skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've banned this account. You can't attack other users like this, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I was working on a similar IO problem with wearables a while ago (though by the sounds of things, far less seriously than you are), and I had the idea that maybe that band/strap could function as an on-off switch, so when you undo the band (which you do when taking it off), it turns the device off, and vice versa. Could be something you could try too
> We want to train highly skilled people

After how many postdocs is one "highly skilled"?

Postdocs are foremost a failure of the academic job market (supply of eager researchers much larger than available academic positions) that over time has become some sort of ingrained filtering mechanism.
For me being a retired psychotherapist AI can and will never replace or be as good as a human therapist.

Ai maybe able to use some sort of formulaic structured therapy like CBT but will never be able to manage human intuition, projections, projective identification, phenomenology, transference, counter-transference and the all important interpersonal, intrapersonal relationship and quality free association and dream analysis as per Freud and Lacan.

You know that same CBT that claims to cure depression, eating disorders and others after 12 sessions. Yet all the research I have read comes to the same conclusion, that the symptoms return not long after a course of CBT finishes.

A CBT ptractitioner trains the client to be his own therapist by teaching him or her CBT, the ABC's of CBT so that the client can use that to help themselves. But people with depression for instance to do not have the capacity to continually monitor themselves when they are depressed every day. This is not therapy,

For me and most of my colleagues CBT is a brainwashing technique and to be honest CBT has never been allowed in any of the charitable organisations I worked for for many years.

CBT is cheap. CBT practitioners do not have to engage in any personal therapy, It takes just a year to train as a CBT therapist wheras I and my colleagues have spent the absolute minimum of 6 years training to Masters level and then a lifetime of continued professional development.

Here in the UK you can get a good couples therapist for £80 for the 50 minutes and you wont be filling any forms every week. nor risking the eventul and pretty much guaranteed intrusive hack and all your personal private sessions spread all over the internet

How does AI guarantee confidentiality? it cannot, Without confidentiality there is no trust which is fundamental to all good therapy
You can almost certainly narrow down the McDonalds with a wide variety of things - this example is fairly contrived.

If you can see outside of the McDonalds for street view to be usable, you're almost certainly able to determine what country it is in, and potentially the exact location, depending on what is visible outside.

If it's a picture that shows the menu, well, street view isn't likely to be super useful, but you'd have a trivial time figuring out what country it is in at that point - menus vary from country to country, even when they are still in English.

New Mexico has relatively few McDonald's restaurants because New Mexico has a fairly low population - only 2.1m for the whole state. With that in mind, it seems unlikely that that Cloudflare has a close enough POP for you to be able to specifically decide it's NM.

If I can see enough for Street View to be able to confirm location, it seems like I can just search via the data there and get far more narrowed down results. If I can see a Burger King and a Best Buy outside from the picture, I can just use one of the many mapping services with APIs to get a list of all McDonalds locations within a tenth of a mile of a Burger King and Best Buy and look through a smaller list. If I'm confident of the time zone, like you suggest we should be able to be, then that's an even smaller list.

I'm not saying this attack is useless by any means, but I don't see a world where the sharing of the pictures to begin with isn't the most significant opsec failure and doesn't open you up to being de-anonymized in a myriad of other ways.
Hmm is there anything reasonably ready made* for this spot? Training and querying a llm locally on an existing codebase?

* I don't mind compiling it myself but i'd rather not write it.
I noted in a comment above that this type of behavior, "Lol, nothing matters" is exactly the kind of behavior described by Sartre in Anti-Semite and Jew about the behavior of actual brownshirts and blackshirts that this salute is meant to directly reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semite_and_Jew

It isn't that this type of behavior is designed to get something, it's that the type of mindset, one that has decided not to care anymore, to reject nuance and embrace a kind of good-guy/bad-guy explanation of complex problem in the world, ultimately leading to bad faith engagement... well all that leads to this type of behavior.

The idea is that this type of action isn't trying to achieve anything, it's the result of a worldview.
IBM 2314 Direct Access Storage Facility [pdf]
”We and our 727 technology partners ask you to consent…”

I would bet the billionaires in Trump’s good boys club are in it for the pardons they need after justice realizes what is being done with everyone’s personal data.
Can you give some examples on actual free market solutions are applied to public services?

The closest I can think of are the metros of Tokyo free government takeover, but I am not sure how free those actually were of government regulation.

One of the struggles I have is that typically these public services may be carried out by private companies paid for by the government, but that is just begging for corruption
Would agentic workflows come in handy in these cases? I mean having a controller agent after the sentence is created, where this agent would be able to search the web or have access to a database? or personal notes and ensure everything is correct.
This was... always, the case though? For any CDN service? How do you serve traffic to people without knowing where to send it?
Damn, that was fast.

More feedback:

1. Make L texture look better by by shifting the arrow origin up and left. Like the turn traffic sign.

2. I am deleting my robots now, when I am trying to remove an arrow from underneath them.

3. If itch and Unity's APIs allow, make full screen, "ask before exiting", and auto-save. itch has popups/buttons on the top right, which obscures the speed controls.
I live in a small community that relies on Facebook, and I would be shocked if you could get people to switch. You might get a few, but the network effect is strong enough that most will stay on Facebook.

One alternative is an old-school email list. We have one run by a single older woman, who refuses any form of updates or help. If she’s sick, emails don’t go out. If you want to sign up, you need to ask her. Still, it’s easy for people to use on a variety of platforms, uses minimal data, doesn’t have any tracking, and doesn’t have ads. The longer-form, slower nature of email makes it less likely to devolve into drama like the local Facebook groups do.

Even if you do self-host something decentralized, you need it to be reliable without you. If you succeed and your community relies on it, you’re doing them a disservice by not making it a reliable even if your circumstances change.
Gig workers are a genuine and serious regression in workers rights and employer vs. employee power balance. These "jobs" should not be allowed to exist, at all.

Tech companies have figured out a way to subvert the protections all other employees are subject to. I see absolutely no reason why they should be allowed to do this.

I really do not understand why governments aren't working hard to make this kind of gig-economy illegal.
It is really fun and sarcastic to watch all this happening. U.S. Gov. tried to block China from accessing GPU resources very hardly to stop their AI development, but actually helped China to take a leap on developing efficient and more cost-effective LLM model with constraint GPU access.
While it's noted that it's undocumented behavior (-o is non-existent in systemctl man page), so it might go away tomorrow, it's not a bad start. However what I want is more like

systemctl -o json list-units --type=service --state=active

I can add --terse for single line output to prevent adding jq to the pipe for processing that JSON.

Maybe instead of writing a bit better code and actually documenting these options, they can just absorb jq as jsonctl, who knows.

Sorry, I kinda get angry when I encounter shenanigans like undocumented functionality, or hostile-replacing a daemon because they felt like replacing something really working well for the last 20ish years, just for fun, you know.
> It doesn't cause extreme mental anguish, I just... don't have to play along with childish games like pretending someone can be the opposite sex.

See, this is where you guys get it twisted. This is not a matter of playing along, it's not a game. It's a matter of social practicality. Example:

If you meet a new person who clearly appears to be a woman, do you use female pronouns with that person? What if that person is biologically male and has transitioned, and you simply don't know that? Presumably you don't do genital inspections on every new person you meet to ensure that you are not "playing along with childish games", right?
I don't see any mention of the price in the FAQ[0], which I had to guess the url of because it doesn't have a link anywhere on the homepage. Trying to guess the url of the pricing page doesn't yield any results.

[0] https://www.snapcalorie.com/faq.html
We can turn beans into peas.
”Trivial” as a description of datetime problems is a sign you haven’t thought about it enough. If I call my mom at 6pm every day to check on her, I don’t want that time to jump around as I visit New York. It is the same time for her not me. (I might actually want it to jump around when she visits New York!) Same for my plan to watch a football game, it won’t be rescheduled just because I’m watching from somewhere else.
This is a deep rabbit hole indeed :)

Does Donald Knuth have any metaprogramming for golden section/ratio?

About golden section in the universe there is a nice book by Scott Olsen - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316282.The_Golden_Sectio...
I think the universality hides the fact that these are not really made to stay in the flow of life but to be cute and shiny in themselves, capturing your attention instead of being the shortest path on providing what you need to keep going. Then there's the instability of platform (plethora of messaging apps..), the usual ad infestation (google maps now shows a lot of local shop whether you asked for it or not) etc etc. Old devices had to be tailored and became a side element in your life.
It's kind of a sloppy solution, but what about using a Bluetooth to aux adapter? You would lose the dashboard audio controls but at least you can listen to your stuff.
It is impossible to take any opinion about the media seriously when that opinion is blocked after 3 paragraphs with a login wall.

I have to assume this is what 404media means by "decentralized social media": one where you have to sign up to 404media's own website and give them your personal information directly. No thanks.
Hyperbole: Haskell interactive serverside web framework inspired by Htmx, Elm
60+ crazy years of ASCII.
Yes they do. It's a completely different set of government agencies with different policies though.
Most of this sounds like the symptoms of an individualist society. If people only take into consideration their own incentives, why would they care about the experience of anyone else? In my opinion this world view is a result of a society that is only held together by the economic interests of individuals.
"The people voted for major reform"

They didn't vote for Elon to do it. They also were explicitly lied to by the Trump campaign -- they claimed they didn't know what Project 2025 was and that they had no relationship to it. The minute they won, guess what they said their plan is?

Lying fascists.
They've clearly implemented prejustice, but not correctly. Find that class action lawyer and go fishing!
The best feature of FB is reach. You can't replicate that without a global social media platform. So don't. Just build local communities that thrive _despite_ the fact they are started on FB. More in-person social interaction might upend FB and social media, but we currently play this game so these are the rules we must follow.
Dream on, some of the original patents expire only by 2030 due to perfectly legal term extensions. AVC won’t be free for quite some time. Better embrace the newer codecs even if they have a price tag.
Infamous Street Fighter and Darkstalkers Animated Series Returns on Blu-ray
It is open source so you can inspect the code :D
Where? Fintech?

Sorry Sarcasm aside: considering the never ending list of unsolved problems, it should.
Sadly, more money seems to get spend on games, ads and stupid juice presses than anything really helpful.
If you search for "90,0" and then use the change orientation button to put the south pole on the bottom of the screen you can recover the more familiar distorted map.

Other choices really do put into perspective how distorted this projection is.
The book was published in 2006.

That's decades after he was born.

Any explanation for that or are you claiming Jungian levels of synchronicity?
The American Mediterranean Sea
Eh, ok. [1] I guess there must be another reason Trump's campaign spent hundreds of millions of dollars broadcasting that ad. It was way more than they spent on any other ad.

You're moving the goalpost here and pretending that neopronouns is not that big an issue. But it's obviously just part of the gender ideology issue, which was clearly part of the reason Trump won.

I can see that there are still people out there with their heads in the sand. I wonder who you'll help elect next time around?

1: https://www.megynkelly.com/2024/11/11/survey-finds-trans-iss...
If you work for an American company, then your teammate back in NYC might be a daily reminder.
"If you have an immersion blender"

You can also make mayonnaise with a whisk.
As always with history, you can imagine how things might have happened differently. For example, you can imagine gay marriage having been legalized without people ever having put social pressure on others not to use homophobic language. The two things are certainly not inherently linked. But then, very few things are inherently linked in history and politics. It's not much of an argument against a certain form of activism to point out that its results could in principle have been obtained by other means.
"So, first, calling it “censorship” is misleading, because it’s just how you handle violations of your rules, which is why moderation is always a better term for it."

Got any sources that don't go in for such blatant gaslighting?
Not available in Spain. :(
Paper Apps Golf – Notebook
I wonder if there are any benchmarks specifically designed to evaluate LLMs' performance in language learning tasks
Show HN: Next.js generator for deploying Claude AI React components locally
I play games very little, a few hours a week. I am very social and not lacking in that area -- don't worry about me lol :) I don't engage in "intense gaming", notice how I said I've played since 2009, that's 16 years ago :P
‘No,’ Says God

https://theonion.com/god-answers-prayers-of-paralyzed-little...
>>> chr(88)
'X'
>>> ord('X')
88

You might be looking at the hexadecimal representation instead.
Sure, if I spend one hour researching a problem vs asking AI in 10 seconds, yes I will almost always learn more in the one hour. But if I spend an hour asking AI questions on the same subject I believe I can learn way more than by reading for one hour. I think the analogy could be comparing a lecture to a one-on-one tutoring session. Education needs to evolve to keep up with the tools that students have at their disposal.
> magical belief system.

To be fair, if one includes religions this is significantly more than half the population. Add in astrology, psychics, ghosts, crystals, auras and other common 'woo' and it gets higher still. Sadly, HN is not a representative population sample. Skeptical non-believers are still a minority in the modern world.
But I feel we're going back full circle. These small models are not generalist, thus not really LLMs at least in terms of objective. Recently there has been a rise of "specialized" models that provide lots of values, but that's not why we were sold on LLMs.
Wow, these are beautiful. My dad used to make these as a sort of hobby (he liked any excuse to hop on the lathe, and they made great gifts; you don't realize how awful the ones in big box stores are until someone makes you a proper one). He'll love to see this.

It didn't occur to me that there'd be such an extensive collection of something seemingly so obscure, yet here we are. It seems like this exists for everything out there.

It's very nostalgic in a way. Though my dad's were different, the dark, solid wood and geometric shapes bring me back to my childhood.
Intel said that BiCMOS decreased signal delays by up to 35%, although the total performance improvement would be less.
These are good arguments about phd's not going into academia. But a postdoc at a university is an underpaid training position for the most part. Not a worthwhile sacrifice if you want to work in the private sector in my field. Maybe it's more important for industry jobs in biology or something.

Personally I think it's a warped system that takes advantage of cheap labor from developing countries. And it feeds itself. The more temporary research staff professors can hire, the less permanent research staff universities need.
XBox Fort Gay was a classic example of the Scunthorpe Problem[0]. I suppose we need a formal Scunthorpe Test, but this seems like you could solve the Problem with a popup checkbox and text field whenever your filter flags an account.

The seminal Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names[1] looks at similar territory from a different perspective.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
more experts would be a good thing, if there was money for them. no point in producing phds if they don't get the resources to do research (including a respectable salary)... as it stands now academia is almost a scam (phd+ level)
Yeah for real, my Steam account could just be erased and I instantly lose like $1000 of games I "bought" (by some vague definition of the word). As soon as online-only services started becoming more prevalent, it became quickly apparent how ephemeral they are, and how unilaterally they can be taken away from me with zero recourse. "Don't get too attached", as they say >_>
Japan's 'quiet revolution' of luxury travel nears fruition
Found this video on the MIT Robotics YouTube page of some of the robots Kevin Chen was working on from a year ago, but I couldn’t find any videos of the new on on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmrDK_w0Yog

The paper itself links to some videos but I haven’t looked at those yet.
This seems more like physiognomy than phrenology, though just as much pseudoscience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy

Might as well hire an in house astrologer and, perhaps, a certified witch or warlock at that point.
> all algorithms used must be deterministic

Be careful with your choice of wording here. There are many non-{AI,ML} algorithms that are not deterministic. Hell, we don't even have to go to Turing or talk about Busy Beaver. What about encryption? We want to inject noise here and want that noise to be as random and indeterminable as possible.

There are also many optimization algorithms that require random processes. This can even include things like finding the area under a curve because it may be faster to use Monte Carlo Integration. You might not even be able to do it otherwise.

> and diagrammable

An ANN is certainly diagrammable.

I understand the intent of your words and even agree with it. I think openness and transparency are critical. But because I care and agree I want to make sure we recognize how difficult that the wording is. Because it is often easy to implement a solution that creates a bigger problem than the thing we sought to solve.

Personally, I'd love to see that things become "Software Available." I mean if it was a requirement for everyone, then it is much easier to "prove" when code is cloned. Of course, this is easier said than done since there's many "many ways to skin a cat" but in essence, this is not too dissimilar from physical manufacturing. It's really hard to keep secrets in hardware. Plus, there's benefits like you can fix your fucking tractor when it breaks down. Or fix a car even if it is half a century old. I do expect if this would become reality that it'd need a lot more nuance and my own critique applies, but I just wanted to put it out there (in part, to get that critique).
Keep in mind that this is a postdoc. The thing you do after you complete a PhD, and for most of history, something you only did after you started working as a professor.
Nearly all stories about His Muskness get flagged, especially the sensational ones, for reasons that are not hard for anyone who has read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html to understand. (Edit: if it helps at all, I would expect that positive cases get even more flagged than negative cases.)

The underlying issue isn't boo-$celebrity vs. yay-$celebrity, it's that HN doesn't function well under indignation or repetition, and that topic maximizes both.
Well, unlike with tracking pixels, you are not in the direct request path and cannot block it. You also have no way monitor/log if it is happening (like you can in theory with a packet capture).

It's obvious in hindsight, but I bet no one would have mentioned this possibility as why you should disable notification previews or that simply receiving a notification would possibly reveal this information.
NIH BioArt Source
> to scroll and learn things

Maybe you can approach this a bit differently, it sounds like you are looking for another place to waste your time without learning anything.

Learning doesn't happen by scrolling.
This is true. it also hurts the public, as the drivers are dependent on the number of deliveries the succeed making, thus hurrying up and constantly stressed. This hurts not only their health and quality of delivery, but also increases the risk for traffic accidents.

It is in the best of interest of everyone that these people would get a normal salary.
yes, i've implemented it in multiple companies. cosign supports using generated keys and kms services, that's been pretty stable and usable for a long time.
keyless signing is different and you need to think a bit more carefully about what you're trusting.
The obvious Fediverse alternative for Facebook is https://friendi.ca

It federates with Mastodon and co.

Some statistics: https://fedidb.org/software/friendica
Property Guardians (2022)
It's more like "Apple Watches are great for people who want their watch to be an extension of their iPhone. Full stop."

Apple Watch is not smartphone agnostic (requiring iPhone for Apple Watch setup). That's Apple's choice. Apple Watch has done well targeting just iPhone users. It makes some stuff easier for devs.

But South Korea has its own walled garden - https://www.gizchina.com/2023/11/13/korean-smartphone-market....
Did you read the article?

The main example he gives is a simple factual matter about the words a specific early Christian manuscript. The LLM invented new text that’s not at all what’s in the manuscript.

He also convincingly argues people performing poor apologetics is no excuse to deploy an LLM performing poor apologetics.