skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I don't want to live in a country where desperate people can sell their lives to soulless corporations for literal cash. That's some real dystopian bullshit. At the extreme end of this spectrum is the most dangerous game, where homeless people agree to be hunted for sport. And the topic we're actually discussing is pretty damn close to that end of the spectrum.
Hemingway was never JK Rowling, but he wasn't an obscure writer known only to academics and literature aficionados either. Your print run figure undersells his popularity quite a bit. "The Sun Also Rises" was his first novel when he was an unknown. Wikipedia goes on to say that it was on its 8th printing two years after publication.[0] This says that it had sold a million copies by 1961 [1]. The first edition of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was 75,000. [2]. "The Old Man and the Sea" was published in Life magazine, with a circulation of millions.[3]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises#Publication...

[1]: https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/hemingway-ernest/....

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls#Backgr...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea#Backgr...
You probably can't pick obscenity in the US but otherwise anything goes. (Semantically/phonetically at least - orthography is a bit more limited.)

That most European countries have a whitelist of names was one of the more shocking parts of moving here.
How much was the metric system used in Canada when the crew was in School?

I mean, 1.7 kg / l is not just wrong, it is obvious wrong. Fuel and oil does not sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Another good one: “Many of the crew members were keenly aware that jumbo jets such as theirs were not designed for dead-stick flight — let alone dead-stick landings. In all probability, their inevitable confrontation with the Earth would not be an improvement on their current situation.”
You can't pause or rewind a movie. For that reason alone I would never go, and only watch at home.
If you are spending $10,000 on your car per year you are making an extraordinarily bad financial decision.
Anytype's the big one I'm aware of
One of the huge pain points I was responsible for was certification of certain payment terminals. Meaning, hardcoded PANs (personal account numbers) written to magnetic stripe cards (or, worse, EMV chips) that have to make physical contact with a reader to transmit data.

Up until a point, we were able to (easily) reproduce these messages via the ISO8583 message format via software. Makes certification much more automation-friendly.

Once we got into hardware encryption/decryption via HSM devices, it wasn't as easily done.
Interesting comparison. It is like drifting, but in a straight line (and in three dimensions).
* go to web address the only text on the screen is "log in to twitter"
In my opinion the only solution is to murder any and all ideas of "review scores". Those seem to be the most harmful homogenizing force. They eliminate nuance. They hide subjectivity behind an illusion of "objectivity" (because numbers are always "objective", right?). They make it too easy to spot "outliers" from the norm (and "punish" them if you are a media giant planning the next ad contract or layoff plan or a rabid fanbase planning a hate raid).

Of course, murdering review scores is an extreme solution and also probably an impossible feat. Too many businesses are built upon the illusion of aggregate review scores as "objectively" good things (Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Yelp, Amazon, AirBNB, Uber, and on and on and on). But we can still dream the impossible dream that more people wake up to how rotten these statistics are below the surface and it eventually becomes a cultural mandate to stop using bad metrics for cultural homogenization.
Ask HN: Self-Studying Information Theory
Hello!

I want to explore basics of information theory. Despite having math background, I've realized that I lack a comprehensive understanding of key concepts (e.g. entropy) in this area. I am particularly interested in formal connection between compression and intelligence.

I'm currently seeking resources that would work for self-learning, ideally Jupyter notebooks that would allow me to interactively experiment with the simulations/examples. In the absence of such resources, a book with exercises section could also work.

Thanks!
That's a perfectly fair issue. Mermaid and friends are soooo much prettier.
1. Why does it matter LibreOffice is triple-licensed, though?

2. Why do you think LibreOffice became popular? Hint: most of its contributors moved over from OpenOffice because few people trusted Oracle. Trust matters.
Street View started before Levandowski ever joined Google, and his role in Street View was as an investor not an IC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

If there’s any rent-seeking behavior, it’s Levandowski’s church of AI

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-i...
It is named like the <x>_of_<y> functions, yes. "Of" and "from" are both "de" in French. A native English speaker would use "from" there, but whoever named those functions used "of."
How so? Certainly Gödel doesn't say anything about the ontological status of any kind of structures, not in the Tegmark sense!

Or, more accurately, Gödel forbids the existence (in both logical and Tegmarkian senses) mathematical structures that are (a) powerful enough, (b) complete, and (c) self-consistent. But Tegmark here seems to make a much stronger claim, namely that, in his ontology, structures that are (a) do not exist and thus everything ontologically real is both (b) and (c) – finite in the sense that neither undecidable nor semidecidable problems exist.
Is the Pull Request AI agent able to effectively replace human reviews in ensuring thorough code evaluation and addressing project-specific considerations?
> Name one thing that Python can do that Rust/Julia/Crystal/etc can't

This is honesty very 1990's brained, based on the idea that compute power is expensive and constrained.

All Turing complete languages can theoretically do the same things. That doesn't make them equally useful across all domains.

As long as developer hours are much cheaper than compute hours, we're going to be doing certain types of work in high level scripting languages.
wonder to what extent we can similarly locate behavior in the genome

someone made a quail-chicken hybrid in the 80s that transplanted the crowing behavior[1]

but that was a surgical hybrid. is there a genetic equivalent?

1. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3413496
To be fair, if you google "X" right now you will find an explosion of news surrounding this change. So not exactly un-googleable.
Face recognition.
There's a Mentour Pilot episode on the flight as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkKFSqehN4
Nice! this is the closest to what I have been wanting to build for myself.
That's strange. Not saying slipping a 767 is a walk in the park, but I routinely slip Cessna landings (182s and 206s) because I just need to get down. It is a little weird, but no where near unnerving and for sure not wrong.
> Especiall since many of those beliefs directly disavow each other.

There was no problem with that in the past. Like, “Jesus loves everyone, except if you’re gay”. Or “don’t kill, except when taking the wholy city from muslims”. I bet if we dig deeper we can find more examples.
You're not wrong though; see.. https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/tutorial/variable.html#modif... I guess
Display currency is more of a global setting (About You section), and iirc the Australian sandbox example should already be using AUD there(?)

When you add a new account or cash-flow priority for super contributions, the choices should have subtitles distinguishing Concessional from Non-Concessional. But sounds like there are some other places it would be helpful to show those subtitles too?

Always happy to tweak/update the sandbox examples based on what folks would like to see. Any good data sources you'd recommend for more typical UK expense figures?
Ask HN: Is there a third party tool for Gmail smart compose like feature?
I want to display autocomplete text in textboxes on my website. The problem is users have to write a lot, which takes time. I want to make their lives easier by providing autocomplete suggestions as they are tying to enable faster typing.
Preferably i would like to use my data for auto-complete suggestion as my data will be more relevant. Is there any free/paid service that can help me do this?
Off by Fibonacci, rather than off by 1, I guess.
I thought everyone knew that softmax (and specifically exp functions in it) are poison. I have always worked around them, for example by using large epsilons (approaching one actually), and using low-order polynomial approximations for the exp functions.

I thought everyone does that, because you don't need to work long with these models to get NaNs, and when you check why you see it's because of the exp functions. Then you fix it. Apparently people don't.

It's not like the neural models care if you approximate functions. They couldn't care less actually.
I don't know that it's much of a positive tho, basically going from active to passive learning. Sitting through videos instead of reading books (much more efficient too IMO) seems like a prime example of attention span erosion to me.
> ... it would have been much better if a recovery mechanism existed

I didn't get a warning and it's definitely better to have a recovery mechanism... if you can use it.

> I just couldn't think of a good way to implement it that wouldn't be easy to tamper with

I wouldn't initially waste time trying to address those who'd go through the effort of tampering with it. It's something to address when you have proof that it's a real problem.

> this is where the Generate Income option on a House asset (real assets column) comes into play.

I missed that.

> Oh right, and the effective tax rate metric is customizable.

I played around a bit with tax rates, but I definitely did not enter anything close to 60%.

> Do you currently have that set to include things like local/property taxes?

I don't know. I couldn't restore the data!
Thanks for the explanation! I got it working!

One last feature request: currently, the grid mode doesn't seem to support multiple monitors, i.e., it only splits the screen where the mouse pointer is. Would that be possible to add a "teleport" feature? For example, pressing CTRL-J would teleport the mouse pointer, say, 75% of the screen's resolution to the left. If there are two monitors, the pointer would be moved to the screen on the left in at most two teleports. If there is only one monitor, then it would move the pointer close to its left edge. (There would be similar "teleports" for CTRL-I, CTRL-K, and CTRL-L to support different display set-ups.) In theory, this can be accomplished by switching to the inertia mode, but that's not very convenient. I would contribute some code myself if TPMouse were written in Python, but I can't help with .au3 :/

Thanks for again for the explanation and being so receptive!
Yes, that rebrand is also foolish, but it's not hard to see that Facebook is way better positioned to actually fulfill the "everything" app than others are. Facebook marketplace is huge.
A digital purchase is often the purchase of a license to download and execute the product. If that's the contract, then it is necessary to keep some PI on file in order to respect the terms of the contract: offer a download upon request to a particular person. No need to keep PI on file indefinitely: the purchaser is enabled to take their wares and the store to remove accounts if dealing with PI laws is too much hassle.

If this is too much hassle, they could instead sell a license to execute the software, regardless of how it is obtained (but offering a way to download for now, putting the purchaser in charge of backing up those files). Similar to what GOG are doing.

But no, that's not enough control for them either. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
Why would that make it worthless?
It's not embarrassing at all.

I think there might be some curse of the auto-didact here, hinging on the meaning of publish: it would be embarrassing if he was capital-P publishing, as in a scientific paper.

The blog goes to great lengths to point out it is _not_ capital-P publishing.
While not about AI or the algorithm mentioned, on the subject of little errors that you can't convince anyone are errors....

In 2011, I wanted to copy the reddit ranking algorithm in a project of my own, so I went to source code to look at it... the algorithm in the source code I found wasn't doing anything at all sensible with negative-sum voted posts.

I thought I discovered the error, some terms swapped in the simple equation, the sign for positive/negative was misapplied.

I blogged it, and [posted it to reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/td4tz/reddits_...), only to have MANY people, including reddit employees, tell me I am definitely definitely wrong, and the algorithm was working as intended. And that I was in fact not the first to notice what I thought I noticed, and point it out, and be told by everyone I was wrong.

OK, I didn't really understand what was going on, I couldn't make sense of the algorithm if it wasn't wrong, but so be it. I updated my blog post to say that people smarter than me said there was no error in the reddit algorithm, all I can say is this variation makes more sense to me.

Then, three years later in 2014, a commit was made to the reddit source code with exactly the correction I (and others before me) had suggested all along. The one that everyone piled on to tell me how dare I have the temerity to suggest reddit source code is wrong.

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/50d35de04b92...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Open source means there are lots of eyes that can find bugs, but sometimes they can't convince anyone they've found a bug. (And of course, then reddit close-sourced their code in 2017).

I never did end up using the ranking feature in my own project, that I had wanted to copy from reddit. I didn't end adding "vote" features to the app.
No idea why people are downvoting you but the God wafers are not actually anywhere in the bible. Catholics just made it up like most things in doctrine. Not even a christian but just wanted to point out Christianity is a huge tree of branching religions and cults.
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Not really an option yet
They wouldn't be very useful in education unless you could populate them with difficult to obtain chips. It is essentially the schematic in PCB form. Depending upon what they included in the silkscreen, it would be even less than a schematic (e.g. you would not know the specifics of each component). The education market would also expect some accompanying materials, such as the theory of operation and datasheets that are under copyright (assuming they haven't been lost to time).
I’d laugh and say ‘seriously’? And if she was really serious I’d say I don’t believe in any of that. My MIL is into this nonsense - she alone and broke and I think a great example of where crazy beliefs like this lead if you hold them long enough. It’s an enormous red flag for me.
5,000 copies was a lot for the time. The book was culturally significant, and Hemingway became a celebrity for the time. I think this was as close to a minor "influencer" someone could be back then:

> Still, the book sold well, and young women began to emulate Brett while male students at Ivy League universities wanted to become "Hemingway heroes." Scribner's encouraged the publicity and allowed Hemingway to "become a minor American phenomenon"—a celebrity to the point that his divorce from Richardson and marriage to Pfeiffer attracted media attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises#Reception

There's just no way a similar book written today could have this impact.
~3hrs is a long-ass movie! I'm fine with epics, but, yeah, it most circumstances I'm looking for a ~2hr experience, especially if I'm having to sit in a theater. I don't think it's an attention thing, I just don't think most movies require that long to tell their story and/or show a few cool action set pieces.
Here's some community information regarding the two

https://devboard.gitsense.com/shipshapecode/shepherd

https://devboard.gitsense.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js

The popularity for driver.js has grown significantly in the past few weeks. Not sure what is the reason for it though.

Full disclosure: This is my tool
I believe that the states regulate notaries in the US. One in my neighborhood charges $5/document.
The one thing that’s kept me going as a Tesla car owner through this is to remind myself over and over, “Elon’s public persona is commodity fetishism, his far more talented employees did literally 100% of the work”

I mean what does the man even do all day while his companies are running themselves? Make bad Elden Ring builds and rampage on Twitter like he’s in the depths of a coke binge, I guess. In terms of actual responsibility for designing and building the cars themselves, he has very little to truthfully speak of.
This sets the chicken bit: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-Spectral-Chicken
No speech is suppressed where free speech is valued as a right, probably your case.

You would find that porn and personal insults are not legal in many parts of the world. The Chinese government has adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward so-called sexual content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China

To them it is offensive therefore illegal. Again, protecting offensive speech is the point behind free speech as a human right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

I don't know how those examples relate to my point. "protecting offensive speech is the point behind free speech as a human right."
Bifacial modules are nothing new, it's been commercially available to domestic markets in my country for a while. It's not popular for domestic use because they are often mounted flat on a pitched roof. I think the value of bifacials come in effect in solar farm contexts, where the back of one row of modules is illuminated by the sun reflecting off the row behind it.

The specific novel-ness in this article relates to the new perovskite chemsitry approaching commercial production. Making a new solar cell chemistry bifacial does not really come over as very novel imo?

Also, the article says "generates VASTLY more electricity" (emphasis mine), but then in the body it says it's 20% more compared to single face panels?
I'm having a hard time understanding why you'd ride an EUC when you can get an electric scooter. Or bicycle.

Other than to show off, of course, not that there's anything wrong with that.
I just had a play around with this for the first time in a long while (I tried it when it was projectfi), and it's in a really great place - well done!

Love that you support countries other than the US - that's very much appreciated.

What I find when setting up long-term plans like this is that you realize just how much key life decisions affect the outcomes, along with how much uncertainty I have over those life decisions! Being able to explore those permutations is definitely very insightful.
Even the recycled wastewater is potable, but it is use for agriculture to satisfy people's sensibilities.
Beautiful. I did something similar recently with the Google Maps Distance Matrix API, but I like that this doesn't require an external API for every calculation.
Not saying it can’t or won’t be used for gaming, but the lack of precisely tracked 6dof controllers does severely limit it from being usable with a lot of popular genres of VR games: thinking Beat Saber & Pistol Whip specifically but anything with swords/guns/bows & arrow or generally precise twitch-based mechanics will likely not work well with just hand tracking.

MiFi support down the road will be unlikely to solve the issue since without bundled controllers, the market size for games that require them won’t be big enough to justify making them & vice versa… unless each studio does something like Guitar Hero & releases their own peripheral & bundles it together with their game…

I can imagine lots of game genres that could work fine but they’ll only be economically viable if the market for VisionOS games itself is big enough to support such a business model or if Apple jump-starts things by investing heavily in individual titles. Their messaging to date hasn’t really suggested that they’re interested in playing that game though.

We’ll see, though.
> I don't think it's nonsense. Patreon, OnlyFans, etc are basically things that should've been apart of Twitter UX from the jump, all with a simple 'Subscribe ($X /month)' button, the overlap in their user interfaces is no accident. IG is already trying to do this as well already, but its niche limits its scale.

I'm not sure what you mean by its niche. There are way more Instagram users than Twitter ones, and they are way more exposed to products. It sounds like a much better fit for Instagram than Twitter.
> But analyzing his mental condition is sure as shit not up to me or to anybody else.

Why not? Am I unallowed to suggest that Howard Hughes had OCD? That Kurt Gödel was paranoid?

Submitting a hypothesis about some’s mental condition is a reasonable thing to do, given that you have a substantial body of evidence in the form of behavioural reports.

I don’t find the above argument convincing, but only because it’s vague and lacks specific examples - not because it’s ”not okay.”
Incels are an inevitability in every generation, not just a recent phenomenon. What's recent is them getting organised. When many men will inevitably have no companionship at all without things like this AI, I think the value is obvious.

Of course it ought to make negative stereotyping of the opposite sex more extreme, as the social pressure to conform will be increasingly removed, but regardless of how people feel about that AI girlfriends are inevitable. An AI girlfriend is some men's only choice because they simply will never be loved by an actual flesh and blood human being. Isn't an AI girlfriend more appealing than rejection followed by gaslighting about how rejection is all due to some moral failing on the Incel's fault?

Since it's not obvious from my post, I don't see myself as an Incel or unlovable, I'm lucky.
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