skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucky you to have found a place that allows those inquiries. Not many exist anymore.
How do they decide where to put the satellite dishes? It just seems like they are placed at random.
Super cool, here is an app I'd like to see:

Me and friends are in [Location] and are willing to travel no longer then [Time] to [some activity] - show all recommended places for [some activity] within radius [Time]
I don't think that's necessarily the case - e.g. "Let's share my car and you can help me clean it at the weekend" is a valid sharing arrangement (i.e. share the asset and share the effort to maintain).
What on earth is this comment about? Is it supposed to be a reply on a different parent?
I have alerted some of my colleagues to add a license. Thanks for pointing this out.
I am trying to host on 40 mbps down and 5 mbps up, pretty tough. I might need to add a CDN but wanted to diy as much as possible.
Oh, I know the site design is getting a lot of hate but I think its very cool. I love seeing plays on interfaces like this, would love to hear more about how it was made and what inspired it!
I wonder if it depends on demographic (almost certainly does).

Maybe the “hip” crowd is losing interest in microbreweries and drinking culture, while the “struggling” crowd has increased drinking. And the types of alcohol which appeal to each is different.

Totally hypothetical here, as I have no data behind this at all.
This is such a shame. One of the most powerful features of the SDK is now exclusive to the site itself. I can see the incentive to make this decision, but it's also going to have counterproductive results for the same reason.
Once you start to notice it, it becomes impossible to ignore. For me, I always notice how silly-short travel distances are. It's only a few minutes' walk between "major cities" in Skyrim, and it's one of the reasons I don't find any game (outside of VR) "immersive".

Some games do a better job by means of a different cheat (though I'm not sure you can even call it that). For instance, making it clear you're only accessing a very small part of the city. PoE2, among others, does a great job of this with a "city map" that shows you moving through many districts before reaching the spot where the story actually takes place. Distances, meanwhile, can be demonstrated by other means. The old Fallouts, for instance, had the in-game date swiftly advance while travelling in the overworld.
> Why? If they federate, I can follow people who post on Threads, but I get a chronological timeline I control and no ads. They make money on ads. So why should they federate? To "slurp up everything"? They already have much more than Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse have.

The thing you get from federation is more granular social graph data than you can obtain from public scraping. Not just "X liked this post" but also "when did X like this post?"

Meta specializes in social graph analysis. More data leads to more insights, which leads to more targeting for advertisements in places they do control. There's the direct profitability angle.

Additionally, it will make Meta's properties feel more "complete" or connected to the rest of the world (despite many people's distaste for Meta as a company and their business practices). Being able to stay in touch with Meta objectors through ActivityPub will lead to more social pressure (or inertia, depending on your perspective) to stay locked into Meta properties for their incumbent users.

They only stand to gain from this plan. There is a cost, of course: Some CPU is expended that doesn't include adverts. But they've probably done the math and concluded that they can accept that hit and still profit.
I really like it, it's fresh and friendly. it has a narrow option to have that compact spacing like iosevka which is my favorite. I can't use regular width font anymore after being use to narrow width.
> that they're willing to take the hit of a significant gap in theater releases and a year of lost TV production

Practically every studio was announcing cuts to programming spend in the months preceding the strike. An industry-wide pause means nobody loses market share while delaying expenses.
The feeling I get from comments on hacker news and such, is that mastodon is a replacement for twitter that _everyone_ should switch to. So you're competing with twitter and any other replacement like threads.
"Light inference" insofar as inference that can actually run on consumer hardware.

MPS support is lacking in many ways, i.e. BF16 support is only arriving with Sonoma. One of the biggest things Nvidia has going for it is software maturity, CUDA is far beyond any alternative, particularly MPS. Many PyTorch optimizations only support Nvidia GPUs.

And the tensor core equivalents on Apple SoCs are in the ANE, which necessitates using CoreML. While unified memory bandwidth is impressive on Apple SoCs, it is still slower than recent gen Nvidia cards.

While the PPW certainly is impressive and the overall ML performance is impressive for laptop SoCs, Apple Silicon simply does not hold a candle to discrete GPU performance. You're correct, it can certainly run local inference on the memory-hungry, demanding LLMs that are en vogue currently, but you won't see the performance of a discrete GPU.

The unified memory lends itself to a cheaper, yet slower, alternative to DC-grade Nvidia cards with massive amounts of HBM, but there's a reason you don't see racks of Apple Silicon for LLM training, or even inference at scale.

I'm hopeful the software will vastly improve as Apple Silicon adoption grows, because I'd love to run some of the stuff I build for school on my MacBook, but for now I offload it to my desktop PC because the raw compute brings more value to me than the efficiency when due dates approach.
The difference with a federated solution is that if you don't like the driver, you can switch to a different one.
Yes it did. Many are still on pandemic era drinking habits of drinking most week nights.
Good question. I've read a lot of local news here in New England in the last year that recommends freezing, but looking up formal sources... it isn't so simple. Seems like freezing means you still end up using tweezers for the removal, but the risk of pushing toxins back into your bloodstream is lessened because the toxins themselves are frozen inside the tick.

So I guess the recommendation remains: remove with tweezers carefully, targeting the head so as to avoid sqeezing the body and flushing toxins back into your body. Which is easier than heading to a drugstore for freezing wart removers anyway.
Can you give me some titles?
I'd also say it's that the RPis are generally much cheaper and also offer (subjectively) better I/O.

For example, A BeaglePlay costs about twice what a Pi 4 Model B/4GB does in my local market. The BeaglePlay has half the ram, only one USB 2 port to the Pi's two, none of the Pi's USB 3 connectors, way fewer GPIOs, only one HDMI, no audio, etc. I do like that BeagleBoards have onboard flash though.
I would love to have this in Java, hopefully this JEP makes it!
>Massive alarm bells in my head for this..

Would you care to expand on that, or should we just use our imaginnation?
Some of the best content I've found on the internet was a result of someone's hobby and desire to share, typically paired with a complete lack of ads on the page.

Personal blogs, passion sites filled with resources where they might sell a couple products, open source resources built by a community, etc.

I can say its almost rare I get the answer I need on a commercial platform besides reddit, but that's only because reddit replaced forums where ads were generally small and unobtrusive.
but the problem is that Mastodon is not a service. they could just as well have deployed a static website with RSS feeds.

also the fact that they allow other users on the instance seems pretty strange. shouldn't the only accounts be from the government members?
I particularly love the fuel of lost souls, when you leave the bazaar of decoration, were they compress all the customers shoulder to shoulder, reminding them of the competition before they are allowed to storm the self service furniture pack storage area.
> Every time an article on here is posted the first comment is a link to archive.is.

Friction matters. Making an online payment is a slow 10 step procedure currently. If it was a single effortless click it would certinaly be used more. Kind of how arcade machines worked
I encoded it as a regular expression so as to avoid doing the thing I said not to do. But there was a "reeeeee" in the parent post, which is an Internet meme to mock autistic people. It has since been edited out, so I'm disclosing for context.
>don't all RSS readers do this when you "Sort by time descending?"

Liferea doesn't! At least not that I can tell. It will do this with unread items but then disappear. There's no option that's just "get all of the feed data, throw it in one place, and sort chronologically".

>I simply mark them as read

I don't want to mark them as read! I don't do this with social media posts. The nice thing about this is that, if things build up, I don't have to feel like I've fallen behind.
Yuengling's flaghsip is an Amber Lager, not a light lager in the same vein as bud/miller/coors. Also, they didn't introduce their amber until the 80s. Prior to that their main beer was their porter.

I don't think there is a coherent definition of craft breweries that includes Anchor but not Yuengling
> ...AI is probably a greater threat to their jobs than to writers: I'm [making an accurate observation], but [here's some other speculation.]

There are no LLMs writing scripts for TV productions today, and yet, WGA writers are out of work. Something political - I mean, something that is totally controlled by humans, and can be turned around with a stroke of a pen, if collectively - has the biggest impact on writers' work. Not technology. In case you're confused where my opinions lie, I do support the writers, because this is what they are actually asking for:

> But the fear is that studios will use AI to turn out a crappy first draft, and then turn it over to writers who they hire for a few days or a week to turn it into something good. And they won’t pay them as if it’s an original script. That is the fear.

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-ai-writers-strike-tech...

The whole article is about how studios have a tool that could seemingly pass legal muster and abrogate a lot of the economic obligations they have when they start an engagement with a writer. Basically via tricks. It's about politics.

Writers want to use AI. They also want to use Google and pirate movies and TV shows and read other people's books and file the serial numbers off of the characters and do all sorts of things that have complex copyright implications. This isn't about luddites or whatever the fuck.

What they don't want is for studios to do tricks. They want "we will not use this to do tricks where we pay you to do something that has for the last 20 years meant X and then when it turns out you make us a ton of money, it will actually mean Y." That sounds like a reasonable contract term for me. If you see a trick coming from a mile away; if your opposing party has a trick-manufacturing machine overseen only by octogenarians, and you have collective bargaining power, what else can you do?
2M what... silos? conversation happening in disconnected realms..... it's like saying there are 2M blogs on blogger or tumblr
Or, if you're unlucky, more expensive insurance in the future if you're high risk.
A significant number of the people I follow on Twitter set up mastodon accounts but that kind of ran out of steam within a few months and I rarely see Mastodon mentioned anymore.

A much larger number have set up Threads accounts and either posting on Twitter less or are gone entirely.

It's anecdotal, but I think Mastodon missed the boat, in large part because of the pretty terrible sign up experience.

Most people noped out at "First, pick a server, but don't worry, this list only includes the ones who promise to be safe!", most of the rest when they hit "The server suggested by the person you want to follow is not taking new signups".
You can't allocate and deallocate the same address (incrementing that address's generation by 1 each time) 100 billion times per second.
Assessing the Quality of Synthetic Data with Data-Centric AI
Somehow I doubt your level of technology literacy is the same as the average twitter/threads user. (You'd have more tech literacy) Just being on hacker news is a bit of a filter.
I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago because it had no useful function for me. All it did was get me a constant stream of recruiter spam.
Thank you, I appreciate your insightful responses.
Darn can’t get anything right. Just tell me who to vote for so I can get back to my shows
> I rather do trust snaps a lot

starting with the Ubuntu 20.04 package base, the Chromium package is indeed empty and acting, without your consent, as a backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store. Applications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a different store. You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.
Does anyone know how to find the paper cited in the section on Logic Machines?

McCallum D. B. and Smith J. B.. Mechanized reasoning—logical computers and their design.

I can only find a review of it. This is an area of interest for me as I want to design educational logic machines to teach proofs.
Here's another tracker that shows a higher number.

https://fediverse.observer/stats

I suspect it's hard to measure this accurately as the users are spread over several thousand servers, and presumably servers can lie about their user count. It's like measuring how many email addresses exist, you can only estimate.

What matters more to me is what kind of community exists. I joined Twitter late and found it was hard to engage because it was so chaotic. People shouting past eachother or making cheap shots. Not my thing, I didn't stay. Mastodon "looks like twitter" but doesn't feel like that. We know that community-based moderation can work at scale, that's what Reddit uses, so I'm hopeful Mastodon will keep it's safe feeling.
That would be a really regressive change in terms of who pays and how much they pay.

There are also very simple tax systems that are not regressive, like the UK or most of Europe's systems. Just eliminate most deductions and the ones you keep, decouple from taxes. Then 90% of employees can just have their tax deducted at source and not file anything. Like the UK and European systems. All of the big ones are just automated in most places (here in the UK, investment income is taxed at source, allowances for kids are done automatically based on birth record and the tax authority automatically tell employers rates including for those with multiple jobs)
https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_embedding/blob/main/LICEN...
> What's not to like about a world where there are a bunch of viable options of different sizes rather than a single eternal September?

In essence, we have seen the ghettoization of political organizations when it comes to influence over social media networks. For the previous ~10 years, Twitter was the place everyone of every background roamed and progressives were very successful at leveraging the platform (and influencing the corporation externally and internally) to center their issues and create a false consensus on their positions and to get opposition exiled into ghettos.

They have since been ghettoized themselves as many left Twitter because their rivals have been allowed to participate, pulled from exile and others emboldened. Hence there's this desperate search for "New Twitter" amongst the chattering class. The election cycle is going to heat up in 6 months so it's becoming critical to try and herd normies into a place of their choosing where their media and influences can again dominate. Mastodon was too hard. Threads is a deal with the devil (Meta is evil) but it's the most legit chance to un-ghettoize them and reclaim social media dominance and thus real world influence like they've recently lost.
The studio executives pretend that they are actually willing to let the respective writers insanely suffer (“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses”). Thus the studio executives pretend to be madmen with an iron will and ire to start a cruel long-lasting vendetta against every screenwriter who joins the strike.
There's nothing to be "bullish" about, it's not a startup trying to become a unicorn at some future point. It's useful to me right now, because there are more than enough people to have interesting discussions, news articles, and photos.
Many folks using LLMs to generate data nowadays, but how do you know which synthetic data is good?

Introducing synthetic data quality assessment! Without writing ANY code, you can quickly identify which synthetic data is unrealistic (ie. low-quality) and which real data is underrepresented in the synthetic samples. This tool works seamlessly across synthetic text, image, and tabular datasets.

In this blogpost we demonstrate how to automatically detect issues in synthetic customer reviews data generated from the [Gretel.ai](http://Gretel.ai) LLM synthetic data generator.
Disagree. Climate science and economics are quite similar in this context, in that both an economy and a global environment are so massive and massively complex that neither can be isolated and studied in a controlled environment.

In such cases, when there does exist a consensus, it's probably correct.
It’s a total mystery whether, or how quickly, customers will cancel streaming services if there’s no new scripted content.

It’s possible they won’t for a long time. In that case, studios would keep a steady stream of income despite no new shows. That would greatly reduce the leverage that writers have. That’s the background to these studio comments.

Typically there has been a tight connection between new content and steady revenue. Studios needed new movies every month to generate income. Networks needed new episodes every week to keep audience up and advertisers spending. But streaming services auto-charge every month or year unless the consumer makes an effort to stop it.

It’s an opt-out revenue model instead of opt-in.
Alas, missing ℕ ℤ ⊢ λ. If you're missing lambda, you're out for me unfortunately. Maybe a future version will have a wider coverage of Unicode.
> Children and property are easily handled by the IRS

Please explain. Which percentage of the year did the child live at each household? Is the property your primary residence? Did you rent a room? What amount did you spend on property upkeep or interest?
Distributed eventbus using Vertx cluster manager
Fair, taken care of.
70% of the way through this article they drop "Since we have unit norm vectors ..." and later "Always remember to normalize your embeddings." I found this strange and surprising.

It seems to me that in a semantic embedding, "big", "huge", "enormous", and "gargantuan" should roughly point in the same direction but have different magnitudes. For instance, I might assume that the nearest neighbor to "big * 10" is "huge" or "enormous". But if embeddings must be normalized, I either can't tell the difference between these four terms, or they must point in different directions. I can't even talk about "big * 10" at all. I mean, perhaps there are "emphasis" dimensions roughly corresponding to words like "very" and "extremely", but it still seems like "big" and "enormous" would be hard to distinguish without scalars. It seems to me that the only significant difference between "big" and "huge" is in fact their magnitude, and forcing "huge" to point away from "big" so that it can be non-zero in the "very" dimension must cause it to be less "big-like" in some other small way, right?

I'm surprised that throwing away all the power of scalars is worth it. I'm not a professional in the field, so maybe there's good reason for this that I just haven't read. Can any professional comment on why vectors of magnitude != 1 are not helpful in embeddings?
What is "AI Wealth" here, where's it measured? Human wealth I get, it's the money stat. Human knowledge is the book. AI IQ is self explanatory. Population, GPUs, same. So which one is AI wealth?

I enjoyed the Paperclip thing, this is similar.
> "64 bit counter will be enough for everybody" is not how systems programming works.

Except when it is: https://threatpost.com/another-linux-kernel-bug-surfaces-all..., fix at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Little known fact, Kelly is actually the diminutive of Column, her birth name is Column Row-land. Hence why she was using a spreadsheet.
This was definitely a mild report, but that headline YoY number is being pulled down by base effects with June 2022. July will reverse that effect, so it will look high in comparison
Everything I say is a self-quote!

Your question cuts to the heart of what makes art art, and I can't answer it. But hard work and perseverance doesn't make a hack into an artist; it just makes them a more prolific hack.
People go to a gov website when they know they need to get information or get something done. Social media is a way to push information out about new policies etc.

Governments have whole departments dedicated to getting the word out about things because people aren't all in one place. This is not a big additional effort but it is different in two essential way: They control it, and it has APIs anyone can connect to, including to bridge elsewhere.
> no-one at Meta noticed that the payload also included 'what deductions that person was eligible for'

I wouldn't expect anyone at Meta to actually look at unencrypted user pixel payloads. Seems like an easy way to lose your job.
Excerpt from the book, which is not just about spiders:

“A study in 2009 that tested the male satin bowerbirds’ problem-solving skills was the first to show that cognitive performance is associated with mating success and females prefer the most nimble-minded male. Male budgerigars that demonstrate their problem-solving smarts have also been shown to be more attractive to females. So female choice could be responsible for shaping not only a male’s body and behaviour but also his brain.
This idea isn’t new. Darwin himself proposed that sexual selection could, in fact, be responsible for the exceptional evolution of human cognition – especially the more ‘self-expressive’ aspects of human behaviour, such as art, morality, language and creativity.The idea that female choice might have polished the human brain into brilliance would have been the ultimate blow to the Victorian scientific patriarchy – hitting them right between the eyes, where it hurt most.
Female choice is indeed a powerful evolutionary force, but also seemingly random. Why do all female satin bowerbirds love Matisse blue, however, and not Turner’s yellow?”

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Something increasing in spend every year doesn’t mean the overall profits from it are increasing (I am not sure whether or not they are).

People spend more on food delivery every year. The profits remain elusive as the cost also climbs.
Python Interface / Refactor Challenge
Not directly about the WGA strike, but it's interesting seeing the reactions here vs if this had been said by say, a tech exec about software engineers.
YouTube can be used with youtubetranscript.com (free) which will turn a video into a clickable transcript that takes you to the corresponding section of the video when clicked to see the corresponding visuals. It uses the Google auto transcription so not sure about whether the accuracy will be acceptable for you.
>Fewer studios are going to be able to compete

But there already is competition? FPSs and aren't exactly a dead genre.