skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually the correct way to make that work. Some Hanzi and Kanji are really abstract and are best learned by associating it with multiple related concepts. Each can have dozens of very distinctive meanings.
The US Black unemployment rate fell to an all-time low in March
There's No Way to Measure the Speed of Light in a Single Direction
iOS implements access permissions, GrapheneOS implements sandboxing.
Hey, I spent some spare time noodling on a specialized tool for fretboard flashcards a few months back. I haven’t built decks for learning modes yet, but I’d be curious to hear what sort of format you’d find useful and I’m happy to give it a whirl. You can check it out at https://awhitty.me/fretcards/

I’d be really happy to hear any other feedback as well. So far I’ve implemented a crude per-session spaced repetition algorithm, but I’ve had a mind to build more decks, offline support, local-first spaced repetition, and some extra doodads.

I agree with other commenters - playing is the best way to get this stuff truly dialed in. Have fun with it, too! Drilling scales saps energy, imo. Best to eat a balanced diet.
There is a joke between Mathematicians: The Confidence Interval is nothing more than, the interval between first learning about it, thinking you understood it, and the time it takes until you realize what it really means.
Norwegian as well. Though given Norwegian is also a Germanic language like English, Finnish is a lot more impressive. I managed to get it trip up on one single gendered article in Norwegian, while asking about Sweden, in a way very similar to how a human switching between Norwegian and Swedish might (it would be valid Swedish, and was followed by a Swedish word that's also valid in Norwegian but with another gender), but for the most part it writes Norwegian better than a lot of native speakers I've known would write (but not better than how they'd speak).

EDIT: I got it to "translate" a test sentence from Norwegian to "Riksmål", an old-fashioned artificial Norwegian dialect that seeks to stay closer to very conservative old Norwegian (basically a lot closer to Danish) and it managed that just fine too, and there's very little material that you'd be able to tell explicitly is Riksmål as most of the time it'd just be described as Norwegian unless the writer is trying to make a point.

Since that worked, I tried Nynorsk ("New Norwegian") which is used by something like 20% of the population, and it did fine.

So I tried a local dialect from Eastern Norway, that is predominantly spoken and only occasionally written and it got even that pretty much how I'd have said it myself, after a lecture on how it varies greatly within the region (which is true)

The differences there are subtle, and frankly a lot of native speakers would get one or more of these wrong.

EDIT2: Last try at stumping it with Norwegian: "AKP-dialect". AKP was a Maoist political party of a few hundred members whose members were largely intellectuals. Many of them adopted a "faux workers dialect". This had no formal name, so it takes some understanding of Norwegian 1970's and 80's politics to even guess what it is. It understood what I meant, but didn't understood what spesifikk language-features I was referring to. Then again, if I asked random Norwegians about that most would need an explanation too. When I mentioned a couple of people who wrote like that it produced a plausible version (but clearly more inspired by the writing style of one of them - Jon Michelet)
FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls
I parsed "cannot be understated" as "must not be understated", or "we cannot allow it to stay understated". I took it to mean a call to action, "this cannot be x!".
Wishing you the best of luck, but when I looked into this 10 or so years ago the long term success rate of surgery seemed dubious to me.

I read that scar tissue ends up building up and making the problem worse than before, so it ends up being a solution that works until then.

I did end up having turbinate reduction / deviated septum surgery, so at least I can use comfy nasal pillows now. The turbinate reduction definitely destroyed most of my fine sense of smell, which is unfortunate. Wish I'd known that ahead of time.

Anyways, sleep apnea sucks. Wish I could fix my anatomy.
Try forcing the call to happen at compile-time.

constexpr requires that the function be callable at compile-time, not that it is so.
Dijkstra.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32629-the-question-of-wheth...
I give a moment of silence to all the people on antidepressants who are actually iron and/or vitamin deficient and don't know it.
Cool idea! A million plot possibilities could easily plug into "whoever controls the Unobtainium Handwave Device absolutely must keep the Para-Critical Core Stabilization Magnetic Field Generators super-cooled and fully energized at all times...".
More and more people are learning that the large amount of debt they're saddled with to go to college can set them back more than the advantage of a college degree can make up for.
I guess an easy idea to escape this is that it's a cycle of events that repeat forever.

For example, imagine the sequence of events `A, B, C`.
After `C`, imagine that the cycle repeats with the beginning of `A` again, ad infinitum.
Noob question here - what’s the best tutorials to get started in mixing LLM models and building on top of one another, assuming very good programming background but little AI background? I asked chatGPT this question, and it was helpful but not comprehensive, but I figure intelligent humans on this forum will give the best answers.
I think every time I go to use Bitbucket I get an error 500 at least once.
This. While there are benefits to most religions (community being the biggest) it comes along with insane and very often deadly noise, be it ignorant, purposely wrong or errors in translations or lost information through time, editors, gatekeepers.

The closest path to god is reality, from personal observation ad questions.
The thing that made me realize how ineffective P < 0.05 was, was playing D&D, because the odds of something happening 5% of the time was the same odds as rolling a 1 on a 20 sided dice, which happens surprisingly frequently once you roll it more than a couple of times.

Also XCOM taught me that 98% != 100%
Until last year I had no greybeard but this year it started greying. Thou, I have grey hairs for a very long time. It could because I changed countries.

btw, I'm 33.
Why would they? Most people are smart enough to know what happens next. You get a "wellness check" at best if someone phones you in, which means a stressful police encounter.

On the worse side, you get sectioned, Ativaned and released in 72 hours and after talking with a psych for a few minutes. You have to deal with the traumatic experience of being sectioned itself as well as the fall out of being unavailable for 72 hours which can mean getting fired for no-showing your job, dealing with child custody logistics, &c.

Most lay people supporting a friend or family member are simply unequipped to handle the severity of a suicidal case without resorting to institutional intervention.

The article's call to action (listening or handing off to specialists) doesn't do anything to disrupt the chain of events that's likely to happen after a suicidal disclosure. Instead, a comprehensive guide to the effect of "What to do if your friend wants to kill themselves" would go so much farther than the advice given.
Of course by this same token most people thinking about suicide don't do it. I do find it a bit interesting they choose the 15-29 age range for their shocker sentence. While it being the 4th leading cause of death for that range sounds bad, you have frame it with overall death in that age range is very rare.

When looking only at suicide worldwide at 50 and above the numbers go up drastically. As in from 30 to 50 the suicide rates is 4x and 50 to 70 again doubles.

I'm a very big supporter of personal freedom, even an unpopular opinion of saying suicide for any adult should legal and available. I think it's a bad choice that shouldn't be done but I think it's an individual choice. This same view I would have on abortion, you shouldn't do it but you should choose.

Thinking about the problem is this way means to prevent suicide we must stop thinking this is something that only groups we consider traditionally as marginalized are doing. When you look at pre-teens through 20's yes it's largely these traditionally marginalized groups of people it affects. Statistically though they are a small percentage of overall suicides. While we should strive to prevent all suicides we need to frame the problem correctly. The vast majority of suicides worldwide are not marginalized people they are traditionally mainstream individuals of society that are doing it. Not just by a small percentage more it is the vast majority of suicides are mainstream non-traditionally marginalized people.

If society wants to prevent suicides we need to take a long hard look at why most seem to be mainstream people who should not be disaffected by society. Continuing to frame the problem as a young people problem or a marginalized people doesn't help reduce the suicide rate. All it does is provide headlines for people to wring their hands and weep over.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
> goosebumps from music and sensory experiences

Oh, I still get this. I've been taking my dexedrine for 2 months and it's still working really well. I hope the tolerance won't get too bad; I've been taking magnesium supplements to try to reduce tolerance buildup, but my doctor said to stop taking them for a week before a blood draw.
I thought about this but the problem with newer cars (mine at least) is killing the power wipes the memory so it won't pass an emissions check (or something like that). After my battery died I had to find an excuse to drive an extra 100 miles so I could pass emissions.

On my car the emissions laws definitely caused more emissions than they saved that day.
have similar issue with 2011 nissan maxima w/ key fob. guess i have a new weekend project on my hands.
> Yes, a manager is more like the coach of a sport team.

Do a lot of sports team have coaches that have never played that sport in their life?
2σ is fine, but the benefit of modern technology is that we can tell exactly what standard deviation would be needed for the null hypothesis to randomly generate our results. Particle physics holds itself to an "industry standard" of 5 sigma, for example.

The real conversation to be had is -- what standard deviation will we tolerate? Is this something we'll keep doing, and thus A/B test ourselves into a (perhaps quite horrifying) local minimum based on random noise? Is this a single great experiment? Are lives on the line? Will these results be taken Quite Seriously? Is this a test to say "look, this is worth further investigation"?

I'm no statistician but in my opinion this is the first conversation that needs to be had when doing an experiment: what p / σ levels are satisfactory to claim confidence? p<0.05 is a decent heuristic for some experiments, but not all.
> it's normal for the battery to die if you don't drive it for 3 days

I've heard this nonsense a couple times now. I was incredulous at first but everyone seems to say this. What are anyone's suggestions for a weekend-only car? (I bike to work so I don't need a car on weekdays.) Trickle charge the car battery on weekdays?
I have sleep apnea, not overweight. I wish there was more research poured into a solution that isn't pseudoscience junk or predatory.

Grateful to the inventors of the cpap though, changed my life.
Xcom isn’t a good example because the game actively lies to you with displayed probabilities

https://youtu.be/l0KEDYFWbVc
The website measures power units in multiples of "Chernobyl" and lists a positive of the proposed project as "no more drought" (in the submerged area, underwater). Also, it's literally proposing to annihilate Prague. How obvious can irony get?
What are you referring to re Linus Paulings?
What is the connection between the two? I am literally working on climate repair and don't see a strong connection.
Yes, "main character" is Twitter jargon not normally used in business.

However, it is true that the manager often represents the team in meetings. To the other people in those meetings, the manager may be the only person they know on the team.

An extreme version of this: outside a company, the CEO may be the only person the average person has heard of. Who do you know who works for Tesla, besides Musk?

Or consider the inventions attributed to Edison. Could you name anyone else who worked in his research labs?
The state already controls your money.
> Right now your only real option is OpenAI (or maybe Anthropic)

> The only reason we have LLAMA is because Meta threw us a bone

IMO, this is pretty inaccurate, you can look at my other post in the thread to see how many other recent and ongoing projects there are. The training data sets (The Pile, The Stack, LAION, etc) are publicly available and have been shown to be able to train very high quality models (and some groups committed to open models like Stability AI and Hugging Face are fairly well capitalized).

Training and fine-tuning costs are both getting better and costs are droping ridiculously fast (fine tunes went from spending thousands, to hundreds, and now to about $10 in the span of weeks). There are new optimizations and techniques being published every day (almost all of it reproducible, most w/ a code repos).

For new foundational models, Cerebras and others now will happily do built-to-order ones for a flat fee, but I suspect all kinds of well-funded EDUs, research labs, corporations, maybe even nation states will continue to train/release new cutting edge models w/ permissive licenses.
An interesting 'detail': Nancy Crampton-Brophy (the author) was recently convicted of killing her husband in Portland, Oregon. Seven years before her conviction, she also wrote an essay titled 'How to Murder Your Husband'.
Does the child abuse bother you?
Putin’s Twitter account resurfaces as Russia comes in from the cold
The syntax looks like a mixture of Haskell and F#
Honest question that keeps bothering me.

In the absence of reasonably strong natural selection pressure to select for IQ, how could IQ not be falling over time?
Damon Centola on Complex Contagion and Change
Almost 28 years.

6.8 was released Oct 18, 2020. (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

https://www.openbsd.org/68.html
> people immediately begin dunking on the idea

If you're talking about people here, don't take it so seriously. SaaS makes the most sense for most software businesses. I will say, though, that some software is SaaS even though it's not necessary. An example I personally dislike is workout tracking apps for iOS and Android. Personally in that case it makes more sense to charge for the app and then additionally for extra workouts, than monthly IMO.
Is safari private relay failing to load archive.ph for others?

Had to disable it to access the site.

I hope this isn’t a sign of dns blocking in iCloud relay like the uk government likes to do.

Weird when i go back there and libgen etc won’t even resolve.
With so much money and so many competing interests involved, it'll take decades for this to wind its way through the courts, and by then there's a good chance we'll have strong AI and all such concerns will be moot.
I tried reading John Horgan's articles published in ScientificAmerican until I worked out what was annoying me about them other than they were generally poor – it's because they're basically about him. He's a self promoter and any truth in what he's saying is secondary to his ego.

Just a sceptic's take. Make up your own mind
We all need to be our own advocates, in lots of areas.

What's concerning is when people ignore the experts completely.

Steve Jobs ignoring the advice for pancreatic cancer treatment comes to mind.
It's not as easy to see, when you take their crusty old OS that hasn't been wiped in 10 years, and compare it to a fresh installed new PC.

People are often blown away at how fast their old machines are when they are just wiped and reloaded.
> "It's usually cached" is not an excuse for excessive traffic,

It does redefine what "excessive" means though. If 10 independent requests makes the code easier to maintain, an the performance hit is a few Ms on average, I wouldn't consider that excessive. If, under the same circumstances, the performance hit was a few hundred ms, it would indeed be excessive.

It's not making excuses so much as pointing out a potential discordance between what is measured and what is assumed based on that measurement.
Our universe is but a half cycle of the great steam engine in the sky.
There are alternative hypotheses like Eternal Inflation, and Blackhole Cosmology. Mathematical Universe hypothesis would have our existence merely be one expression of consistent mathematical laws, all possible variations of which exist in a level 4 multiverse. Or we could just be a Boltzmann Brain that only imagines it is a universe that started with a big bang and real physics are markedly different.

It is worth keeping in mind that reality is under no obligation to make any kind of sense to us.
Mechanics are like doctors: find a good one and be grateful.
Those $130-$150 Aixun branded JBC clones on aliexpress make a compelling argument for the price point IMO.
A psychiatrist friend of mine once commented about suicidal people who tell others of their state vs one that doesn't.

His summary is that the ones who tell others haven't yet really decided. They're still reaching out for help, for some other way. The ones who have really made the decision, who have given up all hope for an alternative course of action, are the ones who don't say anything.

Because why would they? From their perspective, they have nothing to gain by doing so, and would cause a lot of additional trouble to themselves and their loved ones if they did.
> Apple's SSDs have built-in protection against data-loss from power loss which is usually an enterprise SSD feature.

It's a bit arguable. On Macos the well-known operation 'fsync' which exists for the sole purpose of committing files to durable storage doesn't protect files against data loss if there's power loss. You can ask for data to be committed more durably through a Macos-specific API, in which case those Apple SSDs are a lot slower than other good SSDs at doing this.

As most software uses 'fsync' to durably commit files, that stored data is not protected against power loss for some time. VMs either use the equivalent operation to implement filesystem barriers, or the very slow but more durable Macos-specific operation. Either way, these are not great SSDs for protection against data loss on power failure.

As measured by Asahi Linux folks:

"Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity" (https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1494213855387734019 / https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ssd-flash-storage-in-ma... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30370551)

"Well, this is unfortunate. It turns out Apple's custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity. If you do, they drop down to HDD performance. Thread."

"For a while, we've noticed that random write performance with fsync (data integrity) on Asahi Linux (and also on Linux on T2 Macs) was terrible. As in 46 IOPS terrible. That's slower than many modern HDDs. We thought we were missing something, since this didn't happen on macOS." [Except it does happen on Macos when the equivalant API is used.]
It's fairly straightforward if the car is unmodified, as everything should be fused. Multi-meter between positive terminal and positive lead and pulling each fuse to see when the drop goes away will isolate the circuit. Then you've narrowed it down pretty far and can go from there.

The horrible thing is if the car is modified, and you discover an un-fused circuit.
The Vercel way is to say "those aren't breaking changes, they're just bugs".
I hear this all the time, but I have never understood it. If I clear my drive cycle monitors, they are all passing again just a few miles later. Do some vehicle manufacturers just put insane constraints on the drive cycle monitors?
The college wage premium was inverted during Covid. As of now, you net more over your entire life if you do not go to college.
When I Google for "modern sailing ship", I only see CGI rendered ships. This ship looks like most other older sailing ships, which still have ship yards that can construct and repair them.

They started with buying an older ship from 1909 and improving it. Now building a similar one from scratch. I think these iterations fit the startup mentality of just starting and continuously improving.
Is this different from how they recycle EV batteries in Europe?
A better manager understands that everyone’s experience is different, and the role you play in others’ stories isn’t entirely your choice. Just getting to the bottom of that takes effort in itself.
Another user in this thread mentioned it and it's described in the wikipedia article about crazy nobel laureates linked elsewhere here. Basically, Pauling believed high doses of vitamin C could prolong the lives of cancer patients and cure schizophrenia, despite being out of his field of expertise and lack of evidence.
Never played at all would be strange (it seems uncommon to watch a sport you have never played, let alone make a career of it). It's pretty common in the NFL to see coaches who were never professional players and possibly only played at a small college to boot.
Just watched some eps of Extrapolations this week, the Apple TV show about climate change. It's (a sci-fi show that shows life in the future ~2040-2060) very far fetched, but not so much as to say it's out of the question that species continue to eradicate due to extreme climate change when it occurs. 1 cause was wildfires, and we saw some terrible fires over the last few years, from ones in Australia, or the Amazon, to ones in California. Still remember those pictures of burning Koalas in Australia. Another is the idea of rising sea levels which could cause many habitat loses like the Tiger ones.

But while these things may not be happening now, it does feel that more attention in terms of engineering efforts need to happen. There is a lot of hype and media outrage, but not seeing as much real substantive efforts. I hope we can control climate much better in the coming decades. Many believe Deep Learning will help with that. At the same time, these models are not as good at planning right now. So, I wonder if it will be as simple as that. Definitely in the realm of data extraction, and analysis, it will be of great help.
interesting life you must live if everything is so clearly black and white
Climate Conversations: Tipping Points
What apps other than Firefox might this have affected that badly (75% CPU usage)?
Thank you, I had not heard of the issue related to scar tissue building up. I will look into that more and ask my doctor when I see them later this week. I knew going into the surgery that it was not a sure thing that it would improve my breathing. The primary reason I had it done was to correct a bad underbite and crossbite that causes me to struggle with eating.
Current chemistry allows us to do that just fine. Glass melts at a much lower temperature and is much less dense than steel. Concrete is not as dense as steel, but melts at a much higher temperature. So, if you heat up the whole mixture to steel melting temperatures, the glass and steel will melt and can be poured off, while the concrete will stay solid. Then the molten mixture of steel and glass will naturally separate because the steel part is so much heavier than the glass part and they don't naturally mix all that well.

(Fun fact, glass pane manufacturing is often done by floating the molten glass on a bath of molten metal so that the surface tension will make it flat. AFAIK they don't usually use molten steel as the metal though.)