skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can try to decide to do whatever I want, but sometimes my brain will "disagree" with me by making it impossible for me to actually perform any action towards that thing.

I feel like I don't have free will, because even though I have the capacity to want anything at any time, what I can actually do is limited by what my brain will agree with me on. However, I am conscious about this and aware of the things that I am not allowed to do, and this makes me sad.

However, I also feel like this ability for me to disagree with what my brain wants could be what free will is. Sometimes I can even win against it. But other times it's impossible for me to do anything about it.

Now, the real question is whether the separation between these processes is purely an ADHD thing, or whether normal non-ADHD brains have the same processes but simply don't ever have this kind of "disagreement".

The next one would be whether the disagreement never happens because their brain is less picky about what it lets them do (free will), or whether it never happens because the conscious mind doesn't attempt to defy the brain's wants (no free will).

How would a neural implant help with this?
If anyone from DDG is here, please sort out your calendar one? I reported it in early January that it was (understandably) erroneously assuming 'jan calendar' still meant current_year+1; still doing it for February.

March is ok though, so I think actually the implementation was always buggy, not just now it's 2024, but it's checking if month is <= current month where it should just do <.
NVMe has been ridiculously great. I'm excited to see what happens to prices as E1 form factor ramps up! Much physically bigger drives allows for consolidation of parts, a higher ratio of flash chips to everything else, which seems promising. It's more a value line, but Intel's P5315 is 15TB at a quite low $0.9/GB.

It might not help much with oops though. Amazing that we have PCIe 5.0 16GB/s and already are so near theoretical max (some lost to overhead), even on consumer cards.

Going enterprise for the drive-writes-per-day (DWPD) is 100% worth it for most folks, but I am morbidly curious how different the performance profile would be running enterprise vs non these days. But reciprocally the high DWPD drives (Kioxia CD8P-V for example is DWPD of 3) seems to often come with somewhat more mild sustained 4k write oops, making me think maybe there's a speed vs reliability tradeoff that could be taken advantage of from consumer drives in some cases; not sure who wants tons of iops but doesn't actually intend to hit their Total Drive Writes, but it save you some iops/$ if so. That said, I'm shocked to see the enterprise premium is a lot less absurd than it used to be! (If you can find stock.)
Well, to link with recent news, do you think talking with the late Alexey Navalni over Signal would protect you from russian police? They'd still be able to see that you talked to him.

And then what's the point of the super duper encryption?
YT search results also show results that have literally nothing to do with the query. Stop showing me videos I watched previously when I'm literally in the midst of trying to find something specific.
From a prior thread that didn’t get any constructive engagement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205762

Essentially Ethereum can be used to codify financial contracts in order to provide a level of trust where one does not otherwise exist.
But that's exactly the issue. You need to hijack those dopamine pathways to get adoption. That's what adoption means - somebody found an activity appealing enough that they alter their behavior and give you some attention. If your product doesn't generate enough of an emotion to get people to alter their behavior, you won't get adoption.

That's why other successful products like Twitter, crypto, vaping, clickbait, greenwashing, political rage-bait, gaming, gambling, arguing on the Internet, pyramid schemes, etc. have been successful too. The one thing they all have in common is they hijack your dopamine pathways. Lots of other things like exercising, eating your vegetables, saving a small portion of your paycheck each month, becoming a homeowner, maintaining your home, investing in your relationships are all good for us, but people don't do them because they don't give us enough of a high to be worth doing daily.

You're metaphorically saying "If you build a product that helps people eat their vitamins, they will come." Spoiler alert: they won't.
I was hoping to get structured data. For example, parsing an voice will give results like
{"title"... "line_items": [...], "date":...}
WTF is this crap. I am using old-fashioned mobile phone with keyboard. How do I sign up for Signal???
I personally don't have a problem with this feature, and it's actually how I discovered Signal use among many of my friends.

But I think it's inexcusable that these sorts of notifications could essentially allow someone to circumvent blocking done by one of their contacts. If I've blocked someone via my phone's default contact blocking mechanism, and then I join Signal, and that person is already on Signal, they should not suddenly be able to contact me... and even be explicitly invited to do so on their end!

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if neither Android nor iOS gives regular apps access to the blocked contacts list. So I'm not really sure how an app like Signal could solve this problem.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on the risk you're trying to contain, not just the routine income.

The short, short version is: You have to have a reason for the LLC that isn't just "contain some risks". Something like "this is a legal entity for my side project bilombinaboloa.com, that I'm hoping will one day become a company and make me Rich" will work, "I pay my expenses via this and take my income directly" will not.
It's not irrelevant, but the exposure is reduced.

If a person is a member of a terrorist network - or friends with someone who is - the fact that a warrant could force Signal to expose that link could mean that a court is then more likely to approve increased surveillance of your (non-Signal) communications because of that link.

On the other hand if you are a woman on Tinder and using Signal to communicate with matches, this doesn't expose you to the person you have just matched with adding your number to their phone book, uploading it to LinkedIn and then finding where you work (which is what you can do with a phone number).

My feeling is this is a reasonable compromise, but it is important people understand what it does and doesn't protect you from.
No, travelling by rail is sustainable. It’s a really good option for continental travel under 1000km.
> It also upholds the dismissal of the case due to lack of wantonness or negligence on the part of the defendants.

It dismissed the claims, not the case. And because that point was made moot by ruling that extrauterine embryos are children.

Page 23:

https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-...
Probably the Instagram lady that is helping him. These scams are fairly common on IG these days.
I've never seen a good, reasonable use for scrollbars being made available to screw around with. If you build websites, don't muck up basic UI elements like the scrollbar, or go full screen, or do horizontal scrolling, or take over scrolling behaviors. Stuff like this site seems like half art project, half social experiment.

I'm not sure the article author should be speaking with such certainty and authority on the subject of what constitutes "good" UI.

A lot of what makes interface elements effective is predictability. Context menus are boring, consistent, and predictable - or they should be. You shouldn't ever be in a situation where you right click on something and say "wow! that's beautiful! that menu is so amazingly well done!"

Software is intended to do things. If your interface gets in the way of things being done, then the interface is the wrong tool for the job. Making things flashy or prioritizing aesthetics over functionality for the sake of appearances makes every element you co-opt automatically the wrong tool for the job, regardless of how "pretty" it might be.

If your site takes over scrollbars, the correct response to "what do you think of the custom scrollbars?" should be "wow, I didn't even notice a thing."
How does surya compare to AWS Textract? A previous employer went through a bunch of different OCRs and ended up using Textract because they found it to be the most accurate overall.
As you say, most of those aren't a big deal, except in Chicago. The Daleys started putting their name on EVERYTHING; it's always strange to visit from out of town and see it so branded.
I feel like I caused this problem by replacing the article's title with "The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs didn't impact bird evolution: new study". I wanted something less baity than the article's own title, in keeping with the site guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The problem is that it is too easy to object to. "Didn't impact" is too strong. Everything impacts everything, as you say—especially asteroids. But now we're in generic tangent territory, driven by a bad title rather than anything interesting (or indeed, anything at all) about the study. Since the edit made things worse, I'm going to drop it. Sorry.
What does the number 2130706433 stand for?
Just to add to this, only the two learning rates are changed, everything else including initialization and data is fixed. From the paper:

Training consists of 500 (sometimes 1000) iterations of full batch steepest gradient descent. Training is performed for a 2d grid of η0 and η1 hyperparameter values, with all other hyperparameters held fixed (including network initialization and training data).
What published scientific articles cite the age of the Earth as 6000 years?

Cranks exist across the political spectrum.
What bad PR? This is just a kid who can't read and thinks they can process 2PB of data for absolutely free. No GCP customer will care.
I take it you didn't go to business school, where VPs and C-levels retire to?
I'd argue youtube's search is far worse, given it intentionally includes entire sections of results (and toward the very top of results) that are categorically off-topic, presumably with the intention of distracting the user into spending more time on the platform, and they can't be turned off (I tried some uBlock filters but they're hit and miss). I think distracting ads in Google results are a necessary evil (i.e. ads are distracting, but it's hard/impossible to show ads without them being distracting, unlike those undesirable sections in youtube search results).
Godot Developed Non-Game Applications
The old System Preferences showed large, easily differentiable icons, front and center in a nice big grid. The new Settings app shows tiny, barely differentiable icons, hugging the left-most edge of the app. With the old System Preferences, I could immediately tell you where the "Display" and "Privacy & Security" icons could be found. In the new Settings app, I challenge you to tell me where they are in the list without looking.
They exploited the change address which most crypto hardware wallets don't show when verifying a transaction.
It is possible that something like CP-SAT (https://developers.google.com/optimization/cp) would have scaled well in your case. This solver easily handles an absurd amount of variables and constraints, and has excellent heuristics built-in.
Hmm, I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed with my initial experience here.

1. The sign up with email just endlessly redirected, click link in email, ask to sign up with email, put in email, click link in email, etc.

2. Fine, I'll sign in with Google.

3. A PDF parser? Seriously that's what all this fuss is about? There are so many options already out there, PDFBox, iText, Unstructured, PyPDF, PDF.js, PdfMiner not to mention extraction services available from the hyperscalers. Super confused why anyone needs this.
This is amazing!

I bet there are already tickets in google-JIRA to break this functionality :(
the solution there is to not ban sites, but simply deprioritise them for a while. you get caught being naughty, your entire domain gets hit with a nasty downranking that gradually decays. put a little flag next to the link explaining to the user why the result is so low. except that the second thing will never happen because it seems that Google policy is to keep search users as powerless and uninformed as they possibly can.
GPU's Rival? What Is Language Processing Unit (LPU)
With breakthroughs in inference and long context understanding, we are officially entering a new era in LLMs
That post is spectacularly unreadable. Why is the first paragraph so transparent?
And some others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
i want to go right meow instead of waiting for friday :DDD
I'm not sure about the rechargeable aspect, but for programmability you could use a small IR receiver placed in the center of the LED array. You really only need a one way data transmission and something like Bluetooth is overkill.
Would a mirror universe Star Trek episode be enough?
I am a paid subscriber. I love Kagi search. I love that I can lower my personal ranking of a website which doesn't provide value for me - SEO spam, AI nonsense, etc.
Yes, as I said, I think the Crown's rebranding might seem like a waste, but it's extremely useful for values/branding transmission.

When you see the branding story for, say, Google or Pepsi, that looks like money flushed straight down the toilet.
It probably helps if you look at some of the existing experimental work that’s been done in the field, starting with the infamous Libet paper.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6640273/
Worse yet: there's also a "previously watched" section, which - as far as I can tell - ignores your search query entirely and just spits out a few videos from your watch history.
Very informative. I finally divorced myself from Windows a couple months ago, but this would have been great information to have. I don't think the criticisms of Windows are particularly well-founded. To be honest, this seems like far less of a mess than any number of other parts of Windows (Win32 API comes to mind)

Some notes regarding the site itself: I like the use of the Win7 icons. The angled headings are fun. It looks nice, overall. Animated backgrounds are bad, please stop using them. Also, if my mouse is sitting in the side gutters of the page, I can't scroll with the scroll wheel - the mouse has to be in the middle of the page. That's irritating. It seems like you're trying to be too clever with the CSS. It's just a blog. The cheeky CSS antics get in the way of it being a good blog.
> That is inconsistent with the threat model of a messaging system!

I disagree, the worst thing that a messaging system that aims to be "private" can do is to actually not be private. Sending to a known-insecure client is a violation of, like, the one thing signal claims to do.

> If you don't trust the recipient to keep it private, don't send it.

My threat model is some combination of "third party actors who I don't trust" and "second parties who I trust but who are non-experts"[1]. I would like Signal to protect me from the first (by not delivering things to known-insecure clients that can be middlemanned or otherwise discovered) and the second, by having privacy-respecting and mistake-preventing defaults. Things like disappearing messages and such. Keeping my trusted-but-nonexpert peers from making mistakes that can harm either of us in the future is a key part of my threat model.

For example, disappearing messages prevent me from being harmed by my friend, who I trust to discuss things with, not having a lockscreen password and getting warrented by the police. An outdated or third party client that lets you keep them forever, even if well intentioned, can break that aspect of the threat model. And yes, a peer who is actually nefarious can still do that, but that's not my threat model. I think my friends aren't privacy-experts, I don't think they're feds.

[1]: This is, for example, the reason that I think PGP is not a good tool. Even if I do everything right, a well meaning peer who is using the PGP application can unintentionally leak my plaintext when they don't mean to, because of the tool's sharp edges.
Thanks for your comment.

Please let me know what's not clear. Still no takers on my ML is CV comment below.

Research on on-device ASR and computer vision is primarily driven by the same organizations that stand to benefit the most from it. It's nearly impossible to talk about machine learning today without talking about computer vision. Just look at the daily papers from Hugging Face or any other outlet. Machine learning is basically synonymous with computer vision and natural language processing is basically synonymous with information retrieval. Research is corporate research. With very few exceptions.

Two popular lines of current ML research, multimodal and this latest neuro-symbolic re-hash, are not about furthering our understanding of what we currently can and cannot do. Not about doing science. They are about maintaining the status quo. They are about short-form video content and Google Knowledge Panels.

Multimodal ML research is a vision-first enterprise. This doesn't make sense for a number of reasons. Here are two: the latent space of images and the representations therein cannot adequately capture the nuances and expressivity of language; language is a more fundamental cognitive process than vision.

And what do you get for language in current ML research? How about a ``neuro-symbolic semantic parser'' that is neither a semantic parsers or symbolic. lol https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00854v1 What's it good for? Computation graphs, domain adaptation, Google Knowledge Panels.

This is a directed attack on machine learning research taking concepts that could be pursued with scientific merit, such as multimodal perception and neuro-symbolic parsing, but are instead turned into marketing hype and leveraged by the powers that be for the things that keep them in power. My audience is anyone participating in this research.

Y Combinator... that's the mob of onewheels and URB-E scooters dodging human waste in the Tenderloin on their commute from Nob Hill to the Mission, right? Maybe you are referring to another audience.
By the standards of Web3, this is a very small theft.

Case in point: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=fixedfloat-hack
It happens to me frequently that I want to find a video I watched previously but didn't bookmark. If they hid all the videos I've watched before I'd never find them.
Yeah, I have spent much more than $14k to date and would have spent much more over time, losing my business isn't rational. I think it's just another "Google can't do customer support to literally save their life" example.
Yes, but the number of cells is somewhat relevant. Any unfertilized egg or misplaced sperm is an important fraction of a child. A single fertilized egg could be viewed as a child.
Telegram and Signal solves very different types of privacy issues.

Telegram is good, as you mention, to be relatively private in groups/chats/channels without a need to expose neither your phone nor even a nickname (unless you live in autocratic countries — will come to this later).

But it comes with costs. First, their p2p communication is not e2e encrypted by default. Not to say that all comments/group chats are not encrypted too, unlike let’s say WA.

Second, Telegram API. It gives too much information. You can do a lot with it: read history, track changes of usernames, etc. For example, it is quite easy to obtain an internal user ID and there are black market services and databases where they promise to connect that ID with phone number if that account ever had privacy settings switched off in the past.

Claimed that they kind of scrape all accounts and pair ID for those where privacy settings set poorly. Even if you change it later — your internal ID and that scrape will state forever.

Third, Telegram was funded by Russian government since Durov had issues with SEC. He raised money from different Russian state-owned banks like VTB, issued bonds which are traded in Saint-Petersburg stock exchange, and even take some money directly from Russian government though a Qatar proxy-company. Not to say, that there are cases when TG was involved in criminal charges against people (the most famous one is story with Ryanair plane being forced to land in Minsk to arrest Lukashenko’s critique) and it was never directly addressed and explained by company how exactly those people was caught and how company protect against “SIM card replacement” cases (Signal at least inform me everytime my peer logged to new device).

Selecting between Signal with AFAIK no known cases of charges in dictatorship countries like Russia, funded by non-profitable charity, and TG without default e2e encryption, public API and Russian-state funding, is quite obvious for me.
Then there's something wrong with your ad blocker. Works fine for me with uBlock Origin's default filters.
People have been setting up servers since they've had internet connections, it's only the last few years that people started calling everything "the cloud" and acting like having a physical server on the internet is difficult or strange.

I don't know what old laptops and PIs have to do with anything though, one $600 desktop is going to dwarf all of them combined in performance. There is no reason for anyone to do that unless they are a kid with only an allowance for income.
> The place where I see any real world benefit for most companies is just engineering coordination. With a single repo for a monolith I can make 1 team own that repo and tell them it's their responsibility to keep it clean. In a shared monolith however 0 people own it because everyone owns it and the repo becomes a disaster faster than you can say "we need enterprise caching".

Microservices supposed to be so small that they are much smaller than a team's responsibility; so I don't think that is a factor.

The bottleneck in a software engineering company is always leadership and social organisation (think Google - they tried to muscle in on any number of alternative billion dollar businesses and generally failed despite having excellent developers who assembled the required parts rapidly). Microservices won't save you from a a manger who doesn't think code ownership is important. Monoliths won't prevent such a manger from making people responsible for parts of the system.

I've worked on monoliths with multiple teams involved. It seems natural that large internal modules start to develop and each team has their own areas. A little bit like an amoeba readying to split, but never actually going through with it.
>To understand how bad things could have been, look at the Linux "ports" (e.g. UAE, FS-UAE and amiberry) which are plagued with audiovisual glitches, are nowhere near as compatible as WinUAE and have essentially thrown fidelity out the window.

UAE is the original, back then it was the UNIX Amiga Emulator (got renamed to ubiquitous). WinUAE was a port of that to Windows to begin with.

The problem is, winuae completely abandoned UNIX support, and had more development than the original.

>Part of the reason is the stability of the Windows graphics/sound APIs and the disastrous / ever-changing state of such APIs and implementations/drivers on Linux.

The rest of the comment is just Linux FUD, easily disproved by Steam Deck.

These emulation accuracy issues have nothing to do with Linux graphic APIs unless proven otherwise. My guess (as Amiberry comes up) is that you've been trying to run these emulators on ARM, and these are ARM porting issues.

E.g. higan is a 100% accurate snes emulator, and runs well on Linux.
That's an easy theory to confirm or debunk.

If it's cold that causes those particular months to be killers in the northern hemisphere, then in the southern hemisphere the killer months will be six months different. (May, June, July)