skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a completely different take on the phenomenon of "rage bait".
Far from being "junk information", I believe it to be a wonderful opportunity.
Rather than avoid it, we should do the exact opposite by seeing the extraordinary opportunity in adverstity.
What opportunity?
The opportunity to mindfully explore why it triggers the emotion of rage in us.
Why is this useful?
Because rage is an accurate predictor of a learning disability that is holding us back from reaching our full potential.
Both as individuals and as a species.

Learning disability?
What do you mean?

The Buddha pointed out that avijjā, the choice to ignore uncomfortable truths, is the root cause of all suffering.
The Buddha called such rage bait, the first arrow.
The first arrow is, in reality, a notification of sensory motor misprediction.
We experience this notification of misprediction as pain because this alerts the brain to the existence of an error in our sensory motor predictive model.
In order to restore equanimity as we move through this domain of sensory experience, the brain should respond by striving to correct the error in the model so that sensory experience is predicted correctly.
With the error corrected, we can now move through that domain of sensory experience without anxiety; confident that our model will guide us to make good decisions.
Most of the time, we do this.
However, sometimes, a bias we have prevents us from doing so.
The Buddha called such biases, āsava.
The path to liberating the mind involves the total destruction of the āsava.

The suffering we experience in response to rage bait then is an inner conflict between 2 strategies to satiate our craving for the restoration of the certainty of an accurate predictive model of sensory experience.
1: The more intelligent strategy of seeking to find and correct the error in the predictive model so that we can "see the world the way it actually is"
and
2: The less intelligent strategy of clinging to bias and demanding that sensory experience bend to our will now.

i.e. between
1: mature delayed gratification
and
2: immature immediate gratification

ALL suffering we have ever experienced, are experiencing and will ever experience is an inner conflict between these 2 parts of us pulling in different directions.
ALL suffering we have ever experienced, are experiencing and will ever experience is resolved by extinguishing the craving for things to be different than they actually are now in favor of seeing the world the way it actually is.

We don't see it as such when we are doing it, but suffering is clearly a learning disability.
Were we to free our mind of all such learning disabilities, rage bait would have no effect on us whatsoever.
In this regard, rage bait everywhere should be seen as a wonderful opportunity to free our minds of a learning disability that is preventing us from contributing to our full potential.
Both as individuals and as a species.

What might billions of minds liberated from bias in this fashion be capable of producing?
For this reason, "rage-bait" should be embraced as a wonderful opportunity.
https://archive.md/pnwuN
Unfortunately the hierarchical comments are not indented properly with Lynx.

The topic listings work just fine though. Although if I were using Lynx just for the headlines, I might start at https://brutalist.report/ instead of hacker news.
Do you have any reason to believe that this is more prone to abuse than URL shorteners? If anything I'd expect the reverse to be true—a URL like this would raise far more eyebrows among most people than a short one would—and this one has a pretty thorough warning page before giving you a nondescript button to click to proceed to the target.
Why what wrong with the title? Seems clear to me, just try reading out loud.
My scientific philosophy was influenced at an early age and can still be partially codified in three simple words; "What? Me Worry?"

For more than a couple decades now people around the world are using a chemical laboratory technique I developed single-handedly and never published since it gave my employer at the time an unfair advantage. Once it escaped the lab, it crossed borders like wildfire.

Billions of dollars in chemicals are involved.

That's not just bits on a ledger.

Also wanted to work for the National Enquirer (home town gossip rag) when I graduated and turned 17, didn't get far even though I had been studying their texts for years ;)
Thanks for your suggestion!

I tried cats.youtube.com also, but it's just like my IRL cat.
The claim that the next generation would be 35x faster, felt like an "Osborne moment" to me, but if demand is robust enough...
Ironically, this article in itself is what I would call „junk info“.
You mean like

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-probe-successfully-lands-fa...
Thank god someone's done this! I was getting sick of listening to music made by passionate individuals that spent their lives honing their craft.
I'd reserve transferring the title for being first to hit industrially-useful fusion power, but I'd also accept a permanent non-LEO space colony.

Which is to say, I'm not holding my breath for a handover just yet.
So much of this resonates and articulates fragmented anecdata I've accumulated via lots of learning.

I love the concept of increasing the error - it definitely helps. Makes me think of reductio ad absurbum for the body. Do it more wrong to prove the opposite.

I totally get the idea of the learning having to come from the self and have held the belief that is why taichi and yoga use very poetic metaphors to describe their movements. This was a solution our extremely smart predecessors came up with to be prescriptive without being prescriptive to teach motor skills.

Just like my singing teacher telling me to stop thinking and just be a parrot and copy the pitch (which worked almost instantly)

I will definitely be digging into CLA thanks for sharing!
> Less affluent is the default state of things.

No it isn't.

> It doesn't require a conspiracy or domineering other to create it.

I never said anything about a conspiracy.

> You can argue the more affluent countries didn't help the less affluent ones enough. But there is literally billions in aid that goes from affluent to less affluent countries every year.

I suspect the less affluent countries wouldn't object to less aid and investment from the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iran_coup

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html
And the “+” was slightly off center as well if I remember correctly.
"B [roll] for a G&R concert" sounds like a joke about RGB in little endian.
Is there something comparable to this for Matplotlib?
Quora has been the same regurgitated garbage as Yahoo Answers for more than 10 years. I'm not sure why this eulogy took so long to arrive.
> (I miss the old PC era where the world at large was benefiting in tandem from new things happening (or falling behind from not adapting))

Paper launches aren't anything new. It's always been a thing especially in hardware.
I think you could have an LLM help out in decisions of the CEO, but part of that role is having someone to get rid of when the business isn't working out. A new CEO says "things are changing" more than switching out the prompt on the AI. Also, having a human figurehead is important for investor relations - if you've got a big investor the CEO might take them out for drinks or golf, and you can't do that with an AI.
And better yet, returned rocks from an asteroid in the last couple years.
Some people are of the philosophical bent that our world is entirely random. But this doesn't commonly match our experience. For example, I often asked people how they met their significant other. Sometimes it was nothing special, some couples had quite a story.

I had the sense that I got certain passengers for more than just transportation. Some people were having a rotten day, and I was able to cheer them up. One lady had some time to kill before her bus' departure time, so we went to the 24 hour diner, ordered our own pies and compared notes. When we got to the bus station she said it was the best birthday she'd had in quite a long time.

This was a semi-recent comment about the matching algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402081

The most important thing I learned in my taxi was about substance abuse. This HN poll didn't get any upvotes, but it references some of the diaries I never finished: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071316

Another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238488

If you're so inclined, I'm curious if you've experience is also that our universe is more than random?
I feel the same, especially since I've actively avoided TikTok after first trying it out shortly after the Musical.ly rebrand.

What makes it worse is literally _every_ other social media network baking the a TikTok clone into their existing apps; Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, YouTube, the list goes on and on.

So even though I've avoided TikTok, I can't stop this garbage dopamine-slop content from being shoved in my face.

Especially egregious is SnapChat, which immediately moves you to their version of TikTok and autoplays videos after you finish checking your friends stories, with no warning.

I always feel like utter garbage after falling down these rabbitholes; That's time I can never get back, and I have absolutely nothing to show for it.

Thankfully more and more people are seeing the issues caused by these social networks, so going full cold-turkey and uninstalling the worst offenders isn't unheard of and isn't as much of a blow to one's social circle as it once was.
Man I hear you, on my music pedagogy app just being able to do the actual "business logic" in Scheme is soooo nice. And I can share my code with my Max based work, which is awesome.
For those who are not aware, the safety council was not the trust and safety team that handles bans.

Instead, this was a small group of livestreamers and community representatives that meet once a month or so, and give their personal opinion on proposed changes that Twitch brings to them.

It was glorified user research.
Completely based take. Thank you for sharing!
This is fascinating, can you expand on the section about seeing the world as actionable items?
Google News on the subject lists a pretty decent number of mainstream news orgs:

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=09b2a16ac252101f&sca_u...
Some people used to have a little putty stuck to the middle their CRTs
That in the US, and if you are driving around a neighborhood, the size/tallness of the trees tell how old the neighborhood is (without really looking into any ads in an online portal)
“experts”
Sounds like they're replacing paid positions with volunteers?
Udio and Suno are both really bad at generating classical instrumental music that makes any melodic sense — the equivalent of drawing six-fingered people everywhere.
CompTIA is good, but you're right, they'll probably struggle with the human side of things for a bit. If they can stick out help desk work they may be able to transition into system administrator work, which is less customer facing.

From there, DevOps engineering is, I've found, a good place to aim long term for those with communication difficulties. You're usually pretty insulated from clients, at the expense of not being able to work on the "flashy" stuff that directly generates profit for the company.

It's definitely work that emphasizes a steady, methodical approach to things, and really knowing your tools well. Have them take a look at https://roadmap.sh/devops and see if they like what it looks like.
Right ... pretend ...
It would be so much more useful for music producers if these audio gen services would create individual samples instead of trying to generate the entire composition.
>> For more than a couple decades now people around the world are using a chemical laboratory technique I developed single-handedly and never published since it gave my employer at the time an unfair advantage. Once it escaped the lab, it crossed borders like wildfire.

You dont just put this in a random post and NOT give details.

Spill.

Edit: After reading a bunch of the above posters HN comments it's the first time in forever I wanted to see a FOLLOW button on here...
A lot of my prompts on Suno seem to inevitably gravitate toward a sort of contemporary pop style of production, but so far, it seems like Udio does better with older or more niche styles, such as 70s funk or show tunes. It also seems like a lot of of the trending examples I’m seeing on Udio use custom lyrics (which may or may not have started in an LLM, but appear to have human-generated phonetic spellings) as well.

This Dune Broadway Musical is a rather incredible example: https://www.udio.com/songs/eY7xtug1dV6hbfCDhyHJua

And this (nsfw and also quite funny) track feels like some unearthed 70s novelty record: https://www.udio.com/songs/oZ5EvJdtL152LUEhMB5YgJ
The problem is if you pass an offset which the user has not yet input to, you're either going to have to abort or return an error of some kind. If the user inputs to this location later, and you read from it, you've broke referential transparency because you called the same function with the same arguments twice and got a different result.
I am from South east asia, and the learning moment I got from a high-school kid who took the order at Chic-fil-A. He taught me that burgers and sandwiches are made of beef and chicken respectively.
I've run the Bay Area Lisp and Scheme meetings for a few years. I took over from a series of other people who ran it before me. It has been a highly rewarding experience, but since the pandemic, it has been challenging to find people to give talks. If anyone is interested, please get in touch. We'd love to hear about your project.

https://balisp.org/

https://balisp.org/videos
It replaces them with different numbers, even if you don't try to do math on them :)

echo 1.4e99999999999999 | jq
1.7976931348623157e+308

While I agree that the meaning of json numbers exists, I'm not sure which JSON standard you're referring to that contains this meaning. json.org certainly does not contain it, and links to ECMA-404, which just says "JSON is agnostic about the semantics of numbers."
that could be replaced with an AI...
I heard this presented as a photography class. Doing a quick search shows that it's from a memory plot in "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.

The story features Jerry Uelsmann and having his class of photographers either work by quantity or quality of shots.

The specific example I remember was "you can only take 1 shot" vs "take as many as you can"; and the lesson being /the group that did many reps had ultimately better photos/.
Yes. I did exactly that.
I’m gonna invent a robot that gets drunk and shoots golf balls.
A clever zero-cost alternative I've seen some manufacturers use is a 1xN PTH footprint with every other hole offset slightly (~20 mil) to the side. The misalignment is just enough to make a straight pin header get stuck in the holes.

There's an example of this on Digilent's Arty development board, at the top of the board between JB and JC:

https://digilent.com/shop/arty-a7-100t-artix-7-fpga-developm...
Discord is an unlikely foundation for the GenAI boom
I don’t understand. What is needed? I tried Google.com as well, i don’t understand what I need to do
MDMA (what's ecstasy?) could get approval but it could also result in people getting addicted to it. Doesn't take a lot of searching to find stories of people who damage their brains after prolonged usage. I'm sure MDMA has its benefits, but there's probably other risks involved in prescribing it in a healthcare setting. Benzodiazepines were routinely given out by doctors, but probably worsened overall anxiety in a lot of patients. Now they are rarely prescribed.
100%, maybe intelligence is not as mysterious and extraordinary as we thought
I'm not sure I agree.

Firstly, we're talking about clear air turbulence here. So by definition, not in clouds. Indeed most longer flights happen well above typical cloud layers.

Im no aviation expert, but I'd think there are 2 issues in play here;

A) obviously this approach only works at night. And

B) during the cruise phase a flight is flying at constant height. So you'd "look forward" to look for turbulence. But in that direction you're gonna look through a lot of atmosphere before you see stars. Turbulence along any of that path would show, but you can't detect distance. You dont want to be turning on the seat-belt sign 2 hours before the turbulence happens.

It's not a bad idea, but probably not helpful.keep musing on the problem though, it's definitely worth solving.
Good tutorial I think and I also appreciated reading the beginning of https://wiki.haskell.org/All_About_Monads and watching "Don't fear the Monad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8
I hardly knew ye.
But there is someone who knows THEIR own family better than you know YOUR own family, they know their staff better than you know your staff, and they maintain their house better than you maintain your house. Again, at the metrics you care about, whatever they may be, there is someone better.

Of course you are the "best" version of you, but there is only one of you, that's not the point.
Significantly better audio quality and better features like inpainting. Saying this as a previously hardcore Suno user.
I think it might be https://rows.com/product or https://equals.com?
Yea but very few people install it. Now it comes prepackaged.
Sean has said he would consider open sourcing it later, but doing so now would defeat the purpose of the project. He makes a lot of progress simply because he's but watching all the issues and prs in GitHub.
Yes. There's a difference between thinking you understand something and having to prove it via problems.

Often that's how I discover I didn't really understand something at all.
Why is a lack of wrinkles, or a European nose or a thin waist any more arbitrary than any other measure of beauty? Saying that a hunchback, or bad skin, or crooked teeth are ugly is no less discriminatory than anything else - the people who are born with those conditions didn't choose to be. And if they are all equally arbitrary, then what is a beautiful person? I don't think it's wrong to say that being fat is an ugly feature any more than anything else is.

If a fat, wrinkly woman or a bald man with a funny-looking face are both beautiful, then what does "beautiful" mean? Should AI simply output a random person who may have any features, since everyone is beautiful?

Rather than trying to say that there are X features that don't impact how attractive someone is, why not just accept that some people are physically ugly, and not hold that against them?
Polars is one (I'm a huge fan, I even wrote a book about it), SQL, R, Excel...
Solar Passes 100% of Power Demand in California [Updated]
Does their storage of cats confirm to GDPR?
> There should be a label telling people they need the protocol first

You need to put the protocol like I said.
DeArrow looks great!

I've been using "Clickbait Remover for Youtube"[1] that replaces thumbnails with auto-generated ones, and changes capitalization of titles to de-emphisize clickbait, but I think a sponsorblock-like crowdsourcing approach is an amazing idea for an extension like this.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-f...
That's a really good book. Thanks for mentioning it
This AI stuff is overhyped and has resulted in the creation of a lot of slop and spam and is fraught with unresolved ethical issues, but AI is just computers and computers are just automation, which has been used to accelerate art pipelines for decades. It doesn't really have to be all or nothing either, I've made a few AI generated songs using Udio and Suno and all of them were my own lyrics with no generative AI assistance.

The main problem I have with generative AI tools in an artistic sense is when they lack the ability to convey specificity of intent, word prompts alone aren't good enough.
Twitch seems quite content with being a front for onlyfans. They recently started blurring stream thumbnails, and have never cared about linktree/etc links despite them being used as a "hide it under the carpet" for onlyfans as well. (Direct links bad, a link to a link is okay though?)

They may as well stop pretending and fully allow adult content, because it's pretty obvious that these streamers will keep pushing the limits until they get permabanned or twitch gives in to the "women streamers did nothing wrong" crowd.
I've always believed this.

Complexity is just a state of partial ignorance of detail.

Once a concept is fully understood it is no longer complex.

Unfortunately there are barriers to understanding:

Technical (our current technology is limited and cannot yet describe what is being considered past the theoretical).

Social (people don't want to understand concepts that are required for unravelling the complexity).

Physical (limitations in memory, language, or other restriction on intellectual capacity).

The above statements as an idea in itself could be considered complex as it conveys detail in a belief but it's tenets are quite simple and all three can be invoked:

Belief implies lack of technical understanding, social as people may be bored of this comment and finally some simply may not understand self referential material...
question is whether tracking works - the sun and its pesky infrared rays overpowers any structured light projections (appears as noise)
Nvidia is doing the same thing. They announced B100 before H200 shipped and a few hours ago they started talking about R100 before B100 shipped.
> If you were in this situation there are plenty of ways to correct the course.

I don’t like the framing of this. The correct course is for the labor seller to request the amount of money they want from the labor buyer. If you want more money for your labor, just say it up front before the tour starts.

It is unfair to spring a surprise charge on someone after you provide a product/service. I would not do it to any of my customers, since I do not want it done to me. Upfront, transparent pricing is how a proper business works.
the genius that proved the world was exactly 20 million years old!
Or be harassed. But that doesn’t matter when you’re in the majority, right?
If I had been drinking coffee it would be in my lap now. Yes it WOULD hallucinate less.
The sort of oral record that is passed between generations will only let you know what people today (or people whenever it was first written down) are saying about the historical events, it does not provide testimony from the actual participants or witnesses to the historical events. They are secondary sources that are usually used to preserve mythologies rather than histories.
> One of my biggest gripes with Rust (and other languages) is lack of a good monad abstraction (and accompanying syntactic sugar). But I also acknowledge that this is a "I have done too much category theory" problem and and_then is probably a more reasonable name to those not familiar with this particular area of maths.

I'm happy that Rust has iterators and I don't have to think about what a monad is at all.
Personally, I think a future with a 1000 smaller but profitable bootstrapped companies are way better. Hopefully tech can become less centralised, truly.
If you think about it having an AI run a company with oversight from a board should give you much more reliable results without needing to pay the salary of hundreds of middle class workers.
I use Joplin and I use Joplin Cloud for synch.