skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genetic programming algorithms don't start cold just as FunSearch doesn't start cold. It starts with a partial Python program with "missing" lines that the system has to fill-in. That's pretty much schema-guided program synthesis, to a t, down to the generate-and-test approach.

Unfortunately you won't find any references to that kind of earlier work in DeepMind's paper (as in most of their papers), so here's a paper I found on the internets with six second search that explains what that is:

Intuitively, a program schema is an abstraction of a class of actual programs,
in the sense that it represents their data-flow and control-flow, but neither con-
tains all their actual computations nor all their actual data structures. Program
schemas have been shown to be useful in a variety of applications. In synthesis,
the main idea is to simplify the proof obligations by taking the difficult ones
offline, so that they are proven once and for all at schema design time. Also, the
reuse of existing programs is made the main synthesis mechanism

https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-...

See section 4, "Schema-guided synthesis" page 41.
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Note that if your updates are much smaller than a page, you're gonna have a bad time with LMDB. Optimizations like WAL and group commit exist for a reason.
"Why would anyone hand code a website?" - a FrontPage user in the 90s
For years, my password was:
I can't, your honor, the password itself is a confession.
Reminds me of the wonderful idea, Data is the new toxic waste. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/secure-futures-magazine/data-...

There's too many awful or just self-dealing forces in the world which will legislate access to user's data. There's nothing your company can do to defend itself. The situation will only intensity and get worse, governments will only ever expand their legal access to the cloud's many data-keeps.

Data is toxic. It's a risk to your company, given the 195 different nations which each might hit you up to demand uncomfortable & scary privileges. Having data will encourage people in your company to use it, which half the time is bad & scary. Don't have data.

This goes against so many of my desires, is against my aspirations for the Information Age, but it seems so impossible to give users their own sovereignty, to leave them in control. Everyone else has all the power over the data, and that makes data toxic.
The other biker definitely isn't safer for it.
The visual experience happens in your brain, not your eyes. There's multiple ways to have a visual experience. It doesn't have to come from the optic nerve.
The platform security guide PDF (May 2022) on the page you linked is a lot more detailed and explains it better https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...

The escrow is only an additional layer of security - your device still has to decrypt the downloaded keychain contents using your password AFTER proving to escrow that you're allowed to download the encrypted keychain using device or SMS 2FA or an iCloud security code.
Maybe they'll add a way to mute every channel in a server at once one day!
My theory: HN somehow sees the Twitter account is new(ish). It has only 2 tweets, follows 0 other users. And thus in quarantaine ([dead], needs somebody to vouch) because likely it's spam or self-promotion.
I bought a big spool of addressable lights from Aliexpress and hooked them up to an ESP32. Took some soldering and other hacking, but they’re really, really, nice.
Why wouldn't it? It's not as if the fact that some conspiracies are real means that they all are. There are plenty of loons who have all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories many of which have been proved wrong like satanic rituals in the non-existent basement of a pizza shop or the Earth being flat.

As long as there are paranoid people believing in crazy things without evidence (and often in opposition of actual evidence to the contrary) and others taking advantage of those people, the idea of "conspiracy theory" will flourish.

We just have to understand that not all conspiracy theories are equal, and that legitimate concerns can get dismissed as being a "conspiracy theory". We'll always have to evaluate theories involving conspiracies according to the evidence we have and decide for ourselves how likely they are and which ones are worth our time/energy.
Invasion isn’t required. The current regime has managed to survive and make strategic gains via proxies to emerge as a regional power despite crippling sanctions for decades. They are supplying drones to Russians. If they formalize a military-economic bloc with Russia and China, it would be a far more dangerous (but likely) outcome.
Oh, nice! I saw this announced in a recent Microsoft paper and was wondering how long it would take to come out. They should make a bigger deal about this than just a tweet, IMO.
I think it would be interesting to put an LLM in front of a text adventure engine so that it could interpret user input to try to match with available commands.
How do i know if it's incriminating or not?
> Mobile push notifications must be centrally managed due to iOS and Android app store policies.

Is there any legitimate technical reason for this, or is it just Apple and Google being evil?
In 1988 :cry:

This is why we can’t have good things.
Support open source

https://github.com/raidendotai/openv0
No, they don't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death#...
Using “grouping calculation” for “clustering algorithm” is absolutely hilarious to me.
Is it sudden? Most business aren’t advertising the fact they’re slowly failing.
Nicely said.

Personally I view it all as a sliding scale with varying techniques coming into play depending on the parameters. Eg networked computers have physical separation and typically independent operational failure domains which is a + (a failing component doesn’t take out the system) and - (requires complex algorithms like distributed concensus and has unique performance issues due to the latencies involved between components). But fundamentally even a single computer can still be viewed as a distributed system and I don’t see that as splitting hairs. Your memory controller, storage controller have non trivial pieces of software running with their own failure modes. The kernel running on the CPU is another component. Sure you don’t need distributed consensus per se but for example some RAID configurations look an awful lot like what you’d do in a distributed storage system (erasure codes, monitoring the state of individual disks to know if recovery is needed when a component fails etc). There’s a lot of work to hide that distributed system complexity behind APIs and standards but that’s also true for web services (eg S3 exposes a decentish distributed storage interface and you don’t have to reason about the consensus problems it’s managing for you under the hood).

For example, take the Pixel Buds 2. That has 5 microprocessors communicating with each other and links can go up and down between them. There’s no consensus done and we did a lot to hide the messaging complexity but I would still count that as a distributed system (even more so once you factor in that you also need a host machine to pair with). And all the distributed systems problems came about (eg if you think a connection is there but then it disappears and you missed that signal and didn’t update your state).
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That very much depends on the individual's visual capacity. Some can imagine very detailed images. I'd guess your right about most people though, but not all. Temple Grandin has written on what it's like to be a visual thinker. She compares her mental visualization to the Star Trek holodeck. Language is secondary to her. Something she has to translate pictures back and forth to in order to understand words.
I'm disappointed with the new pricing for self-hosted Zulip customers. While I understand the need to monetize, charging a flat rate of $8/month/user for push notifications seems excessive, especially when notifications are the only feature that can't work without purchasing a plan. It would be more transparent and fair to charge based on the number of notifications sent instead of a per-seat basis. The current pricing model could discourage small organizations from using Zulip, as adding a new member becomes a significant financial decision.
I think the "C" in ACID indeed refers to application-defined integrity constraints (or "invariants"). Referential integrity is just one example; unique key constraints are another. This has nothing to do with the "C" in CAP, which is best interpreted (IMO) as linearizability.

(Aside: IMO the "C" in ACID implies "I" and specifically serializability, because that is the only isolation level guaranteed to preserve arbitrary application invariants.)
You actually don't need abelian. e.g. the group of 1d affine transformations T(a,b)(x) = ax+b gives a variation of a wavelet transform. But you no longer have 1-D irreducible representations, so your Fourier coefficients become operators instead of numbers or something like that.
Encryption against air I suppose
It's not a “do over”, it's a “do the rest, because maybe there are other lessons we need to learn as well”.
VPN/Ingress could definitely be defined as a web service. Either way thats just picking on semantics. It strikes me as odd that an article about self-hosting would have so little of it in it.
Plus a million or two paying Harry's legal costs.
Unfortunately the encrypted phone market is a total mess. The Darknet Diaries podcast has a good episode about this. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/105/
Nice writeup! It reminded me of trying to reverse engineer some lights I have, only to discover they’re encrypted. One is an amaran 60d and then the rest are a handful of SmallRig RM75 battery LED lights, and I wanted to make a script to turn them all on/off instead of fiddling with 2 separate apps.

I spent a bunch of time trying to reverse engineer the apps and the protocol, and it turns out both of these lights seem to use the same negotiation process but use different libraries to do it. I tried to mimic the Diffie-Hellman key exchange process they do on connection, and then kinda gave up. IIRC there was another step or 2 after that, one where it sent a random-looking number (another key? After sending the first key??) and I couldn’t figure out what it wanted there.

Your writeup makes me think I should just go try that hardcoded key and see if it works…
I have an extremely vivid internal imagination that could picture pretty much anything on demand. The same thing with my internal dialogue, I could basically "summon up" songs or vocals in other voices or just lines for movies basically just everything that I've ever heard at least once before.

For visualizing things I don't even really need to close my eyes I could just I guess you could call it daydream and just focus on trying to picture these things with my eyes open and it's like I could see both what my eyes see and what I'm imagining at the same time not like overlaid into reality or anything but just like two separate streams playing at once but giving time slicing to each with obviously more going to reality because that's kind of more important.

Edit: it's actually really hard for me to imagine that people can't do this and I've been working really hard on trying to not be judgmental against people who can't because it just seems so natural to me. And it's not like I'm psychotic or something or schizophrenic... I got my mental issues like long diagnosed ADHD since I was 2 years old but that doesn't disconnect me from reality in any way.

But I do know that there are some people out there who, are probably maybe fundamental religious people, who have a issue realizing that thoughts that they have aren't actually things that they consciously want to do... Like they judge themselves upon the sins that they think of in their mind. I find that weirder honestly. Imagine being haunted by judging yourself and your own moral compass upon the random brain firings that your subconscious has and brings to your consciousness. That's a self-imposed to hell that I couldn't even imagine, I mean they are just thoughts, learn how to meditate or something, let thoughts wash over you and realize that they are just thoughts don't try to push them down or silence them because that's not how brains work. Oh and also don't act on them but that shouldn't really have to be said. You're sentient being and you can filter what your subconscious thinks and what your consciousness picks up from it.
Here is the one I made: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PoQSljlT5-dungeon-quest

It's inspired by Fighting Fantasy. Uses Python to do dice rolls such as for creating the character.

Generates images and tracks things like inventory and stats consistently.
Pretty good considering the rest of the industry.

The bad ships are typically going to be older and owned by a layer cake of shell companies instead of a famous shipping line.
> Maybe some negative things happen but it doesn't feel like it at the time.

I sometimes have dreams that any normal person would probably consider a nightmare, but I don't experience a nightmare. I'll wake up, and then realize that the dream I just woke up from probably should've been extremely scary, but I wasn't scared. Maybe it's the autism.
It seems pretty reasonable to say, “if you want to send a push notification from an app, you should be the controller of the app”.

The alternative would be that anyone could send notifications to an app, which seems destined for abuse. There could be a system where apps could have some mechanism for allowing authorized third parties to send push notifications, but that seems essentially the same as routing those through a central system.
Allotropes of Iron
Between WW2 and the Korean War my grandpa was in the army. He was assigned to transcribe intercepted Soviet telegraphs on a typewriter which would then be passed on to the actual codebreakers. His work was probably useful and helpful to our efforts to oppose the USSR, but he never considered his work more important than that of the actual codebreakers, which he thought was much more difficult and required much more talent/ability. And he didn't consider himself more important than all the other guys in his unit doing the same transcription work as him.

I've noticed that for almost every example of "important historical female/minority/whatever" that gets promoted as being forgotten or overlooked there are dozens if not hundreds of straight white men with the same achievements if not greater. The ones that did standout things that actually make them memorable tend to be, y'know, remembered. The outright lies that get shared (like traffic lights being invented by a black man) just make it even more insulting.
Thanks a ton. I do have some questions based on your feedback.

What do you mean by experience? As a consumer or moreso experience that the particular solution is viable?

A story on the product or of the founder(s)? I feel like I've got the latter covered. I have plenty of stories of when the product would have been very useful and a couple friends to vouch. Does that count?

Another question. Does it look bad when you can't bootstrap? Doing development in my spare time is fine. This particular idea though can't be done totally in my spare time nor could I bootstrap unless I was a lot wealthier, although it's not as high as I make it out to be.

When is too early to plan a pilot? I've got the majority of a pilot planned already because that's just how my brain works. Designed it to be as minimalist as possible so I could test the waters. Would that be a good sign? Do they really care about this level of detail? Or does the idea of a pilot turn them off because there's no substance yet?

Basically, how can I go in with as little as possible and get enough to run that pilot? "Little" in this case being "hey, I believe in this, but there's no way to do this other than to show you".

Sorry for all the questions. :-)
This sounds a lot like this more-general description of high-strength psychedelic visuals: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Geometry#Level_8A_and_level_...
Always found it funny how "the stack", which exists in MTG to make it more deterministic and comprehensible, also makes this kind of arbitrary complexity easier to reason about and pull off.

Also, how consistent the rules are overall. e.g. the players themselves count as planeswalkers.
Rayed BQN: a game framework ported to an APL-like language
I struggle to think of a planet that wouldn't have the necessary ingredients for an industrial revolution. I don't think you need fossil fuels at all; on Earth, even without fossil fuels, we probably could have eventually gone from biofuels to wind/hydro power to solar/nuclear (these requiring a lot of energy for the refinement/processing of raw resources). It would have been a slow and gradual process, but if this process took about ~150 years with fossil fuels, I bet it would have only taken something like 500 years without them - a tiny blip in time, really.

I think any planet capable of hosting carbon-based life would be able to at least produce wind energy, and probably most (assuming a rocky planet with liquid water and an atmosphere containing oxygen) would be able to develop all the energy types I mentioned. Solar and nuclear might be relatively less feasible if certain elements aren't common on that planet, and battery storage might also suffer from lack of resources. But wind and hydro alone are probably sufficient to eventually be able to develop controlled fusion down the line and have most energy-resource issues obviated.

Even if you imagine some exotic form of life not like ours at all, on a planet that doesn't necessarily have water or an atmosphere, the life has to be able to derive energy from some kind of external source, whether it's by facilitating some chemical reaction like our deep sea micro-organisms or photosynthesis. Most likely that energy can be harvested in an automated fashion, and it's probably relatively abundant if life is able to evolve to the point of intelligence. For it to be completely inaccessible due to lack of resources, IMO you'd have to get into truly strange scenarios like intelligent life somehow developing in a nebula or the atmosphere of a gas giant.
IANAL but you could likely successfully claim that you forgot where the key is, exactly because that's a product of the mind. If they have evidence that you do actually know then you might be compelled to hand it over, though.
It's rare to find volatile compounds like phosphate and sodium on the surface of a meteorite because they leach out and vaporize. It would make sense on a comet which form in the outer zone of our protoplanetary disk and shed their surface continuously due to all the water, but not a magnesium-rich asteroid that would have formed closer to the center of the solar system where the sun would have boiled volatile compounds off quickly, without a way for replacement compounds to migrate to the surface.
Thanks for posting this. After needing to look up "Ketamine Infusion Therapy", I didn't find the further info about half-life, which is exactly what I was wondering.

The article mentions something about the source of the Ketamine not being found in the house. Yet, it seems it was probably administered within a few hours of his death. Speculating here, it appears he may have A) been taking additional Ketamine outside of prescribed medical supervision and B) he administered it himself and the person who found him dead disposed of the evidence due to it being unprescribed/illegal or, C) the Ketamine was administered in a 'house call' fashion by an unknown person who departed before intoxicated, semi-conscious Matt decided to get in the hot tub, fell unconscious and went into cardiac arrest. If so, that person is obviously not coming forward due to their illegal activities as well as now potential for manslaughter charges (at minimum).

This scenario reminds me of Michael Jackson in that it appears to involve extremely potent anesthesiology drugs being used unsafely by a celebrity who didn't intend to kill themselves and who didn't seem to think they were doing something so recklessly dangerous. It's really sad and, even worse, might lead to further collateral damage if it causes legit medically supervised Ketamine therapy to be even further restricted. It's not like we have much in the way of effective treatments for treatment-resistant major depression and ketamine seems promising.
Oh cool - we just did a writeup on Ragas so will check this one out!
If only IPFS worked a little bit faster. It would be nice to have a browser where you can publish static content to IPFS and pin it through tor.

It’s a shame that JavaScript can’t create peer to peer connections, not that most home routers would work with NAT anyway.

This is all by design. The vast majority of the web could be hosted by each user reserving 2GB of space and distributing the published content.
This "vibe" check that it's even better than GPT-4 Turbo is not what its Elo rating shows on the Chatbot Arena based on not 1 but thousands of user votes.
GPT-4 (Turbo) is in a league of its own still.
Definitely a threat at the nation-state actor level, the NSA are already providing guidance on how to use encryption today that is resistant to future advances in computation that would data recorded today to be decrypted later.

https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...
Really appreciate you chiming in. (Also, as much as I really don't like the pricing change, I do really appreciate Zulip and its features!)

I feel like the comment is a bit disingenuous, however; the complaint isn't "Zulip Business only includes push notifications" - rather, it's "the only thing I'd want out of paying for Zulip is push notifications." And indeed I would very happily pay for just notifications (which I assume costs a negligible fraction of the pricing) if it was a more reasonable price point (on the order of say, a dollar per user per month would still be a very healthy margin).

I suspect a lot of folks in a similar boat as me - sysadmins who pushed for Zulip as a Slack alternative at a small startup (with a nontrivial amount of convincing!) and are happy to deal with the hassles of self-hosting and don't ask for support. Having the price be exactly the same as a fully hosted solution, given the particular set of needs, then does feel like too much. I get that support is expensive, but having the option to not get support would be nice.

Of course, I totally get that you need to stay afloat, and it might be a short term way to get some money out of self-hosted customers. But it removes things that make Zulip appealing to someone who doesn't want support and would like to pay a more nominal fee for notifications (and certainly makes me less a lot likely to recommend it to someone setting up a new chat system, and I've done this a few times already).
Enough to built a dirty bomb and set it off in any country in the area that would have supported the strike.

You don't attack a country that can produce fissil material.
I think the point is that it's much harder to start something new then it is to just complete something that you already know exactly what to do.

Kinda like how it's harder to start writing from a blank page.
Based. Upvoted.