skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vectorization (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorization :

> Array programming, a style of computer programming where operations are applied to whole arrays instead of individual elements

> Automatic vectorization, a compiler optimization that transforms loops to vector operations

> Image tracing, the creation of vector from raster graphics

> Word embedding, mapping words to vectors, in natural language processing

> Vectorization (mathematics), a linear transformation which converts a matrix into a column vector

Vector (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector

> Vector (mathematics and physics):

> Row and column vectors, single row or column matrices

> Vector space

> Vector field, a vector for each point

And then there are a number of CS usages of the word vector for 1D arrays.

Compute kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_kernel

GPGPU > Vectorization, Stream Processing > Compute kernels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

sympy.utilities.lambdify.lambdify() https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/a76b02fcd3a8b7f79b3a88df... :

> """Convert a SymPy expression into a function that allows for fast numeric evaluation [with the CPython math module, mpmath, NumPy, SciPy, CuPy, JAX, TensorFlow, SymPt, numexpr,]

pyorch lambdify PR, sympytorch: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/20516#issuecomment-78428...

sympytorch: https://github.com/patrick-kidger/sympytorch :

> Turn SymPy expressions into PyTorch Modules.

> SymPy floats (optionally) become trainable parameters. SymPy symbols are inputs to the Module.

sympy2jax https://github.com/MilesCranmer/sympy2jax :

> Turn SymPy expressions into parametrized, differentiable, vectorizable, JAX functions.

> All SymPy floats become trainable input parameters. SymPy symbols become columns of a passed matrix.
That, and also NixOS - I’m discovering it for myself now, and it’s been a revelation! Configuring absolutely everything declaratively from scratch, even the disk partitions - a dream for reproducibility. It even has configurable “micro-VMs”, which would not be as easy to do via Proxmox (not counting LXC), since they would have to be built manually. Though Proxmox does have some nice benefits over it as well, especially considering their ecosystem with PBS, mail server etc
Be prepared to wait. Despite ordering one last year and another this year (both in the spring), they are both gonna be late for the school year starting in mid August here.

Also waiting for a matte screen, they don't seem to have those in stock either. The screen on the current one is so glossy I can check my teeth in it. :-/
The fluid animation thingy on your homepage uses up all my laptop's CPU to the point it makes my mouse cursor lag, just FYI.
Gas lamps are way dimmer.

Also, bugs have probably evolved not to go near the glowing embers of fires.
Erm, there's a Korean site hyperlink [0] for "NIS's guidance for email security". I reported it to FBI.

0. https://www.ncsc.go.kr:4018/main/cop/bbs/selectBoardArticle....
My new car has lane keep assist and AEB and I haven't had these issues. From what I hear it's very much to do with a maker's implementation (mine is Hyundai, who for various reasons seems to have a bad reputation in North America but a good one in Australia). For the lane keep assist I feel a nudge but it's extremely easy to overcome just through a normal grip on the wheel - if I don't budge it won't move. It's been an issue near construction sometimes but also some wider merges where 2 lanes become one (the markings in Canberra seem to confuse it, but not Sydney) so it does depends a lot on road conditions, but as I say it's annoying at most and I wouldn't call it dangerous in my car and it helps more than it hinders.

For AEB, the same system is used in the adaptive cruise control and it's been near perfect. One funny thing was that it just alarmed and fully died in outback Victoria - apparently it is coded to do this as a fail-safe if it hasn't detected a car for a long time due to the system potentially not working. The service centre employee said Hyundai are working on a patch to extend the timeout since it's a little low for country Australian roads (approximately an hour at the moment I think).
All adult patient populations: those without a history of cardiovascular events, and those with.

Baseline risk is something like ~35% for men, and ~20% women. Time point is from 50 to 75 years of age.

Statins -- at most -- reduce your absolute risk from 35% to 33% (for men) and from 20% to 18% (for women).

If you do not smoke, your absolute risk drops by ~7%, from 35% to 28%. If you're diabetic, your risk jumps an absolute ~30% to 65%.

See: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.... (table 2 & table 3).

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Your article has this caveat: "Virtually all of the major statin studies were paid for and conducted by their respective pharmaceutical company. A long history of misrepresentation of data and occasionally fraudulent reporting of data suggests that these results are often much more optimistic than subsequent data produced by researchers and parties that do not have a financial stake in the results."

Ignoring that, 2% (absolute) of the population on statins develop diabetes and 10% (absolute) develop muscle pain/rhabdo (in one experiment). This is also ignoring all of the serious adverse events from gen-1 and gen-2 statins.

As a whole, they on average achieve a 1.2% reduction in absolute mortality (all-cause or only from heart disease?).

While I have just read it, I'm going to discount [1], because of what's inside "Declaration of interests."

And on principle, I'm not going to read [2], unless you quote the relevant sections (as is good form when referencing).
The fence is also illegal.
A nag popup where the dismiss button just changes itself instead of dismissing the window? Oof, that's a new one.
This is just one of those suspicions I have had for many years and done nothing to verify, but I think part of it is probably that everyone sits too far back from the pedals.

I have my seat adjusted so that with my back and butt against the back of my seat (so I’m braced against something) I can push the brake pedal and have it hit the bottom of travel just a bit before my knee locks without having to take my heel off the floor and try and press it with my toes or something.

My wife is almost a half foot shorter than me and when I drive her car I don’t need to adjust the seat at all. I find a similar situation driving most people’s cars.

So, y’know, I think people literally can’t apply the brakes all the way… because they can’t reach the bottom of the pedal travel.
It's not surprising that this information is somehow saved in the internal state, but it is surprising that they were able to read it to some level.

I don't think the model can access this information, but an external "lie detector" would be interesting. Thanks for the paper.
By the time THAT came up, it was too hot button of a topic to sell it. For better or worse.
The experience for at least some of us is that failover is not robust. At all. And that < 1m is best case scenario that still requires a person to be monitoring the process.

And given that the entire industry has moved to a distributed model despite its complexity gives you a hint as to which way the wind has been blowing for the last decade.
Nope, I do not recommend this.

This is not really a safe and scalable solution for startups anymore.

In your scenario, the app developers create something that gains traction. But they have not spent any time writing guides, docs, or any sort of marketing content. They are only worried about their app code, and someone else will fix the tech debt eventually when they set up the WordPress blog site on a sub domain.

If the devs ever reach that point in success, they have now created a silo between the main app, and the WordPress instance. They two apps usually run out of sync in consistency and feel, and factioned teams form around who works within the app, and who works within WP on the content.

The two teams eventually get out of sync, and the users never get the basic info they need to use your app.

Then when nobody is paying attention, someone takes advantage of a vulnerabilty in a dumb WP plugin, and they spam your blog site with porn links and offensive content. Now you have to handle damage control, and closing the hole and erasing the content.

The only successful YC company in recent history I have seen pull this off is OpenSea, but I'm not even sure what they are up to today.

To the contrary, launching a startup is:
20% writing code.
80% writing docs, guides, and marketing content.

Further to the contrary, I have found that the most successful YC companies and products all started their code products with documentation.

Stripe and Shopify both launched, and immediately started building out user guides and marketing content.

The common denominator between Stripe and Laravel at launch was users commenting how easy their product was to use, and how complete and simple their documentation was to understand.

These companies didn't wait to find a content solution, they started writing their content alongside their code since day 1.
There is a lot of concern about incorrect actuations in this thread.

One way to address this is to dictate that the car AEB status prior to each accident was made known to everyone involved, and to hold the manufacturer directly liable whenever AEB contributed to a collision.

After making that change, they could circulate the draft bill, and let the car manufacturer lobbyists kill it.
The problem with numbers is that they don't tell the whole story.

I can easily imagine a scenario where it might prevent 25000 crashes a year that are caused because 5% of drivers are staring at their phones, have a high chance of rear-ending someone, and this software makes that far less likely. While also containing bugs causing 1000 crashes a year for the larger number of non-distracted drivers, resulting in a net change of 24000. This would mean that adding the software would be better for society, while making the majority of drivers slightly more likely to crash into someone.
> the exact strap for that exact watch is no longer available.

Also too many reaper* nicknames in the thread
No, these are clear creative differences.

I submit the same prompt dozens of times a day and run the output through a parser. It'll work fine for weeks then I have to change the prompt because now 20% of what is returned doesn't follow the format I've specified.

A couple months ago the stories ChatGPT 3.5 returned were simple, a few sentences in each paragraph, then a conclusion. Sometimes there were interesting plot twists, but the writing style was very distinct. Same prompt now gets me dramatically different results, characters are described with so much detail that the AI runs out of tokens before the story can be finished.
Please add a C implementation too to make it easier to understand what's going on by reading less code.
PyTorch internals: http://blog.ezyang.com/2019/05/pytorch-internals/

A good basic thing to know is a tensor is a single dimensional array under the hood. At least as far as I know in my mental model - I have not yet looked at the code :-)

Therefore "converting" a 2 * 5 * 10 tensor into a 2 * 50 one is an immediate operation, it doesn't have to scan. Just change some metadata.
wow I didn't think they meant checkerboard pattern literally. I'd be interested to know why the land was partitioned that way across such a wide area
I think this is a pretty thoughtless statement.

Ashkenazi women often have genetic mutations that cause them to get breast cancer and the cancer prognosis is much worse than average. This cannot be addressed by diet or lifestyle. However, genomic sequencing detected common patterns that can be tested for, and with that information, women can make informed choices about treatment or other actions, ideally well before they ever have a malignant tumor.

I won't disagree that we could do a lot better overall with large-scale changes in diet and lifestyle. But it still would leave a lot of people dying of heart disease and cancer as well as infectious diseases.

Those x-ray machines and MRI machines make a huge difference for people with internal injuries as well. No amount of diet and lifestyle will heal a shattered bone.
When shopping for a new car Subaru was very proud of its dual-camera setup, I don't know if it's actually better but they make a lot of noise about it. Maybe there is some truth to it.
This is Axios' 2023 poll of the top 100 brands:
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/corporate-brands-reputation...

The 96th trusted brand out of 100 is Meta, just above Fox, FTX, and the Trump organization.
You’re right. For the announcement, I used the term “open source” because people generally know what it means (especially in the context of previously being “closed source”). Saying I made something source-available(d?) ends up being confusing to a lot of people who don’t know what that means.

Outside of the announcement and 2/3 of the blog post, I use the phrase “open, source-available.”
Those "explosions" only happened in a USAF Simulated Test! There was no physical damage to the real world that occurred in this test. They are talking about events that happened within a military simulation, likely a variant of the sort of simulations that pilots use for training before they can fly a plane. This was completely clear because the headline ends with "in USAF Simulated Test". Where is the confusion? They stated that these events occurred in a simulated test environment.
Spiritually related: examples of RL algorithms exploiting glitches in the physics engine (clipping into the ground to shoot forward at incredible speed) or gaming the goal state: (Agent that's supposed to learn how to walk instead evolving a body with a single long leg that just falls forward-- getting a high speed score with low complexity penalty) https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453 https://www.deepmind.com/blog/specification-gaming-the-flip-...
Don't do it if you need the money.

At that point, it's like any other hobby: horse-racing, sports-betting, or purchasing YCH commissions to hang up on your dining room wall.
Couldn't agree more. I have no problem paying for tools, especially when they will save me time.

That said, don't I need to know how to use devtools (chrome/ff/safari) to do my job in the first place? It feels like this product is trying to inject itself into a process that isn't super refined but works fine.

The real problem is the dependency it creates. If I only know how to do frontend work with handheld UI controls, then I have to use them and am locked into this product. It doesn't promote me learning the css rules or understanding how to actually fix things, so then I'm back to the devtools and why am I using this?
It has been illegal since 1885, but apparently the state doesn’t want the feds involved (it’s a fed law), and the fed is trying to look the other way - most likely because of very rich donors.
W3C WebNN

- Src: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn

- Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

WebNN API:
https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/#api
Sure, I know logically it was already long decided, but I wonder about the timing of there announcement.
Going to 100% disagree with you there.

My team did the migration and build-out of The New Yorker and its relaunch on WordPress. I launched Quartz (qz.com) originally on WordPress (acquired and moved to in-house CMS then at G/O Media), and other media orgs since then.

Sure, not "out of the box" but not the way you mean. There was a design to be put in place, but no more than any other CMS...

If your devs are being made to cry then you are doing it wrong?
Even a reduction in speed helps - 10 mph can make a significant difference in lethality - and sub in being rear-ended if you prefer.

The point is even a perfect driver may benefit from safety devices in the hands of other drivers they encounter.
HIPAA (not HIPPA) actually makes data more portable, not less. It also only applies to a subsection of the medical research industry. A great deal of discoveries don't involve HIPAA-covered data at all.
Gmail is not my computer.
> Location isn't helpful here, I know where my skimmer is, saying "Clean skimmer neck underneath my 100 gallon saltwater aquarium in my office" would get high marks from the bot, but not actually be useful. "with a brush" is also equally useless. What else am I supposed to clean a skimmer neck with? I know how to clean a skimmer, I don't need to write where and how to clean my skimmer every time I add it to my todo list.

Ironically, it is helping you write a better to-do list. Going to this level of detail as a matter of habit makes it much easier to delegate the task to someone else, especially during emergencies. Future autocomplete features may make this easier, but it'll need precedent to extrapolate from.

Nothing is more irritating than agreeing to watch someone's house/pets and being told "I'll leave you a to-do list." Then you see the list and it's all items like: "clean skimmer neck" and "waste away 50mL." I'm more than happy to maintain your stuff but it looks like you left me instructions on how to take a urine sample in New Zealand.
It sounds like they should do both, then?
New Apple job listing seeking for interest in “Conversational and Generative AI”
There is also lemmy - think mastodon but Reddit style
Yes, this is almost certainly true. However, so far we've underutilized the data, for a number of mostly social/incentivization reasons, rather than scientific ones.
Yes, it's 'curious' how people with a sense of basic decency get 'combative' when the Alternative Medicine Industry lies to them to sell useless treatments for diseases that could actually be improved by real medicine. It really is odd how that works, isn't it?
Cool :)
Every single one of those countries is a vassal to the united states, free to experiment because they are kept safe under our umbrella. Even Finland and Sweden are desperate for our protection.

As far as climate change, unless you have a way to force China and all emerging economies to sabotage their own economic development then any changes you make is a puppet show.

Addicts? Whatever happened to personal responsibility? It's not my job to give second chances to violent addicts that can't help themselves.

As far as gun control you can't even get illegal guns away from criminals, confiscating firearms from legal owners would just leave them vulnerable.

All cities with the highest homicide rates have Dem mayors. How's that working out for them?
There is the issue of pages which are designed only for very wide screens and for mobile. In between screen sizes will cause the main content to be annoyingly skinny, if it isn't totally unreadable. These sites are relatively rare, thankfully.
"Simulated" doesn't explicitly mean "in a computer" by default. A "simulated test environment" can also mean "a robot in a physical field simulating a war". The choice of language is deeply misleading.

Hell, the wikipedia on "Military Simulation" [1] is very clear that there's a very broad gradient under the section "The simulation spectrum", saying:

The term military simulation can cover a wide spectrum of activities, ranging from full-scale field-exercises,[2] to abstract computerized models that can proceed with little or no human involvement—such as the RAND Strategy Assessment Center (RSAC).

The first example described is literally in physical space, where computers wouldn't even necessarily be involved!

Military exercises focus on the simulation of real, full-scale military operations in controlled hostile conditions in attempts to reproduce war time decisions and activities for training purposes or to analyze the outcome of possible war time decisions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_simulation
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_exercise
Never underestimate the degree of pettiness someone will apply over something minor. Especially if they have money.
I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles in cars of 3 makes (Mazda, Subaru, Nissan) with AEB systems and they never once had a false activation, while the feature did save me from several serious accidents. The Nissan is also nice enough to warn early so I can react before the AEB kicks in.

Properly implemented AEB is an essential safety feature that saves lives.
The UK government attempted to introduce one but the attempt was abandoned (because it was basically unworkable). I'm sure they'll try again when they need to pander to that segment of their base (the current stupidity is another iteration of the 'banning encryption' idiocy which seems to be evergreen).
It feels like the more a company tries to pump value for shareholders, the less value is left over for users. Reddit has been very obviously working towards an IPO for some time and you can see it in the worsening user experience and onerous (prudish) moderation policies pandering to advertisers.

Shareholders are parasites on a company as their interests are one dimensional in favor of themselves. Gotta get that big IPO payout though.
Here's the story of those checkerboards - at least here in Oregon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_and_California_Railroad...
Wordpress.com challenges Substack with launch of paid newsletters
>If the operator was working from a ground station, it could target that ground station first to kill the operator and then go on to kill SAMs.

This doesn't make sense. The operator has to approve strikes ("with the final go/no go given by the human") - how can the agent target the ground station without approval? And if it can do that, why can't it also just kill SAMs without approval?
I respect people doing this sort of thing but hard pass from me. Even my venturing into rust is plagued by doubts as to whether it’s too low level for productivity
> I'm not actually sure what bottleneck would motivate you need to scale beyond this configuration

It's usually not that data doesn't fit on one machine but that load on the database exceeds what one machine can serve. A failover configuration might enable you to use the spares for some read operations and take a little load of the primary, but you lose ACID semantics when you do that and it generally doesn't help you for long.
> One really wishes to know: who is the guy with deep pockets that Eshelman upset and what are they beefing over, and how did he get the wholesome quartet of hunters to go along with him.

What are you talking about? Access to public lands has been an ongoing fight for decades with people from the entire political spectrum having opinions about the matter. Whether that be rock climbers trying to access routes, or people who fish trying to access streams, to people like this who are trying to access public hunting land. Assuming that everyone trying to access public lands is some poor pleb is in bad taste. Companies like Patagonia have long supported more liberal access to public lands with millions in donations, as well as organizations like the NRA with their advocacy and financial support.
To add to that studies findings: in general, many people who have back surgery end up worse-off than before, because back surgery is risky.
It's a shame I have yet to see a microdose of testosterone included in HRT.
ObjectStateHistory – A Tool for State Management
Hello everyone.

I recently published an npm package (JavaScript) that allows you to keep track of changes in an object over time, creating a history of the modifications.

Check it out here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/object-state-history

Github repository here: https://github.com/sergiofasilva/object-state-history

What do you think about it? Leave your comments / suggestions.
Are US Regulators the Reason Behind Drop in Crypto Trading Volume?
There's more to a job than the salary, and it can be reasonable for a company to leave salary ambiguous in order to make that sales pitch. Sometimes it's half the company; sometimes it's a set of steak knives. And it's reasonable for an applicant to decide that they're all about the salary and don't want to waste time on the sales pitch, and move on.