skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I find this point unconvincing too. I do not think elm is intimidating, lots of FE devs jumped on its bandwagon and it’s considered easy to learn. If it’s true that it is, the syntax seems like the last thing people would find intimidating about elm, or haskell. The intimidating part would be the programming model.

Reason basically started with that premise that syntax is a problem to solve and we saw how successful it turns out.
Nice! Direct access seems like the way to go if you're not worrying about the single player modes and shot structures, and if all the sound is from the physical interactions. I appreciate the API info offer, but I've already got the FAST Neuron controller, so I think it's a different path for me
I did call out GDAL, but missed the whole OSGeo ecosystem, I’m afraid.

Very cool to hear that QGIS is such a prominent piece of software in professional settings! I’m just a software/data engineer who dabbles in this stuff for fun, so I had no idea. Lots of comments here asserting the same thing.

It would be amazing to see OSS (even though not truly FOSS) replace industry giants. I see this happening a lot in my space, where a lot of OSS (mostly Apache, some MIT and consorts) overtakes commercial offerings.
"The ship is already leaking, so why not drill a few more holes?"

"You want to plug the leaks? But look at how numerous they are!"
Best to assume the US also knows this and is revealing (or not revealing) its capabilities accordingly.
Back when reddit was good, I was a moderator of a pretty large subreddit. One April Fools' day, I decided that, as a joke, I'd edit my subreddit's CSS to show the "reddit is down" image over of the home page. I did that, and, a few minutes later, reddit was actually down.

One could argue it was a coincidence, but I still like to believe that I influenced a major site's uptime. Mostly because they told me I crashed the site and asked me not to play any more jokes like that again.
https://www.otto.de/

I used them this week for the first time and was impressed by the responsiveness on my phone. I looked into the network tab and what I saw was an over-the-wire solution.

However, I'm sure that you can also achieve responsiveness this without HTML over the wire. I scimmed a few blog posts, and it seemed to me like they use Java EE, although I'm not entirely sure.
Is the iPhone’s ‘Made in India’ era about to begin?
Actually the laws as written DON'T impose any such requirement. Banks generally choose to implement policies that do that, but it is not required. And during COVID, many banks changed those policies.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/kyc-and-aml-beyond-th... goes into this. The primary concern for regulators is that you must have made statements to the bank that you can later be put in jail for lying about. And the bank must have approved procedures in place for identifying when transactions are high enough risk to decide to take verification steps.

On your comments about judges, you apparently have substantially more confidence in the common sense applied by the legal system than I do. Don't forget we now have a Supreme Court judge (Amy Barrett) who is on record, in a legal paper no less, saying that fiat money and the Fed are obviously unconstitutional, and judges should handle that by simply avoiding ever considering the question. (Read https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1304/ if you think I'm making that up.)

Does this sound like an excess of common sense?
Thank you I really like this game
"This is some bullshit!"

(Resident Alien)
It’s been what - a week or two? Since the first balloon made the news.

Were you hoping the US would react without thinking through their options?

Personally, I want a considered, measured response. We can always add sanctions or start a nuclear war later. Right now it seems important to understand what happened, discuss with other leaders, and figure out a smart response.

But yeah a lot of people just want to escalate every situation.
Woof, some of those comments were pretty terminally online.
Is there a reason F-22s are being used to take these balloons down?

Is it to take advantage of a training opportunity? I would think less advanced aircraft may be more cost effective to operate.
I think nostr is better in this regard:

- The "account" primitive is just a key pair, but you can layer more auth requirements on top of that.
- All messages are always signed by your key pair end to end.
- Server admin can't read your DMs or edit your messages. The worst they can do is see public posts or delete events.
- You can move your messages between servers with via piped CLI commands.

e.g.:

echo '["REQ", "my_mirror_request_id", {"pubkey": "mynpubkey"}]' | websocat -n wss://source | jq -c '[.[0,2]]' -M | websocat wss://destination

Anyway I know there are reservations, but ultimately I think it got many of the "account" things right as compared to other fedeverse projects where the "webmaster" is still a big deal. Ideally the server side of things would be unimportant, the clients can offer compelling experiences, and people can create their own internet cul-de-sacs in a more chill way...

Maybe nostr is not "the thing" but it's better than the mastodon paradigm.
Mysterious Green Lasers over Hawaii Were Likely from Chinese Satellite
Well, the redirect isn't going to work anyway, because the source server will cease to exist.

As for migrating followers, I hear that it's glitchy, people typically lose a portion of their followers when migrating.
Take Longer Vacations (2015)
I'm still waiting for that example
The reason why iceland can't have trees: sheep owners
We should pay very close attention to https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr as I think the future of app development is letting multiple clients implement their own custom UI layers on top of a shared core.
Nowhere these articles written by chatGPT? If an editor were involved the articles would be about a paragraph each or they they would have been put through the shredder.

I have been in the industry for years. The author said nothing enlightening or important.
That is actually 55% more (or three other way around, 35% less)
You may what to change up your definition of a 20mm round against a balloon. The statistics you reference is about accuracy and penetration. Take a look at distance until subsonic.
BART 'hazmat situation' may be linked to explosive San Francisco house fire
Definitely - it’s always tricky tracing the history of these things since these ideas are coming out of the same larger pool of experience and convention, and people are understandably prone to identifying an idea with the first place they encountered it, lacking visibility into other pockets of the primordial soup.

Looking at the language used to describe it on https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/ I’m struck by the resemblance to the message-passing systems which were common in the 90s and 80s due to the influence Smalltalk had in the 70s.
The reality you experience may very well be the sim (or average) of all realities in which your existence as an observer remains possible. Insofar as your perception is sufficiently non causally related to someone else’s, your actual realities may differ slightly in their average.

I suspect, though, that with modern communication and photography etc that these links are universally quite strong on earth at this point. Might be some divergence in space travel, though, with long message times and true causal isolation.

One thing that many “magik” traditions share is an isolation / purification ritual that often lasts months. Abrelenin “magic” is especially striking in its efforts to isolate the practitioner from causal communication with the outside world. Makes a person wonder if the idea was to walk back into a slightly changed set of universes? Crazy talk, right ? Right?
What made it problematic to run in prod for you?
is there a convenient download for all of thang010146's videos?
XUL was great. There was this tabs extension which allowed to have multiple rows of tabs open and even more rows accessible through scrolling with the mouse wheel.

Or another one which allowed to tile pages in one browser window.
The referenced article: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-05/coinde...
"I'm stalking you for my mental health?"
I installed ArcGIS "home edition" in Windows 10 for Arm on an M1 via Parallels and it performs rather well. QGis has never really been my thing, I guess I learned Arc (3.2) at too young an age and this old dog wont (no time) learn new tricks.
Thanks. It's also half as wide as it is long and 2 meters deep. That still is not a useful comparison if the audience has never seen one. It's a comparison without a useful reference. I always thought it funny and nearly worthless for an author or announcer to describe the volume of something in terms of Olympic swimming pools as if everyone listening or reading had a useful frame of reference in that comparison.
0.36 cents or $0.0036. Your math should be 3.24 GPU/query.
That reads like a lot of the users struggle with juggling things that are in conflict.

- JK Rowling is a tervert(!) and I must tell the world.

- Nobody is allowed to enjoy anything that JK Rowling is indirectly involved with.

- This will get me / my server banned from most of the world because nobody cares.

And since there's no way to compromise, they'll sort by priority and whatever is the most important wins.

It's a hard place to be in as a server admin. You can't really ban these folks or you'll be targeted next, and they are part of the community. If you let them do their thing, other servers will nuke you just to get rid of them.

Will Mastodon get shadow banning?
Still running - is not a greatest way to describe a business who's business plan relies on engaging a large audience.

I don't as practice use an ad blocker just to be polite to the sites I do visit and used to visit medium pages up until two or three years ago for light fluffy insights and I used to groan a little with the high ad load but not the point I wouldn't visit -- as there wasn't any really silly stuff like including a near 100 meg vidio payload with the hundred words I wanted to read. (I'll just say I don't visit Ars any more ... ever.)

At some point two or three years ago I believe I blocked a scraping API site ... I'm unsure what sites used the various apis, but around the same time medium thought it'd be cool to deal out some punishment, load the page and ads and barely two seconds after it finally loaded it was blanked. Yeah I guess I could have wrote a script that detected when it had loaded and taken a snapshot ... but for me it's easier to just ignore the entire site and surf elsewhere.
Nope, I turned it off in the setting in multiple places, still the battery usage shows "find my" usage
Did we have operatives taking sand samples or was that some over-exuberant librarian who got to say "I told you so" to their bosses?
A lot of the people reach out to us now at this point! Many of them are also part-time coaches on our website.
Buy a K cylinder from Airgas in Fairbanks and ship it to wherever you are.
Probably to send a message to China more than anything.
There are regular competitions at sea level with .30 cal rounds at ranges of 1000 yards.

600m is likely the default battle-zero, but it is nowhere near the maximum range of a 30mm round.
No such comparison was being made. The issue is whether or not the US or Chinese government affect our lives more, and since there's no danger of China trying to invade the US anytime soon, it's obviously the former. The Chinese don't care about watching the average person.
The F-22s are the most capable and are thus what are actually on-station as a reaction force, plus they have the highest flight ceiling which is relevant for taking out some of these balloons.
What? Are you saying that working hard makes no difference?
Even if typical sedan is something that is quite common I still prefer actual measurements so I can reference it to something that I am personally more familiar with. I know that one can fit typical sedan inside 2.5m x 5m parallel parking spot but so does SUV and Fiat Punto.
> Above 0 is too much. Could 10% buy you mod spot over a large major subreddit? Maybe get reddit to look the other way for your astroturf campaigns?

That's... not how fundraising rounds usually work.
Add cost of SWAT team raiding your home, getting on the terrorist watch and few other fun things.
When my family is planning a get-together we reply-all, or things go bad very quickly.
> Solar is modular, proven, and roaring.

Nuclear has been proven in France for decades. I've yet to see a medium-sized country with solar as the backbone of electricity production.
And elm delivers what? Some people writing some apps that they claimed to have less bugs and are easier to maintain? Who uses these apps? Who can tell? It’s all hearsay.
Related Youtube video [1] How would one keep such a tight beam from space? I would expect the atmosphere to cause some distortion and propagation issues.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PMiND4Yw [video][35s]
The type system is not sound… that is there are things which the type checker cannot prove.

Not that the languages themselves are unsound.
It's very easy to see why. People naturally are drawn to procedures rather then formulas.

When given a task of several things to do, that task is naturally given and expected in a list of procedures. Nothing needs to be explained here. People intuit this naturally. A list of things to do is grammar we all universally understand.

But ML syntax and FP?

Who composes all the procedures into a single run on sentence? And to top it all off it's some sort of functional grammar that's highly divergent from a list of procedures? That's essentially FP and ML.

This initial barrier is what prevents people from adopting FP.

People who say it's because C like syntax is the default syntax taught in schools are missing the point. C like syntax is MORE intuitive and THAT is why it is taught in schools.

That is not to say C like syntax is better then FP. I prefer FP, but I'd be lying to myself if I said it was naturally intuitive.
If by "conventional neural network" you mean a stack off fully connected layers, then yes, in theory one of those could learn a similar mechanism because of the universal approximation theorem. However, training one might be intractable.

It's good to ignore self-attention for a moment and take a look at a convolutional network (a CNN). Why is a CNN more effective than just stacks of fully connected layers? Well, instead of just throwing data at the network and telling it to figure out what to do with it, we've built in some prior knowledge into the network. We tell it "you know, a cup is going to be a cup even if it is 10 pixels up or 10 pixels down; even if it is in the upper right of the image or the lower left." We also tell it, "you know, the pixels near a given pixel are going to be pretty correlated with that pixel, much more so than pixels far away." Convolutions help us express that kind of knowledge in the form of a neural network.

Self-attention plays a similar role. We are imbuing our network with an architecture that is aware of the data it is about to receive. We tell it "hey, elements in this sequence have a relation with one another, and that relative location might be important for the answer". Similar to convolutions, we also tell it that the location of various tokens in a sequence is going to vary: there shouldn't be much difference between "Today the dog went to the park" and "The dog went to the park today." Like convolutions, self-attention builds in certain assumptions we have about the data we are going to train the network on.

So yes, you are right that fully-connected layers can emulate similar behavior, but training them to do that isn't easy. With self-attention, we've started with more prior knowledge about the problem at hand, so it is easier to solve.
> If you consider Twitter to be toxic, wait until you experience Mastodon.

I noticed this immediately on several Twitter alts I explored and immediately stopped using them. They were massive echo chambers and circle jerks. Some of them would even turn on each other and implode over incredibly minor things.

I remember message boards imploding in the early 2000s, but that usually took years, massive circles of people leaving, and changing of hands to achieve...this was like that on a speed run; and they mostly all went back to Twitter.
Original (referenced at bottom): https://makezine.com/article/workshop/understand-1700-mechan...

Although given both of these articles are from 2015, and Nguyen Duc Thang is still contributing (more than 3200 videos now, most recent was yesterday), maybe his youtube is a better link: https://www.youtube.com/user/thang010146
As the use of technology is increasing, so is business intelligence tools that have become increasingly popular among companies and organizations. Organizations are looking to make their processes smoother and make decisions that are driven by data. The implementation of such tools could bring significant benefits to Chateau Noir by making the most use of their data. The three tools that would benefit in the success of Chateau Noir are Tableau, Power BI, and QlikView.
Mastodon is software for running federated social networking servers. Are you perhaps referring to a specific server or community?

It’s quite possible to join a server that focuses on a specific hobby and generally avoid any of that horribleness.
Assuming it didn’t just start hallucinating plausible sounding phrases
A conventional neural network, i.e. one using a stack of dense layers, can't unroll across a sequence in the way the transformer does. So while it could compute the relative importance and interaction of the features it sees it wouldn't be able to compute that across arbitrary length sequences without a mechanism for the sequence elements to interact, which is what self attention provides.
No. Shooting down satellites is a very different thing.
>The Twitter workers showed the CEO a Google trend chart that illustrates the amount of interest in Musk has fallen by a factor of 10 since April 2022, along with other internal data.

>In a retaliatory outburst, Musk sacked one of the engineers on the spot. “You’re fired, you’re fired,” he declared, according to Platformer’s journalists and attributed to unnamed sources close to the matter.

Holy fuck, I can't believe people still work there.
> How much does a weather baloon cost? ...compared to a F22 flight, a missle + all the logistics?

If this is an actual spy object you also need to factor in the cost of the surveillance. How much money does the military lose due to the sensitive information being lost. Or how much does the military need to spend to regain strategic advantage? That probably costs more than a F22 flight and a missile.

Obviously this depends on the number of objects that one needs to respond to. Cheap surveillance devices can obviously overwhelm this and then you have a war of attrition.

In the example of the article we need to consider the cost of flights being downed (which they down when considering the cost of hitting an object and downing an aircraft. Quite expensive). Flights being canceled and/or delayed is expensive.
>MILFs on a programming story

Go on…
That's an example that sounds mildly similar to island culture in the Caribbean. Many there take a slow life approach and don't live by the clock.
The doom is more likely to come from the energy usage sending global climates further into a tailspin, but dumbing ourselves down isn't likely to help either.
I still miss TabMixPlus in my daily browsing. Haven't found a tab manager since that can match what it did for me.
When you bump your clock forward do you also bump your time stamp forward by the same amount?
If a search competitor comes about and gives better results, won't it lose market share?

I think a lot of people realize google search results aren't great anymore. There's pages of dumb things at the top because the system is optimized for profit. Hence, almost anyone on HN adding "reddit" as a keyword to search results. Or news editorials explaining why searching for a recipe for eggplant parm will have an enormous website with a story about grandma and food photography shots before the 5 step recipe at the very very bottom.

And maybe there's some wishful thinking too.
These are perfectly good measurement units. (Also, football field.)
Double Fine Psychodyssey (making of Psychonauts 2)
How recent was this?

If not recent, steps would be:

* Download and install .NET 7 SDK (very easy on basically any platform): https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

* Already, you have F#. You can run `dotnet fsi` to enter F# Interactive (FSI), the F# REPL. Or you can create a new solution and project with the dotnet CLI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/.... Once you have tests, you can just use `dotnet test` and it will find and run all tests.

* You can also just download VS Code and install the Polyglot Notebooks extension to write F# code in a notebook. All you need is the .NET SDK, VS Code, and the Polyglot Notebooks extension. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

* Either in an F# script (.fsx file), FSI (ran by `dotnet fsi` again), or in a notebook, you can install NuGet dependencies by just writing

#r "nuget: <package name>"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tools/fsharp...

I'm confused about the tooling being bad. Python doesn't have any management like solutions and projects like F# and .NET has. Visual Studio on Windows and macOS are good, there's JetBrains Rider, and also VS Code with Ionide for IDEs. I've never had issues with the tooling with F#. That cannot be said for Pip, in my experience.
They can only learn to program the first time one time. After that, everything is relative to their first language. So learning cost becomes a function of the distance between old languages and the new one.

Moreover, the gain in going from zero programming languages to one is huge. You can make things! Going from one to two is small in comparison. You can make things, but hopefully somewhat better.

So the ROI on learning a very different language isn't great for most. And that's when the technology adoption curve comes in handy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

For any technology, some people will like the novelty and will be risk tolerant, so they'll pick it up for fun. Others will be seeking some strong benefit; if the technology provides that they'll adopt it too. If that happens, another chunk of people will pick it up as the coming thing. But circa half of people adopt the new thing only when it becomes dominant or when they're forced to by circumstance.

Max Planck said, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” And that's often shortened as "science proceeds one funeral at a time." Software's not quite that bad, but it's certainly heading in that direction.
Social Security Numbers
Drivers Licenses

And before "but drivers licenses are not national" they effectively are via cooperation between the various states and between the states and the federal government
Also the ones that can afford a $1000 phone? I thought that was the case for people that cannot afford a computer
The insane people in that thread aren't kidding when they use the word "genocide". On Reddit, for example, here is someone claiming that Rowling is "actively funding the genocide of trans youth in the UK" <https://np.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/10xubmv/with_the_...>.
This was supposedly done during the US bombing of yugoslavia... open microwaves transmit pulsed radiation, automatic systems think it's a radar and bomb the site.