skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latter is a correct summary of what TFA says actually happens. Also hi, yes, it's me, I'm debanked at most US banks without wrongdoing.
I was using Elm full time back then, and I think some important context to note is that 0.18 had outstanding issues which had seen no movement for years (and PRs were generally ignored). The official guidance was “wait for 0.19.” While 0.19 addressed many if not all of these issues, it came with a number of breaking changes, some very significant.

0.19 also coincided with a reorganization of the GitHub repos which happened to scrub all past issues, PRs, and discussion. A more stringent moderation policy was also instituted on the official forums which forbade discussion of potential forks, unapproved workarounds of the new limitations, or any criticism which was seen as too harsh.
The risks have been extensively discussed. They don't have to brought up in every conversation.
How many of those companies use the same two or three marketing firms?
Are there other platforms you'd be willing to name that you see as being grassroots "for users by users"? I may want to look into some of them.
I’ve been pretty bad for upgrading every year but i stopped at the iPhone 11 and it’s what i’m typing on right now. The battery status is “service now” and claims 70% capacity.

I noticed it getting annoyingly slow in some scenarios so before splashing to replace the battery i figured i’d try a clean reinstall and i have to say it’s cured it. So Even if the degraded battery is causing performance limitations like i was suspecting, it’s no longer enough to be a problem and a 70% battery easily gets me through a full day.

One less battery in landfill. For now.
> IIRC someone did a very cursory look at the code at one point

Any idea how the targeting algorithm was chosen? It does not behave the way this letter says that it should.
wise.com for example.
I find all the writeups of self-attention very confusing. They seem to inevitably explain small bits in enormous detail and then leave all kinds of giant areas unexplained, usually are replete with jargon that they don't bother to clarify, etc. I feel like most of these are written by people who are confused themselves, trying to clarify the parts they don't understand as if this is what everybody else must be confused about to, so they inevitably gloss over everything they already know.

Fundamentally, I have never understood why a conventional neural network cannot learn self-attention. If layers are fully connected then they definitely have the ability to create a weighting of the inputs accommodating learning of relative spatial features in the data. In fact that's almost a definition of what a neural network is. If relative positional learning is important, that could be added the same way it is in Transformers without the explicit self-attention layer. So what is self-attention really doing beyond this? Why do we need a Query-Key-Value construct here? I am sure I am missing something very basic and fundamental here.
Wouldn’t it be prudent in this situation for China to just not send these balloons over the US mainland if they didn’t want to offer the US an excuse to fear monger them?
The NYT paywall has gotten far more aggressive in recent years.
Any insight you could share on why the server didn’t end up being provided to the community for self-hosting?
Mrs. Hester Pierce has my respect. Absolutely bizarre decision by the SEC.
Mastodon.lol will shut down on May 9, 2023
I remember it being in VisualAge for Java before that IDE became Eclipse.
The Canadian prairies have fabulous solar production, even in the winter time. They also have a good amount of wind.

And BC has tons of hydro.

So build out enough renewables to supply BC when the sun is shining, maybe even enough to pump some water uphill, and then have BC hydro supply the prairies at other times.
Ok, I'll ask: Can ChatGPT possibly kill us?

I'll also answer: No, it cannot.

Now that that's out of the way, we can get to discussing more interesting topics, like why an advanced language model is so bad at basic arithmetic.
Why is it disappointing? TypeScript's type system, via pseudo-dependent-types, is much more powerful than Elm's, Rust's, Haskell's etc. The only problem is that it's not sound, but JS itself is not sound, so TS can never be.
Protip for other gamedevs: when a player reports a bug you already know about say "thanks for the report, the fix will be in the next patch".

It is not the players fault patches take time to get through QA. Nor should there be an implicit valuation curve to free bug reports from players.
https://thespatialcommunity.org/ and https://discord.com/invite/nkmGYttFhH to start.
TOTP uses a publicly known algorithm that you can implement yourself. Most people use an app, but that’s not mandatory. No special hardware is required.
> To my surprise, the experiment quickly became an illuminating failure. The regime was, after just a few days or so, much harder than I had expected. I felt unsettled, tired, and much of the time quite cold, surprisingly (in February in Australia). Heartburn, headaches, inattention… it did not go well. On day 10, I decided to change plans, and add some dairy products to the diet for the middle third of the month. This transition was just as surprising as the previous one. Immediately I felt fine, with all those problems out of the picture. I felt better than fine, in fact – very sharp. Ten days after that, I resumed the near-vegan regime. The results were as discouraging as before, and I switched back. By the end of the month, I’d spent half of it mostly vegan and half as a vegetarian.

Even if I don't agree with the overall point of the article, this kind of honesty is a breath of fresh air.
Something simpler like this casts a much wider net in terms of who it can attract, and I recall another similar technical manga like this one going viral, so this was probably made to try and recapture that success.
You can use propellers to move up and down too. The buoyancy of a fixed amount of helium doesn't drop/rise much with altitude changes. It isnt like submarines. The needed vertical thrust to move a few thousand feet is minimal.
I don't know enc, but you can do this with age [0]

Encrypt: `age -p secrets.txt > secrets.txt.age`

Decrypt: `age -d secrets.txt.age > secrets.txt`

It asks for a password in both operations.

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
parachute garbage hangs for some time at high altitude
It is the same as popularity -- it's measuring the popularity among other websites rather than individuals, but it's popularity nonetheless.
Posts can be downvoted, if you have enough karma. This ensures that only people who have sufficiently interacted with HN (and therefore, hopefully, soundness of mind) to downvote only when off-topic, rather than on Reddit which is more for disagreement.
That's exactly what it comes to - most of modern flagships are the same. Best is one you have with you. You can pick traits that are important to you.

What's really weird are iPhone owners that begin conversations with "of course iPhone is objectively better", which I have met on HN a few times. They seem to live in a different reality, where it's justified to spit out couple hundred of dollars to not think for a five minutes.
There are migrant gangs of Matsutake poachers roaming Northern California and Oregon. Working for the National Park Service / USDA Forest Service, we'd have unrelated scientific monitoring equipment destroyed and stolen by these groups assuming that they were camera traps. There are, of course, migrant mushroom foragers in general; but the high sale value of Matsutake invites criminal involvement.
The concept of Impostor Syndrome has become ubiquitous
New Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second
Keyconfig and other legacy extensions are still available for modern Firefox with a modified userChromeJS: https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master...
F# can be written nearly identically to Python if one so desires.
That’s going too far. The NYTimes is playing a different game in a different league and a comparison is not apt.

I have read really interesting material on Medium and it’s just not enough to make me want to pay to read _any_ content on Medium. I might pay to remove ads like I do on YouTube but only after developing a habit that is triggered by content I care enough about and visit often enough for the ads experience to detract from it.

In my experience Medium should have been (could still be?) a Wordpress killer and not a publishing play.
They don't aim to. The problem is really just accreditation. If copilot copies a chunk of code for you, chances are the original author was perfectly happy for you to do that, and you put their name somewhere in your credits. Copilot copies the same code, but scrubs the original author. It may also be copying code that was not ok to copy but that's a seperate even worse issue.
I think you mean that Pandas does require your entire data to fit in memory? https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/scale.html
Americans will measure with anything except the metric system.
You want (current_month % 12) + 1.
I had been gone from Turbine for 8 or 10 years by the time they decided to shut AC down, so I can only speculate. I assume it had something to do with WB not wanting to "give away" the IP but instead just lock it away in a vault.
Isn’t this what Bing is trying to do by giving it the ability to search the web? I’m sure recognizing math problems is way easier than “recognize that the proper response to this query requires external knowledge.”
Can you say a bit about what problems you're running into? I have my guesses but am wondering.
The Kraken is a great example indeed. An eldritch horror lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system, that is not fond of Kerbals who are too ambitious, trying to get too far, too fast. A cosmic being beyond understanding. You can't see it and will never know where it is, if the concept of being in a place even applies to it. All you can know is that, as you travel further and further out, one day you may notice the laws of nature start to change, and this means the Kraken is about to have you for dinner. And sometimes, if it spots you doing something you shouldn't be, it will reach out even all the way to your home world and consume you there.

When it strikes, it eats you swiftly, and eats you whole. It disassembles your crafts, spaghettifies your crews. No weapon or speech will save you. The Kraken transcends reality - even time travel, reloading from a saved game state, does not always stop the attack.

--

Of course, the Kraken is just a manifestation of unstable physics calculations and a floating point-based coordinate system: as you travel further out, the spacing between two consecutive coordinates gets bigger, until it overwhelms the physics engine and your craft disintegrates. And if you start doing crazy stunts, particularly involving high impulses or very fast rotations, the physics will break even if you're close to coordinate origin, due to rounding errors.
Are they though? They are minor variations in technical language to describe the same mathematical reality.
You'd probably be well-served by exporting to some format with a spatial index. GeoJson is just a textfile, not much better than reading in a CSV. The current recommended format is Geopackage (gpkg), which is based on SQLite.

Edit: agreed on the slowness of DB connections, I've found that too, including for relatively small locally-hosted DBs.
Nope, it was before my time. I joined the team in beta.
Oregon has a slightly different approach: the photograph has to show the driver. They then mail a notice to the registered owner. The last I knew, it was possible to say "no, that's not me" without being required to say who it was. You do have to send in a copy of your driver's license so they can (presumably) compare the two photos.

https://www.portland.gov/police/divisions/photo-enforcement makes it sound like a business can pay the fine on behalf of the driver without having to reveal who the driver was.

The Arizona laws seem similar. There was a man who got 37 tickets, all while wearing a gorilla mask: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-traffic/2...

In Oregon, all photos had to be reviewed by law enforcement until less than a year ago. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2022/03/10/legislators-scrap...

Mobile speed cameras still have to be manned by a uniformed police officer. https://www.portland.gov/transportation/vision-zero/speed-ca... I have a bit of sympathy for that since I can imagine a person being threatened to remove the evidence.
Great analogy! I hadn't seen that. I can definitely see that in Groupon (which seems much less popular now?)

Although I would also consider the other side of the "sharing economy" -- IMO sharing like Zipcar makes a lot of economic sense, and I don't have a lot of sympathy for incumbents there (although I guess Zipcar got bought).

Likewise with the taxi and hotel industries -- the incumbents deserve some competition / disruption.

But yeah consumers are certainly fickle
RESTing with Emacs, or why EDN is better than JSON
Sending API requests from Emacs, using alternative to ob-http or restclient.
At the end of last year I put together a repository to try and show what is achieved by self-attention on a toy example: detect whether a sequence of characters contains both "a" and "b".

The toy problem is useful because the model dimensionality is low enough to make visualization straightforward. The walkthrough also goes through how things can go wrong, and how it can be improved, etc.

The walkthrough and code is all available here: https://github.com/rstebbing/workshop/tree/main/experiments/....

It's not terse like nanoGPT or similar because the goal is a bit different. In particular, to gain more intuition about the intermediate attention computations, the intermediate tensors are named and persisted so they can be compared and visualized after the fact. Everything should be exactly reproducible locally too!
It's not an externally imposed constraint that Germany's heating and industrial processes require natural gas; it's the result of Germany's conscious decision to build them on gas instead of electricity. Hard to interpret it as anything but pro-fossil-fuels.
> It’s not feasible to communicate back and forth through port every time you want to format a date.

Why not? Is it code complexity or runtime inefficiency you are referring to?
Reason didn't exactly 'die', the toolchain that most people used to call 'Reason' just rebranded as ReScript. And no, you could not have your backend running either Node or native OCaml (I assume you mean binary executable), no one ever made a viable library or framework to do that. Sure, it was theoretically possible if you did a ton of work, but no one did that, because it would have been a huge amount of work (seriously, a lot).
Because this devices are sold as savings over a period of time compared to a paper tag system.
> The bug doesn't seem to be obscure. It is there in the right place.

Well, there is a larger bug -- the entire algorithm, functioning properly, still won't behave the way this letter says that it should. It's not clear what it's designed to do, but it's very obvious that it doesn't do what the description says it does.

Did nobody ever notice that?
I was a Medium subscriber for a pretty long time. I'd seen some interesting, incisive stuff, so I subscribed. I'm happy to pay for quality. But shortly after I subscribed, the content I found was almost exclusively vapid self-promoters writing many, many words without any value about the latest buzzword they'd heard. It was so strange. The underlying tension between open, democratic platform, quality standards, and engagement is, clearly, not an easy one to resolve. I don't even claim to pretend to have an answer, but I would love to be in a position to pay for quality content on an open(ish) platform again someday.
How to Become Data Driven
Not even one picture of that battery.
The difference seems to be that you are talking about modeling and analysis and I was talking about calculating actual interest, as in the interest that is actually owed for a particular loan or contract (i.e. every particular contract) and properly accounting for that.

It doesn't matter if the interest is calculated for consumers, intrabank, interbank, fed to bank, loans, mortgages, taxes - the interest rates and interest periods and interest day basis and all kinds of details may vary, and of course accounting standards vary between countries, but the core principles are the same that it all eventually comes up to some amount of money owed to the counterparty - measured in whole cents or perhaps whole dollars or roubles or whatever, but never an arbitrary-precision float. You can't get to a final compounded result "only for output" because when interest compounds (for example, monthly) then at every such point you do have actual "intermediate output" which materializes into a customer-visible change of balance from which the next period's interest is then calculated, and that intermediate output gets rounded because that (unlike estimates or models) is a specific balance owed and it is denominated in a currency with fixed, limited precision. And so after many such steps, the total actual compound interest - i.e. the actual dollars and cents paid by (or to) the counterparty - is slightly different from what the common modeling approach gets if e.g., as you state, it does rounding only for the final output. The difference is tiny, so there is no problem for modeling to ignore it, but actual financial systems (i.e. tracking facts of money owed, not doing estimates and models for decision support) do have to come down to a rounded fixed-precision number owed for every contract at the end of every day.
yeah that looks to be it
Maybe Japanese fire balloons during WWII?

"One of the most unusual military actions of World War II came in the form of Japanese balloon bombs, or “Fugos,” directed at the mainland United States. Starting in 1944, the Japanese military constructed and launched over 9,000 high-altitude balloons, each loaded with nearly 50 pounds of anti-personnel and incendiary explosives. Amazingly, these unmanned balloons originated from over 5,000 miles away in the Japanese home islands. After being launched, the specially designed hydrogen balloons would ascend to an altitude of 30,000 feet and ride the jet stream across the Pacific Ocean to the mainland United States. Their bombs were triggered to drop after the three-day journey was complete—hopefully over a city or wooded region that would catch fire.

Nearly 350 of the bombs actually made it across the Pacific, and several were intercepted or shot down by the U.S. military. From 1944 to 1945, balloon bombs were spotted in more than 15 states—some as far east as Michigan and Iowa. The only fatalities came from a single incident in Oregon, where a pregnant woman and five children were killed in an explosion after coming across one of the downed balloons. Their deaths are considered the only combat casualties to occur on U.S. soil during World War II."

https://www.history.com/news/5-attacks-on-u-s-soil-during-wo...
Patreon still has some of this feel somehow - it feels more connected when I support someone
For decades engineers have enjoyed playing with new languages and making them do things for which they are unsuited, or better alternatives exist.

People have literally written emulators in Minecraft which are capable of playing Gameboy games. Why? Why not.
Says someone who I would guess has never been hungry a day in his or her privileged life?

There is a valid argument to be made that food scarcity, like housing and medical care should not be subject to capitalist profit-taking. That some information is so beneficial to the common good that it can never be a trade secret.

Also your tone is downright disrespectful and should be moderated.
I think you just described cryptocurrencies? Or did I miss the joke?
Ah, that’s kind of like refugees fleeing all kinds of failing states to better places, that have rule or law, democracy, human rights, prosperity and then actively trying to install the norms of the old country in the new place they fled to.
It's still useful. Some friends and I send group email (each person listed on the To: line) to manage our D&D game, but since it's only about eight recipients, it never gets out of hand and we're kept up to date with who can make the game and who can't.

What seemed to happen in the article is an email sent to a group-id (single email address that the server expands), not a list of a thousand-plus individual email addresses. To the client, a group email address is just an address---there's no indication that it will go to a few thousand people.
I'm also debanked, but sporadically, and weirdly at only some investment institutions. Fidelity outright banned me and demanded I call in to withdraw my money between absurd hours. I sent them an intent to file a lawsuit and I got my money wired within 48 hours. Vanguard and TD Ameritrade have no problem taking my money.

I'm also banned at Zelle, but Venmo and CashApp and Paypal are all fine.

What a weird world.

Of course none of them will tell me why I'm banned. I have my suspicions.
I don't think Rescript[0] in fact they are pushing active updates. I think they are trying to make a push into supporting the ocaml ecosystem as well, and not just be a compile to JS language

[0]: https://rescript-lang.org/
You can still use XUL based add-ons. You just can't do it in the chrome-in-spirit modern Firefox. There are plenty of great Firefox forks still maintained to this day that support XUL add-ons. And despite Mozilla's attempts to stop it users have scraped and collected together all the old addons in various archives.

I'm not saying this is a good solution for facebook/youtube/twitch/etc users that treat their browser as an OS to run applications. It's not. But if you surf with javascript disabled and tend to only use actual websites written in HTML it's still viable. (the html web still exists, it's just not as loud and attention grabbing as the megacorp javascript silos)
I think public competition for digital services would be amazing. I also think they should be a player, not take over the game.

I think the answer would be for them to host a competing service AND allow people to use their credits to choose that service or a different vendor.
Valid point. I certainly wouldn't want anybody to get hurt, or operate outside their comfort zone. At the very least I'd say that a helium system could be hacked (still some dangers from any compressed gas) but a hydrogen system would need to be engineered (and I'm not an engineer). And note the sibling comment about hydrogen leaking out faster, so it might not be practical anyway.
Seems to me that a certain cost should be impressed against the publishers of the content as well, to help prevent that content mill of garbage as well as offset the potential costs to regular readers.
I was very sad when XUL disappeared from Firefox - I had written a serial plugin in c++ via XPCOM, which had allowed us to more easily test and deal with firmware updates in the hardware we ran, and having XUL in Firefox meant for fairly quick and lightweight touchscreen applications that could be shipped to customers with very low hardware requirements, nothing like you'd need for electron today.

these were for point-of-decision kiosks, and were so easy to build and maintain, truly a great era.
Agreed, deploying the lighter model seems like the quickest way to leave a bad impression. Wonder if doing a slow "exclusive" rollout with invites (like with gmail) would be better from a marketing perspective
Most users switched over to pine, but the final nail in its coffin came when mutt was released; mutt stills sucks, but it sucks less.
If I recall it being right on the creek that led to the ocean probably exacerbated the environmental issues
Seriously. That was exactly my response. Sure, LastPass I'll be right over.

I need to get off my arse and rotate my most valuable passwords.