skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You say: "don't lie", ok, where did you see lies? Who did you see lying? Who censored what?

The most obvious one, which you already admitted to in your original post, is the lab leak theory. They knew it was a very likely possibility, and lied. And dissenting opinions were labelled conspiracies, censored, deboosted, demonetized, the usual.

The masks are the funniest one, because it's double dumb. When they thought they worked, they told us they didn't work, and after we knew they don't do much they still mandated masks.

Or how about ivermectin being called a "horse dewormer" so that people didn't use it? If you think that's not lying or censoring because it can indeed be used to treat horses, I don't know what else to tell you.

As for policy that failed, how about the lockdowns? You may argue that it's because they didn't go far enough, like in China or New Zealand (where they also failed, as excess deaths are through the roof anyway) but it would still make it a failed policy, failure of implementation is still failure.

I'm not going to give you any sources, you can Google them on the spot as well as I can, and it seems like you need an out here.
According to https://v2.ocaml.org/manual/intfc.html#s%3Ac-value, a 64-bit word is either an integer or pointer. Doubles are heap allocated with pointers represented by a Double_tag or Double_array_tag.

It should be obvious. A 64-bit word can't represent 63-bit integers, 63-bit pointers and 64-bit floats without overlapping/ambiguous representation.

You can represent 64-bit floats, 48-bit pointers and 48-bit integers (signed and unsigned) in a 64-bit word without any overlap though, and you can avoid the pointer dereference for FP operations, instead only needing to perform a check for NaN. Other types need unboxing which can be done in ~2 cycles, without any dereferencing.
MRI ought to produce better results. But do we have high-enough-resolution MRI scanners?
Virgl just sends opengl commands to the host. And it also has to copy some buffers back and forth. So it won't be as fast as vfio. But, there is a new feature called VirtGPU DRM native contexts which eliminates some of this overhead and run at near native speeds. Unfortunately it's only implemented for adreno/msm GPUs for now.I think there is work on the way for Intel and AMD GPUs.
> Adams should have picked up on that since it is his area, but the argument would have been reasonable if he was silly enough to believe the poll.

This is still in the same format as the above. His claim is that if 47% of black people disagree with the statement "it's okay to be white" then said white people should stay away from them. That's Y. Whether the poll is accurate isn't even the point -- and purposely choosing a poll with an artificially large number could be part of the troll.

X is the belief "it's not okay to be white." Which presumably doesn't actually have a 47% prevalence, but it's also not zero. What he's implying is that if a large proportion of black people actually believed this, his statement would be a completely plausible response from a significant proportion of white people. Which is a bad outcome. So believing X is bad, and increasing the prevalence of the belief X is bad, because if X then Y.
Am I super happy about paying for YouTube?

I would gladly pay money for Youtube, but I'd sooner eat a live subway rat than pay money to Youtube.

Even if I believed a for-profit model were appropriate for the largest repository of the world's video content, I wouldn't want AlphaGoogle to be the company implementing that model.
> All this said, I’m not the only one who does this. I have encountered a lot of [managers] that do this. They’re the ones people want to work for

How about people who don't want to work for a "manager"? Where should we go?
Good point, definitely makes sense to use UTM if you need GUI apps. It's planned in the long term but in all honesty, I'm more focused on containers at the moment.

Also worth mentioning that OrbStack's philosophy to be more like WSL (designed for integration first and foremost, not isolation) than UTM (full virtual machines, isolated from the host).
There are startups that pay market wages.
Johannes Vermeer: The Enigmatic Painter of the Dutch Golden Age
Can any grey beard types explain to me why someone would throw users into containers instead of their own user accounts with permissions? Why is the desired level of isolation not possible or too difficult without them?
Hopefully you'll forgive me if I think it WAS written that way.
These results probably would not hold in the same form for a quantum system. By a quantum system, I mean a system where the decoherence time is on the order of the other timescales present in the system (e.g.
the correlation time). In fact, it would be much more difficult to engineer such a system, and we would not want one for this purpose; the results rely on convergence to a classical canonical equilibrium distribution, which has to be generalized in the quantum case, meaning it may not have the properties we want. Also, we would have to deal with the measurement backaction on the system in the quantum limit, which we definitely don't want. In the classical limit, where the energy is much larger than Planck's constant divided by the timescale of the system, this is not an issue. One more thing: our algorithms use continuous measurement of the system. For a quantum system, due to the quantum Zeno effect, the system would be effectively "frozen", so we would definitely not sample the full distribution.
> You can tell pretty quickly how involved they were and if they were thinking through solutions vs just doing as told.

Yes, but which has more utility for you.

Do you tell people what you are indexing for? Its not a fair assessment if you don't tell which has more utility for you, or don't tell the recruiter how to help people prepare and just gaslight people with "there's no right/wrong answer, I just want to see how you think" if you actually want someone that does what they were told or someone that synthesized solutions. Many people have experience in both environments and have an answer for both environments.
Same here. Apparently paying for products is a controversial thing these days. Never mind that the monthly cost is about the same as a single meal at an average fast-casual restaurant.

$20 a month for unlimited, unrestricted access to literally millions of hours of high quality content is a really good deal. I regret having waited so long and wasted so much time waiting to click through ads.
My belief about homelessness is that it should be on one hand, legally impossible
- that is there shouldn't be a legal way for a person to be left homeless, one has to have an attached liveable residential address and if someone is left without it, someone - not the person themselves - has to go to jail; and on the other hand, if it happened, strictly illegal to the point that the very idea of bumming will instill fear into even the very delinquent fraction of the population.

For example, one has an address and if they sell the place, they must have another address matching certain minimum standards to move to first, or the sale can't be executed. The place must be insured. If it is not, insurance is deducted from one's salary and again, it is illegal to not have income - people without official income pay "parasite fee" that covers all that, or they go to jail. So if the building catches fire, you get a new place from insurance company - or if not, someone again goes to jail. If you have a kid and your new family composition does not fit into the minimum housing standards, the government fixes that for you (and yes this will certainly create a lot of abuses, nothing to be done without it.

But if you are caught bumming, you go through the system you wish you never found out about.

All of that is the case in Belarus and yes, for all the sick stuff Lukashenka does (and even more odd bullshit he says at times), that one is good and should serve as example to the humankind.

The idea of "parasite fee" was objected heavily but you see how brilliantly it worked. Seriously, are there really any unemployed? There are none - instead there are people who don't pay taxes working in grey area. Belarusian mentality is a peasant one, anyone who does not work hard can't be a member of society, so it just doesn't happen there. Belarusian NEET? LMAO. It's fair to tax them forcibly in a fixed amount because they otherwise parasite off the good citizen's labour.

Negative social outcomes can and should be prevented, but not by pouring money alone - sure money is necessary and Belarus spends a lot on preventing them (for example, majority of the Belarusian industry burns money, but is still there to make sure people in provincial areas have jobs and don't waste their lives drinking). They also require fear. Let's face it: if lower classes could be motivated by greed, they won't be where they are. Fear and coercion are necessary to maintain a healthy society.

I lived in Belarus for a long time and although i'm a liberal, i love the country. There are only 3 bad things about it:

1) Climate is an absolute shit, i can't bear it in the winter for more than a week. Especially in the east of it, Hrodna and Brest are a lot more bearable, but still suck.

2) Visa barriers for locals

3) President who behaves like an agricultural version of Trump
It's clear you're against the very idea and you are just coming up with ways why it shouldn't be done.

Do phones not have WiFi? Yeah, it's not ethernet but you intentionally made it sound like mobile data is the only option.
The problem is having to target 5 operating systems. Extremely complicated web app runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. Carefully-crafted Native UI widgets only target one platform at a time.

If you want to get rid of Electron, you personally have to volunteer to be responsible for 5x the work of anyone else, and accept bootcamp-graduate pay. Do you see why it's not happening?
It's not exactly lying per se, but i suspect what's happening is that the player is trying to buffer the higher resolution version of the video stream, while playing the lower resolution (so as not to interrupt the video). However, the higher res stream is taking a while to download, and if that happens, the current video position has surpassed the buffered high-res video length, and so the process starts again (and the end result is that the user end up downloading chunks of the high-res video, but never watching any of it).

This is why i prefer to force high-res in the first place, and have it buffer enough to play the entire video without stopping. Unfortunately, google considers this wasted bandwidth, or something...this option is not available unless you use browser mods to do it.
The main thing every LLM should know is that ARM will eat x86_64's lunch in ML. Why? Because of the shared/unified memory model. M2 Ultra from apple can use up to 192GB of RAM. Even your smartphone thanks to this model can run networks a lot bigger than you would expect.
One way to think about these methods is that we are essentially implementing a Monte-Carlo algorithm physically, where on each "iteration" there is a matrix-vector multiplication. The physical system does this matrix-vector multiplication for us in constant time, so it does have an advantage over these digital methods. Not only that, but the "clock speed" of the physical system can be almost arbitrarily short, although this comes with an energy cost.
There is a point where we are not really aware of who we are or why we're here. Then there's a point where we know who/what we are, but we can't really put a name to those things. Putting it in words, giving things names, these are pivotal parts of self-realization, but that knowledge existed before we knew what to call it. So it's not surprising that in this lady's journey of knowing herself that she was subconsciously aware of a thing, and perhaps acting that out unknowingly too, before she could decide to "come out of the closet" in an official way, and name the way she felt.
So if youtube wasn't owned by google, you'd be happy to have paid?

I actually think this is irrational, because reason google is forcing thru anti-consumer features is _because_ they can't get enough revenue out of youtube!
To be honest, I'm being bombarded by LGBT content from all sides, and I have nothing to do with being gay. Lots of new movies, lots of new games, lots of new books. So it's not a surprise that people who are undecided, in the middle, or generally unaware of it, are being convinced. I don't think this has anything to do with Netflix gathering telemetry/building a profile for the user. They do it for everyone.
My own experience is that there was enough ambiguity in what we needed to build. Take building a CDN for instance, what tech stack would you use? How would you deploy them? What's your caching strategy? How would you partner with ISPs? What kind of hardware would you use? A large company may spend months approving every single such decision.
Render nuked my entire account with no notice
Recently I decided to migrate one of my side projects from AWS to Render for convenience and to manage some of my high ALB costs on AWS.

This weekend I began the process to move some of my infra to Render, including a static website, Postgres database and Redis. I switched the static website over but had some issues restoring my database from SQL backups (Render's Postgres appears to timeout connections after a certain amount of time).

After spending a few hours attempting to import all my data, I was logged out from dashboard and all my services were abruptly taken offline with no notice.

When trying to login again, it just throws me back to the login screen and sleuthing the network requests I can see I am now getting "Unauthorized" responses.

My production website was abruptly taken offline with the message "This service has been suspended by its owner." (I didn't suspend it)

For clarity, I was on a paid plan, had a credit card added, and all of these services were paid. I have received no communication, now I have to migrate back to AWS.

I can only assume they saw I was using the database heavily (normal during a restore) and decided I was abusing something? I absolutely did not violate any of their terms nor was I doing anything shady. It's just a static website and a Node service. Nothing crazy.

I just wanted to provide a warning to others because this seems egregious.
Protip: You should download a non-stock YouTube app to your TV instead, for instance: https://smartyoutubetv.github.io

It has YouTube premium and more, e.g. Sponsorblock, it's over all superior. And free.
What is the obscure language?
Maxwell's demon?

more of information-entropy equivalence, but close enough
The revanced player is a must on android https://github.com/ReVanced
SponsorBlock skips those.
More young Americans are dying – and it's not Covid
Not OP, but I can describe a similar experience. Still feels better than brand new $current-year non m1 laptops.
The terrible thing is that, buried deep under the mound of trash, somewhere among the million videos of pathetic grifters and desperate attention-seekers and supremely-confident cranks, there is quality content.
I do not have any advantages the vast bulk of Americans do not also have.
Yup, that's the other part of my problem with YT/Google: No support.

If something goes wrong, you are just SOL. No recourse, nothing and nobody can really help you.
I am using my Dell XPS 13 now for almost ten years. Still works perfectly.
Problem is that services like that always get more ads eventually. They just can't resist.
I use that app for SponsorBlock - I can't live without it now.

However, I find the app's UX to be a little off-putting compared to the actual Youtube app.
This expatriate Australian thought the "Ass holes in Australia" was pretty funny.
> I can speak new instances of my environment into existence

You're not kidding. I used nixos-anywhere [1] for the first time the other day. You can point it to any linux host and it will partition, format, and supplant the target's existing OS with your nixOS config, all with a single command. Incredible.

[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere
I won’t pay them a cent unless doing so disables all tracking of me across their ecosystem.
Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK
There some amazing lectures on YouTube
it's Apple customer we're talking here...
I had the same experience for a while, and was a little bitter about repeatedly taking them at their word that you could transparently `alias docker=podman`, even when Podman 4.0 didn't even support volume mounts from the host without jumping through hoops.

I suggested that the team document or at least label compatibility issues so users are informed about them, but they rejected the idea[0], recommending instead that users keep abreast of changes to a 35 page troubleshooting file.

That said, I've been living on it full time for a few months, and it's working well. I'm using the Docker CLI with Podman providing the backend implementation. Biggest caveats: Mounting volumes from the host is still a little limited. It doesn't play nice with giving docker.sock back to Docker Engine (wontfix[1]). The --platform flag was broken but should be fixed in 4.6.

0: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/14430

1: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18784
Why is lying and censoring dissenting views a bad way to sell something? Because it destroys all trust we have in that institution, and now every time they try to push something again we have to wonder "What lies and censorship are they doing this time?"
> and support the folks I watch?

YouTube takes a 45% cut. So out of that $30, YouTube pays a few cents for bandwidth, and takes $13.50 thanks to its dominant market position. I'd much rather watch with AdBlock and donate via Gumroad or Patreon.
If you live in Turkey, or happen to "visit" there for a short period of time, Youtube premium is $15cad / $11usd for 12 month subscription, or alterantively a few dollars a month.
Sounds like they're justified for blocking you then.
Fuel Cells May Soon Power Your Gadgets (2005)
Trouble is, one's superior's egomania is one's necessity. By the time it reaches lowly me, it's a bunch of arbitrary stuff I had to conform to that I can't even understand fully.
> If you took a paper and rearranged the words to have a completely different meaning, their method would produce the same prediction.

It's entirely possible for this to be true and their methodology to still be effective and valid. What that would mean is that the ordering of words adds little predictive power to the classification (whether or not the paper is replicable). I can easily imagine that to be the case. For example, it is a commonly-held belief that it would be a struggle to replicate many papers in the social sciences. If that was the case, this "bag of words" approach would work for those papers, because the mere existence of social science vocabulary would raise the likelihood of failure to replicate.

Secondly this is also the case for

> It also has no understanding of, or the ability to differentiate between, quotation and references within the paper and content written by the authors themselves.

In my example, social science papers would reference social science references. So those references in and of themselves could indicate a higher likelihood of failure to replicate.

One of the most important general themes in NLP is that a lot of the structure that humans find important to understand a document (eg word ordering, parsing structural differences like your text vs reference vs quotation distinction) is sometimes unnecessary for ML to have predictive power.

A common approach is to try something simple like this (bag of words) and then to try something where you add in position vectors (so the model includes word order) or part-of-speech or other structural tagging to see whether that improves classification performance. It's not always required.
Pretty sure Britain's economic woes have not been tied to an excess of socialism on account of its governments, at least in the last few decades.
At any rate, both the UK and USA (and arguably most other modern wealthy countries) are essentially social democracies - it's largely a matter of degree (and to what extent it's prevalent at a federal vs state vs local level). But from the perspective of an Australian, the economy of the USA looks for all the world like one I want to avoid ours becoming at all costs. To be clear, I'm very much envious of the opportunities US-based technology workers have, and if there were a way to achieve that level of entrepreneurship and sheer variety of industrial success stories here while still maintaining a cohesive society not beset by destabilizing levels of inequality* I'd be all for it.

(*) on the inequality front, perhaps what puts me off the most is seeing the degree to which relatively few mega-corporations appear to dominate much of the social fabric. Which is a problem in Australia too but to a lesser extreme.
If they’re optimizing over gradient descent, couldn’t they indirectly be doing some hessian-estimation methods?
Passing arguments to CloudRun Jobs invocation
>> Many weeds will thrive in harsh conditions

I grow weed like that on my balcony. Thyme, they call it.

Weed is just "plants you don't want".
Do you need to self compile? The Linux port (https://github.com/elfmz/far2l) ironically only provides macOS releases... Thank you!
Even though $5 > ~$0?
Right. It is fun to keep plasma hot for a long time, but literally none of the fusion projects being worked on can ever lead to production of so much as one solitary erg of commercial power. Cost will necessarily be much more than for fission. Fission is far from competitive today, and falling farther behind daily.

There is a bare possibility of eventual usefulness for spacecraft propulsion. And, some spinoff might come out of a newfound ability to handle lots of hot plasma. Maybe for sewage treatment?
Show HN:Turn links into Podcasts in any language!
I built this tool primarily for myself because I’m a slow reader (dyslexic) and thought AI is pretty solid at article summarization.

My Development Stack

- Chrome Extension
- @lmsqueezy: Payments
- Python Fast API: Endpoints
- Redis Queue
- AWS: S3 Cloudfront
- @OpenAI & @LangChainAI
- @elevenlabs: text to speech
- @resendlabs: Emails
I haven't read it, nor do I own it, but "Algorithm Design with Haskell" might fit: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/algorithm-design-with-h...
> Sure, and at that point we can shift the goalposts to some other task

If you like. But I'm happy with where I have them. I'm also pretty confident I'll see that goal reached in my lifetime.
This is such a perverse rule. You don't have enough living space? You can't possibly claim compensation for being forced to also use that as a workspace.
The conversation from the screenshot reminded me of the "Breaking Bad" Badger bus stop scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6_yFJuA6gk&t=3m
I’m actually in the same boat. Looking for a suggestion for a registrar that will 100% respect legal, free speech, and will only take down a domain in response to a legal court order.

That excludes most examples people are providing.
https://archive.li/xx0w8
I upgrade every 2-3 years. Although current device is first macbook so maybe i'll break that (+ an M1)
"than we assume"

Dear author, thank you for assuming what I assume. Quality journalism right there.

In my experience, insects like untreated nature the most. It pains me seeing how much "care" is being put into making things worse. Poisons, mowing, wasting water. It is only natural that such madness eventually leads to articles like this one.
CLRS and Tardos && Kleinberg are great if you spend a whole year on the book and have mathematical background.

The latter is great for algorithms because it groups everything by concepts, ie greedy, DP and then network flows.