skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in two hoarder houses (parents and grandparents). I disagree with many of the things said in this article.

First of all the thing about hoarding being triggered by loss: I think this has more to do with psychoanalysts looking for an explanatory reason of that sort. (I.e. Freudian bullshit.) From my observation it is more of a genetic personality trait that the person has already had the inclination to hoarding independent of any life events. Certainly life events or the loss of a loved one could make a barely-in-control hoarding situation spiral out of control, but it didn't start the hoarding any more than gunshot sounds cause avalanches unless avalanche conditions were already present.

Second to the points about inability to describe the objects in detail, to handle the objects for more than a short time, or not being able to reliably tell the animals apart in an animal hoarding situation. We had 19 cats (in a 2 bedroom), and it was bad for us and the animals, but we definitely could tell them apart! Photographic memory runs in my family; most of us could in fact describe most of the objects. That's part of the problem! A tendency to see every object as unique contributes to inability to not keep them all.

I feel like TFA was written from the perspective of someone who has no personal experience or understanding. A recent experience at my mother's house provides a much better illustration of why hoarding happens. Her doorstep had rotted out and I had to rebuild it. My mother suggested I use some polyurethane coating to finish the wood, but the bottle she'd been saving had been open an unknown number of years and turned into a disgusting milkshake. I said we better not use that and would just buy a new bottle. I asked if I could take the spoiled bottle to the trash for her and she almost agreed, but at the last moment stopped me. She wanted to look up on the internet whether there was a way to turn the spoiled polyurethane back into usable, and asked me to put it in the separate RV (itself falling to pieces) until she has time to do that.

Here's the key: it's an inability to make decisions. That's it. The emotional distress component follows from the stress of being unable to make a decision, not the other way around. (The reason a decision cannot be made is because the future cannot be completely known, thus it is impossible to say a discarded item will definitely not turn out to have been needed.) The build-up of things comes from putting off the decisions to keep or get rid of things indefinitely.
It's easy to hotlink an image into a GitHub readme, and when the build status (etc) of the project changes so does the badge, without updating the readme.
This guy's right.

The BRI is sort of like a hybrid merger of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (in reality controlled and managed by Japan) aimed at LDCs in Asia+Africa which Japan+SK wouldn't touch (either because it's not within Asia, or it's not financially viable).

The same way the ADB would subcontract with Japanese corporations, you'd see BRI contract to Chinese corporations.

That said, the ADB tended to train+hire local staff, while BRI projects tended to mainly hire solely Chinese. And conversely, the ADB would add additional regulations+scrutiny into potential malpractices, malfeasance, and financial viability while BRI financed projects were much more lax with such compliance.
For sure it's different with trucks. Sometimes that works in your favour, like when it's bin day and you forgot to take the bins out last night.

In general though I don't really know enough to know why they can't make commercial vehicles quieter. In my experience at least city buses manage to be relatively quiet.
One quick plug

I want to have the memory part of langchain down, vector store + local database + client to chat with an LLM (gpt4all model can be swapped with OpenAI api just switching the base URL)

https://github.com/aldarisbm/memory

It's still got ways to go, if someone wants to help let me know :)
Everyone is non-binary. The culture-bound stereotypes that are attached to and imposed upon female and male aren't enacted fully by anyone. One does not need an additional identity outside of woman or man to do this.
It might make sense for older larger vehicles that primarily move forward to have backup beepers. But every commercial oriented vehicle seems to have them now, including the smallest of dock loaders. These smaller vehicles have clear visibility in all directions but still put the burden of avoiding danger on everyone else instead of the vehicle operator. This is unreasonable and disturbs and annoys people at a large radius away. There is no excuse in this day and age to not build and retrofit commercial vehicles with obstacle avoidance systems and proximity sensors to replace backup beepers.
Just like you train any other skill - by doing it.

Whatever decision you’re facing - build a decision tree as far as it makes sense and actually depends on your input. By asking a tree of “what if” questions or something like that.

In a nutshell it’s a risk management
That's just fearmongering. By that logic you can never use any closed source product. How would people trust an Outlook client won't leak your emails, or iOS/Android/Windows/MacOS isn't sharing your personal information and other communication?
I just think of that ringing as the sound of silence.
These kind of articles always assume people have choices. Its never been harder to move, it was more economically viable for a working person to move in 1854 than 2023.
AR? Augmented Reality? Wtf is Intuit gonna do with that?
The tax difference between ordinary or qualified dividends is the same as the tax difference between short and long term gains.

It's simply not a tax dodge.
Don't know if there is a smarter way, but these libraries usually offer an overlap parameter that allows you to repeat the last N characters of a chunk in the first N of the next chunk.
You're entitled to your opinion, but as you're questioning my motives there is nothing more to discuss.
Some of the lower-hanging fruit in chemistry data was addressed by earlier versions of deep learning, like AlphaFold. It seems the nature of the domain is such that the language is less ambiguous than most natural language. Does anyone have a perspective on the apparent advantages of mapping chemistry interactions to latent space models for LLM training?
> For non-techy home or SOHO users, they're likely using smtp.gmail.com with their gmail creds though.

That's exactly what I'm worried about. Obviously there are ways to do it safely (and gmail actually I think might even force them), but I have very low expectations of a lot of the userbase (not a dig at them: the tech isn't exactly set up to make the easy thing safe).
This gets reposted on HN every few months or so,

And I couldn't be happier, Beej's guide is a seminal read for anyone looking to get into net programming. Exposing as many newbies to it as possible helps strengthen the field.
Wiki states many theories, no conclusive way to know and then makes a series of assumptions about velocity, force, vector etc.

I posit it could have been a sandworm deposit site that then suffered a spice reaction and exploded, like Dune.

Still, lake exploded a gas and people within 16 miles were knocked out or killed. Nuts.
learned sockets with this like 20 years ago programming IRC fserve bots in C
There is a handful of people whose tabs I would instantly pick up were I to meet them somewhere because of the immense value I have gotten from their free work online, writing stuff, answering forum posts, etc.

Beej possibly tops that list.
> I doubt that this is a factor at all to the typical monetizable user.
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The typical monetizable user, insofar as they exist, is what Google captures by default placement (whether what they purchase, or just from dominating the desktop browser space).

Features are how they remain sticky for various subgroups of atypical monetizable users.
Or, like I said in the initial statement that sparked all this discussion, and let me quote myself here:

> I'm not a fan of the genre, but that's neither here nor there
All Beej's guides are fantastic, but if you're interested in Network programming you could do way worse than follow this up with his guide to network concepts. https://beej.us/guide/bgnet0/

If you search Algolia for Beej you'll see his material has been on hacker news numerous times.
"System requirements" section should really mention what amount of RAM or VRAM is needed for inference.
I found a provider (NYU Lagone) that uses Epic since early 2010s.

I've heard problems with people who use the tool but as a patient to be able go see a decade plus of my hospital visits, checkups, scans, and x rays is pretty amazing.
> I think for consciousness you need a sophisticated mental model of the world, but also a sophisticated mental model of other intentional agents and their mental processes.

A random find[1] that I found interesting. Some quotes:

A growing set of experiments therefore appears to establish a key prediction of [Attention Schema Theory]: without consciousness of an item, attention on the item is still possible, but the control of attention with respect to that item almost entirely breaks down. The relationship is not “consciousness is attention”; instead, it is “consciousness is necessary for the control of attention.”

AST also predicts that people construct models of other people’s attention [...]. Ample evidence confirms that this is so.

Activity in at least some subregions of the [temporoparietal junction] has also been found in association with one’s own attention. Moreover, TPJ activity is associated with the interaction between attention and reported consciousness. A recent study argued that this activity is consistent with error correction of a predictive model of attention.

[1]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119 (open access)
I have almost 1900 items in my password manager: this includes logins, software licenses, notes, etc. But this does not include items in vault Attic, where I move items which are no longer exist (dead sites, deleted accounts, old ids, etc).
concurrent algorithm is a design choice and is an architecture. Not an implementation detail
Wasn’t the human genome mapped recently?

That’s some of the most relevant (to us) chemistry

In fact biochemistry is a data science AND also programming. It’s not von neumann architecture, but it’s far more complex!
Same goal, but this would just be one system built on top of Locutus - which could interoperate with others - rather than a standalone system.
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i guess, in addition to that, there's also the practical aspect of your children taking care of you when you are older. that can be a significant motivator.

in many (most?) parts of the world that is the norm.

however, that is of course a... highly unreliable way of making sure you are taken care of when you are older!
I've always waited at least two weeks to a month before installing any windows update.

I've had two laptops bricked by faulty windows 10 updates in the past. I've gone through the whole gauntlet of people trying to gaslight me with statements such as "It is impossible for a windows update to brick your computer, or get stuck in an infinite updating loop."

I advise pretty much everyone I know to avoid updating important software automatically. Updates for critical software or hardware should only be done to a specific version that has been out for at least a month. Even then, always check multiple sources to ensure it won't introduce something unwieldy.

But of course, that gets a bit tedious for some people. So generally I only apply it to non-security updates, hoping and praying Microsoft hasn't screwed the pooch again with one of those. (Which has happened in the past.)
Then make it an optional feature software has to check for. God knows riscv is fragmented enough already...
A few weeks ago, I was in a similar situation, I needed to read an email on an old account. I typed my email, my password and then an error, it was blocked for some reason, it asked me to check my recovery email, except that email was never validated (there was a mistake in the domain extension). It should never have blocked an account with a valid password when the recovery email was never validated. I successfully talked to human support, they told me they could do nothing about it. It magically unlocked a few months later, if you lost your account, keep trying, one day you may access it
That Webfft is fun. Try recording yourself making a few long vowel sounds A I U E O AE UH , and take a look at how the harmonics/formants/ the pattern of peeks at different frequencies is distributed between sounds.
why not

pipx inject sqlite-utils trogon

or really,

pipx install 'sqlite-utils[tui]'

i believe you can expose sub-commands only if an extra is installed; i know this is true for separate entry points.
> During the protests there were riots and teargas for 300 nights straight

Lol. In a 3 square block area downtown for part of a summer. Close though. Maybe try a channel other than Fox News.
Kimchi is ironically one of the few cabbage based garnishes I actually enjoy. Compared to something like sauerkraut, it has a reasonably pleasant texture, no offputting odor and the combination of spicy + salty works very well.

It would probably be better to compare kimchi with wasabi or sauerkraut though.
If you just used it as translation service then I see no need to even bring it up, but if you wrote three lines of actual information and had a computer expand that to three paragraphs of text then it should be common courtesy to disclose that people are wasting their time reading the added boilerplate
that and “everything’s an object”
"I don't expect privacy." is the endgame of this creeping omnipresent surveillance culture. Welcome to the panopticon.
Apple Likely Filed for 'XrProOS' Trademark Last Week via Shell Company
I didn't think this was very good - it was barely coherent. But it makes a very good point:

The fixation on bias and compliance within the AI ethics market leaves out actual ethics

I'd add that all ML is stereotyping, that's literally what it does, it's fitting a curve, not reasoning. So any application where stereotyping is inappropriate shouldn't use ML.
They finally removed the virtual keyboard.

Do you remember when it was a random layout virtual keyboard? Good times.
The size of the keyrings of global PGP servers is knowable. I don't have a link to the analysis from which I draw the numbers, but the summary is about 100k PGP keys. Take into account unusable keys and duplicates, and some number in the (probably high) tens of thousands is a reasonable estimate for PGP users.

In terms of anecdata, the only people I've known to have used PGP where the ones working on supporting it in the email client; I've seen more evidence of S/MIME email than PGP, and even that is extremely thin on the ground.
Sure. Not sure that was indepedently important (for adoption, it clearly had a big impact on the course of mobile interaction) but even if it wasn’t it was essential to the web thing, because otherwise you couldn’t have a usable keyboard and a sufficiently large screen.
Look, I'm not saying that the blackberry was perfect.

But I am saying that it had feature parity with the first iPhone.
I don't know whether it's the general awareness of it that has been increasing or what, but it seems like job scams, bank scams, rental scams, these are all exploding in frequency lately.

Sometimes, it feels like we're in the middle disillusionment era of the internet and tech, where all the hope and positive potential of the new medium has now given way to just previous crappy life problems taking it over, only magnified.
Apple's neural engine has been around in phones and laptops for years. Not even close to what's required for offline chatgpt. What's your point? Which of us is fooling themselves?

Average consumer hardware is not showing any signs of being capable of this in near term. Hype is hype, but use your own head.

Don't forget that these homegrown models also require training data, scraped and cleaned, an individual or nonprofit can't do that.
The only thing that matters, is results. Specifically the results of my clients.

I don’t really use linked in, but a visionary is a very specific role. You goto the edge, you find what’s useful, you relay that back to others. It’s what I’ve done my entire life.

I also coach, invent things, create art and am an activist.

My clients are the most successful people in the world and don’t come through LinkedInn.

My offer of free support still stands.
I now often put the dishes away with my noise cancelling headphones on, after accidentally doing it one day with them on and finding out how much less jarring it is. I wonder what the affect of this on age related hearing loss is - i.e how much of age related hearing loss is actually cumulative minor environmental toll.

Only problem with applying this strategy outside of domestic environments is safety.
That would imply that the current AI cycle would be able to persist at its current levels of frothiness indefinitely: In the in-between lull periods, these GPU farms would be seen as something to sell off. This doesn't even take into account the eventual depreciation of the GPUs in question, as better GPUs/accelerators come into the market.

Most companies have an AWS account that they can throw on more money at for 'AI research & implementation'. With such an account existing in the first place, along with said price depreciations, the company in question would have to be certain that they'll use said GPUs all the time to make up for the upfront costs they'll be putting up with.
I'm pushing 600 in my main password manager, but most of them aren't unique — I just use "farce72$" by default since it hasn't shown up in HIBP (yet -- fingers crossed) and hits three of the major character classes, so it's pretty high-entropy.

The password manager mostly serves the role of autofilling stuff in browsers.
Any arbitrary but meaningful seq2seq data can possibly be modelled by a transformer.

Language models can be trained to generate novel functioning protein structures (by training on protein functions and their corresponding sequences), bypassing any sort of folding process entirely.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2

May as well try.
> "The way I see it, it's the educators who hold all the power in the world. No, stop laughing and hear me out. A good instructor can, over the course of their career, create hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of GDP. Let's say a teacher teaches 40 students a year for 30 years. And Each of those students goes on to work for 40 years. And, due to the quality of instruction, they earn $10,000 more per year than they would have otherwise. That's $480 million in extra revenue. From one good instructor."

OK but providing value isn't the same as having power. It's almost the opposite thing.
> America actually has a huge public transportation system servicing most homes in the US.

You are plainly, objectively, and hilariously wrong
I see how it’s easy to agree with this article since everyone has experienced being annoyed by excessive noise, but I do question whether or not the jury is really out on excessive noise causing heart disease, anxiety, etc. As the article also mentioned, silence is a luxury that costs a lot. Since the amount of disruptive noise one experiences on a daily basis is probably exactly correlated with one’s wealth, it seems like this take is very likely inventing a causal link from noise to health when its equally plausible that noise is just another thing that less wealthy people have to put up with (along with worse health).
It's a good day if I can get through it without creating an account.
Not sure if this is country-specific or label-specific, but a lot of Baby Metal reaction videos seem to get flagged, which is kind of silly given that these of things help spread awareness of the group / band.
Checking out with guest is okay, as long as you are judicious about not deleting emails.

I often order something and need to login and retrieve the order info for a return or warranty information. Or if I’m ordering an item or similar item and want to refer to prior purchase. And some ordering website absolutely do give good order tracking for Guest checkouts. We have no covered entry, so like to know when our packages will arrive if it is raining.
I disagree that that is a good point, because I've seen lots of discussion of other ethics issues from the same people th as t also highlight bias, and bias is, in many domains of—current, not merely potential—AI application an issue of significant concrete ethical relevance.
That's what makes it the best, it automatically improves as OS's implement more efficient algos
Keep in mind the topic, it's not about WWW which can be totally swamped by a handful of dedicated malicious actors with powerful hardware, it's about verifying applicants that they did not cheat.

These models you talk about are either not good or unbearably slow, the output of a model that today runs "as fast as you can type" on average hardware will never be reliably mistaken for the real thing. If you try to cheat with it it would be more likely to fail you than if you spend $20 on a human freelancer to write stuff

The only factor that breaks this today is cheap availability of chatgpt and such. They are reasonably high quality but unprofitable to run, they are subsidized to hook public up so that later MS can safely jack up prices (ideally after getting an exclusive AI license from the government).
After noticing Apple Health doesn't let you track this data at all (very strange decision on their part) I contemplated building an app... But Excel is easier and serves the same function. Conditional highlighting, charts, trends, it's all there.
That line of thought also means the employee should take every legal avenue to execute the letter of the contract. It might be legal but it’s a difficult situation - nobody wants to feel like they are in a contentious relationship with their employer.
This is creative writing. The cards are on the table from the first paragraph:

> At smoke shops, customers drive off after blazing up. In motion or at red lights, smoke wafts from car windows, the smell mingling with exhaust fumes in a pungent miasma.

It's the classic formula: invent a conclusion first and make that your headline; spend a few paragraphs painting a visceral picture of your imaginary world; then find 2 or 3 city-dwelling folks who have some tangential and/or non-authoritative opinions on the topic. (The first primary source cited here is a bike messenger, and it doesn't get any better.) Add a bunch of statistics and past incidents that are vaguely related to the topic but not actually indicative of the conclusion. Job done.
Same here. Works really well.
Thanks for sharing, trying it out now.

Not knocking it - as a non American I got a kick out of seeing imperial units being used out in the open :laugh:

EDIT: Oh, cannot sign up without a US address.
> counterstrike 1.5

I miss WON. Man my friends and I hated Steam when it came out...
> Most users are not in an environment where this would be a positive aspect, rather than a potential way to deny a service or invade their privacy.

I think you are wildly disconnected from "most users" if you think most users care about who knows what Linux packages they're downloading, or are at risk of having that ability removed based on MITM inspection of their HTTP traffic.
Kind of blows my mind that my children will think I'm nuts when I tell them I used to get on a plane without being scanned and tagged. Or that someone use to ring up and bag my groceries. Progress!
You can enter data manually, but there are also apps that will import data in various formats if you have them. If somehow you already have the data as CSV, you can use a third party app to import it.