skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, let me say that I think your comment is fantastic. Not that many people have the capacity to think through military justice issues in all their nuance. New convening authorities often have a more tenuous grasp of the interplay between courts-martial and discharge characterizations than you just demonstrated.

There's potentially some question as to whether the President has the power to pardon the conviction and impose an OTH, because an OTH implicates a liberty interest and requires a hearing unless waived. See, e.g., Vierrether v. United States, 27 Fed. Cl. 357, 364 (1992), aff'd without op., 6 F.3d 786 (Fed. Cir. 1993), cert. denied, 511 U.S. 1030 (1994).

However, I'd be hard pressed to find any objection to unilaterally imposing an administrative discharge with a General (Under Honorable Conditions) characterization. Alternatively, there is nothing preventing the President from making the pardon conditional.
I follow like 30 accounts on Twitter and it’s a perfectly enclosed little bubble, I really only see what I want.

But whenever I try Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads as a brand new account without anyone to follow it’s just same US politics shit. Trump, Trump bad, nazis, AOC,
Trump, gender, trans rights, nazis, republicans, Trump, gender etc. This is what I see right now on Bluesky What’s Hot, this is what I see right now
on Mastodon Explore.

The fact that even Mastodon pushing the rage bait (“ These are posts from across the social web that are gaining traction today”) which is supposed to
be the ‘healthy’ and ‘better’ social
media site shows how deep
problems we have.

If really that’s what an average Joe and Jane sees when they just want to try out these services then
no one wonder the world is going
worse by each passing day.
By that standard what evidence would you ever accept? They almost certainly have video - prisons have cameras everywhere
Facebook Marketplace has/had a huge problem where nefarious persons from Africa sending you a Google voice verify code. They says the code is to verify you are selling the item. The scam works by getting the code back and obtaining a google voice number. They use the numbers for the real scams, FB marketplace is just the starting point.
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Kind of reminded me of how just before WeWork came crashing down it raised more money at a $47 billion valuation. Besides the fact that both companies have (or rather, had) lofty valuations, there are some other interesting parallels. There's the lack of any real moat. There's the insane amounts of cash they were spending, on leases in WeWork's case, and tech infra in the case of OpenAI. Both were lead by highly charismatic CEO's who were arguably their respective company's greatest asset, but also perhaps their greatest liability.

Kind of also reminded me of how Andreesen Horowitz gave Adam Neumann $350 million back in 2022 for some new real-estate venture. I mean, at this point, it seems very stupid to give him more money, and yet people who appear to be "in the know" are not only giving him more money, but absolutely insane amounts of money.

I bring up this latter point because it's one of those things that kind of makes you question what you understand. Why are otherwise smart and knowledgeable people doing something that seems stupid? Are you wrong? Or are they wrong? I mean, they know more than you do, so normally you would be wrong, but in this case what they're doing seems so stupid that you aren't so sure.

I feel similarly about AI. Not that I think AI is necessarily stupid. I for one am excited about what could come from applying AI to drug discovery. It just seems kind of crazy to create a machine that's really good at next token prediction and extrapolate from that all these crazy predictions. That this will lead to machines capable of understanding, reasoning, intelligence, and eventually, AGI.

Either the experts are wrong, or I'm wrong, and I'm normally inclined to believe in the experts, but in this case what they believe is so nutty that I really have to question things.
It's ironic that a service called "Bluesky", a word that Merriam-Webster defines as meaning "characterized by unconstrained optimism or imagination", looks so boring and Twitter-like.
While this may not be a practically important problem, I can't readily come up with a more important problem in computer science off the top of my head.
Vegan chef - who, Gaz Oakley?
Whatever Pinterest does should result in them being yeeted from all search engines, tbh.
“we will control the superintelligence and it will serve us.”

That is not optimism, that just sounds contradictory. The only thing that could stop that immortal superintelligence from use us as lubricating oil maintainers til end of the days will be to cross fingers, and that certainly sounds religious.

Perhaps could be avoided persuading such intelligence to respect an equality of rights between us, or similar. Therefore, forget about your cheap servant. Since then, to try til the end of the days to don't make doubt that intelligence about our intentions.

I do not expect the artificial intelligence in this century, given the current state, nevertheless the constant pursuing for to bring it to life will success at that time.

And this success will not be shown as human intelligence, it will be like if it were an alien intelligence, nevertheless such intelligence will find easy to understand us due our simplicity and that will be feed with all our patterns.

I have no interest in to be there when happens.

And I guess there is no stop, humanity is this stupid; even if it is prohibited will be someone experimenting for feeding egos.
I currently have mistral 7b running on my phone through the MLCChat app. The performance isn’t too bad for something running on phone hardware. I’d consider that decent, if not world beating.
Because having the code my phone still doesn't get them into my banking applications which have passwords that I have to sign into.

I also don't use Apple's password manager so they would have to know another master password to access the passwords for my apps
Good place to put more GPUs, and nice something came out of the Foxconn scam.
The vertical blank interrupt was how many games did their screen updates and played music.

Those were good days writing demos and crack intros.
Even if you mainly follow tech folks, there are many who get very political…
"faulty software" compared to the human factor?

that's like asking "do you trust a spreadsheet where the math is done by a computer and not verified by a human".

At some point in history... the answer would be "no way I'd trust numbers not checked by a human".

Today? It's easy to say we can trust software produced numbers.

The question becomes what is that cross over point?

Are you saying you don't think we'll get to a point where computers drive better than humans? I think we're closer to that point than you think and with defensive programming we can do so safely.
The other responses are quite good so I won't try to add to them. But this being HN, do have a look at

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/bo...

for an approach that might be especially appealing to hackers.
Pointers were a turning point in triggering my love of learning and improving myself. I remember learning C as a teenager, and all the resources warning me that once it got to pointers it’d get weird and hard.

I was mystified at first, but it was winter break and I decided I’d stick to it until made sense. I don’t remember if it took a few hours or a few days or the whole week, but when it clicked I felt so satisfied, and like I could take on anything from there. It was a really transformative moment.

I remember reading an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of the notoriously hard Dark Souls series, where he mentions having a similar experience with playing guitar and learning bar chords - and infusing that notion of satisfaction from overcoming big difficulty humps in his games.

It’s a really powerful feeling.
The tendency of the scientific community to cling to ignorant and clearly false notions about the intelligence of animals just baffles me. Its maliciously dissonant.
Tried to sign up for bs. With valid invitation code. Got an error message after the final stage. Again and again and again.

Social Media Companies that can't get their sign-up funnel in order have already failed.
Two friends and I started an impromptu coding session last night on my first Amstrad CPC464 bought in 1988. It turned out to be my name sinusoidally moving over the screen. It was so fun to discover BASIC commands and implement effects together. Only photos of the event left though because there was no tape to save the work :)
"Nothing is as temporary that which is permanent."
This seems dead on arrival to me. The feature provides no benefit to end users, but severely reduces the legitimate functionality of the product. (For instance, this makes the products useless for preventing luggage theft.)

At the same time, even if 99.9% of trackers have this built in, it still won’t prevent malicious use cases.

Anyway, I’m hoping it will be dead on arrival, but I fear that corrupt law enforcement organizations will try to get this mandated, since it will let them continue to steal luggage, and avoid dealing with people that would like their stolen items to be recovered.
I bet on jealousy.
tangentially this episode of Reply All about Foxconn and their plans in Mount Pleasant was one of their best https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd
> If it got the notion

To me, it seems like precisely this part got lost in translation
I used to do exactly the same. But then I developed RSI in my left forearm, which I blame on overusing it for all modifier keys (including CapsLock as my only Ctrl and only using left shift).

Afterwards, I used a Karabiner Elements script to completely block myself from pressing a left-hand modifier and left-hand letter key simultaneously, forcing myself to learn proper two-hand typing of modifiers. My arm feels better now, and I’ve actually finally appreciating having a Caps Lock key precisely due to the struggle you describe - I’m convinced that two-hand chording is healthier than pressing multiple keys simultaneously with one hand, but at the same time typing e.g. TODO out is then unbearable without a real caps lock key.
Looks like it might be spam in a different character set or something.
> Here we report on a rare and opportunistic acoustic turn-taking with an adult female humpback whale, known as Twain, in Southeast Alaska. Post hoc acoustic and statistical analyses of a 20-min acoustic exchange between the broadcast of a recorded contact call, known as a ‘whup/throp’, with call responses by Twain revealed an intentional human-whale acoustic (and behavioral) interaction.

Re-wording this in less-technical language, and including excerpts from the lead researchers didn’t make the article less informative, in my opinion.
> Mastodon puts too much onus on the user to pick a home server

So don't. There are multiple services you can pay a small fee to to host your own instance with only you on it.
No followers, not following anyone, yet somehow this showed up on my feed:
https://bsky.app/profile/minedoo.bsky.social

Yup. Bluesky is trash.
I think browsers should require sites to request access to WebGPU like they do location and camera.

If a random webpage is asking to use my GPU (especially if it's a sketchy-looking site I just got redirected to), that would raise flags and I'd deny access. If a game or visualization requests access, especially if it's something I've heard others praise, I'd take the risk.

Sure, someone could embed a vulnerability in some decent app which uses the GPU for actual rendering, but it's a lot harder.
> The twitter clones seem to play things very close to twitter's style. At least it looks that way to me as someone who isn't a heavy twitter user.

A lot of this is they're trying to capture the user base of an incumbent and users like familiarity.

> Also what is "failed as a social network" when Twitter, one of the biggest bleeds money as it is?

Twitter has millions of users and it doesn't cost a lot in infrastructure to host tweets. Twitter bleeds money because the company has been mismanaged (going back long before its current ownership), not because putting ads on a social network with that number of users couldn't turn a profit.

A "failed social network" is one that nobody uses.

> Or maybe UX where I actually feel like I can find or interact with things I want just doesn't work for profitability (Facebook doesn't show me what I want)?

There's probably a short-term/long-term thing here. Big companies run on metrics, so they make a change and the number goes up so they keep the change. But the way the change works is by frustrating people into spending more time on the site, which short-term increases the metrics and long-term makes people hate you and be eager to switch away at the first opportunity.

What you probably want here is a service with a single owner who actually uses it and cares about making the service good (and, most importantly, is competent), but what usually happens instead is it becomes a publicly traded company controlled by shareholders who institute the aforementioned metrics-based bureaucracy.

The key is somehow getting the one with benevolent leadership and the one with millions of users to be the same one.
So use a non human algorithm to optimize that problem by maybe collecting some huristics during a benchmark phase, and then the quantization step can take that into account based on specific pathways that are never hit because another expert is always better at that task and always gets picked. It seems like there is a ton of room for improvement there.
I love stuff like this. When I was 13, my "server" was the old family desktop running a Minecraft server I could access remotely via Hamachi. I really only programmed as a necessity to use Arduino. My tinkering was more of the "take apart batteries and set things on fire" variety.
to your final point I wonder what things I might be vulnerable to when I’m old, it seems hard to imagine right now
Probably worth pointing out that the budgie thing is also an interesting and noteworthy example, if you're trying to suggest this is commonplace you should reconsider
I assume you mean that Bluesky should make it a media RSS feed. I don't think it is something simple an end-user could do.
Drunk driving was one of many examples and one of many reasons people die driving. Did you not notice I also mentioned teen drivers (inexperienced drivers). And the full numbers of people killed by drivers - NOT just drunk drivers?

"if your thing makes a mistake it shouldn't be on the road" yet the roads are full of people that make mistakes. (Hint: thousands of them die every year learning. See above about kids dying each yar).

So you'll focus on one of many reasons to sidestep the question (bias of some sort?) so I'll say it again:

At some point computers will be smart enough, fast enough and safe enough to do a better job at driving than people. Mistakes will be made but - like drunk drivers - humans make mistakes too. So if we can move to a safer way... why wouldn't we? Why are you willing to sacrifice thousands of kids lives if we can eventually progress to a better and safer option?
> It's like, these social media companies wrote a SINGLE outrage-farming algorithm

They kind of did. The optimal solution of 'just show rage bait' can't take all that long to discover.
SVD is not going to compare with state of the art compression, but it has many uses and is very simple to implement.
How did you implement auto wake/suspend for your Synology NAS?
Lucky, those sound amusing.

All I get is the same damn advertisement for the Internet provider I already have. You’d think they’d be able to say “Google don’t send this ad to our customers.”
The Year That A.I. Came for Culture
I think they’re assuming always-on fully body scanners like the TSA uses. Real time nude video feeds of the whole planet are the only thing protecting us from terrorism and stuff.

Before they implement it, they’ll probably need an excuse other than “Think of the children” though.
The Federal government took exclusive jurisdiction over post offices in the 1940s.
The only way to truly have a "good" social media experience is to have a small site (a few hundred active people, maybe less who join slowly over a somewhat long period of time) where everyone has at least slightly overlapping interests.

I'm lucky enough to have found a site like this and it's epic. Better than any social media I've ever experienced. People actually care about each other. We have a community.
There was a program called Switcha published as a listing in Your Sinclair. You could make a 48K Sinclair Spectrum appear as three 16K machines. It installed an interrupt mode 2 handler and checked for a key combination to swap out the lower 16K of RAM. No reason it couldn’t have time sliced them.
The title is "Bill on mobilization of Ukrainians abroad to be ready in January." Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
> just mute every. Single. Thing.

'just' is working hard there. After the 20th attempt at avoiding crap posts most people just give up.
> A polymer that kills cell walls indiscriminately is hardly an acceptable solution for a human.

On the contrary. Animal cells do not have cell walls. They have cell membranes but that's a different thing. Many existing antibiotics interfere with the cell walls of bacteria.
Why CEOs Are Quitting in Record Numbers in 2023 [video]
Exactly why they work. It’s all about the almighty ad dollar.
I could be reading this wrong, but doesn't the article say that the MMLU topic is enough to determine which experts got picked 96% of the time?

Edit: Oh I read it completely backwards, didn't I. Given the decisions, you can determine the topic of the input.
This is really impressive. For reference, inference for llama 70b on together’s api generates text at roughly 60 tokens/second.

I can’t find any information about an api, though I’m guessing that the costs are eye watering.

If they offered a Mixtral endpoint that did 300-400 tokens per second at a reasonable cost, I can’t imagine ever using another provider.
Latest device support is listed here: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/

14" and 16" MacBook Pro supports HDMI out, but not USB-C displays (yet)
Oops, I dropped my packets.
what’s the cost?
LLMs don’t answer based on truth. They are a glorified autocomplete trained on a large corpus of text.
> I decided to stick with the pre-installed Windows 10 Pro (yes, as a server OS!) simply because I was familiar with it.

Hah! Me at 13 was precisely the same, though with Windows XP Pro that I suspected wasn't entirely legitimate but the seller didn't say and I didn't ask.

That old thing ran so well for its low specs, it was crazy, I was really surprised how little you needed to run nongraphical software such as a web server, ftp server, database, email, dns, torrents, vnc, samba, openarena game server... I'm probably forgetting things. The only thing it didn't run was Minecraft, it didn't launch even with everything else shut down. Oh yeah, and the game server didn't have the best ping, but that might have been the 10 megabit expansion card as network adapter.

Can encourage anyone to buy a second-hand system if you find it fun to self host! Especially a laptop (with the battery removed for fire risk) uses very little energy compared to old desktops, or a raspberry pi (alternative) is also an option nowadays.
It popped everywhere. I'm from europe, I was in Bolivia in october. Shein was the new trend. In Bolivia. In an open market of second hand.

My guess is tiktok is doing what it's made for, advertising and possibly putting China first to the mass of consumers.
> The high-level description of classical mechanics was formulated by Hamilton, who was starting from optics. He saw a mathematical analogy between the equations for light and the equations for mechanics. The principle of least time (Fermat's principle) for light became the principle of least action for mechanics.

I think you are attributing to Hamilton what was developed by others some time before. The jump from optics to mechanics was about 100 years before Hamilton published his principle. Maupertuis was the one who said that physical objects should follow shortest paths in their phase space in a way analogous to light according to Fermat’s principle. This was developed and generalised by Euler and Lagrange (with the Euler-Lagrange equations to derive equations of motions), and then Hamilton’s principle is another generalisation.

It does not affect the point you are making about Schrödinger, though.
I keep a Dell laptop as a server. I used to run stuff on my desktop, but an electricity outage screwed me one time I was away for 2 weeks and the fist night the building admin decided to do some works after midnight (I know because I stopped getting alerts on my phone). That 2 week downtime cost me money (thanks guys!).

So I bought a 2018 Dell laptop with a messed-up screen. Now when there is downtime, the laptop stays on, connectivity goes away for a few mins (which doesn't bother me) and everything is resolved fast.

So, I suggest either your desktop+UPS, or a 5yo laptop (just make sure it's 'high-end' - for its age). I then upgrade RAMs & SSD/M2 from Crucial (I like the convenience of their app) so I end up making decent "server laptops" for under €300.
This could be a real boon for shell snippets, I hope you'll consider adding support for them.
You'd think Lawrence Krauss would have learned from his staunch defense of Jeffery Epstein - nothing makes you look more like a pedophile and sexual harasser than acting like known pedophiles and sexual harassers are an over-persecuted class of people.
Oh! That makes sense, I'm a little jealous then. To me the way that discussion did not crash and burn due to a little friction was incredible
That doesn’t help if you don’t know you have a location tracking device on you or in your car. This specification is about detecting unknown trackers.

I’ve only read parts of it, but it seems like it’s trying to formalize the behavior that AirTags and iPhones already follow so that all phones (Android) can alert you proactively when an unwanted tracker is traveling with you.
Those who have completed this, do you recommend the book or MOOC?
My iPad is simply not capable of running uBlock Origin. Until this changes, switching my main mobile device to an iPhone is a complete non-option. I absolutely must be able to run software I choose, full stop.
OpenTopography Awarded 2023 AGU Open Science Recognition Prize
I agree with ewweezdsd. I've been doing the same with slimline HP/ Dell towers, off-lease C-tier corporate equipment. 7th Gen i7 32gb ddr3 boxes for under 200$ usually. Low noise, heat, and power consumption. I never could justify having an actual server room in a house with the loud fans whizzing and the heat.
Perhaps you could consider documenting/specifying the file format. Seems to me that this could potentially become some kind of standard (if you're open to that). Perhaps with a .mixt extension (for "mixed text")?

Seems to me that this would be a pretty good general document format for a lot of use cases.