skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is interesting, because for MC simulations for rendering (path tracing for example) fast and high quality random numbers are very important...

Although there are alternatives like using low discrepancy sequences (Halton, Sobol) which don't explicitly need the random number values generated from a PRNG itself which are used as well...
Nice, that's good to hear! I've been using Contentful which has felt super familiar to editors and devs alike, but does have some pain points, such as the lack of ACF-like repeaters (IMO the relationship fields don't stack up as well for what we normally do for clients), the never-ending modal rabbit holes you go down to edit nested content (page -> section -> component -> image wrapper -> image, all because you can't force alt text on their default media uploads, and that was their suggested method of getting around it!).
Bing AI is causing more harm than good to Microsoft
Perhaps you and the other posters are talking past each other. For me the word “volunteering” conjures thoughts of spending some weekends doing things for local charities within easy driving distance of my home, not paying to travel overseas. I suspect most Americans at least would see it my way, which is why the other posters are incredulous at your seeming dismissal of “most” volunteer organizations.
Your LLM did not compute.
Whenever I see T-Mobile, my brain thinks T-Minus XX days until another reported breach. Can’t be coincidence, can it?
My favorite bit of Beanie Baby trivia is a divorcing couple had to pick through their collection one by one in front of a judge because they couldn't come to any agreement over who got what; there's a hilarious photo. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beanie-baby-fever-in-1999_n_5...

I wish someone would do a follow-up interview with them.
sometimes they are just sleepy but they are only sleepy like that when they are comfortable around you and don't see you as threat.
I compared pricing from hotels next to the airport (that have free shuttle service) and they appear to be $20-30 cheaper on Uber vs the airport pickup point. Planning on trying this on my next trip.
Cherry picking.

Apple is almost biggest company in the world and they command very high margins for a reason that is 'more than marketing'.

Ironically, you're pocking at the 'mouse' when their trackpad is the reason that keeps me on mac notebooks.

Their 'hit rate' is much higher than most.
I think the TLDR is a little more than that. Importantly, it's really not just about notice, it's perhaps more about being able to quash a summons. That is, the rules state that you can only file a motion to quash a summons in response to a notice. With no notice, you have no standing to quash.

The law was always clear that for a collection action, the IRS doesn't need to provide notice if the records they are targeting in a summons are for an account the delinquent taxpayer owns (or more specifically "has a legal interest in"). In this case, 3rd parties were arguing that the IRS had to give notice because Mr. Poselli didn't have a legal interest in the account records that were the target of the summons. Supreme Court basically said (unanimously) that's a BS reading of the law.
Rust might take its place if the tooling would be on par. Personally I'd jump.
Moores law stated transistor density per square inch roughly doubled every 2 years.

I see no end in sight for that specific law. As we can always go vertically if needed. It’s also held through so far in 2020[1].

The folks who conflated moores law to also mean doubling of compute processing capabilities of a CPU double every 2 years were wrong.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
Manual defibrillators have existed decades longer than automatic ones. Even without an AED immediately available, CPR is useful as long as someone has activated EMS (i.e. called 911). EMS always carries a defibrillator (whether automatic or manual) and CPR buys the patient time until EMS arrives.

My point more precisely should have read "CPR with no possibility of prompt defibrillation is mostly theater."
You're right. I apologize to all.
Do you think it will be the best which could be done?
Dont try this at home. Reminds me of james mickens pointer equals to 7 thing
Everyone loves to buy online but there are cases where you end up getting fake or perfect replicas but from a different brand. The app is claimed to detect, recognize and authenticate the product and tell if it is fake or not.
I never suggested to follow any advice from youtube and I don't think your take is charitable.
There was a period where a Brit could very reliably pay for an extremely nice holiday in Istanbul by making sure they returned with a suitcase or two full of 100% genuine Levis jeans. The only difference was the price discrimination model.
Seems 99% reasonable, but the per-message limits make it a non-starter for me. I get why they’re doing it and totally understand where they’re coming from, but the off-chance that an incoming email gets bounced due to no fault of my own (other than subscribing to a higher tier) just doesn’t work for me.
>[go is] often described as C for the 21rst [sic] century

I've never heard that and it's a silly thing to say. There's overlap of use cases, but it's a proper venn diagram and not a circle. It's not a drop in replacement for C.
big limitations for what? AI models? It's certainly not for gaming and we're not quite to the point of consumers running huge AI models on their desktops. The HN crowd is, as always, not representative of the broader consumer market.
Here, "Grokking" seems to be defined as a quick shift in the degree of generalization of a model. I'm not sure this is in any way an interesting phenomena. The original paper doesn't seem to be referenced [1] and I'd speculate the interest in the "alignment" community.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4466239674951044045...
No, no, no, that's not how it works. Globalisation is for throwing you in the street if you won't work for Vietnamese wages, not for letting you buy goods at Vietnamese prices.
I use Purelymail[1], which costs me $10 per year for our 13 family accounts.

[1] https://purelymail.com
Looks like they just updated it. By my measure, it took them about an hour to update their status page.
> This is how a new product gets across the chasm. Find a pragmatist in pain. Do whatever-it-takes to make them happy with your product. Then go back and do it again.

Good advice, I think the useful idea is: An excellent product in competition with a very good incumbent is a bad idea. A mediocre product in competition with an absent or terrible incumbent is a great idea
Amen, all of the actually-interesting features could have been done within the framework that MRC (RIP) laid down for IMAP, without going wholly into “screw line oriented text protocols, gotta be Web
2.0!” bullshit.
I might look past the fact that she was sexist/racist if the topic of interest wasn't ethics. But since it is, I'd say those quoted tweets are pretty relevant.
I found both Linq expressions and F# computation expressions to be limited (as in: subsets of corresponding languages exclude too much) for the few purposes I tried them on.
Do you know if it integrates with GitHub pull-requests?
Yes you get abandonware but in other fast moving language you get so out of date that you might as well have been abandoned. Unless you're spending a lot of time upgrading.
Borges meets Knuth.
I was being unclear. If a New Yorker flies in from, say, London, goes through customs, etc.. returns home to their Manhattan apt, a nexus has been established.
`Nvidia discovers DMA`
I really have to wonder if anyone can compete with this kind of systems integration capability. A core having 900GBps connectivity to the cluster memory at such relative low power is epic beyond words. 800Gbps ethernet across PCIe is uncompetitive in extreme.

How the rest of the industry can respond is such a mystery. And will it be lone competitors, or will a new PC era be able to start, with an ecosystem of capabilities?
> not rich in community libraries, like a desert & abandonware

You have access to the entire .net ecosystem?
> They prefer the safety of the herd

I.e. social proof
Mine was doing that, but after a few weeks it stopped the special vibe. It only blinks now.
Wife and I volunteer for our kids school, and also the kids weekend sports (Soccer, Cricket).
We've made a lot of friends through that and because it's all local a strong sense of community between all the families that get involved.
Sorry if I'm missing an obvious reference, but what short story do you mean?

(edit: thanks for both replies already, and any others that might fit; I understand now the reference was likely to Asimov)
I’ve worked with systems engineers, as in the modeling/SysML type. It is important to note that software is usually a part of a much bigger system, usually physical, and that systems engineering is kind of an engineering approach to project management to help in ensuring things get built to spec (even if the spec changes). The nice thing about that is you don’t get VPs/execs walking in the door saying what you’re going to do this quarter instead.
Let the Games Begin: France’s Olympic Law Legitimizes Automated Surveillance
While live face recognition by law enforcement in public spaces is prohibited here, no one really even knows what the private sector is doing.

According to a recent article in the leading local newspaper, "gait recognition" and the like are already widely deployed across Helsinki. No parliamentary or city council hearings, no reports from the DPA, nothing public.

Once the AI Act is enacted, I hope some party will litigate. Besides, the legality is already unclear even without the act.

EDIT: As usual, the question is not about CCTV as such, which is of course useful in post mortem investigations of serious crimes, but about mindless pursuing of techno-utopian surveillance that really benefits no one (except those selling the technology). Both private sector patrols and law enforcement already have big problems with drug dealing and violence in some parts of the city, and this stuff does nothing to help with that. Nor have there been impact assessments or anything alike.
* the complexity of the compiler makes it hard to make it better
Yeah, that was it! If I were going to sell the rights to use my brand's name in another country I think I'd have to insist that they maintain the quality of the product so as not to damage my brand.
But this paper isn't using "Grok" in that standard slang fashion but in a very specific fashion, which I think the gp can reasonably complain about.
Where did you climb in NYC, just curious? I've climbed here for a couple years, and found it to be really welcoming and inclusive of people from all backgrounds, tech included.

I mean, if you show up as a "[stereo]typical tech-looking guy" anywhere in America you'll get some disdain, in the same way that looking like a wall street guy would have gotten you disdain in 2008 +/- 10 years.

Maybe... don't flaunt the fact that you work in tech? It's a space that values humility, and tech is (stereotypically) anti-correlated with humility. I've never really felt uncomfortable for it, speaking personally.

As to the friendship discussion, it's kind of on your charisma and the other person's acceptance of it to move the conversation from bouldering to life in general, but it's a nice open window that I see swinging in the wind every time I go! Just don't wear headphones, and keep yourself approachable and supportive.
Arduino Connect4 Game- Human vs. Microcontroller
Celebrating new ways to further burn up the planet rather than discovering more efficient and better ways for training, inference and fine-tuning AI systems without needing to scale up more GPUs, TPUs, data centers and water for the same purpose.

The end result of this announcement is another expensive system only available to the same incumbent of tech giants with tens of billions at their disposal.
In other words, “they don’t sit atop the currently-fashionable implementation techniques that are the only thing webshits happen to know.”

Well, no shit, they were designed before HTML and HTTP, not just JavaScript, and there’s zero need to actually shove them into that mold because they already exist and are fine as they are in terms of protocol-level features. If you can’t deal with that maybe you shouldn’t be trying to do development at that level.

Meanwhile, all that energy spent reinventing the protocol layer to be maximally aesthetic to people for whom all the world is JavaScript running in a browser could have been used to actually improve the applications running over the protocol.
Any idea what http://txti.es/ was and why exactly it had to shut down?
When AI becomes good enough we will maybe we will stop thinking about trying to imitate human brains. If we viewed our brain's decision making power objectively we can find several flaws, for example our heuristics to make quick decisions for mundane things is also our greatest weakness(short sightedness). We are poor at incorporating data to make good decisions and constantly bias due to some external stimuli.

Why would you want to make anything close to the brain? What real scientific or engineering or humanitarian uses does doing that even have? AI is already and going forward should strive to be a groundup of redesign of intelligence.
I haven't tried the package yet, but at first glance it is missing the .d.ts file. Is this package type safe?
I don't think so. I mean, I can't imagine what exactly needs to be replaced, and I'm not really getting what that GP quote is talking about, unless it's email metadata (encryption of which is impossible in practice) or full-text search (I always forget about it, as I don't really use it myself)

First, at-rest encryption is perfectly doable with most typical software setups (Postfix/Exim/Dovecot/Cyrus/etc), and I think should be not so hard to achieve with proprietary systems as long as they a) capable of dealing with MIME messages (don't reprocess emails for storage) and b) have milter-like capabilities in their local delivery pipeline. You just throw in a milter that encrypts messages to a user-provided key (such as S/MIME or - hey, don't throw anything at me - PGP public key, or whatever MUA may support), and rely on the mail user agent (aka mail client) to be able to decrypt this mail.

Second, I'm not sure how E2EE is even in the picture. It - by definition - should be all happening on the endpoints, so I'm not sure how providers (let alone protocols they use) even fit in the picture. And if anything, it's not on IMAP but on SMTP. But even then, SMTP/LMTP are delivering MIME-encapsulated data (that typically happens to be HTML or text pieces), and they don't really care about what sort of data is in there. This significantly hinders anti-spam capabilities, though.
Many do. Ohio, Michigan, NC to name a few
Banking on It
I took no offense. I get it, noncompetes are super annoying, and presumably most of the noncompetes people saw in SV were bullshit.
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
Vasodilators like PDE5 inhibitors and L-Arginine improve nerve bloosflow, and can produce lasting regenerative effect - there have been studies demonstrating improved endothelial and nerve function in diabetic patients, neurogenic sexual dysfunction, etc.

This includes cerebrovascular blood flow, which is a major aspect of Alzheimer's.
Science is about question and understanding. But we should also continue to question what we think we understand, because the hubris of man has often lead us to believe we're more right than we are.

If you won't even consider the possibility that the covid vaccine is harmful, even only to an unknown subset of the population, you're not exactly one to be calling others less sophisticated.
The algorithm learned here actually makes a lot of sense when you spend more time understanding how transformers typically work.

Namely: once you include layer normalization your model is more or less forced to find ways to represent absolute quantities in a way that won't be normalized away and a great way to achieve this is to... store things as rotations of a unit tensor! With that as your primitive, it's fairly natural to rotate around a circle to compute modular addition.

I'd be curious to explore if a different algorithm is learned if one were to stop normalizing at various points. I wouldn't be surprised if a large hurdle to mechanistic interpretability turns out to be that the models have learned complicated rotations in non-obvious coordinate spaces that are tricky to identify after the fact.
"Not enforceable at trial" isn't the same thing as "they aren't going to send your new employer a nastygram that leads to getting fired after legal does a risk/reward analysis and decides to fill your role with the next available candidate"
That's interesting, because I've tried to use F# several times, and never really felt comfortable. I've written in a bunch of different languages and F# is probably the most disappointing because of how much I want to like it.

I feel like F# deceptively presents itself as simple, when in reality it is closer to C# in complexity. I've written in languages that are actually simple (tcl) and it is a joy. I've written in languages that are unashamedly complex (Wolfram language) and that is also fun. But F# occupies that weird middle ground where it seems easy to do what you want, but for some reason you trip over your own shoelaces every time you take a step.
There's a lot of problems with this idea for me. Here's some examples.

1. I live in an area where I have limited options for fast internet. I'm regularly running into problems with my attempts to install anything with Snap. Often the connection just times out and I can't install the Snap.

2. Snaps can be huge. This is an extension of #1. Downloads on a crap connection may take way longer, because you're downloading all the dependencies required to run the software. This is also an issue if you're poor and have limited drive space.

3. Some of the technical issues with Snaps can be perplexing for regular users. For example, it took me too long to figure out how to access resources outside of my home directory with a Snap. I later figured out the fix is to mount the location to my home directory. It's concerning how many threads I had to read through with questions and ANSWERS before I found a rock star who could explain what the issue was and how to fix it. My wild guess is that like .01% of Linux users know how this works.
I sympathize with the author’s (OP I believe based on the last name) feelings here and also find myself wanting to leave somethings not understood. Maybe we’ll be fortunate and it literally will be the case that some things always will be a mystery.

One thing I would like clarified: I don’t follow the refutation of epiphenomenalism. Is the intent that I can raise my hand only as a result of my conscious experience? Couldn’t one imagine instead a LLM hooked up to a robotic arm that also is trained to raise its hand it reaction to similar text? I feel like that or something similar would refute this. How can you say was is causal in sending the signals to raise the arm? Why can’t the conscious experience just be a theater?

What’s more weird to me about epiphenomenalism is that consciousness seems like it need not exist - if it performs no function than why bother with it? So why do we experience it? Sort of seems that its very existence implies that it should be more than just a theater.

I’m a total amateur about this, but would appreciate recommendations if anyone resonates with this.
This is delightfully misguided because diffusion models work by learning to remove noise.
I sincerely thought it was when I first heard of it.

At least Microsoft had an excuse with the wacky variations of the Exchange protocol: They built a Big Thing before Internet email “won” and thus have a bunch of legacy to carry forward. This is just a “solution” looking for a problem.
I'd rather a confidence score for each response. The last thing I need is another reason for the AI to ignore the question or feel the need to explain why it was ignoring it.
For AI race means it opens the door to a competitor. Could be AMD, Google, or Amazon. All which have offerings in this space.

However while the hardware isn’t cheap, it’s still likely not a blocker. Costs do inhibitor more experimental research.
What would be a modern alternative?
Conversely, anything we do manage to observe is more likely to lay within most common probability space simply because we’re similarly observing such a tiny portion of what’s happening in the universe. Think about if you sample uniformly 0.01% of 1B requests / second coming into your system - you’re going to see all the common scenarios and none of the uncommon ones. Sure space isn’t quite the same thing since we don’t observe uniformly, but similarly we’re observing an infinitely smaller part of the overall space anyway.
Pretty standard in that they were included in what you sign when you start a job? Or standard that they were actually enforced? When I was in California in the mid 00s I worked at several jobs that gave me a noncompete to sign when I started, and I knew then that they were unenforceable.
Was fun to wake up at 6am this morning to war time preparedness sirens going off and text messages from the government requiring evacuation readiness. Apparently they sent them by mistake, but it was a weird way to wake up.
I used to use Redmine at a company I worked for several years ago. There was probably about 20 of us in total. It worked well.
> not that many people are rewriting Ruby programs in Rust

Just an anecdote (and definitely not "many") but one thing we've found is that ruby and rust actually fit fairly well together. The way I express something in Ruby (often FP stuff like `map` and `filter`) translates very well in Rust. Much better than it translates into (as an example) golang.

Beyond expression, the tooling in rust (cargo) feels very familiar and intuitive. Ruby -> Rust in that regard has felt much more natural than Ruby -> JVM/golang/C++.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a trivial jump, but I've been pleasantly surprised by much of the developer experience.
Are sellers of used products (second hand, etc) to the EU required to provide a warranty? If so, is it the same warranty as if the item was new?
The comparison wasn't to #embed[1], but to an 8MB static array. You're winning an argument against a strawman, not me. For the record, I think #embed (given tooling that supports it) would be an excellent choice! That's not a defense of the technique under discussion though.

[1] Which FWIW is much less portable as an issue of practical engineering than assembler or binutils tooling!
Massachusetts has a tendency to enforce
This article misses that there are pragmatists are not the kind of technology-disinterested "normal" people.

An individual may have the same values as an early adopter, while having to make the decision to used tried and true systems for various reasons out of their control - one of which might be that you depend heavily on the continued development & support of surrounding ecosystems. Or that large code-bases can't simply switch to a new technology without it being a massive multi-year undertaking which is difficult to justify.

So while the article makes some reasonable points, I think it doesn't fully take into account that pragmatists often use what they use for better reasons than "following the herd".
Of course California is not different; the high prices are a consequence of their "100% renewables or bust but 0% nuclear first" approach to energy policy. California hasn't even increased their hydro/resovoir capacity for half a century despite massive industry and population growth and consistently worsening dry spells.
Like I said before- sexual function requires healthy circulation, nerve function, adequate physical fitness, and is inhibited by severe enough stress or inflammation. There is hardly a puzzle here.