skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my perspective (for me, personally), the closing of Google Reader killed blogs. That's when I largely stopped reading them. Other readers seemed not worth the trouble, for various reasons. Was this before or after the onslaught of SEO slop? Seems like this shouldn't have been an issue in the age of RSS readers - why would you subscribe to blogspam?

Briefly, Twitter was a useful alternative to promote blog posts (the set of people you follow on Twitter not necessarily being that different than who you'd subscribe to via RSS), but then the blog hosting platforms themselves seemed to age into irrelevance while things like Medium and Substack appeared (neither judging nor endorsing them) while Twitter degraded.

I suppose you're right about Twitter to some degree, though anything that could fit in 140 characters probably belonged better there anyway.
> So everyone (at least me) has this fantasy of how much better it would be to learn things on their own schedule for pleasure without undue pressure, but they don’t realize the pressure to survive was what made it feel so meaningful without that they soon fall into dilletantism.

The trick is to find a place between dilletantism and burnout.
This variable might have been better named LOG_ALL_STDIO_TO_TMP. Would have made it more obvious during self-review that it shouldn't be shipped.
It is very easy to distinguish false stars, the important thing of a repository is not the stars but the activity of the contributors, I have seen many times repositories with malicious payloads with 1.7K stars or more.
> WebSockets are hard to secure (they totally bypass CORS as well as other browser built-in protections), don't work (yet) with HTTP/3 and for most use cases require to implement many features by yourself: reconnection in case of network failure, refetch of lost messages, authorization, topic mechanism…

Having written WebSocket CORS with Authentication (Cognito) I know this isn't quite true. The initial connection is a standard HTTP request that returns a 100 series, with preflights and everything. That initial request has all the headers you might want to sent to a server for auth. It's a bit odd IMO but the auth string is sent in the web socket constructor, second argument, really easy to miss. Happy to provide both server and client code examples.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSocket/W...
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Good point, we should provide more detailed metrics. Since we are very early, we focus on the main metric in our view: higher accuracy of changes to be more practically usable. We will do more testing on overfitting and how the model performance on different types of tasks. On high level we believe in the idea of "a well fine-tuned model should be much better than a large general model". But we need more metrics, I agree.
Aversive memories can be weakened during human sleep via the reactivation of positive interfering memories

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39052838/

Abstract

Recollecting painful or traumatic experiences can be deeply troubling. Sleep may offer an opportunity to reduce such suffering. We developed a procedure to weaken older aversive memories by reactivating newer positive memories during sleep. Participants viewed 48 nonsense words each paired with a unique aversive image, followed by an overnight sleep. In the next evening, participants learned associations between half of the words and additional positive images, creating interference. During the following non-rapid-eye-movement sleep, auditory memory cues were unobtrusively delivered. Upon waking, presenting cues associated with both aversive and positive images during sleep, as opposed to not presenting cues, weakened aversive memory recall while increasing positive memory intrusions. Substantiating these memory benefits, computational modeling revealed that cueing facilitated evidence accumulation toward positive affect judgments. Moreover, cue-elicited theta brain rhythms during sleep predominantly predicted the recall of positive memories. A noninvasive sleep intervention can thus modify aversive recollection and affective responses.

Keywords: NREM sleep; memory interference; memory updating; positive memories; targeted memory reactivation.
Fable: "We are deeply sorry for the hurt caused by some of our Reader Summaries"
Fable, a social media platform alternative to Goodreads, recently launched a Reader Summaries feature that playfully roasts the user based on the books they have recently read. The content is generated by an AI model, and in some cases users have gotten offensive or racist jokes. This has resulted in the company's Head of Product to release this statement.

According to the video, the team relied on "safeguards" to prevent this from happening. Two were mentioned:

1. "We ask the model to avoid some topics."

2. "We also created a second pass offensive language filter."

It sounds like the company considered avoiding certain language to be a hard requirement for this feature. The decision to rely almost entirely on the instructions in the model prompt leave me scratching my head. Is this a simple matter of a Series A company shipping something too quickly, or did the engineering team really believe that a couple instructions could guarantee certain responses? (Or both?)
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Maybe instead of "the way you responded rubs me the wrong way", you could consider thinking "maybe I wrote my comment the wrong way".

What you said, both in your original comment and in this follow up, demonstrates a demented way of viewing other people.
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I just beat a video game for the first time in my life. It was such a confidence boost and exactly what I needed because I bought the headset to fight depression (exercise).

I realized that VR, as a medium, is uniquely tuned to people, and I think you would have a great blog if you focused on just that: people.

What are some ideas for how can VR help people? Can it help people fight depression? Can it be used for physical or emotional therapy? Can it help them safely build skills that could improve their lives?

On that last one, I am reading a book about ship handling. It was a Christmas present because I will never be a captain in my life. But ship handling would work so well in VR. Even the commands are so standardized that players could give voice commands, a real bridge.

How many Make-a-Wish kids or others could have a wonderful time doing that? And that isn't even considering the idea of extending that game into space with Star Trek USS Enterprise or Star Wars Star Destroyers.

Your site could be the nexus of those great ideas. You could even have guest posts. I'd write one.

Anyway, sorry for the novel. VR has helped me feel better than I have in a long time.
Not being involved in war is always good for civilians.
A common myth! No, no gate or passage was ever referred to as "the eye of the needle" in antiquity. [1] That verse is intended to be taken literally. Jesus Christ was quite outspoken on his feelings about the wealthy, but of course, wealthy Christians need a way for him to have meant something figurative when he told them to surrender their worldly riches.

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I can definitely sympathize with this guy. I imagine selling your company, coming into immense wealth, and losing your identity of ~10 years can really mess up an individual.

But at the same time... this seems rich coming from the dude who co-founded Loom. Calling his ex-coworkers NPCs and believing he's qualified to streamline the US government - all because he built a glorified screen recorder? Have some humility LOL.
I'm going to disagree with you there. Anecdotally, I've lived in tornado alley my whole life and nobody has ever referred to a tornado as a cyclone in real-life conversation, although I'd know what they're referring to based on context clues.

Outside the heartland, the NHC categorizes many storms below the level of hurricane (64 knot sustained winds) as various kinds of cyclone (tropical cyclone, extratropical cyclone, potential tropical cyclone, post-tropical cyclone, alongside depressions).

In fact, in meteorology terms, a tornado is definitively different from a cyclone (a column of rotating area vs an area of area rotating around a low-pressure system). Hurricanes and typhoons are both kinds cyclones.
There is a permanent shortage of talent in US
You're using the term "the Internet" to refer to a combination of ISPs and endpoint services operated by other companies. That is very analogous to the combination of AOL and the Bell system connecting your modem to AOL's modem.

But broadband ISPs today occupy the place of the Bell system, plus some of the lower layers of AOL, and broadband ISPs do not occupy the place of the higher layers of AOL (the search engines, content publishing, etc.).

AOL without any means for your modem to reach AOL's modem is roughly similar to the World Wide Web without any ISP to carry your packets to and from somebody else's servers. (And I've long believed we need stronger regulations to make it clear that ISPs are responsible for providing more than just WWW access.)
I agree, we plan to publish more benchmarks and metrics. We also want to publicly host our fine-tuned model for one of the open-source repos so that people can try themselves agains SOTA models.
Broadband ISPs today, you say.
That's always confused me about that argument.. They are getting paid, by their customers!
Good point. When you put it that way, perhaps the reduced democratic power over the situation is a drawback.

Also, to clarify (and as I'm sure you know), the executive can't arbitrarily change regulatory rules. A whole process is required and non-arbitrariness is a rule (of courts or the law).
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Yeah but that’s almost a tautology. This has been true for every government that ended up in hyperinflation (Germany in the 20s, Russia in the 90s, etc. etc.).
> They just have to give up all their riches.

Well, then they aren't rich anymore, and the camel doesn't need to pass through the eye of the needle. Problem solved.
Yes that's right, the process is:

- clone the repo with git

- Open Cursor (or vscode) locally, click "open remote window" little blue button at the bottom left of the screen

- Navigate to the folder you cloned and press open

- IDE will recognise that there's a .devcontainer inside the folder and pop a dialog saying "Re-open in container", click that. If this dialog doesn't show press "Shift+Ctrl+P" and type "Rebuild" and a menu option "Dev containers: Rebuild and re-open in container" will show up, select that.

- The docker container will be built and you'll be dropped inside it, with the appropriate folder mounts happening automatically. Now when you open a terminal inside the IDE it's a terminal inside the container.
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I can relate to the sentiment. For what it's worth, I also know that if someone's personal site/repos/pictures are used to train AI, they have no recourse short of said person having TONS of money to go and fight the legal battles similar to how media companies do.

But you know what, I grew up in a family of educators whose whole life mission was to help others by sharing their knowledge. That's what I am doing through my blog. I learned something? Blog about it. I built a reverse-engineered wrapper over some API? Share it openly. For every AI ingress job over this content there will be a few people that will read my code or blog post and either learn from it, be inspired, ignore it, or unblock themselves from a problem that they tried to solve. I think that makes the effort worth it to me.

For what it's worth, even before AI emerged, I've seen sites that would shamelessly rip off my content and re-publish it on their own domains under a different author. One even tried charging people for it. On several occasions I fought it and won with the help of Google/Bing. Other times, nothing happened. And that's fine. Such is the fate of online content. If my content helped at least one person, it was worth sharing it in the open.
What is the value of credibility under this way of thinking? If someone has a history of delivering but you think their idea is bad, do you give them a chance? Or vice versa, if someone has great vision and a history of failing, do you give them a chance?

Is there no weight to credibility? Similarly, if Terry Tao refuses to even read your ideas unless you have the right professional look, is that cruelly dismissive and arrogant?
Is San Francisco in such a degraded condition that it needs saving? Seems a strong term. Haven’t seen a “Save the Techbros” charity announced. Maybe I’m on the wrong mailing lists…
I would argue that opinions such as this stifle innovation
Thank you for the idea! We are also considering upsampling and distillation. But on high level, correctly setting up the data for simple fine-tuning can already produce great results.
For what it's worth, I did enjoy reading Gabor Mate and his writing gave some reassurance that addiction is a common way of responding to trauma. Although in my mind, sometimes it verges on "well, I guess I have to be addicted to something," which underscores how lucky I got. I think I dodged a bullet by deciding not to drink alcohol regularly (I can count the number of drinks I've had on one hand, none of them social). I'm not sure what it was but I just sensed something about that route wasn't giving me a good feeling early on. Plus I didn't quite understand the point of drinking a can of beer at home when juice or something was enough. I think I am happy to remain ignorant there.

Because I refused all substances my addiction went to computer-related things and for a very long time that was work, which I guess wasn't all bad since now I have some amount of capital. But since then I've learned to take a better work-life balance and stay healthier. Actually I was afraid for a very long time of becoming a literal NEET and holing up in my room for years expending my life on television and games. If instead I was "productive" then I could create my own virtue and produce objects of substance. But of course life is more nuanced than that. So instead I decided to give myself a break this year and marathon some pieces of media I put off due to "being productive" taking a higher priority for so long. Maybe it's a better problem to have since I likely did several times the amount of work I needed to in a relatively short timespan, so I see it as being "caught up" so to speak.
What do you think the goal of “startup folks” were if not to get acquired by FAANG or other BigTech adjacent companies?

Out of the literally thousands of companies that YC has invested in, only about a dozen have gone public.

YC is not interested in “lifestyle companies” that are a profitable ongoing concern it is interested in the “exit”
> Most people who make a lot of money all at once blow it within seven years

This is a commonly recited myth about lottery winners[1].

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnjennings/2023/08/29/debunki...
I think there is a big difference between learning a living language versus a classical language like Latin or Ancient Greek. The point of learning a living language is to learn practical ways to communicate. While there are tiny communities of people who enjoy talking in classical languages, the vast majority of people learning a classical language do so to read real classical texts in the original.
This is strictly increased democratic power over the situation.
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I don't know much about the financial side of the company, but it seems like a client-led effort by telco's etc. against the dreck that tech VC's keep pushing on them. That can't translate into decent salaries unfortunately.

Silicon Valley doesn't have a good record in the DB/DWH space; producing a fully-featured DBMS doesn't seem to fit the VC model.
The wakewords could be simply "buy", "cheap", "sale", "price" etc - and then collect the exact words around it. I bet the pool fencing conversation followed with the exchange of ideas where to get equipment.
There are 739 comments in this thread and only one of them mentions emotion. That comment is suggesting the appropiate emotion is gratitude.

I'd go further and suggest you take your time and resources to learn about your emotional state and regulate your emotions so you can help others do the same. Find what you want to be a student of from that calm, content emotional state and with less attachment on how to live your life you will likely find more clarity.
The huge stakes for free speech in a new Supreme Court case about porn
The point was really when you want to verify something seek a 2nd opinion.

An LLM does not care if it's information that it is imparting with is helpful or not, unlike the uncle. Maybe it will be maybe it won't be. Either way, seek a 2nd opinion.

So maybe doctor giving a diagnoses and telling you about the recommended procedure. You can ask the downsides and get them. But you don't go with the first thing the doc says, most people seek a 2nd or third opinion from other sources to verify if the information first given is right for you or if there may be better options etc
Yeah I am pretty sure that the renamer adds the tracked immediate(s) to the emitted uop, but that's not inconsistent with tracking "reg offset pairs" is it?
Good one. Always enjoy reading your articles. Keep posting.
Yes, we fine-tune for each codebase. Now we are focusing on larger enterprise codebases that would: 1. benefit from the fine-tuning the most. 2. have the budget to pay us for the service.
For smaller projects that are price-sensitive we are probably not a good fit at this point.
I agree. I have a personal blog for s&g but based on what little analytics I do, almost no humans visit. The few blogs with regular posts never prune their blogrolls - 95% of those links go to long dead sites.
Same situation but 10 years ago. My advice would be to put all your money in stocks and live just like you always did. Find a normal job. Buy a normal house and car. Its great to never ever think about money. Live moderate. Don't show off. You stocks income will be roughly 2.5m a year btw.
Our species, like all living things, has optimised towards struggling through life to the best of their ability (which was always limited). To "win" within the already apex species of humanity means you are hitting your head on the ceiling of what your body and brain was made for, hard.

This is why I stopped striving for success on that scale and returned to only work a small software job.
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This seems like tortious interference.
Ok. I can’t edit the comment now, but I will avoid it in the future.

I was echoing the use in TFA, but that doesn’t really make it any better.
Drugs, scams and sin: Myanmar's war has made it the global crime capital
err, no
https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/63ec2bb0b95078a97a...
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This is a case of some debugging code not being deleted.

See https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/63ec2bb0b95078a97a...
Good point, we plan to publish more benchmarks and also publicly host a model for anyone to try. We think Llama is a good option but as we progress we will test other open source models too like deepseek.
An accurate rebrand could be renaming this place from “hackernews” to “middle manager IT dad news.”
As opposed to broadband ISPs in 1996? Do you not think a Senator from 1996 would readily lump today's Google Fiber in the same category as an ISDN provider in 1996?

Do you somehow think that the overturning of Chevron means that courts do not need to figure out where the role of Google Fiber today fits into the categories defined in 1996?
Those people are so exhausting. I work with one.
I think you're mistaken. If Russia didn't have nukes, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd have been driven out of Ukraine by now through direct Western military intervention. They're the only reason they can throw any weight around in the way they have.

And realistically, they're probably going to end their adventure with a big chunk of conquered Ukrainian territory permanently in their hands.
Assuming the "one guy [who] bought a nightclub" in question is jwz of Netscape fame, his blog is a trip:

https://refhide.com/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/

(routing through refhide because otherwise you'll get a testicle in an egg cup; jwz is a principled man of strong opinions and one of many things he loathes is HN)
I think they should (permission allowing) be able to ask for location, as often as they like.

I pin the system disruption from this query squarely on the OS. It should make such determinations in the background and return whatever value it has, without starting up a new scan just for this query.
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We've tried that for decades, and look where it's gotten us.

Policy wonks and lawyers have run America into the ground with reckless spending and forever wars.

I would venture that introducing fresh ideas and technologists with first principles thinking will yield better results.
We run a set of change requests on the discourse repo. Good point, we plan to publish more detailed testing benchmarks and metrics on the website.