skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must understand that we have to hold China to a 19th century standard while holding western nations to a 21st century standard because... uh.. reasons. Don't question it!
After watching the studying video I'm surprised there is no direct GPT-4 integration with his tool. There's a clear opportunity for dynamic question generation such that you have notes/cards which can't be memorized but instead ask novel questions around the same point.
We started on AWS in ~2014 but it got too complicated for us to tolerate.
My latest AWS complexity trigger was trying to set up a public S3 bucket. It's almost like they want you to screw it up on purpose. We were mostly working with .NET/Windows Server so we looked at alternatives sometime around 2020.

Our stack today has us using AWS for domain registration & S3. We use Azure for everything else. We actually log into AWS by going to the Microsoft MyApps portal and authenticating via our AAD/Entra credentials. Microsoft's docs regarding how to set up SCIM/SAML auth to AWS are excellent [0].

In Azure, we use ~5 products: AAD/Entra ID, DNS, Azure Functions, SQL Server, Azure Blob Storage. That's it. There isn't really any VM/container presence in our go-forward infra. Everything is managed/'serverless' now. There are some VMs but they are supporting legacy systems that will eventually be turned off. We have ZERO custom networking. I couldn't explain how to manage an azure vnet to save my life. We don't need VPN tech anymore either.

Github Actions->Azure Functions is pretty much the end game CI/CD experience for me. I am not rocking this boat. I never want to try anything else. I've spend a decade of my life keeping some flavor of Jenkins alive.

Could we do all this "cheaper"? Sure. But at what cost? My mental state is something that is a non-zero factor in all of this. Keeping track of hundreds of moving pieces in production is simply overwhelming. It's unnecessary suffering. I need something I can explain in 20 minutes to a new hire if we want to remain competitive.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/referen...
Video Gift Box tanked in the end, unfortunately. A really great group of guys gave a good run at it though, and I made a few bucks by licensing the patent to them while they tried. But thanks!
I love that Ctrl+Scroll to zoom is built in!
Always missed that in Gnome terminal and had to use Wezterm.
Well, GitHub is certainly in control of their own platform and a problem entirely done by themselves. For example, not making pre-release Xcode versions available on their images, or by default selecting 1-year-old versions of macOS (and as a result throwing everyone into a side quest just to get started)... and ultimately charging 3x the regular pricing for this is absurd.
Glad he provided a transcript, which is technically, a book.
It wasn't until I discovered Anki a few years ago that I finally was able to remember my parents' and sisters' birthdays (despite calendar reminders every year).

Why remember something that can be looked up? Latency; it's super useful to have things appear in your brain so you can immediately do something useful with them instead of slowing down and looking something up and potentially losing context.
Books work well and have been the standard for learning
many topics for hundreds of years.
They have few technical problems,
Easy to sell, borrow, give away.

Yes, you can go about reading a book in different ways
depending on what and why you are reading and what works
for you.

I think it is highly unfortunate that universities these days,
at least in science, then to force students to buy a new edition
every year, or at least every couple of years.

There are just about no scientific discoveries in math that requires
undergraduate and few matters that require an entirely new edition
of graduate books.

I have also heard but never experienced that some books apparently
have an online component that is valid only for one person or one
semester or possibly one student per semester.
If true this is even worse.

I strongly prefer books to videos.
A lecture is good to prepare you or to wet your appetite.
And to clarify known difficult spots in the book.
Phi2 trained on synthetic datasets from OpenAPI. Textbook is all you need paper also talks about using output from ChatGPT to build training models.

So Bytedance gets account revoked but tons of other models are allowed.

China bans US companies, US does same to China.

We are both almost the same. Sure they have a more authoritarian government but ours isn’t quite a liberal democracy either.

It’s competition all the way down.
I want to know why the package was seized by the police and what happened next!
> If something's easy to remember, I don't need Anki.

That probably depends on what and how much you are trying to memorize with Anki. It is easy to learn a few words in a foreign language, but try to learn three to five new words per day for a year straight and suddenly you realize how far spaced repetition can bring you.

For leeches, what helps is to create more cards with the same concept (and do not suspend the leech, you are right that is not a good idea). If I struggle learning a word, I create more sentences using that word, or connect it with synonyms and antonyms. For birthdays, maybe try to add some memories related to that birthday: some particular gift, a happy moment during that day, the weather or location where you celebrated... Just see what sticks :)
1. Why is it any different for hardware? Hardware is nowadays designed on computers too. It's all computers until someone sends it over to Asia where it is then manufactured.

2. Again, why is that different for hardware?

I really wonder why my friends who studied mechanical engineering have the privilege of making money with their inventions, while I cannot ...
Our car was £40k new. We've been paying £400/month for 2.5 years now. It's a 4 year lease. We still owe £22k. They gave us £7k for our old car - that was the difference between how much we owed and how much previous car was worth. Now the latest one we can buy for around £18k once the lease is up I think. Currently I'm being offered £31k for it. So, rough calculation is that the car cost us £120/month in the last 2.5 years if we sell it today. Pretty good deal I think.

Of course we realise we're paying for depreciation but I consider a car to be a fixed expense and honestly if you take a look at the numbers above it's not that bad and we drive a new, safe, no issues (free servicing) car every 3-4 years.
What if the AI is fully autonomous, pays its own hosting bill etc? Who gets the copyright?
Yea, it's always bugged us that we learn the way folks did hundreds of years ago.

Which is why we built https://www.munkle.it the way we did and focused on speed of review.

I used to not like the feeling that spaced repetition did (it's always in that slightly hard stage) but apparently that's what helps you remember.
When the walls fell in my opinion.
strong disagree. I own a rental and it is more general than that, even if you are a tiny player in market. 15% depends on your inputs, but zero is never the answer.

It isn't specific to apartments either.

If you are selling a car and need it gone today, you will have to set the price lower. Same is true with apartments.

I could wait 3 months to find someone to rent at 2k/month, or wait 1 month to find a renter at $1800/month, or wait one day at $1500/month.

Having an optimal vacancy isnt about monopoly, but the economic transaction cost associated with search [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_cost
The case of Kenneth Law and the shadowy world of online suicide kits
Most of the comparisons are encoded from source. The one that isn't is because re-encoding is a specific recommendation from the services that they are criticising. They are specifically showing that yes, that's a bad idea.
You don't need about:config to disable that, you can do it from the regular settings screen.
There aren't many options but you can take a ship. That's what I'm doing on the return leg on a trip next spring.
> Average iOS app build takes 30-45 minutes.

That sounds too awful to be true. Roughly how large are these average apps in terms of lines of code? I assume that's Swift rather than Objective-C?
Book Club Began 'Finnegans Wake' in 1995. After 28 Years, It Finally Reached End
Top Pillows to Scream into (2021)
Yup this mostly. After a "git push", Xcode Cloud takes care of building and submitting the test flight build. Even if it's just a couple of minutes, it quickly adds up (and also helps with context switch).
"Patched" Bitcoin DoS Still Vulnerable
What? Absolutely question it. Let me know if you find an answer that’s significantly more believable than, “trying to balance local quality of life, long term environmental and economic viability, and short term economic prosperity and political stability.”

If you have a different balance to strike that you think is significantly and obviously better, I’m sure the whole world is interested in hearing it.
Is open-domain the same thing as public domain?
Expiration dates work for things like that. No need to store social media posts for longer than a few days. Transient data doesn’t need to be permanently pinned. It’s not a pure archive. Certain sites can be archived.
Why do we always have to prove this in one direction? You could take the opposite stance and say that we don't need any patents because look at open source and how stuff is created without anyone being paid crazy sums of money.
> separate CI platform just for iOS?

What else is there? For web things I already have some GitHub actions taking care of the work.
Learn the month and day separately?
I can see highly detailed visions of objects, however they tend to change in subtle ways the more I look at them, and at the edges of the image it tends to be foggy.

If I try to expand my attention with more details around the edges, the image will begin to morph in some ways very similar (but also not similar) to Google's Deep Dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream

I also can typically recall very accurate images of actual elephants, and where I saw them last, like from a documentary or a zoo, however my brain will fill in details. So I can't usually look at a license plate and decode it after the fact, but sometimes I can, which is pretty neat when it works. (Not something I can rely on unfortunately)
If I were* the median atom in the universe, how many times would I have been through a full star cycle? 0? 1? 3000?

* I’m not, but I’m just saying, “If I were” (but I’m not)
>remember they don’t use it for anything internally

Google does use Google Cloud internally for some things. Source: I work for Google.
Found the tool I was talking about after searching in my backup drive with old stuff. It was a small tool df_snowfall from 2006 downloaded from a now defunct warez site www.darfun.tk. Might have downloaded it along with some other software. Windows 10 kept complaining it's a trojan and didn't run it correctly even with compatibility mode.
Yeah reading that comment felt like the twilight zone. Microsoft is foremost a software company and they host everything on Azure. Amazon's software services offering is a speck of dust in comparison. Amazon cannot dogfood AWS more than Microsoft dogfoods Azure.
Yeah med students seem to be unique in the amount of stuff they need to remember, at least in terms of users Ive worked with. The amount of things medical students need to memorize to pass their USMLE exams is insane. I designed and built a learning tool at a startup for med students using picture mnenomics and spaced repetition quizzing that seriously helped those students and lead to the startup being acquired.
Western Sydney University to get DeepSouth neuromorphic supercomputer
Ulgh why didn't the blog link to "Why books donʼt work" https://andymatuschak.org/books/

Some select disjoint passages:

> Like lectures, books have no carefully-considered cognitive model at their foundation, but the medium does have an implicit model. And like lectures, that model is transmissionism. Sequences of words in sequences of lines in sequences of pages, the form of a book suggests people absorb knowledge by reading sentences. In caricature: “The author describes an idea in words on the page; the reader reads the words; then the reader understands the idea. When the reader reaches the last page, they’ve finished the book.” Of course, most authors don’t believe that people learn things this way, but because the medium makes the assumption invisible, it’s hard to question.

> Readers must learn specific reflective strategies. “What questions should I be asking? How should I summarize what I’m reading?” Readers must run their own feedback loops. “Did I understand that? Should I re-read it? Consult another text?” Readers must understand their own cognition. “What does it feel like to understand something? Where are my blind spots?”

> These skills fall into a bucket which learning science calls “metacognition.” The experimental evidence suggests that it’s challenging to learn these types of skills, and that many adults lack them.Baker, L. (1989). Metacognition, comprehension monitoring, and the adult reader. Educational Psychology Review, 1(1), 3–38. Worse, even if readers know how to do all these things, the process is quite taxing. Readers must juggle both the content of the book and also all these meta-questions. People particularly struggle to multitask like this when the content is unfamiliar.

> My collaborator Michael Nielsen and I made an initial attempt with Quantum Country, a “book” on quantum computation. But reading this “book” doesn’t look like reading any other book. The explanatory text is tightly woven with brief interactive review sessions, meant to exploit the ideas we just introduced. Reading Quantum Country means reading a few minutes of text, then quickly testing your memory about everything you’ve just read, then reading for a few more minutes, or perhaps scrolling back to reread certain details, and so on.
Well that's your choice of course. I like Xcode Cloud because it knows what I expect for building an app and gets the job done. I don't like systems that need me to fiddle with infinite number of config files before they can do anything useful for me.
I don't have an input.conf file on my OnePlus phone. There are bt_stack.conf and bt_did.conf in the same directory though.
This is a very interesting read. Thanks.
In fact, I discovered Wilkie Collins through (and thoroughly enjoyed) Drood; but now I find my Dickens is lacking and I need to explore beyond A Christmas Carol. But reading Dan Simmons is a delight, whether it’s Hyperion, or his Stephen King-esque works, or my favourite, The Terror, which is something else again.
Do not start with Tailwind. If you have no grasp of CSS beforehand, Tailwind will be completely incomprehensible. At the basic level, Tailwind is giving you shorthand CSS properties. You need to learn CSS first.
It's not your imagination. Novels are getting weirder
Japan is a cuddlier friend to South-East Asia than America or China
Bluetooth is the gift that keeps on giving. Not sure why my Ubuntu insists on enabling it on every boot, at least on my hardware.

Good thing PC peripherals moved away from this junk. It was fascinating watching Logitech sell 300 euro BT keyboard with literally a second of lag, or "high end" mice with 500ms or more.

Hell, I barely use my PS5 controller because it sucks ass compared to my old Xbox 360 pad. Lag, lag, lag. 8 guess the majority does not notice or care, though.
I'm not familiar with the concept of 'online' DDL. Does asynchron means I sacrifice consistency in this example?

ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN foo;
SELECT * FROM table;
-- may return column foo, or may not?

DDL is still not safe to use in transactions, right?
Show HN: Visualising Rising Temperatures for the Netherlands
Something I've been working on this weekend: visualising climate change in the Netherlands.
https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/rising-temperatures

I particularly liked the heatmap with monthly temperature data since the 1900s. It's a lot of scrolling, but you can clearly see that climate is accelerating since the '90s.
https://archive.is/qSudu
Ive talked to a few people formerly at OpenAI a few years ago - the deviation from the original mission was a “boiling frog” process that is best demarcated when the Anthropic founders left. The core team doing the actual science and engineering work did legitimately believe in the open research mission. But when funding was hard to find, things kind of broke.
You can buy the startups after year one or two when they realize they make money but can't borrow money to pay their taxes.
Show HN: Alternative Front End to GPT, Claude, or Mistral Flask/Socketio
Hey all, I've been lucky enough to sprint on this open source project during the last two weeks during work, a bunch of new features, you can now edit any message and also Mistral inference platform was added.
How would you reliably unlock the phone and get to the dialer app? Given how varied home screen layouts are, even an unlocked phone might be hard to attack this way
My guess is that they don't want their technology to be used to modernize the PRC's military.

Just the other day (PDF warning): https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...

> Pillar II: Stem the Flow of U.S. Capital and Technology Fueling the PRC’s Military Modernization and Human Rights Abuses

> U.S. export controls have been slow to adapt to rapid changes in technology and attempts by adversaries to blur the lines between private and public sector entities, particularly the PRC’s strategy of Military-Civil Fusion.

> “The military is for civilian use, the civilian is military, and the military and civilian are fused.” In other words, no line exists between civilian and military technological development. U.S. export controls have yet to adapt to this reality
Nice writeup! It could be that it wrote the last value to some flash memory but since it is invalid and overflows something, it panics and will never finish booting.
The university textbook issue was big when I was a student in the mid-late 90s.

In fact, one of my CS professors went on a rant about it, how it is simply a way to invalidate the used book market... he then told us to buy books from an online storefront with this funny name (that he assured us had nothing to do with the rainforest) that sold them for a sizable discount instead our own university bookstore.
Mercury Seeking $30M from Synapse
Likely each successful strategies for the different specializations.
A hierarchical numbering scheme is exactly the prefix system I just described. Pregenerating numbers still doesn’t solve the problem that the carrier doesn’t know when any given number goes from “generated, will be handed out someday” to “awaiting pickup.”
Great point, especially about Lochner.
Most books are very badly written.
Every thought we have is visual. My theory is some people are in touch enough with their thought process that they consider the thought an image but others focus on strictly on the image coming from their eyes. It's a question of focus.
I like books, but I basically agree with the idea that the traditional front-to-back text narrative format is hugely inefficient. I think a lot of people interpret technological developments as some of natural process, and therefore the omnipresence and long existence of books implies that they are a great learning method.

In reality, though, the format of a book itself is probably just more "evolutionarily fit" compared to alternatives. If a device that could record and replay audio was somehow invented prior to the printing press, it seems highly likely to me that we'd live in a audio-based world, not a text one. After all, societies spent thousands of years using only spoken language, with writing as a fairly recent phenomenon.

A more efficient book system, IMO, would incorporate spaced repetition more directly, whether by highlighting the key points at the bottom of each page, or even by deliberately including "reminder" paragraphs throughout the book.
Immutable = no updates is just a complete misunderstanding of what an immutable OS is.

In fact, it's the exact opposite. It makes it much easier and safer to update because you can immediately roll back to a working version if something breaks.
Scientists are bringing molecules back from the dead in quest to fight superbugs
For conversation, "last October" is easier than "last month 10"
Unveiling the Dark Genome: Line-1's Role in Disease
>> (I found this behaviour amusing, since the whole point of using Anki is to help me learn things that are difficult to remember!)

> Eliminating 10% of the most difficult items in a generic material may produce an increase in the speed of learning of up to 300%.

https://super-memory.com/articles/theory.htm
If you want to feel more challenge - try the "experimental" difficulty level for opponents. And maybe enable AI cheating (they would see cards in your hand).

Normally, I believe, AI can blunder or miss some triggers. But with these settings they'll try to play more optimally.
Spinal Cord Stimulation Alleviates Phantom Limb Pain in Amputees
This seems correct, however 'ClassicBondedOnly=true' is commented out in '/etc/bluetooth/input.conf' in Fedora 39 with bluez v5.70-4 anyways.
Citation please? Not a sarcastic question, asking so that I can learn. My source was Ryszard Kapuscinski's book.
Vue 2 is Approaching End Of Life
I find two things help me learn:

A top down description: start with what something is, why it's important, and how it fits in with other things, then an outline of the details, then the finer details and so on. This is almost impossible to find in textbooks or lectures, which for the most part are bottom up.

Trying to figure out the thing without any help, or very little help, at each step of the above. This sounds pointless, but it actually works really well. If I try my best to figure out how something works without knowing anything I end up "priming" my brain for the answer, and end up getting a (relatively) instant understanding. It's like you make a hole that is the rough shape of the answer in your mind and the answer fills the void. Put another way you motivate your brain to wanting to know what it is. The best bit is how far you can get by yourself and the positive feeling that gives you.

This might just be me, I've never met anyone who feels the same way about learning.
Can someone walk me through how you'd use what open ai offers to train your own model?