skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBentirelyH I think at the point of my life I’m at right now (a 30-something tech worker) I think I’d opt for cigarettes and death at 70 over death at 80 and two 1-hour commutes every day of my life. I don’t smoke frequently, but the times I have have been far more enjoyable than my experiences commuting by car, and I’m not sure if my quality of life from 70-80 would tip the balance enough towards cars.

I definitely get the fun of trying to like actuary out all the ways that we waste our life doing unproductive shit, certainly I think about this a lot in the context of my working life.

With this said, I don’t know if I agree that “scrolling” is time so utterly wasted that it’s equivalent to death, or least that if scrolling qualifies then so does the vast majority of TV consumption (just in my own opinion I’d say I get more value out of like following Twitter beefs than a five hour Scrubs rerun binge). At least the latter is fun in a trashy kind of way, similar to how I imagine people might enjoy such quality content as “F Boy Island”, which I’ve been assured is good television.
Cryptography != Cryptocurrency

DAOs are software, a DAO could exist without the existence of cryptocurrencies
We could not do that inadvertently. To block even 1% of light using Starlink sized satellites (~30 m^2 with solar panels deployed) would require tens of billions of satellites. We could do it on purpose with huge rotating solar reflectors, and it should honestly be considered as a real option, but we couldn't and wouldn't do so just by launching communication satellites.
Sounds like you'd prefer:

Using GPS as a possible earthquake predictor (phys.org)

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-gps-earthquake-predictor.html

The precursory phase of large earthquakes

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg2565

(14 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36814593
I never said anything about bit or key length at all? Let alone how much was random or not? Perhaps you’re confused?
Agree with this. Failure is a contested concept.

What is defined as failure for one, is success for another. Failure detection is skewed by "the loudest voice" and "the strongest arm." Morals, ethics, scientific standards, and social hierarchy all fighting for a chance to define and redefine failure. What one person can happily do without question could be the kryptonite for another. Not to mention gender roles.

The weird part, at least for me, is that people are not consistent. What is a failure in one aspect is a success in another; it's not objective. There's almost always a spin. Probably autism a bit but, at least be consistent and honest.
Growth is not a measure of physical resource consumption, it’s a measure of the value of goods and services produced. If you can find a way to make something more valuable out of less raw materials, you can increase growth while decreasing consumption. One example is that computer chips that do the same computation with less silicon and energy are worth more. There might be a limit to this, but it’s not obvious. A bunch of countries already managed to increase economic growth while decreasing CO2 emissions. Maybe in 100 years humanity’s main preoccupation will be competing to tell each other more fashionable jokes while recycling the same physical materials, with economic growth continuing uninterrupted all the while.
Actually, I thought about this some more, and if marinating for 30 minutes is sufficient to basically maximize or saturate the surface penetration, then comparing the vacuum to no vacuum at 1 hour is pointless. Better to compare at say 5 or 10 minutes.
It doesn't. This is a dick measuring contest between billionaires.
It would not be healthy to frame failure (which involves pain, bad feelings) a good thing. Considering mistakes a teacher would also be a mistake. Nice that it worked for you but considering humans as complex as they are the same prescription would not apply to all.
How about FSearch in Linux? [http://cboxdoerfer.github.io/fsearch/]
Or some beach houses will be flooded and everyone just moves 100 meters inland.
Oh yeah, literally almost any other device is Google joke or Linux phone so hideous that I wouldn’t dare to buy it to even just experiment with it.
Well that is a great idea, why don’t more people talk about doing that?
Momentum? Quantum tunneling of the flavor atoms?
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> Yep, game wikis and guides have been a cesspool of SEO bullshit for a little while now. I guess there's money in the ads.

I absolutely loathe to use fandom for that very reason. They game the system to appear first, even when another, better, wiki exists.And it is nigh on unusable. Sadly one game that really depends on the wiki, that I play only has a fandom site
(warframe)
Certainly a discovery, but a new one?

Ok, this is based on an article from Nature and I'm just a random dude from the Internet, so take this with a grain of salt:

What they claim is what I've learned in materials science class 20 years ago.

Metals fatigue under cyclic loading because of micro-cracks. This effect can be quantified by the Wöhler curve, which very simply put tells you how often you can bend a piece of metal until it breaks.

From what I remember, it is well known that this fatigue reverses by itself slowly and depending on the temperature and type of metal.

It is true that the effect is negligible for steel at room temperature, which admittedly is the most interesting case.

But for other metals this self healing effect can actually be exploited at room temperature. The example we learned in class was the leaden rulers everyone of us owned back then. These are rulers you can bend to draw nice curves in technical drawings. They are made out of pure lead. If you bend them very very often in one sitting they can eventually break. But if you stop before and you leave them alone over night they will be like new.

At least that is how I remember the story.
Toni Oppenheimer
I could imagine governments getting behind this, there are a few proposed laws that require age verification, like the online safety bill in the UK. You could easily see them adding age verification on top of this proposal.
I'm not sure how LLMs are going to be immune to SEO spam and advertising. As if human nature would magically transform and people would stop buying stupid stuff.

LLMs are already being used to make the web even less useful, by shitting out vast ammounts of meaningless and even outright wrong text for SEO purposes. And don't forget the systems are being trained on the web in the first place… using a LLM that is able to utilize a web search already thinks listicles are useful information and not just a way to place affiliate links.

When the hype is over and the VC money dried out, companies will find ways to make the LLM interfaces and outputs an 'advertising friendly' affair.
At which point do you think humanity will start seriously thinking about radical solutions? Such as detonating thermonuclear weapons to throw enough dust above the troposphere to cool the planet down?

I'm thinking we're still really far away. Migration from areas that become uninhabitable is still weak. And it doesn't look like any state that has substantial military/commercial/political power is interested in starting a fuss about it. Germany's Green party, probably the strongest climate centric party in the world, somehow thinks that potential nuclear reactor problems are just as bad as global warming.
This political debate was shitty enough when it happened, there is no need to rehash that political bullshit whenever you see the topic mentioned somewhere.
I'm inclined to agree.

Likely there's a level of awareness we didn't have before.
What makes you think glass is safer in that regard?

See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277241662...,
(Micro/nano glass pollution as an emerging pollutant in near future)

Now microplastics is all the rage so you see these studies, next you will see Micro-X whatever it is.
The fact is that this is a headline grabbing study without any meaning and that did not show anything actually. They even say it in their study (but this does nto make headlines) that the study does not show at what concentration microplastics become a problem, just that at very unreasonably high concentrations they used it caoused cell death in petry cells. Almost Everything will cause cell damage at very high concentrations
It is as if they expect Google to be able to read their minds or even foresee their future intentions.

That's exactly what Google and other interests want --- gullible, uncritical sheeple that can be exploited to extract $$$ and worse.
It is really annoying how substack hides or blends the Continue reading link when authors ask for readers to convert into subscribers. At least clicking outside modal should be considered "continue reading". I find this as aggressive subscriber hunting.
There was a option to skip sign in and read on!
Same. I remember the day the letter came from BT suggesting that my parents switch to the "Heavy User" tariff. I'd been using the nearest CompuServe POP in a different city.
There is a mistake in the README of the github repo:

In the 1st part of the "Features" section, the "bfs" and "find" columns' contents are swapped. I was a bit confused while reading it and it took me a while to notice that it was a mistake.
Framework 16: pre-orders open
I think that's precisely the sense GP meant.
>People don't seem to know that old saying about not putting all your eggs in one basket anymore.

Probably because by the time this saying was forged, there wasn't this big push from chickens to integrate as many features as possible and improve their functionality and QoL that's only avaible when you do put all the eggs in the same place
> News like this always reminds me of how the Western world polluted the earth and then got snippy when the rest of the world started doing the same on scale

This claim makes zero sense. Western environmental movements have predominantly focused on reform in western countries and stay relatively mum about others.
I've always seen Russell Brand -like many street preachers- as something similar to the raw verbal intelligence we see now in LLMs: capable of bringing a stream of words with interesting derivatives, easily interpretable as agreeable and intelligent, and then hallucinating a little. Yet in the depths of those regurgitated concepts that are a mix of things you've already seen, you search for glimmers of any abstract idea that you haven't thought before. Something that tickles your brain. And you find none.

He also has good timing.
Using DocumentCloud as a Source of News
#!/bin/sh
test $# -gt 0||exec echo "
10 requests per second
500 requests per day without acct
tokens last 2 weeks

usage: ${0##*/} =querystring -- search
usage: ${0##*/} resume < 1.json >> 1.json -- continuation search
usage: ${0##*/} 12345678 -- info
usage: ${0##*/} 12345678 pdf -- download pdf
usage: ${0##*/} -h -- search/api help
example: ${0##*/} =created_at%3a%5bNOW-1DAY+TO+*%5d -- all docs created in last 24h
"

x=https://api.www.documentcloud.org/api/documents
y=""
case $1 in =*)
ftp -4o\|yy059 "$x/search/?q$1&expand=user%2Corganization&version=2.0&hl=true&per_page=100"|tmux loadb -b dcl /dev/stdin
tmux saveb -b dcl /dev/stdout
while true;do
y=$(tmux saveb -b dcl /dev/stdout|sed -n '/\"next\":\"/{s///;s/\"//p;}')
test ${#y} -ge 140||exit
ftp -4o\|yy059 "$y"|tmux loadb -b dcl /dev/stdin
tmux saveb -b dcl /dev/stdout
done
;;resume)
y=$(grep \"next\":|tail -1|sed -n '/\"next\":\"/{s///;s/\"//p;}');
ftp -4o\|yy059 "$x/search/?q$1&expand=user%2Corganization&version=2.0&hl=true&per_page=100"|tmux loadb -b dcl /dev/stdin
tmux saveb -b dcl /dev/stdout
while true;do
y=$(tmux saveb -b dcl /dev/stdout|sed -n '/\"next\":\"/{s///;s/\"//p;}')
test ${#y} -ge 140||exit
ftp -4o\|yy059 "$y" |tmux loadb -b dcl /dev/stdin
tmux saveb -b dcl /dev/stdout
done
;;-h)
exec echo '
https://api.www.documentcloud.org/pages/help/search/
https://api.www.documentcloud.org/pages/help/api/
https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/query-guide/common-query-parameters.html
'
esac

ftp -4o\|yy059 $x/$1/?expand=user%2Corganization%2Cnotes%2Csections%2Cnotes.organization%2Cnotes.user \
|if test $# -gt 1;
then y=$(sed -n -e "/\"canonical_url\":/{ s///;s/\"//g;s/www/s3/; s/-/\//;s/$/.$2/p;}");
ftp -4o $1.$2 $y;
else sed;exit;
fi

can sign up for acct with unverified email addr

could use curl, python, etc. to send token instead of haproxy

http-request add-header cookie "csrftoken=...; sessionid=..." if { hdr(host) api.www.documentcloud.org }

could use curl, etc. instead of ftp (tnftp)

yy059 is a filter that prints JSON left justified according to personal preference

could use jq, etc. instead of yy059

could use a temp file instead of tmux buffers

verdict: documentcloud.org is a welcome alternative to proprietary algo search engines and opinionated news, not to mention ads and tracking

interesting fact: the site actually offers a free "scraping service" if sign up (not for me; dont like python)
Big question: HOW? Most journalists in the USA receive basically zero scientific education.

1. By talking to a variety of experts

2. Purposefully seeking out alternative narratives or skeptics among reputable scientists.

3. Following up on criticisms that pop up across multiple, well regarded skeptics.

5. Challenging the original scientist based on input from these skeptics.

6. Transparently reporting on responses to these challenges.

Instead today we get:

1. Scientist makes claim

2. Reporter parrots the talking points
I don't understand why they call them 'counterfeit cards', they were real enough to do crypto mining with so at best you can call them 'used' or maybe even 'refurbished' (for instance, if the fans got replaced).

Is there more to this than just selling used stuff as new? Or is the counterfeit a slip of the pen?
Michael Parenti's "Conspiracy and Class Power" is still a classic for anyone looking for a succinct overview, from the left, of how conspiracy operates as one many tools in the power elite's chest: https://youtu.be/t21UZxRYYA4 The "conservative celebration vs. liberal complaint vs. radical analysis" framework in particular is one that just bears out over and over again.

The recent revelations that Chomsky (always an assiduous conspiracy denier) was chumming with Epstein was a pretty major moment of schadenfreude for those of us on the left inclined to conspiratorial analysis.
I think the idea is that, if we (some of us) can figure out when something is SEO spam or rather, generally low quality, an LLM should be able to but faster and more quantitatively why.
I find it interesting that people seem to think that storing CO2 under ground under high pressure for an unlimited amount of time is totally fine. "What could possibly go wrong?"

But at the same time somehow storing nuclear waste in specially designed containers sitting inside granite mountains is somehow extremely irresponsible and not an option?

Do most people actually realize what happens when that stored CO2 comes back up for whatever reason in x amount of years (all the way up to 100's of millions of years). I mean both the short term (everything in a certain radius that doesn't fly dies) as well as long term effects.
Gabor Mate proposes that genes determine your susceptibility to having ADHD, but environment is the trigger.

Russell Barkley proposes that ADHD is largely inherited through genes, quoted 65%-75%, and the rest is environmental.

The big difference between them is that Gabor focuses on attachment theory and childhood trauma.

Both are beneficial to learn from. It is harmful that the ADHD community does not accept both points of view. Because they complement each other well.
> downloadable weights

When it comes to "how much of it has to be available to be open source", I think it may be instructive to look at encryption algorithms.

Many of them have numeric constants or initial values--NOT part of the secret key itself--which need to be known and available, both for interoperability and for the expected security-level of the algorithm. These are arguably similar to LLM weights. (Perhaps the simplest example would be the prominence of "13" in ROT13.)

Yet if someone tried saying that their encryption standard was "open source" while keeping those constants secret and/or legally-encumbered, I think a lot of people would complain that the label is incorrect or inappropriate.
Where can I find any information about the handoff? There’s been a slew of stories about the mil->ml typo and a few claims on the fediverse about the government taking back domains. I can’t search it without just getting articles about the typo (and nothing else). So far I haven’t actually found anything that announces a change in ownership (aside from some different names on IANA).
> and vague populist "we'll just tax X" won't fix it

The richest people and biggest corporations own such an unimaginably large amount of wealth that taxing them would fix just about anything.

In 2017, Apple's cash reserves were $250 billion. That's just a single company, hoarding reserves that could clear the national debt of most countries. Think about that for a second.

There is absolutely no shortage of wealth in the world. There is easily enough to pay all the pensions, including far into the future, even considering demographic change.

But of course, if governments are OK with allowing corporations to act like sovereign countries, raising the retirement age can seem like a reasonable alternative to moving all that wealth to where it actually belongs.
Yes, FSearch is the one I use, but it's not as great, per FSearch's dev:

> However, FSearch doesn't automatically detect changes made to the file system and update its index then. This is on the roadmap (it's called inotify support) but it'll never work as smooth as Everything on Windows, because the Linux kernel isn't particularly good at reporting filesystem changes

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/issues/26

Everything is comprehensive + instant + always up-to-date, that's so awesome a combo it's a pity it's Windows only
This proposal is attempted theft. The web does not belong to Google, it belongs to everybody. Who are they to suggest that users with “non-attestable” (read: not controlled by Google) user agents or operating systems should be excluded or punished?

If Google wants a war, let’s give them one. Tell everyone who will listen. Give Google hell.
Many good scarce tips in there (once past Google Scholar, unless you're monopoly-oriented). 'Dealing with paywalls' for example.

He did mention IA searches, but I didn't spot a mention of their https://scholar.archive.org/ with "over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive."

For book metadata, I find https://openlibrary.org/ search has a lot of 'MARC' type data. Esp useful for books with many editions.

Some services are getting more restrictive. e.g. WorldCat recently got harder to use, rejecting many searches. But if you can find a book's OCLC ###, then https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/### works every time. Useful for finding local hardcopy if you've got your location turned on. (With an ISBN , WPedia will also do this for you at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/ )
But search techniques change over time. You can see that in the responses in this thread. What used to work doesn't anymore.
I miss using my Palm Pilot III. I still keep an emulator with the rom and my last data backup around, once in a blue moon I need to pull something off of it still. The graffiti input system worked great, I could enter data way faster than with any smart phone. I used to take lots of notes on the spot with it for work and personal use, but now I'm reduced to taking photos of any text data I need to save for later. I've used Palm and Blackberry through the years, and somehow the input devices that survived are the worst possible that could have survived. Everything that came before smart phone keyboards was better. The Palm Pilot was a more civilized tool for a more civilized time.
Italians are on average very poor compared to Americans. Who has money to put solar panels in an apartment they don't even own? This is not a reasonable suggestion, and either way, taxes the consumer for wanting to be comfortable.
It's very frustrating. To put it mildly.
The trick is to have neither unregulated free market capitalism nor communism, but instead a liberal democracy in which the government regulates and subsidizes the industry. You know, like the system western nations already have. Wild outlandish concept, I know. Not jumping to one political extreme or the other is a mind-blowing proposition for you I'm sure. There is a whole world of common sense sitting in between Ayn Rand and Stalin.
Is there a food safe cooking liquid that can heat beyond the boiling point of water?
Horseshoe theory. Very little separates the extremes from each other.
What if you actually can’t predict the future and climate change is actually good? What if having kids is actually a great thing for them and for the world? These are reasonable ideas if you don’t just spend your time doomscrolling on twitter all day.

People talk about the AI singularity but the whole world is a singularity all the time. To model the entire world and predict how everything is going to play out on a social and economic level is obviously impossible. To make impoverishing top-down prescriptions based on that seems criminal. To utilize this storyline as a political mechanism is cruel.
ChatGPT comes to Android next week, but you can sign up today
Let me play the role.

"Yes, there's plenty of Windows CE and DOS palmtops. You can make a palmpilot application if you want but that should be a port, just like to BeOS.

The pure serial binary option is fine but this is infrastructure. Like the bridges that run on 5 1/4" disks, this will outlive both us and Palm if we do it right. Hell, if this is still running when our grandchildren are old and grey, this will be one of our greatest achievements as a team.

When I walk down the street and I see a masonry stamp on the sidewalk from a contracting company that installed it 100 years ago, I appreciate the fine work they did that I'm still using a century later.

Let's hope people will feel the same way about what we decide to do in this room today.

We need to at least provide documentation on the protocol.

It has to be made so competent people in the future can easily make this system accessible to the computers of the future as well. That will Not best be handled by a binary blob on a palmpilot"