skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keeping my eyes peeled on this. Really fascinating.
Wow, I had no idea -- thanks for the insights. I loved looking at the Whole Earth Catalog when I was a kid.
One wonders what the motivations were in 1876 to redact this portion of Maine's constitution.
Not to be a jerk, but just don’t ever introduce the concept of pouches.

We bought a few when we started to transition to solids but never used them. Our one year old eats the protein we are eating (and has since about six months) and then has her own vegetables, cheese, chickpea pasta, etc.

Pouches aren’t a reality for her and thus she won’t ask for one. Same with gold fish, fruit juice and a ton of other metabolic disasters. Granted this is easy right now and, to your point, is going to get harder when she enters the school system. I’ll need a strategy for that next.
It's Miguel from Ximian!
To each their own. "Black silicon" and other high-sensitivity CMOS cameras are way better in starry nights, from what I understand, but conventional night visions are more useful in moonless/starless nights, as well as poorly lit indoors. Assuming you have any reasons to "operate" under starless skies.
It’s still open source now. You can pull the repo and do whatever with it.

They just won’t merge your changes without a CLA. You are free to fork and contribute there if you want.
Fear is central to some of the most important and foundational works of political theory in Western history – Hobbes, Montesquieu, Tocqueville: https://www.amazon.com/Fear-History-Political-Corey-Robin/dp...

What are the socio-political effects of mass psychological changes brought about by putting a large chunk of the population on medications without full knowledge of the side effects?

Imagine putting an equally large percentage of the population on androgenic medications.
With low hanging fruit you get baskets full in no time.
While I'll say M17 looks very interesting - I'm far more interested in analog audio, with both sub audible data steams and leading/trailing data burts. You could easily cram a 50 bits per second data stream into the space below and above the audio passband, for example, giving you things like live GPS.

I have a good ear, and can pick people out of noise, and I think most Hams have that too. I'm less concerned however with the need for spectral efficiency - we have vast amounts of lightly used spectrum, ultra-narrowband is not really needed for us - and for digital specifically, I'm much more interested in modulation schemes that are durable - and will work in very low signal situations (like being able to sustain traffic at lower than -100dBm).

My gripe with digital in the end, is its all or nothing, and often in weak signal, it's nothing. I say this as someone who works in the two way radio world for my day job.

That all said, I've had another unrelated idea for years of being able to build multi-band wide area trunked and non-trunked systems with roaming.

The first part of it is a beacon operating in every area this network exists, I've taken to calling it a localizer - but basically it'd broadcast a band plan on a handful of known frequencies (say allocating 8-10 fixed frequencies in each band, with the idea that only one per band would be used in a given area), with frequencies, which talkgroup ID's they carry, what operating mode they operate with (digital of one or more flavors, analog, etc), where the local control channels are for any trunked systems, what talkgroup ID's those systems carry, what area that localizer covers (a bounded box for example), and what the adjacent localizers are.

So when you turn on your radio and put it in this operating mode, it's going to scan the known frequencies for beacons, then auto-program the local RF properties in.

From there you can chose a channel (your radio would auto-program from the localizer), and you can chose that 'channel' - if its trunked, you'd register to that system, but for conventional analog or digital, you would just tune into it. For systems using dial on demand talkgroups, you could just request that talkgroup be served to you as part of your registration.

The idea is to create a multi-band, multi-mode radio system, that anyone could use with the correct radio. But because it would also include conventional analog repeaters, anyone with any radio made in the last ~60 years could still participate.

If any of this sounds familiar, its because some of it is borrowed from Nextel - its not exactly how Nextel worked, but iDEN didn't have a consistent band plan from city to city so when you'd turn your subscriber on, it'd scan for control channels, then register to one, and as part of that process, you'd be sent the band plan for that market (because Nextel was not built out of a national allocation, but rather individual SMR pairs which varied from market to market).

I'm also really interested in medium bandwidth mesh radio applications (ala Ricochet).
I don't really see a way they can make their claims "more accurate" unless these models decide to open-source - and why would they ever do that?
I just read thousands of words about a potato-based diet on that website. Didn't think my Tuesday was gonna start that way, but here we are. HN is amazing.
No, you copyright the work if you want to claim all the damages like punitive and such. You can still sue to prevent usage of your work without having formally filed a copyright.
> no side effects other than "increased menstrual flow".

It's my understanding that with birth control pills, a woman can indefinitely delay her menstrual cycle. I can absolutely see some making a choice to not have periods at all, if the other side effects for them are negligible. An option that not only brings periods back but makes them messier would not look very attractive in comparison.

As with most things health and lifestyle, everything involves tradeoffs, and choices are dependent on individual valuation of those tradeoffs.
Expected to see videos of a couple of guys sitting on a bench.
> who identified as women

What a weird thing to say if you study the effect of the pill on women.
How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents
Back in the Usenet days, I saw some greybeard's .sig line:

\\GO.SYSIN DD *

DOO DAH

DOO DAH

(Checks beard color and blushes.)
Nice to see you dug that.
The companies I’ve seen do this do so for one of two reasons (sometimes both): the dependencies are just too complex or security (IP loss prevention). The former reason can usually be addressed by having simulators for those dependencies. Sure, you run the risk of partly reimplementing your dependencies, but the point is to get fast, cheap feedback—not 100% faithfulness. Once fast and cheap feedback has been obtained, slow and accurate feedback is more likely to succeed.

The security concerns always miss the tradeoff: the productivity of your entire dev team now has a SPOF. When I’ve worked with “cloud dev machines,” they’re great until the cloud environment dies. Then you basically have to send your devs home for the day because there is literally nothing they can do. At least I can fix my local dev machine and not impact others when it breaks.
Charles Packer is a current 5th-year PhD student at UC Berkeley and author of MemGPT an open-source project teaching large language models to manage their own memory for unbounded context! Charles is also a core member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab and Real-Time Intelligent Secure Explainable Systems (RISE) Lab where his work has spanned reinforcement learning and autonomous driving.

Check out MemGPT and join their Discord community! https://memgpt.ai/

And Charles's personal website: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cpacker/

Find the audio podcast on:

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/charles-packer-giving-...
Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
I remember having to pee during an exercise while we were under strict light discipline. We were equipped with NVGs, and like Derek experienced, your field of view and depth of vision is very limited. This isn't such a big problem unless you want to drive a car, or like me, use the toilet. I started peeing a good meter in front of the toilet, making a huge mess. The lieutenant was not very impressed.
Nicely spotted! Yeah, even with temperature turned all the way down, the variation in results makes it harder to test.
Good.

They need a bit better website design though. You shouldn't need to scroll through an editorial column to get to the articles.
Satellite still is -

A) Expensive

B) Requires working ground station hardware
A good friend of mine is currently in a project that has quite the remote setup:

1. RDP to the consultancy's HQ.

2. From within that environment RDP to the client's machines.

All via VPN, going across the Atlantic at one point. You can't have a metting because every 10 minutes or so some part of this chain breaks and you have to reconnect.

Needless to say it's not easy to get anything done this way, so the project is already delayed and losing money.

The hilarious part is that his rate is now somewhat higher than mine, but I would have to be in a precarious financial situation to join that project(in reaction to this situation management... started looking into expanding the team).
I imagine anyone who is researching diets this heavily and is willing to sign up for a weird one may have lost weight regardless of if they used the potato diet or not - they committed to serious lifestyle changes that caused them to lose weight. Maybe it’s potatoes, maybes it’s everything the person changed in their and potatoes didn’t offset those.
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You are missing the fact that some self-employed do not report some or all their income.

Also IIRC there are some reduced tax rates for self-employed below a certain age and income.
Check out Rock Paper Shotgun. One of the few sites whose articles I read purely for pleasure.
not the card kind, but the accountant kind
My favorite example of this is Hadley Wickham's work on tidy data [1, 2].

Before Hadley, tools for streamlining data manipulation workflows had largely fallen stagnant. Even the best languages and tools were a chore to use. People's data prep processes tended to be idiosyncratic and hard to understand, even though there was nothing essentially new or deep about what they were doing. Data prep was an ugly chore best left to interns and grad students. It was kept out of sight so the big wigs could focus their slide decks on more interesting things.

Traditional academic statisticians and computer scientists had a blind spot for this issue. They didn't consider it a hard problem, which is what academics are supposed to work on, and discouraged Hadley from working on it early in his academic career. But Hadley persisted because he knew it was an important problem. Streamlining time-consuming chores liberates an enormous amount of human capital for the most meaningful work. (Which in some cases can be improving the data still further, opening up new vistas of insight the big wigs otherwise never would have even been aware of!)

Hadley's approach has not only revolutionized R programming, but has also quietly influenced the whole modern analytics ecosystem. It's become too good to ignore. Even for those who do most of their work in another language, with tools like pandas that don't follow the tidy philosophy, some end up trying to structure their workflows like Hadley's tools do, because it's so intuitive and compelling [3].

[1] http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf

[2] https://imstat.org/2014/09/04/data-science-how-is-it-differe...

[3] https://stmorse.github.io/journal/tidyverse-style-pandas.htm...
What constitutes “fine”. Our daughter’s test went up 250% from the first test a year ago. The culprit seems to be cinnamon as she didn’t like cinnamon at 1 year, but at 2 years she’s more receptive to flavors

> Lead, Blood, Capillary:
2.5 MCG/DL (Range: <3.5)
OpenAI's DevDay made me determined to work more with Open-Source Local Models
Not called hn for nothing! Glad I'm absolute bottomest on the floor in terms of intelligence or ability here
> More broadly, I'm not sure general "journalism" really has a bright future outside of the big names that can field huge advertising budgets.

To be fair, it doesn't have a bright history outside of that, either.
I like this page which is linked

https://www.ibm.com/design/language/ibm-logos/8-bar

because it goes into great detail of all the little things you have to change to make something like the 8-bar IBM logo look right when you invert it.
>> He wrote that the sheer size of the LAION database may protect the company because it is “simply not plausible that every training image used to train Stable Diffusion was copyrighted (as opposed to copyrightable) or that all DeviantArt users’ output images rely upon (theoretically) copyright training images.”

This is where I think the judge misspoke. "Copyrighted" does not mean registered. Copyrights attach at creation and does not require anything of the creator. What the judge is referencing is the fact that registered copyrighted works are given additional protections, notably the award of attorney fees in disputes. But the fact that a work was not registered, what the judge incorrectly describes as "copyrighted", does not mean it is outside copyright. All the same rules apply governing how the material may be used or not used. You just don't get as money when you sue over a non-registered work.

I would hazard that the vast majority of copyrighted works are not registered. Every holiday photo taken is copyrighted. Every word typed on HN is copyrighted. Virtually none are registered. That doesn't mean such things are public domain, free for use by whomever/whatever runs across them online.
Just be careful not to let the excitement sprout too quickly—stay grounded.
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Beautiful. We are in a golden era of citizen science, where access to knowledge, tools to connect, tools to process data, and the ability to communicate this is at an all time high. The kind of stuff you see on Youtube is amazing: people like AppliedScience achieving incredibly things in the garage, or recently NileRed took a nature paper [0] 1 step further and published it on youtube [1]).

From a chemist/material scientist perspective: Whether the results of the Riff trial may ever have a p value suitable for nature/science, likely not. When it comes to the human body and our biology, a mass trial like this may even be more useful than traditional studies, where pre-existing biases in data collection may weed out the most useful 'Riff'. Better than that, the information collected by mold_time is regularly released and discussed, in the open, on twitter/x [2].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglNRNrMFGM

[2] https://twitter.com/mold_time
> I personally think we need to divide communities into pro-SJ and anti-SJ spaces

Why don't we seperate black people and white people in different neighborhoods in the process as well? Oh, wait....
There are 2 kinds of software engineers. Parent comment and Grandparent comment.
We put developer machines in Kubernetes. And devs ssh in and code remotely. The VS Code remote ssh plugin makes this really painless. And the devs get the benefit of the kubernetes dns to access our internal system they need to program against.

To add a developer machine, we just push a yaml file to a git repo, which automatically spins up the virtual dev machine.
This concept of a Riff Trial is new to me. Sounds like it would serve as a great pre-trial method to hone in on designs for more serious trials, one with controls and blinding. Is this already the case? Or are riff trials generally only performed in citizen research?
Most doctors won't give patients pain meds beyond NSAIDs, even though the insertion procedure is very painful.
Why are we still surprised that startups are hard?
Not just deterrence, but also safety.

If these folk have already demonstrated they are willing to harm others in order to "generate money", having them do more of that seems... counterproductive.

Harm done to others, meanwhile, is not free. Each of the affected toddlers will have had hospital time, and could have had a productive life of "generating money" had they not been killed by a fruit pouch; so even if you throw morality under the bus and focus purely on picking the outcome that "generates money"... society loses much more money with the death of a toddler than it gains with the sale of a fruit pouch. If it turns out that someone deliberately made that choice, that person is a risk to society and must be prevented from acting in ways that might cause further harm in the future.
Interesting timing—a bunch of people from The Escapist either were fired or quit yesterday, including Yahtzee Croshaw.
That’s terrifying and I think Wordpress can be stored in Git and deployed by CI/CD today.

https://spinupwp.com/advanced-wordpress-deployments-with-bud...

If all you’re ever doing is WinSCP and editing on a production server at what point does lack of experience with Git and how software is built elsewhere become a liability in career terms because interviewing examples are hard?
It's not that they "identified as women", it's that they self-identified whether they were using contraceptives or not, i.e. it was not checked.
The gaming community is often delusional and will rant online about a journalist giving a game a 9/10 instead of a 10/10. Good reviews, where the journalist actually played the game and has experience to compare it to, goes unnoticed. Garbage articles, like "Nintendo used a disability slur in a song" (turns out they're speaking Japanese) get huge attention.
Why Kotlin Multiplatform won't succeed
What's the difference between observability and monitoring?
They could be making it clear that this does not include trans men, who are still capable of getting pregnant despite being on testosterone.
Perfect example of missing the forest for the trees business practices based on seeing only numbers and missing any sort of coherent picture.

The money wasted on the employees dumping their own bins probably offsets the money saved on cleaning staff directly by an order of magnitude, not to mention the indirect losses of people being annoyed/pissed and leaving.
Whole Earth Catalog was pretty expensive.

$5 in 1968 is $45 today!
Those individuals taking birth control who do not identify as women are likely to be on additional hormones.
The main reason is probably because Elixir USP is the stability of the apps written in it and how easy it is to build distributable software with it imo. You have to be an experienced engineer in order to appreciate those two things and have specific problems which most don't have.

However I think with Phoenix Liveview Elixir gives regular developers a productivity boost that could be it's own USP.

I have only written a small elixir app but I was mind blown over Liveview and still is convinced that most people would be better of using it over a SPA.
Why has Nintendo not followed suit?
One suggestion: give participants an "IDGAF LOL" option where the experimenters tell them what protocol to follow, and randomly assign some leading contenders.

That way people can do what they want, but we might also get some well-identified estimates :)
Eye did too.
It's hard to remember exactly what my problem with it was, but if you look up the original filing and read what the artists claim is being done with their images, you can clearly seem some invalid assertions on their part. That's why I even took an interest in the case, in the first place. I like Anderson and I think what she's aiming for is a good goal, but when I read the case I was like "oh shit, this is doomed to fail."

Again, I don't remember what the exact description was, but I remember it jumping out as obviously wrong (a layman's interpretation of a neural network). Feel free to go over that and it should be pretty obvious how the claims could be amended. Barring that, just wait for the filing because I'm sure the plaintiff lawyers will be jumping all over this.
It wasn't too hard to root out.
Total tangent - I've often been annoyed at some library or whatever because I didn't like the way it was implemented or the api it exposed or whatever. So I try to reimplement it myself to my tastes, and eventually once I understand the problem and iterate a few times I end up with something remarkably similar to the library I initially didn't like.

It's a good reason to at least try to implement your own sometimes, rather than just use libraries - even if you end up just using the supported external dep, you'll understand it a lot better.

(not saying that's the case here, just that you reminded me of that with your convergance...)
Three, there’s also the software engineer who thinks this is absolutely normal and who has no idea things can work differently (or better) and has little desire to find out or do anything other than what they’re told.
I actually do think there are many great opportunities for journalists to reframe themselves as sources of intelligence for business use cases, in the way that Game Discoverer has. There are a ton of Substacks that have this same basic model. Another great example is the Financial Times, which seems to be doing well financially.

The key point here being that these publications are providing businesses with useful information, not just writing reviews and commentary for a mass audience.
Is "PID" "Personal Identifier"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identifier
I worked on a system that couldn't be run locally. But in my situation everyone knew and agreed it was terrible and after many incremental changes we fixed it so you could run it offline. There were other big dev problems too like a test suite that took close to an hour. We fixed that too.
I dunno if they are all the same story. Things like Theranos and FTX were outright fraud from the jump. Enron was a complex mess of both accounting chicanery and yes, some fraud, but they DID actually have assets at the end worth owning.

ISTR the banks just got caught out having made egregious poor bets.

AIG though is a bunch of fucking criminals.

That said, with this I agree 100%:

>I'm glad we're saying goodbye to this weird story of excess, and I won't ever have to read about WeWork again.
He’s obviously talking about SUVs which have no constitutional protection. We need to get assault-style vehicles off the road. Unfortunately the powerful auto lobbies won’t let us.
I really enjoyed SMTM's "A Chemical Hunger" series[1]. But recently they've gone into weird fad-diet territory with their potato obsession.

Like, they crow that the potato mono-diet "works," in that the people who successfully followed it lost weight. Well, sure -- all of those 70s fad diets "worked" in that sense! Grapefruit and popcorn? Sure, you can lose weight on that!

But their own numbers show that people regain the weight after they start eating other foods again: "On average, people gained back most of the weight they lost."[2]

People who successfully follow very restrictive diets will lose weight... as long as they follow it. And these "riffs" in the OP where it's potatoes and bacon, or potatoes and gummi worms, or whatever, won't change that basic observation.

[1]: http://achemicalhunger.com/

[2]: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/01/26/smtm-potato-diet-co...
The version above was really simplified. You need to iterate a little to get something that's too hard to break.

Try this: https://chat.openai.com/share/7d091da1-729b-4678-98fe-def4f9...