skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah, this sent me down a rabbit whole. Probably the best thing I saw for a long time.

Seems like you can use this and mirror in Git/GitHub as well. https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/inout.wiki.

Builtin UI looks OK. (Usable and easy to navigate actually). But I was hoping the UI support commit as well. (I could not figure this out in UI). (so you don't have to mix command line and web interface to get things done)

I think if we can build a wrapper UI around fossil (which allows open, init, commit, sync?, sync-with-git, start-web-interface) (or even better add it to fossil itself).
Then, this would be highly helpful to less-techy or non-devs that code (bio, math, data-science, etc) to maintain Jupyter notebooks,etc. Hmm, but perhaps a simple git-ui client can be used for that as well. (but you will loose the builtin wiki/tickets). And ability to work locally is useful as well (but then git can do that too). In any case I have seen less-techy people shy away from git (or version control in general).

I can see the potential in builtin wiki and tickets in same repo. One file to backup is also interesting.
Lots of things can happen, I’m talking about addressing problems that are happening and not letting hypothetical fearmongering get in the way of doing that.

What’s the point here? We should never do anything if even one person can come up with some possible hypothetical scenario where it turns out badly?
Sounds more like a generational thing than anything connected with political affiliation.

In my corner of the world it's the economically conservative crowd that advocates this - assuming money will follow because that's what happened to some of them in the 90s, when we were fresh out of communism.
It's not an actual logo, he's just retweeting video from one of his fans, as bait.

And clearly we're that shallow, we're buying it.

He may be looking at rebranding but it won't be now, when Twitter is losing billions and overcome with bots and critics. If he does it now, X will become the brand of Twitter's decline and doom.
i recommend kefir as a gateway fermented dairy , also delicious to boot
Dogs are clearly intelligent but as with people some are incredibly stupid and some are pure geniuses. Same applies for cats. Different cognitive abilities, different characters, different personalities.
> I'll say it loud and clear, unless there's magic, there's no reason we can't -- theoretically -- build a brain.

I don't believe there is magic, but I do believe that the amount we do not know about the brain dwarfs by a magnificent margin that which we think we know. I'd be surprised if our understanding of the brain is even at 0.0001% of what it is actually doing.
I wonder what equiv.'s might exist in the other mediums... it's not that text can't have this sort of complexity, we just don't have ControlNet for LLMs. The Codegen folks are working on schema enforcement, which has similer motivations..
Assuming even distribution of four hex values: 16^4 = 65k potential IP collisions. From my quick skim of the paper, the authors made some assumptions about posting tendencies (frequent posters likely to comment on multiple topics) and looked for enriched patterns of IP addresses. An IP address assigned to multiple topics within a short timeframe is more likely to be real. As a control set, they took a different four values of the hash function (eg true function samples [10:14], false set took [11:15]) and used that as their statistical threshold.
The issues with mental health care are largely a lack of funding (including via insurance).

If you are going to fund an asylum system well enough to be effective, you could fund our current system. If you are not going to fund it, you are literally reproducing the cycle that resulted in underfunded, abusive and hidden asylums of the 19th and 20th centuries.
When he was pulling apart machines and showing me the differences between thermoset and thermomelt plastics, or how much fiberglass was in hardened plastics, or how cast magnesium worked I really enjoyed the guy.

I just didn’t enjoy him enough to deal with him going on a giant rant about how covid wasn’t real and the government was suppressing him from his god given right to breathe on us all.

I checked through his YouTube channel now and he seemed to have calmed down but I am not concerned about dropping him again if he goes crazy conspiracy theorist for his YouTube channel income once more. And that’s without counting how many videos he had showing off his basic chicken rearing or fucking around and failing at cnc milling
Kind of.

I think Git is a very clunky rock that results in people smashing their fingers and is custom designed for a very specific use case (Linux open source) that isn’t actually relevant to 99.99% of projects.

I think Git is a local minimum that people are ignorantly satisfied with. Everyone is using a mishappen rock and the popularity of this rock is inhibiting the creation of a proper hammer.

I could be wrong! But I am unfortunately forced to used Git due to its ubiquity even though it’s an extremely limited tool. Git does not spark my joy.

Mercurial is very similar to Git but incrementally better. In a different world we’d all use MercurialHub. I wouldn’t be fully
happy with Mercurial either. But the point is that Git’s ubiquity has to do with ecosystem factors beyond its intrinsic capabilities and design.

Git is a mediocre hammer, at absolute best. I want a great hammer. Users incorrectly think Git is a great hammer which is making it difficult for an actually great hammer to be built.

Almost all HN users will disagree with me. They’re quite happy with Git and think it’s a great hammer. I think they’re all wrong. But maybe it is me who is wrong! :)
> Suicide is an example. You can't "overdiagnose" suicide unless you outright lie that it happened.

But you can do that. Throughout much of the 20th century (in the United States, at least), the cops might be willing to just call it an accident (he was cleaning his gun) or an unsolved homicide. Ostensibly to spare the family shame or to allow the family to bury them in the cemetery of their choice.

Furthermore, there seem to be factors that cause upswings and downswings in the suicide rate. There were alot more people jumping out of skyscraper windows in 1929 and 1930 than there were in 1925 and 1926, for instance (though we might expect the opportunity to have been roughly the same). Now, that doesn't directly rebut your argument here. But it would mean you'd need to show that if there is an upswing today that it has lasted longer or otherwise been worse than similar ones in the past, or that it doesn't seem to have the same sorts of causes.

If possible, it might actually be better to pick some other measurable event/behavior than suicide. Psychotic breaks, schizo episodes, or voluntary commitment.
When I celebrated my 56th birthday I was greeted with similar fanfare which now makes me think everyone thought I was nearing death.
> Hubris which considers the concentration and usurpation of resources more intelligent than the communal or even universal or natural distribution.

You're making this up. There were/are human (as in homo sapiens) societies based on communal distribution; we don't think of those humans as less intelligent. No serious intellectual in the humanities or sciences does.

> Hubris which considers survival at all costs more intelligent than self sacrifice for the collective.

"Self-sacrifice for the collective" has been an earmark of some societies, believed by their thinkers. Explicitly articulated in words that way, it's squarely a human idea. Just like it's a human idea that self-sacrifice for the collective is just idiotic group-think; the individual is supreme.
Why do you assume the poster above you is in it for the money?
The medical community already has well-developed ethics and treatment rules.
Hopfions in Modern Physics
I had downloaded and built it locally. If you download the version from the web site, it is a lot faster...
Do you have the actual source?
I'm already using a separate device for "official" stuff. It's a fully Google/Microsoft managed phone that runs my professional life (work profile, LinkedIn, etc.) and accesses government and some financial services. It mostly sits in a drawer outside work hours and don't use it to browse or talk to anyone outside of work. It has SimpleX installed so it can send anything I need (eg. financial statements) to my personal phone, without even needing to store my personal phone number.

My personal phone, and my personal laptop and PC, run open source OSes and are as privacy-focused as I can make thrm. They're the ones I use to browse and talk to people, both on public and private platforms. They're the ones that have my photos, my books, my passwords, my movies and my music. (I don't use streaming services, except for YouTube via Newpipe.)

I do make sure that I always have at least one bank account with a bank that doesn't require SafetyNet or similar, and can therefore be accessed without needing the "official" phone. So far, all but one of my financial service providers work fine from my personal devices.

I think the dual-device approach will quickly become the only realistic one for individuals who want privacy in their computer use (which will remain a minority). I will even say that, although Google is doing this purely for the sake of ads and profits, it is not unreasonable to expect citizens to have an "official" online presence in the form of a highly standardised Internet client, without prejudicing their ability to use other ones. In the same way that you have an official residential address, without prejudicing your ability to have other mailboxes or live on the road.
Don't worry, meanwhile prisons are emptying as criminals who agree to join the military get their record cleared! Not joking, that's a recent executive order

It would be interesting to see where crime rates in Russia end up after the war (but of course UA has started to mow the invaders down pretty well so those felons are just more easy meat.)
> Does it make sense to also keep some decoy items, like an old MacBook in plain sight?

I hope so. I always leave an old Macbook and iPhone in sight when leaving the house.
Expert Trap – Ways Out
I'm all for re-inventing psychiatric care, however, this part of the article seems to cast doubt on the true efficacy of the approach; '2009 Alameda placed 11.0 involuntary holds per 1,000 population, while the next highest county in California only placed 6.4 per 1,000 population'
Thanks, I don't have blog only update my webpage: http://th.if.uj.edu.pl/~dudaj/ , sometime post something on LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarek-duda-7b56213/

E.g. recently I have proposed (and search for collaboration) two-way quantum computers - enhancement with CPT analogue of state preparation, potentially solving NP problems:

https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/33411/t...
Try theoldnet.com proxy: https://theoldnet.com/docs/httpproxy/index.html

The port number is the year, and then every web page you fetch will come from that year.
I'm glad to be a paying Protonmail and Kagi user right now.
Plenty of tech companies have massive monorepos which large numbers of people contribute to. I don’t know how easy it is for one person to see another’s branch though. So: maybe it can scale, at least somewhat, with a more centralised system.
Interesting, I make yogurt and find it to be cost-effective. Perhaps that’s just because yogurt is very expensive here (Silicon Valley).
I see images, but quite abstract and vague. I was probably better at this when I was younger.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think we're close to building a human like brain. There's a reason I stressed the word "theoretically".
I am not sure how it was possible, but I was able to play mp3s on my 386sx 16mhz (with turbo button) using the mpg123 player. OS was Slackware Linux.
Two-way quantum computers – enhancement of 1WQC to solve NP problems
I was at Seagate when they took over Lacie, ended up spending some time in Zurich with the team at Wuala. Very talented group of programmers, but had issues trying to keep out uploads from sanctioned country...and eventually killed off by Lacie
I'm not sure you took the time to understand the technology that the article is about. Because it's geared at collecting event sequencing from terabytes of evidence. If you were interested in turning that technology on protesters, it is open source. But whatever you're saying about politicians here is a total non sequitur.
> I couldn't give actionable advice to someone who, for example, "wants to get in shape" beyond what are essentially tautologies like just eat less and exercise more

but that doesn't even sound right. there are a million life hacks (real, good-natured ones like "start small", "make healthy things convenient" etc) you could share to help or to encourage someone facing that wall other than "just be like me" or "obey the laws of physics". If you cared enough about helping them, I guess.
They shared their own thoughts, not an assumption about op.
Swedish pools at the time required you to shower, naked [1], before entering the pool, and to use soap while showering, with special attention to the hair, armpits, crotch, and feet. This helps get rid of the dirt and urea (which when combined with chlorine makes the 'swimming pool smell'), keeping the pool clean and with little odor.

It is difficult to wash underwear with the same thoroughness. I have not seen people laundering their underwear before swimming.

[1] Our local pool changed to allow showering in one's bathing trunks. I personally don't like the rule, as I think people will skimp on washing their crotch before entering the pool.
Not that anyone ever did the mentally ill any favors when they were tossed out on the street...

But it wasn't wrong to close them. They were torture dungeons where the government warehoused undesirables that it wasn't allowed to euthanize because we were supposed to be the good guys. Even now, they're literally a horror movie cliche... that doesn't happen by accident, it doesn't happen unjustifiably.

If you think that people want to bring them back without admitting that society was wrong to close them in the first place, how much of that is "I want the homeless to stop shitting on my front door stoop in San Francisco"?
Try making burrata. The cream inside dun changed the game.
I propose πCU
There is no "they" conspiring to convince "us" that globalism is the way to go.
Yea, here’s the main video that lost him a lot of viewers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYVyhhHY-Y

I really enjoyed how he red circled sub clauses of the sentences he think are important and ignores the rest of the sentence in other videos.

The guy is legitimately impressive at understanding how tools work and the manufacturing put into them, but he’s an asshole when it comes to dealing with society at large

Edit:

Really sells it that he fucks up the tooling on his cnc mill while giving a rant about freedom. This was during his “I can’t actually run a cnc mill yet but am learning how phase” but he was leaning on his previous expertise to sell his opinion on the caravan
What you're implying is that transport providers would've charged more than the market can bear, as compared to the flat-fee typical of ISPs in these United States. It's interesting to note that in other parts of the world, such as the ones which used ISDN, Internet usage has been metered, albeit not per-server-connection.

You're also implying that there's something special about the technical design and implementation of ATM that enables monetization based on per-connection events. Well, let me introduce you to TCP, which sets up virtual connections... circuits... at the transport/session layer. There is no technical reason that ISPs (many also happen to be telcos) couldn't charge on a per-TCP-session level in the same way as ATM's SVCs weren't used.

What I'm saying is that the consumers have been monetized anyway, via data mining, engagement, and tracking, and while it's not cash coming out of our pockets, it's still us trading something of value for access to those resources. In fact, the consumer has resources so valuable, that there are whole classes of malware like coinminers, who literally capitalize on them, and there are parallel benign apps which do the same, only with consent.

Perhaps if the telcos had been willing to charge per-VC, our attention and PII would still be monetized, and they'd get us coming and going. Perhaps it's a false dichotomy. I don't know.
Idk, I’m reading a lot of sex between the lines in that one.

It’s thinly veiled, but c’mon: “Normal aspect double yellow of a distant signal in rajdhani route( where double distant signal is provided)” is a clear reference to some seriously kinky stuff “rajdhani route” to wit.

And the “symbols” and diagrams - don’t even get me started. It’s like a pictographic Kamasutra.
Lots of talks about topological defects including hopfions: http://solitonsatwork.net/?display=archive

Topological defect framework for liquid crystal based particle models: https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2856493
searx/searxng?
I appreciate the good faith attempt to rationalize the idea, but it's fundamentally flawed.

We (as in Western Civilization living in post-Enlightenment liberalism) can't purport to respect human dignity and self-determination and also criminalize homelessness. And that's what jail is, criminalization. There is no "non-criminal" jail. In the United States, you can't be criminalized without due process, because fundamentally, a basic western human right is the right to personal dignity and autonomy.

Criminal recidivism is a problem. Some homeless or mentally ill people will be recidivist criminals. They should be punished for their crime after being afforded due process and any defenses thereto (e.g. lack of mental capacity). There are ways to handle criminal recidivism (in CA, famously, there's the "three-strikes" rule against multi-time felons). Apart from hardcore criminal-justice reformers, nobody disagrees with the idea of punishing crime according to the nature of the crime and increasing punishment for recidivism.

Being homeless is not a crime. Nor is it a crime to have mental illness. There are ample failures (drug war, lack of safety net, unwillingness to regulate predatory housing/investment, lack of accessible mental healthcare, social stigma, etc.) that cause homelessness/mental illness. All of which are indictments against society at large. It is anathema to a free, liberal culture to cause the problem and then punish it criminally.

To say that society only intervenes when a crime is committed is reductionist and wrong. There are plenty of civil remedies that restrain conduct (e.g. an "injunction"). More broadly, the government restrains conduct all the time for non-criminal matters (taxation, zoning permits, most financial or environmental regulation, intellectual property laws). Different efforts to restrain activity have different methods of enforcement. Including involuntary civil commitment. But for the reasons mentioned above regarding due process and personal autonomy, only crime is enforced by jail time.

We cannot claim to be a free, law-abiding, liberal democracy rooted in Western ideals and at the same time carte blanche suggest that "jail" is a categorical solution to homelessness and mental illness, as the parent commenter suggested. The type of thinking that the parent commenter proposed is anti-democratic, anti-western, and candidly, fascist. There are plenty of places people can move to if they want to live in that type of society, but none of them claim to be Western in design.
Agree to this minus the SRE part which cannot be more wrong.
The economics of the Birkin bag (2016)
The concept that you can isolate "one thing" and it's not in itself "a set of other things" is a very nasty myth in the world of programming. Everything is composite. Everything is a pipeline of commands. Made of things. The "job to do" is in the eye of the beholder, not absolute. The "single responsibility principle" is not applicable in reality. It's always a tradeoff of maintaining a balance of cohesion and modularity. Where we make a cut and call it a "thing" is up to us and our needs.

For many people, for example, the tools of GitHub are so integral to their workflow, they can't use Git alone at all. So to them GitHub is the "one thing". So SQLite has their own "thing".
It's rather obtuse to suggest anyone is arguing to take a Delorian back to 1955 and bring back asylums completely intact with nurse Ratched.

Yeah, how about full-service gas stations and Doowop hits too?
I think it might be worth digging a little deeper into the causes, from this article, https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/05/31/...

"Between 2008 and 2019, the percentage of adolescents (ages 12 to 17) that reported having experienced at least one major depressive episode in the past year increased nearly 90 percent, from 8.3 percent in 2008 to 15.7 percent in 2019"

As m463 highlights, 'But later state mental illness funding was cut.'

Does the cut in funding correlate with the rise in problems?
Damn you seem to know quite a bit about this. That's an interesting way to map the problem domain. You hit it on the nail from my perspective because the author of the linked library is known for his audio plugins (voxengo). So he's definitely coming at it from the perspective of bandwidth and frequencies. Interesting.

Just curious if this makes you think of similar things that might be equally interesting to think about (share?)

Thanks!
>> Take my father, there is no way he could use a password manager...He has a notebook of passwords

>Your father does use a password manager: a slow, very inconvenient one

Writing down certain passwords can be very convenient. No hacker on the internet is going to access the piece of paper on my desk.

I consider myself computer savvy and I still write down some passwords on paper instead of having them stored on an internet connected computer. (I believe burglars really don't care about passwords. And it is very easy to obscure the written passwords.)
Amazing programmers are generally pretty weird.
For me it would not display at all at first, although disabling CSS and JavaScripts (although I always disable JavaScripts by default anyways) allows it to display. That would also prevent it from using their fonts, and force use of the default font, so you could try that, if the browser you use has that feature, I suppose.
IMHO, only problem with NIH is if it is not open. (Example create your own closed sourced - version control system, build tool, etc)

Reinventing is how I learn, and there is no harm in that.
Is that what I'm talking about though?

We are talking about tablet phone and laptop sharing a data store.

Not multiple user agents on the same device sharing a data store. Though we have entered the era where the names of specs or initiatives have little to nothing to do with the actual meat of the thing.
Ya, they talk about doing that because of the smell, but no one wants to pay for it.
I think any such systems -- at the moment -- will try to avoid having to fine-tune the completion model, which leads to this kind of solutions:

1. Semantically index your documents.

2. Given a prompt, extract relevant paragraphs from your own documents.

3. Frame a context for the prompt from extracted paragraphs.

4. Ask ChatGPT to answer the prompt, mindful of the context.

That way ChatGPT can be used out-of-the-box.
You're confusing the complexity of the product itself with the complexity of being able to produce said product at scale to acceptable levels of quality. These are not the same thing.
No, but hey, at least we feel the rising tides as we drown
Terry Tao doesn't do well with visual mathematical explanations
The point is _right now, as we speak_ there is a concerted effort to roll back rights and freedoms women and gay people have enjoyed for years; you should not give people doing this more tools to harm people.