skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please consider reading this book. It changed my life:

Wahlgren, Anna (2009). A Good Night's Sleep - This is how you can truly help your baby to sleep through the night. Anna Wahlgren AB. ISBN 9789197773614

I'm saying this as a father who was going through the worst time of my life as my baby daughter's top 3 records for "most sleep in one night" was 5 hours (which only happened that one time), 3 hours (which only happened that one other time), and then never ever more than 2 sleep cycles of 45 minutes on any day/night.

Sleep deprivation makes your life so miserable. And it does so for the toddler as well. My daughter couldn't learn to walk and kept falling over because, well, she was just too exhausted.

It seems the book isn't as well known in the US (where I'm assuming you are) as it is in Europe, and maybe there are equivalent approaches from American authors as well. But this is the one that solved the problem and taught her to sleep in 4 - four - nights.

My wife and I applied the stuff from the book from Dec.1st to Dec.4th of 2018. My daughter has not had trouble sleeping her 11+ hours straight a single night since then (that was 6 years ago) except a couple of times when she was teething.

I was recently asked on a (business) podcast what was the top book that changed my life and that was it. To think you could struggle for such a long time, and suddenly find out you could change that in 4 days... I have tears in my eyes whenever I talk about it.

Anyway. Long message to wish you well, internet stranger. It will get better.
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Giving the reward to a minimum wage worker seems like something he would do if he wanted to give himself up to the police, like why just go to the cops, the reward would be wasted. Although his politics seem incongruent so maybe not.
My takeaway is that an engineering degree doesn't have anything to do with a guy that, from that message, looks to me as an arrogant narcissist (by how smart he tries to be) who likely doesn't have trained too well his acceptance for frustration and who seems to give in his impulses disregarding anything else.

And your takeaway is, for me, infantile, naive and dangerous. This guys is not a victim of a system, this guy is a killer, whether we like that CEO or not.
Psychologist Shows Embryo of Computer Designed to Read and Grow Wiser (NYT 1958)
Good to know, thanks!

I wonder what the root causes of these bad installations were.
This is a good counterexample to "syntax is not sufficient for semantics". It is sufficient when there is no distinction between data and code. Code can reflect on itself as data. Like bootstrapped autocompilers, Godel's Arithmetization or neural nets. In all cases syntax is both data and behavior, it is deep, self reflective and self generative.
Is there consensus on what signature validation is correct? https://hdevalence.ca/blog/2020-10-04-its-25519am
Funfact of historical interest only: in NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, plists had a more JSON-type syntax, although of course it predates JS.
Show HN: I built a meditation app that lets you pick the voice you like
Show HN: I built a meditation app that lets you pick the voice you like

I've been meaning to meditate for a while now, but often find it hard to get started with apps like Calm or Headspace which require you to go through a series of lessons, especially with guided meditations.

Guided meditations on Spotify work too but sometimes I want to change the voice / background music just to make it more interesting.

So I built this app that lets you pick the voice / music and meditate to it, it's specifically designed for 13-min guided meditations because studies show that it's a minimal duration that still has significant benefits.

I'm planning to add these features soon:
- Other languages
- Interactive guided meditations so you can do things like exteroceptive meditation (label what you see or hear, chat with AI and let it guide you)

Curious to see what you think!
>Instead of plotting to kill the CEO of some healthcare company, he found a solution to his problem instead.

invoking "bootstraps" unironically in this exact, specific context is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever, ever seen
Rupert Murdoch grew up in media, his father had a newspaper and (along with other adventures) tilted hard at the British Government over censorship of war news in WWI.

With that as his launchpad he expanded from Australia to the UK and mastered the art of eating Fleet Street's lunch (stealing eyeballs from establishment newspapers).

Recently, when Fox finally (temporarily) stopped supporting Trump following his defeat by Biden, the NewsMax crowd had a red hot go at stealing eyeballs from Fox and being the edgy outsiders. They weren't real good at it.

But this isn't about Rupert, it's about his kids .. and in many ways their talents remain to be seen.

If Fox moves to the centre, will it be successful? That depends on the hands on the tiller.

If someone goes up against Fox media will it be Newsmax and Ted Turner's ghost or will it be Lachlan Murdoch hellbent on sticking it to James?

These are, IMHO, more interesting questions.

Never underestimate the drama of siblings ripping into each other .. now add several billion dollars in to the mix.
Did you read the article? Respondents performed barely better than chance. Sure, no one was actually 100% wrong[0]. Just almost always wrong, with a noticeable bias towards liking AI art more.

The detailed breakdown you mention? Maybe it's accurate to that artist's thought process, maybe it's more of a rationalization; either way, it's not a general rule they, or anyone, could apply to any of the other AI images. Most of those in the article don't exhibit those "telltale signs", and the one that does - the Victorian Megaship - was actually made by human artist with no AI in the mix.

EDIT:

Another image that stands out to me is Riverside Cafe. Myself, like apparently a lot of other people, going by articles' comments, assumed it's a human-made one, because we vaguely remembered Vang Gogh painted something like it. He did, it's called Café Terrace at Night - and yet, despite immediately evoking the association, Riverside Cafe was made by AI, and is actually nothing like Café Terrace at Night at any level.

(I find it fascinating how this work looks like a copy of Van Gogh at first glance, for no obvious reason, but nothing alike once you pause to look closer. It's like... they have similar low-frequency spectra or something?)

EDIT2:

Played around with the two images in https://ejectamenta.com/imaging-experiments/fourifier/. There are some similarities in the spectra, I can't put my finger on them exactly. But it's probably not the whole answer. I'll try to do some more detailed experimentation later.

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[0] - Nor should you expect it - it would mean either a perfect calibration, or be the equivalent of flipping a coin and getting heads 30 times in a row; it's not impossible, but you shouldn't expect to see it unless you're interviewing fewer people than literally the entire population of the planet.
Anonymity is huge. Without consequences, people have no problem being nasty. But the freedom to do as we please is a big issue too. Sure, there are limits, but it usually comes down to what's against the country's laws. Human interaction has unspoken rules that aren't against the law, like yelling at people. It's not against the law, but no one will tolerate someone who constantly does it. Even once is a no-go for most.

We have defined human interaction laws IRL, which we call courtesy. We need to figure out how to define those for social networks and find a way to enforce them. That would go a long way to make a social network better.
No penalty for just turning it off.
Maybe to create clout ? (assuming he really intended to get caught eventually)

Reportedly he is smart, so he probably knows the value of a good mystery.
Very contrarian take I think. Most people see that the CEO isn't just unliked, he's actively responsible for the deaths of many. So, for many, his death is justified. As the legal system would never find him guilty for something all knew he was guilty of.
Yes, the purpose of an assassination is to have societal implications. In this case, the implications primarily threaten the people in power. Thus, those people direct their forces at preventing and prosecuting such acts.

This is all totally consistent with OP’s charge that there is a two-tiered justice system. Personally, I would much rather see the man who murdered OP’s neighbor in jail than Luigi Mangione.
McLean, Alex, Giovanni Fanfani, and Ellen Harlizius-Klück. "Cyclic patterns of movement across weaving, epiplokē and live coding." Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 10.1 (2018).

McLean, Alex. "Algorithmic Pattern." NIME. 2020.
I always hear this argument - is there any actual evidence that this is true though?
>Educated people tend to overestimate their abilities outside their domain.

This. And HN is the perfect example to observe this phenomenon.

I lost track how many highly confident but incorrect takes I read here on semiconductor topics from people who assumed they know everything about any tech topic because they earn sich figures from writing crud web software.
The secret is to tie the tech debt to something that business wants. If that can’t be done then you have wonder how important it really is to address the debt.
Using AI to Generating Story with Pictures?
> Countries like India are unique for gaining freedom without violence.

There was a lot of violence leading up to and, sadly, after the independence of India. Gandhi was nonviolent, but many of the freedom fighters for India's independence were not.
HN is quite a glass house. Moralizing then back to selling peoples data and ensuring warehouse workers suffer and get our kids get addicted to doomscrolling, while selling people more shit they don't need. Then use that money to push up house prices.
Post-retirement is definitely harder. There are also usually rules about what's allowable with the money that built up with tax relief and such. Since these rules differ from country to country even the starting point of deciding what to model is hard.

Here in Ireland I think in order to get some flexibility with a reasonably sized pension you need to buy an annuity - a guaranteed income paid from some insurance company, up to some amount.

Some day I might settle on some scenario/s to model and take on the visualization challenge... For now hopefully people - especially those who provide the services, can assess if it can be helpful!
I have used many AI story-generating tools, including Canva, but the results were very poor, so I made my own tool. The MVP version is already online, and this version is text-only.
The next version will have a function with pictures.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids left the country because they were being pursued by Pinkertons.
Some say he had a medical issue and saw first hand the reality of being sick and not an elite in America (even though, by all accounts he probably had good insurance and was quite wealthy in his own right).
I don't understand why you need OpenCyc for this, you could just chain LLM for both.

I think it would outperform on any language task as language that isn't formal requires interpretation which LLMs excel at.
There are projects like https://contentcredentials.org/ . If we want, with some effort we could distinguish between real and ai generated. If.
Thanks gordito!
The relevant RSA break is sufficiently powerful quantum computers, which also break ECDH (actually, ECDH is easier than classically equivalent-strength RSA for quantum computers[1]), so no, you’re not fine.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33069/why-is-ec...
> What we see in cases where someone takes Postgres and replaces the guts (Greenplum, Cloudberry, and of course YDB) is that it becomes a huge effort to keep up with new Postgres versions.

The first upgrade is the hardest, but after that we will have the framework in place to perform consecutive upgrades much sooner.
When the pg11 to pg15 upgrade becomes available it will be in-place online without affecting the DMLs, no other pg fork offers this capability today.
As much as I enjoy and share that link, I don't think it's quite the same: It would actually be more honest if banks had said: "Our deliberately insecure processes were exploited by scammers, but it's some contractor's fault."

In contrast, "identity theft" is trying to re-characterize the type of failure in order to blame the consumer.

> It was garbage, but it had been cooked by an expert. [...] The Grand Trunk’s problems were clearly the result of some mysterious spasm in the universe and had nothing to do with greed, arrogance, and willful stupidity. Oh, the Grand Trunk management had made mistakes—oops, "well-intentioned judgments which, with the benefit of hindsight, might regrettably have been, in some respects, in error"—but these had mostly occurred, it appeared, while correcting "fundamental systemic errors" committed by the previous management. No one was sorry for anything, because no living creature had done anything wrong; bad things had happened by spontaneous generation in some weird, chilly, geometric otherworld, and "were to be regretted."

-- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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Revenue is growing slowly but steadily, and I’m proud to 1) start making a living from it, and 2) ensure the project’s open-source future.
Fine, confirmed as fake but he also had three real ones, "YouTube on Monday removed three channels belonging to Luigi Mangione ..."

What was the content in those channels and why were they removed?

All other online footprint of this guy is still online (even his github!), what content was there on YT to grant it being removed?

Lack of transparency will just generate more questions and doubt.
At the risk of sounding dumb: I don’t understand what are the practical applications of OpenCyc. I get LLMs, you can ask questions and they’ll answer, they can write an article, they can summarize documents… what are the practical applications of OpenCyc?
Grok gives this as an excuse for answering "The surgeon is the boy's mother." :

<<Because the surgeon, who is the boy's father, says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son!" This indicates that there is another parent involved who is also a surgeon. Given that the statement specifies the boy's father cannot operate, the other surgeon must be the boy's mother.>>
Sounds plausible and on the first read, almost logical.
>they might have tried a good distro.

Can you read and comprehend at the same time ? I used Arch and Chakra and other distros. or you claim Arch and the distros are mentioned are BAD.
This seems extremely unlikely in practice considering how many people would need to play along. Also what happens if more evidence appears afterwards or the actual killer gives himself up? You just end up playing whack a mole to keep the lie working. No it really doesn't make sense.

Not saying it's impossible but in those cases they need to A) know who the real killer actually is, and B) kill/suicide the fall guy.
You can easily program some simple stuff using AI

but being able to get EXACTLY UNT EXACTLY what you want... youre gonna need to be able to code, for that.

Also just pasting in code from an AI... it might work, but as soon as you try to make a larger system that communicates with other systems, youre gonna have a bad time.

and lets not forget.. do these non-coders know how to make sure youre code is safe, and all that jazz
I suppose "Coders hate this one simple trick" was a bit obvious. Clickbait.
Why does optimal substructure work for code size? Couldn't you take a compiled non-minimal function and break each instruction into a function call (with some assumptions about the ISA maybe), then assuming each single-instruction function is minimal by itself, infer the entirety is minimal, contradicting?
Well, first of all it failed twice: first it spat out the canned riddle answer, then once I asked it to "double check" it said "sorry, I was wrong: the surgeon IS the boy's father, so there must be a second surgeon..."

Then the follow up correction did have the effect of making it look harder at the question. It actually wrote:

"Let me look at EXACTLY what's given" (with the all caps).

It's not very different from a person that decides to focus harder on a problem once it was fooled by it a couple of times already because it is trickier than it seems. So yes, surprisingly human, with all its flaws.
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Also see... that other war.
You can see the perspective/angle of the objects changing slightly as the camera moves in a way that makes it pretty obvious they're CG, AI or otherwise.
That's always been a problem with AI generated imagery in video/animation; it changes too much frame to frame. If researchers figure out how to address that, yeah, we've got a problem. Until then - this looks worse tha

Then there's the usual giveways for CG - sharpness, noise, lighting, color temperature, saturation - none of them match. There's also no diffuse reflection of the intense pink color.
Bureaucrats of the holocaust were also innocent?
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I think the evidence merely suggests that his DEA will be ineffective. His initial pick for head of the DEA, Florida sheriff Chad Chronister, went two days [0] from being announced to be being "pulled out" on account of his lack of experience with the border and his arrest of a megachurch pastor for COVID public gathering rule violation [1].

My assumption is that the GP expects that it will be gutted by the Department of Government Efficiency and/or be significantly laid off via Schedule F conversion [2]. However, rules made earlier this year by the OPM should limit that specific method of getting rid of civil servants [3].

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/politics/chad-chronister-trum...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/chad-chronister-trump-withdrawing...

[2] https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f...

[3] https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/04/opm-issues-final-r...
I'm not a mathematician so please bear with me here, but I think a problem stems from the fact that the set of reals is "infinite". So, whatever interval you choose, there are infinitely more reals outside the interval as inside (by that I mean that you can fit an infinite number of copies of that interval up to infinity). So the probability e is not >0, it is effectively 0. The second problem is, what does it mean to choose a real at random ? There is an implication that you can choose such number, but as a human living in the finite universe there are limitations to your choice. Any number you can write using all the atoms in the universe is infinitely outnumbered by all numbers that you can't. So effectively it is impossible to pick a random real number. You have to pick a real in some interval, implicitly the interval of reals you can write in an envelope. Which is a different problem than stated originally and for which your "e" can be >0.
Not worth marketing to.
logical correctness as in formal logic is a huge step down

LLMs understand context and meaning and genuine intention
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Why are you talking about the future? It has always been like that. I am pretty sure it was already like that in the trobadors days, antic Greece or Olmec civilization.

Artists have almost always been poor unless they found wealthy or state sponsors.
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I have a multi-year titre de séjour, the problem is the Russian citizenship. I guess banks don't want to figure out who's sanctioned and who's not, refusing service is safer.

The first wave of account closures in 2022 was absurdly wide and even affected some French citizens. It was a scandal that got some coverage in the news [1][2][3]. I suspect the filter was the birthplace which is known to the bank, even though some media speculated it was about names. IMO names would be insane even for a bank, however I can imagine a name being one of the inputs for an opaque ML risk-scoring model.

French citizens that I know of got their accounts reinstantiated, but foreign nationals continue to struggle to this day. There's a collective lawsuit going on but it will take years to achieve anything withhin the french justice system.

[1] https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/comptes-bancaires-bloques-en-...

[2] https://www.nouvelobs.com/entreprises/20220726.OBS61366/des-...

[3] https://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/en...
It's not based on a single combinator. It's based on the two standard basis combinators S and K, and a non-combinator that can inspect normalized terms
to distinguish between degrees 0,1,and 2.
This usage is quite common; it's the second definition on Britannica: "to make (something) available to all people : to make it possible for all people to understand (something)"

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/democratize
As a counterpoint to many of the other commenters, it is 100% true that providers way overcharge for healthcare in the US. Specialized nurses and doctors have salaries that exceed nearly every other profession in the US. But they are not even the main employees! The healthcare industry in the US employs a substantial chunk of all of America, largely in bloated administrative jobs that aren't really necessary for patients.

I'd say, it's also true that this specific company UHG, specifically had policies in place that led to people dying over denied claims. The author of this piece himself said 10-20% of claims are outright, flatly denied by health insurance. That leads to a world where people die unable to afford healthcare they already paid for. I think both parties are at fault here, and yeah insurance is easier to be mad at, that's an idea that makes sense to me.