skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looked interesting last time I looked into using Mindustry to teach coding to kids. The original Logic programming seemed a bit too low level.

https://github.com/cardillan/mindcode

https://mindcode.herokuapp.com

"Mindustry is a tower-defense type of game, now with added Logic. Logic is a programming language, but it is very low-level. It is more akin to assembly than high-level language.

Mindcode is a high-level language that compiles down to Mindustry Logic. Mindcode includes higher-level constructs, such as expressions, user-defined functions, control statements, or "direct" memory access.

Mindcode now comes with significantly improved code generation, including data flow analysis, loop unrolling and function inlining; for a list of recent changes, see changelog."
i’m predisposed to getting cavities. All my problems went away when i started flossing thoroughly before bed. I do it EVERY night of the year, regardless of when i go to sleep.

The results speak for themselves. I went to the dentist for the first time at 18 (sad i know). At 20 yrs of age i had 5 cavities, and also had 1 wisdom tooth removed due to decay. That’s when i started flossing daily. I haven’t had a cavity since, and im in my 30s now. My diet has not drastically changed either.

Floss your teeth people. Properly! The dental hygienist can teach you how.
Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to give Arq a try. EASEUS was unable to open a Bitlocker-encrypted external drive from its restore media(USB). I guess I shouldn't have expected it to be able to. I have not lost any data, I was just testing my restore capability. I will see if Arq works for me. (and I am reformatting the external drive, will hopefully have encryption of the backup on the unencrypted drive).
Due to ASLR, those addresses wouldn't be useful either as they would change with the next process created.
I had similar issues years ago and it was frustrating. What I do now is have syncthing on a 'server' that is always on and everything syncs to the server and not between each device. That reduced my conflicts by 99%. Another issue I had was accidentally deleting a folder and having it deleted off of all my devices.

To solve that issue I have my server do ZFS snapshots on my syncthing folder, which makes for easy recovery. With those 2 things being done, I can't say enough good things about syncthing. Compared to nextcloud it is almost maintenance free.
I am working on https://www.merklemap.com/
A subdomain / CT search engine.
You shouldn't blindly retry things that fail as a default, and you should really not default into making the decision of what to do on a server that is just on the middle between the actual user and the database.

Handling errors on the middle is a dangerous optimization.
That's fine but even considering that, is 20% only on successes enough to fund the rest of the portfolio that fails? And will it pass the risk free rate of return you can get from money markets or treasuries or whatever?
How can you (rightfully) critique someone for painting with far too broad of a brush, and then in the very next sentence paint with a much broader brush yourself by claiming "most on the left have a strong support of Hamas"?
everyone in the safety space has realized that it is much easier to get legislators/the public to care if you say that it will be “bad actors using the AI for mass damage” as opposed to “AI does damage on its own” which triggers people’s “that’s sci-fi and i’m ignoring it” reflex.
The full study linked in the article (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2402547121) indicates they counted only "speed citations" in both groups.
> And Hamas literally supports Nazis.

This is so stupid.

As a kind reminder, the Lehi itself tried to ally with the Nazis in 1940 to fight the British. Would you write that Israel supports Nazism because Shamir was president?
> seems incredibly naïve and foolish.

We have electrical codes. These require disconnects just about everywhere. The notion that any system somehow couldn't be "turned off" with or without the consent of the operator is downright laughable.

> were the same naysayers

Now who's being snide and dismissive? Do you want to argue the point or are you just interested in tossing ad hominem attacks around?
no one understands uncertainty
> running them at all is the "high-risk situation"

What is the actual, concrete concern here? That a model "breaks out", or something?

The risk with AI is not in just running models, the risk is becoming overconfident in them, and then putting them in charge of real-world stuff in a way that allows them to do harm.

Hooking a model up to an effector capable of harm is a deliberate act requiring assurance that it doesn't harm -- and if we should regulate anything, it's that. Without that, inference is just making datacenters warm. It seems shortsighted to set an arbitrary limit on model size when you can recklessly hook up a smaller, shittier model to something safety-critical, and cause all the havoc you want.
Work is what you do to keep society and your place in it going.

Hence it's an intersection of what society needs and what you are capable of.

The issue with modern degenerate society is that nobody'll tell you what society needs - you're supposed to figure it out through gossip.

This is extremely stupid.

People who write articles attempting to solve collective problems at an individual level are blaming the victim and giving terrible advice without realizing it. So it goes.
https://archive.ph/jkpl6
I use it on so many platforms and even sometimes in three-way like my Obsidian vault that syncs between my laptop, my phone and my tablet. I barely ever had any conflict. Amazing software.
Ok, so are you one of the special Bangladeshis who escaped the backwater where they came from and somehow became an enlightened, modern, westernized credit to your country, or should we be sending you back because you’re ruining the vibes here?
Yes, it's bad. Learn to mind your own business. If you don't understand, you are failing the test.
Related. Others?

Syncthing – A decentralized continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41281152 - Aug 2024 (23 comments)

Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879039 - May 2023 (124 comments)

Syncthing Anywhere with Tailscale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375662 - Aug 2022 (42 comments)

Syncthing Stats - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012712 - July 2022 (4 comments)

Syncthing: The Data Deduplication Master - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31278867 - May 2022 (2 comments)

Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28859521 - Oct 2021 (230 comments)

Syncthing – continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28371802 - Aug 2021 (1 comment)

Syncthing: Syncing All the Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929194 - July 2021 (172 comments)

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27149002 - May 2021 (146 comments)

Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537243 - June 2020 (159 comments)

Do not use Syncthing (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116462 - May 2020 (1 comment)

Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23058358 - May 2020 (77 comments)

Syncthing: An open source Dropbox replacement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20466469 - July 2019 (41 comments)

Syncthing graduation day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832517 - Jan 2019 (114 comments)

Syncthing Usage Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856552 - March 2017 (119 comments)

Syncthing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331031 - Oct 2015 (1 comment)

BitTorrent backups – BTsync and Syncthing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207935 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)

Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734114 - May 2014 (184 comments)
The Economist has a style guide rule of always explaining who someone is no matter how famous. The description they chose for Elon Musk in this article is "billionaire conspiracy theorist". And their thesis is that corporate wokeness is in decline - how ironic.

Also interesting how much more biased their headlines are in the print edition than online:

> This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Back to sleep”

I wonder why they do that. Presumably they know online articles will be seen by a more diverse audience?
You can read the code, but it’s complex and convoluted.

He referenced Backbone as a comparison point. If you compare Backbone’s source code to React’s source code, you’ll get what he means.

Basically, libraries like Backbone are small and simple enough that you can literally read the source code and fully understand how it works. Compare that to React, where the source code is an order of magnitude larger and very difficult to fully grasp the inner workings.

The simplicity and ability to easily understand the source code obviously comes with tradeoffs (e.g. with Backbone, to use it to build a reasonably complex app, you basically have to build your own framework on top of it, compared to React which has more abstractions and therefore is more plug and play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Hamilton
I find it hard to believe that Google, Microsoft and OpenAI would oppose a bill against open source models.
Show HN: Fin.flights 2.0 – AI-powered flight search
fin.flights is an AI-powered flight search tool that uses natural language processing to find the best flights based on user queries. just released version 2.0 with significant improvements:
- No login required: Start searching immediately without creating an account
- Advanced AI: Utilizing latest LLMs for more accurate flight results
- Natural language interface: Type queries as you would ask a friend
- Global coverage: Searches flights worldwide with multi-language support
- Free to use: Only upgrade if you find it valuable

How it works:
1. Enter a natural language query (e.g., "cheapest business class flights from NYC to Tokyo in the next 3 months with max 1 stopover")
2. Our AI interprets the query and searches across multiple airlines and booking platforms
3. Results are displayed instantly, sortable by price, duration, or best value

I built this because existing flight search engines often require too many inputs and don't offer the flexibility of natural language queries. Myy goal is to make flight search as simple as asking a knowledgeable friend.

I'd love to get feedback from the HN community on the user experience, AI accuracy, and any features you'd like to see added.
Average IQ Score by State
YAML is most certainly typed. Just because there a few human-oriented convenience words that you have to be aware of, does not make it “string-ish”.

In fact YAML is actually truly typed using “!” tag, where as others like JSON which you say are typed only support a basic set of types.
I think "woke" is the wrong word here.

I believe most Americans are aware of politicians and the media focusing on culture war divisions and are sick of it.
Perhaps virtue-signalling is recognised more in society now. I and people around me have developed an eye for performative outrage, posturing, and politics in the last several years.

The hurting ego is often thinly veiled by grandstanding and incendiary language. You give the person what they need — security, community, direction; and their 500 grievances previously lodged in every direction suddenly disappear.

Unfortunately, this is rarely what these people get. There are many others willing to take advantage of their rage, too.
So percentages are nearly same - I feel the immigrant tail in NL is far longer
Hmm, not certain about wait staff. I’m certain that barbers do it everywhere I’ve ever been though.
> this is the one that would make it illegal to provide open weights for models past a certain size

That's nowhere in the bill, but plenty of people have been confused into thinking this by the bill's opponents.
Writing up a paper for my PhD on machine learning with non-Euclidean loss functions.

Taking over the affairs of one of my elderly relatives now that she can't manage by herself.

A project with a medical insurer for adjudicating insurance claims using LLMs.
The few times I built TUIs with ncurses I wondered: why do I have to program so much by myself?
ncurses is so basic, I didn't have too much fun building UIs with it (more than once). Is there a wrapper or a more modern alternative out there that provides containers and widgets like most GUI frameworks do?
> We have electrical codes. These require disconnects just about everywhere. The notion that any system somehow couldn't be "turned off" with or without the consent of the operator is downright laughable.

Not so clear when you are inferencing a distributed model across the globe. Doesn't seem obvious that shutdown of a distributed computing environment will always be trivial.

> Now who's being snide and dismissive?

Oh to be clear, nothing against being dismissive - just the particular brand of dismissiveness of 'scifi' safety scenarios is naive.
From the article, that your automatic “well it can’t be racism it must be that black people are naturally bad in other ways” response implies you did not read:

“Our findings show that when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”

The rate that speeding tickets are issued when police are involved rather than automation is very clearly racially biased.
Why not just use rsync -a periodically over an encrypted ssh connection? It works across Mac/Linux etc. and is just as efficient, no?

If you really want to be fancy, you can deploy a script to watch files for changes and do rsync immediately when it happene.
Kids know more pokemons than the animals they are based on.

They can to take care of Talking Tom or some other virtual pet but ignore their own pets.
So what? Current LLM has been really useful and can be still improved to be used in million robots that need to be good enough to support many specialized but repetitive tasks - this would have tremendous impact on economy itself.
> As these asteroids trace their orbits, they are slightly affected by Earth’s gravity, too. They don’t circle Earth like satellites, but their orbits do fall into a kind of lockstep with our planet that keeps them close by. A quasi-moon sometimes drifts ahead of Earth and sometimes trails behind it as both go around the Sun. From our vantage point, it ends up looking like the quasi-moon is orbiting us instead of our star.

What is the fundamental difference between this and a true natural satellite? The moon orbits the sun in a sort of curved sinusoidal wave around the earth as it also orbits the sun, so from our vantage point appears to orbit earth, yet we don't say it doesn't actually orbit earth. So why do we say that about these smaller bodies doing (according to this article) the exact same thing?
The Experian breaches did. ADP sells recurring payroll as well. Shouldn’t be too hard to cross reference.
Godwin's law strikes again
Sure, that's future survival. Is it of humanity though? Kinda no by definition in your scenario. In general, depends at least if they share our values...
Basically the linked article argues like this:

> That’s because cognition, or the ability to observe, learn and gain new insight, is incredibly hard to replicate through AI on the scale that it occurs in the human brain.

(no other more substantial arguments were given)

I'm also very skeptical on seeing AGI soon, but LLMs do solve problems that people thought were extremely difficult to solve ten years ago.
Shortest.com - AI writing my test suite for me, so I can focus on shipping features
The game engines for C&C and Red Alert are full of Dune II references; as just one example, the factions (GDI/Nod or Allies/Soviets) are still called "houses" in the internal configuration files of C&C/RA.

C&C is pretty much what you get when you want to produce a sequel to Dune II but can't (or don't want to) license the Dune I.P. again so everything has to be re-skinned...
I'm sick of needing to spend weeks researching which couch or mattress to buy because corporations will happily sell me a terrible couch for $3,000 that only cost them $50 to make. It'll fall apart in a year or two, conveniently after the warranty expires, but hey, their profits are going up so who cares about the buyer?

I'm sick of events like the Boar's Head listeria outbreak killing 10 people happening with regularity now. Last year it was eye drops causing blindness. The companies don't care beyond the lawsuits they'll face, who cares if people die as long as their profits go up?

I'm sick of oil companies lying about the environmental harms they cause. Their profits are going up, so why should they care about climate change or the tainted groundwater their fracking causes?

I'm sick of seeing ads and billboards for corporations everywhere I go. I'm sick of being tracked because corporations can make x% more money with my data than they can without it. Installing uBlock Origin is easy, but we now have facial recognition systems with physical cameras in the real world. Can't do anything about those unless I just never leave my home.

I'm sick of people defending this behavior by asking "what tangible harm have you experienced?". The tangible harm is that I'm fucking tired. I'm tired of living in a society that requires expending so much mental energy just to exist.

I should be able to just trust (within reason, of course) that a $1,000 mattress will work for X years without needing to research whether the company is decent or known to be awful. I should be able to buy chocolate from the grocery store without needing to research whether the corporation (or any of its 24 parents and subsidiaries) used slave labor to produce it. I shouldn't need to worry about bottled water being stolen from aquifers by corporations that will simply move on after destroying the communities that depend on that water.

I vote, because it's all I can do, but that accomplishes nothing because we're stuck in a two-party system that won't let me vote for a candidate far enough left to actually fix things. Instead we continue to maintain the status quo, because corporations have more money and political power than civilians.

I'm well aware that this reads like an overdramatic manifesto. I'm just sick of everything feeling like it's getting worse all the time, and it seems pretty causally linked to the rise of corporations. Is it too much to ask that I be able to live without them invading _every single aspect of my life_? I don't think it is, but I think we're too far gone at this point for it to ever change.
I don't think GP is dismissing the scenarios themselves, rather espousing their belief these answers will do nothing to prevent said scenarios from eventually occuring anyways. It's like if we invented nukes but found out they were made out of having a lot of telephones instead of something exotic like refining radioactive elements a certain way. Sure - you can still try to restrict telephone sales... but one way or another lots of nukes are going to be built around the world (power plants too) and, in the meantime, what you've regulated away is the convenience of having a better phone from the average person as time goes on.

The same battle was/is had around cryptography - telling people they can't use or distribute cryptography algorithms on consumer hardware never stopped bad people from having real time functionally unbreakable encryption.

The safety plan must be around somehow handling the resulting problems when they happen, not hoping to make it never occur even once for the rest of time. Eventually a bad guy is going to make an indecipherable call, eventually an enemy country or rogue operator is going to nuke a place, eventually an AI is going to ${scifi_ai_thing}. The safety of all society can't rest on audits and good intention preventing those from ever happening.
It's better than that, OpenAI are stealing the eggs and lobbying to make egg theft legal, so long as you only steal eggs from small farmers and back yards. Because they can, by their own admission, never stay in business if they have to pay for the eggs.
Variants Explained
Oh those were golden years in the studio, hope you have a lot of fun.
Just casting my mind back to the setup we had in '99:

Juno 106, Korg Monopoly, TX816. Prophet 5, Seq Circuits Pro1,
Novation bass station, 909, Korg Wavestation (rack), Korg M1, EMU
sampler (EIII rack IIRC), Atari Mega 4 + Cubase for seqs, a IoMega zip
drive for storage that killed every other project with click of death,
and fucking midi cables and audio snakes running everywhere... great
days.
70.7 % of women dissatisfied with their breast size
The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey (BSSS): Breast size dissatisfaction and its antecedents and outcomes in women from 40 nations
OpenAI's Leadership Exodus
The information Credit Bureaus and Banks store is much scarier. They know your salary every place you've worked and lived. And with all the recent links anyone can find this information on the dark web.
Make senses, most bigger federations do not bother with this luckily for us it is just specific idps.

> synchronize the metadata updates

Sadly I know many implementations that do not handle key changes in the metadata in a smooth way. The two SPs I have from Adobe both require manual updating of one key per idp, making a switch pain to synchronize.
SaaS Ideas – A Brainstorming System
There's a slew of articles at the NYTimes on Helene. One is an interactive feature tracking the storm's destruction. As usual, that's best viewed noninteractively via Archive Today: <https://archive.is/8OODU>.

One location highlighted is the Unocoi County Hospital in Ewrin, TN, from which 50 people were evacuated from the roof by heliocopter after flooding.

The facility opened less than six years ago:

"New Unicoi County Hospital set to open in less than two weeks" (Fri, October 12th 2018)

<https://wcyb.com/news/tennessee-news/new-unicoi-county-hospi...>

NB: it might be best not to build your county hospital in a flood plain:

Google Maps / Terrain: <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Unicoi+County+Hospital,+20...>

Or, for that matter, your US Navy Nuclear Fuel Services Inc., plant:

<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nuclear+Fuel+Services+Inc/...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Fuel_Services>

Hurricane risks, 500 km / 300 mi inland.
Hulu is A/B testing ads in the pause screen – this is bad for society
Quadratic has been in BETA for quite some time. We're just announcing the release of native JS support. You can use it today for free :)
As prerequisite you need to have at least a 3-year bachelor degree from any background under your arm, so I assume it's a master degree...
The eSIM market is projected to experience significant growth over the coming years due to increasing adoption across various devices and industries. Countries scopes are: U.S.; Canada; UK; Germany; France; China; Japan; India; Australia; South Korea; Brazil; Mexico; Saudi Arabia; South Africa; UAE.
> What are "Novel" Drugs?

> "Novel" drugs are new drugs never before approved or marketed in the U.S.
Gjson: Get JSON values quickly – JSON parser for Go
"drug addiction (but basically lucid and rational) "

Serious drug addicts are seldom lucid and rational.

But I very much do get the point, that solving the schizophrenic problem, would help a lot with everything else. (I am just way more sceptical, that this drug can deliver that)