skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already mentioned some of this in another response, but I'll include it here as well: you can take measures to not have to take medication / insulin if you have type 2 diabetes. The number one thing to avoid it is to stay lean and not be over-weight, but some other things which can greatly help out:

- Exercise: 'Exercise plays a major role in the prevention and control of insulin resistance, prediabetes, GDM, type 2 diabetes, and diabetes-related health complications. Both aerobic and resistance training improve insulin action, at least acutely, and can assist with the management of BG levels, lipids, BP, CV risk, mortality, and QOL, but exercise must be undertaken regularly to have continued benefits and likely include regular training of varying types. ' - Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992225/

- Intermittent fasting: there's great evidence that IF (intermittent fasting) can put it in remission: https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2022/i...

- Minimally processed and ketogenic diet: avoid foods which have sugar or high-fructose corn-syrup and mostly stick to low-glycemic index minimally processed foods. 'Diets with a high glycaemic index and a high glycaemic load were associated with a higher risk of incident type 2 diabetes in a multinational cohort spanning five continents. Our findings suggest that consuming low glycaemic index and low glycaemic load diets might prevent the development of type 2 diabetes.' - Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

- Take a teaspoon with turmeric + black-pepper daily: 'Clinical trials and preclinical research have recently produced compelling data to demonstrate the crucial functions of curcumin against T2DM via several routes. Accordingly, this review systematically summarizes the antidiabetic activity of curcumin, along with various mechanisms. Results showed that effectiveness of curcumin on T2DM is due to it being anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-hyperglycemic, anti-apoptotic, anti-hyperlipidemia and other activities. In light of these results, curcumin may be a promising prevention/treatment choice for T2DM.' - Source: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202404.1926/v1
Manchester to Liverpool and Birmingham, Birmingham to Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle

All relied on phase 2 though, freeing up capacity through Stockport and winsford, adding it for man-Liverpool/glasgow, freeing up the painful cross country services from Leeds, etc
That's fair. For me at least, I see those as two sides of the same coin.

If I tell my wife, "buy me toilet paper", I trust that she knows enough about me to pick a quality product. I don't need to specify details because I trust her.

If I tell Amazon, "buy me toilet paper", I wouldn't be at all surprised if I got some garbage product from a brand I've never heard of and like you said, it isn't clear what I could do to get Amazon to do something different.
First Look at Declarative Gradle
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002048>
Microsoft Bing Generative Search is a complete overhaul of traditional search
"We recommend you try UBQTLONR this time!"
All good points- I was imagining that from a funder's perspective, knowing null results is actually important to guaranteeing future positive results / being strategic about what is worth funding in (versus what is destined to fail because others failed and they just didn't know). Not sure how it would work in practice; might be bumpy but certainly seems worthwhile / not impossible.
> It couldn't hurt, but that isn't the misunderstanding I'm worried about.

I think lots of warnings lead to people ignoring the warnings. So it could hurt by making people less aware of other warnings.
And in 5 years, or at most 10, the tories will be back in and destroy that future plan

We had a future plan, it was called hs2. They were far to slow getting the diggers out, so it was cancelled for spite.
I gave up trying to purchase Nikon OEM batteries on Amazon. It's easy on B&H, but I cannot (or do not know how to) exclude the hundreds of cheaper knock-off batteries that are inferior in every measure. I also tried to get an OEM battery grip for my Nikon D850 - but again near impossible on Amazon. This grip is $380 from Nikon, and its possible to get a knock-off for $29. Why get the original? It increases the camera's max frame rate for stills. it is also far more durable.
Reblog writeup (and headline) about it here:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-unveils-b...

Linked to source rather than the reblog.
One problem I’ve encountered is the inverse mapping is not necessarily locality preserving.

Hilbert maps (x,y) -> h such that nearby h correspond to nearby x,y.

But the inverse isn’t true: similar x,y don’t always have similar h.

This is a problem for some applications where we are trying to find dense hot spots cheaply by only looking at h’s, but turns out this doesn’t work out so well.
>Commit hashes can be brute forced through GitHub’s UI, particularly because the git protocol permits the use of short SHA-1 values when referencing a commit. A short SHA-1 value is the minimum number of characters required to avoid a collision with another commit hash, with an absolute minimum of 4. The keyspace of all 4 character SHA-1 values is 65,536 (16^4). Brute forcing all possible values can be achieved relatively easily.

>But what’s more interesting; GitHub exposes a public events API endpoint. You can also query for commit hashes in the events archive which is managed by a 3rd party, and saves all GitHub events for the past decade outside of GitHub, even after the repos get deleted.

Oof
Every CTO’s easy answer - cool, we’ll just only do them once every 5 years then.

With modern tech stacks, we’re talking hundreds of updates a quarter. If not more.
Is it just me or that's just a huge nothing-burger? That "new path" is not even explained in this? It's just a marketing speech.
The title makes it seem more severe than it is. This only applies to GH forks of public repositories (or repositories that become public). Forks mirror the upstream repo's visibility.
If it's not doing what you want, you can remap any arbitrary voice command to a precise Volume setting in 1% increments, via a custom Routine.
Somewhat related: tldraw has amazing demos of generating code from sketches https://x.com/tldraw/status/1814046549522964692
"Your mom" jokes are so 90s
OpenAI is set to lose $5B this year
Windows can't handle symlinks in a sane way because they're a source of privilege escalation exploits on Windows. So git repos with symlinks in the require a security degradation to use them natively.

Performance also still sucks, although the VFS stuff in the Microsoft fork kinda helps I guess.
I haven't used Amazon since about 2000 (kung fu movies for my brother-in-law). My current process for shopping online cascades from the actual manufacturer / source, eBay, specialized clearinghouse (e.g. www.Biblio.com for books) and as a last resort, Costco / WalMart - these last two often have hard to find items I need quickly (or so I think - I'm looking at you Black Cuman powder).

All in all, I shop stress free in this decision tree. Oddly happy with eBay over the years. It may be because of their lack of new features and old UI that keeps things simple and quick / it just works. Yes, there are oddball things about each of these, but compared to AMZN...it's all bliss.
Private forks were never public beyond this gotcha
Nucleons in nuclei are bound by the strong force. It's (vaguely) analogous to the way the electromagnetic force still binds neutral molecules together (van der Waals force).

At the scale of the nucleus, gravity is many, MANY orders of magnitude weaker.
nucleus is extremely fluffy by general relativity standards . for black holes the mass and size are linearly proportional . the solar mass black hole has few mile size and has density few times smaller than that of the nucleus . solar mass is about 10^57 protons or about 10^55 heavy nuclea like uranium . so in order for general relativity to be important for uranium nucleus, it has to have a size of 5 miles/10^55 or about 10^-49 cm . instead heavy nuclea have a size of about 10^-15 cm . so nuclea are 34 orders of magnitude fluffier than they should be for any general relativity to be of any relevance . they are as good as grain of salt
Answering the object-level problem "my grandma wanted to play some sudokus on her computer", I really enjoyed the Cracking the Cryptic-affiliated game "Classic Sudoku", which is available on Steam, although some of the puzzles are really hard. The puzzles are all handmade, and many of them have some specific reason to exist: e.g. there's at least one which is clearly intended to teach you the swordfish pattern, and there are a few which appear to be built around some beautiful one-off ideas.
Yes, but instead of "compiling" directly to generated code, we generate an assembly of code modules.
A lot of friends and maybe kickbacks. I guess previous bank IT experience helps.
I think something like this was done when the takedown of yt-dl happened
1) You're pretty much just screwed unless you're both very wealthy and make this topic your primary hobby/past-time. To really answer this you'd need to do an incredible amount of testing. Like buy 10 of everything you're considering and send off to labs for $100,000 of tests. Or install a million dollars of chemical air quality monitors in and around your home.

2) Large activated carbon air scrubbers. For air filtration you really need not just HEPA particulate filters, but robust VOC capture. The tiny bit of activated carbon in things like a Winix C535 or Coway Mega/AirMega really don't clean much. Instead, consider something like buying two 10"-12" carbon scrubbers from https://terra-bloom.com and get a matching size of their in-line "Silenced Ultra Quiet EC Fan". You can just stack these three items together and it forms a tall but not horribly ugly appliance that doesn't take up much floor space. You'd probably need to replace the filters once a year, and have quite a few around a normal-sized house, just like standalone HEPA filters (which you'd also probably still want as well).

3) Wash everything often - bedding, clothes, carpets, floors, walls, appliances, etc. Obviously, attempt to use a soap that won't add additional pollutants. Wash them twice, once with soap then again without soap.

4) Time. Assuming similar materials, something that is 5 years old should have already leeched out a lot of the chemicals which are going to off-gas/transfer/leech from it. So the polluting rate of something 5 years old that's been washed 50 times and already worn and broken in should be assumed to be lower than an identical, new, version of the same thing.
It would make it noticeably slower on the early Internet, though.
But you can prevent anyone from doing so in the future and cross your fingers that no one has done so yet
If you give LLMs the letters one a time they often count them just fine, though Claude at least seems to need to keep a running count to get it right:

"How many R letters are in the following? Keep a running count.
s
t
r
a
w
b
e
r
r
y"

They are terrible at counting letters in words because they rarely see them spelled out. An LLM trained one byte at a time would always see every character of every word and would have a much easier time of it. An LLM is essentially learning a new language without a dictionary, of course it's pretty bad at spelling. The tokenization obfuscates the spelling not entirely unlike how verbal language doesn't always illuminate spelling.
Offtopic:

OpenBSD has an installation ramdisk. Just boot that.

See https://raby.sh/installing-openbsd-on-ovhs-vps-2016-kvm-mach...

I've also seen "dd if=path/to/install/ramdisk /dev/sd0" and reboot; depends on being classic BIOS not uefi. Can't find the link tho.
Obviously most scientists are not going to be interested in null results from adjacent subfields, but when it comes to specific questions of interest it is absolutely useful to know what has been tried before and how it was done/what was observed. I know a lab that had documentation not only on their own historical null results but also various anecdotes from colleagues' labs about specific papers that were difficult to replicate, reagents that were often problematic, etc.

That is a non-ideal way for the scientific community at large to maintain such info. Trying to go through traditional peer review process is probably also non-ideal for this type of work though, for reasons you cited. We need to be willing to look at publication as something more broadly defined in order to incentivize the creation of and contribution to that sort of knowledge base. It shouldn't be implemented as a normal journal just meant for null results - there's really no need for this sort of thing to be peer reviewed specifically at the prepub stage. But it should still count as a meaningful type of scientific contribution.
I don’t think it’s circular as things become pervasive not because of slippery slope of just a few cameras and then adding more, but because the tech in those cameras became cheap from other trends.

In that cameras aren’t cheap inherently, but because chips and storage and power are so cheap it leads to cheap cameras. So people chose all of the other non-camera functions that also led to cheap camera.

For dna, I wouldn’t be a fan of just gradually adding dna identifying machines until it’s pervasive. I’d like to not do that. But what I mean is that dna sequencing will become so cheap due to other factors that it will be pervasive to just add id machines to air conditioners or whatever.
It probably wasn't for him. Maybe for Amazon.

A lot of Amazon engineers have probably gotten a hard kick in the face over Alexa though.
Thanks for giving direction; I went ahead and read snippets of "Part 15" and ultimately it seems my unmodified Amazon-special FM-antenna is probably "too strong," far exceeding the ~200ft broadcast limitation.

We'll see if anybody directionfinds me =D
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> Our software could have radically accelerated and improved the Alexa experience basically overnight

By improve the Alexa experience, do you mean make it more useful for users or help it shift more chineseware for Amazon? Because as a user, I will never order anything without seeing a picture and reading reviews, voice shopping is dead on arrival

If it's the former, I imagine it's Alexa hooked up to some gimmicky LLM, and I don't see where the actual profit comes from, I would have laughed and left the room too
Difficult geniuses often evolve into great people. We all learn our lessons in different orders, and humility and empathy for the frustrations of genius can have a powerful effect.

Genius is a blessing, yes, but it is often a burden. "Genius" implies bright talents but may imply deficits, too. Either way, this person didn't necessarily ask for that, and may struggle to express their ideas in a way which isn't combative. Genius in one area (say, programming) does not always follow in another (emotional regulation).

We should be humane with people as they grow. Indeed, the single best aspect of the mind is that it can change when it wants to.
Maybe to achieve that purpose you don't have to listen to whole albums, rather than just the hits.
Britain is running out of babies
If you think doctors can be overly stubborn to change once they've made an initial diagnosis .... you're going to be very unhappy with an AI diagnosis model. As one of many tools, I can see some value. But I'd hate if there was no way to at least try to convince an actual doctor that my issue might be something less expected.
To be fair, it might be beneficial if they don't block them - I have never seen a legitimate use of the .top domain, so if that helps us get rid of the spam (by blocking the whole TLD on our systems) it's probably a win-win situation (?)
Your looking for a developer for a trendy new stack. It is not surprising you are going to get people without experience which translates to a non professional experience when hiring.
Bizarre and pathetic.
I've always felt this is fine, just as long as there are API calls to preload. Then on one screen you start preloading the next screens while the user is navigating your menus to hide all this latency as much as possible.
I do not understand why people act as if demonstrating bubble sort is going to forever taint minds and lead to disaster. When I was sitting in CS101 (or...probably data structures?), the professor was asking how you would sort an array. I "invented" bubble sort on the spot. Doubtless I was one of many who would have done the same.

Is it useful for any scenario? No, but you have to start somewhere, and might as well teach an algorithm that students are naively going to attempt on their own so you can note how terrible it is.
They're also useful for representing IPv4 space. Tom7 had a nice video where he does this after pinging the whole (IPv4) internet [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/JcJSW7Rprio at about 6 minutes, though I recommend the whole thing.
You just got tricked by this dishonest article. The whole section that mentions dogfooding is only about actual updates to the kernel driver. This was not a kernel driver update, the entire section is irrelevant.

This was a "content file", and the first time it was interpreted by the kernel driver was when it was pushed to customer production systems worldwide. There was no testing of any sort.
Tax the rich? Close to 100 billionaires live in London I've read.
They literally think the scissor statement is a real thing that will really work, fml.
https://www.amazon.com/Sync-Order-Emerges-Universe-Nature/dp... is also a good read on it. Perhaps not as technical as the above but has some interesting history on the discovery of these interesting mathematical truths.
Hiring Programmers (2009)
I'm not sure what caused your belief, but:

Miners are (and always have been) allowed to mine blocks containing zero transactions (i.e. ~0kB, not including necessities). It's us nodes that choose to reject/accept (of course there is Venn overlap).

This was common until block congestion actually started encouraging senders to include transaction fees; these [still!-]voluntarily fees represent a healthy addition to the blockreward, so most miners incur the minimal overhead for much-greater profit.

Yet zero-transaction blocks continue to be mined (albeit less-frequently).
Because when I think of content-addressability, I mean you can find things intensionally and not just extensionally, that is, you can know the shape of what you're after and find something that matches that shape. More or less what vector databases are doing these days. But in this context, it seems to mean that all the transactions (? maybe?) are stored and indexed by a unique key - but that still means I need that key to get something, right?
Eat anything I want, as in not limit myself to keto / low-sugar?
I mean I have a microwave with a cooking timer and it doesn't seem like a big deal to set a timer I can monitor.
Olympic officials try to crush U.S. probes of China doping, threaten SLC Games
They’ve already built the most expensive bit; all the tunnels under Home Counties Tory constituencies. The line to Birmingham has cost ~£100bn. To finish it to Manchester would cost another ~£30bn for about the same distance again. They should at least finish it to Crewe where it can actually start to relieve traffic from the West Coast Mainline which is full; you can hardly ever find tickets less than £150 return and trains are often packed. Compared to TGV UK trains are double the time double the price and half the legroom and too much vibration to easily be able to select a paragraph of text with a trackpad. Transport emissions are significant part of UK emissions and replacing 150gCO2/km journeys with 9gCO2/km would help to cut into these massively.
>I suspect if you start creating a feedback loop with these models they will tend to become very unstable very fast. We already see with these more linear LLMs that they can be extremely sensitive to the values of parameters like the temperature settings, and can go “crazy” fairly easily.

I'm in the process of spinning out one of these tools into a product: they do not. They become smarter at the price of burning GPU cycles like there's no tomorrow.

I'd go as far as saying we've solved AGI, it's just that the energy budget is larger than the energy budget of the planet currently.
Your problems sound rooted in physical and health issues. Try this:

- Cut out carbs. Start with a month of full keto, then dial it in. The goal is a constant energy level, no feeling sleepy or hungry, no brain fog. Intermittent fasting can help, even just skipping breakfast a couple days a week. This is all achievable, and it’s easier than you think. The goal isn’t weight loss, but if you’re overweight, you will slim down.

- Cut out seed oils. The oils themselves are bad, but also they tend to be plentiful in the absolute worst trash foods.

- Get some kind of exercise every day, and not just aerobic. You need some type of upper body strength development.

- Attend to your posture. Get a stand up desk, and stand more than you sit. I’m a fan of Alexander Technique, which teaches good posture and how to avoid poor use of your body. You can find a coach in your area.

- Attend to your breathing. If you’re mouth breathing, train yourself to nose breath. There’s a good book out now called “Breath” by James Nestor.
Maybe this is true test of intelligence instead of "emulating intelligence"?

I can learn from Pythagorus' work, extend it, combine it, apply it, and produce works that are more valuable than the original. Perhaps that gets recognized as important, and others then take that, learn, and repeat the process adding their own experience, increasing the general intelligence.
"mistake"

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

But seriously; a "mistake" is usually something that cannot be foreseen by a group of people reasonably talented in the state of the art.

This product release was so far from a "mistake", that it isn't funny. It was spectacularly well tested, found to be operating within design parameters, and was released to great fanfare.

They expressed delight in their product, and actually seemed surprised that there was a backlash by the great benighted unwashed masses of their lessers, who clearly couldn't be expected to understand the elevated insights being produced by their creation!

So: not a "mistake". Institutional Bias, baked into a model. Remember: a system's purpose is what is does, not what you think it is supposed to do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41062989
The receiver of the goods was the American company he initially wanted to team up with for production and sales.
GitHub, for better or worse, has been one of the easiest ways to backup configuration for ..decades now. It's more secure than sending an email to yourself, Google drive still doesn't have an official linux client, AWS is too enterprisey for a handful of small backup files, and git is incredibly easy to set up + available on so many computers.

I completely get why people would want to use GitHub for a low friction way to store versioned configuration data. It's a natural case for programmers to use the tool they're already using for something else. There's even repos for dotfiles saying stuff like 'hey fork this and make it private' because they know people want to manage dotfiles but might lazily leak some secrets in their own versions
It took beyond the car crash and ER visit to finally apprehend her. The police, trying to act as safely as they can themselves to arrest her, would have to use special isolation gear themselves and an isolated vehicle to pick her up and that's what the big chase has all been about.

As soon as they finally got her at home at the right time in the bubble suits, she finally realized in the negative pressure room at the jailhouse that she was actively a huge biosecurity risk and finally realized that she can trust the health authorities that are trying to help her.