skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fanboyism is quite considerably amplified by his public statements.

Without them, we may not get much press at all from him, he may be a bit of an unknown quantity.

His Social Media / PR is a gigantic part of his value. It distorts reality to a much, much larger audience.

Do you remember 'Maroon 5' the band? They had 'Really Big Hits' back in the day . Banger / Chart toppers. But it wasn't until the lead singer was on 'The Voice' did it make them a 'Household Global Name'. There were a poppy band with a tiny bit of an edge that appealed to a demographic, now, they are like 'Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune' - multigeneratoinal giants.

Musk has fanboys that are Dentists in Malaysia, street kids in Cairo, wannabe ballers in mid level cities in China etc. etc..
That is nice to know I am mostly into "off the shelf travel insurance" even 150euro if going into the mountains for me still would be worth it.
Can I have two of these displays connected to a single "laptop" ?
Hi, this is the author of the books which are being discussed in this thread and wanted to respond to some of the comments.

it_does_follow said "there is almost no mention of understanding parameter variance". I do discuss both Bayesian and frequentist measures of uncertainty in sec 4.6 and 4.7 of my intro book (http://probml.github.io/book1). (Ironically I included Cramer-Rao in an earlier draft, but omitted it from the final version due to space).

dxbydt said "how do you compute the variance of the sample variance". I discuss ways to estimate the (posterior) variance of a variance parameter in sec 3.3.3 of my advanced book (https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book2). I also discuss hierarchical Bayes, shrinkage, etc.

However in ML (and especially DL) the models we use are usually unidentifiable, and the parameters have no meaning, so nobody cares about quantifying their uncertainty. Instead the focus is on predictive uncertainty (of observable outcomes, not latent parameters). I discuss this in more detail in the advanced book, as well as related topics like distribution shift, causality, etc.

Concerning the comments on epub, etc. My book is made with latex and compiled to pdf. This is the current standard for technical publications and is what MIT Press uses.

Concerning the comments on other books. The Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibhsirani, Friedman) and Pattern Recognition and ML (Bishop) are both great books, but are rather dated, and quite narrow in scope compared to my 2 volume collection....
Yes, a connection to the physical world.

Sometimes especially on Zoom I look at my cabling and think it's amazing that images of other people and their voices are going through that cable.

Only on Zoom and similar video conferencing. For all other uses I don't even think about it.
> And he looks like a bad business man.

Musk already looked like a corporate bottomfeeder to anyone who was actually paying attention to his behavior.

You're right, though. Obviously, other facets of this situation were going to affect Tesla, but I hadn't really thought about the effects on Musk's reputation could impact his companies' share prices. TSLA is as much a cult of personality as it is a stock.
cutting holes in yourself in order to secret devices which don't actually interact (in any desired way, at least) with the body is not "transhumanism", it's just self-mutilation
The corporation has to buy it from a human. The critical difference isn't holding a copyright, it's making a copyrighted work.
Sometimes he's like that. Other times with ivermectin etc. he slips back into this mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CvmS6uw7E

More and more since joining Spotify.
I have worked at a National Lab previously. For the computational field I worked in BigTech and most startups pay much more and have better access to resources.

If you’re a decent programmer at a National Lab now you can work on interesting problems at a startup for likely double your current salary. You can also immediately spin up and spend $500 in AWS without anyone batting an eye, at a National lab you’ll generally only have access to one type of compute (supercluster) and you have to wait days or weeks for your turn.

I think this is one major difference between the golden age of Bell Labs and now. I think if you want to recreate that you have to try and at least compete on the hiring playing field that BigTech is.
In the analogy, the contract was done with no intentional representations by the seller at all, and the buyer waived contingencies/bought as-is.

It’s almost impossible for a seller to misrepresent anything material in that situation.
> I also tried 14” 4K and 1440p panels but - on account of the way scaling and font rendering works in MacOS - they’re a big step down

You can probably fix this with BetterDisplay (formerly known as BetterDummy?). I used it with my 3440x1440 monitor. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
Doesn’t surprise me at all. Dealing with any company that isn’t apple is a nightmare.

I had a razer laptop with display issues. I paid to ship it to California, and 2 months later they shipped me back a laptop with display issues.

And the tech was anything but fluent in English. He had a very rudimentary command of the language so I question whether he even understood the problem.
It's been a while since I worked with Huawei servers (x64 though).

Their build quality is decent, but the firmware were not quite up the game at that time. But they pumped new revisions like hot cakes.

> Many companies in China are choosing Ampere over these Huawei Kunpeng 920 chips, and it seems like that is for good reason. Ampere Altra Max is twice the core count per socket and is socketed.

I guess whats when you can choose your platform. This one is for the government.
Yes, I have to second this. While there is some edge to technology in the render sphere, no one went to see Moana or Sea Beasts due to the amazing water effects. They went because of word of mouth or advertising and were subsequently awed by said effects.

You can have the most advanced visual effects and still make a terrible movie. And you can make a great movie with slightly outdated effects and still wow people (Mitchels vs The Machines is a great example).

Dreamwork, being in the business of movie-making and not technology as a service, only benefits from an open renderer atmosphere. Pretrained talent, open source collaboration and contributions to improving their software and PR wins.
Especially in the day and style that the Beatles recorded. Today, not so much
> Now I want to look at a new robomower!

Me too. And then I saw the price (of the higher end Husqvarna at least). Ha! Nevermind.
Indexing and keyword ranking techniques revisited: 20 years later
> rounded corners

That's a design patent, which is just a misleading name for something close to a trademark.
This was actually something my wife and I are talking about as we think about having kids. In most of the jobs she's been working, we would be paying more than what she would be making in childcare if she wanted to continue working. At that point, it makes more sense for her to be a stay at home mom. I definitely feel lucky though that we can just live off my salary and that it's even an option for us.
Yeah, I was surprised too. I thought a technical community would appreciate the amount and breadth of technical knowledge that Lex explores with guests and allows the public domain to gain.
Literature if you want to get better at using the language and gain a deeper understanding of it: "Effective Python" and "Serious Python". Also have a look at the Python standard library documentation and e.g. the data model documentation, plus the release notes of recent Python versions (e.g. pattern matching). Tons of interesting material there.

Hands-on stuff: Write command-line tools and libraries that are useful for yourself or that are somehow fun. Try out some existing or 3rd party libraries.
My current desktop is an i7-3770 Ivy Bridge as well, though admittedly I only use it for occasional gaming now and use laptops for work/browsing.
How is it fake? I'd have never learned about, e.g., some of the gender critical viewpoints, if Twitter hadn't banned people expressing them. It wouldn't have come on my radar. But since Twitter did ban some of those people, those viewpoints came on my radar (being relayed by others via screenshots), which raised my awareness of it. That fits the definition of Streisand effect.
Yes, I think so. His former PhD students were among the winners in round three and he has other work that has also made it to round four. I believe he would have sued if he won every single area in every round. This is the Bernstein way.

The behavior in question by NIST isn’t just alleged - look at the FOIA ( https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/nsa... ). They’re not responding in a reasonable or timely manner.

Does that seem like reasonable behavior by NIST to you?

To my eyes, it is completely unacceptable behavior by NIST, especially given the timely nature of the standardization process. They don’t even understand the fee structure correctly, it’s a comedy of incompetence with NIST.

His FOIA predates the round three announcement. His lawsuit was filed in a timely manner, and it appears that he filed it fairly quickly. Many requesters wait much longer before filing suit.
That's weird, Amazon's own calculator estimates $300/mo on that. But perhaps you're somehow getting a 90% discount.

Also, it's $100k for 6 billion GB/s. Unless you're spending that you won't see any savings.
Being that it's more expensive, the RoboRock should definitely be better than Roomba.
Strangely no one mentions IBM which holds half the global patents and has R&D labs almost in any country of the world.
> Dreamworks doesn't make their money because of their rendering engine, they make it because of their movies.

For now.

It's their job to know where the market is heading, and the world of 3D animation is about to be blown wide open for smaller teams to accomplish what the big incumbents have done for decades.

Tooling will be one of the areas where money is made, and they just gave it away for free.

> Dreamworks is going to maintain their branding and reputation for a long time regardless of whether their tech is open source or not.

This is where we fundamentally disagree. Films currently require institutional capital and large teams to make, and that's about to change in a big way. The film industry is about to undergo something vaguely resembling what the news and journalism industry underwent as access to the tools of creation and distribution become more widespread and accessible.

The studio system exists because making movies is hard. It only needs to exist while that remains the case.
Tangentially related question, maybe someone can explain why graph/quad/grid ruled notepads are harder to find and way more expensive. I can easily get college ruled notepad for $.50-$1 almost in any department store, but graph ruled are significantly more expensive ($4-$5) and less common.
The slack channel has 11k users, and messages have less than 10 reactions.

An Inspection of the user list shows a very suspicious list of names, with some names being repeated 200 times.
> "NSA credited tweaks to DES can be understood as ensuring that a weakened DES stayed deployed longer which was to their advantage. They clearly explain this in the history quoted by the author"

I'm not sure I buy that this follows, wouldn't the weakened key size also make people not want to deploy it given that known weakness? To me it reads more that some people wanted a weak key so NSA could still break it, but other people wanted it to be stronger against differential cryptanalysis attacks and that they're not really related. It also came across that way in Levy's book where they were arguing about whether they should or should not engage with IBM at all.
Memory Lane!

Page 177 had an advertisement mentioning Alpha Micro Systems, where I worked at the time.
I wonder if the main concern is buying Windows licenses via volume licensing and paying for Software Assurance.
It's not 'conservatives' as 1/2 of them loath that stuff - and 'agitation' is traditionally an artifact of leftist populism (with traditional conservatives usually being small-c, establishment, older etc.) - it's more a bit of a businessy libertarianism, with hints of anti establishmentism that's in many ways more popular among the youth. Also, it's a hugely populist and international appeal, spreading his 'Noisy Tweets' around the globe.

See how much more popular he is now that he makes 'controversial' statements [1]

It's as PR trick as old as time.

Edit: but yes, technically he has taken a public shift to the 'Current American Right' in the mysterious political situation we are in, that's fair to say. Just wanted to indicate it's a 'new and kind of specific normal'.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=CA&q=%...
They did not prepare it for all platforms though. Linux is missing.
That's a very helpful page, thank you for maintaining it!
Also I’m pretty sure Musk himself wrote on public Twitter that he would trim the fat once he owns the company ..
> This is part of a class division where we cannot practically exercise our rights which are clearly enumerated in public law. Only people with money or connections can even attempt to get many kinds of records.

As someone with those resources, I'm still kind of annoyed because I think this state agency is playing chess accurately too. My request was anonymous through my lawyer and nobody would know that I have these documents, while if I went through the court - even if it was anonymous with the ACLU being the filer - there would still be a public record in the court system that someone was looking for those specific documents, so that's annoying
You need goals to be driven in life. You need to sit down and see where you want to be in i.e. 5 years from now. This could be work related or not. Some people find passion in field within computer science, i.e. security and dedicate their time to pursue that passion to be the best they can.
What level of profit did the mine bring in? That's the real question that I've never seen an answer to.

You can own a gold mine in the California mountains and come out of it with nothing but debt. It would sound like you're rich in the newspaper stories, though.
It is even more amusing what this would be used by most for running something like piHole.
So are you implying that you do have plans on revealing plans on revealing which sites you're "downranking"? And ideally precisely how they fit your criteria?

I feel quite strongly about this because I, like I suspect many who use DDG, swapped over largely because I didn't really like the games Google was playing with search. As DDG goes down the same path I've moved on once again, but have been left with quite a sour taste in my mouth. I evangelized for your site for years, including on this site/account. Changes like this are the antithesis of everything that drew many people to DDG to begin with.
Oh shoot, you're totally right -- doing a quick search reveals that Blender's Cycles engine has totally had this feature for a while and I was just completely unaware of it despite using it frequently! Although even without the heatmap pass being unique/new I'm still super excited for the rest of MoonRay, especially those delicious volumetrics!

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/layers/pass...
Agreed! Conal Elliott wrote a marvelous post in 02009 describing C as a pure functional DSL whose output is code: http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...
Might want to stay away from the Turris routers, while openwrt based they also support running containers ;-)
> I would love to see a site where people posted stuff they have been doing for over a year and it still works for them.

Here's the one thing that's stuck with me:

I started carrying earplugs with me in 2002. I was forced into it by the Army, but I've kept it up all these years because of how great it is. They completely disappear into the pocket, and when you want them, you *really* want them.

But they're great, even when most people wouldn't think they "need" them. Here's some examples:

* Using power tools like a blender, mixer, or lawn mower.
* Sleeping during the day, in a strange place, or around other people (e.g. on an airplane).
* Working in a public space like the library, a coffee shop, a bus, or an airplane.

If you like going to shows or dancing, they're great to have in case you need them.

I think the benefit of earplugs has decreased for the average person since noise cancelling earbuds are so widely available, but in my experience earplugs both block more sound and they block different things. Of course the downside is, you can't listen to audio with them in. But the upside is you never have to worry about charging them.

In my experience, the reusable flange style earplugs are fine for light use, but they can sometimes be painful with extended wear (6+ hrs per day for months at a time). I went out and got a bulk pack of foamies, which I assume will last me the rest of my life. The only downside to the foam earplugs is, if you get them wet, you can reuse them.

I suspect they've worked particularly well for me because I think being bored for some amount of time during the day is healthy, and I find I get distracted by listening to music or podcasts.

The benefit:weight, volume, and price is absolutely amazing.
Agreed. It’s even worse: they also have the capability with the “mail covers” program to divert and tamper with mail. This happens to Americans on U.S. soil and I’m not just talking about suspects of terrorism.
It's not paranoia when foreign adversaries actually DO attack national security.
If superstition is always bad, I take it you're also annoyed/angry at Wayne Gretzky or Serena Williams? Or any athlete engaging in superstition?

(https://thevarsity.ca/2022/03/20/athletes-superstition/)
Yes, it's designed that way imo. More of an exploration into a subject, letting the guest shine and transmit their thoughts.

Would you have preferred someone like Charlie Rose, constantly interrupting the guests. A 2 way dialogue might be more normal, but you lose a lot of signal. These aren't confrontational interviews, but more of an educational one hosted by a non-expert.

If people prefer a discussion of 2 experts, this is clearly not it.
This is so cool! Don't use cron jobs often but in love with the UI!

I made a similar tool [1] to convert English to Excel formulas but would def take a page out of your super clean look!

[1] https://www.tersho.com
Carmack says he wasn't the first to find it[1], and the other person had "done that somewhat before"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=2861s
I also have strong suspicions this is related to Kalshi somehow
http://archive.today/2022.08.05-221537/https://www.wired.com...
What a curious standard you use to judge inventions. Inventions from Google inspired by previous approaches are discredited as derivative ... while inventions by Bell Labs also inspired by previous approaches get a free pass?

Are you under the impression that Unix was the first operating system, or that C was the first programming language? What do you reckon about C++, also invented at Bell Labs? The folks at Bell Labs were giants and they stood on the shoulders of giants.

Carbon could make a substantial difference to the safety of C++ software by migrating such codebases to a relatively safer language. That's an improvement that we benefit from because Google and friends are publishing it as FOSS. Has a similar approach of gradual migration been done before? Kotlin and TypeScript did it. Eschewing C++ templates for generics? That's from Swift. Using syntax that's easy to read and to parse? Inspired by Rust. They're up front that they're inspired by all these successful languages.

But who cares? The fact is, something doesn't need to be completely novel for it to be useful. You can denigrate the work of others all you like, but all work that's done by humans is inspired by previous work by someone else. That's a fundamental fact of life. Even something as game changing as the transistor was inspired by existing vacuum tubes.
Protection for thee but not from me "improving.duckduckgo.com"
How much of this show and dance is really about covering up something else that Musk did? Is it possible this is done to overshadow other newsworthy stories that would be even more detrimental to his reputation?
TFA says: «The European Parliament already issued a 194-page "Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system)" in 2001» (July 2001, that is)
Seems like if they had used high quality analog tape instead of DSD they would only be getting criticism for not calling it 'two-step'.

There are some amazing analogue mastering recorders like the Ampex ATR-102 which they could have used. Tape wear would have been an eventual issue if they had to re-press hundreds of times, but that's just what the vinyl nuts want right?

But on the other hand, they lied. Seems Jim Davis deserves every bit of criticism he gets. As do some of the golden-eared audiophile journalists who also happily oiled the BS machine.
No, this attack wouldn't work on bitcoin. Bitcoin chooses the chain with the most total work (which is blocks x difficulty), not the most blocks. Else someone could fork the chain from a block sometime in 2009 when difficulty was very low and outpace the rest of the network.
... OpenWRT also can run containers.
A huge congratulations to everyone at Meta on a major accomplishment! This is the way of the future. It’s now an enjoyable experience. I look forward to the day where I can use this as a product. Again a huge congratulations to everyone who was behind this.
Google doesn't have any full-spectrum peer competitors, much less any that are operating in both PRC and USA.
The higher taxes actually buy them things, instead of making billionaires out of military contractors.
Can FED refuse to "buy" new tresury bonds?

Or can the government supply itself with any amount of money at will using this procedure?
I don’t think that I trust Twitter on this.

Let’s wait for the courts to look at the topic.
6-inch board turns a Raspberry Pi module into a DIY router
As a sibling post said, code is data is a different thing. https://taeric.github.io/CodeAsData.html is a fun blog I wrote on this once.
4 million in compensatory damages.

Just in, jury finds 45 million in punitive damages, subject to reduction by the judge and any appeal in Jones's favor.
Show HN: Ukrainian.fyi – Find the location of stress in ~2m Ukrainian words
Tech stack:

List of word stresses via https://github.com/lang-uk/ukrainian-word-stress-dictionary.

I made a Python script to remove the special stress accent from each word. The script then produces a table of words with and without stresses. This script takes a second or so to run.

The database is hosted via Supabase. A Python script uploads the data to Supabase.

The website is hosted on Vercel. Search results are cached so become very quick for the next person.

And it’s all free (except the domain), with generous usage limits!
If you can't see the libraries in the statically linked program, you aren't looking very hard. The linker copies library functions into the statically linked program, fixing up relocations. This is easiest to see if you compile with debugging enabled, because objdump -d will list the symbol names. Otherwise you may have to resort to looking for instruction sequences or, with LTO, even dataflow graphs.

It's true that there isn't any C in the output of the C compiler, but that's because C is the language your input program is written in; it isn't the program itself.
Isn’t that all long after it started though?
If I were a Twitter share-holder, I'd be fine with getting a slice of a $10B settlement, keeping my stake in a successful social media & analytics company, banning Musk's account, and watching him squirm. I don't know if it'd be a perfect financial move, but it would feel good.