skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Define "real"? Is the civil war in Syria real? Was the civil war that had collapsed the Russian Empire real? If it is the foreign influence that confuses you - that is actually an expected thing: In most cases the sides of the civil war gravitate to nearest opposing poles of power, with the exception for secluded places like America.

A war that isn't started by a foreign power to try and destabilise the country is what id call a 'real' civil war, and it's clear the one in Ukraine was started by Russia.

> It's important not to be dismissive of the fact that the root cause of all the problems is that people in Ukraine can not agree on a sustainable way to run their country and that people in Donbas have no less rights then the people who pushed for the revolution. Everything else is just bullshit that distracts everyone from what's important - the people.

The root cause for a lot of it is Russian interference just like it is in what is it now? 4?, 5? post soviet states now.
> the MNIST link requires authentication

doesn't ask for auth for me?
> The only way is to refuse being photographed and basically avoid social events.

Depending on where you live, you'll still be on probably dozens if not hundreds of security cameras as you go about your day.

It reminds me about the furor over so-called "glassholes" who filmed people while wearing Google Glass. People were outraged when they saw that they were being filmed with cameras that were right in their face, but don't care the that dozens of (mostly invisible) security cameras film them daily.
Would it be worth pointing out that you used social media to share this view?

There’s probably more nuance to this discussion.
> Joshua Bergen is a very productive person.

But is he? I mean his linkedin is, and I mean this with no malice whatsoever, quite average compared to the effort that goes into maintaining such a system?
The issue is that a modified gravitational theory means getting rid of general Relativity or at least _significantly_ modifying it. As i understand, no proposed modified gravity theory has ever been able to be more accurate than GR. Every theory that's been proposed (very many for over 100 years) to resolve galaxy rotation has then failed at some other scale or situation. Most of those theories still require dark matter to explain those discrepancies. The single most accurate and explainable model currently is general relativity with some extra dark mass hiding in extremely large structures.

As well, to do away with GR means ridding ourselves of the most accurate gravitational predictions ever made. GR explains basically _everything else_. It predicts gravitational waves, black holes, the orbit of mercury and the precession of rotating bodies, as well as many other things I'm sure. And so far every big prediction has come out to be true. In physics, predictive power is everything. Most of the modified gravity theories can't even explain everything we already see let alone make accurate predictions about other things.

It just comes down to math and data. I've had this conversation with many people and while i don't want to discourage questioning or curiosity, none of these people were very versed in the actual topics of modified gravity or modern dark matter theories (not saying this about you, but I've had this conversation _a lot_). You can Google a Wikipedia article about problems with modified gravity, MOND, etc. And read about it freely if curious.

The issue i think is that it's too complicated. The science and especially the math of these theories is graduate level physics and these theories are being proposed and discounted by doctorates who've dedicated their entire lives to learning about this. It's extremely difficult for regular people with jobs and lives to have the time to truly understand the issues here, at least until someone comes along who can explain it much better than I.

I must say, I'm also not a doctorate in gr or anything, but I've been around it a while and have seen the developments unfold over time. The short answer is that modified gravity theories have more problems than gr + dark matter, at least right now.
All of which is completely irrelevant to Apple’s highly anti-competitive effort to try and ban links to outside payment providers.
Probably better than you. There is no such thing as a terminating number, and the article mentions "the shortest terminating program to produce the largest number whose output size exceeds Graham's number". Which should be an expression better than ack(9,9).
But since you can emit just inf, you don't need a turing machine/lambda calculus at all.
How many HR employees do you realistically need for a company that is downsizing?
For even deeper etymological Oxen, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph#Origin

> The name aleph is derived from the West Semitic word for "ox" (as in the Biblical Hebrew word Eleph (אֶלֶף) 'ox'), and the shape of the letter derives from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph that may have been based on an Egyptian hieroglyph, which depicts an ox's head.
There are a lot of "software engineers" who can't code well. I see a lot of "google and copy paste until it works and deploy". No thoughts behind design. No idea about performance. No testing. No innovation. They all need to go.
Now? It was the same since the start.
> I would guess the constant memory allocation and frees in the training loop are the bottleneck

No, the bottleneck would be not utilizing the idling GPU.
It would be cool too see a port of llama.cpp and ggml to Zig

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml
These are pretty serious allegations, and as the ex-CIO of PIA, you certainly have the credibility to make them. However, drip-feeding various circumstantial links do not really help your case, and HN comments is not the best medium to make them.

I'd suggest creating a website or page, and writing out your allegations in detail and instead linking that here.
That is undoubtedly true, but while we're waiting for the widespread acceptance of a C string library that defines a separate string type, or for the world to be rewritten in Rust or other safer languages, it's still possible to make incremental progress.
The developer is building on Apple's system and owes the entire opportunity to Apple. Without Apple they wouldn't be able to develop the app or find customers for it.
It's become an autonomic response on HN at this point, if one mentions Trump in any capacity other than ebullient praise, the Trumpists show up to spread insinuations about the Bidens and Hillary Clinton. I guess in their heads somehow that "wins" the argument every time.
A real-life Hammer of Dawn (gears of war)

Really though I don't see this scaling to energy production for the masses due to the beaming logistics.

It'll mainly be used to recharge drones that never land and possibly fry enemy systems / missiles / etc.
Show HN: CheekyKeys – A Face-Controlled Keyboard
Even in The Netherlands where, I was told by a local debit cards were the norm, I paid for things all last week with a credit card without anyone giving it a second look or having the slightest problem. I was prepared to use my debit card begrudgingly as it doesn't cover foreign exchange fees like one of my credit cards do. But I never needed to.
As a fellow developer who has been passionate about open-source programming since childhood, I was disgusted in this last hiring bubble how condescending and disrespectful the developers were towards other professions, which is disappointing. My general feeling was that it elevated developers to a seemingly different caste of "special" people, and here in my country (Brazil) there was advertisements everywhere about how you can study a couple of weeks and get a Top 1% salary.
Yes, but this article is about developers getting laid off - not c-suite and VPs.
How could a user of these services know that they're not being tracked when using them?

We only have their word to go on, and absolutely no way to verify, afaik.
It also sounds like graduate school for scientists.
This is interesting, thanks. I know this is just a demo, but I'm convinced we're going to see a swing back to simple, purpose written NNs for many simple applications, when the alternative is bringing in a couple GB of python and cuda libraries, which is serious overkill for something on the scale of MNIST (which many real problems are).

That said, I'm curious about how well the compiler can optimize matrix operations, in Zig or other, say C or Rust, and when it's worth linking in BLAS or mkl some other library. I wonder if there is a sweet spot where it's worth doing.
Why does Pinterest get away with republishing people’s content? Shouldn’t artist be suing Pinterest for its blatant copyright violations?
Is that the fault of the devs or the broken processes where management promises unrealistic deadlines up the chain, so devs have no time to think about the bigger picture and just do everything in their power to ship something that barely works at the end of each sprint and move on to putting out the next fire?

To me, the fault is in the industry and how the ships are run.
Certainly for wind operators in the UK, there is a "contract for difference" payment process such that they are not paid the spot price. Instead they're paid a guaranteed price within a range (i.e. the difference between the spot price and a benchmark). And there will be an agreement in place that if they're not allowed to export this power they will be paid for "curtailment".
This is excellent writing. I'm not knowledgeable enough but this is typically the reason why I love linguistics.

Typically why I love the effects of postmodernism in 'soft' sciences.
That’s a new neologism to me, SocialWeb. I don’t care for it.
I learned that lesson by making a (what I thought was fairly respectful) joke about Mark Zuckerberg. I get my share of upvotes and downvotes, but that was the fastest I've ever seen it hit the floor. I'm not really a fan of the whole karma thing, but I think my biggest complaint is that when you post, it starts as 1, but doesn't change your overall score, so it's really 0, which would make more sense to me.
Using the CPU with quantized weights on GPT models makes sense, an example is llama.cpp, that’s because these models are constrained by memory bandwidth and not compute (low arithmetic density)

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
But older code will still work with the new compiler right?
seu still has a good point. That there are mechanisms (like companies making more money via cheaper production/handling when scaling, or catering to careless customers) that lead us to use artificial products doesn't always (or even often?) mean that it's the better solution for us as a whole, long term. Because the drawbacks of artificial solutions may show up in places that the producers or consumers don't feel.
“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas,” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once said.
I've long dreamed of tracking every little thing. I don't know why but tracking everything I do, what I eat or drink or wear, how many hours I watch TV or sit on Reddit, how often I urinate, my work life balance, literally everything, the of having it all is exciting to me.

Beyond the thrill of acquiring and holding it, it would no doubt be more useful than simply admiring it. Compare it to say a sports trophy, that's something you simply admire although of course you have the memories of the journey to win it as well.

Data and tracking on the other hand feels practical and usable in the present and the future, as well as something to look back on or "admire".

Would you think less of people who put the hours into winning a sports trophy or writing a book (that they presumably never read or use themselves)?
I'll add, it paints the _entire_ picture (including smaller gravitational bodies and new found anomalies) much better than other theories
Even with long term contracts in place they will mark the contracts to market so they do notice the loss on their books.

But plants have thermal limits to what they can do, the heat they provide may be used elsewhere, they may provide services to the grid operator... a range of reasons why they'd run even when not profitable for that hour.

In general, plant operators are very good at maximising value (which translates to more revenue for them). And they will happily use all the flexibility at their disposal to do so.
Paperspace (YC W15) is hiring to scale a GPU cloud powering gen AI and LLMs
Equally superficial reading of this ends up to the following statement:
Apple is building it's ecosystem on developers. Without developers Apple wouldn't be able to build an ecosystem and find customers for it
Caching frequently fetched complex objects to mitigate load on the Postgres DB.
Quiteva few, actually. Downsizing does require a lot of admin work. Once the downsizing happened, well, those downsizing HR folks are the last to be downsized.
It didn't? Dark matter in its modern conception was discovered after general relativity was established. Dark matter was hypothesised because general relativity alone couldn't explain some observations.
I have a 2% back Fidelity card which puts it straight into the brokerage money market (basically government securities) account which is paying around 4%.
We’re human beings, not machines. We didn’t evolve with the capacity for 100% focused productivity all the time. Our energy levels ebb and flow. We have to physically move to keep our muscles and bones healthy.
> I used to do pro Bono professional work for a gifted organization. It was generally understood that a child with an extremely high IQ should be assessed at a young age to get the most accurate results.

What a “gifted organization” has to say about IQ is not very convincing. There’s quite a big conflict of interest and bias in play.

Afaik 6yo brains are literally missing mass and have a different structure than adults/teens. Of course this is just on average too because everyone develops at different rates. Not sure how a unitless number used in population level studies is going to help here.

> This case being mishandled isn't proof kids should never be tested or assessed at an early age.

Not what I’m talking about. Of course childhood education is important and assessment is part of that. IQ from what I’ve seen is not a useful tool for individual assessment/education.
Check out “coding train” on YouTube if you haven’t already. Love how he teaches coding, mistakes and all.
My pest control guy told me that I had to keep living in my apartment and sleeping in the same sport otherwise they would just spread throughout the apartment and take longer to kill.

I still get the feeling every now and then one of the fuckers are climbing on me.
Well, the user doesn't create any .eml, he just selects "forward as attachment" on the email, so the .eml file creation is transparent to him.

For everything else, you're right. Unfortunately, the practice of leaving the responsibility to the user is too risky, but it's ok for a PoC. In a production environment, as we were saying in the previous comments, there should be a way to intercept the email before it reaches the user's inbox, make the analyst analyze it timely and then make the email arrive to the user's inbox afterwards. I don't think that's possible with a human-in-the-loop approach, but only in a fully automated scenario, which will never work as intended.
It’s the item’s UUID. You can verify this by using their `op` CLI tool and searching for the specific item.
The software that's running my life right now is ToDoist.

I have daily chores, I need to remember to do at different times of the day. Other things are every 3 days. Others are on specific days. Others are every k weeks.

If I need to remember to do something, it goes on the list with a specific day and time I want to do it by. At the end of every day I review what's left and either do it or postpone it.

Cleaning a checklist works for me. Do what works for you.
They don't preserve it, but there's various modern academic words that use it, like urtext (sometimes with a hyphen)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/urtext#English

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-#Derived_terms
Absolutely, but only if that code is running when the user supplies the password. I mentioned this possibility as well.
There has been a surge of interest over the past year:

https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-reexamine-space-based-solar-po...

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

https://spaceenergyinitiative.org.uk/

https://www.spacesolar.co.uk/

https://www.solarspacetechnologies.com.au/

Here's a nice recent summary (despite the publication date):

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/harvesting-sunlig...
4. Some would like to use th we same compiler for everything. Right now, building the Rust bit of Linux requires LLVM. Why shouldn't you be able to build everything using gcc alone?
A lot, until the downsizing is done.

Although the US don't seems to have a lot of these 'worker's rights' so I guess I don't really know (/s).
Defense research publishes a lot of science too.
I wasn't sure about that so I erred on the side of caution, but I do think that is how it works yes.
If that were actually the case, the Republicans would be impeaching him with it as we speak. Fox News and all the right-leaning press would be running wall to wall coverage on it.

It's getting pathetic at this point. Hunter Biden's laptop isn't going to take down the Biden administration. It isn't going to be Biden's Watergate. It isn't going to get Trump another term. Find something real that actually sticks.
Ha, the printer killed my love in the end. It just had an end of life. Finished. Meh!! £1500 gone!

But yes, loved printing and seeing the analog reality. Different papers, inks etc. The slow sounds of production.
This is one of the first books I read when learning how to code :)
I think it is orthogonal to qualities I look for although sometimes popular=profitable=budget to spend on content quality.
That’ll be a lot of countries soon.

“By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. At this time the share of the population aged 60 years and over will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. By 2050, the world’s population of people aged 60 years and older will double (2.1 billion). The number of persons aged 80 years or older is expected to triple between 2020 and 2050 to reach 426 million”

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-...
Short answer: yes.

Longer answer: also yes.
Being silly is how they make a buck and are able to put time and resources into technical impressive content. They aren't being silly just to be silly
Transforming Highways for High-Speed Travel and Energy Transport
I assume non-downtown US residents are still significantly more aware of the term, what it is, and what it looks like.

I'd heard it in films before captcha, but had to guess it's the zebra crossing looking (the meaning is different though, I understand) things. Now it's just something I'm familiar with because of captcha, even more so 'parking meters'. Which is just weird, why do I have to learn something mundane about a specific country in order to prove I'm human and allowed to use a global website?
If he says it can't be done either it really is seriously unrealistic, or somebody else already has a lead on him.
This seems logical. The software engineers are likely going to be some of the highest paid employees, so laying off underperforming engineers is going to help reduce labor costs substantially.

Many of these engineers have been hired for new business units that didn't end up being profitable with cheap credit going away. Others might be in business unit that is purely a cost center.

Nothing has really changed over the past few decades. Regardless of your role strive to be part of the company that produces the company's profit. Try to avoid parts of the company that are viewed as cost centers and are constantly under the eye of finance as they manage costs. You will find how are you treated in good and bad times radically different.
Where else would you hear their point of view?

Jesus himself walked into the temple and turned over the tables of the money changers.
The organization in question:

http://www.tagfam.org/

The oldest set of email lists in existence for providing free support for the gifted community. At the time, they were trying to transition from a voluntary health and welfare organization to a tax deductible charity. I was invited to be lead moderator and a member of the board.
The KRC-2 regenerative receiver kit: a review
> But Australia and Canada and the US are all English speaking—do they not warrant being separate countries?

Canada is also French-speaking. There are some big differences in attitudes between the US and Australia on various topics - for example, Australians have a mostly settled cultural consensus in favour of gun control and liberal abortion laws, to give two examples, unlike the US where both are very heated political conflicts

> What about Australia and New Zealand?

New Zealand actually participated in the negotiations for forming Australia (as a federation of British colonies), but at the end decided to stay out-if history had turned out a bit differently, it might have been an Australian state not a separate country. In a lot of ways the differences between Australian and New Zealand culture are relatively trivial - different accents, different words for certain things. You get the same differences between Australian states, albeit to a more limited degree.

However, there is one big difference: over 17% of New Zealand’s population have Indigenous (Māori) ancestry, and Māori have a common language and a great deal of common culture-leading to a significant Māori influence on mainstream NZ culture. Australia’s Indigenous peoples are less than 4% of the population, and divided among numerous languages and nations, which means their impact on mainstream Australian culture has been significantly smaller.

> Britain and Scotland?

One way in which the US is very homogeneous is that state politics aren’t particularly distinctive from national politics. Every state is the same two parties facing off against each other, the main political difference between states is the relative power of the two. Whereas, each of the UK’s four constituent countries have different party systems - the SNP only exists in Scotland, Plaid Cymru only exists in Wales, the major parties in Northern Ireland are different from those in the rest of the UK. Spain, Canada, India and Italy are other examples of countries in which region-specific parties are big players in politics. The only real example in the US are territories such as Puerto Rico, and if Puerto Rico ever became a state, it would likely start converging with the American political monoculture.

Politics isn’t the same thing as culture, but political culture is part of culture, and greater political diversity is generally both a symptom of and simultaneously a promoter of greater cultural diversity.
And what is the "usable capacity " ?
Don't worry, the sweet irony is hitting those condescending tech-bros now too the same way it hit the condescending crypto/stock bros who kept preaching "the market only goes up", "to the moon" and, my personal favorite which I read on HN, "developer demand is infinite". How's that infinite demand working out now tech-bros? Just ask Twitter employees.

https://imgur.com/a/ZSEl44o

A lot of people working in tech were delusional by the 10+ year long cheap money printing bonanza which fueled VC growth, and a bust is a good reality check that no boom lasts forever and that it's best to be humble and not inflate your lifestyle while you're on top, as your position on top was most likely due to survivorship bias and great market conditions and not earned through raw skills and hard work alone.
Every passing reader on HN can see this above:

"I compared them and you were very wrong. "

Followed by my direct question. Deflecting yet again, from your own point, makes this comment chain look ridiculous.

If your not going to genuinely engage then I'm moving on.