skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really understand I guess, I loaded the page, clicked away the modal and then pressed the spacebar, scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page.

Is that not what is supposed to happen?

Browser - FF developer.
I don't understand how you can come to this conclusion? A small country is dependent on good relations, foreign investors and on and on and on. Even at best, the small country gets limited clout. What can a small country do against a multinational company or against the WTO etc etc
>It is not true that a piecewise-linear model trained on a set of data points will produce only outputs which are a convex combination of outputs that appear in the training set.

No, and I didn't claim that. I said that, outside the training sample, the model is linear (or quadratic in the case of transformers, thanks for pointing that out) Whether linear or quadratic, a model that has a fixed structure outside the training sample, will obviously not fit data which lies far away from the training sample - i.e. it will not extrapolate. This isn't controversial - it's just something people like to forget about.

>A model trained on images which produced only convex combinations of images in its training set, would clearly be producing what could be called “interpolations between images in its training set”, and taking convex combinations of images is unimpressive.

True! I should have clarified that it's not linear interpolation in pixel space (or input space generally), but interpolation on the latent manifold. This is where the power, as well as limitations of deep learning come from.
It's definitely non-trivial to identify the latent manifold of data - different dimensions of the manifold may sometimes even correspond to independent components, as you mention (position of eyes, skin tone,...) (though empirically, finding disentangled latent codes is mostly a function of the random seed).

How does an NN process a new input? It maps the input to the latent manifold.

In the input space, it will be some highly non-linear, non-trivial combination of points, which in terms of Euclidean distance in the input space, could be arbitrarily close or far away.

In the latent space, the output will be some convex combination of nearby points.

Here's the kicker - even if your problem happens to be well-modeled as a continuous, low-dimensional manifold embedded in a high-dimensional space (and many, many problems aren't), and even if you manage to obtain a super dense sampling of input space, so that the manifold can be well-approximated (which is impractical or impossible for most problems),

you will never be able to generalize beyond the data distribution.

Our brains don't stop working as soon as conditions are slightly different from what we've seen before. If there's a slight fog on a Stop sign, we can still see a stop sign. If the Go board is 9x9 rather than 19x19, we can still play Go. If we can play Starcraft on one map, we're pretty much as good on a different map, we don't need to relearn the game over the next several thousand years.

How come? Because we aren't just latent space interpolators. We can extrapolate.
Tongue in cheek, I'd call that "racist uncle at thanksgiving".
Not only trackpad, you can use ctrl+down to show all windows of the current app and ctrl+up to see all windows.
Why dont all languages have the inplace swap built in like python has?

In python you can just do: y, x = x, y
> and most importantly, Mac OS doesn't reboot whenever it feels like it to install updates.

But when it does reboot, it's a game of dice how long it's going to take. My windows laptop is roughly half powerful as my M1 macbook, but Windows OS updates are all relatively quick. Updating MacOS I never knwo whether I should just grab a coffee or head out to lunch. 6 minutes remaining, no 11 minutes remaining, now 8 minutes remaining, hooray, just 1 minute remaining! Except that that last minute is actually 5 minutes long.
The goal of a public debate is to influence the perception of the many passive listeners, not the few other participants of the debate; There is extensive flow of information/communication, but it's simply not aimed towards the other participants of the debate.

So a key part of such debates becomes influencing or provoking others to talk about things that advance your cause and avoiding discussion of things that hurt it. E.g. if someone says "you eat babies" and you respond with extensive evidence that you don't, then that public debate becomes a debate about you being a baby-eater and not whatever you wanted to promote.
De-Anonymizing Bitcoin
ctrl+up / ctrl+down
This is probably one area where software projects and wars differ:

When things go bad in a war, you can always throw more bodies on it to turn it around.
I'm sorry, but this feels more like a religion than an actual technical reason.

I have all my important applications on the taskbar (windows) or behind shortcuts (linux).

If it's a rarely used program, I can use the start menu/app launcher to open that application.

I don't need to access my desktop.
> re-elected George Bush in a free and fair election

That's a bit of a stretch.
- This app would let users to sell and buy books, whereas amazon lets users to only buy and let shop keepers to only sell.

- Our users can chat with their counterpart and bargain and verify legitimacy before buying or selling.
https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
U.S. aircraft carrier deploys off Korean peninsula
as opposed to being a marketing tool for YC
Why would you ever say that?

Facebook is suffering a slow death from burning up all it's good will on bad faith money grabs. The news feed could still be the place where people discuss their lives, but close to zero people trust facebook anymore.

Mental note: alexb_ will lie to my face.
Article is from 2010 so not going to quibble about there having been a lot of history since then, but from the end:

> especially since floating point operations are generally compiled to use the x87 fpu (so the floats will be moved back into gprs, and end up being slower than a regular swap)

gcc, at least, will use SSE rather than x87 by default on 64-bit x86. Looking at godbolt there's still a bunch of conversions that come out to about the same number of instructions, although I suspect doing it with SSE is probably faster than doing it with x87. Doing it with a temporary variable instead rather than coercing through a series of casts is probably even faster, though.
The train itself has to be heavier than the load just to stay on the tracks. It would only make sense if you already have an established cargo route, and you can in addition also reuse a large part of that track for people transport.
Most americans are happy with their employee health plan. Why would they go on strike?
For your own sanity, yeah I think so; online 'debates' only drain energy and attention if the other party is not acting in good faith.

That said, if you are playing, the winning move is not to play their games. Don't engage with their attempted straw man arguments, or end up in endless discussions about semantics. Some of the best debates I've seen / read were people not playing games and not reacting to bad faith arguments / tactics, but instead cleverly pointing out something else.
> Avoided emissions are when I pay my brother to clean his room. Only one approach can lead to a tidy house.

What if you have to pay your brother two clean two rooms. You are right that just offsetting your own emissions doesn't get us to carbon zero, it sort of gets us half way there (provided it actually works of course). If instead everytime you're emitting CO2 you're not just responsible for offsetting your own CO2, you're also responsible for rolling it back. If you want to be part of the problem, you'd have to be part of the solution as well.

Anyway that's in the hypothetical situation where we want to have carbon offsets be the driver of solving the entire climate crisis. I don't think that's the main idea. The main idea is just to be a privatized hedge on carbon tax. A carbon tax could be the other half, or the other half could just be a general tax for example on CO2 positive products.

My original point is at some point you're going to run out of bus operators that can lease electric buses. All the non-electric buses also have to offset their carbon emissions after all. At some point all the avoidable carbon is bought up and offset, and the only way you can continue to buy offsets is by buying more expensive methods such as clean energy generation or even sequestration. What is triggering my math concern in your article is that your examples involve an infinite amount of offsets being available.

Maybe there's enough electric buses for the first cement factory, but what about the second cement factory, it will have to compete for the offsets with the first one, raising the cost of the offsets, enabling innovation where possible (provided again the certification works well enough).
I was browsing their website and found this: https://github.com/draftdev/jobs

So this might provide some clarity to your question
All gestures on macos regarding virtual desktops and windows have corresponding keyboard shortcuts.
You can actually close that screen if you click the login button. The next screen will have an x to close the window in the top right.
Of course it's emotional, all decisions are to some degree emotional.

And I would suggest that if they'd just killed reader, then OK, stuff like that happens. But Google has killed a Lot of things. Probably for good reason. But they get a reputation for being "flighty" when it comes to new things.

Sure it's emotional, but that reputation comes into my thinking when I make product choices. I'll use HERE maps over Google maps etc. And I'm not terribly inclined to make their stuff part of my critical work flow.

So sure I'll Google search and YouTube all day long. But I'll use AWS or Azure over GCP. 90% because I can get someone on the phone. 9% because I wonder when Google will decide to kill GCP. And 1% because I don't trust the Google AI not ti just terminate my account with no recourse.
Whats the legal implications of such downtime for Atlassian? I could imagine thousands of companies unable to manage employees, product releases, bug fixes, rollbacks and more from this.

Could Atlassian be liable for damages?
My point is that he doesn't know either. He complains that work dried up, but that might have been for a reason - maybe it's that casting directors have qualms about ex-child actors, maybe it's that those qualms were justified. The parent comment makes it sound like he was always good enough, and my comment is that we can't really know.

Casting directors get a lot of flack all the time, because they have some real power, but they are professionals doing a job (and often they are not even the problem, as directors and producers also have a big say on any major role).
The error being part of the method signature seems very explicit, no? You will get a compiler error if you don’t handle it in some way in the client code.

Unchecked exceptions are not explicit.
Botched indeed, the visual losses for Russia alone are staggering. Give it another couple more weeks with losses like they have no now in their tank force alone and they will have trouble running any sort of armour battalions.

Heres a list of Russias visually confirmed losses, the real numbers are likely much higher.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...
Apparently you can do it with xnor too, which I didn't actually realise when I made this username.
I've never pitched any of my OSS projects to VCs. Hope I didn't touch a nerve.

Prevalence of MLMs doesn't make any of them any less impractical.

Are you doubting that VCs can be victims of their own in-group biases?
I'm actually surprised they are still around...
That sounds like a terrible way to give the board of Boeing new yachts.

This drone would never be useful in the west.
This is a bad faith argument and is effectively FUD.

The list of open source projects that people use in a commercial setting is long. Linux, Apache, Nginx, mysql/postgres/SQLite, Redis, Git, nearly every major programming language (C, PHP, Go, Python, Node), Firefox/Chromium, to name a tiny fraction.

Businesses that have libre/free/open source as their core product are also numerous: SQLite, Gitlab (open core), Red Hat, Docker, Nginx, Npm, Redis, Wordpress to name a few of the big players. There is a long tail and companies like Draw.io, Gratipay, Overleaf, Jitsi
and the list goes on.

The list of open source hardware companies is also long: Adafruit, Arduino, Sparkfun, Seeed Studios, Gaudi Labs, LittleBits, Olimex, Zynthian, to name a few.

GPLv3 is a so-called "viral" license, making sure that any changes are given back to the community. This is done to prevent bad actors from taking the code, modifying it and then claiming it as their own intellectual property. From what I understand, this has the effect of preventing larger businesses with a more "classic" intellectual property stack from using smaller business's code base without giving back.

I have heard rumors that larger businesses, like Amazon, specifically use GPLv2 so as to not trigger the viral licensing, effectively benefiting from the commons without giving back to the broader community at large. I have also heard companies like NVidia use MIT licensing for code given to potential clients/customers/internally and strongarm everyone involved to not release it, creating a situation where they're not violating the licensing terms but never releasing it to the public.

Though a cultural or psychological effect, from what I understand, smaller businesses tend not to be too successful at "stealing" competitors code as the brand awareness and domain intelligence looks to be the more relevant factor to success. For businesses that do use others libre/free/open source code, there tends to be a virtuous cycle, where they each build on the others success and widen the market. Perhaps it's the other way around that success in one business allows for others to expand the market further.

Making money from business is difficult to begin with regardless of whether the core product is libre/free/open. Understanding how to create a business that has libre/free/open source products at its core is still being discovered, so it's not like there's a definitive answer but to say that it kills the opportunity is flat out incorrect.
I don't quite understand what you're envisioning. Our system depends on many employers paying for health insurance. You would have to change a lot of things about our system for it to be decoupled.

In South Korea the healthcare premiums are split between employees and the employers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_South_Korea They don't have to negotiate group plans and maintaining coverage when switching jobs is pretty seamless.

There has to be a plan if employers stop providing insurance en masse, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to stop getting premiums from the source of personal income entirely. That seems to be a convenient place to get the kind of money that healthcare demands.
Static is way more secure. A site with only static pages is more or less impenetrable. Obviously it is more awkward to update.

WordPress was a disaster area at one time, not so much now. But if you look at the kind of attacks your site gets over http/s, it's that kind is stuff which is in the majority.
> even Italy (if you're forewarned what to expect).

Out of curiosity, any example of the terrible things that may happen in Italy and that travelers should be forewarned about?
I suspect that politicization is to avoid backlash, as we all know which side of that dichotomy holds the cancellation/ostracization power.
First of all, thanks for all your blog posts. It's really interesting to see and understand actual die shots, not just understand it "in theory".

Secondly, how was the shift register actually used? Since every bit pushed in will result in one pushed out, wouldn't that force the input to be pushed in at the same rate as the output and thus the shift register just adds a delay? Or does it happen in two rounds, like so?

1. shift the screen data in and discard output

2. shift the screen data out at a different speed (presumably faster) while shifting in dummy data

Or is there a third option I haven't thought about?
> Publicly traded companies have a fiduciary duty to their share holders to make as much money as possible.

That is not accurate. They are required to operate in a manner that is satisfactory to their owners, who delegate that responsibility to the board of directors, who then set policy for management to execute.

There is no difference between a publicly traded and privately owned company in terms of the responsibilities of the management and board to their shareholders.

There are numerous incentives to maximize shareholder returns (eg taxation incentives, equity value improvement, dividends), but there is nothing in law or otherwise that applies a fiduciary duty to management or the directors of a company to maximize either dividends or capital value.
I have to agree. While I do think for most government local institutions are better... the federal government has done more for freedom and prevention of abuse than my state certainly has.

Living in the south it's very apparent that a weak federal government was a bad thing. Civil rights have to be mandated top down, history is the proof.

And I believe there is still sufficient party interest and government design to protect "state's rights".
Most federal programs are state/municipality implemented. Sure, the feds might stick rules to how money can be used, in order to prevent abuse, but that's a good thing.
> That's not true. Google Cloud has its own CEO and a very different business model.

Business model is different indeed, but the parent company is still Alphabet, which in the end has huge influence.
And in general software which respects user consent
Counterpoint: at the same time, it's something you can do and not do at the same time - everything in AWS is virtualized (save for $$$$$ physical hosts almost nobody uses) and it's not like it's impossible to undetectably analyse/monitor running VMs in realtime.

So you can both do this (silently) and "not" do it (because it's impossible to detect), and it would thus be stupid to not actually do it because it's free data.

Zooming out I think this and the opposite view are equally possible. Just articulating what this perspective looks like.
That's over 2 years ago now. A bit more than "just a while ago", and perfectly fine to repost IMO.
Made this extension to allow previewing URLs within websites
Yeah but the issue with a lot of sport watches are they have a "tacticool" look that doesn't look very fashionable, the Pebble had the unique aspect of having models that looked stylish while still maintaining their battery life.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the duran seems to be a far-right outlet with ties to moscow? [1]

No clue about military strategy, but I always find it off-putting to leave out the dramatic humanitarian, moral, and legal violations that Russia affects on civilians. To me, you can't talk military strategy without mentioning that the whole war has been an incredible crime and violation of the foundational values of western societies as well as the corresponding international laws.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-duran/

[edit]: Uh, it doesn't help this stream's credibility that the guest is a convicted sex offender and pro-russian commentator. From Wikipedia:

"Ritter is a registered sex offender, having been convicted of unlawful contact with a minor and five other charges in a 2011 trial.[2]"

"Ritter has regularly written op-eds for Russian state-controlled RT, such as about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine."

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
Game theory 101. You want to build a good/better world? Then don't be shit. Don't contribute to shit dynamics. Build a sustainable culture where people listen to each other. I'll never get how this isn't ingrained to reasonable people from the get-go
I'm not saying that is how it should be. I'm saying that's how it is. You earn no sympathy from the audience by only using logic and reason - in order to make change in the world, you must additionally use fallacies, diversions, personal attacks, false equivalencies, and every other trick in the book. If you refuse to use these, you will lose to those who do, every single time. It does not matter how well thought out, reasonable, logical, or correct your argument is if you can't convince anyone.
This definitely was the case, although my understanding is that the standards for new buildings have increased significantly over the last decade or so. Houses don't have to be passivehaus standard, but there is a strong emphasis on air tightness and insulation now.

Of course, this barely scratches the surface. Most houses are old, and will probably not be replaced in our lifetime. We're not doing nearly enough to retrofit energy efficiency.
I run a 20 person digital agency in Los Angeles.

The amount of time we have to spend each year sorting out our healthcare for the entire company is mind blowing. You are totally correct, it becomes a full time job for 3 or 4 weeks for myself and another partner. So much effort and knowledge required for something that isn’t even our core business! And it inevitably causes drama with employees who don’t like some part of the group plans we end up with. Very stressful.

We only offer it as our employees all say that this benefit is really important to them. I didn’t know it was a tax break for us to be honest.

I wish more employees thought like you did. Our average monthly cost per employee is about $500 for a “silver” PPO plan, and about $110 for dental. Average age of our employees is below 30.

I’d gladly pay employees the $610 extra a month just so we don’t have to deal with it and the drama that comes with it. This would actually save us money from the energy wasted dealing with insurance companies. And no one who’s dealt with our insurance plans over the years has had a positive experience. My brother (who worked for my company) cut his chin while out of state. Required 2 stitches, and he just walked to the closest ER to get them. $3500 it ended up costing him, even with our insurance and countless hours fighting the insurance companies too. Didn’t even see a doctor, a nurse did the stitches. It’s a joke.

Other than salaries, health insurance is the largest expense for our business. Think about that at the scale of the entire economy and its mind blowing the wasted energy/effort on this “system”.

I’m originally from Australia. We have “socialized” healthcare there. My brother is back visiting family currently and got an x-ray and ultra sound for $310. The American system is absolutely embarrassing.
Free Cannon camera though!
I was referring to your comment about having to recreate build images every time you want to insert data (users) into the DB. I don't see how _any_ deployment solution could be stateless, if you want a database. I might be misinterpreting you though.
Intel shall put their act together and build processors not heatears. What good is a laptop's 4 core processor when only one core is working and the other 3 are thermally throtled ?
No luck. Tried that as well. Toggled on/off the repository a couple of times and force refreshed F-Droid list.

I'll try it out some other day when, hopefully, it shows up.
Fossil, Garmin, and (to an extent) FitBit work in different market segments to Apple and Google. Fossil leans heavily on its brand value and aesthetic, while the other two are more fitness centric. The Apple and Google entries are general purpose tools.
That's over two years ago and I don't recall reading it at the time. I think there's some sort of 'soft' rule about dupes though, if its less than a few months.
That's not too bad, depending on the length and complexity of the articles. It's at the low-end of viable for a writer, but I've seen much worse.