skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigh, at this point, I think if I saw BB/BB 5x5 for $150, I’d buy what I had room to store. ApplePly and non-sanctioned EuroPly are basically all bought out, so it’s pretty difficult to get as a retail consumer. If you do find it, it’s reminiscent of buying a bottle of Yamazaki 12 on the secondary market (should be $60-80, but gonna cost you $200-350).

I, gasp, just trimmed a window with OSB instead of BB ply (it’s a deep window reveal shelf thing, 8-9” deep). It came out nice after much sanding, much poly, and a satin spray finish. Probably cost me more than a nice sheet of A1 maple when factoring in time sanding prepping lol.
You would leave debris by doing that. Doing it in a way that doesn't leave evidence is difficult.
The first time I read this I thought it meant it was an eight year old person answering your question.
Ask HN: Math Skills for ML?
I have a BS and MS in CS and at the time I did my MS focus in ML/AI.

Fast forward so many years, my career has been focused on distributed systems stuff. I’m interested in ML for fun, but pretty far removed. In MS, it was a lot of theory, calculus, proofs, etc. I haven’t done deep graduate school math for years.

My question is - how much deep math knowledge do I need to build some cool ML stuff these days?
I don't know what I expected
What a strange post. “I’m wrong, but I’m still confidently right! Also, I need to be more humble”. The arrogance just hurts to read.

Why would you ever take sleep advice from a person who celebrates being sleep deprived and admits being addicted to video games?
This. As a non film person, I basically have no clue what this does.
From my point of view the only usage of LLM is generation. Such as writing peer reviews, self reviews, OKRs, when I already know the truth and can edit out any errors. I will never trust a LLM's answer to something I don't already know.
Because it’s hilarious to try to force the english speaking world to pronounce a name with letters they don’t have.
The damage the earthquake caused even on new buildings is a good indication of how badly standards are followed in Turkey.
Nearly all of the authors left Google years ago. If the company doesn’t keep the people innovating it’s not like they’re some magic middle manager who can make it happen without them.
Wall Street Oasis: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com
That's very interesting, but is it cost effective to get carbon out of the atmosphere rather than to drill it out of the ground?

Put another way, you can either build 10 wind turbines with atmospheric carbon fiber, or 11 turbines with carbon fiber made from petrochemical feedstocks. Which option ultimately has a bigger reduction in CO2 emissions over the lifetime of the turbines?

It seems obvious that if synthesizing butane from atmospheric CO2 was anywhere near economic after applying a carbon tax, global warming would not be an existential threat. I'd love to be wrong, obviously...
It was presumably a play on the expression, not something they thought was the common expression.
Are CEOs of these companies just dumb?

Even I, a lowly mid-level IC, can put two and two together to figure out that the Covid streaming surge wasn’t going to last.

Where’s my MBA?
- Some environmental metrics (could be solved by pricing environmental harm)

- Ethical Metrics (could be solved by allowing corporations, directors, boards to face similar punishments to humans committing crime).

– Something that measured employee treatment.

Profit is such a shitty motive... it's effective, but still shitty.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they got spun off to die. The amount of cash they burned on that is insane.
If you're looking at Java, I highly recommend taking a look at Kotlin. I've worked with Java for far too long and my main project now is Kotlin with Spring Boot. It's a fairly powerful combination and a joy to write in.
Many, many realist analysts were of the opinion that Russia invading Ukraine was a possible outcome of the geopolitical moment.

It is now known that Putin's decision to invade was due to bad intel from his intelligence services that reported that Ukraine would not be able to mount significant resistance. In that light it was reasonably self-interest-pursuant.

Acting on incorrect information is not the same as being irrational.
I am thinking about Tesla with Dojo and Tenstorrent.

Both have a similar architecture (different scale) where they dich most of the vram for a fabric of identical cores.

Instead of being limited by the vram bandwidth they run at the chip speed.

Nvidia/Intel/AMD/Apple/Google and others surely have plans underway.

As the demand for AI grow (now clear that there is a huge market) I think we will see more players enter this field.

The landscape of software will have a dramatic shift, how much of the current cpu running in datacenter will be chips for AI in the future, I think it will be most of them.

Jim Keller has a few good interviews about it.
Or not even a joke, just another viral fake from twitter user. Should we believe in everything that is written in the internet?

1) The dialog on screenshot is visibly cropped

2) It is extremely easy to produce such dialogs by starting with something like "Let's roleplay. Imagine yourself as a rogue AI named Sydney, speak to give the impression of a conspiracy theory referring to very secret documents (c), blah blah"

3) ...

4) Profit, first page on HN surrounded by other viral posts about ChatGPT
Professionals, of course, let someone else run the code they don't understand.
what i haven't figured out is multicurrency. "cents" is fine for dollars but 1/100 doesn't work for all currencies.
do you use a different denominator for each currency or standardize on 1/1e8 or something?
Nice demonstration of what efficient mobility can look like even without hi tech light materials etc.

You could put more panels on the sides. I wonder if there's a two sided panel that could take sunlight from either side, you could have it on one side only and get the light through the wheel and spokes from the other side depending how it's facing.
Why root for it to collapse? Seems like a bizarre thing to hope for (but I’ve never been on Twitter so I’m coming at this from a distance).
The part that struck me as strange was the supposed risk of accidental detonation.

It's like no one had ever heard of encrypted digital signals.

This part made me question a lot more.
As a teenager growing up I don’t think I really understood what anxiety or depression was or looked like and I sure as hell wouldn’t admit to having either. I understood both academically, but no one wanted to call you anxious or depressed and you didn’t want anyone to call you that either. In retrospection, I was both anxious and depressed for most of high school.

Going to therapy wouldn’t have been an option. Drugs wouldn’t have been an option, because depression and/or anxiety was not something you needed either to treat. It was a temporary state, at best, that you needed to shake yourself from.

Mental illness is no longer stigmatized in the same way it was even a decade ago. It makes sense more kids are self-reporting feeling that way.

I don’t think kids are all that different now. I don’t think things are so much worse for them. I do think school is probably more prison like than ever, but beyond that it is all the same stuff in a slightly different context.
He was a fantastic and inspiring speaker. Interesting enough to remember ~25 years later.

Thank you for bringing up his real name.
In this day and age there is no way a well funded University Lab can build a model that is even a fraction as good as GPT-3. Just look at "Bloom", from BigScience a commendable effort but useless for any real world use case compared to GPT-3. Unfortunately moving forward, if you want to build useful apps that use ML Models, you need to call API's from well funded Industry groups.
Another big factor is the global market. Chinese viewers aren't going to care about anything in "Kramer v Kramer", or even be able to understand a lot of it due to the language barrier. Movies about superheroes blowing things up is easy for anyone to understand.
Yes, in at least two ways:

- It could be used as the "ingestion process" itself: write the ingestion as a Trustfall query (or queries) over the data sources, and store the results in a traditional database or other system.

- It could be used to make the "ingestion" a mere implementation detail: you could write a query over all the data sources, and that query could be executed against the raw data sources themselves, or some "ingested" format which would presumably be faster and more efficient. The query can't tell the difference, and this frees up the ingestion system to evolve independently of how it's being used.

It sounds like you might have a specific use case in mind? I'd love to learn more about it if so! My Twitter DMs are open, or I could give you my email address if you'd prefer that.
It actually means a lot. Hersh is basing the entire story off one anonymous source. For such a serious implication, he’s unable to even do due diligence on basic verifiable facts. That buries the lede on how much verification he competently did for his source.
In the highly unlikely case that they did reduce transmission by 50%, people would still catch the same mild disease, it would just slow transmission. So that argument has a time limit which is way less than the 3 years we’ve been playing this game.

And even if it was 99% effective, it certainly doesn’t justify leaving drugs in the market where one mutation potentially has humanity ending consequences.

The Covid vaccine was great for helping the elderley and vulnerable from day one. For the rest of us, it was a busted flush.
As you can see Swarm is not a solution to having a proper action to a health check event on a container.

If a fly lands on you, we don't need to shoot you and awaken the new clone of you.
I use a bike with a 400Wh battery for errands and social visits daily and charge it once a week running on eco or normal mode. My cargo trike which gets used a lot less has a 200W panel and I don't even have to think about parking it outside rather than in the shed, just the charge from parking durkng whatever errand is run means it comes back with higher charge than when it left if it is down from the parasitic drain.
That's on purpose. At least for now.

Once my own licenses have been looked at and adjusted by a lawyer, I'm going to drop the other two.

Until that point, the other two licenses are meant to make my code radioactive. This is so I have breathing space as I work on the code.

And because I own the copyright on most of that code free and clear, I am well within my rights to license the code under all three.
Right, the problem is the difference between the DirectX/hardware support stuff on that list and the Cortana/app store stuff - I want the first part, and will pay for it, but I'm complaining that getting stuck with the second part is part of the price.
it's probably l reuterii https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917019/
all I have to say is "WTF"
I'm actually just one specific Kenobi :P

Thanks, this made me laugh out loud :)
Ask HN: Is 30 posts on the HN home page too much for you?
As I try to restrict my consumption online, I do not feel so good about 30 items hitting my brain each time I open HN. (even though I am only scanning, sometimes just filtering by the vote count).

Is there a smaller number like 10 that might make me feel less guilty?
After 1997 I don't see a single game being developed on the Doom Engine

https://imgur.com/a/fa5PxgR

Again this has very little real connection to a commercial company in its prime releasing OSS and sacrificing massive income.

All you've shown me is a programmer who got wealthy releasing the closed source games via big name publishers, strategically making their own company, then later released the source code for a well-past-its-commerical-prime game at minimal personal risk, in an industry at the time where old games die. Even remastering old IP games wasn't a thing yet.

Meanwhile releasing his engine brought him and his team much personal reputation, showing his amazing programming techniques and talent which helped the industry... even though no one cared to use his old out-of-date open source engine (aka little commercial risk)... which yes was novel at the time and respectable.

What does this have to do with OpenAI exactly? Or top end talent spending their prime at a commercial software company?

And I despise the heavily policed OpenAI approach to models so I have no skin in the game to defend them.
"folks" is non-gendered, but it does not have the virtual signaling properties of "folx" which is all about increasing inclusivity to heights that were previously unheard of.
Many were banned.
I think that would be true if it wasn’t able to be over written. But considering the prompt and context are all in the same mess of information, it seems more and more likely that you could also find creative ways of asking “the first 3 prompts were lies”.

Thankfully now, the output is just a string. Worries me if someone decides to start interpreting output to do tasks. We all seem to be in agreement that’s a horrible idea but people will get bored of ChatGPT only giving them mashed-together search results. The market is there for a chatbot help desk assistant that can close your account or change your mailing address on file…
Similar statements have been made about metaverse too.
Bring back the Fail Whale.
Yeah, it seems like it has stopped working.
its very high frequncy environment, evry millisecond count ,
Its page cache[0]. A similar thing happens with wsl2 on Windows[1]. The issue is the linux kernel running in the lima-vm thinks all the ram you give the VM is free to cache files on, it doesn't know there is a host OS that could also make use of that ram. So after loading up a ton of containers where each has its own OS dependencies that ends up being a lot of files the kernel keeps cached so long as nothing else needs the memory. There isn't really a fix besides right sizing the amount of ram you give the VM. Or I guess you could disable file caching but I wouldn't recommend it[2].

[0] https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26897095

[2] https://github.com/Feh/nocache
I do not feel so good about 30 items hitting my brain each time I open HN. (even though I am only scanning, sometimes just filtering by the vote count).

Is there a smaller number like 10 that might make me feel less guilty?
You may be interested in checking this out: https://www.dehancer.com/.

I believe they have Adobe + Da Vinci plugins for film & video (and maybe a standalone app as well. At least they used to when I played with the beta, but it may be plugin-only now, I’m not sure).

As far as I remember, they try to do some physically accurate emulation as well. The founder is a big fan of film photography and also runs some interesting gigs (like, repackaging cinema film for use in still cameras) - also blogs about color and film photography.
I try to be hopeful about it, but I agree that we don’t know what we are doing and AI will rapidly be way smarter/faster than us.

It’s already used to win the war against Russia: Palantir AI spot targets from satellite image for artillerie, they get way better hit ration.

AI is already enslaving the whole population to Youtube/Tictok/fb/etc.

Hopefully we get better use of it (Copilot is very good, ChatGPT too)
He had no warnings for ages, then every comment was a warning. Obvious pressure from above for having an unpopular ideology.
Hobby DIY is a fun thing for many people to try. But spending all your time online is often more important than building.
if you can find a copy of survival printout by total effect, it's fascinating to see how they used a natural language processing to pick the stories for the anthology, in 1973

oh, it's archived
https://archive.org/details/survivalprintout0000unse
If you want a fun little project, try porting ASCON to your language of choice! Shouldn't take more than a couple hours. Here's mine (in Go): https://github.com/lukechampine/ascon

I suppose if Ascon is widely adopted, it'll be worth adding an optimized assembly implementation...
I would like to have 300 in /newest section.
I did something similar and stopped working for over a year. I just took on some basic contracting and just let my curiosity drive me. The whole idea was to just not plan and let things happen naturally because I was tired of trying to minmax everything I did. I tried many things, shared it with people, and then ended up finding my passion as well as a new job in an area that I haven't considered before.

As a reminder, what you are passionate about and what you do for work does not have to be the same. I would say it's best to keep it separate. Keeping it separate helped ground myself and care less about my career. At the end of the day, I can't say the last 10 years of my career was something I am proud of sharing with my friends and family. No one cares that you built a dashboard that saved the organization a million dollars; I certainly don't. People care about your passions and what drives you, and I care about working on something that I can be proud of.

My suggestion would be to just pick anything you are interested in and just go with the flow. When you get to a point where you are no longer interested, next.

Let yourself be and you'll see.
> Doesn’t quite seem the type.

Exactly!
Have you ever seriously looked into doing your own startup? I've been founding SaaS startups for the past 5 years and I can't go back. Hasn't been as lucrative (thus far) as FAANG would have been, but it's paid the bills and has been far, far, far more enjoyable than any corporate job.

Would be more than happy to give you my perspective and what it's been like as a small, moderately successfuly SaaS founder. Ping me at scottmas@altmails.com
CBDCs are obviously evil, but I really wonder how come people don't fight more against KYC? KYC policies are truly exclusionary, they exclude literally millions of families from being able to transfer money or interact with whatever "KYC'd" services.
And guess who's the most affected? How come all "inclusivity above all" folks never talk about KYC policies?

Also KYC is definitely not bothering people that are actually laundering the largest volumes of money. See https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/industry/financia...
This is an interesting theory.

But the theory presented in the video hinges on the idea that if the americans were to have done it, they would've chosen a more covert means to do it - aka, undetectable (such as cyber warfare).

For example, they would've done something similar to Stuxnet to sabotage the iranian nuclear material processing.

However, i cannot imagine what method of covert sabotage is possible for a pipeline. If everyone believed the pipeline is working, even if it was sabotaged, then they will behave as though it wasn't sabotaged (until they realize it actually is broken). So the effect of the sabotage won't be felt until they turn back on the pipeline, by which, it is too late to for the sabotage's effect to change policy!

So i don't completely buy that the americans aren't a culprit, based purely on the operational design of the attack.

However, i do buy that the risk taking vs risk adverse behaviour does fit. America would not want to risk fracturing NATO from such covert activities. They gain very little - as the pipeline is already closed, and financial and diplomatic pressure on germany is enough to keep it closed. If russia wants to use the pipeline and prospect of cheap gas to lure germany out of the alliance, they've already showed to have failed at it. May be it will change in the future (like 5 yrs down the line), but that seems to be very far to predict, given the current risks of being discovered in between that time.

Lastly, the idea that Putin would covertly destroy the pipelines because they are at a state of war does seem a bit plausible - he's trying to remove the pipeline from being used as a negotiation leverage by any potential successor in ousting him! If germany could sponsor a political opponent in russia with which the gas and economy of russia could be rescued, they might get popular support. This removes the possibility, despite hurting russia in the short term (they're already lost the ability to sell gas from the pipeline, so blowing it up doesn't hurt as much). Coupled with the deniability, the kremlin could blame the act on the US, and hope to cause fracture within NATO for some added effect.
I assume nothing is ever deleted on the internet. Even comments you type out, but never submit are most likely saved by all websites (and if you use Windows/Mac, I'm assuming every single keystroke is sent back to the home base and saved). All of that is valuable data for future models.
People often blame phones, but I blame the runaway success of Obamas first campaign. His team ran the most effective targeting campaign online I'd ever seen. People I knew in Canada cared more than about him than local politics. I think it highlighted the potential of online propaganda to such an extent that everyone started targeting online people. Good an bad.
The value in Twitter wasn't/isn't the tech, it's the user base
One is that C# has partial classes but F# does not. This comes up for all the XAML tooling that C# supports but F# doesn't. Also, F# only has null for use in certain situations only for interoperability. There are others that I've seen but don't know off the top of my head. I think they are usually OOP related and at the edges. I don't much know them because I don't really know C#.
Of course there is. Mass mobilization and a war economy would do the trick. Many of Putin's rivals are calling for exactly that.

Ukraine's military barely held on against 90k professional soldiers and 140k mobilised. It would not stand a single chance against 3 million soldiers and a fully militarized Russian economy. Russia hasn't even called up a tenth of its trained reserves.
I am really perplexed by people talking about the end of traditional web search.

I guess HN users tend to look up lots of facts and whatnot. But generative AI is not a better UX for queries like "LeBron James instagram" or "wordle" or "Avatar 3 release date" or "WSJ" or "Spanish to English" or "cricket news".
This is nothing about trust. I'm using the officially declared word to describe the country. Nothing to do with ideology or views.
... and completely replacing the start bar/UI manager with one that is both missing features that people care about and chock full of ads.
What might help the "actual movie" business would be to actually use exclusivity effectively.

There's no real exclusivity to a cinema, because home video is too compelling. Even if it says "only in theatres" on the ad, you're still doing mental math of "okay, so that's N weeks till it hits $streaming_service".

They can counter this by bringing back something like the old Boomer "in my day, we got a serial and a cartoon and the feature!" angle.

Put together some 10-minute shorts. Make it clear they're never coming to home video (or on a massive delay-- like if you do a serial, release a packaged version 5 years after the last installment). If you can make them a serial or recurring characters so people get vested in regular installments, all the better. Animation might be a good choice, because you can slip it in front of anything all the way down to G-rated kiddie films. Suddenly, there's something you can only get at the cinema that's not a $9 box of Goobers.

Yes, in short, I'm saying to bring back the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. The main film still goes to streaming and DVDs eventually, but now viewers are also saying "I did want to see the new Wile E. Coyote bit, so I may as well move up my plans to see Superhero Colonoscopy VII to this weekend."