skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They placed the people the avoidance of whom was being measured (the authors' "confederates", as the paper calls them) so they knew for a fact what those guys looked like. It seems like they also didn't include data points if they didn't think the footage was clear enough.

> Maybe New York just has a lot of assholes and low individualism.

But they measured a difference between behavior around white and black "confederates".

> Also, how can a mere correlated difference of reaction be considered "racist"?

It's not exactly concrete proof per se, but I think a well-constructed study of this sort (I am not prepared to vouch for this one) could at least reach a finding that points strongly in that direction.
In this case it would be to prepare for the inevitable death of the last machine in the office that can actually run it.
It may come off as low-effort, but "V for Vendetta" seems more and more accurate. Keep calm, don't draw attention, everything will be fine if we just go along with it - until things are not fine, and they come for you. By then, the mechanisms of state control have been well exercised on those who stood up earlier.

Has King Charles made any efforts or donated any money to causes that could help the people in this time of recession and retraction from the EU? I know he isn't supposed to be involved in politics, but if he doesn't speak as the "conscious of a nation" then he really does seem without purpose at great cost.
Is it not a good reason to avoid living in red states if your rights are being taken away? I'd love to keep living in my blue city in the south, but I'd also love to keep getting the health care I need.
Also the original web browser, WorldWideWeb was on NeXT, but hardly anyone used it because hardly anyone had a NeXT.
What's an autistic bro scientist and why is that relevant?
What if you're measuring reactions to appearance?
Personal anecdote:

I was being recruited by an early startup funded by a16z. It was not a crypto company, but could have had some tie-ins. Part of the process was an hour long chat with one of the partners there (I won't give their name).

We talked about a lot of stuff and they spent some time talking up crypto. I politely hinted that I didn't see how it was going to be useful (at least in the way they were talking about it). And we kinda debated a bit. They couldn't really give me a reasonable justification for any of it.

Then they finally made the key point, "Look a lot of people think this is going to be the next big thing. So it will be."

At the time I took it to mean, "All the smart people know this is going to be great, so get on the bandwagon."

But, later, I re-thought it as, "We define the market and we are going to make it a thing whether it makes sense or not."

Honestly not sure what was meant (if either), but: I didn't end up taking that job.
As I think quite the opposite (more—think that it's incontrovertible!) I welcome expansion on what you mean, we may be interpreting "defense" differently for example!
"There is more to it than meets the eye."

-- transformer
I use my phone, but I don't use social media.
If your doctor prescribed you that then that is fine you should follow your doctor's advice. They might have specific reasons for the high dose.

I was once prescribed a 50k dose by my doctor but had very noticeable negative effects and I know that was far too high for me.

The recommended daily allowance is like 400 and that should cover the needs of most people. If you are deficient then you probably want quite a bit more than that until you get back to normal. The safe upper limit is 4000 /day so I would probably try to stick to doses below that. If you take 2000 per day that should be well within the safe range, and even if you take 2000 on as few as 2 days/week that probably covers your needs. Some individuals might have trouble absorbing it and might need higher doses though.
It's because of the COW I think right?
Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
(if only Firefox were getting funding directly…)
Reaper already competes at that price, just not on iOS.
They are referring to the genesis of the Latin American literary movement commonly referred to as Magical Realism not the general idea of essentially realist stories with magical and fantastic elements which is ancient. Sure we can call most any religious text or mythology Magical Realism but only on the level of plot, literature is more than plot and the way the authors of the movement deal with things like theme and subtext place them firmly into literary fiction, these distinctions are important.

Edit: Thinking on this more, mythology and religion can't really be called Magical Realism from what I have read of the movement, in mythology and religion we know how the trick was done we have a god or some creature who did it even if we can not understand how they did it; in Magical Realism we don't get to know how the trick is done, it is just magic and left unexplained. Even fairy tales and folklore don't work as Magical Realism because they are so tied up in the religion and mythology of the culture that produced them, they can seem magical and unexplained when removed from that culture but that is different. I would not call myself well read in the movement yet so I could be completely wrong here.
It should warn. Android has mic/cam/location indicators but I'm not sure if this is enabled by default.
> I'm tired of receiving mail from people that gave my email address as if it was their own.

Did you mean “receiving mail intended for people that gave my email address”? Because that's how I usually notice that they did.
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Apple needs to at least adjust their iCloud storage tiers to match their phones. The jump from 200GB to 2TB is ridiculous and feels like extortion. The 50GB -> 200GB is also ridiculous because it can't even support a full backup of their base 64GB iPhone.
The vast majority of the value of the Tiles I own isn't figuring out where my keys might have been moved by someone else since I lost them, it is noticing (and remembering) when (and where) I left them and then helping me zero in on them once I am back there, something that can be done entirely using just my phone. The remaining product once you support those two features--neither of which require a "network"--has only niche applications to edge cases involving losing things and stalking people (as well as adding a bunch of difficult-to-avoid third-party surveillance).
When I open this website it tries to connect to Phantom or MetaMask. Why is that?
The framework does 2256 x 1504, the 13,3 inch macbook pro does 2560 x 1600. Doesn't seem like that large of a difference, especially at that screen size.
> Or even the Millenia of premillennial dispensationalists, for a religious alternative.

> I'd argue some of those are more radical imaginations than much of what actually followed past ages.

This. People throughout history have frequently predicted the end of the civilization they lived in, they just tended to get it wrong, usually because their prediction was some fantasy involving superhuman powers ending the world as we know it, and not just dumb culture wars and succession crises and poor resource allocation and the neighbouring civilization being a bit stronger and more adaptable.
Economists are perfectly happy with you buying stocks or real estate. That puts the money back in circulation, and funding something people use. They just don't want you sitting on cash.
Twenty years of blogging
Tldr: No – “the benefits of sequential IO are alive and well, even in this new era of NAND flash.”

(Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again.)
And then there's the question of how you use the epsilon - i.e. whether 1.2e-16 and 1e-20 are "within 1%". Sometimes those are very much different sizes, but if you're comparing sin(π) (i.e. the 1.2e-16) with some other almost-zero computation, they're very much within 1%.
Would you like some of that AI special sauce on that...
If a group of great doctors lets people crashing at 180mph ride again without surgery after a shoulder dislocation, doesnt that mean that maybe his doctor in nonametown USA might be able to learn a thing or two from them? Or are they just trying to keep their operating room billing hours maxed out? I guess we won't know for sure but I have a hunch.
If you like f2fs, you might also be excited about ssdfs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939248
It's weird to me that there's so many promising reliefs that seem near at hand, but which have simply never been delivered. Zoned Storage has existed for a while, for Shingled Magnetic Recording & tape, and there was much hubbub in 2018-2020 about NVMe getting Zoned Namespaces, which happened. https://zonedstorage.io/

And there's now a bunch of fs implementations. f2fs and btfs both have some support.

But there's still no products actually available to buy. We could be getting so much better at NVMe, so systematically making things better. But we've kind of been stalled out for a while, after a bunch of ceremony figuring out what we wanted to do.
Never. We are humans - humans are by our very nature dynamic.
Where may I have seen a paper that contains evidence against your theory?

Impossible to remember.
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Not to harp too much on the title (I read the article and found it very interesting), but are there any industries storing their data on all-flash? My intuition is that most institutions still have a giant array of spinning rust somewhere underpinning everything they do.
I went to college way back in the era when you printed out your labs and handed them in physically to the prof. Even back then, there were students who would rummage thru bins looking to find "inspiration" (cough cough) from other peoples' discarded prints.
I had posted this comment on HN around 3 years ago, on a related thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827234

Some people appreciated it, and one person said it gave them a lot of material to work on (downthread).

I was only reporting on the work of other well-known permaculturists and regenerative farmers
, although I have an interest in permaculture and had done some organic gardening for a few years earlier. But that work I had done (literally hands-on) gave me some background and perspective to be able to think about their work as they talked about it through their videos, which is why I decided to post that comment.
I thought that's what we had w/ Elon in charge?
What are you citing or talking about? Neither f2fs nor btrfs show up in the article.
I guess that was interesting, but I'm mainly interested in what you felt about the output yourself.

(I do wish people would be a little less willing to attempt to induce distress in LLMs for fun. It's not enjoyable to read for me. I'm not saying I think it's causing actual harm to the LLM, although it would be very difficult to stop doing it at the right moment before that becomes a thing that is possible.)
I have consistently seen 3.5 hallucinate specifics that 4 gets right. We are talking entire language features, etc.
It's a civil jury trial, and the defendant chose to not show up and testify. It will be difficult to justify an an appeal

More striking is the judge warned jurors against revealing any if their identities, because it could put their lives at risk...the defendant was the former president of the Unites States.
As the lawyer behind the one-click patent once personally explained to me, it's the claims that matter most. And the first claim matters more than all of the other sub-claims.

This patent specifically covers ONLY transformers in which there is an encoder and a decoder.

Claim 1 of the patent contains the following:

"...the sequence transduction neural network comprising: an encoder neural network configured to receive the input sequence and generate a respective encoded representation of each of the network inputs in the input sequence... and a decoder neural network configured to receive the encoded representations and generate the output sequence."

Claims 29 and 30 (the only other independent claims) also specify an encoder and a decoder. So long as your transformer network does not make use of an encoder in combination with a decoder, this patent does not apply to you.
If you really want to present ants as a civilization, I don't think a single ant is a meaningful unit of that civilization comparable to a single human. A colony, perhaps - but then that's a lot more neurons, just distributed.
I'm really curious what kind of concept you might have in mind. Can you give any example of a concept that if an LLM developed that concept then it would meet your criteria? It might sound like a sarcastic question but it's hard to agree on the meanings of "concepts that do not exist" or "concepts that cannot be inferred" maybe you can give some examples.

EDIT: I see below you gave some examples, like invention of language before it existed, and new theorems in math that presumably would be of interest to mathematicians. Those ones are fair enough in my opinion. The AI isn't quite good enough for those ones I think, but I also think newer versions trained with only more CPU/GPU and more parameters and more data could be 'AI scientists' that will make these kinds of concepts.
Everything you quoted makes it sound like an overtly anti-freedom power grab meant to meet a minimum of resistance, and implemented specifically to control protestors at an event that was planned for months.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say with "I'm not a supporter of the current government BUT" - it seems like the quote explains perfectly how bad it is.
Trans woman here, can confirm eye roll.
We do remote fine, but it is simply impractical to expect success from jrs in a remote work environment. They need more support and side-by-side guidance to succeed. It's a downward spiral for anyone except the most exceptionally engaged.
TIS-100 is also quite fun
That should be something in your end, maybe chrome extension or whatever, my website is a simple NextJS deployed in Vercel.
Push is expensive (in volume) so it’s not really surprising they don’t offer it for free.
> essentially no sun to 10 days of spending 10 hours a day in a bathing suit on a beach in Thailand or Bali.

is that because there isn't enough melanin built up in the skin to prevent damage?
In my experience, depends on the SSD. Consumer grade ones appear really fast because they have a DRAM cache, and as soon as you start having a bunch of cache-misses you realize how slow they actually are.

We got a bunch of enterprise grade Samsung SSDs and there'a large difference in sustained I/O. It's not "instant" by any means, but it there are other things slowing I/O.
Are you saying that the doctor, upon closer questioning simply flopped and gave bad medical advice to my friend when they told him that yes it's reasonable to expect to regain full shoulder straight again without surgery? Because if so maybe my friend should sue? What is this blanket statement of "shoulder surgery should not be delayed" based on?
It’s certainly not been a specific use case over 10 or so years, I mean…in any given scenario; small files, big files, any given file type, on any given network configuration, with any combination of MacOS or iPadOS/iOS devices, I feel like I have a higher probability of making a dunk from a 3-pointer line than getting AirDrop to work; and that’s been the general consensus I’ve gotten from any fellow developers I’ve actually discussed it with.

If there was any consistent behaviour I could use to get it to either misfire or actually work; I’d love to have seen it, but every major MacOS revision I give it another try, only to inevitably just facepalm and use a USB key or something like DropBox.

It’s a shame, I honestly think it should be a fairly simple technology to implement and make work well, but it’s clearly just…not.
Galatians 6
Aren't iptables just an emulation layer on top of netfilter?
Individual chickens definitely have personalities which you'll get to know if you spend enough time with them.
> What actually makes these tags interesting, I think, is the network.

I mean, that mostly only makes them more interesting for the stalking use case, no? If you left your wallet at a restaurant, you don't need the network: you need your phone to notice it lost the connectivity to the wallet when you left the restaurant and you need the ability to find where in the restaurant it might be once you go back there to get it. I've been using Tile for years and have been extremely happy--hell: I end up using it every couple days to find something--despite never once having an interest in their "network".
> Finally, we have made no mention of one of Julia’s defining features, multiple dispatch.

That's pretty interesting. I suppose for a book like this (not having looked deep into it myself), you mostly need illustrative snippets of code that are largely self-contained, with the focus being on the algorithms, and so multiple dispatch doesn't really become necessary.

Also, it's really cool that every page is downloadable as a Jupyter notebook (+ a PDF + markdown)!
If they do so judge, however, what are they basing it on? Apparent race seems like a totally valid variable if behavior around people of apparently-different races is what you're trying to measure.
As someone who programmed assembly on a one's complement machine* 40 years ago, this discussion is interesting, from both the "haven't we learned anything" and the "makes sense to me" camps.

More interesting to me is how they are introducing this change, both in the previous OTP and next, and how they will arm people with tools to hopefully identify and understand the impact. I wonder how many folks will actually be impacted?

* Sperry Univac 1100/62
That's why all of my minecraft servers are on RAM drives.
I'm 41 and have been running since I was 17. The past decade I've spent doing increasingly difficult ultramarathons. Until a few years ago I really thought that if I just stayed consistent I'd be able to run my whole life - I still hope I can as it's my therapy. But I just lost 8 months and counting to a knee injury sustained during a race. It's been a real wake-up call that my body is going to have something to say about my plan. Training time is also at a premium now as I have a 2 year old. Amazing (and hopeful) to see someone still doing hard trail ultras at 81.
Recapping the SPC-Replit AI Hackathon
It needs solar power
Kinda ruins the fun when it's everywhere. I think the only time it was ever funny was those "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE" shirts, and that's only cause of unintended negative stereotypes for the wearer.
I've been teaching intro CS for 20 years, but I totally disagree that this is the #1 pain point. The biggest paint point not discussed is that programming is challenging to learn and requires a lot of effort from students, but all the pain points in the article are real.
Sure sounds like it
The state of Texas has run a "depository" for precious metals since 2018. In practice, it operates as a sort of specialized safe deposit vault, with holdings of each account kept segregated:

https://www.texasbulliondepository.gov/faqs

Fees are 0.5% of value per year:

https://www.texasbulliondepository.gov/pricing

Apparently there is no per-transaction charge, unlike the proposed digital instrument.
In U.K. it was really common for people to have 8-bit micros even into the late 80s. Typically Amstrad and Commodores (with machines from Sinclair before that) while schools had BBC Micros (from Acorn). Though there was a plethora of machines around at that time that most people have since forgotten about, like the Dragon 32 / 64.

Europe, and the U.K. particularly, had a really strong computer hardware industry in those days. In fact France has the Minitel which is itself a really fascinating technology and shaped early French computing trends in a differ way to England and USA too.

Going back to the U.K., you’d see a few people, usually people with a little more money, but Atari or Amiga machines but more often people jumped from C64 or Amstrad CPC micro computers to IBM-compatible PCs. There definitely were people who had an Apple Mac, but it wasn’t the norm where I lived.

Showing my age a little here, but my high school still ran Windows 3.x (I don’t think it was even 3.1. Pretty sure it was 3.0 on 286s). It was all Microsoft Office too. I ran Lotus at home but Microsoft Word and Excel had already conquered the schools, at least from what I saw. But we had Corel Draw instead of PowerPoint. Not sure why. Maybe PowerPoint hadn’t been released yet?