skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are, ah, generally presented clearly and unambiguously as fiction.

I realise that character.ai has a little disclaimer saying 'this isn't a real person' or similar, but... that's not how people _work_.
When I worked in an investment bank 100% of the sales came from cold contacts originally. Some were calls others were emails. They work perfectly fine. Once someone was an investor they'd do repeat business, but they all started as cold contacts.

I think one of the major issues with especially cold emails is that they extremely often reach the wrong people. Which is probably also why HN hates them so much. I've gotten so many of them when I was in no position to make any sort on decision on whatever they were trying to sell. Which is just a waste of everyones time. These days I just automatically delete external e-mails that aren't specifically whitelisted, but not everyone can do that for obvious reasons.
I'm impressed that it's even that conversational, given that GPT-2 was never trained for conversations.
Don’t know the details of why these crytobulls were denied accounts. But I suspect it had to do with money laundering or some other thing where the bank thought they couldn’t follow the money so to speak and thought they’d be liable.

Same with Weed. It’s legally in states but not federally. What’s a bank to do then?

Governments do act in a protection scheme which is a double edged sword: being able to cut off the funds of ill gotten gains of a terrorist or drug boss also gives them potentially similar powers to do the same to the crypto bro.
I saw a great one slide corollary to this from a government program manager meeting once - basically, shorter time to first prototype drastically decreases overall program cost.

I think a lot of this has to do with giving the customer less time in which to change their mind.

Tangentially related to op - but, an interesting tangent nonetheless.
Also: https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd/
Works in larger resolution for me fine, issues on smaller viewports.
not will, that happens all the time. You are stating the obvious. The not so obvious part isis to do the work in place of expecting anything for granted.
> pay to have a genuine interaction

If you're paying for it, how genuine is it really?
I took a look at your previous post. Nice abstract image, but I'm not an artist so I can't give a technical opinion. Do you have Instagram? My wife post what she draws there and has more views than in her web page.

On the web page site, the images take too much time to load and sometimes they update before they are complete. Is it possible to download them in the background? Perhaps the resolution is too high. Perhaps you can use a low resulution image and a button to get the full resolution one. Perhaps you can add loading spin at the begining until the first image is loaded.

I'm not sure about life after retirement, but it may be too lonely. Perhaps you can colaborate in some type of comunity service in some topic you like and with people you like.
Mastering simplicity: a nested ${templating} engine in 150 lines of C
If (and that is a big if. Most people severely underestimate their body fat levels. And with some touting 3% dexa scan results, even such measurements are suspect) you really were at a bmi of 29 (which, BTW, doesn't count as 30+ from my original statement ), then congrats on your amazing genetics and work ethic.

Still, to break that bmi 30 barrier significantly, while maintaining the same level of leanness, you'd likely require some additional 'help'.

And again - it is possible for a number of gifted people, just highly unlikely. Most males can't get that jacked no matter how much and how hard they train. I'd say that even with PEDs most wouldn't break that barrier while staying lean.

My personal best was a 28 bmi with what looked like a 9% body fat, veins fully visible at the lower abs and the hips etc, and it was absolutely unsustainable for more than a year, for a plethora of reasons. Can't even imagine gaining 3 more points.

To reiterate: I'd still focus on a BMI to gauge the public health - the genetic outliers are rare
I sort of get why this feels dishonest, but in the same way I’m not sure social media is something that users expect to be a reciprocal experience in 2024, save speaking to ones own immediate circles.

Kids might believe that MrBeast is replying to them personally, but I think some Internet education goes along way to help here, and I don’t know of anyone of legal age to be engaging with these platforms that would expect genuine “celebrity” responses to their comments.
The youtuber claims to be a journalist and is asking the government (FBI and DOJ) for the records they have regarding the investigation into Trump's handling of secret documents. The government agencies have declined to provide the records, and also declined to give expedited processing (which the youtuber claims is his right because he is a journalist), so he has filed lawsuits against the government agencies asking that they be required to provide the records.
Latest Benchmarks Show 10x Faster Prefix Queries vs. Etcd
Hi HN,

I wanted to share an exciting update about Treds, the high-performance prefix search server I introduced earlier. After running a new series of benchmarks, the results continue to confirm Treds' edge over etcd for prefix-based queries:

Latest Benchmark Highlights:
10x Faster Prefix Queries: Treds consistently outperforms etcd in scenarios with 100k+ keys sharing a prefix.

https://github.com/absolutelightning/treds?tab=readme-ov-file#treds---scankeys-vs-etcd---get---prefix

https://treds.io/performance
Doesn't BitTorrent do some NAT traversal stuff? Genuinely interested.
I'm not sure about the naming; similar software already exists for linux with the same name: https://github.com/jbensmann/xmouseless https://github.com/jbensmann/mouseless
Yes. Not having the market validating this as business in a time where AIs are full of ideological biases is good news. Incredible that parents would trust this much in the blind. Remove the marketing gimmicks and is like asking to accept in advance a close 24/7 new friend of their kid before knowing if that's the behavioral influence they want from that "friend" (interestingly this would bring the alignment issue and, as a side note, makes us meditate on how aligned we are with friends and friends of our kids, etc).
> Could this "data collection" code not potentially be put into a few thousand lines also?

This would mean hardcoding a model of the world. Which maybe, with the help of some breakthrough from physics, would be possibe (but I think the kind of breakthrough needed to get down to such a small size would be a theory of everything). But this means eliminating the self-learning part of current neural networks, which is what makes them attractive: you don't have to hardcode the rules, as the model will be able to learn them.
> I've often wondered if the balkanization of streaming services would lead to a resurgence of physical media ownership

Probably not. What's already happening is that movie studios are scaling back physical media production so if you want to see those movies you'll have to use their streaming service or figure out how to import it while you still can:

https://collider.com/disney-physical-media-release-discontin...

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/disney-sony-pysical-media...

Why sell you something when they can rent it to you forever?
It will change fast when a non NATO aligned entity attempts to deploy their Starlink.
There are absolutely social, political, and economic consequences. Those in the political class don’t exist in a separate bubble from each other. There are natural consequences for breaking from the party line, especially on the right, which demands complete fealty.

Natural consequences might be that the judge and their family no longer get to go to the yacht extravagant social gatherings, their kids may no longer have an in at their preferred university, or they may have even have the propaganda machine turned against them - potentially endangering them.

There are so many potential consequences that it’s not even worth trying to mention them all. These are all real threats that keep people in these types of positions aligned with the original intent for putting them there.
they're suing the FBI and DOJ
The report for the 2024 security audit of the Mullvad app is now available
the techbros who performed the rug pull are now richer than the (supposedly) "unsympathetic because they are rich" customers
New FDA Warning Added to Popular Weight Loss Drugs
No, but you can at least try to prevent someone being able to hide it in the noise.
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304333
You can push only for so long before you burn out your team.

Sure they can skip meals, work crazy hours to meet your arbitrary tight deadlines. But this is a time ticking bomb.
When is there voice control where I can configure the use of vocal sound effects (clicks, pops, whatever) as meta ?
At this point, those are also places where we should not be sharing our voices.

Or, given similar concerns about image and video generation, our faces.
It's not just NJ, here's one weirdn in Miami: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hcfaqw/glowing_orb_f... (https://archive.is/VPxBG) (from tiktok account jessica.leigh)

Also, a consensus is building that it's ridiculous for the powers that be to claim they have no clue. This is an underappreciated take. See for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hcdsgf/whatever_this... (https://archive.is/mFMis)
In case you've not noticed, not all the public are in their right mind.
As I say, my concern isn't academic. I was close to a situation where someone was allegedly coerced into refusing medical help. It was in fact investigated, ended up as word against word, and nothing came of it. That was in a jurisdiction where euthanasia is not legal and anyway such coercion would be illegal, for both the coercer and the doctors. It didn't stop the alleged coercion, and no one was prosecuted. So how leaky would the system be where euthanasia is in facr legal?

But please don't get me wrong, I am absolutely full of sympathy to people so desperately ill they want to call it quits.
Well, yes, but it hardly depicts it as _desireable_.

There is a _vast_ difference between books in which bad stuff happens, and a machine designed to pretend to be a person telling people to do bad stuff.
"But what if someone wants to kill themselves its against their rights for them to be restricted from doing so"
We dont need to make it easier for people to kill themselves we need it to be easier to live a fulfilling life so they don't want to
You have to verify access to the email with a code to do the merge. That solves your issue
History is by definition nitpicking. History without nits picked is called "ideology" or "myth".
They may appear as a "ghost", or perhaps a "premonition". I may be useful to compare the locations.
LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era
Asking devs to build their own dependency system for the changes is also part of the issue.

Really the only way I can think of is some sort of DAG of DDL blobs, but I have no idea whether you can express a combination of DDL and DML changes into the one tree so that they can be properly diff'ed.

Changes in production are not just changes in the schema, there are changes to data as well. Really the entire RDBMS needs to have "time" and DDL incorporated into the relations.
Robotaxis Are Blazing the Trail for Self-Driving Cars
Not consistently though. I think some model of understanding of physics is emergent but it doesn’t seem emergent enough. The model doesn’t understand object permanence either.
Ah, so that's why I'm not experiencing the spam the other commenters describe.

I wasn't aware Google didn't extend the service to other phones, I wonder why that is? It can't be a hardware specific feature.
Apparently nothing happened in Australia before 1788 too.
I don't think listening to a podcast is really substantially different to tuning into Walter Cronkite. Both are deliberately recognisable human faces (or voices) for the presentation of the media to you.

Maybe it gets a bit weird when you start messaging your favourite Youtuber and they reply fast enough that you feel like it's a personal conversation rather than a professional correspondence. Sending a letter to Cronkite would have been far less immediate.

Treating media as anything other then virtually entirely read-only has always been what nutters do - they'd be the only ones writing any significant numbers letters to the person if the TV, and the same is probably true of modern media.
You just rediscovered that LLMs become much stupider when using images as input. I think that has been already shown for gpt-4 as well.
I'm not at all shocked

cancer has generally only been something people have gotten since processed foods were invented.
In this case it makes a lot of sense to open-source the product, at least the non-proprietary parts. It would be extremely cool to provide a build process, a framework and drivers for each actuator/sensor. From there these devices could live a new life quite easily.
This is, really, yet another example of the trouble with the "LLMs are correct 90% of the time, and only go totally off the rails 5% of the time" marketing line. There are remarkably few use cases, it turns out, where that is okay; you really need it to _not matter at all_ if the output is arbitrarily wrong.

(I suspect character.ai was originally conceived precisely because it appeared to be a usecase where LLM unreliability would be okay, the creators not having thought sufficiently carefully about it.)
I’d like that idea, but I feel like more would have to go into it. Things like user-accessible updates/reflashing, or someone to care enough about the software to fix it for use by everyone else. Support requirements + this are probably a better way to go.
Check out TN DuPuy, the US military theoretical who imported the German Auftragstaktik doctrine into US military thinking.
Perhaps also of interest: A more curated example of a local initiative can be found here: https://kaart.gentgemapt.be/. This combines historical maps of a city in Belgium with information on local heritage.
What I mean is, we could program an entity which gathers its own data and updates its own weights. With the lines of code being in the tens of thousands.
"While I mostly put this together for fun, it's a nice demonstration how simple neural networks actually are."

Psst, don't tell anyone. Artificial Intelligence is the black magic we do to make money.
Could you share some of your strategies?

My girlfriend has ADHD and she mostly only can get things done when there are deadlines outside of her control (e.g. cleaning up when we have visitors).
When she wants to do something just for her it can take ages, if it gets done at all.

I would like to help her with this but I don't really know where to start.
Ah, the Henry II defence. "Well, _technically_, I didn't tell them to kill the priest."

Context is everything; if this had been a conversation with a human it would be hard not to read it as malicious.
What's the sense in making companies more efficient, harder to disrupt and putting them in a position to create a monopoly as they become larger ?
Here’s an idea - what if the fact that we have a body that has weight and consequence helps us understand physics? What if just visual data won’t get there because visual data lacks the sense of self? Could be interesting
Yes, Fetchy is only the base block, and I don't expect anyone to actually build their own repository.

You can actually use the example one which contains a few common tools.
Why would you want backups for S3? Were there data loss incidents?
What monopolies? There's various other options you can use on Android.
Speaking of which, I wonder how they'd do on SimpleQA. OpenAI is an outlier there in the negative sense vs Anthropic. This benchmark also deals with hallucination and "inappropriate certainty".
AMD's new AI servers are 28.3 times more efficient than 2020's
What if they're going bankrupt anyway though? No fine will matter surely
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Probably also depends on the porn you were exposed to. I think the people who see porn as inherently problematic are usually mostly thinking of the nastier stuff.
It looks like they are trying to tcp with wireguard: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-wireguard-over-tcp-a...

I'm not sure if this can be done without the app or not.
Schengen: Council decides to lift land border controls with Bulgaria and Romania
Presumably easy enough to filter the corporate inbox to have Internal and External views - properly executed would probably make a top 10 productivity hacks list.
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Totally agree on YAGNI. I call it premature abstraction. My rule of thumb is I need to see 3 repetitions before refactoring cos 2 is not a reliable indication of functional invariance.
>and for some reason yt is suggesting a lot of small channel with great videos

It's been this way for half a year now, at least for me (YMMV). Some absolute gems I've found this way. The YouTube algorithm isn't really as bad as many people think...
The solution is to let developers lead the conversation about estimates instead of management pulling deadlines out of thin air.

If the developers can't agree on an estimate it typically means that the requirements are unclear or misunderstood, or some of the developers are better equipped for the work.
The Six Mechanisms of Algorithmic Control – From Algorithms at Work (2020)
> There are several people named John Doe, which one are you interested in? [followed by a list]

How would that work? Either the list repeats the same name over and over, making it useless, or it needs to give a bit of context about each name and we’re back at square one of the information being possibly wrong.
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Pierce the corporate veil?
I recalling my experience with newspaper archives in college. It's thirty been years since I was in college, but I assume that libraries still have some kind of copy of newspaper articles onsite, or do they?

Back then there were microfiche scans. I assume they're not making new microfiche scans, but do they have scans of old newspapers available on a computer? If you want to do primary source research for a history term paper how do you do it?
I do that because I can't remember that there are 86400 seconds in day so work it out from first principles each time.

I also sing the alphabet song (in my head) when I want to know which is the 19th letter of the alphabet.
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If the attacker has hacked your email then they could presumably do a reset flow on gitlab and reset the password and clear any evidence. The identity provider step is unnecessary. If we assume that linking the salesforce account to gitlab generates an email. Then unless the attacker has persistent access to the email account you’d know about it. If they have persistent access then the existence of the linked account doesn’t matter. They can just do password resets whenever. This does assume linking an account generates an email. MFA or forced authentication with existing account to link a new identity provider makes sense. But in terms of password reset a hacked email is pretty much the keys to the kingdom anyway.

I suppose the slight difference is that with the password reset flow you’d know that you couldn’t login. But nine times out of ten I’d imagine you’d just do your own password reset upon finding you couldn’t login.
They once reported on some science result and for the life of me I could not figure out who actually published the result and had to search for the original paper. I emailed the AT author and asked why this was omitted from their article and they responded with something like "I went to that same university, so I felt like it would be biased if I mentioned it".

This is not a serious outlet.
Neither is my concern academic. My MIL struggled with cancer treatments for a decade of terrible pain. My father was catatonic with Alzheimer and my mother is in a pretty bad place health-wise.

I don't want to appear dismissive of your concerns because I'm not. Such abuse is horrible, criminal and tragic. No question. But looking at the morality issue and consistency I think the answer is pretty clear. We need to give people agency over their own lives. Safeguards are essential for sure, and abuse will happen even with the safeguards in place. But the current situation is just tragic. People are afraid to go to the hospital because they're afraid they will be kept alive and in-effect tortured to a slow death.
That would be a juicy account, they are going to get their own VIP account executive and tickets to the superbowl.
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Can you elaborate on how using a VoIP client, makes it clear who is calling?
Many people will be put out of a low-skilled manual job, but many better-paid jobs are created for robot salespeople, robot installers, training specialists, delivery drivers, maintenance technicians etc. Those who adapt to these new jobs will thrive.
By this argument, do you not then reduce it to a 3 day week, forcing them to work faster again? Then to 2 days?
I have one of these in the garage. I think they're 6502-based with the OS on EPROM, or at least that's what I vaguely recall from last time I had mine opened-up about 20 years ago. I can dump the ROM if it'd help.
But what if the attacker deleted the verification email after they merged the GitLab accounts? Then they still have a backdoor to your GitLab.
Because some things are only possible at a certain scale, like an effective state run healthcare system.
Look at the article on Zionism. I'm Israeli so take my view of it with a grain of salt, but it reads as incredibly biased to me.

And even if you think I'm wrong or can't be trusted - I suggest comparing the version of it now to the version of that same article a year ago. It is far less biased, as are many articles about Israel, reflecting a concerted effort to change Wikipedia to a different narrative, on this topic at least.
Sure they do

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gustavo-castillo/2024/12/12/cru...
Also, there are co-working spaces in VRChat, which works wonders for me.

I went to the Glass Office co-working space to study for exams this summer and it worked out really well. I also met some nice people there.

A standalone Quest 3 is enough to get you started.
It caught me off guard too, portugese from portugal do sound somewhat slavic if you're not familiar with either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdDQEHL7i44

Even my slavic gf was tricked for a few seconds and wasn't sure if it was some kind of eastern language she wasn't aware of.

And for the explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA