skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the problem is twofold:
some of your mental faculties rather want to drown in digital distraction
while you engage other mental faculties to stop the former

While some people can engage in moderation, abstinence has it's place so that you don't spend double your energy just to stay on track.
Imagine someone made a fresh cooked BBQ steak and puts it close to your work place and tells you "it's alright, moderation buddy! Keep working!".
So everything has it's place and time, it's usually the blending of different places and times that makes things difficult
Yes, but so are a lot of sentences in the US. I've heard of people being put away for decades for mere drug possession.

That said, rapists surprisingly often get just a slap on the wrist, or not even that. The US absolutely needs some balance and consistency in its sentencing, but pardoning this one guy sends a really weird message in that regard. At the very least, just commute the sentence so at least the conviction still stands.
Iocaine – the deadliest poison known to AI
You're right, but I meant the consequences for him from this point on, which are essentially as if he hadn't done anything.
I don't need no social media for my photos
Tests are a way to write your logic twice (once for the code and once during the assertions) with the assumption that you're unlikely to make the same mistake twice.

Integration tests are better replaced by something like contract testing IMO to still retain the test parallelism.
Which countries has china invaded, illegally or otherwise? Which governments have they toppled, covertly or openly?
I had reasonable success deleting Safari from my iPhone. I still need to hit weblinks sometimes, but iOS does a reasonable job at providing a basic web browser for those (no URL bar so I can't then waste time on it).

Of apps, I am currently using ScreenZen, which links into ScreenTime to provide a warning message and delay before I browse a customisable list of websites/apps. (HN is on it...) It seems to work better than OneSec, though it isn't perfect.

[update] Another thing I find useful is to regularly measure my screen time, and have a manageable goal for how long I spend. That's more productive than hoping to go "off-grid" forever.
Goes back further than the internet.

Computers, and networks, were largely funded by DoD for artillery calculations, and then the Manhattan project.

Companies like HP were very involved in the high tech arms industry.
I found it very easy to avoid YT shorts when I realised it's just clips of youtube videos that I've already watched.
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AI Will Write Complex Laws
Yeah it's crazy.
I may want to pause my run for certain reasons - one time I came across a woman whose dog got off the leash so I helped him corral him before continuing on. There's also times I want to skip a song on my playlist because it's not fitting the current pace/vibe of my run. Always easier to do with physical buttons.
Sure. And some of us may want or need to do live changes at runtime across the fleet without needing a full rebuild and redeploy. It can certainly be more green. It's fine if you find it useful to be dogmatic and consistent but don't expect that to be the right approach everywhere or for everyone.

CM is useful here. And usually in the bootstrapping of such architectures.
That almost sounds like what commutation is for.

It's certainly not what pardons are for.
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https://github.com/JLCarveth/nutrition-llama

I've had good speed / reliability with TheBloke/rocket-3B-GGUF on Huggingface, the Q2_K model. I'm sure there are better models out there now, though.

It takes ~8-10 seconds to process an image on my M2 Macbook, so not quite quick enough to run on phones yet, but the accuracy of the output has been quite good.
You can never be sure what someone's real intent is. They might mean "something meshlike". Personally I usually reply by asking for more info (I always have the XY Problem in my mind) but that is time consuming and some people assume you're being pendantic (I am however correct more often than not - people have posed the wrong question or haven't given critical parts of the context)
I was very confused by “math rules only” - as opposed to what? But it seems they don’t think an LLM is maths. Which it absolutely is.
Could those 5000 HTTP requests be made to go back to the ChatGPT API?
Tax breaks, i.e. my money not being in your pocket means that they are stolen?
Evolution of GenAi is truly revolutionizing the business in multiple domains
Show HN: Resilience Checklist – itemized list of EU CRA
Hey HN!

I made this checklist to translate the requirements of EU Cyber Resilience Act into action items.

Navigating standards is no easy task, and if you have tried to read the original document, it contains a lot of circular requirements: Obligations > Annex II > Technical Documentation> User Documentation> Essential Requirements.. etc...

The objective is to provide an informative checklist that allows you to focus on "must-do" requirements and measure completion. The language is partly simplified, avoiding verbosity (Product with digital elements > Product) and providing hints from the official text where needed.

Cybersecurity requirements are necessary to address for all products "with digital elements", aka anything connecting to internet by late 2027. Only compliant products receive the EC marking allowing sale in EU.
I mean I would agree regarding the user base, but it was originally built as a utopian concept for a free trade of goods, akin to the original world of warcraft marketplace.
KDE's KWrite is also available on macOS if you don't like TextEdit, as well as Kate which is more of an alternative to Notepad++, practically an IDE. Kate is my personal favourite text editor.
I'm pretty sure you ought to make the tests you think are needed, and the 'form' is not a good metric.

Our libraries with a lot of logic and calculations are dominated by unit tests, our libraries that talk to external API are dominated by integration tests. That's just good testing, I'm not sure you need to imagine a pyramid or a vase to decide the tests you do.
Before downvoting the OP and, for more information, see:

https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-offshore-turbines-tru...

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-offshore-wind-leasing...
I understand the "doom" in doom scrolling differently.

You're right that in general it's about getting those random dopamine hits when something nice appears in the news feed.

However, after some time, you got a lot of the nice stuff and no exciting stuff appears anymore. At that point, you're still scrolling, hoping for a dopamine hit. It does not come because you are satiated, desensitized and the algorithm no longer has good stuff to offer you.

I get it here on Hacker News. After coming too often and scrolling too much, I already clicked on all the good links. All that is left is either not interesting, or stuff I've looked at before. I still scroll, doomed to find nothing. And yet I scroll.
Bingo. US always has been about commerce and money. It wouldn’t shock me if Ross has at least a few million hidden in some “lost wallet” printed out in a vault some where. He was smart enough to know he would get caught one day.
Yes that is exactly what the big Aha! moment was. It has now been shown that doing these $100MM+ model builds is what it takes to have a top-tier model. The big moat is not just the software, the math, or even the training data, it's the budget to do the giant runs. Of course having a team that is iterating on these 4 regularly is where the magic is.
AFAIK they were dismissed with prejudice, so can't be brought again.
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The only people who think that the political right is censored are the political right.

A few studies have been done on this topic, and consistently, they have found that right-wing messages get promulgated much faster and further than anything on the left or progressive sides.

https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/quick-take/more-evidence-that-cons...

Another reason why right-wings may think they are being censored is because of hate speech. Our AI overlords are already helping us identify hate speech sources, allowing us to sandbox them further.

https://www.psypost.org/new-machine-learning-model-finds-hat...

FTA:
> Another interesting finding from the study came from applying the model to the PubFigs dataset. Of the 1,133 tweets classified as hate speech, 1,094 were posted by right-leaning figures, while only 39 came from left-leaning figures. In terms of abusive content, right-leaning figures contributed 5,029 out of the total 5,299 abusive tweets, with only 270 coming from the left-leaning group. This means that left-leaning figures accounted for just 3.38% of the hate speech and 5.14% of the abusive content in the dataset
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI
It is indeed not quite a drop-in replacement for the 'real' Notepad, but I do find the complaint that you need to enable JS for something that has 'JS' in its name a little strange. That's the platform it was made for, it may not be a platform you enjoy using, and it could perhaps have been made on another platform, but it wasn't. That's hardly a reason to call it "not serious".
I feel like I'm missing something. How is 3.2.0 release 3.0?
Not GP.

I think Bidens family pardons are problematic as well. I can understand why he did it.

I dont understand the argument for pardoning Ross.
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docker run -it alpine:latest sh -c "apk list -I | wc -l"

Returns 15 as of right now, so that's what it ships with by default (for their images at least). I tried `apk list -I -q | apk del -r -f` just for fun to remove them, but doesn't seem like it's possible, so 15 might be the least amount of packages possible, unless you build your own dist from alpine.
They can build a couple. With nuclear money is rarely the issue. It is that it takes forever because reasons.
money smells good i think
This is the common misconception of LiveView coming from the JS community. LiveView is JS. It has a whole optimistic UI layer that solves all of the problems you cite. The UI from state updates coming from the server or the client doesn't matter because the reactive UIs of SPAs still require data updates from some remote source. So if we're talking about latency that latency is going to exist for all application types.
Other criticisms may be valid, but TextEdit is a terrible comparison. TextEdit is comparable to Windows WordPad (another terrible app - which is why Microsoft dropped it). Both are rich-text , not plaintext editors. They're more like Microsoft Word without the features.

Notepad is a plaintext editor, of which their is no equivalent built into Macs outside of terminal applications.
The 'strawmanning your opponent' technique is a non-argument, and is effortless to pull off. Surrounding your argument with tons of purple prose (which Claude is good at) does not change that.

Writing a good argument requires 3 things: be logical, be compelling and likeable, and have a solid reputation. It does not require purple prose.

As for good writing, I'm pretty sure Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy qualifies, which was written with a rather small vocabulary and pedestrian prose, yet is universally praised.

Tbf, I do think Claude Sonnet and SD are impressive, and I think they can aid humans in producing compelling content, but they are not on the level of amateur fiction writers.

Besides, surpassing most humans in an area where most humans are unskilled is not a feat, not even AI companies flex on that.
I loved the bit in the post about "VCs cold calling and then rejecting the next day." When I was CTO/Co-Founder full time, I had one VC cold-call and pursue me unsolicited...and then he acted like I owed him a bunch of data and acted like I wasn't taking "the opportunity [to speak with him]" seriously. It seemed he just wanted competitive inside data. I think the problem is that anyone can call themselves a VC, even if they dont have any track record.
10-15t/s on 12400 with ddr5
This looks very promising. Great work
Actual murderers get out in the time that Ross served.

The concept of justice must include an element of proportionality, I would argue that Ross's sentence, for a first time non-violent criminal, was over the top. Without proportionality justice becomes arbitrary, based more on luck and your connections to power.

We punish those we can punish: the little guy. Whilst those running governments, corporations and networks that facilitate repression, hatred and genocide go scot free.
I totally agree, UK should be included, but this article is based on Eurostat's 2023 dataset which includes all EU member states, three European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries [Switzerland, Iceland, Norway], and one EU candidate country [Turkey].
Raw data available: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data
The non-violent crime part doesn't work for me. He acted as an enabler to countless violent crimes. That's quite clear.
It feels like l-systems on mega steroid, cool
I like the idea of a design tool that helps making nice looking infographics. Initially I assumed that the graphics would also be generated, or at least be looked up in a relatively extensive database. However, it appears that the template dictates the layout and the only thing that is really generated is the text, which imo does not warrant a specific tool.
In the end, I think this tool is a little misleading currently and could be a lot more than what it currently is
I don’t think he should have been sent to ADX Florence, but gen pop in San Quentin seems reasonable. Give him 10 more years in Jail me says!
Idk... reading on a phone experience is so awful, I never really wanted to read anything there anyways. Every now and then I need to fight one or the other proprietary jail on the phone to get essential services to work. Like Google Play sometimes wants me to give it my email. So, I had to reset it to get around it. I don't read mail on the phone anyways. I have to have it to receive messages from son's school, the worthless but mandatory 2FA for work, GPS, bank...

I just don't understand how this can be such an enticing experience. I couldn't bring myself to read the news on my phone even when that was the only device I had for a few weeks.

So... maybe a solution is to try a better device / medium?

Also, being used to Linux, using Android feels really awful because of programs trying to control what you can do instead of the other way around. It could be really infuriating. Also, everything is mildly broken / really trashy quality in terms of UI interaction (things move on their own when they shouldn't, UI element partially drawn offscreen, very variable response time, absolutely garbage keyboard).

So... maybe another solution is to get used to Linux, and just the taste of freedom will deter you from using smartphones?
Nice! Where are you from, itkeman? I posted about your web app on my pt_BR blog: https://manualdousuario.net/notepadjs-bloco-de-notas-macos/
It wasn't a neuron but a cluster of neurons, according to the article, and I believe this kind of stuff is generally best done and talked about at the level of latent space, not actual neurons. It's already been shown that the LLMs encode concepts along the dimensions of the (extremely highly dimensional) latent space. "King - Man + Woman = Queen" is old school; there's been demos showing you can average out a bunch of texts to identify vectors for concepts like, say, "funny" or "academic style", and then say have LLM rewrite some text while you do the equivalent of "- a*<Academic style> + b*<Funny>" during inference to make a piece of scientific writing into more of a joke.

I'm surprised we don't hear more about this (last mention I remember was in terms of suppressing "undesirable" vectors in the name of "alignment"). I'd love to get my hands on a tool that makes it easy to do this on some of the SOTA OSS models.
People say that but it's not really true. If they just have 1P cookies for basic functionality (login), then I believe there can be a discreet notice at the bottom informing the user of that fact. Groups like IEEE should be the ones pioneering those patterns.
Trump is literally into the second day of his presidency, nobody can know whether he might or might not pardon even Snowden for some reason of his own. I had zero expectation of a pardon for Ulbricht yet here it is and it's more impressive than Obama's pandering (but to me still applause-worthy) pardon of Manning, though none came for Assange.
My thing about doom scrolling is that if I’m scrolling for very long it likely means I’m not running into much worthwhile content…

At that point I’m just annoyed and I quit.

I wonder, are people doom scrolling for a long time seeing a lot of content they LIKE?
"Ok Google, how tall was Jimmy Carter"

"1.77 metres"

"How tall was Jimmy Carter in imperial units?"

(Google can't answer)

"What is 1.77 metres in imperial units?"

"0.001099827 miles"

"What is 1.77 metres in feet and inches?"

"5.807087 feet"
Norm: Murder and attempted murder are the same thing

Seinfeld: Different skill level
Nice! I was thinking about this type of deal last week! Good work!
Yeah "on accident" jumps out as wrong to me (a Canadian) but I can appreciate this it is symmetric with "on purpose". I've never heard anyone say "by purpose".
You can email such questions to hn@ycombinator.com, you probably want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html while you're at it.
You can switch TextEdit between rich text and plaintext modes.
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https://archive.ph/b4Ikh
> For example, prohibit plea bargaining so that all convictions require a trial and it's forbidden to impose any penalty for demanding one.

Many in jail awaiting trial are very guilty and the outcome of the legal proceeding is effectively a foregone conclusion. Exchanging a shorter sentence for a plea makes sense for all parties. Prosecutors can then spend their court time arguing more important cases, judges don't have to patiently direct clown shows where guilt is extremely obvious, and the defendant gets a lesser sentence. There is plenty of abuse in the plea system, and no shortage of outrageous prosecutorial misconduct. But that doesn't invalidate the principle of plea bargaining. No justice system is perfect and without plea bargaining every defendant would have to spend a decade in jail, maybe two, before their case makes it in front of a judge. That isn't justice. Unless we assign everybody chatgpt lawyers, judges and juries giving everybody a trial is a practical impossibility.
Yes, I would agree with this principle, with the caveat that there could be always be corner cases that deserve a special treatment.
> Ross violated the only remaining national holy religion, the rule of law. He was sentenced for being a heretic.

That's a weird way of talking about that. The rule of law is what keeps rampant corruption and government abuse at bay. It means the law also holds for the ruler, and not just for the subjects. The rule of law has already been significantly weakened in recent years by openly corrupt judges and politicians, and traitor being elected in defiance of the 14th amendment.

None of this is a good thing. Without the rule of law, it's the people that lose, because then you get the rule of those in power, who will be above the law.
The author, after 4 years, is probably still afraid of contracting Covid from you; given that she spend more than a paragraph complaining about absent distancing.
"A fish rots from the head down" is the saying. And since neither Jeff nor Joel are the heads at SO anymore I'm not sure of the relevance here.

But we can all agree that they made a wonderful fish that has helped millions of developers (including myself) over the years.
I am struggling with this myself at the moment, but I find that just doing something else entirely - away from my phone or laptop - is way more effective than deleting apps.
Activities like buying groceries, cooking, going for a walk etc all create a sensation when I'm done with them, that I enjoy a lot more than what I feel after an hour of scrolling.
You can change TextEdit to handle plain text: Format > Convert to plain text, or Shift + Command + T.

I prefer TextEdit over Notepad. Its undo is way better, and it's overall a snappier app.
Outgoing Biden Administration Issues Sweeping Executive Order on AI-Driven
The drag and drop animation looks very smooth
(Not OP, but I did read the information they wrote.)

> What's wrong with TextEdit on macOS?

Nothing wrong as such, but does it match the “cross-platform” description?

> Firefox … the open/save button does nothing

As per the readme, it is using an API that is not yet supported in Firefox for local file access: https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

> there is no "top menu" or install button

That is meaning the browser's menu. Perhaps there is better terminology that should be used here. The readme does show a screenshot of it, so it seems clear from that to me. The install option is found there.

> and I guess it doesn't work if I don't have an internet connection.

Also in the readme: “Installable as a PWA”, which I think implies offline support, given it doesn't have sync features so has no reason once installed that way to talk to the wider network.
> Slavic family: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#ind...
>A serious question though, what does happen when AIs are filing lawsuits autonomously on behalf of the powerful,

AI controlled cheap Chinese drones will start flying into their residencies carrying some trivial to make high explosives. With the class wars getting hotter in next few years we may be saying that Luigi Mangione had the right ideas towards the PMC, but he was underachiever.
This is an excellent work of profound clarity.
Frankly i think you cannot get past your own delusion about AI and no argument will change your mind. No one can make you appreciate art properly and I can only hope one day you will.