skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another formula I heard that fits your situation is "be hopeless, but not helpless". The idea ia that if you go into activism with the aim to move things and change the world, you will likely burn out fast. Because, as you mention, having a measurable impact is near impossible. So the idea is to give up the hope of making an impact, but try nonetheless. Focus on the fact of doing what feels like the right thing to do, but do not get attached to results too much. Obviously easy to say, but hard to practice.

Your emotional reaction to the saying makes me think that you know what you think is right, but maybe have difficulty not putting a lot of weight on your shoulders. This is rare and precious, so many of us find excuses for not making a lot of effort.
Apple has always had contempt for games
Have you seen a "wave" pump?
He's self-diagnosed Asperger's, self-diagnosed bipolar, many things.
Most people are going faster than they think. 20MPH slide is enough to occasionally put people in the hospital

a "sudden dismount" at 15 mph can annihilate your teeth, or cause severe TBI. Even tripping while walking in the wrong way and hitting your head can lead to death.

If you're going slow, you can maybe skimp on some of the abrasive protection, but you should still have something on your skull and joints.
Insight 1: Give as much context as possible. Otherwise no one can help you.

In this case, I can only assume that you are new to HN and want to ask: How do I get the most out of HackerNews?

Edit: If so, let me refer you to this comment. You won't get a better answer than this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847460
Haha, every few weeks I do some magic gesture, and my iPad duplicates the current application in a separate window. I never did it intentionally, and to this day I have no idea how to do it back. Also, I can't fathom who and why would want to do it.

But the good, old Apple troubleshooting works: nuke it, and start again. If I close the app and restart it, then it's back to its single window form.

Oh, well.
>Nobody should be allowed to ... extort money from society for writing wine reviews.

So how do you propose to pay for someone to write wine reviews?
As Twitter Disappears, TikTok Introduces 'Text Posts'
> Can you name five games Apple has released in the past 10 years?

How does such a list of games relate to my comment?
Its been awhile since I looked into this, thanks.

As a random aside, I hope y'all publish a SDXL repo for local (non webgpu) inference. SDXL is too compute heavy to split/offload to cpu like Llama.cpp, but less ram heavy than llms, and I'm thinking it would benefit from TVM's "easy" quantization.

It would be a great backend to hook into the various web UIs, maybe with the secondary model loaded on an IGP.
It's an old library... been using it for WakaTime since 2018 (5 years). It's very handy to highlight one feature on a page based on a url param, for example when your FAQ wants to link directly to a mentioned setting. We don't like product tours because they're annoying, so we only display one highlight per page showing the first thing you should do when onboarding. Like a tooltip highlighting a button on the page, not a product tour.
Moby Dick was never meant to be read how it is read now. It was originally a serial, so like a webcomic or a fanfic that's actively being worked on. Those are still very popular mediums of media.
Can't have an A.I. dystopia without thought police, and a Ministry of Truth, and those fall apart without a nice surveillance apparatus.
Lord of the Rings. An absolutely genre-defining work, but if you read it, it's really friggin slow and not at all compatible with today's attention spans. It's not a demand for quality, it's a demand to be endlessly entertained without having to invest the time or have the patience to wait for a backstory to unfold. Which is fine, I'm opening my phone to doom scroll for a second too, I just don't think it's quality that's being sought-after, but instant-gratification dopamine-inducting entertainment. It's bad. Until I took the time to retrain my. brain, I couldn't read books because I didn't have the attention span for them.
By what percent?
>> Grabbing a phone is a nice way to stay in the shell that you have built around yourself and pretend like you have control over your life, but no one has control over their lives.

Probably a major cause of the increased levels of anxiety younger generations have. Simple things like blocking out the world with headphones, or standing in line engrossed in your phone reduce the likelihood of somebody interacting with you in a way you don't control. Avoidance breeds anxiety.
> Microsoft Word - Vision Pro Developer Kit Program Terms (FINAL).docx
Elon Musk is what happens when an 8-year-old boy is the richest man in the world. He builds cars and trains and tunnels and flamethrows and rockets.

Elon Musk is what happens when a 17-year-old stoner is the richest man in the world. He builds cars and trains and tunnels and flamethrows and rockets.

Everyone tries to blame his money or his childishness, when the obvious answer is right there lighting up in public and blowing smoke on podcasts.
Which apps have they done that to?
3 hours is probably getting towards the upper limit but it's hardly historically anomalous. Lawrence of Arabia was over 3 1/2 hours and other "epics" of that era were often in the 3+ hour range. (Though movie theaters often had intermissions which most would probably never do today.) Live theater (with an intermission) is often in that range as well although many newer plays seem to be more like straight through 90 minute length.

ADDED: I originally read sittings as parts but if you mean intermissions, I agree. That's what long movies used to do and it's pretty standard for live plays much over two hours.
ColorToPng
Interview with a Senior C# Developer [parody] [video]
> There is no qualitative difference between belief in astrology and any of the world's religions.

Religion pretty much always involves beliefs that are as easy to problematize epistemologically as astrology is, but there are real differences in the kinds of people who are into astrology or neopaganism and the kinds of people who are Catholics.

When a religion is established and dominant, a lot of people engage with it in a detached way just because it's expected of them. They 'believe' essentially by default. They submit themselves to certain absurd beliefs as part of the tradition, but not all of them (e.g., the existence and presence of demons, for many Christians) are operative in their lives. People who participate in religions in that way can be very rational in a slightly strange way, with exceptions carved out just for religion.

I don't see this with 'serious' (i.e., metaphysical realism about the supernatural) belief in woo, at least among people like that in my life.
The joke in the airline industry is that Canada doesn't have great aircraft pilots, but we have the world's best glider pilots.
If you hesitate to read it, let me say that the post denounces “kurtotic barbarities.” If that expression alone doesn’t convince you to read it, you might not be in the intended audience.
I think the GP is talking about porn's irresistibility among adolescent boys. Their use hurts both themselves and women, by setting bad expectations. You're actually agreeing past one another.. kind of funny considering all the down votes, especially since down isn't supposed to mean "disagree"

Is the GP violating conversational rules or just voicing an opinion perceived as unpopular?
Please, put empirical numbers with proposals like these. Transformers have had a billion "improvements" suggested to them through the years.
You don't get Sherlock'd until you've proven your idea works when your app becomes popular. That way, you take all the risk and they don't even need to think about what ideas are worth stealing!

In this case, it'd probably be wise to patent your app before even applying for the dev kit, just in case. You'll still be fighting Apple in court eventually, but you'll make more money through hostile takeovers than when you get copied, replaced, and dumped.
Well, I'm gone. Just deactivated my account. So done with literally anything that smells like Musk.
That could not be further from the truth. There’s plenty of offensive speech that isn’t suppressed (personal insults, porn/other things that used to be considered “obscene”) and there’s plenty of inoffensive speech that is (spam, sometimes defamation).
> People who regularly use TikTok are used to the swipe up super quickly once a post doesnt interest you, it shouldn't be any different for measuring text

I predict a lot of high-quality, well-researched text posts doing great on tiktok
Chicago’s Railroad Problem
Recognize that your most focused mindstate is first thing in the morning. Do tasks that require the longest attention span right then. Don't turn your phone on until they're done.

Generally don't keep your phone in your pocket, put it in another room on silent. Disable lockscreen notifications for all apps but the essentials. Do the same to your computer. No screen time 2 hours before bed.

Do long cardio workouts outside.

Recognize that it's OK to be bored, you don't need to fill every gap by looking at your phone. It's OK just to let your mind wander around.
Is there any way to trial the self hosted version? I'm rather interested, partially as someone who doesn't like the idea of putting such data "in the cloud." (For products with less sensitive data I would try the monthly subscription first.) I'm assuming not, and that the self hosted is probably a small percentage of your customer base. But worth asking!
“Devil’s horsemen”: Why Mongol horse archers were history’s most feared
Unfortunately these questions may not be answerable. For example, let's imagine a universe where all these questions are answerable,how it started and why it works can be explained. Then that universe has a vacuum meta instability and collapses into a new form. In the previous universe it was completely predictable that it would happen, but the singularity effect of the state change left a low entropy universe. Information was lost, and new physics takes over.

An observer in the new universe would see a blank piece of paper and would have no idea why this paper existed and why it was blank. And could know how we got there.

This universe would be a very unsatisfactory place for the inquisitive to exist.
Apple and MLB Announce August “Friday Night Baseball” Schedule on Apple TV+
I was just looking at doing this in pretraining, so I was looking at pretraining losses. The difference was within the range of usual noise so I didn't keep trying.
Have a heat pump that was grafted into our central air in Montana. We absolutely adore it. It doesn't work every day of the year - winters can get bitterly cold. But it works for somewhere around 320 days out of the year. We kept our gas heater as backup, and it rarely kicks in.
"It's got wabisabi"

https://amphetamem.es/meme?id=king-of-the-hill_07_06_419&tim...
Would it kill any journalist or website to link to the company that you are talking about in your article? [0] Why yes, yes it would.

As an aside, I have the spool of the original Lunar Lander for a PDP9 (or 11, but I think 9)... at one time there was a forum and they told me that some people would purchase / take it, as I did not want to chunk it, and I just do not want to hang on to one more thing for life... but I lost that forum/bookmarks in the midst of a computer crash. I wonder if anyone is still interested in that kind of stuff, as I thought MAME etal made that kind of collecting less desirable.

[0] https://atari.com/collections/reproduction-pcbs
Show HN: D-Tale Pandas dataframe visualizer now integrated with ArcticDB
Well I’m thinking that the majority of ideas for this thing is going to be game related.
> logicians have always said: if it doesn't abide by the rules, we can ignore it: "I hypothesize that only computable and decidable (in Godel's sense) structures exist"

No, thats far from what they say. Gödel's theorems (based on the first incompleteness theorem) are famous for saying the opposite of your last sentence.
Let’s see, 5 years from now maybe you can Xeet us about how right you are.
https://wmay.github.io/euc-safety/guides/helmets.html
Linked from here, talks about full face helmets.
Well you don't have to reserve any CPU Cores per VM. There's no law saying you can't have more VMs than logical cores. They're just processes after all and we can have thousands of them.
If memory serves, Opera was always more performant, they just got hosed by dominant web sites like hotmail, msn, etc. intentionally breaking the css/markup being served and other websites that used explicit browser sniffing and would refuse to load real content for anything but IE.
I guess the question is not has attention spans declined, I think pretty much everyone can say yes.

I suppose the question is, does it matter?
"But isn't it silly that every Linux system needs a kernel and an initrd image or else it won't boot?"
My biggest problem with attention span is my eyesight. It has been deteriorating badly from myopia to having an added farsightedness, so that there is only a small range where I see clearly with or without my glasses.

I can't motivate myself to get new glasses with progressive lenses because apparently they bring their own new problems.
OP is right in that his change would make the softmax in the attention output zero if it "has nothing to add" (QuietAttention, as he said).

Buuut, it's missing the forest for the trees. The goal of the last step of attention (ref., Fig. 2, left in https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762) is not to add/say anything (as the author is saying) but to compute the relationship between the tokens (QK^T) and V -- in layman terms, simplifying, which tokens are related to each other. The softmax is there because it gives a representation that is nicer to work with, it gives probabilities, instead of unscaled matrix multiplication.

TLDR; author isn't wrong but he isn't right, practically speaking, either.
A Breakdown of HTTP Clients in Elixir
According to the website, the model can then fine-tuned for certain tasks such as image classification.

1. How does the multi-model help here in improving the accuracy of image classification when training is combined from text, images, and audio?

2. How about the speed? I would imagine a model with text, audio and image data would be larger compared to text-only models?
Can confirm. Was on one of those flights as a boy. Surprisingly there was a video from the flight deck that day. https://youtu.be/iSi6iF9kVBs
I don't think you read Hemingway or Melville for riveting stories per se, but for their prose. The way they convey their stories in words that pique your curiosity or tickle your aesthetic sense. Words that express an idea or feeling you'd not encountered before, or express an idea or feeling you are familiar with in a totally fresh and unfamiliar way (btw their styles are very different, so you may very well find one engaging while the other leaves you flat, and of course some people will enjoy both or neither).

For example, I have never read "The Sun Also Rises," but I looked at the sample on Amazon and came across this on the second page: "I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face..." After a few matter-of-fact paragraphs, the narrator suddenly slaps the reader with this frank and funny statement of his utter cynicism. That kind of thing pulls me in. I want to know more about this narrator and see what other shocking things he may have to say.
I think you are confusing quality with quantity.

Quantity of dopamine bursts that is
A little bit, I'm just not a fan of the way it looks.
My regular reminder that 2001: A Space Odyssey was only 2h 23m, and that movie had an intermission at the cinema. Tess of the d'Urbervilles? 18 minutes longer than M:I, and that one had an intermission, too. Ghandi had an intermission, but $DEITY, no human bladder can hold that much so it was kind of required.

Your Marvel movie is approaching 3 hours, and no intermission? Fuck that, I'll watch it at home while your CEO whines that no one goes to the movies anymore.

(Wait a minute, Oppenheimer is three hours long? Sorry, ChrisN, but that's one's getting streamed in my living room, too.)
My problem on a EUC, and why I sold it immediately, is that my foot did not slide and instead stuck, buckling my knee. I've done better dropping bikes and motorcycles than an EUC. I was wearing all the recommended gear. I also found the EUC quite uncomfortable due to the small pegs and standing right on my arches. You need shoes with a shank in them to be comfortable. TL;DR Not a fan.
Plug-ins. "The Modeling Store":

* Startup9000 Simulator

* ClassicAutosAsInvestments Simulator

* My Personal Stamp Collection API Plug-in (not-public, not-for-sale)

Basically, theres enough weird stuff out there that could be a component of someone's financial hopes and dreams, that communities could sprout on being able to enhance around a topic.

There's also that first step of needing/wanting to be able to API-into the product to explore the idea to see if it's even something that can be modeled.
That makes sense to me, was mostly just wondering. I am not disagreeing, the phrasing was just strange so wanted to clarify.
Game consoles are a lot cheaper than gaming PCs, but both seem to do ok in the market. General purpose devices always cost more than single-purpose.

And I don’t think they’re losing sleep over Unreal. Plenty of games are done in Unity, and developers who want to ship on multiple platforms are leaning towards Unity in part of because of Epic’s alienation of Apple and other platform owners.

Definitely interesting times, but I don’t think either of those considerations will have an impact on Vision’s success (which is far from assured)
It's incredibly difficult to keep a viewers attention for 3 hours without them taking a single break, even if they are compelling. I was starting to get antsy in general around the 2h 30m mark.
I would, but laziness is on the increase and it's too much effort to type.
The author identifies a real problem and poses a simple solution. It passes all my crank tests (why did no one come up with this before? Because the author is intimately familiar with the softmax function from work outside of ML, and plausibly nobody who’s investigating these issues is remotely as familiar, so despite researchers narrowing the issue down to “something to do with softmax”, they don’t have a deep enough understanding of softmax to see what’s wrong).

If the author is reading any of these comments, though, I would urge them to expand on their claim that “I’m 99.44% sure that it will resolve the outlier feedback loop”. As it stands, that’s the only explanation we get of how the outliers might be related to softmax!
When volcanic ash stopped a Jumbo at 37,000ft (2010)
Twitter? Whats that? You mean 𝕏? I honestly don't get all the hate for it, if you don't like it you dont have to xeet, nobody is forcing you rexeet Elon Musk, dont want to use 𝕏 don't use it!
Thanks, I am surprised and delighted to see our paper here! We also wrote a follow-up recently, which you may enjoy: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/0...
> It's not meant for serious discussion.

What exactly is it meant for then if not serious discussion?

> We have blogs for that.

You mean the one sided discussions? Also not every thought is worthy of a blog post, but is worthy of being put out there.

> Nobody wants to read it for an interesting article about geopolitics- foreignaffairs.com already exists

Geopolitics isn't the only thing longer convos are for... The problem with pre-Musk/4000 char limit Twitter is that nuances are heavily lost because of the lack of characters and that nobody wants to do thread storms.

> Know your audience.

Ironic.
I'm on the other side. My home is not a workplace.

If I have to work from home, why don't you (as my employer) chime in with at least 30% of my rent? Actually it should be more, as the place is taken up 100% of the time with the work tools, not only when I work...
> Sadly only Microsoft and a few others share this attitude…

Since the introduction of Windows 10, this is no longer true. For example, games that supported Microsoft's "Games for Windows – Live" often do not not work out of the box anymore, as required DLLs are no longer installed. And on the 2017 Microsoft Answers thread about what to do to work around this[0], users are reporting the steps no longer work.

[0]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/guide-...
Apple likely makes more in profit from App store games than Sony does overall.
I don't think it's OK to remotely analyze a mental illness of another person.

I think that Mr. Musk is an undiluted asshole and one of the worst douchebags to ever grace our planet, which he has proven again and again.

But analyzing his mental condition is sure as shit not up to me or to anybody else.
> There aren't enough end users who know how to modify the firmware code themselves to matter, even if you make that "easy."

This is just a silly statement. Go to an apartment complex sometime and browse the available WiFi networks. You'll see a huge number of them because everyone has the output power on their router set to the max value. There's plenty of places the 2.4GHz band is simply unusable because the noise floor is so high from a hundred base stations blasting out at full power.

If WifiBoost.exe could in tease that output power enough people would do it that WiFi or Bluetooth in some places would be completely unusable.

Modern radio basebands are largely software defined. The modulation/keying, power output, and transmitted bands are all defined in software. In order to sell that silicon as a Part 15 compliant device to end users the firmware needs to be locked. It's the digital equivalent of a fixed function radio. A manufacturer of a fixed function radio couldn't get a Part 15 license if it had a potentiometer on the back allowing you to dial up the output power, even if that potentiometer was locked under the case most people wouldn't open.

With an SDR the hardware plus software is considered the "device" for licensing purposes. If it supported unlocked or modifiable firmware it couldn't be easily/at all sold as a Part 15 device. It would be a different class of device and would require the end user to have a license to operate it.
performance is bounded and so outperformance will approach episilon?
This is it exactly - if I spend $2k on an item, I'm going to remember that if it was cash or card, but only card tells me "you spend $2k last month at Walmart".
water into wine is a fun story but pointless.

but plenty of Luke and Matthew underpin Christian ethics, and have been the justification for building schools, charities, hospitals, etc. for centuries.

people will hear what they want to hear, e.g. Loaves and Fishes vs. Angry Revaluation Jesus, but at least there is an attempt at altruism there.

Astrology has all of the woo woo mythology without attempting any sort of actual altruism, just inane categorization.
Far from just 11-year old libertarians - virtually all Americans don't understand (or acknowledge the existence of) our empire. They think Epstein's private island really was private.