skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome stuff. Envious, here (NL) its impossible to get a prescription.

For an alternative approach for comparison: My wife and I eat low carb and fast every other day for a year now. Around the 2nd month mark we got the exactly same outcome: food became a chore. We sometimes dont eat for 2-3 days when travelling or busy. I dont remember feeling hungry in about a year. We do sports - I sure have less peak power, but can sustain moderate efforts for longer (I use a power meter and Hr strap - my vo2max dropped). I feel significantly sharper mentally and managed to learn a new language (Dutch, from zero to B2) in a year - while working a cto job. Not eating easily gives 3hr extra a day, incl. what I get from waking up early.

Saves us a ton on groceries and eating out. The only thing we do watch out is carbs - I can eat a kebab or two tacos but dont eat any sweets, eat bread or drink beer/soda. Weight stabilized at my high school level. Not sure if I can recommend it as it is a bit tricky to practice, especially while having a job that requires routine socializing, but - it does work. The only really difficult thing is to start and endure the first two weeks or so.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/tech/defense-department-cance...
A humble attempt to save Europe
A friend and I have been working on an idea to create a little bit of European dynamism—because to be honest Europe is cooked and I feel like I have to try do something

We’re launching a nonprofit modeled kind of after YC and the Thiel Fellowship - https://foucaultfellowship.com/ (the name is a placeholder) - TLDR is:

Get a bunch of top young engineers

Give them 150k no strings attached

Put them all in one hacker house

Pair them with mentors that are top founders and VCs

Coach them a little

Do a demo day at the end

Attract top VCs to the demo day

Provide legal help to abstract Europe’s regulatory bullshit

We want to make a statement that enough is enough and it’s time for Europe to grow balls and try do a startup initiative that one up’s the US. Long term vision is two fold: grow the amount of people and end up with a really strong community of young engineers all concentrated in one place and idea is it will attract capital and more people. Also create a path for young elite engineers to do startups as there is in the US.

If you know anyone that would be interested in such an idea / could be willing to fund it (as a non profit) it would be much appreciated. Happy to talk more about it
I asked it if it could whisper, and it replied in full voice, ”I’m whispering to you right now”.
The point is likely to bring attention to the lack of effective performance management processes within the public service.

Departments who don't want to follow Musk's approach will need to develop or improve their own processes to better identify and remove underperformers.
Good luck! Waiting for this to be hosted in Frankfurt. Good luck!
You didn’t “get anxiety”.
That would be nice, but I’m pretty sure it’s a complete pain in the ass for anybody to move to the United States no matter how valuable they are
Yeah after a few interactions, the repetition of the mannerisms that initially added to the sense of life-likeness started to break the illusion a bit. The "you got me" response shows up a bit too often. The creativity remains impressive though
Because the proper way to quantify it is to represent it as a distribution. Right now a bunch of highly approximated heuristics, like factor of safety, are used in place of proper statistical practice. We would have much safer and higher performing engineering designs if we were to properly model the material parameters in our calculations using probabilistic methods.
A lot of Bernie voters went over to trump. Of course the democrats took that to mean they were traitors all along and not a constituency.
It's good, but it still sounds fake to me, but in a different way. The voice itself sounds like a human, undoubtedly.

But the cadence and the rhythm of speaking are off. It sounds like someone who isn't a podcaster trying to speak in the personality of a podcaster. It just sounds like someone trying too hard and speaking in an unnatural way.
Healthy food is not as expensive as people claim. At least the average person can afford fruits and vegetables and staples they can cook. Most of our health problems are from overeating and eating a high amount of junk and sugar, not from being unable to buy everything at Whole Foods.
Give them 150k no strings attached

This is going to be your biggest problem in this fine idea.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 13) Aura Edition Review: Lightest Carbon Yet
> So much of our culture and society seems to be aimed at appealing to 12 year olds.

this. totally agree, no cap ong.

ohio.
related:

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10674
This is so good that it's disarming. People are going to blabber everything to it, so we need a local private model. It's a lot to ask, I know. Incredible tech.
This is the difference between “rip” and “DL”. You can certainly pull content from Netflix without re-encoding.
lol yeah I tried to get it to whisper too. And talk faster or slower or do accents. It seemed to be able to kind of do each of those things but only very slightly. Enough to see that there was some successful interpretation of the request but lack of flexibility to fully execute on it. OpenAI's model still has this beat on that front imo (talking quietly / slower / faster)
> This Razr+ exclusively uses Motorola's new Photo Enhancement Engine, which the company says uses artificial intelligence to produce better images.

So one reason not to buy one. Else you get a picture of your child with 3 hands instead of 2.
I will note the existence of that, but I feel comfortable saying that's not actually a CD. Especially since only one drive could ever use it. More importantly, it's still single layer.

And compared to the not-fully-compatible 99 minute CD-Rs, they only get an extra 50% space. Not a very impressive format there when burnable DVDs were already out and would obviously drop in price over time. Plus you could get another 14% by using mode 2 with reduced error correction...
> because they reveal themselves the second you try to run that code.

In dynamic languages, runtime errors like calling methods with inexistent arguments etc only manifest when the block of code containing them is run and not all blocks of code are run at every invocation of the programs.

As usual, the defenses against this are extensive unit-test coverage and/or static typing.
I think a more practical framing is to ask what you enjoy doing in the US that you wouldn’t be able to do in China.

As a practical matter, the things that affected me the most when I traveled are the great firewall, language barriers, and time zone issues.

For example, I don’t protest the government. If that was an important part of my life China would be a bad choice.

Probably another question you might ask is what are the things you’d be able to do in China that you wouldn’t in the US.
can you share ICM ids please?
The federal debt is going to be a big deal for this Trump admin: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S

This was last seen in the 1990s, which Clinton fixed with tax increases, fiscal austerity and a strong real economy.

It remains to be seen, but I don't trust Trump or any of his loyalist appointees to steer the ship well.
I think in this context it means the same thing as the verb “probe”.

As far as I am aware, this is not a common usage, and you could go a very long time before you encounter it again. Next time you encounter it will probably be on Hacker News.

Edit: After thinking about it some more, I believe probe and interrogate are closely related. Essentially, an interrogation consists of a number of probes for the purpose of discovery. Normally, we think of an interrogation as being verbal, but in this case the interrogation is physical and consisting of a series of probing movements.

In a typical verbal interrogation, the investigator or detective will ask probing questions.
> Is per site zoom not the exact perfect concession to user preference?

That would be like if every television programme broadcast audio at a different volume, so every time you watched something new you had to adjust the volume. It’s insane. The browser already knows what size text the user prefers. The only thing you have to do is let them use it instead of overriding it with absolute units. If you’ve designed something that the user needs to change their settings to read, you’ve made a really bad design.

> all have to be in ems if you want things to scale proportionally when font size changes.

You don’t want most things to scale proportionally when font size changes. The goal of a good web design is not to have the exact same raster image appear at different sizes, the goal of a good web design is to be the best presentation for the current situation – which includes user preferences, what content you are displaying, the size of the viewport, etc.

So, for instance, if you have a main content area in the middle of the page and sidebars on each side, then you might want to set a minimum and maximum width for them in ems so that the line lengths don’t get ridiculously long and it doesn’t get squashed, but the width should probably be proportional to the available horizontal width, so percentages or fr should be used for that property.

There are some things that are closely related to the font size, so for instance you should use ems to set padding around text and margins between paragraphs. But that doesn’t mean that, say, the border should be set in ems.

Basically, use the units for their designed purpose instead of thinking you need to use all of the same types of units everywhere.
> bogus patent lawsuits and secretly funding the notorious SCO in their Unix patent litigation

:D

I'm curious, could you link the lawsuits?
It always felt like a lottery, if all stars are aligned you can watch it in high resolution
Where the GAI hallucinates an api it is not always easy to find out if it exists given different versions and libraries for a given task, it can easily waste 10 mins trying to find the promised api, particularly when search results also include generated ai answers.

Also there are plenty of mistakes that will compile and give subtle errors, particularly in dynamic languages and those which allow implicit coercion. Javascript comes to mind. The code can easily be runnable but wrong as well (or worse inconsistent and confusing) and this does happen in practice.
Same experience at Google in 2015. Explaining to recruiters why I left after eight months for years afterwards was interesting/awkward.
You should cold message some big VC's or Founders in Europe with successful exit to start with, raising the money.

Also, you would be eligible for investment from other Non-profits later, when your fellowship starts making rounds and you can then ask other Non-profits to invest along you as well.
That's well within something you can earn without being an exec
> Our models will be available under an Apache 2.0 license.

^ from the post

https://github.com/SesameAILabs/csm is empty for now, but I imagine they'll be releasing it soon: https://x.com/_apkumar/status/1895492615220707723
I personally haven't figured out why there isn't a tool that just loops the AI severals times on a task by compiling, feeding in the errors adjusting and repeating and then letting the user review the result be in a success or failure by exceed the loop limits.
Irrelevant argument because how rich people (subjects we're talking about) live in rich areas (i.e. main cities) =/= how poor people live in poor areas. Frankly average Chinese poverty in T4+ villages is pretty quaint compared to seeing junkies everywhere. It's more humbling, not disturbing. Of course you can find statistical outlier crimes on social media, but daily life is not filled with the levels of social decay and shithole experiences in western urban areas that PRC diasphora frequently makes comparisons to on social media. It maybe a bubble, but it's a cozy bubble that rarely gets pierced in daily life for the well off.
Elegy for the Screenshot (2023)
It will unfortunately undoubtedly be used for mass automation of scams but text AI (and pre-AI automation) have been used for that for many years as well. Doesn't really make sense to say "ok we should allow all forms of AI besides voice because of scams", I think.

But yes, there needs to be some spreading of public awareness.
More accurate statement would be that you don't own the content that streaming services provide. Apple (or for that matter any platform company) will have to implement DRM if they want their users to be able to watch such content. If you are against DRM then don't buy the subscriptions of such streaming services.
pretty impressive demo but not my style I mean the constant jabbing and kind of unintelligent behavior. so yeah it feels pretty uncanny but unfortunately in a negative annoying way. I don't think this is a limitation of the model they could just adopt to more scientific users in a more cooperative way, similar to how ChatGPT has this very sophisticated aura. I don't like how systems which have no emotions constantly pretend to have emotions but maybe that's just me.
For instance, perhaps you remember some amusing detail in the background of a scene and want to show everybody. Perhaps they don't believe you, and the screenshot lets you say "I told you so". Perhaps you want to illustrate a post, like this one which uses screenshots from TV show Psych and the titles of Pi:

https://thevirtuosi.blogspot.com/2012/03/moving-pi-ctures.ht...

There's even a case where high resolution shots would be useful, to properly see little numbers written on a wall in the background.
When I was a kid I had that same exact feeling every time before I went to sleep - I could hear music in my head and as I fell asleep it became more live and hifi, I could almost see the band playing.
Could also be a watchdog firing?
Exploding drone operator goggles show future of sabotage
U.S. halts offensive cyber operations against Moscow
Nice article in the end but spends a lot of time explaining Humane Pin
> Game devs

LOL I just read something yesterday (possibly a tweet by Carmack?) that game devs optimize for public perception of their game and that is it. Certainly not long term maintainability unfortunately!
Ask HN: Turing's Twilight – A Date for the Death of Guaranteed Human Authorship
Hello all,

I’d like to propose an initiative to mark a specific date as the moment when generative AI became so advanced that distinguishing between human and AI written text or generated images was no longer easy or even possible.

I’m calling it Turing’s Twilight, but I’m open to other names. The idea is to create awareness around this shift—whether through discussions, events, or a symbolic act like readings of great writers and poets or public quizes like AI or not.

Curious to hear your thoughts. Would this be worth recognising? What date would make sense? Launch of GPT1? GPT3? ChatGPT? What could we do on this date?
Well done. My first impression:

Cons: they are just a bit too casual with their language. The casualness came off somewhat studied and inauthentic. They were just a bit too eager to fill silence: less than a split second of silence, and they were chattering. If they were humans I would think they were a bit insecure and trying too hard to establish rapport. But those flaws are relatively minor, and could just be an uncanny valley thing.

Pros: They had such personalities that I felt at moments that I was talking to a person. Maya was trying to make me laugh and succeeded. They took initiative in conversation; even if that needs some tweaking, it feels huge.
The Sky130 IO pads can't go faster than 33Mhz (at least the ones in the open source PDK), and the OpenLane flow isn't yet timing driven, so anything internal isn't going to break more than 100Mhz. These aren't fast chips or fast processes, Skywater is mostly for pedagogical and niche military and research tapeouts.
I saw a YouTube video by some astronomy nerd seemingly specializing in simulation or special effects. Sorry I cannot recall the channel name.

He pointed out to the viewers that the amount of void in between stars that is visible is a bit misleading in all these super high res photos we see of our universe.

The video ended with some special effects/simulations of the night sky as seen from the South Pole. If the light pollution was literally zero, and you had eyes (or a camera) that could somehow see _all_ stars regardless of how far away they are, the night sky would basically look like a still picture of the color noise on an old analog TV. Hardly any black void anywhere, it’s just all stars. It was mind-boggling (and I hope true, not a scam video).
To be clear, the article headline is deceptive clickbait.

NIH budgets aren't being cut. The NIH is simply requiring that at least 85% of the grant value goes to the actual grant recipients, rather than being siphoned off by the university for administration expenses.

At most universities this change has no impact, since they weren't taking more than 15% to begin with. This change mainly impacts Harvard and similar, as they were previously taking extortionate cuts. Harvard was taking 69%!
Ops is an interesting domain, nobody knows what they do until they don't do it; so everyone wants the jobs to disappear, and when they do it's fun what happens.

I'm beyond certain that someone will reply "use a cloud provider", which is ironic, as cloud providers just concentrate these kinds of ops people and charge you through the nose (often an order of magnitude more in my experience) than having people responsible.

Unpopular opinion, probably, because people seem to like dehumanising operations issues on this site- sure, things can be automated, but at some point there's got to be some responsibility.
Would love to take part in this, but the date is unfortunately pretty unfavorable for me, do you have any social page to follow for the next events?
It may hurt if the only way to solve problems is to take away power from bad actors. In a democracy, one can only do that by winning voters. In 2025, it turns out that voters respond positively to strongmen who do indeed begin their conversations by derailing, dehumanizing, and attacking their opponents.

So, if you want to win in the court of public opinion, maybe go for the throat in Round 1. Sadly, respectful dialogue is not en vogue.
> declarative in yaml

Aw gawd no. Why do test framework authors repeatedly think this is a good idea? Everywhere I’ve worked that has embraced such a framework (often robot), the suites always eventually outgrow the capabilities of whatever DSL the framework provides.

Even with escape hatches into an established language, you turn the majority of test editing into second class citizen, because there is no chance that your ”test-IDE” will beat IntelliJ or VSCode. Developers don’t want to touch such test code and testers do the lazy thing and copy paste instead of building appropriate fixtures. Do you really want to relearn how to define a constant in flavor of the month test-dsl, vs just doing it the way you always do in TS?

When you see a yaml that resembles a list of ”steps”, it’s not declarative anymore, it’s a crippled imperative language in disguise.
I think that's in the right direction, but I think what you really want is to clamp at max(24px, 1em) when 1em is set to more than that in a browser.
I'm under the care of a physician, and my dose is fine, and managed by him, thanks :)
Same, I have been trying it for the last few minutes, and it is crazy.

Try asking if it if it speaks a different language. It will pretend like it can and then give you some humor. But then you probe a bit more and it tells you it is really good at listening and can listen to you in other languages. I tell it alright I'll talk to you in a different language but you will reply back in English. It says you got it and then passes all sorts of tests I put it through with flying colors.

Oh it also remembers your previous conversation and greets you accordingly.

Crazy impressive this will certainly revolutionize virtual office businesses.
All valid criticisms. Here are my assumptions:

18F staffers joined the government to make a difference. Most of which likely joined from industry forgoing very lucrative salaries to be the government’s internal tech consulting team. One thing they shipped that the government hadn’t shipped in a long time was the IRS e-file service to the chagrin of the big tax filer companies.

So I assumed in the post that they are capable, mission driven, loyal, hard working (to navigate the government takes dedication) folks that any company and team would benefit from.

AND they were cut not for merit or bad performance but for political reasons by the meme-lord-turned-carnate Elon for dubious reasons.

All of that has me thinking that we as a community should give them a break — in doing so we only would be benefiting ourselves: we’d get new employees and coworkers who are eager to get back to employment who have all those attributes I mentioned above.

Of course the market for jobs is tough as it is. Now with all these federal employees being cut from all parts of the government now likely looking for work in the private sector means competition for roles is only going to get worse. I get that. I feel for all job seekers. You were right to challenge me. Maybe my enthusiasm was unwarranted. It’s just now you know my thinking.
160 - 145 = 15kg
I still don't get it.

Usually you only go up the age-brackets when you are more and more desperate, for, you know, obvious reasons. Ukraine is doing it in reverse.
Of course :), however unfortunately that's how we make a statement that this program competes with US alternatives. It's also how we avoid leaking the top talent to the US and end up with a non elite cohort
How do you manage authentication? For ecample I need to approve login to my ERP system via MS Authenticator and it uses my eyes to approve it. How does AI agent get access in this case?
Yep. Pretty sure I got DOx in 1990 as a teenager. 24 hour trip that left me with panic attacks and HPPD for years(well, I still have HPPD decades later).

It was tie-dye blotter my friend got at a dead show. 2 hits. My friend took 5 and started throwing up within an hour which is not something I've ever heard of LSD causing.
The feeling of no hunger at all will dissipate in a few months, even as you increase dose.

You will probably land on "not often hungry". The feeling of being full very quickly when you do eat will stay
No. If you bring up what is “fair” in a given economic system, there are only 2 options: Prices set by the system/economy, or prices set by people. Why should I leave out the latter? I’m not trying to red-bait anyone since even in the US capitalist system, prices are sometimes set by humans (see: helium!)
We've reached out to the VCs and big founders we know but indeed it's a good idea to simply cold reach out. Will get on that
Interesting, what is the end game then if you need to be on the drug to keep the weight off but you also develop resistance to it over time?

I wonder how the body reacts after being on the drug for years at a time and then you cut it off, are the cravings stronger than before you started the drug?
For one, if it is ratified in a democratic nation that means that the people had a say in it through their elected representatives.

That way the other party knows that this agreement has some backing and staying power.

Not some dude spouting some ideas to counterparts during very very turbulent times.
I asked if speaking in German would be possible and the result was if someone is trying to speak German without knowing any word. However, I asked if a german sentence could be repeated after me and it was insanely good. Impressive tech!