skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Coughing is a defense mechanism that spits out bacterias and such.

Coughing is pushing air from lungs in such a way to create maximum acceleration of everything which is denser than air, typically water. You have a dry caugh but some parts of brain believe there is still some water inside. But if your body malfunctions, your behaviour counts as an UB, and you might experience anything, you can even forget your own name.
> The clue that this guy is a right-wing crank

Stopped reading after seeing a clue that this guy is a far-left extremist.
When we did this kind of thing in high school we had huge problems with contamination, but I don't agree that it is so hard.

I think the barrier is really that up until now exactly zero who want to do biomedical research have also wanted to kill huge numbers of people, with the exception of some idiots in the past who worked on state bioweapons.
One use of macaroons is to have caveats restricting the request itself used to achieve higher security than bearer tokens. This might be "only good for this service" audience restrictions or "only good for this hashed request message" as proof-of-possession.

This creates a role division, where the user agent caveats before the proof-of-possession are potentially authorized differently than the ones after. It also creates the possibility that you will need to override caveats per policy, say when that message wasn't a terminal call but rather hitting an ingress to a complex internal services framework which would still like to leverage the macaroon.

Basically - if a role has a requirement that they always terminate with a particular caveat, you know a section of caveats was created by software in that role. This is more of a second level of authorization than it is authentication though, I would agree.
> Using the sCAL chunk (physical scale) would allow extremely large dimensions because it uses ASCII floating-point.

AFAIK sCAL is more about the image's subject, not the image itself. A 1:10,000,000 scale world map would be < 10 m wide according to pHYs, but it will be ~40,000 km wide according to sCAL.
It goes both ways. Companies can hire remote workers from anywhere in the world. If there are not enough engineers willing to come in and use the expensive spectrum analyzers or working in a clean room or whatever then you have to pay them more.
As a younger and far more naive kid I was drawn to Aleister Crowley for the motto he espoused in his "magickal journal," The Equinox: The method of Science, the aim of Religion.

Much of his writing proposes a few experiments you can try for yourself; the first line of "Liber E vel Exercitiorum" reads, "It is absolutely necessary that all experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance."

Crowley was interesting in that he tried to bring an empirical, albeit subjective (since the target of study is the mind, psychology, subjective experience itself) and non-objective, non-quantitative approach to techniques of mysticism - meditation, breath work, and ritual, in particular.

Buddhism also contains some experimentation of its own - I am quite fond of Daniel M. Ingram's work with the "fire kasina" technique, in which clear steps for reproducing the result are given, and falsifiable claims are made about what (note: subjective!) phenomena will occur as a consequence of the experimental procedure. It is possible to reproduce such claims for one's self, given sufficient time and practice.

In the sense that some spiritual traditions and philosophies have as their subject of study the mind, and employ empirical techniques to gain insights into it, yes, I would say they are arguably sciences of mind.
Thats openais marketing stance honestly. Thats how they define general ai actually, on economic vs technical terms.
Hi! I worked on the desktop app and I can share some insights regarding why we went for Electron instead of Tauri.

We started the project with a market overview of what our competitors and other companies were using, and the overwhelming majority is using either Electron or CEF. Here are a few reasons why we decided to go for Electron:

- Electron is mature, it has been present for more than 10 years now and has supported many companies to build spectacular software (VSCode, Slack, One Password, Discord).

- Electron Forge helps remove many of the pains of building custom Electron Builder configuration and significantly improved development speed.

- All the Node.js and JS ecosystem of libraries is available to support development. This can range to security vulnerability scanning (electronegativity) to an .app creation for an uninstaller (mac-appify).

- Electron is based on Node.js and Chromium. Chromium is one of the criticisms made against Electron, but it's also one of his strength. Using Chromium ensure a mostly consistent experience across all OSes.

Those are the main reasons we decided to go for Electron instead of alternatives such as Tauri. Tauri looks promising, but the lack of usage by big companies and the use of the OS web view (which could introduce unexpected bugs) was what made us go for Electron instead.

edit: the Proton Mail desktop application is the first application using Electron. Other apps are built using native technologies
You don't need new runtime operators to retrieve the length. Once you remove the decay issue, you can use sizeof:

sizeof(a)
sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0])
Thank you Michael. I'm not even sure I disagree with you on many things -- I think things are very complicated and nuanced and am skeptical of people that hold overly strong opinions about such things, so I try not to be such a person myself!

When I see one side of an AI safety argument being (IMO) straw-manned, I tend to push back against it. That doesn't mean however that I disagree.

FWIW, on AI/bio, my current view is that it's probably easier to harden the facilities and resources required for bio-weapon development, compared to hardening the compute capability and information availability. (My wife is studying virology at the moment so I'm very aware of how accessible this information is.)
Sounds like a fun project!
This looks super interesting - gonna check it out.

Noho ora mai
Had zero experience, too. Turns out ollama does everything, literally. You just tell it to run a model and wait a bit for it to download. One (1) shell command total.
They aren't incompetent (though I wouldn't call them great either).

They lack vertical integration and are willing to fleece their clients thanks to their position.

Apple's vertical integration means that they can plan chip design in cooperation with final product teams, which means many cost-affecting decisions are made with budget view that includes the whole device and its sales, not predicted markets among chip makers whose total budgets for device designs aren't known.

Apple can easily decide that they are willing to spend a bit extra on, for example, large caches (which have HUGE impact on performance) or very wide superscalar cores, because they are not going to get clients complaining that the chip is now too expensive - and the specific guidance on what design parameters should change is informed from start by the target product.

Meanwhile the closest relation to Apple's chips, Samsung Exynos, for various reasons had its team blocked for cooperation with Samsung Mobile part that designed phones - they effectively had to make most of Exynos SoC in vacuum targeting general markets and hope that selection process doesn't decide Qualcomm's patent and familiarity advantage beats them out resulting in bad financial results which in turn gets management to look badly on them with obvious consequences (I remember how just the fact that they used PowerVR like iPhone at the time led to complaints because games were tested on adreno only).

Neither Qualcomm or Nvidia are providing deep integration at that level (from my understanding, even supposedly "custom" stuff like Qualcomm's S1 and S2 are nowhere near as integrated in design phase as any Apple chip - and Qualcomm seems willing to break Microsoft design for the entire platform with what they delivered). And it was not uncommon to find out way too late that the chip that was selected earlier doesn't really deliver (I recall such complaints specifically about first Snapdragon being massively slower than expected by Google Nexus team, and similar case happening later with Tegra in Xoom. There might have been suggestions by people I talked with that HTC for, possibly informally, banned from consideration by Google Nexus team for a time due to that - Xoom supposedly also made for a bitter pill with nvidia my understanding is that Tegra GPU architecture had some fundamental mismatches with Android)
God help us all if it crawled Chegg
paper windmill?
Internet made us dumber by overwhelming with information. If we allowed it of course.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose (Sherlock Holmes)

However what I mean is, once we start relying on AI, we will never know things for sure, always will need to have the AI asked and no knowledge or skills will we have on our own
I'm using gnuplot for plotting too (the actual gnuplot application not a library that uses gnuplot as its backend).

And I usually keep computation and plotting separate. Computation produces data files, and a gnuplot script generates plots. This separation of computation and plotting allows updating charts later if needed, collected data can be reused in other plots, and additional data analysis can be performed and charts can be augmented.

So I personally don't see many advantages from integrating chart generation into computational pipeline itself (except for computation monitoring or maybe when user response is needed to direct computation). Because of that, libraries that encourage charts generation from a computed array instead of dumping that data into persisted files feels like an anti-pattern to me.
I had a lot of frustration in the UK, when I tried to get a bank account that could not be overdrawn.

Basically, I wanted the German experience where your transaction is just declined, if you don't have the funds, without further repercussions. In the UK, the banks might or might not approve that transaction, and definitely charge you an outrageous fee either way.

The only choice on offer in the UK at the time was whether you pre-arrange an overdraft, which is slightly cheaper (but still expensive). Or whether they give an you an 'unarranged overdraft', which you can't not accept, which is crazy expensive.
Thanks, we really need to bring a bit of balance and data to this topic like this. The hype is certainly real, while the data so far aren't backing this up.

I'm afraid that the public interest in legalisation of psychedelics, motivated by positive experiences in recreational use, leads to a skewed narrative around their health benefits, as a means to open the door for their gradual acceptance and legalisation. This happened to marijuana as well, where health benefits of marijuana were grossly exaggerated to open the door to its legalisation, with medical marijuana as a segway. Marijuana can be harmful and abused, so even though I'm all for legalisation, people should have a balanced view of the benefits and risks to make more informed decisions. Luckily the risk and abuse profile of psychedelics is (much) lower than that of marijuana.
Approximately nobody uses any checks in the EU countries we are talking about here. (And I don't think those accounts would come with a check book. That's something you specifically have to ask for, and might come with a credit check.)
ChatGPT like all transformers (language models) depends on how well you prime the model as it can only predict the next series of tokens over a finite probability space (the dimensions it was trained on) , it is up to you as the prompt creator to prime that model so it can be used as a foundation for further reasoning.

Normally people who get bad results from it would also get similar results if they asked a domain expert. Similarly different knowledge domains use a different corpus of text for their core axioms/premises, so if you don't know the domain area or those keywords your not going to be able to prime the model to get anything meaningful from it.
AI Tutoring; What Works?
Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing
When I was living in the UK I tried to get an account with no 'unarranged overdraft' but the banks I tried with made it hard enough that I gave up.
> When studied, I think scientists will find that certain mystical practices induce these pivotal mental states, at least in a percentage of the population.

That's useless if those "mystical practices" don't consist of precise, actionable instructions, whose outcome can be measured in a way that eliminates expectation bias.

The standard approach seems to be to give relatively vague guidelines for what to do, then if following those doesn't lead to any positive result, claim that the student either misapplied them, or didn't try hard enough, or tried too hard, or it wasn't their time, etc. etc.

Which is factually indistinguishable from "there's nothing to it but smoke and mirrors".
The whole point of the eye/finger mechanism is so that you can just pickup the headset at any time, watch a movie or play a game without needing to worry about finding and charging controllers.

For doing proper work the keyboard/trackpad combination looks to be ideal.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I agree completely.
> It is a risk, I agree.

Exactly as expected for another dictator:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4441292-democratic-lawmak...

... during Bukele’s first term, he has “overseen the militarized harassment of the legislature, a significant erosion of judicial independence, and the de facto criminalization of civil society.”

“With the election approaching, this crushing of dissent and restriction on multiparty democracy has extended to the arrests and arrest warrants of political opponents, including the former Salvadoran Ambassador to the United States, Rubén Zamora,” ...

> All regime changes are risky

Exactly as expected for apologists: Equalizing democracy and dictatorship is really the message of statement, and we know very well that it's BS. Who is Bukele or anyone to seize power from people in El Salvador and tell them what they must do?

> So far this one is working out extremely well, hopefully the trend will continue.

Apparently not!
> If the system could detect when low latency is important they could get away with a single kernel.

I'm not sure this makes sense, especially in the context of modern power management. I mean -- even re: latency sensitive stuff, you probably don't want to be waking everything up at the granularity of a rt kernel.
Does it have to be better than escitalopram? Even if it were at the same level of effectiveness, the lack of side effects and additional insight psilocybin brings are great benefits.
The setup cost and batch size are likely both too large to justify it without a large number of prepaid orders.

It might actually be easiest to run such a second printing as a second kickstarter campaign.
Working at SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and X :)
It's statistically significant because there is a difference in outcome between the group receiving treatment and the one that did not which could not be attributed to chance alone, but the difference isn't clinically significant because it was a very small difference (in statistics, this is sometimes also referred to as the _effect size_)
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

WTF? Broken from right there. What's a plt? "o" key broken? Why didn't they just call it pyplot? Why not just

import pyplot
pyplot.plot(lambda x: math.sin(x))
pyplot.plot(x=[0,1,2],y=[0,2,4])
Yes, I saw that later as I read further.

That's exactly what I would want to use, if I had to use checks. (Luckily, I don't ever have to interact with checks.)
> There are a gazillion of them.

Such as?
I think Monzo in the UK also offered that. That's who I switched to in the end. (But I've since left the UK.)
this makes sense... but I don't think they should have removed the audio jack from any of their product
I split tests into two categories. One is "I'm testing a bunch of different variations of the same thing." Table tests are great for this, they make the code pretty readable and, perhaps more importantly, the process of writing the inner part of the table test seems to nudge you to think about all the permutations and combinations of what you're testing can be. It leads to good tests and helps you reason about your inputs.

The other kind of test is what I call a "storybook test." Table tests are less useful here, this is usually for testing CRUD in a coherent manner but can apply to any kind of object that has a lifecycle that you need to transition between various states. You may argue: aha! This is a state machine and you ought to simply independently test each state transition! Fair enough, I say, and yes in some cases I might actually do so if the API that's exposed lends itself to having its internal state set so explicitly. But more often than not I argue that the story itself is more valuable than exactly what permutations of the inputs and state get tested at each call. What the test represents is that some flow is important, gives an example of it, and helps show that this general use-case is what we want to keep working, not necessarily these specific state transitions.

Mind you reality is messy so tests often blur and blend and so on. But when I sit down and write a new test, I'm usually imagining it as one of these two archetypes of tests.
Thanks, I've decided to give grapheneos a try. My new Pixel should arrive soon.
> Experts say that the root of Boeing’s present troubles is a longstanding culture issue. Over the years, the company’s top decision-makers went from detail-oriented engineers to slick suits with MBAs.

Same story as a million other places, but a million other places don't have people's lives depending on their hardware (and software). I (vainly, naively) hope the decision makers are held to account for their failures and class actions from families of the 346 people who have died as a result of management-directed shortcuts set a precedent that's a resounding multi-decade influential disincentive.

Great barb at the end:

“The big criticism is that they’re solely focused on finance, but they’re not even good at that,”
> I also started publishing a series of article about censorship-resistant internet (Tor, I2P, IPFS, and ZeroNet) in 2600 Magazine – The Hacker Quarterly – back in 2017

I very much enjoyed your articles on Tor and I2P :) I2P was entirely new to me, so I found that particularly interesting. I did idly wonder when the next article was coming, so I’m glad I didn’t just miss it in some issue. Totally understand where you’re coming from.
Well nothing is indestructible. My point is that it is a well-designed connector, and in some ways superior to USB-C. Lightning was introduced in 2012 before USB-C was commonplace. It makes sense that once Apple decided to use it, they would be hesitant to move away from it.
9. Anyone who doesn’t recognize Roko’s basilisk as a bad ripoff of Pascal’s wager is an ignoramus. Anyone who is seriously concerned about it for more than an hour should consider a vasectomy.

10. I can’t think of a better form of “effective altruism” than paying for LessWrong members’ vasectomies. Not because I’m concerned about their genes. They’d just be terrible parents, and gods those kids would need lots of therapy.
The USA can continue overspending, lending and making payments, all while taxing minimally - for a limited time only. Eventually, that equation will need to change.

The choices are tighten the belt and/or increase taxes, war and the appropriation of resources, and/or renege on debt and start printing money. All choices and consequences (in some cases dire) sadly left to the next and future generations.
Presumably GP is not suggesting censorship but rather that we pause and zoom out before condemning someone for saying something dumb on the internet while drunk.
Are you saying it’s cheap to print and bind small batches of high-quality books with color photos?
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on ChatGPT as a professional?
I’m going a new graduate starting an internship. It’s imperative that I do well to receive a return offer. In job search, I’ve built projects with Chat GPTs help. I didn’t tell gpt to just build me a project and I copy and paste but I genuinely use it as a “Jarvis” like Tony stark. That said, is there any stigma with using ChatGPT in the workplace? I don’t like to use gpt to code for me. I like to use gpt as an imaginary person who collaborates on projects. For example, I ask questions like, “I want to implement feature x. It should be used like this… my plan to implement this is to do a, b, and c. Is my structure a good and professional solution to this implementation?”

Usually, I get a really helpful and insightful response that optimizes my design. Sometimes I come up with a solution that might work, but gpt helps me come up with a better solution. This ends up teaching me so much because I actually absorb the information. Moreover, it helps me debug too. I find it as a shortcut to debugging. I see it as, I can spend 2-3 hours googling stuff, or I can spend about 45 minutes talking to gpt to pin point the bug and come up with a viable solution. All that said, what are your thoughts? Am I too reliant on it? Is this a “healthy” relationship with AI? I want to be a strong engineer. I don’t want to pick up sloppy habits and become a poor engineer. My perception of gpt is it’s a new resource to take advantage of. I need some input. What are your thoughts? Thanks!
If he liked building companies, that'd be another incentive to sell and build something else, not keeping it stable
"We the American people" is the corporation.
But the word macaroon is derived from macaron. Obviously they are not the same thing, I never said that, did I?
Are rappers not influential people?
The springy contracts are the more fragile part. The USB-C design puts those in the cable, to optimize the sturdiness of the (more expensive) devices.

Though the tab itself could be a point of failure, but it’s probably less so.
The article literally talks about how the printer had never seen a project like it before.

If the small run costs the same as doing a 10,000 book run, it may have been easy to print but is likely not economical to sell.
Happily, I really appreciate your opinion, your part of the conversation.

I said "There are so many 'people' online", implying that there is a lot of propaganda being passed off as opinion. How much? How real? Well, I was giving my opinion on that.

I'm not saying that YOU are this propaganda, but challenging you to defend your point helps to fight, and weed out, the propaganda I'm talking about. Sounds like you might have read it?
Good point most likely an extra shot in the patent arsenal
Yes, and I also imagine some kind of AI thing would be useful for reading logs and writing other tests that document what the system does in a nice bdd style.

But you still have to read the tests and decide if that's what you want the code to do, and make sure the descriptions aren't gobbledygook.
Another factor keeping older people in place is that they've put a lot of energy into the yard or their house to make it the way they want it to be. For example, if my mom, a still sharp and active 90-year-old, couldn't live independently, and spend time in her garden, she would probably pass in 2 - 3 months. Expiration after loss of independence and access to the outdoors is a common way to die in my family.
"Composition Intuition by Conor Hoekstra | Lambda Days 2023" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj8jxYS-hi4) is all about combinators.
And with the combination of Buddha and Ghost, I have reached Enlightenment. I will take that as a sign that I have completed the game.