skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do they use large slow shift register for I/O? Cannot it be done the other way, for example: use parallel inputs and supply them to all designs simultaneously, and use large 250x1 multiplexer to read outputs?

Also one can reuse that shift register as 250 bytes of sequential access memory, although I guess this technology which has been used in Soviet calculators has been long forgotten.
> I am from France and have no stakes nor interest in the political discussion

The impact of U.S. politics goes well beyond its borders.
I would have expected so, but gcc doesn't seem to do it for the article's example (didn't try other compilers):

https://godbolt.org/z/Paq8f5x3d
Sounds like a good reason to eliminate tipping.
Came here to say the same comment, airport names (somewhere in the page) would be a great addition.

Very nice and addictive page for us who are air related aficionados ;-)
They’re saying the charge is related to campaign finance violations, isn’t that a federal crime?
how do you think you were born and raised into this world? did your parent(s) quit their jobs after you were born, stop earning any income, and raise you in a cardboard box on the steeet? do you expect only millionaires to have children? jesus…have some empathy. Life is more than work work work.
It’s just Whataboutism. What the DNC did or did not do is entirely irrelevant to the case, because the DNC is not who was standing before the grand jury.

“You could pin this on a large percentage of politicians”. Yes, please. It will in fact be good for the country. I don’t care what party they come from.
Much better? Allowing JS on Ars is a recepi for data slurpocalypse. They've had 10+ ads and tracking third parties for at least decade.

I won't even touch on doxxing Snownden's girlfriend and the amount of questionable, at best, political content they publish on a daily basis.
You pass an argument, let's call it a, to cos. Because the polynomial approximation is only valid for a relatively small value of the argument, the first step is to compute the remainder of a when divided by pi/2. The result, let's call it x, is as small as possible but will (or should) satisfy cos(x)=cos(a).

For example, let's say you're calculating cos(4). To reduce the argument you want to compute 4-n*pi/2 for some n. In this case n=2 so you want 4-pi, the smallest possible number whose cosine is equal to cos(4). In double-precision floating point, pi is not irrationall it's exactly 7074237752028440/2^51. Thus, x=4-pi will be 7731846010850208/2^53.

However, that's not enough to calculate cos(4) precisely, because pi is actually 1.224... * 10^-16 more than the fraction I gave before and thus cos(x) will not be exactly cos(4). To fix this, the remainder is computed in multiple precision, and that's where y comes in.

y is the result of computing (a-n*pi/2)-x with a value of pi that has a higher precision than just 7074237752028440/2^51. It is very small---so small that you don't need a polynomial to compute the remaining digits of cos(4), you can just use the linear approximation -x*y. But it's still very important in order to get the best possible approximation of cos(a), even if a is outside the interval -pi/2 to pi/2.
It does, if you also use adblocker, disable js on certain sites, etc.
I've been using Python for 20+ years and I didn't know that peculiarity.
NOYB are heroes!
If you see a car-jacking and a car with one of it's lights out you don't leave the first one to go after the second.
ChatGPT is great when the time consuming bit is googling the details of libraries, APIs, languages, algorithms, etc, and wiring them together in the right way for a small bit of functionality or some boilerplate. But when the time consuming bit is thinking about the best way to solve a problem / introduce new abstractions in the context of a larger system, it seems less useful. Maybe this will improve with the context size.
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Really interesting how this concept evolved over time. Really fascinating how this paper is discussing a method for clustering (grouping) similar items together in a dataset 25 years ago, knowing as this evolves, it will be come vectorized. Well not exactly, its actually a "Sequential Dichotomizer" and works by dividing the data into subsets based on their similarities until each subset contains only items that are very similar to each other.

The method is useful for tasks such as image classification, where a computer needs to identify what objects are in an image. The Sequential Dichotomizer can group similar images together so that the computer only needs to learn a few key features of each group rather than trying to learn all the individual differences between each image.

The paper also discusses some technical details of how the Sequential Dichotomizer works, including how it decides which features to use to split the data and how it handles outliers (data points that are very different from the rest of the group).

Anyways, I found this really interesting, thanks for this find! Shows how useful clustering data became in making machine learning algorithms more accurate.
There comes a time in every company's evolution when they switch from supporting openness (an opportunity) to protecting the walled garden from openness (now a threat)
OMG. But the problem already exists. It's THEM. Intuit.

Also, one could say that Intuit wouldn't be left out, they still could create software that could connect directly to IRS, and they have great experience to offer the best solutions to taxpayers (do they?). But of course, then they would have the 'captive market' experience they have now.

I'm Spanish, and, although our tax filling system is not the best, it still baffles me how far behind us is the US one in this case.

Tax filling season is near, and for most people (if you don't have investments or weird tax deductions), you just ask for a pre-filled "draft" from the IRS equivalent. You review your salary and taxes numbers on the web site (nowadays most of the info is sent directly from banks and so on), and just hit "Accept" if it looks OK. If something's weird just re-fill the form numbers.
wait... who is in a "police union" and not a police officer?
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> DBAs were very anally-retentive in those days.

They all were, famously so. It attracts a certain type which I like to call tech-bureaucrat. It is a problem of incentives: if something goes wrong with the db, they get the blame. If something simply sucks, they don't get blame for that. This is the same with all these institutionalised gate-keepers, be it "quality", "security" or whatever. I'm not sure there is a general solution.
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For example, the differences in scores that is not explained by income could be caused entirely by disparate treatment of children by adults based on the child's race. That would be a race-related factor.
Two other under-rated features of an analog computer are:

- Limited state. That sundial has fixed storage requirements.

- Hard to hack. If it ain't got an IP address, the Elbonians can't tamper with it.
I would've made InvestopediaGPT. Much better quality and better for training.
This is not always a matter of not being united - it can be the sheer difference in power.

When Donald Trump decided to punish Iran he forced EU companies to retract from Iran as well (despite having contracts there). If we were to not comply, there would be sanctions against EU companies operating in the US.

We asked the EU Commission for help on that but ultimately the EU did not have enough weight. So we got off Iran.

Note that I am not addressing the human/ethical aspects of operating in Iran, just the economic imbalance between the US and EU
TIL that ngn/apl and ngn/k supports user-defined symbols. Thank you!

Creating custom notation (aka DSL) can be very liberating. As Iverson noted, having a good notation enables you to think previously unthinkable thoughts. Einstein’s theory of relativity was enabled by use of his sum notation. [0]

Of course, it should be paired with the right user interface. Inputting non-ASCII chars on keyboards is still pretty cumbersome. But APL with its weird symbols is perfect for paper and pencil, where it has its origins. [1]

Some might see pencil-and-paper interface for an array-oriented REPL as going backwards, but I consider pencil to be mightier than the keyboard. Finally you could sketch visually your algorithm beside the runnable code.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation
[1]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper
If you've ever tried machine learning, it's easy to understand what a prejudice is: inference based on learning on biased data. Or sometimes the data doesn't even need to be biased: your stereotyping may be factually true on average. It's just that we should not make assumptions based on averages, especially when they involve people.
NVIDIA DLSS for real life.
I guess you can use NixOS for your desktop but that's not the main focus of this distribution.

It's more to create images to deploy server-side applications.
Without prediction, we wouldn’t be able to _walk_!
Yesterday I asked chatgpt to compute the probability that two words of five letters both began with the same three letters and it could not solve it. It gave me about 10 different results but all were wrong, it seems the number five mislead the algorithm. Another question was computing the variance of the sum of 60 dices but omitting the results where the sum was greater than 200, the reasoning was incorrect in all cases, finally I suggested creating a simulation to estimate the variance in R, but it made an error about the var command in R suggesting that it has an option for the degree of freedom.
I'm not sure how you're getting that figure for $23,038. Also, accordion drop downs from an FAQ page may not be the best place to cite information from (too much irrelevant information to sift through)
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Considering he's a serial adulterer it might not be hard to show intent if this is the only case he tried to hush in this manner. If this is the only instance in which he committed fraud to hide the payment it might set an important timeline link between his campaign and the case.
I have 3 standalone Rokus and 1 TCL TV with Roku. I'm happy with all of them. I've avoided the cheapest Rokus because they are slow, so the mid-range to the top range ones, along the built-in on the TV, are fairly responsive.
I think so, but checkout a bunch of awesome resources, and make up your mind https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins
You seem to be saying that as if it’s a good thing, but that’s terrifying.

The article says they “get the right answer 80% of the time”. That’s abysmal when you don’t know what you’re doing. Software which is 20% bugs is software you can’t rely on. Depending on what it does, it can be actively harmful.

Being a “magician (…) among mere mortals” is not a positive. We live in an interconnected society where the actions of others affect us. It would be nice if you can trust what other people are doing when they’re dealing with your water supply, electricity, food production, hospitals…
It could certainly be a lot nicer and more straightforward (and there are competing solutions that are), but people vastly exaggerate the difficulty of learning it, and dismiss the advantages that come from having it properly configured.
The history of the freebsd file is interesting in itself
I'll ask you one rhetorical question and then I'm going to stop arguing with you because you refuse to connect the dots for some fantastic hoop-jumping:

- What is driving the cost of salaries raising?

In "normal times" you might say competition and cost of living. Cost of living is... inflation.

Right now, with our increased money supply, inflation is much higher than it's been for a while, and that is a large driving factor for people demanding more salary. This is where interest rates play in to layoffs. This concurs with your points that laying off people could create more competition in the market which means some folks may consider a job for slightly less pay vs. no job at all.

But you've run circles trying to pretend like interest rates are not a factor in this, and I'm not gonna waste any more of my time explaining that to you. There is enough commentary from others here and everywhere else, you are just refusing to believe it.
wow! the YC application has changed quite a bit since the early days. Employment history and "Should you be selected for interview, we may ask for references"!
Sorry, had other stuff to do hopefully you'll see this message.

In fact, I was wrong, I thought the mayor had some interdiction power, they have none. the mayor cannot 'not allow' a protest, the prefect can. When Paris' mayor is not on the same political side 1s the government, it can lead to weird stuff (like what's happening now).

It is absolutely authoritarian. I think France was ranked as one of the most authoritative democracy, on par with Russia, turkey,a bit less than Egypt.

Those interdiction weren't used offensively until Macron though. You have to limit the area of the interdiction (can't be the whole city) and pre-2017 were easely accessible 48h before they were effective, and could be challenged in court.

In 2018-2019 they tested putting the interdiction up at the last moment, it worked, so now it's even worse, they draft the interdiction as active immediately and put a copy on the prefecture doors, do not make them available on the internet then fine everyone.

The most egregious was one that took effect at 17h but wasn't put on the door until 17h30.

What's funny is that people voted macron 'against fascism' twice, not realizing that his way is a fascism too (in this case, I mean fascism as a catch-all for ideologies coming from Cesarism/Bonapartism, as defined by Krondstadt butcher himself, Trosky, terrible man but accurate critic of his time).
Well, with a dedicated Linux distro, you get it ootb and it's supported by people other than you.

Also with Silverblue, there's a mechanism for getting the base OS from a OCI container image (check out https://ublue.it/)
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Plus there's bound to be false starts, reverts, crashes, etc that bump up the actual reproduction cost. Most training cost estimations take an extremely rosy best-case view assuming everything goes smoothly on the first try and no gpu cycles were wasted.
> but they can only succeed if QA and after sales is also on point

I have different measure for their success. They can go even bankrupt, but they will succeed if their standards will live on the market, when there will be multiple suppliers of mechanically compatible components. When other big manufactures will have to start to compete on supplying these components.
Yes the scientific community is absolutely in agreement with evacuation from the plume being unnecessary /s
This is a state prosecutor. In the US system, state prosecutors can’t charge federal crimes, only state ones.

Unlike some other countries-here in Australia, state prosecutors can charge federal crimes and federal prosecutors can charge state ones. Australia doesn’t have the hard separation between state and federal legal systems that the US has
> It doesn't help that they went full-Brexit, that sort of thing is bound to be offputting to foreign capital.

WDYM? Virgin Orbital Inc. are incorporated in the US and listed on the NASDAQ.
I’m still going through Dive Into Deep Learning, it’s long, but seems to have a good balance between theory and codes.
Google's suport of Firefox wasn't a benevolent action on their side to support openness but to erode IE's monopoly for their own benefit till they could launch their own browser.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Yes, but when reading the comments I see a lot of US political discussions about whether this is a problem or not, Whether D Trump is ok or not, etc. I am not interested in these and did not want my question about what a seal is to diverge on whether this is a good thing or not to seal (or not seal)
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I commented on my understanding of the situation on reddit a while ago. Copy/pasting here:

He paid off Stormy Daniels to keep her from talking about their relationship. Paying her to stay silent is 100% legal, there is absolutely no issue with an NDA like that. The illegal part isn't the what, it's the how.

Political campaigning laws set a limited budget for how much money you can spend on campaigning, which is defined as "any payment made by any person for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office". Daniels talking about her relationship with Trump is something that could have had a significant impact on Trump's presidential campaign, so paying her to stay quiet is considered a campaign expense. Paying your lawyer for legal advice/representation is not a campaign expense, though, so what happened was that Cohen himself paid Daniels (there's no law against that), and the campaign paid Cohen for "legal expenses" (which aren't considered campaign expenses).

The problem here is that, of course, this was just a way to make Cohen an intermediary for the process of the campaign paying Daniels. This is problem in two ways. First, it goes against the campaign spending limits, so goes against campaign laws. Second, it's a form of falsifying business records.
Most of these focus on running containers. What I would like is a distribution that focuses on the reliability of upgrades, both configuration and data. To give a concrete example, I have a Debian server running Apache (with auto-certificate renewal), PostgreSQL, and Postfix. When it's time to upgrade to the next release, it's basically the "it should work, but who really knows, depends on your specific setup you may have to tweak a few things" kind of guarantee. What I want is a rigorous guarantee like we have for relational database schema/data migration.
https://archive.is/UopZ0
>By January 2018, the value of my investments had risen to over $600,000, but a year later, the amount was $30,000, $5,000 below my initial investment.

If your investment in some new asset raise 20x, get at least 10x out into a far more sure place, don't leave it all in expecting the gold rush to go on forever...
You don't get pushed anything if you are not using the "For You" tab. If you still see "Nazi" content (though I'm aware that many people on the US American left are now using the term in an inflationary way, which, as a German, I find highly objectionable) then it is because you follow people who post this content.
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Thanks, I'll try that approach

It's been a while since I've looked at asm in anger so it's taking me a while to get back into it (plus this is a side project ATM)
Is this the same company as Virgin Galactic? Curious if Joe Rohde (an ex Disney imagineer) is likely to be out of a job soon.

Edit: hm, I guess Virgin Orbit is just a small part of Virgin Galactic.
It's an unpleasant reality but those 6 figures in taxes are all that stands between you and a hungry mob ripping your throat out.
There are no perl jobs.
Impossible until you just uninstall it
Now do it again but add a bar for Kadapa a bar for sellafield and a bar for la hague rather than comparing the outside of a nuclear plant that is not being refueled and (unlike most of them) is not leaking tritium.

Then consider that the people you're trying to pull this straw man against want coal even less.
While it's not yet easy to install on anything else than a Steam Deck, SteamOS is also a great example of an immutable distribution.
Yeah it's immutable but the build process is a pain in the ass. For nixos, the input is a couple text files and the process is a single command.
For the example saved conversation, if your own service uses the openai API, you can change the baseurl to https://oai.hconeai.com which provides most of the functionality for conversation analysis
No, the op just forgot to give Chatty some context.
Human enhanced AI if you will.

Tell it to talk like a typical HN'er, adopt a more robust and aggressive stance, and include five grammatical and spelling errors.
I'm regularly filing taxes in the UK and in Germany. The German ELSTER system is a bad joke compared to how this is handled in the UK.

In the UK it's a bunch of nicely designed web forms with clear worded explanations what they expect you to fill in the fields.

In Germany it's ... well you can be masochistic and try to use ELSTER webapp which runs only on certain browsers. With explanations like "fill in here any amount if you fall under §223 EKST, 4 II".

So you either get a paid 3rd party software which still isn't the quality of the official UK filling service (somehow Germans have a love for their cryptic explanations directly referencing laws - god forbid someone would use simple and clear explanations) or you pay a professional to do your taxes. Which is what most people do.
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I'm skeptical of their DC vs AC commentary

It's not about DC vs AC, it's high-voltage vs low-voltage. The power dissipation by wire resistance scales with the square of the current ($P=RI^2$), and low line voltage means that you need large currents to transmit the same amount of power.
You're making repeated accusations of racism based on very antagonistic interpretations of people's comments. It's unwarranted and unhelpful
Flash probably wouldn't have died had it not been for Apple's refusal to support it.

One could totally imagine a rewritten and modernized version of flash that became the dominant web experience (perhaps replacing HTML and javascript, which in many ways are inferior).
Dreaming up a static three dinensional structure does not guarantee that it is stable in a given environment, or that production of this structure in a lab is viable. A huge problem in the space is protein folding–concerned with figuring out how you get from an unfolded linear string of amino acids to this three dimensional structure.

Folding takes into account many variables, and a big chunk of current experimental structure determination is concerned with controlling/adjusting these variables.

So this dreaming up will provide a potential “quicker way” into what a folded protein might look like, but it will not guarantee you that humanity knows how to actually produce it in the real-world.

Disclaimer: someone correct me if I’m wrong. I might be rusty on the latest developments, as I’ve left the field after my PhD.
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> quite literally waiting to be called in

Why weren't they called in? If it's all to be believed, the operation was succeeding beyond anyone's wildest dreams and then...?

But more to the point -- I guess January 6th proves the Second Amendment is still relevant and important?
This is a message board mostly full of people who can send their children to private school for a trivial portion of their savings. If I had "hella cash" and was already sending my child to prison every day and the prison decided to waste their time for years because algebra is racist, it seems like I would be a bit heartless not to lift a finger to correct the issue.
In official UI, if you edit a message and get a new response, you can still always go back to any of your previous messages and continue from there on. Basically the history is like a tree in official UI. History in all other frontends including this one is linear.
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