skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little known is that the core of Korean culture is based on a clan system, and that there is a powerfull connection between north and south, making the impossed division much more tenious than what appears on the surface.
Reunification is the thing that all of the outside powers are working to prevent, but are now facing a situation where demographics, alone, will dictate how things will procede.
End of Life: Gemini will replace Google Assistant later this year
Being charged per message, per minute is pretty common all over the world.

And a lot of carriers still don’t support international romain or will charge a shit ton.

Usually, the cheapest approach is to just buy a cheap sim when you visit another country, but that doesn’t play well if you rely on SMS.
not to be confused with https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto
> Testing this hypothesis requires (a) understanding human psychosocial adaptations to arctic environments, (b) showing that East Asians and Inuit possess these traits, and (c) making the case that the existence of these traits in modern East Asians is primarily the result of natural selection and/or gene–culture coevolution having acted in the Late Pleistocene on East Asians’ ancestors rather than other factors.

That’s the main part of the paper, and what follows is essentially a literature review, which is an inherently flawed way to prove a hypothesis.

A hypothesis is a testable claim, which can be independently verified if it is validated. There is no process in the paper, other than a review of other literature, to substantiate the paper’s new claims. So, this person is essentially doing science journalism, not science.

I think the two main problems are that they didn’t provide sufficient work for (b) or (c), but they’re laboring under the misconception that a background review of literature is enough. But instead a background review is used to justify the structure of measurements and analysis which usually follows in scientific papers. So, the claim is poorly substantiated.
Carriers charging too much is exactly why WhatsApp became so popular in so many countries. It was optimised for very little data usage, so was dramatically cheaper than SMS.
There is a non-configurable kernel in there
We were (originally) talking about a mystical magical timeline where the two standards converge. You can make another hypothetical, where they converge, but only temporarily, but that's a new flavor on the hypothetical that was first posed way way back where the thread started. I'm sick of repeating myself, so I'll leave the musing to those who are more invested.
Its the ev rocket equation vs a small efficiency bulge at high speeds.
TL;DR; “productivity” of restaurant in the colloquial sense hasn't progressed, but restaurants have diversified their business to the growing market of delivery apps, which is less labor intensive, hence the boost in observed “productivity”.
…right after full self driving and AGI
Yes, but it seems unlikely that they wouldn’t reuse as much of that infrastructure as possible to perform the same function for the same users.
FWIW: My experience with stoicism has been that it's mostly espoused by conservatives as justification for ignoring social justice or by people who perceive themselves to be "tough love" types as a way to dismiss other's suffering.

For that reason, although in theory I think that stoicism could be a useful philosophy, in practice I see it as a cudgel for those who benefit from the status quo.
Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery
Unmanned, right? So they have to demonstrate flight with insertion into a Mars approach and orbital insertion, and maintain comms.
It does sound like that.

I guess they have data they trust.

If that data ever gets polluted by AI slop then you have an issue.
Whenever I see something about one of my favorite sci-fi authors, especially if the phrase existential terror is included, the Total Perspective Vortex comes to mind :-)

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
Yeah, and thx for the link to the neat crx explorer.

Close to what you do, I started writing my own addon to replace a couple addons whose featureset I use only partially.

For example, when I use Chromium I want 1. to customize the New Tab page, and 2. to add a keyboard shortcut to pin/unpinTab. These two features are absolutely part of extensions, but in addition to the security risk I find them heavy (I don’t need the kitchen sink, just need 2 micro-features!). And so, I have my little personal addon with zero resource usage with just these two features. It’s tiny (20 lines of code!), git-versioned, and never changes / gets pwned. When I need an extra micro-feature, it’s easy enough to add it by searching addons docs, of asking an LLM.
This is very good. One thing though Telegram (at least the linux version) does not support transparency and makes the transparency red. However, Metacheck shows it as transparent. Having all this on one page is a massive time saver.
> Strengthen immunity by increasing contact with natural environments
From the page you linked:

> "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any," Trump asserted.
>
> Earlier in the day, the president, on social media, called “testing a double-edged sword” that makes the country “look bad” but is “good to have.”

It's hard to get what he really want from that snippet .
> why not reuse the decades of effort that has gone into lossy image compression by generating output in a psychovisually optimal space

I've been wondering exactly this for a while, if somebody more knowledgeable knows why we're not doing that I'd be happy to hear it.
Yeah but the OP lives there, and many people around them make similar or more, so it seems normal.

This is incredibly common in many parts of life, humans gonna human I guess.
My question is basically whether they open it up or limit it to companies they have deals with. Reverse engineering is a risky game for a service with device checks since that’s potentially a CFAA violation and it could lead to your users getting their hardware banned.
The hygiene hypothesis is compelling, as many in this thread demonstrate. But there is sort of an opposite less tidy explanation which needs to be studied further: our immune systems are confused by a barrage of foreign antagonists in the modern industrial world and causing it to go haywire.
I think you’re spot on!

We’re using a similar trick in our system to keep sensitive info from leaking… specifically, to stop our system prompt from leaking. We take the LLM’s output and run it through a RAG search, similarity search it against our actual system prompt/embedding of it. If the similarity score spikes too high, we toss the response out.

It’s a twist on the reverse RAG idea from the article and maybe directionally what they are doing.
Because it wasn't an honest question. You have access to the same data sources as those who claim that Musk is at best Nazi-adjacent or Nazi-sympathetic. You have access to the same video (note video) of the salutes (note plural), access to the same news stories about Musk's support for far-right causes and organizations, and access to the same tweets in which Musk advocates policies, attitudes, and behaviors indistinguishable from those associated with 20th-century fascism.

Obviously you disagree, but instead of saying as much, ideally using the same data sources to refute your opponents' arguments, you engaged in low-effort sealioning. Hence the flag.
Are you claiming that their country had zero infant mortality, or zero infant mortality from allergies?
Either might be useful but I'm actually more interested in the latter because I run a phone service
This looks good. My few suggestions to build this into a profitable hub:

1. Create a vibe-specific ad marketplace. Allow advertisers to sponsor specific projects or "vibe drops" (those short-lived releases) based on their aesthetic, audience, or theme (e.g., retro, cyberpunk, minimalist). Add a bidding system where advertisers compete for premium slots during peak player activity, using your real-time stats (players, reach) as a dynamic pricing factor. Include an option for creators to opt into "vibe-aligned ads" (ads that match the project’s tone or style), ensuring the ads don’t break immersion. Offer founders a small revenue share to incentivize participation.

2. Add a "Fork Gallery" with a visual timeline or tree showing how the original project evolved through community forks. Include a voting or "vibe check" system where users upvote forks they love, helping the best ones rise to prominence. Add a collaboration feature—let users propose merges between forks or invite others to co-develop, turning it into a creative sandbox.

3. Give founders a dedicated space to showcase their vibe-coded projects, bio, and links (e.g., GitHub, X). Include a "Vibe Score" based on community feedback and project popularity to gamify reputation. Let them pin their favorite works or announce upcoming drops.

4. Build lightweight, browser-based tools for users to remix or tweak vibe-coded projects directly on the site (e.g., change colors, swap assets, adjust speed). Save these as new forks, credited to both the original creator and the remixer, fostering a remix culture. This will require integration of yours developed SDK integrated by developers of these games.

5. Create a marketplace where creators can sell premium vibe-coded assets (e.g., templates, soundtracks, art packs) or offer paid downloads for polished versions of their projects. Take a small cut, and let free projects act as teasers to upsell the premium stuff.

6. Since vibe coding thrives on buzz, add a feature to auto-post project drops to X with a custom hashtag (e.g., #VibeCodeDrop) and a link back to the site. Include a "Share to X" button for users to hype their favorite projects, amplifying reach organically.
Sorry, I meant only my family, not the country. As in no parents experienced the loss of a child (born ~1950s and beyond) due to an allergy or an unknown cause (e.g. maybe they did due to a car collision, but not an undiagnosed allergic reaction). Point being that exposing all of those kids to all foods very early did not result in a single one dying. And neither did their kids.

Obviously, I am not advising anyone to not follow their doctors’ instructions, but the sheer numbers in my anecdotal study make me wonder.
> I've always been wondering if anyone is working on using nerve impulses. My first thought when transformers came around was if they could be used for prosthetics

Neuralink. Musk warning though.

For reference, see Neuralink Launch Event at 59:33 [0], and continue watching through until Musk takes over again. The technical information there is highly relevant to a multi-modal AI model with sensory input/output.

https://youtu.be/r-vbh3t7WVI?t=3575
How many weddings have you had?
You may already know this, but image generators like Stable Diffusion and Flux already do this in the form of “latent diffusion”.

Rather than operate on pixel space directly, they learn to operate on images that have been encoded by a VAE (latents). To generate an image with them, you run the reverse diffusion (actually flow in the case of flux) process they’ve learned and then decode the result using the VAE.

These VAE encoded latent images are 8x smaller in width/height and have 4 channels in the case of Stable Diffusion and 16 in the case of Flux.

I do think it would be more useful if it worked more like you said, though - if the channels weren’t encoded arbitrarily but some of them had pretty clear, useful human meaning like lightness, it would be another hook to control image generation.

To some extent, you can control the existing VAE channels, but it is pretty finicky.
> Antibiotics should only be used in cases of true need

This is going to be a big deal in the next 20 years.

I’m from a third world country and the usage of antibiotics is SO irresponsible. People take them (and give them to their children) as candy.
eVOTL only started making sense when we got the battery power density and computer flight control systems available now.
It’s a bit more complicated than just “any felony” - among other factors, Canadian immigration law considers how Canadian criminal law would treat the offence, as well as how long it’s been since the sentence was completed. And there are discretionary provisions to allow ministerial overrides, as I’m sure they’d do for Trump during his presidency if he would otherwise be covered.

But you’re right, it’s absolutely true that Canadian immigration law treats DUIs by foreign nationals far more harshly than US immigration law does (assuming simple DUI in each case and not something with complications like someone getting hurt or killed).
The Pitchfork Story: A New Ruby HTTP Server
Okay, I just tried this on my pet transformer training benchmark and the results are very disappointing; it converges much more slowly than just using RMSNorm.

It either needs some significant hyperparameter tuning (besides tweaking alpha, which doesn't seem to do much for me), or some fancier initialization (tried both pytorch default and orthogonal, no difference), or maybe my scalar optimizer doesn't work on it (I have a custom optimizer for scalars which speeds up convergence vs Adam, but for DyT layers it seems to be just as good as Adam), or maybe it only catches up after billions of tokens (which I don't have the budget to test for so long).
Said holder claims to Senator stripped, cold showered, pressured to give up green card, minimal water/food.

I have to say I've read in the past an account of ICE using water deprivation, where the guy keeps being interviews, keeps having to talk all the time, keep asking for water, keep being told it will come, and it did not, for eight hours.
Automatic translation of Elementor pages using any LLM
We do, see eg LPIPS loss
Yes, I followed it when it was open. Which third-party app do you use which supports RCS E2EE?
Might be worth adding that Bunny offers DNS services as well.

I've started switching a few sites from Cloudflare to Bunny and the experience has been great so far. Bunny offers custom name servers as well, so if you can setup glue records with your domain registrar, it's easy enough to have custom nameservers, DNS and CDN hosted with Bunny. Cheap as chips and great performance so far.

I'm looking for a decent alternative to ReCaptcha or Turnstile but haven't found one yet that has easy integration (form builders etc.)

My move away from US providers isn't in protest - it's just risk avoidance. The unpredictable nature of the current administration reduces the attractiveness of using US based providers.
> the Ukraine war and the response has changed everything for SK

I'm curious: Is this speculation, or are you speaking from a place of knowledge? I don't know any Korean and am therefore unable to follow Korean media, so I'd love to hear more about what the general sentiment is among Koreans right now towards the US (specifically the Trump administration).
> I mainly use GCP but keep hearing how great AWS is in comparison.

Where do you keep hearing this?

Having used both, AWS is trash in comparison. It's way to complicated to do anything simple. At work I wish we could migrate to GCP (or just something that's not AWS, really).
That's when the next launch window is, whether Starship is ready or not.
As a group they may actually lose money, though they might not realize it. The big thing that nobody factors in is insurance - personal auto insurance policies generally don't cover business use, and if your insurance company finds out you were driving for DoorDash when you rear-ended someone, they won't pay out.

You can get a commercial rider for your policy, but then you won't make any money.

A buddy of mine was trying to make one of those companies his full time job, and it just didn't work out. There are too many hidden costs.
This is very interesting, but it's so perfect that the Mayo Clinic gets to use an algorithm called CURE, of all things.
Don't forget you could also send photos with it, which is more than what can be said about MMS.

Funny enough, I think I was charged once for a MMS in the past 5 years. No idea how I managed to do it, but it seems to still exist and still be charged per message even on my unlimited everything else plan.
Signal was dismissive of unencrypted messaging. Google used their protocol for their proprietary E2EE system so it’s unlikely that this objection would apply if that system was open.

Put another way, if this was a Signal thing what other Android app is doing this?
Data Broker Brags About Highly Detailed Personal Info on Most All Internet Users
And if we don't talk about things that aren't perfect, there will never be a improvement.
Anecdotal backup: as a child I had a horrendous dust allergy that led to multiple hospital visits. To mitigate the problem, my mom became a clean freak, trying to keep our apartment dust-free.
The allergy persisted until I grew up and moved out on my own without having a vacuum cleaner. Living in a messier environment led to the allergy basically disappearing.
New Gemini app features, available to try at no cost
QR code menus, and phone or tablet ordering, also took off. Surely that affects productivity as well.

Im guessing also, just doing things with thinner staff and resources overall caused a lot of establishments to learn how to operate more efficiently.
I think it's both. There is also a sense of "buy german cars because people are getting fired and losing jobs" etc. (=buy local)

Very difficult to measure, but I wouldn't minimize it.
Funny because the first thing gizmodo ask me is to share my data with third party advertiser
And here I am, having an ERP software at hand whose database I "should not query" with some (3-6) joins and likely in the 100'000s of records in total in the larger tables because "the DB server will go down".
I get the joke, but I was born and raised in Turkey and I have never met a child or adult with nut allergy while I was there. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it's incredibly rare.
The Story of the Social Security Number (2009)
Only Teslas.
In a way yes. For models in physics that should make you suspicious, since most of our famous and useful models found are simple and accurate. However, in general intelligence or even multimodal pattern matching there’s no guarantee there’s an elegant architecture at the core. Elegant models in social sciences like economics, sociology and even fields like biology tend to be hilariously off.
I started reading this article and was immediately hit how biased it seems, like in this meme 'leave multi-bilion dollar corporation alone'.

Unfortunetelly we are in the times when any split of any of those multi-bilion dollar corp would be greatly benefiting humanity as a whole. How many people are taking their profits really?
Hundreds? Thousands maybe?

And that is it. What humanity have from existence of those? Like one thing?

Some may say that we will have an AI, self driving cars or androids pretty soon. But ask your friends, or neighbours, ordinary people that work in non-tech jobs what they need. I am 100% sure that any those things above will be not their first need.

Better heath care. Less work. More money. Less stress. Vacation to recuperate and relax. More time for hobbies. Just possibility to have relaxing walk in the woods without worry.

Does any of those companies work on any projects that will help suffice any of those needs? Author of an article mentions 'good of the web' because probably his livelihood is the web.

But regular person does not care if their banking application or Netflix app on TV dongle is written with latest CSS standards or with Jquery.

Till that point in our history all big empires fell because of buearacracy and stagnation caused by millions of people trying to retain status quo.
Momentum of conquest was not enough suply enoug resources to feed the empire.
With the tech giants this may be first time in history when one entity will rule the entire human population caused by sheer momentum of technical progression it is making.

Will this be a good thing? I am entirely sure it will not be.
Is there an interpretation of stoicism which advocates for social justice? At its core that's my issue with the philosophy: it seems like it inevitably ends up serving the status quo by dismissing any complaints about circumstances.
They currently have ~0 Starship launches into low earth orbit and would need something like 10 to even try for Mars. Seems they better pick up the pace.
In the thirties? The Trump admin has already begun targeting trans people and immigrants. No, they're not building death camps and using firing squads but that didn't happen in Nazi Germany in the thirties either. Remember the allies in WWII weren't really aware the Germans were commiting mass genocide until after the war.
Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) to Hear?
I'd rather wait for solid state batteries to be swapped in. Lighter, safer, shorter charging and higher energy density.
Hydrogen would probably be delivered on a trailer and maybe hauled by an electric vehicle. Ultimately I think it makes more sense if hydrogen could be produced in a more distributed way.

Do you think it could be useful for farm or construction vehicles?
The YX Problem (Reverse XY Problem)
WhatsApp is installed on >80% of phone in india.
The CDC advises not to let small children play directly in dirt patches because of the lead risk.
Google's core competency is machine learning. So far they've most profitably applied that to search (matching web pages and ads to queries), but is also applying it to automating all human work: drivers with Waymo, knowledge work with Gemini, and manual work with Gemini robotics.
dictator, in modern political systems, a single person who possesses absolute political power within a country or territory or a member of a small group that exercises such power. The term comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises. Modern dictators, however, resemble ancient tyrants rather than ancient dictators. (from Britannica [1])

In some ways this fits the election of Donald Trump - he was designated as a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises - but in most ways it does not. Trump does not possess absolute power nor is a member of a small group which possesses such power as the plethora of court cases blocking his decisions make clear. The real important bit here is this:

> apparently 77M Americans

That is the majority of the voting public which you're lambasting for making the wrong decision. Here's a bit more on that subject, read it well:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/democracy and https://www.britannica.com/topic/republic-government

Don't agree with the majority and think they should listen to you or your group instead? There are names for such forms of government as well, names which are generally portrayed as being opposites of the two I pointed at earlier.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/dictator-ruler
This administration works on threats and chaos. Trump said Biden’s CHIPS act was “horrible, horrible” and all he had to do was threaten Taiwanese chip companies instead. I can’t imagine anyone with any power in this admin organizing something strategically. It’s all ego and vibes.
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Blue sky's card domain is cute and clever. I miss clever "machine" (may be a HA cluster) names.