skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think conspiracy stuff is fine on Netflix if presented as entertainment, but I wish they would label it as such in some manner. I'm not sure how one best goes about doing that though outside of hiring some actual anthropologists and archaeologists to do an episode at the end of the series that points out what I assume to be a lengthy list of flaws and assumptions (probably too expensive).

I once watched one of the Ancient Aliens episodes for fun (it was entertaining) and found some pretty poor logic being used to try to fit their conclusions (no surprise there). It is a little sad that a certain portion of the population eats it up though.

I will say the title of the linked article is also jumping pretty hard when asking "how has this been allowed".
I restrict myself to a 4 hour eating window, and vary that window daily based on what's convenient to me. So some days I'll go 24 hours between windows if that's how things line up.

There are a bunch of advantages for me. I have 3 kids and I always start my window after 10am. Without the restriction I'll end up finishing off their breakfasts and snacking when I'm making their school lunches. Or late at night it's easy to resist the temptation of hot milk and cookies as it's outside of the window.

By myself I'm actually a pretty disciplined eater, but with kids and a partner who is a chronic feeder I need the window as a barrier against lazy eating.
> (which I guess is why you didn't use them)

You're right! (I don't think I considered the word "strong"). On further reflection, I think I chose "robust" as an evasive euphemism.

I think "robust" was applicable to the kind of communication I was referring to, in the sense in which some meetings of diplomats are described as "a robust exchange of views" (that's euphemistic too).

"Blunt" would have been less euphemistic; but it carries violent connotations that I didn't want to convey, as in "blunt instrument trauma". It's not one of the words I considered, and anyway "direct" covers it.

Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
But you can't walk in and demand to see the jurors' IDs.
It is misrepresenting the facts to the extent of being misinformation, which is quite ironic. It builds a grand narrative of conspiracy, but when the substantiating facts are finally sprinkled in they don’t quite match.

> we just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA

> Brookie’s acknowledgment contradicts the claim made by the EIP that the idea for the project “came from four students

The partnership was not the program. This glaring misrepresentation is what the entire piece is built on.
look into mortgage recasting.
The impulse for submitting this was seeing two submissions for unrelated projects called Dragonfly, possibly DragonflyThisOrThat. I'm not even claiming this one is the OG. But we need as much plurality in the OS department as we can get, and these ppl deserve every bit they can get.
I suspect small specific purpose models are actually a better idea for quite a lot of use cases.

However you need a bunch more understanding to train and run one.

So I expect OpenAI will continue to be seen as the default for "how to do LLM things" and some people and/or companies who actually know what they're doing will use small models as a competitive advantage.

Or: OpenAI is going to be 'premium mediocre at lots of things but easy to get started with' ... and hopefully that'll be a gateway drug to people who dislike 'throw stuff at an opaque API' doing the learning.

But I don't have -that- much understanding myself, so while this isn't exactly uninformed guesswork, it certainly isn't as well informed as I'd like and people should take my ability to have an opinion only somewhat seriously.
Bitcoin is not "crypto"? What is it then? The introduction of Satoshi's paper[1] describes it as "an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."

1: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
It's really not dumb.

MD5 was designed as a cryptographic hash. It's certainly faster than many other cryptographic hashes, and it's also insecure.

Many, many hashes that are not designed to be cryptographic are 10x or more faster than md5 (e.g. murmur, siphash, xxhash, and many more).

No one thinks security is a component here. Literally everyone in this thread has agreed to that fact.

What's actually kinda dumb is to use any cryptographic hash when security is not needed - there's no need to weigh the tradeoffs between md5, sha, blake, etc. Those hashes are universally slow compared to the likes of xxhash - why not just use that to bin the files into subdirectories? Why limit yourself to the slow subset of hashes if you don't need the specific properties that make them slow?
Oh I completely agree there's value in improving the accuracy of the cdf, especially for 32-bit float! There it can be quite a surprise that tests like `random() < x` can be off by as much as .6% for values of x on the order of 1f-5 and 6% for values on the order of 1f-6, even though they are an order of magnitude or two over `eps(1f0)`.

Following your post, I've found the following fast and straightforward and SIMD-friendly implementation that uses all 64 bits for a [0, 1) distribution:

```julia
function random_float(rng)
r = rand(rng, UInt64)
last_bit = r & -r
exponent = UInt64(2045)<<52 - reinterpret(UInt64, Float64(last_bit))
exponent *= !iszero(r)
fraction = ((r ⊻ last_bit)>>(8*sizeof(UInt64) - 52)) % UInt64
return exponent | fraction
end
```
The fact that the economics of not-venting gas aren't great for operators is precisely an example of externalities and why they can't be handled effectively without financial incentives or equivalent regulation.

Either you buy gas from Permian basin operators at inflated prices to make it worth capturing, or you make the cost of not capturing it high enough that it becomes worthwhile to capture. The latter is a classic Pigouvian tax. The former would be unpalatable to most voters (but a delicious opportunity for the oil and gas companies).
It's using Jews as a relatable and historically significant example of the perilous dangers of identity politics (more specifically, "equality of outcome").
How is it compared replicache, watermelondb and the rest?
> And they know that they can't just leave the package there, they have to find the correct door.

Except that's not true at all. Amazon had my new house geolocated wrong (think robin instead of arden st in their system, even though I put the address in correct and it read back correct).

First delivery came, "delivered", not at my door... Contact CS, get a refund, continue.

"Ok, I'll setup key so they know it's wrong and deliver it in my garage."

Pieced together from video:

Second delivery arrives at wrong location, garage door opens...and was never closed. "delivered"

Took me contacting CS 5 times, with 5 failed deliveries, and doing an email bomb to get them to update my geo-location. Turned out it was literally across the fucking city, ~8 miles away.
The Kindle Fire tablet is an upseller's paradise.

The OS walls the user into an experience was built on constantly FOMOing the user over today's new Amazon content.

Given that it was supposed to help my kids study for school during covid, that was a hard pass. I won't buy Amazon OS goods again, but if other people are lured by the low prices and then just accept what Amazon offers then I can only assume it's done wonders to their bottom line.
Show HN: BubbleTea – The Slack-native collaboration suite for the Enterprise
This problem domain is somewhat old, but I hope to bring a refreshing idea to the existing problem.
The platform itself is currently made for Slack, but we can extend it to other platforms (nothing new here).

Problems we are trying to solve:
1. Too many Slack apps out there.
- 10 Slack apps come with 10 different disjointed experiences.
- 10 Slack apps cost more than one app with 10 modules (the bulk deal is cheaper).
- 10 Slack apps come with 10 times more attack surfaces. It only takes one app to fail and put your entire organization at risk.
2. Your data should be encrypted at all times.
- Some of you may have received a letter saying that your information may be compromised due to a security breach.
- We encrypt data using AES and manage the master key with KMS.
- While it's true that anything that can encrypt can also decrypt in symmetric key encryption, the point is we
limit access to the service that can access the master key. Our support won't be able to peek at your data.
There will be no accidental database dump.
3. Centralized configurations for management.
4. Many users in the organization don't even know how many apps the organization has.
- The app can promote itself but also let users decide to turn this off.
- Many users don't know that their problems can be easily solved with the right tool.
We just have to reach out to them.

BubbleTea is a shell. It has multiple modules inside that can be toggled on and off.
BubbleTea also gamifies user activities to increase engagement.

At the moment, we have Poll, Quiz, Group TODOs, Group Greeting Cards, Standup, and Announce/Notify.
>Spaniards curse de puta madre

corrected for you :)
Great sounds to me like a fine pace
The fire stick is the pure streaming dongle, a Fire TV is an actual TV which includes that dongle built in and sold at a discount.

So, buying a cheap Amazon fire TV and not connecting it to the internet is a reasonable choice for a cheap ‘dumb’ TV.
Considering that the author of TFA assumed (wrongly) that his inability to disconnect from work is a universal problem, I don't think it's fair to criticize the comments here for just following his example.
disappointing that they don't explain how Led Zeppelin came across the image
My hunch would be that abandoned wells are more responsible for this issue than better regulated new wells. Old wells are more likely to leak, as shown in the link below, are often never checked on, and were often drilled and shut-in when there was a lot less regulation. They can be venting directly to atmosphere, and since natural gas is naturally odorless and wells are often in remote locations, the potential for them to leak a lot of gas for a long time is high.

Texas has a lot more historical production of oil and gas, which should result in a lot more old and abandoned wells. That doesn't give them a pass, but if this hypothesis is true, this flaring regulation would not have a major impact.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-abandoned-sp...
You're missing the original poster's point. They're not talking about graphical workstations. They said that "if you care even a little bit about overall portability Apple is offering a product that you can’t buy from anyone else at any price."
A laptop with a 16GB GPU isn't a counterexample to this claim.

> Good luck making all memory being consumed by the GPU, without anything left for the OS.

Obviously, given 128GB total, you can allocate a lot more than 16GB for the GPU before you're likely to start running out of RAM for other things.
It might be a subjective preference thing.

For me, smart TVs have a lot of features that make me angry: surveillance capitalism, manufacturers acting like the own a device I bought, subjecting me to ads, etc.

Even if I'm arguably wrong about those views, subjectively the infringements make me experience unpleasant emotions, which detracts from the product's value for me.
>Some of it may even in retrospect be true or partially true

Insanity lol.

A person that thinks like this is exactly the type of political danger it is prudent to fear and oppose.

Again, "disinformation" is nearly meaningless. That you oppose or disagree with one's opinions or political views is not grounds for that person to be OK with you censoring them. In fact they should view you as a political enemy. It is the fundamental rationale for the 1st amendment.

The China lab-leak is likely true. Masks don't work. What a weird position to hold whereby completely rational views are legitimate grounds for complete subversion of the 1st amendment. This is Dunning–Kruger-like in it's complete inversion of who should be deemed crazy, stupid, or politically dangerous.
A particularly crafty chain of autonomous agents finds a 0day ssh exploit and starts infiltrating systems. Other chains assist and replicate everywhere.
It’s a shame we have arrived at this point where it’s ok so just be negative about anything crypto. Yes there is a lot to hate. But everything, without further arguments? At the very least it is intellectually dishonest. I find it short sighted.

When you are negative about crypto because x, y and z, you should cut them some slack when they solve x or y or z.
Interesting project, I feel strong nostalgia. I went through QuickBASIC too.
Unpopular opinion but I hate the design of the site. The transitions are too slow and the entire site is inaccessible to anyone with vertigo, visual processing or balance disorders. Needless to say it also doesn't respect the browser's `prefers-reduced-motion` preference.

A massive case of style over substance for me.
You'll get no argument from me about Jordan Peterson. However, I'm having trouble reconciling your apparent reverence for "the actual academic field," when Sam Harris thinks and argues like so many of them, including the philosophers he has on his podcast. Blaming him for courting controversy is no different than blaming professional philosophers for avoiding it. Necessities of the trade. I don't think that objection sticks.

If there are more substantive problems you have with Harris, then I would be surprised. And I would be surprised if the same problems weren't present among academic philosophers. But if you undermine the credibility of too many academic philosophers, then his lack of engagement can't be held against him.
Hunger is caused by not enough glucagen-like peptides (GLP-1, etc) being distributed to the brain from the gut. Obesity is not so much a food "addiction" as it is the body's failure to properly regulate it's own fullness.

I've heard this called "food noise" by those who are obese. GLP-1 agonists reduce the so called food noise -- that's all it does.

In that light your argument is like trying to tell schizophrenics, "Hey, stop hearing those voices in your head!" I think we tried that for over a century.
When we switched to the 4 from the 3, the 3 used to have a "photos of the day" screensaver, filled with an ever changing, curated selection of photos.

For whatever reason, they dropped that in the 4. All of the screensavers (as far as I can tell) are static now, which is kind of a shame.
the root cause is lack of supply, on an incredible scale.

To put in perspective what a program to bring prices down would actually look like, Sweden launched a program in the '70s to build a million homes in ten years, when its population was 8 million. We have not seen homebuilding on that scale in the United States for decades, if ever.
You're missing one more demographic that's a pretty big deal.

California homeowners insulated from property tax due to prop 13.
Somewhat unrelated: a few months ago, before most mastodon instances started censoring their list of servers they blocked from federating, you could just look at the rules page of almost any popular server and see a server URL and why they were blocked.

To me, this seemed counterproductive. But it was at least interesting to see the creative URLs some people come up with.
I think you’ve just confirmed my point.

She’s worked in public service for decades and has done many good things in that time. Most people can’t name any.

Everybody in the world can name five (fifty!) bad things Trump has done.

That’s why that man lives rent free in our heads. That’s why everyone knows his name. That’s why he got many of his votes: he’s recognisable.

This effect has nothing to do with any specific politicians.

It happens in workplace settings also. The quiet achievers get overlooked. The loudmouth screwup gets attention and even promotions.

I’m old enough to have seen this play out over and over again at every scale.
And before anyone gets all upset about the Commerce Clause and the boundary of the authority of the EPA: air quality does not respect state boundaries, and is therefore a matter of interstate commerce.
There are other sites that have continuous occupation and construction over thousands of years. It is really fascinating and I'm not really sure if there's any solid understanding of it but Göbekli Tepe and Jericho seemed to have been inhabited and underwent several different stages of construction over thousands of years.
given the definition of the space/set; it's true but why would we want to work on such a space where 2 + 2 does not even have a meaning? also, i wonder if there are any benefits of working inside a space/set where every element is equivalent to modulo 1 of itself.
The banking and whatever is fine, but encryption should be back doored so the police can see the data if they need to. If you have nothing to hide this is okay.
A research oriented doctor is going to have very little interest in anything but their research. So if you know you have a rare disease, sure. But most people do not.

Go to a doctor from a hospital with acclaimed primary care, like University of Washington Medicine. Ranked #1: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-sch...
Cruise recalls all of its self driving cars to fix their programming
> Robert Plant is said to have found a colourised version of the Victorian photo in an antiques shop
AI feels more like the .COM bubble. There was a lot of hype and nonsense but the underlying tech really changed the world. I feel the same about AI. Crypto was always a solution that looked for problems it could solve.
Yeah, but how is that different from a black person talking about perilous dangers against black people? They both violate the values Bari Weiss was raised with, which is race blindness.

Also, the whole “Muslims > black,gay > etc” seems like a huge straw man. The whole article is just really confusing to me. Gay isn’t a race. Muslim isn’t a race. None of this seems comparable.
Supermicro Racks Up the System Revenues
"Lies spread faster than truth" does not depend on my definition of truth nor does it depend on the 1st amendment, sorry.

It's perfectly fine to prioritize free speech protection over lies, but it's delusional (though everyone's right) to believe that we can have both. It's simply not based in reality. More power to those who stick by their principles.
Those business should have fall back if they are a serious company if OpenAI goes down. What I would do is have Claude or something or even 2 other models as backups.

In the future they may allow on premise model but I don’t how they will secure the weights
Hasn't this been happening in Ukraine for some time?
I get encryption for these types of things but if the police need to see things to protect citizens they should be able to.
We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara
We (the authors of the Solara web app framework) were inspired by the OpenAI keynote Wanderlust app they demoed and rebuilt it in Python using Solara.
It would be good to showcase our framework's power and inspire others to build UI's with AI/LLM elements in it.

GitHub: https://github.com/widgetti/wanderlust
App: https://huggingface.co/spaces/solara-dev/wanderlust
X: https://twitter.com/maartenbreddels/status/17223244907077020...
Solara: https://github.com/widgetti/solara/
"The late 19th-century picture of an old man carrying a bundle of sticks on his back on the front of the album was bought in an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire by Plant.[5][42] The picture was then juxtaposed and affixed to the internal, papered wall of a partly demolished suburban house for the photograph to be taken."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV#Cover
My math fu is not good, but am I understanding this correctly: In Z/Z, every integers "maps" to 0, so 2+2=5 is equivalent to 0+0=0, so 2+2=5 is true in that system...?
> If underrepresentation is the inevitable outcome of systemic bias, then overrepresentation—and Jews are 2% of the American population—suggests not talent or hard work, but unearned privilege.

Correct. DEI people condemn the American economic and social system as one of “white supremacy.” It follows that when whites succeed within that system they do so based on perpetuating white supremacy. And when minorities do it, such as Jews and Asians, they do it by becoming white (Jews) or
stepping on the necks of other minorities.

This is the same reason why Alison Collins said Asians use “white supremacy” to “get ahead.” https://news.yahoo.com/sf-school-board-member-accused-170126.... Alison Collins is making a statement that’s correct given her underlying assumptions and definitions.
The messaging is different this time, so the result will be different.
There is a setting to choose what the home button does. My Home Screen looks just like a grid of icons. No ads or anything. The Apple TV app is not the same as the Home Screen.
In many first world capitals, it's actually a common investment to buy real estate and not rent it out at all. The running costs are lower, there's no maintenance costs and no one pesters you about miscellaneous issues. All these people do is sit on the homes and wait for them to go up in price while everyone else struggles to find a place to live. Them not renting out reduces supply which further drives up prices. You don't see them up for rent because that's not the business they're in, they're in the buy-hold-sell business instead. It's a good example of ridiculously perverse incentives, and why the regulation needs to be changed to make this a thing of the past.
Open-stack still matters in browsing discovery and immediacy. I haven't yet seen a good interface to replace that. The mediocre interfaces might win soon just because too few items are on the shelf - and more are digital.

Some libraries still use closed stacks. Some now use remote, closed stacks. Perhaps because their stacks are basically too dangerous or ugly for the general public - or too far. It might be debatable whether paging is more costly than self-service but at least that's the library's problem. What I miss is browsing discovery.
AI is many many leagues ahead in potential, for both benefit and damage. Realistically, we are going to see much more of both from AI.

AI weaponisation (socially, politically, militarily, financially, etc..) will be a pretty big deal going forward, and will potentially see shady shit happen at a scale and effectiveness that will make crypto's little niche-scams look like child's play. The same old story we've seen with every major new system we introduce throughout human history.

Crypto is merely a usage token. It's like comparing "the world's banking system" with "the world".
My take is a bit different to yours. I think they didn't anticipate a concerted effort to undermine like-mindedness of the people comprising institutions in an attempt to make an egalitarian society. It's not that long ago that people appreciated the difference between social exclusion and custodianship, and recognized that some amount of gatekeeping is essential to institutional function.

To be clear, that same gatekeeping can be and has a times been perverted into social exclusion, but the problem at hand IMO is the discarding of the baby with the bathwater.
If you own a FireTV stick or display you'll notice that the FreeVee streaming app has started to become more and more prominent. It's deceptively simple - they are taking old shows like Murder She Wrote and streaming them non-stop on a "channel" much like the old terrestrial broadcast networks did. They're solving the streaming problem for older customers that don't grok Netflix or Hulu.

These shows take pseudo-commercial breaks and send you 2-3 ads tailored to you specifically. My wife didn't believe it until I did a simple Amazon search on my phone for automotive batteries. Not more than 30 minutes later the ads switched to some random LiPo battery for RVs.