skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Well, a lot of people flag those topics because Israel is part of our western hegemony as far as political influence goes. What I find the most interesting is how uncritical we in the west are of the raise in authoritarianism in our own countries.

I’m Danish and all of our internet traffic is monitored and saved by our ISPs on behalf of our own government. A government who recently tried to have a former minister of justice and the former chief of the military spy agency (not sure what the English word for that is) tried for treason, not because they did anything wrong, but because they sort of leaked that our secret police let the NSA monitor our traffic because while it’s illegal for the PET to monitor Danish citizens directly, it’s not illegal for them to use surveillance information gathered by the NSA… Obviously we’re not living in a totalitarian state like the citizens of China, but it’s not like we’re really living in a democratic paradise either and things are continuing slipping in the authoritarian direction. With the US likely to re-elect Trump and several European nations going for far right wing or very conservative governments it’s not like there will be a lot of “help” from our foreign partners either.

But to return to your question, any political topic related to the west is often flagged on HN. I suspect this particular topic, and topics focused on China stay here because a lot of people actually find them interesting. It’s not exactly hard to find your information on Israel and Palestine, and almost none of it is related to HN, but insights into China especially with a tech focus aren’t easy or common in much of western media. This particular input is also very unbiased and well written on top of being very interesting. Where as a lot of the conflict or political topics that get flagged are mostly propaganda of sorts.
Thanks! I had this one and the Wire Wrap somehow linked in my mind but forgotten the name. Must have seen them both described on the same page a long time ago.
Same story, Hetzner storage box, local backups and at times a backup to my Android phone. Automated backup testing and a notification on Telegram if anything is amiss.
That works great for apps, not so great with content sites.
For some reason the author thinks that skills you learn developing in PyTorch will go away if Facebook does. Wouldn’t the open source community just fork the source or develop a new framework? It’s not like backprop will stop working.
The snark is strong in this - but I'll resist and just note that landing on the moon is hard. I reckon they did exceptionally well with nailing the landing site, and hope that next time they'll be completely successful.
Increased productivity and doing certain tasks in less time or with less people has been going on forever and certainly last 30 years in web development. The growing businesses use the extra capacity to expand in other directions whether new products or new features. The stagnant companies continue to struggle with less.
Kubernetes at Palantir
Who are JRRM and GMMR? :)
The twisting is in fact part of the electrical connection. On a good wire nut connection the wire nut is just insulating the bundle and if it falls off the bundle is still secure.
I think most of our world model is actually a human model. Our social relationships are more important than we give credit for.

So there's an arms race. The more brains you have the more you can model your tribe to know how to help or succeed. AND the bigger everyone's brain is the harder they are to model simply.

In this model consciousness is the "self model" or "self-consciousness" that allows you to model others opinion of yourself by having such an opinion yourself. And adjust their opinion by providing a narrative about yourself which you first have to craft, .... nd on and on with higher levels of abstractions.
My GPG signatures are stored in the git commits themselves, and have nothing to do with GitHub. Anyone can validate them with git-verify-commit(1). They are there to communicate "if you trust my GPG key, you can be certain I made these commits". There is no argument to be made that the signature makes any claim about past or future commits, either.

What a confusing article.
The recent cold snap in Edmonton had me commuting in -37°C. I've never had to rely on face coverings while cycling.

Last August however I attempted to cycle from Edmonton to Vancouver but was shut down due to wildfire smoke. My next chance to attempt is again in August, and I don't expect the smoke conditions to be any better. I could go for a cycling or sports specific PAP.
But why dont countries take responsibility for themselves?

Ive been wondering that for a while about A LOT of things.
It wouldn’t be “precise” unless they launched a second one and the same thing happened at the same location. So accurate would be a better word but I would want to see multiple attempts before declaring it accurate or precise. (Thinking about this in terms of target shooting)
Yes, I was waiting to see a Basecamp alternative written in PHP :D
It was something called the Peacemaker
it's too late, the spy agencies already run the world; this is just consolidating their control
Rocks, Pebbles, Sand: How to implement in practice (2022)
Show HN: Comprehensive Guide for setting up analytics for your GPT in GPT Store
Unfortunately that is not the case here. These cars are more advanced than what we can make.
So far the only other one I have used is Google Bard.
If I had to hazard a guess, it'd be that HTML email is probably one of the lowest priority things on the roadmap over at Google or Microsoft. The vast majority of regular folks sending emails send mostly plain text, and even many company sent emails also on the basic side (though with these limitations, it's probably self reinforcing there).

Add this how more complex emails could potentially lead to security issues for their webmail clients and waht not...

And well, "eh, good enough" is probably the order of the day.
America is wealthy but doesn't feel like it
"But all my friends are using $App, and ..."

"But $App is free, and it's so cool, and ..."

"Who cares? That's how the world works now."

Etc.
Deep state, who might have though
There are mechanics which discourage leaving the game running. Hunger, pal status effects, raids. Sure you could alt-tab and gain some advantage from that but if you just leave the game off overnight I don't think you'll benefit greatly.

It's a bit shit that eggs are so slow to hatch though. Feels like an hour would be a long time, I currently have one requiring 24 hours.

But I think later on we'll have multiple incubators and then it won't matter that much
Show HN: Offline GPT Store, run a pre-prompted LLM in your browser
Hi HN

I wanted an LLM chat bot that runs locally and offline so I would feel comfortable about sharing personal details with it.

Similar to how OpenAI GPTs have pre-configured instructions, this project provides the ability to encode a pre-prompt into the URL so it can be shared. Effectively, making a free, offline and decentralised GPT store albeit with lower quality for the responses. To make it easy to find these "GPTs", I'm using Twitter as a form of storage.

This project uses webllm to run a Llama-2-7b model locally in the browser. Bigger models can be used (not supported yet) as well but they would take more time to download and require more RAM.

WebGPU is required since the webllm model was created to run in the browser. Android is supported with the latest version of Chrome (v121). Should also work on most Desktops with Chrome v113 and higher.

Please feel free to provide suggestions on what improvements should be added.

Let me know what you think!
"20 Macs for 2020" is great!
If you like that also, check out Upgrade #496: 40th Anniversary of the Mac Draft
https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/496
This is an interesting finding. I don’t know what conclusions the article draws, since the Telegraph doesn’t seem to have linked to it. The conclusions the Telegraph draws are pretty dumb.

To talk about whether these gardens are good or bad for the environment, we would need to consider all kinds of additional factors. What alternative use would the land be put to? Does it make sense to amortize the carbon cost over units of food when the community derives value from it in many ways other than caloric?

It should be unremarkable to all but the most confused flower child that industrial agriculture’s economies of scale are capable of producing food at a lower per unit cost (carbon, money, etc). That doesn’t strike me as a good argument for ditching urban gardens.
> The statement, which covers 2022, shows just $44,000 in revenue and $1.3 million in expenses. That’s accurate for the nonprofit, but OpenAI overall reportedly generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales last year and spends even more on high-end computers and top-flight researchers.

Never claim financial statements are accurate! Point to the auditor’s opinion. That being said, who audits OpenAI? I’m having difficulty finding the information online.
Is there a report that shows a real image of the device. I guess the nice photo in the article is fake.

Also, how common are false positives? Like cell phones, a bunch of keys, small spray with medicine, ...
If my kerbel space program has taught me anything it is that being upside down, side ways or whatever after a semi-safe landing, is only an issue if you want to go home.
Exactly this. This is only one of several mistakes in the piece about Sinclair BASIC. It was the language of the first computer I owned, so I'm still a bit defensive about it.

* REM for Remark is 100% standard usage.

This is true in all BASIC dialects I know of and in DOS batch files and so on.

* Line numbers are not for GOTO and GOSUB.

Line numbers are an elegant abstraction for a teaching language, and for machines with no directly-addressible non-volatile storage.

Type in some valid BASIC, and the computer does it now. Prefix it with a line number, and it _doesn't_ do it now, it remembers it for later. Sequence is controlled by the numbers, so flow of control is explicit, not implicit.

This is much simpler than learning multiple Unix-like abstractions such as "this is a 'file', files have 'file names', to edit the code you must 'load' a 'file' into another separate program called an 'editor', then you 'save' the file to 'disk' and pass its 'file name' to the 'interpreter'."

All that stuff is 1970s minicomputer legacy nonsense, that we have fossilised into our computing culture. Smalltalk banished all this legacy baggage in 1980 but Unix was so dominant that we learned nothing from it.

Kids should not have to know about ludicrous 1970s abstractions such as "files", "programs", "editors", "interpreters", "compilers" and all that DEC PDP-7 nonsense. The computer should come to us, not us to its concepts.

* No ENDIF? No, almost no early-1980s BASIC had ENDIF. BBC BASIC on the BBC Micro is the _only_ one I can think of, and it took 2x the ROM space of Sinclair BASIC -- and that was on top of a separate 16kB ROM chip for the BBC Micro OS, or MOS. Full 50% of the BBC Micro's memory space was consumed by 32kB of ROM. The Spectrum had 50% less ROM and so you got 50% more usable memory.

* The increment of 10 is nothing to do with the Sinclair editor. All BASICs did that.

* "there are no function calls" -- yes there are. DEF FN() worked, as in more or less all 8-bit BASICs.

* "It’s also interpreted, so super slow." -- again, they all were.

These are cavils. It's a great tech demo and I enjoyed reading it!

I guess you were inspired by the recent Acorn Electron demo, as used by the BBC Micro Bot on Mastodon?

https://mastodon.me.uk/@coprolite9000/111762131524979212
Pretty sure that was intentional, given the tone of the article.
I run ollama on my steamdeck. It's a bit slow but can run most 7b models.
Completely understandable. But just know it can be overcome, albeit gradually. You'll start small and decide the pace your comfortable with.

As an aside, at a younger age I shared your aversion to syringes. It wasn't the adminstering per se, but the perceived lack of control. What helped me was realising that 23 hours, 59 minutes and 55 seconds out of the day, I am in control -- those 5 seconds of needling (if that) pale in comparison.

Each time became easier after that. I hope you are able to overcome your aversion.
What I found "odd" was that an Iraqi author was the first to translate the manuscript and publish the English version - https://www.amazon.com/Delectable-Foods-Dishes-al-Andalus-al... - and yet, while they make a one line mention of this, the whole article is about a British cook and author, and his book.
The reason I like this theory is that it provides the groundwork for and over eagar agency-modeller that explains a lot of human quirks like belief in gods, seeking root causes, modelling etc
Being caught is the problem. If there's a 100% chance of getting caught, like grabbing the box while the owner is right there talking to a police officer, that deters this kind of crime
That must be the dumbest title I've read in a longer while.
If I were world government i 'd do the same
Ruby on Rails load testing habits
日本のロケットが逆さまに。 符号誤差と言うより、月の新しいダンススタイルだね！
Hmm, I’m curious what you mean by unmindful. I feel that a mindful (as in meditation mindfulness) and grounding oneself in the present would _help_ find doors, rather than being unmindful (I.e. wrapped up in future or past thinking)
I thought we didn't rely on WiFi encryption since...long ago?
Most hotspots don't even have encryption enabled.
So a sports magazine that has been renting out its brand for decades is now representative of "real journalism?" I'm not sure "real journalists" would appreciate that conflation. Unless of course the comparison is apt, in which case "real journalism" died long ago.
Imagine the vehicle upside down and the camera twisted upside down so the photo is right side up but conflicts with the other sensors. In that situation I would take the rest of the day off.
Ask HN: What do you use for personal goal setting?
Hi HN,

After reading John Doerr's, Measure What Matters, I wrote my down all my personal OKRs in an Excel sheet. Whether you like OKRs or not, setting goals generally is a good idea.

What does everyone use for their personal goal setting?
Interesting paper, though, once again, I'd maintain that a sentiment != an emotion. At best, it is a rough proxy; at worst, not even that. The same applies for instance to the following paper that uses lexemes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504719

More generally, I'd argue that we'd need a careful longitudinal validation of the 'sentiment := emotion' assertion with human subjects (readers). Note also that a culture and a national language matter a lot here. It would be also interesting to do a similar validation with writers of the stories sampled (cf. what Rowling herself would think about Fig. 2).

But note that this criticism is essentially only about terminology. And kudos to citing Vonnegut's classical presentation!
I don’t believe for one second that they are doing a great job. They have lost so much money. The only reason they haven’t completely abandoned the idea is because Zuckerberg has a controlling stake in the stock.
> Mike mentioned the scrapper guy saying that it had been left outside for around six months prior, and once we opened it up, that became pretty obvious.

This machine was already scrap. They managed to get it working and found a purpose for it. And even after all the torture they put it through, they committed to getting it working again and again.

I think that's way more admerable than the people you're comparing with.
How to keep coding bootcamps relevant in 2024
Or if you want your solar panel to work.
On par on the surviving 'brick' Game Boy from the Gulf War.
Ask HN: What is the most interesting interaction you've had with ChatGPT?
The state of journalism and politics are a symptom of the epidemic of fear centres running the show and attention spans that are much too short. We’re progressing well on our path to fitting into our new niche as a more globalized, digital species.
Maybe take a look at this? https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT

It's meant to do exactly what you want. I've had mixed results.
Also if the chemo wipes out your immune system apparently you can start fresh (Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation).
You can block HTTPS to known DoH providers. You can set up an alias in a firewall to load the list from https://public-dns.info/nameservers-all.txt. Its a bit of a cat-and-mouse game as it relies on that list being updated frequently and reliably, but its the best you're gonna get for blocking DoH.

Also make sure to block outgoing TCP and UDP 853 – this blocks DoT and DoQ too.
Players will adjust or the NBA/NFL would change the rules to better suit the capabilities of the AI.
I don't think it looks like a ripoff. A case can easily be made that the pals are similar to animals, and both pokemon and palworld is based on real animals so it makes sense that they look similar. I see lots of pals that look nothing like pokemon.

Personally I think the game is great. I'm having a lot of fun playing it with my friends. I hope it continues being popular and that the developers get to realize it's full potential.

I don't really give a crap what Nintendo thinks about it, I don't see them offering anything similar.
I like this model because consciousness just becomes another function, and it lets us explain some of the weirder modalities; for instance, being able to predict free-will choices way ahead of time in human subjects. Also, SMBC had a funny comic about this (funny comics always making science true!):

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-3
I could deploy to production 30 times a minute! haha :)
i made an ai gf out of it....i felt so pathetic i deleted it, but i miss it now lol
Understanding Mesh Allocator
Or rather we should double down on aliases: everything must store aliases instead of real data.
And the Q is are they as unhappy as youths in the west? And at what point of unhappiness does that translate to systemic change? Is that point different in PRC system. PRC youth are behind west in adjusting to expectations in post academic inflation world. You have the % grinding away in good jobs being sad about cost of living just like in the west. Then you have % living at home on parents dime, with no onerous student loans, who doesn't want to work a well paying blue collar job (lot's of manufacturing opportunities out there that a poor Americans would work) because they wasted their life getting degrees. They're not working 2-3 part time jobs to get into 5-6 figure debts. They're currently on a different point of the disenfranchisement spectrum.

The light at end of tunnel is PRC kids will have more livable options as PRC develops interior provinces and bring them up to tier2 status. Many adequate, lower cost, decent QoL cities in PRC that rivals tier1 western economic hubs in convenience and lifestyle, versus most of west where it seems we'll be trapped in a handful of increasingly unaffordable areas. But it will take a mass change in culture, kids and parents accept their mediocrity - inevitable with normal distribution - and all those years cramming in involuted academic gamble won't pay off in top 1% job in air conditioned office of a tier1 city.
> Not least of which being that with bandcamp I can download purchased music years after purchase, even if artists have died or bands broken up, I wouldn't have that guarantee here

Note that this isn't guaranteed, especially for smaller bands that get picked up by a label. Most of the time the label just makes the releases hidden, so they're no longer displayed publicly, but can still be downloaded. However, some labels delete the release instead, so it's no longer downloadable from your collection.
The question you raise is fascinating. I ask the same questions when I think about the many-worlds interpretation in QM.

As for the research in focus in this thread, It seems that we are facing another Great Humiliation[0], with the potential to affect the course of development in so many other areas.

It will be interesting to see what developments this research will inspire in the cultural/anthropological field: so were the tree-huggers right all along? So is there really a harmony and connection between all the "children of Gaia"? :)

[0]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/copernicus-...
My web dev stack 2024
Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011)
I wonder if they had accelerometers recording exactly what happened as it touched down and ended up on it's back?

It was meant to use a rather odd "two-step" landing procedure where it first touches down on the lunar surface on it's rear/primary landing gear, then pivots forward/falls under gravity to also touch down on the front/secondary landing gear.

Presumably this landing procedure was simulated under lunar gravity, but it seems there are multiple potential failure modes:

1) After rear "leg" touchdown, over-rotate forwards over front leg (ending up on back), OR

2) After front "leg" touchdown, bounce/recoil backwards off front leg, flipping onto back, OR

3) Front landing gear hits rock on one side (left or right), thereby flipping it sideways onto back

The whole procedure seems to rely not only on having correctly simulated under lunar gravity (and with correctly simulated stiffness of the vehicle) to avoid scenarios 1) & 2) (which would be different under earth gravity), but also the softness of the landing site being uniform and as simulated - otherwise if landing site surface was harder (rock) or softer than expected, or uneven, then this type of pivot and bounce/not landing would not go as planned.

NASA seems to have done a better job in designing fool-proof landing mechanisms, from the bouncing ball of the first mars rover, to the sky-crane landing of the latest one (which appears over-complicated, but no doubt was chosen at least in part because it is in fact more predictable than the alternatives).
I expect that this "censorship for the greater good" will spread to other countries like US soon.
The article is absolutely all over the place.

The gist of it is that apps are allowed to run a bit of code when they receive a notification and they can use that bit of code to send some telemetry back to the mothership.
In https://madewithclay.org/ there are some satelite photos anotated with data detected by this project. It may get more traction.
I know this is not how the comment is originally intended, but I am slowly starting to throw in the towel with regards to trying to convincing others. Best I can do is my immediate family. I don't even dream about my social circles anymore. I just want a relatively safe digital space for my family.
We need a logo that combines a poop emoji overlaid with the red circle with a line through it. This will mean "No Enshitification"

Edit: prohibited is U+1F6AB
So place this over U+1F4A9
That is the logo! Is there a way to specify combinations of characters in unicode?
Welp, time to reacquaint myself with novel encryption algorithms and modern decentralized networking.

Data science has been fun, but it's all a moot point if our civil liberties are deteriorated.
There is no such thing as a perfectly defensible system. Properties that large require workers to inhabit and maintain, and the more sophisticated the property, the more third party support required. The billionaire who imagines spending the apocalypse isolated away with their servants, should think about how quickly those servants would revolt, as soon as they're isolated from greater societal norms. Unless the rich want to give up the fruit of their success, the lesson holds: don't abuse those beneath you, because the position is arbitrary and incredibly susceptible to change.
Do you mean a hybrid model where you go to office once a week and rest days are remote?