skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to take on one of your points: the RAM you are talking about is not truly comparable. Sure, you can add DIMMs to a PC motherboard. M2 "unified" memory bandwidth to the on-chip RAM, LPDDR5-6400, exceeds 100Gb/sec. That's incredible bandwidth. So yes, there's a cost tradeoff, and the lack of modularity means the upgrade path is "get a new device." That's frustrating. That's actually been true of high end PCs for decades, given the constant churn in socket standards and power requirements, but fans of building their own PCs generally don't like to acknowledge it.

The criticism of the onboard flash is more valid - it's costly and if you don't get the dual bank setup, paying yes, a big premium like I did for a 512Gb version, performance isn't great. https://www.theverge.com/23220299/apple-macbook-air-m2-slow-... The lack of an upgrade path is, again, not great, but ask yourself honestly, aside from some ThinkPads which really were nicely upgreadable in the past, how many laptops are upgradeable and what can you upgrade?

Your bias ("Apple charges an absurd amount," for "tiny little features that real computers have in spades") is showing and it isn't pretty. Show us the modular laptop with comparable performance or shut up; you're stuck in the nineties.

Go on - find me a PC laptop that performs better than an M2 and let's look at prices, weight, and battery life. Oh, and modularity.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_ranking-best_mobile_proces...

Or even show us your PC build that is comparable to the Mac Studio and let's talk about how big, noisy, and power-hungry it is; these are things that people who want to use real computers in real offices and studios care about, more than PC hot-rodders who, let's face it, are mostly gamers bragging to each other about their frame rates rather than professionals using computers as tools.
I've been a year or so using Sponsor block in addition to basic ad blocking. Now any device that doesn't offer both simply is a complete non starter for me.
The feature is meant for especially sensitive documents, you wouldn’t want it turned on for everything in the organization because it limits useful features like search and printing. More mature products like Azure Information Protection let you require encryption for certain documents based on policy, but that doesn’t seem to be part of what Google is announcing here.
I pointed out heavy ion collisions are not appropriate for studying neutron star matter (because the temperature is far too high). He objected for a spurious reason, I pointed out he was wrong, and he came back with something irrelevant. I can't explain why he's doing that, but his comments are what they are.
In 10 years you won't be able to buy a car anymore.
Every creditworthiness measure is subject to some bias. Most practical ways of tightening lending is going to end up with some correlative demographic being disproportionately excluded.
Great! The average new car in the US costs $50k, but Ford decides to patent a way to help repo these overly expensive cars instead of making cars less expensive.
So where does this place Polars? My perhaps incorrect understanding was this (Arrow integration) was a key differentiator of Polars vs Pandas.
Wonder if there's a browser plugin that can calculate SHA 256 checksum for a page and all linked JS - to help verify that the encryption/decription code has not been compromised.
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Thanks for your post, I was also at Stripe in this same time frame and got laid off. Lots of great systems, people and processes I learned as you described.
Not that that long ago (10 years? 15 years? Phones with camera were already common), a very rare brazilian wandering spider bit someone in a supermarket in the UK. It then looked ultra aggressive, which is uncommon for spiders, so someone took a picture with its phone.

If I remember correctly it's thanks to showing the picture to the doctor, which had it sent to a zoo (!), that they realized how dangerous it was and thankfully another zoo (?) had the serum.

My memory is fussy but it happened, in the UK.

Turns out the spider traveled all the way from Brazil into... Bananas.

Another common name for the brazilian wandering spider is the "banana spider" : )

Too lazy too google it so I posted what I remember ; )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneutria
No, they breached Plex with a vulnerability. Then they installed a keylogger. Edit: Is there a source about how exactly they got into Plex? I assumed it was via port scanning plus some Plex vulnerability, not that they guess the Plex password.
I'm not moving goal posts. I never said you could not be successful with ruby. All I'm saying is that once you hit scale, you would have an easier time cutting costs in a language that could better utilize less infrastructure and thus lowering your operating costs.
My mother and my sisters all have degrees in English. My mother had a good career as a high school English teacher and one of my sisters is doing the same. My other sister works as an editor for an educational publishing company.

Outside of education, there is a need for clear and well structured communication across every field. Copy writing/editing for marketing and sales campaigns, internal and external corporate communications, technical writing. These are all areas I've worked on with English majors.

I once spoke with a law professor who said that English majors often make the best lawyers. Their undergrad experience prepared them for the volume of reading, analysis and writing that is required to successfully complete a law degree.
Anything that is private is assumed to be private. Trust is a 2 way street. Could at least just ask the other party. Why does it have to be automatic? Whatever is the company culture it is respected for the person at the other end.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jalen-hurts-eagles-super-bowl-c...

Jalen Hurts can get a yard whenever he wants one, and no one can stop him. So there's at least one use for strong legs.
There is Zündholz for “match” but lo[0], apparently there is/was Zündzeug:

https://www.dwds.de/wb/dwb/zündzeug

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lo
This may be the case in certain shops or disciplines, but I can assure you, if you have the right insights, you can use statistical and ML principles to achieve better accuracy with orders of magnitude less compute.

I consider it a tragedy that we throw huge hogs of models into datacenters and let them churn without giving much thought to improving performance. The climate impacts relative to the real benefits are measurable and depressing for a field so focused on innovation. Usually the 100x model built by a team of "data scientists" over a month is no better than a 1x model built by a couple SMEs over a couple weeks.
High quality stuff is routed to restaurants, farm stands, and farmers markets. Stuff in grocery stores usually comes out of cold storage.
Is it possible to process my own videos with this? Is there a python/cuda API?
99.9% of the users don't need a TB. There are flagship models with 1TB flash.
Privilege escalation is a red herring. Everything you need to compromise production from a developer PC is either available for a regular user or not available at all.
Looking at the table of contents, it sounds quite interesting, but I find some bits missing. (Maybe due to 2012 date?)

DC networks generally follow a spine-leaf design, have ToR switches. They are DAGs and trees.

These are effectively ultrametric spaces, which have a lot of nice properties that can be exploited for optimization and ML (e.g. these are generally bipartite graphs, so belief revision is guaranteed to terminate).

In the same vein, basic abstract algebra and group theory (i.e. symmetries) could be quite useful as well.
They're a bit of a cliche, they're too sweet, and they have sort of a reputation as a quick way to get your date drunk. It's a gateway cocktail that's dead easy to make, so dissing on them is also a way to be snooty.

If you're sad about Last Words getting expensive, just switch to Paper Airplanes.
How many sheep for X, interview questions.
I like github pages because all I have to do is buy a domain and point it at a git repo and I get HTTPS out of the box.
Fair point yeah. From strictly a legal standpoint an AI is absolutely not going to get anywhere even close to rights.
> Buy AMD cards if you run Linux

They don't do CUDA, so they're useless.
We can't keep reddit influence out entirely. But with heavy moderation, we can keep out the worst of it, and that will have to be good enough.

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As the same story goes, the 1% control everything.
I did, yes, and there is good amount of overlap. In fact, I will be speaking with one of the authors later this week.

However, I find that my approach relies on fewer concepts. There are some concepts that our approaches share but what I like about my approach is that all the concepts are just parts of the Hopf algebra whereas in GDL, they are somewhat ad hoc.

My approach also ties nicely with other things like linear logic and PL theory and therefore provides concrete steps on how to build the next gen machine learning framework which might very provide verifiable machine learning.

My approach fundamentally says that transformer models, diffusion modes and convnets can be expressed with Hopf convolution which is a generalization of the standard convolution.

Also my approach provides a new learning approach which does away with backwards pass and replaces it with something resembling feedback like the one found in electronic circuits.
Maybe the "upscaler" just needs to be a really good CRT emulation.
This, 100%.

Infrastructure by definition is supposed to be stable with well established interfaces, this is a perfect match for types.

Business logic is constantly evolving, focusing too much on types will cause you to be disconnected from business value and you'll just waste time fighting typing system.
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Financial experts have sought an urgent intervention by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) board of India and Indian market regulator SEBI to review an NSE subsidiary’s move to include five Adani group firms in 14 Nifty indices, which would drive hundreds of thousands of investors’ savings into the group’s sinking stocks from March 31.
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Productizing FAIR output, or is that too reductive?
Seeking Feedback and Input for a New AR/VR Presentation Platform
Hey Y'all!

I'm thrilled to share with you that I'm building a new AR/VR presentation platform. This platform will allow users to present their ideas using 3D objects viewable with iPhones and the rumored Apple headset. As an engineer and product designer myself, I understand how difficult it can be to convey ideas in a clear and concise way. With this platform, I want to help users present their ideas in a more engaging and interactive way.

The platform will have features like access to online databases of objects for users to use and a prompt-based generative AI that creates 3D objects for users to use. I'm designing it to be incredibly easy to use so that even users who don't have a lot of experience with AR/VR can create stunning presentations.

I'm here to ask for your feedback and input. As a community of tech enthusiasts, I would love to hear what features you would like to see in the platform. Do you have any ideas on how we can make it even more user-friendly? Is there anything missing that you think would make it more useful?

I'm open to any and all suggestions, and I can't wait to hear what you think!

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more RTO propaganda from the business press. hell no we won't go! maybe the boomer generation should move back to europe.
And how do you radar-shield all these balloons to prevent the enemy aircraft knowing about them 100s of km before they enter that airspace?
I think we are back in the era of Humorism when it comes to an understanding of organic sentience. All effort to describe the mechanism of how humors related to disease was doomed to fail. If we have no real understanding of how our own brains produce sentience, we won’t get far trying to reason about AI sentience. We could build a sentience by accident in a training process not entirely unlike the the optimization of evolution. Deciding if we have or haven’t is going to be entirely subjective without a comprehensive theory that explains our own sentience, the only one we can be sure exists.
Just because you haven't been exposed this issue doesn't mean it doesn't exist. "the real situation", "no one", "in real projects", "never pop up"...give me a break lol.
Interesting... A while back there was a store about running MacOS X in a VM and I believe you could sign into iCloud. I had an idea that someone could do a startup to sell iMessage as a service on other platforms by wrapping the iMessage app on a VM into an API/service. If that failed, you could buy up olf iPhones/iPads and automate them with an custom app to do the same maybe?
With todays networks and training corpus sizes and compute resources available, it's generally better to let the network learn the best transform rather than try to guess what it needs and do it manually first.. unless you have analyzed the problem thoroughly (like I guess they did in this paper). You have several dozens of layers and if you need to "waste" a few low-level layers to learn some transform, the increased training time might offset the man-hours and risk of your meat-based feature-designers to throw something sub-optimal in front of the network..
Plenty of state -- even mutable state -- is essential complexity. Think of an IDE where a user is typing out code: the state is changing all the time. Pure functional programming has a hard time walking the line between "avoiding" mutable state, and "ignoring" mutable state. If you insist on functional purity, you're already admitting defeat in the face of essential mutable state. The walls of functional (and especially reactive) programming are too high -- they currently don't play very well with their Turing and von Neumann neighbors.

Functional programming is only "mathematically pure" because we already have math for it. You can make mutating state "mathematically pure" too, if you just invent new math for it. For example, you can pair state with a "generation" variable and define mutating functions as returning the new state with generation + 1; now all your functions are pure again. That's not all it takes, and it's not easy! But it shows how narrow-minded the current idea of "purity" is.
>Instead you're trying to argue that the economy isn't doing too badly.

Yes, because you brought the subject up and used it to support your overall point.
> the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great.

So much for garbage in, garbage out.
I will say this may be starting to cargo cult a little bit.

Do I think “generative AI” is huge - yes. But I also feel like people are starting to slap generative AI label on things somewhat motivated by silly reasons - marketing and pleasing investors who want to “keep up”. Or employees that want to work on something cool.
There were so many English speaking students while I was there. I wonder if it's unique to Grenoble.
How to Get Good at Something
Wunderlist lives on, rebranded as Microsoft ToDo. As far as I can tell it's the exact same product, same feature set, etc. I think they made the transition unnecessarily clunky, but it's all there.
>In one experiment conducted in Switzerland, after volunteers took psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, they reported feeling less socially excluded.

>lonely people tend to focus excessively on unpleasant social cues, such as being ignored by others

take mushrooms help fight the epidemic of victim mentality ;)
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I like the hardware in the shield but Android TV kind of kills it for me. When I was still using my shield, the UI would frequently get updated, and each update made the home screen worse and worse.

I wish they would just copy the Apple TV's home screen. All anyone needs is a grid of icons and NO ADVERTISEMENTS. There is no more room for innovation here. Stop trying to re-invent the wheel. Just admit someone else already perfected it and move on.
>Not sure why the conspiracy theorists have decided to make Oxford their place to protest all this stuff

Because they have maliciously or stupidly confused the permits which would allow residents to drive through traffic filters (instead of taking a longer route), with a passport system that wouldn't let them leave the zone at all.
I worked in fast food during school and there are absolutely physical buttons[0]. They are tiny little pill buttons under a plastic label. They don't get as dirty as you think, mostly because the sanitary requirements in food prep mean that things are never allowed to ever truly get dirty.

[0]: https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/img/cb125v2-kds-handle-min.jpg
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Rules of the Roomba
Funnily enough, it kind of applies to this article too.
I think you’ve confused Reddit and youtube
what problems has philosophy helped you with?

philosophy seems too academic and to far removed from practical problems from what i have seen at least.
Over winter break, I spent an hour observing a Roomba and the experience inspired me to write an essay on intelligence and rules! Here is an excerpt:

"The rules that governed the Roomba’s motion, the rules that were effectively its purpose for existing had taken it far from its origins on the wooden planks of the living room charging port to a distant and exotic place of ceramic and tile. But continuing to follow its rules had now trapped it in this new and foreign place and through the rules alone it could not be saved. I wonder, if the Roomba was given just one or two more rules would it have been able to foresee and then avoid its trapping? Or would those additional rules have just extended the Roomba’s agency into additional dimensions which too had their own self-trapping doors and one-way traversable ledges?"
And even if he tells us he isn’t, how do we know he isn’t just saying that because it’s a probable response?
This is one of my largest pet peeves with Pandas. There's like (or was) three APIs. Half the stuff on Stack Overflow or blogs is from 2013-2015 and deprecated. I feel like I have relearn Pandas every four years since Wes launched it almost a decade ago.
If you have to be a photographer to see the changes (and the focus on jaws is just so odd), and you won't notice the difference if you are just a regular Joe/Jane, then what purpose do these alterations serve?
As a non-photographer, apart from the photo with the strangely big jaw "fix", I can safely say I would be incapable to a) see there is a difference and b) say which image is supposed to be more beautiful.
I tend to doubt the women in the article used photoshop at all. The magazine staff did.
That was enjoyable and I'm happy to see it triggering the basement dwellers.
> We are working on a cryptographic proof of security, but we already provide a symbolic analysis using proverif as part of the software package

How can you prove this? There is still no mathematical proof that i.e discrete log is NP complete

edit - I see it's a WIP but even the definition of secure seems difficult
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US historically was much more into "unlimited" plans vs pay-per-use was/is more of a common thing in poorer countries. That may explain the prevalence of SMS in the US.
My extensive hangman experience leads me to believe that's not what the commenter is suggesting.
I don’t doubt it. My cell phone stopped working for a day, I called in and talked to somebody who I could barely understand and knew very little about basic security. I tried to explain multiple times that my account was probably SIM swapped and the support person completely ignored this security concern and just said I have fixed the issue on my end anything else I can help you with? Please rate me 5 star in the coming support survey.
It is well established that the US government conducts mass surveillance on its population. I don’t know what government surveillance is like where you’re from. I actually prefer a world where humans enforce laws rather than automated systems (in general). While officers aren’t perfect, they can use their own discretion to enforce laws and that sounds better to me than living in a world with cameras watching us and instantly fining us for infractions. I personally don’t obscure my own license plate, but I believe someone who does, can do so for privacy purposes without lacking integrity or honesty.
> It was late autumn, and the sunsets came in like flame on thin paper on the way to dusk.

This is the most annoying sentence I've ever read.
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Strange, I don’t remember them being on the list. Andrews and Arnold definitely do not block the pirate bay.
Free beer UNIX on cheaper hardware, plus bad management, basically.

Nothing to do with the technology.

Hence why I love why Android is so locked down to native code, and Apple is doubling down on Swift.
> What proof is there that companies built on dynamic typed languages struggle with server costs

The proof is in the limitations of the language. If you have a 4 CPU server and you want to run a web application, you would be able to process far more transactions per second in a Java or Go application than Ruby. This is because Ruby has a GIL which means it can't truly multithread, so to get parallelization you need to multiprocess. These days kernels can spawn threads in 5ms (or with Green threads that can be in nanoseconds), but a new process takes 50ms to spawn. Then, there's the issue of Garbage Collection pauses. Java is one of the best with some very low latency (<10ms) GCs. Ruby far from the state of the art GCs. Then there's the runtime, which Ruby can be 10-100x slower than Java or Go.

It's just a matter of this logic being scaled to big levels
Couldn't the very same example, corporations, also be perceived as control failure? We have oligopolies as well as regulatory capture that exists within government systems, lobbies, extortion and revolving door politics.

They often align against both government and the people. This certainly could be perceived as misalignment.
I have not been following this closely but I thought most all of the quantum safe algorithms that had been proposed so far had been found lacking for traditional attacks very soon after they where held up as a standard contender. Has this changed?
Are we lonely if we are on HN?
Yeah, I suppose if someone really needs that capability, then Org (at least currently) isn't the markup for them.

I mostly referring to the "why do people keep bringing it up - it's such a joke" aspect. Well, it's obviously because lots of people find it awesome and more than adequate.
Right, I mean, that's clear in retrospect. I was saying that I didn't know there was even a liquor in the first place.
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> Nvidia clearly kneecapped the pre-upscale footage

I'm not so sure. High bitrate content like game streaming does end up losing visual quality with lossy encoding. The average 1080p Twitch stream struggles to look as clean as Nvidia's 1080p source footage.

Given the circumstances, I think this is a great option. Most videos don't look right when encoded on YouTube or blown up at 2x resolution. A destructive AI pipeline is your best shot at reducing the destructive artifacting introduced at the encoding stage.
I honestly wasn't expecting the device to use coin cells, but I'm glad that it does. Not everything needs to be rechargeable.