skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually really like my social status score.

I used to be very insecure about my communication skills, intelligence, ability to make an impact on the world, etc. Seeing my score go far higher than I ever imagined it would go provides a nice moment of validation that maybe my voice is helpful or at least interesting to some people out there. It also acts as a reminder to continue to carry out the values that apparently got me the high score in the first place, and as a caution against saying things that I might regret.

It's also a hell of a dopamine kick to see it jump more than a few points at once.
I started off in FORTRAN77 in the 80s and then moved to C and C++, so I haven't kept current with FORTRAN. Does it still support COMMON blocks (shudder)?
Great idea - but thinking about weight loss in terms of exercise only ignores eating, which is arguably a bigger piece and somewhat hard to capture by a virtual coach, though I’m sure something might work!
> These are some pretty big things to posit without some citations.

They really should be common knowledge. Among many other examples: the Chrysler bailout violated the Takings and Due Process clauses; the use of the IRS to persecute political foes violated equal protection; he started his political career with a fundraiser in the home of two violent terrorists, the founder and leader of the Weather Underground (this on its own should have disqualified him as a candidate for any civically-minded party); he is noted for such gaffes as referring to ISIS as the ‘jayvee [junior varsity] team’ and mistakes such as the premature 2011 withdrawal from Iraq which opened the door for the Islamic State, as well as for such poor domestic politics that his party lost over 1,000 seats.

Not all criticism of or disagreement with him was well-founded or well-motivated — as I noted, I failed to recognise at the time how many of his foes had racist motives — but he really was a profoundly bad president.

edit: grammar
Look at that, a mini HN with comments on a blog post.
Sooo they have been stealing Infiniti's from my area recently with relative ease allegedly by using a Bluetooth obd2 reader connected to an android tablet running a pirated copy of some Nissan service tech software.

Nobody from any of the Infiniti groups is 100% certain how they are doing it, but the best theory out there is above.

Just the other night, a crew of dudes stole 3 Q50’s from my neighborhood with relative ease.

Here is the ring cam video my neighbor posted:

https://video.nest.com/clip/8ef4d060588d4c7289f87cccb00cb55a...
You just linked to GP's kickstarter.
Just fork the community edition and add your own implementation of "nearby selection" and "multithreaded solving"... in effect, you get the enterprise edition for free, you just have to pay your own developers. Believe it or not, there are software companies that would go this route. I worked for one... as a developer, my time was far less important than the penny pinching and the heavy bureaucracy required for procurement.

It would cost less to pay Timefold whatever price they quote.
"Before the pandemic I personally never saw a single person denying vaccines to their children. "

In that sense, you were lucky before. In the Western world, widespread anti-vax paranoia dates at least back to the infamous Wakefield paper (1998) linking vaccination to autism. It was probably just a matter of time until it skipped over the ocean to Brazil as well. Language barrier might have protected you temporarily, but with the advent of automatic translation, it has been significantly lowered.

Ironically, there is no vaccine against bad ideas such as anti-vaxxery.
I know this is tongue in cheek, but the proper phrase should be "insecure people should be held responsible for their insecure decisions, not security tools like Flipper or firearms."
I was diagnosed with anxiety and ADHD about 8 years ago, and since then, I have mainly worked on my anxiety. My anxiety has diminished drastically, and I have found that my ADHD symptoms are now manageable without medication (although I still struggle some days). For me, ADHD led to failing in my daily duties as a kid, which led to higher and higher levels of anxiety, which really exacerbated my ADHD symptoms. Now that I have learned how to control my anxiety, and with the resulting calming of my nervous system, the ADHD isn't nearly as problematic.

TL;DR: anxiety and ADHD are often intertwined and they spiral each other out of control, so what looks like ADHD is sometimes much worse because of anxiety.
I'm starting to think the US has little free trade idealism left.
Like a Good Neighbor, the Supreme Court Is There
> not get promoted to run serious projects until they are 50+

Uh, based?
I did the math for my parents once for their 50+-year-old freezer using a Kill-A-Watt. Buying a similar, cheap, efficient modern freezer for paid for itself after 12 years, with an expected life of 11 years.

Of course, this was almost a decade ago, so the numbers might have changed; and a newer device would have an automatic defroster.
You can download the model checkpoints from kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma and huggingface https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma

Besides the python implementations, we also implemented a standalone C++ implementation that runs locally with just CPU simd https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp
Does that dust explain some gravitational anomalies?
There's two documents. One is interactions/relationships/interrelations between components (the now).

Second is purpose (the future/past). All architecture evolves to fit the purpose. Some purposes are wrong. Some are outdated. For example, some were built to suit a testing suite or specific library but become unnecessary later. Product decisions go here too.

PNG file to document relationships.

ADR (Architectural Decision Record) and RFCs for purpose, in plaintext. You can put it on a wiki.

Unit tests for components. We don't try to document components. Tests come with problems, but they keep the docs up to date.

We don't maintain the docs. The source of truth is the code (and the tests). We keep records for that reasons - a record doesn't need maintenance. A new decision can link to every other thing that affected the decision.

Many decisions are shaped by edge cases. Tests cover some. Git blame should cover the remainder. I could give a half hour talk on this, but you want to design your workflow so that any line of code can be traced to the decision that caused it.
On top of that, quoting @martypitt reply:

> Most commonly the restrictions prevent you from launching a competing offering. In their case, you can't offer database-as-a-service using their code.

Meaning the self hosted version is free to use in any number of servers having in mind the competing offering restriction.
Yes, but it is the data I had on hand. I don't log what I eat (although I am careful), and I know I need to be cajoled into doing more exercise, so I just toss in weight and exercise minutes scraped off the Health app via a shortcut.

In short, I don't want a perfect solution--I want something to nag me, and nothing better than AI to do that in this day and age (and yes, I'm married...).
How about off being the default?
No, with that background (maybe just on desktop?), I think they totally get it
Sometimes I said to myself: just spend 2 mins on this side project and get as much done as you can. Surely I can do as little as 2 mins regardless of where it gets me.

Yet I simply can’t. It’s a total mind fu*k.

Yet we all do this all the time. Maybe someone has always wanted to learn some language, and then they’ve never spent even a few minutes starting.
Community manager advice to tech community building
There are lisps without parens too, it's not strictly required for parsing and evaluation. I think the main purpose of parens is to highlight the syntax tree for developer manipulations with macros
>even if much of the cost is paid by the owners’ insurance

Insurers aren't usually charities. Those costs are still borne by the insured.
I've thought about it. I still can't see a good reason to broadcast that our deterrent isn't as effective as we have been making out.
Super-Freeze, Starwater, Big Sunspots [video]
Use a prepaid card that you bought at a grocery store a few cities away from your hometown with cash while wearing a mask and not bringing any phones with you or driving a car that logs its location or beacons any identifying signals.

I think that might finally allow you to pay for the New York Times on your own terms and not worry about their hounds sniffing you down.
Does that tell us how reliable the cars are, or how much people are willing and/or able to spend on replacing their cars with new ones?
This makes me wonder. I wonder if the real opportunity is in solutions that help auditors in one way or the other.

If the auditors are sensitive to which systems they are familiar with, it would perhaps be beneficial to the auditors to be able to understand other systems.

I'm sure there are companies that are servicing auditors, creating UiPath flows or whatever for a bunch of auditors. So there's probably already a ton of very specific solutions out there, for auditing various systems.

At least it sounds like a more solvable problem than yet another ERP
it's not just ASML but its suppliers, like Zeiss that make some of the key components of chip-making tools that are extremely difficult to replicate
FWIW I’ve been using brainfm for about 8 years.

Granted, I got my account with a lifetime subscription back when they were just spinning up, but I’ve used them pretty consistently since then.
"...she received an email from team security in November that her membership was suspended pending an investigation for an alleged hate crime."

Does "membership" in this case constitute something paid in advance which she now cannot use? And does this membership include language that team security will scour all available information sources for a reason to suspend her membership even if that happened outside the context of a match and nowhere near the stadium?

If these are the parameters for banning someone from using a membership they've paid for then it's only a matter of how much they want to search on every single person before something is found which justifies the club suspending their membership.
What I love is the explanation and the CONFIDENCE LLMs seem to have in giving the wrong answer.
Obligatory "lisp has had this for ages".

Herein, macros seem to be invented from first principles, having only been exposed to imperative languages like C++. It is interesting to see macros here invented in the context of a language that is not homoiconic. I wonder how it stacks up against Rust macros.
Apple Increases iPhone 15's Advertised Battery Lifespan
> OpenAI was founded by true believers, with the best intentions

who were easily bought off.
but you know git and github are not the same thing right?
The answer is simple, we need to ban android tablets. /s
Nice article. It's good to see regl is still being used.
I really wish there was some accurate physiological test that could be used to determine if you had ADHD or not. I _strongly_ suspect I have it. As a child I could never "focus". My parents being academics from the USSR didn't "believe" in it, they just kept forcing me to sit still and study until I did.

Eventually, I got slightly better at sitting still and "focusing". I would (and still do) fidget like crazy, either pen spinning, tapping my feet, rocking back and forth while "focusing". Focusing was just me quickly switching between what I was supposed to be doing and anything else, back and forth.

The upside is now I am basically "immune" to distractions, I can always reply to slack/my girlfriend/whatsapp messages/alerts/PR feedback/emails/questions and then go back to what I was doing 5 seconds ago without any issues. I've probably switched between this comment box and coding 20 times at this point.

I tried getting an adult diagnosis in the UK to see if maybe "proper drugs" would be helpful, but was just told politely to fuck off by the GP. The reasoning was that I have a job in tech, so even if I had ADHD, it's not bad enough to warrant any treatment. Lots of coffee and listening to "hardstyle" or any music with high BPM seems to help me focus.
Access Gemini models from the command-line
https://archive.vn/k7KrK
Robot harvests cotton by reaching out and plucking it
I think it is awesome. Definitely glad every page isn't like this, but it is cool, and goes with the vibe of the blog.

Unfortunately leaving the tab and returning seems to make it crash. But I'll take this over another striver blog.
> *arrs and a nas

You may be complicating things. I make do with a 1TB hard drive and SFTP over LAN.

Old tech works just as well.
First PC rediscovered by accident in UK nearly 50 years after last seen
Yeah it’s pretty clear they have an IT problem. The requirements, the process, the solution, just wow…
Regarding the new database version issue, I wonder why the caching layer can't just pass any query it is unable to process on to the underlying database?

This would be more complex if the feature you are using does not return a normal table of results back (e.g. the pub/sub support in Postgres).
Funny, I actually appreciated that. I only wanted broad strokes and didn’t want to dig into detail, so having the explanation hidden made it easier for me to read.
Makes perfect sense. Kind of interesting the opposite can bite too: Math came naturally to me, but after seeing some high standardized test scores adults paraded them around and made a big deal of it, so it became stressful to do without perfect outcomes. For my own kids I just refused to allow a lot of that stuff like IQ testing, etc.
These are downloadable open models that can be fined tuned. They are the opposite of censored. If you have the motivation, you can bias them however you please.
Always there because they never retire and are bought
What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? (2012) [video]
I suspect it would be more that if a company misbehaves, Japan may lose access (since the US will sanction the company).

It's general resilience for critical materials given geopolitical risk, not a fear of the US per se.
No; each of those scenarios involves external access controls that are standard for those industries. (Fences, guards, controlled access.) It's nothing like the Kia/Hyundai scenario, where such vulnerabilities stemmed from not doing the industry standard thing (immobilizers).
To be clear, his work at Blizzard had, as far as I'm aware, nothing to do with game development. His father being a cinematic director also has nothing to do with Thor's game development experience. He shipped one game on Steam, and it's a pretty basic game built using GameMaker. I'm sure it's fun and tells a good story, but it's hardly innovative or complex.

I don't think you're characterising Muratori/Blow fairly. Muratori's work on Handmade Hero isn't really about making a game as much as it's about showing the process of making a game, from scratch. It goes through all the tiny-but-important problems that an independent game dev might encounter. The problem I see with Thor's work and this kind of game dev is that it's really unlikely to lead anywhere interesting. Games like Braid or The Witness couldn't be built by just drag-dropping things together in GameMaker, as is the case for most compelling games! If you want to flood the market with little stories told in 2D RPGs or basic Unity showcases, that's fine. But it just strikes me as an uninspired approach to game dev. At least, if you follow Muratori's approach, you can basically build anything that a computer is able to do.

I also think it's entirely unfair to characterise a disappointment in modern software and videogames as "spite for modernity". Sure, they both go over the top and make petty complaints every now and then, just like everyone else. But I think it's pretty clear to anyone who's paying attention that software is simply worse than it was previously, and calling that "spite for modernity" isn't going to help anything.
> It'd be my goto

I see what you did there.
The use case I recall involves a nonprofit organization focused on preventing suicide. They are hoping for an AI therapy solution capable of listening to patients and picking up the phone when no human is available. This isn't entirely unacceptable because one of the therapist's roles is to listen to problems, so AI can effectively substitute in this aspect.
efficient and simple
IMO CPUs are dead for all devices not laptops, in 5 years that might not even be true.

Bespoke accelerators & flexible fabrics will dominate.
Came here to post the same thing for Phi-2:

+-------------+----------+-------------+
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-2 2.7B |
+-------------+----------+-------------+
| MMLU | 42.3 | 56.7 |
| MBPP | 29.2 | 59.1 |
| BoolQ | 69.4 | 83.3 |
+-------------+----------+-------------+

[0] https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surp...
always first blame the flawed security.

sure, also blame attackers. never blame the attacker's tools.

this is a place where "victim-blaming" is exactly the right thing to do. we can be supportive, even empathetic, of victims, who may have attempted to be secure, but failed due to bad tools, third parties, etc.
One argument I've enjoyed has been Elliot Sang on "The Loss of Third Places" and how that impacts teenagers: https://youtu.be/9Ku9csXhvJY

I would argue during these times we need those with wealth to fund third spaces and possible 'learning centers' embedded in nature, to help to "hold the complexity of rapid social change without freaking out.". (See https://youtu.be/TJa_6AHjLw0?t=3719 )
why is every mirror ugly
I think the major driving factor would be curiosity, which is why I like the Conan Doyle quote - all the information is there, but it must be observed, and often the way to do that is to keep asking "why?" "Q" is true - why? Well, "P -> Q". Then, why is "P"? Toyota uses this strategy, they call it "Five whys."[1] Unfortunately, society is not super fond of this, as it is probing, and rather difficult. Just think of kids asking "Why is the sky blue?" Not a popular question with adults.

A second big point would be to realize that everything is part of a system. Nothing exists in a vacuum. As part of science, we using modelling which assumes vacuums or other inaccuracies to make reasoning possible. Think of the "spherical cow".[2] These simplifications make reasoning easier, but have hard limits that must be recognized. Quantum mechanics are true at a tiny scale, and relativity is true at a macro scale, but we do not have a well tested unifying theory (string theory and such are possible explanations).[3] Physicists are still asking why to understand.

As for growing these skills, that's tricky. Arthur Conon Doyale was a physician[4]; he studied an incredibly wide range of topics to inform himself. Knowledge is required, and unfortunately, the way to knowledge is through experience. The story of the master ship builder who looks for an hour, and taps once to fix a broken ship is true - you've identified it yourself. The process of gaining experience is one that people would love to hack, but unfortunately, in real life, there are no silver bullets. Your best "hack" here is probably meditation, though it sounds strange. The other "hack" might be one of "always saying yes" like in the Jim Carrey movie "Yes Man."[5] You get a lot of experience rather quickly always saying yes, but it seems rather dangerous too. Reading a lot helps: HN is a great source of diverse information which is nice.

One of, if not the biggest, problem with Capitalistic commodification of labor is the reduction of human capability. Briefly, we see this in a few places: one is the devaluation of experience, and the other is the preference for credentials over skills.

Experience allows humans to grow - a junior dev can, in fact, become a senior dev. Most commodities cannot do this: your tier 2 generic branded Orange Juice can never improve to become a tier 1 Tropicana OJ. So, experience isn't valuable to some people who treat humans like commodities.

The credentials come into play because they can be used, theoretically and incorrectly, to identify you as Tier 1 Tropicana or Tier 2 generic brand OJ.

Capitalism baby.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle

[5] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068680/
Ditto. All I remember is if my copy of Return of the Jedi went squiggly, I adjusted the tracking until it wasn’t.
This. Yes, they completely and utterly get it. That is the genius behind casting AI in this light.
Have you updated its firmware? Looks like there’s a new update available as of September 2023, which I haven’t installed yet but I’ve installed a couple before this one.

Not quite LineageOS for TVs but it’s something.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/lcd-tvs-android-xf9...
Agree: will be interesting how Gemma does on ChatBot Arena
From this month a year ago - State Farm declares 105 Kia, Hyundai models ‘ineligible’ for new insurance in Louisiana - https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/kia-hyundai-models-in... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642224 40 points | Feb 3, 2023 | 90 comments )

Which then - Dealers still sell Hyundais and Kias vulnerable to theft, but insurance is hard to get https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173048646/hyundai-kia-car-th...

And in October - Wheels Of Steal: Some Kias, Hyundais Easy To Hotwire; Owners Sue Carmakers, Get $200 Million https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/kia-hyundai-ant...

The Challenges of Insuring a Kia or Hyundai in 2024 - https://www.marketwatch.com/guides/insurance-services/insuri...

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I suspect that this has lead to Kia and Hyundai taking note of insurance rates and changing things.
You may find this statement obvious and as such uninteresting but it does have a clear, simple meaning. And while it is simple, I see people who think that they can "build the next X" by replicating X's features all the time.

["X" is used as a placeholder and not to refer to the ridiculously named social network]
Their current Plus 4 might be more like what you're after. It's definitely a lot closer to the original styling.
It'll likely be regulated soon, e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23914507/biden-ai-execut...

It might take a while for these tools to appear - laws are much slower than tech. But I wouldn't rush to use or create such tools until the regulations come out.
US military vehicles are protected by the "people with guns who will shoot you" industry standard.
Looks like we're in the entry window now, but the eastern half of the US is not under the track.

This satellite is/was on a near-polar orbit (previously sun synchronous) so almost all the world was under its track at some point.
That article doesn't support the claim that there is some precedent for unlimited FDIC insured deposits. It even specifically cites the process by which an exception was created.

Can you elaborate on why you now think there is a precedent that all deposits for future bank failures are insured?
Very interesting read, written with understandable fury.

I find it concerning that software projects have to become CNAs to at least alleviate the harm of bogus CVEs.

There surely is some sort of CVE peer review? This should be possible for indefinitely long time after registering a CVE, because humans make mistakes.

So it shouldn't be needed to shy away from marking CVEs as invalid / rejected retroactively if appropriate.

It is understandable to err on the side of caution with vulnerability reports, but since reporting vulnerabilites has become an object of prestige, it seems needed to ramp up the scrutiny.
Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected
If you read the article that was probably the smarter thing to do is get the cheapest stuff available because yours likely had a lot less bells and whistles that would be more likely to break.