skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm so jealous of people who have vivid memories of loved ones who are gone.

The same way a song can get stick in your head an image can get stuck in your head. I'd rather be able to visualize than not but it comes with negatives.
IBM did assist the nazis with the holocaust so
My Socrates Note?

Montereys coast?
The same things that create utility in the hard sciences are a liability because they limit creativity. You put a lot a risk by looking foolish.
So you're a hypothesis is that NASA was instrumental in figuring out how to reduce the cost or mass produce freeze dried food because... That was necessary for 4 astronauts?
China mandates that AI must follow “core values of socialism”
You could use Cloudflare R2, it's pretty cheap overall.
Or prompt(n) time, where n = the known minimum # of prompts required to solve a given class of problems.

From there we can define various classes of problems:

1) those with an absolute floor minimum # of required prompts

2) those with a known ceiling

Etc.

This should be combined with traditional Big-O notation to provide a more specific classification, e.g. a constant-time complexity task with a known ceiling of two prompts would be prompt(2)-O(1)

A problem known to, in some specific cases but not all, be solvable with some minimum number of prompts with no ceiling known might be Prompt(n(np)) where n = minimum prompts known to solve at least some problems in that class.

Classifications would be applied to specific systems but the best performing system would set the general classification for a problem. So the general classification for a problem might be prompt(1(5)) to denote a min 1 max 5 prompts required based on the best performance seen to date, a specific system might only rate a prompt(3(np)) classification.

I’m overthink this but I think I like it.
"Also, in the U.S., the empirical way of approaching physics was predominant"

So at the time, practically all US physicist were interested in building actual stuffs, and not working on theoritical models/math equations?
> use S3 or run minio

Is using Cloudflare R2 not an option?
> The FedNow Service requires all messages to be cryptographically signed. The service validates the signature
and association between the entity sending the message and the key used to sign it.

Hey, that's neat. I'm super curious how much the internals of this thing could be compared with something like a cryptocurrency. Are those signatures representative of the identities making the transaction? Might it be technically feasible some day for me to craft a transaction on my phone to send money to someone, then publish it directly, and have the person instantly confirm that they received a payment without needing to talk to a bank?

I'm really curious if this is what is going to eventually morph into the CBDC that everyone seems so excited about, or if that project is going to start from scratch.
I'd put Faraday up there as well.
That said there gotta be some balance though. It is much more effort to translate something into every language that interested people might use, that is, if people who can translate are willing to spend the effort at all. Learning a common language has opened up an enormous realm of knowledge that many other languages can't come close (see for example the English Wikipedia vs. other languages' Wikipedia, both in article count and in the length of each article).
Seems like they've gone out: https://twitter.com/taranjeetio/status/1682234729112956929
Fine tuned on Manchester city centre on a Friday night?
Yep! Super sad experience to catch myself or my friends optimizing for stupid in-game rewards after being distracted by a competitive (stressfull) experience.
I really want to love Fly.io. It's super easy to get setup and use, but to be honest I don't think anyone should be building mission critical applications on their service. I ended up migrating everything over to AWS (which I reallllly didn't want to do) because:

* Frequent machines not working, random outages, builds not working

* Support wasn't responsive, didn't read my questions (kept asking same questions over and over again) -- I paid for a higher tier specifically for support.

* General lack of features (can't add sidecars, hard to integrate with external monitoring solutions)

* Lack of documentation -- For happy path its good but any edge cases the documentation is really lacking.

Anyway, for hobby projects its fine and nice. I still host a lot of personal projects there. But I have to move my companies infrastructure off of it because it ended up costing us too much time/frustration, etc. I really had high hopes going into it as I had read it was a spiritual successor of sorts to Heroku which was an amazing service in its day, but I don't think its there yet.
Funny enough this appears at face value to be the same idea behind proof of stake concensus protcals.... lololol
if you like that one then you'll likely enjoy this[1] one also

[1] https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix
Shelter Protocol is an append-only log that is stored in a key-value database. I recommend watching the talk if you haven't already, it should answer your questions.

Regarding storing Vue (or any other frontend framework), the answer is gonna get a bit technical (sorry, we haven't documented this on the website yet). This is a curiosity for how we happen to be using Shelter Protocol in Group Income (which uses Vue). Vue.js both is and isn't saved to the contract. Each contract manifest has two versions of the contract: one "complete" contract containing all of the code necessary for reproducing the state, and one "slim" version that has any large dependencies passed in to the contract at runtime. Group Income uses the slim version so that the contracts load quickly, but it's also possible for anyone to reproduce the state of a Group Income app independently, without using Group Income, by loading the "full/complete" version of the contract because all necessary dependencies are bundled in.
It looks like a correction. Confusion here is not being "pedantic".
There are decentralized exchanges which operate in the US.
It clearly depends on where do you live. In Italy, Fermi is mostly known, instead of Oppenheimer, as one of the creator of the atomic bomb.
It feels like another Marconi/Bell case.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Panisperna_boys
There will always be federal agencies regardless of the state agencies since there are differences between to state laws and federal laws.
I was not aware of that functionality in ssh-add. Thank you!

Man page reference:

"-c Indicates that added identities should be subject to confirmation before being used for authentication. Confirmation is performed by ssh-askpass(1). Successful confirmation is signaled by a zero exit status from ssh-askpass(1), rather than text entered into the requester."

Edit: After thinking about it more, I think I may have misunderstood how the -c parameter would perform in regards to this CVE.

Would a confirmation prompt actually suffice to prevent this attack? Also, it begs the question, does this exploit rely upon someone already forwarding to a malicious server? I've only read the CVE, and skimmed the reporter's blog, so I don't know with certainty one way or the other.

If the exploit does require that the forwarding has already taken place, -c couldn't really help, right? The decision was made to allow it. I hope I'm not sounding contrarian, I'm genuinely curious about how this would play out.
Return to the moon: The race we have to win (again)
I imagine the market will sort it out over the next few years. The Great Resignation demonstrated that employers aren't afraid of turnover, so all there is left is which companies do better.

Remote with less culture but with a broader selection of and cheaper talent?

Or in office with its collaborative benefits and a large portion of the workforce refusing to work for you?
Research and discussion of mental imagery has always confused me. It seems like there is a perennial surprise at conditions like aphantasia, or of discoveries that some people have high fidelity mental imagery while others have low fidelity mental imagery. But one of the very first major published papers on mental imagery, arguably the paper that opened this topic up to scientific inquiry, was a statistical study of peoples’ varying experiences of mental imagery. It demonstrated the existence of aphantasic individuals as well as high fidelity and low fidelity individuals! From the very beginning, back in 1880!

The paradigm proposed in that paper is more or less that there’s a bell curve of varying vividness of mental imagery, all the way from a few percent who almost completely lack it, up to a few percent with hyper-real “more detailed than reality” mental visualization, with most clustered in between. This new paper fits neatly into that paradigm; they chose a high threshold and (inevitably) discovered that most of the bell curve falls below that high threshold.

The paper is Sir Francis Galton’s Statistics of Mental Imagery https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm (incidentally interesting: it was so long ago that the paper notes “There are many who deny to statistics the title of a science”, which is a bemusing thing to read today.)
Hosting service that cannot get basics right after a decade plus of solving these problems as an industry.

Are we even trying or just repeating ourselves because we don’t know what else to do?

How can the entire industry keep making the same basic errors?

“Let’s keep it simp… ohh nope we invented a Turing complete language and customer service is terri… wait do we have customer service?”

I get the world turning against SaaS lately.

Computers are so fast now, enthusiasts would be better served DIY; put a beige box in a local colo, use one of the big 3 for big business.

This is just starting to look disreputable and disrespectful to humanity itself putting such resources into one time bomb after another.
Many board games are funded through crowdfunding, which regularly reach 7 figures, so there is big money here. There has been controversy recently about YouTube “reviews” of active kickstarters which are actually undisclosed paid promotion, and in one case attempting to extort sponsored videos to prevent release of negative videos instead. So there’s a bit more in this than a free board game.
I've always thought that textboxes should have some sort of browser-to-os plugin feature, possibly on-demand.

I would love to edit my textboxes using real emacs somehow, even a popup window would be good.
GP was talking about stdlib, you are talking about react. Not the same thing at all.

Using stdlib is almost free on most systems. It is usually preloaded so it doesn't even use up ram. Unlike functions you write yourself. And with static linking, linkers will only take the functions you actually use, not the whole library.

A js library needs to be downloaded and compiled in its entirety by the user browser. There are techniques to make it less bad, none of them ideal.

The way I interpret GP post is that 12 year old didn't want to bloat his code but had a misguided idea of what causes bloat. You are saying that bloat is fine if it saves on dev costs. Two very different ideas.
Do artists really visualize the whole thing? To me it seems more like a feedback loop, you start with a rough visualization, you draw something and that drawing feedback into the visualization process and then you draw more details and so on. Also it seems that in this process you can focus on visualizing different parts of the whole thing to get clarity about the details for specific parts.
I tried Fly once, but, at the end of the day it seemed way too expensive for what it was and the completeness of the vision. And then I started to see the complaints in random corners of the Internet.

I don't read their blog regularly but I always thought they had great content. But not after reading this.

The irony:
"What people actually wanted to talk about, though? Databases."

...but apparently not when they are the problem behind said databases?
But GiroPay is a product built on whatever payment rail is in use in Germany. In the same vein you need "FedPay" to make this as easy for the consumers. FedNow by itself won't really cut it.
>Where does this idea that ChatGPT and friends are general-purpose come from?

Maybe reality?

https://general-pattern-machines.github.io/

Large Language Models are as general purpose as they come especially for Machine Learning. They generalize to any kind of pattern, linguistic or not.
i should clarify that while i have tested both of these context-switching subroutines, and they do seem to work in simple programs, i haven't tested them on actual cortex-m hardware, much less measured their real-world performance
Sure, bashing already existing lego bricks together to see how they combine.

You didn't quote the immediately following:

[whereas European theorists were pursuing new concepts]

which explains a great deal. US physicists were focused on power and making bigger "piles" than had been made in Rutherfords Lab.

It was European (and Australian and New Zealand) physicists that thought of something new, and worked out the detailas, and developed the means of seperation.

These were the things that were vital to the creation of an atomic bomb .. along with a lot of mining and processing and further refining and isotopic seperation.
Stripe doesn't take the credit card processing fees. The card processing fees go to the card processor, who is not Stripe.
>an append-only log that is stored in a key-value database.

Yeah, that's definitely not clicking in my brain at the moment. I guess I need to actually watch/listen to that video rather than skimming the slides.

For storing code: yeah, I guess a more "storage polite" version of this would be to serialize the "engine" of whatever you're doing, rather than its presentation. That can often be quite small, certainly in comparison. Would it be possible to simply store e.g. a git repo name + sha, and then clients download as needed? Or do storage-providers need to be able to execute any of this (beyond enforcing key permissions)?
I'd go farther and say the real central limit theorem is the generalized central limit theorem, and the finite variance central limit theorem is just a quirky special case.
For a time it seemed that every album I bought was Roger Dean.

Yes (esp Tales from Topographic Oceans), Budgie, and Osibisa.

Oh and Uriah Heep!
I left digitalocean for fly because some of their tooling was excellent. I was pretty excited.

I’m back on digitalocean now. I’m not unhappy about it, they’re very solid. I don’t love some things about their services, but overall I’d highly recommend them to other developers.

I gave up on fly because I’d spontaneously be unable to automate deployments due to limited resources. Or I’d have previously happy deployments go missing with no automatic recovery. I didn’t realize this was happening to a number of my services until I started monitoring with 3rd party tools, and it became evident that I really couldn’t rely on them.

It’s a shame because I do like a lot of other things about them. Even for hobby work it didn’t seem worth the trouble. With digitalocean, everything “just works”. There’s no free tier, but the lower end of pricing means I can run several Go apps off of the same droplet for less than the price of a latte. It’s worth the sanity.
>Can we use this technology to find a recognizable pattern in any complex blob of data? Is that how this works?

Possibly in general. https://general-pattern-machines.github.io/

As for your example, I don't think so.
Basically, yes.
A shader is basically a function which passes in the x,y coords and spits out a color, and this is done for every pixel on the screen.

So a simple shader would be something like (in pseudo code):

function shader( x, y )
{
if( x > 0.5 )
return white;
else
return black;
}

would color one half of the screen black, and the other white.
The thing with JPEG XL though is that its design is inherently progressive. Even when there is no reordering you will get 8x downsampled image before everything else (and the format itself exploits a heck out of this fact for better compression).
It’s like the story of the brown M&Ms[0]. If the model is returning semantically correct data, you would hope that it can at least get the syntax correct. And if it can’t then you ought to throw the response away anyway.

Also I believe that such a method cannot capture the full complexity of TypeScript types.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
The problem with a Modelfile vs. Dockerfile is it is not clear what the primitives should be yet.

It would be like making a Dockerfile for installing OS level packages when it is best to delegate to commands to apt (etc.). Docker works at the file/os call level.

Any reason to not just use Docker as-is for model layering?

There are cloud GPU services that’ll take a docker container and run it too.

It means no project as Docker exists :-) but might be useful especially for the backwards and forwards compatibility.

You can extend Docker by having a nice tool written in Python say to do the common stuff.
Decriminalization is only half the solution. The other half is a legal regulated supply.
Remote attestation is the true enemy of your freedom.

People were suspicious of TPM and the "trusted computing" initiative and were fed plenty of propaganda about how it will make things "safer" and more "secure". There are corporate mouthpieces spreading that FUD on any article that's even just slightly critical of them and their plans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32234022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859106

Start revolting against these hostile technologies before it's too late. They're slowly boiling the frog and hoping we don't notice.
Do you think that eventually UPI will be a vector for more efficient taxation?

IIRC India has relatively high tax rates, but has struggled with collection in the past -- maybe I'm being overly paranoid, but UPI seems like the perfect mix of usefulness and convenience to get everyone hooked, then once it's widely adopted enough (let's say 80/90%+ of payments) a sales tax could be enforced.

I don't know the specifics of how much identification UPI requires, but you could levy all sorts of taxes that way if you knew who was who.
Sure, but usually we have 2FA now. It tends to be what you have (token/documentation), what you know (password), and what you are (voice auth).

Often you need one type for basic access (see balance), two for an actual transfer, three for say, transferring a million dollars. This may be something that people like Mitnick proved were necessary.
Are you sure you're saying GP should "work on that" out of a genuine desire for them to improve, rather than a way to puritanically assert a perceived lack of virtue that you think they should mediate?

Because if not, maybe there's something /you/ "really really should work on."
I'd read that Tesla designed in his mind's eye, the A/C electric motor which was thought to be impossible by others. Here's an article I found in a search[0].

Whenever I try, I only get the blobs and don't have great control of even the blobs: barely recognizable if at all. I have on rare occasion have moments of lucid dreaming where it starts as a regular vivid dream, but then I realize that I may be dreaming and have some control of myself or the scene. I could will myself to fly around, but not very high off the ground. Maybe the realism of the vision was forcing an unconscious (even within a dream?) safety measure.

[0] https://mindtasting.medium.com/the-mind-of-nikola-tesla-4305...
Why would you compare to Acrobat instead of Skim?
The worst is when (as in your example above) there's a bunch of YouTube videos on the first page of results. I do watch some YT channels, but generally speaking if I'm doing a Google search I'm looking for information quickly, so there's no way I'm going to watch a video in order to extract the bit of information I'm looking for.
I worked on spell checking for a web app. It would have been really, really nice if there was just an API to interact with the browser spell checker. We couldn't use the spell check you get in a text area, because like google docs, we rendered the text ourselves and had a custom context menu. And we had very good reasons for doing those things.

However, I think it would be difficult to create such an API without leaking information about what words are in a users custom dictionary (which could be used for fingerprinting). And allowing an app to add custom words would probably have some security implications.

Maybe if there was an API to open a spell check popup that was native to the browser and the only info you get is what word (if any) they chose to replace. But, besides having a suboptimal UX, that doesn't help you know which words to highlight as misspelled.
Thanks for your feedback!

The idea isn't to completely abandon cards right away. You could add LeetPay as a 'pay by bank' option to your regular checkout flow. As a business, your end user would then have an additional option.

Essentially, everyone I've spoken with has expressed a desire to save on fees (value prop is clear), but they've also grown accustomed to a particular way of accepting payments, mainly through cards, and it works well for them. The feedback I've gathered suggests that businesses using subscription models might be a better fit for LeetPay, as it's much easier to debit customers on a monthly basis.

I agree, it's a hard sell to use 'pay by bank' for a single payment transaction. Perhaps focusing on subscriptions could be the way forward for it. In this case the saving is much more clear per customer.
RFP i.e. Request for Payment is not part of this release. Furthermore there is no ETA from the Fed as to the release date for RFP.

Currently FedNow is simply a push payment system i.e. bank account holder may be able to use FedNow to push money out from their bank account to someone else's bank account.

The limitation here is the bank account holder must know the account number of the recipient. This is a huge limiter in adoption since most people don't want to share their bank account numbers and maintaining a directory of people's bank account numbers is cumbersome to say the least

Yes, the Fed is working on a directory but they have not yet announced the launch date for such a directory, not have they mentioned the index i.e. will it be phone number ? email ? something else ?

Bottom line: FedNow launch: Step in the right direction but still a long way to go
>> the operating system is painful to use and never stops being painful to use.

But this is regretful, and slows down everything by orders of magnitude. One of the big problems is lack of EFFICIENT documentation/Quick Starts. The guides are labrynthine in layout, looping and colliding spiders' webs of wtfness.
That's why I mentioned you check the JSON validity first. You'd obviously need to continue letting it generate tokens until you can parse the JSON to check if the type is partial. You could of course close even the quotes but then you'd get "not valid" signals from TS when the AI is like "just let me finish!" :-)
It can be a little disheartening to discover some really obscure thing and then discover that Gauss beat you to it 170 years ago, over and over again.

The next problem you get is that increasingly discovery isn't the limiting factor, being able to usefully communicate about a discovery is. You might find all manner of useful stuff, but good luck getting it in front of someone who needs to know it. At least you won't have the weird academic pressures to obfscuate your work to make it sound more complicated when you publish about it, IF you can find a useful way to publish about it.