skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But who decides when/if it is a failure?

If Musk is truly able to build a Western version of WeChat, i.e. his dream "everything app," it will be a roaring success.

And it won't matter what coastal journalists and trendy pop-culture explainers printed at the time.
It’s perfectly normal in a small plane and the center of gravity doesn’t move much because the plane is small. (Technically center of force vs gravity yaddayadda)

Anything a small plane can do a big plane can (very few exceptions), so they can slip just fine, like they can do a 60° bank just fine - but it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the passengers - who now will feel they’re “outside the plane”.
This is what the Intel Sound "open" Firmware does, and it is incredibly annoying.

https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5814

I don't think that would be GPLv2 compliant either:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
Scott Aaronson has often called out inflated claims by quantum computer startups.
The X New Developers Guide (2013)

https://www.x.org/wiki/guide/

Low Level X Window Programming: An Introduction by Examples (2017)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74250-2

Freely available X Windows System manuals from O'Reilly:

https://x.org/wiki/UserDocumentation/
Almost all of those sites have a Jump to Recipe button though, and TikTok recipe videos often miss a lot of important details...
They keep flagging the current link after it gains traction even though people seem to like it. And besides the world will only gain from a new high-quality alternative in this privacy-abused niche. Have you read the privacy policy of the big guys?
>People abandoned religion

The majority of the world is still religious. It's mostly ex-Christian westerners who have this problem to be honest.
Interestingly, just a few weeks before launching ChatGPT, ZDNet magazine made an interview [0] with StackOverflow’s CEO to discuss how the site became the world's most popular programming site. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.

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0. https://www.zdnet.com/article/stack-overflow-ceo-on-how-it-b...
I think on HN there are too many people who don't switch because they are letting "perfect" be the goal rather than "improvement".
Anybody know how to disable the chicken bit on Windows?

They're not planning to fix this until fucking December...
It makes you wonder how many flights take off with several errors and mistakes every day.
Looked into it more. A few questions I have

- Is this a lot of bandwidth when done over websockets? I was looking at the starter todo list on your github and everytime I type something a character into the todo list, I have what looks like 3kb of messages in the websocket passed.

- Is there anyway to get this working with multiple nodes? It seems like the way to use it is to bind it to a dynamic var that's only available in the library (`hyperfiddle.electric-dom2/node`)
If you'd like to see an option to withhold exact taxes automatically (to avoid owing extra with your tax return or getting a refund in the following year), there's an item on the public roadmap that you can upvote.

FWIW though, I expect implementing exact withholding may be a bit more complicated than you'd imagine because of how complex the interactions with the cash-flow priority system can get. To know how your tax brackets align with a particular income source, you need the complete picture of everything else that happens in that year, including every applicable deduction, contributions to any tax-advantaged accounts, any dividends taxable as ordinary income, etc. That's why it is currently assessed at the end of the year (like how it typically works in the US), when all of that information is known and finalized.

My intuition is that it may be difficult for the sim to know everything that's going to happen ahead of time when you consider that cash-flow priorities are often set up to operate on excess cash-flow, rather than predefined amounts per year... so those cash-flow priorities need to know how much is left over to work with, but whatever you contribute to things like pretax retirement accounts would actually end up affecting your taxable income, and thus also affecting what is left over after exact withholding, and around and around that cycle goes... Unless I'm missing something, it seems challenging to ensure that all possible cash-flow priority configurations would be solvable with that approach.

That being said, I agree exact withholding would be a really nice switch to be able to toggle on and off. I just haven't quite wrapped my head around the best way to go about it yet.
Even worse, it said "it can only be better if it's perfect".
So Microsoft sold the Mixer logo trademark to Meta? Cool.
Hairs per cm^2 is one metric (per the mentioned numbers) an 11% increase. By ridiculous, I presume a connotation of "not material" or "not worth the effort" (and for some, it isn't, because they don't respond to the treatment).

Returning to metrics, another could be the diameter of each hair, which impacts the aesthetic quality. 151 hairs per cm^2 doesn't visually present the same for all individuals with that exact density (due to thinness/thickness of each follicle). Other treatments can be paired with it simultaneously, which may further improve results.
I wonder how much traffic has been siphoned away from those copy-cats that mirror SO? Out of principle alone, I will immediately hit the back button and look for the genuine article, but I could believe many do not.

The other aspect that grinds my gears is the closing of duplicate question. Fine in principle, except when the original was answered 10 years ago and all of the answers are jQuery.
A bunch of devices don't... IoT devices based on esp8266 or esp32 don't (from washing machines to sous vide cookers), many ip cameras, sensors, smart locks etc., don't. Yeah, linux itself might support it, but when compiling the image for those few megs of flash, developers just disable it, because well.. everyone still has ipv4 available.
I think this whole thing is getting out of hand, why and who would allow a company to own an everyday word or letter!? Like apple, X, etc., next 10years from now people won’t be able to communicate without being sued.
I was most impressed by Sheldon's use of a telepresence robot in one of the Big Bang Theory episodes. That was very funny as well as a good introduction to the uses of such robots.
You're gatekeeping gaming. Most mainstream games have some type of slot machine mechanic for virtual skins that are cash cows or are even pay to win. Apple also created a apple arcade to specifically curate games that aren't pay to win cesspools.
> Humanity is mostly good

I don't believe there is any evidence to back this up whatsoever. People are compelled to be "good" by society and laws, nothing more. Humanity is fundamentally bad, but reined in by a handful of powerful people and organizations.
I find a lot of content online (videos and blogs) as well as offline (various books) are too long to the point of being disrespectful of my time.

If you’re writing a blog and incentivized to stuff in as many SEO terms as possible, you will do so at the expense of my time and irritation.

If you need to make a 10 minute video but really only have 2 minutes of content, you value those 8 minutes of my life at zero and unless I do to, I’m skipping through the filler.

Same thing with books. If your book contains one central argument, respect your reader enough to cut out the fat. I don’t need a comprehensive history of the subject if your argument can boil down to a few paragraphs.
Mirroring allows packets from a specified source to be copied to a destination port without affecting packet processing on a network device such as a switch or router. The destination port is directly or indirectly connected to a monitoring device on which analysis software is installed to analyze packets.
When an attack or a fault occurs on the network, the network administrator can use the mirroring function to obtain and analyze packets to find out the attack source or fault cause.
Mirroring can be classified into port mirroring, flow mirroring, VLAN mirroring, and MAC address mirroring based on the mirroring source. For example, port mirroring allows packets in the inbound, outbound, or both the inbound and outbound directions of a specified port to be copied to a destination port.
Mirroring can be classified into local mirroring and remote mirroring based on the connection mode between the destination port and the monitoring device.
I've been reading HN since its birth and have been in the browser game for 25 years. HN, as a collective, shit all over Firefox and Mozilla for a decade while Google, who was never going to to anything but this, did just this. Good job.
All, but all, my recent questions there were flagged and deleted immediately. My account there is 11 year old and has over 11k reputation - not much but not nothing. The site, for the past 2-3 years seems moderated by nazis and bots. Dunno if my timeline matches these graphs but I noticed the decline quite early.
Sorry about that. We intend to reach people who haven't and might be relevant/interested.
Inevitably, what happens when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine? Heck, people complain to the PUC when their power blinks for a millisecond.
It's the forum-to-fertilizer decay cycle.
In the Qualcomm AI paper linked in this post it turns out they use a similar testing approach:

BERT 109M, testing perplexity

OPT 125M, testing perplexity

ViT 22M, testing on ImageNet top-1.
Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing? [pdf]
This topic (and the submitted article) were discussed earlier today:

Israeli parliament passes law to limit judicial power (nytimes.com) | 43 points | by asimpletune 11 hours ago | 60 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847600
I'm not sure but it looks like it was 1988 for the coins, which is when the notes were removed, then 1996 for finalising the switch to polymer notes, with some earlier introductions.

I think whether it would help is somewhat complex because polymer notes do still wear out, and lower value notes have higher usage which makes them wear out faster. IIRC the main driver for polymer was security with durability as a nice side effect.

This link https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/sep/7.html says that median life for $5 notes is 3.5 years under one measurement system, which I would presume would be even lower for $1/$2 if we used them, since they'd get more frequent usage and less storage.

It should be possible to calculate the costs, savings, and lifetime of all the coin and note variations but that's a bit much for me right now :)
I have never seen it in a Costco in the US.
Once every year. I get to ask real question. Every time it's closed immediately. Fuck their policies.
Do you have a citation for that?

I know how to find the statements by Hinton and Benigo that superintelligent AI poses a serious extinction risk, but I can't find any statements by Hinton and Benigo--or anyone who is taking the risk seriously--suggesting that air strikes would not be warranted, so any clues on where to look would be appreciated.
The point is such respect is no longer necessary or required. It'll make science evolve faster, which is the whole idea.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36852187
The "suffering equation" is to me the weirdest rationalization.

Whether that is true or not, I think it's more important to keep in mind that it's not our place to judge that, unless you hold some biblical belief that animals were put on earth by god to feed us. The cost of freedom must be taken into account too, it's a value not only relevant to humans.

A lot of the suffering in the world comes about because humans have an inflated sense of moral agency over things outside their scope. We have the tools to affect many beings and many lands, but not the wisdom to see the immediate and long term effects. We just see our current behavior, and then employ all kinds of mental gymnastics in order to perpetuate it. We'll go to great trouble to change the world, just so we don't have to admit we need to change our selves.
I'm not sure if up voting this comment is appropriate, but I wholeheartedly agree
It's standard practice on Hacker News to put the year in parentheses at the end of the title if the submission is from not the current year. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832999
If you’d like a few more fold-ins, this has been posted a few times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23457930

To the OP, well done. Perfectly topical and “executed”.
That simple comment is a strong counterpoint to the entire blog post?

Except with the +1 denominator, it might be that the model trains all of the inputs to become very negative so softmax chucks out close to zeros, whereas it wouldn't bother before because making one prob bigger makes another smaller.
Echos my experience perfectly. It's actually impossible to ask a question and get an answer, also impossible to ask a clarifying question on an existing question/answer.

That makes it much, much less useful than it otherwise could be.
The key is that epoll _isn't_ blocking: epoll_create returns immediately with a file descriptor. Go can use it to issue some sort of i/o operation and rather than blocking the kernel thread, it swaps it to another goroutine that needs work done. When epoll notifies the go scheduler the task is complete via that file descriptor, it will then resume the original goroutine.
Just as a demo of what you're saying:

If you were to do (the following is from memory, probably has typos):

def func(arr=[]):
print(locals)

You'd see `arr` there. The `[]` value lives in `func.__defaults__`:

def func(arr=[]):
print(locals)
print(func.__defaults__) # will print: ([],)

If you assign to `arr` nothing changes with defaults:

def func(arr=[]):
print(locals)
arr = 10
print(func.__defaults__) # will still print: ([],)

But since lists are mutable, calling a mutating function on the list referenced by `arr` will cause a mutation of the list stored in defaults:

def func(arr=[]):
print(locals)
arr.append(10)
print(func.__defaults__) # will print: ([10],)

But only when `func` is called without something to assign to `arr`:

# if pristine and it has not been run before
def func(arr=[]):
print(locals)
arr.append(10)
print(func.__defaults__) # will print: ([],)
func([])
This feels like a reincarnation of Microsoft Halloween documents but all in the open... How corrupt our industry became that this doesn't cause the same uproar... Google truly morphed into what it fought in the beginning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Remote work adds 800b to suburb and small city real estate value.

(Suburb because people not going into office will move further away on avg but also on average want a bigger house to have an office. Small cities from people moving from coastal cities to places like Boise and Austin.)
Chrome for Android _already_ doesn't let you use an adblocker, and it has a pretty high share in the mobile market.
Court cost structure also matters. If the civil courts cost upfront and loser might have to pay cost of winning side it pushes up the bar for legal action (which has positiv and negative implications).
Some countries/jurisdictions do exactly that, and trust me, it's a massive pain in the ass. Would you really want to visit a notary just to set up an eBay account? Because that's what you're proposing.

The existing system isn't foolproof but, by and large, it works perfectly well. If the transactions in TFA truly were fraudulent, no court is going to hold her liable. The bigger problem here is a US court being happy to issue ex parte judgments for someone who should have been trivially contactable.
We have so much to learn from them. They diverged from us so long ago.
If other media companies thought about brand equity the way Musk does
"ask LLM, then look up the language/library docs to see if the idea makes sense" has worked relatively well for me.
How often and for how long do you code like this? What has your experience been like? I always find the idea of coding in VR intriguing but am unsure of what the actual experience would be like.
At my local vintage theatre, it costs $22.50 for three tickets to Barbie at the matinee.
If you are advertising that your door is unlocked, and the precedent is to enter unlocked doors - as it is to connect to open networks, then yes. Permission in such a scenario is implied.

You make these analogies attempting to equate an advertised open WiFi network to an unlocked home, while ignoring the precedent around both of those things.

It is expected that people connect to your advertised open WiFi network. It is not expected that people wiggle your doorknob to check if it's unlocked or not. If you put a sign on the door advertising, "the door is unlocked!" then I wouldn't be surprised when someone mistakes that for "come in".
To make it clear, no one is buying X.org
Even though StackOverflow in the common use case has been taken over by ChatGPT, I sincerely hope it keeps operating, stays strict (even if it causes collateral) and keeps ban on LLM-generated content.

The wheels of this kind of stuff turn slowly, but obviously ChatGPT was trained partly with data only gainable from a healthy StackOverflow-kind of site with users actively asking unique questions and enough people answering those unique questions with well-though-out answers. The shittyfuture outcome is that StackOverflow goes out of business and LLM's stagnate on this front, while being capable of answering in fuwwy speawk when prwompted, would still be limited to / biased towards older versions of libraries, software, languages, tools etc.
Thanks for the reply, that makes sense. It's not immediately clear why the modified softmax (allowing output of 0) will "tame the weights", but I need to read the blog post more closely and think about it...
It's been in the ground for a very long time, so it'll be fine in barrels a little longer.
Is that where the tuxedo princess (the revolving dancefloor boat!) name came from?
That was my first thought too. Perhaps companies can't easily differentiate between cases of stolen identity and cases where a bad actor claims their identity was stolen.
Perl is a good example because it's stagnant. Googling Python or Java? If the result is up to date, it's a low quality content farm. If it isn't from a content farm, it's a page from 2008 that is no longer relevant at all!
>And by growing nuts it would be worse for the environment? Growing nut trees is co2 positive. How could forests with nut trees be worse than pastures with dried out grass?

Because the nut trees would need massive amounts of irrigation.

If you have a place with pastures of dried-out grass, what makes you think there's enough rainfall there to sustain a forest of nut trees?
Probably most. Complex systems run in degraded mode as a matter of course. https://how.complexsystems.fail/
A couple people already pointed out that you can write `breakpoint()` instead of using `pdb.set_trace()`.

Here's one more trick: you can use `pdb` to run scripts! `python -m pdb foo.py` will run `foo.py` but trigger a breakpoint on the first error.
Ask HN: Are You Using Wayland?
I've recently been on a quest to find my ideal Linux desktop setup. I'm running kernel 6.4.3, the latest stable version of KDE plasma, and the latest stable version of mesa. Yet it still seems like Wayland just isn't practical. I regularly run into bugs or incompatibilities that just don't happen with X11.
I've seen multiple articles about changes to the education system.
From the article:

Many believe that air-freight is more common than it actually is. Very little food is air-freighted; it accounts for only 0.16% of food miles.9 But for the few products which are transported by air, the emissions can be very high: it emits 50 times more CO2eq than boat per tonne kilometer.10
It's got a UI, so rsync and rclone are out.

Last I tried syncthing I was constantly getting errors on shadowfiles that couldn't be fixed in anyway and it didn't perceptually effect syncing but the constant error condition was not confidence building.

In contrast, I setup freefle sync in windows task scheduler and linked the config file to desktop.

I can now, on the fly, edit the config and keep it tuned to my needs.

Pretty ease to use software.
An engine failed mid-flight, the casing failed to contain the fan blades as they are designed to do, and one went through a passenger window.

Again, Swiss cheese model. This is some Final Destination shit, not something anyone not an aircraft designer should spend time worrying about.
seems a bit of a bait post given recent announcements. But this kind of thing has always annoyed me, where companies overload a name, especially a super simple name. Makes it hard to search for, especially searching on the non-dominant name of something.
Why not just compile bash as part of init.

0 backround processes, as long as bash comands that run as processes independent of terminal initiated from are also compiled into init & run in same process as a thread.
As we saw with Freenode everyone has a price. This will be an interesting point in internet history for sure.
Seems to be entirely a conjecture ... not based on even limited empirical testing. Which then links to the elephant in the room, which is that the theoretical basis of why GPT's work so well is not well understood in the first place.

One of the downsides of having a field be so empirically driven is that theoretical arguments suggesting improvements just don't have much value until someone actually tests it and shows that it works (and not just tests it, but tests it at scale).
well given the difficulty of making wider x86 decoders it does seem pretty reasonable to try reducing the number of load/stores needed
Story of the SS Warimoo
I don't use predictive text on my phone.
Why would I use this compared to cloning my codebase/repo in my the other machine in a minute and continue my work? Or, use rsync to sync it across devices, or other means?
Computer power is expensive and constrained for many scientists...
Mastodon is both a social network, and a mere server software.

The social network side of Mastodon, connected around mastodon.social, has quite strong moderation, and they block other Mastodon instances for even lesser transgressions.

But anyone can run a Mastodon server disconnected from the trunk of the social network, and make their own fringe network. These instances are a problem, but it's Mastodon's fault as much as Apache and Nginx are responsible for serving CSAM.
Stack Overflow used to release their data archives quarterly on BigQuery. Looking at the BQ datasets, they were last updated Nov 2022, which doesn't have the latest 2023 info in the submission.
Try Svelte. It's quite easy to use most vanilla JS libraries and techniques with it.

https://hackmd.io/@roguegpu/r1RKQMdt3

The ChartJS section is a good example. You're following the ChartJS tutorials to use it, not just some bespoke framework wrapper around it.
We're also working on the new blog posts, which many people are interested in.
For what it's worth, plain Debian runs fine on those as well, most easily via https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/
Researchers find evidence of a 2000 year old curry, oldest ever found in SE Asia
What kind of writing is this?

It's an opinion piece (and is labelled as such).

it reads like a tantrum from someone not getting what they want.

Or like a patriotic cri de coeur from someone gravely concerned about decisions the government of his country is taking.