skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “The REAL nazis are people that don’t buy into the great replacement theory!”

If you are insinuating that this is what I think or what I was trying to convey, I can assure you, it's not.

I don't believe in the great replacement theory, never have and wouldn't even care if some race (including whites) is being somehow replaced somewhere (or everywhere) due to migration or cultural acceptance of other races or whatever the hell the (conspiracy?) theory is about nowadays.

I've met and became friends (even best friends) with people of many different races (yes, including black people) and cultures and I like all of them, no exception.

I am willing to admit I may not always recognize racist behavior when I see it, as in some cases it can be hard to see unless you're in the receiving end of it (or even if you are).

But you can't gaslight me into thinking that obvious racist behavior is not racist, even if it's presumably being done to supposedly accomplish some kind of moral goal.

Many terrorists also have good intentions, that doesn't mean that the means they use to accomplish their goals are acceptable.

There are many ways to accomplish the same anti-racist goal without resorting to overt... racism.
Take a look at the MCAP file format (https://mcap.dev), we invented it for the robotics industry but it’s a generic write-optimized container format for time series data. Since it’s a container format, you need to choose a serialization format as well such as flatbuffers or protobufs.
I guess then I should say they made nothing in China - those Chinese companies buying ads would have been for ads outside of China.

Either way, it's about as big a contrast as is possible with Apple who are all in on China in every way.
Related ongoing thread:

GPT-3.5 and Wolfram Alpha via LangChain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422122
Heh, I only went and poked around because it has bitten me before. It seems to be a pattern with a lot of Chinese companies to have their own domestic facing sites, and then an entirely separate Western-facing presence.
This paper is a bad copy of MLP-Mixer.
Related ongoing thread:

LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422627
How does DisplayLink require recording access?

https://www.reviewgeek.com/75284/everything-you-need-to-run-...
There were many people who thought about that with Brexit but sadly the vote went the way it did. I remember Boris and Gove looking rather horrified when they found they had won.
Wouldn't it bottleneck on usb. I thought the entire point of nvme was that it puts solid state storage on pcie lane.
This model has been trained on datasets that include personal opinions, subjective judgments, and even propaganda and misinformation.

Ultimately its response is based on a weighted evaluation of all of its input data, including thoae above.

When given a subjective prompt, its response will tend more towards the parameters weighted by these subjective data points.

Ultimately it can only reflect with what its training data includes. If it is disproportionately trained with subjective data from one point of view, or only extreme points of view, et cetera, its responses to subjective prompts will reflect that disproportion.
Odd way to spell Tesla trollface
Single-generation, incremental chip upgrades like this are rarely worth the extra cost unless you have some other use for your older machine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422949
Turning off overhead lights around 9pm and getting sunlight in the morning. This gave me a consistent sleep schedule. Sleep is mental strength.
I find Makemore to be my favorite neural-net-based (w)rapper.
Just the latter while I was managing something in my tailnet
Wolvic uses Gecko.
> it's not the end of the world.

True. Not the end of the world. Just the serial erasure of trust and good will on a massive scale.
hah. I didn't even realize that I confused my acronyms.
Thanks everyone for reading the story and the investigators for figuring out the real runway!

My grandfather is an amazing man, storyteller, and my personal hero. He was an ad photographer in the mad men era. You can see some of his photographs here: https://condenaststore.com/collections/leonard+nones
in mitro computing
But with a functioning majority, governments in Europe would be able to amend any such bill or constitution.

It only works how it does in the USA because of political stalemate and gridlock.
Is It Possible to Prepare for a Pandemic?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34411187.
This is not what "code is data" is supposed to mean. It means "source code is data": the source code of Lisp is a data structure.

You shouldn't do it in any Lisp production code. E.g. in ANSI Lisp, self-modifying code is undefined behavior. Even if you get some expected results, it may not work portably, and won't work if the code is compiled. Compiled Lisp code doesn't have a list representation any more.

Code-is-data lets us have a transformation pass on the code with application-defined rules, before it is interpreted or compiled. This is a recursive step that returns a new version of the code based on the old
> Copilot has been observed reproducing entire files, verbatim, from its training set.

And as a result, I feel very different about CoPilot than GPT-3 or especially Stable Diffusion.
Buddy I’m not falling for your pivot from “innocently quoting wikipedia” to your sudden interest in “the left hates whites” discourse. Nobody is required to rehash /pol/ debates.

You gave yourself away with the clown world stuff. Oops!
ugh technically correct, the best type of correct
> 256mb or 4gb flash chips

This drive is a 64GB microSD so it's like an upgrade from those previous scams!
IIRC, the company that made those caps used a formula they stole from their competitors.
No, it wouldn't. Thunderbolt versions 3 and 4 are giving you 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 on an external connector. You can easily get 3GB/s from an NVMe SSD in a Thunderbolt enclosure, which is the same performance as putting a PCIe 3.0 SSD into your computer.

We don't yet know how fast the SSDs are in the new Mac mini, but the M1 Mac mini was using ~3GB/s SSDs, which is the same speed you get from PCIe 3.0, and realistically.. that's plenty fast for this discussion regardless.
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales
> Some of the best scientists were and are unconventional late bloomers.

Sure, but that's beside the point. The funding is limited, and, what's even worse, if we spread it too thin, best scientists will leave to make millions on the wall street instead. At some point, a decision must be made as to who gets to proceed in the research career, and who is cut. Sometimes the apparent mediocrities will turn out to be late bloomers, and cutting them would be a net loss.

However, and this is critical, you do not know who will be a late bloomer until they actually are. Late bloomers do not know that either, of course. In practice this means that when it comes to make a decision, you, and every other reasonable person, will pick someone who looks good on paper over someone who looks mediocre, but has a chance of becoming a late bloomer.

Doing otherwise would be reasonable only if mediocrities tended to have on average better output in the long term than people who look good on paper, but that would only cause us to revisit what the metrics of what makes one look good on paper, because they would clearly then be wrong. They aren't: by and large, people who do well in exams tend to do better in actual research than people who suck at exams, even though the exams don't actually resemble actual research much.

In short, when you bring up potential loss of cutting late bloomers, you should not forget about best scientists who never became one, because they were outcompeted by a mediocrity who never became a late bloomer.

> Many grants proposals are largely ‘me too’ derivative works.

Yes, and to me this is a sign that too many people are involved in research. If we suffer from deluge of mediocre, derivative work, we should make the standards higher and put more wood behind fewer arrows, not push more mediocrities into the career.
No Expensive Housing Market Builds Much Housing
https://youtu.be/VMj-3S1tku0

The entire series is at https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html, first video is literally from scratch (i.e. just Python, the only external dependency is for plotting graphs if I recall correctly).
Now that you mention it, agreed. I have fixed this moral outrage so the bars now progress the right way.
Cannot second this enough. I typed through the pain and couldn't use a computer for 10 months. That was very stupid of me; please be smarter.

It's worth investing time & money in a good, ergonomic typing setup. If you don't do it up front, you'll be investing a lot more time in money - in physical therapy, and buying top-of-the-line stuff because the mid tier equipment isn't good enough for you to avoid reinjury anymore.

Some things that work for me:

- Vertical mouse (Logitech MX Vertical - there are knockoffs, I haven't tried them)

- Mechanical keyboard with a good amount of travel (laptop keyboards with hardly any travel are no good for me anymore)

- Gaming mouse pad (it's like a mousepad that covers a large area)

- Pads that go over the armrests of my chair (if my arms are resting on hard plastic, it limits my circulation, which exacerbates my tendonitis)

I strongly encourage you to learn proper typing habits. I don't want to speak too authoritatively (if I'm saying anything incorrect, please correct me, and please do research this yourself - it's really important for your health & career), I'm not an expert I just know what works for me, but you shouldn't rotate your wrists, and you shouldn't have them at any sort of angle relative to your firearms; it should be straight and they should just glide over the keyboard. It's a good idea to learn how to stretch your wrists as well.
Electron supports WebUSB. Just saying.

As terrible as this is to say, it could have been an Electron app.
So run back to Facebook. Or Instagram. Or YouTube. Or Telegram. Or Discord. Or Reddit. Or …
Yes, it is! Also, terminal multiplexers are pretty annoying if you actually care about what escape sequences do, since they have to parse them all and either act on/answer them themselves, or pass them along to the terminal. Possibly with modifications.
we know the name it really goes by
Companies love to hide hardware faults. I was the owner of the first Samsung Galaxy S phone. The GSP antenna was really dysfunctional and yet Samsung promised a software update would fix it. The location signals it could receive were almost entirely based off Wifi and cell towers and the accuracy was around 50-100 meters instead of usual 5-10 metres. As a result I couldn't use basic location based apps like driving navigation.
At the same time Apple had a cell antenna problem whereby holding the phone 'wrong' would degrade the signal.
In case you didn't already know of this;

The FXT Maths library in C++ and the book Matters Computational walking you through it - https://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtpage.html
If scientific computing interests any students in the NC triangle area, we're looking for a Fall intern to do some platform engineering: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/247397
I only tell subscribers to my paid physical monthly newsletter this type of info. Sorry.
I'm guessing a system security update will patch the git executable. No way would apple make you update Xcode just for this. (Well, maybe...)
Disentangling Frameworks
>My recollection was that things kicked off with the first mechanized mills, locating along streams which used hydraulic or steam power for their energy.

That goes back to 3BC where the ancient greeks invented it, so I don't think that's a good candidate for the beginning of the industrial revolution. I get the association though, because it is a mechanical system harnessing non-animal power to do useful work.

https://www.greekboston.com/culture/ancient-history/water-mi...
Isn't HTTP POST content similarly encoded? Likewise with small embedded images in CSS, though I am rusty on that topic. Likewise with binary email attachments in SMTP (though this may be uuencoded, same net effect).

The particular example of a trivial message that is mostly-binary just sounds like a useful test case, more than anything else.
> that’s one hell of a user benefit

Not for every user. Besides, the protections this would offer would be easily and cheaply circumvented via a raspberry pi and usb peripheral emulation. The is no escaping the analog hole as you stated.

I'm not willing to give up my control as an owner over my device for a reason as flimsy as this. Gamers who want to give up control for a slightly lower percentage of cheaters can get dedicated computing hardware (consoles) instead.
Architecting a Globally Distributed Software Development Org for Continual Dev [pdf]
Apologies for having to abbreviate some words in the title to fit into the title character limit.

I've seen questions and discussions around here about what staff/principal/etc engineers do and why (leveling terminology varying by company), including a fair and understandable amount of skepticism of its value; I thought that perhaps this recounting of my work and experience in that sort of position could be interesting to some. I have never posted one of my publications on social media like this before so I am interested to see how it is received, to engage on relevant topics, and to field some of said skepticism.

This is a case study I submitted to and was published for the XP 2022 conference, catching up after the COVID period. It marks my "drop mic" moment of switching from software engineering to machine learning engineering after IBM shut down the office where I worked for close to 6 years. I do highly recommend that conference, by the way, and the experience report track has an intentionally low barrier to entry that I am more than happy to chat about / advocate for because I believe that conference attendance/speaking should be much more normalized in our profession than it seems to be. (Call for submissions for XP 2023 is open until Feb 12 and only requires an abstract!).
The time complexity is real. I always say that I can give you an algorithm in any complexity you want- so make sure you don't give me any lower than is possible, or the garbage I put out won't work.
I find chatgpt throws out multiple options for almost every response and they become formulaic, as in this example of 3 options. Sometimes the options are even numbered.
I took it as a joke about cloud marketing speak.
At this early stage, filtering for misogyny may just be easier. My guess is that filters for misandry may give too many false positives.
The past 24 hours have really been something for Apple. I went to bed cursing Mark Gurman's name last night, and woke up eating my words; we actually did get new Macs. No event, no surprise fanfare, just a press release and a configuration page. Now we have AR shakeups to compliment the reports of a struggle to piece together a truly "Pro" desktop Mac replacement.

Sounds like their roadmap is getting shuffled around quite a bit. Not sure what all of this amounts to, but part of me feels like they're starting to get friction from TSMC. With reports that their exclusivity deal is starting to melt away[0], Apple might be seriously reconsidering what it means to have the most-dense silicon.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/97269-tsmc-may-cut-3nm-wafer-p...
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0
I'm curious how cloud they are. Maybe they have an advantage by starting after the maturity of cloud platforms, using the latest and greatest, and avoiding all the redesign cycles? Or maybe they don't cloud at all and that is their advantage? Or maybe that has nothing to do with it.
I would rather treat Orbitals, sort of like in The Culture but sans doubletalk magic.

I once calculated a ring (IIRC) a half-million km in radius, orbiting the sun in place of Earth (or opposite it, if you like), could spin at 1G in 24 hours, but would also need to be made of scrith.

The interesting result was that the tension would be the same as supporting a quarter-length at the target acceleration, hanging from one end. So, for mine you need a material that can support a straight length cable 0.5M*pi/2 km long hanging in a uniform 1G field, or (equivalently) while accelerating it at 1G pulling on that end. Of course the cross-sectional area cancels out, so you can just talk about how strong the material is.

Steel can support quite a few km. Kevlar can support hundreds of km. Idealized carbon fiber might support, what, ten thousand km?

A ten-thousand km orbital would need to spin too fast to give you a 24-hour day, and could not keep the air in without a lid, but ought to be interesting enough to work on, in-principle buildable. Someday.
When most people say "stop eating carbs", they are usually referring to the foods that have extreme amounts of carbs/sugars - "fast/junk foods", bread.
> VDOM vs. fine-grained: Yew is built on the virtual DOM (VDOM) model: state changes cause components to re-render, generating a new virtual DOM tree. Yew diffs this against the previous VDOM, and applies those patches to the actual DOM. Component functions rerun whenever state changes. Leptos takes an entirely different approach. Components run once, creating (and returning) actual DOM nodes and setting up a reactive system to update those DOM nodes.

yew:leptos::react:solidjs

Very cool, I might try to convert a typescript+solidjs app to a leptos app later.
Fascinating, the combination of need (more spinning machines could significantly improve use of thread spinning), the availability of coal plus the steam engines that were improved for coal mining use (bringing up the coal, pulling water out). It kind of all came together. Then boom.
What is a recording if not to allow for playback?
The worst experience for me is trying to play videos in the google photos mobile app (or the website). It can take 1-2-3-4 minutes (or never) for it to finally play a video I uploaded from my phone a few days, weeks ago.
This video asserts that FPGAs do the 10ns work, and C++ does the >100ns work. I've never heard of ASICs being used, since the deployment cycle is too frequent to justify the expense of fabing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAW5FQtcvE
I've only heard of this happening during really large mergers or situations where you are managed by someone so high up in the organization, you're effectively on your own.
It's a thing, especially in developing countries. You often get xGB data with an additional xGB social media data.
> My experience is that "being smart" is an advantage for the first years - say up to bachelor - at which point there is no magic: if you don't work, you won't get your exams.

Yes, if you don't put in the effort, you won't achieve very much, but this doesn't mean that being smart is not an advantage. It is, both early and late. It is clearly advantageous to both be smart and put in the effort over just putting in the effort. In fact, if you read my comment carefully, you'll observe that I explictly pointed that out, here:

> and you observe other students putting similar amounts of effort

Next,

> I am a firm believer that exams test skill sets that are only partially correlated to being actually good at job X - even if X is fundamental research.

Again, if you read my comment carefully, you'll observe that I never mentioned exams. I discussed

> obtaining much better results, understanding things more quickly and getting better ideas,

which is what you do in actual research, not just exam studying. I would really appreciate it if you read what I say more carefully, and respond to what I'm actually claiming, instead of what you incorrectly believe I am.
Don't forget "untinted windows". When every car is a sedan, a hatchback, or a regular cab pickup with untinted windows, you can see through the next 5 cars just fine.
it's impossible to fix sleep schedule when you want to make more money.
A 1/10 ratio sounds like a sensible explore/exploit ratio to me.
Compared to Netflix and even YouTube, TikTok has an extremely tight dopamine feedback loop. Any buffering of a video after a scroll event could result in the user's attention being lost and the session ending. My guess is that they've spent a lot of time optimizing video load because of how correlated with their revenue it is. For Netflix doing this optimization might not be worth the increased infrastructure cost.
I'm always amazed how often that happens. Again, excellent finding.
Slavery didn't really end, the same people worked on the same plantations... honestly, you wonder why they even started a civil war over it.
I have a Dell U3011 (flagship 30" monitor from 2011). Died due to capacitor.

The funny thing is, this monitor looks like it was designed to die.

Essentially, the smoothing capacitor was placed directly in the stream of hot air going up. Loads of better ways to organise the board or just move the capacitor but no, the capacitor had to be in the worst possible place for it.

I replaced the capacitor with one specced for much higher temp and it is still going.
> trackpad people seem to love this process, which I have never understood

I mean... Right back at you: you should have adjusted the sensitivity :P

The trackpads on my laptops are set so that a single moderately quick swipe across the surface is more than enough to cover an entire 24inch 4k monitor's worth of movement.

And no one on a modern trackpad (that I know of... I'm mid 30s) uses the "tap, tap again to hold" pattern. They click the button of the trackpad with a thumb (hold) and navigate using a finger while the button is held. It's mid 2020s, every trackpad shipped supports multipoint input.

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That said - a traditional mouse is still the hard winner in this category. No question. But I'd take mouse -> trackball -> trackpad -> trackpoint. My hands are large and the positioning of the nub is incredibly awkward and uncomfortable to use for any extended duration without moving my hands just like for a trackpad, and the nub doesn't allow real multipoint input or navigational gestures.
You are misrepresenting my points.

I don't believe the left hates whites. Where did you get that from?

When I was referring to the clown world stuff, I was talking about the extreme side of the left (which I'm assuming is where you stand?).

It was not a sudden interest either, it was in response to your (apparently misguided) theory that "woke" was an artificially constructed pejorative, rather than a term that was positive but simply became negatively associated due to these extreme cases becoming more common (or at least, more visible) in the past decade.

Look, I have just as much criticism about the right (especially the far right, of course) as the left, OK? Including overt racist behavior and narratives. We can definitely talk about that if you want!

I was just following the conversation, nothing more.
They were dead. Recycled or landfilled. Hopefully the former. The goop leaks out and ruins the board anyway.
Electrolytic caps (especially aluminum) do generally have a pretty bad lifetime. Their specs (capacitance, and internal resistance aka ESR) degrade significantly over time, non-linearly, as temperature (and voltage) go up. At their rated voltage/temperature, lifetime maybe be ten thousand (or less) hours...barely enough to last a full year of 24x7 operation.

This is one reason mining GPUs can be a questionable buy. The miner may have operated them at "low" temperature, but they were on 24x7, whereas a gaming PC may be only on a couple of hours a day a few times a week.

Ultimately it comes down to how much the designers overspec'd components and/or factored in for wiggle room and how much the capacitors can degrade before circuits start acting up enough for the user to notice.
I just tried to set this up and couldn't. Seems like it's invite only with a waitlist :/
Difference is that Twitter threw Vine away...