skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw “attention” and thought LLMs and realised that it is about people.

Attention of machines been increasing while people’s attention span is decreasing.
"Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made."
― George Burns
Elixir is still safe
Even financially we have decimated entire fields because they were single task.
Im sure there are other good comparisons to Elon Must, but I think avreally good one is Howard Hughes... Started an aircraft company because he liked flying, same with movie production, etc...

Howard Hughes also had some mental health issues, similar to Elon Musk.
Uses of VR/AR outside of gaming are going to be niche. Gaming use cases could also be considered niche within the realm of gaming. For entertainment outside of gaming, observe any young person consume a long piece of content like a show/movie and they probably have another device nearby they are texting on. The goal for VR/AR should be distracted entertainment not immersive entertainment like most examples show.

Mainstream use cases like office workers (I don't think Apple depicted this) are less likely in my opinion. Typical office workers (not developers/engineers like on here) are given a bare bones budget PC to do their job, like total spend of $500. Even if form factors for VR/AR get to "comfortable for 8 hours" levels I still don't see the ROI on the hardware for commercial purposes like office workers - most VR/AR headsets require some other compute device as well.
Well that combined with lack of working fuel gauges, had those been working the error would have been caught before they even pulled back.
There has been a long trickle of similar bugs to Spectre/Meltdown coming out long after the initial bugs and "fixes" were published. (The early fixes were all, in some sense, incomplete.)
I believe this is because in French you tend to say "x of y".
the people he's marketing to will eat that shit up.

those who are already looking at him skeptically will not care and were already on the way out / not using the app.

dumb, but riding the hype train is really his only play IMO.
Huh? My children and partner never use my work stuff
Seems to be a discoverability issue.
But, you are begging the moral question in assuming that credit cards are obviously like "drugs".

For me, a credit card and a debit card are just different accounting systems for the same thing. Either one has zero interest when I manage my expenditures properly and do not carry a debt. Either one could trigger penalties and/or interest if I outspend my budget.

I still prefer the credit card because of the frequently mentioned difference in consumer fraud protection. My fear is that the credit card providers will eventually erode their protections to match the debit card rather than the converse.

I do NOT want to participate in a system where a chip-secured/card-present transaction is now presumed to be valid and I have a difficult battle to contest a charge. If the card is made that valuable, I would then withdraw from the casual retail marketplace and keep my card locked up in a safe as others have mentioned in other threads.
There are two problems with this thinking.

1.) The rewrite never seems to have all the features of the original (for many reasons), so you end up keeping the original around because science can be very niche. Now you have two or more packages to deal with.

2.) There is always a better language. Science (or at least parts of science) have switched before - from Fortran to C to C++ to Python. Some of the gains have materialized (some safety, performance, borrowing stuff from outside science). But it has come at a cost (language fragmentation, and also packaging is an absolute shit show right now, partly because #1).

But I'm sure the next batch of languages will finally solve all our problems once and for all, and we will never have to switch again.

(In general, I am talking about non-AI type science. I am a computational chemist, and our code really does date back > 40 years at times. That is not always a bad thing).
That is insane
Her role seems to be glorified social media manager.
> There are a number of topics on the horizon, however, with FIDO2, CTAP, and WebAuthn, we are asking websites to trust password managers a lot more. While password managers have long existed, usage is far from universal. But with FIDO2, by design, users have to use a password manager. We are also suggesting that with passkeys, websites might not need to use a second authentication factor. Two-factor authentication has become commonplace, but that’s because the first factor (the password) was such rubbish. With passkeys, that’s no longer the case.

Getting people to give up their 2fa dogma is going to be a huge, annoying debate. In some sense security experts were too successful in instilling the importance of a second factor, but maybe not the reason why it was important (because its too hard to make secure, unique passwords).

> The initial launch of passkeys didn’t have any provision for third-party password managers. On iOS and macOS, you had to use iCloud Keychain, and on Android you had to use Google Password Manager. That was expedient but never the intended end state, and with iOS 17 and Android 14, third-party password managers can save and provide passkeys.

Password managers are already starting to show progress on this front. I've been using the 1password passkey beta on desktop for a while now. I'm really looking forward to having those passkeys on my iOS and Android devices as well.

> We also need to think about the problem of users transitioning between ecosystems. People switch from Android to iOS and vice versa, and they should be able to bring their passkeys along with them.
If someone wanted to buy your house for three times its market value and their grand plan was to turn it into lumber, would the smart move be to decline?
I don't see any results, it'd be more impactful and convincing if there were numbers supplementing the theory. It's not that hard to finetune existing LM on a small data and verify that it works.

I am, however, of the similar opinion that there could be better attention formulations. A paper from 2020 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09561 helped a lot in one of the transformers model I trained (not a vanilla LM but a specialised multi-modal graph problem).

It proposes normalised attention which if I'm not wrong should help with the quantisation problem too.
Mostly search+discover... You can generally search on a topic of interest, and find a group that covers it (or several), the up/down side is some groups only allow visibility to members, so you can't get a feel for that group without joining first. While I appreciate the usefulness, I'm less inclined to want to stay within Facebook's walls, so to speak.
That's just a bizarre definition of light. By that definition the center of a star is dark because the photons keep getting reabsorbed immediately. Which is always true from a photons point of view anyway, so what's the difference? In fact you might as well say that the universe was dark until the first eye evolved.
Think drifting in a stalled Greyhound bus down a mountain (and the power steering pump is out).
This is Apple, they have billions in cash on hand. There's very little pressure to make money on the first gen Vision Pro, not if they're committed to the product line long term.

Anyway, it's been reported that manufacturing these has been a slow process, hence the slow rollout. They don't expect to sell a ton, not at $3500.
Bill Ackman posts primarily long tweets, and I see it often enough from other random accounts that the feature is definitely being used. But even if it wasn't, just having the option is a nice feature. Always found it absurd how people in comments want to restrict peoples' freedoms in applications - I guess people are afraid of change, hence why these big corporations often stop innovating.
To be fair, for Plato mathematics is but one example of the processes of abstraction, differentiation, and integration, which demonstrate a constancy of principles at work in both tangible and intangible products. Reducing Plato to Pythagorus is missing quite a bit.

(It's Nietzsche who points out that the "eternal return of the same" is the only basis for an individual ethics that doesn't resort to a greater surrounding context.)

But Tegmark seems to be saying the same thing 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"
Weird opening example. Trying to multi-thread a loop and then forcing everything through an atomic is worse than pointless: the atomic will effectively make it single-threaded anyway except now you have worse performance from cache non-locality, branch mis-prediction, and the overhead of using atomics. I get that it's just an example to show how the rust compiler can catch data-races but the section concludes "Moore's law is almost dead, at least for single core performance. Therefore, we need a language that makes concurrency not only easy, but also correct" without mentioning that many algorithms and procedures cannot be parallelized and that trying to force them to be will actually just make things worse.
take your time and watch das boot director cut
I think maybe its because he didn't have experimental results that show that it worked. Not a knock against the author, there are just so many things that seem like good ideas that don't end up working well in practice, a paper like this without results is hard to value.
> The whole thing detached from the deteriorating human reality, a pervasive lack of empathy for our condition.

This is a result, not a cause. This is learned helplessness in the face of not being able to vote for change, and having no say in the policies of our country. The US government has become 100% beholden to the deep state and the oligarchy. We squabble over left/right social issues while both parties are in almost total lockstep with spending and foreign policy.

I mean, I'd love to be proven wrong in next year's election, with some definite outsiders trying to muscle into the circle. And, even if one of them does get elected, we've already seen how one supposed outsider fared against this machine already. If both Vivek and RFK run as independents, it would at least be a BONKERS election cycle.
Also if the device can be used as a legitimate tool it can be used for gaming. Gamers will figure out because gamers gotta game.
That is not why Betamax failed. There was porn on beta. Betamax failed because the cassettes didn’t hold as much tape as VHS and JVC’s licensing model for recorders was cheaper and more straightforward than Sony’s. In the rental market, the format with slightly less friction was a bit more popular each year, which sealed the deal by the mid-80s.
The real "deniability" of copying will come when the NLP community gets off of its collective rear end and implements actual prompt engineering (i.e. any technique I mention in here: https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...). Using "prompt blending" (i.e. https://github.com/ljleb/prompt-fusion-extension) will give genuine "deniability" on the grounds that "A beautiful story by {stephen_king|plato|aristotle|virgina_wolf}" will be very unique and moreover such kinds of interpolation are for the most part how real human writers write.
I think the biggest factor is how fast you go. I no longer go faster than 15 mph and usually ride around 10 mph.
I am not using their OS. I use linux, Fedora up until recently.

But every time someone asks a question about how to improve windows, like a fly to shit some yokel pops their head up from the GMO corn trough long enough to yell out "USE LINUX!" like they're some Alabamian talking about their favorite college football team as if that actually helps someone with their problem and it irks me.
I'm an ML Engineer who's really closer to an MLOps role. I'm weak on ML and strong on data, scaling, cloud stuff, infra as code, making processes not suck, kinda everything _but_ the ML. So take my opinions for what they are worth, and keep in mind that the role of ML Engineering at company A != ML Engineering at company B.

I've described ML Engineering as putting the "science" in Data Science because we help introduce reproducibility. For example, I can take your model training and make it a robust process that happens over a huge amount of data on a daily basis with all the monitoring, logging, and reliability stuff surrounding that.

Some topics I would personally want to see for an ML Engineer on my team (and again, "ML Engineer" has less of a solid definition across the industry than "frontend engineer" or other roles that have been around longer)
- Docker: can you containerize your code? Can you interact with a local container?
- Model serving: at a basic level, can you wrap an API around a model? There's lots more systems design stuff here if you want to go deeper on model serving platforms.
- CI/CD: do you know what Jenkins does? (Or equivalent) Can you talk about a coherent code testing strategy for ML code? How would you deploy a model service using a system like Jenkins?
- Cloud stuff: you don't need to be an expert, but can you interact with cloud APIs directly or through Terraform, spin up instances, know the difference between object storage and databases, and do you have some Kubernetes experience (run a pod, get the logs, take some debugging steps when something's wrong).
- Modern MLOps: model registry systems like MLFlow, feature stores (DIY preferred but vendors ok)
- Scheduling and Pipelining: Airflow, Vertex Pipelines, lots of options here but those are the biggies. Know how to use these for basic data pipelines, model training, service deployment, and why and how you can deploy these via CD
- Monitoring: know the difference and have strategies around monitoring systems metrics (cpu usage, etc) and model metrics (data drift, etc)

A lot of this stuff is harder to learn on your own because it often comes up in the context of larger teams and enterprise scale, where monitoring and reliability turn into KPIs that execs look at, but this is, to me, the stuff that defines the difference between a Data Scientists and an ML Engineer.
I'll say this, spending cash is harder in the moment. There's a real visceral feeling of loss when handing over actual cash vs card.

However, when it comes to tracking long term? Cash always seemed to just ...evaporate, out of my wallet where as I can look back and see my credit card purchases and go 'why did I spend that much on that?!'

In my experience, there are two types of people when it comes to money. There are spenders, who could usually stand to cut back, and savers, who could stand to loosen up. I'm definitely in the 'could stand to loosen up' camp. I even went so far a set aside a 'fun money' budget but it mostly goes unspent because my frugality has no chill...
If you don't have a lot of money this is true. I think the opposite happens if you are rich.
> the 2020 election

I assume the corruption referred to here is trump's attempt to steal the election. The US is in a weird spot, corruption is rampant in rural America, spotty in some cities (usually noticed & prosecuted), but federally corruption has been low until recently. It's nice to see corruption being addressed in these cases (i.e., the trump indictments).

Hopefully the US doesn't slide into the everyday corruption common in some areas of the world, as long as the US prosecutes without fear or favor the country will end up in a good spot wrt not normalizing corruption, though it does feel like an uphill battle given the political situation.
This just happened a few weeks after Geohot said that Facebook was the only alive startup company out there because they managed to change their name to Meta. (He said something like that on the lex friedman podcast.)
People who know how the luxury business works would know that Atari perfume would be perfectly accessible in every airport and drugstore. Notes of vanilla and tang crystals over bakelite and moldy carpet. Only half kidding.

A version of something like the Kyocera KY-01L or Punkt dumbphone (e-ink phones) but without the inferior Android OS, and for some smarter narrow use cases would be a play. We don't have luxury versions of tech because it's all too general purpose, where we can simulate the features of any other general purpose machine on any general purpose machine. There's no bar to any of it. The beauty of Atari was it just played games. The 2600 was a single purpose device, it was what it did. They failed when they had to compete with other general purpose computers.

I'd apply Atari to produce single purpose devices.
The company behind this project no longer exists.

I know as I worked there a decade ago :-)

It's OSS - send a PR for "recent version of Django", someone may even merge into upstream.
> Porn has been VR, and this an AR machine.

Apple Vision Pro does both. Even when you're using it for AR use cases, you're seeing reality as captured and processed by the AVP.
You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gangbanger will get shot or a truckload of soldiers will be blowing up nobody panics. Because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well, then, everyone loses their minds. Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylwMWpbv5Fk
as opposed to putting it on their store as people have done for 10+ years?
Introduction to Obsidian Publish
Ah, so that's why there is special code in Valgrind to handle glibc and friends!
It doesn't sound especially weird to me and I'm not French.

It's just "[create an] int [out] of [a] string"

"from" would have made more sense.
Notes were terrible though - having to click into a separate page that seemed entirely removed from the app. If I recall one couldn't even see replies to them.

(at least that's my memory of it, admittedly it's been a while so could be off)
> exceedingly foolish.

Perhaps it's not foolish. People have been leaving Twitter in a huff, slamming the door on their way out. "Twitter" was ruined according to numerous articles and memes. Rebranding might be going with the flow rather than fighting against the grain of "old Twitter".
Safari visits Pornhub just fine. The question is if video playing will support side-by-side video for 3D in the browser.
Years ago I went with a friend to see Transformers. He is an absolute massive Transformers fan, so he insisted that we arrive no later than an hour before the movie would start. Me and my girlfriend meet up with him and a few other 90 minutes before, got our tickets, went for dinner and arrived about when the commercials ended and the trailers started. My friend was completely out of it, in his mind we missed part of the experience. I think he's the kind of customers the movies want.

For me, I just get my ticket in advance and show up about 20 minutes late, seems to work out fine.
...plus the plane flying "sideways" also adds a lot of drag because it's much less aerodynamic than if the fuselage would be pointing forward.
Maybe we stop also teaching that sex is shameful when it isn't?

I really don't think porn is what causing people to think that sex is a shameful act when it is perfectly natural.

Sure there are some valid discussions around porn and body image but so is there with advertising, movies, etc etc etc. It isn't like porn is the only thing pushing the "perfect" body image.
The headline here is misleading. It is not a "Gas Lobby Group" - it is an industry group for appliance installers and technicians. By the author's own admission this includes installers for heat pumps.
Ooh, I found a use in the wild! https://www.ams.org/books/memo/1023/

The central theme of this paper is the variational analysis of
homeomorphisms $h \colon \mathbb X \xrightarrow []{{}_{\!\!\mathrm
{onto}\!\!}}\mathbb Y$ between two given domains $\mathbb X ,
\mathbb Y \subset \mathbb R^n$.
> Whereas in the HN title it reads as if it's saying a "65% decline in attention span".

Perhaps the submitter's attention span ran out.
Which is completely useless when you're on the move.
I believe they're talking about http://www.opentripplanner.org/.
Very impressed with the mobile UI. Only thing I found was on the Plan tab on mobile there's that tiny extra horizontal scroll. Looks like your app wrapper does max-width: 100%, so if you add overflow-x: hidden you can fix it.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
Thanks for mentioning that book. I am trying to decide if it's worth reading. The negative reviews agree with the main premise of the book but say it's short and superficial. Is there information in there worth reading beyond the usual tips ie keeping your phone in another room, avoid news first thing in the morning, no screen time 2 hours before bed, long cardio workouts, etc?
This still sounds extreme and maladaptive to me.

> The internet today feels like a giant cesspool in which everyone is trying to get ahead by manipulating each other. Many of us do all we can to keep out of it, for instance by never seeing an ad and certainly by never clicking on one.

I didn’t know that installing an ad blocker or vpn client was so anarchist. Or required that much time and energy.

(It’s a bit weird that you have this viewpoint when most of your HN submissions point to your personal blog and involve self-promotion. Even some of your comments involve self-promotion. ((I only looked at the first page of your comment history and saw this is something that you do.)))

> The last thing I want is to have to manually go and hide / downvote someone who's taking advantage of a community's goodwill for person benefit.

More extremity. Is this really the last thing you want to do? This reminds me of The Jetsons episode where Jane got “push button syndrome” because she was tired of pushing buttons and not doing any real work.

> If there was a distributed way to punish advertisers and waitlist-spammers, a 'boycott this product to punish them for their transgressions against the community' tool, I'd be first in line.

You’re not even sugarcoating your extreme views here lol.

Why do you have such strong opinions on this when by your own admission you don’t even see ads anymore and you certainly don’t visit sites with waiting lists?

Is your current web browsing experience still not to your liking?

What do you want to change about your browsing experience that you haven’t already changed?

You haven’t explained this.
Very cool, are you guys focused on databases as sources or do you plan to add API-based sources too (e.g.. Stripe Customers)? Currently using Airbyte but something more real-time would be beneficial to us.
> Going back to the hardware that everyone likes to focus on, it's less radically different from normal servers today than it was historically. The mainframe today is a 19 inch rack like any other.

The Main Frame of yore was ... one of the 19 inch racks the computer was made out of (the main one, typically with the ALU and registers in it). And those racks were used because that was how phone systems were built (phone systems had a lot more repeated / regular structure than something like a computer, though of course everything has converged). The "frame" nomenclature came from the phone system too.

So "normal servers today" got the rack from the mainframe, the mainframe didn't adopt it because of how datacenters were built. All the familiar stuff (raised floors, chillers, backup power, fire suppression, controlled access doors and so on) come from the mainframe world.
https://zombo.com/

You can do anything at X.com, anything at all!
Soooo how to we get it back?