skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL about (models of) Superfluid Quantum Gravity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31377395 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-31383784

> How is "GR on Bernoulli", GM cannot describe n*x*oo more precisely than oo, and Conway's surreal infinities aren't good axioms either (for GR or for QM with (chaotic) fluids which perhaps need either infinities plural or superfluid QG (instead of QFT fwics); not making sense?

Is this coherent after so much constructive interference in fluids?
They're going to need diamond hands to hodl it together.
Interestingly, my neighborhood was mostly on a single company, due to several HOAs banding together and negotiating a group deal. But the company has now announced that it will no longer be honoring the group discount, so it's probably going to fracture again.
I didn't see where that supported the claim that 90% of voter fraud is carried out by republicans.
That's a nice belief, but you've given no rational argument for it. Consider a monolith implemented as a single, unstructured function: 200,000 lines of unstructured code, written by a goto-loving maniac. Demonstrate why some equivalent model with well-defined, discrete components must exist.
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This is true of almost everything. The inputs / resources dedicated are relatively fixed while the outputs are dependant.
From watching youtube videos I got the impression that the Ford 'Blue Cruise' does not require the hands to be on the wheel.

I haven't used the Ford system but I have used the Tesla system and it requires you to move the wheel at a pretty annoyingly and regular frequency to remain in autopilot mode. I believe the cabin camera can also detect when you are on your phone or looking away - but i'm not sure if this is rolled out to non-FSD cars.

I think the frequency that you have to prove you are paying attention is about every 30 seconds
I'm afraid I don't recall.
I can legit imagine this being used to describe a gig-knowledge-worker DAO, where via "decentralized consensus" the "best minds" were directed at "humanity's most important problems".

But in reality it would be a bunch of people paid in gamified company bucks to write spammy blogs and comments to promote shitcoins that a small number of the DAO members would trade on while the rest debated if they should buy some half-assed NFT because it would support a community of creators.
Of course they cater to those awful “passive content consumers”; they need their online bank much more than you need your tiling tabs.
I removed the battery cell from a Samsung battery and powered the battery IC with the nominal DC cell voltage from a power supply.
The phone then indefinitely showed a full battery.
This might also work with an iphone
Hah. I didn't realise it until you mentioned it. In my defense I copied it from their site and just made sure it fit HN's title limits.
It’s generally missing from the other energy sources as well.
GameStop NFT marketplace is going to be a game changer if they pull it off with immutable X, loopring, and piñata.

Hint. It’s not just for images.
It still bothers me that hash-maps are advertised as O(1) lookups, regardless whether their size is 1 kb, 1 Mb, 1 Gb or 1 Tb. This just isn't true based on several benchmarks.

So given that this is the case, using immutable data structures with O(log n) performance isn't "any" different than using the mutable ones.
Well they got sued for using planned obsolescence and lost. So theres not much to argue about, is there?
You make the decision based on your priors: the conditional probability of the prize being behind a certain door is updated by the new information. The information content of that update can certainly be affected by your knowledge of his constraints. In the original Monty Hall problem, that knowledge you have is “he can’t reveal the prize”. There is nothing magic about “the rules were x, and given that the rules were x, my update of the probabilities is y”. It has nothing per se to do with his mental state; it has to do with the rules he had to follow, and what you can infer from them.

Let’s turn this around: explain why I should switch doors, but starting from scratch with the new problem, instead of by reference to the original. I think you’ll end up thinking the original solution is wrong, based on your no-telepathy rule, or you’ll see how they are different.

Or try this out. Let’s have another variant: before you pick the door, the host picks one that turns out to be a goat. Now you pick a door, and _then_ you have the option to switch. Do you still switch? Does that make sense? The situation is exactly the same (a goat behind one door and two closed doors). If both actions so far are random, it doesn’t matter what order they go in.
Sometimes testers aren't even working with the full data set. And testers might have some seriously shit-hot hardware that is max spec too. When I was developing everyone would go buy the absolute best PCs out there at the start of every new game to make sure they lasted through dev.
If you want the job just study your ass off.
Ugh, yes, nobody is disputing that. The comment I replied to was using the common, but incorrect, understanding of that to be like a fee that musk would have to pay to cancel the deal, which is pointed out as being an incorrect understanding (and which the text that you quoted also points out is an incorrect understanding). Like, of course, if we just change the meaning of words, then things stated in response to those words may be incorrect.
Being a serf of UNIX vendors has always been a thing.
What motivates developers?
Possibly the 2 most popular softwares in the world I’d claim
Cloud services proving handy for cybercriminals, SANS Institute warns
MetalFX: Apple's API for Spatial and Temporal Upscaling
Which is why the main value is and will always be illegal transactions. That's the problem it solves, it's not 100% a bad thing cause it prevents the gov't from possibly abusing power in controlling of financial transactions, but the main impact of crypto is to allow organized crime to operate.
Mostly marketing and branding: the desire for self-expression, to establish a visual identity and a feeling tone in the message.
To me it makes perfect sense to combine e-mail and browser into one, with a single click you can either view your web tabs, or your e-mail.

I think what stopped me from switching to Vivaldi last time was lack of secure DNS with DoT or DoH, and no control over TLS 0RTT, which is a critical security hole masquerading as a performance optimization.
Not, I think, in the sense meant here. You're right, of course, but the distinguishing factor is that "corporate software" typically only involves a single corporation. There's no (or little) balancing of interests.
I'm waiting for the fad to die so I can stop hearing about it.
I sent y'all an email, but figured I'd re-post here for any curious hackers. I spent two years obsessed with autocomplete for mobile/edge use cases.

The first step is to get any functional offline model (1), then prune/project a large language model's representation until you can perform on-device inference (2). You can calculate variance, hit / miss statistics for a body of text and model proposals (3), which you can feed into a ranking model (4) for an extra layer of personalization or use to re-balance the Euclidean projection of your model's layers (4) to optimize for sparseness.

1) Locally store a Trie data structure, where keys are n-grams of user input

Surprisingly effective, considering most business communication uses a limited vocabulary. If your users are submitting less than 10,000 unique English words (skip words removed) per day, try this out.

One thing I really liked about the Trie approach is that corporate jargon appears in real-time, since the "model" is just a data retrieval algorithm. You don't need to modify a vocabulary and re-train/fine-tune a neural network to achieve personalization.

The downside is that you're limited to bi/tri-grams before performance degrades, although YMMV. Auto-completing bi/tri grams does feel tedious after a while.

2) Fine-tune and prune a large language model, then make it sparse

I noticed y'all offer some degree of personalization. Have you tried pruning or compressing your model after fine-tuning? The exact technique will depend on your base model's architecture but in general, try using a sparser representation.

Use accelerators designed to operate on sparse representations, for example TensorFlow XNNPack's sparse operations. XNNPack is a backend engine that opens up native hardware acceleration options in WebAssembly, so you can accelerate inference using the client's GPU (if available).

3) Collect permutation variance and hit/miss statistics

The exact technique/algorithm will depend on your model architecture, but for example matched averaging is a way to express the average number of neighborhood permutations with respect to the input dataset. In other words, the client sends statistics about predictions in Euclidean space, not your literal keystrokes.

4) Use matched averaging to adjust model cardinality or train an additional ranking model

The statistics collected by step 3 can be used to train a personalized ranking model, with the goal of re-ranking the proposals from step 2.

You can also use these statistics to introspect the "embedding space" of a language model, with the goal of identifying compression/pruning opportunities to improve the model's real-time performance. Reducing cardinality in the embedding projection has an outsize impact on inference speed, and you can usually drop most of the language model after observing the range of language used by the client.

You can also used matched averaging to compare hidden <-> hidden weights between many with Euclidean distance measurements (like cosine distance).

This is WAY more than I originally intended to write - but I hope this helps!
If I give you a Simply Red CD and you buy me a pizza in exchange, no one would state that the CD bought the pizza.

In fact as far as the pizza place is concerned it's your pizza not mine.
A quick Google shows you that the price of battery replacements has always been around the same price:

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/apples-iphone-battery-repl...

“In the US, for example, the battery replacement price went from $80 to $30.”

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...

Price now in the US: $69

I think I’ve come to the conclusion that you use the term “planned obsolescence” incorrectly.
The one in five is some sort of average and includes all sorts of things on the basis that it's really hard to be more precise as this is a field with extreme rates of under-reporting: http://web.archive.org/web/20120308074927/http://www.coe.int...
And yet the legislative environment has a lot to do with having a performant economy.
Regulated by whom..... the people who have absolutely zero clue about how even the basic technology works, and are only interested in getting reelected?

Its funny how people rightfully criticize the government and laugh at videos of senator grilling the CEOs of Facebook or Google with stupid questions, but then as soon as a company does something that they don't like, they somehow expect those people to get their shit together and sensibly regulate something as nuanced as autopilot?

For technology to get better, it needs to be stress tested - in this case that means accidents and people dying. Which is pretty much on par with development of car technology since its origin. The warnings on autopilot are there. If you don't want to take the risk, don't use it.
> Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, and YouTube entice us to give them our creative work. It's time to take it back ... Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself.

So, youtube, right? Where would you host your videos if you had a mind to take them back?
Game was out for almost EIGHT YEARS by the time this bug was fixed. There can be no reasonable explanation for them not fixing that. 5 minute load every time you try to go into multiplayer. The amount of revenue lost to that one single bug is staggering. This bug was a reason why I never played GTA online, for example.
I posted my similar story in a separate comment. It is truly a shame that we walk two worlds that people refuse to understand.
The reason why you should own your own platform is called “platform risk”.

https://www.startupillustrated.com/Archive/Platform-Risk/
Linux doesn't rewrite? Is writing a completely new I/O scheduler from scratch and replacing the old one not a rewrite? How much does a 5.14 kernel have in common with a 2.6.8 one?

If anything, Linux isn't afraid to rewrite the parts that need to be rewritten, and that's one of its strengths.

Apache, Vim, and Postgres have been "rewritten." Nginx is an httpd written from scratch that sort of has the same features as Apache. Neovim exists. And newer database technologies that care about performance have been written.
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Back in the earliest days of Hearthstone, control warrior was more colloquially known as “wallet warrior” due to how expensive it was to craft all the epics and legendaries needed to fill out the meta deck. And yet, it wasn’t the best deck in the game. Depending on when exactly we’re talking about, that title belonged to decks like miracle rogue (two legendaries but only Leeroy was truly core) or combo druid (zero legendaries iirc, possibly Cenarius). And then you had incredibly cheap aggro decks like zoo warlock that could still compete at the highest ranks.

By the time I quit HS at the beginning of this year, the “cheap” aggro decks generally cost about as much as old miracle rogue and nearly all the non-aggro top meta lists were at least in the same ballpark as a deck formerly considered so expensive it was nicknamed wallet warrior.

The game has definitely gotten dramatically more expensive for anyone looking to branch outside the aggro archetype. What turned me off enough to finally quit were the yearly tweaks to monetization that kept being sold as a good thing but were obviously just further efforts at obfuscating the cost of playing.

- played since beta, sunk a couple grand into ranked standard, maintained legend or dad legend (rank 5) every month for years. Idk if I’m a whale, but the predatory practices finally reached a head
This continues to point out how you just completely don't understand the quote. You very clearly seem to think that the "hard" part of cache invalidation is how to implement invalidating it when you know exactly what needs invalidation. The "hard" part is actually in knowing what needs invalidation. Your grandiose claims make you, your team and org, and your company look bad.
Final decisions are made by totally independent folks like Linus, Greg or Andrew. They set the rules and also the community, corporate has to adapt to them or go away.

Also, what happens is that rewrites happen progressively, in small steps.
If you just want to use the compiler and VM the license doesn't effect you.
You can write a closed source program in any GPL language using any GPL compiler.
Generally agree, with some caveats.

"There was a time when by default _everything_ was public domain, unless explicitly copyrighted."

That wouldn't really change rhis issue because the producers would still copyright.

"Now, do you even know a _single_ person that has committed a _crime_ of copyright infringement?"

Given this:

"Released over a publically accessible computer network material that was intended for commercial distribution"

Yes, a fair amount. The reason they focus on the civil side is that the company can recover damages that way. They likely could go after many individuals criminally if people are distributing over publiclly accessible torrents or download a lot of new movies (not released on DVD digital) in 180 days. Either civilly or criminally, it can be a terrible time, and many people don't want to risk that.

"If you copy a movie and even share it on the internet, NOT criminal, it's civil offense."

As long as the movie is not theaters-only.

"If you cross the street without using the crosswalk you are breaking a criminal law."

Not quite. Jaywalking also requires that you impede the travel of a vehicle.

"If your core argument is loss of money if copyright was put back to 14 years instead of the bonkers length it is now"

I'd be fine with shorter lengths. I believe Disney was one that lobbied for the longer length. That doesn't really address people circumventing copyright during that 14 years.
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In a perfect world, everyone would have their own servers in their homes or colos. Fiber would be cheaply avaliable everywhere, and everyone would have the know-how to manage their locally hosted services.

In truth, it's quite a lot of work to manage and maintain. Now there are say Docker Wordpress images that can be set up in ten minutes on AWS. However part of self-hosting is that there's no technical support - you're on your own if something breaks, there are updates, etc. Whereas a managed service abstracts all that away, and thus is appealing to a mainstream audience. While we at HN may like the technical side of things, many creators are uninterested in spending hours debugging a performance issue and want to write/draw/etc.

Personally I have servers in my basement and run a Matrix instance, OpenVPN, and a webserver (static site fronted by Cloudflare) as my publicly exposed services. I also have additional services like Landscape and network storage on LAN. When you run all those services, you don't just follow a guide, set it up, and leave it. While that may work for a couple months, something will break eventually and you'll have to scramble to fix it without understanding why. To do things properly and get good uptime you need to understand how things work, why they're configured that way, and have good backup and recovery practices. Security is also another factor, especially if you are storing private or confidential information.

Also for creators, there are services like Youtube and Twitch which are pretty much impossible to replicate without massive cost and infrastructure. If you're just doing text and images, then you could use a VPS or a CDN fronted homeserver and operate your own website. I'm not a vtuber, but if I was it simply wouldn't be possible for me to run my own service even though I'm interested in this stuff.

The only thing I really can recommend is to keep local copies of all your work on disk, properly backed up. Then at least if you lose access to the service, you can bootstrap again somewhere else.
I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree on use. I'm still of the position that trading cryptocurrency on an exchange and never using the underlying technology or touching the network isn't use of that cryptocurrency.

The ironic aspect of this debate is I'm on my second blockchain startup for a reason - I believe there are plenty of use cases where it makes sense. I just don't think the cryptocurrency/blockchain communities are doing themselves a favor operating under the mass delusion that crypto is a big thing (while still being early?) when all available real data says otherwise. Trying to pump the underlying cryptocurrency by shoehorning the tech into anything and everything (and doing so poorly) will backfire as well (and already is).

Blockchain and cryptocurrency advocates need to look inwards to identify blockers to mass adoption and address them while identifying real world use cases where blockchain/cryptocurrency provides real value and utility.
It’s the future of money!
No, it also works:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/austr...

We just need a lot more of it, but it definitely works.
I second this recommendation for Insight Timer. I just use it as a timer that’s nicely customized for meditation, though it has guided talks and recordings that others may find useful.

The timer is MUCH better than the built in iOS timer. It has pleasant (less jarring) bell/gong sounds and customizable presets.

It also keeps track of your sessions which is useful as a subtle nudge to keep a routine practice.

It’s not essential but is nice, useful and free.
There have been periods of my life where I pirated almost every game I played. If it wasn't for piracy... I wouldn't have bought any games, because I didn't have any money to spend on them.

Then Steam and Actually Having a Job happened and I didn't do that any more.

I still pirate games, but it's only ones that aren't being sold any more, so I don't see who's missing out there.
But is it true or not?
Weather you agree with this decision or not, it is consistent and clear. Something you generally won't get in corporate decision making. That is worth a lot. You know RMS isn't going to come back six months later and reverse it.
BlueCruise has a driver facing camera, some Tesla models do not: https://youtu.be/ovc2axLmzIw?t=65
Actually, it doesn't. All of those are, well, addresses, and have some mechanical structure necessary for routing (admittedly, for phone numbers, the structure amounts to "any sequence of 0-9, #, *, and possibly those four wierd extra symbols with the fourth DTMF column tone"). You probably don't (or least shouldn't) care about that structure as long as it routes correctly, but it does exist. (Ie, you'd still use a string for that data, but it's not inherently incorrect not to, just pointless and error-prone.)
> These are all deflationary currencies.

Complete nonsense. A currency is an asset, and an asset is neither deflationary nor inflationary, since these terms refer to its price, which is determined by the market and is therefore not an intrinsic characteristic of the asset.
Since when is 50k threads massive?
You have no basis for saying its inferior.
An easy way to word this exact problem in a way that makes clear the reason you should always change your choice is:

I have 52 playing cards. I know which one is the Ace of Spades. Point to one of the cards and leave your finger on it.

Okay, without telling you whether you are right or not, I'm going to remove every card, leaving only yours and one other on the table, that is the right card if the one you picked is not, or an indifferent card if your choice was right.

Do you wish to choose the card I left on the table, or do you still think your 1/52 choice was correct?

Notice that I followed the exact rules of the game, but changed the wording and used a lot more "doors." There was a 1/52 chance you would pick the right card, and even after I remove all but one of the remaining cards, it is still a 1/52 chance you originally picked the right card, and a 51/52 chance that the one I left behind is the right card.

Now just make it 3 cards, and use the traditional script, performing the exact same steps, and you'll understand why you should always change from your original choice.
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People in these states would care if secession were seriously on the table, since a lot of them have personal connections to the state and will not be like "Oh, I guess my parents are going to be in a different country now, no big deal," especially if said parents very much don't want their state to secede.
I don't understand your point. The USA was just meant to be a couple of colonies, then an association boycotting British imports but look at us now. It's scandalous!

I may be biased as personally I would love to see the United States of Europe in my lifetime.. probably the only way for Europe to maintain some sort of geopolitical power in the future.
That's awfully arbitrary. Countries like Qatar and Montenegro have higher CO2 emissions per capita than anywhere else in the world, plus a dozen other countries that are ahead of the US. And if the idea is to pay people to quit having kids, why not employ this in poorer countries with greater populations and not the richest like the US? Finally, do you yourself take your own advice? You don't have children and never will, right?
You can do true check-through with the Japanese carriers (JAL and ANA) AIUI.