skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny. I recall years ago watching a documentary on the Vindolanda letters stating that a complement of Syrian archers from Hama (the area just north of Homs) was stationed in Britain during Hadrian's time:

https://www.vindolanda.com/blog/fact-file-where-were-the-sol...

So migration from Syria to Britain and vice versa has been happening for just under 2000 years!

Those Anglo Saxons were probably closer to the barbarians that those Hamatian Archers were trying to prevent from immigrating to the island, however!
"And it seems the mood right now is to run away from screens."

I don't think this is true. Like cigarette smoking in the mid-20th, the elite are realizing how harmful screens are, and are starting to turn the wheels of awareness and regulation to the fact of harm. But the message hasn't landed. The same struggle will ensue, but the institutional elite are far less powerful than they were then, and it's not clear that it will work. We will be left to our own devices (so to speak), and it will be up to individuals to do what is right for their minds, and look on with sorrow at the damage screens are doing to the very fabric of civilization. It is a great mercy that the bleeding always stops, one way or another.
Do the Wrist Weights Work?
They had been transparent and it led to workers finding loopholes to make it unfair on each other. So there is value in opaqueness in that it's harder to exploit. But really a properly fair and transparent system would be better still.
fast loading of massive datasets and built-in support for SQLite tables. i also found the interaction to be more intuitive, which is important for a tool i pick up sporadically.
I guess this is one of the reasons AWS uses multiple domains in different TLDs for it's customer's name servers in route53[1]

A provider going rouge or a domain expiring will probably still leave 3 perfectly working.

[1] eg one of mine has awsdns-21.com, awsdns-50.co.uk, awsdns-11.net and awsdns-42.org
> Even though my area code is XYZ, I'm in the same city as you

The area code wouldn’t be a red flag for me, but this absolutely would.
> we think classically of the past as definite and the future in terms of possibilities- but in reality both the future and the past are indeterminate in exactly the same way

This has nothing to do with quantum theory. It's from classical physics already, from chaotic systems. For conservative systems, both predicting and retrodicting them is equally hard, due to high sensitivity of both to initial condition which we do not know exactly.

> it’s just that typically there are a lot more possible futures for the current state than pasts, because of entropy

This holds only in special cases, like when entropy of an isolated system increases (e.g. evolution towards equilibrium). When the system gets into equilibrium, entropy then remains constant, and both past macrostates and future macrostates have the same number of microstates, so for any state after that, "the number of futures" is the same as "the number of pasts".

> In fact you could define the past as being the direction in configuration space with the smallest uncertainty

In other words, you suggest to define future as that direction in which entropy increases. This is consistent with the usual meaning of future for an isolated thermodynamic system in a non-equilibrium process, evolving towards equilibrium; 2nd law implies entropy cannot decrease when comparing to the past macrostate, and entropy often increases when the new macrostate is reached.

But this is not usable definition in general. Earth, Solar System, Galaxy interact with their neighborhood; they are not such isolated systems in a macrostate, moving towards equilibrium. We do not know how to measure their entropy, to find out whether they move towards past or future. And if we somehow found entropy of Earth decreases, nobody would seriously suggest Earth is moving towards the past.

Instead, everything moves towards the future, just by definition, because that is how we think for ages. If spilled milk somewhere is observed to jump back into a cup, nobody will think the milk went back in time; instead, we will say that a very improbable thing just happened, violating prior experience and 2nd law, but that process would happen in time just as everything else, from the past towards the future.

Redefining "future" as that direction of a process in which "entropy is increasing" is really an unnecessary and flawed idea of future. We knew what future was before people invented kinetic theory and entropy; it's those events which we approach, anticipate, and when they come, we label them with a number for date and time on the clock, which (if it is running correctly) never decreases, only stays the same or increases. What entropy did in the meantime does not matter at all; a good clock does not care.
This seems like a great blend of LLM and classic analysis. I've recently started thinking that LLMs (or other ML models) would be fantastic at being the interface between humans and computers. LLMs get human nuance/satire/idioms in a way that other NLP approaches have really struggled with. This piece highlights how ML is great at extracting information in context (being able to tell whether it's go the language or go the word).

LLMs aren't reliable for actual number crunching though (at least from what I've seen). Which is why I really appreciate seeing this blend!
It could be a little more subtle than that, and legal slight of hand. All the work is original and copyrightable, because someone wrote it. But does the NYT control that copyright? Or has the NYT violated someone else's copyright, in exactly the same way OpenAI does? And if OpenAI can demonstrate that some of the work NYT is claiming copyright on is not in fact copyrightable by the NYT, then they might be able to get the whole case tossed. It would be even more fun if the NYT was found to be claiming copyright on work produced by OpenAI's software.
I'm not sure it is a typo. I have been calling it 'the clown' or 'the clod' for years. So I suspect others have been too.
I believe the VLC developers are based in France.
> If you want to make an educational technologist’s eyes sparkle, just mention “The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”. It’s a futuristic interactive schoolbook, described in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age

The first two sentences of the linked article.
People 300 years ago would not be able to imagine what life today is like, even for the working class.

Multiply that difference by 100, and a post singularity world might be so alien to us that our imagination would not even begin to grasp it.

What individuals (humans, post humans or machines) would desire in such a world would be impossible for us to guess today.

But I don't think we should take it for granted that those desires will not keep up with the economy.
Hi dotcoma,

Great point! We’re actually eager to explore including handwriting support in the future, thanks to your proposal. NoteFast’s goal is to streamline the note-taking process for quick and efficient learning, not just speed things up.

With NoteFast, when you type a note, the YouTube video will automatically pause, and when you press Enter to save the note, the video will play again. It can also screenshot the timestamp where you take the note and fetch the subtitle nearby that timestamp, so you don't need to replay it again and again.

If you’d like to try it out, I'm happy to send you a trial copy of NoteFast. It's a Chrome extension that can be easily installed. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! Drop me an email: hirosi@notefa.st

Thanks for the feedback!

Hirosi
Besides an e-ink display, that's every smart phone, unless you mean you don't even want the ability to install social media apps.
This is why I liked BB. Productivity has been a step down on my devices since.
“The cost of gasoline is coming down to the point where gasoline-powered lanterns may become the lighting of choice for carriages”.
But this is a book review. The book is not about what causes a _perceived_ vocation crisis. It is about how journalists today, in Seattle and Toulouse, France, are dealing with it. The athors' conclusion is that the response is personal to each journalist; there is no unifying theme. The book argues journalism has non-commercial as well as commercial motives. It has a social function as well as an economic one. There is an entire Epilogue titled "Is Journalism Dying?" The authors do not think so.

I agree with the authors that the economics of journalism alone cannot kill it. It will persist so long as there is a belief in its social purpose. Maybe so-called "tech" companies that insidiously intermediate peoples' web use are the world's greatest profiteers from ineffective advertising spend. But journalism is more than selling ads. People want to be journalists for a variety of reasons other than money.

Generally, no one pays for what so-called "tech" companies produce, whatever that is; software perhaps. If they pay to use one of these middlemen, and they are not advertisers, it's not much. The companies give away their employees' output for free. But people still pay for books and newspapers, the stuff that journalists produce. "AI" appears to be aimed stealing that business, too. It might succeed. But even if that happens, people still want to do work and produce stuff that is socially useful, like journalism, using their own energy and brains.
Weird, this seems to have been posted 3 days ago, but now both links converge and I swear I recognize older comments with falsely-newer timestamps.
Given the high price due to high token count, I wonder how different the results would be running the same analysis with a local model.
I think people who are eager and happy to do repetitive tasks are adapted towards agriculture as opposed to hunting.
Sure but I can't see how such a trade is either possible or on offer - it's one of the things discussed in the modsplanation blob.
How Zapier Activates Users
There are two different flags at issue here–the upside-down American flag, and the "Appeal to Heaven"–the former was flown at their main residence, the second at their vacation home. Both have long histories of being used all over the political spectrum (both right and left), to mean lots of different things.

The article you are citing is relying on the claims of an angry former neighbour. Why assume that the Alito's are lying or mistaken, when it seems just as possible that their ex-neighbour could be.

In any event, even if we assume the ex-neighbour's claims are 100% true, they still don't prove (1) that Martha Alito flew the flag with intention to express a highly specific political message, (2) even supposing that was her intention, it still doesn't prove Samuel Alito was supporting her expressive act, as opposed to simply allowing his wife to do what she wants to do.
Great post, thanks for sharing.

Nit: There appears to be both MongoDB and Mongo in the database graph.

Also, could you do a write up on how you actually used GPT-4o to assist you in this exploration? Or share some of the main prompts you used? Thanks!
I take it you haven't heard about:
https://charm.sh/
Convergence should work fine from modern desktop Linux: you should be able to attach a tiny, phone-sized screen to any SBC or mini-PC and run a mobile-focused experience (such as Phosh or Gnome-Mobile) and it should just work. Attach a bigger external monitor and apps should just scale up seamlessly. This will get quite interesting with the newer device form factor of handheld consoles running x86-64 hardware, since they too have a roughly phone-sized screen that usually supports touch input, as well as analog sticks that might be readily usable for pointer movement or scrolling, and lots of physical buttons that might be usable for gestures or chorded input.
Article title: Can Wrist Weights Really Tone Your Arms? (Which seems a bit more specific, if equally linkbait).

Also tl;dr - not really. (Simply wearing wrist weights while walking likely won’t build significant muscle mass / Experts advise limiting wrist weights to one to three pounds to avoid over-stressing your joints / Wrist weights are not the get-fit-quick miracle)

https://archive.is/ww3AH
> HAS TO BE A BOOLEAN VALUE!

How we can have a world where this statement exists, and anyone is bullish about LLMs?

The lack of precision is appalling. I can see how a gpt-4o can be fun for toy projects, but can you really build meaningful real-world applications with this nonsense?
Early science in the Renaissance and later, until the 20th century, was almost entirely driven by people who could afford to pursue their efforts while sustained by income that required little or zero direct effort.

Give humanity a chance. It might just surprise you.
H-1B visas. To convert to a green card, you need to demonstrate a labor shortage, and a common way is to post job openings, look at the candidates, and tell the government "They all sucked compared to the guy we currently have."

If they don't suck, the guy fails the labor certification and may have to wait a year to apply for the green card again. However, he doesn't lose his job, and the qualified candidate never gets an interview.

So yes, it's pretty standard for the companies to post openings they don't have.

But I really doubt they post on the HN jobs board. Most will go through more formal channels.
Is Samsung still supporting Dex well? I remember a few years ago when I had a sudden [work] laptop fail during the pandemic and couldn’t get a new one until it was shipped out. My work phone was a Galaxy S20 and I was able to Dex my way into the corpnet and basically get by for a week. It was shocking and amazing, and yet I’ve never used it since…
Check out the RSA spec here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8017#section-8.2.2. It's still verification, because all you need is a message and a signature. The message can be constructed from the data in the diploma, presumably. It's just, it's not disclosed to you how to construct the message (maybe it is online somewhere). So a verifier could construct the same message you decrypted, and then run the verification function.
I have to echo what others have said - this is absolutely clickbait. The fact that they also happen to do gravitational field research has nothing to do with the discoveries involving the Antikythera mechanism. It was included to make the reader of the headline wonder if the designers of the Antikythera mechanism knew something of gravitational waves. The only way to get the answer is to then click into the article to find out.

Unfortunately, this is the state of media today. It would be very helpful if the admins of HN could implement a way that users with enough karma could identify and vote to delete articles that have disingenuous headlines. Yes, we can flag articles, but maybe if we could choose WHY we're flagging to make others aware of what the problem is. If we don't protect the integrity of this site as an elevated place to have intellectual discourse, we will eventually lose it to the tidal wave of garbage content that seems to be getting worse by the day.
...all's right with the world.
And then someone forgets to test that one thing for that one endpoint and no one notices ("mandate in code review" is not going to be fool-proof), or lines get crossed and they test the wrong thing.

This kind of arrogance is exactly how these mistakes get made.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/speech-on-the-o...

also: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html
More like "turns your smartphone into a smartphone with a keyboard and a bigger screen."

No matter how much RAM, storage, or CPU power it has, a smartphone is ultimately still a locked-down media consumption device.
They obviously can't just bail and this whole moody exclusivity is what's truly pathetic.
Yeah I guess I was too inexperienced at the time to ask how well it worked... but I guess like your experience, there would have been a fair backlog.
Couple thousand per, in the 90s.
French 'Excalibur' mysteriously disappears after 1,300 years stuck in a rock
Yes, but I doubt they use the HN jobs board for that. In fact, it will hurt their chances. They can simply post on a very generic job board (e.g. Monster) and say no qualified candidate applied.

The HN job board is much more likely to produce a qualified candidate.
You don't think a paper that advertises itself as striving to be like Walter Cronkite-era journalism would be successful?

HBO had a hit show based off that premise (The newsroom)
I’m a data scientist that builds ML models for a living.

You’ve twice now tried to explain how fitting a model works in response to me stating that regression “metrics” are not well suited to describing classification “efficacy”. If anyone is making a basic mistake here it seems to be you failing to understand the difference between a “regression model” like a linear regression, and a “regression metric” like R2.

I’ve stated my semantic meaning of regression vs classification. You can Google this to see it is not a fringe view. It’s been standard for over a decade. Eg https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/141381/what-is-the-...

> Another way to put it is praising the accuracy of a broken clock because it's spot on two times a day.

Accuracy is a classification metric kiddo

Here’s an introductory Wikipedia article if you would like to learn more about what metrics are appropriate for binary classification evaluations:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_of_binary_classif...
Supreme Court Blow: ISP Bill Payers Aren't Piracy Police or Instantly Liable
Kafka's life abounded with misery. Great writer, though
Look at the UI on that thing! Right before we started to flatten all UI design into bland shapes!
This is a way to show off someone's mathematical work to a non-mathematical audience and to promote the college. Would you prefer "Our scientists wrote a paper about some math they did called 'An Improved Calendar Ring Hole-Count for the Antikythera Mechanism'", you should read it." ?

That doesn't seem as likely to grab the attention of people who watched Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The antikythera mechanism is a (bad) predictor of planetary locations. People have recreated it in its entirety using legos. There isn't much mystery about what it does.

However, a new high resolution X-ray of the device inspired some scientists to do some neat math on it. I read the paper, it's good work. I'd love to a chance to get an article published about one of my papers, even more if regular people had even the slightest chance to understand it.
The berries are edible in many if not most species. And the tree is often used as stock to graft pears and apples. Hawthorn species in many cultures have a medicinal history as some sort of "heart tonic". Modern research seems to support its usage for treatment of cardiovascular disease[0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249900/
They obviously can
You’re throwing around “34 felonies,” I’m trying to understand what you think was the legal theory he was convicted on.
You're probably fine then! I was replying to the post above, which might not reflect your opinion. Mainly because I've seen it multiple times throughout this comments page...

You definitely can make a good backup solution that includes cloud storage, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
I've not tested protocols that are available on iOS "out of the box" (guessing L2TP, IPSec?), but here's my two cents:

1. It differs from ISP to ISP. Right now I'm using a major ISP and I have no problems connecting to a Hetzner IP via:

- plain WG

- OpenVPN

- Shadowsocks

My mobile operator blocks OpenVPN, other methods work.

2. Time could also play a role - there seem to be "tests" about how the government could block some protocols without affecting business etc. - these happen bi-monthly and last ~2-5 days.
My friend uses a different major ISP and he reported broken Shadowsocks this week, though it started working again.

3. The endpoint also matters (obvious in hindsight). "Internal" endpoint seem to "break" very rarely, if at all. Obvious, if you consider that a lot of people need to remote into their corp nets.
Every one of your sentences is an assertion presented as fact. That could also be considered adversarial. GP has replied in a constructive manner in the meantime btw.

And yeah, no googling involved. I often look in HN profiles to find more context to why people are writing what they write. I don’t stalk them, tbh I find it creepy when people from HN find me on X and DM me.
Unit tests are fuzzers if your system is chaotic enough
i think the fact that they put a digital signature of any kind on the paper transcript is pretty cool.

would be kinda neat if there were a combined standard where there were a deterministic scheme for ocr'ing the text (specifically its ordering) as well as an accompanying signature so that the signature actually signed the text that appears on the document.
This ignores any evolution that is not present in a skeleton. So, their brains could have been very different from ours, but we have no way of knowing.
Problems with the BMS can become problems with the cells very quickly.
https://earthtoveg.com/chinese-hawthorn-candy-haw-leather/

The Chinese Hawthorn is used in a few snacks. I really like the fruit leather you can buy in Asian supermarkets. My math teacher from High School got me interested in both math and Chinese snacks, and it was really nice to see him get excited about sharing both with us.
It'd probably work with American haw berries too - but the pitting would be a lot of extra work as they are smaller.
Isn't there a distinction between the house wiring and the solar/battery stuff?

P.S. I've never heard of sparky being used as slang for an electrician, sounds very aussie.
How to do growth for a B2C SaaS startup
I have just joined a new job in a new gen ai company where I am tasked to lead the growth. Till date I have worked with B2B SAAS and I have no idea what to do next. The startup generates UI UX designs with the help of AI
Capital Vol 1. Mostly because it demonstrates two things:

1. How small ideas can have big consequences - each section is a logical consequence of the former, and

2. How multidisciplinarism is greater than the sum of its parts. One can be an ok historian, sociologist, or political theorist, but combined can find connections outside of the narrow scope of any single domain.

The accounts of working conditions, especially of children, will never leave me.
Discussion (18 points, 1 day ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868752
Yeah you can find them on the Home Depot site. The largest ones use 36kW which is beyond a typical residence's electrical service. It doesn't save you any money if you need to upgrade your electric service.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-Performance-36-kw-Self-Mod...
What's described here is called "signature with (total) message recovery" as opposed to the more common "signature with appendix". This is a legitimate technique used when the message payloads are small and can be worked on directly by the cryptographic signature operation rather than being hashed and the signed-hash being appended.

In this case, PKCS #1 v1.5 is used for an RSA signature. The choice of PKCS #1 v1.5 is perfectly adequate for the digital signature scenario and was proven secure in 2018 ref. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/855.pdf

EDIT: eh, PKCS #1 v1.5 is proven secure for a set of assumptions that I don't think apply to this case.

I think the security strength of this signature with message recovery approach is limited by the extent to which the maximum message length exceeds the signature size. You can choose random signatures until you get one that verifies to a syntactically-valid PKCS #1 padded string, which "only" requires an initial 88 bit match, based on the required minimum padding length.

You won't get a syntactically valid (per the apparent specification for the certificate) result, but it would be broken at the cryptographic level.

I mean, realistically, it's probably fine but, yeah.