skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, but false stuff also gets reported all the time, so how does one decide what to believe?
Medium is not Economist.
Not to be too provocative, but hugely expensive precision equipment being fooled by a microwave oven with the door cut off is exactly what I’d expect from the US military.
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Do you think it is better for the government to decide what's in your best interests?
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So true!

Look at clips of Wayne Gretzky from the 1980's, which is also when he set all-time records that have not yet been surpassed (and people still believe never will, though Ovechkin has a chance at the goals record)

What's incredible isn't what he's doing, it's what everyone else around him is NOT doing.

* He's skating fast but not that fast (compared to modern skaters)

* His shot is accurate but he's not a sniper. Many shots never leave the ice

* But the defenders have absolutely no checking ability

* And the goalies are upright! The butterfly style hasn't been popularized yet! They're just awkard sieve slowly shuffling around in net.
We are specifically talking about the user visible pages of these companies and their “enshitification”

> Facebook's business was providing a common platform for people that know each other to share publicly. Twitter's business was a billboard to share what they're doing. Google's business was to provide a way to find things on the web.

They may have other businesses in banner ads but I’m specifically responding to the question,

> do all platforms go through this? if so, it's very sad.

by trying to make the point that if their business is selling attention, then pissing off end users - thereby reducing the supply of attention - is bad management.
More like Phoenix LiveView: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html
Yes, Europe is going the OSS path. I work at University and almost everyone I know in GIS fields switched to QGIS in the past 5 years. Most government departments are also (trying) to switch, some succeeded already (others are waiting for important people to enter pension, so their replacements are more OSS minded).
Does anyone have a preferred resource for someone who wants to learn more about what a “processed” or “ultra processed” food is? The nova scale seems pretty vague but I get the point.

I could probably tell the difference on the shelf with good accuracy but I’d like to add a little more rigor. Like, what brands, compounds, etc to stay away from?
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> generally that devolution is violent and extremely unpleasant

Got a case history?

> it's generally under appreciated just how unstable free-markets are.

Freedom does require eternal vigilance, that's for sure.

> the half life is extremely short

The US has had one for what, 240 years now?
The only time anyone wants to know the exact length of a sailboat is if there’s a concern about it fitting in some space.

At all other times, your incentive is to make the biggest lie you can get away with.
The fact that you're asking that sort of proves my point.
(I know you're probably trying to be funny though)
Would you please neither start nor perpetuate flamewars on HN? You did both here. Not cool.

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"Redirect some heat" from where? In the installs I've seen they did it from inside the house i.e. literally cooled the house down. The alternative heat is needed to keep the inside temperature up and work against the pump cooling your house down when it's already cold. Do you have some other alternative source of heat on the modern heat pumps?
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> I don't actually use the web interface there at all myself - I use https://elk.zone/ on my laptop

Elk is just another web interface, isn't it?
If you're not aware, Chrome != Chromium.
I'll point out that a bajillion people have had their content mirrored on marc.info without necessarily realizing it was happening. I think that's a little different, but also not so different.
at least it's not saying like asking for microUSB and getting USB-C...
I was really into Tcl in the mid 90s. Loved it! And Tk was awesome! And then there was Expect…

But despite now being a Go programmer, and as much as I’d like to try it, I can barely remember a single thing about any of it.

But I do wish there was a bit more info in the README.
If this is what you believe is wrong with Medium, then i don't think you will rescue it.

Medium.com now paywalls even bullshit content. Simple as that.

You limit me to x number of free articles in a month, yet the first 10x articles from medium i see are absolute trash with no quality control and vetting and all so by the time i hit my limit, I am already annoyed by it.

If you are going to paywall me, let the content behind the paywall be from vetted sources that i have some sort of reasonable expectation. You can put a 'Buy Me a Coffee' for the rest of the other unverified sources.

If i am searching for articles on an advanced technique and all i see are articles from newbies who are neither addressing the question nor providing new insights, you can rest assured I will not be paying for your service nor clicking top search links from your site.
There are plenty of failed states on the planet where you can live with basically no taxation at all.
Nitro Zeus (2016)
What is DCS?
> Not a touchscreen Mac, but a Surface-like 2‑in‑1 device running Mac OS with an added ‘tablet mode’ that would adjust Mac OS’s UI to be operated by touch when you’re running Mac-only apps

THAT'S A TOUCHSCREEN MAC THOUGH
> Why do you want to touch your Mac screen so badly?

I don't, and I don't want random third parties trying to do it either. GTFO with your greasy fingers away from my nice clean Macbook Air screen.
Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (1999)
Didn't Apple just release an patch that covered the 5S? The phone's 9 years old, now. An open bootloader is a different story, but so far, Apple's delivered on long-term support.
Andrew Wilkinson's book recommendation “cheat sheet”
There is also react server components now that tries to solve some of the island architecture pitfalls.
And you can continue using it as is. But let the rest of us have full access to the hardware to extend its capabilities and lifetime.
You can give feedback and use a prioritization mechanism together.

"Hey, that's really difficult right now, because ____, so we'll put it in the queue for some future time."

"I'm not sure how exactly we can do that and still <do other important thing>, because ______. It's in the queue so we can think about it later."

"Doing _______ seems to create a significant problem in ____________. Maybe there's a better way. In the queue."

This way the person doesn't need to be told an outright "no" or back down; they can save face and have time to change their mind. Similarly, the idea is preserved so that if these reasons weaken or we come up with a better idea about how to do it, we can move forward.

Finally, you preserve the concerns about the idea. Then, if you're not there when the idea is brought up again, then they can encounter it already-in-the-backlog with the concern/problem.
No.

Why not use Dalle to generate the image, and then print it yourself.

AI images aren't honestly all that great, I wouldn't want to pay to get it printed
I'm not sure why people find it so confusing to be honest. On my laptop, which is a laptop and not a two-in-one, I touch the screen all the time. It's not about performance; if I'm optimizing for that, then I use keyboard only. But like, if I want to read some long document in a PDF reader, good GOD is it nice to be able to reach over and naturally drag, pinch, or even rotate in some situations. I do it all the time to zoom in on something to show someone who is in close proximity something on my screen. A screen with pen input is even more useful; it's a tad awkward to use on a lap that way, but on a desk it's pretty good.
> I suggest reading a little bit about the subject.

Listen, our side has a gigantic blind-spot when it comes to political opinions. We're often college-educated, we hang around with similarly educated people, and we tend to be relatively successful in life, and attributing that to our smarts and education.

So when it comes to politics, we're certain that our choices, our stances, are the smart ones, the educated opinion. And as soon as we encounter a person who doesn't share our opinion, we assume it's because they're not as smart, not as educated as us. They're simply ignorant of the facts around the issue, and if they just had all the facts, they would come around to our enlightened point of view as well.

So, in our magnanimous benevolence, we offer to educate the other person. Here, read this article, check this link, watch this talk. Now, you see? Now you understand, right?

That other people might come to different conclusions, because they have a different world-view, or principles, or because they don't share our vision, it's inconceivable to us. But we're the smart ones. We're the educated ones! If people don't agree, it simply means they're not educated enough, so we must educate them harder, or they're just un-educatable! They're bigots! Neanderthals! Cavemen!

Yes, that is it. We're smart. They're ignorant. Aaahhh, all is right with the world again.

Just take the L on this one. It's a good game. JKR's views on trans people are extremely mainstream. Go fight some actual transphobes instead of this lazy slacktivism, harassing streamers online or spoiling the game for other happy gamers.
I note that there are a lot of exploits that enable replacement of proprietary firmware and operating systems:

https://wiki.debian.org/Exploits
Sounds like the setup to the old "start with a $2000M business" airline joke.
> first one has taken a graduate level stat course and/or ML course, and may have work experience in machine learning/data science

I think it's just a few people getting salty because they understand "how it works" but don't understand "why is getting popular". So they start to shout from their ivory tower without realising the tectonic shift under way.

Sort of, you know how to build a stupid mobile video/photo app, but fail to make it popular like facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc. The tech used is certainly not transformative on the surface, but the implications of mass adoption and impact at a societal level are huge.

I for one I'm excited about its usefulness and how this is going to speed up the AI race. The genie is out of the bottle.
I absolutely hate it when people touch my screen. I can never imagine putting my fingers on my screen over using my mouse / keyboard
I’m sure the US military is smart enough to put their toys away before the balloon they’ve been watching for a week floats overhead.
High-altitude object shot down off Alaska, US says
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John Ousterhout: My Favorite Sayings
Telemetry enabled by default is not OK.

If want voluntary data from users, ask for it. When a "tech" company knows the answer would likely be "no" then they avoid asking for permission. Hence, "enabled by default". Most people do not change default settings.
These maps are so amazing. I can see some of these on the wall framed. Zork and Hitchhikers Guide were my first games on my father's IBM PC. I got in trouble for being "addicted". Little has changed.
I think there's a further split between "academic experience" and "real world experience".

I'm mostly a developer to be honest, but my job title is technically "data scientist". From my experience most stuff I see is not a math problem, it's a data problem.

You want to optimize $thing? Well, you'll need a pipeline to fetch the necessary data and have them ready on demand, and that's actually harder than modeling.

This isn't a dunk on math or research; I'm a math fan (?) if anything, I just find a large part of the discussion around ML to be very far removed from the reality on the ground.
> I feel like most of these are written by people who are confused themselves

I teach the course at my uni and I'm highly confident this is true, even in the research community. Part of this is that people are hyper concentrated on dot-product attention (<softmax(<q,k>),v>) (DPA). There is a lot more forms of attention than this. It does help to go back to early attention mechanisms like those discussed by Bahdanau (Bengio's student) and Graves (Deep Mind). When you look at these you'll find a clearer definition: a learned weighing function (Bahdanau specifies as a probability), conditioned on some input applied to a learned embedding conditioned on another input. If the two inputs are the same then it's self attention, otherwise cross. You'll see some people refer to the learned weighting as a score (not to be confused with Fisher Score -- gradient of likelihood -- used for diffusion training). Understanding this you'll see that the definition is broader that DPA but also what makes attention powerful. But lots of people don't catch this because they don't have the history of RNNs. DPA has become the de facto choice because the dot product between the two embeddings creates a more powerful score function without introducing lots of parameters (there are people exploring more complex structures).

> I have never understood why a conventional neural network cannot learn self-attention.

I'll even ask another question, why can't densely connected networks (linear) learn self-attention? Both convolutions and dense layers are universal approximators, right? But we often see convolutions as the preferred choice over dense layers (note: they are equivalent when 1D, kernel size is 1, no padding, stride of 1). Well the power is how information is encoded and connected. CNNs in essence capture a form of positional encoding as they have a structured order. Transformers need a bit more help (note that there's also relative positional bias (they also require augmentations)) and that information helps them create very powerful graphs. But one big advantage to DPA is the multiple heads, which can take different "views." Importantly, transformers scale extremely well. Essentially attention creates a more complex connection between the information. That can make them harder to train, but also allow for more efficient encoding of information.

I could talk a lot more but I'll stop here (though a very incomplete explanation). There are two resources that I really like to hand to my students:

Lilian Weng's blog (everything she does is great) has a good coverage of many different attention mechanisms and discusses the RNN history https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2018-06-24-attention/

This medium blog. It isn't as in depth but it is good and you end up with a model that students can actually usefully train. It'll also hopefully answer some of your questions https://medium.com/pytorch/training-compact-transformers-fro...

Bonus: Softmax tempering can help you understand why we scale the score https://aclanthology.org/2021.mtsummit-research.10/
Ask HN: People in long term relationships how do you find topics to converse?
Apart from topics related to day to day activities how do you strike up interesting conversations as if you are the same teenagers that are one week into the relationship.

Does the ability come from reading fiction?
The Mac trackpad gestures let me do all that without having to reach up to the screen to do it.
Global Missile Defense using commercial satellite constellations
Those Excel spreadsheets your friends teased you about are suddenly looking pretty good.
I too live in Seattle and have friends who bought a heat pump; they ended up in a hotel room and until they could had a HVAC company come to their home and install a backup heat source.

In Seattle are highest usage months for electrical is in the winter, right when you will be maxing out that 50A breaker you had to install in order power that beast; check the notes from Mitsubishi, they are clear that it is not an efficient device in the range you suggest ( and seeing how in Seattle most homes are still at 100A service you must either be living in a newer home or one with an upgraded service ).

You realize that Seattle is now an importer of electricity and is no longer running surplus?

Or how about that the city has been using an unsustainable amount of water? ( i.e. where our power comes from ) Or that our electrical come at the expense of Salmon and the endangered Orca pod that lives in the Sound?

If you replaced your "furnace", which implies a central HVAC system, with a Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, which I believe is only installed as a mini-split, what are you doing about your air quality?

The Seattle area suffers from "inversions" through out the year; a mini-split does nothing for air quality issues. The smoke that we dealt with in the fall? That wasn't even the worst air quality issue we have had in the last decade.

I am sure your electrical bills are 1/2 of what you were paying for an electric furnace, but unless you are abandoning the use of your heat pump for providing cooling your overall energy yearly costs are unlikely to go down.

I don't know situation, I don't know what options you had when you installed your unit, and I have not listed all of the good and bad that come with the unit that you installed.

There has been a lot of "mini-splits will save the environments" coming out of our City Council; there have been zero reports presented that back up those statements. The local heating and cooling people are happy to install units which have a higher markup/generate more work for them.
While there definitively _are_ similarities, this example (as far as I’m concerned) is a perfect illustration of a line that shouldn’t be crossed, and that Medium - as opposed to YT - unfortunately did cross.
I’m personally trying to avoid Medium links because of the 3-article-max/month paywall applied to my account, but clicking on a YT link isn’t a problem for me.
Why? Go figure! I’ll have to deal with the ad(s) - more and more so! - and a request to test YT-premium, but the net benefit is felt like positive for me at the end of the day.
And for them too I guess!

Medium should invest in UX study, get to know better their targeted users and implement a paywall that is _just_ painful enough so that it doesn’t cause the customers to associate your brand with a negative concept.

You can trick us into paying, but do it nice and sweet! We want to feel like you deserve it, not that we got forced.
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How would you do it differently, assuming the same fundamental business model - ie charging users for content. If you don’t run ads, then you have to paywall, no? And if you paywall, you have to register.

Isn’t this the same as how Patreon works? I’m not too familiar with these services, but genuinely curious.
Deepmind is the fast boat. Google is the boat anchor stuck underwater holding back Deepmind's Ai.
Yeah sure, I have a multi touch trackpad. Hell, I have a 2022 MacBook Pro even. Honestly though it's no comparison to using a touchscreen for me in terms of feeling natural, it's just not even close.
I'm a person of color living in Austin and I always notice that groups of friends hanging out in Austin are often diverse. I didn't see this in the bay or in NYC. I did see it in DC.
F# tooling is not bad actually. In fact it is much easier to have project level dependencies unlike python where dependencies are system wide or virtual environment wide. I just think OP is unfamiliar with the kind of tooling that DotNet has and got deterred by that. I'm a python developer who have tried F# casually and adding a dependency is as easy as copy pasting a line of command from the nuget repository online
> ordering with one global universal time - it's just not feasible to do accurately with clock skew.

Even more fundamentally, it’s not possible because of physics. The passage of time is relative!

Not as important for terrestrial applications, but useful to consider as a theoretical limitation.
Barcelona shopkeeper fined €7,501 over job ad seeking ‘woman over 40’
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Farmers are not smart. They operate outdoor biofactoriea accordong to protocols defined by people far away and using all manner of materials focussed on maintaoning the factory, not the farming.

Ask any agronomist. There's even that Netflix documentary. Industrial farmers understand the economics of their operation, but very little about its biology. They know as much about that as Amazon warehouse workers know about how the GPU you ordered is built.
I've been a lifelong fan of everything this podcast is about, but the intrusiveness of the branding, ads, etc. was really deeply irritating to me. One of the things I've always like about (the best) podcasts is the sense of immersion in the story(ies) being told, and I could not get there with this particular format/episode.
> You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you

~ Senator Chuck Schumer on why publicly criticizing the intelligence community is a poor choice for a politician
Thousands of satellites in low earth orbit (similar to Starlink) are planned by the US government with the ability to track and even intercept ICBMs, hyper sonic missiles, etc..

Similar to Ronald Reagan's strategic defense initiative ("Star Wars") and with some of the same people leading the program.
It's just a cool place to hang out for a day. Many great restaurants, interesting and cool stores, museums, live music, a cool ae-card, other attractions, a great zoo, a great waterfront.

Olympia's got cool stuff too but it's not as close. It's close to Tacoma though.
The funny thing about Olympic-sized swimming pools is that they are so big that they are nearly useless except for the relatively rare elite swimming competition. So they are actually far more uncommon than you might expect, and are usually built with configurable “walls” so that they can be made smaller for everyday use!
> Read the intro in the original paper "Attention is all you need"

I wouldn't call this the original "attention" paper. Definitely not the first paper to use the phrase. If you want clear proof of this, let's read the paper

> Attention mechanisms have become an integral part of compelling sequence modeling and transduction models in various tasks, allowing modeling of dependencies without regard to their distance in the input or output sequences.

I do think a lot of people's lack of understanding of attention is because they are so focused on DP(S)A that they miss a lot of the broader picture. And math. Not enough people dig into the math.