skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those examples you gave are totally different. The service they're offering is renting out storage space on their servers. The most logical way to price that is to determine what dollar amount they want to charge to rent out X amount of space and just let me choose how many chunks of that I want to rent. It's not like when you pay for 2TB they physically reserve it for you like a plot of land. They're only actually giving you 2TB of storage space if you're using all of it.
European DSA Recipients of Services Report
It might be. GenZ seems to be drinking less.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/3936579-why-...
Sure, but most complicated polynomial time algorithms don't work like this. You either have cases like AKS which are obviously polynomial but not obviously correct, or cases that are obviously correct but not obviously polynomial.
Good concept and seems like a well executed MVP. Good work!
Whether you think it is justified for health reasons, alcohol consumption is down heavily in GenZ compared to their parents at the same age.
Well, nowadays, we may have another look at this. E.g., when it comes to Freud's interpretation of dreams, think of an embedded semantic field with some activation, probably in another dimensionality than that of the field itself, much like a multi-head attention header. Now imagine a RLE enhancing some of the possible productions and suppressing others, due to training (Freud's Vorbewusstsein). What we get are productions that are still pointing to the same hot spots in the embedded field, but with minute vectorial shifts and changes in attention (compression and displacement), resulting in legitimate productions that are able to pass the controlling RLE instance. The result is pretty much the "dream text" and the process is very similar to Freud's dream work (Traumarbeit).

In other words: I'd argue, you can't believe in transformers actually doing some work and entirely dismiss psychoanalysis at the same same time.
This and rear car seat belts are to me proof you can change the behavior of an entire society with a mix of punitive and educative actions if you stick to it long enough.
Fantastic news. Not so great about the vaping increase. I believe that prohibition is not the way to go at all here.

Former 25+ cigarette a day smoker. It is an addiction and it may start in fun or on a lark, but it pervaded all areas of my life. Being in an airport for a layover and having to leave to smoke and come back through security is a shitty feeling. Running out of - or even running low on - cigarettes regularly created panic in me. I avoided many social activities and interactions because I didn’t want to have to either out myself as a smelly, disgusting smoker or else deprive myself for hours or more at a stretch. And the price has steadily gone up.

I did try vaping for a time and it was likely a better alternative than cigarettes. But the best, speaking from personal experience, is not having any dependency on nicotine at all. The psychological effects were so devastating for me. And as the article says, so many people die or have died of smoking related diseases. And it is a slow, drawn out process. It is an incredible shame and I am very happy that it is affecting a smaller portion of people than ever.
because the extreme abuse of power by Justice Thomas has just been revealed. now, people want to know more, so it is being reported on more.
Perhaps, but those sort of case studies don't really establish causality and tend to reflect confirmation biases from the authors and interview subjects rather than providing really rigorous evidence. There were plenty of other startups which also put truly intelligent people together in a closed space yet still failed to deliver radical innovation. Was the office space really the key factor in Google's success or just an irrelevant detail?
They definitely are. When I take Uber/Lyft I notice that most drivers are running both apps. As they get towards my destination they will start bobbing for fares between the two apps. Maybe Uber is paying slightly more for drivers? I don't know, but maybe that is why they tend to favor Uber rides over Lyft. Maybe they are more likely to get tips on Uber. Just some theories. But I have noticed the same thing, most drivers tend to favor Uber. So if they gets rides from both, they will cancel the Lyft one.

I used to switch between the apps based on price of rides. Now I have AMEX rewards for Uber plus I get Marriott points when I ride, so that is why I have moved exclusively to Uber.

But the drivers are the same. It's the same pool of drivers, using both apps.
Vaping is up though. I’m not sure this is good news.
I don't know if it's programmed in or just cargo culting but if Siri accidentally triggers and starts talking to you, "Nobody asked you Siri" is my favorite way to get it to stop interacting.

Said in the tone of Cobie Smulders in How I Met Your Mother (Nobody asked you PATRICE!)
maybe look up the railroad and oil monopolies history in the US
This remark implies that the warring parties are somehow equally responsible. I do not know where the OP is (Sudan?) and know nothing about what’s going on there. But Ukraine situation is crystal clear - there is the victim and the aggressor. Representing them as as equally guilty of war is at best misleading.
It doesn't matter they why (to me). Knowing about it, I'd like it fixed. For all justices.
Self driving cars don't work in snow.....
Here in the Netherlands, statistics are mostly about older people smoking (with all kinds of education) and younger people that have less high education. To say it in a rude way, only old and dumb people. I do think it is progress.

Recently, on a Saturday evening, I passed by two young girls. One said to the other, a bit disgruntled, "I will only fake smoke tonight, I will not smoke for real anymore". Fake smoking here means a real cigarette, but not inhaling. Which ofcourse looks a bit silly.

Strange thing though, advertisements about smoking were always about being independent and tough/rebel. Rebel against your parents ofcourse. But independent? Naah... Starting with smoking is more about giving in to social pressure. A few tough people in your social group start smoking, and telling the others to also start smoking, otherwise they are not tough and independent. I do hope we get more people who can say no and not give in to that social pressure. In the end, smoking simply signals that you give in to social pressure, very unlike the advertisements tell you.
And Star Trek is basically naval combat in space, with ships flying ridiculously close to one another, dogfights with weapons that miss all the time and are unable to autoaim, etc. Star Trek ships bank in space just like planes, same as in Star Wars. One of the most beloved episodes of the original series had the crew of the Enterprise keeping quiet so they didn't trip Romulan space sonar, because they literally just filed the serial numbers off a submarine movie.

Neither is more realistic than the other when it comes to portraying space combat, but at least in Star Wars it doesn't look like wargamers chipping away at each another's HP until a ship explodes.
Instantly sold. I have noticed programs and apps increase in size of the years and I never was really quite sure of why. Functionality had not changed all that much to warrant the change in size. I'm glad someone is thinking about sizes for once.
> Unelected, holds their position for life with no accountability

“In good behavior”, with accountability to Congress.

De facto for life with no accountability is, like many problems in the US system of government, largely a side effect of the combination of defective electoral system and the resulting norm of near-balanced partisan duopoly, which in the case of the judiciary combines with the supermajority requirement for conviction on impeachment charges to achieve lack of accountability; the same is also true of the executive, though finite terms, electoral accountability, and in principal (and currently being tested in practice) post-term legal accountability are arguably mitigations there.
I think there does in fact exist a recent major breakthrough in real time rendering: Virtualized geometry.

https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2021/Karis_Nanite_SI...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eviSykqSUUw

It was invented by Brian Karis at Epic. Virtualized geometry allows for unbounded geometric detail while retaining the conventional rasterization approach with polygons and textures. It works like a dynamic LOD, where the game engine dynamically adapts the rendered geometric detail based on visibility and screen resolution. Essentially the maximum rendering cost only depends on resolution and frame rate, not on the detail of the underlying meshes.

However, the solution by Epic, dubbed Nanite, does not yet work for animated meshes. So virtualized geometry is not possible e.g. for game characters. Brian Karis says this is a solvable problem though.
> While federal judges have life appointments, nothing in the Constitution prevents a "term limit" on a particular judge/court pairing.

Are you sure? The constitution says:

> The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour…

That seems rather unambiguous to me.
It's a critical function--high speed in light rain will cause problems from the rubber moving across basically dry glass, low/intermittent speed in heavy rain won't clear your view properly.
I get that they're wary of an LLM-based Siri making embarrassing mistakes. It would be a bad look if some kid's phone provided helpful instructions for killing themselves when asked. Mummy and Daddy would sue.

However, directly answering queries is not the only way LLMs can be used. In fact, when ChatGPT 4 came out, the first thing I thought of was: "Wow, this could make Siri so much better!"

For example, an LLM like GPT coupled with voice recognition was used to create Whisper, an AI that has nearly perfect text-from-audio recognition. One of my biggest gripes with Siri is that it is basically useless in a car because even slight background noise confuses its voice recognition. An LLM would fix this.

Another point is that many people don't realise that LLMs re-read their entire input for every word they generate! Their writing speed is so-so, but they can read really fast even when running on mobile device hardware. Think 10K to 100K words per second. An LLM could read through all of the text on your device when prompted for search queries in a fraction of a second. As long as this was carefully set up, it wouldn't be able to produce "bad output", because it would just be matching data to your prompt.

E.g.: Imagine GPT being prompted with: "Does this email match the query <q>? Say only YES if it does or NO if it does not. <email>"

It doesn't matter if it occasionality hallucinates and outputs gibberish, you just mark that as a "NO" and move on. This is also very easy to train out of a specialised version of the model using reinforcement learning.

PS: I just played around with GPT 4 to see how it behaves when asked to recognise requests for creating calendar entries, and it's pretty good. For example, it can correctly compute things like "next long weekend". Interestingly, ChatGPT 4 is already doing some similar prompt injection, and I can't override its sense of "current time".

Apple's Siri team has failed really badly. Everyone else is sprinting away while they're not even aware there's a race going on.
I would actually be less worried about a sequence of raw bytes than the tokens generated by BPE. If "Japan" is 01 and "language" is 02, then "Japanese" will probably be 03, which has no connection at all to 01 or 02. But raw, verbose encoding slows down convergence at the beginning. (Well, at least in English it does.)
If you only live a mile away, why wouldn't you walk?
This is so, so important for helping family farms stay alive.

The amount my family has saved by being able to fix and even modify stuff on their own is huge. My dad still mows our lawn with an antique Allis-Chalmers hooked up to a commercial mower. Equipment is wildly expensive compared to margins at smaller scales (think like 2k acres for small farms). Things need to last for decades or generations in order to keep a profit.
> The fact that all 9 justices pretty much agreed that this is a non-issue speaks volumes. Justices are above the law and play by different rules.

Citation?

There are examples of various judges accepting trips and gifts, but some of them REALLY stand out in the number and value.

I agree that it appears that none of them have really rocked the boat with external pressure, but the court has been a very insular institution. We don't know how much they've talked about it amongst themselves.
It is, but good film making is not making the plot armor obvious to the audience.
Ask HN: Car Lease or Finance?
A few years back I leased a car instead of financing, I didn't look to closely at the particulars of the lease because, at the time, I had limited time. I don't have a lot of disposable income and I don't want to be making a car payments for the rest of my life by continuing to lease a car every 3 years. On the other hand, is it cheaper to lease a car from a maintenance perspective? I mean should I worry about the cost of maintaining a car from a cost perspective on a yearly basis? Also I'm wondering if this is going to be more of pain to switch out of when the lease ends.

If you are NOT a financial professional, that has a vested interest in the leasing perspective, what's your take on this and what have you experienced?
Then at least they are learning some critical thinking and some valuable IT skills.

I think that's probably a win for most parents.
Alright, time to hollow that bad boy out and send it to Tau Ceti.
they can be impeached by Congress and lose their position.

it would take a lot of collective effort to make it happen, though.
Many psychologists use psychoanalysis the same way many priests use religious stories to provide guidance. It’s a great source of allegories. It’s also prestigious and lets them charge a lot of money, while practicing “floating attention” ie. letting their mind wander while listening and not actually paying attention. Last is that in many countries anyone can pretend to be a psychoanalyst. Lacan famously said “Le psychanalyste ne s'autorise que de lui-même”.
Because those were reported, whereas Thomas has been claiming to have no outside influence.

In practical matters it probably doesn't make much difference, but the contempt towards accountability is shocking to some people.
My last experience with a taxi driver was him swerving 80mph through traffic. Never again.
> Whatever compound, the benefit of fluoride toothpaste is increased by not washing it away with a mouth rinse after brushing.

And what is the benefit of ingesting fluoride toothpaste ?
No, that's just stack* being their usual dickish selves.

"How can I do a thing?"

"You shouldn't want to do that thing."

Danger/risk is a situation that happens sometimes, but it's never an excuse to dismiss the asker's question and need.

Explain the warning or concerns ("May catch fire and explode" or "Will not be to code, would cause your building to fail inspection" or "There's this other framework/language that might make it easier"), but also give them a damn answer!

In this case, there's no @$&#ing reason someone sitting in their office shouldn't do the calculation that's being requested from the parameters supplied. It's a simple emag calc.

I'm pretty sure stackX would tell someone asking about the time required to boil water for sanitization to never drink boiled water and use the tap. :/
Maybe so but I like to search without creating an account and I don't like this
A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Vectors for Linear Algebra
A fundamental concepts in data science and machine learning
Writing kernel-mode code in Windows with rust is very cool, but I am curious if there are code samples out there for this kind of thing.

Windows kernel drivers are usually fully asynchronous so I'm curious how rust handles IRPs and completion callbacks and such in the kernel.
We cannot allow a chip-melt gap!
US kcal expenditure down 220/d for males and 122/d for females compared to 1980s
I had to mangle the title here to make it fit. Full text of the tweet reads:

> We are currently expending about 220 kcal/d less for males and 122 kcal/d less for females than people of our age and body composition were in the late 1980s. These changes are sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic in the USA.
Time to turn up that AC
It happens with human artists that don't bother understanding the things they draw. What is just a way of saying that yes, human can emulate those NLP¹ AIs, but we can choose not to. (And no, it doesn't take a strong focus on realism. Our world has all kinds of mechanics that most people understand.)

1 - We do need a name for this characteristic, because NPL AI is anything that talks with humans
> fee at Nature Neuroscience, published by Springer Nature, is $11,690
WHAT!? That's our f** average annual income! No wonder independent science is in such weak and obscure state :(
There is, in theory, a much greater check in the form of constitutional amendments. It would be fundamentally impossible to argue an ammendment to be unconstitutional.

Of course, you'd be hard pressed to get 66% of America to agree on anything.
Well, if the market hurts 15%, needing companies to find a 15%, wouldn't you expect layoffs to be around 15%, which would be similar for most companies?
> Did anyone ever make a claim that master —> main was going to have a significant, direct impact on the fight against racism? Obviously, it's a step,

It's not obvious at all. The music industry has been using the term "master" for ages: master bus, master copy, mastering engineer. (It's worth noting this is the exact etymology of the git term, too, as opposed to master in the context of master and slave.) The Black community has overall had zero problem with this, and it hasn't stopped many Black musicians and artists from being successful. The music industry also had none of the "we have to rename the master bus" nonsense that came from the tech industry, despite, or more likely because, a significantly larger proportion of BIPOC and LGBT minorities being involved in music.

I don't care about the master vs main name in the abstract. Either branch name is a fine choice. It just completely doesn't matter and pretending that it has any positive impact or meaningful change on the racism and discrimination faced by Black people in America is insulting. It's purely driven by self-indulgent white people who don't want to make material changes to their own extremely comfortable lives while pretending they're fighting the good fight.
If one is looking for "free" multiplatform (both - IDE and produced executables) Delphi they're much better off using open source counterpart - Lazarus. The debugger is not as good but it is free, runs on many platforms. I successfully used it on Windows, Linux (PC and Raspberry Pi) and no stupid terms attached (like this $5000 revenue).
Hidet: A Deep Learning Compiler for Efficient Model Serving
Any mission visiting would be in danger of perturbing the moon's orbit by shooting off from it, to go home, maybe? I wonder how space agencies would think about that.
IIRC three is an increased risk of liver cirrhosis with even one drink a day compared to drinkers of none.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776700/
No beer, imo, can top a lager from the Bavarian region. Doesn't matter if it's Hofbrau, Weihenstephaner, etc. Basically, all of them are good. I have never really understood why they haven't been more successful in market penetration. The closest two commercially successful beers, at least in the US, that are even similar are Stella and Heineken. I do know that there was some backlash of German beers being brewed in the US. I know Lowenbrau was once quite popular, but they did a brewing partnership with Coors...I think, which changed the taste and it fell out of the US market. Now a lot of German restaurants have the beer shipped straight from Germany. A lot of people drink IPAs now, but American IPAs to me just taste like cheaply made beer that's expensive to purchase.
Glad to see Gen-Z smoking less and drinking less cow milk and alcohol.
Eh, at the moment a universal remote control app for my home theater. I expanded it somewhat for many other devices than I need, for friends and people on the AVSForums who requested things.

https://github.com/nicko88/HTWebRemote

It's not all that impressive per say, but a number of people seem to really like it.

Also an app to add a "wind" effect to a home theater as well.

https://github.com/nicko88/HTFanControl
Stopping smoking was one of the best decisions I ever made. I didn't need a gimmick, I didn't need to vape, I didn't need patches, I needed to admit that willpower was what I had lacked in the past and that I wanted better health for my family.

If you genuinely want to quit, you can do it if you learn self-discipline. Say no to social smoking, say no to just another pack, nip it in the bud today if that's what you want for yourself.

Yes, it can be psychological torture in the short-term to not take the easy route, but that's why you started in the first place. In the long-term, your quality of life will be far higher, and you'll be better off for it financially. Take the money you saved from not smoking and invest it in your own health and that of your family.
Indie Hacking Is Brutal
Really demonstrates how little he knows what he's doing.
I know CTGS is a few months old, but I learned about it literally yesterday which is why custom decoders are on my mind.
The conversion to DNF is fine. The original clauses map directly to pairs of new clauses, so fixing an assignment to the original variables V you can always satisfy the same number of the DNF clauses. You can do worse by choosing the wrong values for X, sure, but there's always a straightforward correspondence.
> Imagine thinking you understand the product strategy for a 14 year old, publicly traded company with thousands of employees without working there or having any sort of insider knowledge.

Imagine I'm a shareholder and the product strategy is either bad or being communicated to me unclearly.

> It's also not much of a reach to imagine use cases here.

It's also not much of a reach to imagine the same breathless magical thinking about AI which is happening everywhere taking over the management at Dropbox.

So far I've seen a lot of potential and exactly 0 effective applications of AI at scale. So I know which my money is on.

I'm definitely betting on AI, but the way I'm betting on AI is betting on AI companies building better AIs. I'm not betting on companies whose only involvement in AI is that they suddenly have to have it because it's the latest buzzword.
Good for them. As long as it's not dangerous, I'm on the side of the kids on this one. And it looks like there are plenty of adults supervising the situation to keep it reasonably safe (it is the internet after all). The kids are going to learn a lot of useful skills and develop a fascination with computers that will stay with them for years if not their whole lives.
If Meta leaves (which it won't), wouldn't that actually be a tremendous benefit to EU? There are tons of overqualified persons in/from EU with ability to develop a better alternative to Meta offerings.

I'd even go so far as to assert that EU would even subsidize such an endeavor, as it would be easier (and cheaper) to start over with human-preserving regulatory standards in place than to keep playing legal cat and mouse with companies like Facebook and Instagram.

Reminds me of a book called "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. If ever there was a time to regain control over social media and politics for the sake of ensuring a humanity, it's now.