skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My attention span is too low to read the article. Can someone summarize it?
If you were an alien and showed up on earth, then hurt a human, you'd likely think we work at least like a semi-collective consciousness. Much like a cell that is injured starts chemically communicating problems, we'd start communicating at a meta organism against the new threat.

This is one thing that's always given me the 'concern of the unknown' when it comes to AI. The potential meta consciousness abilities of AI could vastly exceeded human capabilities.
> There are no censorship laws in America.

Yes and no. There are libel and slander laws, and there is definitely content that has to be moderated, such as illegal content. Which, if we're being strict on the idea of free speech absolutism, then complying with the laws is still censorship. Which is sort of the issue with the entire idea of "free speech absolutism" in general.

> Please show me some examples of new Twitter increasing political censorship of people he disagrees with.

The fact that the word CIS gender is considered hate speech on the platform[0]. That's a decidedly moral perspective and one that comes with an entire political movement.

> The flight trackers thing (from what I understand) ended up being a security risk

You understood wrong. There is no risk, period. The flight trackers aggregated public data which literally anyone can go look at. And they didn't validate whether the plane being tracked had anyone on it, and they didn't follow the people on-board around telling you their destinations once they landed. There was no real risk, full stop. Musk and other people with private jets have many ways to remove themselves from those trackers and simply chose not to do it.

> Turkey thing is not a choice of his.

Weird, now it's not a choice when he decides to censor stuff, but it is a choice when he decides to not moderate people using other slurs AT individuals. Is Musk located in Türkiye? No. Is the Corp offices for the company located there? No. Do they have employees there? No. Türkiye has no power over Musk, yet he still bent the knee because he wanted his platform to stay up in a country so that he could continue to benefit from the user base. Just like Zuck does with FB and Dorsey did with Twitter before that. Musk could have said eff you to Türkiye because he truly believes in free speech, but he didn't because he doesn't.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671370284102819841?s=20
it makes it easier to lie in a particular form which is not particularly more convincing.
I think they were trying very hard not to be pigeonholed as a games device.

If they had made a part of the presentation (outside the 3 second mention of Apple Arcade) about playing games I could see a lot of people spending even more time comparing it to an Oculus or PSVR2 and complaining it was insanely priced.

Instead they did a pretty decent job of getting people discussing non-game use cases.
The people who play lotto's are very uneducated, so it's selection bias. None of them were taught how to manage money because they never had any.

Founders aren't the ones with the money. They're making it for someone else and then being paid for that.

In any case, it's what happens on average that matters, not minuscule exceptions. Money makes money.
It's a static file. You need to compress it only once, not for every response.
> Always found it absurd how people in comments want to restrict peoples' freedoms in applications

"Restrict peoples' freedoms", good lord, as the kids say you might need to touch grass. What an absolutely absurd (and incorrect) thing to say. I just said I had never seen it, I didn't pass judgement for or against longer tweets. I think people that pay for that are silly but comparing that to restricting freedoms is just a new level of disconnected from reality.
My Twitter verse is filled with people making websites with thousands of pageviews from ai generated content. Google obviously is turning a blind eye to this possibly because they are planning on something a lot bigger than chatgpt with ai. And when it happens the internet will be littered with ai generated content that it is impossible for anyone to accuse them and them alone for stealing content.
It's the entire premise that's flawed.

As a basic rule, you can't use anecdotes to draw assumptions about wide group trends. That my particular Korean friends like the cheesesteak place up the street says nothing about Koreans, cheesesteaks or that restaurant.

This is because at a basic level my friend group just doesn't look like any kind of general population. If nothing else it's geographically restricted, a tiny subset of classes and interests - and likely indirectly education levels and income.

> because interests and ethnic backgrounds are not correlated with each other

They totally are, speaking for populations! This is how de-anonymization typically works. They also correlate with class and income.

And yes, if you target anime, you'll select the Japanese and if you target Webtoons you'll select mostly Korean and Chinese.

Your flaw here is not your language but the direction of your reasoning. You can't reason from the specific anecdata up to population level - "my Black friends like tiktok therefore tiktok must target Black people". That's a "the parking lot is wet, it must be raining" sort of statement.

You CAN reason down. "Tiktok really does a good job showing content from Black influencers, they probably have a large Black audience".
Yeah, that's where I thought it would go shortly after I tried GPT-4 from openAI. We're clearly at the transformer limits imho (comparing the effectiveness between 3.5 and 4, and the number of parameter in each model is why I think we reached a soft cap).

So since it'll be hard to go deeper, going broader by interlacing different model types might be a way to pierce through.
> One of the pilots had sail-plane experience from riding a one-man ice-boat with a sail attached over an icy lake - which is where he learned the maneuver

This is correct, but I want to note that every Private Pilot (in the US at least) learns this maneuver, and it is required to be demonstrated to an examiner on the Private Pilot practical checkride.
The Admiral Cloudberg article is much better, particularly in its explanation of how the plane came to be flown with blank fuel gauges. The first technician noticed an issue with the fuel gauges being blank a few flights earlier and applied a fix he happened to know: disabling one of the two channels, which restored the gauges. This was an acceptable fix - the plane was certified to fly with only one of the two channels active, as long as the lost redundancy was regained with manual checks. It was flown twice in this state (working gauges, single channel, manual backup fuel check).

When this captain handed the plane over to the captain of the incident flight, there was a misunderstanding in the conversation that led to the incoming captain believing the prior captain had been flying with blank fuel gauges and only manual fuel checks. In an unfortunate coincidence, the second technician who was checking the plane at this time disabled both channels to try and troubleshoot the issue again, but failed to return the system to the “one channel” functioning state (apparently because he was interrupted by a request to help with the manual fuel check, ironically).

The second technician’s mistake would have been noticed by the pilots, except that due to the misunderstanding, they were expecting to see blank gauges. Those were the initial conditions that allowed the “pounds, not kilograms” mistake to threaten the flight.
I just wanted to second the GP's point on pricing - like them, "call me pricing" is a hard no from me. IMO it's fine for the highest tier (Enterprise or whatever), but lower tiers should have fixed and public pricing.
It's a game theory problem: nobody wanted to foot the bill on their side, endlessly punting and waiting for others to foot it for them.

End result is that now everyone foots a different, worse bill, yet will still have to foot the previous bill because the workarounds have their limits when the attrition game pans out.
You can add historical progress points. Just with the caveat that those currently capture a slightly higher-level rollup than account-level data. In the future I plan to convert the progress point system into more of a "snapshot" system.
Well that's a bad principle. Geometry isnt computable, and hence neither physics.
I keep two accounts for my payroll deposits... one which is my day to day usage (fuel, food, entertainment, etc) and the other where bills get paid from. I also keep my large bills and credit cards not autopay. So I have to actually go in at least once a month to pay the mortgage, car payments, and pay off CC. It helps for awareness, but not actively tracking sometimes makes it surprising how much gets spent in a month.
It’s marketing and storytelling.

The impulsiveness and crowd sourcing writes the headline itself.

I’m not implying it’s a super calculated masterplan, more that he just knows it’ll grab headlines and mindshare cheaper than any paid marketing launch ever could.
The words in brackets are doing all of the heavy lifting in your example though: "Of" without "out of" means "constituted by". If in isolation I saw "array_of_string" I'd definitely parse that as somehow being about str[], not "f(str) -> char[]"
Applying High Voltage to Kids Toys
What or who is '1/6' ?
That's fascinating. I'm also seeing the sort of effects that this recession has been having on people especially online, where a lot of the guides you're talking about are being pushed more and more as a way to "side hustle". Having a side hustle is pushed more and more these days because a "main" hustle doesn't exist anymore due to wage stagnation.

Part of the popularity of these sort of things stems entirely from how much money is reportedly up for grabs. If you tell people they can do this and bring in 2k a month on the side, they're all in. Likewise, if we had enough funds to not have to worry, these sort of things would rarely be used as there's no real joy in the pursuit of it. My theory on why AI is accelerating garbage content much faster than any other potential benefits.

Even the highlight of recipes is notable, recipe blogs are great earners due to the stability of ads and output of content. This becomes a target for AI (when I say AI here I mean people consuming AI API) due to the high ad value target. That way even if they do eventually drop, get found out, reported to google, all of that, they would have still made enough to do it again.
Rather than using DietPi for my devices around my home I use Balena (balena.io), which seems to cover the same area. In addition it has a dashboard so I can see the status of the devices too. Balena is Docker based. No connection with Balena, just a happy user.
Have you contacted authors of papers citing the one you're looking for, especially of papers that appeared shortly after / in the 90s? Maybe one of them still has a paper copy lying around somewhere.

I was in a similar situation before with some math paper from the 50s that's nowhere to be found (neither online nor in library indices) and you'd be surprised how many professors still use paper copies.
Oops, thanks for the heads-up!
> AMD unexpectedly publish patches, earlier than an agreed embargo date.

> As the fix is now public, we propose privately notifying major distributions that they should begin preparing updated firmware packages.

AMD had to drop the ball somewhere didn't it.
TL;DR: The author proposes that instead of using the Softmax function in each head,

Softmax(x_i) = exp(x_i) / sum(exp(x_i)),

we should use instead what the author calls the Softmax_1 function,

Softmax_1(x_i) = exp(x_i) / (1 + sum(exp(x_i))),

which would make it possible for each transformer head's attention probabilities to be zero, i.e., attend to nothing, by computing x_i's with values well below zero.

Giving each transformer head the ability to ignore all tokens surely can't hurt, but it remains to be seen if it will actually improve transformer performance.
I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a practical title, though there are a few practical tips along the lines you mention, the point of the book is more about the societal problem than the individual. But as someone who gets highly frustrated with my inability to focus on occasion, I would say it's reasonably cathartic.
Yes. And the Intel switch before it.
Sounds like it would be a better movie split into 2 or 3 sittings.
Yep, I was talking about the Cybertruck! thanks for the correction!

Also, I wouldn't call it fake outright. Something more along the lines of the Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato[1] or the Porsche 911 Dakar[2] - which are like... yep, they're real cars, but it's more of a limited run branding exercise than an actual vehicles range.

[1]https://www.lamborghini.com/it-en/modelli/huracan/huracan-st...

[2]https://www.porsche.com/international/models/911/911-dakar/9...
I have those and it doesn't compete with IMAX and cinema sound, so I still go to the movies.
Mixed episodes and the inevitable downward swing to depression.

Mixed episodes are no joke, I've experienced a couple and hope to never do so again.
I tried hitting the X button to re-x you but the browser window closed.
Notion is the only note taking app I managed to stick with. I’ve previously used EverNote, OneNote, org-mode, BearNotes (most overrated note app ever), plain text notes, Obsidian and Apple Notes, in this order.

I love Notion because:

- the block system is top notch. It’s a great way to fix a common issue with WYSIWYG: impossibility to add a new line after a block (often after a table, a picture, etc. you can’t place a cursor for some reason)

- very easy to make pretty pages: an icon, a banner, drag and drop to make multi column layouts, colors

- table support is great, unlike BearNotes

- code support is great, unlike Apple Notes

- search works fine and sharing works great, unlike Obsidian

- databases are cool

Basically I’ve never had something I wanted to do that I couldn’t.
Ask HN: Hire or build on my own, when starting out?
I am a developer, I run a profitable agency which is in the growing stage.

I had a SaaS idea one month ago, launched a waitlist, and got a lot of enterprise clients (Including very very famous ones) to sign up, I think I've found a product market fit of some sort without even building the product.

Currently, I don't have the time to build this product, nor do I have "a lot" of money.

Should I hire another engineer part-time to build this out in my supervision or should I slowly build it myself?

I am very cautious about the quality of this product as it will handle some important parts of the workload of our customers.
I think you’re missing a key fact about who cell phone users _can_ _be_. The dumbest people on this planet can still pick up any iPhone anywhere and be able to use it even if they’ve never used the device itself once. It’s muscle memory to people who wouldn’t know what to do with a manual in the first place. You have to accept that there is no barrier to advanced communication technology to anyone with the means to procure said devices. While I appreciate a finely tuned platform for my technology uses, I still carry an iPhone in particular so that I don’t need to do all of that advanced tweaking and personalization by sacrificing maybe 5% of my overall performance by using an unmodified iPhone running iOS in particular. Sacrificing that 5% of performance means the device has no barrier of entry for 99.9% of humans old enough and cognizant enough to procure a similar technology and be able to fully interact with me on a digital medium. Bringing it back to the topic at hand, those 99.9% of people includes family members who didn’t grow up with electricity let alone technology.
Looks to me like it's just a (powered) pallet jack for cars. Better than a tow truck if a car is in a really tight parking spot, but nothing magical.
A race condition is not the same as a data race, and nondeterminism is not the same as undefined behavior.
Dress for the slide, not for the ride.
$525 Linux Tablet, Framework Laptop 16, Inkscape 1.3 – Last Week in FOSS
Ohh thanks!

Appreciate it.
Exactly. Java layer written on top of COBOL.
You can scroll through the "Discover" tab which has depersonalized trends across the whole app. I just took a quick scroll through and it seems like at least ~5-10% of videos trending right now have text that take up >50% of the screen. There's been at least a few recent trends over the past few weeks that have been almost entirely text (beige flags, all the greenscreen text trends, #groupchat, etc).

Anecdotally, I also see clusters of text-only posts every few weeks, even though I always either pause to read or scroll immediately through.
Have you ever done a masters degree? If not, this is how it works (and this works for ANY subject, not just desalination)

1) Get a library card for university (this will more reliably get you papers than sci-hub). Sometimes you can just pay them for one, sometimes you have to register for a course (1 unit courses in the US can be inexpensive and even if they are in basket weaving as a "student" you get to get a library card :-)

2) With the assistance of the reference librarian find the journals that cover the topic you're trying to master and go through the papers. There will be some "highly cited" papers that everyone refers to, some "medium levels of citations" and then typically you'll see papers that take the research in one of a few directions. You can choose to either stay in "survey" mode at this point or dive down one of those directions.

3) Read the papers and learn from the results, you may find subjects that you didn't learn as much as you needed to in order to read the paper (math, chemistry, physics, etc) for each of those, you find text books or things like the Chaum's notes for the subject to bring you up to the level you need in order to understand the paper.

If you keep at this for a while you will start finding that when you read a paper you both understand what they are doing and may instantly develop an opinion on whether or not you think it is "good" and will be able to explain why it is or isn't good.

At that point you are now the "master" of that topic. You don't have the degree but you didn't have to write a thesis either so there is that :-). If the university you chose in step 1 has professors doing stuff in the area you could probably co-write papers with them.
Thanks. Somehow I never heard about that once, everyone's more concerned about the blue checks or whatever.
I’m still not sure what principle you’ve got that’s being violated here? Given that one has chosen to implement part of the runtime linker/loader in userland, what’s wrong with fitting that into a more generic facility (supporting interpreters at arbitrary paths) and putting this specific implementation into a committed path?
The thing is, many endeavors are not single dimensional nor are they designed to be competitive, so pairwise ranking doesn’t make any sense.

If you say, I’m better at bob than badminton. That makes sense since it’s designed as a competition and you can resolve the argument by playing Bob.

If you say “I’m better at Bob at software engineering” what does that even mean? Does Bob even know he is competing against you?
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Weighs in on Worldcoin
Well, I was offering my opinion of why Twitter is failing from a business perspective, not from a moral or political one. You could well argue that the political bias is now open, and that such an outcome is a good thing. But from a business point of view, I maintain that it is bad for the company — overt politicisation is attractive to some, of course, but for a mass-market platform like Twitter/X, alienating approximately half of your potential audience is just bad business.
thank you for being self-aware
Anyone got a good resource for learning inkscape? Youtube prefered.
OP here hadn't even bothered to read the article. That's the context of my reply. No PoCs going online so close to the disclosure, sorry.
The articles mentions that many of the users are married to humans, who are actively voicing their frustration with the situation/impact on their relationship.
I feel like my own attention span has declined quite a bit, but I notice that younger people (including my kids) turn to Youtube for education - I've _never_ had an attention span that would allow me to sit through, say, a video programming tutorial (dear God, give me a book), but it seems to be the preferred approach for the next generation.
Great example however unlike constantly hacking all VPN providers this is potentially deemed legal kind of like under cover cops doing controlled buys to trace drug networks. Also unlike hacking all the VPNS. It's also pretty high benefit for a very finite and controllable risk.
Comparing languages requires comparing their ecosystem in 99% of cases, since most people don't have the luxury of having enough time to reimplement whatever they need from scratch.
Curb usage of attention-seeking technologies. Shift your habits. Start by acknowledging the problem and its sources. Distance yourself from them psychologically, then physically.
Lowered attention spans may be widely regarded as a net negative, yet I propose to reframe the conversation:

• Call it "whiffreading" after the term in the Book of the Subgenius [1983]. A way to intuitively, instinctively and logically determine if you can get the sense of something quickly. If you sense it is worthy, you will invest the time in it. If not, and you feel you are wasting time, you skip it.

Quicker abandonments, glossing, and skipping ahead are all natural human adaptions to the increasing and constant bombardment of data and stimuli we are presented with. This is why we want the "tl;dr." This is why you want a 1-minute explainer video instead of a 30-minute or 1-hour lecture.

Now, if you catch someone's attention, they'll follow you down the rabbit hole and will keep reading or watching. Maybe for hours. Look at TikTok lives and Twitch streamers. People doomscroll, next, next, next... but as soon as they encounter the right content — whabam! They will stick there until the livestream ends.

Similarly, look at Hacker News itself. If a 1-sentence topic grabs your interest — whabam! You'll read the article (which could be thousands of words long) and you may engage in the threads of conversations, which could eat up your day.

Oppositely if a content creator bores people or if the audience start to sense what you are talking about is sus, or totally outside their interests, they'll just drop it. A post on Hacker News will sink like a rock in the middle of a very deep ocean.

Again, I propose this is an adaption to the environment. Time is speeding up. The onslaught of content trying to grab your attention is relentless. So this is the natural result.
>> but might not have had the time/access/team to put together something compelling on gaming for that date.

> This seems unlikely given how much effort they put into the physical demo experience at the unveiling event

Can you name five games Apple has released in the past 10 years?
This makes sense. One tweak for the press: I think it would be an improvement to call it OptionalAttention rather than QuietAttention since the goal is to permit an attention head to opt-out.

You might attract more, ahem, attention if it was immediately apparent from the name only what this attention head does that the current one does not. There's also that small matter of distinguishing the internal vs output softmax functions.
The parent comment is talking about SVM, which is not a form of symbolic AI. SVM and other kernel based algorithms contain naturally data parallel steps like summing f(z-x[i]) for some kernel function f and all sample data x[i]. These will work great on GPU once you have a few thousand data points.