skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey HN. I submitted something about this website 6 months ago and got some traction, and I've had a fun time playing with this tool I developed for habitual writing ever since. Hopefully this is an interesting update and maybe could be an interesting conversation on generative writing.
As we don't know for sure what is happening 100% within a neural network, we can say we don't believe that they're thinking and we would still need to define
the word thinking. Once LLM's can self-modify, the word "thinking" will be more accurate than it is today.

And when Hinton says at MIT, "I find it very hard to believe that they don't have semantics when they consult problems like you know how I paint the rooms how I get all the rooms in my house to be painted white in two years time," I believe he's commenting on the ability of LLM's to think on some level.
Faraday cages are not illegal, actively jamming by emitting ypur own signals is what the FCC cares about.
Like the entire application binary was mis-configured. so anyone running the newest update would be misconfigured
Redacted by the CIA, because it contains evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Think more on what the app does. It allows you to make calls. It needs access to the microphone.

But a user likely doesn't want to be forced to keep WhatsApp open as the front screen app while in a call. Maybe they want to open their e-mail or Calendar while in a call. That means the app needs to be able to use the microphone while running in the background.

Though I suppose you could argue that the app should not be allowed to start using the microphone while the app is in the background. Yes, I think that'd be quite reasonable.
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I kind of wish they'd have an option for both. ToonBoom Harmony still lets you do that (though they kind of obscure that on their website). You have the option of paying $71/month for Harmony Advanced, or $1130 for a perpetual license.

It would be nice for people to do something similar with Logic; you can pay for a subscription, or you can pay a flat rate to own something forever; I'm personally kind of turned off by products that do not offer perpetual licenses.
Here in the NL, it is not enforced or a policy in most public schools.
"private" or "self-paid" lab blood tests are pretty common here, just across the border in Czech Republic, I'm surprised to find out they're unavailable in Germany, do you have to route every foreigner through a medical professional? Or is the catch that they won't do a "full" blood panel?
I didn't get a phone until after high school and everyone else had one.

I didn't graduate salutatorian, I was miserable and lonely because I got left out of anything outside of school by my friends because I didn't have a phone.

I still don't have many friends to this day and I sometimes wonder if my lack of a social experience in high school crippled my ability to develop friendships.

So I mean.. maybe there's different outcomes. Not having a phone doesn't automatically make you productive.
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This isn't Starship Troopers.
The "roll" angle (as in roll/pitch/yaw) w.r.t. your elbow is relevant.
Every Author as First Author
If you've ever published a paper, then you know authorship order can lead to tricky situations. The arxiv PDF has both the best and most hilarious solution to this problem I've witnessed.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01393.pdf
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Patrick Wyman's, Tides of History podcast has done a lot of episodes on this and is a great introduction.

Yale's introductory Greek history class with lectures from Donald Kagan is available online and part of it covers the Mycenaean empire and its fall.
I infact think TikTok does a great job of getting fresh content to me. Fresh doesn't have to always mean new, it can mean well executed old ideas or remixes of several things etc. Some of my favorite tiktokers are the ones who have locked in their formula and execute it well. While I know from the creator standpoint it must suck to be locked in like this, but from the viewers side i think it's enjoyable as long as they put effort in execution.
I believe this goes back to the ancient Shinto belief that all beings are inhabited by kami (gods). Therefore to pierce a food is to pierce the god within. This is also why origami developed more broadly in Japan, because paper cutting (a Chinese artform) would damage the kami whereas folding fortified the kami. That is why much origami is of animals. There is also a belief that all food prepared in Japan is given "as is": a crafted piece given down from a master sushi chef, a wagashi artisan, or a tonkatsu expert. Sliced, shaped and formed as a bespoke morsel for the diner, not to be tampered with, but to be appreciated whole.
There's no evidence it does so meaningfully. All that stuff about "leave a tooth in Coke overnight and it'll dissolve" is 100% urban legend.

We're eating and drinking acidic things all day long, orange juice and grapefruits and the rest. And diet soda doesn't adhere in a layer to your teeth, the way things like orange juice and sugary Coke do.

Our enamel repairs itself through our saliva. Otherwise you'd never be able to drink a lemonade or eat a grapefruit. The acidity of Coke Zero is a nonissue in the context of a normal diet.

(Not to mention that flavored carbonated waters like La Croix and Bubly are also acidic. Bubly grapefruit flavor is pH 3.86, while Coke Zero is 3.18, from a quick Google.)
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I've created a deeper analysis of the passkey flows of Google's passkey implementation. So far, I thinks it's the best passkey implementation I've seen from a large tech company (found still some bugs though). Curious what experiences you've made from a user's point of view.
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"How to Think About Analysis" by Lara Alcock (2014) because the first part (half) of the book is specifically dedicated this aim, "[focusing] explicitly on skills and strategies for learning advanced pure mathematics." (from the author's intro). The remaining text demonstrates how to do this for a full first undergraduate course in real analysis.

Also, "A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles Pinter (available as a Dover paperback). The introductory sections to each chapter draw motivating lines from earlier definitions / theorems.

Other books that are good mentions, but even better after the above include the 2nd edition of Sheldon Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" (it motivates each development similar to Pinter) and "Topology" by K. Janich.

Of all, I have admired how they motivate without compromising rigor, using expository text alongside formal statements of definitions, theorems and proofs.
I really enjoyed youtube channel History Time's take on identifying the so-called 'sea peoples': "The Sea Peoples & The Late Bronze Age Collapse // Ancient History Documentary (1200-1150 BC)".

It gave me a lot of perspective on how much activity was happening all over the Mediterranean and beyond at that time. This and related channels have a lot of long form content on Ancient History, which I really appreciate.
As an example of this...

During the pandemic, I took almost a year off from work of any sort. I had eliminated all of the expenses I had that I wasn't deriving real value from, and estimated how much I'd need to have in the bank to afford the time of no income. Then I saved up that amount.

At the end, I'd overestimated by about 4x and learned a great lesson about how much money I actually need to live in the manner that I prefer.
Income inequality is at least as big of a problem, if not bigger, in blue states than red states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ.... New York is the most unequal state in the country.

I don’t know about gerrymandering. In the most recent Texas house election (Texas being one of the major ACA holdouts) republicans won a 12-point seat margin with a 7-point popular vote margin. The governor, which is elected by statewide popular vote, won by an 11 point margin. In the 2022 Tennessee House elections, meanwhile, republicans won 75% of seats with 70% of the popular vote, which is as lopsided as some heavily skewed states like California and New York. (At a certain point, winning more seats than popular votes isn’t due to gerrymandering but just normal population distribution effects.)

I suspect the real issue is that, in red states, the democrats tend to be low propensity and younger voters. In Tennessee, Trump beat Biden by 24 points. But the GOP beat democrats by almost 50 points in the popular vote in the 2022 Tennessee House elections.
Pain points of teaching computer science
Humans don't always act rationally. In the moment, you often just do things (or don't do things). Afterwards you may try to rationalize it, but in the moment you don't or you can't. Sometimes you just stay, as simply as that.

Of course, maybe you're a person who always behaves rationally (or at least imagines they do). But people like that are uncommon. Most of us just don't behave rationally all the time.
messed up for a school to get children to verbally apologize to plants

interesting that you conflate thanking with apologizing.
Best of luck with your creative journey!

What are you working on?
This could be very useful for my project, def recommend to check this out
What's the source of this? I've seen a lot of D3+k2 caps now.
I don't think it was known that co-stimulation can happen with only one partner
Agreed that many people will want to build true web single-page apps, not port Swing to the web in a Canvas.

A Java option for modern web apps exists, and it's called Flavour: https://flavour.sourceforge.io/

* Build SPAs in Java with HTML templates and components

* Fast build times and batteries-included build framework

* Easy calls to Java web services, just invoke a method and Flavour handles marshalling and unmarshalling, you just see/use Java objects.

* Full-stack refactoring

* Built on TeaVM, so you get the all the benefits of a mature, performant framework with support for threads and multiple JVM languages (bytecode-based transpilation).

TeaVM vs Blazor comparison chart: https://frequal.com/java/TeaVmVsBlazorChart.html

TeaVM longer comparison with Blazor: https://frequal.com/java/TeaVmVsBlazorWasm1-0.html

Java Magazine article on Flavour and TeaVM: https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-in-the-brows...
Consider Amazon One-click purchase. That patent was one of very few (out of tens of thousands) that they defended heavily. Every other company on the planet had to have at least two steps to purchase an item or Amazon would come knocking with lawyers. They did this until the day that patent finally expired.

One has to ask: was that to the benefit of society?

Google may make good use of this tech. But it would be better for all of us if everyone did and didn't have to pay them a fee for the privilege.
>I've posted over 100,000 tweets

This is not the flex you think it is. If you've been on for 15 years that's 18 tweets, constantly, every single day. That's an absurd number.
> sanitary fingers (when used politely)

Nothing against chopsticks, but I politely disagree with the sanitation part. Eating your own food with bare hands is not unhealthy.
I thought third Monday in Jan is the saddest day.. most likely to take your life
The bullet-stopping ability of the iPhone leaves a lot to be desired.
Do you mean the og:image? It's Sieve of Eratosthenes, not FizzBuzz.
In the 1920s you didn't have email, but the post was delivered multiple times a day.

You didn't have telephone, but probably somebody nearby you could call and give a message.

You didn't have a freezer, but you had a butcher within walking distance.

And you didn't have a phone in your school, but you also didn't have retarded media that spread news that required.

Also you could probably have a gun on you, and if it was hunting season there would be plenty of guns in the parking lot to stop a school threat.
I neither support nor refute the claim, but one data point is the Global Food Security Index. In their 2022 report, the rating/ranking was:

Finland
Ireland
Norway
France
Netherlands
Japan
Sweden
Canada
United Kingdom
Portugal
Switzerland
Austria
United States
...

https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/project/food-sec...

---

On the other hand:

Why There is Nothing Wrong With American Food Standards - https://techround.co.uk/business/american-food-standards/
Can I use it to backup SQLite? Like an alternative to Litestream? Are there any negative implications for doing this?
All the rhetorical terms are useful and could use a comeback- logos, pathos and especially ethos.
The vitriol you must have towards Google must consume you.
As a private person, you should be able to have viewpoints that differ from the company position. I'm free to think that drinking in excess is bad for society, even if I work for Pabst. I am free to believe that workers are free to seek unionization even if the company does not have nor wants unions. I probably won't be tolerated for agitating for unionization though. But I can opine on how I think unionization is good/(or bad if I work for pubic education)

What They are normally not tolerated for is for maligning the company, institution or organization. That one should keep to friends, family, trusted people, but not something you voice in a megaphone of a public forum.
It depends where. In France a juice that is "100% juice" must be made from squeezed fruits (any concentrate is forbidden).

It is till a lot of sugar and eating the fruit is way, way better but at least there are no artificial whatever or added sugar.
It's a survival strategy, near as I can tell.

Frankly, even really understanding the moment is impossible, let alone something as distant as the past, or the as yet not-existing future.

That's true for the individual, and the society.

Enlightenment MIGHT come close, but the first thing in traditions that have that as an option/goal is realizing that, well, knowing things objectively/without delusions is basically actually impossible and the concept of 'us' or 'I' is basically one of those delusions. We can have FEWER delusions, and with luck we can be aware of most of them, but we can't really have zero.

So we constrict our information, scope, and framing down to what we consider useful in that moment, and the narratives come from that. Sometimes it's pretty close to 'truth' (as in, matches objectively verifiable facts with a minimal amount of suspension of disbelief, fantasy, or outright delusion), and provides useful information.

sometimes... well, it does not. Often/usually, frankly.

It requires extremely rigorous approaches to get close to anything else, and frankly the forest gets lost for the trees 99.99% of the time.

True for the individual, and for the society too.
Oh this is what you meant - making a living through permaculture. Can confirm that SelfSufficientMe strikes me as a great dude with engaging content.
I'm not sure what you mean, it's clearly true where I live.
I'm reading this as our explanations for our own behavior as in why am I typing on this keyboard right now, in which case it's not evident at all.

The existence of cognitive dissonance suggested in your citation is in no way analogous to "our own explanations about ourselves and our behaviour are mostly lies, fabrications, hallucinations, faulty re-memorization, post hoc reasoning" and in fact supports the opposite.
Yes, the company with 8 billion user products can't do anything.
Interesting that this thread doesn't show up on the front page?

Currently it's 38 points with 18 comments, while "Chaos Communication Camp 2023 – Call for Participation" have 3 pt, zero comments but is on the front page.

Odd algorithm...
I don't usually defend the western system, but there are plenty of other systems out there that will caringly prescribe you snake oil. Simply understand that the western system is science based within a limited range. It is usually excellent if the cause of an illness is defined on a black and white test. If not, time for the patient to do the research.
> Things like email, mapping software, and online shopping let people do things that were difficult, expensive, or impossible before.

The only thing I'll say to this is that the LLM tech is pretty new and we don't know what it's applications are yet. It's more akin to lasers than the internet. Lasers were theorized in physics and even when the first ones were invented I don't think anyone would have imagined how ubiquitous they will become in manufacturing.
Is this “The Power of Habit - Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business” by Charles Duhigg?
Moving from spinning rust to solid-state storage dramatically improved the performance of random reads, but random writes still carry a penalty compared to sequential writes. So sequential I/O is perhaps half-dead; there's no need to optimize layouts for sequential reads any more.
I use it and it works well, unfortunately there isn’t a free client for iOS though.
Why would it be easy to stop at that point? The believable value prop will increase in lockstep with the believable scare factor, not to mention the (already significant) proliferation out of ultra expensive research orgs into open source repos.

Nuclear weapons proliferated explicitly because they proved their scariness.
By analyzing the function of individual neurons, these guys were/are able to gain a deeper understanding of how language models process language, which could lead to improved model architecture and training methods.
How companies are boosting productivity with generative AI
> Sardines are good, I love them, but they definitely smell strongly and so will you if you eat them frequently.

Not sure I agree. It might help that I buy the smaller sardines (as mentioned above) and combine them with acid. I just did a search and both of those things were recommended as ways to reduce odor. I also generally eat them at room temp rather than cooking them, which I'm sure makes a big difference in their smell. I also haven't had any complaints about my smell, but they'd be mostly from my family as I'm a remote worker... /shruggie

> I wonder if there anything similar without the smell?

Maybe salmon and mackerel? I think they're in the middle of the food chain (where sardines and tuna are more at the extremes) and similarly between in fat content.

> Honestly for the reasons you listed though sardines are kind of a super food imo.

Yeah, I think if sardines aren't a superfood, the word doesn't mean anything at all...
I actually dated a med student all through medical school and thus made a huge social circle of doctors I've kept in touch with for over a decade as they all became doctors and now have almost a decade of experience too.

I'd say about half want to help, but can not due to the system. The other half enjoy maximizing their income through the system and don't care either. So that leaves very very few that are actually able and willing to actually help an average person.

Now, do they help their family and close friends? Yes, as much as they still care to and remember how to. Which isn't at a very high level either IMO.

Recent example, my friend dislocated his shoulder. Immediately was recommended to have surgery and attempts were made to schedule. With his insurance, he'd have to come out of pocket $7500, which he doesn't really have.

I told him I know many motorcyclists at the pro level that dislocate shoulders in crashes, and without surgery are back competing on the bike. Only a handful have surgery to repair it, usually to stop it from reoccurring (since they crash often).

He pressed his doctor on if he really needs the surgery and for an explanation why many athletes don't have it done and what the reasoning for auto recommending him to get it done. Their tone instantly shifted and he chose to wait it out. Shoulder back to normal now. Thousands saved, and potential medical mistakes saved during the surgery.
Funny. I remember using unroll.me back in the day.
And price, and gobs of network effects. Macs were much more expensive than PCs, and if you were working in an office with multiple computers, being the only one with a mac was a huge pain in ways that don't matter today.

The main way to transfer files in the 80s was floppy disks. Most PCs in the 80s had only 5.25" floppies, and Macs had 3.5". Even if you had a 3.5" drive though on your PC, the Mac had a much different format. There was some software that let you read Mac disks on a PC, but it was somewhat flakey, and then you were left with the fact that the base file format on the Mac with resource and data forks was much different, and then of course you were probably using different spreadsheet and word processing software. Overall it was just barely possible to share files if you really worked at it.

What you tended to see was that most everyone used PCs except certain industries/jobs that needed the graphical capabilities of the Mac. For example, if you were in a newsroom, everyone would be using Macs because there really wasn't good desktop publishing software for the PC until about the early nineties.

The Amiga had a niche in video production because there really wasn't anything comparable to the video toaster for the Mac or PC until much later. You'd also see various types of workstations used for CAD, and in the nineties, SGI was the only game in town for high end 3D graphics. Hardly anyone bought a NeXT because they were so expensive and therefore didn't have enough software. They were pretty good for rapidly developing GUI software though, so there were a few companies, specifically banks, that used some of them for internally developed software.
How can a lay-person investor get as-soon-as-possible access to recently filed form 8-K? What's the gate and delay time?
> Moving freight in the continental US is cheap.

1) We have one of the best freight river systems in the world: the Mississippi/Missouri. River transport is insanely cheap.

2) Our passenger rail system may be some combo of "worse than many developing-world nations" and "nonexistent", but our freight rail network's quite good. Rail's cheap.

3) We subsidize the everloving shit out of truck transportation, making it really cheap, too.
My impression is that the understanding of that research that comes up with statements like "But when it comes to decisions we tend to assume they are made by our conscious mind. This is questioned by our current findings" is based on dualistic reasoning.

The idea that there should not be any neural activity before a conscious decision is straight-up dualism---the intangible soul makes a decision and neural activity follows it to carry out the decision.

An alternative way of understanding that result is that the neural activity that precedes the "conscious decision" is the brain's mechanism of coming up with that decision. The "conscious mind" is the result of neural activity, right?
> ...paradoxically, the better I am financially, the more stressed I feel because I just have more to lose. Anxiety is a bitch...

Sorry about your anxiety. But, thanks at least for helping remind me (and likely others) that we who feel similarly are not alone!
Found relevant discussion here https://forum.syncthing.net/t/bahaviour-of-st-on-sqlite-file...