skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the modern features that you see on the web have gone through the flag method at one point.

In JPEG XL case it failed not because it was behind a flag, and the failure of one feature doesn't mean that the entire system isn't working.

> Sounds like the flag method is a failure, and just releasing it actually works.

No, "just releasing" doesn't work for the reasons I outlined above.
Pragmatic drag and drop: performance focused drag and drop for the web
Ha ha, sadly this can be transformed into a symbol manipulation answer as well. I know because this (stated slightly differently) is one of the questions in my 12th standard (senior year high-school equivalent) Mathematics I class.

Here's someone writing it out on video on a tutoring site https://www.doubtnut.com/question-answer/int050exdx-where-x-...

You have to spot the period, but x - floor(x) is called "fractional part of x" where I come from and is a named function which everyone is familiar with. Then, without knowing the area-under-the-curve interpretation, one can blindly apply another symbol-manipulation tool: the summing of integral over a period.
When did you receive your education? I, too, grew up in the Midwest but my experience has always been "shut up and calculate" rife with mostly process-learning and unrelatable problem sets. Certainly important, yes, but also boring. Nothing creative, nothing playful, just very mechanical, very dull. Word problems were infrequent, and anything with real world application was jammed into the margins and given only the most cursory glance. Not to mention doing the online homework was awful.
Thanks for educating me as to the dumpster fire of patched together steps that take place in the first milliseconds of booting my PC.

With regard to this:

Intel CPUs ship with built-in microcode, but it's frequently old and buggy and it's up to the system firmware to include a copy that's new enough that it's actually expected to work reliably.

...I wish companies put more effort into releasing finished, polished products. Not just Intel. I played with an ESP32-S3 recently and learned not only was the entire digi controller for ADC2 'dropped' from support due to bad silicon, but using ADC1 with DMA was fraught with gotchas and blatently incorrect info in the documentation (reported at least a dozen to EspressIf and they acknowledged).
Me too. It was so so good.
The world's foremost university is 500 meters from Berkeley High. I assure you that no person who ever wanted to study math was denied the opportunity. Anyone with 2 years of high school can enroll in multivariate calculus or linear algebra at UC Berkeley. In fact, anyone on Earth can study them virtually, for credit!
That sounds like absolute hell to dig through once you hit N+1 queries.
That's incorrect. It's never been as high as 20%. That's a claim that I've seen frequently over the years on HN, but it was never the case, at least at Booking.com.

They have a few mechanisms to try and drive up commission from the usual 12%, though. They have a preferred program which boosts search results but costs
3%> They would have loved to drop it to better tune search, but they were addicted to the incremental revenue.

At various times there were also dynamic ranking boost efforts, where a hotel could increase boost their ranking (with a preview) by increasing the commission percentage. IIRC that went as high as 18%.

Both of those applied to the default search results order ONLY. If you clicked "order by price" or similar then you simply got that.

(Worked for booking until end of 2017.)
> The big question is how do we get the bottom percentage to have a life where they don't have to struggle to find a place to live and making sure they never go hungry?

I'm sorry this sort of thing is ridiculous. Are you European? The vast majority of American cities have multiple organizations attempting to give away food and unable to find takers. Our own church throws away so many pounds of food that we receive from donations. We are in a west coast city with a large homeless problem. None of them are starving. None want food. Literally we advertise and spend endless hours attempting to give away food. We had the same 'issue' at our former church in San Francisco and my aunt is a volunteer at a food pantry in southern California. Same problem.. too much food.

The United States has a lot of problems but a lot of the problems are not caused by lack of money or goods or food. If anything, the problems are caused by too much money.
you're missing that this page was made 15 years ago.
This article really shows that google finally realized that its to time to improve and compete.

The product and features mentioned here are certainly interesting and could be indeed useful.

I am surprised how their communication team has handled this, they appear to be calm, in this "we can do this, we can recover" mode, they aren't dismissive of competition or rumors as shown in their official responses in this article.

And unlike others here, I really think its googles game to lose, they have much more data than anyone, they can customize and improve the experience much more than Microsoft can.
And I doubt they are truly as behind GPT-4 as LLaMDA showed.

Competition is definitely needed in the search space and we finally have it.
This is insanity. I wonder if ARM CPUs were able to start from scratch or a better place.
Wow really? When did that change? It was 12% as recently (hah) as 2018.
Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
Partner was primary carer and child raiser, and volunteered otherwise for 20+ years. The social distain when people asked her "but what do you DO" was palpable. It ground her gears, understandably so.

"Defined by work" is not net-positive for everyone. Anyone even.
Yeah I remember using my palm device or flip phone to browse these sites
This is a shot in the dark, but you seem very knowledgeable about color, video formats, and the Apple ecosystem so I thought you might have some insight into this issue I'm facing recently.

I'm trying to process HLG3 video files from my Sony camera and have spent far too many hours trying to figure out how different settings affect QuickTime, ffmpeg, and Davinci Resolve, among others. The biggest thing I can't figure out right now is why Davinci Resolve renders the HLG video brighter than QuickTime.

If I enable 10-bit precision and Mac display color profiles for the Davinci viewer, it does seem to tap into the HDR capabilities on my MacBook and allow for full dynamic range that looks similar to QuickTime's render. However, everything is brighter, especially highlights.

Do you know of any good references to better understand how HDR works on a modern Mac?
This seems less iPhone and more Bitcoin so far.
Looks great! Is there a benchmark for comparison?

Edit: It seems that Temml is a fork of KaTeX, so the difference compared to KaTeX's MathML rendering should be minimal?
Sorry, I didn't see this earlier. The problem is that it's very difficult to determine what properties are observable for fingerprinting purposes. I used the background image as an example because it's very simple, but you can also trigger requests in more obscure ways. For example, you could have a lazy-loaded image in the rendered HTML - the image will only be loaded if the user's viewport contains the image. Then you create a rule where if the user is using dark mode, the element immediately before the image becomes really long, forcing the image off the screen. Now, if the user loads the website and doesn't immediately also load the image, you know that they were using dark mode.

Alternatively, everywhere where you have a link, you could have one link for each combination of bits that you want to send to the backend. Then using CSS, you can hide or display this links so that only one version of each link is displayed at a time, and then monitor what gets clicked. If the user clicks the link that says `/?dark-mode=true&orientation=vertical`, you now know two extra bits of information.

This is obviously all excluding Javascript, which can just read this information straight out and use it.

The problem ends up being that there's so many different (and often valid) ways to customise a website that it's very difficult to limit these customisations to only the "safe" ones. Even if the only properties I was allowed to use were colour/background-color, I'm sure I could come up with some sort of way to use them to convey information. So the only safe option here is to turn off the customisations altogether. Yes, it's still possible to track if a user is using light mode or not, but now they're all using light mode, so that bit of information becomes useless.
There's a reason early Model T's are collectibles, and why 1980s Ford Escorts are in junkyards.
The intention is for them to do things that are more like projects. E.g. build a website or even a business (e.g. an ecommerce shop with marketing, etc). AutoGPT and BabyAGI are only a few weeks old, so they need time to build. So they are being criticized too early in my opinion.
Are tech companies that desperate that they need to do this? Maybe if it was bigger company, but this can't be a threat to Microsoft....They're all acting like starving rats feeding on their children.
Thank you for creating this little treasure and maintaining it. It's a time capsule from that era!

>>I do still have a lot of unfinished areas of the site that I tell myself I need to get done, but it has been 20+ years now, so you can see how well that's going (I see you, episode summary sections).

Maybe ChatGPT could help create episode summaries for the Cowboy Bebop live action series? At least as a placeholder until you have time to write it yourself?
Could these be used to make dithering patterns?
As a fellow American, I can't really identify with some of these points. You seem weirdly almost perversely proud of the idea of overworking oneself, towards what end, economical? I mean it's not as if there is any intrinsic purpose to life anyway, but this one feels rooted in some long-lost rags to riches Horacio Alger Gilded Age.
IMO a sufficiently advanced AI should be able to do a full analysis of its neural architecture and explain it and break down its functionality.
Great scheme until it all falls apart. If it turns out there is a re-investment complex product behind the scenes in this model, and somebody works out how to collateralise that, and then somebody else works out how to short it...
Yeah, this is the kind of thing that seems elegant and convenient when the requirements are simple, but completely falls apart as soon as any complexity is involved.
can this single test result be also an effect of what was a training set?
LLaMa 13B:

Bob: Pull.
User: why?
Bob: Because "Pull" is mirror writing for "Open".
Climate change costs more and nuclear will easily offset that.
Congrats on launching.

Nice and short domain name, but it reminds me of Orwell’s book 1984 - not sure that’s a good thing or not. But depends who you’re trying to target. If it’s folks born in the early 2000s they might not know about it.

Also, if you’re trying to create an online learning site with paid content in the future, it might be difficult to compete with sites like ixdf.org.

Little nit pick ;) To follow one of the heuristics, I would make the logo go to the home page rather than bringing up the flyout for changing to dark mode.

Nice one for trying out new things!
I created a little news site (https://magnetoid.com) specifically to try to get stories from every country in the world. Most countries are directly represented, though there are a few exceptions like Andorra (maybe 20 total?), where there's not a terribly great English news source for me to pull from. Countries not directly represented are still covered by regional sites that I scrape.

It's made with Python, SQLite, OpenResty, and Redis. no ads, tracking, or javascript
The video is fantastic and it demonstrates how some people can be hesitant or uncertain when encountering true innovation. Only a small percentage of the audience, about 10-20%, seems to fully comprehend the concept, while the rest appear puzzled or confused.
I generally hate analogies, and I welcome being told this analogy is wrong:

you know that thing where ads on radio "sound louder" but when you hassle the station they swear blind the total db on the signal as "volume" remains constant? Thats what "colourspace" is to me, in sound: the colours add up to "white" but how you got there alters what it looks like.

That, plus people respond differently (rods and cones) to different specific intensities coming in. Total energy? same-same. Human response? Not same.
I agree with the sibling commenters, it's definitely more dancehall. Listen to the 1991 album Reggae Owes Me Money [1] by Ragga Twins, produced by UK breakbeat hardcore pioneers Shut Up and Dance [2]. The album bounces between proto-jungle and dancehall quite a bit.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLhUyWWTq6Q

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/28/shut-up-and-da...
If only we had ideal conditions...
When technical debt strangles your entire business. "We'll fix this next release"
That's the purpose of the in-app request caching layer. Another way to see it is that you do have state in a separate store, it's just that you have one piece of state for each resource that can be requested. So it's not that all the components are requesting the /users resource, it's more that all the components a requesting the value of the /users store, and the /users store fetches the data once and determines whether the data is loading, present, needs to be updated, etc.
Is this possibly to make sure they are making money as more people turn to solar? By making a larger portion of your bill a fixed fee, they will make more from those customers despite them buying less electricity.
The original title is better. This style of satire works best when it's entirely deadpan. Putting a reference to A Modest Proposal in the title gives the joke away.
> I have a hard time believing above average students (with parents with parents without engineering/science degrees) could take linear algebra

Linear algebra is not hard. I had a math teacher who taught the basics of linear algebra in my middle school math class. While she was an exceptional teacher (incredibly good, we still talk over 25 years later!), I can attest that the concepts presented no great difficulty to any of the students (with the caveat that all of us were in an advanced learning program)

Now calculus, I feel that at least some high school students I've talked to really didn't "get it", even for single variable. Then again I get the feeling that most people who take calculus don't get it, which I find sad because IMHO calculus is absolutely phenomenal. For me, it was when math started really connecting to the real world and making an impact on how I saw things in my day to day.
You can say that about any kind of model, can’t you? The point of inventing models is not to predict the future, it’s to better understand the world.

The weather app on your phone can’t predict Thursday’s weather. But it can help you know more about Thursday than nothing. You could say that the weather app is “speculating”, indeed it is, so what?
Mathematics is a language that readily accepts any symbol redefinition or simply definition in a new context.
$ convert yourfile.avif yourfile.jpg
This is a bad theory because it could apply to literally any time in the past or in the future. It’s infinitely variable and not falsifiable thus unscientific.

Meanwhile, progress (aka people trying to make the world better) will continue whether you like it or not, bringing benefits to practically everyone forever. Pessimists may temporarily stifle progress, but the genie has been out of the bottle for the last 400 years or so. Good luck trying to stop people from wanting better for themselves aka solving problems.
Seas are connected to the ocean. Lakes are land locked.
> You're not going to improve the lives of impoverished children by lowering the bar. It's absurd.

As a poor kid in Seattle, I am now no longer poor because of a high bar.

In my high school (West Seattle High School!) we edited DNA. We spliced DNA, inserted a gene, closed it up, and made bacteria change color. It was awesome.

> The best solution I can think of is to pay children to succeed in academics or extracurriculars

Unfortunately, extrinsic motivations mess people up and don't end well long term.
In the case of arguments about the dangers of AGI, there is no meaningful distinction between assumptions and conclusions. The points being discussed are so fundamental that they don't lend themselves to being broken down further.

If "a being that you don't understand and that is better than you at everything is a potential danger to you" doesn't convince someone, I'm not sure what further elaboration could achieve. This is a classic problem that arises in many philosophical debates. If there is disagreement about fundamentals, the debate doesn't (and can't) go anywhere.

The real problem is that we simply cannot hope to predict what an entity that is far superior to any human would do, essentially by definition. So I wouldn't frame this as a "debate" so much as two camps of different beliefs. Any "argument" made is like ants trying to understand human ethics. While I consider the aforementioned point to be obvious, I could be wrong about it in ways I can't even comprehend, and so could any other human, regardless of their degree of expertise.

Ironically, this unknown provides something like a meta-argument for extreme caution when dealing with AGI: Just like you wouldn't step blindly into a dark room that might contain a monster, you don't have to know that AGI is dangerous in order to be afraid of it – the mere fact that it might be and you cannot ever know for sure is enough.
Most people live in metro areas.
So which one are you, millionaire or homeless?
I disagree to some extent that we should not change things just because we can: we grow beautiful ornamental gardens and weave silk and make cheese because these things please us and not necessarily because we need them; nature would never produce such order. We are the masters of our world. Nature, too, has merit, but nature makes flood and famine and disease -- we can engineer against those things.

Money is an instrument of labor also; it's possible to be rich, carbon negative, and without using up any depletable resources.

In fact, more efficiency (less resources used to produce a good) means more profit, doesn't it?

Money is the only reason a lot of endangered species are still alive. Here, rats eat ground-nesting bird eggs. Only money to build fences and island sanctuaries and establish breeding programs saved them.
Forgive the nitpick, but absolutely nowhere near 80% of Americans are encountering homeless on a regular basis. Homelessness in particular and inequality in general are major problems! I don't mean to sweep that under the rug! However, I don't think it's true that anywhere near a majority of Americans encounter homeless people on a daily basis.

Something like 80% of Americans live in an urban setting

Yes, for the Census Bureau's particular and extremely loose definition of "urban" which includes what anybody in America would call "suburbs" and even a lot of places people would call "rural": https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

The key TL;DR determination factor (there are others, read for yourself) is this:

In order for a block to qualify as urban, it must have a den-
sity of 1,000 people per square mile (ppsm).

That is not a lot. I live in a very stereotypical suburb (everybody has a driveway, and a small yard) and population density here is like 8,000 people per square mile... nobody would call this place urban besides the Census Bureau. (For reference, NYC's population density is 26,403 per square mile)

I don't think I've ever seen a homeless person outside a major city... you just don't see it in suburbs or rural areas.

Again, major problem, it's just that most Americans don't see it on a regular basis... which perhaps is part of the root of the problem. Makes it easy to ignore.
It's not about not knowing the name about the capital.

It's about not hearing any news from the country ever and maybe not knowing a single distinguishing thing about it because they never come up in regular life in the western world.

Like Cameroon, Gabon or Suriname. I know they are countries, but couldn't tell you a single fact about them.
Another fun thing with SMP: The x86 multiprocessor spec says that to start an AP you need to send an IPI, wait 10 ms, then send another IPI (IIRC it's a "reset" followed by an "init"). On large systems, this adds up!

Except that you don't need to wait 10 ms for each AP -- you can start up the APs in parallel. There's just one small problem: All of the APs start up in the same state -- executing from the same CS:IP, and also the same stack pointer. Good luck having hundreds of CPUs stomping over each other's stacks.

Except that if you're careful, it doesn't matter -- you can even make a function call if you want because all of the CPUs will push the same return address onto the stack.

Implementing this in FreeBSD is on my "speeding up the boot" to-do list. I know it's possible though, because someone told me that they had already done exactly this in a different (non open source) system.

Lexicon for the non-x86 people: SMP = Symmetric MultiProcessing, aka more than one "virtual CPU". AP = Auxiliary Processor, any CPU other than the one which the BIOS starts up for you. IPI = InterProcessor Interrupt, how CPUs wake each other up. CS:IP = Code Segment + Instruction Pointer, where the CPU is reading instructions from.
Great link, thanks.

Sidenote, I don't know why the forum software makes you hit "See More" to see the whole post. Here are filters for uBlock Origin:

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I've been doing research with NLP for about 5 years now I couldn't have created a better inrto list than this. Many of these resources were things I've sent people over the years.
Huh, I did not realize until reading this that the IME is also x86. I assumed it was just whatever was most convenient, which seems like it rules out x86, but I guess not.
He's willing to die trying to.... export things lol.
At least the plans weren't on display It in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.”
Sure but I have some sympathy here … a contemporary CPU probably has a million different capabilities and if some not-even-single-digit-percentage of them don’t work that’s a lot of errata. Plus it’s hardware! So it’s hard to fix it once it’s out.
It's always hard to estimate revenue lost. yes, some proportion of visitors might be impacted (as in "I can't come, I can't get a flight") but more likely people will just fly on another available plane, so (for the airline) seat usage goes up.

In other words if most planes are at say 85% capacity, then that 10% is easily absorbed. If anything it likely makes the airline more profitable. and of course if it does get up to 100% utilization, then fares go up anyway.

If anything the impact on the airline is positive, the impact on Joe Traveller might be negative (reduced schedule options ; possibly more expensive).