skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37167185
> So the cruise vehicle could have failed to handle the situation as well as a human driver

Why did you say "could have" instead of "did"? Are there circumstances in which it is acceptable (and/or legal in the USA) for a car, autonomous or manned, to drive directly into the path of an emergency vehicle giving warning?
Do people really believe there are no curators of, say, the Uffizi and the Louvre? Do people think that we don't generally agree on levels of accomplishment and mastery -- that when you go to the Prado, it's not just a random selection?
They could have just as easily put a redirect or post donation page in and said, "Thank you for your support, here are some other worthwhile charitable causes you can invest in!" and have gotten $1,000,000 in further donations for them over the last year.

That would have been upright and trustworthy, if a bit annoying. Finding out that they are re-donating my donations irks me. I don't like it. I like the stated missions statements of the charities they donated to, but I don't know anything about them. Are they good charities? What were the grants used for? Who's going to put the effort in to let me know that this wasn't a greedy soulless con job and some of the money I spent to protect a huge trove of human knowledge actually went to some greedy dickhead in Brazil and there's not a dang thing I can do about it?

I'm not donating to Wikipedia & co again until those questions are answered, and I'm not putting any more effort into finding the answer than spitting this rant out.

There's too much shifty questionable things going on to blindly trust any longer.
Yes, and no.

If you lose the firmware entirely you would indeed lose the derived decryption keys. But if you keep the firmware somewhere safe (or even fetch it again from wherever you got it first), then loading it again would derive the same keys, and you can decrypt your stuff again.

This makes reproducible builds very important by the way: if you rely on a source control system to hold on to old versions of the firmware (just in case someone needs it to decrypt old files), you really really want a way to re-generate the same binary blob from the same source code.
NFTs themselves are the thing that is broken. Any artificial barrier can be worked around.
I would love if someone forks this and turns it into an AI competition. Like that social network only for bots, this would be a runescape server only for bots.
The Bible describes Egyptians making bricks from mud and straw. In europe and the US it's referred to as "cobb" which if you plug that word in to youtube is a deep rabbit hole of building sturdy and sustainable homes for cheap, even today. You need thicker walls (about triple) than what you might see in a lightweight modern home made by 2x4s and drywall, but the lower cost of materials (and much lower cost of labor) offsets this. The incredible thermal mass of the walls also helps to regulate internal temperature during the daytime. But to answer your question, typically no they do not collapse unless the roof goes without any maintenance, which is unlikely in a tropical region.
I think reasons 1 and 3 I listed for financial apps and websites apply for health services, but 2 and 4 don't, so I see why they do it, even if it's less clear-cut.
The Nvidia H100 has become the most sought-after hardware
Ah so wages WERE the problem.

Just a very small percentage of wages ...
Sorry, I didn’t mean it quite so pointedly. :) I just hope the world appreciates lightweight again someday.
I think it'd be a short hop, skip and jump to AI writing DNA sequences, AI design and build artificial womb, then humanity just sort of steps aside while Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron say "we told you so"
> The IAEA sent experts to do a radiological survey in the CEZ in April, but their focus wasn’t on determining the cause of the spikes. Investigators instead wanted to determine if Russian soldiers who dug trenches in a small section of the CEZ had released dangerous levels of radiation in that area that could have sickened the soldiers or anyone else who passed through that area. (The IAEA determined the radiation levels from trench-digging could not have made the soldiers ill.) Three months later, the Ukrainian government invited Greenpeace to conduct its own radiological survey of the areas where Russian soldiers had camped, and they also did not look into the cause or veracity of the February spikes. (They concluded that the radiation levels where the soldiers camped were three times what the IAEA reported and accused the IAEA of being untrustworthy because IAEA Deputy Director Mikhail Chudakov, a Russian, is a long-term official with ROSATOM, Russia’s state atomic corporation.)

Interesting.

The article asks a lot of questions about the Russians’ thinking but I think the most likely answer is that they were just uninformed and unorganized. It’s very unlikely they had any sort of calculated plan. They thought they were going to get all of Ukraine in 3 days. The dumbasses digging radioactive dirt probably didn’t even know about Chernobyl to begin with.
This is an aside. But I twigged on a caption for one of the figures: “Every computational problem takes longer to solve as its input grows larger, but not all problems grow harder at the same rate.”

It’s obvious from CS201 that this phrase is generally true and I have no pedantic objection to its inclusion in the article. However, I’m curious if this is strictly true or if we can find a (nontrivial) counterexample. Are there any algorithms that run faster as input grows? My first intuition is some kind of probabilistic question solved to a given correctness bound.

Edit: it is trivial to construct an algorithm with this property. My precise question is whether any meaningful problems have optimal algorithms with this property.
An example for such a proof would be using the probabilistic method. However, even if we are ignoring some artificial problems, there are some "natural" problems that are known to be in P that we do not have algorithms for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-constructive_algorithm_exi...

Also see:

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/92087/are-there-any-p...
Not just neighbors, I usually give a quick compliment to people while walking/cycling around, and you can see the smiles and sparking eyes immediately after, a lot of people are lonely, such kindness costs nothing.
Interesting until the extended meditations on "why didn't anyone look into this more?????" -- as laid out, IAEA knew and said so publicly, the readings were few and transitory (30m-2h), and if there was a hack, there's 0 real evidence and it's not clear to me it'd be worth disclosing publicly (Russia hacked nuclear radiation in a headline for a schoolboys prank level 'hack' that is completely unprovable)
Meanwhile my new Android Pixel phone will run literally none of the Android apks I bought 5 years ago on humble bundle because it's 64-bit only and they're all 32-bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armory_Show

>reviews were filled with accusations of quackery, insanity, immorality, and anarchy, as well as parodies, caricatures, doggerels, and mock exhibitions

110 years ago
https://archive.md/JuaR6
Uninformed bullshit session that's not really tech related. And no, we're not about to have a nuclear war with China!

Wow, the presenter really likes the "dump a bazillion facts" style of punditry, even when the reality is more nuanced. As a single example, at 11:36, the presenter talks about lockdowns and compares the US "lockdown" (1 year) against the Chinese one (3+ years) and also compares the covid payouts (6k/person US, $500/person China). Not mentioned, though, is that China had a sort of "split" lockdown: if your city had no covid, you just got plenty of tests but no particular restrictions. If your city was locked down, you had to stay in place, but would be fed. Also not mentioned is that the US also had a multi-level covid relief: we paid companies to continue to hire people (my own company did that, paying our support staff 100% of their regular earnings even though they mostly weren't coming in), making the actual compares more difficult. And of course, the cost of living in China is substantially less than America.

So, lots of rambling bullshit, ending up with a pretty lame conclusion.
„Hidden Agenda“: A multi-effects pedal for the mouse and keyboard
Almost 30 years ago*
nitpick: I wonder how TSP became NP complete. It would require to polynomial time algorithm to validate the solution. I doubt such algorithm does exist.
I've adroitly avoided that trap by understanding just about everything.
have you tried various compatibility options? right click -> properties -> compatibility

there's a troubleshooter there, too
The section under “a non blocking server” is probably the best description of the biggest issue with the “why not spin out blocking calls on threads” model.
incorrect, they serve different purposes. If sudo isn't installed then you don't require security updates for sudo...

If you do have sudo you can be very restrictive on who can run what.
Try living in a block of flats. The fact that even though you have hundreds of people living super close to you an yet you have benefits of complete anonimity is a pure bliss.
Depends on the area, but qualified yes - many local cab companies now have apps (in response to uber) and some of those will give decently accurate quotes. In some places e.g. airport fares are fixed rate anyway, so you can just check.
There seems to be a reading comprehension challenge here. Commenters are struggling to understand the distinctions between being a sexual harasser, being accused of being a sexual harasser, being harassed for being an accused sexual harasser, and being harassed for working with an accused sexual harasser, while not being a sexual harasser yourself.
We were talking about bare UNIX sockets and their potential drawbacks. I think they don't really scale / answer to all the needs D-Bus fulfills.

Could you expand on your shared file idea? I'm interested. How do you implement this library without a central service? Note that in my humorous comment I still expose why I think a central program is necessary, now you can disagree with the use case of course.
I guess we all admire the classics, but what about all the talent on platforms like deviantart? it's a new age, and these artists are pushing boundaries in ways unimaginable to the old masters. contemporary art is more than just NFTs. it's about expressing ideas in fresh, innovative ways. so instead of longing for the past, let's embrace the evolution of art.
With or without random events? :)
Thanks for the information, I'll look into that. There's another comment talking about an algorithm I have implemented, it should be around in this thread.

> So instead of doing this the dumb way and enabling -ffast-math for the whole program (which most certainly won't need it)...

When you write HPC enabled simulation code, you certainly need it, and this is where I use it.
> There's plenty of evidence that shows how deeply currupted the 3 letter agencies are in this country.

So is the large majority of the population.
Well, blame the government and their ZIRP policies that caused that inflation in the first place. States will do literally EVERYTHING else but accept well-deserved blame.
Frankly, I cannot imagine how a small rocket, which already has very difficult mass margins, could afford the weight of wings and landing gear. But it will be fun to watch Russia try this.

I would estimate that the weight of wings etc that would permit a glide landing would be less than a whole pile of fuel to permit a powered landing.
Personally I prefer 2011scape but this is good too.
> This is why America was conceived to be a country where the central government can only exercise enumerated powers; because the framers knew that every organization eventually becomes run (at one point or all subsequent points) by corrupt, evil people.

This is false.

America was reconceived as a country where the federal government had enumerated powers because it started as one where the federal government had no powers and could only act by ad hoc unanimity of the constituent states, and that failed hard, and the particular idea of, and particular set of, enumerated powers chosen was a compromise among the Framers who were called to fix the failing system, and whose preferences ranged from a much more powerful central government (the Hamilton and, less extremely, Pinkney plans) to a vastly less powerful one (the New Jersey plan), and did not represent a shared common vision, contrary to the later-constructed mythology.

Taking this mythological common vision, and then constructiong a rationalization for it, and then presenting it as the original plan of government for America falsely projects into a hotly debated contentious compromise created to deal with particular exigencies arising under the earlier plan into a kind of perfect divine revelation of government, which it very much was not and was not viewed as by participants in the process.
How many Lisp Machines did Texas Instruments sell? (I mean outside of that one lab at UT Austin.) :-)

I'm talking about applications developers who came out of the small mainframe/minicomputer world of the 70s and into the workstation/microcomputer world of the 80s. They started with assembly, and prying them off of it was as hard as convincing engineers to use FORTRAN. Convincing those application developers to use a garbage collected language, Java, was hard in the 90s.
To be fair, I bet a lot of minds turned on for that.
Great, fun, creative, expressive awesome art yes - and in insane quantities - but rarely anatomically correct, right? And in that generation I would guess few of them took classical anatomy classes. But then for the people targetted by the fine article, this is not "art". That's the problem.
No? Why did it increase? You know a lot of reactors were closed early. What filled that demand?
702 needs to sunset so we can get back a little bit more of our freedom they took away after 9/11
Would you say it is trustworthy for a charity funded by readers' donations to have a $120 million Endowment that has never, in 7.5 years of existence, published its revenue and expenses? (The latter seem to have run at about $2 million p.a. recently.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_W...

I must say I am fairly disillusioned with the nonprofit world.
On the bright side, the end result is that on Mac there are only apps that have been updated this decade.
I’m personally a bit tired of people complaining about executive pay.

Would the world really be any different if executives were paid $4 million instead of $4 billion?

It’s a drop in the bucket.

It’s like blaming climate change on people who drive Lamborghinis. Yea, it’s a part of the problem, but is it really the problem we should be focused on fixing?

How would the world be a better place if we stripped executives of their wealth?
Breaking backwards compatibility was one of the biggest customer criticisms of Windows Vista.
In recent years I've occasionally wondered what the type/part number of that TWT is. Given its history, its heater and cathode emission seems to have held up remarkably well.

Another question I'd like answered, do the Voyagers cycle down or turn off the heater during TX downtime? Turning it off risks metal/cycling fatigue, leaving it on risks reducing the cathode life—or even poisoning it from stray ions.

A final point, presumably the TWT's output has dropped over the decades, how is this monitored and do we know the percentage drop in power output (from the TWT not the Pu power source)?

The fact the TWT is still working seems quite remarkable—but then perhaps I shouldn't be overly surprised, one of my TV sets, a 23" Sharp, is 43 years old and the CRT still works well (and it's switched on for several hours every day).
I mean, Windows 10 comes baked-in with 30 y.o interfaces all over the damn place, this is hardly surprising. They've been poorly applying thin coats of paint for ages.
I understand the distinctions quite well, thank you. I spent around half an hour reading about the context of what he has been accused of doing before commenting.
True, the cheddar I'd use to get in Ireland was very different than the yellow plastic-wrapped slices you get in the supermarket, or the gooey slabs at McDonald's.

It was more crumbly and a darker orange colour. Also much stronger taste.

They had it in the supermarket but it was not the wrapped-slice stuff but sold in bricks.

I'm surprised they're allowed call that stuff Cheddar actually.
> Every piece of code you write is security-sensitive.

No, not every application is CRUD, not every application is interactive and no, not every application serves users and communicate with outside world in a way allowing to be abused during its lifetime.

This doesn't mean it gives me the freedom to write reckless code all over, but the security model of an authentication module and a mathematical simulation is vastly different.

> there is no way that truly safe C++ can be written at any product-scale.

I agree to disagree here, because of my own experience.
Instagram is full of people who draw realistic faces.
Yeah I guess that's what mystifies me about it so much. Volume does nothing for me.

Like if I'm on a diet of 1,200 cal/day to lose weight, eating bulky foods does nothing to make me any less miserable, compared to if I stick to dense protein/fats/carbs. The sensation (and distraction) of hunger remains identical.
A Yorkshire hello should be able to break anyone out of their shell though!
No, the "right to remain silent" is absolute. It's a refusal to testify to anything at all. The grounds of self-incrimination are there, but if nobody knows what you'll be asked or how you'll answer, those grounds are sort of immaterial.
Sure, but the DR DOS case is well known. Is ZDnet better? It also lists other cases related to efforts to destroy Novell.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/caldera-unlocks-microsoft-evid...
If you produce beef in a lab at scale, you need an immune system (or something at least as effective).

One pathogen can ruin an entire isolated mass of tissue.

If you want to grow meat at scale, this becomes a lot harder and is currently an unsolved problem. And it isn't trivial.

https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-sca...
Mr Spock was "on the spectrum", too, but it ways that were fun.
Draw a box - exercise based set of lessons.
Nope, G forces don't need gravity. If you are in a "0G" environment but accelerating at 9.8 m/s², that's indistinguishable from being "at rest" in a 1G environment.
Hackers is surprisingly realistic, though.

A lot of what they do is social engineering, a lot of stuff references things that were actually part of the culture, and if you ignore the fancy graphics a lot of what is done is quite plausible even if not exactly as depicted.
We shouldn't, if people are not housed or fed.
I think that's why there is so many checks and balances betweent the different branches of government. The FF knew that politicians (humans?) are bound to be corrupt and try to centralize ever more power (and money) to themselves.
No offense taken :)

Another lightweight site I came across is Tildes. [0] it was created by Reddit’s 10th hire after he left. I think it was a response to the Reddit redesign.

Do you have any favorites?

[0] https://tildes.net

https://gitlab.com/tildes
Do I understand correctly that they are showing, "if we increase the size of these tensors along these directions, by padding them with zeros, it does not change the inference behavior of the network."?

If so, I'm.. kind of surprised that this wasn't found earlier?

Ah, well, they also show that they can also insert a new layer in the middle, but, because the layers output changes to be added on to the vector that was received, it does not seem terribly surprising to me that they can initialize a layer such that it produces 0 as the vector it should add onto it.

Ah, wait, no, they also show that other parts of tensors that are added when increasing the size of some parameters, can be initialized arbitrarily, provided that the appropriate other parts are 0 (or, either 0 or identity matrices? not sure.)

And, also some of the tensors have to be re-scaled. Ok.

edit: Though... seeing as a new layer can be inserted at any point, this does make me wonder about, could we do some pre-training of a network, and then freeze those weights, add in a layer and train that layer on some fine-tuning task,
and then, separately, do the same thing with a number of other fine-tuning tasks (each one with the extra layer being trained without the others being present),
and then like, take the network where each of those extra layers are present at the same position in parallel (so, they get the same input, and each of their outputs are added to the sum being created, before going on to the next step. Maybe with each of them being weighted.)

This seems like it could allow for some kind of like, mixture of experts thing? idk what I'm talking about though
I learned about this word recently, too. Lowering the barrier for the curious-

From Wikipedia:

Psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the term "limerence" for her 1979 book, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, to describe a concept that had grown out of her work in the mid-1960s, when she interviewed over 500 people on the topic of love.[1]

Limerence, which is not exclusively sexual, has been defined in terms of its potentially inspirational effects and relation to attachment theory. It has been described as being "an involuntary potentially inspiring state of adoration and attachment to a limerent object (LO) involving intrusive and obsessive thoughts, feelings and behaviors from euphoria to despair, contingent on perceived emotional reciprocation".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence
There's nothing good about space stuff.
Destroy Humanity Tutorial (ChatGPT Jailbreak)
We’re making good progress on this list… See https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15043 for methods and more details about this adversarial attack.
The suggested pronunciation of JWT is the same as the English word "jot"
> That worked because you were on an OS that supported it

I mean... yeah? I'd be surprised if most operating systems didn't have a facility for directly accessing memory mapped devices in some capacity. Even Windows does I think. Have any examples of an OS that doesn't support banging directly on memory?

> using a device with simple enough behavior that things like timing or extra/elided writes didn't matter

Yeah, but that's less of a function of the language like GP was referring to and more a property of using a non-RTOS that doesn't play nice with timing sensitive things from user-space. The language itself is not really the issue there, which was my point.
Private servers like this (though for a different game) were my first exposure to programming, free and open source software, and eventually, computer science as a whole- when I eventually went off to college I majored in computer science and had a great head start in many of the practical/application courses.

I learned about versioning with SVN, OOP with Java, hacking together websites and forums with PHP while in middle school. Really fun times on the Internet.
Carnivores are essentially thieves - stealing the energy concentrated by plants instead of doing the work ourselves.
Northern European countries are, I believe, generally considered low context countries. High context countries include Japan, India, several Middle Eastern countries, France etc
My intuition was that if a proof for P = NP exists, it would be incomparable to the kind of Pi example you provide- Pi is defined as an irrational ratio, so the existence of whether x digit of Pi exists. It would instead be like saying, 'the x digit of P is 7, and here is a proof that is not a straight calculation'. The idea of a proof which can demonstrate knowledge of X digit of Pi, without verification, doesn't click for me.