skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not really sure how you’d put the parts of Frankenstein that really matter into cyberpunk and come out with anything but a farce, unless you ditch all the awful-but-sympathetic-creature bits somehow. Motherhood (and an intertwined nigh-irresistible drive toward and revulsion of pregnancy and giving birth), responsibility for one’s works in the world, the nature of man, abandonment, revenge, sympathetic villains… it’s great stuff, but I think if you try to do that in cyberpunk and keep anything like the Creature you’re gonna be drawn into parody or some other unfortunate hole.
Apple apologized and removed that block after getting caught and filled class action suit https://9to5mac.com/2016/02/18/ios-9-2-1-error-53-update/
> I’ve been self medicating my whole life with caffeine and weed

As someone that has been treated for over a decade, I swear this combo is perhaps better than the treatments. Not initially, for there is a "honeymoon" period of course, but definitely over the longer term.

I'd go back to the combo if it weren't for the legal and social issues that come with it.

Do not let me discourage you by any means. I am just some random person with an n=1 experience. I truly hope you get the help you need, and that you find something that works even better.
Webapp doesn't need approval from appstores. You publish it and update it anytime you want, with any kind of content. Mobile apps need the blessing from both Apple App-Pope and the Google App-Anti-Pope. If your application can fully function as a webapp, there are hardly any incentives I can think of to make it a mobile app.
When you jump at the max swing heights you travel l*sin(phi). At these points you jump with zero velocity, however you've already moved from the starting position (phi=0)
I absolutely believe we can do this. Humans could stop climate change and prevent the worst of the mass extinction. It’s clearly in our power.

What I do not believe is that we will choose to do so. Not in time, anyway. Not enough new stories, not enough Übermenschen writing new values on new tablets. The first wave of climate refugees from Syria found a cold welcome. How will climate refugees be received when there are 50 million of them? I want it to be like Star Trek, but in my heart I know they will fare like the ancient Egyptians treated the Sea Peoples.
Maybe. I've seen few Java apps that don't use Spring or something similar. The parent described a simple domain, arguing it is the common case, but nonfunctional requirements like testing typically make the problem more complex. So I dispute that Java is good enough for the common case and that nothing from Haskell would be beneficial. Incidentally, Java's leadership agrees.
Microsoft implementation is vulnerable to eavesdropping as the submitted article shows.

systemd would be vulnerable to MITM, but you don't MITM the SPI bus with some $100 hobbyist tooling.
Even if it is not likely that LK-99 is a high-temperature superconductor, flagging articles about it does not have any rational justification.

While none of the attempts to synthesize the material have produced any conclusive evidence of superconductivity, those who claim that the material cannot be a superconductor have also failed to produce any conclusive evidence for this.

The confident tone of the more recent papers which did not measure any superconductivity did not have any solid grounds, because they did not contradict the earlier theoretical papers.

The theoretical papers have concluded that superconductivity, if it exists, would appear only in certain hard to obtain crystal structures, which have not been obtained in the studies that have not found superconductivity, so those results were as expected.

Therefore whether or not some compound based on doped lead phosphate can be a high-temperature superconductor is a still open research problem.

It is not some kind of perpetuum mobile quest that can be automatically flagged as impossible.

One must take also into consideration that the Koreans may have intentionally published a misleading recipe, to prevent replication.

When the first high-temperature semiconductor has been discovered, the team which did it has intentionally misspelled in their published research the element name yttrium as ytterbium, in order to fool everybody who will try to replicate the research, but to still allow themselves to claim that they have priority in publishing, but they have just made a honest spelling mistake in their published paper.

So if the Koreans have been intentionally misleading, they have just followed the example of the USA research in superconductors.
The popular fork of Automatic1111 SD.Next recently implemented diffusers for its SDXL support.

It seems like an odd move to me as what makes Auto1111 so appealing are the extensions and I’m assuming that breaks an awful lot of them, but what do I know?
And especially awesome is that all their enhancements like properties and daily notes make use of markdown or json rather than closed binary/hard to reverse xml formats. Any app could replicate the functionality if it wanted to and it would be portable next minute. The only thing that is kind of locked is the plugin but that’s outside of scope.
Client Puzzle Protocol
I took some algebraic topology in school and I think it's a fascinating subject.

As some other commenters mentioned, though, it was difficult to try to skim this book to find high level applications. For anybody else that's interested, I think there are some applications in chapters 5-7.
This has been somewhat increasingly problematic over the past month or so as well-known existing workarounds seem to be increasingly problematic or failing.

Around 15% or more of HN front-page submissions are to paywalled and/or general news sites.

(I've classified the latter in my analysis of historic HN front-page activity, I haven't gone through to specifically note paywalled sites.)

And tightening paywalls can have a large impact on submissions. After the New York Times strengthened its paywall in 2019, HN front-page submissions fell to about 25% of their previous level.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918251>
Its not about "genuine" parts. Apple blocks "genuine" brand new parts taken off of brand new same model unit. Its about blocking all repairs not going thru Apple, its all about control and %.

US law doesnt recognize such a thing as "genuine" part. Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act spells it out pretty well

"it is illegal for a manufacturer to void a warranty or _deny coverage_ if a customer has a repair or maintenance performed by an independent repair shop or using a third-party replacement part"
Anyone else envious of mice always being on the cutting edge of science?
What reasons do you have to trust your intuition? Why do you happen to have a certain intuition and why is it likely to give you the right answers?
Reduce your consumption in general.

Make good choices to reduce your emissions footprint.

Don't breed.

Vote for parties that believe in and act on doing something about climate change.
If you can successfully do all of the first 6 items on your list then you probably do not have ADHD, so no wonder they work so well.

Not saying they are not good habits to develop, but come on...

That's like telling someone in a wheelchair that they can climb stairs by putting one foot in front of the other.
Downvoting this is not enough. I'd pay $5 (reddit style) to have this properly killfiled if HN allowed for that. Besides, not "everybody hates them, only those inmature enough to still need intellectual babysitting.
The difference there is that printed money has to be very high quality to be worth copying, so you can enforce it on the few companies which make good enough printers.

A camera on the other hand is very cheap to make. You could maybe enforce all smartphones to obey your watermark, but what about a raspberry pi?
But does that include data already scraped? If not, then I don’t see how that will change. What will change however, is a dataset or api for sale, confirmed to be written by human authors which has value for anyone looking to train their model. Future data confirmed not to be written by AI will be invaluable.
Yeah, just give the author a time machine so that they can post the same blog at the end of September.

Jokes aside, this is not a guide on how to tweak your compiler settings or stuff like that, but rather it's about changes in the compiler source code that just make it faster for everyone. You just need to wait 6-12 weeks for them to come to stable though.
The keyboard driver means knowing what effect every key has?
I'll torture this DNA and C source code analogy a bit.

Epigenetics is missing in this discussion about reproducing a human from just the DNA. These are superficial modifications (e.g. methylation, histone modification, repressor factors) to a strand of DNA that can drastically alter how specific regions get expressed into proteins. These mechanisms essentially work by either hiding or unhiding DNA from RNA polymerases and other parts of the transcription complex. These mechanisms can change throughout your lifetime because of environmental factors and can be inherited.

So it's like reading C source code, except there so many of these inscrutable C preprocessor directives strewn all throughout. You won't get a successful compilation by turning on or off all the directives. Instead, you need to get this similarly inscrutable configuration blob that tells you how to set each directive.

I guess in a way, it's like the weights for an ML model. It just works, you can't explain why it works, and changing this weight here produces a program that crashes prematurely, and changing a weight there produces a program with allergic reactions to everything.
General atmosphere. A gallon of gas emits 1/100th of a ton of CO2, and companies are projecting $100-200 per ton of CO2 captured from the atmosphere.
Why are there always these people, defending those who are taking advantage of them?
I have an org-roam knowledgebase, and I keep a paper notebook when I'm away from my computer which gets input into the computer as soon as I'm back.
Sounds like "neverending charging bonanza". Like one sh*tty bank I'm dealing with right now.
If you get wide ranging corporate support, per cyberpunk traditions you are on the evil side. And actually the grass roots movements that are against that sort of messaging by corporations and big political parties are the counter culture.
Interesting video by Andrej Karpathy building an autograd engine, quite insightful:

https://youtu.be/VMj-3S1tku0?si=wuKhELwOwoYbzpt7

Repo:

https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd
That's a really nice article! Seeing Paxos from different angles always interest me. I wrote an article about the message flow in Fast-Paxos:
https://fadhil.id/blogs/posts/fast-paxos/

My article also mentions the trick of leader with lockID=0 and consecutive lockID used in Fast-Paxos.
There was a link a couple weeks ago to industrial sd cards on digikey. They're pricey, but they will work for years without disabling anything on these sorts of boards.

https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/filter/memory-cards/501?s... is the brand I used to use, iirc
> nothing to back up this primary assertion.

Well, he's making a prediction, a speculation, a claim.

If it was as simple as `x->y` it would no longer be valuable.
So, did they find the reason why BMW drivers are always tailgating me on the Autobahn?
There isn't a choice, the original post is incorrect.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96
The first two have have finally been fixed more or less but:

The compact navigation bar hides the branch (this part has been fixed). Scroll down and you can no longer jump to a different branch without scrolling back to the top of the page… which takes a while because the code view widget (UGH) punts navigation key presses off into a black hole.

The new symbol navigator only links to the default branch even if you're on a different branch.

The compare branches button is gone. You have to open a pull request to compare branches (or manually craft the path).

Hyperlinks within markdown that reference the repo only go to the default branch.

Searching within a repo only searches default branch even if you're searching from a different branch. Granted the search results have never been good, but still.

More or less pick a non-default branch and experiment a little. Chances are you'll be forced back to the default branch in short order. Even when the ref name is a parameter in the URL. And that's about the nicest thing I can say about the new Github UI. Pretty much everything else is just worse universally (blurry text, laggy find within page, nothing rendered if javascript is disabled, etc, etc, etc).
But the parent specifically called out co-tenancy of /containers/. EC2 instances are not containers.
I almost always have something more than “thanks” to say. Like, “Good point about the enfabulator, I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks.” Or, “Oh yeah, I will have to try that way. Seems very promising. Thank you.”
If not anything else there's a shortage of human workers. Yes, it will be easier to manufacture and power robots, than to increase the number of human workers.
If your apps are fullscreen you can swipe between them already?
It is nice to get that many details on a single drilling method. But keep in mind - there are many more techniques for making your own well. Some might be better suited depending on the conditions.

There are hand operated drills, 150mm diameter with extension rods up to 10-15m long. If it works for your soil, then this is less messy.

I went with digging and a different type of dug well "Schachtbrunnen". I laid a pre-fabricated concrete ring on the ground and started digging inside until it sank into the ground. When it was level, I put the next ring on top. No special tool needed, a shovel, a bucket, some rope, patience and certainly a permit.
There's that nagging little issue that female virginity is far easier to reasonably validate than male virginity.

Whilst the disease transmission risks are not similarly asymmetric.
> expenses relating to attendance or participation in any formal proceeding before a regulatory commission are also prohibited from recovery.

States require such participation, e.g. in the form of myriad document filings. Ratepayer revenue may be a utility's only revenue. How should such a utility pay its employees who produce filings for the state PUC?
Or highest paid best coach..
Computers are still getting faster. With time, the POW threshold will steadily increase. So will this discriminate against those with old sluggish hardware?

And is that the kind of hardware that the users in regimes that TOR is supposed to help have?
I learned more from this wiki page than that pdf:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_bridges
Disagree. "Spent" nuclear fuel isn't spent at all. 90% or more is still there. Many of the other isotopes could be useful as well.

If we cannot or will not do the reprocessing, it's a safe bet that some future generation will.
My decently specd windows laptop, without any insane applications installed beyond work related.. chugs along for the first 1-2 minutes on startup even once technically booted into Windows.

Opening chrome takes like 10 seconds for the first site to load after double clicking.

A poorly written svg animation or something of that type on a web page will bring scrolling to a grind.

Clicking a stupid link that opens a modal in HubSpot makes the modal open slowly at 4 fps.

Facebook marketplace messages bring it to it's knees. This itself has to be a Facebook bug of some kind but w.t.f.

Little examples like that. The cpu is fine, enough memory, solid state drive, all that. Something is just off.

It's honestly just crippled by windows I think.
> such extreme lengths as encrypting it such that decryption happened on monitors

This is basically already how it's done fyi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Conte...
Given that the code contains the instructions how to make the hardware - if one is very smart than yes.
Sure, but having the screen stop working because of an unforeseen coincidence is very different from intentionally breaking the screen with malicious intention. Besides, has there been a single documented case in the history of smartphones where a device manufacturer changed the communication protocol with a display via OTA update after the phone shipped?
I don't downvote all disagreement, and I'll occasionally upvote or vouch a comment I disagree with that I feel has been excessively downvoted.

But I frequently downvote disagreement where it seems to me that the comment also reduces the overall thread quality.
JS is no easier than Python or Go IMO
You can't lose the style without losing the entire concept of the New York Times.

People assume you need ingest a bunch of an author's writing to have the LLM produce writing in that style... I think people seriously underestimate the level of inference these LLMs are capable off.

https://chat.openai.com/share/58b38f84-4ddd-4147-989a-c8cbf2...

For example:

> Inference: A scholar specializing in narratology might observe that the article employs a classical Aristotelian narrative arc, replete with tension ("nail-biting 45 minutes") and resolution ("heartwarming testament"). This is more typical of storytelling than journalistic reporting, which often employs an "inverted pyramid" structure to relay the most crucial information first.

To write an analysis like that, the LLM isn't regurgitating tokens in a way that matches the NYT, it's close to regurgitating academic analyses of writing. You could train the model without a single NYT article and it'd still be able to produce that guidance and then apply it to novel writing pieces to get something NYT-like.
It hasn't even begun to get good, we only got yesterday decent local code generation models, we haven't even begun on the fine tuning and tooling for using them.
I really wish it were reasonable to provide monthly subscriptions that weren't several dollars per month, because I really can't support all the things that I would like to support. LWN is consistently a source of rabbit holes that I can't help but descend into, and I both begrudge them and love them for that, but $9/mo is just... a bit high. It competes with too many "I like it but don't feel a strong need for it in my life" things. But I don't blame them for choosing that level, processing fees are no joke.

This is not intended as a comment on LWN's subscription setup or the article or anything actually relevant. I'm just feeling a bit depressed at the state of funding-of-good-things. It sucks that it's so hard.
They definitely nerfed the hell out of GPT4 via the webUI at least.

Do you have API access? the old model there still gives me very good results.
Probably to practice JS.
The satellite measurements of Antarctic sea ice are not in dispute. Nobody is putting forth a device with a different measurement.

The submarine surveys agree with the Buoy measurements agree with the satellite measurements which agree with the microwave remote sensing measurements.

There was 1 (one) (singular) study from 8 years ago that had a different interpretation of the numbers by Jay Zwally. People who don't understand science love attaching themselves to it like pulling out Andrew Wakefield's vaccine autism paper.

They are quick to discredit 99.99% of the science and then parade around with the 0.01% cause celebre calling it irrefutable evidence.

Here's the 157 citations to that paper, as you can see, it doesn't look like any of them support the findings
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=17945...

For instance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0179-y or https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

But some people will cling on to these tiny crumbs like a toddler with a comfort blanket. I get it.
They mean OEM part.
I don’t understand the point of exception groups
Right now one generation is expensive on these big mainframe models.

Query many times on the right model(s) for the question and the correct answer will be there 99.999% of the time as the other hallucinations will be thrown out.
Or Bayesian Data Analysis phase.

This is a bit unfair since Bayesian techniques are useful for when you want to reason about limited data.

But as soon as you have a fair sized dataset, frequentist techniques are typically computationally simpler and faster (no need for MCMC) and scale much better.
You do understand that those are humans we are talking about. Humans with lives and livelihoods and wants and needs. Wishing to learn for the sake of learning and growing as well as sustaining themselves? And that openai is a company trying to make money? You do see the enormous difference there I hope?

Let alone the huge shift of power from one to many (one university to many students), to many to one (many resources to one company).
> You would like a home from 1969.

As I live in California, I've seen 'em. They're not all Eichlers.

> You would like the salary saved from 1969.

A tech worker makes more than 5 times the median 2023 personal income and their industry didn't exist then, so I mean, I wouldn't even if I could afford the house in Palo Alto.

And you wouldn't want to say this to a racial minority or even someone in Appalachia.
Yes. For example when word2vec came out, immediately there were people trying similar approaches to protein sequences. Transformers work better.
That's where good money and societal upheaval will come up, private models for corporations trained on their entire codebase and documentation.

Both young and old shall feel the pain then.
tptacek - normally I find your commentary insightful, but I'm a bit taken aback by your stance on bees, plus feel its a bit out of step with many beekeepers / researchers. There are commercial and research beekeepers who are also taking steps to protect native bees and pollinator habitats and spread awareness of the same. In my "backyard" there are at least three types of native bees in addition to my hives. Would be very interested to understand the root of your fervor against apis mellifera.
Thats what Korea did to US in nineties when building their own semi industry :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZ-tZTy1Dg&t=487s

The three companies set up R&D centers in the United States. There, they aggressively recruited American-trained Korean talents with Korean nationalism and insanely high salaries. In some cases, semiconductor engineers were paid salaries over three times as high as Chairman Lee's. Goldstar and Hyundai did the same too. Collectively, the three companies invested a billion USD into their American efforts to acquire modern technology, train their staff, and coordinate with potential partners.
Dementia risk study finds 11 key factors, significantly outperforms others
Unless a better source of energy (or a better battery) is found.
The Spreading Grass-Roots Threat to Microsoft (1998)