skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An algorithm that I can tune by having private +1, -1, and "hell no" buttons would be helpful. If I follow too many people and/or hashtags, I will end up with so many posts/toots that I spend a bunch of time reading through things that really aren't that interesting. If I had a way to easily mark content as interesting or not, an algorithm could construct my feed such that the things that I find interesting are more likely to be read. There have been people that I followed because they had an interesting post or two, then the other side of them started posting that is not interesting to me.

As an example, one person posted that they were working on end-to-end encrypted messages. That was really cool, nearly instant follow. This person identifies as a furry and posts a lot more content related to their furry identity than E2E encrypted messages. I'm not really into the furry scene, even as a spectator. Nothing against this person - I'm happy they can be who they are. I just wish there was a way that I could tune into the once in a while updates about the tech project without the part that is of no interest to me. That person may be equally annoyed with my feed if I posted regular updates of my love for mac n cheese.

Importantly, the +1/-1 that I give should be used only for my feed with no feedback to the poser. My -1 does not mean I disapprove and I certainly don't want it to hurt anyone. I don't want it to influence others' feed. A -1 needn't mean that I never see something like that, but a "hell no" should.

Such a system would allow me to follow more people and be exposed to different ideas that come from more exposure. It's then up to me to tune my feed to match my interests and available time.
China protests highlight Xi's Covid policy dilemma – to walk it back or not
Pretty much every TV on sale today is a "smart" TV. Roku needs to convince customers that they should buy their device too. That is increasingly becoming a tough sell.
I'm not sure this has the effect you are suggesting but it did make me laugh. Makes you wonder who decides what is a first world country and what is a third world country. In some ways the existence of a significant portion of American's (those unfortunate enough to be poor) is worse than a third world existence.
Slightly off-topic: Recently I needed a way to add chapter information to 200 or so local MP4 video files of varying codecs (though mostly H264). It wasn't hard to get the job done with FFmpeg, though I was very surprised that adding such simple metadata to an MP4 container, with `-codec copy`, takes a surprisingly long time (around 5 or so minutes for an ~8GB file). I don't know why that is, as I am unfamiliar with the MP4 container format's internals, though I do assume that no re-encoding/transcoding was done (again, due to -codec copy). And it most certainly wasn't a simply copy-paste of the video data into a new file either, as that would've been way quicker. Nevertheless I just let the script do its thing overnight.
Gwern will be happy!
I was disappointed to see this was not about Blackrock and other private equity groups.
Outcomes are extremely variable for most illnesses.
i’m not sure why this would be the only option you come to.

it’s much more likely that folks are concerned because the populism wishes to destroy pluralism.
> If you haven't noticed the chorus of coastal media types asking for people they disagree with to be prevented from speaking in any public forum, then you are truly oblivious.

This doesn’t seem like a low-signal comment: it’s factually true and relevant to the context.

Rather, people are falsely marking it as low signal because they don’t like it and want to manipulate the discussion by hiding things they don’t like.

Which is classic censorship — and I think highlights a deeply anti-intellectual trend in this community.
Any ideas on how to solve this issue of kids cheating with GPT3 essays?
> I think the Industry needs at least one language, which does not constrain the developer in any way

That’s not a thing you want from a programming language. What you can express is just as important as what you can’t.
A single ultra long life Li-SOCl2 D cell like the Tadiran TL5930/S could probably power one of these chips for no less than a decade.

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Tadiran-Batteries/TL593...
I thought, technically, GPT-3 would be considered self-supervised and not unsupervised. Does it not know what it is? :-)
Cyberiad appreciator checkin

https://mwichary.medium.com/seduced-shaggy-samson-snored-725...
Certain races have been derogatorily referred to as "monkeys". You can recognize that the term has been (and probably still is) used in a racist way, without being racist yourself.

On the other hand, what WHO is doing is making it harder for us to just move on...
> That would be because IRA remains the sole government of Afghanistan recognized by relevant agencies such as UN. Which companies generally defer to when they came, because it cuts down on a lot of individual political decisions they'd have to make otherwise.

How does that standard apply to Taiwan?
Cheap money makes marginal investments more likely to be profitable.
It is not trained on newer data. It still lives in 2020 with Trump as President.

https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1597362763948441602
We've been waiting for GPT-4. Does GPT-3-003 mean that GPT-4 will be delayed?
After the failure of FB's Galactica model, I wonder whether LLM are starting to hit diminishing return. I've read of several ways diminishing returns could happen:

* Not enough training data - you've used up the Internet (even a percentage of the Internet might be as much as is usable by clever brute force).

* Not enough compute time to fully train (we're not close to that)

* The model covers such a large area that testing is impossible

One thing I'd speculate about is perhaps the more different subjects the program is expected to combine, the more it learns to spout plausible bullshit and clever quips, since for clever humans, that how they relate to stuff they don't know. So "pretentious but uninformed" might be a sign.
I think it's the opposite - without an "Algorithm" (instead just the simple algorithm of sorting posts by time) there's no natural way to find other interesting people to follow!

What Mastodon does is replace a computerized algorithm that tries to find you things you would be interested in with a "social algorithm" which is people you follow boosting posts that they like or find interesting.

It's like getting book recommendations from a friend instead of Amazon! Sharing things that we like with others is a deeply human activity, one I think is generally very positive.

Anyway, if you don't like what someone's boosting, you can prevent their boosts from showing up on your feed. Great thing about a FOSS, interoperable system is it's configurability!
https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=614191

> Since 512-bit instructions are reusing the same 256-bit hardware, 512-bit does not come with additional thermal issues. There is no artificial throttling like on Intel chips.

At least for Zen4, there's no worries about throttling or anything really. Its the same AVX hardware, "double pumped" (two 256-bit micro-instructions output per single 512-bit instruction). But you still save significantly on the decoder (ie: the "other" hyperthread can use the decoder in the core to keep executing its scalar code at full speed, since your hyperthread is barely executing any instructions)
Ironically, legislation of this kind usually (in other industries) is written or promoted by incumbents to be a barrier to entry that can reduce competition because only big companies can deal with it. Twitter is much better positioned to either fight or comply in some hollow way, vs smaller companies that have real problems to work on.

I know some laws like this only apply to platforms of a certain size though, that may be the case here.
If supply and demand does not explain housing prices, then why was housing ever affordable?
> but $8/mo is outrageous

It's outrageously cheap.

Wordpress plugins are insanely expensive, yet businesses will not hesitate to install dozens of them. $8 / month is a rounding error for most web agencies developing WordPress websites.

People would pay $49 a month for that crap.
Foxconn does assembly and that is not a big cost of an iphone [0]. Like literally just a fraction compared to American IP, Taiwan CPUs, or Japanese cameras and the latter are all much harder to move compared to assembly.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/apple-iphone-7-and-...
I think of the extension as a nice occasional reminder. I personally use it almost like "exercise". Turn it on for a while when I'm casually browsing, and it just helps build a habit of checking my posture. It's just one more tool I use on my health journey.
I don't think any Sequoia fund has returned less than 8x in the last 20 years. That's better than the total US market or the S&P 500 from the low of the Great Recession to the inflation-fueled peak of the pandemic (7.1x and 6.3x respectively), which is a cherry-picked, unprecedented 13-year stretch compared to the worst-performing fund's 10 years. FTX-sized failures are expected and part of their operating model.
I don't think you can call anything with GSMA IP in it "open". Same goes for systems that won't run without their closed binary blobs loaded at boot or runtime to enable hardware.

So far, there has only been 3G-ish experimental SDR-based true open hardware, but it's the size of a shoebox, not a phone.
What if I want my application to be performant? There's no value in c abi compatibility if the code internally costs a serialization round trip all the time. May as well just use rusts ffi at that point, it'll be faster!

Also how do you even operate on a SecureUserCreatedStructuredData that is serialized into a SecureString or SecureBytes?

Does my function that operates on a SecureUserCreatedStructureData take in a SecureString, which is documented as needing to be deserializable to a SecureUserCreatedStructureData? If so, that's just a secure void*, with all the problems void* has, and slower.
Perhaps Yandex maps could be perceived as representing an ideal future devoid of essentially arbitrary political boundaries and silly notions of citizenship.
You must dive different places than I do, I never see pucks except as rentals. I was recently on a trip where people had to figure out whose tank sensor was whose because there were so many.
> While they both may be technically "SUV's" it is laughable to think they service the same need

They service the same need a lot more often than you'd think: transportation for a segment of the public who'd be better off with station wagons but decided in the mid eighties those were not cool.

> seats only 4 (uncomfortably if they are average American Adult size, only 2 Adults can fit comfortably in a Rav4)

That's all false.
Checkers traditionally does... but that's not a good example.

The entire Icehouse set of games. https://www.looneylabs.com/rules/icehouse (see especially Zendo - https://www.icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Zendo )

There's a genera of games that I'm quite fond of. Pueblo https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3228/pueblo and Aztec https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1071/aztec are two of the ones that I'm most fond of in that because of the abstractness. I've also got a first edition Santorini somewhere ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/194655/santorini ). Cityscape is another one that I'm quite fond of ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4980/cityscape ).

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/5607/components-3-...

These aren't necessarily games that "everyone knows" - but it is a very rich subset of games with a lot of interesting entries.

And if you really want a head scratcher... https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/820/axiom
This is why I intentionally make close friends.
Ukraine: https://dou.ua
Even eliminating the security and the getting to the airport, there's still the wait to check a bag if you have to check one, the wait to board the plane, the need to be on the plane 15 mins before takeoff or they seal the doors, the wait for everyone to get their stuff out of the overhead when the plane lands, then if you are checking a bag, at the end the wait to get your bag again if it shows up at all. Not to mention it could all go south at any moment, maybe the plane lands at LAX, but then an LAX happens and the pilot says there isn't a gate yet so you twiddle your thumbs on the tarmac for another 45 mins. Oh and then the fact that no airline wants to be straight with you with ticket pricing being dynamic and the whole experience of trying to time buying your ticket at the proper time. Its like they've all taken a playbook from ticketmaster, or maybe satan.
Ask HN: Most effective non-destructive way to reverse-engineer a PCB at home?
Hello!

I am looking for effective non-destructive ways in order to reverse-engineer PCBs at home.

I found or could only think of...

...trying to shine through the board with very bright light.
...scanning the PCB.
...using a self-built, well-isolated X-Ray chamber[1][2], which, if done wrong and without special meters, can cause me cancer.
...using ultrasonic waves.
...using acoustic microscopy[3].

All other ways, which I have found so far[4] are destructive; the best of them is using sandpaper and sand down each layer. I would like to avoid these.

Are there other effective non-destructive ways, which are applicable at home?

-Keks

[1] https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Phys_p083/physics/how-to-build-an-x-ray-machine

[2] https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-x-ray-machine-yes-a-diy-x-ray-machine-9fd37d49a1fa

[3] Slide 48: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Grand/DEFCON-22-Joe-Grand-Deconstructing-the-Circuit-Board-Sandwich.pdf

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8FQZIPkgZM
There is great risk in migrating your app to an app store that no one yet uses, even if you are amazon
That would be a nice little "gcc addition" to the C standard, honestly.

To bad they spend most their time doing whatever it is they do.
I'm sure we could come up with a few ways of generating entropy given what is available in a prison. Bear in mind this is for D&D so need not be completely formally random.

You can easily create a reasonable n-gon (for low n) on card or paper and add an axle from wood or whatever is to hand and you have a Dn spinner. D3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and perhaps 10 and 12 will work too - yes more than the usual but why not?

If you have paper and pen and something that will give you heads/tails ie 0/1 then use binary and generate tables of numbers and use them one by one. Other bases and simple devices can be used to get tables for a desired "die" max value.
> The usage in HK that everyone keeps citing was as a way to spam incoming Mainland tourists' phones with protest flyers. Like okay, you might agree with the content in this case, but it can (and has) easily be dick pics instead.

It's entirely possible it's misleading, but the tweet in this post pretty heavily implies it was from protester to protester, you're the one who brought up the "spamming tourists" thing.

Also, I'm not even sure I agree with the "a tool can be used for evil so therefore taking features away is good". Anyone can email you a dick pick, does that mean email provides should stop accepting images in emails that aren't from contacts (with no option to disable this filtering, except in 10 minute increments)?

> By your logic Apple's default setting of "contacts only" AirDrop visibility is also a nefarious way to prevent protest literature from being distributed

Context matters. If the default used to be everyone, and Apple pushed out a new default to users in China immediately around when protests, then yes I would say it was nefarious.
The compiler is free to never write out your changes to memory in that shared resource use-case, which you might be depending on. AFAIK rust doesn’t have a standardized memory model which should be needed to write correct code that data races.
I wonder if there is a feedback loop between this phenomenon and income inequality. People in the "lower middle" income tier can't afford anything but the cheapest basics (or are forced to switch to used cars), so demand becomes skewed towards higher quality stuff, so the product mix gets adjusted towards higher quality stuff, further increasing prices, etc.
TiVo has missed the window to pivot a few times. I am surprised they still exist as a company.
> The fundamental question is whether food-grade fermentation/culturing processes like those used in beer or yoghurt can suffice

Analyzing probable cost of fake meat production by comparison with existing cultured food manufacturing is sensible, but fake meat has some differentiating aspects to be accounted for.

A prime difference between these fermentation processes and a hypothetical cultured meat system is that the single cells involved in making beer and yogurt are simpler, much faster breading species than the multicellular lines which develop into complex animal tissue. Another difference is that whereas fermentation involves partial digestion of a portion of the growth medium by the fermenting microbes, creating a volume of artificial meat would require synthesizing cell dense tissue to fill the entire volume. So with artificial meat you need more growth and the growth will be slower, factors which both expand the opportunities for contamination. So preventing contamination will be more important and more challenging with lab meat than with these fermentation products.

I agree with your assessment that the source paper is exceedingly pessimistic about the costs. There is no physical reason why cultured meat production couldn't eventually be cheaper than natural meat production, the hurdles are only technological.

edit: spelling
A million views you say.

looks around

FCKGW…
Some way of auto collecting dups would be good as well. Would reduce fractured discussion threads.
When RSS was hot stuff circa 2005, a friend on IRC and I were working on a bayesian classifier for RSS entries and it worked just like this. +1 trained it as "ham" and -1 trained it as "spam". It failed (among other reasons) because we were both really young and didn't have enough mathematial/computational maturity. With modern ML techniques, this doesn't seem hard to do at all. But you'd need access to the actual data stream which is something that the big social networks don't seem willing to provide.
No their friend's friends do not have more friends than them. Some people have an unusually large amount of friends, what this means practically is that they are more likely to be one of your very few friends, because they touch so many smaller groups, yours included. When they say most people's friends have more friends than them, it's the same very popular people being counted again and again by each unpopular person.
Mine had what actually was a cool feature, and the only thing I've ever used voice commands for - you could say, "snooze" or "dismiss". Worked really well.

Then they took it away with an "update", so now I'm stuck with only the crap UI.

Thanks Samsung.
Here's some folks taking emojis very seriously. Including the poop emoji face. It's a good read - https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17393-wg2-emoji-feedback.pd... (pdf)
> We trained CodeWP on WordPress PHP

Imagine having that as a selling point lol.
Were you working on files on a NAS? Often faster to copy locally, run ffmpeg, copy back to the NAS for some reason. Faststart flag transcodes the file twice. Otherwise can't think of any reason.
Capsaicin feels like it's burning your mouth/skin/etc, but is it just stimulating nerves? Can capsaicin actually cause harm?
Surely it depends on the extent to which Apple was indeed forced to make the change. You wouldn't say "convicted murderer imprisons himself."
LLMS Can Be Poets Too: AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation
Miscompilations are rarer and less annoying in compilers that do not have the design behaviour of compiling certain source code inputs into bizarre nonsense that bears no particular relation to those inputs.
Violent crowd breaking into the Capitol was unprecedented in the era of geofencing, too. Sitting presidents ginning a crowd up against Congress was unprecedented. Lots of precedence established by this sequence of events.
I agree that the pains of restrictive zoning are very real and punish newcomers. When I was in SF, I lived in a rent controlled unit in which there was a cranky old lady paying $800 for a 2 bedroom apartment while a young couple moved into a smaller unit in the same building and were paying $3000. They were planning on having a child, but it was really hard. Both working full time just to afford rent. That's what happens when you freeze housing supply.

But the usual counterweight is to move to areas with more liberal zoning -- e.g. zoning is locally controlled and if a city wants to stop growing, then there's not much that can be done to stop them - California is trying, but there is a lot of opposition to forcing cities to grow if they don't want to.

The solution is to not build a major corporate HQ in such a city, or to move the HQ to cities that embrace growth -- which is the majority. But if that doesn't happen, then good jobs only exist in areas with restrictive zoning, and that's what makes the zoning painful.
FIRMS data is frightening, https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:today;@-155... but I don't think it's that realistic based on the video I have seen from other folks on the island.
Not necessarily citizens - can't corporations be owned by foreign entities?

(I'm not sure that changes the overall argument, but it speaks to a common fear - influence coming from people who don't have the nation's best interests at heart)
Sleek strands of sadness, soon severed and shorn;

Solace sought in scissors, slicing and scorned.

Sublime sorrow, set sorrowfully still;

Stoic heart to surrender, so swiftly and shrill.

Secrets spilled in soft, sorrowful swish

Sorrowful sounds, soon silenced with snip.
I haven't had COVID or any other respiratory disease since early January 2020 (when COVID did not have any cases in my state).
It was very cathartic to see the traffic jam in the LA boring loop.

"He Fixed Traffic" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NiM_p8n5A
My attempt with text-davinci-002: https://twitter.com/nathell/status/1551557069043650560/photo... (a corresponding Polish version can be found in the thread as well)
Snap Employees Told to Be in Office 4 Days a Week Starting in February
Not everybody knows everything. Would you be so kind to share what's up with the Iranian flag? It's seems interesting. I happen to not know much about it and I love when people bring up some interesting curiosities here (sometimes unfortunately obscured by sarcasm or other convolutions)
> I have a soft spot for (C) single header libraries

May I ask you why? The whole preprocessor macro thing is just a disgusting hack that compiles slowly, is error prone and is not even expressive enough for the most basic of things.
> As radio transmitting devices you will never be allowed to control them. You don't have the license, the telco does.

Correction: telco doesn't, only vendors since modems with open firmware are banned in most of the world.
Indeed. An interesting exercise might be to ask yourself if the friendship paradox applies to cousin relationships (let's limit it to first cousins with zero removal).