skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you are supposed to use the Tor browser only with a tiny window

I hadn't ever heard of this. Here is a statement from the Tor project for anyone else wondering what this is about:

> We automatically resize new browser windows to a 200x100 pixel multiple based on desktop resolution which is provided by a Firefox patch. To minimize the effect of the long tail of large monitor sizes, we also cap the window size at 1000 pixels in each direction. In addition to that we set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true to use the client content window size for window.screen, and to report a window.devicePixelRatio of 1.0. Similarly, we use that preference to return content window relative points for DOM events. We also force popups to open in new tabs to avoid full-screen popups inferring information about the browser resolution. In addition, we prevent auto-maximizing on browser start, and inform users that maximized windows are detrimental to privacy in this mode
Aerial refuelling without human intervention
I am not well-read enough to opine on your reaction Re: Wittgenstein, esp. since I haven't read Sacks' work. But you are the first person I've encountered who appears to have an internalized understanding of these ideas, and so am curious to continue the conversation:

> So sacks also concludes that we need other humans to acquire language (really, to become human in general)

I do agree with Sacks' conclusion, having first come across a version of it in Hegel's dialectic--the dialectic of self vs. other. Or in my interpretation, of personhood and relationship. i.e. Personhood is forged through relationships with other persons.

Do you think this applies to AGI? That it needs to bootstrap itself by communicating and relating with other intelligences? This, and related concepts like free will, tend to be ignored in the scientific literature on the subject[1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
In fact, left parties were savagely demolished by the CIA, under direction of American capitalists.
Somewhat disappointed in macOS for giving the information to Chrome. I'd figure that to be the kind of sensor you need a special entitlement to read (but it may well be tricky to enforce.)
I don't feel confident enough in PHP yet (my first language is python)

I hope you find somebody to help! Thank you!
But if you need a PRNG in a big hurry, an LFSR is probably fine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_regist...

I use one on my NES projects that can compute a new 8bit PRNG value in something like 65 cycles
I wish js would have made this first class. The function/closure should expose a .meta.captued or some such that exposes the bindings it holds.

And ideally we should also be able to clone the function-with-closure. And modify the bindings.

This wouldn't have eliminated many foot guns, but it would have been cool & would have let us dive deeper into the machine.
Reddit was still pretty easy to get last summer. I saved a copy. Twitter has never really been easy. Some data sets are getting locked down, but you can still get them if you have enough motivation. I think the technical skill first and compute access are bigger hurdles.
I found the statement Musk agrees with more weird than anything. I mean "jewish communities" have been pushing hatred against whites. For a start they are mostly white themselves, and which jewish communities? I know a few and none seem to preach that. Odd.
Sorry that was probably an overly snarky response on my part. Stripes product is actually aimed at merchants so two steps removed anyway.
Thanks, I can't write a full reply now (need to think) but for some reason my intuition was, let's say you have a constant punishment signal, and a timer, and if it doesn't solve whatever problem by the time the timer goes down, then it has to find the optimal action set, and if it reaches a goal earlier than the timer then it has to weigh that solution stronger? Like at least how I see with organisms it's about finding the optimal use of the limbs in order to solve an ongoing problem/goal state, and if you accumulate specific actions (instead of one network that optimizes one "space"), and different types of goal states, then it has to find the optimal set of actions to reach the different goals, it just seemed more efficient. But this is off the cuff a bit right now.

Edit: i think what i'm thinking of are two "global" numbers. A "closer to the goal" number (higher when closer), and a countdown timer, and then it has to maximize those within the above setting
I have to say I’ve felt way better on a lower protein, higher carb/fiber diet.

Another thing that improved my wellbeing is that I started eating more and making sure I exercise.

And lastly, the third thing that has helped me is that I make sure to not skip breakfast. Need to break the fast and get some glucose for my brain.

Not refuting your experience, just saying that nutrition is weird and seems to be highly personal.
I was surprised the article didn't add another couple of sentences explaining the finite field construction of the Hamming code. It seems like the important property of β is generating the finite field of size 8, so that its powers from 1 to 7 are distinct.

Then every 7-bit sequence gets assigned one of the 8 values in the field via the polynomial. The 0s are the code elements, as it says, and every other sequence is a power of β indicating which bit to flip to get a code element.
Noam Chomsky used the phrase in the 1990s...
What a backward country.
The "95% reduction in the last 100 years" feels like a misguided argument since our improved abilities to handle weather events will not hold if the weather patterns we've gotten so good at handling, change. If you exceed design conditions, your 95% reduction can quickly turn into a Texas blackout.

I agree that optimism is critical to keep moving forward. However I do disagree with your implication that young people believe that we cannot handle nature and the climate. The view I (anecdotally) encounter most is not the belief that we are incapable of handling it, but that we will refuse to handle it till it's too late.
I'm not advocating for abstinence, I'm advocating for people relocating to whats open if they want to do pub stuff. I'm simply stating my conviction that the fewer places (nothing about 0 or overly-prohibitive), the generally better off society is as long as there is help finding a new income and stabillity and a reasonable offramp for those affected in terms of employment since its unthinkable to simply provide an income for people so we can all be ok on that front.

I did share my personal take on what I want and don't want going forward beacause of where I was with it in my life and where I'm going now that I am not weighed down and mutated by it any further.

There's zero coercion. If people want to try to grt off, I would say talk to your dr and request nalfamene so you can still drink what you like but in a context that starts to remove the psychological and physical hooks it digs into anyone who loses the plot with it. If you need the anxiety help, request baclofen as an adjuvant and work your way down at whatever pace if at all that works for you

Nalfamene or naltrexone or whatever opidoid antagonists are available thru NHS is a successfull and affirming approach that makesit simple and likely to be successfull with attenuating issues with addiction and use of alcohol. I get I'm n=1 but what's the harm in exploring your options?

If I loved someone and I was invested/wanted them to heal and organically redefine their relationship with alc, I would help them with this even if I had to take them to the Dr myself to ensure they walked out with what they need and there was no ambiguity about how they are to honor the regiment that is available for their healing.

If I don't care for someone, I remain silent and return my efforts to address my own imperfections and pain so everyone is better of if I meet them or not
What is the decimal range of these values?
Rings kind of suck. You have to go around to get anywhere, and so you spend a lot more time on your subway getting home.
There's one big scenario where PRNGs are good: reproducibility. I have a lot of tests that are deterministic given a seed, and if the test fails then I can grab the seed and replay the test.

CSPRNG is designed to be cryptographically secure, and thus I somewhat agree that it should be the default choice. But there are many cases where reproducibility is a good thing, and that's where you need seeded rngs.

EDIT: I was under the (wrong) impression that CSPRNGs were non-deterministic.
Yes, it would be nice to see these lists be ranked as % of population. Probably some countries would move into these top 10s that aren't there now (and aren't there either if you re-order the given top 10s).

Wouldn't be surprising if there are a few countries where most anyone who strikes it rich takes the 1st flight out.
Most people, even here on HN, do not know what the DK effect actually claimed to show. It does not show that confident people are more likely to be incompetent. Their primary result shows a positive correlation between confidence and supposed skill. (What skill, you ask?*)

This article suggests DK is even simpler than autocorrelation, that it’s just regression toward the mean. https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-...

I don’t know which statistical artifact it is, but I am quite convinced that the so-called DK effect is not demonstrating something interesting about human psychology, I don’t buy that this is a real cognitive bias. I’ve read the paper several times, and the methodology seems to be lacking rigor. They tested a small handful of Cornell undergrads volunteering for extra credit, not a large sample, not the general population, and tested nobody who actually fits the description of ‘incompetent’ in a meaningful way. They primarily measured how people rank each other, not what their absolute skill was - and ranking each other requires speculating on the skills of others. There are obvious bias problems with asking a group of pampered Ivy League kids how well they think they rank.

* One of the four “skills” they measured was ability to get a joke - “appreciation of humor” - Huh? This is subjective! The jokes used aren’t given in the paper, either. Another was ‘grammar’ tests.
I mean, that’s what happens on lines that haven’t been upgraded since the late 19th century.
what ads are you getting on spotify mobile? occasionally i’ll get a full page banner for a new track or feature but that’s about it
Some browsers activate a low power mode when your battery reaches a certain threshold
Yeah, strategically place queues in your architecture, artificially limit size of queues in stress tests (like how you can use rlimit for other resources), and track the derivative of queue fill.
Was it a lapse in his judgment to start marching on Russia 3 days after summer solstice?

That's not a question meant to be sarcastic: you know more about him than I do, so that always has seemed like a terrible choice of timing.
Could someone explain what this means ? ( I’m not even sure I understand the gif on the GitHub page ) I just see windows seemingly sharing data.
Ask HN: How can my mom downshift as a SQL developer?
Hi all, I'm looking for some general advice about the right way to find a specific kind of job.

My mom has 20 years of experience with Oracle SQL. She's an expert in that, but not in other dev stuff.

Long story short, their devision got sold to a startup, where she is now given responsibilities and workloads that are much more suited for a young, ambitious, competitive dev who wants a promotion.

It's causing her considerable stress. Some examples of tasks she doesn't want to do:

1. Implement the migration of all data and data models to the new system in the new company, with strict deadlines.

2. Study and evaluate modern data warehouse and data lake solutions to provide an analytics product for customers.

3. Get paged on Thanksgiving weekend to fix some random crap that someone else broke.

It's all fine work, but not for her, not at this stage in life.

She wants to find a place to be comfy and write some SQL scripts, analysis, and data modeling here and there, where she will be both happy and useful. Pay is not a priority.

I guess what I'm asking is that I don't necessarily know what kind of title even fits that role, and where to find such leads. Is she looking for an analyst position? Is she more suited for a non-tech company, where her job description would not "feature creep"?

So far my only advice to her was to go interview around at SQL positions around Chicago, and to go to meetups, (we actually went to a Postgres one together) but she's been through enough interviews where she's grilled with Google style questions where she's not really excited about going through it again. Just seeing if anyone has advice for finding such positions that I'm overlooking.

Thank for your time all,
Happy Thanksgiving
I have 800W of roof-mounted solar panels, and I just got two 200W Renogy "suitcase" panels. All of these feed a 400aH 12V battery bank. Summer energy generation was pretty solid, and I went a max of about 8 days using just the 800W roof panels without having to top off with the generator. Now, in the fall, I'm in Quartzsite, AZ, and the 800W flat-mounted panels were are getting me a few days before needing to run the generator for at least a few hours. Adding the extra 400W of portable, direct-able solar panels did the trick, and I'm staying fully charged on sunny days (which is most days here).
For those of us like me who are unfamiliar, can you recommend any useful reading on the topic?
What about the people on the ship? Is it anything like sitting next to a fireplace?
This proves individual employees routinely steal trade secrets; yes, they do. It does not prove that the companies they join (US public companies in the United States anyway) willfully use it.

Think about the large scale conspiracy required to keep something like that secret from an entire company.
400 GH repos:

https://github.com/orgs/NVIDIA/repositories

Not to mention tons of other projects that live outside of the main org, contributions to other projects all over the place, etc.

So much hate for free software.

The “I hate Nvidia because all I know is their driver is proprietary” schtick is old.

They crossed the $1T mark in value solely because of the almost completely open source ecosystem (a large portion of which they directly develop and contribute to) that runs on top of their hardware and (yes, proprietary) driver.

They’re not angels but this position is something out of Slashdot circa 2005.
> No, it's more like refusing to describe as "lobbying" the behavior that became legal after Citizens United v. FEC.

You realize that the word "lobbying" isn't limited to activities that occur in the US? It's a generic english word. Moreover, "lobbying" includes any sort of influence operations, not just the ones you hate that were legal after Citizens United v. FEC. As I said earlier, trying to redefine "lobbying" to mean "influence operations that I oppose, like what corporations are doing in the US" is sloppy writing and playing fast and loose with existing definitions.
It should not be, which is why it’s notable when it is.

I think you’re mixing up the causal link here. Voting for Brexit is not being used as proof of lower intelligence. But there is a clear divide. If one has lower intelligence, that person is more likely to have voted for Brexit.
Depends where they are I guess. At sea there's not much network contention so performance is good in my experience.
I don’t think this line of reasoning holds. We know why Google search is (was?) better. It just so happens there is a self-reinforcing feedback loop that is involved. We know why Apple is better at making phones. It doesn’t follow that their success can be easily reproduced. It seems likely to be that we should know why OpenAI is better even if it is not an easily copied advantage
Neat library!

We're using randomly generated strings for many things. IDs, password recovery tokens, etc. We've generated millions of them in our system, for various use-cases. Hundreds of thousands of people see them every day.

I've never heard any complaints about a random content-id being "lR8vDick4r" (dick) or whatever.

But nowadays our society is so afraid of offending anyone, that profanity filters has extended all the way to database IDs and password recovery tokens.

(there are some legit cases, like randomly generated IDs for user profiles shared in public URLs, that users have to live with, but even there just make the min length 8 and you're unlikely to have any full-word profanity as the complete ID; put differently, I don't understand why they made the block list an opt-out thing)
Breathless anecdata like this always talk about self education.

The op is saying “I learned <TECHNICAL_JARGON>” but did they? How are they quantifying learning? How do they know what they “learned” is even correct.

I agree with the headline but I think it needs a qualifier of “in the presence of an educator”. The educator, can be a technical text, is there to sanity check the conversational agent.

In my experience the best use of such agents at this time is in a domain where I’m already an expert and I want it to do some remedial work or lookups for me.
Lets be fair here. Former software architects at least!
You almost certainly didn’t come up with it. I’ve heard it being used in the 90s at least and its usage was rampant in the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

Here’s a Google trend:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...

It shows the usage of the term peaked in 2004 (Google only has data past 2004).
Are you Little Bobby Tables?

https://xkcd.com/327/
Did those ideals applied to the residents in the colonies? Were “colonized” people benefiting from being equal to the French citizens in the mère patrie?
The DK effect has gotten WAY more cred than it should. Today, it is just anoter feel-good piece that people use to justify their feeling that they're (ironically) surrounded by loud idiots.
I couldn't find that, but googling I've found there's even a Wikipedia page [1]. Oh well... Not sure saying I "re-invented" it is even worth bragging about.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_fundamentalism
Sort by size in Google photos?

Backup all of them, delete all of them, review others locally however you want, reupload?
You can turn on a toggle and it works offshore, for extra money. You can also pay for the full mobile thing. There's a bunch of tiers now, the most expensive ones allow coverage offshore.
How so? DK shows a positive correlation between confidence and competence.
Long term friendships, zero logistical hassles for the entire three years while exploring the whole world, cheap price.

This cruise is (would have been) totally unlike anything else offered.

If I were in a younger stage of my life, it could have been a kind of ideal experience.
Very nicely designed and well executed. thanks for sharing
The golden check mark is supposed to show that it's an official account of an organization.
It's been a long time but boy I loved The Mote in God's Eye!

Can you unpack this comment some for us John? I don't remember enough details of the Moties to get what you are alluding to.
What is the minimum copywritable unit?

It would vary across media, but a copyeme (like morpheme, grapheme, phoneme) is very hard to define.

Will it end up being some weird tensor, or something human recognizable?
probably not. a typical 3br house directly comsumes less than 40 kwh per month. to put that in perspective, that's about the amount of energy contained in a single gallon of gas.

large ships are the most efficient way to move bulk goods, but when carrying a bunch of people in their own little apartments, the per pax fuel efficiency is somewhere between a typical car and a passenger plane.

I would be very surprised if the constraints of living on a cruise ship are anywhere near enough to offset the fact that they spend most of their time moving tons of people around to places they don't need to go.

if you want to save the environment, take public transit to work and vacation in places that are connected by rail.
For those interested in using AES with reduced rounds as a PRNG, it is covered in the paper "Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3" by John Salmon et al.

https://www.thesalmons.org/john/random123/papers/random123sc...
What would stop you from bringing your own Starlink dish? Unless the ship travels too fast and you need to upgrade your service level for in-movement service, it would work.
Does this use scraping? Trying to understand how it works
> If you have tried listening to audiobooks before but find it’s hard to pay attention [...]

What works for me is setting a timer to pause playback every ten minutes. If I'm actively paying attention I can unpause it again by pressing the play/pause button on my headphones. But if it pauses and I don't notice it, or if I realize I don't really know what was said in the past 10 minutes, then I can rewind 10 minutes and resume from that point later.
Paper tickets might be good for anonymity, but that can't be guaranteed. I haven't used the ones for Paris, but many have a unique code printed on the ticket that could be linked with the bank that you used to purchase it through. One would need to buy the ticket with cash to guarantee anonymity, and that itself only with the assumption that 'out-of-band' information isn't obtained (for example, from surveillance cameras or unique identifiers on the cash).

It is possible to have fully digital ticketing with complete anonymity (again, assuming no external surveillance) using zero-knowledge proofs. As far as I'm aware, no such systems have been implemented for ticketing yet, but rapid progress is being made in implementing these for general-purpose digital identity situations.

There's also the much more pedestrian^ option, used for instance in Brussels, where the transport company simply promises not to track individuals even when it would be possible for them to do just that. That said, in Brussels I personally got the impression that a large proportion of passengers did not present tickets when entering a bus or tram, and indeed the Brussels Metro trains don't require that anyway. Thus tracking of individuals' movements would be quickly thwarted by apathy on the part of passengers!

^: not the most pedestrian option, naturally.
Not an air pollution expert, but my guess is that the combination of tall smoke stacks, wind currents, and the fact that the ship is moving means that passengers are breathing in little, if any of the pollution. It's in the cruise company's interest to make their ships not smell like a clogged interstate at rush hour.
Ask HN: Why GPT-4 latency increases for uncommon questions?
When asked about things that are not common, it seems like GPT-4 spends a few seconds "thinking". On the other hand, when asked about things that are easier to answer, its latency is much shorter.

Is there some sort of caching going on? From a transformer perspective, why would some answers take longer to generate?
Former project managers, probably
Heres what a recent youtube (which squid documents as a sample use case) link I shared looked like:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFMzQ3tYTFU&pp=ygURY2hQImVzZ...

Or Twitter:

> https://x.com/elonmusk/status/172853302828286055507?s=20

Or TikTok:

> https://www.tiktok.com/@<userId>/video/730292574259232054785...

While I tend to strip the tracking params and there are extensions that do this, I don't think most people do. These URLs are pretty 'ugly'.

So if the links that are being shared most on the internet (YT, TikTok, Twitter) don't care, you probably shouldn't either. I think the onus is on the UI layers (Chat apps, etc) to show urls how they look best on their respective platforms.

Edit: to this point, it looks like HN truncates these to make them less ugly too.