skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think once we let Facebook/Meta get away with calling Llama "Open Source" and seemingly no one bats an eye, we kind of lost the battle about what "Open Source" means. It's not talking about something being available for you without signing an agreement, nor is it actually about source code, but it seems to basically be synonymous with "Freeware" these days.
not in my experience. i had an edge 120 bike computer and a vivoactive watch, and the last 10% wasn't enough to get through anything. the 10% from 100 to 90% would be plenty, but the last 10% always drained really quick and charged slow.
Splitting hairs.

If you use a platform nobody uses to try and change the world you won't change it just like if you tried to plant trees without using seeds.
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The 3 branches of government were based on Isaiah 33:22: For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king. It sounds like a language that includes rules, but I don't think it's been invented yet.
I didn’t open that, but I love the domain name.
A lot of people mess up more by doing a maintenance calorie estimation wrong and relying on it rather than counting calories coupled with weighing themselves and adjusting calorie intake up/down depending on whether they lose/add weight... If you use a feedback loop, then indeed it doesn't matter if your calorie estimate is anywhere near correct anyway, as long as you're reasonably consistent and the errors aren't too badly skewed toward the wrong foods.
To many the idea of bringing the intellect fully into action in religion seems almost repellent. The intellect seems so cold and measured and measuring, and the will so warm and glowing. Indeed the joy of the will is always figured in terms of warmth – such words as ardor, fervor and the like come from Latin words for a fire burning: there is a fear that intellect can only damp down the fire. Many again who do not find the use of the intellect in religion actually repellent, regard it as at least unnecessary – at any rate for the layman – and possibly dangerous. One can, they say, love God without any very great study of doctrine. Indeed, they say, warming to their theme, some of the holiest people they know are quite ignorant. Plenty of theologians are not as holy as an old Irishman they have seen saying his Rosary. All this is so crammed with fallacy as to be hardly worth refuting. A man may be learned in dogma, and at the same time proud or greedy or cruel: knowledge does not supply for love if love is absent. Similarly, a virtuous man may be ignorant, but ignorance is not a virtue. It would be a strange God Who could be loved better by being known less. Love of God is not the same thing as knowledge of God; love of God is immeasurably more important than knowledge of God; but if a man loves God knowing a little about Him, he should love God more from knowing more about Him: for every new thing known about God is a new reason for loving Him. It is true that some get vast love from lesser knowledge; it is true even that some get vast light from lesser knowledge: for love helps sight. But sight helps love too.
After all, the man who uses his intellect in religion is using it to see what is there. But the alternative to seeing what is there is either not seeing what is there, and this is darkness; or seeing what is not there, and this is error, derangement, a kind of double darkness. And it is unthinkable that darkness whether single or double should be preferred to light.
Indeed light is the joy of the mind as warmth is the joy of the will. But warmth and light are both effects of fire, warmth fire as felt, light fire as seen (and seen by). It seems strange to value the one effect and not the other of that fire by which the Holy Ghost is figured to us. It is an odd delusion that one is warmer in the dark, that one can love God better in the dark.

– Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity, 1946

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58569
I'm really glad Garmin exists and makes smartwatches. The broad approach they have to market segments has created really great products that serve markets other large tech manufacturers haven't really touched. I'm sure the Apple watch is a good product but I'm uninterested in a general notification device (what I take to be the function of a smartwatch). I've used my farming for hiking, paragliding, tracking sleep, connecting to my bike trainer, etc. It tracks all my activities and is my dedicated device for anything athletic. The athletic features, good battery life, and sleep tracking have made it so that I actually wear a watch all the time. Spent $700 4 years ago and it was totally worth it. Perhaps the only caveat for Garmin is that I don't need to upgrade. It does everything I want it to without issue.
> systemctl reboot -f should be the default for "reboot".

I very much disagree. This is not what I want and certainly you can recognize that this is an unsafe operation, right? Less safe operations should ALWAYS require more work. Not everyone checks and it is also easy to forget or miss something.

> reboot --ask-everything --stall-on-crash-ok --wait-indefinitely-ok

I like the --ask-everything option but I'm not sure how the other 2 can work. A crash, especially during shutdown, can have no guarantees of being caught. Or do you mean crashing user programs? Well then that's --force, right? The --wait-indefinitely-ok seems a bit weird too. Shouldn't that be configured in your boot options (or bootctl)? I do think there's reasons you might want this in one situation but not another so flag sounds good.

> If someone’s issuing a reboot, it's because something is wrong

On personal machines: >9/10 times I'm rebooting because I installed a new kernel. Granted I'm usually running an arch distro, but even on other machines it's pretty similar.

On servers, yes, you're right, I reboot far less and am usually rebooting because a specific GPU server has a defective GPU that is often a pain to solve with rmmod and resetting manually, being just far easier to reboot the entire machine.

But I still think it's clear that what you think is "average" or "usual" is not. Literally the fact that you and I disagree on what our typical use cases is proof of this (note: I'm not saying _my average_ use case extrapolates, nor your average use case, nor anyone else I know or even don't know. I'm saying _average_ is not a meaningful thing. I mean this in the same way as taking the average of 2 samples from a normal distribution; doing so gives you a number that is not representative of the distribution).
> Technology giants must do more to co-operate with law enforcement on encryption or they risk threatening European democracy

If your democracy is that fragile, then it was never going to survive the assaults of your own politicians, never mind citizens keeping secrets from their wannabe panopticon governments.
It depends on the gig. Attempts to farm out housecleaning as a gig fail in exactly that way - people find the cleaner they want, and they arrange to make it permanent.

That used to be considered a success, not a failure.

When agencies like Kelly place someone in a position like that, the person is required to work for Kelly for x number of months/years. Once that obligation is complete, they are free to jump to working directly with the Kelly client. Been there. Done that.

This is a solved problem. And solved a hundred years ago.
They created two segregated lists on purpose. They implemented a change that only affected one list. They accidentally had a bug that exposed that they were trying to do something. They question now is what were they originally trying to accomplish?
wow, evil pi.

very interesting, thanks for sharing.
One factor is just the sheer volume of snacks and treats - outside of the portion size of any particular meal. If your were not self-aware of constant eating that can have a big impact - at least it did for a few friends of mine.
Yeah the problem seem to be the researchers in the first place here, they're probably in a hurry to produce papers with supposedly real data.

Or maybe the researchers know all this from years working in this field, the problem might be from those simplifying the research for the public
Re: delivery fees and minimum orders - for all intents and purposes, a burrito delivered via door dash costs $30. I’m pretty sure if you’d offered the sandwich shop $20 more to deliver the sandwich, they’d at least have thought about it. It’s actually kind of wild how much DD & all have managed to change expectations on the cost of food delivery.
Yeah, I agree. Those things have a much smaller benefit over hypertext and search engines than hypertext and search engines had over libraries.

But I don't know if it fits an S-curve or if they are just bellow the trend.
Imagine complaining that an LLM is hallucinating, because it's not accurately hallucinating your delusion.
These are good points and great questions!

Your description of getting surgeries based on a distorted view of what they see in the mirror sounds exactly like gender dysphoria to me.

I have a big nose like you and even having had romantic partners compliment me on it hasn't stopped me feeling bad about it, but I agree it's definitely more trivial than believing you ought to be the other sex, somehow. They usually say "it's handsome" rather than try to convince me it's a normal size, which is perhaps a more merciful lie!

I don't know about CBT, but I know that people can be convinced by others that they should be the other sex: it happens all the time on youtube, tiktok, tumblr and across the web. That's how this became so wide spread in the first place.

So I absolutely believe people can be helped to accept the truth of themselves and their real body and not require hormonal or surgical interventions. Here I'm mostly talking about insecure young people - the very different cohort of older men where there's a sexual element involved might be boned (pardon the pun!) but that's all the more reason not to have the rest of society change laws and social mores to facilitate it.

If I was gender dysphoric (unable to accept the truth and be comfortable in my own body) AND believing in gender identity then I'm sure I would expect people to affirm my delusion and I'd viscerally dislike those that didn't.
If I was later cured, I'd hope I'd appreciate those who stuck to their guns and didn't lie to me.
Maybe it's impossible to fully accept yourself (like our big noses) and one just has to live with it and cope with it as healthily as they can.
I would consider getting my nose carved down to size (regardless of how big it really is) a failure for everyone involved.
The fix has been deployed
There are a lot of good theologians who are uncomfortable engaging in apologetics. It's easy to get immersed in the debate, and turn towards heresy or dishonesty without noticing. This precedes AI.
> Arguing that you can't use an LLM for Christian apologetics because it "might not be true" overemphasizes the definition of "truth" when it comes to scripture and those teaching Christian apologetics, which is entirely influenced by what doctrine you subscribe to.

But the author is pretty explicit about wanting a high standard (e.g. insisting on using the best sources possible), and doesn't think that using LLMs is compatible with that goal.
Thanks - just read this comment while it was downloading and installing, so uninstalled straight away.

Back to fitness pal and scanning barcodes (which is not really much of a hardship tbh)
I agree with you, but I feel compelled to point out that math regularly generates truth.
It also works with no zeros, or all sorts of other number of zeros. Dude basically just added zeros until the number got cooler.
>"Signal instantly dismissed my report"

>I wish Signal would react differently. I still remember the bubble color controversy when they changed their mind after the backlash and not before. :-)

Can you blame them though? They're a non-profit with limited manpower and resources. There's quite a lot of cranks in the security field, and as many people have echoed in this thread, the bug report is rather sensationalist. At some point you just have to pattern match and ignore any reports that seems a bit too cranky. Is this ideal? No. But I don't see how it's any different than summarily dismissing a vaccine skeptic's claim that vaccines are bad, even if there's a kernel of truth buried in there (eg. that benefits for young people are questionable).
Searching for deeper meaning in some javascript gluecode bug made by an intern, now thats whathehackernews worthy.
I have doubts the effects would be as envisioned. There might be negative social/biological traits (ex: fear is stronger than happiness; low threshold for believing things) that amplified by the exponential effect of such a network can have disastrous results. We had tyrants, cult leaders and other nuts that made enough damage without such a tool.

Maybe the network should also limit interaction and exposure. It's fine if you get more interaction than you could do in real life, but I find worrying to have one person followed by tens of millions ... (and even if it was the case before with newspapers, I don't think it was ideal either)
> Unless your definition of 'general purpose' specifically excludes anything UI-related, like on desktop, web or mobile, or AI-related.

By that definition no language is general purpose. There is no language today that excels in GUI (desktop/mobile), web development, AI, cloud infrastructure, and all the other stuff like systems, embedded...And all at the same time.

For instance I have never seen or heard of a successful Python desktop app (or mobile for that matter).
That's been resolved
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McDonald’s sells their marketing and logistics, and rents real estate, to franchisors. The franchisors’ business is the one that employs people who do final assembly of the food.

The franchisors’ profits and profit margins are nowhere near McDonalds’.
> sent his kid in the form of a human.

Jesus is God. Don't ask me how to explain it from a theological standpoint but from my understanding: God decided he wanted to better understand the NPCs in his HumanSim(TM) game so he straps on a VR headset, enters the game via a virgin birth hack, gets killed, then rage quit. Hasn't been seen since so likely started a new game on some other planet.
There's no workplace to speak in hushed tones.

There's no way to know when you've reached a quorum of local drivers.

SMS. When I drove for Uber, there were massive group chats amongst the drivers. They even organized planned shortages in certain parts of the city when rates got too low.
It's an interesting approach but also a big contrast to the typical community style formula for religion / even just different and disconnected sort of evangelism where you have no idea what the result is...
I guess malicious compliance also comes with less of a risk of sudden death than whistle-blowing.
> I've lost more than one bike ride because the start/stop button was bumped on the Forerunner and it turned out not to be recording.

I've had that happen to me during yoga and boxing workouts I've recorded. There's a way to lock the physical buttons (at least on my Instinct watch), which requires multiple presses to stop/start a workout. IIRC, it's by holding the light button.
Honestly, X is such a cool prefix I would opt for this batch. It sounds like you are part of some skunkworks batch.

The "F" batches are a bit confusing due to the YC Fellowships eons ago whichd I recall were prefixed with "F" as well.
Little to nothing. You have to understand the WHO is a voluntary organization to follow any of its recommendations or guidelines. It can be useful in some situations and it can be not useful in other situations. At the end of the day it is simply a way for many countries to collect information together and to provide health advice and resources mainly to those countries who lack sufficient ability to do it on their own.

So for the United States directly there would be little to no effect. Depending on how this impacts the United States interaction with other countries and the dissemination of support and health information and health research there could be impacts for other countries.

One thing to keep in mind with the last major pandemic, several years ago, much of the WHO advice on how to deal with it was largely ignored.
Storage is cheap, but not thinking about logging is expensive
Thanks for digging it up. Hm. Maybe my machine was under load at the time.
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Another more sensible explanation is that the calorie theory is fully wrong and unscientific, despite using numbers and measurements (it sounds very mathy though)
> I understand the author's conserns but I wonder of his standard of "true" is a bit unrealistic.

In the case of religions it is definitely unrealistic.
Exactly... theyd be associating it with quartermaster rather than slavemaster...
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Jean-Paul Sartre
Too Many People Don't Value the Time of Security Researchers
Sorry, I wrote the equation for homogeneity of degree one by mistake. I edited my post to the link to the Wikipedia page on homogeneity instead. Thanks.
The best I've seen is "Son, do not create future obligations!"
The title made me think this was about a 'negative 40B pivot', when it actually means an 'approximately 40B pivot'.

Does hacker news not support Tildes or what?
We ain't playing that game anymore.
+1

The killer for me was breakfast cereals. The box shows a full bowl of whatever, full to the brim etc. in reality the pictures are probably 5 or 6 or more servings - a single serving would barely even cover the base of the bowl and even then be 200ish calories before milk.

If you just pour yourself "a bowl" of cereal without thinking or weighing then you're probably having 1200+ calories (or about 50% of your entire daily quota) even before you add milk or anything else, just for breakfast.
> This whole conversation is very strange to me indeed.

Because you’re not engaging with the point?

For starters, the original claim was to “make the world a better place”, not “change” it. Beyond that, the point of my reply was to show that it is indeed possible to make the world better without communicating with anyone else (contrary to the original claim).

Anything else is your own addition.
Yes that's why I said "partly."

When I started work (this was in the pre-consumer-internet era), job hopping was already starting to be a thing but there was defintely still a large "old school" view that there should be some loyalty between employer and employee. One of my first jobs was a place where they hired for potential. They hired smart, personable people and taught them how to program. They paid them fairly well, and gave annual raises and bonuses. I was there for about 8 years, my salary more than doubled in that time. Maybe I could have made more elsewhere, I didn't even really look because it was a good environment, nice people, low stress, a good mix of people since not everyone (actually only a few) were Comp. Sci. majors.

I don't know how much that still happens, because why would a company today invest in that only to have the employee leave after two years for a higher salary. "They should just pay them more" well yeah, but they did pay them in the sense of teaching them a valuable skill. And their competitors for employees started to include VC funded startups playing with free money that didn't really care what it cost to get bodies into the shop. Hard to compete with that when you actually have to earn the money that goes into the salary budget.

Would the old school approach work today? Would employees stay?
People are gonna stay upset for quite a while. The billion dollar election manipulation campaign spanning Reddit/Tiktok/Youtube/Television was extremely effective. It convinced a very, very specific kind of person that the by-the-numbers worst candidate in modern history was going to win in an absolute landslide.

It will be years before these people realize how much the media was controlled from 2020-2024 specifically in favor of one political party. For a lot of people this was the first time it was extremely obvious and going back to Bush and Obama social media and the internet in general weren't considered "serious" political campaign locations. I certainly dont remember either Bush's or Obama's election being so insanely partisan to the point of calling one party Nazis. Of course there was vitriol but it was so tame compared to today.
The risk of investing time in a startup is in the lost opportunities (ie. opportunity cost). It can be dollarized with discounted cash flow as an approximation. Could you earn more at a large company than at a startup? What are your options? Do you even have better options? How high and how likely must the "lottery ticket payout" be to break even? And don't forget the time value of money: How much could you gain by investing the excess money during those years?

Time is the most precious resource we have. It's per-se underrated whenever it's dollarized. Unfortunately, most don't have a choice than to sell their time for money. Thus, it's even more important to spend time wisely.

Thinking, you don't risk anything because you don't spend money on a startup is wishful thinking. Or more likely: It's just a good story VCs and founders like to tell, because it's in their interest.
Here is list of available software from my hosting company, $150/yr,
for Forums, and Social Networking. Another I had on my own server
was Citadel, (citadel.org).

Good luck, because most people use there cell phones now days and a
lot of sw like those listed are just not meant for that format.

Forums:

phpBB - phpbb.com
SMF - simplemachines.org
MyBB - mybb.com
bbPress - bbpress.org
XMB - xmbforum2.com
Flarum - flarum.org
ElkArte - elkarte.net
FUDforum - fudforum.org
miniBB - minibb.com
TidyBB - tidybb.co.uk
Flatboard - flatboard.org

Social Networking:

pH7Builder - ph7builder.com
Jcow - jcow.net
Open Source Social Network - opensource-socialnetwork.org
HumHub - humhub.org
Family Connections - familycms.com
Elgg 6 - elgg.org
I'm so very deeply uninterested in the hype train. I'll keep using C, C++, and C# until the wheels fall off.

I do not care at. All about how shiny and whizzbang your new toy is, mine works fine, it solves my problems, and requires no improvements for my use requirements. I'm not investing a sizable fraction of my limited life to rewrite in the hip new framework du jour. I'll keep the code that works and the tools that aren't broken.

I also deeply do not want to be associated with the cargo cult ya-yas that think they're so clever and smart for suggesting rust. Thoroughly disgusting behavior. I don't want to use a language where I get that kind of response to simple questions.

C is fine. It will keep working for a very, very long time.
AGI and Decoding Destiny
I think this quote from TFA sheds a lot of light on where their head is at:

> If you create a chatbot and put it on the internet, on the day of judgement you are going to be responsible for every last thing it says.