skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything of interest in ML networks is occurring in the abstractions that emerge in training in deep multi-layer networks.

At the crudest level this immediately provides for more than canned lookup as asserted; analogical reasoning is a much-documented emergent property.

But analogies are merely the simplest, first-order abstraction, which are easy for humans to point at.

Inference and abstraction across multiple levels, means the behaviors of these systems is utterly unlike simple stores. One clear demonstration of this is the effective "compression" of image gen networks. They don't compress images. For lack of any better vocabulary, they understand them well enough produce them.

The hot topic is precisely whether there are boundaries to what sorts of implicit reasoning can occur through scale, and, what other architectures need to be present to effect agency and planning of the kind hacked at in traditional symbolic systems AI.

It might be worthwhile to read contemporary work to get up to speed. Things are already a lot weirder than we have had time to internalize.
Only for experts capable of following the proof. For everyone else, it's a magical formula.

Not to mention, I very very much doubt that those articles prove every property they present (since I've never seen a math text of any kind do that, essentially).
Does anyone else notice old accounts that were working fine in the past randomly get demanded to enter your phone number for verification. "We detected unusual activity" is such an obvious lie.

When setting up thunderbird, I've had multiple Google accounts lie about suspicious activity and demand I go through about 10 captcha checks and enter my old password and answer my security questions and verify my phone number. After passing all of that without error, they STILL won't let me log in with a blanket statement about security.

Why oh why would they ask users to jump through extreme hoops just looking for any possible questionable failure to point to as an excuse, but still reject you after passing everything? If you're not going to let people use their account, farming free AI detection and personal information out of them doesn't seem like a legitimate tactic one should be doing.

They discriminate against some phone numbers too. They have to be in whatever they think the correct country is, they often can't be VOIP or VOIP related, and there's unknown blacklists of some famous numbers sometimes.

What happens when we run out of phone numbers? I won't be surprised when accounts start getting banned for "sharing" or "ban evading" phone numbers (aka getting a new phone number for any reason) because it screws up their ad tracking of you... Or they'll force you to first log into an account in order to delete it even though it belongs to somebody else. Or your new phone number you bought specifically for authenticating a separate account is banned (just like voip number) because a previous user was banned using it.
I came to dislike standup at Amazon.

Everyday we had one to start the day, and people never talked about their blockers. Some folks would give a super brief overview of what they did and will do. This was fine, but not really interesting to have 5 days a week. But then other folks would give a play-by-play of what they did and how, and what they will do next and how they will do it.

It's like sounding busy was more important than the rest of team's time and sanity.

Personally, I think it's more helpful to just have a daily team 30 minutes scheduled to discuss any important topics, vs specifically to have a status updates. The actual standup function where people prefer updates can happen >= 1 day a week && < 5 days a week
> that uncle that claim to be three-seventh Scottish

Bit of an aside, but I find it odd how hostile people are to Americans retaining any connection to their European ancestry.

If I tell people I'm half-Indian and half-Persian nobody bats an eye. If my wife tells people she's half-Irish and half-Czech she gets treated like she's not supposed to have any heritage or culture other than whatever people imagine as "white American".
The builds are reproducible, so you can compile it yourself and check to see that you get identical binaries.
I don't really find that all that surprising. There's a fair bit of elasticity in food spending. If the beef is too expensive, you get the chicken. If restaurant prices rise, you eat at home. Eat less breakfast cereal and more oatmeal (better for your health anyway). For that matter, just eat less.

Some people genuinely have no elasticity in their food budgets, and they're getting really deeply screwed. But on average, food is a lower percentage of people's overall budgets, falling from 17% to 10% over the past 50 years. And that's taking into account that people are eating more, because they can afford to.

So they cut where the flexibility is. They can make changes to their food budget without drastically altering their lifestyle. It's not the 1950s any more. Agriculture does so much more with so much less that we now have an obesity problem, not a starvation problem.

Certainly that's no comfort for the people already pushed to the limit. But that's a whole different problem: their share of wages has declined in real terms. The poorest people are always at subsistence levels unless something is done to compensate, like a minimum wage or food subsidy that matches inflation. It won't be fixed by telling the middle class to give up entertainment luxuries or convenience luxuries rather than food luxuries -- i.e. switching to foods they like slightly less.
ng is usually used in an AngularJS-context, which is the case here given the displayed code in their "Ng"-legacy-components
Show HN: A gender neutral Avatar Generator for the server and browser!
After trying many Avatar generators, I wrote Facitars which has cool superpowers like returning the unique primary colour and also runs on client and server side.
> If I thought it would be even remotely worth doing, I would fight this shit at the school. Sadly, I do not.

This statement (and the general sense of the author's emotional state) makes me wonder whether the author has actually spoken with teachers or is getting his information from his kids. Kids are just as capable of spinning facts for effect as adults. Or ignoring nuance. Or straight up misinterpretation.

Before "fighting" the school, the first step should be to understand the school's position. Then the teacher's position. Only after the actual facts are on the table should a decision about action be taken.

The author appears to be doing the same thing he rails against the school for doing: treating a single source as the beginning and end of the story.
Donate to the Internet Archive instead. Performs a vital service for Wikipedia, archiving sources before they disappear off the internet, so you can still verify Wikipedia content when the cited source is gone.

Start donating to Wikipedia again when they are honest about their financial situation.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

And on the Wikimedia Endowment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Legend State: Fine Grained Reactivity for React and React Native
As someone recently said it here, the difference between software development and marathon is that marathon runners know their destination.
IMHO, anonymity takes a certain amount of unavoidable effort. If you're just chatting with friends, maybe you really don't need Signal. If you are whistleblowing a large corporation or a government, then it makes more sense?
Maybe I'm stretching things a bit, but there is the Canadian Digital Service (CDS)- https://digital.canada.ca/
They could learn about SNES emulator Near (RIP) or, say, the Scots language.
I went cellphone-less 2 years ago, and have experienced this first hand. I've been locked out of my Gmail, Ebay, LinkedIn, and other services multiple times. I was unable to apply for government services either, until I finally found a decent soul that used there own phone to register me. But they shouldn't have needed to do that, and we shouldn't be required to have a spy phone just to be part of society.

These spy phones and the apps they peddle have become a plaque upon humanity. They use addiction and coercion (denied services) to keep you under there spell. The worst part is that they are being forced upon our children, way worse than the tobacco industry ever tried.
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Marathon has a clear route and a clear end point defined before the starter gun goes off.

Now imagine a marathon run by a drunk monkey who changes the route on a whim every 30 minutes.

Who wins, the sprinters who sprint for 30 minutes and check where the next target is or the marathon runners who are still going by the original plan?
My understanding of the post is that given a small actual effect size, for a fixed experiment, you are more likely to get a significant p-value on a "large" measured effect size.
A bit off topic, but I gotta say you guys are a riot!

If there was a comedy tour for IT/Programmer types, I'd pay to see you guys in it.

Best thing about your stuff is that it's literally all funny precisely because it's all true.
Show HN: What's going on behind the scenes in Congress
If vital services rely on email, email is a vital service
I remember Google+ and thought it was bad for the average person overall and I'm glad they shut it down for unrelated reasons.

Having the biggest social network sucking up personal data to feed the ad network is the reality we are in. Having Google with a larger collection of personal data linking everything to a large social network would have made things worse. Google+ forced real names which made facebook force real names. Google appstore and preinstalled apps you cannot remove force location data. Google obtaining your social graph leads down a dark path.
So my interpretation of the neural hash approach is largely that it is essentially trading a much larger number of very small “neurons” vs a smaller number of floats. Given that I’d be curious about what the total size difference is.

I could see the hash approach at a functional level resulting in different features essentially getting a different number of bit directly, which be approximately equivalent to having a NN with variable precision floats, all in a very hand wavy way.

Eg we could say a NN/NH needs N bits of information to work accurately, in which case you’re trading the format and operations on those Nbits
Effortless Language Servers
Here I am thinking this was a web based IDE for developing user interfaces for Ring cameras.

I guess not.

This means Amazon is going to sue JetBrains, right?
Woman, 23, who survived 2016 Brussels airport ISIS bomb euthanised in Belgium
Oh my, thank you. I think I love MK3 more than any other game, even Quake 3. There was a... period in my life when I wanted to do nothing else. I barely survived school because I was preoccupied with simulating fights in my head instead of paying attention.

I maintain that MK3 for DOS is still the best port in terms of bugs and general feel. Yes, I didn't like Ultimate all that much.

Thank you GoG and whoever is working on this for keeping the dream alive. Bookmarked
I won't argue the trust system presented here other than to say it sounds exhausting.

I want everyone to get as close a proximity to the truth as is possible and for us as a society to achieve consensus around what are the facts and what should be done about them.

What you describe, at scale, is a social credit system. It does feel like an inevitability and one that will produce unprecedented collateral damage, but may save civilization.
What it’s like to work in the world’s greatest office [video]
Sure wish some of the claims came with additional detail, perhaps in the spots where they are so clearly burdened by extra hyperbole.

> The plant has even been known to render properties entirely worthless.

Then in the linked article,

> Lenders say the knotweed will eventually undermine the foundations of her Uplands Road house

Really? All foundations in cases like this, every time?

And how likely is this to happen to a given foundation with plant in vicinity vs. the likelihood the lenders are speaking from some other pressure to find an objective point around which to stake their denial/counteroffer/upsell/whatever?

And was it lenders as in one, a company of people, or several companies?
Some western instruments are easier to produce microtones on than others - violin/viola/cello/bass for example (or in a more rock/jazz idiom fretless electric bass).
I've had mead from it before; that's the only good thing I can say about it.
I was under the impression that this was more to deal with smurfs, which are always a problem with f2p ranked games, and were even an issue in overwatch 1 that was paid. Hacking was never an issue in ow1, at least not a widespread one at all.
I once saw the 3.5mm jack referred to as "retro" by a tech media outlet once. Except I was the kind of person to use it every week before my original Pixel XL died.

It's one of the reasons I got an Xperia. All the other devices I looked at had some combination of no headphone jack, excessively rounded corners, curved screens, or an intrusive camera notch. The Xperia was the only device on the market that appealed to me in comparison, plus it has an SD Card slot so hopefully the flash memory will last longer.

Thinking about it, one could say that Sony is culturally far behind the other flagship brands in failing to keep up with the (what I would consider regressive) trends in smartphone releases. They're one of the few Japanese companies that release their phones overseas. If they'd made a product that was more appealing to the masses with the expectations set by most brands, then I probably wouldn't have cared for it. But given how much of an outlier the Xperia series is, it feels like something stops them from doing so.
60 seconds per member of the team. 15 minutes hard limit.

If there are issues, you handle them outside of the daily scrum, it's not a troubleshooting session, it's a status update.
This makes me wonder - is it possible to prove that it was not a lab leak?
My position is that anonymous conversation is low value and a more advanced internet society will not do it much. The "meaningful" social networks you theorize will be meaningful specifically because anonymous conversation is absent. If someone posts something interesting I'll DM them about it somehow because I'll know them well enough to do that. Replying on Twitter is the equivalent of sending Reply-All emails to the whole company.
Here's one: https://unimac.com/product/tumble-dryers/industrial-tumble-d...

Bigger than that goes to gas or steam only.

Note that if you're using that, you'd use an extractor, also (big centrifuge that spins the clothes so fast you can enrich uranium with it).

https://unimac.com/product/washer-extractors/uw-series-high-...
completely down for us, including support website, and nobody answering the phone in France
>a month-long DNA sequencing project can generate 90 TB of data

Our EM facility generates 10 TB of raw data per day, and once you start computing it, that increases by 30%-50% depending on what you do with it. Plus, moving between network storage and local scratch for computational steps basically never ends and keeps multiple 10 Gbe links saturated 100% of the time.
Probably some storybook-related issue, we also use it at work, and while it's a joy to use when it works it can be a pain to set up, and it does tend to need a bit more effort to keep it stable than one would wish for unfortunately.
I thought the same but I just tried on firefox desktop (Windows) and spun up a new google account with email, password, fake first+last name and fake bday. Really, I was expecting to be stopped at "Phone Number required" but it is indeed optional.
It's actually the tool they used to host the design system (Storybook), it ironically has its own UI, not using the Jetbrains components.
It's like COVID, enough people have been cancelled now that people are well on their way to not caring.
Real, actual people exist who turn down raises because they're convinced it'd cause them to lose money, because they don't understand how marginal tax rates work. I don't mean low-income earners who may in fact lose out or not gain from a raise due to benefits cliffs, I mean people earning low-six-figures who think if their pay goes any higher "my tax rate will go up and I'll lose money" and are weirdly resistant to being convinced otherwise.
In theory people are supposed to use the most charitable interpretation on HN. Interpreting the post as talking about a timeline of months or a couple of years, as it seems some replies have done,is definitely not that.

That said, network effect declines can happen much faster than people think, and can be hard to see in the numbers social networks usually put out. History is short on this kind of service, so precedent doesn't mean a lot.

I wouldn't put money on Facebook being around and anything like it is now in 10 years. It's barely anything like what it was ten years ago, and it's clearly not meta's priority anymore.

Twitter is tricky because Elon resuming his bid creates a wide range of possibilities, some that include him cannibalizing it out of spite. He's a wildcard here, as evidenced by him putting in the bid in the first place as something that appears to have been little more than corporate trolling. But if he takes it seriously or turns around and sells it to someone who will it could benefit from a coherent vision (even if it's one I would find very unappealing).

Source: I worked for a regionally dominant social network in the early days and watched it evaporate nearly over night.
I'm not sure if reposts are allowed - I've posted this here before, but have made some significant improvements since then and wanted to try sharing again.

I've spent the last couple years collecting and sharing data on corporate lobbying and stock trading by U.S. politicians.

This new project is more or less a culmination of that work, as I am combining both of those datasets with new data on legislative activity in order to show which companies and politicians have financial interests in bills that are being worked on.

It allows you to:

A) track which bills Congress is working on,

B) check which public companies have lobbied on those bills, and

C) trace which congressmen have bought or sold stock in those companies

Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions!
That doesn't answer any of the questions. What am I supposed to be admiring, thinking about, using this for? Is this a tool I should adopt or test? Is this a new UI pattern to think about? There's no obvious context.
No, it's old, and an outdated mindset. Since 2004 Wikipedia has greatly matured and most educators have relaxed their stance on it. I'm a librarian and my take on Wikipedia is that it's a great starting point but you'd never want to cite it directly.
>the security infrastructure, provide redundancy and still get to shared compute when they have an overflow need

The article points out that this is mostly not necessary for scientific computing.
People share things they find interesting on HN. Should there be a reason?

Why it got on the front page is definitely not the work of the OP alone.
They have mentioned a few times that it is to reduce spam.

See: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2383#issu... and in this paywalled article https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/signal-meredith-whitt... where they roughly say

>We are currently working with high priority on the fact that you can assign usernames and hide your mobile number. However, it will still be necessary in order to register. There are several reasons for this, including the fight against spam.
2. Climate change demands a radical transformation of modern lifestyles.

A bit off-topic, but I'm sad that this was politicized, as that's exactly what's required to stop global climate change.

There are too many geopolitical forces standing in the way of concerted efforts to stop it. And even if we could summon a multilateral front, the process is probably too far along to be stopped via centralized brute force anyway. As we've passed the inflection point, the next 20 years may bring 1.5 to 2 times the warming we've already had since 2000, tipping into a runaway positive feedback loop.

Somehow everyone's got to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and go solar, drive electric cars, buy local, etc. We're probably conservatively talking $10,000-100,000 USD per household, or about $40,000 if we use the logarithmic mean. Times 2 billion households, perhaps $80 trillion USD to a first-order approximation to go sustainable tomorrow. But that financial burden alone would disrupt lifestyles in the short term..

Now that's what's needed, but of course we probably won't do that. We'll just double down on our current lifestyles as developing nations join the industrialized world and fire up a bunch of nuclear plants and start scrubbing CO2, then add fusion sometime in the 2030s. Maybe put sunshades in orbit at L1, pollute the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight, seed algae blooms with iron to suck CO2, do all of the other things as we continue to deforest and desertify the planet as we finish out the 6th mass extinction of the holocene.

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

But hey, that's just an externality, who cares.

IMHO a distributed approach at the individual level is the only one that has a hope of succeeding. We could all choose to conserve and grow victory gardens as our patriotic duty like in WWI. But no matter how much proof is presented, people believe what they want to believe, for no other reason than to disagree with the environmentalists and academic community. Even here on this very site with some of the smartest people in the world, I suspect the opinion on this is split 50/50.

For all of those reasons, I think it's irresponsible for the article to call something like climate change a game. A nuisance we'll simply ignore to our detriment sure. But not a game.