skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Obsidian recently and I can say it's had a big impact on my life. When I was younger I used to read a lot, but i hardly remember anything. Now, when I read something important, I'm sure to summarize it in Obsidian. I can remember it easier and even if I can't, I know where to go to find that information.
> was actually harder than AI

Than the throw-more-data-at-the-wall-leveraging-ever-growing-parallel-GPU-compute-and-hope-the-black-box-that-comes-out-is-good-enough shortcut to AI* :p
As you note, semantic data created by humans is also probabilistic and can be wrong.

Ditto with semantic data created by automated systems that were created by humans.

There will always be incorrect data in the world. AI doesn't change that, but so what?
>Suppose you saw this text written for a human:

>"Our opening hours are: Weekdays 10 until 7. Weekend 10 until 10 (Early closing 9 o'clock Sunday)."

Pardon me, but have you visited a local business' website recently? Rarely is information like this presented in such an explicit way; it's usually crammed into some corner of the footer and without the preamble describing the relevant information. And if the business has multiple locations? Now the visual blocking and semantics become relevant to accurately parse the thing.
Original reporting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/16/surveilla...
When you pay a merchant $100 with your card they get about $97. When this $100 has exchanged hands 50 times only $15 remains. The bank owns the other $85.

Cash is a hassle but it cuts out the middlemen. We need a unified payment system in western countries, but it's almost impossible given how much of a chokehold big banks have over our economy.

Capitalism at its finest.
What the Beep? Die-Hards Refuse to Let Go of Their Pagers
"The tests were to study the Christofilos effect, which suggested it was possible to defend against Soviet nuclear missiles by exploding a small number of nuclear bombs high over the South Pacific. This would create a disk of electrons over the United States that would fry the electronics on the Soviet warheads as they descended. It was also possible to use the effect to blind Soviet radars, meaning that any Soviet missile-based ABM system would be unable to attack the US counterstrike. "

From Project Argus on Wikipedia - an electron shield to fry missiles is pretty out of the box!
Sounds like a perfect fit for a union or an employee-owned coop.
If you're getting started with Weaviate, these two are probably what you need:

1. Wizard to create a docker-compose file: https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/installation/docker-... (e.g. choose the embedding model)

2. Sample notebook showing how to index items using the python library: https://github.com/weaviate-tutorials/vector-provision-optio...
The big lie about the semantic web is this ridiculous notion that it is machine readable just because it has an unambiguous grammar to parser and has ontologies to disambiguate homonyms.
I hadn't heard of Kaleidoscope, but this is one of those utilities that I might have bought if it had a lifetime license, even an expensive one.

I won't spend even a second considering it now.
"And in fact when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, “You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”"

Trump told the world that he fired Comey for opening what has now been shown by the IG and SC Durham after a 4 year investigation to be properly predicated, if flawed. Firing Comey was an attempt by Trump to avoid accountability for what he and his campaign did, along with destruction of evidence, lying under oath, and 11 other counts of obstruction of justice by Trump identified by SC Robert Muller.

It turns out Trump's campaign did meet with Russians and lied about it; Trump did had business in Russia he lied about; his campaign manager did meet with a Russian spy to discuss handing over dirt on his opponent; Russians did hack the Democrats and distribute the data; Trump did ask them publicly to hack his opponent in exchange for relaxed sanctions; and his campaign was knowingly sharing data with a Russian intelligence officer. So of course an investigation was opened into his campaign and their ties to Russia.
Compare and contrast this situation with an established tech company that used to innovate but now puts out derivative drivel. An artist is not a company but there might be parallel incentives and desires.
How do you reckon it's cheaper?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230520135912/https://www.nytim...

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aGR83
Is anyone actually doing the semantic web anymore? I thought people gave up on that over a decade ago. It’s hard enough to get devs to just make content semantic enough for accessibility, let alone defining semantics for computers.
I read this and I was surprised that anyone was testing nukes in Antarctica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Argus#:~:text=Operat....

So it was done at altitude of over 100 miles. I'm certainly not saying that's a good thing. All I'm saying is that saying it was exploded in the region while technically true is a bit misleading.
The paper says that it was more transparent than later authors would imply:

> There were 11 journalists aboard the Highjump ships.
Among them were the distinguished US war correspondent Lee Van Atta (who was not, as claimed by Goodrick-
Clarke (2002), Chilean), and the science writer of the New
York Times, Walter Sullivan. Between 2 December 1946,
and 22 March 1947, the 11 journalists transmitted 2011
messages totalling 478,338 words to Radio Washington,
for onward transmission to their employers (US Navy
1947). Some of the people on the expedition wrote
books about their experiences (Byrd 1947; Sullivan 1957).
Given the tremendous degree of press coverage, it was
misleading for Choron (date unknown) to state: ‘little
other information was released to the media about the
mission, although most journalists were suspicious of its
true purpose given the huge amount of military hardware
involved.’
The homepage shows what the product looks like for those who were wondering: https://glitchtip.com/
A 'revolution' to on-board users and then airdrop them free money in order for the Reserve Bank of India to deploy their own CBDC on top of UPI. [0] [1]

Just like the catastrophic e-Naira and the widely adopted and dystopian digital Yuan this 'revolution' is all about CBDCs.

India is being a bit more clever in moving everyone in India on to their e-rupee CBDC and using the UPI hype and free money airdrops to do that.

[0] https://techmonitor.ai/policy/digital-economy/nobodys-using-...

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-e-rupi-d...
You can use llamaindex to load your vault and parse it to a local LLM (you can use openai if you’re comfortable with it). You end up getting your own personal search engine and it’s amazing. I really should finish my write up about it (also written in Obsidian)
Try to spend fifteen minutes outside getting sunlight close to when you wake up. I’ve read that the day’s first sunlight helps trigger the body’s hormonal response resetting the internal circadian clock. Anecdotally, I like it! And even if it’s placebo, getting a little sun to start the day feels nice.
How easy it is to access a clean restroom is a good barometer of something.
What do you mean by 'runtime issues'? Performance issues?
My friends mom attended this. She mentioned that the wool that was used in the later stages was dyed and clearly wasn’t the same wool they sheared at the beginning. Still a cool concept.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012299
That seems to be the issue, doesn’t it? If you give the Durham report weight, it doesn’t even need to go back that far. If someone is seen as a threat to influential people, from the top down agencies will do what they can to impede and undermine that administration.

While on the one hand, it’s amazing to see RFK speak so boldly, on the other hand, should he be elected, I would fully expect some significant event to derail his administration. While getting shot seems too brazen, it definitely sends a message to any future hopefuls that such behavior is still not tolerated.
How to train deep neural networks without backprop
Hey, you do you. It just sounds like an expensive way to avoid owning the hardware you want to debug to me.

Also, not to burst your bubble, but there are a few projects out there that do more-or-less what you're describing:

- https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay/#together

- https://github.com/m1k1o/neko

If you're having fun, then continue by all means. I've just been nerd sniped by your cloud costs and I'm having flashbacks to seeing six-figure monthly AWS bills at startups that refused to buy their own GPU compute.
Next step reviewing (rewriting) those summaries. Currently using Anki for this, anyone has success using other tools?
Derek Sivers does this and has a section of his site with all his notes: https://sive.rs/book

Great source of interesting reads, too. So some potential prosocial utility there, too.
That would have been years if not over a decade ago. This would be something more recent
GPT-Code UI Editor
They can also go the old “company town” style where they train up people for factory work with the promise of a good life.

Are they willing to pay what would be needed, however?
hello,

i would state it a bit different / from a slightly different ... viewpoint:

"all in life is some kind of selection (!)"

on every level, in every moment ...

cheers,
v
AA and other twelve-steps programs are not inherently "religious-based". They only ask you to believe in some power higher than yourself that you can tap into as a source of inner sternness and restraint. You can call that a spiritual outlook if you like, but it's a very mild one and quite far from any organized or established religion. And it actually works quite well as far as helping people to stop drinking and stay off alcohol for the long term.
> He's back with a new startup that raised $350 million from the VC giant Andreessen Horowitz in August, 2022 — its biggest check ever — and is back on the tech-speaker circuit.

smh. This really sets a new standard in grift.

Now, if he only had good kompromat on all those investors, he'd be up there with Jeffrey Epstein. Come to think of it...
How many years ago was your experience?

There’s definitely an increase in interest and demand for semis. Your experience might be very different from graduates looking today and in the future as demand increases.

Having said that, the vitriol and toxicity in colleges and towards one another needs to cease. I see that being more naturally achieved in an economy that is growing and seeing things getting cheaper generally. That would look like vast investments in small, big, and mega projects. Imagine how much different the US today would be had it never built a highway system and stayed to only where the trains/horses went. I think it’s 80-90%+ of US GDP transports via truck over a highway at some point.
People still strongly dislike FB/Meta though.
> Tardigrades have survived exposure to outer space.

We don’t have to leave this hanging as if tardigrades can survive anything; they’re robust but not immortal. The very same article discusses what that sentence about space really means. In the most direct experiment done so far, after 10 days of exposure to the vacuum of space but not solar radiation, a third weren’t able to reanimate, and after that “subsequent mortality was high”. For tardigrades that were exposed to the vacuum and solar radiation “had significantly reduced survival, with only three subjects of Milnesium tardigradum surviving.” Of the Israeli Lunar Lander, Wikipedia says “in May 2021 it was reported that they were unlikely to have survived the impact.” It might be reasonable to speculate and extrapolate based on the 10 day experiment that even if any did survive impact they probably haven’t by now with three and a half years of vacuum, even if they did land in the shadows, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade#Survival_after_expo...
In finland taxi drivers are regular salaried workers earning hourly wage during working hours regardless if they have customers or not and they may earn additionally provision of sales. Caveat here is that some taxies are self-employed which makes the situation bit more complicated
For context, this article is specifically referring to reading for comprehension (not for pleasure).
Software Architecture Hour with Neal Ford
Commenting under you on the entire subthread here....

I think this is a two part problem. If you talk to a particular therapist/counselor it would be very rare to find one that doesn't want to see you get better. In general the people at this level are empathetic and do care.

But above that there is a 'rehab system'. You start moving away from the people that want to see other people get better towards that people that want to see the system make as much as much money as possible no matter the cost.

We talk about systems like this all the time here on HN with the term 'Molochs'. Systems where the individual optimum would be X, where X is things people actually like and think are good. Instead the system optimizes towards Y, where Y is far worse outcome for individuals, and individuals are seemingly powerless to stop the system from optimizing on Y.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Show HN: Teleport Assist – An Open-Source, GPT-4 Powered Assistant for Infra
Hi HN,

I’m interested to get the HN feedback from our latest release at Teleport ( YCS15 ). We’ve been playing around with LLM and have added an OpenAI & GPT-4 assistant into Teleport OSS, to help people better debug, navigate and run commands on clusters. https://goteleport.com/docs/ver/12.x/ai-assist/

Assist will only run the commands on machines if you explicitly tell it to. It can also be used as a quick reference for common commands and tools, to save a visit to stackexchange. We currently have Assist working with Linux Servers and Kubernetes Hosts. Currently, our assistant integrates seamlessly with Linux Servers and Kubernetes Hosts, and is accessible to users of both the Teleport Community Edition and Teleport Team. For compliance purposes, we've deliberately excluded it from our Enterprise product. https://goteleport.com/features/assist/

We would love to know your thoughts on the prospect of GPT-4 assisting with command executions.
Why obsidian?
wellsrx is a reliable source
In what way was it properly predicated? He was briefed by the CIA that it was a campaign stunt.
I couldn’t disagree more. For me it’s much more important to have a broad knowledge and gain retention and comprehension by repeated readings of books I enjoyed. Writing summaries might be good, but certainly not at the expense of not reading as many new books
I agree. From what I understood, the Dutch iDeal system (which I love) might become a European standard. It doesn’t cover large parts of the world but I think the fees are not as “insane” as PayPal or systems like this.
In my experience, thinking there is some state where things consistently feel right and flow that is indefinite is a bit of a trap.

It can lead to excessive sprinting and over work trying to get something ‘fixed’ which is fundamentally unstable.

Life happens.

Looking at it as a constant process of seeking balance, and getting to that state - then having it swept away - then repeating, can be healthier.

Like a sand mandala, but our lives.
This is our usual European approach. We don't fake it till we make it and don't move fast and break things. We are doing things slowly, but surely, and we are capable of planning long ahead. In 3-5 years sufficient capacity will come online and until then, Ukraine will be supported partially from stocks. Shortfall of requirement isn't so high, about 1 million shells (that are already allocated) at most, so there is no risk of running short.

What the article omitted is that Ukraine consumes ~6K per day of shells but only half of those are of Western types, rest are Soviet types, mostly 122 and 152mm, as well as Grad rockets - which are more easily accessible even if less useful, they can be used when precision isn't a requirement. Production capacity for those is more widely available and they are made by many countries, these aren't going to run out. Which leaves about 1M annual requirement of 155mm of which only Rheinmetall can produce 450K, Czechoslovak Group 100K, NAMMO 100K, plus Saab, Nexter, and a few smaller producers, some small amounts but supposedly no less than 100K total, plus 240K already made in the U.S. which is already almost a million put together. There are some months before these production levels are actually reached, and there is about 150-200K training requirements for U.S. and European armies combined (U.S. produced 14K a month when Afghan war was ongoing and reduced to 6500 a month when it ended, suggesting ~80K annual peacetime need, and about as much for EU - a typical small European army used ~6K per year). But it still leaves about 800K available annually for Ukraine starting with about end-2023, with ~1100K max requirement. 300K a year isn't so difficult to cover (Rheinmetall already works on 150K capacity increase in 2 years and NAMMO on 100K increase in 5 years, others also considering increases, as soon as contracts will come).

What the article also omits is that while Russia increases production AND REFURBISHMENT of shells from 1.7m to 2.5m annually, it doesn't mean their artillery fire rate will increase. It will fall because they are burning through Soviet stocks, 11M spent in 2022 alone and only around 7M left at the beginning of 2023. Of which some can only be used after refurbishment, and some certainly can't be used at all.
Stop voting for the establishment.
https://archive.is/H1EI7
… and bring them with your hovercraft?
I love Readwise.
I’d be curious to know if an inland Aussie would like hot water at all besides for cooking. Some nightmarish temps there.
He was a merchant, and instead of writing a book actually did the thing and spread the practice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping
> The semantic web is useful because it makes us catalog our thoughts and language in a machine readable way

That's not a use, that's a cost.
The disconnect between advocates of a "Semantic Web" and the commoditised reality of the WWW is that the advocates implicitly see an orderly structure of information as being a first principle of knowability/usability and education.

The commoditised reality of the WWW is that content is lucrative, but the content need not be of any social or educational value as long as the ice cream cone licks itself.

Cyberlarceny is more lucrative than order, usability, and education. And now, algorithmic text generation will provide the full experience of half-baked verbiage refreshed daily.

Society does need reliable, true information. But we will not have a semantic Web for economic reasons far beyond the value of education.
Home schooling is one of those topics where there seems to be a huge difference between theory and practice. The theory is great: You're the parent. You are motivated by educational outcome. You believe your children can get a better education than at public schools. You have the time, patience, and resources to do a better job at home. The outcome is better-educated kids who get to skip the (admittedly terrible) abuses of the public school system. For some homeschooled kids, the above is actually what happened. You'll find all their glowing reviews of home schooling in the comment section below.

In practice, at least in the USA, it's different. By and large (with exceptions, obviously), you are motivated by religious separatism. You are not worried about the quality of the education, but the content. You see the public school system as uninvited ideology and home schooling as a loophole you can use to avoid it. The outcome is worse-educated kids who skipped entire subjects and are not even remotely prepared for higher education.

My wife's "moms groups" are always pushing homeschooling, and the sales pitch is never the quality of education. It's always that you can avoid those nasty topics like sex ed and evolution and that you can use the Bible in all your classes. More recently, during and after COVID, the pitches also included avoiding "political indoctrination". I know multiple actual families who pulled their kids out of public school for religious and ideological reasons, but nobody who did so with a legitimate intention of providing a higher quality factual education. Obviously they exist and a few are posting here, but I'd be shocked if those were even 10% of cases.

I'll never forget this clip[1] interviewing a homeschool family, where the poor kid looks mortified that she doesn't know even basic 2nd grade math, with her mom smugly laughing about it. These products of home schooling are not posting their success stories on HN.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyNzSW7I4qw
On my yet to be assembled shelf of random things will be a bunch of books that intend to make one go o_O when they read titles in the background of video call.

One of the books is the language guide to Ithkuil ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil /// https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Ithkuil-Language-John-Quijada... //// https://youtu.be/x_x_PQ85_0k )

This might fit some of your goals.
Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT
That’s all nice and good, but it takes already being in a good place for that to be true.

If meditation can help someone get to that place, that’s a good thing.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t apply to both? I just finished crime & punishment and could see how this summary strategy would help better understand the book.
Ithkuil also is a constructed language with the goal of being completely un-ambiguous. As a bonus it uses the most phonemes of any language so complex messages and meanings can be communicated in an efficient way.

http://www.ithkuil.net/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ithkuil/
Alongside this, I enjoy condensing the summaries down into their base ideas, which I put into a Zettelkästen.
Inspectional reading is one of the key limitations for me when reading books on the Kindle. I need to be able to quickly flip around from toc to glossary and between chapters. There’s still too much friction for that with the ebook format.
> If you give the Durham report weight, it doesn’t even need to go back that far.

Ima stop you right there. The only thing you need to give weight here are the indictments that were brought as a result of the investigation, because that's what was promised. I've read the report from front to back, and it's filled with BS, omissions, and it even attempts to relitigate cases Durham lost in court on the merits. It's a pathetic way for a prosecutor to capstone his career.

Read the Mueller report and the Durham report side by side. They are night and day in terms of quality of evidence, completeness, and clarity of reasoning. In fact, doing so reveals just how the Durham "investigation" was really an exercise in motivated reasoning, whereas the Mueller investigation was a serious, sober investigation of where the facts pointed.