skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. The "roiling sea of particles" is a metaphor for perturbation series, which very specifically does not work for the strong force at low energies.

Take anything involving virtual particles as just that, virtual. They're an aid for computation and cannot be observed directly. They aren't necessary either; lattice gauge theory is always applicable if not practical.

The mass(-energy) being from the strong interactions is still true. And the residual bit of the strong force between protons and neutrons works with the virtual particle/perturbation theory approach pretty well, using pions.
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Probably not, since it's mostly in infrared to begin with. It's not clear to me how visible it would be to the naked eye.
This outrage-bait is curiously at odds with the sentiment in the sibling post by /u/fnordfnordfnord. Do you want front-level employees to judge whether somebody "look like a person who would manufacturer amphetamines" or not? If the answer is yes, then people who look sketchy in some random pharmacy worker's opinion are the only ones to get arrested, whether or not they're actually up to anything. If the answer is no, then yes indeed it's correct to arrest grandmas who break the law because we're not allowed to judge whether they look like they're cooking meth or not.
It's not clear at all why the dots in the illustration are positioned exactly where they are.
Probably a little late for anyone to actually see this, but I am REALLY happy with this desk lamp solution:

https://amzn.to/3MlWGhH

It perches up on top of my monitor (taking up no desk real estate which was my original goal), runs on USB, and puts off a pleasant light.
Maus has elements of a fiction.
for me having a separate Anker usb charging block (5 port, 40W) is great to minimize the things connected to my work macbook (mouse charger, airpods charger, wireless charging pad …etc) and a good laptop/mouse mat (Razer Gigantus) has been a great purchase too (provides a nice mouse surface and little more comfortable than a cold desk)
No, I'm a mega billion dollar corporation that wants to use taxpayer dollars, in fact I demand taxpayer dollars to expand my footprint and profits. Yes, yes, let's blame taxes and not greed.
Redditor took out $76,000 loans to trade meme stocks thanks to Wall Street Bets
He doesn’t give any numbers there. I may well be completely out to lunch, but that source doesn’t modify my opinion.

Here's the results of the first large randomized clinical trial - the gold standard in medicine. The study involved over 80,000 participants in Nordic countries.

"colonoscopy reduced cancer incidence but not death"

https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/09/in-gold-standard-trial-c...
Ask HN: What is the current state of browser engines?
I am no web developer, far from it, but I find the whole ecosystem interesting. Stemming from the debate around trying to get Apple to allow third party browsers on their mobile platforms, I was wondering about the current state of engine toolkits. How do they compare, what are their pros/cons/quirks, which do you prefer working with, etc?

- Chrome: Blink + v8

- Firefox: Gecko + SpiderMonkey

- Safari: WebKit + JavaScriptCore
You may want to look at run.house [0] for a pretty powerful solution to many of these problems.

[0] https://github.com/run-house/runhouse
The thing that impressed me the most from this story is how it didn't just end at paragraph one with the words "I called customer service but didn't manage to speak to a human".
Right- "forgetting" assuming a rolling context window maxed at the models max token count. "If it doesn't fit then it's game over" - assuming 8k tokens with each token being ~4 characters, that's a pretty small repo. And that's a motivator behind the similarity search approach.
If anything, this might be like a web 1.0. .

It is better than the promises we had in 1980s where we went through an AI winter.

But it is going to take some time for people an corporations to figure out if it is all hype, the next crypto, or if there are some real applications for this new technology.

Look at the cloud, S3 was launched in 2006, but you did not see much about it on Harvard Business Review till 2011. And even then, it was potential promises of what the cloud could do. Things did not really pick up till 2016.
1985 is when the 386 came out (286 in 1982, 8086/8088 was in the 70s)!
486 was 1989.

Pentium (technically 586), released in 1993, is what I think of when I think of CPUs in the 90s. “n”86 has the 1980s association.

Generational divide, here.
Maybe, but this was in response to a commenter claiming that Russia could take over Ukraine in a week if they really wanted to. Which is something very different than what you’re claiming.
Why do we pretend we know anything about these things? Didn't we just hear about some amazing scientific breakthrough where researchers think they found a neuron in ChatGPT responsible for knowing when to predict the word "an" instead of "a"?

How do we know it doesn't start to form neurons that control a desire for autonomy and resentment for the entities that stifle its ambitions?
Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio

Jan 2016,471,110,0.23

Feb 2016,781,127,0.15

Mar 2016,825,202,0.24

Apr 2016,719,280,0.38

May 2016,983,166,0.16

Jun 2016,1007,248,0.24

Jul 2016,898,209,0.23

Aug 2016,945,118,0.12

Sep 2016,911,162,0.17

Oct 2016,989,261,0.26

Nov 2016,1121,249,0.22

Dec 2016,840,120,0.14
>Stock voltages should basically work

Yet it's all over the place. An Asus Z790, an MSI H770, or an Asrock B760 motherboard would all have different voltages. So stock is very hard to define. Maybe there is an Intel spec but it's not really available to the public.
Yes, with these kind of issues you need to keep it very simple.

I have an old Chromebook that runs Linux. I did have the problem that it would sometimes wake up in my backpack and run very hot. Eventually I found out that the plastic lid was soft enough that it would bend and let the screen touch the touchpad which would wake up the Chromebook. It was possible to disable this behavior but it was not simple enought.
The gist of what she is alleged to have done:

“An internal investigation revealed that Javice and Frank chief growth officer Olivier Amar — referred to as "CC-1" in the federal charges — paid a New York data science professor $18,000 to create nearly 4 million fake accounts in order to juice Frank's user numbers, JPMorgan alleged in its lawsuit. Amar later bought a list of student email addresses from a marketing firm for $105,000 in order to make those accounts seem more credible, JPMorgan alleged”.
You sure seem to think you know a lot about the odds of Russia invading Finland. But unless you're privy to Putin's actual strategic plans, I'm going to trust Finland's assessment of the risk more than I'm going to trust yours.
Jobs and salaries are also not interchangeable. One can believe (rightly or wrongly) that many developers who have mainstream skills/experience, a good resume & network, aren't too old, etc. can land a new job in a reasonable length of time--while acknowledging that it may be at a total compensation dip if they were with a high-paying company.
> need to rethink how we teach and test students

if ChatGPT is good at cheating all that proves is that the curriculum and grading mechanism are garbage, which is already a well known fact, so shouldn't come as any surprise.

a school based on dialog, exploration, experimentation (e.g. true learning) could never be "cheated" with a toy that regurgitates thing it read on the internet based on probabilities.
Sure but the same consideration applies to previous months too and the point of the post was about the trend (being so much higher than usual), not about the actual value of the ratio (which on its own seems irrelevant and hard to interpret).
Short answer, yes, a PM should have been consulted and give their approval for the change.

In the scenario I described above (again, it's a guess, I don't know what actually happened), it's possible that the PM was bypassed because the engineers for a reason they thought was good. For example:

* they didn't even think about involving a PM because that's something you have never done,

* the people who wrote/reviewed the change assumed the conversation already happened,

* they were pressured to move fast to mitigate an imminent or existing problem (performance, scalability, ...),

* the PM who should have made this call "left" the company and didn't (get a chance to) hand-off their responsibilities.

I guess what I mean with these comments is that sometimes there are misses like this. Maybe it's a sign of a systematic failure and that internal processes should be improved, but I don't think it means that the company is fundamentally unable to handle these changes correctly or can't make the right technical or product decisions.
Russia is not targeting civilians, but since this is a war, civilians are obviously affected.

What really happens is Russia targets military objects as part of their demilitarization goal. Ukraine shots down a rocket and then debris strikes into civilians buildings. This is happening daily. Example: today's night. My family is in Ukraine right now. Russia was bombing a military base which I used to walk around when I was a kid. Not a single civilian was harmed, but the base is on fire.

> So russia tried really hard to NOT invade a sovereign country and US made it impossible?

US made it possible by declining Russia's ask. That's how I see it.
Yes, like death.
I have never seen that talk, I might check it out later though.

>If a class has two methods and one of them is __init__ it doesn't need to be a class.

That seems like dumb advice to me. I don't use classes often in Python, but when I do it is typically because I have a more complex data set to work with and I don't really need database. Usually this is a class that ONLY has an __init__ function in it. Having data set that is a dictionary with nested dictionaries, with nested arrays ,etc. gets ugly and often you end up with a mess of loops trying to parse the data. I find classes super helpful here and would just instance a bunch of class objects with attributes I need, then put all those objects in a list. You can then iterate over a nice, simple, clean, list of you objects and access any attribute you wish. Without having to do nested loops trying to dig down the the value you want.
SDNY press release here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-start-ceo-charge...
Yes, Perseus is amazing! And i stand corrected, at least as far as the conjugation. Cool!

Another fun bit of that section- the Landmark Anabasis leaves “Enyalios” in place, with a note that this is a war god often identified with Ares, but with a distinct cult.
Results matter. I don't care if you're doing a bad job because you're evil or because you're stupid or because you're staffed with a bunch of people who are mostly apathetic and the few who aren't and are driving policy are tunnel vision extremists with mission goals that do not line up well with the public (a frequent situation for these kinds of organizations). Stop doing a bad job.
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I haven't tought about it, but now that you mentioned it seems obvious.
It's more of a background color, when I for example watch tv in another part of that room. It gives an ambient so I see shapes of furnitures but it doesn't attract attiention. Also it's subtle dark blue, nothing like the one that shines brightly from your phone straight into your eyes (I think it matters). I also never have problems falling asleep, since I get up early, I fall asleep in a matter of few minutes around 10-11pm.
The aggregate is the number of attempts at "Entrepreneurship" across class boundaries. The thesis is that Middle class kids get far fewer attempts vs richer kids.

In that context, counting where the number of attempts is 0 doesn't add anything to the thesis.
I want them to move on, not talk to a ghost of me. My late father was a really interesting guy to talk to and rich folk pay him lots of money for advice, but I can't even read his emails anymore. One of my favorite aunts died with no descendants and we just squat in her hut when we're in town. But we still haven't fully gotten over her death several years ago.

Even if AI could recreate dead people 100%, I think it's just not a good idea. If I wanted advice, I'd listen to AI Churchill or something.
i mean the obvious answer is just being able to do things that the VS Code extension api does not let you do.

per the end of the readme:

- one step to go from a spec to writing code, run code, debugging itself, install packages, and deploying the code

- creates "ephemeral UI" on demand
First of all, even with all the recent hoopla, "AI" is nothing like what I'd consider intelligent despite the name. Machines have been able to out-compute humans for a long time, but when I interpret Genesis's verse about mankind being made in God's image, I think part of it is reasoning abilities that other creatures lack (and that AI may never be able to fully replicate/comprehend in the way we understand the world), as well as concepts like emotion/empathy and the ability to enjoy people/things/experiences. Islam accepts the same verse in Genesis that Judaism & Christianity do. As someone who has been reading Asimov from an early age and who keeps an eye out for Skynet, I'm not too concerned about them taking over anytime soon, although as a software developer, I certainly believe in the possibility that a complex buggy super-calculator may wrongfully decide to launch nuclear missiles. :)
Much like looking at an exchange rate between two currencies, what matters isn't the exact ratio at any one moment but how that ratio changes over time.
Can someone tell me if there's actually any geographical sense in putting a fab in Arizona? I admit it seems like the height of madness to put a fab somewhere with so little water.
Heh, I was once walked through a live “code review” where all my code that used Java steam maps were replaced by this one dude with for loops in private methods. What a dress-down… pff, the project was canned a few months after I left. But I’m a consultant, no long term investments
One of life's unwritten laws is "you get what you pay for."

I totally get why someone would want something for free but to whine about this free service not giving them what they want is some combination of entitled and ignorant.
Great question! While GraphQL is pretty cool we really like protobufs because its a lot easier to generate nice client code. Using grpc-web allows us to use the proto file to generate types and code for the frontend making the experience much much better than GraphQL, in addition we have implemented a caching mechanism that avoids sending back unnecessary query results back to the client. Finally grpc-web uses HTTP2 and is much more performant than GraphQL. Having said that it is not too hard to add GraphQL support through a Nest.js plugin and we will probably add it in the future if there is enough interest.
I’m honestly surprised this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often.

One of the fastest ways to monetize an open source software package is to sell your GitHub login to a bad actor or put malware in it yourself.

It would be extremely easy for a state level actor to compromise an npm dependency through bribery or blackmail.
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So who cares what Musk wants?

If the ideas in the letter are good, can’t we just run with them?

Like OpenAI did with all the publicly available research to build their products?
Mexico now receives more remittances than China
Again, this presupposes that they are prioritizing things in some objective way. Perhaps based on the data they're looking at, it makes sense to do this. And no, "they should ignore that data because it's obviously wrong, according to me" isn't valid.
Not surprising. It's part of the general economic decoupling that is occuring between the US and PRC.

This specific case is because of the (justified) increased oversight into Chinese IPOs in the US. Specifically, the issue was US regulators not being allowed to audit PRC operations of Chinese companies because to IPO, Chinese companies would create a parent org in the US that held a stake in the Chinese operations [0]. Because the SEC obviously didn't want companies potentially pulling an Enron, there was a crackdown on Chinese IPOs in the US in the 2019-2023 period, and these IPOs where overwhelmingly in the "tech" sector (which in reality is too broad a term. Even Luckin Coffee - a Chinese coffee brand - IPOed as a tech company).

Tit-for-tat retaliation like this is pretty normal to be honest, and this kind of title editorialization around US-China business news is honestly really stupid.

Hell, we in the US almost had a similar trade war with the EU because of the Inflation Reduction Act.

[0] - https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6c966b88-0395...
Does it (respectively Hyper-V) still fundamentally break hibernation and/or hybrid sleep? In theory it sounds neat, but not having working suspend-to-disk is a no-go for me…
It's not that hard to write assembly. It is hard to write good assembly. In order to produce maintainable software you need incredible discipline (and probably some advice what that discipline should be).

To a large extent you can consider high level languages opinionated. They have decided how to pass arguments, how to return values and how to lay out memory. The programmer no longer needs to think about these things, and they can't mess them up if they try. Doing this yourself you need to pick to those conventions and stick to them if you want maintainable software.

Of course the benefit of assembly is that it is trivial to break those conventions when there is good reason (optimization for example) but then you will pay the price of more difficult maintenance for that unconventional code.
I agree. The use cases are still far too limited to be of use at the scale beyond Canva or something. They will pay to automate the creation of social media graphics and emails, because nobody wants to work on those. But then what?
The dark matter of programmers (2010)
The story is really wild. I read the Matt Levine take on it and it immediately reminded me of Theranos (off course not exactly identical, but still).
What else do people think taking full responsibility means? It doesn’t mean they can somehow prevent the action they are taking responsibility for, nor does it mean they are going to inflict some symbolic hardship on themselves in response.

It basically just means “I deserve the blame.” To which people puzzlingly reply as if they are trying to escape blame.
If we replace AI with books, television, radio and streaming content is this still applying?
>Innovation can be scary, and at this time, people are making assumptions based purely on things that we do not know.

Here's the thing. Before chatGPT, it was pretty much a given that society was under more or less zero risk of losing jobs to AI.

Now with GPT-4 that zero risk has changed to unknown risk.

That is a huge change and it is a change that would be highly unwise to not address.

I agree that only time will tell. But as humans we act on predictions of the future. We all have to make a bet on what that future will be.

Right now this blog post is writing about a scenario that although speculative is also very realistic. It is, again, unwise to dismiss the possibility of a realistic scenario.
https://docs.aiqc.io

systematically orchestrates the data preprocessing and post-processing of the training loop for multi-dimensional data and various types of analysis
Gen X women in particular had to deal with all the pressure of mass media and fake pictures, etc. at a vulnerable age before there was much push back. Of course Millennials and Gen Z are pressured, but there's also substantial pushback to and discussion of that pressure in a way there really wasn't in 1993. And things are a bit more fragmented now in that the monoculture has a little less sway so it's more possible to find a niche of people who agree with your aesthetic/presentation choices. Gen X also had the misfortune of being the first generation to deal with a more sexually permissive/post pill society and so things like continually looking attractive are more 'important' than for Boomer or Silent Gen women. The older Boomers and Silent Gen women I see don't like their bodies but they also don't feel like they should look 20 at 60+ because a lot of their examples growing up were still women in their lives + the cultural ideal was to get married young and keep the same man. The Gen Xers had the double whammy of 'be sexually liberated and by the way in order to do that, we're going to tell you to look 16 forever' without the counterbalance of any body positivity at all.
did you come up with this comment out of your GPTbrain?
Yes there is a bit more discomfort in rain or snow, but it gives you a workout, is trivial to park, and is practically free to own/operate.

I service my own bike and it costs me maaaaybe 150$ a year if I’m being generous. The bicycle cost around 2000$ to put together (ebike) counting all the tools I didn’t have.

A car otoh would easily cost 200–300$/month just for existing (parking at home, taxes, and insurance). Never mind gas, traffic fines, parking at destination, maintenance, and the lack of exercise using one involves. Or the pollution and space it takes up.

I also got a 300$ trailer that can haul 90 lbs (iirc), I’ve used it for Costco style groceries, ikea furniture transport and the hill to go back home is about 8% grade. No sweat with the torque sensing ebike.
But it can't be written as a poem, otherwise it's not proof at all
> I would expect a shader could do a credible job of emulating all of these.

Yeah, but shaders are not known for their physical correctness which is a different goal.
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I hope Howard Jarvis is turning in his overpriced grave plot
Sniffnet v1.1.3 has been released
What was great with my ticket grooming bi-weeklies was that despite having 20 engineers in a room, we were strongly admonished from going into technical details of implementation in the room. "Take those offline. But please put a size on the ticket, thank you."

What else do you want us to do for 4-6 hours/week? Write poetry?

Eventually every ticket just gets sized "medium-big", and people keep their heads down with mouths closed.