skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi varane do you have an email address?

You can put it onto your profile page
> All of that with the cost of only doubling the amount of solar cells

Why should that change if vastly is the correct adjective or not? If I overpaid by a factor of 10 to be 20% taller I would still be vastly taller, regardless of how much I paid.
The look of the original Avatar was something you had never seen before but the story was essentially a reworked version of the overrated Dances with Wolves. The latest Avatar is basically a remake in an aquatic setting and it has none of the visual freshness that the original had. I dutifully watched it when it hit whatever streaming service but it was sort of a waste of time.
Imagine two people walk past you on the street. One says "hi" and smiles. The other smears themselves with peanut butter and starts clucking like a chicken and saluting Hitler. Which one maximizes engagement?

Which one would the social media algorithms promote?

I credit algorithmic timelines as one of the primary factors in today's hyper-polarization. Twitter was one of the more influential ones, especially when coupled with a short character limit that prohibits deep discourse and as others have mentioned a lack of comment threads or other tools to organize ideas. The whole thing promote vapid sound bite meme-think, which best fits fanaticism and trolling.

Facebook and YouTube are the other big mass-lobotomizing engines. The mechanism is largely the same-- promoting things that maximize engagement which means the most inflammatory or ridiculous ideas.
> AMD have released an microcode update for affected processors.

I don't think that is correct. AMD has released a microcode update[0] for family 17h models 0x31 and 0xa0, which corresponds to Rome, Castle Peak and Mendocino as per WikiChip [1].

So far, there seems to be no microcode update for Renoir, Grey Hawk, Lucienne, Matisse and Van Gogh. Fortunately, the newly released kernels can and do simply set the chicken bit for those. [2]

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cpuid#Family_23_.2817h.29

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/522b1d69219d8f08317...
I've been on a Twitter break the past two weeks and it's been pretty glorious all things considered. The only thing I really do miss - and will miss if the platform dies - is that ability to be connected to the thoughts of people I want.

The question of what happens to the blogosphere types if/when Twitter explodes matters a lot to me. Idk if Substack is the right answer.
OneNote Web Clipper is no longer supported on Firefox and works best using Edge
Considering how math heavy is OCaml and how formal is/were French mathematics, especially post high school, this is most likely the reason.
Sir Francis Bay Con would like a word with you.
This is both as cool as it is scary. I managed to "exfiltrate" pieces of my Bitwarden password (could easily be reconstructed), ssh login password, and bank credentials in a minute of running from a 10MB sample.
I think you are pointing out a related but slightly different problem. The question being asked is not "Does admitting wealthy students lead to higher alumni donations?" but rather "Does admitting legacy students lead to higher alumni donations?".

The latter one is what is being measured when they control for wealth and conclude that the practice of admitting based on legacy status does not result, in itself, with higher alumni donations. But like you said, when it becomes a means to admitting wealthier students, it can result in the former. But the two questions shouldn't be conflated and measuring them as distinct questions is why it's important to control for wealth in the methodology.
Prompt injection with control characters in ChatGPT – Dropbox
> There is far more content than there used to be but no more hours in the day. Our filters must reject more.

Attention span cannot be measured by what we don’t pay attention to. And there has always - always - been more information than anyone could process. I think it quite obviously is determined by how long we pay attention to things we chose to engage with. Clearly watching 15 second short clips instead of reading books has had a detrimental effect.
let's go through this again: just because a specific bug might be important to _you_ does not mean it is important to anyone else. You might thing bug 109212 is obviously important, but there are hundreds, if not thousands of other bugs that are just as old, that might be important to someone else. The Chrome folk fix the bugs either directly important to them/google, and the bugs that are important to the most people. That's basic prioritization, and anyone who thinks that bug priority should be a function of age, rather than real world impact is bad at prioritizing.

This also isn't a solvable problem: Google cannot simply hire more people to fix more bugs (mythical man month, remember?).

The reality is that if you have a pet bug, that is specifically important to you, and not important to anyone, is not a security bug, and isn't a feature regular users or web devs are clamoring for, you're probably going to need to fix it yourself (or pay someone else to). Given a choice between paying an engineer to spend time fixing a bug that has no significant impact, and paying that same engineer to work on something that thousands/millions will benefit from, or something google directly benefits from, google (or any employer) is going to choose one of the latter options. That's just sensible management.
It may come as a surprise but some people have literally nothing better to do than to hate musk to an obsessive level.
In today's world of technocratic authoritarianism and regulatory capture, the differences between government and corporations is effectively zero.
It’s not lack of vision but rather his experience in grifting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt
Sounds like every other major bank's IT environment.
I believe the Silmarillion was really more of reference type book originally so yeah not particularly something you sit down and read all the way through.
I think it would be a fun crowdology experiment to see the user base counter the board itself.
The “OSINT Amateur Hour” article from 2020.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23571886

The challenge was to figure out where in the world a given photo of a street corner shop was taken. I spent half a day on the challenge and managed to figure it out through what I believe was some combination of rookie naïvete, persistence, and sheer luck.

The moment when I found the solution felt like it was the most brilliant thing I’ve ever accomplished.
SFPD Has Halted Removal of the Twitter Headquarters Sign
I found it quite well-written. Why so?
The hell I don't. I, and society, judge people all the time. That's how the real world works.
We've been designing our VR fitness game [1] around hand tracking since Meta first came out with it 3 1/2 years ago. So far I can say that we did not regret it, but it definitely requires some workarounds around the accuracy and speed you get from controllers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5h2Jh6NygY
I went through a Tolkien phase but, yeah, the Silmarillion was a dutiful struggle.
Thinking rocks have magical powers and eating food with too many calories are not even remotely the same thing.
Read a bit in bed before sleeping, make this a daily habit; leave all electronic devices outside of your bedroom. No screens in bed; let your mind learn to accept that.

Start with books you can focus on now, gradually move on to more complex works. Don't feel bad about picking a genre which really draws you in. You don't have to read Dickens on day one (although he is a great writer, older works ask a lot in terms of focus and frame of reference, including some understanding of society back then and there), and it's fine to indulge in Young Adult fiction if that works for you (Harry Potter not too demanding to read, and pretty good too).
In the conversations I've had with people from Germany and Switzerland it's the other way around, with cash they're more aware and thus more frugal with their spending.
My reasons for preferring EUCs:

- It can be easily combined with public transit. Its much smaller footprint causes less trouble for you and those around you. You can place it behind your legs while sitting and keep between legs while staying.

- Absolutely no issues with stairs and escalators (at least with the models on the lighter side).

- You can get it with yourself into office. In many places you can not bring your bicycle or scooter into a desk space or it will be strongly frowned upon.

- It does not take much space when stored at home.

- Because of the smaller footprint and lack of protruding parts like handlebars, it's much safer and easier to move in a relatively dense pedestrian traffic.

- It easily fits into a car's trunk.
Mobile gaming isn't real gaming, it's virtual slot machines for toddlers and Apple should be ashamed for facilitating it
Is 20 or 70 years ago the baseline for all of human history? Does that represent how many men are "supposed" to be sexless?

I'm not saying there isn't more or less of an issue with sexlessness in certain ages, or regions, or cultures. I'm just saying that Incel's are an inevitability in every generation.

>Even my own experience, taking a bus to work filled with 250k FAANG engineers, ide bet 80-90% of them are virgins or sexless.

Look at the gender demographics in the areas where 250k FAANG engineers work. Honestly I'm not sure if those are truly Incel's or those are people who value money more than love, I know men making well under 100k full remote who are not that attractive who pull plenty because they moved to where they're high value on the dating market.
The argument / reasoning is a bit dubious.

Technically softmax is not implemented as presented but through exp(x_i-max(x)), and summing over it in the denom. But maybe I am missing something.

Furthermore, the residuals are used exactly because the networks cant learn the identity function; but they can learn zero; at which point the residual is `f(x): x+g(x)` with being `g:x ~> 0` (ie approximately 0).

It is also the case that `f(x): x+g(x)` makes it easier for gradients to flow through.
What is the difference between a universe partially governed by chaos and singularities, vs one not totally ruled by maths?
Wine 8.13 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
Scanning people’s eyeballs to prove their humans instead of a bot. No thanks.
Well, "open"ai opened pandora's box. Let the games begin.
I'm not sure which is worse: a mercurial drug-addled owner, or a neglectful absentee CEO. Probably the absentee CEO. But neither is great.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest his Mars plans would be better served by a few well-placed lobbyists for public-private partnerships with NASA than by spending $44bn on making the platform he previously got to vice-signal on for free less popular...
I didn't even have the attention span to unpack your first sentence.
You need to migrate from X to Wayland. https://wayland.social/@compositor/110768798303454842
What do you do if you want to disambiguate the return type? I suppose `intFromString` works. I'm not sure what I chose `intOfString`. It's not because I'm French!
Spot on, but nit: Helps you lose altitude quickly, not slows you down.
x86 just made it so the whole computer could drop out of the “cluster” which greatly simplifies the hardware design but the result is NOT a “virtual mainframe” as the software becomes exponentially more complicated if you want “all power”.
Your comment resonates a lot, at least with me. I don't enjoy my life, any distraction I can get and any negative interaction I can block is a positive for me.

I don't care if someone finds it problematic or pathetic, at the end of the day I just need to get through the day, something that sometimes is really, really difficult.

I really don't care for extremely judgmental people like the one you replied to, they either don't get it, or somehow figured our different ways to cope and consider themselves far superior to the rest of us.
Right. That’s what the article says. OP described an opposite reaction which I share. The hypothesis of local culture doesn’t work because the cultures you named align with the paper, which seems to be the default tendency worldwide.
I would argue that "5-10% of videos trending right now have text that take up >50% of the screen" is a huge moving of the goal post from the original claim in this sub-thread: "just computer generated voices reading screenshots of funny tweets and reddit comments".

I definitely used to get videos with walls of text that are obviously trying to game the algorithm by getting you to read an essay to increase watch time. Once I habitually scrolled away from them I stopped getting them. That isn't even related to the claim of voices reading screenshots of tweets or reddit comments.

I absolutely believe that videos exist where there are text-to-speech readings of tweets or reddit comments and that the commenter referencing them sees a decent amount of them in their own feed. But I do not believe they represent a "decent amount" of the majority of TikTok users feeds.
How do you build the POC? I get "No such file or directory" and error 127 on Ubuntu.
I really don't relate to this. When I was in high school and college and for the first few years of my career, Python was not "a very good tool for that particular job". A number of the Ruby programmers I first knew and respected were using Ruby for doing computational / scientific computing with more iteration and velocity than they could achieve with Fortran, C, or C++ (the common scientific languages at the time). There was no reason back then to think that Python as a language was any better suited for this purpose than Ruby or Perl or any other language really. (And what we now call data scientists were already mostly doing this with R.)

It was indeed through a significant amount of writing and advocacy and persuasion that Python - through numpy and scipy and pandas - won out here.

For a time it looked like it was going to fade, as it was too slow and all the "big" tooling was built on the jvm instead. But it got faster and people made more interfaces to underlying faster components, and people did more writing and advocacy and persuasion, and now it's mostly python still, with a bunch of native or jvm code under the hood sometimes.

But none of this happened just through python being clearly better for this niche. People always write and discuss and advocate for the tools they like. It's normal. It's same as it ever was.
The Return of the King is particular has a real structure problem. Multiple endings after the actual ending. And then really the final wrapup/epilogue is in the Appendix. The movie tried to clean a lot of this up--most controversially by axing the scouring of the shire--but still didn't wholly succeed.
I currently use Citibike and am happy with it. However, if I ever considered purchasing an EUC instead of a bike it's because I wouldn't have to park it and thus making my trips door-to-door rather than having to stop by wherever the bike is parked. I would be able to bring it with me, whether I'm going upstairs into my office or grocery shopping (as long as they have a collapsible handle.)

I think I am more persuaded by the EUC than by the electric scooter because of its speed and maneuverability? I'm not sure, but it seems to have similar problems as the bike.
I’m looking forward to this! Are you using an adapter (I don’t see it mentioned in your article)? I was under the impression you cannot fit 7B at 4 bit since it’ll take 25GB of VRAM or so.
What if we just don't acknowledge the new name and refer to everything by Twitter or Tweet?
Thanks! When you kick the tires on self-hosting, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the setup flow and if you find it smooth + intuitive enough.
that's not the antitrust violation and that's not what Apple is doing, the violation would be

"come into our walled garden where you pay to agree to these onerous and arbitrarily applied terms, we analyze every possible app to see every app and idea per version, and then copy the ones that take off allowing it to function outside the constraints of our walled garden while continuing to apply these arbitrarily enforced terms to you debilitating your business in unnecessary ways"

the regulator and existing antitrust statutes can override the clauses that someone agreed to that perpetuates this, and they should. with the alternate route for Apple being to pay the developer beginning at an independent third party's valuation.
"I learned way more by doing my own thing, what ever that is, then I ever did stuck inside of a class room having a teacher read word for word from a textbook."

And I learned a lot more by reading stuff from Wikipedia on my own pace than I learned reading textbooks. So, good point.
The Mona Lisa was painted on a wood panel, not paper or canvas.
Python: Overlooked core functionalities
This reminds me of the normalization bug in StyleGAN. It had this obvious visual artifact of a 'blob' which would appear in otherwise photorealistic images, which was puzzling because it was so obvious how did the Discriminator not squash it? It turned out to be a flaw in the normalization of the AdaIn style layers, IIRC, where the Generator was pumping up numbers and doing weird things to force through information.
Its not inherently wrong, but flying cross-controlled feels wrong to me. Probably because I don't do it very often, and I'm aware of the fact that it increases my stall-to-spin risk if I don't properly manage airspeed.
If popular models are still making this mistake then it still seems noteworthy and making a blog post or paper to increase awareness definitely seems worthwhile. Also multiple independent discovery of good ideas is quite common.
This is a strange way for a person to cope with a change in brand positioning. It's like cloud-to-butt if cloud-to-butt were unfunny.

edit: also, shouldn't it just be a tampermonkey script?
I haven't run into that, but maybe that's just because I haven't tried anything too complex yet.
I like the idea of not having to log into all my old accounts in order to delete them. Maybe an opt-in option to extend the auto-deletion duration beyond the default would be nice, but ultimately this information should be deleted. Are we so special we have to save everything?

This is easy for me to say, though- I quit videogames last month after a long decline in use, mainly because I was using them as my late father abused alcohol. Hopefully my child is even better able to recognize the symptoms (if it's genetic) and get to the root cause(s).

There's a part of me that would be glad to see an email that my Steam account had expired and all the games I paid for access to (I don't feel like I own them anymore, though I am aware that many can be played without Steam) are no longer within easy reach. I don't want to log in to Steam to remove each game from my acc, though, so I'm leaving it all in limbo for now, which works well enough. Maybe my kid will want to play some of them, and I'd be willing to play, too, as a together-activity.

Eventually I'll be more balanced and can handle these middle grounds better.

I used to think I would always play World of Warcraft! I'm glad I grew out of that.
> You can'teven keep a phone number for 3 months

That's a bit much, no?
Yeah most likely just french translation. A more accurate translation would have been "from" in this context.

`js_from_ocaml`, `string_from_int`, etc would have been clearer in english.

If i didn't speak Spanish it would bother me a lot more.
A quick search in Linux git head for "th1520" returned some results. It must mean there is ongoing work.

I hope they set up a webpage to track what's going on with upstreaming efforts, similar to JH7110 has.

Notably, boards with TH1520 are just starting to ship, whereas boards with JH7110 were shipping in volume in February.
I've had a good time with sequence diagrams in college. It is really pleasing to build them.

I entertain the idea that AI [CNN + TNN] can finally fulfill the ultimate UML promise: build code from diagrams. In a certain way, it's easy to see AI trained to ingest diagrams as logical sequences of prompts. With a little effort it is already doable with current tech.
Every few years I see this posted on HN. Every time I play with it. Every time I am delighted by it. Every time, I think I'll use it. And then I don't.

To be fair, my finances are simple to a fault, so I haven't felt like using it. But, once things ramp up, this will be the first tool I subscribe to.

It's a great tool. I recommend.
A fine example of a meme spreading untethered from its source.

Can I ask why you chose that title template?
I sometimes saw my dad doing this in Britain, where it is certainly tax evasion. He'd ask the price of a service, then ask if there was a discount for "cash in hand". Occasionally, I think tradesmen would offer both prices upfront, or say "will you be needing a receipt?".

It would have been a 15% discount for my dad (VAT was 17.5%), and probably a slightly larger saving for the tradesman, although they have a higher penalty if somehow caught. I think it was usually done for small jobs, like minor plumbing fixes.

I have no idea how common this was in the 1990s, or how common it is now.
This seems like an early paper and agreed with the consternation.

The paper, in a modern context and based solely on the abstract and having been in the community, is chipping at the "uninteresting" part of the problem. Around that time, program synthesis started switching to SMT (satisfiability modulo theory) methods, meaning basically a super powerful & general SAT solver for the broad search ("write a wild python program") and then, for specialized subdomains, have a good way to call out to optimized domain solvers ("write a tiny bit of floating point math here"). The paper would solve what the regex callout looks like.. which is specialized. We can argue regex is one of the most minimal viable steps towards moving to general programming on GPUs. Except as a person who does SIMD & GPU computing, optimizing compute over finite automata is not general nor representative and I don't expect to change my thinking much about the broader computational classes. To be fair to the authors... back then, synthesizing regex & sql were hard in practice even for boring cases.

Separately, nowadays synthesis has shifted to neural (copilot, gpt), and more interesting to me, neurosymbolic in R&D land. We're doing a lot of (simple) neurosymbolic in louie.ai, and I'm excited if/when we can get the SMT solver side in. Making GPT call Z3 & Coq were some of the first programs I tried with it :) Till then, there's a lot more interesting low-hanging fruit from the AI/ML side vs solvers, but feels like just a matter of time.
I hadn't seen that, thanks for the link.
I think (guessing) the two of you might possibly be using different definitions of “better”/“worse”.

We’re not morally responsible for the fact some of us may have mental disorders (some like OCD which I have won’t leave us entirely), so stealing which we would be morally responsible for is worse than having a mental disorder.

However, having a mental disorder would be worse than stealing in terms of its consequences (we just can’t get rid of it no matter how much we try).

(At least I think it makes sense to accept both of your statements that way since I think having a large ego is morally bad independently of any consequences.)
Incredible. Imaging for my startup how much it would take to translate potential features into dollars. “We can take this market of $55bn, it would take 70 features and 12 marketings, that’s 100 million per feature, but you only get it if the market develops accordingly.”

The simple fact that a large company is able to liquefy a non-linear large-blocks market into dollar amounts that you can measure, is the ultimate dream of any 1800 economist.