skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I also went through this state.

There are a couple of unlocks:

Do you remember how cool building software was when you were starting out? The only problem then was you couldn't. Well now you can, most people don't realize that. You can create the software for your loved one, or friend, or yourself that you always wanted.

The thing is to take it slow. Use a language you always wanted to use. Change that color scheme. And when you type, do so slowly, cherishing each keystroke.

We take so much for granted. The fact that writing text can make atoms move about and transistors turn on or off millions of times a second is just astonishing. You are taking part in humanity's most sacred rituals. Give it it's due and soon you will have the love come back.
Neal Stephenson's Anathem:

“‘Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,’ Sammann said.

“‘Crap, you once called it,’ I reminded him.

“‘Yes—a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.’

“‘What is good crap?’ Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

“‘Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors—swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.’

“‘As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,’ Osa said. ‘This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium…’”
Ugh. I really wanted to like it, but using it is painful. Editing is bafflingly cumbersome, and in many cases impossible.

And don't dare to take issue with any part of it in their forum, or you'll be banned forthwith. Absolute dicks.
but I'll add your suggestion to the repo when I touch it next time, seems like a good pointer in possible conditions
What do you mean? No part of this article suggests that this vaccine might be spread in any way.
Is this the same model?

Someone looks like they extracted it and uploaded to HF.

https://huggingface.co/wave-on-discord/gemini-nano/tree/main
Pretty impressive, if true that it can stop infection, and potentially then transmission. Nasal vaccines have the ability to do this because of the potental for neutralizing activity along the nasal muscosa.

They make the claim so we'll have to see. I currently use a nitric oxide nasal spray as the nose is the major area to protect (and also use probiotic lozenges of the k12 strain for the throat).

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“The vaccine offers potent protection against transmission, prevents reinfection and the spread of the virus, while also reducing the generation of new variants,” Dr Liu said.

“Unlike the mRNA vaccine which targets only the spike protein, CDO-7N-1 induces immunity to all major SARS-CoV-2 proteins and is highly effective against all major variants to date.

“Importantly, the vaccine remains stable at 4°C for seven months, making it ideal for low- and middle-income countries.”
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Liked this bit:

> Like a cow shoved through the food manufacturing process and split into a million pieces
> If, however, the French are simply saying that Durov’s failure to police his users or respond promptly to French document requests is the crime (which I suspect is the case), then this represents a dramatic escalation in the online censorship wars. What it means is that European states are going to try to extraterritorially dictate to foreign companies what content those companies can and cannot host on foreign-based webservers.

This completely ignores that the amount of criminal activity on Telegram in Europe as well as parts of Asia in itself has been escalating. The author is coming at this from a US-based point of view, which is fine, but unless you're particularly interested in the topic it's difficult for Americans to be aware of the scale of Telegram's role in criminality elsewhere, as this does not seem to be the case in the US. Maybe someone here knows why Telegram is not as core to organized crime in the US, and what communication methods are used there. But it's clear that in Europe and parts of Asia, its role is massive, and has been growing and growing without a limit in sight. This is easy to underestimate.

In these parts of the world, the scale of it is of a completely different magnitude than criminal activity on e.g. Facebook, which the author brings up but is a misguided comparison. And that's ignoring the relative percentages of legit vs criminal activity, which are inverted (if not worse) between the two platforms, because that's not as important.

Scale and absolute numbers, the absolute detrimental effect on society, matter.

I don't see this as an escalation because there was always going to be a line somewhere. A line where the amount of criminal activity on a platform, which when crossed , was going to cause arrests. Telegram's continuous growth in this aspect means that the line has now been crossed.

And in reality, this line exists anywhere even in the US. It might be higher, but it's still there. The idea of not having such a line is clearly insane - that would mean no matter if something completely destroys society, we're going to let it pass. Such lines are almost never enshrined in law, for obvious reasons. They only become visible to everyone as they are crossed.
A few hours ago I pushed an update for my app that sadly increased the size from 70kb to 233kb.
So it's nice to see im not the only one struggling with bloaty apps.
Neki in Spain are working on gadgets (belts, watches etc) and SaaS tele assistance tools to give elderly people who may sometimes get lost the freedom to live normal lives, while giving their loved ones the possibility to track them down if they do get lost.

https://neki.es/
Hey, can I ask what a good brand is these days? Just looking for one for occasional use while backpacking/kayaking/biking/etc., often in places with no cell signal.
That is a powerful response against someone who I suspect you're imagining. Maybe try assuming I more or less agree with all that re-read my comment? I don't see any points of disagreement.
I often find the man strange, but this time, really gotta applaud Musk for a decision like this. Kudos.

How will it work with regular phones? Do you need a Starlink receiver (wifi calling?) or a certain type of phone (iPhone with the satellite modem?) or are the Starlink sats capable of speaking regular 4G/5G with any phone?
I found it interesting to read that their approach is supposedly to split encryption keys across jurisdictions. It sounds like they believe that they should therefore not be able to be compelled to reveal any plaintext because the keys are not in the jurisdiction asking for data, but as far as I can tell this is obviously rubbish, because a computer is not subject to the law, an individual is, and in this case an individual with the power to comply who is seemingly deciding not to.

What's weird is that there aren't really technical blockers to E2E encryption anymore (maybe different 10+ years ago), and with such a weak alternative, you'd expect Telegram to want to switch. The fact they haven't for so long, and have essentially doubled down on their flawed approach suggests that there's a reason we're not privy to as to why they don't want to move to E2E encryption. I'd hope not, and I don't want to throw around conspiracy theories, but when a decision doesn't make sense that's usually due to missing information, and I do wonder what we're missing.
Thinking is not shitting

Is there a difference between telegram and other social media messenger hybrids?

Do they allow anti Russian content the same way they allow pro Russian content?

Is that a problem?
I don't really want to bring much attention to this right now, but:
https://github.com/petabyt/fudge
Fudge is an alternative to Fujifilms camera pairing app.
It sure would have been nice if there was a quality intranasal vaccine that the government could have shipped to each household instead of the insane goose chase that was trying to get vaccine appointments.
> yea, this was all a bit of an over reaction

One million, two hundred thousand dead from COVID and counting in the U.S. alone. Nearly 2% of all deaths in this past week were caused by COVID infection. This doesn’t even begin to touch the people who have suffered lifelong consequences from it.

Find me any statistic that puts any COVID vaccine within three orders of magnitude of these numbers or (maybe not so) kindly see yourself out.
>Quebec has been sputtering since the 80s after their last referendum vote and since montreal lost its status as a city of import to Toronto.

City of import? Speaking as a tourist at least, Montreal is a much more interesting place to visit than Toronto. Toronto might be larger and have a bigger economy with more industry, but for a tourist I can't think of any reason to visit offhand.

>Quebec exiting anytime soon would be annoying for the country but a tragic mistake for quebec especially in seeing how poorly it has workout for the UK which had been an economic engine.

Separatists might not be that worried about economic power. Are all the Brexit voters unhappy with their vote now? A few maybe, but most probably are happy to be out of the EU, and blame their continued economic problems on immigrants, the EU, etc.
IMHO second answer does not hold water. If you will end up in situation where you are tortured they will torture you until you will you say how to add the backdoor.
Nobody? The whole premise is that we should somehow start awarding people for working on important questions which we do not do now.

The usual critique of academia is that people are expected to publish a lot (which creates wrong incentives) and that nobody really accesses quality of the publications (which gives opportunities to cheat). At the same time there is huge PhD overproduction, which creates competition.

I don't think the problem is that people are working on wrong problems, the problem is how they work on problem of their choice and why.

I also don't think there is a simple fix to this problem.
I use this one [0] to run Taskwarrior on Android. It's abandonware but still works well enough for me. Enough for adding, removing, moving and ticking off tasks. I have the TaskWarrior server running on a VPS. Only works with the 2.x versions of TaskWarrior though as that is what is integrated in the app. Both the app and PC sync to the server instance with the Taskwarrior native sync functionality.

Would love to see some proper multi-device support in the latest release. The above setup works in itself. But the app is not being maintained anymore and Android as an OS has moved on. For example the launcher shortcuts for task filters stopped working with some Android update. And I guess Taskwarrior itself has moved on as well with v3. I'm not going to use it though as long as there is no multi-device support.

Oh well. So far I have not been bothered enough to have a go at making it work myself. There are probably as many flavours of Taskwarrior clients as there are users :)

[0] https://bitbucket.org/kvorobyev/taskwarriorandroid/wiki/Home
The idea of political manipulation and/or censorship on social media only became a thing after 2016, and even then it took time to ramp up.

All of the incumbents were established with network effects long before then, they are very sticky and unaccountable. Not Ma Bell level of natural monopoly but the network effects are pretty strong.

Look at Twitter under Musk, your standard beltway liberal type still uses it even though they hate him.
Vegetarian bacon, chicken nuggets and meatballs.

If people ate meat once a week instead of daily, we probably wouldn’t need said funny alternatives.
His point is that he can't backdoor it: you can read the code before you install it. I'd go further, and say that this is true of anything end-to-end encrypted, open-source or not, because it's not 2002 anymore and reversing ordinary client software is table stakes. (I'd still rather run something open source, ceteris paribus).
> Note that Durov/Telegram could have been easily protected against this by using E2E encryption and therefore not becoming the owner of the data on their servers.

How'd that work for Lavabit?
Upstream speeds are increasing, Comcast is building out mid-split doing 100Mbps and 200Mbps up, and the other cable companies are doing network rebuilds for mid-split or high-split.

Fiber penetration is increasing every year, usually with symmetric speeds. Verizon FiOS is already fairly built out, CenturyLink/Lumen/Quantum is doing plenty of Infill, Ziply Fiber is part way through its 5 year plan to go from 28℅ fiber coverage to 85%, Frontier is actively building out fiber, etc

Wireless is only getting better too. Single Primary Cell Carrier Snapdragon x62 modems deliver up to 150Mbps uploads today, and newer Snapdragon modems can upload on multiple Cell Carriers at once (the secondary cellular frequencies they are connected to).

Ratios for upload fo download for asymmetric connections are trending towards below 10 to 1, rather than 20 or 30 to 1. The days of 1200Mbps downloads with pathetic 35Mbps upload are numbered.
When tree will go out of scope, their nodes memory will be reclaimed automatically ("dropping" in Rust terms) by automatic garbage collector built-in into compiler: `drop(root)->drop(leaf_a),drop(leaf_b)`. However, if leaf will have reference to its parent, then an infinite loop occurs: `drop(root)->drop(leaf_a)->drop(root)->drop(leaf_a)...`

The solution is to use an alternative automatic garbage collector instead of compiler built-in: arenas, RC with weak references, or Mark&Sweep GC. Arenas have better performance, because they drop all nodes at once. The easiest way to quickly implement an arena in safe Rust is to use vector (array) of nodes and used indices instead of direct references.
Time-of-flight range sensors. Time photons traveling 80mm? You've got to be kidding! That was one of two surprising & wonderful recent discoveries for me.
Isn't this technically a model (training step) generating a model (a neural network) generating Doom output?
Using this for computer vision and sensor debugging. It’s brilliant.

Having worked on developing such UI’s before in house it’s very nice to outsource and focus on building my app with Reruns insanely smooth rendering.
Even better, there is a way to avoid every risk and save water...
If I only had a penny for every promising GitHub repo, which was immediately abandoned by the authors after their paper was finished...
Wild. But it's a pattern with these contracts.

As a reminder, for SLS they decided to modify an exiting launch tower (ML-1). The original estimate to modify the tower was $54 million. Final cost will likely be $1 billion. And delayed of course. It's only going to get a few launches.

You can see where this is going.

Then they decided to do a new launch tower, ML-2. This tower is only 7 feet taller. They planned to incorporate lessons learned from the mess of ML-1 (haha). Started at $400M. Now going to be $2.7 billion (and delayed of course badly).

These cost+ deals especially with multiple contractors are like rotting fruit that attracts maggots that glom on and provide negative value. Something that would take a day to a week elsewhere could be literally months. Every incentive is to move slowly. The contractor layers and paperwork needs on even basic changes are totally massive. The other thing that really jumps out is usually speed - these things will take FOREVER.

I once even saw something about 8 track data recording in a govt contract, It's wild what is stacked into these things. The overhead to do anything can be wild. I once worked a govt job, and we needed an ipad for whatever reason (think something like foreflight on an ipad - most normal people would just buy an ipad to run foreflight). For all sorts of dumb and dumber reason, an ipad could not be purchased. I'd estimate $25K - $50K maybe went into trying to buy this damn ipad and coming up with workarounds. Can only go through central IT which wasn't even selected for price performance, has no customer service, and doesn't have apple SKU's. That's just the beginning. By the time you've wasted attorney time, contracting teams time on this ipad purchase and your own time, your managers time, all the downline folks time... the mind boggles. I think the final solution was to do a contract with a third party for a service, who could then buy the ipad and install the app on it as long as that part of the contract was less than some capital item threshold, and then that third party could enter into another agreement to make it available for their use. But the time to do this, then the time to come up with the agreement to use the ipad owned by this third party... total joke! I understood why teachers buy their own pencils. I'm sure a school can provide them, but a teacher probably doesn't want to deal with the headaches!
You're presenting evidence that it is causative. The chain of causation is: take ivermectin -> kill parasites -> better COVID outcomes.

This would be correlation not causation if it were something like parasites caused better COVID outcomes and people in the global south were being given sugar-water. Then there'd be studies showing that sugar water caused better COVID outcomes but it'd be correlation not causation.

In this case though the correlation was because of causation.
I would guess the kind where you shower standing in a bathtub are much more risky than just a plain flat floor shower?
If the person using LLM isn't asking questions but helping with certain tasks like refining their own ideas they're putting in it can be a different experience.

Maybe LLMs aren't meant to be factual to someone who doesn't understand the facts, and that's ok.
Feeding the paranoia above is that cperciva would verifiably be the smartest person in the room. A canny torturer would respond to this bringing in djb as the primary instrument of torture. "First one to break or weaken scrypt or 8-round salsa20 gains their freedom". The loser is forced to give talks at AWS marketing conferences for the rest of their natural
There's tons of chat products that don't look like telegram or whatsapp. Have you used both of them?
Why are so many people taking this at face value? There's a war going on and the man in charge of the communications system for one side flew to try to meet his leader and then flew to an enemy country where there was a warrant for his arrest.

I'm not saying the French aren't serious about the charges they've published but they're hardly the main point.

There's plenty in the media about the use of Telegram by the the Russian military and intelligence services, as well as politicians. For example: https://www.politico.eu/article/telegram-ceo-arrest-pavel-du...
I would say that would be my use case for LLMs. These should be easily fixed by automation that can reason about documentation and could spit out code fixes.

Of course I assume there is documentation that is updated before new changes go live which might be too much to ask :)
The cat runs, eats and has fur. The cat is a dog.
I wish I could opt out. Unfortunately, my company refuses to provide such information except through The Work Number. So, the next time I apply to rent a home, I'd be out of luck with income or employment verification.
> The quickest way to destroy “velocity” is by introducing dependencies between implementation details with no barriers in code.

Nonsense.

The biggest velocity killer is having to deal with the technical debt left behind by those who mindlessly commit changes that turn your software into a big ball of mud.

Ask yourself this very simple question: why did your team felt the need to add these constraints? What classes of problems they were avoiding by preventing specific types of changes to the software architecture from being applied? What problems they experienced earlier that motivated them to ensure they wouldn't experience them again?

And why should your laziness to do things the right way take priority over avoiding making the same mistake?
SpaceX built (and rebuilt) a tower practically overnight. They are building two more. They are building huge construction bays overnight. Their contractors are literally working nights. There is probably no comparison on cost or speed.

ML-1 and ML-2 have been percolating along for over a decade. ML-1 is going to see just a few launches (3-4?). ML-2 is just 7 feet taller. Total between the two maybe $3.5 billion range?

This is just for the SLS tower. Actual SLS / Orion / sustainment costs at the NASA centers are absolutely mind boggling.

Then you compare that to what NASA gets with their contracts with SpaceX and the mind boggles.
It doesn't. You need to put the world state in the input (the "prompt", even it doesn't look like prompt in this case). Whatever not in the prompt is lost.
They are launching new satellites with much larger antennas that will be able to communicate with any existing 4G phone.
No, he won't, because there is no back door. Or yes, because his torturer-contractor thinks there is. Either way, the last part of your sentence doesn't hold water.
I don't know enough about 'real time' netcode for games. However I have read several HN articles over the years so I've got at least a basic understanding.

Why can't the servers distrust the clients? What should a 'client side anti cheat' actually prevent?

The way I think I'd tackle such things is to have multiple copies of each character model moving in different locations and different ways. Such that trying to spy on the state of the game from one client's viewpoint yields mostly false data. New 'threads' would fork off of the existing threads and would only be culled when there are too many or they're about to make a side effect that would be visible if they were real. In that way the server would be responsible for feeding misinformation to clients but maintaining the state of the true game as a secret to itself.
If you go further down (to the level of fundamental physics) you'll see there's plenty of mystery left. Even in our technological age, we still don't even have a solid explanation for what makes an apple fall to the ground. The world is far from dull.
> Find me any statistic that puts any COVID vaccine within three orders of magnitude of these numbers or (maybe not so) kindly see yourself out.

Quantitative amen.
But it is not Microsoft like I mentioned but .Net Foundation.

They could get one of their people to become Debian maintainer.
The smartphones at least nominally do not have consent to freely listen and record. Alexa is different in that you have full awareness of its capabilities when you agree to use it.
Those studies have consistently shown that Invermectin (a de-wormer) helped people with COVID when those people lived in countries where people have a lot of worms.

The studies were not faulty, but any meta-analysis of the studies that did not take this into account was.
I actually tried to shoehorn AI into https://code.movie/ as an experiment once, but it only got unpredictable and of course extremely slow. Hand-tweaked magic numbers plus escape hatches for manual intervention feel much more reliable.
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I highly suggest you to read the paper briefly before commenting on the topic. The whole point is that it's not just generating a video.