skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are confusing consciousness with free will. They are not the same.

Consciousness is about experience, not "choices".
I can imagine the SDNY attorney general gets the 30u30 list each year like its other office’s March Madness brackets.
Permissions with protectionLevel of "signature|privileged" can't be granted with adb, so having such an app installed would give you more access than you can get via adb.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr#prote...
My read on the hypothetical described in the first paragraph is that a) an indefinite stalemate with Ukraine would defer this possibility to a time world circumstances will be different, b) trajectory of US industrial manufacturing expansion following CHIPS act will relegate Taiwan to medium importance and once in that position the US will not risk all-out-war to protect it, c) North Korea matters most if the former scenarios are in play, relations with China will still be cold without a war but they would not be keen to sanction NK aggression owing to potential response
On $43bn profit in 2021 (when this happened), or 0.1% of their profit.

I'm sure they're crying.
My impression is that LLMs “pattern-match” on a less abstract level than general-purpose reasoning requires. They capture a large number of typical reasoning patterns through their training, but it is not sufficiently decoupled, or generalized, from what the reasoning is about in each of the concrete instances that occur in the training data. As a result, the apparent reasoning capability that LLMs exhibit significantly depends on what they are asked to reason about, and even depends on representational aspects like the sentence patterns used in the query. LLMs seem to be largely unable to symbolically abstract (as opposed to interpolate) from what is exemplified in the training data.
Emit CO2 during program startup
Borland is the subject, correct?

And they became prominent in the early 80's, correct?
Whatever 'real' reasoning is, it's more useful than 'fake' reasoning. We can't measure the difference, but we can use one and not the other.

Multiple articles pointing out that AI isn't getting enough ROI are evidence we don't have 'real', read 'useful' reasoning. The fake reasoning in the paper does not help with this, and the fact that we can't measure the difference changes nothing.

This 'something that we can't measure does not exist' logic is flawed. The earth's curvature existed way before we were able to measure it.
> The actionable tip here is to start with the data. Try to reduce code complexity through stricter types on your interfaces or databases. Spend extra time thinking through the data structures ahead of time.

This is why I love TS over JS. At first it feels like more work up front, more hurdles to jump through. But over time it changed how I approached code: define the data (& their types) first, then write the logic. Type Driven Development!

Coming into TS from JS, it might feel like an unnecessary burden. But years into the codebase, it's so nice to have clear structures being passed around, instead of mystery objects mutated with random props through long processing chains.

Once the mindset changes, to seeing data definition as a new first step, the pains of getting-started friction are replaced by the joys of easy future additions and refactors.
Elizabeth Bishop was there first: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47537/the-man-moth
It looks like the Statista data comes from the National Crime Victimization Survey, which is available here. [1] Note that in 2022 the number rose to 531K, or 0.31% of women.

[1] https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv22.pdf
>Moths aren’t just pretty to look at

Interestingly I know two people who are absolutely terrified of moths and cannot stand to even be in the same room.
Sorry that you got dinged.

John Oliver is rather unpopular with a lot of the HN crowd, so I tend not to link to his videos.
Any post that calls an opinion "objective" is an instant fail.

"I will try to convince you that Cirrus CI is objectively better than every other major CI system in existence: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI/CD, and Buildkite.

"objectively
adverb
in an objective rather than subjective or biased way : with a basis in observable facts rather than feelings or opinions"
The composition of the US military and the general public are different.

You would need to identify the rate among an equivalent population that isn't military.
I get more normative the more I think I understand issues. On stuff like this, I'm really just trying to figure out what's actually happening, and noting that the standard-issue rhetoric is concealing a lot of verifiable positive claims.
Not hubris, pride—I’m the bait, I’ll draw the thing’s attention with all my sinning, you see if you can knock it out.
marimo notebooks support mermaid as well - https://docs.marimo.io/api/diagrams.html#marimo.mermaid

It is a great tool for diagrams
I am a fan of fidelity. They have a cash management account with checking features. You can choose between a bank sweep at ~2.5% or a money market at almost 5%.

Edit: There are always non-checking accounts that do better than the above, but I think there is real value in focusing on your checking account -- if you have to move money back and forth to get good rates, is that worth the effort and what's the opportunity cost of the funds that sit in the low paying checking account.
Seeking Advice on Recruiting Beta Testers for a Breathing Techniques App
Hi HN,

We’re getting ready to launch an app called BreathPro, which is designed to help users learn effective breathing techniques from professionals tailored to their specific needs like stress management, fitness, and more. We’re currently looking for beta testers to try the app and provide feedback.

We initially tried using Facebook ads to reach potential testers, but the response was underwhelming. We believe that Hacker News might be a better fit for finding engaged users who can offer valuable feedback.

I noticed that posting our landing page or registration form directly here isn’t allowed, so I’m reaching out to ask for your advice. How can we approach this in a way that aligns with the community’s guidelines while still finding interested testers?

We’re genuinely trying to connect with the right people and build something meaningful, and we’re planning for a long-term engagement in platforms like this. Any help or guidance on how to do this the right way would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Roy,
Breath Technologies
I once had a magical collection of chips from old Unix workstations - dec alphas and vax, dig and sun. I was responsible for cleaning out a large storage room of computers from the 70s-90s and I pulled all the processors I could because they were amazing objects to look at.

I remember throwing out handfuls of ram chips measured in the KB and thinking how much each handful originally cost.

I was like 19 when I did this and everything got lost to time in the end.

It sure was a fun time as a Unix geek playing with all this old hardware. We had a dec box running netbsd that had an absurd uptime - like 12 years or something. Labs of Sunrays running off of 8 processor mainframes. SGI’s around the edges.

But even then I was slowly replacing this stuff with Linux. There was just no competition and as much as I loved the legacy Unix stuff it wasn’t as nice or as easy to run as open source alternatives.

I’m glad I got to play in that world though.
Wish that M was a B, then it would actually hurt.
I don't mind adding things to my home screen, but I want to try it first.
While I agree with the Pax Americana as a concept, you can’t attribute all of the peace to it. MAD has stopped some as well. Also, industrialization has made wars of conquest unprofitable in general, since the aggressor tends to destroy the factories that are much more valuable than the land itself, while having their own industry targeted.
Under-reported to police yes, but this data comes from NCVS which is generally regarded to be more accurate. You can learn more about their methodology here. [1]

[1] https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs#0-0
Feels like a bit of Goodhart's law at work
> However, I highly doubt

I never understand why people don't just test this?

Claude 3.5 sonnet, first test, prompt: Any idea what this SVG is describing?:

This SVG describes a simple geometric composition consisting of three circles:
1. The largest circle is centered at coordinates (100, 100) with a radius of 50 units.
2. A smaller circle is positioned at the top-left, centered at (50, 50) with a radius of 40 units.
3. Another smaller circle is positioned at the top-right, centered at (150, 50), also with a radius of 40 units.
The overall effect, if rendered, would resemble a basic face-like structure or a simplified Mickey Mouse silhouette, with two smaller circles (potentially representing ears or eyes) above a larger central circle (potentially representing a face or head).
The SVG uses a viewBox of "0 0 175 175", which defines the coordinate system and aspect ratio for the image.
Would you like me to create a visual representation of this SVG for you?
Nearly all of the mistakes in Iraq (including the decision to invade in the first place) were made at the political level, above the military. Bush decided to invade the country, Rumsfeld decided to commit too few troops to effectively occupy the country, and Obama decided to set a hard public deadline for withdrawal that allowed the insurgency groups that turned into ISIS to plan and bide their time.

The military can’t question the orders they receive from the president and Secretary of Defense. That’s an important part of maintaining civilian control over the military. The military can only try to carry out whatever goals and decisions they’re given by the politicians, and in Iraq the politicians (from both parties) got it wrong.
The greater problem is hostility to enforcement from the top down, as evidenced by countless scandals. Gender segregation "others" women and cripples their careers, ensuring that they continue to be underpromoted relative to their talent and thus underrepresented. We learned a long time ago that separate but equal is inherently unequal, yet it's a zombie concept that always comes back.

https://warontherocks.com/2017/03/the-dark-side-of-gender-se...

> It may seem intuitive that gender segregation would lead to less sexual harassment and sexual assault, but there is mounting evidence that shows the opposite might be true. Studies on workplace sexual harassment show that encouraging social integration at work can reduce sexual harassment. Other studies show that increased contact with an “outgroup” (in this case, women), improves attitudes towards individuals in that outgroup. These improvements are more likely to take place when group membership is de-emphasized during the interaction.

But we're hobbled in discussing this on HN because it skews overwhelmingly male — and there's even less enthusiasm for confronting that than there is for confronting sexual assault in the military.
This wasn't intended as a criticism of you, it's a criticism of how incentives motivate the devaluation of artistic works of humans.

I didn't particularly like any of the videos, even the fairy one, no offence. This probably speaks more to the nature of the competition than the videos themselves (I could care less about WD-40, though I'm sure a really good video could sweep me away, similarly to how I'm often genuinely impressed by the creativity of superbowl commercials, even for products I don't care about).

But I can definitely understand the thought process and also liked your write-up. My compliments to your art, which is your writing and your description of your thought process, and your creative solution to a challenge within an economic framework where you need money to survive and can justify outsourcing other typically human endeavors to the robots in pursuit of financial compensation.

But that economic framework, the incentives, and the replacement of that human touch with AI output is depressing, and the thought that most things we encounter online and in media will be AI-generated in the future is terrifying. That's not a commentary on what you did, and again, you also wrote an excellent article about it which I highly doubt was mostly written by AI.

As you said (perhaps in another comment) you spent more time on the article than the actual competition. That effort shows. And it stands out among a sea of low-effort, AI-generated blog content even now on the Internet. But when you talk about "AI making storytelling easier" there's also an admission that we're moving to a world in which, in many situations, lower-effort content and AI-generated content are becoming more worthwhile under the reality where maximizing the ratio of monetary reward to time investment is necessary and expected.
My apologies to the GP then, and thank you for the correction :)
How to make your own playing cards and Agile Poker template
It's something for physical estimation card enthusiasts.

In this step-by-step tutorial, I’ll guide you through making your own cards. These steps can also be applied to any card-based project, like designing your own board game or printing my Agile Poker Cards PDF.
One interpretation was that he choose his death wisely. He was old and tired and wanted to go a with a splash. In his society, legacy mattered a lot. If that's the case, he did fine.
I had always assumed that activity in the brain was unsynchronized and that it is that which produces the necessary randomness through race conditions. I am considering the need to find synchronization as making some sort of computer analogy which doesn't exist.
Not in the traditional sense, but how are we to possibly gauge an LLMs "intelligence" without framing questions like this?
It's like students learning for the test, not really understanding. Or like regular people who don't always understand, just follow the memorized steps. How many times do we really really understand and how many do we just imitate?

I have a suspicion that humans often use abstractions or methods they don't understand. We frequently rely on heuristics, mental shortcuts, and received wisdom without grasping the underlying principles. To understand has many meanings: to predict, control, use, explain, discover, model and generalize. Some also add "to feel".

In one extreme we could say only a PhD in their area of expertise really understands, the rest of us just fumble concepts. I am sure rigorous causal reasoning is only possible by extended education, it is not the natural mode of operation of the brain.
> But if you utter the correct series of incantations, at least some banks will open a high-yield savings account and pay you 5% or more. You gotta find the right bank, though, and utter the right incantations. Sometimes it’s tricky

Searching the internet for “list of highest interest bank accounts” with the device in your pocket is apparently a tricky incantation.

Shopping an entire country’s investment options has never been easier, and still there are complaints.
The real test is of course in court, but I doubt this is effective. For one putting it below the content and never requiring affirmative consent prior to displaying the content probably opens the argument that the consumer never agreed, plus most employees don't have the authority make legal agreements on behalf of their employer anyway.
> The thread started by someone saying switching costs are zero.

And as discussion continued, it was asked what the transition costs are for advertisers. He who answered that question clearly claimed it was also zero. This "someone said something about search users earlier", while technically true, is unrelated to anything being talked about here.

In danielmarkbruce speak: Actually read the comments. Whatever it is that you missed is leaving you horribly confused.
Meeting of the minds is what the other poster is probably closing in on in regards to the qualities of a valid contract. Problem is, most click throughs are made in such a way as to offer no channel through which negotiation is able to occur, and even if that channel were available, most businesses would avoid maintaining it's efficiency as it massively vomplicates pricing and business system implementations if all of a sudden you're dealing with potentially millions of slightly different sets of terms.

The Courts have, in my opinion, abdicated their responsibility in ensuring that a contract is considered invalid by recognizing take-it-or-leave-it clickthrough licenses as valid.

Not doing so, and requiring a negotiation pipeline, would rein in these types of encroachments, because the burden incurred by playing these types of games would provide a better feedback loop to companies on what is vs. is not conscionable.
I think this talk [0] by Jodie Burchell explains the problem pretty well. In short: you are right that for a given task, only the outcome matters. However, as Burchell shows, AI is sold as being able to generalize. I understand this as the ability to transfer concepts between dissimilar problem spaces. Clearly, if the problem space and or concepts need to be defined beforehand in order for the task to be performed by AI, there’s little generalization going on.

[0] https://youtu.be/Pv0cfsastFs?si=WLoMrT0S6Oe-f1OJ
I hadn’t thought about it that way, but I see what you mean. The idea being the more important it is to know what really happened, the more important to record evidence as it happens, right?

I think our plan’s much bigger problems are ethical, social, legal, and political. And logical: odd to solve sexual misbehavior by routinely recording people while they’re naked. But a more technical critique for a technical solution:

Encryption or not, isn’t it axiomatic that you can’t hack or steal what doesn’t exist?

When our best and brightest protective schemes can’t protect the security files of all the cleared personnel in the US [0], or the bag of digital tricks the intelligence agencies use to hack with [1], is it technically wise to generate vastly more stuff worth stealing?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Manageme...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/06/theft...
Massive corporations with the power to control societies are not a sign of success. I'd rather have 10000 medium sized businesses in my country than one whale that uses it's size and market dominance to eat everything else.
To those of us in the US, it is relevant that we have to rely on Europe’s regulatory actions when the US government fails to regulate. Send help.
Tax is for us working-class slobs.

Nobody with mobility options pays taxes.

But that’s not the problem: your betters have convinced you that they need to take 50%+ of your earnings to pay their elite friends for things you’ll never see.

And if you don’t like it, they’ll just print money (inflating your currency and thus looting your savings), and buy it anyway.

So: it’s our own fault for allowing them to force us to use their fraudulent money.
As a native of Ohio who has visited The Moth Man Museum[0], I take certain exception to this region being called "northeastern USA."

It's close, but it's not quite there [1].

0: https://www.mothmanmuseum.com/

1: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/united-sta...
FYI, the reason they don't work on Blender is because Blender, presumably for cross-platform consistency, manually draws its entire UI as well as handles its own events. The OS has no involvement in the UI, except to provide system resources. Most applications use standard dialogs for things like opening files, that are implemented in a central system DLL, so the behavior is consistent system-wide, and any improvement MS makes to those dialogs is automatically applied to all applications that use them.
range(1, 3) might be more consistent, it's a single value that is a range and not 2 values.

On a side note: a problem with CSS' claim to be a programming language is that the grammar is not obvious.
Heya, thanks for taking the time to give feedback.

> What you are telling me now is that to go from "testing" to "production", it is $37->$500

Yup, if you want us to run it, that's the pricing. Auth is pretty important and building a scalable single-tenant (no commingling of data or compute) solution that is performant and run well is not cheap.

But I get that it isn't for everyone. When I was working on a startup, all of our hosting bill was less than $500.

You can host it elsewhere for cheaper: https://fusionauth.io/blog/fusionauth-on-fly-io

> It is pretty astounding that this feedback hasn't been conveyed or managed before.

We've heard it before but have had other priorities.

> Clearly a lot of effort has gone into what is presented and it really sets the tone for what working with your business would be like.

Yeah, we need to make it simpler.

We do have a bifurcated path for usage. Some folks go directly to the download page and run it themselves. If the features meet their needs, they self-host or they struggle through the buying page if they don't want to.

Other folks mash the 'contact us' button and engage with our technical sales team, which, we hear consistently, is a better experience than competitors. Yes, I know that not everyone wants to talk to sales. I personally never do. But some folks prefer that path.

Overall your point is well-made. The page is more confusing than it needs to be and doesn't help someone new to the app get what they need to make a decision.

Edit: responded to pricing feedback.
Can you come up with a proof with your bold statements, since currently leading researcher on the subject have no idea if that's the case ?
"It was never objective" is similar to Scientific American apologists who say "science was always political."

> It has been a steadfast supporter of the status quo

Yes, but at one time, "status quo" didn't mean one party. It meant two, either of which might happen to be in power. You're correct that they didn't give much coverage to groups outside of that "mainstream."

> the ridiculous idea that there can be "objective" journalism.

There are degrees of seriousness in the approach to that ideal. You can go into the New York Times archives for the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to see what it looked like when it was taken seriously.
https://archive.is/NtHuq
Are you based in the Bay? would love to chat via phone if you are.
> This sort of thing concerns me. So if Wolf has a change of heart, suffers some sort of financial catastrophe, etc., then... the project just dies, and any project depending on them for a significant portion of their funding has a crisis?

> Still, though, privacy-wise: why should I trust this guy? I like what he says on the website, but I've never heard of him, and don't really know anything about him.

Do you prefer to use tech presented by opaque committees with institutional funding, but only if they also consist of people you're acquainted with?