skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "this kind of research" you mean growing and studying coronaviruses in general?
I'm actually glad that people like doing that, as I imagine it reduces the risk of false beliefs becoming accepted as true.

But maybe there are other factors that make it a net negative? (I haven't really followed academia since concluding my studies.)
If that's the criteria, then fair, but AIMD produces articles that are virtually indistinguishable from what an average copywriter would compose if you hired them.

AIMD is very different from your typical article generators (like https://writesonic.com/, which good God I don't know why anyone would use, but they are doing good, so good for them) that is just spinning out LLM-written content. AIMD orchestrates a multi-step process of topic discovery, source research, content summary, fact validation, hypothesis generation, outline planning, and only then writing. Content generation is a tiny surface area of AIMD, for which I am the least excited. It is really meant to generate a data-rich starting point for writing a high-quality article, rather than produce something that's ready to post. That is also reflected in the product: the content score is based (among other variables) on the % of insights added by the editor VS generated.
It's not exactly Japan-level high trust, but it is compared to most other countries in the world.
If everybody has X then someone I dislike will is a terrible argument.

It does not cost $1k a year to have access to these publications as an individual, anything our "enemies" would want could be obtained for effectively zero dollars.
no force the people creating and profiting from the tools to get permission from the people they mine the data from or cease operating
Ad blockers certainly shave off a few MBs, but in my experience the vast majority of RAM usage is not caused by ads. Unlike first party content, ads are automatically benchmarked by ad exchanges and penalized for using too much resources. I also don't think a 200gram phone is the kind of waste that we should be concerned about. Think bigger
Still no offline-mode? Notion is a really great tool, but I really want my data local to tinker with them in all kind of ways which Notion was not made to support. And all the clones and alternatives are still years away from Notion's level of polishing. Really strange.
Outfox Semiconductor's FPGA Source Code Is Now Under the GNU GPL Version 3
UI wise it looks like they’ve cribbed some design notes from Apple’s calendar apps
No, it's only dry because the fires dried them out. QED /s
The Threads feed algorithm is very good I've found. I have an interest in AI art and autism, so I get content on ai art and autism. I don't feel I am pipelined into extremist content and flamewars.

Maybe you see political discourse by default? I dunno, just saying it's not all flamewars.
Sorry for replying so late. Thanks for the feedback, you can try it again now. Maybe it was being updated at that time
This book changed my life for the better, and allowed me to form lasting relationships I otherwise wouldn't have had.

It's not mutually exclusive with developing personal hobbies and passions though. It's really cool when you meet someone who shares them because they also put in the time and effort to develop it on their own.

Both types of interactions are wonderful and they complement each other well, IMO. If you can get to know them deeper, it makes every interaction more worthwhile and engaging. If you also happen to share interests, it's easier to have fun together. Win-win!
I'd imagine people that learned to code at a crappy bootcamp where they were told to just find npm packages for whatever they're trying to do because they're better/safer/faster.
If something needs to be classified for national security reasons, that's another matter entirely. Putting papers behind a journal's $100 paywall won't deter China!
I wish my university had been up-front about that. I did, in fact, teach myself programming - and had been since high school, more or less - but I didn't realize how poorly prepared I was going to be for a career in software engineering after a computer science track.

I loved all the "academic" classes, though, and almost minored in math. (Turns out, while I loved them, I wasn't particularly good at them.)
Universities accommodate food delivery robots
Part of the problem is effectively using this inbox as a "free" SMTP account so they don't have to pay for outbound emails. There would not be as much sensitive information in this account's sent/inbox if they using something like SES, which is incredibly cheap ($0.10/1000 emails).
This is actually renbranded Cron.
How do these tools actually work?
Because Albanians help boost numbers on videos where monitization is viable, thus making the platform look more appealing to advertisers.
It really always was, the runtime system within .NET always had the capability to run C/C++ code but to get C++ code to talk to C#/VB code with GC-heap objects you had to use language extensions and I think that limited the appeal by a fair bit (Especially as iirc they actually made 2 different extensions), on top of this the C# language has also always had and continually gets new extensions to do non-heap tasks (Compared to Java that has focused on the a clean Java world where everything was on the heap).
It's like you are mad at gravity. That sucks you feel that way, but very unlikely to change anything.
As just another person on the internet: I like Patrick's style, and I like that he _has_ a distinctive style when so much writing is bland drab bullets. At worst it can be ... oblique ... in places, but some strikes are an inevitable consequence of taking swings.
Those countries can already pirate that data with minimal effort. The only way to keep that kind of data out of your rivals' hands is via trade secrets.
Well let's hope some arduino-like OSS community will appear...
Troy seems to disagree in the linked blog post:

> That last number was the real kicker; when a third of the email addresses have never been seen before, that's statistically significant. This isn't just the usual collection of repurposed lists wrapped up with a brand-new bow on it and passed off as the next big thing; it's a significant volume of new data. When you look at the above forum post the data accompanied, the reason why becomes clear: it's from "stealer logs" or in other words, malware that has grabbed credentials from compromised machines. Apparently, this was sourced from the now defunct illicit.services website which (in)famously provided search results for other people's data along these lines
HN uses this once per year on Cristmas, colouring numbers of the posts with red&green.
OpenNRE (https://github.com/thunlp/OpenNRE) is another good approach to neural relation extraction, though it's slightly dated. What would be particularly interesting is to combine models like OpenNRE or SpanMarker with entity-linking models to construct KG triples. And a solid, scalable graph database underneath would make for a great knowledge base that can be constructed from unstructured text.
Do car mechanics and car hobbyists take a semester to study Carnot cycles, thermodynamics, and entropy?
Cron was bought by Notion in 2022: https://www.notion.so/blog/notion-acquires-cron
Tried it and this canvas is nowhere close to OneNote at the moment. It is very janky if you do try to use it like OneNote.
Just in case the DOI link from the press-release doesn't work for you -- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5 here's the paper.
ublock origin seems to work fine still
Huh, interesting! That makes sense, though.

We're all suckers for processes that promise to solve all your problems, aren't we?
If your service is returning 5xx, that is the the definition of a server error, of course that is degraded service. Instead we have pointless dashboards that are green an hour after everything is broken.

Returning 4xx on a client error isn't hard and is usually handled largely by your framework of choice.

Your argument is a strawman
> the successor will reset jailbreaking/emulation progress back to zero.

It is possible, but in the past Nintendo didn't reset.

Wii-U, 3DS and Switch share some parts in common still.
by hijacking the git moniker. most college students think of github before they think of git itself.

that brand power is worth billions.
Actually neither. I was looking into Kitty today deciding if I should use it and came across this thread. It seemed arrogant but in an interesting way so wanted to share it here.

I actually just came back to delete this post because I think it's going to spread rage instead of opening a conversation but too late to delete now.

I've been wondering about the authors and maintainers of open source software and how much hate they get while sharing the fruits of their labor with the rest of the world for free. I wonder if it's better to bend to the whims of every user or like this author tell people to get lost and stop wasting time, or perhaps somewhere in between.

I think the author seems like an excellent programmer who has dedicated a huge part of his life to open source. I'm not sure if it's a great idea to tell your users to basically go away if they don't like the way you do thing but perhaps you need to be that direct in order to save yourself from distractions and be able to focus on actually creating your product. I wonder how important PR is for a free and open source project.
> The author frames this as opposing open science

That's because it is--more precisely, it's opposing open taxpayer-funded science. We the taxpayers already paid for the research once. Then we have to pay again to read the papers sooner than 12 months after publication?
Links to the paper appear broken, but here is a link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5
People using Obsidian Sync said it solves these issues (I guess by using a database rather than directly via file I/Os.)

There are other solutions via plugins too. E.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, or GitHub. There was a post earlier in HN which is a reimplementation of Obsidian Sync, but it seems their reversed engineering uncovered something not secure there and Obsidian soon made a patch breaking that. There might be workarounds to fix it, but I haven't closely follow it.

When I have the time to do the refactoring and cleaning, I will probably choose one of these alternatives (or even an alternative of Obsidian if there are better solutions for me.)
She actually did plagiarize, so this is mainly just uncovering latent (existing) problems that were not being paid enough attention to. My hope is that this work is extended to the entire academic corpus, so we can see just how much, uh, "unattributed borrowing" happens.

Ackman is on a jihad so he should have fully expected collateral damage, and should have anticipated this.
Mirrorful – free and open-source React component library
This seems pretty great! I love tips like this.

I'm going to try out a version of this now.
> I can only surmise that Silicon Valley has a sizeable contingent raised by hippie Vietnam protestors that produced a generational vibe of "military bad".

You really think that's the only and most likely explanation?

This criticism is coming from the people being asked to make the weapons. Just because one isn't against the military having expanded capabilities, doesn't mean that one wants to spend their time creating things used to kill people.
So Notion acquired Cron? What’s the story here? What a strange product announcement. “cron.com” just says “Cron is now Notion Calendar”

Edit: Oh wow, Notion acquired them back in June 2022. Guess that was context i was missing
>an effect on productivity

To the company you work for. In terms of societal impact, I can't imagine it's anything other than hugely impactful. I used to spend close to 2 hours a day driving around. That's time I now spend exercising, with family, volunteering, and not wasting gas.
> How can you even think it's ok for OpenAI to use work that was not done for them without paying some kind of license?

At the risk of answering a rhetorical question: because copyright covers four rights: copying, distribution, creation of derivative works, and public performance, and LLM training doesn't fit cleanly into any of these, which is why many think copying-for-the-purpose-of-training might be fair use (courts have yet to rule here).

I think the most sane outcome would be to find that:

- Training is fair use

- Direct, automated output of AI models cannot be copyrighted (I think this has already been ruled on[0] in the US).

- Use of an genAI to create works that would otherwise be considered a "derivative work" under copyright law can still be challenged under copyright.

The end result here would be that AI can continue to be a useful tool, but artists still have legal teeth to come after folks using the tool to create infringing works.

Of course, determining whether a work is similar enough to be considered infringing remains a horribly difficult challenge, but that's nothing new[1], and will continue to hinge on how courts assess the four factors that govern fair use[2].

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receiv...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/18/1176881182/supreme-court-side...

[2]: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
First sentence says "Cron is now Notion Calendar" as they bought them two years ago.
Is this just a hot-take or can you refer us to something that supports this idea?
> Scientific societies would be better off thinking about how they can stay funded without the journal subscriptions rather than rage against the incoming tide.

Some of this depends on who you think the readership will be. Those scientific societies provide a sort of floor on the quality of what they publish, which allows non-experts like me to read the papers with some level of trust in the results.

Or, a layer of indirection away, it gives science journalists a source of stuff to write about that's at least somewhat validated. I do worry a bit about what happens to science journalism, which is already generally of poor quality, when they start reading random junk on arXiv.

Of course, there are alternatives where the papers could still be free. The government could fund the journals, arXiv could implement do their own peer review system with quality indicators. Probably more I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.
Thanks. We're launching pricing in the coming days and didn't want to mis-price the product beforehand.
We are currently not aiming to mimic the same inflections as certain inflections in human voices are a bug, not a feature. (e.g. I mis-pronounce a word or have random intonations sometimes).
>But I'd say that all that proves is that there's so much demand for not needing to own a personal automobile!

It really doesn't. NYC isn't $ARBITRARY_SUBURB except without obligatory car ownership.
Never negotiate with a parasite. Rip it off and stomp on it.
(Not) surprisingly not on the front page on r/Canada
The secret sauce behind "anti-AI detection" is 'not writing overly generic, unreferenced content'. Not a single line in the code base tries to evade AI detection; it is just the side-effect of how the product works.

At the end of the day, my job is to sell to the ICP that I am targeting, and I know that their concern (based on user interviews) is that content will be detected as AI detected. I need to get them into the product first before I can educate them.
I think in the long term, HTML/CSS will win out once there's better support for CSS Paged Module Level 3, and you'll be able to achieve that requirement with just

@page :left {
margin-left: 20mm;
margin-right: 10mm;
}

@page :right {
margin-left: 10mm;
margin-right: 20mm;
}

instead of needing to install/import different LaTeX packages. I think for most of my current use-cases level 2 has been sufficient but I can see if I can include Paged.js polyfill support by default so there's more support for customizability on that front.
Keeping research results secret for national security reasons is very different from paywalling it just so journals can make money selling access to something the taxpayers already paid for.
There's also having to cater to the lowest common denominator. American students are required to go to school, and the catch-all is public school. Going to a private institute is a privilege, so if they don't like the policies they can choose to not go or ignore them and get expelled. If parents or students don't like the policies of their public school, they can complain to the board and... that's it.
Oh in app purchasing. No my product is entirely dependent on the user purchasing a physical product. There's no IAP. Possibly in the future if users want something that is an upsell then I could see that happening. But I would have to hear it from users and by that point they would already be in my app-store-less ecosystem
Hell, at my school you couldn't even listen to a CD at lunch. It boggles the mind.
It'd be such an easy win of customers. If they support offline calendar, and human startup time, I'd replace my calendar with Notion in a heartbeat.
You’re not alone. My “note taking” is essentially what you described. I do have a single google doc where I paste temporary notes though. This gives me a space where I can properly decide to either delete the content, or ankify it.
> Watercooled for quieter operation.

How is that these days? I water-cooled my system with the intention of having a quiet system sometime around 2008, but it just used liquid to transfer heat to a sink further away, which had a noisy fan.
It sounds like you're saying we all have a fundamental awareness of which assertions are true vs. false, and acceptance of the true ones is basically a matter of character / psychology.

That might be true for some persons and assertions, but I don't think it's true in all cases.
It isn't as polished as whatever first-party solution Apple has the potential to develop, but I just use OneDrive to restore my personal data + chezmoi to reprovision my dotfiles and it works pretty well.

About every six months I do a fire drill and completely factory reset my macbook. Takes about 10 minutes for me to go from a fresh device to one that has all my apps, data, and developer tools ready to roll. Only annoying thing you can't really automate is signing into services like OneDrive or Dropbox, but this isn't a problem if you use iCloud Drive.

https://github.com/eh8/dotfiles
Work with First, Second and Third Order Greeks Through the Finance Toolkit
Over the last year I've spend a significant amount of time creating a Finance Toolkit in Python, it currently features over 150+ different metrics such as financial ratios, models, risk and performance metrics, technical indicators, macro-economic parameters and since today also all Greeks.

The Finance Toolkit is written in Python and is meant as a free solution to acquire a large range of financial metrics. My goal is to make financial calculations accessible to everyone as there is no point in reinventing the wheel over and over again which I've seen countless of times happen given that I work in the Financial Sector myself.

If you are interested give it a go: https://github.com/JerBouma/FinanceToolkit and find the recent release notes here that talk about the Greeks: https://github.com/JerBouma/FinanceToolkit/releases/tag/v.1....
Does this look like keeping the data on a local sqlite?
A Guide to Rust ORMs in 2024
I think I'll take "windows that don't break when it's cold" over "windows that look better when cleaned" any day. But that's just me... ever the utilitarian, I guess, lol. Different cars for different folks!

Side rant:
Mainly my gripe is that there still aren't affordable electric utility vehicles. Tesla's way too much of an "image" and fashion car for me, and I wish there was some bog-standard AWD SUV that's electric or a plug-in hybrid. The Subaru Solterra (a rebadged Toyota with AWD) is close, but very expensive.
> I often wondered if Patrick uses unnecessarily convoluted sentences

One of my weird qualifications is evaluating text complexity. Most of Patrick’s writing is simply highly accurate and precise erudite language. Frankly, compared to other writers at a comparable level of erudition, his writing is downright economical rather than convoluted.

His texts tend to be very information dense in a way that I’m not sure all readers appreciate or value.

>. or if he is simply careful about using the proper terminology

Yep. All that.

> and my English is just not good enough to follow him like a native speaker would.

Probably (not sure about your English proficiency level), but that’s not a knock on your English.

Note that Patrick’s writing is very high level, and I think many native speakers don’t read his texts with a high degree of fluency. Specifically, they simply don’t make it through the text, they don’t understand what he wrote, or they are not able to identify the preciseness and accuracy (and sometimes artfulness) with which he communicates his ideas.

On a personal level, I am a big fan of his writing — it’s just a delight to read material on a complex topic with a high degree of confidence that what he says is extremely accurate.

Another author who I think writes at a high level is Scott Alexander of slatestarcodex and astralcodexten (or wherever he writes these days) — very high brow style on complex topics. It’s not for everyone. Fwiw, I’ve had to read (and reread) some of Scott Alexander’s pieces in small chunks with breaks to process what I had read — sometimes it’s just oozing with intellectual goodness.

For someone who writes in finance in a more casual style, I recommend Matt Levine and his newsletter Money Stuff (free).
> Probably mined from 3rd world country slaves (in the literal "owning people" sense).

Why do you think the device you're using to make this comment is better than a GPU?

Was your comment written by some new flamebait AI? You say so many arguments that fall apart under the slightest examination
Pretty much every middleman or service provider in every industry takes a cut, whether by charging you more than they paid or a fee for their service. For some reason people think software is uniquely exempt from this transaction. Nvidia and your motherboard manufacturer already charged you for the product they provided and you also paid for the fee Dell or Newegg charged on top. Your isp is charging you a fee for uninterrupted service. Apple is charging developers for hosting apps and developing tooling.
Before you turn to some supplement, try lifting weights 2-3 times a week.
Military-Civilian fusion is pretty much how a great deal of US technology was developed. I am not sure why anyone ever had such a problem with it, or whether it was considered something bad
What about that is surprising?
There's a recently published paper on something called Starling. As far as I can tell, it's a more efficient DiskANN. It claims enormous performance benefits.

The paper is tedious and near-unreadable, so I didn't finish reading it. Maybe there's something here, maybe not. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.02116.pdf
Firstly because you don't provision servers to run the code, the runtime will scale the infrastructure horizontally with response to traffic. Secondly because it's not a client/server architecture from the perspective of the code being run.

Basically it's "serverless" because you the developer are not doing anything with servers. You're not writing one, maintaining one, or managing the infrastructure to run one. You drop off a blob of logic to the cloud provider and they handle everything else for you, and you pay on demand.

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is another name for the same idea but less catchy