skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally fair, thanks for responding!

> It would allow you to maintain a proprietary product with proprietary features that you don't release under the AGPL and use my code within that product.

As much as I can say "everything in my version is AGPL; this is just for _other_ companies" I don't know that there's a way to _legally_ guarantee it that wouldn't be easily circumventable, at least not without rendering the idea useless in one way or another.

So yeah, thanks for the insight, I really appreciate it!
What kinds of cool things are people doing with this?
I was expecting like "terrible old server that I refer to as toilet because it's terrible" but this is so much better. Bravo.
In practice these are just big numbers you memorize. 5280 feet in a mile, 63360 inches in a mile, 1760 yards in a mile...

It's not like you often have to do math with them, outside of school math problems. A year isn't precisely 365 days, and months are all different lengths. It's just more of the same type of thing; doesn't actually cause problems when distances are usually expressed in miles anyway.
…did you need that sign to be custom printed?
The imprinting seems like a drawback if it can't be changed in new environments.
I think it is at least a bit surprising. There is clearly something different between humans and all other animals.
Since I can't edit my comment anymore, here's an update: The order to take down VPN apps from app stores has been suspended until further action by X or Elon Musk.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240830235848/https://www.cnnbr...
What a strange name for something in slugs.
The image generator Stable Diffusion version 1.5 disappeared from HuggingFace
> Researchers have not yet determined whether mental templates related to tool making remain flexible

This quote shows the arrogance mentioned in one of the other comments. A 15 year old crow is somehow going to make a "mental template" that is then as firmly entrenched as a young bird learning the wrong mating song? Nah....
Why So Many People Are Going "No Contact" with Their Parents
>> ... a weird six-paragraph medical rant like yours.

Yeah, thanks for engaging in good faith.
this is pretty cool, the binder always struck me as a potential security risk!

also pretty fun to think that beos will continue to secretly live on deep in the guts of linux powering android, even in rust!
Can seL4 or Redox run docker yet?
I don’t understand the purpose of your question.

Do you intend to help homeless people find shelter? They figured that out from direct experience already: homeless shelters, tents, cars, tunnels and overpasses, under awnings, etc.

Do you intend visiting the area without means to avoid living on the street? Don’t go. You won’t “spawn” there, homelessness isn’t a video game.
I actually got it as a Christmas present from my step-mom who runs a print shop. :D
That view appears to discount just how horrible past generations had it. People living before around 1970 would have been in clover to have just those problems. Pick a decade in the past and it was generally pretty horrible.
Throughout your posts, I notice a recurrent theme of false equivalence between "rust" and "memory safety".

Rust is merely a tool; a language that makes memory safety easier. It is not required for memory safety, nor does it, by itself, guarantee memory safety.

This is particularly true in supervisor mode, with hardware other than the CPU itself within reach.
This is just as interesting as any other article on finding that X can do Y where X isn’t human and Y is a behavior that humans value.

What would be even more amazing to me is finding cognitive things that other animals do that humans can’t. Of course, many humans can’t do mental math so … maybe the quest is ill defined?
It cuts both ways. We've discounted animal abilities out of arrogance, but we've also paid attention to those abilities that most remind us of ourselves.

In this case, crows are doing something that is interesting but doesn't appear to be spontaneous tool-making but rather a form of mimicry that may have hard-wired instinctive basis. Is it human-like learning? Is it "smart" the way a human is smart? Doesn't look like it.
What is lseek of a TTY on macOS doing?
Among other things, avian brains have a higher density of neurons than mammalian ones! https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%282... seems to be a primer on some of the differences.
I think there's something to be said about the benefits to diversity from having the BSDs in the ecosystem but in the linux distribution world there's basically been a Cambrian explosion with incredible amounts of duplication.

Ubuntu is not going to be the only thing people run but consolidation in itself is not bad as there's also been a lot of half cooked, abandoned and redundant projects around.
Public library, mall, gym
He made quite a few useful videos demoing it.

@ian Adding this to your help page would be helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/@ianthehenry/search?query=livecoding
"how many kilometers are there in 100 miles?"

Increase by 60%. That's how I do it.
this is also very cool! some pretty nice blog posts from the asahi folks about this and the code looks nice...
Judge orders Musk's X shut down in Brazil
I've thought about this quite a bit. Ultimately there's a lot of benefit to a monoculture, but there's also some pretty scary downsides. At the end of the day, a monoculture is cheap interoperability and a crappy alternative to standardized protocols.
I'm wondering if/when this will extend to dev machines at work. Macs seem very firmly entrenched but, IMHO, the experience isn't that great.
If most cases include people without diabetes, PCOS or some other condition, yes you can eat less than what you burn and you will lose weight. In other cases, those people need medical intervention such as Mounjaro, Ozempic, etc
Maybe not surprising, but exciting! This kind of pessimistic take is what really surprises me. Crows can make mental templates, this is something we didn't know earlier, and is really neat, as far as I can tell.
> These days, the roles I consider are in leadership so if we lack vision and a clear understanding of our value I’m usually empowered to fix that. If you’re interviewing for a more IC role, your hiring manager and teammates being unable to communicate expectations and success criteria is obviously a bigger concern.

So, the author doesn't seem to consider IC role a leadership role. I see, ok.
The US has ceased to remain a first world country. It is not a third world country yet, but it's getting there. Corruption and self-interest at all levels of government has supplanted the pursuit of becoming a better nation. It remains to be seen whether this extreme rise of self-interest at the expense of the collective/national/global/cosmic interest ultimately succeeds or fails.
To be clera, the wife sounds creepy as all hell and spiking the water of someone with heart and kidney trouble with potassium could be considered a murder attempt. e.g. kidney patients are advised to avoid KCl as a salt substitute because of the danger of hyperkalemia that can lead to fatal heart attack.
Without details of the investigation and the reason for the prosecution dropping the case, we are missing too much information.

His side of the story is convincing and compelling, but it’s a one-sided perspective.
Fuck, I recently had Covid and I've been having trouble recalling things. Every other day or so I'll spend 5-10 seconds remembering the name of something. It's possible this happened before I got Covid, though... I don't remember!
> the requests sent to X (Twitter) have no legal basis

Wouldn’t sending a Brazilian lawyer to make this claim as X’s representative be the correct move? Not ignoring the court?

There is a massive difference between e.g. a U.S. district court issuing an illegal order and someone appealing for a stay and the same order being issued and the subject doing nothing.
Neo Home Robot
My overall point is that there is little indication that this is some battle between good and evil or right and wrong.

This is about a guy who faces no personal consequences whatsoever choosing to ignore court orders and a government penalizing his business for that choice. There is some speculation that maybe the judge is acting illegally but I haven’t seen anyone familiar with Brazilian constitutional law say that. There is also speculation that the judge is acting unethically, though the only “ethical” alternative offered is “let Elon Musk do whatever he wants”, which is less of an argument about ethics and more of a statement of what fandom a person subscribes to.

If the judge is acting illegally I sure hope the citizens of Brazil address that. If he’s simply pissing off a rich libertarian that’s popular on his own website then I hope he continues to do so.
What Is the Maximum Length of an Array in Node.js?
Brian Cantrill talked about how they got Docker running on Joyent. They had to make shims for many system calls and a little more fiddly code for a handful more.

No idea how much skill that takes, but it’s been done once.
This wouldn't be RFC work, this would be sysadmin work.

Probably not the worst use of time, but you'd need to find interested students and faculty year-over-year.
Summary: "Create an account to read the full story."
I believe this poster meant the new Linux driver for Nvidia cards called Nova (announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/Zfsj0_tb-0-tNrJy@cassiopei...), not the driver maintained by Nvidia.
I didn't read that post. I was going by what was claimed by the wife in the dialogue in the end of the post above. In that post the husband doesn't seem to challenge the claim made by the wife that the substance put in his water bottles was potassium, so I assumed that the claim was probably true. If it wasn't, then obviously what I say above is irrelevant since it's all premised on the substance being potassium.
What pesticide is this?
The only bit of animal behaviour research I have ever found to be really interesting or meaningful is that on cephalopods. Their nervous system is very different to ours, and it seems like that difference shows clearly in their learning abilities.
Without the picture, it's really not
> If we just say "tech companies bad" and don't admit that our behavior is part of the problem, and that we're not robots or children—that we have choice and agency—we will only ever get a version of the same outcome.

This is a remarkably-astute comment. The problem is that it is very difficult for people to be aware, in any given moment, that a seemingly-innocuous action they're taking now will have devastating consequences in a decade or a century or more. This is made more difficult by well-heeled commercial interests which are highly motivated to discourage such insight. Ultimately, one of the roles of government, and it seems strange to say this, is to develop laws which paternalistically protect people from themselves. As an example of this, see privacy/data protection legislation for the internet, e.g. GDPR. As a counter example, see any country which very deliberately avoids developing privacy legislation for the internet.
Speaking from experience there is also another case of parents who have an outwardly affirming relationship between each other but not necessarily to (all of) their children. Sort of like co dependents but only certain people close enough in proximity to both people bear emotional abuse/golden child-type selective behavior. The rest of the public are deceived by the outward appearance of a stable family.So the relationship between the parents is firm but they both treat the child harsh.

This is a bad position to begin with because neither parent stands up with the child. A single parent could be a friend the child would not otherwise have. And on top of that it could fall below the threshold for outright removal of child by support services if there is no "obvious" problem (divorce, physical abuse, abandonment). Because a certain degree of emotional abuse for a young child is near totally invisible to others if the child thinks they're the one in the wrong and doesn't defend themselves (which both parents agree on so it is stronger). And invoking those services can severely damage one's working future due to material concerns about college the parents would not have paid otherwise.

That in turn creates a sense of entitlement to opinion (we did everything for you, this is all you do to pay us back, etc...), feeling of creating debt/attachment to that past, and so on. Because they didn't hit or spank, but merely taught an important lesson in a more subtle way, they're not abusive like everyone else, so there is no problem, so on.

I know I'm just venting by now but these sorts of issues take years or decades to come to light after venturing into an adult life and might not be easily quantifiable in the way "this couple divorced" or "this child was removed from the household" would. There are grey areas in between, some of which still have some support by the public (like some types of corporal punishment being acceptable to an undefined degree)
Has anyone looked at writing a script to transform those rules for yacas? Making yacas 94% as good as Mathematica at integration sounds like a worthy goal considering how easy it is to deploy it.
This is what I find most fascinating. That crows are capable of gossip, organization, planning and execution.

"you know that dude that lives by the water? protect him he feeds us."

"you know the big guy that walks his dog and barks at us? we found out where he lives."

I've seen crows execute their own (seriously). They would crowd and walk him over the edge and when he fell they would just attack him.

I've seen crows leave gifts behind for feeding them regularly.

I've seen crows protect our property from raccoons and squirrels.

I've seen crows remember people and harass them (even when they moved to another city!)
I mean when you write 'UK researchers find', especially to a global audience (which UoKentucky PR dept may not particularly have but HN does (Hello from the (the!) UK)) that it sounds more like the country UK than the.. no offence intended but not exactly world renowned university. (I've heard of Kentucky, probably my first time hearing of its university in its own right - though I might have assumed it had one.)
From polling my American friends, ask them how many yards in a mile and they'll answer 5280. They don't really know how the system work and can only vaguely remember (one of) these numbers.

The system is not meant for units to be converted.
RepresentUs has a plan that works its way up, because we all know those at the top aren't likely to implement restraints on themselves
There is also the fact that there is a party in government literally dedicated to shrinking government to the point where it cannot effectively inspect or regulate. The IRS for example is not well funded enough to actually catch rampant tax evasion.
I had never heard of them before yesterday when I happened to be browsing On a Roll's menu touting their Boar's Head BLT which I mistook for an actual cut of meat. So it was a selling point before.
parrots too are extremely smart. I swear they know how to perform basic math and know what things are called.
Perhaps you should see why below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404644
We consider this smart and intelligent, but many people don't want to admit that LLMs are intelligent?
Found Gary Larson's alt account.

You should turn it into a short movie using AI. I have thought something similar but more along the lines that in the universe above us, we are 3 days into a science experiment and either a) they don't know we exist or b) the look in with their microscope and see patterns for cities or c) they have a statistical measure of how many have developed ecosystems and set off a nuclear weapon. But on the scales they are viewing, the known universe might fit into a 50cm sphere (their dimensions).
If anything raw veggies are a large disease vector.
Timely! https://theonion.com/study-crows-intelligent-enough-to-steal...
Gives me the chills, sooo good.
There is no excuse for such statements by an adult person.
Some marine mammals can do cognitive things with 3D echolocation that humans can't. (A few visually impaired people have learned to do a bit of echolocation but in a much more limited way.) Cephalopods use multiple mini-brains to independently control their arms in a way humans can't.
You think it's a small bust of Lt Col David Shoemaker on the grounds of this or that VA hospital, who finally brought Elizabeth Holmes down because the rules of compliance must apply to everyone.
I don't think opposing ideas cancel each other out, like so much electrical charge.

The more opposing ideas on a platform, the more ideas are spread, tested, strengthened, weakened, and grown.

An echo chamber is where ideas go to die.
Wow! Day by day, I appreciate more and more how precious the liberty and freedom we have in the US.

And shame on Canada and UK!
Hey I am the developer behined cyberscraper-2077, I will look into your feature request :)
> What should the police or system have done differently?

Investigate and press charges for death threats, is that not obvious?
It competes with web search engines looking up answers for how do do little things like "How do I get the length of a string in PHP?"

It gives digested answers which are simpler to process in most cases but it is slower than a web search engine so it saves more effort than time. For CSS it is pretty good because with CSS you have the choice of looking up authoritative answers in the 50 or so standards docs (+time +effort) as opposed to taking your chances with community answers on the web, Copilot comes close to "read the manual" in accuracy but with (-time -effort)
> This kind of feat, according to animal behavior researchers, requires the ability to form “mental templates.” Essentially, a mental template is an image in the mind of what a particular object looks like, even when that object is not present.

As someone with aphantasia, can I get points for recreating something I've seen _without_ having an "image in the mind"?
You'd think with all of the people saying "they won't go after..." and being wrong people would show a bit less hubris.
The "professional" journalists were all to happy to load their sites with chum boxes and native ads disguised as articles. The search aggregators don't expose that crap.
Around the year 2000 (don't remember exactly) there were 3 sites I checked daily: Anandtech, Tom's Hardware and XBit Labs. Since Anand and Thomas sold their sites the quality dropped enough that in the past few years I rarely opened any of these sites (except Xbitlabs that does not exist for a long time). In some way, Anand and Thomas were the souls that left the bodies.
This is a story about a single private company, the US is very much a 1st world country as we have a working meat inspection program, independent journalist covering the topic, alternate products from competing vendors, and numerous lively and open discussions involving concerned citizens.

How exactly does this story support the conclusion we are becoming corrupt?
I think you're being unfair. It's clear what the authors intention is. They aren't speaking "down" regarding ICs, they're just making their intention clear in terms of the role they're in search of. Yes, ICs can absolutely be leaders in an organization (and _should_ be) but that doesn't change what the role of a leader is or what the author wants.
Also yeast/candida getting past blood-brain barrier (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-a-candida-infe...)

Also mold causing mold toxin load, like e.g. ochratoxin A which causes cell death in the memory centres of the brain
Man, this looks really scammy, like it's pretending to be HN to harvest passwords. Don't make it look exactly like the HN banner and HN login page.

And why are you forcing people to create an account and password for this?
OnLive. They did game streaming and spectating just a few years too early!
Nah, don’t bet against us.
We're finding through LLM research that smaller models aren't necessarily dumber, so much as their intelligence is more limited in terms of domains and knowledge encoding ability. Those small brains might have limited knowledge encoding ability, but that doesn't mean they can't reason about the things they have encoded.
There was a bunch of hype around superior memory in chimpanzees for certain tasks[0].

However, this has subsequently been debunked[1].

Still impressive on the part of chimps!

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNrWUS13th8

[1]https://www.jasoncollins.blog/posts/humans-1-chimps-0-correc...
The impact didn't destroy society or anything, it damaged the field. It made people think "wow that's interesting, tumors have unique microbiomes". the article says:

Meanwhile, research groups that, according to Salzberg, relied on the study’s data are dealing with the fallout, as are the journals that published the work.
The publishers or journal editors of eight studies have begun reviewing the papers, according to spokespeople at Springer Nature, Frontiers, Wiley and the American Association for Cancer Research. The corresponding authors of these studies didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Looking at the analysis critique, yes, the original paper had an awful analysis. It smacks of a wet lab or clinical administrator who knows nothing about bioinformatics, having work done by say a grad student who themselves are not experienced in the field but clever enough to stitch together a nice sounding pipeline and write a Nature paper about it, and perhaps a bit cocky. This, I have seen before first hand. The long and short of it is, they used a big database of all bacteria genomes, and guess what, if a human grinds in a wet lab sequencing a bacteria genome, sometimes a bit of human DNA slips into the bacteria genome assembly, particularly if this was done some 50,000 times for 50,000 bacteria. So their analysis made no consideration to removing alignments to the human (or any other contaminant) genomes. So maybe their system says "aha! this bacteria is Staph Aureus!" but actually the Staph Aureus sequence has a fragment of human genome because the sequencing project therein had light contamination. It's absolutely self evident that if they were sequencing bacteria DNA off tumors, they should have controlled for human DNA contamination, given that the tumor the bacteria is sitting on, that tumor has a lot of human DNA.
Fun facts, according to Quran in human very first murder crime when one of Adam's sons killed his younger brother out of disagreement on offerings to God, the crow showed him how to properly bury the dead body:

Then Allah sent a crow digging a grave in the ground for a dead crow, in order to show him how to bury the corpse of his brother. He cried, “Alas! Have I even failed to be like this crow and bury the corpse of my brother?” So he became regretful.

https://quran.com/en/al-maidah/31
Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs, wanton violence and market research. It was just another day at the office for Ralph, who was finding it difficult to sit in his tattered chair, the pinworm infection peaking from a recent diet of vending machine snacks and the bottom-shelf gin within his thermos. It was time to replace a nicotine patch, the one on the other arm was still good, but the left was stale and soaked in sweat. When he found himself immersed in ideations of regulators in place of the carcases entering the hissing, gurgling transglutaminizer, particularly those who enacted the smoking ban, it was time for another patch, and a shot too. He swatted a fly with resignation, a futile gesture in the chamber of carion that was his bread and butter, his job at Boar's Head.