skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you effectively using something akin to a multiverse scenario to guarantee that one outcome is inevitable? By multiverse here I'm mainly pointing to the idea of branching of all possible outcomes, not strictly trying to say that the idea I'd about jumping to an actual different universe.

If you could go back 10 years and erase all ML research, for example, there would be fundamental differences. The number of people that understand how those systems would be much smaller. Hardware would be different, for example we wouldn't have tensor chips and GPUs would still be primarily for playing Call of Duty. Cell phones, search, even more benign systems like traffic control on city streets would look different. There's simply way too much changed even with that one jump to possibly guarantee that we'd find ourselves in the same boat inventing AI or AGI on roughly the same timeline.
It is gamed with bots.

I routinely get stars from completely empty accounts that star random projects for free to avoid bot detection.
How does 3 work?
No. None of those have anything to do with the principle of free speech.

Port wine has a legal definition in the US. You can't sell it as champagne or as cola.

However, it is true that ingredient, food and drink labels may have different definitions from those used in other countries, or from what you personally think they should be.

But they still have actual definitions that have to be followed. (Except for subjective, non-technical terms like "tasty", "artisanal", etc.)
If you enable gesture navigation, swiping from the side of the screen emits a virtual back button press. It's an OS level gesture (that apps can attempt to disable, but that can be overridden by the user). This doesn't require apps to implement anything it they implement normal back button behaviour already.

Several brands have removed button navigation by default. I think you can still enable it in the settings, but the button bar at the bottom of the screen seems to be the exception these days.
> The speed limit signs are LEDs. In real life they are much brighter than they appear in photos ('cause LED). https://maps.app.goo.gl/29Mg7HaqFeAi2L639

Although those pictures probably illuminate (heh) the problem the Teslas are facing in determining the active speed limit.

> Why?

Because hamburgers, bald eagles, nonsensical date ordering, AR15s and imperial units demand it!
Well it is being highly suggestive, to say the least.

> Dr. Pierre Kory, M.D., is president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.

Just look him up.
Even making everything E2E-encrypted doesn't stop any government saying "give us access or your executives go to jail and your products are banned from sale".
> I wonder whether there's something similar that executes code fences in markdown?

I wrote a script to do this called panpipe: https://github.com/warbo/panpipe

It uses Pandoc, so it supports many formats (I've personally used it with Markdown code fences and with HTML <code> elements). The idea is pretty simple and powerful: if a code block has an attribute/annotation like `pipe="foo"` then that value is executed as a shell command, and the contents of the code block gets piped through it and replaced by the stdout.

This supports running basically all programming languages, by giving their interpreter as the value of `pipe`. I use this for my web site ( chriswarbo.net ) to execute code in PHP, Haskell, Racket, Bash, Coq, etc. It can also run things indirectly, e.g. if you want to compile and run C you could do something like this:

Here is my C program:

```{pipe="tee myfile.c"}
int main() etc etc.
```

Here is its output:

```{pipe="sh"}
gcc -o myfile myfile.c 1>&2 || exit 1
./myfile
```

A more scalable alternative, for documents which will run many such snippets, is to write a helper script to use as our command, e.g.

```{pipe="cat > runC && chmod +x runC"}
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
cat > myfile.c
gcc -o myfile myfile.c 1>&2
./myfile
```

Here is the output of my C program:

```{pipe="./runC"}
int main() etc. etc.
```

I've also written a companion script called panhandle: https://github.com/warbo/panhandle

Panhandle allows the contents of a code block (annotated with class `unwrap`) to be spliced into its containing document. This is useless on its own (since we could just write that part of the document directly, rather than putting it inside a code block); but it allows us to generate markup using panpipe, and insert it into the document. For example, the following is a HTML page containing a <p> element and a <code> element; panpipe can execute the contents of the <code> element, which generates HTML for an <img> element, but that HTML is stuck as the text of a <code> element. Panhandle lets us "unwrap" it, to become a real <img> element in the document:

<p>Here is a checkerboard:</p>

<code class="unwrap" pipe="sh | pandoc -f html -t json">
printf '&lt;img src="data:image/png;base64,'
{
echo "P1 101 100"
for N in $(seq 10100); do echo $(( N % 2 )); done
} > checker.pbm
convert checker.pbm checker.png
base64 -w0 < checker.png
printf '" /&gt;'
</code>

Note that panhandle needs to parse the content of a code block in order to unwrap it; to keep things simple and unambiguous it only supports Pandoc JSON format (a serialisation of Pandoc's internal AST). Since the above shell code generates HTML, we pipe it through `pandoc -f html -t json` to get the required JSON format.

This whole approach is described at http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/activecode
Have you read the other comments that show examples like inserting help output into your docs?
just like blockchain two years ago :)
Made a command line app in Go that recursively reads comic book files in a directory and serves them as a Opds spec[0] api so I can read comic books from my iPad using the Panels app[1].

There are more apps like this, but they all weigh too heavy on me because I simply want a directory three representation of my files and not be managing a library. Also it’s super low memory.

There is a similar Go project on GitHub, but that does not support directories mixed with files, and I don’t think it supports streaming comic book pages.

[0] https://specs.opds.io

[1] https://panels.app
Ah, the contrast between the wining and dining that one received around 2000 from startups as a computer science undergraduate, and the chase for any boring government contracting job to make loan payments in 2002-2003...
> But what if Android were just as lawful-evil malevolent a force?

Unnecessarily hyperbolic.

I don’t see it as “malevolent” that there aren’t multiple app stores of questionable quality, where I have to go hunt for apps I need. I don’t begrudge anyone who chooses not to use an Apple device, who chooses not to publish their program on an Apple device, or who prefer a device they can change anything on.

But I would think we don’t need every single phone to be identical to satisfy a small number of Android users who don’t want to understand any use case but their own.
I've written many over the years. Not all were published and some of them I don't use anymore. Anyway, here are a few examples:

* `inlinehashes`[1] - To help build the CSP of websites that I don't control the source/development.

* `worker-ddns` [2] - simple DDNS solution using cloudflare workers

* `kinspect` [3] - a web tool to quickly inspect PGP keys without importing them to my keyring.

[1] https://github.com/dethos/inlinehashes

[2] https://github.com/dethos/worker-ddns

[3] https://kinspect.ovalerio.net/
The second you've paid for an ad-free version of software, you've proven that you're in the top 0.1% of people worth showing ads to. Very few companies can resist the temptation to exploit their best users. See all streaming services as an example.
Duly noted. The fact that I'd feel like I have to test various beeping noises before buying a new car is just insane
I can't be really mad at them, although it's pretty annoying, that's for sure. To give you one glimmer of hope: after police officers at your door, you might get invited for a hearing at the police station with two detectives, they are way more nuanced than the officers on the street. But keep it business-like, because they also ask all kinds of personal questions that have nothing to do with the case at hand.

Edit: and remember, you don't have to tell them anything (everything you say can be used against you, although a little cooperation can go a long way). You can always say: if you're so sure about it, then make a case out of it.

Edit 2: I'm only talking about The Netherlands here. And my advice is general, not specific to a certain case.
Seems still higher some countries and lower in others. I'm not familiar with the country codes, so if someone is maybe enlighten me.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
We know what people die of almost all the time. What does the data say? Nothing here but a link to an undigested Dropbox spreadsheet full of raw data.

Very shallow junk article with no analysis.
I treasure my attention and so I've spent some time to opt out of ads. 5 years ago I couldn't tell what DNS was, now I've got an OPNsense router at home running ZenArmor/Unbound and I can can link to it from my phone over wireguard.

Using ublock I've made a point to prune the pages I visit, so classes like "header" "breadcrumbs" "recommended" "sponsor" &c. are hidden. I self-host my media collection so I avoid spotify et al.

It all leads to a deeply pleasant digital life for me and my family; I saw fewer ads/distractions in 2023 than any year before. I know most people won't go through all the steps I did, but I'm surprised there isn't a pricey service rich folks can buy to get this sort of experience out of the box.
Ok then... if current generation is not threat, what about setting up at least some rules for whatever comes next, before it becomes unstoppable force?

I mean we are talking about future existential threats to mankind and the best response would be 'trust me bro'?

Sorry but trust in such matters is not something given freely nor easily. People are generally pretty conservative when their existence may be in stake. Not so much those whose income is tightly coupled with pushing things fast and basically ignoring those concerns. This is where SV's 'push fast and break things' hits a titanium wall of general mankind.

Or maybe folks can be bribed / attention diverted with endless stream of photorealistic cat videos, what do I know.
>Why people even have all those tabs open?

IDK, maybe I might have ADHD or something, because I open every interesting link in a tab thinking I'll get back to it soon to finish reading or trying it out, but then never do because in the meantime I discover another more interesting tab, so they keep piling up.
I am glad that we have invented wheel before Elon, otherwise he would be pushing "it should move like human does"
Yes, I'm inclined to agree, it is very flawed AGI, but AGI nevertheless.

When you ask chatgpt4, "tell me the pH an electric conductivity of a 0.5% solution of sodium 2-ethylhexanoate" and then it writes a python program to calculate it, that is pretty much AGI level ability in my book.
>Btw illustrators are getting replaced. Not all of them of course, but the demand is shrinking. Similarly for certain writing roles.

Do we have any real data on this? Because it would make more sense that with the new tools you can be more productive as an artist and sell more. From the little I know about AI art is that at this moment it is still in need of a Photoshop user to do final touches, plus a few steps of in-painting and other AI manual steps.

I assume some super low quality output is created but I don't know of anyone who pays directly or via patreon on just a lazy single prompt AI generation(without other more involved work).
https://sourcemap.tools/

It helps decipher JS error stack traces by applying source maps to them. In my previous company, we struggled to configure Sentry to work with source maps, and every error message was cryptic due to minification. First, I created a little command line utility and later made it a web app.

https://github.com/rmuratov/hledger-tools

Just some charts to summarize my monthly finance activity based on hldger journal.
The worst case of maxing out a personal credit card is not generally comparable to individual death. Loads of people with way less earning power than SWEs have that amount of debt. It's a pain in the ass, but it's not terminal. (It's also dischargeable in bankruptcy in the worst 0.1% case.)
Sure, you can maintain it if you want. And they ought to give you the means to. But that’s a bad comparison.

I bought a perfect, will never deteriorate houseboat twenty years ago (it is now 2043) and moved it across the world. But now in the harbor of Hong Kong I won’t get a permit to stay there because there is (1) no onboard emergency manual in either Cantonese or Mandarin, and (2) it is not up to code for sustained quarantine due to the novel airborne virus that became a pandemic some years ago, and (3) there is no mounted non-lethal (because animal welfare) protection against a hull-eating[1] marina pest that migrated from the Equator ten years ago because of climate change.

Software obsolescence is all about the world changing around the software.

[1] The boat might be perfect but apparently creatures can still eat it if determined enough.
Isn't this essentially just R&D? The hope is that something meaningful will be produced, but it's not necessarily clear what the result will be or whether it will be viable.
> but also office space, amenities, liabilities.

People (probably not the same people) are still resisting this with remote work, but get all excited when it is about AI. Humans are strange.
You allow testing in public because currently there are tens of thousands of people dying every year and reducing the time before everyone has safe self driving by even a single year will save ten thousand lives. So unless you think this policy will actually kill many thousands of people or think that banning public testing won't slow down self driving by at least a year then we should allow public testing.
"instantiable via template"

A simple bash template via envsubst?
Does that mean more use of nuclear power plants?
I've been driving with other people on the road for years. People might be worse on average but at least they don't get a firmware update that could potentially kill you.
And? Ivermectin is a notable antiviral medication that many, many Americans took to limit the COVID viral spread in their body. The media's attack on it was purely from a Pharma profit motive.
I kept one car for 11 years. I was doing very little km. I bought my current car 3 years ago. I'm doing more km now. Maybe my next car has already been sold. I'm not liking what I see around. At least the lower end cars I buy have less enshittyfication inside. My friend's Mercedes and BMWs are a nightmare. They want to do too much and in their own way. They (and their manufacturers) should accept that they are only tools like a screwdriver.
I think app stores killed E3. There's no need to build hype around your game, just pay Nintendo or Sony to feature it on the home screen - people will buy it.
I did notice that Plane mentioned custom workflows.
Great, that's perfectly fine; everyone likes or dislikes some things. Nothing wrong with that.

But not posting your opinion is something you're allowed to do... In fact "knowing when to shut the fuck up" is the major factor that distinguishes an asshole from a non-asshole.
Vertical farming is a nice PoC but it’s not financially viable when there is ample land for farming.

Indoor Automation for leafy greens and some high value produce like edible/gastronomic mushrooms and others like controlled drug producing products does make economic sense, but it’s overkill for other things when you have proven transportation networks to bring things to market from the hinterlands.

Ok it may make sense in st Helena and Tristan da Cunha islands for some things.
Made a simple and free pushup counter app that uses the depth sensor on the iPhone to count push ups. https://PushupCounterApp.com The existing apps I tried were subscription based / unreliable / overcomplicated. It's a WIP since I hacked it together over a few days.
Honestly trash journalism. The is a sponsored piece by the FLCCC which is antivax group that supports things like ivermectin.
Frank Rausch created the best Wikipedia app ever, "V for Wiki"*

So when he speaks about iOS design and UX, I'm inclined to listen.

-----

* https://web.archive.org/web/20211223231349/https://v-for-wik...
Treating corporations as people is the biggest own goal of Neoliberalism. Now we are discussing fictional right to free speech of a fictional entity and imagining how it would affect an average Joe. For some reason we have to have the same law regulating speech of an average Joe and of a fictional entity that does not die and is controlled by ever changing charade of shareholders, each holding 1% or whatever.
Same here; I found the swiping very difficult.
I have also had a small number of people ask me how to switch to buttons.
This a great example on the usefulness of data availability via JSON API.

If the data is read only it's a GOOD thing especially for non-confidential data that are meant to be public, every government agency should open their public data like this.
The "it's an illusion" part is a piece of rhetorically toxic language that usually comes up in these discussions, as its a bit provocative. But it's equally anthropocentric to say that someone without a body can't have a conscious experience. When you're dreaming your body is shut off - but you can still be conscious (lucid dreaming or not). You can even have conscious experiences without most of your brain - when you hit your little toe on something, you have a few seconds of terror and pain that surely doesn't require most of your brain areas to experience. In fact, you can argue you won't even need your brain. Is that not a conscious experience? (I'm not really trying to argue against you, I just find this boundary interesting between what you'd call conscious experience and not)
>Apple seemingly chose to hand over data when asked, no warrant needed.

Is there an example or reference about apple doing this? The article doesn't seem to provide one.

It's not clear to me if previously they required a warrant, and now that's formalized on their public page, or if previously they didn't and they changed their policy.
Isn't it simply support for full self driving it claims to have? Not actual self driving as it currently stands.
A company is not a person
> One option is standalone CarPlay and Android Auto head units - search for carpuride or Atoto for examples.

What GP complained about was that the factory-installed head units have very non-standard shapes for everything but the screen, and even then it'd be glued into some molded piece of plastic trim which has a non-regular shape in the dashboard.

You'd literally have to cut out the trim with a saw and refinish it in order to use the din/double-din standard sizes.
It is quite enjoyable, https://www.wildernesslabs.co/

Same applies to other compiled toolchains for embedded, even Pascal and BASIC.

https://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal-avr

https://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic-avr

It has been a matter of attitude since C went mainstream.
Airlines have already come up with a way to make sure you understand what you're saving on. They'd sell you a ticket for some base price, and then extort you for extras upon online check-in. Seat choice, extra legroom, meals, etc.
> Homeopathy, chiropractic, osteopathy, “holistic medicine,” etc. are better when they achieve the same results, for less cost (monetary, physical, what have you), when they work, and do not do further harm to the patient.

That’s a tautology. “X is better than Y when it’s better than Y.” Show us evidence that they are better. But you won’t be able to. Alternative medicines do not generally outperform conventional medicine because they “…do not originate from using the scientific method, but instead rely on testimonials, anecdotes, religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural ‘energies,’ pseudoscience, errors in reasoning, propaganda, fraud, or other unscientific sources.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine
reminds me of the phrase "if your only tool is a hammer, every problem has to be a nail."
"Designed to" is a fun weasel.
Colossal due diligence failure; I'd say the investors in the VC funds that financed Infarm have a lawsuit.
I quite enjoy Arc on macOS.

The UI "just clicks" for me:

- named persistent spaces for groups of tabs, some can be pinned, some can be ephemeral
- spaces can have different profiles, so switching to personal stuff in a work context is no different than switching to any other space
- side-by-side tabs within spaces give an iPad-like split screen experience in the browser. I know the OS is meant to do this, but honestly window management in macOS is totally fucked and achieving the same thing is really hard.

Overall it's made navigating the web more effortless, and I hope other browsers copy. Safari tried with Tab Groups, but it's a pale imitation and when I go back it's vertical tabs that I miss most.
> So essentially they were fine handing over the data without warrant until this was exposed.

They were required by law to both hand over the data and not say anything about it.

Furthermore, disabuse yourself of the notion this instant that you are safe from being spied on by state actors. You are never anonymous on the Internet.
Which AI tool do you use for your daily activities apart from ChatGPT?
We have zero cultural value of self control and are killing ourselves with overconsumption
Show HN: Sequence-Classifier, a PyTorch Library for Sequence Classification
Hello HN,

I'd like to introduce sequence-classifier, a PyTorch library for sequence classification tasks such as named-entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging. It's designed for ease of use with Transformer-based models (BERT, RoBERTa, DeBERTa). It has a special focus on Conditional random fields (CRFs).

Key features include:

- Support for basic CRF functionality
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The official Reddit app is one of the few where I regularly "get lost" and it takes too much mental energy to go back to the main view...and I just force quit and reopen it.
This is very cool. I've always found the insistence by companies to force us to rely on phones even more for the sake of """security""" absolutely infuriating.
Off-topic English question, if I may.

”all but disappeared” means it disappeared, right?
I have nothing to do with Lua, but google groups is not a very good service, and uncertainty about its future makes sense since it hasn’t had any features added in the last decade.
OMG, thanks. I'll put Tesla on my no buy / no rent list.
You say they check passports between Dublin and GB, but I'm a Northern Irish guy who took the car over the ferry from Belfast to Stranraer then back from Holyhead to Dublin, I didn't even think about bringing my passport with me. The height of customs was on the Dublin from Holyhead side, they got me to roll down my window and asked me what my nationality was.
> They aren't subjected to the same kinds of penalties as people even when they kill people.

This is the biggest injustice in the world today. So much corporate harm is caused by their impunity. If I commit some kind of fraud that results in deaths of 10 people, I will probably get life sentence. But corporations do it routinely and nobody goes to jail.

They are only people when it suits them.
Maybe someone should sell it, sounds like a good time to make quick buck.