skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this.

And, I have my own take on it.

My static site generator Svekyll (https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli) has an option you can add to the _config.yml: "view_source"

If you do that, it provides a link at the bottom of each post which says "view source to this post" If you click on that, you can see all the files used to generate that post, and then download a zip which is a fully packaged tiny svelte app that builds into that blog page.

For example, this blog post on embeddings has a bunch of svelte components, embeds an embedding model right inside the page and runs it via JavaScript. If you scroll all the way down, you can download the zip file, unzip it and run "npm i && npm run build && cd build && npx http-server -o" and you can see the fully built blog.

https://webiphany.com/2024-04-29-distance-sean-shawn

PRs describing this feature:

https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli/-/merge_requests...
https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli/-/merge_requests...
https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli/-/merge_requests...
You're several decades late for that. Almost a century now.
Intelligence agencies certainly run such things.

It would likely be safer to write a service and have interdependent relationships between redundant hosting systems in different jurisdictions without direct connections because that way you can protect against single points of failure (eg. compromised hosts, payment systems, regulators, network providers).

I would be surprised if this isn't a thing yet on Ethereum or some other well known distributed processing crypto platform.
Well, yes. We have a society built around concepts of individual liberty and respect for basic human rights. So all the rules were rolled back. The question is why they were rolled out in the first place. Even to this day there is a distinct lack of evidence that any given rule was helpful. We successfully transitioned from a world where everyone was eventually going to get COVID to a world where everyone eventually got COVID and in hindsight it is hard to see what the authoritarian slant of the policies earned anyone. Except perhaps earmarking the people who should be kept out of positions of power.
This is very cool.

But, bus from New York to St Louis and then backtrack on Amtrak. Ouch. I know the train options from NYP to CHI are slow, but I didn’t think they’re that slow (they’re not)! Nevermind having to take a greyhound for 1000 miles.
Just because you can generate numbers between 0 and 1 doesn't make them meaningful probabilities.

Are these based on data? No, they're rhetorical tools used to sound quantitative and scientific.

Nobody will be applying the calculus of probability to these meaningless numbers coming out of someone's ass.

And most importantly, is he himself willing to bet a significant fraction of his fortune based on these socalled probabilities? I don't think so. So they're not probabilities.
Computer the probability, don’t make claims without making a solid estimate.

No, it’s not low. No need to put conspiracies before evidence, and certainly not by making claims you’ve not done no diligence on.

And the article provides statements by professionals who routinely investigate homicides and suicides that they have no reason to believe anything other than suicide.
I can explain a bit. Russians living in Empire of Evil can see all internet including US and EU news. At the same time 'Putin propaganda' channels are blocked in EU. In EU only one side is available. This creates an information bubble, as intended. Which is a basic crowd control technique used to drive public opinion. In this case to support the war. The result is obvious, EU polls show much stronger support than the rest of the world. Even though media claims most of the world is against Putin, if you look at the map it's only minority, NATO and a few allies. In some EU countries it's even a crime look through the bubble's wall. Most don't realize it even exists. They accept the arguments from their politicians. Like it's a business opportunity, or it's a cheap way to harm Putin. The price for that is hundreds of thousands of human lives on both sides. Which is generally considered as ok, as those are Russians and Ukrainians, not us. Actually media doesn't talk much about it.
On the one hand, it looks like they're getting MBA'ed slowly: the product lineup is getting more tangled every year (just try picking an iPad) as they search for more ways to slice and dice the market.

On the other hand: they created Apple Silicon in recent years.
New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years
So here is an exercise: go look at the structure of an IPv4 packet. It’s not complicated. Can you see where you can cram 32 additional bits? Or even 24? Because if there isn’t a place for them then you cannot possibly extend the IPv4 address space without breaking backwards compatibility. Anyone can do this exercise, and anyone who has an opinion should do this exercise.

Spoiler: you will come to the conclusion that you can’t find the additional bits. Your only option is to break compatibility and create a new packet header format. At this point you can choose literally any size address larger than 32 bits. 64 is good, but the cost to go to 128 is literally nothing while giving you a lot more possibilities of what you can do with it.

Lastly, IPv6 fixes a lot of craft from IPv4. It is a more streamlined protocol that is actually easier to work with than IPv4. The people who told you that IPv6 is overengineered didn’t have an alternative better protocol. Their point was that IPv4 is fine and we don’t need anything but what it provides because a new protocol is scary and annoying to learn because new things are scary. Literally, mathematically, there is no alternative that solves address exhaustion in a backwards compatible way. CGNAT is the overengineered hack, not IPv6.

I really hope you stop respond in to people with nonsense before you look at the packet structure yourself.
Gotta be honest, I find the idea of a bootable backup disk to be defective. What if it was an OS bug that wiped out your volume, and booting the backup does the exact same thing to the backup, because of the same bug?
> Calling htmx.ajax with no target or source now defaults to body (previously did nothing)

This one jumped out to me as an interesting one for a patch release. Changing the default behavior feels like a breaking change, though hopefully there weren't sites expecting an ajax call to not do anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_privacy
> You're absolutely correct but this isn't a new phenomenon this has been the way politics has been for as long as anyone can remember.

There’s some truth in this but let’s not pretend the scope and magnitude haven’t expanded a lot. You can argue that regulators should have been stricter but Boeing’s CEO wasn’t co-presidenting during the 737-MAX crisis, neither was Ford’s during the Explorer or Pinto era, etc. – and those people had to think seriously about prosecution whereas what we’re seeing now has the sanction of being above the law. Saying it’s always been like that is too close to saying we can’t expect better for my tastes.
that's my point; to me "the results were surprisingly low" does mean "we the authors were surprised it was low", and reads better than "to our surprise the results were low".

my reasoning is that the former is more of a parenthetical, as much as to say "the results were low (and it surprised us)", rather than putting the "us" who were surprised front and centre and making the low results subordinate to that.
what date did 9/11 happen?
it was a tuesday. i'll never forget that.
Next: create a bash script to find out if the PhD advisor reads HN
> The rich and powerful once again are allowed to buy their freedom.

Well... have you seen the news lately?
It’s probably that they don’t want to risk leak any internal discussion.

The information from the public "tracker" is just forwarded to the internal Radar and that's a one-way street.
Yeah I honestly don't understand it. Being contrarian to be contrarian is not a personality. To play Devil's Advocate also requires making sound and reasonable arguments. Being daft is just trolling. You're right, and I'm not sure why I engage. Maybe I hope they will turn and argue in good faith but I'm clearly naive.
Yeah, the pattern is real. The patterns of high male suicide rates and Goliaths having a lot of employees combine into a pattern of the innumerate invoking boogeymen wherever it suits their world view, evidence and reason be dammed.
Wrongful care denial should be considered a serious felony on par with assault with intent to do grave bodily harm. It should be a veil piercing crime that exposes every insurance company employee involved in denial to personal legal jeopardy should they wrongly deny claims. Reasons for denials must should be required to be extremely detailed and provided to the institutions requesting coverage. Upon receiving a denial, the health care institution should be able to evaluate the denial for validity and choose to refer the denial to local prosecuting attorneys if the denial is medically unsound.
Which wasn't justified and should probably be an illegal requirement on privacy grounds. It doesn't make a difference if people doing work were vaccinated or not. It turns out to have had little in-practice effect on transmission, so the only important question is whether the passengers on things like a cruise were vaccinated themselves. They were evidence-free policies.

We had a great natural case study in Australia of COVID through a vaccinated population. Everyone caught it over the course of a month, the vaccines did basically nothing to stop the spread. They were pretty much only useful on an individual level which means there was never a requirement for any coercive measures.
This article was fascinating and led me to follow other links. I had no idea that the modern Brady Press Briefing Room sits on top of a pool that was built for FDR. Supposedly, the space for the pool is now home to servers [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S._Brady_Press_Briefin...]
I think that the thing we need to account for (which, number of words per chapter would capture this, I think) is different publications of the same book, which would need different overlays if they have different chapter filepaths, etc.
managed software, managed hardware, managed people
All this time did you think you were under a legal obligation to follow your doctor’s orders?

You don’t have to do anything your doctor says.

During COVID plenty of people chose to not listen to advice about vaccines and did not get vaccinated (and some did die from COVID for their efforts).
> China, of course, wants control of the island nation with which it used to be united.

More accurately, it wants control of the island nation that it failed to conquer. No need to repeat Chinese propaganda.
Amusing joke, but it actually is effectively called the 586 because the internal name is P5 and Penta from which Pentium is derived is 5.[1]

Incidentally, Pentium M to Intel Core through 16th gen Lunarrow Lake all identify as P6 ("Family 6") for 686 because they are all based off of the Pentium 3.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_(original)
how can you tell? likely this is field-dependent but even if because reviewers dont tend to comment on writing quality it doesnt mean it doesnt play a factor in acceptance. if you annoy people, (sometimes even especially) in ways that dont feel substantive enough to merit mentioning in a review, it can make them more inclined to be critical about aspects they might otherwise gloss over.

(i acknowledge this is unsatisfyingly unfalsifiable, and that it can also go the other way, in that selectively bad writing can be used to attempt to paper over holes)
I think this is true in almost any scenario. A Mars base is a second chance in the same way that a single potted orchid, suspended by a gossamer thread over a roiling vat of acid is a second chance for your lawn. If you humanity completely wiped itself out on easy mode, it will not last long on Mars after that.
Not to be pedantic, but percentages can exceed 100.
Awesome! I appreciate the detailed response. I look forward to seeing this on the market
AI powered version: https://github.com/rhettlunn/is-odd-ai
Let's not forget that the administration in power denied the problem tooth and nail until it was so patently obvious that something needed to be done.
I mean, he wasn't that far off. The Turing test is well and truly beaten, regardless of how you define it, and I sure wouldn't want to go up against o1-pro in a programming or math contest.

Robotics being "solved" was indeed a stupid thing to assert because that's a hornet's nest of wicked problems in material science, mechanical engineering, and half a dozen other fields. Given a suitable robotic platform, though, 2020-era AI would have done a credible job driving its central nervous system, and it certainly wouldn't be a stumbling block now.

It's been a while since I heard any revealing anecdotes about adversarial examples in leading-edge GPT models, but I don't know if we can say it's a solved problem or not.
That brings new meaning to "press pool".
> This sucks. We think it sucks. You think it sucks. But we can't fix it: Apple has to do so.

And this is why I gave up on macOS several years ago now and moved to Linux.

It's not about which OS is better or worse. All software has bugs. It's about the empowerment to _do something_ about the inevitable bugs, rather than wait and hope that a fix comes down from above.
Doctors deserve to be rich. They do incredibly specialized work where the outcomes are extremely critical, to put it mildly. I don't want doctors performing unnecessary treatments to line their pockets, but I don't think we're actually in danger of that.

The difference between a rich doctor and a rich insurance exec is that the doctor helps people, and the insurance exec makes their money withholding necessary care from people, in effect torturing and killing them.
This is like... comically hard to express succinctly haha. We've been having several conversations about how to explain it quickly to new folks. I like the phrase that the Readium folks use, "guided narration", but I don't know how useful that is for folks that aren't already familiar with what Storyteller does
They were searching for the Any Key
From what I can tell, it looks like they used Box to store the most incriminating stuff.

https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/wp-content/uploads/20...

Specifically

https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/docs/#id=skbm...

In an email

from: Jeff Smith
to: Amir Golan
cc: Arnab Ghatak

> Amir - going forward it's absolutely essential for the team to only use Box for distribution of documents and all documents have to have appropriate legal disclaimers - at a minimum working draft. Please work with the team to implement ASAP.
This hotend reflects my year-long process of design and iteration, what I have learned, and what others have shared.
> The Origami language syntax is relatively simple and intended for people who have some experience working with HTML and CSS. Knowledge of JavaScript isn’t required, although if you do know JavaScript you can do a lot with Origami.

So you need to learn HTML and CSS so you can use Origami to... avoid building a site with HTML and CSS?
I want to have a way to detect if content is AI generated. You might want to run that model on your own creations to ensure you get the credit for them and that no one can steal them.
Could you also fit "Republic of Georgia" somewhere in the title, so it isn't confused with the US state?
Would you have disagreed with Ilya about AGI? Or do you just disagree with the cost and timeline?

Ilya reiterated on July 12, 2017, “Each year, we'll need to exponentially increase our hardware spend, but we have reason to believe AGI can ultimately be built with less than $10B in hardware.”
This is the problem with insurance in general. The incentive of insurance is at direct odds with patients and doctors.

It's a tug of war, and even if insurance "loses", it doesn't matter, because you lost trillions of dollars in that tug of war. It's artificial inefficiency caused by privatization, very much a Dark Night burning a mountain of money situation.
Pomodoro Timer with a Twist
I'm a huge productivity nerd and love using Pomodoro timers.

To make the experience more interesting, I created this website with unique study modes with various time intervals, in addition to the classic 25-minute Pomodoro timer.

Plus, I added custom backgrounds to make your study sessions more engaging and for additional inspiration.

Give it a try, and I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions!
Of course not legally, but I think there's a philosophical exercise here for ethicists to debate the boundaries and efficacy of community self defense.
why would you call it expecting it to do nothing?
Review: UndoDB, a Reversible Debugger (2015)
My first reaction was "This person isn't in a hard science like physics or engineering. Maybe medicine?" Ayup--medicine.

Style can be annoying but lack of context is deadly.

"To our surprise, false positives were low (3%)." is not much of an improvement. "To our surprise, false positives were low (3%) as we expected closer to 10%." IS an improvement.

However, that statement in a hard science is going to cause people to start asking some questions: Is 3% actually low? Why was the expectation so high to start? Did you screw up your error bars? Is it really 3%? etc.

"It is difficult to find untainted samples." Because is missing. In addition, this comment is rarely germane. I, the reader, don't really care. That's your problem. Either find the samples to get to statistical power or get a different method. As the reader, I only care if you did something weird in order to sidestep the problem--that I want to know about.

All of the recommended things still retain "weaseliness" while trying to sound like they don't.

Finally, I would love to have his problem of merely cleaning up some weasel words when most students I know (even at the PhD level) still have trouble stringing together coherent arguments and understanding where the holes and weaknesses are.
Festo's Air Rays
I hope so, but I actually think that "malls" are far less toxic and detrimental to society; so I'm not sure malls are even remotely comparable to "social media".
There is a certain theme of posts on HN where I am just certain the author is gonna be Ken and again not disappointed.
I'm usually working on older machines on which the IDE's supporting language servers would be much too slow or wouldn't work at all because of incompatibilities. I like lean tools with little dependencies. But there is a parser in moderate C++, so maybe someone else will implement such a daemon.
You don't matter to them. The "What's a computer?" ad shows what they care about. Do what they want and stay on the happy path. Otherwise, you're holding it wrong.
My mom got hooked in 99 after she slipped on ice at her house in Bluefield, WV.

Became a full blown addict after getting prescribed for the subsequent back injury.

She lost everything, disappeared, became a homeless addict drifting from DC to Baltimore to NYC and back, until she died of an overdose of heroin in a parking lot of a 7-11 in DC in December 2015. Her story and the impact on me and my 4 siblings is a drop in an ocean of suffering these smug assholes inflicted on this country.

This slap on the wrist is an insult to all of us, especially us Appalachians, who saw this starting in the 90s and got ignored because “hillbillies are genetically prone to addiction” as Purdue told the FDA.
> though hopefully there weren't sites expecting an ajax call to not do anything.

thatsthebeautyofit.com in shambles
SpaceX started with a small faction of that, just $100 million.
I'd argue the web browser falls into that category as well.
Sitrec (Situation Recreation)
I've vented in previous comments this year about how weird it is that we've collectively become okay with corporations, politicians, public figures, yadda yadda, putting out statements that everyone knows to be bullshit. It's the norm, and it's fucking weird.

So, strictly in that sense, I'm appreciating this level of "openness".
I think you are underestimating how compartmentalized the government is.
Based Static Typing for Python
Self-driving is not so much a technological problem as it is a political problem. We have built a network of roads that (self-evidently) can't be safely navigated by humans, so it's not fair to demand better performance of machines. At least, not as long as they have to share the road with us.

'AI' landings on Mars are the only kind of landings possible, due to latency. JPL indisputably pwned that problem long before anyone ever heard of OpenAI.

Theorem-proving seems to require a different toolset, so I don't know what made him promise that. Same with robotics, which is more an engineering problem than a comp-sci one.
It’s not like the microscope is going to show “a lookup table” though. You need to know how it was implemented in silicon, how transistors are integrated into the silicon, etc to even start identifying the actual physical mistake.
I'm using Origami on my website over at https://vale.rocks. I recently did a brief writeup about the implementation of my site, including touchings on Origami. I'm really loving it!

https://vale.rocks/posts/the-implementation-of-this-site
>if in his position, you would that want that to be written about you or a friend.

If that was my public persona, I don't see why not. He could have kept quiet and chosen not to testify if he was afraid of this defining him in a way.

I will say it's a real shame that it did become his public legacy, because I'm sure he was a brilliant man who would have truly help change the world for the better with a few more decades on his belt.

All that said, assassination theories are just that (though "theory" is much too strong a word here in a formal sense. it's basically hearsay). There's no real link to tug on here so there's not much productivity taking that route.
why is the wrong question, because it doesn't matter
Yes — they were coerced by the state including having normal freedoms removed, which is what generally defines “legal obligation”.
Uber and Lyft Found a Loophole in a Driver Pay Law. Drivers Pushed Back
Making a reusable rocket is not the same thing as a sustainable settlement in a hostile environment. I mean sure ...why not other than it's a huge waste of resources.
If I were to describe the function f(x) = 0 - x, it would be "F is monotonically decreasing". It seems both words are needed.
Forget gerrymandering, a representative government is impossible as long as the Senate still gives the same weight to the 15 people in North Dakota as it does the 40 million in California.
That would be out of character for someone that opened Tesla's patents and lets competitors use the supercharger network.
> For dedicated positioning systems they use ground based tracking to precisely update the orbital parameters after every burn, to account for that, but that is impracticable for Starlink.

But why isn't it practical?

Also, can't the inter-satellite laser links provide an additional source of information in measuring their orbital parameters?

> since the Starlink satellites don't have their own atomic clock

They might get them at some point. And even if the Earth constellation doesn't, maybe the Mars one will.

The atomic clocks used in GPS satellites are fiendishly expensive, but the gap between them and much cheaper chip-scale atomic clocks [0] is likely to continue to narrow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-scale_atomic_clock
Just pick one. It's not a permanent choice, you can transfer your account between instances.
I've considered the probabilities of both and find one to be far more likely.