skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing all images to be lazy loaded is not a good idea for SEO reasons (and perhaps not a good idea for regular usage of the site either). If it were, browsers would just do it automatically. Using hints on your images is only useful if you are doing it strategically, which means only lazy loading images that are offscreen on the initial page load. Otherwise you are not actually giving useful hints to the browser on how to load your page in the correct manner, and thus you are just better off letting the browser use whatever internal logic it has to decide how and when to load the assets.

Basically you can think about the optimal, minimal set of resources to render your page being:

- HTML

- Required CSS

- Above the fold images

Then at that point, download all of the other things to make the page work in the way you want (javascript, etc). Anything else is delaying the initial page-load. Because your images are lazy loaded, your page load looks like the following:

- HTML

- Required CSS

- Some above the fold images (profile.jpg, etc)

- Massive, >300kb blobs of javascript (runtime-main.js, main.js)

- Above the fold images in the post

This is not good. It doesn't make sense for your page to download 300kb of javascript before downloading the 18kb image that is above the fold. Now you can partially solve this problem by making the javascript asynchronous, but that still is just another band-aid on the problem, as then the javascript and above the fold images would download concurrently, which is still not optimal.

What you want to do is have above the fold post images be loaded eagerly (the default), and then lazy load ones that are lower on the page. If you aren't going to do that, you probably are better off just not having the images being lazy loaded at all, especially if your page includes 300kb of javascript which is likely going to be much larger than the combined size of all the images on the page.
Why? Because it's a discussion about a change and these are some results.

Seems normal to talk about impact of decisions.
Flip Phones: Gen Z has a new ‘vintage’ technology to obsess over
Sure, but full disk encryption was also enabled on my Mom's Ubuntu laptop 15 years ago, because I chose the correct options when I set it up. What commercial vendors offer out of the box has never been a good yardstick for talking about security features, and it's only gotten worse with the rise of the surveillance economy.

My fundamental problem with Graphene/Calyx is that I don't trust the devs have enough bandwidth and resources to catch all the vulnerabilities created upstream, especially with the moving target created by rapid version churn. For example, Android is finally getting the ability to grant apps scoped capabilities rather than blanket full access permissions, which is actually coming from upstream - the Libre forks should have had these features a decade ago, but for their limited resources.

Concretely, what discourages me from going Pixel is the Qualcomm integrated baseband/application chipsets. I've heard that Qualcomm has worked on segmenting the two with memory isolation and whatnot, but their history plus the closed design doesn't instill confidence. Yet again it's the difference between the corporate perspective of providing top-down relativist "security" rather than the individualist stance of hardline securing the AP against attacks from the BB.

Pragmatically, I know I should get over that and stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good (I'm currently using a proprietary trash-Android my carrier sent me. The early 4G shutdown obsoleted my previous Lineage/microG). But every time I look at Pixels it seems there's so damn many "current" models, none stand out as the best but rather it's a continuum of expensive versus older ones (destined to become e-waste even sooner due to the shameless software churn). And so I punt.
I don't think that make sense at all. Why would a human test the same multiple times? Everyone I know took the SAT multiple times with increasing results. I don't know of anyone that's achieved a perfect score with only one try and most people could get a perfect score with enough studying and attempts.

My SAT score ranged from 980 to 1450 with 4 tries, increasing each time and had there been a reason or benefit I'm certain I could have eventually gotten a perfect score. I don't see how anyone could not get better over time.
The headline is deceptive, at best. They didn't build their own filter. They bought them. They didn't design a DIY air purifier. They followed an OS plan. Nothing wrong with that, but that's not what the headline says.

In the name of honesty and transparency "Corsi-Rosenthal Box" should be mentioned in headline.

Also, a HEPA air purifier can be purchased for less than $300. That's important to note because what's built does not qualify as HEPA. This too should be mention when the cost of HEPA is mentioned.

Don't get me wrong. I can see the value, especially if / when HEPA isn't necessary. Unfortunately, this article seems to be more about the reporter than the readers.
What’s the environmental status of the base? I’d bet it would qualify as a superfund site and am curious to know what type of testing has been done by Netflix and parties involved in the sale
What if the display freezes showing an empty road?
This seems nice and quite simple, but I think I'll wait until there is an alternative to OpenAI that doesn't censor what I can do and impose the morality of a profit-making corporation on my work.

Considering that the morality of capitalism is indistinguishable from the morality of a cancer cell, I think I might be on the right side of history here.

I'm also not keen on giving up more of my personal information to use this.
I have had many jobs with no vesting in my employee match. Heck for my company I own, I follow the “default” path from guideline 401k, and my match to my employees vests immediately.

(But yes also had 1-2 jobs that the match had a vesting period)
ByteGraph: A Graph Database for TikTok
Let it run overnight and the creatures look quite different from where I left it.

Would be interesting if it was easier to identify and compare their lineages. Hard to sort through all these little things swimming around
I thought such footage is bad quality because nobody wants to store months of 4k footage of tarmac. Maybe they process it immediately for facial recognition, then store a lower resolution version? Or they just use AI "enhancement" and pretend they got the right guy.
> if you leave a job with an employer managed pension within 2 years, you can instead refund your entire contributions and either keep them or invest them in your new pension scheme

What happens if you leave in 3 years? Is it a 2-year window that vests or once vested forever vested?
"Why won’t our artistic-literary establishment recognise that there’s mystery, beauty and humanity in maths?"

I have a maths background and I see none of mystery or beauty in it. Dunno what 'humanity' means here.

I've noticed those in humanities are terrible at debating. They can't focus, slide off the subject and tend towards handwaving arguments with little rigour. Their soft subjects are important but they neglect 'our' side of the fence.

> Who dares call maths dry?

Me. But it's useful.
Collaborating with Jupyter Notebooks
Regarding your second dimension, the "good" thing about ChatGPT is that you can request a new answer if the previous one doesn't vibe with you... Also, you could probably create infinite therapist personas that are tailored to your specific needs.
If only they had ports at all on the right. Not all models do. I had a 13' that I had to use for work that didn't. Never again.
I read that initially as "Forthtran" and I can't tell if that sounds like a good idea or an awful one
At last someone said it, thanks.

It's bothersome how popularized the notion

I'm one,two,three,...,n blog posts/YouTube videos away from fully grasping this complex mathematical concept which not only requires fundamental knowledge I may not be familiar with, but also solving problems/writing code where at first I'll have no idea how is it supposed to be of any use but over time it will eventually 'click'.

has become.

Beautiful animations and witty narrations are nice, but you're in for a (bad) surprise if you think they're adequate. Also nothing beats good old book -> pencil/paper.
How did the founders take responsibility?
I always though the joke was, that anybody who finally understands what a Monad is, at that precise moment, automatically loses the ability to explain it to others...
Yeah right, in my experience I haven't needed as many networks in the ensemble as I first assumed. This paper [1] suggests 5-10, but in practice I've found only 3 has often been sufficient.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12188
To reduce the latency of compile-link-test
Considering that Twitter Blue isn't even available in my country, I'm not sure if Twitter is actually that interested in making money off of me.
I'm not surprised. A few years ago I read a convincing article (it might have been in The Atlantic actually) that most advances in medical quality of life in the last 150 years have actually been in public health and prevention measures. Things like sanitation, screening, building code, vaccines, dental cleaning, and so forth. The exceptions also tended to be broad-based treatments like antibiotics.

This would be in line with that. Better treatments would certainly be great but sometimes I think prevention is underrated.
In my example, of predicting a coin toss, the naive output is a probability distribution: it's "Prob(heads)=0.5, Prob(tails)=0.5". This is the distribution that will be produced both by the person who sees 2 heads and 2 tails, and by the person who sees 2000 heads and 2000 tails.

Bayesians use the terms 'aleatoric' and 'epistemic' uncertainty. Aleatoric uncertainty is the part of uncertainty that says "I don't know the outcome, and I wouldn't know it even if I knew the exact model parameters", and epistemic uncertainty says "I don't even know the model".

Your example (outputting a mean and variance) is reporting a probability distribution, and it captures aleatoric uncertainty. When Bayesians talk about uncertainty or confidence, they're referring to model uncertainty -- how confident are you about the mean and the variance that you're reporting?
Are you sure they do bijective mapping instead of simply running a RNG with the given seed?
Agreed. It's a nice, succinct way of tying the natural language to the components of the formula. I don't know how well it would work in longer form content, but as a one-off or perhaps occasional technique, I think it works really well.
"To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful, I should answer ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’ yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. it is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it’s benefits, than is done by it’s abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. the real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time: whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables.

General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will &c &c. but no details can be relied on. I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. he who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

Thomas Jefferson, 1807 [1]

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20 years ago this quote would have been quite hyperbolic. Now it's certainly scathing, but it's also completely appropriate and rationale. The current apparent chaos, deception, and disorder we are now entering into is not some novel and unprecedented era. The brief era of peace, trust, and general "sanity" that we "all" grew up in was the novel and unprecedented era. And so as we return to the past, the wisdom of that era becomes more meaningful than ever.

Welcome to the past, my friend!

https://www.founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-...
Three inventors who revolutionised wireless telecom
Things I haven't considered and that's fair. I take back my German comment.
Looking at demographics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Korea in 1955 900.000 people were born in Korea. In 2022 about 250.000. The population in 2021 only decreased by 60.000 but this number will increase rapidly.

Seoul might not change for a few years but a population decrease of 1% each year will not leave the property market unaffected.
A lot of times the answers the ChatGPT gives are so wrong, it's not even funny.

-How many chairs I had the day before yesterday?
-If you bought 10 chairs yesterday, and now you have 10 chairs, You must have had 19 chairs the day before yesterday.

Or another chat
-Assume I have 10 chairs today and I bought 10 chairs yesterday, how many chairs I had the day before yesterday?
-You would have had 0 chairs the day before yesterday, since you only bought 10 chairs yesterday.

-How many chairs I will have tomorrow?
-You will have 20 chairs tomorrow if you don't sell or give away any of your chairs today and yesterday.

First answer, perfect. Second answer, completely wrong.
I can reliably distinguish even very high-end Class D from a decent class AB amp. I perceive sand-grain in the sound of class D.
Or just use AI to detect faces (without recognizing them), and store the high resolution faces for later processing.
Bostrom and EA: Do Better Please
Interesting, guess that makes sense with TSMC charging them out the ass.
I wrote that code for fun 15-20 years ago (code definitely lost in the mists of time).

You can think of it as rolling one random number up to n!, then use x%n to pick the first element and then x/n to pick the next (n-1) elements (so the next step is then to pick the second element with (x/n)%(n-1) and use (x/n)/(n-1) for the remaining (n-2) elements).

Though as a sibling comment points out, since you need a random number up to n!, even 64 bits of randomness only get you so far (I think up to 20, but didn't check my math).
For projects that are relevant to me I always use the same username. That way there is a clear link between projects that I'm working on. Otherwise any random name will do.
I use a docker build of this on my Synology NAS: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

Then I have a task set to start the docker container up at 2am every morning, which then automatically backs up any new images, then the docker container stops.

Works really well.
For N > 2 years, everything in the fund is tax-exempt (even funds contributed less than 2 years ago), but you no longer get the option to refund your contributions to cash when moving, you need to wait until you're 50 to start withdrawals.
From TFA:

- Users were notified that the posts were written in collaboration with a bot

- Human authors oversaw the posts, including having the ability to edit posts and having responsibility for hitting send.

The lack of informed consent from study participants would likely have killed this experiment in a normal IRB review, but they didn't just sic ChatGPT loose on people seeking psychological help.
I only ever see it used either (a) sarcastically or (b) to describe actual falsehood. I don't think he was successful in redefining it.
Perhaps continuing the riff that Steven Strogatz started with his book: The Joy of x.

https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/books/the-joy-of-x
> Windows Update is now carbon aware

Well, in the future, maybe it will become bugs aware, that is, they will start fixing bugs instead of doing greenwashing.
It is worth noting that Sabri al-Qurashi was released in 2014 --- not to his home country who refused to accept him.

Technically, the detainees are prisoners of war --- aligned with a terrorist organization who still considers itself at war with the USA. They can't be tried under US civilian law because they aren't citizens and haven't broken any laws in the USA.

Those who can be tried under military law have been. Those who can't be tried but have renounced their allegiance to a terrorist organization (such as Sabri al-Qurashi) have been released if/when some other country is willing to accept them.

Those who by their own statements maintain they are still enemy combatants aligned against the USA are still being held as prisoners of war.

Please relate how your country treats such individuals in a non-terrorist manner?
Scott’s Cheap Flights just rebranded to Going. Would there be a good way for him to forecast the SEO impact of that change (which seems on the surface to be probably large)?
> As for energy and light needs. Yes, it would need lots of energy but nowhere near what you think. Your back of the envelope math is talking about acres which isn't that useful of a metric for your energy needs.

It's true that acres were an awkward way to do the calculation. Let's redo the calculation in megawatt-hours.

- According to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0706-x, grain crops yield about 0.24 grams of dry weight per mol of photons. (This assumes 100% of the photons are delivered to the plant, e.g. the LED is shining directly on the leaf with nothing lost.)

- One mol of photons embodies about 0.1kWh of energy. (That's for red photons; higher-frequency photons would require more energy. And note this is a physical limit, where we're assuming the LEDs are already 100% efficient.)

- So that works out to 0.0024 metric tonnes dry weight of grain per MWh. Global grain production is about 2,700 million metric tonnes per year (per https://www.statista.com/statistics/263977/world-grain-produ...)

- So we'd need 1,125,000 TWh/yr of energy to grow the world's supply of grain through indoor farming, or 45x the world's current electricity production. And this calculation is just for grains; to grow all the non-grain crops too, you'd need even more energy. So I stand by my original estimate.

What about genetic engineering? Looking at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0706-x, the "0.24 grams of dry weight per mol of photons" calculation is taking into account that e.g. grain plants are not as efficient as some other plants at absorbing light, and not all of the grain plant is edible. The most efficient plants (leafy greens) produce 1.33 grams of dry weight per mol of photons. So if we could genetically engineer a grain plant that absorbed as much light as the most efficient plants, and didn't have an inedible stalk, then we'd need 203,000 TWh/yr of electricity to grow the world's supply of grain, which is "only" 8x the world's current electricity production.

And at that point, we've squeezed out all the obvious sources of inefficiency; to do better, you'd need to fundamentally change plant biology, or just do photosynthesis directly in a vat, or something.
10x doesn't have to mean that they do particular/regular things in 1/10 the time (or even effort). In my experience the best way to be 10x is to on average/overall avoid wasting time on 9 out of 10 things that won't bear fruit or alternatively head in a direction that saves 9/10 future re-alignment work which no-one will know because it never presents itself. This can be applied at any level, so there could be 10x Senior Staff devs, idk may meet one some day.

It probably does like you say to some extent mean that they should have a different title, but sometimes that title doesn't exist in a particular company.
This is covered in the article:

> To qualify for the payments, residents must be 18 at the time the committee’s proposal is enacted, and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years.
> I don't deny that you might have them but they are hardly an automatic consequence of being a human, much less some more general "living organism".

Searching for resources, gathering them, and controlling territory from competitors are basic biological behaviors we see in most (all?) life. On a personal level this behavior might look like visiting a grocery store, storing the food at home, and locking your door.

It seems reasonable that as our technology develops and we exhaust resources on Earth that we will need to increase our reach to resources and territories beyond Earth.
The idea would be to make it artifically worse (in terms of win rate) so it becomes less common.
In this specific instance I was talking about my experience of unintentionally quitting my Twitter habit, so the comments where people describe how they also stopped using it are relevant. But I wouldn't be so quick to assume sour grapes, otherwise. It could be that these people found their experience of quitting Twitter to be pretty transformative and fulfilling and genuinely want to let others know about it.
Can AI detectors save us from ChatGPT? I tried 3 online tools to find out
Apple allows management profiles. But they are much more restricted than the Android version.

My point is in an environment like the US, removing the App Store is effectively removed any and all oversight in situations where an organization can mandate the installation of apps. The government isn’t going to protect us with legislation- the fact that there is bipartisan agreement about TikTok is very telling. It means lawmakers know how these devices can track, it just didn’t matter until that data could potentially fall into the hands to a hostile superpower.

Universities can say “hey, you have to install this app to ‘register’ your device with us” that gives us far more power and data than Apple would ever allow, even on a device with a management profile and add “unregistered devices” to the contraband that RAs search for.

They wouldn’t even have to come up with this idea themselves. I’ve no doubt multiple SaaS vendors would be hawking this to college administrations within a year or two. It’s untenable now because of Apples market share.
Has anyone ever done research to see if pervasive use of facial recognition has any real effect on reducing crime?
TLDR: Nope.
Choosing a 13 year old clearly reblogged article from an organization known as “24/7 Wall St.” (with a dot and all) as your source is an interesting way to provide a credible source showing the current opinion of everyone in the US regarding California. It’s not even a survey, which would have been obvious had you spent the time to actually look at it rather than cherry-pick the first result off Google which lined up with your opinion.

It’s especially ridiculous since that’s literally just one organization’s opinion on California.

And their opinion is solely based on 4 key indicators and nothing else. I’m not a data scientist but even I know that you can pretty easily find 4 key metrics which allow you to rank states in any way you choose.

If you were to actually look up the organization, you would see it’s just a random blog (not that it is at all surprising considering their name), and that their 2021 rankings had California solidly in the middle of the pack, not that it makes a difference considering how limited their methodology is.

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/05/19/the-states-w...

Finally, just because you can’t think of any areas does not mean any don’t exist. You’ve made your opinions clear already.
Probably a lot cheaper to transport film talent and equipment to NJ than New Mexico.