skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decent description at first, but strayed a bit at the end into needlessly bashing the younger generation.

"This may also explain the rather extraordinary political ineptitude of the current younger generation."
That’s bad, but is one of the things that aren’t a real problem if you use your own domain for email.
That is interesting and scary
What’s up with Index in January 2023?
You can download the llamafile executables from Mozilla's release page here: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases and then use the `-m` flag which lets you load any GGUF weights you want from Hugging Face. A lot of people I know will also just rent a VM with an H100 for a few hours from a company like vast.ai, SSH into it, don't care about its security, and just want to have to wget the fewest files possible. Everyone's threat vector is different. That's why llamafile provides multiple choices so you can make the right decision for yourself. It's also why I like to focus on simply just making things easy, because that's one place where we can have an impact building positive change, due to how the bigger questions e.g. security are ultimately in the hands of each individual.
That is nuts. I don’t even share my location with my spouse.
The tomatoes and strawberries you grow at home don’t need to hold up to long distance shipping. Not to mention, the mass market fruits and veg don’t have somebody personally motivated by getting something at the peak of ripeness.

Like most things, it’s a different set of priorities and incentives that drive different results.
Because you’ll have to switch context each time you look into browser developer tools, MDN docs, etc.
Recovering Critical Data from Tesla Autopilot Using Voltage Glitch
Those jobs, they're for cold showerers only.
Gp.nvim: Neovim plugin ChatGPT text/code operations and Speech to text
> The accelerometer and gyro in your inner ear are not fooled.

Have you ever been to a "mystery" house/spot?
Note that this is only based on data from 32 cities, and it's not clear to me how they were chosen. Here are the cities: https://counciloncj.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure20-...
They should be included in any and all benchmarking results anyway, but just ranked last on everything, with a little star note to explicitly state that oracle prohibits publishing measured performance.
Unfortunately it's not abuse when your alternatives are Windows [1] on the desktop and Android on mobile :(

It's sad that Apple has no meaningful competition. Not because they're the best, but because they suck the least.

[1] I make a living on Linux but where's that consistent experience desktop? I think I won't live to see it.
The UK can not have a written constitution; simply because that of England is incompatible with that of Scotland.

In Scotland, the people are sovereign, can (and have) sacked their monarch.

In England, the monarch was sovereign, now it is "the crown in Parliament" which is sovereign after parliament executed a king, and took the power.

Those two positions can not be accommodated, so they're forgotten about, and the establishment acts as if the constitution is that of England - i.e. Scotland wass annexed.
>The "lock chirp" using my key fob usually makes up for the times I'm not quite sure where it is.

Ah, yes, the "letting people who don't care know I'm now home or letting everyone know that I'm walking away from my unattended vehicle (so robbers better not touch it)" alert everyone loves.

Do you do the thing where you hit it a bunch of times to blast the horn and show off that 90s tech because you need people to see how cool you are?
You can configure it on most distros, it doesn't excuse having an insecure default.
> Would you argue this is somehow relinquishing control? I like it, since it's very quick and cheap, I don't mind it running more often than I use it, because it saves me the keyboard clicks to explicitly ask for completion.

I can't answer for others, but personally I don't like the zsh-like way to "show the possible completions in dark grey after the cursor" because it disrupts my thoughts.

It's pull vs push: whether on the commandline or using an AI, I want the results only when I feel I need them - not before.

If they are pushed into me (like the mailbox count, or other irrelevant parameters), they are distracting and interrupting my thoughts.

I love optimization and saving a few clicks, but here the potential for distraction during an activity that requires intense concetration would be much worse.
> Flygildi has partnered with Purdue University to test the prototype Silent Flyer and is working closely with a range of other partners to bring even more cutting-edge tech to the UAV, including fellow Icelandic startup Nanom.
Domains are generally set up to auto-renew (and you as the owner have control over that). Expiry is not an issue.
Conventional wisdom says they've been bred for resiliency, predictable ripening, long lasting. Not flavor.

One clue is, the gene that ripens tomatoes is also the one that causes the skin to split. So the seeds get spread. But not useful for commercial use, as split tomatoes are worthless to sell. So they use varieties that don't express that gene. So they don't ripen much. So they are tasteless, no matter how long on the vine.

Definitely grow your own, if you care about tomatoes at all and have the room@!
Yeah, same here. I thought it did a good job of resolving username conflicts without it really being an issue inside active social circles. Everyone can just always use their normal username, and it's only a minor friction when sharing your name outside Discord without a link or something.
There's also https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim which works locally with ollama and eg. mistral 7B.

Any experience/comparison between them?
You also rely on many people being able to hide things if you want a pleasant society - journalists, whistleblowers, activists, anyone doing politically sensitive work (e.g. Tor or Signal developers, labor organizers, even small businesses trying to enter established markets) that could be destroyed by a smear campaign.

Last but not least, any new political party can be crushed by information asymmetry - if every minor indiscretion of their members is outed, while the ruling parties can keep their own sins hidden, thanks to a friendly intelligence apparatus, no new party will ever upset the status quo. It also means the old parties will be compelled to remain friendly with said intelligence apparatus (wonder why section 702 of FISA got extended again [1]?)

In other words, even if you personally somehow go your entire life without having to hide a single thing, unless others can hide things, you will one day wake-up under tyranny.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799561
Related to this, many top AI conferences are calling for art for AI art exhibitions: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2023/CallForCreativeAI

I unfortunately didn't go to NeurIPS this year, but I'd love to hear what it was like from someone who did attend.
I think there are _two_ primary issues with email addresses being used as a core part of account definitions. The one emphasized here is that email addresses change, but the other is that the user is giving every service provider they have an account with a _shareable/leakable_ form of contact info, which cannot effectively be revoked.

I wish we would move to a Permissioned Messaging Provider model, where a standardized API allows a user to issue tokens to specific parties to send messages, which is revocable, and where the user can control the destination and medium of those messages. You want your airline to be able to send you status updates about your flight? Great -- you can choose whether those messages arrive as emails, text messages, whatsapp messages, etc, and you can remove those permissions later if you like. Permissioned Messaging Providers will also change sometimes. I think a keybase-like mechanism could be used for asserting that you're the same person across two services, but knowledge that @user1@providerA is the same as @user2@providerB wouldn't allow anyone to send messages to either, since you still need a token (unlike announcing publicly that you're moving from myname@emailprovider.com to myname2@email2.net).
I don’t think there is a single car manufacturer that doesn’t allow you to drive without your seatbelt on. What point are you making?
How does that work? Does it scrape the auto-generated captions?
Are these environments attractive because boxes and arrows are actually better than characters for expressing programs? Or are they attractive because they encourage you to skip steps that turn out to have been important? Sure, you can replicate a normal, responsible development process with a no-code tool, but at that point do you really have a compelling alternative to a more traditional programming environment?
NYC is at or near the bottom of most crime statistics. This talking point is significantly out of date; you should consider revising it.
you could try Xow it supports the wireless dongles for xbox controllers if that is what you are trying to use
Why tending your oral microbiome is the secret to a long, healthy life
Specifically considering reliability, that's a mild outlier anecdote in my experience; not common, but not unheard of. With no specialists nearby, I was warned off the classic 900 or 9000, but my 9-5 has been no bother. Considering a larger array of factors -- safety, performance, UX, design, current prices, parts availability, enthusiast community, etc. -- Saabs have, on balance, a lot going for them right now.
I think a lot of the early backlash against soy was more targeted at soy milk in particular. Soy milk was one of the first widely marketed ersatz milks, at a time when virtually all “milk” in the store was actual cow milk and Lewis Black had a hilarious comedy bit about how there were already too many kinds of milk[1]. There was also an infamous 2008 case study of a man who developed gynecomastia while consuming three quarts of soy milk a day[2].

[1] https://youtu.be/6_wDEjCpeOc

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18558591/
I mean, those aren't even the highest crime places in the US (Chicago notwithstanding)

If you want to list actual high crime places in the US, it's:

Baltimore, St Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, and Cleveland.

Besides Chicago, none of the others you listed are even top 20.
Don’t do that. Choose a domain name with no time-limited semantics attached to it.
Doing so requires a SteamVR headset, though. I’m using a Quest 2 which only works well with Windows.

Up to date compelling SteamVR options are starting to appear however so I might see if I can move over to one of those in the next year or two.
Removing the SIM card or a specific fuse from the car is a strategy that has worked well for me. On a lot of these "connected" cars, they use a pretty ordinary cellular data connection. Break that connection and you break the data leak.

Bonus points for spoofing GPS to show the car in Antarctica or something like that, so that the trustworthiness in the accuracy of the entire dataset (and thus the commercial value) goes down, instead of just you choosing to opt out.
The people who were working on Y2K did know what would happen in many cases. Their work avoided known huge messes in banking, infrastructure, aviation, and healthcare, among others.

What they didn’t do, much, is write or blog about their work. A lot of fixes were to commercial or government systems running on commercial or government hardware. Publicly disclosing problems and fixes was not part of those cultures.

So it is very hard, today, for members of the public to go back and reconstruct the problems and solutions to “prove” that there were real issues. Which has led some people to believe, incorrectly, that there were not real issues.
What is the take on peanut oil from the seed oil bad crowd? IIRC it is usually missing from both the good oil and the bad oil columns.
Reverse spoof the numbers of FTC investigators and Google employees?
I mean all of them, but only one has made it a habit, a design philosophy even. And only one went so far to charge customers a premium for those features.
Passkeys aren’t device-bound. I think they’ll work just fine.

The real problem, though, is that we seem to need digital identity solutions to be perfect as opposed to “good enough”. No solution is perfect and we’ll be stuck on email as long as the enterprise security nuts (who need everything device-bound and vendor attested) and anon-in-the-ether privacy schoolers (who think any stable identifier whatsoever is a heinous crime) are part of the conversation.

Imagine if everyone just used mobile drivers licenses issued to whatever self-sovereign wallet the user chooses. Identity issuing, revocation, and recovery is then handled by all the things society has already built to handle meatspace identity. Account recovery involves a trip to your local gov’t office to re-issue your ID credential. Which means you need some chain of trust to your birth certificate. You’re going to treat your mDL credential wallet with a lot more reverence if that’s the recovery flow, so some of these problems solve themselves if we stop using punk short-names everywhere online.

Relying parties that need human uniqueness, age, and/or nationality guarantees use the mDL verifiable credential. Law probibits relying parties from aggregating and selling/transferring information obtained for purposes of authentication from a VC. Ad-tech privacy problem solved.

Services that don’t need proof of human uniqueness etc. can just skip the VC part of the equation and use basic passkeys and implement short-name reclamation.
That's more like the cost. You could also ask them what they would be willing to pay for each feature. Good idea, though!
I really like mathematics and I spend some time reading obscure math books for kicks.

I was a very bad math student in highschool I don't think it was because I was "ungifted" like some people would describe it.

Towards the end of high school i.e the last year.

I found out that mathematics can be studied like Biology, History (too late for it to make an impact on my final results).

And that the only way of learning mathematics was not just through practising it mindlessly until you grasp it like the teachers said.

I think the real problem with mathematics is that it has really bad comprehensive literature.

Here are the 3 main problems with maths literature. (What I think would have helped me improve my maths skills by alot)

Reason 1.

Implicitly defined notations. There is really no go to comprehensive resource that describes all math notation clearly so jumping into a new topic is difficult.

Reason 2

No clear definitions of algorithms used in respective math topics.

A great example is http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/ that describes the matrix multiplication algorithm. Step by step. Maths education would be better if all important algorithms in different math fields were described as clearly.

Reason 3

There is no comprehensive dictionary for math theorems. A great example would be something like a table of integrals in calculus, but for all fields.

If all these resources are well documented. I really don't see why someone cannot improve their maths skills even via self study up to graduate level.
Reusable rockets have high up front design costs, as well as continuing maintenance costs. The engines themselves are also more expensive per unit, because they must be over engineered.

This is like asking why a disposable diaper is cheaper than a reusable diaper.
They're heirlooms because they worked really, really well for one family in one location for many years. But if you grow them in different conditions, you may get vary different results.
Some sites (e.g. Amqzon) allow login with phone number and password. While a phone number isn't a good permanent identier either, I occasionally wonder: does this option exist because there are significant populations of net-using people who commonly have no email address? If there are, are there particular geographic or demographic groups where this is common? E.g. developing nations, millennials.
Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men
When Quora was new I followed some topics, got to read interesting answers to interesting questions, but then some kind of enshittification happened. I've blocked it in Kagi now.
Ask HN: ChatGPT access on Mars given resources required and communication delay?
How can someone on Mars access ChatGPT or an LLM with similar capabilities given the vast resources required and the long communication delay with Earth?
I guess unless by safe we mean burglary, not violent crime. In which case, yea, I think Seattle is worst, like 50% worse than the second worst.
"The desire to get rich quick is pretty dangerous."

- Charlie Munger
Was that the time algae took off, covered the oceans, and oxygenated the atmosphere? Which then allowed mammals and eventually humans, because then there was oxygen. The byproduct being a huge mass extinction of everything that could not survive in oxygen.

I often think humans are like the algae, the human species is just naturally overtaking the planet and producing CO2 like the algae created oxygen. We're terraforming Earth for the next species that will evolve out of it when we are gone.
Defyne: The Fyne IDE
"Attention inventors! We will help liberate money from you!" This screams of wantreprenuership.

No one sane wants to buy a pre-money, pre-profit, pre-execution idea alone unless there's something defensible about it like a patent, a high performance team that has coalesced and is capable, or something else unique or proprietary that cannot be easily or legally replicated. "Idea guys" will nonetheless claim they their inventions were "stolen" by people who executed on a business hypothesis, took the risk, did the work, and had a degree of favorable chance and timing.
Once you've served your sentence you should recover all your rights. Lifelong punishment is a violation of human rights - those rights that you cannot "forfeit" or lose.
Most registrars let you prepay. I prepay mine by 5 years in advance, and have a reminder to refresh it yearly. It also is setup to auto-renew 3 months before expiration so if the charge fails… you have 3 months to fix it.
> People dislike usernames, they want to be able to choose non-unique ones rather than end up with user53267 or something inane.

Google doesn't reuse usernames so if they are still around - in a few decades pretty much all unique usernames will belong to dead people.
Some services explicitly want to disallow this so it’s actually an attack vector in that light.
Long lasting usernames across websites is the worst for privacy though, unless the username is not public. In general, it's best if the unique identifier is only known to the user.

Example:
https://instantusername.com

I've seen quite personal details being leaked because sometimes even smart people don't realise how easy it is to cross-reference given a unique username.
I didn't try the other ones, but the one I mentioned is the most frictionless way to use several different LLMs I came across so far. I had very low expectations, but this package has good sauce
Using email as internal ID...
Where?

Emails would change. Same with phone numbers.

I've never seen it, it is usually lives in a column in the table and is used to login. But internal ids are UUIDs or integers in the relational DB.

I've seen people use phone number as an ID, but it is bad for GDPR and privacy reasons... I've seen people use incrementing ID and expose it to the user inside URLs (leaking the account registration time and the total number of users).
There is a smaller scale version of this on the CU campus:

https://www.colorado.edu/fiske/colorado-scale-model-solar-sy...

It is 1:10 Billion, so about a half-mile from the Sun top Pluto.
Even without looking at the subjective quality of search results, the sheer user hostility of the design of the Google search results page is an obvious, objective instance of how search has enshittified.

That is, in the early days, Google used to highlight that "search position couldn't be gamed/bought" as one of their primary differentiators, ads were clearly displayed with a distinct yellow background, and there weren't that many ads. Nowadays, when I do any remotely commercial search the entire first page and a half at least on mobile is ads, and the only thing that differentiates ads from organic results is a tiny piece of "Sponsored" text.
Tesla doesn't have a PR department anymore, they sure have a legal one.
The thing that really sold me on the utility of the nipple was trying to use a laptop while riding in a car on a rough road.

Up till then I mostly ignored it, mainly because I was used to trackpads. but that stupid red wart on my keyboard turned the experience from massively frustrating to actually usable.

So a niche use case to be sure. but it is definitely a feature I look for now.

See also: trying to use a touch screen in a moving vehicle.
Much of the discussion here including the linked article fail to make an important distinction between domains. Prediction can be done quite effectively on thin tailed processes. A lot of the counter examples listed in the comments here are physical systems which are thin tailed. I see aircraft autopilot, collision detection, ozone depletion. These are all well understood physical phenomenon in which large deviations do not occur — your car doesn’t get teleported elsewhere in the middle of avoiding a collision. If a large deviation did occur, say a meteor striking between your car and the object it is attempting to avoid, the collision avoidance system would almost certainly fail. These events occur so infrequently that the system can just assume they won’t and boast a high success rate.

Meanwhile the examples from the linked article are fat tailed processes. Recessions, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates. These are all subject to large discontinuous jumps. Anyone doing a 5 year rate prediction in July 2019 would have been required to predict the pandemic in order to accurately forecast. This is a single example but predictions in this domain are regularly blown out by being teleported to a completely different world. Unlike the thin tailed domain these events happen frequently enough that they’re the only thing that matters for the forecast.

Knowing which class your generating process belongs to is critical to understanding whether forecasting will be effective or not. I’ll take collision detection and leave economic forecasts at the door any day.
What's USP?
Sure. Do you have a better theory for the downvotes and flag then?
Some things are easily quantifiable, but very few. Such as the number of ads per search. Back in the day google had at most 1 and it was visibly distinct from the rest of the links.

Otherwise, yeah, maybe search didn't degrade but the internet got more spammy. Or maybe users just got wiser and can see through the smoke screen better. Who knows...

Doesn't change the fact that today one has to know how to filter through pages of generic results made by low effort content farms. Results that are of dubious validity, which at best simply waste your time. Or through clones of other websites (i.e. Stackoverflow clones).

Search engines can choose to help with that (kagi certainly puts in the effort and I love it for that), or they can ignore the problem and milk you for ad clicks.

Anecdotal evidence is good enough for me.
M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye (2002)
Of course this is extremely stupid (basically using the "username" as a secret, something everyone in IT and itsec knows not to do). If we started using SSN-equivalent identifiers as online ID problem would solve itself because by then they're not a secret anymore.

In my country my national ID numbers are nowhere near as problematic as SSN on the US (from what I understand).
its not fun at all, i got la land land, interstellar, inception and baywatch, all being similar to the movie today. And they weren't really similar
https://archive.is/20231231154421/https://www.ft.com/content...