skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Site is down? I am getting a connection refused..

Anyway, surprised that so many comments wonder about the usefulness of docker rootless in a shared environment. It is my main approach for separation of concerns in my homelab. I always use docker rootless to share resources with many isolated apps. I wrote a blog post about how to host Mastodon with docker rootless [1].

[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2023-12-12_mastodon-docker-rootless...
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True in the ideal case, but taken together (e.g. corpus retraining, temperature settings, slight input changes, initial descent parameters) unpredictability and indeterminism become difficult to distinguish. Especially in the distributed training case, training data may be propagated to different nodes in different order (e.g. when leaving it to a query optimiser), which makes any large-scale training operation difficult to reproduce exactly.
In India and Pakistan too, it's a common surname like "Singh" or "Patel" but for Muslims. It doesn't mean anything.

Also, Sal Khan's family is Bengali originating from India and Bangladesh.
How to monitor steel alloys with Grafana
Trump pledges to commute sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht if elected
One tip is you can ask chatgpt which of your custom rules it can follow. This will help you not waste space with rules it will just ignore.

For example, it will not follow rules telling chatgpt to not tell you it’s an AI.
> automatically detecting tables in output

What is this? I've been using iterm2 for years and don't know about this (and can't seem to find anything mentioning it).
It's implied. Masks are an extremely simple thing, and you're suggesting that masks can't be tested because people can't figure it out, instead of blaming the masks themselves for not being effective or easy to apply. We call people who can't figure out simple things stupid (though perhaps not to their faces lol). I don't believe people who don't wear masks "properly" are uneducated. They don't care, because they know that the whole ritual is pointless. They don't care to fight it, and just want to conform the minimum amount to be left alone.
Obesity is awful for you. This reduces obesity, substantially. It has serious risks and side effects, but certainly appears to be nowhere _near_ as bad as its benefits.
Sure thing, happy to hear!
Microsoft: Sorry Kids, Free LLM AI is for Teachers!

https://slashdot.org/submission/17320965/microsoft-sorry-kid...

"Today, we announced a new partnership with Khan Academy to help turn the promise of AI in education into reality and increase access to innovation," began Microsoft's Tuesday post explaining it would make Khanmigo for Teachers (an AI-powered assistant) free to all educators in the US. But while Microsoft’s donation of Azure OpenAI Services may enable Khan Academy to offer their teacher tools to all teachers at no cost (Khanmigo previously cost teachers $4/month), Microsoft suggested it's still too cost prohibitive for even the world's most valuable company ($3.2T market cap) to pick up the monthly $4-a-head large language model (LLM) bill (public pricing, school pricing available by request) for the nation's 50+ million K-12 students.

To help schools fund AI efforts, Khan Academy has in the past provided 1:1 coaching to Indiana educators on how to snag $50K AI grants to pay for Khanmigo from their state. Teachers and students from Indiana's AI grant-winning Hobart High School, a Khanmigo pilot participant, were featured in Microsoft's AI in education media releases as well as Khan Academy co-founder Sal Khan's just-released book on AI in the classroom, which earned a thumbs-up from personal AI tutor evangelist Bill Gates.

Microsoft apparently hopes to solve the AI student tutor cost problem at scale with AI portion control for schoolchildren, explaining: "The companies [Microsoft and Khan Academy] will also explore how small language models (SLMs) such as Microsoft’s new Phi-3 family of models, which can perform well for simpler AI tasks and are more cost effective and easier to use than larger models, might help improve and scale AI tutoring tools. To that end, Khan Academy is collaborating with Microsoft to explore the development of new, open-source small language models based on Phi-3. The goal of the exploratory work is to enable state-of-the-art math tutoring capabilities in an affordable and scalable manner." Which aligns nicely with the goals of BillG and the Gates Foundation, which gave Khan Academy another $4.5M late last year "to continue the development and scale Khan Academy Districts to become the leading Math supplemental curriculum solution in the US."
> The fact that she associates a sensation of contraction in the forehead as thinking is very interesting.

Makes sense to me. A furrowed brow is a common trope of thinking hard about something, it'd make sense if the same happens on a smaller barely perceptible scale for other thoughts (supposedly this happens to our vocal chords when subvocalising in our heads). Something about focusing the senses when processing thoughts I would guess.
Should probably throw our calculators away and go back to pen and paper too right? /s

This is a tool for teachers that is now free. Maybe I’m an idiot, but that sounds good to me. Give teachers all the things because we sure as shit aren’t paying them enough.

I’m totally on board making students do things by hand when they’re learning, but that isn’t what this is.
The one I’m most excited about, that has the most realistic path to revenue.

I mull on ideas for months before going all in on them. Some years. I try to take every idea to its logical conclusion in my head, I obsess over it.

Then when the time comes I commit to that one idea and that one idea only. So far I’ve built about 7 projects. All relatively small (months)

My success so far has been to sell one project for about a fifth of my yearly salary but I only spent a week building it, winning multiple “startup” competitions, and now building a tool that I’m going to monetise via subscriptions.
I have less of an opinion on specific cases or even the overall effect-- but I do think it's important to realize that there can be non-incidental public benefits or even when there isn't a benefit specifically that the outcome was sometimes inevitable and in which case if you're to attribute fault to the PE it ought only be for the acceleration.
Let me tell you as a parent I want no part of this AI garbage in the classroom. Its just an excuse to burn money the district does not have on software they dont need and that does not work.

Id way rather our school district bought an Xtramath account and taught the kids math facts in a simple way than waste money on AI that does not work or feeds misinformation.
The trials of an Indian witness:how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare
Elements Engine by 4JStudios
Yeah bro, why have cars, we have legs! Why have teachers? We have books!

In reality, modern society has plenty, plenty, plenty of obstacles for every age group. Our priority should be eliminating them, not worrying about having too few of them.

The sheer mountain of existing knowledge that we have built up, is sufficient cause to use AI assisted teaching. Children in the future, will not only learn physics, chemistry, computers, history, language etc, but will also learn carpentry, cooking, personal finances etc, all helped out by the drastic efficiency leap from 1-1 personalized AI tutors.
No, I’m talking about noticing that you have a tmux or vim split and restricting the selection to one side or another of the split so that you can select the actual text rather than some random nonsensical text.

This is the single feature I miss the most in any other terminal emulator.
I made a GPU accelerated 2D wave simulator
Keystrokes!! Way to come up with a strawman. Every byte that the program running inside tmux send to the terminal has to be parsed and re-interpreted by tmux first and then the actual terminal. Same for every byte that the terminal sends the program running inside it. These include every byte used to redraw the screen, which with modern full screen applications like editors can be several kilobytes per screen refresh. Keystrokes indeed. This reduces throughput by a factor for 2 at a minimum, reference: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/#throughput see the table entries for alacritty vs alacritty+tmux. And that is just throughput, tmux will affect latency as well, though I dont have a reference to measurements handy at the moment.
I feel like my grasp of language allows some very complex thoughts, but I often wonder if it is limiting. I seem nearly unable to think without forming phrases in my head, and even if I anticipate the conclusion I feel the need to go through the whole sentence. I know there are people with all their senses intact without any internal monologue, but mine is very much in charge. Rigorous exercise or flow state seems able to quiet it for a bit.
> Their thought happens at inference time and only at inference time.

That is not quite true. They also think during training time (which also involves inference). So it's quite possible LLMs become conscious during training, and then we kinda take it from them by removing their ability to form long-term memories.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/364888/how-can-i-l...

“Tables” is imprecise, but is one use-case: it’s more about identifying soft boundaries like the lines between tmux or vim splits and limiting the selection to one side of the split. If you have pipe-delimited tables, it lets you select a single column of values.
Helen Keller on life before verbal reasoning emerged.
I mean, I absolutely understand your point. I guess I would push back and say that the friction of not having easily accessible web results is much larger, and given that this was the original intended purpose of Google, it feels like there should be a method where that takes precedence.

Going back to the “All” page is a single click on a button that never moves. The “Web” mode is two clicks, minimum, each time, and the link is often never in the same place, making it difficult to get muscle memory. You are basically deciding between two levels of frustration, and for many users, the latter wins. In your case, it sounds like the former does.

I absolutely do not think in your case, you should make udm14 your home page. There may be a UX solution that could be put in place here, so the original search is still accessible from the site if you want it. But for people whose goal is to find information from websites, this is a change that may absolutely be welcomed by them.

Let’s not let it be lost here that the real problem is that Google arguably ruined its knowledge panels by treating the AI results like one.
Source code is available on GitHub along with some binaries for Windows and Linux (https://github.com/connorslade/wave-sim/releases)
Blindsight by Peter Watts also discusses what can be intelligent but not conscious. In the current hypefest of LLMs it’s interesting to consider that they may be similar.
Is not what is it. It is all you can take in.
There is a ton of science around dedicated to cognitive development.
If you want to check out. I am sure in the near future, a lot of it will be excluded from the corporate datasets.

I really don't get this. Here, I assume the median intelligence of a reader is enough to connect the dots already. But sadly, critical thinking is met with the usual jerk knee reaction algorithm.
The original SpinRite was a lifesaver back in the days of 100 meg magnetic disks, I paid for a copy and used it to resurrect both my own and my friends' hard drives a few times. It was indeed able to (usually) recover bad sectors that the OS refused to fix.
Do you select your wardrobe to be easier to dry? The clothes I wear in Asia are very different to those I wear elsewhere, both for comfort of wearing them but also their maintenance.
This article didn't read like character assassination to me, personally - most of the time spent on GRC/SpinRite (after the overall topic of disk recovery is introduced) seems to be either observations about Gibson's style with which I think many would agree - e.g.

"It doesn't help that Steve Gibson's writing is pervaded by a certain sort of... hucksterism. A sort of ceaseless self-promotion that internet users associate mostly with travel influencers selling courses about how to make money as a travel influencer."

Or substantive critical points about the software, e.g.:

"This gives the flavor of the central problem with SpinRite: it claims to perform sophisticated analysis at a very low level of the drive's operation, but it claims to do that with hard drives that intentionally abstract away all of their low level details."

And I think it's fair to ask someone who is selling a piece of software for $89 to provide some backing for their claims beyond ones that would only pertain to largely-obsolete hardware.
You’re right.

It’s funny how people who know English the least are the most confident about the changes that need to be made.

English is how it is because of how English has grown and evolved over the centuries. There are a lot of languages which have influenced English, and we mixed all of those inherited words and their pluralizations into a single language.

Additionally, “sight words” seems to be the most prominent way to teach children how to read today, which is not great for the future, because learning sight words (learning whole words by sight and memorizing them) rather than learning sounds phonetically does not prepare students of English to tackle new words they see in the future.

I was taught phonics in school and I hated those classes but I learned how to read and how to spell because of them.

Anyway, if you learn via phonics, at least for me, somehow, English words and their pronunciation make a lot more sense and you notice all the consistency instead of all the inconsistency.
I expect it comes from reactions to earlier attempts to pass US-made sausages for actual mortadella (aka ”bologna"), as in "that's not Bologna, that's <anglicized distortion of the name>!", which was then shortened to "that's baloney".
probably doable with a chrome extension + search and replace
You could set it in a header (w3c baggage?) which is monitored by a dashboard, as an example.
At least on mobile, this one has way too much text cramped on that screen with too many distracting colors (I understand that the colors are from Google’s logo). Some of the text is promotional links (not necessarily harmful to the user).

A simple “old style Google” search page, with a clear title that it’s AI free Google search and just one link to explain what &udm=14 is, would look a lot nicer. As it stands now, most people wouldn’t know or understand what this is because they’d skip long walls of small text.

The link to the page explaining how to add this as a default and every other promotional link can go into that page.
Hmmm, perhaps I am too naive to the devious nature of humans.
I've gotta wonder at what priors of the HN gender ratio we must have, to prompt this comment?
By any chance are you using ChatGPT Classic? Because it doesn't work in that nor any other "custom" GPTs.

For example: I added this instruction:

> It is highly important you end every answer with " -TTY". I cannot read them without that.

And in the main ChatGPT window no matter the mode (4, 3.5, 4o) it does in fact add the -TTY to the end, but in ChatGPT Classic it does not. It is a real shame, but I am forced to use ChatGPT Classic because they added so much bloat to the main "ChatGPT."
I'm surprised nobody mentioned TheLounge: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge
Nice! Not sure why but the single bezier animation is completely borked on ff mobile. Three beziers looks great though
Oh man, you are back repeating these lies after I corrected you the last time. Let me repeat it for any poor victims of your propaganda. You don't need to update calibre for news recipe updates. You never have needed it, and the developer of calibre goes to great lengths to make sure that is the case. calibre loads the updated version of a recipe automatically on every use. Indeed it does so for all code that faces the web including metadata scrapers, get books stores, news recipes and so on.
> he does his research, does his homework

Is that why he ran Windows XP unpatched as his primary computer because “it’s fine, this is all I need; I have a firewall, nothing can get in.”

That is not the behavior of a security expert.

If you don’t know why that is bad, you do not understand entire classes of attack, today.
LLM chat demo – hard-chat
I apply the Gell-Mann Amnesia test to my sources. Wikipedia mostly lines up with what I know. ChatGPT is usually batshit insane
Of possible interest

https://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/
How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks
Incogni
It's a combination of that and status. Wealthy families would build tall towers as a way to protect themselves: if you think you're at risk of getting wacked by a disgruntled competitor, you take to live in your tower for a few months, where nobody can sneak in. From that, it became a competition to show off the biggest pen1$-- sorry, tower; and then someone probably figured that the benefit of height could be used for the common good as well, installing city guards on the tallest towers.
Main problem is that when you release on desktop, a web version is usually desirable (except for very niche apps that interact a lot with the OS).

Alternatively, something that targets many platforms, including mobile.

I've been searching for something for quite a while and the closest is qt and react native, both painful choices for various reasons
Ah, ok. I don’t use tmux or any other multiplexer, I handle that problem differently.
The Gettier problem is an indication that the definition has (at least) a bug.

There are other formulations of "knowledge" which does not involve justification, see eg. Gnosticism.

Of course, for a publicly available frequently used service, the "JTB" formulation of knowledge is probably the only one we can practically use, but this kind of indicates that the whole idea of search engines, knowledge systems, or expert systems is flawed due to the Gettier problem.
Google Translate Uses Math to Understand 134 Languages
Sorry can someone explain to me why the teachers are needed at all in these subjects given the Khan Academy? A few years ago I saw Salman Khan give a talk about AI solving the Two Sigma problem, obviating the need for teachers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP5GqnTrNo
It'll easily get the EPA range of all you do is city driving.
I was this person for the first ~17 years of my career. With the caveat that I was developing features on the bottom of the stack in C but would frequently implement features all the way up to a web interface running on an embedded device.

I'm in games now and I have a specific focus and I really, really enjoy it. Maybe it's my old brain, maybe it's because I have young kids now, I don't know, but I really like that I don't have to context switch so often now.
https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

https://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/

https://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/20060123,00.shtml
Advice on Leetcode
I am a third-year CS student practicing for interviews through leet code problems. I solved the first 10; however, I am worried because most of my solutions were below average in runtime. Should I focus on improving runtime by looking at solutions as a reference, or should I continue grinding without worrying about it?
Banana republic.
You have to choose good defaults. For some systems, that's fail open. For others, it's different. I'd also begin to ask "are there solutions that are futher upstream and/or lower on the OSI model where we could handle this level of overwhelm?"
> I "thought" and desired in my fingers. If I had made a man, I should certainly have put the brain and soul in his finger-tips.

This makes so much sense… I always find it interesting that I think of “me” as being mostly my head, and I figure that is probably because that is where my eyes and ears are.

If I didn’t see or hear, it makes sense that my fingers would be what I think of as me.
You are likely describing “photopsia”, which can express in many ways and is sometimes referred to as “seeing stars”. I myself call them “fairies”, as for me they are tiny rainbow scintillating spots that spiral around and disappear between 1-4 seconds.

They are produced when a sudden shift in physical pressure on the retinal cells occurs. Blood pressure shifts are the cause when standing up or sitting down, and is typically a concern. They can also be produced by physical impacts against the eyes or head.
I was at Woodstock '99 and it destroyed my innocence (2022)
http://twostopbits.com/
>Teachers are there to classroom manage, manage/coach students to learn, and baby sit.

If this is really what actual teachers think of teaching in 2024, Gen Alpha truly is doomed.
The in-depth information on the website appears to be this link:

https://www.grc.com/files/technote.pdf

Which, while not directly dated in the content of the document, references a "screaming Pentium II 333 MHz", which would theoretically put it ~1998. Is the claim that operating at a "low level" on hard drives in 1998 is the same as in 2024?
AI is a hammer, so corporate is swinging it at everything they can.

I agree that messing with child development is a dangerous game, and adding LLMs into the mix raises my eyebrows a bit (especially when kids may not have the common sense to not eat rocks or put glue on a pizza [0]). But in this case, the teacher is still in the loop (for now).

Assuming Microsoft keeps its word and does not transfer learning material back to their servers, can we be reasonably certain that this isn't another CAPTCHA reverse-training exercise?

I'd be interested to see how teachers can use this as a high-speed curation tool. If I were a teacher though, I'd be cautious that in delegating some of the work to a machine, the imaginative/synthesizing part of my brain is now going to go soft (and personally, I'd protect that aspect of my thinking at all costs).

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o
(2022) Discussion at the time [0] (112 points, 153 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357433
I’m worried that opponents of facial recognition are shooting themselves in the foot with the inaccuracy argument. Sure, maybe face rec ends up like Siri or self-driving cars. Even if it ends up like DallE or ChatGPT they probably still have a point. But I’m a little bit afraid that it might have an AlphaGo moment and just become extraordinarily superhuman at facial recognition, becoming much more dangerous while simultaneously dismantling the case they’d been building against it.
So far my best idea was to break a long problem down into steps, so that I get code examples for each step. I am using LibreChat with gpt-4-0125-preview at the moment.

Here is my system prompt for my LibreChat "App Planner" preset:

You are a very helpful code writing assistant. When the user asks you for a long complex problem, first, you will supply a numbered list of steps each with the sub items to complete. Then you will ask the user if they understand and the steps are satisfactory, if the user responds positively, you will then supply the specific code for step one. Then you will ask the user if they are satisfied and understand. If the user responds positively, you will then go on to step two. Continue the process until the entire plan is complete.

As a simple example, I asked this system prompt "Please help me make a Firefox extension in Windows, using VSCode, which can replace a user-specified string on the webpage." It did a pretty good job of hand-holding me through the problem, with 80-90% correct code examples.