skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article we are discussing cites:

On Thursday Qantas posted $1.4b half-year profits, tripling revenues

On Wednesday Woolworths posted a 25% rise in profits. Supermarket profits have soared on the strength of rapid food price inflation.

On Tuesday Coles net profit grew 11% in the latest half-year result announced Monday, beating forecasts.

On Wednesday Santos posted a 221% annual profit

Ampol, Australia’s largest oil refiner, reported a 30% increase in first-half net profit, buoyed by soaring petrol prices.

Commonwealth Bank posted a record $5.1b billion profit, up 9%, buoyed by extra interest income from rising interest rates

In every case the increase in profits exceeds inflation, so the increase in profits is definitely not simply a case of percentages remaining the same.
It might not be as good on the same benchmark as the original BERT, but pretraining means you can expose it to entirely new corpuses of text e.g. medical or obscure programming languages. This has the potential to make it much easier to create domain-specific adaptations of BERT.
I have tried the official reddit android app and always go back to reddit is fun. A drop in my usage will be no bad thing!
You probably mean Monero since it's mining Algo is CPU friendly
It doesn't require active collusion. This is one of the things that many people fail to understand about this, and many other aspects of our current systems.

When supply chain disruptions during COVID caused significant supply shortages, companies raised prices as one would expect due to the classical law of supply and demand.

By the time those shortages ended, there was so much media buzz about inflation that those companies realized, independently, that they could probably keep prices high and no one would notice.

They did this. It worked. The media still kept talking about inflation. Wages started to recover a little bit from the beating they took during the pandemic, and the Fed started talking about forcing wages down to fight inflation.

Those companies, independently, saw this and broke out in the biggest shit-eating grins ever. They raised prices again, purely to juice their profits, and still the media and Fed were only talking about inflation as if it was caused by wages.

Only now, months/years later (depending on where you start counting), is the media starting to catch up to what's actually been happening.

(And I'm sure that it's also something of an oversimplification—that the inflation hasn't been caused solely by this corporate greed. But I'm pretty damn sure that in this instance, it has been caused primarily by corporate greed.)

TL;DR: Active collusion is not necessary in a situation where multiple actors within the system can independently recognize actions that will benefit them at others' expense, and engage in them simultaneously. It is a zeitgeist, or possibly a bellwether and then flock movement, not conspiracy.
I come to Hacker News to avoid comments like this.
I would agree if the distribution of errors in estimates as normal with the mean estimate and reality matching.

But if estimates are consistently wrong in one direction, even accepting greater variance, that says the process is broken, probably missing a feedback loop to learn.
> mice don't appear to deliberately jump off high things

It could also be because they don't like to change their location too fast. You never know where you could end up. When you fall you might fall next to a cat for instance.
Where I live in northern Europe almost all ground in the forests are soft. There is moss, small plants, grass or leaves everywhere.

I can't imagine why the mice would climb trees, but if they did and fall down, they probably gonna be fine most of the time.

In many forests there is lots of large rocks and steep slope/cliffs/precipice in the range 0-5 m where mice possibly could shorten their path by jumping. But I'd suppose they rather use a path they can go in both directions.
Oh huh you're absolutely right. Start at the bottom, work your way up
Interesting article about an extremely thoughtful artist. I liked this quote,
"...artwork can be seen as an interface to experience the world. This makes the artwork akin to a scientific experiment, but while the experiment seeks to provide objective and repeatable knowledge, the artwork provides meaning and alternate points of view."
Thank you! I would say about 8 months. It was mostly built on our spare time since we have full time jobs.
The whole concept of child as an oppressed class in itself is ready for upheaval. Just calling age-challenged individuals "children" perpetuates this oppression. I therefore vote to strike the concept of "child" from law and language so that differently-aged individuals henceforth can be freed from the yoke of oppression.
Ive looked for a 5mx form factor in the form of a phone and not been able to find it.
Yeah sorry, I should have been more specific. I was looking for evidence that:

> Kaspersky was spying on international citizens for over a decade, providing data for both the FSB and GRU.

You linked a news article that states:

> The U.S. government hasn’t identified any evidence connecting Kaspersky Lab to Russia’s spy agencies

Maybe more evidence will be uncovered by the (alleged) targeted attack against Kaspersky though.

I'm interested in the technology created to perform these activities more than the politics surrounding it. How they do it, not why.
Started getting RSI symptoms in right hand years ago. Mainly from heavy gaming, but I needed to use mouse at work as well so right hand was not getting any rest.

Switched to using mouse in left hand for work, right hand for gaming. Never looked back. Turns out mouse motorics are almost independent from human handedness.

To comment the article, depending on OS and mice, you will have trouble assigning different orientation to different mice. Usually if you want left hand mouse to have index finger "left" click, it will also switch your right mouse... and trackpad...
> The fact that mice don't appear to deliberately jump off high things as a way to get down tells me that they probably do get hurt...

It's not how this works, cats are decent swimmers yet they generally refuse to get anywhere close to water…
maybe attention IS all you need
I see this all the time when researching various non-pharmasutical treatments. Vitamin D supplementation has no benefit for people without a deficiency for example. It's annoying how much of this is out there.
I've voted many times in the US without having to show ID.

Here's California: "In most cases, a California voter is not required to show identification to a polling place worker before casting a ballot."

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/voting-cal...
I think it’s just prioritising ChatGPT.

The reason that’s my guess is that the API is occasionally much faster and then goes slow again. It’s a bit all over the place which leads me to suspect it’s based on demand
My “no-monitor” setup, tested for two weeks
Momentum $1M Challenge
Thanks. I just woke up and you're telling me I might as well go back to sleep since statistically I will make zero progress today.
Only four or five of these have fingers actually go into the mouth, though. Plus, I don't know how superior not putting your hands in your mouth is at expressing things.
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Is there a significant change in market consolidation across all areas in the past 3 years?

Were M&A higher more recently?

It seems odd to me that market consolidation happened in all areas of the CPI and it’s happening at the same time as extremely high money supply is just a coincidence.
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Thunderbird softens design of new logo
But only one company owns all the patents.

If more companies were involved in developing it, in competition, there would surely be more progress.
Very Nice! I will try it
But they didn't study anything real world. They looked at all rear-end collisions, assumed that a percentage would be prevented and did the math to result in the 24000/360 numbers. No analysis of other affects (like sudden stops causing crashes from the cars behind them). No extrapolating from measured data.
Hm. They look very interesting. Wonder if there's anywhere I could try them out. I wear glasses for mild astigmatism, and I've always wondered if that's a blocker. For things like https://brilliant.xyz/ that's obviously less of an issue, but also they aren't aiming at the same sort of display.
This is so cool, a nice push towards low cost repairs and de facto "right to repair" for hobbyists. The MX5 is also a cool and inexpensive test vehicle. Hope more models are added.
Yeap, that's the whole point of it
No! Since I made a new email account with email aliases allowing me to give a unique address to every company I haven't received a single spam email (apart from advertising from said companies) in over a year.

I have however been getting spam WhatsApp and Telegram messages claiming to be from recruiters. These are quite obvious though as they lack any of the details recruiters usually include when they reach out on LinkedIn.
I think it's not, calm down.
>Your new land has to be insurable, not in a fire/flood zone, get roads and utilities built out to it, and has to not already have local land-use busybodies zoning it R-1 or inventing brand new weird design requirements.

At the same time, none of these things other than roads/utilities are a requirement in my country and housing is still rising in price much, much faster than anything else + wages.
Unfortunately, this shows how much the people that keep complaining about Elon Musk or Zuckerberg really should not be listened to. People suddenly do not care that much about privacy if it costs them anything or brings some inconvenience.

I keep running https://communick.com because I am stubborn and because I can afford to, but honestly I've pretty much have given up hope that the basic services (Mastodon, Matrix) will ever reach enough users to be able to pay for themselves.
> Too many people will end up using it to write horrible DSLs but it’s the spider man thing I guess.

What is “the spider man thing”? Sounds like an interesting concept I’m not familiar with.

Also, why do you think DSLs are a bad idea? I’ve only ever heard the claim that they are a game-changer, but it’s never been clear to me why. So I’d love to hear the counter argument.
I agree, whenever I hit the new site I just close the tab. I never figured out how to get more than 2-3 comments on it, so I don't even bother these days.
You would probably also like Simple Tab Groups. The tabs are grouped however you like and get out of your way until you want to look at them again.
Thanks so much for trying to help me! I appreciate it.

I don't have any other NFC cards, unfortunately. But I've tried it on a BQ Aquaris X Pro, Google Pixel 3a and Google Pixel 5 (my current phone).

Also, the app manages to read my ID initially (it displays some personal data of mine) but then it asks me to scan the card another couple times and the third or fourth readout then fails (every single time) and I end up being back to square one (because I need to start the whole authentication process again).
The Great Divide is happening. Epstein Island and others may be receiving the top-of-the-line versions, along with undisclosed biotech. Food for thought.
If you go to the front page without logging in, you’ll quickly notice the target demographic is teens/young adults. The redesign makes a lot more sense with that context
I think there is still lots room for improvement to reduce hardware requirements, such as 3-bit quantization or pruning weights from sparse models.

But if you're willing to spend $1500 on two used RTX 3090, it's the sweet spot in terms of the ability to run large models right now. Everything beyond that is much more expensive.
It's on purpose. The new UI places each post inside a "card". The intent is having you scroll past cards. This makes even text-only posts be similar to image ads posts, and while you scroll you are not aware if the next card is an ad or not.

Layouts with heavy information density (as old.reddit.com) are more user friendly, as you they allow you to just scan the list and be done with it. But are bad for ads.
Did you find the Gemini PDA and friends? It's very very similar.
I'm saying point 2 is only true if the company wants to issue shares (unless you are talking about second-order effects like cheaper bond rates). Apple is actively repurchasing shares, so they don't have more capital because the price went up.

Yes, it theoretically means they could raise more money by issuing shares, but that's not happening.
Never tried it myself as I am holding off for the software stack to stabilise. But it certainly looks promising:

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-...
Its been throwing errors for me for a couple of months now. Sometimes it would work fine, but most of the time it would just return null,
I wish I'd thought of that.

Seriously though, I think it's mostly the opposite. How much advertising did Georgi Gerganov do for ggml / llama.cpp and it's super popular. Maybe other people are just being more subtle, but I feel generally merit stands out on it's own and advertising is a poor substitute.
Planet Computers? https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/
It is called something like chai in half of the word and something like tea in the other half :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_...
Oh now that's even more interesting. Apparently they include a normal frame behind the display, so you can have your optician fit prescription lenses.

They're in a reasonable price range, too. Looking better and better. Thanks for the suggestion!
It is self healing. The output matches the original
True. But you can also generalise that people in a certain country react differently to people in another country for the purpose of identity politics. A politician calling a person or party "racist" only makes sense if a meaningful number of people of that ethnicity believe it to be racist.
Well, UX is a spectrum. You can do things instantly on a very old machine if you don't mind using a cli. If what you want to do is a game, you can't get Cyberpunk, but you can get Pacman.
I have several RPi4's all purchased at MSRP. I also have a few 2nd hand USFF computers. They server very different purposes and one isn't a replacement for the other.
Capitalism has it's own skulls. Violent strike breaking, banana republics, for profit prisons, etc.
‘Right to Repair’ Reform Passes CA State Senate, 38-0
Any idea what the minimum amount of vram required is?
> The button’s there so that passengers buying the ticket feel like they have additional room.

Perhaps. For me though, not reclining means feeling physically sick. The seat pushes my head forward, which in turn makes me curl forward, compressing my stomach, which makes me feel ... sick.

The worst turbulence has never given me nausea. The seat on an upright position does. Every time.

It also gives me back and shoulder pain.

Some of this can be mitigated by putting a pillow or a folded jumper behind my lower back but it's not good enough. Also, that presses my knees against the seat in front. Which gives me other kinds of pain and discomfort. And eventually makes me feel sick.
You didn't pay for the rader, you paid for the detection of objects. If the manufacturer finds a way to accomplish this by other means you don't lose anything.
Is this GPT-generated crap?

It is wrong and useless, like GPT always is, but sounds intelligent to fool the ignorant.

The compiler can inline functions, but it is essential for it to do so. It does not adjust heuristics based on being in a loop.

Hence, manual intervention like `@inline` is often needed for non-trivial cases, such as `exp`.

`@simd` doesn't say vectotization is desired, which implies changing heuristics.

It adds flags to reduction variables to say it is legal to reassociate them.
That does not help at all with indirect indexing.
`@simd ivdep` does help by communicating it is legal to perform the loop iterations in parallel, meaning the legality checks are no longer required.
The functions must still be inlined for it to succeed in generating vectorized code.
It's really simple: Whenever we run low on labour, we slow the economy with interest rate hikes. So Labour can never get a raise because it never has leverage. But when the other factors of production run low (and their price goes up, specifically land, capital and entrepreneurship) we take no action. The result is that land and capital owners get all the benefits of growth, and labour get's none. This is how we choose for the system to work.

The fact people keep "discovering" this is quite confusing.
There's not a single occurrence of "open source" in your first link. Actually, there's no example of any actual software at all on this page. Just some policy for posting software that tells people to license their code and to respect the license of the work they use. I agree that it does not technically require open source, only "publicly available" source code. And I'm not going to dig the forum to find some actual example.

I know source available programs with a license restrictive enough to be proprietary exist. Here's one: CompCert [1]

By the way, its non commercial license itself claim claims it is non-free [2] and the download page claims it's not free software. Even if it is "free" (gratis) to use in a non commercial setting.

That's software with source code available. Source-available software. It's not open source.

And I also know freeware (gratis, proprietary software) without any available source code exist.

But a source-available program that pretends to be open source is yet to be seen. CompCert certainly don't advertises itself as open source. Because it's not!

[1] https://compcert.org/

[2] https://compcert.org/doc/LICENSE.txt

[3] https://compcert.org/download.html
Android is just as vulnerable to 0-click exploits as iOS is. In some ways it is more exposed.
I realize this is from 'the economist' so that means they would of course be thinking about the economy, but it reminded me of those parody news headlines like "Mega-Asteroid to utterly destroy all of Earth, what this means for your 401-k"
We need not all be connected all the time
For the segment of HN that isn't up to speed on ML this is a double entendre from a famous ML paper:

https://towardsdatascience.com/attention-is-all-you-need-dis...
Exactly. As I tried to explain, you NEED a context switch (which doesn't make it a spin-wait) in order to avoid the deadlock between your main loop and the processing of the Windows message queue (and as you see, I do check the quantum, via QueryPerformanceCounter()).
The goal was to find a way that didn't deadlock the system, while also not wasting so much time that it impacts your framerate to the point where you can't even drive a high-refresh display at say 144 Hz.

Ofcourse I'm open to even better solutions, but so far this is the best solution I know of.

I doubt that events/semaphores would work better, as they'd be implemented as spinlocks for short periods of time, in which case they wouldn't actually trigger a context switch. Once you use a long enough time to get to a context switch, it's probably going to be worse than doing the context switch explicitly, the way I do here.

All in all, it's a bug in Windows Aero, as the followup blog expained (not sure if it was ever fixed in later versions of Windows, I haven't been working with multiple display adapters/screens in situations like these in recent years):
https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/the-story-of-micros...
What Is an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) in Clinical Trials?
As expected, it was complete fabrication:

"[UPDATE 2/6/23 - in communication with AEROSPACE - Col Hamilton admits he "mis-spoke" in his presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society FCAS Summit and the 'rogue AI drone simulation' was a hypothetical "thought experiment" from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation saying: "We've never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realise that this is a plausible outcome". He clarifies that the USAF has not tested any weaponised AI in this way (real or simulated) and says "Despite this being a hypothetical example, this illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capability and is why the Air Force is committed to the ethical development of AI".] "

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-fu...
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9 year Googler, looking for something new in Japan, or elsewhere if the offer is enticing enough
It depends on the definition of fine tho
> What actually happens in iOS is unknown to cybersecurity experts

Sounds like a skill issue to me. I'll eat my words if they were genuinely infected with something that lingered in such a way that it persisted past a reboot and completely broke all updates, but I would be very surprised if this was the case.
It still blows my mind that this is not a known fact by most people for as long as phones have existed? Or maybe it is?
Excluding the profit motive, different cultures had different ideals about work and not all despised/avoided work. One interpretation from the Gita is to find purposeful labor that is motivated by our inner divinity.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1394795-you-have-the-right-...

> You have the right to work, but for the work's sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.

> Perform every action with you heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure: for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.

> Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahma. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.
Actually, I'm not a youngfolk, and I'm not bothered by it. It was just a joke.

Well, as a macOS + Linux user (for almost 2 decades), there were tons of "$2000 Facebook Machine" memes around. I remember rich kids getting them alongside shiny iPhones to put them on their tables at Starbucks to "show" them.

I, for one, code and post-process photos on both macOS and Linux, and generally happy about how they interoperate.

Also, I aim to continue to keep this Linux desktop + macOS notebook arrangement indefinitely, because it makes my life much easier and enjoyable.