skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The asides with the dog are great. I've seen a few blogs use this technique -- I'm not big on Greek, but I think Plato used this technique too.

It instills the idea that you should be asking a question at this point. Some information has been provided that should generate more questions in your head, if you're keeping pace.
US Army pursues 'biodegradable' bullets (2017)
> so I can't see that behaviour changing especially when 60+ year olds are in it too

Both my parents are getting closer to their 70's, I got both of them to use Element. Yes, they are still on WhatsApp, yes they would prefer if I used it as well and my grumpy old man always complains about the many quirks from Element's UI on iOS. But at the end of they day we still talk frequently, they still get to see their grandkids, we still have a group to share photos and videos, etc.

The important point that I want to drive home: even if they are still using some other app, my refusal to join has made them aware and able to adopt an alternative.

> I personally want to move some of my private content and conversations off public servers and on to one I control.

As long as you are using

(a) your own domain to keep control of your identity

(b) something based on open standards so that you can port different providers

(c)end-to-end encryption

does it really matter if you are running the service?
I'm the same way with vim. Funnily enough, even though I've been using vim for 15 years and rarely ever have to think about what keys to press, when I am on display (for example in a screen share or pair programming) I'll sometimes forget how to use vim and until I can get myself relaxed a bit I'll fumble around like I have no idea how to use a computer.
I got the original concept from the quite famous "black hole electron" theory, but I'm not saying that particles are exactly like tiny black holes.

PS: My toy theories are not to be taken seriously, they're a product of idle musing only.

My method however, I think is sound: try and come up with something that simultaneously satisfies as many known experimental and theoretical constraints as possible, poke holes in it (hah!), fix, rinse, and repeat. Or discard as necessary. Whatever.

A motivation that has been bugging me is: What sets the scale of particles? How does the universe know that a proton here should be the same size as a proton there? Why can't we have giant protons?

A simple geometric argument could be something like assuming that particles are black-hole-like things as described previously, and that they are solitons. They're the smallest units of spin, where their rotation and size is balanced such that some aspect moves at the speed of light. They can't get smaller because then their rotation would have to increase past the speed of light. Hence, all particles have their sizes fixed by the constancy of the speed of light.

That's why I pasted my rambling thoughts in response to this article, my original idea started off thinking of particles as solitons that are also somewhat like black holes, which is the topic of the article.
All my life, they've been hawking string theory; what feels like 40-odd years of breathless articles in New Scientist and on "Horizon". I don't really understand why it's still funded.
>> Even if it were true how would you know?

I think a better question would be "How would YOU know?"
lol, somebody missed the boat.
This kind of thing was always my biggest worry going into Brexit. The country has to reimplement a ton of regulation and you know the government and its various hangers on won’t be able to resist “tweaking” every law and regulation to better favour them.

Workers rights, human rights… it’s all up for negotiation now. By people who aren’t listening to you.
Good effort. It feels like there is still a lot of improvement space for languages with a soundness+productivity focus.

Docs need some polishing tough. The comparison to other languages doesn't make the point of Ki clear to me.

Also, error handling feels like black-box magic with all those exclamation and question marks sprinkled everywhere. Those symbols seem vaguely chosen.
can ableton do polyphonic modulation?
The viruses that helped to make you human
If anyone is interested in writing the PHP, Node.js or Java client implementation for Call Stacking, reach out to me so that we can chat.

You'll have a reference implementation with the Ruby client, so there will be a clear path forward in terms of what is needed functionly.

jim.jones1@gmail.com
apple has a rule against charging for platform-default available features
I wish this was available for people who are not 17 years old.
Really neat! This looks like something that could be immensely helpful to me. I have very minor accounting needs but am on the verge of outgrowing the Spreadsheet method.

May I ask how you fund development? What is your feeling on the future?
That is very nice, +1
Sunk cost fallacy.

A lot of people have spent a lot of their time developing this theory
yes, but the phase 3 (efficacy) trial just barely crossed the threshold (if I remember correctly), mostly because the company wanted to use one stereoisomer because the other was not patentable (and this is the one that is less trippy)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/11/ketamine-now-by-prescr...
For sketch extensions, download the vsix from the marketplace and extract it (it’s just a zip), then inspect that and load it.
Whatever brand you buy, check first if there are un-branded ink cartridges or toners for your new printer, and what reviews does they have.
But you're neglecting the fact that this study found the same or higher effectiveness than non-blinded trials.

In this trial, there was a 50% response rate and 40% remission [1], whereas in a meta-analysis of previous unblinded trials there was 40% response and 30% remission [2].

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.28.23289210v...
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35688035/

So it's not that this trial wasn't effective, just that the placebo effect is very effective, and it likely resulted in the improvements seen.
HPV vaccine: Some studies say one and done might be better
Shameless advert -- Equinox is a neural network library for JAX based entirely around pytrees:

https://github.com/patrick-kidger/equinox

(Now on 1.1k stars so it's achieved some popularity!)

This makes model-building elegant (IMO), without any new abstractions to learn. Quite a PyTorch-like experience overall.
UK and EU take divergent approaches to AI regulation
I did both. I take L-Theanine just in case since it's hard to approximate how much caffeine will be in a coffee.
Wow. Totally wrong lesson learned. Go refresh yourself to some hardcore problems and then replay your situation again.

A more standard response may be: “oh that was me. Your car is better than mine. Sometimes you know, a compliment is just a compliment.”

I’m currently reading Hunting Eichmann. Really nasty stuff that went down, as many know. A very strong reminder that so many of these first-world problems, micro-aggressions, sympathy-seeking woe-is-me public sob stories are just crap. Seriously?? He felt bad from a complement about his car??
V-lang is vaporware, designed to get Patreon bux off of gullible enthusiasts.

See this post [0] from 2019. Things don't seem to have got much better in recent years [1] [2] [3].

[0] https://xeiaso.net/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31793554
That's a cute way to say essentially nothing.

Edit: feel free to defend the Conservapedia's take on climate change for example https://www.conservapedia.com/Climate_change. Absolutely laughable bullshit.
As a long time vim user I wonder whats in it for me, so more detail on the 12 available lessons would help.
And the promise "to become a 10x developer in no time." is, in my opinion, a bit over the top.
I wish mastering a text editor would result in being a "10x dev" :D
Only left to say, congrats for launching vimninja.com!
Try https://searche.org
While I do like the article, I wish it simply used multiple images and/or animated gifs (instead of javascript) for the pictorials.

It would make the site much more accessible and clear in the event you didn't realize you had to click forward.
Nopia – a harmonic chord building synth
I agree with this comment. I wish there was an effort to improve the performance and fundamental capabilities of AOE2 specifically (bigger maps, more varied terrain, higher pop count, ability of the game engine to use multi-core processors, etc.). AOE2 really did almost everything right and it's a timeless classic.
Also 39, also three young kids. It’s hard.

One thing I’ve noticed, though, is that my difficultly in getting into a flow state is more often than not because of a subconscious hang-up about the approach that I haven’t articulated yet.

I’ve learned to recognize and lean into this, and actively look for what’s bothering me about a design. Usually while doing other things.

I suspect it’s actually saved effort overall.
>Proper recommendations haven't yet reached the clinic

Completely agree. I've seen four cardiologists, two nephrologists in my years of dealing with high blood pressure.

They basically just mix and match different BP drugs, hoping something works.

It's out of the stone age.
It's somewhat incomplete without a discussion of how one actually gets the memory allocate to a program.
I think you made a good call. The counter-suggestion is “make a donate option” which generally is ignored by most and I doubt will pay you for your time. At $6 for dark mode, this is essentially a donate option anyway. People like free stuff.
This looks great. Nice job!
And I suppose given that it was exciting in the 1980s, these are the people in positions of power at the moment.
People aren't complaining about the name Windows or Macintosh being misleading. When companies are misleading about their products, they can be sued for it (look at Veggie Straws or Hagen Daas. Here are more: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b13444ce-27b4...)

The point is, you can't just throw your arms up and say "oh well what a coincidental name HP selected for their product". Misleading names can have a real business impact and might even be intentionally misleading.
Andy from OtterTune here.

I suppose that it is possible to do something like this. We've explored the idea of synthesizing a workload that behaves like an application's real workload. The idea was to do offline testing with the synthesized workload to find optimal configurations that can then be applied to the production database. Our results were inconclusive (not enough real workloads to verify). But the idea could be extended for what you are proposing.

But in terms of relational vs graph, my opinions about the matter are public:

https://www.theregister.com/Debates/2023/03/06/great_graph_d...
I'm just looking at the bill [1]. It seems like a very straight forward reinforcement of a parents rights to oversee the education of their kids.

> any parent to sue to the teacher for mentioning basically anything involving sexual orientation

"prohibiting a school district from encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a specified manner. ..... to adhere to standards developed by the department of education."

Presumably they can only sue if the teacher is going against whatever the normal standards are.

> little repercussions for a parent lying or embellishing

I don't know what you mean here, but presumably if the parents take a teacher to court and lose (because they lied/embellished) they would have just wasted their legal fees.

> homophobic conspiracy about gay people all being out to groom your children

Not sure about this. I think the bill came out before the whole groomer thing.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/559840370/House-Bill-1557-Do...
They're not assigning the worst possible motivations to people who don't vote like them.

It's actually the opposite, they're trying to speak to the people who might vote Republican and who may not realise what they are voting for.
Yep. Whenever I see "republicans and democrats are the same", I know I'm talking to someone not directly affected by the policy differences (so someone likely cis, white, straight, and/or middle-class or higher).
Personally I don't see a problem with this. This is in Europe, mobile data coverage is practically 100%, isn't it?

Sure, they will find a way to waste any money gained from this but the basic idea seems sound.
Am I missing something with vim tutor? It's just a very short whistle-stop tour of vim right?

Nothing that actually helps you use it in any real context!

I had to use a proper training tool (vim adventures) before I got enough practice for things to click. And I had to discover a handful of plugins before it was at all usable in a work environment (acejump, code aware motions, IDE integration).

Vimtutor is like a jira tutorial. Yes, you're telling me what I can do with you, but what I need to know is how to use you.
But doesn’t this make a huge opening for someone like the US to step in and say: “hey, we will bail you out and stop China from interfering. Just sign this treaty and let us occupy with some troops”?
Ask HN: Product launch with engagement, but no users
I announced a food delivery service on my town’s community Facebook group. I got 21 likes and 8 comments in 2 hours, but no users signing up. The comments say they think it’s a great idea and that they want to use it. Some have suggested ways it could be improved.

I am a bit confused by this. I was expecting either no engagement, or engagement with users. I was not expecting engagement with no users.

Is this normal? Is this positive?
"But we do have candidates, including string theory. In string theory all the particles of the universe are actually microscopic vibrating loops of string."

Actually string. Brilliant exposition this.
My entry to the field was a bit odd. I’ve been a hobbyist since I was a kid, but I never wanted to enter the files professionally, at least not the way I did. I knew I wouldn’t like it.

But my immediate post high school plans fell through I spent a year working crappy jobs until I eventually figured “you know I bet I could get a job as a software developer if I tried”. It surely would do a lot better for paying the bills.

Nowadays I mostly tell people: I didn’t get into programming for the money, but that’s sure as hell why I entered the industry.

Of course, it looks like my little stint is over, but I don’t know what to do now. On paper it’s the only thing I’m qualified for that’s not unskilled labor.
> The more likely scenario is that Russia would rather detonate a nuke in Ukraine than lose the war, regardless of what NATO's response would be.

I really hope that nuke works and that not one person in that command chain has reservations about ending the country he lives in existence in its entirety.

Make no mistake, detonating a nuke will not only bring a response from NATO, it would bring a response from the world. Russia is done for if they do that.

> Having Ukraine become an official NATO base of operations is that dangerous to Russia, especially if it happens after they were just conclusively beaten in a war. It would obviously soon mean NATO support for separatists in Russian states directly, and the end of the federation.

How is having Ukraine become a NATO member anymore dangerous then Finland?, who literally just joined NATO.
You could make the same argument about automation not manual process.

e.g. "A bug in production can literally cost us billions (apart from potential reputation damage), the system is highly complex, so having robust test suites, automated monitoring and rollback isn't a luxury for us but a necessity."

IMHO, automation wins every time. That is, while there is value in "stop the pipeline versions of code review", we value the automation more.
You can in this one you just need the full paid version.
Don't tell Amos, but Cool Bear is the inspiration for Haskie, my little husky companion.
When the UK was in the EU, I was protected from some of the worst excesses of the UK government. The UK didn't leave the EU to make those protections stronger...
Another interesting side not to this.

Of the times that I have lost significant weight, both have been times when I quit caffeine completely.

I understand - it's hard to tease out whether it was the caffeine impeding the weight loss I get it.

It could be just as simple as I sleep better without caffeine and the better sleep quality improves hormonal balance, satiety, etc.
Am I missing something blindingly obvious here? I would have assumed that the therapeutic effects of a strong mind-altering substance relies on being conscious to, you know, experience the effects.

Saying "It didn't work while the subject was asleep so therefore must be placebo" is just a bizarre position to take.

Imagine if a study stated "Cognitive Behavioural Therapy found to be ineffective on unconscious patients".
Does Mike Rowe have some particular expertise in AI that would make his opinion more valuable than the thousands of other commentators saying it will ruin and/or save the world?
I don’t think that’s correct. There’s an awful lot of human intelligence that’s entirely orthogonal to productivity, despite all social and cultural constructs telling us our only purpose is to produce. All that has to happen is for AI to be able to expand its own production based on demand and improve in the tasks it’s got at hand. That doesn’t require the AI to improve itself - or be able get a girl to go to the prom with it. It just requires it adapt and observe it’s environment in a way that allows it to improve things. I think in some ways we already have that ability to develop into AIs. What we are missing until now was something that can navigate an abstract semantic space and interpret the environment in non trivial and in ways that can adapt to unexpected situations. LLMs lack agency, the ability to plan, the ability to optimize, reason concretely, etc. But we have already have that tools. LLMs can do the other stuff. By constraining and informing and putting them in the mix as a glue between different models and techniques, multimodal LLMs can provide much of what’s needed to build agent based AIs that can autonomously produce at increasing scale independent of human input.

Certainly once AI takes the task of improving AI, things go off the rails. But there’s a lot of steps along the way and the materiality of human labor I think is an early thing to go.
How the ILOVEYOU worm exposed human beings as the Achilles Heel of cybersecurity
You don't understand the Court's point if this is what you are saying. The soup can is a different use, for a different purpose, which is one reason why it's transformative compared to the prince photo (which is basically just the photo, used for the same exact purpose).
Learn to weld
China bans Micron’s products from key infrastructure, citing security risk
It used to but they separated them a few years ago.
Not knocking Ki or any new language but what does it offer over existing systems? I see the criticism of a few languages on the website but they all boil down in reasoning to things like: garbage collection = bad, makefiles = bad. It also doesn't mention or demonstrate how Ki addresses the complaints. For example: if Ki doesn't do garbage collection or manual memory management, what does it do? Smart pointers/reference counting? How are circular references handled? (E.g. doubly linked list)

Would recommend removing the "Other" comparison as pretty much anything that can be said there is wildly inaccurate. Would also like to see comparison with Zig as it seems to have similar goals.
Sign in with Google" = Not happening.
I think this may be the answer... Ill investigate.
>The problem is that

IMO, the Problem is that HP markets this as an ink subscription, when it is really a printed page subscription. It's hard to blame someone for thinking that an "ink subscription" would prevent them from fully utilizing ink paid for during the subscription.

This seems like HP is trying to capitalize on all kinds of other product subscription models popular today (eg: Aamazon Subscribe and Save, pet food deliveries, water delivery, etc.), but purposefully making the marketing as misleading as possible.

Don't call it "instant ink", call it a Print Subscription and you'd probably eliminate most of the problems (and sales...).
Yes - Google Docs implements the document page rendering via canvas. It replaces the previous implementation which used HTML for layout.

https://zapier.com/blog/google-docs-canvas-based-rendering/

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...
>It can't translate whale song, or an extraterrestrial language, though it may opine on how to do so.

Ok guys pack it up, LLM's can't be intelligent because they can't translate Whale Song. GG.

I mean of all the AI Goalposts to be moved this one really takes the cake.
>It does however create a new problem that whether a work is infringing or not depends on the context of its use.

No it doesn't - the issue isn't whether the photograph infringes or not. Fair use is an affirmative defense.
The accessibility of this technique is something that greatly worries me. I try and be quite thoughtful about things like colour palette. I'm not sure how to achieve the level of interactivity I want while still being accessible to screen readers, without writing two completely separate articles with and without JavaScript.

Definitely open to ideas.
Using Emacs is not going to help you to avoid supply chain attacks per se. What it might do, however, is give you unparalleled power to inspect your environment - calls and source. If you run untrusted code you are exposed, and thats that. Development tools should assume that you, a programmer, know what you are programming.

Emacs and lisp is focused on providing power, not security. These often do not go hand in hand.
Do you disagree that SSRIs are an FDA-approved treatment for depression, should I find references for that? Or do you not know what is the standard for FDA approval?
I don't see what your point is. The regulatory capture going on right now with the attempt to license things is ludicrous and akin to licensing matrix multiplications. It won't stick. Stable Diffusion and Approximated Functions (neural networks) are not something magical despite the fear they want to impart on them.

Commercial AI has all of those issues you mentioned, and more, and less. Midjourney is just a bunch of LoRAs layered on top and scripting to generate the images. But since they do that, midjourney images have a specific "feel" that it can't seem to get rid of. It's nothing really out of the reach for someone sufficiently motivated to reproduce.

DALL-E is laughable now, and it's only been a year. Certainly has been surpassed by open source, and outside competitors. I'm not sure what your motivation is to discount open source. People are already running LLM inference on their phones.
Apple Ramps Up Hiring of Generative AI Experts
Execs can waste years by investing in the wrong projects, tech leads can waste quarters of time by picking the wrong architecture/ecosystem, junior engineers can waste days by picking the wrong approach to a ticket. And benefit goes the same way.