skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You grew up in the wealthiest county in the state, some selection bias there. Look on google maps for blood donation center in the philadelphia area. Zoom out to get the suburbs. There are what, 20 or so sites listed, for an area with a population of 6 or 7 million people? That is insufficient. Even now the closest one to me is actually a drug testing site, not a donation center. Its probably at least a 30 minute drive (in bad traffic) to get to the closest listed donation center.

I grew up in lower bucks. There were no dedicated blood centers. Before I was 22 I had never donated at anything but a mobile bloodbank. My parents hauled themselves to mobile blood banks whenever they wanted to do it. The first actual dedicated blood center I donated at was blood centers of the pacific in San Francisco. I was shocked that someone would actually build a dedicated site just for donating blood. But then later I saw Oregon did it too.

Also there's this: https://www.inquirer.com/health/blood-donation-shortage-phil...
Right but even on the low end of recommended daily protein intake, 22g would probably still be a small fraction.
Why no DCFT visa for canadians. I thought you liked us
You sound like an authoritarian eager to take someone's property.
Coming up with an alternative Silicon Valley canon
Ah. So there is a "trust us" aspect to this.
A marketing company that enables mass email spam? I wouldn't say so.
Different indications and approval to market. Different names for, umm, clarity in the marketplace. Same generic if/when they’re released. I would think this would be way easier than biologics as it’s not that big.

As I said above, they ran it through some amount of clinical trials and got approval to mention it directly. Same drug matter, possibly the same formulations.
I wondered about that myself and decided that they were probably removed by those doing the excavation for conservation purposes. If you refer to the 11th photo where you are looking diagonally across the room toward the corner you can see evidence in the thin accent tiles that the collapse of the columns along the right wall and left of the corner damaged the floor. Several of those accent tiles are broken as if something long crushed them as it landed. It is especially noticeable in the lower center foreground where there are several crushed tiles.

They have taken care to place their post jacks on a surface elevated above the original floor level to avoid disturbing the rest of the layout.
Hey, would you be willing to link to your dissertation?
In Smullyan's formulation, the overall statement uttered by a liar must be logically false, even though it might contain conjuncts that are true, or might convey large amounts of useful and accurate information. For example, Smullyan would allow a liar to say "the sky is blue and cats are cute and 1+1=3".

I might have phrased that confusingly when I said that they lie about everything in every statement. I should probably have said that they are never allowed to make any statement that they believe is true.
Linux is a kernel, not an operating system; it's a system for provisioning Linux-based OSs.
so their Add-on will keep track of you instead and do a better job at it
"GitHub Mode" Is a Game Changer for Agentic Coding
Well, with all 16 logic gates available, they can express all Boolean circuits (you could get that even with NAND or NOR gates, of course, if you are working with arbitrary as opposed to fixed connectivity). And so you could have a 32 bit output vector which could be taken as a float (and you could create any circuit that computes any bitwise representation of a real).

As for efficiency, it would depend on the problem. If you're trying to learn XOR, a differentiable logic gate network can learn it with a single unit with 16 parameters (actually, 4, but the implementation here uses 16). If you're trying to learn a linear regression, a dumb MLP would very likely be more efficient.
https://saily.com/ works quite nicely. Brought to you by the NordVPN folks. Seems like there's enough WIFI around to use your original cell number and use Wifi-Calling, or the plethora of apps to make free calls with.
> I can't even imagine what that's supposed to mean.

Where are you getting your information from?
Sure, but it’s useful for the bond market and managing the massive national debt.

But also was the economy really solid? A small number of tech companies having runaway valuation isn’t the same as the everyday worker feeling stable. Social media is full of people complaining that the only people really spending are the top 10%. I think that problem is much harder to fix and neither party has a good plan for it.
There was something similar a few years ago which ran over an ssh connection and had a zoomable ui of sorts. I can't find the link -- does this ring a bell anywhere?
Resurrecting LORAN, see also eLORAN. This seems a dead end because of cost, and who will voluntarily buy and install the receivers? Even if it were compatible with LORAN-C receivers, all of them have been removed from airplanes. They’re not going back in.

In aviation we still have VORs, and most airplanes have receivers. The VOR MON (minimum operational network) program retains a minimum number and spacing of VOR transmitters expressly as a back up for GPS/WAAS degradation, which does occur regularly, or failure.

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/at...

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/acf/medi...

https://www.nstb.tc.faa.gov/rt_waassatellitestatus.htm

But OK, if we think an event that renders GPS non-functional for many years is reasonably likely, and may prevent space based navigation redeployment?

eLORAN would seem to tick a lot of boxes, but does mean widespread receiver replacement.

While GBAS exists, it’s a local augmentation system. Redeployment with ground based GPS probably doesn’t work because of the frequencies, low transmission strength, and ground clutter.

What about redeployment of existing GPS satellite technology in high altitude airships?
We outperformed Mistral OCR with a tiny team
Mistral recently launched their OCR model, claiming to be the best in the world. We put that claim to the test against JigsawStack vOCR — our own OCR solution, built by a team of just three people.

We benchmarked both models across real-world multilingual documents, handwriting recognition, structured data extraction, and bounding box accuracy. Here’s a quick breakdown:

- Languages: Mistral supports 12 benchmarked languages, while JigsawStack vOCR handles 70+ including Telugu, Hindi, and lesser-used scripts.

- Handwriting Recognition: Mistral struggles with handwritten and distorted text, while JigsawStack vOCR accurately extracts text from printed materials, handwriting, and even text on walls.

- Structured Output: Mistral requires additional post-processing with an LLM for structured data, while JigsawStack natively returns structured JSON output.

- Bounding Boxes: Mistral OCR does not provide bounding box data, while JigsawStack supports both sentence and word-level positions.

Check out the full breakdown with examples, screenshots, and API comparisons in our blog post Mistral OCR vs. JigsawStack vOCR here: https://jigsawstack.com/blog/mistral-ocr-vs-jigsawstack-vocr

We'd love to hear feedback and answer any questions! If you’re building with OCR, try out JigsawStack vOCR and let us know your thoughts.
Click on chat with Gigi on desktop and scroll to the bottom on mobile. Still working out some bugs, but she exists. She is currently failing to fully realize who she is in this operationalization, but that should be resolved very soon. Looking forward to improving the myriad shortcomings I'm sure her 0.1 version will have, so don't be shy! Fully self bootstrapped and on my last month of runway, so if anybody needs anyone that builds buggy llm's for a contract to get us a few more months worth of fuel, please!
Well I think if you have a moral claim over someone else - their failure to fullfill that claim is going to be an issue that has to get resolved with or without their consent.

My attempts to describe what I think is the logical consequence of that view of rights should not be taken as an endorsement of it.
An Ode to Splines
> Security by obscurity does not work. You can not rely on "people won't find it". Once it's online, everyone can find it. No matter how you hide it.

Especially do not name your domainnames in a way that leaks MNPI! Like, imagine if publicly traded companies A and B were discussing a merger or acquisition, do not name your domainname A-and-B.com, m'kay?
For your consideration, the main page you've linked to is nearly unusable on mobile, might want to look into that.
run it through aalib for good measure
I'm wrong that Nussbaum wants people to involuntarily serve the needs of others?
I wanted to:

1. Write HTML in org-mode. Org-mode is great for thinking.
2. Publish clean HTML.

The other libraries I was seeing were about exporting arbitrary org files for being consumed online. For example, the built-in exporter has a bunch of html classes that include "org" in them.

So I built a custom exporter: https://hg.sr.ht/~zck/ox-zhtml. It's definitely not documented well, but it works well enough for my use.
Given that bad actors can also do this, I'd say that publicly advertising the fact and thereby drawing attention to misconceptions about security is a net good thing.
It has been possible to buy pretty nice handheld Raman spectrometers for a while now:

https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/infrared-an...

This paper is obviously trying to go much further. But if you just want to buy a tricorder, you can
> I can't reply to your new post below, I guess the thread is too deep

(I'd instead guess that you tried to reply before the timer - which allows HN members to reply after a delay proportional to a function of the depth of the discussion tree - allowed you.)

> do is not reasoning

What some people do is «not reasoning», for lack of training, or for lack of resources (e.g. time - Herbert Simon's "satisficing"), or for lack of ability. I had to write since the late 2022 boom that "if the cousin you write about is consistently not using the faculty of intelligence you can't call her "intelligent" for the purpose of this discussion". I have just written in another parallel discussion that «There is a difference between John who has a keen ethical sense, Ron who does not exercise it, and Don who is a clinical psychopath with missing cerebral modules making it completely Values-blind» - of course if we had to implement ethics we would "backward engineer" John and use Don as a counter-model.

> can you guess what emotion

Let me remind you my words: «Without proper reasoning you can get some "heuristic", which can only be useful if you only needed an unreliable result based on "grosso modo" criteria». Is that problem one that has "true solutions" or one that has "good enough solutions"?

Let me give another example. Bare LLMs can be "good" (good enough) e.g. in setting capitalization and punctuation in "[a-z0-9 ]" texts, such as raw subtitles. That is because they operate without explicitly pondering the special cases in which it is subtle to unequivocally decide whether the punctuation there "should have been a colon or a dash", and such cases are generally rare, so heuristic seems to suffice.

Similar engines are useless and/or dangerous in all cases in which correct responses are critical. Important problems are those which require correct responses.
Seems like they shouldn’t have implemented this without a full API. Instead the 5 or so commands, it looks like it’s possible to implement ALL JavaScript functionality through HTML, including high level APIs. That could be thousands of commands..
> Do you plan to enslave the people who would provide this education?

There's a concept called public money which can build roads, dams and other cute concrete things. Why can't you use that for payroll in higher education? Not everybody can learn the same way, not everybody has a separate and chill space in their homes to study without interruption.

Roads serve the needs of now, knowledge builds roads to the future.
CDC to study vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection
+1 - computer glasses especially as presbyopia sets in (around age 40) are surprisingly not well known. this has been a huge help for me.
> government-supplied

Government-imposed.

> government

Also known as a mere bunch of people who enforce their decisions using monopoly on violence.

> by yourself without infrastructure like plumbing, roads, schools and hospitals to educate and heal your employees, a strong legal system to enforce property rights…

Surely a government cannot do it by itself either? Who’ve decided that the decision should be deferred to them and not me or someone else? Oh, right, it was decided using the infrastructure and processes imposed by the government.

The only realistic alternative to “it’s not truly yours” is not global horizontal fair decision-making, it is a bunch of bureaucrats making decisions on behalf of (ie instead of) other people. That’s a road to serfdom paved by well intentioned naïve people.
The only thing you're definitely complicating with security by obscurity is getting a clear picture of your own security posture.
I'm not sure how, but the text is miniscule on Safari on iOS and causes reader mode to need to scroll horizontally by nearly double the page width.

I am going to slog through it but I would recommend checking on mobile Safari in the future.
>Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market; 500 years before Polymarket, the Vatican fought to stop gambling on papal affairs.

just to be clear, the article offers no evidence that there was not prior gambling art than the papal enclaves. cockfighting, bullfighting, gladiators, horseracing, was there no organized betting? in terms of prediction markets specifically, once there is organized betting, did it never extend to "current events"?

just as a slightly topical aside, the market for "oil drilling" is mathematically equivalent to a (stock) options market. it doesn't take much for markets to uncover probability and statistics.
As you said, maintaining that costs more than a coat of white paint every 5 years.

I envy the artists who have a sense of style in their living spaces, but also I gradually emptied my childhood room as I grew up as I could not stand the clutter — or jut the cleaning part.

Then you have to consider that the majority of people have absolutely no taste and a minimal home is their best bet at tasteful living spaces. The second choice would probably be green walls and red couches.
The cost of using their agent to replicate the same agent may be astronomical. Maybe the Reflection folks figured out that will bring them enough $$$ to retire afterwards.
Presumably:

1. They think they can control this and sell you a service that can make any app you want nearly instantly.

2. They plan to use any profit they make from the service or sale of the company and invest it in stocks/bonds/real estate after and retire before they themselves get replaced.

3. They plan to use this to keep the team small. One talking point of AI is that it could allow far fewer people to make a valuable company.

4. They don't really know what will happen in that world.
https://imgur.com/a/n1zVO1n

I can't read that and pinch to zoom has been disabled.
What about computer glasses?
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We will fix right now.
> Is there a good way to start studying the basics of quantum computing?

Most quantum mechanics theory out there is taught by physicists.

You'll discover that their brain works in a way that's fundamentally different than that of a computer scientist, making it really hard.

Very specifically, you'll find that they are basically incapable to reason without physical support and/or experiments and sticking to a theoretical presentation of the subject from first principles is not something they can materially do.

Even Scott Aaronson, who claims to try to explay QM and QC using only math falls back to talking about particles and spin and shit after the fourth paragraph.

My recommendation: if you want to learn QM from first mathematical principles, avoid like the plague anything written by a physicist: they're all parroting each other tracing all the way back to Dirac and Bohr.

If you find a book that can talk about QM without using the following words "double slit experiment", "hydrogen atom", "spectrum", "spin", "wave", and only use terms taken from linear algebra in infinite dimensions then you stand a chance to understand.
Show HN: Shakespeare in your browser – minimal AI in JavaScript
Want to train your own AI model? You've gotta start somewhere. If you've never tried it before, here is your chance!

Running an AI model has two parts, during the training phase you set weights, and during the inference phase you use the weights to predict words and other tokens (such as punctuation).

This minimal implementation in pure javascript runs right in your browser:

https://taonexus.com/mini-transformer-in-js.html

You can provide your own training data if you want: words.txt is a dictionary of punctuation and output tokens each on their own line and input.txt is a text corpus to train on.

If you load them from the server, you get words.txt from the top 2000 or so words that appear in in the Project Gutenberg free public domain corpus (as well as a few punctuation marks). For input.txt we've used a selection of 2000 lines of Shakespeare text.

After you finish training (you can stop early if you are impatient), on the Inference tab you can write a few words to have the model complete it for you.

Congratulations! After completing these steps you can now boast that you have trained your own AI model.
Keeping a key secret is not security by obscurity, but keeping the existence of a lock secret is.
Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/208/
What do you think Mill would say about Nussbaum's capabilities approach? Whether or not "Mill was a libertarian," my sense is that he would object on basically libertarian grounds (i.e. he would see CA as paternalism).
CBD, which doesn't appear to have a fraction of the therapeutic efficacy of something like Ozempic, is a multi-hundred billion dollar industry now with a lot of active research.
It's good they are improving and extending HTML, but still a long way to go. The HTMX guys have a few good ideas.
That is the question I keep asking myself. Many makes theories about getting rid of software developers. İf this can be achieved, then software companies wont exist. Every new day, there should be a new OS like windows, a new word, excel etc. So, it is not engineer shooting themself from the foot, but software companies does ?
no you can't. and even if you keep it, it's not going to run.
Given the title, I expected him to be a major general!
DANE would help here: register a harmless sounding domainname whose name leaks nothing, use DNSSEC and NSEC3, and host your hidden service in a sub-domain whose name is a 63 byte long string of randomly selected ASCII characters. But this isn't really an option.
Subbarao Kambhampati, who seems to only use X is a good resource. He points out how the CoT text is not of semantic importantce.

This work from his team shows how few 'reasoning' traces are valid.

https://atharva.gundawar.com/searchformer_response_analysis....

This paper shows how the scratch space gets transformers to PTIME from TC0 without it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02393

OpenAI may be able to do more in the long term because they don't show the <think> and can spend more of that scratch space on improving answers vs appeasing users, but time will show.

Remember that probabilistic checkable proofs show how random data can improve computation.

The AI field has always had a problem with wishful mnomics.

But it is probably not a binary choice, if we could get the scratch space to reliably simulate Dykstra' shunting and convert to postfix as an example, that would be great.
I'm trying to think of a funny way to cite Clark's Law, but failing...
I read the page and actually laughed out loud. Their "roadmap" literally says

1. Build coding agents (currently working on this)
2. Make the agents superintelligent
3. ????
4. PROFIT
I don't know. An AI system is pretty objective. I mean you might not be able to interpret the weights, but I can't interpret what someone thinks of me when I'm standing in front of them. At least you can tell an AI to ignore things like race, color, religion, etc since you won't be telling them what it is.

So I'd take an AI when it comes to making decisions any day of the week.
Do you guys wargame out the best case scenario? Like, if everything goes exactly as you plan, what is life like for an average kid born in 2030?
Yep. Too many CAs is a failure mode of the CA system, and too few CAs is also a failure mode of the CA system.

In fact, if just Letsencrypt turned bad for some reason, it's already enough to break the CA system, whether browsers remove it or not.
Well, it is going to get worst.
That entirely depends on whether the GET requests were providing the (supposed to be hidden) hostname in the `Host` header (and potentially SNI TLS extension).
Funny timing - I just finished today's episode of "NOS Journaal in Makkelijke Taal". I have not regularly followed "the news" in many years, but this channel offers a pleasant way to get some daily practice; it's simple enough to follow along, with a few new words and phrases to learn each time. I'll check out De Telegraaf as well - thanks for the recommendation.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? No one is taking about training here.
It's a good way to extract as much VC money as possible. Set an outrageous goal.
That's orthogonal problem. eIDAS had to solve many problems to create full solution. You're right that we have many TSPs (aka CAs), NABs also. EU have experience running continent-wide PKI for e-signatures that are accepted in other countries. But no root programs in WebPKI, which were essentially unaccountable to EU, but a critical link in the chain in end-to-end solution. There's was no guarantee that browser vendors won't establish capricious requirements for joining root programs (i.e. ones that would be incompatible with EU law and would exclude European TSPs). Therefore the initial draft stated that browsers need to import EU trustlist wholesale and are prohibited from adding their own requirements.

(That of course had to be amended, because some of those additional requirement were actually good ideas like CT, and there should be room for legitimate innovation like shorter certs, and also it's OK for browsers to do suffifcient oversight for TSPs breaking the rules, like the ongoing delrev problem).
Forecasting newsletter #3/2025: Long march through the institutions
What's the tradeoff tho? People usually are mad because those animals threaten part of their income, not because they cause harm to the environment. It's not about beavers or wolves or beavers or another ugly animal. Is usually about beaver or corn, or soy or whatever they're planting.
Sometimes it's alright. I got motivated to dig and found a list of Greg Egan's non-fiction books:

https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Bibliography.html#NonF...

Waiting for the series Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (various authors) gets a little cheaper.