skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use offlineimap to sync several email accounts both to local storage, and to accounts on other free email providers. E.g., a gmail account dedicated to bug reporting is replicated by offlineimap to an outlook.com account.

Address books and calendars for random gmail accounts get synced by vdirsyncer to both local storage and also to other backup gmail accounts.

It works well, and I don't have to worry about e.g., Google permanently locking me out of one of these accounts, without recourse.

* Both offlineimap and vdirsyncer are in Debian's repos. But, I had to pin/install vdirsyncer from testing to get working oath support for gmail (it did not pull in any dependencies from testing that were concerning [I don't recall if it pulled in anything at all, but I would not have installed from testing if it pulled in anything concerning]).
People have to start assuming that any communication method in use is compromised. There’s just no way on earth orgs like the NSA would throw their hands up in the air and not find multiple different avenues into an app like signal. Its one of the most downloaded messaging apps. Investment into compromising it is very worth while. People should just assume everything involving a cell phone or computer is inherently insecure. Meanwhile for some analog methods (one time pads, even cupping a hand and whispering into anothers ear, etc), the power balance isn’t so lopsided between the state and the individual as it is with digital communications where everything is probably compromised in some way by now.
Self-Host a Bluesky PDS with AWS CDK
>The other really interesting observation is the presence of the unarmed stick insect—native to New Zealand, it can be found here.

Awesome job lads, thanks so much for the empire being able to introduce us to things like this.
Potentially. I would be skeptical that businesses can do this to shield themselves from the liability. For example, VW could not use insurance to protect them from their emissions scandal. There are thresholds (fraud, etc.) that AI can breach, which I don't think insurance can legally protect you from
I mean that is exactly what each and every Google team does. There is no decision being made without having the data "supporting" it.

But every graph can be shown nicely and things which are common sense don't need a metric to proof it.
Does anyone else feel as if most of these studies are kind of just navel gazing? Like someone just needs to fill their time with busy work and so here's an easy academic job they can do that doesn't really give any new information?

If genetics/parental upbringing had very little to do with child outcomes then the entire concept of parenting would be irrelevant.

You could just choose any partner, have a child, leave them to fend for themselves on the street, it'd all be down to random chance and then suddenly 50% of those kids end up in the 50th percentile or above academically, financially, whatever metric you choose.

I would intuitively need an incredibly, incredibly strong proof to show the opposite were true, on par with someone telling me that in their city gravity runs backwards or something.
As someone with 10,000+ lines of C++ code and 10,000+ lines of QML code in his app[1] I can say this is false. It's actually much easier and straightforward to decouple the UI (QML) and logic (C++). It also makes such a great combo - QML is amazing to write UIs in and C++ is a fast, battle tested compiled language. I wrote a little bit about my app development if you're curious[2].

[1] https://get-notes.com

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, preferably without having to sign up, get a confirmation email, and other such barriers. You'll get more feedback that way, plus HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This looks very interesting but Show HNs need to be usable easily without making an account
I always get the feeling he's subconsciously inserting a "magical" step here with reference to "synthesis"-- invoking a kind of subtle dualism where human intelligence is just different and mysteriously better than hardware intelligence.

Combining programs should be straightforward for DNNs, ordering, mixing, matching concepts by coordinates and arithmetic in learned high-dimensional embedded-space. Inference-time combination is harder since the model is working with tokens and has to keep coherence over a growing CoT with many twists, turns and dead-ends, but with enough passes can still do well.

The logical next step to improvement is test-time training on the growing CoT, using reinforcement-fine-tuning to compress and organize the chain-of-thought into parameter-space--if we can come up with loss functions for "little progress, a lot of progress, no progress". Then more inference-time with a better understanding of the problem, rinse and repeat.
I don't have kids, but I am not talking about contemporary AIs which love to hallucinate.
That it was a closed runtime full of security issues wasn't the reason it was rejected by the open web community, or even rejected by Steve Jobs from the Apple ecosystem. Closed runtimes and security issues have always been warmly embraced by the web.

It's just that supplying binaries to the web is less open than supplying html and js. It's not an especially strong argument, less so given how minified and uglified JS is nowadays, but that's what it is.
> killing is allowed

You said it is okay / allowed because "terrorists". Otherwise, it is a heinous crime. Just like the Pegasus one.
good nit pick.

A PHD learnt their field. If they learnt that field, reasoning through everything to understand their material, then - given enough time - they are capable of learning email and street smarts.

Which is why a reasoning LLM, should be able to do all of those things.

Its not learnt a subject, its learnt reasoning.
I think a lot of people bought some crypto early on when it was really cheap, were kind of sloppy about the security of things, and then left it alone and ignored everything while it went up by 10,000x in value. Now when their account is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, their security is pretty inadequate for something with that actual value.
https://archive.is/axESL

Related El Salvador to scale back Bitcoin dreams to seal $1.3B IMF deal (57 points, 12 days ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372064
That is pretty much my point, yes.
Most dunks are in transition anyway - can’t block the lane if you haven’t made it across half court.
There's an order of magnitude fewer libraries than that, but I get your point, and you may be right. It's an interesting "Fermi problem".

I wonder how these numbers compare to the dictionary, which is much cheaper but was also much more widely sold.

BTW Microsoft Encarta clobbered the print EB a few years before the Web finished the job. EB sales fell by 50% within three years of its release! See "The Reference Wars" for a closer look at this:
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%2520Files/Reference%2520...
yeah thats why i need help from the machine interpretability crowd to make sure my hypothesized reframing of reasoning has sufficient empirical basis and isn’t adrift in lalaland.
Strange, the cracked bottle example was from only a few months ago.
You don't need to sign up. But I saw the play button only in Firefox. In Chromium the Play button wasn't there.
I don’t understand how or why someone with your mind would assume that even barely disclosed semi-public releases would resemble the current state of the art. Except if you do it for the conversations sake, which I have never been capable of.
I can’t help but feel like somewhere he lost the thread of his sense of self and that programming was a skill he picked up to address a specific interest, that over time happened to carry him to the doorstep of a lucrative career but was at odds with who he is as a person.

So yeah, what you’re saying is the most logical approach and is virtually the playbook for most people who share his space, but at the same time is probably totally out of the question for someone like him. And I can relate to that.

At its core, this sounds like an artist’s lament. And there’s a beauty to how coldly rational he is in his determination to live a life that isn’t entirely driven by material incentives.

A very dangerous outlook in some ways, and a sign of things to come, I gather.
What would a farmer or a gardener have to say about slow aging?
That's impressive, but it is currently not licensed for use in surgeries. The first article mentions that they can only use it through an IRB-approved study that all patients have the right to opt-out of.

But yeah, if Apple can become a medical device company, it would unlock a huge revenue stream for them. Looks like these people are optimistic, I'll take them at their word for that.

I personally don't know if Apple is willing to put the investment into the devices to make them viable as medical devices. There is a reason medical devices have huge costs, and that's largely because of the human effort involved to go multiple rounds with the FDA and other regulatory bodies to get a device approved for use in medical facilities outside of trials and studies.
Intel Arc B580 with two M.2 slots, Maxsun offers storage expansion for SSDs
I remember WAP was very popular in the summer of 2020.

From what I remember the “authentication protocol” wasn’t very “secure.” A 3rd party “gym hat” type device is typically recommended.
There are many things in life that have immense personal value and zero value to nearly everyone else. This creates a lot of misunderstanding and incentive misalignment.
It also fuels the income inequality with a fatter pipe in every iteration

Who cares? A rising tide lifts all boats. The wealthy people I know all have one thing in common: they focused more on their own bank accounts than on other people's.

So, tell me, how paying fewer people less money will drive their standard of living upwards?

Money is how we allocate limited resources. It will become less important as resources become less limited, less necessary, or (hopefully) both.
AI is trained on images from physical cameras, so maybe it can be considered to be gathered from light. It is also simulating light. I can imagine some thought of raytracing as photography. So I’m not sure gatekeeping the term photography will work.
Why Do Some People Get Headaches from Drinking Red Wine?
I played one game without signing up for a quick tour. I played against one wave then quit. The game is good for a browser game there are server issues but I guess that will be fixed before public release. I was getting ping around 21.
The Fasting Mimicking concept is there because this method was exclusively tested on Cancer patients who are also going through Chemo therapy. Having nutrients for these patients is important [1]

Is pure Water Fasting superior? Yes. I have done 1 week water fasts, back to back for 4 weeks and lost ~30 lbs.

However, I think fasting mimicking may help adherence for some people.

1: https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/progress-against-ca...
Farmers and gardeners concern themselves with soil depletion and genetic diversity, so I'm not sure your point makes any sense.
You could be right, maybe in total or every year. Somebody may be able to do the math, you can't do scorekeeping on things like this though.

Isn't this the bloodiest year since Hamas took over Palestine?

There are definitely different epochs.

I think over the centuries they occasionally take turns terrorizing, but most of the time they don't bug each other even if they are not the least bit fond of such a dissimilar culture.

We just happen to be 3/4 of the way into a century that started when the world halted (but failed to reverse) the direct expressway to total destruction. The first time the human race ever had that happen and the lessons are supposed to be a gift only obtainable from a generation who grew up before that level of total human extermination was possible.

It quit mattering who the enemy was any more.

No more enemies were supposed to be allowed.

And nobody will ever grow up like that any more either.

Who wants to squander that gift which can never be replaced?

And why?

What are the odds of a second chance?
I think you might be conflating boardgame.io and boardgamelab.app.

boardgame.io - MIT licensed open-source JS library.

boardgamelab.app - Proprietary platform for designing and playtesting board games.
Multithreading, Concurrency, Parallelism, or Asynchrony?
Well, when a person doesn't want to believe the truth, they are free to construct whatever reality they choose, based upon what "appears" in their mind's eye.

That is why the truth is so important in this world. To seek the truth requires humility, that being crucial in all aspects of life and is the most essential lesson of Dunning-Kruger's study.

It is precisely my humility that has allowed me to gain some measure of wisdom, which I share honestly and compassionately here.
Vibrating capsule slashes food intake in pigs–human trials possible in 2-3 years
This seems like an incredible naive way of thinking about how artists should be rewarded for their work.

> music streaming services have to spend most of their money on artists that performed many decades ago, otherwise no one will buy it

Music streaming services should spend their money on artists their customers are listening to, however old that music happens to be.
BlackRock: No guarantee that Bitcoin supply cap will not be changed
https://archive.ph/mmGQG
In my experience it is nowadays. I'm Gen Z, by 14 all my friends had credit or debit cards.
Of course I have, but I also don’t have much choice.

I mitigated it by having my first smartphone last 12 years, and I am now using the company-provided one in order to avoid a second buy. Not ideal, I’ll admit. I hope that, by the time I need a change, I can use a pinephone and convince my company that I only need a rsa otp or a yubikey.

But is that really related to the thread?

> At least in the USA we have some semblance of a Labor Department etc...

Any local alternative to amazon will also have it, and less execs/lawyers whose only job is to make them irrelevant.
> there is no replacement for development through human interaction and contact.

The issue was that he has seen these kids being entertained by smartphones. This kind of implies that they were not in daycare or any other position where they could interact with humans, unless the parents wanted to interact with them, which they obviously didn't (or couldn't, for whichever reason). That was the context.
It also came up this recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445328
> How would you trust that the agent is following the criteria, and how sure that the criteria is specific enough?

How do you know if a spam filter heuristic works only when intended?

You test it. Hard. On the thousands of emails in your archive, on edge-cases you prepare manually, and on the incoming mails. If it doesn't work for some cases, write tests that test for this, adjust prompt and run the test suite.

It won't ever work in 100% of all cases, but neither do spam filters and we still use them.
A new 12.5" open hardware laptop from MNT
Doing enough research to write this post tho is already more work than quickly calling a lawyer.
For a radio-type service, I don't think anyone should be able to negotiate higher rates. I think there should be mandatory licensing.

For negotiating a lower rate... I wouldn't try to make it illegal, but I still don't like it. I have no particular reason to think it will be an upstart or an entity that you could say 'deserves' more attention. And taking less money for more exposure doesn't sound like something I want to encourage.
> Precisely zero civilian casualties inside Israel proper since Oct 8th

I don't see why it would make sense to ignore the Israelis killed on Oct 7, which was very much part of the war.

In any case, lots of wars are fought on one side's territory, with no civilian harm on the other side. See Vietnam, the Gulf war, etc.
Same with Chrome, Win 11.
The point of ARC is NOT to compare humans vs AI, but to probe the current boundary of AIs weaknesses. AI has been beating us at specific tasks like handwriting recognition for decades. Rather, it's when we can no longer readily find these "easy for human, hard for AI" reasoning tasks that we must stop and consider.

If you look at the ARC tasks failed by o3, they're really not well suited to humans. They lack the living context humans thrive on, and have relatively simple, analytical outcomes that are readily processed by simple structures. We're unlikely to see AI as "smart" until it can be asked to accomplish useful units of productive professional work at a "seasoned apprentice" level. Right now they're consuming ungodly amounts of power just to pass some irritating, sterile SAT questions. Train a human for a few hours a day over a couple weeks and they'll ace this no problem.
You used to have to click the correct two-digit number out of 3 options, but now it's just "way this you? (yes/no)"
One doesn’t exclude the other - a physical airtag may have an ID available, but not broadcast it anywhere.

Also, “when there’s a will…” doesn’t really apply to cruptography
If that’s the only data point you look at in American industry, it would be pretty encouraging. I mean, surely they’d have done the same if they were a branch of a large publicly traded company with a big high-production product pipeline…
Long before the richest man on earth bought Twitter to be his personal megaphone to help him prepare to become president in order to boost all his personal endeavors, the letter X has been used as a sort of contraction to replace common morphemes like "cross", "trans" etc, in places where the physical representation "x" likens to a cross or crossing of some sort, or in reference to the Greek letter Chi. Must we change our use of language to support this guy, too?

Xtian Xmas xfer tx/rx xor...
> AGI can't legally own anything at the moment.

I was responding to this. Yes an AGI could hire someone to do the stuff - but she needs money, hiring and contract kinds of thing - for that. And once she can do that, she probably doesn't need to hire someone to do it since she is already doing it. This is not about capital versus labor or money management. This is about agency, ownership and AGI.

(With legality far far down the list.)
And yet I still can't trust Claude or o1 to not get the simplest of things, such as test cases (not even full on test suites, just the test cases) wrong, consistently. No amount of handholding from me or prompting or feeding it examples etc helps in the slightest, it is just consistently wrong for anything but the simplest possible examples, which takes more effort to manually verify than if I had just written it myself. I'm not even using an obscure stack or language, but especially with things that aren't Python or JS it shits the bed even worse.

I have noticed it's great in the hands of marketers and scammers, however. Real good at those "jobs", so I see why the cryptobros have now moved onto hailing LLMs as the next coming of jesus.
First off, kids that young learn best in context and with tactile feedback. Until AI have bodies, they will not fill that niche.

Secondly, there is a while cottage industry of young kid's videos to just show kid's the world and engage via a screen with it and explain it. A 3 and 4 year old knows so little, they don't want even know what questions to ask because they know nothing. The value of slop like Blippie or even Ryan's World is alerting kids to the fact that things exist in a digestible way. And they need to loop it. They need to be exposed to the information many, many times to truly get it. Early education is in no way shape or form a good candidate for AI. I'd argue that the repetitive videos we have now are about as ideal as we can get once we filter out the surreal nonsensical videos targeted at kids.
Can I use this, if I have an iPhone, to trigger actions on a server based on my location?

For example, “When I come home, fetch the latest electricity prices and notify me if I should plug in my Tesla”.

I tried that using Shortcuts, but they won’t run location based without confirmation. (There are some workarounds, but they, too, don’t work reliably in my experience.)
> “We have tied all of the smooth functioning of society to producing new technology” — this implies it was a deliberate decision. Whereas in reality, there’s a selection effect where leaders [...]

No, it doesn't imply a deliberate decision. I've never said it was deliberate. It's more of an emergent phenomenon.

> I don’t know the answer, but I refuse to accept determinism (despite not believing in free will, separate conversation), and I think that framing this as an ecological competition between species — humans vs machines — is clarifying.

True, but determinism shouldn't be thought of as inevitable. And that's not the case in the philosophical literature either. Technological determinism is more of a force like gravity that can be overcome, and can be measured (theoretically, some have tried) numerically. The large the force, the harder it is to overcome, but overcoming it is not impossible obviously. Feel free to email to discuss further.
Words mean something and just because the result is similar doesn't mean it's the same thing. Creating a photorealistic painting doesn't make it a photograph just like a photograph of a painting is not a painting.
> education costs have vastly outpaced inflation[2] as have medical costs[3].

This is basically a law of nature. Anything that's done by humans and can't be scaled will necessarily get more expensive in real terms over time. See: Baumol effect.
That’s in part what I mean when I say:

> the players would retreat into their personality shells.

These players want to express themselves more, but they’re afraid of punishments from the refs (rightfully so) or the league. It’s gotten pretty bad. Here’s some super quick examples:

- Jayson Tatum gets a tech for clapping because he was frustrated at himself: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=te6l2n2OjH8

- Lu Dort gets a tech for holding up a three sign: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVowvZFlRR8

In a somewhat Pavlovian response to the ref’s, players are committed to self-censorship; verbally, as well as physically
Going beyond the title shows this isn't about gatekeeping terminology. It's about what we lose when we substitute genuine human interaction with AI comfort, and how simulating an experience isn't the same as living it. The experience never happened, so any AI image is precisely 'simulacra' - a copy without an original. The elder's smile in Chinatown couldn't have been prompted, and if it was, that would just prove the point about simulacra and missing the real experience.
Thanks a lot, that's very interesting re. it using linked lists, and nice benchmark!
Not quite. Almost all academia and universities are left leaning. It directly falls on the left's head that people lost trust and faith in these institutions.
In a way yes you are, because people pay subscription to a lot of services, but in another way, not really. Every time YT premium comes up, there is a lot of people who exhibit defiance paying the giant, for one reason or another. And there are Vanced users, etc.

I too have a pet revenge peeve like this though, and for me, it's Microsoft. I'm using Windows for my multiplayer games, and I refuse to ever pay a cent for the piece of shit. Right now I'm activating it with my own activation emulator, for example.
A lot of people have the same feeling about technology. I personally regulate my technological use fairly stringently. I almost never carry a smartphone with me for instance. It's got nothing to do with personal insecurities. I'm just interested in contributing to a more critical discussion on technology.