skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already have this service, it's called "CosmosDB".
Cookiecutter: A utility that creates projects from project templates
'Watershed moment': EU leaders agree plan for rise in defence spending
Truly the world has ended.
Thanks for the feedback, I just fixed that and addressed your comments, feel free to try again :)
Why would the US invest $200M to build these labs in Ukraine of all places. The country is poor, corrupt, and unstable. Does that sound like the udeal place for a pathogen research lab?

If you are studying drug-resistant tuberculosis or HIV, both of which have high rates in Ukraine, then yes, absolutely, such country is a key place for studying transmission patterns and treatment strategies. Ukraine has a particularly long history of tuberculosis research. Many of the earliest resorts in Crimea were originally established for tuberculosis treatment, and visited by wealthy patrons from all over Eastern Europe and Russia. Russian literary classics from the 19th and early 20th century often reference this.

Ukraine is also one of the largest grain producers in the world, which makes them a top destination for research in grain diseases, disease-resistant varieties and pest control. Due to Chernobyl's legacy, they unfortunately excel in cancer research too, and the US has funded many long-term studies related to the nuclear disaster.

Speculating "what if they're actually developing bioweapons" is not much of an argument unless you can back it up with actual evidence.
The tariff at the border will be around a half penny for a single orange (if that). The actual price markup that gets it close to a dollar is in the distribution companies and the grocery chain itself.
I mean, there's a bunch of religions that have figures that die and are reborn in some way. There's also dharmic religions that believe in various degrees of escaping the cycle of death and rebirth.

Christianity was somewhat unique to the middle east in believing that there would be a final resurrection and earthly paradise, versus simply being reborn as a god, having a more comfortable underworld existence, etc...

As for Dionysus, he was more of an Osiris-figure... Resurrected from pieces in the underworld and his death-rebirth was associated with the seasons especially the growing and harvest of wine. The practices of the cult was to enter an ecstatic frenzy while drinking wine (probably laced with psychedelics). If he did influence Christianity it would be to the same degree as Osiris, Horus, Inanna or other similar deities. But IMO Christianity probably derived from dharmic religions (the Buddha was known to early Christians...). But that's another topic.
By definition, building a social network requires building something for other people.

There’s nothing wrong building something just for yourself.

But “you can’t build an airplane out of bricks.”

Good luck.
I just fixed it, if you want to give another try :)
Interestingly enough, this is how I tricked myself into quitting smoking.

I withdrew $100, and told my good friend that I’d give it to him if I used anything with nicotine in it. It worked pretty well since it turns that first cigarette into a $100 cigarette. Not worth it at all.

And I haven’t smoked in 7 years :)
Typing to get answers from an AI assistant is great, but speaking to it is even better—it’s faster, more natural, and effortless.

Laskade is a notion alternative with a voice first AI interface that lets you automate tasks using your voice.

It’s like Siri , supercharged with LLMs for your docs.

Join the waitlist: www.laskade.com
Easy to assume you could only respond with that because you are incapable of providing a coherent response to the quoted point or any of the others.
> I don't understand how anyone can live without them.

I configured my iPhone's action button to take notes. That means before I even take it out of the pocket or seeing anything on the screen that might be distracting, I can press and hold the button to allow me to type notes. I find typing faster than writing by hand and more efficient at capturing thoughts.

Of course I cannot physically rearrange them like you can index cards.
In your future children, maybe. Chasing down and editing the DNA of live somatic cells in a meaningful way is basically impossible.
Substructural Parametricity
Yes readers here.

I am pessimistic, I think only 2-3% would understand, but I'd be happier to be proven wrong than proven right.

Thank you for writing up your analysis!
Privatized gains, socialized losses.
As an aside, an FM index can be used to efficiently turn an LLM into an actual stochastic parrot (one that emits only substrings of some dataset). This is more useful than it sounds because you can use it for quoting from large corpora.
> Most current models propose that young and hot neutron stars have an atmosphere of metal plasma.

How could any atmosphere exist in gravity that strong?
There are a lot of cool ideas here. Maybe a small observation but the computation is stateful. Each cell has a memory and perception of it's environment. Compare this to say your modern NN which are stateless. Has there been any work on statefull LLMs for instance?
Revolt isn't some random made up word. It seems ridiculous to class this as an obvious name collision.
The point being that the health amount is already removed from the net salary. So when comparing net salaries it's important to understand what has already been paid for.

Yes, some people top up with private health. That is a discretionary spend. And while areas in Europe may vary, public health services are typically good.
This is exciting.

Michael Levin best posited for me the question of how animal cells can act cooperatively without a hierarchy. He has some biological experiments showing, for example, eye cells in a frog embryo will move to where the eye should go even if you pull it away. The question I don't think he could really answer was 'how do the cells know when to stop?'

Understanding non-hierarchical organization is key to understanding how society works, too. And to solve the various prisioner's delimmas at various scales in our self-organizing world.

It's also about understanding bare complexity and modeling it.

This is the first time I've seen the ability to model this stuff.

So many directions to go from here. Just wow.
Imagine the fix for global warming was $500M a year for 75 years.
My 2nd Google interview was a guy that played a lot of chess, and I never played chess, and all of his questions were about it, nothing to do with you know, coding, algorithms, problem solving, etc.

Was not offered a job. Mildly disappointing considering the other two interviews went pretty well.
A possible detente between SCHMIDHUBER & the school of Yann Lecun ?

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.228004
I’m a lifelong many stack programmer, finally having a go at web programming. I’m rather enjoying it (LiveView) so far.

I like its simplicity. It doesn’t make all the convolution that is web programming go away, but it does tame it quite a bit. The concurrency story is awesome once you get familiar with The OTP Way.
Yah - that's a pretty good tip!

It's funny, I can feel a desire for a quick-draw-drawing competition!

I keep (only) my small folded cards in my right back pocket and my push-button pen in the left front (I'm left-handed) and there's a single, smooth motion of pulling the card(s) and the pen, clicking the pen and jotting something down. You're probably faster, but I'm not then switching to whatever feeds drag me in...

I've tried so many times and so many different tools. I've tried to make the tools too. There are dozens of tiny little quality of life things about small scraps of paper, but the biggest one is the re-arranging thing.

It's just not as easy to do with a screen.
It’s very concerning that Starship failed twice in almost exactly the same way. That suggests some broader failure at Spacex to root cause the issues.
Blink is a fork (April 2013) of WebKit, and Apple keeps Google from monopolizing the engine market.

"If there's no solution, there's no problem." - James Burnham, IIRC (sounds cruel but it's a brutally pragmatic, no-moralizing, epigram about where to focus strategic attention)

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/future-internet-architecture-cl...

New architectures will come. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534595
Yep! Plenty! This post is showing off a specific mobile demo creator tool that can be used independently from our original product.
Yeah, but why "extract value" out of every note? Seems like a better application for open source and non profits.
Few people care about going 31 years back, and indexing stuff themselves. Most users are casual users, and want to have their problem solved right now, with as little effort as possible.

Not that power users don't matter! They do, especially at places like LKML, where everyone is expected to be quite tech-savvy. But most users in the world are not nearly as tech-savvy. For them, zero-friction solutions are a clear win. even if not the only accessible way, despite any other shortcomings.
It's not especially likely you'll be able to make things faster unless you're really strapped for fetch bandwidth. The reasoning is that most useful uops will already have instructions which directly decode to them (ie you're not going to get a faster load with ucode than if you just used a normal load instruction). In fact, given that ucode branches are (typically?) only statically predicted [1], you may well see worse performance if you need to use ucode branches with non-statically predictable directions.

CPU vendors typically gain performance when adding new instructions because they add new fancy uops. For example, x86 has AES instructions which lead to uops which (I imagine) exercise some hardware AES block. Vendors are not simply implementing AES in pure ucode as this wouldn't really gain any performance advantage over doing AES directly in software.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2501.12890v1
I think you’re talking about the comment by whatdoinghere (as I don’t see any dead comments in your name in this thread).

If that is your comment indeed, I think the problem was that you were overly dismissive and sarcastic. The parent poster asks questions instead, and doesn’t make remarks beyond stating the facts – this reads as harsh, but fair. (I also suppose they’ve accumulated some karma and this helps with the flagging algorithm somehow.)
I'd help you build it if you hire me.
I've been thinking a lot about "intelligence" lately, and I feel like we're at a decisive point in figuring out (or at least greatly advance our understanding of) how it "works". It seems to me that intelligence is an emergent natural behavior, not much different than classical Newtonian mechanics or electricity. It all seems to boil down to simple rules in the end.

What if everything non-discrete about the brain is just "infrastructure"? Just supporting the fundamentally simple yet important core processes that do the actual work? What if it all boils down to logic gates and electrical signals, all the way down?

Interesting times ahead.
Last few times I tried to do this my ISP cut off my internet every time. Assholes. It comes back, but they're still assholes for it.
For now, until they inevitably enshittify their service to increase profits, and a competitor swoops up most of their market.
You are literally lying.

Psilosibin only needs 1-2 treatments and is very long lasting. Same as ketamine, which might need up to 6. Both are nothing compared to SSRIs. You are lying when you say it needs years of treatment.
I've still found a lot of use for it from a "free content" platform and haven't seen anything at all from the spammers. Maybe it's a matter of the indexers I use? What form does usenet spam take?
But doctr.ai was taken.
these are going to be the dominant lifeforms on earth exceeding bacteria, plants and humans in terms of energy consumption

cellular automata that interact with their environment, ones that interact with low level systems and high level institutions. to some approximation we, humans are just individual cells interacting in these networks.
the future of intelligence aint llms, but systems of automata with metabolic aspects. automata that co-evolve, consume energy and produce value. ones that compete, ones that model each other.

we're not being replaced, we're just participants in a transformation where boundaries between technological and cellular systems blur and eventually dissolve. i'm very thankful to be here to witness it

see: https://x.com/zzznah/status/1803712504910020687
This.

I have a DNS client that feeds into my passive DNS database by reading CT logs and then trying to resolve them.
Would you please stop posting about this? We're getting complaints about spam.
Sounds like a problem for a future parliament in 20 years' time
The status quo also has downsides: no disincentives to making building orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive via permit delay.
I'm ambivalent about this. I agree that Starlink can provide good enough rural Internet much faster than fiber. But I also think fiber is the endgame even if it costs more. Rural electrification took decades but it was worth it and I think rural fiber would also be worth it. Of course you can do both but that will cost even more.
Donald Trump's economic delusions are already hurting America
https://archive.ph/KKMeA
I second that. From 8 to 64 bits systems, embedded or system programming, Ada is the best choice. I've saved tons of missing hours, headhaches, etc. with this gem. Search Github Sowebio Adel for a good setup manual and, in the same repo, v22 for a good gp kiss framework...
I'm thinking GP is saying that maybe human sacrifice rituals aren't the best look for a medical tech startup?
War heroes are among 26K images flagged for removal in Pentagon purge
I'm not familiar with RabbitMQ but this is how I built a queue for LiteGUI using Redis.

Firstly, every job gets stored in an activity table with a retry and result column.

If the job should be run instantly without queueing, no queue entry is needed, the retry column is 0 and the result column is filled.

If the job fails for whatever reason, a queue entry containing the activity ID is added to let the queue worker process it later on. When the worker processes the job, the retry column will be incremented no matter of the outcome. If the worker succeeds, the activity will be updated with the result.

If the worker fails to process it and the retry number is less than 5, another queue entry will be added (as the current one is already removed from the queue). When to process that queue entry depends on the retry number, they can be 1m, 5m, 25m, 2.1h, 10.4h, 2.2 days using the following formula:

$interval = 300 * pow(5, ($retry - 1));

This approach also helps in case of queue failure, you can just rebuild the queue from the activity table for entries with no result (or status) and retry number is less than 5.

To be honest, I don't work with queue regularly but I have to implement it anyway. I'm sharing this approach so we all can improve it.
A couple of interesting updates today:

- 100ms inference using CoreML: https://x.com/maxxrubin_/status/1897864136698347857

- An LSTM model (1/7th the size) trained on a subset of the data: https://github.com/pipecat-ai/smart-turn/issues/1
Is anyone aware of a formalization of the idea that to get “symbols” out of fuzzy probability distributions one needs distributions whose value goes exactly to zero over some regions of the domain? I.e. Gaussian mixtures won’t cut it. And they will need very high Fourier frequencies.

I have the gut feeling that until a model allows for a small probability that 2x3 is 7, there will always be hallucinations. Probabilities need to be clamped to zero to emulate symbolic behaviour.
This is simply not true. Maybe it’s easier and you do not need 100% precision. But it is actually possible to extract text and layout of digital pdfs. Else it would be impossible to display it.
Of course some people still add image fragments to a pdf, but that practice is basically dying. I did not see a single pdf the last year we‘re it was impossible to extract the layout.
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580m, awesome, incredible
> There's something great about enforced anonymity. It gets rid of people saying what they think they should say, and instead simply what they think.

No it absolutely does not. It enables people to hold whatever positions are immediately expedient regardless of personal beliefs. There is no way to call an anonymous person a hypocrite when you cannot connect their directly contradictory statements due to their anonymity. 4chan is a perfect example of group think overriding other opinions.
So your eu customer will send you the invoice via letters ? Wow. There are some companies that still deal with printed invoices, but they are most often smaller companies that deal with health related things.
If this was the case, reading your comment (when delivered over TLS in a relevant jurisdiction) would be one such crime.
Dynamic Graph Databases with Out-of-Order Updates [pdf]
Is it possible to detect these using SDR networks?

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/kiwisdr-tdoa-direction-finding-now-f...
Yes, once I was naive enough to believe that all the 4chan regulars were just being ironic and it was just the uninformed visitors who took the degeneracy seriously. Unfortunately we all have to grow up at some point.
Nvidia OCR
Receipts are different. And they are harder to OCR. Thermo prints are most often aweful in quality. Most often you need to correct some stuff when dealing with them. I doubt that this tech changes that significantly.
You may have your choice of oligarchs to buy your car from, but what they will never allow you is the choice to compete with them on a level playing field. A cartel can allow internal competition, but they will all cooperate to crush upstarts.

It's government that interferes with competition, not "oligarchs" or "cartels." Otherwise I could buy a Chinese EV. The only way the "oligarchs" and the "cartels" can interfere with my decision is by using their wealth to capture and subvert the government.

Again: the problem is the power.
Embedded 8 and 32 bits microcontrollers to web linux based erp/crm softwares. Ada can be used for anything, with the speed of C/C++ but in a far more readable and safer way... Ada is a secret weapon. Don't spread theses infos ;)
I think median is the wrong term here. There are some absolute freak geniuses on 4chan, but it's not the norm. It's the exception. The median is just as fucking stupid as they present themselves to be.
There's also bevy_math with quite large number of crates depending on it.
Lately I've been using: https://janet-lang.org/ It's not a systems programming language, but it can be embedded in C.

https://jank-lang.org/ looks interesting to me --I have not tried it yet. I'm not sure if this language could qualify as a systems programming language. What do you think?
This could use forwarding. Has anybody tried to get that working? I mean, you ssh from host A to B, and from B to C. Then from C you bcvi a file such that you're editing on A.
Thanks I'll look into that.

Though part of my gripe is just not having this in general. I can want to work on a certain machine I don't open and if I'm on an internal network but if external I want to do a proxy jump. The ssid is the most obvious and consistent way to determine this, at least to me. Anyone got another idea?
The cloud backup does (its description says as much!), but the local one genuinely seems to be an image that includes the binaries.
> Personally, Id rather see effective dissent from within the org

There's really no such thing, simply because of that large backlog of eager replacements

From the company's perspective they will happily fire you if you dissent and replace you if they have to
Reverse Engineered Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2022) PDF
Sure, but that usually implies that you have a tighter organization. Like you have a specific remote directory that you're mounting. This bcvi thing just lets you visit any directory anywhere on the host and edit a random file, without any mounting discipline.
On a Mac, at least, by default it backs up to a location that then gets included into Mac's own Time Machine backup, if that is set up.
Host header is a request header, not a response one, isn't it?
What's the modern way of making front end for a small project?
Hello, I’m a CS student and I have to make many webapps either for uni projects or for myself.

What are the modern approaches to style the page myself?

Also, Are there any popular methods to generate the page style and markup for free?
Hot. The atmosphere might be only a few mm thick though.
The reason why it became popular in Russian in the first place is mostly just because it rhymes nicely...
The Case for DBMS Live Patching [pdf]
Some CAs (Amazon) allow not publishing to the Certificate Transparency Log. But if you do this, browsers will block the connection by default. Chromium browsers have a policy option to skip this check for selected URLs. See: CertificateTransparencyEnforcementDisabledForURLs.

Some may find this more desirable than wildcard certificates and their drawbacks.
It was decrypted on my authority as the author by virtue of whatever license the Hacker News TOS requires in order to store and transmit my posts to the public.
This is incorrect (or at least only technically correct). This is only true for subdomains with public, trusted CA signed certificates since certificate transparency has existed and only for subdomains with a specific, non wildcard certificate.
In practice it's not so far fetched: A zone transfer is just another dns query at the protocol level, i suppose you can conceptually view it as sending a file if you consider the dns response a file. Something like "host -t axfr my.domain ns1.my.domain" will show the zone depending on how a domain's name server is configured (eg in bind, allow-transfer directive can be used to make it public, require ip acl to match the query source, etc).
I'd love for Vedal to incorporate this in Neuro-sama's model. An osu bot turned AI Vtuber[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eF6hnDFIKmA
Apple may be fighting for the UK citizens. We don't know, we're not allowed to know and Apple isn't allowed to tell us https://www.theverge.com/news/623977/apple-uk-encryption-ord...
"easy swedish" is almost an official genre of the language because some government information is available in such easy to read versions (that's what they are called), but the total text amount of it all must be rather small.