weakness, and I wish more software was like that.
I remember watching clerks at Fry's Electronics I think it was - they had PCs with windows on them, but all they ran was some sort of terminal emulator to access the system mainframe or whatever.

You could ask them for a pick slip for whatever, they'd turn around, ask your name, type everything in in seconds, and then turn to the next customer; the computer would slowly plug along through all the screens and then print out the slip. They knew all the commands that far ahead.
The nearly universal trend among nations is that they get fatter as they get richer. So it would be quite bizarre to see affluence, in and of itself, suddenly causing the opposite effect.

Maryland has comparable median income to Massachusetts, but much higher obesity rates. Vermont and Kansas have similar incomes, but Vermont has much lower obesity rates. (Same is true for Virginia versus Colorado, Montana versus South Carolina, etc.)
On one hand people definitely will shoot themselves in the foot by oversharing on social media.

Another trend I've been seeing (speaking a general sense, I know no knowledge of this particular case) is that people who have been laid off will pull a stunt like this to try to 'go viral' and get a job. I have no idea if it works or the wisdom of it, but I've seen about a half dozen people in my network who I know were laid off in a general and impersonal layoff post sob stories about being fired by an unreasonable and mean boss.

We also fired a guy who posted about being laid off from our company, despite our company not going layoffs. Legal had to send him a little reminder about the terms he signed when we offered severance and that falsely the company feels claiming the company is doing layoffs is damaging to the company.

Overall I feel like I have become aware of more people trying to position their termination in ways that aren't truthful but they feel are more advantageous for generating interest from future employers.
>Discovered in 2021" pretty obviously means Western people here. If it was about "scientific description" then we would've said 2023.

If the meaning is clear what seems to be the problem? It seems like manufactured outrage to be upset by this. I just discovered fuente avocados last week. I'm not claiming to be the first human to ever behold them.

As a thought experiment, can a secret never be discovered?

On the facts of the story, it seems highly unlikely that the locals knew that it was the second deepest blue hole on the planet.
Not really. Under ten billion would be plenty if used efficiently. A significant fraction of addresses we want to be private, and not directly routable.

Sure, if you want your refrigerator, oven, and dishwasher publicly addressable on the internet it isn't enough, but you don't actually want that.

Further, 64 bits is many orders of magnitude overkill already. So what does 128 bring to the party, besides making addresses harder to type?

Also, random with a prefix is not really random.
That technical method isn't the only way to implement this business method, and a number of existing apps are doing this quite successfully already. So this both already exists, and works.

As for 'side loading', it's somewhat possible, but even if it was available by default it would be messy for most customers -- they already have trouble with what's currently available. Perhaps some sort of in-app store would make that model feasible. The vendor gets to show and deploy whatever they want, and the end-user gets a very clear and very specific list of options for the app/vendor. That would even be better than the 'everyone in one store' model for some more specialised apps, especially when searching (which currently leads to a plethora of tangential ads and applications you actually don't want).
When the government provides a vending machine that dispenses gold coins at the push of a button, how many of us could resist pushing that button as much as possible?

A society cannot be run on expecting people to resist the powerful incentives set up for them.

You can see this effect in every aspect of government operations.
The “federated” option you’re talking about sounds like it’s regular MIDI Sync with transport control. You hit play, everything plays in sync. Logic already supports this, you just have to wire things together.
Yes, we are using Circle as a platform and we are paying 99$ each month. We have only 30 spots available, so it will basically cover the cost of the platform itself (if we get all the spots filled).

If you have organised a community, you know it's not only the cost of the platform, it takes time to coordinate, moderate and basically build a community.
I'm asking for more information on how it's going to operate in a high radiation environment. I'm not assuming they haven't considered the problem.
Hey /u/paganel your 256gb iphone is out of storage due to your 20gb of photos! This is because we defaulted all your photos to icloud to achieve this result. Would you like to pay us $60/yr to remove this static notification from your settings page? You can also pay us $120/yr if you want.
I am in my mid 40s, so far none of them has worked well for me. I have tried to hold it in a lot of different ways but soon lose patience. I guess the food is too tempting for me than trying to figure out how to eat it :-)
I always fall back to my backup -> fork. One day I'll master it.
Not me. I would choose my business a hundred times over Google.