skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why I'm responding to a throwaway (are you an AI?), but this is patently false.

Holistically: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5563491/#S1

More pointedly:

> Five healthy rhesus monkeys, three male and two female, weighing from 2.4 to 6.1 kilos, were fasted for periods of 2 to 4 days... With one exception, the monkeys developed a ketosis within 2 days

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002192581...

Note that Attia's article is about rhesus monkeys.
I don't hate on Emacs in general, even more so I'm quite happy to learn about it's features and great plugins, but that'd mean a decent time investment. From my side, I'm generally a slow learner too, it took me a few years to be productive in Vim/Neovim, configuring it to my liking, polishing the motions. Maybe if I get some more free time with the new job, I'll finally go about making my Emacs config work well.
Who are you to decide for people that they cannot smoke and eat McDonald’s

I thoroughly despise the frankly Puritan attitude that society should prevent people from harming themselves
Form over function.

Everything needs to look clean and uniform, discoverability be damned.

Looking nice in a screenshot is more important than being usable.
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The first time I ran into the concept of having my mobile phone data sold to a third-party was in 2003, when I went to the Czech Republic.

Right after I crossed the border from Austria, my U.S. cell phone started lighting up with spam SMS messages. At first, it was from the local cell phone carrier welcoming me to .cz. A few minutes later, a message from T-Mobile letting me know I was roaming in another new country. Then a few minutes after that, SMS spam for hotels, then restaurants, then casinos. All of this in a time before "smart" phones.

I'm not surprised to see it's gotten so much worse.
Sorry I just can't
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It's better to have a job paying $5 an hour than no job at all, which is what you're proposing.
Adts eliminate certain kinds of bugs like nil pointer dereferencing, and, if you model your types correctly, makes invalid states unrepresentable
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It isn't the point of the article, but this is true of every storage medium. It's just a question of milliseconds or years.
Haha, I was thinking about the SE network becoming reddit light. Though lately I can't find much technical value in SO, going to the hot questions will always show some cool catfight from workplace.SE that will entertain for at least 8 minutes
“The second issue is return-to-office policies. Though Times management has told the bargaining unit that it has no plans to change the current hybrid-work model, Goran Svorcan-Merola, a software engineer who is on the Tech Guild’s bargaining committee, said that management wants to reserve the right to eventually have tech employees in the office five days a week. “It’s not the standard around the tech industry,” he said.”

More of this RTO bullshit from upper management? For a tech team?! Ugh. Solidarity with the Tech Guild.
Yes, this is a good advice for web spiders, but I don't believe it's a good advice for humans.
It's a bit jarring (but not in a bad way) to read "It's not 1995." on a page that uses no JavaScript, no images, and where the only styling is "body { width:650px; }".
But that history is hardly useful without metadata to tell them what each snapshot contains, at the very least. The only thing they have to go by is the commit date, so they can never know whether a snapshot is stable, what to revert to, etc. At that point you're not much better off from doing manual versioning by compressing the directory, and naming each file `v1`, `v2`, `v3-final-final2`, etc. (: They don't need Git for that.
(a) I'm about to find out (b) at least some casual tire-kicking shows that their mobile website is just as ragingly dumb as the app is, so that actually makes me feel a little better - it's not that the app itself is stupid, it's that their dev team is
Doesn't it also make sense if they have a ton of cash and not a good place to spend it? It's basically like a dividend right?
> You mean it has a gun in it, and it's in first person?

That's not what I meant, but even if it was I think my point stands. There are too many 'first person games with guns' in general. It's hard to imagine the possibilities precisely because the market is so saturated with monotony.

> spouting nonsense

By the way, your response seems unnecessarily aggressive. Sorry if you interpreted mine as such; that wasn't the intention.

To address your list of games: it's worth observing that they all fit very neatly into categories (shooter, fighter, platformer, etc.), so I do think this shows a lack of creativity. Even within each category, there are similarities — every game seems to build on the existing idioms that have built up over the last thirty years or so, and that's without mentioning all the firearms paraphernalia and language that is standard in most big-budget games.

But the same is true of music and film and probably everything else, so it's probably just that my taste is unusual. I'm aware of that.

I actually think Minecraft was a good example of fresh game design — it didn't fit into any of those categories. Hell, it didn't even have much of an objective and it certainly didn't feel like a reskinned version of a thousand other games.
Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine
WikiCrow: An article for every human gene
We used an open-source AI RAG library, PaperQA2 (https://github.com/Future-House/paper-qa), to generate well cited articles for every gene in the human genome, ~15k of which had no existing prior articles. In terms of factuality, we tested our generated claims against the same gene's human written Wikipedia article in a blinded study evaluated by PhD biologists. Our system's articles were more precise on average than cited claims from existing articles. (https://paper.wikicrow.ai)

The system is scalable in that we can comfortably generate all 19.2k gene articles once per week, building a repository of cited articles that automatically syncs with all published literature.
Use and Configure Pi-Hole[0]

[0]:https://jeffmorhous.com/block-ads-for-your-entire-network-wi...

Also a video for those more YT inclined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCA24qJBG8Q
I did the same thing a little while back and landed on using AuthKit (WorkOS) mostly because they offer a good free tier if you don't mind the authentication URL not having your domain.

They also have amazing support.
shoot me an email on the address in my profile with something about the octatrack in the subject.

deffo not in a releasable state, started very much as a personal learning project, and not (yet) attempting to be a full OctaEdit replacement.
> Nobody's fixing the infrastructure. Sure new stuff is being built but that is supposed to be ON TOP of what we already have - and we're just letting what we already have crumble away. Yea internet and some power is going down but that's about it. Roadways, bridges, oh no. Route 66? It's screwed right now. Recent issues we had on the 40 forced a traffic reroute and the weight limit on those little bridges is 3 tons - guess what went over those bridges? Semi trucks with 10 or more tons of freight. You bet those bridges got wrecked, and nobody's fixing them. Ludlow to Cadiz is absolutely wrecked. Thankfully, I have an offroad vehicle and powerline roads exist, so I'm able to still get to digging areas or visit Dish Hill Volcano.

I feel like it's extremely misleading to give this example without providing surrounding context.

"Route 66" in this area is a 70 mile, parallel road to I-40 that serves a population of zero or nearly so and is a 2 lane strip of asphalt through the desert left over from before I-40 was constructed. It serves basically no function and no population, today.

It's not very obvious at all that it makes sense to spend money replacing the 100+ timber bridges along the stretch rather than just abandoning most of the road/downgrading it to a 4WD road with no bridges - although repairing/rebuilding it does seem to be what San Bernadino County hopes to eventually do.

Many of the bridges, while partially failing due to age, are also failing due to flooding damage - which is what caused the 3 ton weight restrictions to go in place in the first place and the sections that have been closed since 2014/2017.

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Additionally, the road is only officially closed east of Kelbaker Rd, and that section of road has zero population, and there's basically zero regional significance to the closure beyond mildly inconveniencing a few people in Amboy who can now only go West to get to I-40/civilization. (Especially since most reports I've seen suggest you can continue to the unpaved/rarely traveled Cadiz Rd anyway, which was the only connection that could only be accessed from the closed section).

The road from Ludlow to the Dish Hill Volcano is open, just less convenient if you used to get to it from the East.

Citation: https://dpw.sbcounty.gov/operations/road-closures/
As an Australian, I would say take anything with a
.au at the end of it with a very large grain of salt.
We'll miss out on an insightful analysis of how the huge amount of votes for Harris are a big problem for the Harris campaign? Scary...

Big Media thought-pieces on how Big Media is important, and/or over, and/or somehow indifferent are... over?
> makes the UK (where ARM's fighting from) look like Mississippi backwaters

Most of ARM's design work is done in the US (Austin), India (Bangalore, Noida), and China (Beijing), though ARM China should basically be treated as a separate company at this point due to corporate shenanigans.

That said, in the chip design space (which tends to be concentrated in the US, Israel, India, and China), RISC-V has become much more popular for commodity embedded usecases because of the less restrictive licensing meaning better profit margins, which is allowing fabless chip startups to potentially leap ahead of ARM
We don’t have to let perfect be the enemy of the good. The majority of Americans are non-partisan and just want results.
There are silly things that trip up e2e tests like a cookie pop up or network failures and whatnot. An AI can plow through these in a way that a purely coded test can’t.

Those types of transient issues aren’t something that you would want to fail a test for given it still would let the human get the job done if it happened in the field.

This seems like the most useful part of adding AI to e2e tests. The world is not deterministic, which AI handles well.

Uber takes this approach here:
https://www.uber.com/blog/generative-ai-for-high-quality-mob...
Right. Again, even if this is your opinion, you should be pro WFH in general because it makes your life better as someone who works in an office.

But you're not, because you're attempting to appeal to what you think people more successful than you (business owners) want. As opposed to what objectively would be best for you. That's pathetic and self-destructive.

If it makes you feel better, most Americans are self-destructive and don't know how to stop. But if you don't advocate for yourself, you should be aware that certainly nobody else is.

I've worked at good companies, and bad companies. The reality is neither care about my well-being because only I, and my family, care about my well-being. You have to understand if you drop dead right now the world will continue without you. The company will not cease operations for even an hour.

Therefore, you must constantly make an effort to live the best life you can, while you can. Purposefully harming yourself with the intention of creating a better perception doesn't help you, especially when that perception is worthless.
It's at least 30% of most ORMs. And if your homebrew ORM actually gets wide use, it'll grow from there.

Source: Wrote an ORM that other people actually use. Still adding features, twelve years later.
I think I take something different away from the article, yes tokenizers are important but they're a means to get at something much much bigger which is how to clean up and normalize unstructured data. It's a current endeavor of mine at $dayjob for how to do this in a way that can work reasonably well even for badly mangled documents. I don't have any silver bullets, at least nothing worthy of a blog-post yet, but since this is needed when dealing with OCR documents so "post-ocr correction" turns up quite a few different approaches.

And this is an aside, but I see folks using LLMs to do this correction in the first place. I don't think using LLMs to do correction in a multi-pass system is inherently bad but I haven't been able to get good results out of "call/response" (i.e. a prompt to clean up this text). The best results are when you're running an LLM locally and cleaning incrementally by using token probabilities to help guide you. You get some candidate words from your wordlist based on the fuzzy match of the text you do have, and candidate words predicted from the previous text and when both align -- ding! It's (obviously) not the fastest method however.
I'm not sure, but it's probably not too far of a stretch to call this surveillance harassment. Sure, if I'm walking down the street on public property and film houses and people, it's fine. If I showed up every day in front of your house and set up a camera to watch you, your family, and property... I'm pretty sure I could get a restraining order as it's a pattern of intimidation, stalking, and/or harassment. These cameras are there to threaten you.
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Tokenizers aren't considered the "sexy" part of LLMs, but where others see boring, I see opportunity. Papers like xVal[1], point toward specialization strategies in tokenization. Spelling and letter tasks are another problem that could benefit from innovation on the tokenization.

LLMs are notoriously bad at counting letters in words or performing simply oulipos of letter omission. GPT-4o, for example, writes a small python program and executes it in order to count letter instances. We all know that tokenization effectively erases knowledge about letters in prompts and directly negatively impacts performance at these tasks, yet we haven't found a way to solve it.

1. https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2310.02989
It's Postel's Law, on steroids. Be liberal in what you accept (with LLMs, that means 'literally anything'), but strict in what you return (which in an LLM is still 'literally anything' but you can constrain that).

Beyond that, I can't help but think of the old thin vs. thick client debate, and I would argue that "software should just talk via APIs" is why, in the web space, everybody is blowing time and energy on building client/server architectures and SPAs instead of basic-ass full-stacks.
| source: washingtonpost.com

nice try, guys
Not even. It's worse. They aren't even useful for that.

They've tried that approach but it's actually less efficient than "good old fashioned police work" because it turns out that 99/100 of your hits are gonna be lawful weirdos, 1/100 is gonna be a petty drug dealer and the career advancing prosecution you actually wanted would have been much easier to find by using normal methods like inferring that a dealer has a supplier, a spy has a handler, etc, etc and trying to suss out who those people are. The NSA figured all this out post 9/11 when they were building data haystacks in search of terrorists.

What the data haystacks do get used for is dragnet policing wherein an agency picks some crime they're gonna go hard on, pulls up a bunch of results of people who probably did it, tosses all the people who are likely to pose any risk to them (e.g. you don't see the ATF knocking on doors asking about Temu glock switches in bad parts of Detroit) and kicks in the doors of whoever's left.

The data haystacks are also really useful for witch hunts when they get egg on their face and need to make someone pay, like that time they prosecuted anyone and everyone who they could construe as having done anything to help the kid who bombed the Boston Marathon, and the January 6 people of whom a great number were certainly just hapless.

And this is in addition to the usual "opposition research" like the FBI bugging MLK and all that sort of crap.
adding a neural network in the middle suddenly makes these things less brittle. We are approaching the point where this kind of “hacky glue” is almost scalable.
The trouble with the strike option is it either exposes your leverage. Good or bad.
I hope they win, but it won’t be worth much since Amazon can simply collect this data themselves and then sell a subscription to the city.

I rarely say this, but we need legislation.
Even if every single news site went down on election night, it would be fine. People aren't gonna die if they don't find out who won the election until the next day or even the next week.
Fascinating, and downright uncanny.

I could have written it.

Now I can share it with others and say "This is 96% me."

- I use gap instead of gaa. (He also uses git add -p, but no alias?)
- I didn't have 'git lr', but I do now.
- I use `git commit --amend` more often.
- Pull request workflows exactly the same.
- Same policy on rebasing main onto feature branches.
- Same behavior around reviewing and self-reviewing.
- Same tendency to commit and cherry-pick off a branch.
- ...

My Atuin frequency table for git-specific commands:

gs # git status
gap # git add -p
gl # git log
gc # git commit (with -m, -v or --amend)
ga # git add
gdc # git diff --cached
gd # git diff
gp # git push (sometimes with --force-with-lease)
gco # git checkout
gpr # git pull --rebase --prune
git restore
git config
git rebase

I actually use Conventional Commits. I spent a total of 5 minutes bike-shedding "chore".

I didn't use "chore" before, because I don't get it, but I care more about consistency than being right.

So with my current colleague, I use "chore" as he does.

Another big difference is: I used `git worktree` extensively in my previous job. I don't now.

I used it extensively in my old job, since I maintained multiple long-lived contexts, and got distracted a lot.

I don't do that recently, so it's probably a work culture thing.
"It's not 1995" is really a terrible argument, because https://xkcd.com/1053/

You have people today who don't even know what a link is.
And written in racket!

Looks like a good learning material. Congratulations and thanks for sharing
It’s propaganda that China and Russia have no limits.

Neither Russia nor China want to annihilate people.
Sometimes you can't win. I worked on a site that had what I call a punitive UI -- buttons and links that would throw up a modal alert telling users they shouldn't have clicked on that. When I started changing the UI so users didn't see controls/links they shouldn't click on, users complained that "the web page changed," as if they had memorized exact pixel locations and I caused their confusion. Pigeons pecking at the green dot.

Numerous studies tell us that people don't read web pages, or don't read much of the text on the page. A big "click here" helps in that case, a call to action as another commenter wrote. As long as the page or email just has one call to action.
I have come to find high intelligence, low wisdom a very scary combination.
They're also using these tools to stalk women[0]

[0]: https://theweek.com/speedreads/651668/hundreds-police-office...
Amen. Graphic designers with a background in anything print have been a huge hindrance to the web. After a long time in the wilderness of single-page apps and framework, I see at least some small cracks of light where people are recognizing how simple/useful pages (e.g. McMaster-Carr) can be the most "beautiful".
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> if a function takes a list of records all of which need an x field of type int, then you cannot pass it a list of records where all contain the x field of int but some also contain an irrelevant y field and others contain an irrelevant z field.

Can you explain that a little more? Intuitively I would imagine that those y and z fields would 'disappear' into the rest part.
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Given the disinformation campaign that will take place (at the very least from russian bots flooding social media), I would much prefer all sources of information be fully available throughout the election. Of course this is their highest leverage moment, but it is also critical for the future of the country (at the very least). It is somewhat akin to ambulance drivers choosing to go on strike on Memorial day weekend. I am not a fan of the tactic, since they could strike any other time and get the same thing, perhaps striking 2 days more than they would have to at this time.
> The other bad thing about 3d printing is layer lines. I had some bench parts printed, and I thought I could cover up the layer lines with acrylic paint, but it it turned out that even two layers of gesso followed by two layers of paint didn’t solve the problem.

You can fix that problem by sanding your 3d-printed object before applying acrylic paint. It's also recommended to apply a primer before you paint it.
In train stations i am constantly blocked by people. Or subway stations. Or even in these metal boxes, oh my god, i chose my own metal box anytime of this congestion. ;)
If every single news site went down, I would expect Trump to declare himself winner and put into motion a coup.
The culture decline was largely from the merger with McDonnell Douglas[0]. Before that Boeing had a high engineering culture all the way up to leadership. When management of a tech company is decoupled from engineering, there are short-term wins and long-term losses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing#Merger_with_McDonnell_D...
Show HN: An Online Training Framework for AI4Science Applications
Hey, I've been designing a framework to improve the training of deep learning models on expensive numerical simulations. Instead of relying on limited, pre-generated dataset, the approach streams data directly from large-scale numerical simulations running simultaneously with training. Because it avoids I/O bottlenecks it makes training faster and cheaper.

It is implemented as an asynchronous iterable dataset using ZMQ for data communication. I would love your thoughts on how to extend this to a full-fledged event-driven application.

Although the framework target cluster environments, the link contains code you can try locally. Check it out and let me know what you think!
This is the right idea and how we do it at TestDriver.ai. The deterministic selector still has about 20% fuzz matching rate, and if it fails it trys to recover.
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You can still use the app. You get asked both to have the app get access to the MAID, and get access to location. If this is a problem, it is a problem because you said Yes to both. You could have said No. You can change that choice now.

If you go to Settings -> Privacy, the top two options in iOS 18 are:

* Auto-deny Advertising ID access

* Which apps have location access ("X always, Y while using the app" is summarized right at the top)
Don't see the point of entertaining continuing to employ a workforce that threatens to sabotage you on the biggest night of the year for your company.
Is it a new Linux distro (cool) or just another android fork that... can't run android apps (lame)?
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