skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and the median nominal US home value is up 1728% since 1970[1].

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
This seems like an overly negative take. You can be a user or customer or a service, and still be part of an important movement or community.

In this case the movement of compensating independent writers is quite a noble one I can get behind.

This can of course be cynically exploited by corporates, but I don’t if it’s done with authenticity then i dont find it to offensive.
I think one hole in the description for simplicity is that "differentiable" it's not an adjective that applies to hash tables.

Differentiable relative to what? What is (x) in the d(hashtable)/d(x) equation?
Have you read the book in question? The whole point of it is that it is not a manager position.
when i want to play with java stuff interactively i just actually open it up in clojure repl
It goes to the syndicate. And everybody has a share.
The cork for New York, the shoes for Toulouse, the ham for Siam, the nails from Wales, and the tangerines for New Orleans. Didn’t you get your share?
I have never written functional code. That's why I thought being a 'VA', 'EA' or 'digital project manager' was a better career path for me rather than being a developer.

I wasted some years in college -social sciences and humanities- so I always thought I was better for things like web research, project reports or mantaining databases, those are the things I have experience with.

Instead of learning a skill and then getting a job I prefer to get the job and learn the skill while doing a job-related project. It eases a lot of the -possible- frustration afterwards, or maybe I'm just too impatient to learn something the 'cold way'.
For anyone else wondering, Zildjian was founded in 1623 in Constantinople.
Related:

The Petrucci Music Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752114 - April 2020 (21 comments)
the thing that frustrates me about deadlines in many software organizations is that management seems intent on letting them slide by without comment. thus throwing away any opportunity think or talk about how well we are functioning as an organization, or even how well we are doing at setting schedules.
I have had what seems to me to be depression for most of my life (40+ years). I have been fortunate enough to have a kid and, now, I guess I just don't have time to be depressed or something because most of my thoughts of ending life etc have, quite thankfully, gone away. I'm really not trying to be off-putting when I say this but I do sometimes wonder if some instances of depression aren't simply a cause of people not having families. I'm not totally confident about this, but ... really I think having kids gets looked down on for all the wrong reasons and maybe our deepest drives are all tied to having them.
> its lowest-power mode is nearly a milliwatt, so it will drain the battery flat when it's not being used

Add a hardware power button?
> because they were native French speakers and preferred that in their day-to-day.

That's what I assumed as well (lack of familiarity with the language or perceived bad language skills) until I realized that someone who I had assumed was a native English speaker was actually a native French speaker.
Nah not really, there’s just a lot of hyperbole going around right now. They are RNNs, the difference is they have a layer/layers being fed back instead of a single neuron. That’s a fancy recurrent network.

They are not machines that reason, they are approximators. It’s all just token matching based on data we’ve fed it. Further it didn’t happen over night but through successive improvements and at no point was the next improvement considered some infeasible thing.

Seems to me maybe you’ve bought into the hype here, and are confusing that with reality.
In one of the supermarket chains in Norway, we have self-service in that you get a scanner that goes along with the cart. You put bags in the cart when you enter the store, and then scan the groceries as you pick them from the shelf and put them in the bags. When you get to the checkout, you put the scanner in a dock and then pay. Done. Hardly ever fails. It's just so unbelievably much quicker that I dread going in a store without.

As an added bonus, since you're bagging as you put things in the cart, you can now also sort the items in different bags according to where in the house you're going to put the items when you get home, so you'll save time unpacking, too.

And lamenting the loss of store greeters... makes me think that perhaps the real issue here is the same as why some people actually want to tip at restaurants: It's not about getting the job done, but rather the feeling of having other people working for you.
Will we get Mario Kart 8 online mode back on Wii U?
What's interesting is some of the investors who helped fund Twitter also helped fund Substack, so their rivalry seems suspect. Seems the real game is going on "up there" and we're just not clued in.
That was incredible. Thank you! If you made it into an article with images showing the mask/filter analogy, it might be one of the best/most unique explanations I've seen.
Love the ground-up approach beginning with data's shape.

Reminded me of the style of a book on machine learning. If anyone liked this explanation, you may appreciate this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Machine-Learning-Engineers-Al...
There's an inferred "to us"
Farming is the big one - if your job sucked too hard you’d just go back to being a subsistence farmer like most everyone else.
We don't give any credence to untested hypotheses
I was gonna say this. I've thought of this idea years and year ago. This is an old ass idea, and the only reason phones didn't do it before, is because Google and Apple wouldn't let us do it. It should be embarassing that it's taken them this long to come up with it.
It is re-opened though not every trail is open. The burn reached highway 1 near Pigeon Point/Ano Nuevo through Big Basin. I rode my bicycle through Butano to China Grade last week and went through 236 earlier this year to Boulder Creek.
It's estimated that 50-70% of the world has no inner monologue.
I've wanted :has for 16 years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418039

I'm glad it's now available, and enabling all sorts of fun things.
> Some may lack the tools to identify the reason for their depression, that's not the same as nothing having happened to them.

In some cases. In others that's not the case. The latter are the cases of depression I'm talking about.

> It's entirely possible that the people who are not depressed are in fact the ones who are sick.

No, we can safely rule this out. The people who are not depressed are not sick, and depression is a real disease.
yep. the windoze process model very much not like the unix process model. pg has been happily unix since 6.x days.

also, certain key players in pg community have threatened to quit if pg went the threaded execution model. getting threading correct is very, very difficult.

took many years (with much help from win experts) to get the port correct AND maintain the unix process-per-query model on unix.
Here's the thing, most of the worthwhile current affairs coverage comes from paywalled publications. Should we only limit ourselves to clickbait? No, of course not, not when there's alternatives.

The problem isn't HN, it's the publications. It's a problem to solve at a publication level.
> without the need to execute the whole call hierarchy. (e.g. an HTTP endpoint)...
> “Evaluate Expression” was quite useful in exploring new codebases and checking return values of my own functions as a sanity test.

Keep pulling on this thread... pretty soon you'll be writing unit tests!
Have you never seen how people hit their brakes, swerve into open lanes, and back up traffic for miles just because of a cop or some shit on the side of the road?
Explaining it for a slightly older audience, a transformer is a type of artificial neural network designed for processing sequences, like sentences in a text. It's especially known for its use in natural language processing (NLP), which is the field of AI that deals with understanding and generating human language.

The Transformer is unique because it uses a mechanism called "attention" to understand the relationships between words in a sentence, which works like this:

(1) Encoding: First, the Transformer turns each word in a sentence into a list of numbers, called a vector. These vectors capture information about the word's meaning.

(2) Self-Attention: Next, for each word, the Transformer calculates a score for every other word in the sentence. These scores determine how much each word should contribute to the understanding of the current word. This is the "attention" part. For example, in the sentence "The cat, which is black, sat on the mat," the words "cat" and "black" would get high scores when trying to understand the word "black" because they are closely related.

(3) Aggregation: The Transformer then combines the vectors of all the words, weighted by their attention scores, to create a new vector for each word. This new vector captures both the meaning of the word itself and the context provided by the other words in the sentence.

(4) Decoding: Finally, in a task like translation, the Transformer uses the vectors from the encoding phase to generate a sentence in the target language. It again uses attention to decide which words in the original sentence are most relevant for each word it's trying to generate in the new sentence.

One key advantage of the Transformer is that it can calculate the attention scores for all pairs of words at the same time, rather than one at a time like previous models. This allows it to process sentences more quickly, which is important for large tasks like translating a whole book.
Haha, recruiters have that problem with me. But fair enough, perhaps it's also more location dependent.
And none of the actions you used to do are linked to a joyful anticipation, it's like all weights have been reversed. That's how you end up stuck in bed, there's no idea in your brain that can trigger the motivation center, eating, walking to a room, standing.. nothing.

The few that remained (in my personal case, can't speak about others) was a strange sense of gamification of everything. Lift that spoon with only one finger. That allows some influx of positive will but it can get drained real fast (to the point of physiological collapse .. a bit like narcolepsia)

And yeah, long term management basically teach your brain to desensitize to its own bugs so you can at least not drown in negative emotions. But it's a double edged sword cause you're tapering down your own self in the process.
What is the difference between Universal Analytics and GA4?
Procrastination may happen for dozens of reasons, emotions are are just part of it. Many people are excited about their projects and goals, yet they procrastinate on them (I'm one of those people).
European social democracy hasn't been left in some time apart for maybe in words.

Regarding EU votes it is fun to always see the same division: people from countries where there is still a left phalanx of the social democratic party always seem to have people (who are always the same) voting with GUE/NGL.
> time to unionize the tech sector

It makes more sense to focus on the capital-intensive and oligopolistic parts, e.g. cloud computing, social media and advertising. Tech, broadly, maintains a threat of new entrants.
No they're not. They're too busy staring through the scope of their LIDAR gun to know what's actually going on on the freeway.
They used to share traffic data at duckduckgo.com/traffic.

The website is unavailable anymore (wonder why?), but before switching to Brave search (way better than DDG imo) it was noticable, that the number of queries had stalled.
Far, far greater selection. Also, within a given work, there are multiple scores published at different times, so you can see the editing from multiple perspectives. For example, different fingering suggestions on piano pieces, etc.
Elon Musk subpoena in Epstein-JPM lawsuit can be served to Tesla, judge rules
That's a much better way to phrase it, yes.
I was going to say that if the two search engines index and rank in a similar way, you would expect the search to be similar. But, for the `uefi hack` search, the results really are pretty close to identical, and when I do the same search on Kagi and Google, I get different results. I still don't know if it proves anything, but it's a little suspicious.
Here you go, this is taken from production, copied from the browser's "view source" feature so there are a few dynamic values hard-coded (they're obvious, though): https://gist.github.com/mqudsi/2f570cf58d7d293ba27217a308659...

It's from a checkout page (the most important page where fancy JS isn't worth a single lost sale) so it goes to great pains to catch all errors and not be itself a source of JS errors. It intercepts errors and POSTs them to the server with a good-faith attempt at getting the browser, faulting script, line number, column number, error message, and stack trace.

It was actually in a <script> tag and not in an external js, but that shouldn't matter too much. You can see the comments and code to support actually ancient browsers (predating IE6 and Firefox 24).
Where did you get that idea? (Edit: or did you mean the post above mine?)

I'm saying depression sometimes has an identifiable trigger and sometimes it doesn't. In both cases it's a serious disease.

For many cases of depression, there's no identifiable "trigger" you can point at and say "this, this is the reason this person started suffering from depression".

Even when there is such a trigger, e.g. a divorce, losing their job, or the death of a loved one (say, a parent), people who are not depressed can overcome it. Life goes on, you don't get wrecked forever, you slowly rebuild your life. Whereas a person suffering from depression may never recover, so that a dramatic event in their lives overpowers everything else, forever, and they fail to recover, if they do at all.

The person I'm replying to seems to imply the depressive "let's get wrecked forever, life has no more meaning" is the "correct" response, and on the contrary, that picking up your life is "sick".
"Mining" is rarely the wrong answer for worst job in any premodern era. Incredibly taxing physically, dangerous, claustrophobic, and with the constant risk of fire and being buried alive. The only silver lining for ancient miners was that they had little chance of living long enough to experience the long-term toxic effects of their vocation.
And what are most of those websites and web apps used for?

To try, very hard, to keep the user on the site as long as possible, to shove as many ads as possible in front of their face.

Consider the opportunity costs imposed on everyone else as a result of tech.

Also, if "everyone" in your social circle can build websites with React, you need to get outside your bubble more - because I work in tech, and I don't know a single person who could build a website in React. Myself included. I'm happy with a Jekyll rendering pipeline these days.

We've done some neat stuff. I won't argue. But I also think that the current state of (suitable handwave) "tech" is long past the point of diminishing returns for most people, and well into negative returns.
Hmmm.. Id say thats a cost of doing business on the app store? App stores should be doing a better job of making sure everything doesn’t require rework ever so often, but I don’t see why end customers have to pick up that tab. On a continued basis like in a subscription.
You can remove the Google search bar from a Pixel phone or any other Android phone by replacing the launcher.

I recommend Neo Launcher, which is free and open source: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher
The US post office is spying on the mail – senators want to stop it
What was wrong with XP? (besides the default "bubbly" UI)
In many cases of clinical depression, there's no "strangling" event.
> I was very taken aback when I first saw this comment, but these days I cherish it. It reminds me one of the first times my code had a big impact on a community.

This is a great perspective. When I was a highschooler I worked on a fan translation project that, 20 years later, someone called a "god awful piece of festering sewage that should never have existed to begin with" [1]. I'm quite proud to have done something in my youth that generated so much online rage for decades.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/which-final-fantasy-iv-tra...
Let me turn this around on you.

Why do you think any human being deserves not to thrive?
> I have no doubt the problems you are describing in your country are real. What I am not hearing is solutions. Just complaints.

The best solution is individual. It is probably the only solution. Individual as in you do what you can to protect your person, your property, and your labour from the government. Apart from that I can only use words try to wake people up from the cult of government worship, but I'm aware of the futility of it. People will eagerly send their own children to die in a ditch by artillery fire in order to protect their false idol of government.
Kubernetes and sigstore founders launch software supply chain startup Stacklock
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

It's always easier to find good material after the fact, going back in time and letting others filter it, instead of trying to figure out which of the present day material is not crap.
You've omitted the mines, which were a pretty notorious place to work, and I'd personally rank it the worst job of the lot. My understanding is that the miners were almost all slaves because of the poor working conditions.
They used the three shells to clean the sponges.
don't understand this part: <<AI is the policy-makers it will expose>> Can you help to explain a different way?*

===

Policy makers will not understanding what they are doing.
Model weights can't really be described as source code though. The equivalence isn't exact, but I'd describe the weights more as the compiled binary, with the training data & schedule being the source (which is sort of under an open source license, with the complication of LAION's "it's just links"). The fact it costs $1 million to "compile" isn't relevant.

This isn't to defend Stability particularly though - they've been getting increasing slow and restrained in their model releases. Charitably because they're attracting a lot of heat from political and anti-AI aligned groups. Uncharitably because they've taken a lot of funding now.

(Edit: typo)
first comment solved my doubt, is not related to Jhon Petrucci
I’m not arguing against working from home. I’m arguing against the comments made that employers should pay for their employees commute.
PyTorch tutorial looks similar (lower on the page)

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/pytorch_with_examples...
A whole bunch of different effects, present on most forms of social media:

Evaporative cooling (if an environment appeals to people they'll join and if an environment gets more extreme those who least like that direction will leave). The presence of visible up votes and downvotes magnifies this effect.

Founder effects. Reddit in general and any given sub in particular was initially populated with people who are a bit unusual in some fashion. E.g. the initial reddit population was very techy. This effect also applies to any Internet forum (both in that Internet forums are used by somewhat odd people like us and that an Internet forum on Thing will pull people interested in Thing and interest in Thing very likely correlates with many other factors, such as socioeconomic status, culture, gender, subculture)

General interest in going online to talk about things. The vast majority of people do not go online to talk and argue with strangers, those who do are different along a number of axes (such as a lack of young kids or higher disagreeableness) which in turn correlate with other traits and beliefs.

In Reddit case there's also an element of active moderation, mostly due to founder effects, but also due to them being the only ones actually caring a lot (being activist) the main subs are policed by a bunch of supermoderators (who are mods in hundreds of subs) with similar views on issues such as trans rights and as a moral duty will actively attempt to remove people who express other viewpoints to keep the place tidy (without the viewpoints that are offensive and wrong).
gotcha - i'll think about this. for me, the links turning purple has been a good enough "read" indicator - but a shared one for when you're cross-device has been on my mind!!
I'm ready for some FAANG total consternation.
We don't still, but people used to. The article is over 20 yrs old. https://web.archive.org/web/20010725011144/https://www.cs.un...
Not to mention a third one isn't any sort of argument, just a statement of the opposite belief.
https://archive.li/fGftQ
Firefox is much better at resurfacing sites that you've been to before. There's even a built-in address bar search shortcut of '^' which searches within just your history.

Chrome is obviously incentivized to push you to making a Google search anytime you're trying to find something, instead of looking within your browser.
Mining was among the worst types of work with very little chance of doing it for longer. Which is why it was allmost only slaves doing it, like most of the other hard work, which is why there allways needed to be new wars to get new slaves to keep the system running.
> This means it is way cheaper to look something up in a vector store than to ask an LLM to generate it. E.g. “What is the capital of Delaware?” when looked up in an neural information retrieval system costs about 5x4 less than if you asked GPT-3.5-Turbo. The cost difference compared to GPT-4 is a whopping 250x!

In a narrow use-case of a strict look-up. This seems to exaggerate the cost difference while having completely different trade-offs.
Technology is the variable. The human genome is (relatively) constant.
I don't think this would work on me, but I know that it works for some poeple, so you're not crazy ;-). I'm going to give it a shot to check what effect it might have on me. I just need to find a task that my current productivity methods fail to cover.
A thank you to Gilbert Strang, retiring after his 61-year long teaching career
He delivered his last lecture two days ago, after teaching with passion for 61 years.
>They are not machines that reason, they are approximators.

And meaningless distinction of the year award goes to..

"It's not real [insert property]" is not an intelligent argument. By all means, divine the way to distinguish results of the two. After all, what kind of important distinction can't be distinguished by results?

>Further it didn’t happen over night but through successive improvements

The only difference between GPT-3 and GPT-2 was scale. They didn't even change the tokenizer until 4. There were no "successful improvements" to smoothen the massive gap in capabilities between the two.
So to say that was expected just shows more lack of knowledge here.
And you know what. Cops NEVER go after people for following too close. You see them always out there just knocking out speeders. Going 70 in a 60 is not dangerous. Following someone 6 feet off their bumper at 55 in a 60 is far more dangerous, but that requires doing actual work, not sitting on the shoulder knocking out ticket after ticket.
It's don't be dr. Evil, I didn't spend six years in Evil Comp Science University to be called "mister," thank you very much.
The app of choice for professional musicians is ForScore, and there's really no competition.

https://forscore.co/

100% of my colleagues are using ForScore on an iPad for these purposes.

Great feature set, great support, stable, very fast. And page-turning is ultra-fast. If you need that to be hands-free, there are numerous hardware options for that.