skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning to control your dreams is what I did with my nightmares, at some point it becomes so easy you can do it on command but... It doesn't always work and requires extra energy to stay in control often leaving me falling asleep in my dreams which ironically means I don't sleep well. And there are still nightmares I get, just had one a few days ago that left me too afraid to sleep again. Still, I think it's overall a good long term skill about building mental awareness. I learned it as a child on my own, and I believe adults can also learn it by simply studying their environment often and looking if anything else is amiss or "unrealistic". Sometimes you can also ask yourself questions before bed, and try to use visualization before sleeping or sleeping to sound or audiobooks to help you relax too. My family has a history of being more prone to spiritual and psychology issues so bring aware of family history can also sometimes make you idk feel less alone too. Just being able to shift the narrative can mean a lot and give you power when you feel powerless sometimes, but it can be tough to get there but baby steps can make a huge difference. Something I personally did as a child when I felt afraid was to visualize a golden warm light around me almost like a bubble, it didn't always work but I guess it helped to get away from negative thoughts by trying to focus on something protective for me. Soft repetition also seems helpful because it's predictable so perhaps finding something predictable may help too. And maybe looking into CPTSD.
I cannot parse this. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX also has 24GB of vram, so how does it help you run higher quality models? I would understand if it had more ram.
They can. You can also subpoena them for information on an account, there are literally lawyers with blogs talking about how to do this. The people complaining essentially think that they should have the right to take anything they want down with an abuse report.
Spacetime Continuum
HN's UI is widely considered to be one of the last major bastions of simple and unintrusive design. Most people here strongly prefer it over the style of ycombinator's marketing pages, are very protective of it, and don't consider it to be "neglected" at all.
We're well past absurdity on this line of argument.

Given:

A = a goal of just implementing just the latest and most important specs

B = shipping something they want people to use

There is no browser team, Ladybird or otherwise, that is A and not B, or, A and B.

For clarity's sake: Ladybird doesn't claim A.

Let's pretend they do, as I think that'll be hard for people arguing in this thread to accept they don't.

Then, we know they most certainly aren't claiming B. Landing page says it's too unstable to provide builds for. Outside of that, we well-understand it's not "shipping" or intended to be seen as such.
Although the journalist will never say so unless he publicly announces a formal diagnosis, this sounds like bipolar disorder at work.

He's a smart charming hardworking entrepreneur expert at marketing who is eager to take risks (which is such a 'type' https://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/bipolar/energy/index that you should already be thinking 'bipolar?'); but he is not gaslighting people to deny his scams or immune to shame and feels bad about the fraud & scamming people, so it's not narcissism or psychopathy.

The rather pointed but otherwise unexplained mentions of his lack of showering & smelling is a dogwhistle: the smelling is from the manic cycles where he stops bothering with such wastes of time meant for the little people; other manic cycle symptoms like sleeplessness would generally go unnoticed in the normal frenetic lifestyle of a up-all-night nightlife promoter (which of course is a great way to get the sleeplessness that would often trigger a manic cycle in the first place). And then when he disappears for a while or ghosts people, those are the depressive cycles.
I’m really hoping for something like that.

A year or so ago I remember someone pointing out in a podcast how LLMs are great at taking something like general language and turning it into a series of predefined commands (the stuff available to shortcuts). It would instantly make Siri much more useful.

I think Federico Viticci rigged up something similar or at least a powerful demo using Siri + Shortcuts + ChatGPT to be able to answer all sort of questions better than native Siri.
Incidently, the last Caesar (the Czar of Bulgaria until 1946) is still alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Maybe that commentator lives in a country without common law, so precedent doesn't matter, but in a country like the US a law without precedent is considered "untried" and a lot of the details are worked out when the law is first enforced.

If the legislature doesn't like the court's interpretation, they can then amend the law and the process restarts.

So basically, at least in the US, nothing is clearly illegal until it is handled by a court -- so yes I think you're right
As of Podman 4.8 it now uses SQlite by default. No more boltdb.
How does that impact iMessage? Are parts of it implemented in the kernel?
I'm sad that you were downvoted. I've suffered from depression episodes throughout my life, which could often lead to a "doom loop" of waking up every night between 2-3 AM (early morning waking is a common feature of depression), and then the insomnia made my depression worse.

I had been in therapy for nearly 15 years, and I while I wasn't on antidepressants long term, I had taken them for a couple episodes in the past. For my most recent episode (partially brought on by a particularly bad prolonged string of insomnia) I was having constant suicidal thoughts. I went in and had a ketamine session - I'm reluctant to talk to much about the details of my ketamine trip, because one theory I have for why it worked well for me is that I didn't have any preconceived notions about what I'd experience, and I specifically didn't want to get my hopes up.

The next morning I was singing in the shower. If there was ever a substance that I believed "miracle drug" fit the bill, for me it was ketamine. It helped me develop a whole new outlook on life and how I related to myself. I know that I was very lucky (my psychiatrist says I am a "ketamine responder") and not everyone has that same response. For me, though, I firmly believe ketamine treatment saved my life.
The change of a SIGSEGV to a SIGKILL, seriously?
I've been using a Hackintosh as my daily driver for nearly 15 years and they have always been rock solid, with months of uptime consistently. It's just a matter of starting with the right hardware.

People are free to look to support the hardware they have but 've always though it's stupid not buying well supported hardware in the first place, of which there is plenty.
Ubuntu is so out of date it's barely useable.

I've been a nixos user for years and I generally had the opposite problem: the latest of the package you want is not available but hey here's a version from months ago - or just build it yourself (which is not hard, oftentimes updates work fine with no build change, you just point at a different version).

Also rebuilding everything at every update take forever (I had a few nix-shells with ai dependencies that would take hours to upgrade).

I love the concept of nix but I'm back to Arch, binary bleeding edge packages and AUR for less supported stuff.
The vast majority of COBOL in production runs on IBM mainframes in conjunction with JCL (Job Control Language). If you are looking to offload COBOL from a mainframe to a cheaper platform JCL is a must.
I love that this project exists but it’s only one half of a solution to migration off of a mainframe.
Why your doctor's office is spamming you with appointment reminders
Homebrew is one of my favorite pieces of software
Nope. Identity management needs a central authority. This will be implemented in web5.0 then.
You mostly think there's no innovation because you speak English.
Don't say that sort of thing too loudly; JFK quoted a chengyu (骑虎难下) in support of a similar notion, in 1961 (and for his pains got cancelled in 1963): https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-k...
If I’m not mistaken, these shapes are rather difficult to CNC. Particularly, the inside of the outer part where a traditional CNC would be blocked. I think this might require robotic-arm CNC which is much slower and much more expensive.

I suspect they need two years to scale production
Lambda is fundamentally a request/response architecture and is meant to be tied together with several other AWS services. As such, I don't think Modals offering is really comparable, nor is "lambda on hard mode" a particularly good description for what they've made.

Perhaps "EC2 on easy mode" is more like it.
Yes, to https://plausible.io
That argument doesn’t sound very convincing to me. How would I know an avoiding Ubuntu is reasonable? That still seems to be the go-to distro for many people I know that like to use Linux but aren’t Linux experts. How do I know which hardware is natively supported?

With Windows 10/11 I’ve never had any problems, either with pre-built computers or my home-built PC. Hell, running Ubuntu in WSL has been relatively smooth as well.

My experience with Linux as an OS has been fairly good for many years, regardless of the distro. It’s the applications that could be an issue. Feels like it’s only very recently (post Steam deck in particular) that gaming seems to be viable at all. And it’s hard to beat the MS Office package for work. I recently got the idea to have two user accounts on my home computer where I have an account dedicated to working from home, logged into my office 365 account from work.. and it was honestly amazing how suddenly everything was just perfectly synced between my work and home computer.
I'd run a Linux desktop if it wasn't for audio production. Mac's Core Audio / Core Midi are the top of the heap.
It's been reportedly rewritten from scratch like five times, during which time people have not stopped posting claims that it's exactly the same as it was in 2010.
Isn't this just ~ a frequency chart of how much number characters appear?

I'd be more interested in embeddings
One of the features of asymmetric key cryptography is that you can only prove that you're the same person (private key).
This looks amazing, nice write up!

Anyone know if there's anything like this, but using Python and self hostable?
Apple Without AI Looks More Like Coca-Cola Than High-Growth Tech
> I do not have a smart phone because I do not agree to the terms of service for the Apple Store or for Google Play, and have the luxury of not needing a smart phone for my life.

Did you consider using a GNU/Linux phone (Librem 5 or Pinephone)? They run a desktop, libre OS, so you do not have to accept the duopoly's Terms and still you can scan QR codes whenever you want. It should be easier to argue with the government concerning other locked-to-duopoly services to run as web apps, and you wouldn't look like an anti-progress person to them. Sent from my Librem 5.
Eh, in the past (maybe 5 years or more) THP was a lot fiddlier IME, and occasionally would hit bizarre cliffs in latency and overall performance. A lot of that has gone away. But because of that (among other things) you'd occasionally see advice like "Turn it off for <xyz particular workload>" so it sort of got carried forward to where people just generally disabled it.
I agree your first three paragraphs, but why won’t they want to continue to hack?

It was my obsession with worthless endeavors that got me the kind of job that made my time valuable in the first place
Not in the sense of differential vulnerabilities, since the standard library refuses to match any sort of modern standard.

It's also

1. not a solo dev

2. Daniel Lemire

3. a serious engineering and research effort: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10533.pdf
https://archive.ph/PDxOj
For me it's always been about repairability and expandability and Apple has gotten worse in that respect over time.

It's essentially impossible to repair Apple hardware yourself, but Hackintosh is very easy to maintain in that regard.

I have endless expansion options compared to Apple hardware. Hackintoshes are just a better choice.
I don’t believe it will happen at all. There will always be some problems that only a human can solve because it’s a human that defines them.

It is always _by definition_ a game between humans where computers are just tools.

At least as long as AGI does not happen…
The feeling I’ve heard from people is Alexa was way better than Siri at first.

Over time Siri got better. Not great but better. Alexa had mostly stayed the same or perhaps gotten a touch worse except for adding ads and other annoyances.

I’ve never used anything but Siri. It works decently, definitely has its moods/dumb-as-a-post moments. But I’ve learn what works well and for that it’s proven very useful.
I'm not talking about the general effect of meditation which is to relax the body and increase the flow throughout the body. I was talking very specifically about this concept of spherical expanding waves of light. To make an analogy, it resembles a moderately white light expanding from a centre. See my other comment where I describe how such a phenomena could be healing and restorative using a physical analogy.
Sales is a great example of how moralizing about tools rather than uses of them creates incoherent beliefs which lead to dysfunctional policy. Most sales people I've met generally believe they're not bullshitting people. Now, their profession selects for persuasion and exerting frame control over social reality, and teaches it, but they use this skillset in a more "legitimate" context than the central examples that get the mean names, so the notion that they are using a skill for good purposes quickly morphs into the belief that it's in fact a different toolkit, because this is the only way we can coherently tell them that they are legitimate but continue attacking grifters not just on their actions but on their competencies and methods
Totally get you.

Deeper problem: The average Western adult does not have the capacity
to agree to most legal instruments (EULAs. contracts) used around
digital technology today.

I include myself as a computer scientist who even read a bit of law at
university and has helped draft and analyse contracts. No "reasonable
person" is expected to read them. Tacit and coerced "agreement" to
patently egregious terms is already normalised, and this makes a
complete mockery of law in our culture.

At some point, if we want to rescue "the law" we must change the way
people relate to technology legally.
I think there's a difference with Linux, because it's something you own and control and can dive into and see every part of. I hate investing time in proprietary technologies, because I know I can be stopped or locked out. With open source software, simple electronics, old cars, fabrication and woodworking, the time I spend learning feels worthwhile.
I'd be curious to hear some African music recommendations, I don't think I have any African music in my library
The rsqrt page mentions hardware implementations

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/arithmetic/rsqrt/

> In fact, it is so good that it has been implemented in hardware, so the algorithm is no longer relevant by itself for software engineers, but we are nonetheless going to walk through it for its intrinsic beauty and great educational value.
In the US it should be acceptable.
If the equipment is in country X, it seems reasonable to enforce the rules of country X. Plenty of companies refuse to operate in specific countries, including China, because they don't want to follow rules of that country.

If CloudFlare chooses to do business in China, that's a choice they're making and it comes with consequences.

Maybe they can offer service where customers will only be served from equipment outside of China, maybe that's not something they choose.
Ask HN: Why are there so many scam ads on X/Twitter?
Non-paywalled version of the original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01160

It feels like a kind of a parochial and underdeveloped argument though, basically taking it for granted that the only path to a technological civilization is the one that humanity took, and then arguing that that path is intrinsically tied to oxygen.
> We can't expect politicians to stop playing the game

Maybe not on their own accord. But if not at all, then how are we living in a democracy?
I'd agree if our society had figured out any sane way to respond to crime in the first place, but that seems even worse than our barely extant resources for drug addiction in the first place. Somehow we're more willing to pay out the ass to make people feel bad than we are to make them feel better.
That’s cool. I’m not antagonizing you here at all, I’m genuinely curious about what people do and how they think.

Do you ever think that being in academia and involved with startups, which on some level have similar vibes, keeps in you in some sort of a bubble?

When people say this about myself I say, yeah and it’s a bubble I like to be in.

But now and then I do wonder if there is something to be had outside of that bubble.

Like I said man, I’m not trolling I’m genuinely interested in what you have to say.
Capitalism working its magic. As the resources and people to exploit abroad dwindled, it started eating itself from inside out to profit as was predicted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canadahousing/comments/tose5z/landl...
I agree that EFF calling it a "Ban" is not accurate. Like it or not that's what everyone seems to be calling it.

The linked 1965 SCOTUS ruling "Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U.S. 301" is fascinating:
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/107064/lamont-v-postma...

The USPS detained this piece of communist propaganda ( https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1963/PR... ) addressed to the appellant who responded by suing them.

The USPS was acting in accordance with the following statute:

When it is determined that a piece of mail is "communist political propaganda," the addressee is mailed a notice identifying the mail being detained and advising that it will be destroyed unless the addressee requests delivery by returning an attached reply card within 20 days.

The contentious thing was the reply card. It was ruled that the added friction of the reply card system infringed on first amendment rights.

IANALegal Scholar, but an outright ban seems to violate precedent. A forced sale however? I'll be watching this issue closely as it develops.
I agree we should respect secular ethical choices with the same protections as religious ones, but this is currently an aspirational goal in the US. For now to get acceptance and strong legal protection of ethical choices we sort of have to wrap them in a religious shroud since that is the framework the state has to deal with protecting such choices. The issue with this is that your choices might not align perfectly with the options you have and people will say it’s not a real religion if you are the only practitioner. Maybe a workaround would be to take a dead christian denomination and use that? Other religions wouldn’t get easy acceptance here.
> As funny as the Silicon Valley show

hey now. jury is out until I see them derive middle out from first principles
I'm not talking about the vague flow of amorphous material, I can perceive that too but it's not what I'm referring to. I made a follow up reply where I describe specifically what this phenomena is and my hypothesis on the mechanism behind the healing.
This was my thought while reading this. Overall I think this is a net-win for CloudFlare. I suspect that exactly 0.00% of the 12.6 million domains they just "lost" were paying customers. Considering the people didn't want to pay for a domain, they probably weren't paying for a CDN either.

I'm sure Cloudflare will be able to wipe away their tears of this loss using the extra dollar bills they have from reducing their bandwidth costs.
> Link Zeitcode Generierung

Just for clarification, this says "Link Timecode Generation" where it's supposed to be "Link-time Code-generation"?

I always assumed English-German MT must be somehow serviceable, I wonder if that had been true but limited to its syntax and did not apply to vocabulary, or if German MT is just as useless but German computer users are just patient.
What libraries does your Contacts app use under the hood? I'm asking because pretty much every contacts app I've tried had countless bugs – either in CardDav or the vCard part (when importing/exporting) or both.
It works out of the box as of iOS 16 or 17.

“Hey Siri set an egg timer for 4 minutes”

The interface for switching between multiple timers sucks on the watch, the whole app does now. I don’t know how it’s handled on HomePods, though you can see them somewhere in the home app (yeah that’s discoverable).

But it works fine. And the interface is good on the phone.
Steps 2 and 4 through 8 are what this implementation along with others like Devin are doing. 1, 3, and 9 may have surprise answers when a reliable system can produce a working app/website/tool in a matter of minutes. If that’s possible then clients can just keep prompting and checking the results and iterating on changes until they get what they want just like people using Midjourney do to get the idea they have in their head transformed into an image. Things change a lot when apps become so quick, easy and cheap to create that you can try out a hundred variations and modifications in a day.
What is preventing TikTok IPOing in the US? Are there rules against foreign owned companies or something?
Do they count as developers if they only write SQL?
Precisely. why do you think the Bitcoin people are so self-contradictually enthusiastic about El Salvador and other countries experimenting with treating it like fiat? Mining farms are fragile targets that can be destroyed with a jerry cans of gas, and increasingly centralized.

The blockchain doesn't protect jack shit. if someone wants to take out key infrastructural concentrations it's the police forces of the respective territories these mining farms are located in that are going to guarantee the actual security for the protocol.

The great irony here is that this very protocol or, rather the people who promote it, are doing so specifically to undermine the stability of the economies they depend on for their project's physical security.

It's amazing that these self- dealing sociopaths have made it as far as they have.
> Stateless (no cookies/sessions)

Cookies are stateless though, that's the whole point of cookies.
This feels like moving the goalposts. This is on a thread which began with the statement that Docker is reproducible. Will we next be saying that, OK, it's an issue that Docker isn't reproducible, but it's doing it for a noble reason?

Regardless.... I can give a few reasons that it matters, off the top of my head:

1) Debugging: It can make debugging more difficult because you can't trace your dependencies back to the source files they came from. To make it concrete, imagine debugging a stack trace but once you trace it into the code for your dependency, the line numbers don't seem to make any sense.

2) Compliance: It's extremely difficult to audit what version of what dependency was running in what environment at what time

3) Update Reliability: If you are depending on mutable Docker tags or floating dependency installation within your Dockerfile, you may be surprised to discover that it's extremely inconsistent when dependency updates actually get picked up, as it is on the whim of Docker caching. Using a system that always does proper pinning makes it more deterministic as to when updates will roll out.

4) Large Version Drift: If you only work on a given project infrequently, you may be surprised to find that the difference between the cached versions of your mutably-referenced dependencies and the actual latest has gotten MUCH bigger than you expected. And there may be no way to make any fixes (even critical bugfixes) while staying on known-working dependencies.