skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead, Jaynes claims, these poems originated in the unconscious right hemisphere and were blindly recited by those who could not ignore the metered, schizophrenic prose forced upon them by their bicameral mind.

There is nothing 'unconscious' about creating a long epic. It takes conscious effort especially if you expect it to be coherent and enjoyable. Besides, is there a connection between schizophrenia and metered speech? Wouldn't a schizophrenic epic be unmetered?
Well, if nothing else there's a lot of basalt lying around on the moon, which would weigh about 3,000 kg/m3 on earth. That means it should weigh around 500 kg/m3 on the moon. So you're gonna need some big plates, but getting up to the amount of weight they have people lifting on IRED sounds pretty doable. This way all you have to send over from earth is a bar and some buckets!
The only thing more dangerous than flying on Boeing appears to be criticising them
Not my idea but here’s an interesting opportunity to iterate on nonetheless.

“event[0]” is a singleplayer sci-fi RPG where you communicate with an AI on a stranded spaceship, essentially a chatbot, to progress the game and learn its story. Your goal is to convince the AI to let you go home. The chatbot detects semantic tags, intents and sentiments from your input, then procedurally generate output in the form of text and game mechanics depending on your request, the context (what part of the game you’re at), and short- or long-term memory.

LLMs weren’t as big of a thing back in 2016 so this game used a rule-based conversation system. Even then, many people praised the AI for how natural and relevant its output felt. There was even an unintentional, secret ending in game due to a bug in how the AI is programmed. I think making a game like this but plug the chat interface into a LLM would create chance for more emergent gameplay and help the game feel more real.

Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/470260/Event0/

Developer interview: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/q-a-ocelot-society-on-b...
Show HN: Generate a tool with half baked ideas in a minute
Do you think the guys writing this article would rather interview a dozen pizza delivery people or a dozen strippers?
The SMART metrics aren't binary, and any application that is presenting them as binary (Either HEALTHY or FAILED) is doing you a disservice.

> I've personally never tracked the detailed metrics to see if anything is predictive of impending failure

Backblaze has!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
MRSA was already killing 120,000+ people per year already. It is nasty shit.
Faceless people, invisible hands: New Army video aims to lure recruits for psychological operations

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE 2:

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=V6hu83yVMlU&t=0 [VIDEO]

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE:

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw&listen=false [VIDEO]
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> because it made it impossible for websites to determine if the DNT header was actually set by user-choice or not

Somehow that never bothered sites when the default let them track users.
> I see it another way. I see people's hard earned money being siphoned by enormous financially-engineered vacuums, never to be seen again. And not just in the US, globally. This won't stop at 30% of the US equity market. It won't stop until the music stops and the last chair breaks. Which may or may not be soon. It will certainly be coming at some point.

Envious bullshit! The reason they are so profitable is that believe it or not they are replacing earlier operators who were less efficient and taking more transactions costs out of the system before. To be anti-Jane Street is the same as being pro-Big Bank of the past, that was taking more money out of the economy doing a worse job!

Unless you know the history of global financial markets and lived it then you don’t understand. For example in the late 80s the CBOT treasury bond bit had over 1000 traders in that pit. They were all making money and quite a few a huge amount. And there was many more people supporting those traders of the floor. That was just a single futures bond contract! With Jane Street we have 2,631 employees doing the equivalent job globally and for less total cost of at least 80,000 employees in late 80s.

The profits per employee are higher obviously but that’s the effect of technology and productivity but the total price being charged to the economy as a whole is much lower. This trend will continue and I would not be surprised in 10 years that a company of 200 people will provide the entire function of those 2600 today, and probably the profits per employee will be $10M per person. But that’s what we want, is a good thing not bad, portraying otherwise is just Envy.
These release notes seem to be about more than just Aria.. the `<title>` for example highlights React Spectrum Releases
Could the explanation be that being a whistleblower is really stressful and hard on your health?
error-prone automation, programmed from the ground up to prioritize money over health, is incorrectly denying essential insurance coverage to the elderly.

I remember being interviewed once for an opportunity in a startup working in developing a product that using AI they would automate answering to incorrect insurance denials (which is a tedious process).

AI or not, the problem of incorrect denials is so bad that there is a market for it.
No, but I’m familiar with his take on consciousness and it is more or less what I mean by thinking in the box of existing models and trying to explain away something inconvenient to them.
I adore that film. It is nuts, but has a dreamy metaphysical quality to it that I love.
Given that pointer size is fixed, maybe asymptotic bounds aren’t what we should care about? Maybe it would be better to ask how the cost increases just going up to 2^64 bytes of address space. The graph after that point is irrelevant.

An O(n^2) algorithm will blow up well before that.
At a certain point, the insurance premium is more than the coverage.
> It's not though. Unicode-only is not just imperfect, it's an outright regression for Japanese.

Unicode has variant selectors which can deal with region variants (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/syMcWNO) to deal with the issue.

Granted, it's not very widely used, but Unicode provided a solution. The onus is now on application developers and font providers.

Choosing to limit number of characters to 2 bytes was a good technical choice back in 1992, non-unified CJK wouldn't fit (that was a time of 2-4MB RAM and 100-200MB HDD). A solution to problem was later provided.

Using Shift-JIS is like doing on-IP, non-UDP protocol on the internet.

Sure, you can do it, but it's just non-perspective choice. A better invested time is on improving standard protocol, which is Unicode (e.g. conversion software).
How many posts on yesterday’s “Who’s Hiring?” were for exactly this tech? Think I counted at least 5.
Yeah maybe just don't do it then? If someone removes the EXIF data from a photo there's probably a reason for that, and assuming that's suspicious in some way is pretty ridiculous in a society that's supposedly all about personal freedom and the right to a fair trial.

I don't mean to be aggressive here but this seems like yet another tool that will be abused to shit by already powerful people to do even sketchier things.
The first Boeing whistleblower to “off himself” allegedly told his family shortly before he died that if anything happened to him, “it’s not suicide.”

https://www.newsweek.com/john-barnett-boeing-whistleblower-p...
> “No computer, no AI can replace a human touch,” said Amy Grewal, a registered nurse.

I don't believe this to be true in the long run. We will almost certainly have Westworld like robots in the future. Researchers have also found, on average, ChatGPT has better bedside manners than doctors.
Historically companies have absolutely shied away from killing people.

Has it happened, yes. Is it commonplace, absolutely not!

nobody considers Boeing a private company. It is publicly traded on the stock market.
I know I'm humanizing Rakus here but I'd like to think that, when he kisses the tree towards the end of the video, he does so out of gratitude for helping him. :-)
"A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.[1][2] The safety and effectiveness of vaccines has been widely studied and verified.[3][4] A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and recognize further and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine

Sounds like this is a vaccine given that criteria.
I think one factor that's often overlooked with this advice is that many devices are designed in such a way that entering a secure password is a tedious and error prone process, and hence we should rethink whether passwords are the best way to secure said devices.

For example, while your computer or phone may have a password manager, I'm pretty sure your car, TV, games console, etc doesn't, and so having to enter a lengthy and difficult to crack password one letter at a time via a stupidly clunky interface is a usability and security nightmare in of itself.

And even with a phone, entering a lengthy or complex password via a touch screen keyboard is quite the ordeal. So I wouldn't be surprised if many people don't bother with good passwords simply because it's easier to enter a single word with a few numbers tacked on the end via a touch screen or remote control.
> Most people would see this as wasteful NIH but I'm convinced it was a net benefit for them—they managed to be so productive in an absolute sense and especially on a per-engineer basis because they were willing to build so much themselves, not despite it.

It paid off for them, but I would say it's a risky move in general - it is very easy to get sidetracked with failed projects that have nothing to do with the business. There are many examples - Uber's internal chat system, etc.

Others tools were more a necessity, eg the OCaml build story was not great back then. Investing in OCaml itself was a calculated risk.

Also I wonder how things would be different if they were starting today, where there are more mature tools in the space.
Yes, 2 out of how many? The denominator is important here.
High qubit control fidelity and uniformity in single-electron control
I haven't read the policy but deleting 'without exception' could make the university in violation of warrants or other legal requirements to retain data. Destroying evidence is usually a felony.
I doubt they'd just stop. I imagine in practice this would be more of a parabolic track, and they'd slow to a jog after the peak of their workflow. That would give time for their cochlear fluid to slow down as well.

And even that aside, I'm not sure the lack of gravity would change how quickly cochlear fluid settles. I think that settling is due to resistance from the fluid turbulence of the cochlear canals, not due to gravity.
It took a century of blood to make cars as safe as they are today.
Stress kills and he was under a lot of stress but I’m not sure how anyone would be able to produce enough evidence to be certain.
But that would still require an eagle-eyed consumer, which (coming from experience working in the fintech space) is quite rare.. I.e., you may know the iframe is supposed to just ask you to open your mobile app, but I think the vast, vast majority of users wouldn't think twice if that iframe had been hijacked and instead asked them to enter their credit card information directly.
AI doctor can right now run laps around your PCP and Urgent Care docs so I'm not sure what the point you're trying to make is.

AI doctor right now also doesn't suggest that all my medical issues are "are you sure you're not on your period?"
but... it's just a youtube wrapper, what's the goal?
Are you naive, or acting in bad faith?

The Muslim world. People like Finkelstein are treated like celebrities in Qatar.

Leftist circles, like the student protesters we like talking about. Have you not heard "this is what decolonization looks like"? Why do you think many lefties refuse to condemn Hamas?

The anti-west/anti-american masses. This is the perfect opportunity for Russians and Chinese to undermine the west by promoting token whities, like Jackson Hinkle.

These are often all the same person.

Edit: Not to mention the growing undercurrents of antisemitism in western countries from the right wing and other minorities.
What do you mean "nobody's counting"? Excess mortality from delayed or denied treatments are measured all the time in medical research. How do you think these drugs get made in the first place? We just had a pandemic where a calculated decision was made that the small risk of myocarditis was massively outweighed by the benefits of mass vaccination. When was the last time you saw a drug ad that didn't list potentially fatal or debilitating side effects? "We need something to solve problem X even if it carries risk Y" is absolutely par for the course.
If you view the relationship between the employees and an employers through Marxist class war lens, then, as an employee, you should fully expect reciprocal reaction from employers.

I prefer to view it as mutually beneficial cooperation. If my value to the employer is not as high as I think it should be, it is either a reason to readjust my expectations, improve my productivity or change the employer.
The speak & spell did it with a 32kB [edit, previously incorrectly wrote 16kB] ROM and a TMS0280.
Show HN: I built vector search for COSS podcasts & livestreams
Hey HN! I built COSSgpt using videos from the Open Source Founder Podcast [1] and livestreams from COSS Office Hours [2][3]

I transcribed the VODs using Whisper and vectorized fixed-size segments from the transcripts with MPNet on Replicate GPUs. I made these segments overlap a little to prevent semantic meaning being lost inbetween segments

Then I indexed the vectors using HNSWLib in-memory vectorstore [4] and persisted the entire vectorstore into Tigris object storage [5] to cache multimedia and vectors across all Fly.io regions

I built the app in Elixir, almost entirely server-side rendered with minimal diffs sent to the client over WebSockets using Phoenix LiveView. I also used Livebook [6] a ton when I was building the multimedia processing & ML pipeline. I'm super bullish on Elixir for building webapps and/or MLops!

Let me know what you think :) If you're curious you can find the code at https://github.com/algora-io/tv

[1]: https://algora.io/podcast
[2]: https://tv.algora.io/peerrich
[3]: https://tv.algora.io/rfc
[4]: https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib
[5]: https://tigrisdata.com
[6]: https://github.com/algora-io/tv/blob/2586950/scripts/cossgpt...
> I used the parameters suggested in the documentation [1], which follow the RFC

Where in the RFC is your parameter set mentioned? I don't see it anywhere[0]. The only parameter set I see mentioned with memory requirement as low as 64 MiB have t=3, not t=1. I believe the Go documentation might be outdated.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9106/

> I agree pepper confusing (because the pepper is supposedly secret), but this is not a salt either, as a salt is supposed to be public, but unique. Do you have better naming that you can suggest?

If it's tweakable at build, perhaps pepper makes more sense.
Do you think every business owns the land and building it operates in? Real estate is expensive. Maintaining a building is expensive. There are plenty of businesses that rent to avoid the capital requirement and headache of property ownership.
What a short sighted, money grubbing decision by people that didn't actually care about the wellbeing of the company. Keeping the land the restaurants are on means higher margins of profit long term and the ability to weather problems. Selling it off and then leasing it back does...exactly what happened here.
The space shuttle that never came home
Something something survivorship bias plane meme. But maybe that one's in poor taste under the circumstances.
I'm with you that, if you don't close the loop via experiment, you don't have science. But you have to be careful that you not go too far, and say that science is the only way we can know truth. Logical positivism is dead for a reason. (Actually, for several reasons.)
It's very questionable whether consumers want to spend the money to run LLMs on local hardware; nor do companies want them to, instead of charging a subscription fee.

High-end PC gaming is still a small niche. Every new and more powerful gaming console does worse than the previous generation. VR hasn't taken off to a significant degree.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38808985>
I agree. The level of expertise required is relative to the client not to other programmers.

The difference is between thinking like a programmer and thinking like a consultant. A consultant provides what the client needs rather than trying to figure out how to apply their skill.

In this case, the OP's value add is coming up with a plan and implementing that plan. There's plenty of billable hours in customizing whatever package is chosen and a very high potential for a service contract.
I don't understand your comment. I was talking about apps built on LLMs where the prompts aren't given by the users, but the LLM is still an important part of the functionality.
Crete is not part of Cyclades
What is worthy of HN is determined by user interest. You are not the gatekeeper of HN.

I for one love this project. Amazing work, Ariel!
Looks good, but I wish there was a practicioner-oriented resource for how to use cryptographic libraries that didn't start by focusing on the math. I don't need to know the intricacies of RSA, I need to know how to securely compose it with other primitives to engineer a system with the desired properties.
You should look at Chipotle's stock.
Wow that sounds pretty scary. I'm sorry you and your family had to endure that. I'm also very sorry about your cousin.

I share some of your concerns about using mRNA technology as an annual preventative solution against COVID and flu. Even though I'm triple Pfizer mRNA vaccinated I'd probably go for a non-mRNA solution going forward (my employer finally dropped their COVID vaccine requirement but maintain an annual flu vaccine requirement).

But it seems to me that mRNA is a fantastic tool for fighting deadly cancers. Without treatment, the patient is absolutely going to die.

I know. My mom died of glioblastoma back in September 2019. The tumor was wrapped around her thalamus so we had very limited treatment options -- at the time the most advanced treatments needed access to the tumor which is hard to do when it's in the center of your brain.

Hang in there MisterDizzy and, since we are on Hacker News here, remember one of the principles of software development -- use the right tool for the right job. For me, right now, that looks like tried and true protein-based vaccines for those annual vaccinations and fancy mRNA platforms for those specialized treatments.
Too late. How much worse can they get at this point?
I appreciate your statement here, but I think part of the reason the GP commented on this is that we hear this from companies all the time. We all recognize that you're speaking the truth of today, but things change. This may be important to you, but unless Uno is your lifestyle business and you maintain control despite external pressures from board members brought on as capital sources, you're not capable of providing a guarantee in perpetuity, let alone for any well defined metric of time.

It's fair for us to be gunshy. There's simply too many examples of OSS projects highly used across the web that made these kind of promises earlier on in the product's lifecycle, many if not most of them with the best of intentions at the time the promise was made. I trust that what you're saying is true today. Until we start to see more OSS projects with sustainability models that are both successful at staving off negative influence from funding partners, and those sustainability models leading to companies making good on the declarations of altruism they made when they were younger, I think we're going to remain unsure and unconfident in promises like this.

Don't think it's going to stop us from checking out your product or potentially building really cool stuff with it. But until you prove to us that you'll keep this ethos, we will start using this really cool framework with one hand while we keep another hand free to stabilize ourselves in what feels like an inevitable rugpull that isn't a matter of if, but when.
your chances of getting a mcdonalds breakfast after 10am are better
Yes, I agree that is what the government say. I'm just telling you what happens in reality.

And I don't do it every day because I am old and hangovers are now a multi-day affair. In my younger days I could have easily done Friday, Saturday and possibly Sunday.
For clarity, in (computer science) graph theory, a tree is a rooted, strict, connected, undirected, acyclic graph.

Explanation:

rooted: One vertex (also called a node) has been designated the root. The depth of a vertex is the number of branches in the path from root to the vertex. So depth of the root itself is zero and is the only vertex in the tree with this property.

strict: The edges have no weight(s).

connected: A graph is said to be connected if there is a path (edge) between every pair of vertices. From every node to any other node, there is a path to traverse.

undirected: The edges have no directionality specified.

acyclic: The are no closed loops (no cycles of any length).

graph: An abstract data structure consisting of a finite set of vertices and a finite set of edges (vertices pairs).

As another commenter has pointed out, the definition of a tree in mathematics is somewhat different...a tree need not have a root.
The total number of deaths in all airplane crashes combined since 1970 is about as much as MRSA kills in 8 months of a typical year.
This is one of those ideas where you think "why the hell didn't I think of this?"
The Shrinking Cost of War Threatens Western Militaries
Antibiotic resistant MRSA kills thousands of people a year in the US. The idea that he went to the hospital with pneumonia and then contracted antibiotic resistant MRSA from the hospital environment is very plausible.
I don't think anybody's saying "This happened!" but are rather expressing a deep (and well-founded) distrust for the system in which whatever did actually happen occurred.