skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it so hard to believe that early humans possess these qualities? After all, nonhuman animals like elephants possess many of the qualities we assume to be unique to human spirituality, like making long journeys to remember and mourn their dead even years after the fact. Or anyone who has witnessed the astounding behavior that dogs are capable of would certainly consider them intelligent in many of the same ways. So why can’t a primitive human also demonstrate these qualities?
In general the root cause situation is the same; the housing is too expensive, there are not enough mental health professionals or drug treatment professionals in general due to the cost of schooling vs the compensation. It’s the same in and out of prison, and calling it an ‘asylum’ doesn’t really change the fact that when those were around people were not getting better anyways.
Recommend subscribing to "The Flip Side": https://theflipside.io

Gives me a summary of the leading issues, from multiple angles. Not an endless stream of murder-suicides.

Disclaimer: I'm a very small time investor, after first becoming a huge fan.
Because people keep on acting like these researchers have retroactively removed the anonymity of this forum, or somehow everything was anonymous before this published, lets go over the facts:

1. ejmr made a system that includes hashes that could be trivially linked to ip addresses

2. ejmr claimed posts were anonymous

3. this researcher realized that the hashes could be trivially linked to ip addresses

4. the researcher presumably informed ejmr (as ejmr changed their scheme prior to publication)

5. the researcher published the findings

The posts made on the forum could be linked to ip addresses from step 1, if this series of events stopped at step 2 or 3, the posts would still not be anonymous, and forum users would still believe that they were.

We know that at step 3 this researcher realized that the forum posts were not anonymous, we have no way of knowing how many other people may have also discovered this.

At step 4, we know ejmr changed their hashing scheme to actually make it [maybe] anonymous, and despite now knowing their existing scheme was not anonymous they did not inform any existing users that their posts were not anonymous.

At step 5 the people using these forums finally discovered that their posts were not actually anonymous, because they were never anonymous. People on that forum, and commenters on HN, act like the researcher was responsible for the technical failure of ejmr, and somehow the act of telling people that their posts were not anonymous is what actually removed anonymity.

Because people continue to struggle with this, let's imagine I made a forum where every post had an id that was computed as the first 10 characters of base64(rot13(ip || iso date)). A decade later someone goes "hang on, this looks like base 64", and then publishes their findings: you can get a post's IP address by decoding the truncated base 64 and reversing rot13.

Is that person responsible for de-anonymizing the users of my forum, or is it my fault for misrepresenting the anonymity of my forum?
The performance by Lanier is not playable from the internet archive. It’s worth opening up the original link for that performance. I had no idea Jaron Lanier was such talented musician and performer.
AskAI Anywhere – Alfred Workflow
Notion AI is a powerful tool, but it can only be used within Notion. To make use of Notion's AskAI feature from anywhere, I created this Alfred workflow. Simply select any text and press a hotkey to access the AskAI feature.
Do any of the archive sites work with Twitter? This is pretty useless as-is.
If you had to buy the top quality $20 screwdriver, maybe it'd eventually be passed on to one of our children, or go to someone else. I know that sounds kind of silly when we're talking about screwdrivers, but hopefully it'd still mean a world that needs to manufacture a few less items.
Since when is it ok to create a forum that is not anonymous and then advertise it as an anonymous forum that is safe for whistleblowers?
the magic of wuala wasn't 'backup' but you were able to make communities quite easily about certain subjects with pretty good media sharing. I created one for collections of optical illusions and witty advertising campaigns.
Couldn't get back to thumbnail view on iPhone - tried like 5-6 times...
> 1) there are a lot of papers claiming to be the successor to the Transformer, and not all of them are cited; e.g., the MetaFormer is missing https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11418. Another candidate that wasn't compares against (or at least argued why it wouldn't make sense to compare against) are the Hopfield Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02217.

Neither of those papers are NLP applicable? And I think it's perfectly fair to focus on the alternatives (ie. like H3 and RWKV) that have been able to scale up to LLM levels and perplexity, which neither of the alternatives you mention have. Should they just cite every 'is All You Need' paper?
thanks for the reply!

I'm aware that Kafka is low-level (and that there is kmq, which tries to implement a message queue on top of it https://github.com/softwaremill/kmq/ ), but the exactly-once semantics seems isomorphic to having the sender and the receiver doing a 2 phase commit using the log.

what are MQ's guarantees? how are they implemented?
Does this have offline archival ability or link to something that does? I struggle with saving links that are then offline when I use them for supplementary research sometimes months or years later and would like to have something that will download the site as well when I add it to the tool..
Every context is different. You can’t measure yourself against someone in a totally different context. I doubt the professor has been fighting the same battles as you. Talking about his love of puzzles and games, I suspect his work is more flow state than yours.

So you can accept your current burn rate or change to a context that burns you out less. Personally I’m in corporate job (senior eng at sp500 company) and I also don’t have the same fights you do. I have a lot of flexibility and zone time and no politics.
Internet Archive is generally invaluable for finding older media. I personally use it to find movies from the 40’s and earlier. There’s always a dozen different uploads of the movie regardless of whether it’s still under copyright protection. I guess the rights owners don’t care that much, but it could potentially be ammo to take the whole Archive down.
The audience is rescued from the sad moments by letters to Ndugu. I remember a couple times being on the edge of tears, only to cheer up when I heard, "Dear Ndugu."
cottage cheese and ricotta, yes, note the clumpy texture. That's what you get when you heat enough and cook the milk with an acid, it clumps into that typical texture.

But cream cheese is more like yogurt. You put the culture in the milk, add some sugar to feed it, heat it until barely warm and store until it thickens and can be separated from the whey by straining. The process is similar for both, just not sure if they use different cultures.
https://replicable.art/learn/how-to-install-controlnet-v1-1-...
It's important to remember that it's not just weight, but the lifestyle and especially dietary carbohydrate quality- I became prediabetic while borderline underweight, just by hardly ever moving and eating a lot of bread/pasta/rice at a time.
I don't think the aim of this "research" is helping to fix the security defects of EJMR.
I'm also hoping LLM burst enable reliable voice input for code.
I always refer to this as stockholm syndrome.
You make it sound like it's a matter of academic freedom. It is not.

Do you or do you not think that it should be acceptable to use language like "d4mn j3ws" in an academic forum?
A few years ago a woman was murdered on the block where I worked. She was out jogging in the evening and was stabbed by a schizophrenic homeless man. The murderer had been arrested several times, they knew he was ill, but he couldn't be forced to receive treatment.

What's the solace you offer for her family? "Hey sorry your daughter got killed, but maybe people won't be unjustly institutionalized in this hypothetical scenario I dreamed up where US civil rights suddenly regresses 60 years for no reason"?

Sorry, I don't find that very compelling. I'm pretty sure we can regulate institutions better, knowing what mistakes were made in the past.

People are human, they make mistakes. Sometimes they're wrong or even malicious. Yes, some people might be harmed in institutions. But, people are also being harmed right now. There's no scenario in which there is zero harm. You try to reduce harm as much you can and evaluate and adjust along the way. That's how you make progress. If you paralyze society by demanding perfect solutions, the result is stagnation and death.
> If you think that AI only benefits shareholders then you're the one with exceptional short term vision.

You can't be so blind to history that you truly believe this, our present day is filled with examples of this not being true. You can directly look at literally any medical achievement that corporations own.
I don’t follow the relevance of your examples; of course retirees should still challenge themselves and stay mentally active. I didn’t say otherwise. The opposite of overwork isn’t “excessive idleness”.

My comment was in reference to someone who had trouble enjoying a vacation with their family because being away from work for even a short interval was “a partial death”. Is that not on its face absurd? It’s reminiscent of those biohackers who sometimes say sleep is like dying—no, sleep is an investment in improving the quality of your future awakeness.

In those terms, you’ve interpreted my suggestion to mean something like a culture of insomniacs should try out medically-induced coma for a few months. No, I’m saying we all need another hour of sleep every now and again.
I’ve been trying to install git on the hypervisor of my smartOS install intermittently for a year. I run into system package conflicts or key signing errors and then I give up and switch to a zone that isn’t so borked with package issues.

Then I go lament in the corner that I really should be serious about migrating this to 200TB home lab to anything else and then realize that the 200TB is not something easily backed up in the case FreeBSD or TrueNAS doesn’t understand my Zpool versions and all of those zones I created will need to be rebuilt as jails…

And my lamentations turn to tears. All because I wanted to just checkout some random project.
> In the fact

Just straight up not a fact.
> Otherwise everyone can have full access to all the witch doctors

In spite of capitalism.
Transformers: The Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution
"The name WASTE is a reference to Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49. In the novel, W.A.S.T.E. is (among other things) an underground postal service." - Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE
My take on this is that the uproar is less about the conclusion and more about the way the conclusion was reached.
How to Draw with Math (2017)
If you wanted a fermentation product that is doable in the home with quicker lead times and more variation, kimchi or other pickled veg is a pretty good candidate.
Tried reading the paper and it was surprisingly hard to understand, probably because I don't know anything about the field. That said, I think the critiques make sense. Still, both the peer review and the response in the articles seem so extreme, I wonder if there is something else going on here. Is there some political or ideological divide in this field?
The #1 puzzle book on Amazon was made with AI, and is free to download this week
https://emojipedia.org/face-vomiting/
The topic_id would be shared for everyone who posted on it. For each topic_id, it is then a matter of hashing 4 billion IPs to match each post to the topic. A different salt applied to each user so that would require the 4 billion hashes for each user post to a topic (topic_id+IP+salt).
Focus on recognizing the specific thoughts that trigger it. It's much easier to keep in under control before it snowballs.
I've been too tired to use FOSS lately
Note: That's not actually a ring. If you use XOR as addition as it's a ring. You could say it's a semiring, but that's probably not the most useful description of it. A more-fitting structure would be an appropriate sort of distributive lattice. Or really... a Boolean algebra! Except I also have to point out that you only included AND and OR; you left out NOT, which is also an important part of the structure.
Why is an ER fundamentally so much more expensive than another office visit?

Just an anecdote, I don’t see any late night “urgent care” places anymore. If they were sufficiently less expensive than ERs, it seems like insurance companies would incentivize them to have longer hours. Otherwise, after 9pm, you have to go to ER.
Reminded me of this video... https://youtu.be/_L1305206OA
Definitely don’t agree with this at all. Go sit in a VW then sit in an Audi, or Toyota/Lexus, Hyundai/Genesis and tell me they are of the same quality. They are not.
Show HN: Write Excel Formulas in Seconds with AI
The aim is muckraking. The authors are shining light on widespread moral corruption among elites in the economics profession.
Between this and the QR code thing, AI really shines at making images that have patterns but look natural. Honestly some of the coolest uses i have seen of AI image generation.
Generate Images with “Hidden” Text Using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet
Personally, I doubt that. We throw essentially a random set of people at various university courses. I studied Physics and Computer Science, but I very nearly pricked Chemistry and was tempted by some form of Engineering as well. My fell students were all above some watermark required for entry, but were very "neurodiverse" in an abstract sense of the word.
There are classes of activity for which contracts are not legally binding.

For good reason.
I'm sorry to hear this.

My idea is not about quack medicine. People should be discouraged from using quack medicine, and made abundantly informed that it's guaranteed not to work, while consuming their precious time alive which other treatments might extend.

My idea is about something that has promising results in scientific trials, but may carry unknown risks, and so is not yet approved. The risks may be worth it, because the alternative is a certain and quick death.

The patients should, of course, be also abundantly informed about the risks, the odds of success, etc.

Of course, some people would do things that we would find irrational, no matter how we try to persuade them against that. This may of course be painful to see, but I don't see why should we curtail the free will of an adult in their sane mind, as long as nobody's rights are being infringed. Certain new things always look crazy even though they have merit: see vaccines, blood transfusion, etc.
one is about feeling morally superior to others, one is about helping others.
> which are inaccurate because no matter how much better anyone should know, they never do the math in linear-light space so it always gets bright areas wrong.

I dont think its that nobody knows, just that it doesn't matter too much and you can resize things much more efficiently with the incorrect algorithm (especially jpgs).

I'm also doubtful that this is responsible for the effect
That is what architects and business analysts do, so at least those jobs are safe for the foresable future.

The offshoring raw coding jobs, those will be outsourced to machines instead.
It is incredibly worth it. I had low expectations going in (not a huge fan of Nolan's recent work and the trailers for the film left a lot to be desired) but I find myself in California recently and there's an abundance of 70mm IMAX sets here. Bar none the greatest theater experience I have ever seen.
We have to do something with our politicians
You can't really have branches, commits and merges _while offline_ without a distributed repository.

Let me add to that: history and blame too.
"In memory" means without i/o (disk,ssd,network), only in RAM.
Streaming means compressing/decompressing in chunks and can also be "IN memory".
It definitely made people angry, but eventually the anger flamed out as more and more game makers started using the same tactics.
Maybe just accept my password and at most my TOTP? Asking for some others auth method that I may not be able to provide in a timely manner or at all only helps the provider cover their ass.
Trinity was nothing compared to all the other atmospheric tests they performed in Nevada.
Government SNAP benefits provide poor kids baby formula and other necessities. Mothers do not have to steal it.

It’s easy to fence is the reason it is locked up.
That name didn't work when he tried to make it stick for Paypal, but it'll surely work this time!
Then better mention that properly, and while I stand corrected on the number of editions, 9 years is still a bit more than a few years, which by English grammar rules means 3 on average.
Solgar has been my go-to for a long time.
When I programmed assembly language in the 80s, one thing we had was a fast line printer (possibly a Centronix chain or band printer). I never missed the teletype (I used a DECwriter a little), but I do sometimes miss that line printer.

Line printer output is formatted. So the equivalent to this today would be if the assembler or compiler generated a listing as a .pdf file or maybe a web page. It's technically possible I guess, but not something that has caught on- replaced with IDEs.
no, the research was something-something-humanities-economics-whatever.

In doing the research they - random academics, not some nation state, or criminal organisation - were able to find that the posts were not anonymous, and extract the location of posters so it was not hard. They clearly informed the forum owner, because the forum owner fixed the issue (though notably did not tell anyone that their posts were not anonymous).

Now new users of ejmr can hopefully rely on actual anonymity, and existing users can know that in principle their posts could be partially de-anonymized (the IP is the external one, most organizations being described have you behind some kind of NAT so full identification is at best questionable imo).
Correct, though alternatively indie can resort to kickstarter (factorio) or patreon. Then do early access on steam.

However yes the pressure is different than full time job
Seems to work in civilized countries. The solution is obviously to treat patients well, not abandon them.
> you have to rely on your OS packages (which includes all the kitchen sink stuff)
Call it Twitter, call it X. It's never going to be worth close to 44 billion again.
The "do one thing and do it well" approach died the day when systemd became a super hit.
Is there nothing from UX perspective to improve? Like, absolutely nothing? Is it perfect then?
What is a “git server”? There’s no distinction between client and server in git; you can “git pull” from any machine with the normal “git” program installed that you have SSH access to.
Common Distance Metrics Implemented in Ruby
Well, where else do you plan on using the AI? On search? (Yes, it would be an improvement, but search is not very far from chat.)

Automated customer service works exceptionally well if it's done with care and doesn't involve AIs. But we simply do not have any AI design that helps with it. All designs we have only hinder it.
> Do you think they're suddenly going to put homosexuality and BDSM back in the DSM-4 and lock people up for it?

Are you asking whether rights people enjoyed for decades can be rolled back? You can't think of a single instance of that happening?
That movie was a rollercoaster.
I think grand theft auto has had a bunch of AI vehicles use it as visual training data
Wouldn't a holdback prevent it from being used to create walled gardens?
Ask HN: What attributes makes a great personal assistant?
I have Googled job descriptions for personal assistants, but keen to hear the finer details of what makes a great assistant. Ideally from personal experience. What are the qualities, skills, experience, personality to look for in a candidate?
I am 59, and this is my seventh new company, third startup with external funding. We just closed a €1M Euro grant for our work and are well placed for the next funding round during the autumn.

You are not crazy, if it is something you are passionate about. I tend to work on things I expect to take a decade or so before I step off. I really don’t feel that being a bit older is a detriment. I work smarter than I did and I get to work on things that really mean something for me, and maybe the world at large.

I say, go for it and best of luck!
Most of these people seem to think one to two quarters at a time, so anything longer than that doesn’t matter. Just my $0.02
Doesn't mention humans. 1293 road fatalities in 2016 according to Wikipedia.
> Do you or do you not think that it should be acceptable to use language like "d4mn j3ws" in an academic forum?

Of course it's not acceptable. It's not acceptable for any academic to disagree with me period. All those posters need to be rooted out, fired, and blacklisted.
>Here's a video from Beta, a wrench manufacturer in Italy.

>It took Airbus 21 years before they made a good airplane. It took Tesla 15 years from start to significant production volume.

Extrapolating from complexity it would only take a few months at worse to make a factory producting drop forged box end wrenches.
> Further, you can execute unix commands over SSH

I like that feature. Our ftp storage provider had no ability to do a du | sort -n . It was frustrating having to send a support request to work out which folders were taking up space.
Pijul has always fascinated me. It’s like the holy grail of version control. But for my personal projects, I develop in a straight line anyway, and I’m not in control of what’s used at work, so I’ve never really used it.
GPT4 without content filters (requires approval)
What kind of "action" would you want the police to take?
>All Game Journalists do is act as little more than spokespeople for corporations

>>Actually here Game Journalists also report on X, Y and Z

>Nah that is just people injecting politics and being activists

This is a pretty dumb "No true Scotsman" argument you are smuggling into the conversation here.
It’s pretty bleak and pessimistic for one thing. If you want to solve a problem you have to at first believe that it’s possible to solve. Otherwise, why wouldn’t you just give up?
> For instance, someone who doesn’t go along with whatever the latest dogma is could be sent away by whom ever is in power.

This can be the case for literally any legal system. It's why checks and balances and an independent judiciary are important.
DNS-Resolver Written in Go
Hi all,

Emoji Puzzles is #1 on Amazon (puzzles)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BZZ7S6JQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch...

I made this book with Python and GPT-4

https://github.com/AdmTal/emoji-puzzles
> Yes, there will be some abuse. But the question should be will we still reduce suffering overall?

This is basically the argument of the pro-gun-control folk. The counter-argument I keep hearing is that rights are sacrosanct, any concomitant negatives are the price of liberty.