skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> stoicism’s Providential claim that everything in the universe is already perfect and that things which seem bad or unjust are secretly good underneath

Having read a bunch about stoicism, I've never heard/read this claim.

Stoicism (AIUI) is basically "shit happens, learn to deal with it, could be worse". While it provides a coping mechanism, this is a far cry from "things are actually perfect".
> unchecked capitalism

Of all the industries in the US Health Care is the MOST regulated. How on earth is that "unchecked"? The problem is the checks are (and always will be) written by the companies.
> where the model extracts relevant information, then links every data point back to its original source content.

I use ChatGPT. When I ask it something 'real/actual' (non-dev) I ask it to give me references in every prompt. So when I ask it to tell me about "the battle of XYZ" I ask it within the same prompt to give me websites/sources, that I click and check if the quote is actually from there (a quick Ctrl+F will bring up the name/date/etc.)

Since I've done this I get near-zero hallucinations. They did the same.
You might know this, but you can also do f.(args) or f[args] in the latter case. It's still a bit meh, but slightly less verbose.
How a Mosquito Operates
> Any plausible Israeli government, left, right or centre, would have conducted the war in roughly the same way

So why did Benny Gantz leave the unity government and say publicly that it was because of irreconcilable differences over how the war was being conducted?

"Roughly the same way" is a vague term that leaves a thousand miles of leeway of interpretation. Of course Benny Gantz also supported a military response in broad strokes, but stated war goals and prioritization of those goals were very different
I would much rather this than letting devs write their own queries, ORM or not. But then, I own the DBs, and I am constantly dealing with the result of poor schema and query decisions.
You don't have to use cloudflare's dns to make use of the proxy (CDN, waf, ddos protection etc) see https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/partial-se...
How does it show that?

Blue bubbles don't mean privacy, and green bubbles don't mean insecure. I would presume encrypted RCS would satisfy privacy, and would remain green to indicate it doesn't support iMessage-specific features.
It’s actually a “shared cost” model, not really “called party pays”, as far as I know.

And as far as I understand, this is all downstream of US mobile numbers not having a dedicated prefix identifying them.

They have region-specific area codes just like landlines to which calls are physically routed, and from there it’s routed onwards to wherever the mobile phone might be. That could well be a long-distance leg of which the caller is unaware, so it would be surprising to bill them for it. That leaves only the called party.

This model was then probably just carried over to SMS.
If only we could understand the actual mechanism involved in "reverse RAG"... was anyone able to find anything on this beyond the fuzzy details in tfa?
JFC HN, I hedge and demure about as much as I reasonably can without distractingly and pointlessly (anyone can Google) turning the post into a dissertation on median household income percentiles and still someone complains. This is poor reading, and poor posting.

The first year of that, about 20% of households were around our level of income or higher. We could have covered $1,500 in daycare without much trouble at a somewhat lower level of income, so say 25% could cover $1,000/m without driving themselves into a really, really bad place financially, provided they’ve not already committed that to other things (expensive car payments, they have very young kids in daycare, whatever)

Neither 20% nor 25% are uncommon.

If you’re thinking “well that’s just coastal cities dragging the stats up” then check stats on 3rd-tier but not-notoriously-poor cities and see what they look like. In the flyover state city fitting that description we lived in at the time, the local household income percentile distribution roughly matched the national one.

That’s a TAM of people who can afford $1,000/month for something they really want of, what, 50 million or more adults in the US? And that’s at full sticker price, which few are paying.

How much more than one-in-five before a category of person is not uncommon?
Hallucinations is a terrible term for this. We want models that can create new ideas and make up stories. The problem is that they will give false answers to questions with factual answers, and that they don't realize this.

In humans, this is known as confabulation, and it happens due to various forms of brain damage, especially with damage to orbitofrontal cortex (part of prefrontal cortex). David Rumelhart, who was the main person who came up with backpropagation in a paper co-authored with Geoff Hinton, actually got Pick's disease which specifically results in damage to prefrontal cortex and people with that disease exhibit a lot of the same problems we have with today's LLMs:
Does it matter, if vacuum does not conduct heat? Lander would not experience conductive heat unless it has a great contact with the ground.
I can't find a publicly available copy of the Nature Human Behavior editorial. If you can share it I'd be happy to read it and form an opinion on it. I personally won't take City Journal's opinions at face value.
Self-Supervised Learning and Information Theory: A Review
Sure. No government waste there.

DOGE is supposed to be reducing the national debt. Spending money on Mars missions won't reduce the debt.
Why not just use a laser? I vaporize rock instantly with an 80w CO2. vacuum the dust up and blow it out the other end, done. Throw it on a galvo, you can control where it aims and fires.
This is the cruelest comment I've seen on HN in a long time.
It's dropped in relative popularity, but the demand feels like it's still increasing to me (been doing Ruby professionally since 2006), just not as fast as some of the other languages.

Keep in mind the number of developers overall is rising rapidly still.
Uber yeets
Israeli prisons are not run by the military. Holding people without formal charges is called "administrative detention" and also happens in Australia, Brazil, the UK and the US. Perhaps some abuses happen during that process. I wouldn't be surprised. But it's not the policy of Israel to abuse prisoners.
Cockroach really doesn’t have limitations when it comes to queries. It is kinda magic in that regard. The single partition queries are the special case and are treated as rare. Cockroach ranges are quite small compared to other systems (~256MiB).
This is also about being a monopoly, when there's a monopoly there's no competition. It would be similar to a dictatorship. Developers and customers should've more freedom to buy or sell without being controlled by a dictator. Briefly, there should be more choices from different competitors. This will be healthy for developers and customers.
I got that it's the US. My statement stands.
In my experience most English dialects don't have a better approximant for "voiceless uvular fricative" and so I don't think it's a terrible clwdge.
>I've also heard of an acquaintance that they cancelled plans because their (Garmin™) Body Battery was too low.

I wouldn't take that at face value. Sounds far more likely that they already wanted to flake and needed an excuse.
Occupied from whom? Who was the previous government of that land? The fact is, there has never been an independent modern state in that land. Before 1967 it was occupied by Jordan. Before 1948 it was occupied by the British Mandate, and before that it was occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

The peace deal offered by Olmert to Abu Mazen was for 95% of the West Bank, plus land from Israel itself to make it up to 100%. Abu Mazen declined. I suspect that in a post-Oct 7th world, the Palestinians will never get an offer like that again.
Paid Github organizations have a policy to block third-party actions. Would be nice if there was a way to allow third-party actions as long as they are referenced by hash, not version.
Another reason why you should be getting software via distro, with searate maintainers taking care of it there rather than directly from the developers that can inject malware via the very next version you mindlessly pull in without checking.

Also due to here being usually more than one distro, more people will look at the code & can spot the usptream getting rogue or getting compromised.
Not formally an ML researcher but I’ve heard this (and similar from Melanie Mitchell) and it seems like ridiculous gatekeeping.

There’s no real rule worthy of any respect imho that LLMs can’t be configured to get additional input data from images, audio,
proprioception sensors, and any other modes. I can easily write a script to convert such data into tokens in any number of ways that would allow them to be fed in as tokens of a “language.” Convolutions for example. A real expert could do it even more easily or do a better job. And then don’t LeCun’s objections just evaporate? I don’t see why he thinks he has some profound point. For gods sake our own senses are heavily attenuated and mediated and it’s not like we actually experience raw reality ourselves, ever; we just feel like we do. LLMs can be extended to be situated. So much can be done. It’s like he’s seeing http in 1993 and saying it won’t be enough for the full web… well duh, but it’s a great start. Now go build on it.

If anything the flaw in LLMs is how they maintain only one primary thread of prediction. But this is changing; having a bunch of threads working on the same problem and checking each other from different angles of the problem will be an obvious fix for a lot of issues.
I was just engaging with a hypothetical - see my other replies to siblings in this thread if you need clarification. iDevices are my daily drivers, but I don't understand all the fanboys getting triggered here
I get the picture, yes, namely that probably 99% of project dependencies don't need I/O capabilities at all.

And even if they do, they should be controlled in a granular manner i.e. "package org.ourapp.net.aws can only do network and it can only ping *.aws.com".

Having finer-grained security model that is enforced at a kernel level (and is non-circumventable barring rootkits) is like 20 years overdue at this point.

Every single big org is dragging their feet.
My insurance covers it, but it depends on why it’s prescribed.
at 10,000 feet in a thermal area the rock is very hot. Hot rock is ductile and holes will gradually close. Some deep hard rock mines in Northern Ontario encounter this problem where mine working gradually close under extreme pressure over time. The closure can be instant = rock-burst = a local micro-quake. Often there is lateral shear as well. The deepest gold mines in Witwatersrand in South Africa are over 160 degrees in places and workers wear vented/cooled suits. They also have refrigerated cold rooms they can jump into to get cool and get back to another work session.
IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans
Super interesting gem!

`Document.search(query).limit(limit).map(&:title)` how do you defined the documents to search on?
That assumes it can even be done. It's worth looking into. There have been some projects in those areas.

Mixing probabilistic logic with deep learning:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08485

https://github.com/ML-KULeuven/deepproblog

Combining decision trees with neural nets for interpretability:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07553

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02824v1

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.06988

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2020/EECS-2020-...

It looks like model transfer from uninterpretable, pretrained models to interpretable models is the best strategy to keep using. That also justifies work like Ai2's OLMo model where all pretraining data is available to use other techniques, like those in search engines, to help explainable models connect facts back to source material.
it already is supporting it. I have been already receiving messages on my iphone with RCS written around them
As another commenter said: how? show your working?

You are at the very least letting this hypothetical scenario (that another random HN commenter posed) feed into your “damn Apple!” feedback loop.

Blue bubbles says nothing about privacy. It tells users which service is being used. It informs them about what to expect. Chill.
The learned frequency banks reminded me of a notion I had: Instead of learning upscaling or image generation in pixel space, why not reuse the decades of effort that has gone into lossy image compression by generating output in a psychovisually optimal space?

Perhaps frequency space (discrete cosine transform) with a perceptually uniform color space like UCS. This would allow models to be optimised so that they spend more of their compute budget outputting detail that's relevant to human vision. Color spaces that split brightness from chroma would allow increased contrast detail and lower color detail. This is basically what JPG does.
Absolutely. Apple Messages is way too minimal, for both iMessage and SMS.

As another example, it makes it almost impossible to manage multiple numbers for a given contact (e.g. to explicitly text somebody’s work phone), and the sender side is very confusing as well with dual-SIM. Apple’s implementation freely merges threads that I’m trying hard to keep separate and then still falls over with tons of delivery errors in complex situations (usually after swapping SIMs).

It all works reasonably well if you have a single long-lived mobile number and all your contacts have the same, and are using iMessage (or now RCS), since that’s presumably the reality for most Apple engineers.

Anything slightly more unusual and the thing falls apart completely and makes me wish for a Nokia 3310 (or convince my contact to switch to something more reasonable for messaging).
At least I can. The seemingly impossible task for you.
I don't believe this FUD. I think overal the market has moved from from charging for messages. I fully believe carriers would love to rip off everyone as much as they can, but I think carriers know customers would just use facebook messenger if they tried charging per-message.
RCS seems to be mainly designed as a successor for SMS.

For interpersonal communication, SMS is dead in the majority of the world, so a successor is entirely irrelevant.

For for the 1 or 2 countries where people still send SMS, RCS seems like a major improvement with a bunch of feature that have been available on other platforms for many years now.
Social posturing is important to everyone. You probably just socially posture differently.
>but vendors like Samsung and Sony and OnePlus can build their own RCS messengers for those devices should they choose to.

Yes, but AFAIK they all caved and switched to google messages instead

>Same with custom ROM developers for an open source implementation.

Does one exists?
Late 80's and 90's had the 'nouvelle AI' movement that argued embodiment was required for grounding the system into the shared world model. Without it symbols would be ungrounded and never achieve open world consistency.

So unlike their knowledge system predecessors, a bit derogatory refered to as GOFAI (good old fashioned AI), nAI hawked back to cybernetics and multi layered dynamical systems rather than having explicit internal symbolic models. Braitenberg rather than blocksworld so to speak.

Seems like we are back for another turn of the wheel in this aspect.
Well we're discussing whether this constitutes "doesn't work [at all]" or "doesn't work [perfectly]."
The version that I've heard from preachers like John Piper seems to be a backlash against the Prosperity Gospel. The argument basically goes:

- The greatest good that God can do is to glorify himself.

- Therefore, when the Bible talks about God working things out for good or about God's provision, what it really means is that God will glorify himself.

I understand the urge to go against the prosperity gospel's idea of "God want's you to be happy so if you have any problems it's because you don't have enough faith". However, I think that argument's like Piper's go too far in the other direction. They basically deny God's provision and in an indirect way say that "every bad thing is actually good".
If you read my post closely you will see I am not invoking any right, nor justifying Israel's occupation of those lands (although I do believe they were justified). I'm merely pointing out that occupation of those lands was carried out under a left-wing non-authoritarian government. If you're saying that occupation of land makes the occupying government by definition right-wing authoritarian then I don't think that's a very useful definition and can't help you further.

I personally don't see why Israel should be required to give influence over its government to a belligerent enemy population who have supported wars of annihilation against it many times. However, many Israelis disagree with me, including past prime ministers. That was why Olmert offered 95% of the West Bank plus Israeli land making it up to 100% to Abu Mazen in 2008. Abu Mazen declined the offer.

Before 1967 the Arab occupants of the West Bank were Jordanian citizens. After 1967 Jordan stripped them of citizenship. Perhaps Jordan is the one denying them democracy? (For what it's worth, the pre-1948 Jewish residents of the West Bank had already been expelled at best and murdered at worst).
Sure initialization helps, but are there also results about long term training dynamics? Even the paper you suggested had to use some sort of normalization to keep things stable
This mission will be privately funded. Yes, SpaceX does receive quite a lot of money from NASA, but that is in payment for useful missions on Falcon 9 and with Dragon capsules. SpaceX is spending their own money, including profits from NASA missions and from Starlink, to find the Starship program.

With that being said, NASA is spending some money on Starship, but that is specifically for its development into the HLS moon lander, not for Mars missions.
No plausible alternative government would have conducted the war in a way that would have avoided the slander of "genocide" and "murdering children". People will accuse Israel of that regardless.
There’s an API for “focus mode” now, I believe.
This is known as the "Hygiene Hypothesis".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

The basic rationale for it is that the human genome did not evolve in a sterile environment, it evolved in an extremely hostile environment, and so developed pretty harsh defense mechanisms, which if not trained (via early exposure) on the appropriate targets will instead learn to target harmless compounds as well as the body itself.
> Airtags (and the Google version) communicate with nearby Internet-connected devices, via Bluetooth and NFC I think

Yes, exactly (BLE, UWB, NFC).

First, Airtags only have a coin-cell battery. It is not remotely viable for them to be doing any sort of serious "communicating" because the battery would die in seconds.

Second, making the Airtag effectively a dumb device means you gain the various security and privacy benefits, and means everything needed to make the magic happen can be transmitted in a single BLE/UWB/NFC packet (bringing us back to the battery life aspect already mentioned).

30,000ft view of how it works: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sece994d0126/...
Calls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence ignore his contribution
Show HN: One Minute Focus (iOS)
So last year I made a dot on a website based on a brain science study cited from Andrew Huberman. Basically the finding is that if you visually focus on something (like a dot) for 30-60s, it will actually improve your cognitive focus ability.

People really enjoyed the dot on the website as it actually helped with focus and doubled as a deep breathing tool (which is also scientifically proven to help with many things like anxiety, stress, emotional distress..etc -www.oneminutefocus.com)

Well after a year I decided to make a mobile app for it (vibe coded of course).

Let me know what your think

(Here’s link to hn post from last yr which went viral - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39288039)
short and to the point thx. saved!
No I don’t. But Wladimir Palant is where I get most of my information on the topic (and is probably where I got this link). His blog might have a post (or a comment) that links to similar lists: https://palant.info/categories/security/
My parents' generation (1950 to 1970), born and raised in South Asia, had near zero infant mortality, and have zero food allergies. I have never met an aunt or uncle (out of hundreds) who have had a dietary restriction, and south Asian food uses just about every nut and spice and vegetable on earth.

In addition, the subsequent generation, my cousins, also have zero allergies. It isn’t until the kids born in 2000 and later that we see any allergies.

I found it funny when US doctors prohibit honey for kids until 1 year old due to risk of botulism, but one of the first things my culture does after a baby is born is give it a drop of honey for good luck. I wonder what the risk of botulism really is, because I have never heard of a baby suffering from botulism in my parents’ and my generation.
They've already been ignoring court orders
This is a fair point.

I know that "pool's closed" comes from Habbo Hotel, but only because I've actually heard that information before. I wouldn't know anything about it otherwise.

In contrast, I've never heard of the "it was a Roman salute" meme before, but It's pretty easy for me to understand that this is (probably) talking about people defending Elon Musk's actions - and I'm not even American.
So… attachments? WhatsApp and Signal can send those too, directly from the share sheet.

I find the iMessage implementation very clunky compared to WhatsApp. It’s trying so hard to be “minimal” about delivery status and recipient capabilities that I never quite know whether something worked or not, especially with contacts that have older devices on their iMessage account.
Hi, Renovate author/maintainer here.

The affected repo has now been taken down, so I am writing this partly from memory, but I believe the scenario is:

1. An attacker had write access to the tj-actions/changed-files repo

2. The attacker chose to spoof a Renovate commit, in fact they spoofed the most recent commit in the same repo, which came from Renovate

3. Important: this spoofing of commits wasn't done to "trick" a maintainer into accepting any PR, instead it was just to obfuscate it a little. It was an orphan commit and not on top of main or any other branch

4. As you'd expect, the commit showed up as Unverified, although if we're being realistic, most people don't look at that or enforce signed commits only (the real bot signs its commits)

5. Kind of unrelated, but the "real" Renovate Bot - just like Dependabot presumably - then started proposing PRs to update the action, like it does any other outdated dependency

6. Some people had automerging of such updates enabled, but this is not Renovate's default behavior. Even without automerging, an action like this might be able to achieve its aim only with a PR, if it's run as part of PR builds

7. This incident has reminded that many people mistakenly assume that git tags are immutable, especially if they are in semver format. Although it's rare for such tags to be changed, they are not immutable by design
"financial/securities shenanigans"
= Pure hype
In my senior year of high school, it was midterms and I had to study. I had a horrible problem with procrastination. So there I was in the library about to start studying when I happened upon the first book of his "trilogy". I finished it without stopping to study. And then I found the next two books in the trilogy and devoured those too. I loved those books and luckily I passed my exams. It was stressful at the time knowing I had to study, but today I remember that time fondly.
Traditional baltic diet ? Please I want to know more (from Estonia)