skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're referring to his most famous work, where he introduces his maxent stuff?
http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf

I would also highly recommend the free and excellent book by MacKay for understanding this: http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html
If you're not allowed to install anything, asking for git automatically comes with git-bash, so it provides some cover for the real reason. And hey, bonus, you get git!
If Apple didn't care, they wouldn't release anything at all.

But they did. It means somebody did care.

But they failed, got beaten by almost one-man-army "team" that started running miles behind from another country behind chain of mountains. It's unreal.

It's unreal because Apple has everything - talent, hardware and software and got beaten by reverse engineering the whole thing.

Such a slap in a face.
The top comment read (to me) as critical of the post, by implying that it was any easy thing to think of, and that maybe the author should have tried building a phone instead if they were so smart.

But as for "agreeing loudly" , I love the term never heard that before. Its definitely something I notice myself and my friends do and stop the discussion when I can. My guess is that it usually starts with some sort of misunderstanding and kinda spirals from there, but also interested to hear thoughts!
meh. installing extensions. i'm too old for that.
Thanks, good to know. I had two citronella candles next to me but I guess it wasn't enough for the mosquitoes. I haven't had a problem with soot, maybe it depends on the kind of candle, and I only blow them out outside.
They're only opening it up to residents bit by bit. They've shown no interest in opening it up to tourists.

Presumably it will only be available for tourists once it's available to absolutely anyone.
Oh wow, yeah, that is pretty egregious. I thought it was just another indexing/search thing, but there's not really any attribution or anything, just a download button. Yikes.
In the context of Bayesian inference, the KL divergence between the prior p(m) and the posterior p(m|x) is the information gained by observing x.

With VAEs, adding a KL divergence to the loss term can be thought of as regularizing information gain from individual inputs.
It says it expires after aug 21st
Agreed Android is a suitable iOS replacement. Maybe a bit wonky at times but I’ve used both and they’re the same for my needs.

XPS is not comparable to M1. Not even close.
It seems to me like this is only happening to articles from bigger publications. Perhaps because these publications have Medium monetization options turned on and this paywall is suddenly applied to all monetized publications as a "new feature"? Terrible, really.
This is awesome! We used a similar SemVer interface for installing standard nix packages on Nixhub (www.nixhub.io), and a lot of users told us it was a killer feature. Having a nice search interface should help a lot with Flake discoverability, which is currently a big challenge.

Great work from the Determinate Systems team!
I mean, the food is pretty mediocre especially when you look at the prices (except Bevri and Zadna that are delicious), the nightlife is basically non existant, the shops are eh, there’s cars everywhere downtown and the general amenities (playgrounds, parcs, cool places to walk and bike around) for kids are sub par. I don’t see how it can worth paying $2k a sqft to live there imo.
Does the CDC still recommend them? I don't know what their official policy position on masking is now.

In any case, you'd have to ask them why; they also recommend that all children 6 months and older get vaccinated against Covid[0], contrary to the WHO who state that vaccinating children has "limited public health impact"[1], as well as the health ministries of other developed nations like Denmark, which doesn't recommend it at all for those under 12 years of age.

So clearly the CDC does recommend things outside of medical consensus every now and then, whether out of an abundance of caution, industry lobbying, or political policy reasons. I mean, doctors used to recommend cigarettes. Why did they do that?

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/planning/children.html...

[1]: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Half joking:
Now we know why Microsoft hired Guido.
I’ve been leaving my phone at home as much as I can - you know, like we did as kids cause there were no cell phones

It’s honestly like taking a mini vacation everyday
Nope. But I think we should all be aware that the anti-semitism was super high at the time in surrounding countries too, that's why he couldn't deport them.
I prefer the Firefox dev tools, except for one thing: Chrome's websocket debugger is better. Firefox seems to miss some websocket messages and sometimes they don't show up at all for me.

The CSS dev tools for things like grids and flex in the Firefox dev tools are much better than Chrome's. The debugger is a tad slower if you need to prettify obfuscated Javascript but both do a good enough job at it.

I also prefer the theme Firefox applies to the dev tools, they feel more native and less like something slapped onto the browser.
> I’m no Nix expert but I’ve used it enough to know that the hype exceeds the capabilities and especially the UX of the tool currently.

Nix has a higher difficulty curve, and rougher corners, than most tools out there.

The onboarding experience can vary from "wow that was easy, this is incredible" to "this is easy to do with Linux, but why is this difficult on NixOS?".

Nevertheless, Nix is a much more powerful tool for dealing with packages compared to what's widely used today. I don't think "overhyped" is deserved, even though someone new to nix will likely have difficulty trying to use it for everything.

> Just as an example, pinning versions that aren’t in the current nixpkgs release isn’t even possible right now without resorting to overlays and other hacks

I read this as "package foo v1.1 was in nixpkgs at some point, but's now foo v1.2". Not sure I'd use the term "hacks", but there are several ways you'd be able to refer to a v1.1 package, depending on what you're trying to do.

But, yeah, if you want a different version than one that's provided by someone else, you're going to have to come up with something yourself.
It’s not. It’s $15k one time or $200 a month
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Amazing what a sudden, drastic decrease in user activity will do for a site's response time.
> Flu viruses are typically transferred through respiratory droplets, not skin contact or injection.

A bewilderingly ambiguous sentence. Is the rarity of infection via injection adjusted for the rarity of getting stabbed with an injection of flu virus? I can think of a number of times I’ve been sneezed on but I’m challenged to recall the last time flu virus was injected into my body.
Is this an AltGr thing? On my (US, in Linux) keyboard right-alt-left-arrow works fine, and I'm pretty sure I do the same thing in Windows (again, US keyboard layout).
Again, I don’t have a choice in the matter if I want to live in the US. But I don’t have to open myself up to authoritarian governments who have a track record for targeting those who participate in free speech in other countries.
mmm ... i should start my readme as "> black people are always late." it just isn't acceptable even though that's an inside joke where/how i was raised. have some empathy. not everyone is going to get it and it's your responsibility to understand that. no context was explicitly given other that it's quoted so we may or may not attribute the comment as the perception of the README author
Eat that, Apple.
Why are they not easy? You go to "about:profiles" and click the "launch profile in new browser." You don't have to install an extension or remember to start-up with a particular command line option.
Yes, I actually completely agree with this.

I placed it on the readme after a long night of working on this project. The joke was directed at my partner who had giggled with me about the absurdity of writing a dsl to template my website.

That said, I do agree that it doesn't land well out of context for the general audience, and for that reason will be removed
Yes I would have put it in the original (pre-edit), but better late than never :-)

Yeah I've never done GPU driver hacking so I can't answer your question with optimal specificity, but there's always something new. It's usually (but not always) backwards compatible, but Apple is a special case since they are their only supported customer. That means that they can iterate very fast with flagrant disregard for backwards compatiblity (I don't necessarily mean that in a negative way, it can be great for development/progress), and it means that any changes they make have to be reverse engineered by setting debug breakpoints, examining state, signals, etc to try and figure out what they changed and how it works now. It's a truly monumental undertaking.
There's a standard for this called CVSS. We pointed it out but it gives a scale 1-10. And they really wanted € KPI.

Oh well.
The comments on this topic are sub-reddit quality. You're right, they have multiple dev teams for everything you'd think they would. It's a real shame how far the quality of posts have gone on this site.
This is a limit of battery technology. Your Apple laptop will ha e shit battery life in a few years as well
I don’t think this is particularly representative, since most Canadian companies that hire outside of Canada (even in the same time zone) are doing it because they can pay less.

Pre pandemic senior roles were usually double that or more. Even government jobs (which would generally be the lowest paying) would be over 100k for a senior.
Right, it's the classic premise of science fiction: how could hypothetical future technology change society? Maybe it's not deep insight, but it is an interesting thought experiment, and now amusingly accurate.
Psychotherapy works on the "self": your problems, your history.

One of the aims of mediation is to gradually understand that this self is really an illusion, hence there are in fact no problems and no history. Past does not really define who you are, and problems are only problems if you think reality should be different that what it currently is the moment you experience it (which is of course totally impossible. What you can do is alter the future though.)

Now don't get me wrong this self is in fact a very useful interface for interacting with others, etc.
The problem is believing this interface, or layer we add on top on experiences really is us, while it's really just a useful concept to navigate the world.

We are all mostly a bunch of habits: this stimuli gives this response because we trained our mind to function this way, were raised that way, live within country X, etc. It's all just mind formatting.
Meditation aims to discover this for yourself, which should leads you to train in developing new, more wholesome habits, which will make you and others suffer less. Then since you are mostly habits, you gradually change, and become much saner as times goes by. Saner because you're living more in adequation with reality.

So in a way, psychotherapy can be seen as a dead end for someone who practices meditation.
Although it certainly has its uses, even for very advanced meditators who can also develop blind spots without seeing them (more work needed, but psychotherapy can be a useful mirror there).
Article is wrong. It's either $15k one-time or $200/mo.
Check back in in a couple of years when the containers extension has been deprecated.
Deceptive Design in Recent Computers and Laptops
Recently, I received a consumer grade dell desktop in for a computer upgrade that appears to prevent me from disabling secure boot. When I disabled secure boot from BIOS and saved changes, it rebooted and the boot process asked me twice to confirm the secure boot disabling, after the second attempt the boot process appeared to lock-up. Also I have noticed that it also included a BIOS Module called Absolute Persistence. My understanding that this was a Business Model feature and not a feature that is needed for consumer models. From my point of view, these features impact the stability of the BIOS, enabling tracking by default that is not needed and creates friction when upgrading hardware. The more features like this they load into BIOS, the longer it takes to flash and the more likely it is for a power outage to happen.

As such, I have stopped my upgrade services for OEM computers. For customers that want to purchase new computers, I am recommending custom built desktop computers with aftermarket hardware, or repair friendly laptops like Framework.
This is completely valid, and I've posted explanations elsewhere, but it's been removed
FDA approves Pfizer's RSV vaccine designed to protect newborns
Thanks for the feedback!

> 1. The exchange rates are confusing to me. For example, on the page for Chase Ultimate Rewards, I see things like
> Exchange Rate (USD)
> 2.00¢ : 1.20¢

> How am I supposed to read that? 2¢ becomes 1.2¢ doesn't mean anything to me. I'm assuming it means that 2pts : 1.2¢. Is that right?

In your example of converting Chase points to KLM miles, 1 Chase point equals 1 KLM mile. With a value of 2.00¢ per Chase point and 1.20¢ per KLM mile, this information helps you assess the worth of the transfer in USD.

By clicking on the "Exchange Rate (USD)" column header, you can sort and compare various transfer options. For instance, if you have 100,000 Chase points, you can evaluate whether to transfer them to Marriott Bonvoy (2.00¢ : 0.84¢) or Hyatt (2.00¢ : 1.70¢). Typically, the Hyatt option would be more favorable.

> 2. The Amazon Rewards ratio for miles is also confusing. What does it mean to get airline miles at Amazon? Why is that ratio different than the USD ratio?

Could you please specify the exact page you are referring to? Is it the page for converting Chase points to Amazon Rewards https://www.points411.com/p/chase-ultimate-rewards/ or the page specifically for Amazon Rewards https://www.points411.com/p/amazon-rewards/?

Additionally, could you clarify what you mean by "getting airline miles at Amazon"? Are you referring to transferring Amazon Rewards to airline miles? As far as I'm aware, there is no option for such transfers from Amazon to miles.

> 3. Also, your links have a little arrow (→), which usually means the link will point to another website. But that arrow is on all your links, including internal ones. This made me a bit hesitant to click on any of them at first, because I was looking for more links inside your site.

Good call! Definitely will make the UI less confusing :)
Thanks! That sounds like it must be it.
There are significant safety risks with this approach.

Current foundation AI models have safeguards in place to avoid generating content that could be used for disinformation, violence, and terrorism.

While not perfect, these safeguards have meant that we've been able to use ChatGPT over the last couple months, without a major backlash due to the technology being used for destructive purposes and it potentially being closed (as has happened many times before).
I have a lot of medical appointments these days and it's a nightmare how many offices insist on communicating over the phone, calling from a different number than the original one I found. All phone calls must be considered personal attacks until proven otherwise.
The title is a bit confusing if you aren't familiar with the needs the author is probably trying to get.

They're likely a sysadmin trying very hard to get around a lot of limitations Microsoft has on their out of box toolsets and to avoid home-rolling a lot of solutions in more challenging languages.

So a combination of C files, executables, and PS scripts is pretty normal for such an environment. The C/.exes are likely because there are usually pretty obvious walls in Powershell once you're reaching the limit of what PS is meant to do; if most of your code is just .NET, probably you should be writing a small .NET app instead of trying to do it through powershell; given that it's not always easy to just execute a PS script on end-user environments depending on the GPOs and other security items, probably the author has just written some very common workflows that were too annoying to do manually, not worth the effort for a fully functional program, but needed more than what Windows returns normally to Powershell.

I'd say the author is on the far end of the Powershell User spectrum, as the tooling is pretty good, and it's clear from the use-cases they list that they are really trying to administrate their Windows boxes very personally but without having to click around the UI a ton. Many of the scripts are just to get around windows' permissioning and access control
If the RK3128 supported pulling this off, it'd be a lot more fitting for a 2600 emulator console to just use the 8K SRAM, an 8Mb (megabit) SPI ROM, and then direct-mapping the 256K L2 as SRAM. Then have the display output scaled from a 320x200 buffer held in that SRAM.

Basically that'd turn it into a really big RP2040 ;)
> Their internal CPU design team is years ahead of the ARM team.

Was. They're now at Qualcomm.
I have a Pixel watch and that covers about 25% of the notifications. Texts it's good for, calls it's great for, Slack it's meh for, email it's terrible for. There are more, but suffice it to say, it's not the silver bullet you make it out to be.
Interestingly, you actually never get signed up for these credit services until you get a credit card. So all the things people tell you “build credit” (eg: pay your bills on time, pay your rent, etc.) don’t actually “do” anything. There’s no credit score to attach to them, so they just go off into the ether. I built credit a bit late in life and it was a struggle to get started. At this point, I kind of wish I’d just avoided building credit altogether. I wouldn’t be in any of these systems.
I can’t believe my M1 Mac is almost 3 years old, performs just like the day I bought it (blazingly fast).

My work Thinkpad from the same period feels half way dead.
It starts with "I can assume what this person is about to say". Because you can project how the conversation will go (You're in "good company" - family, friends, hackernews colleagues - you are all used to linguistic shortcuts as well)

The reality of what they say differs from how you imagined it. Maybe it was close, but they participated new information, so now you feel the urge to contribute as well. Add your own perspective.

You are now suddenly in an arms race with the other person to find the "correct perspective".
I think this is a misconception. I do think there’s a greater likelihood that someone with religious tendencies will pursue a path like this, but the religiosity is not the key.

Sam Harris is the polar opposite of religious, but is arguably one of the leading meditators/teachers in western culture right now. I’m as allergic to religion as someone can probably be, but I’ve gotten serious about meditation and have made it a central habit in my life, because I’ve found that it works.

The ultimate goal is to bring the “here-ness” of the present
moment first experienced in meditation into ordinary waking moments as much as possible. Sitting is just a focused form of training that helps condition the mind and improve focus. When I discovered how impactful sitting was for me, it formed the motivation for deepening the practice. No religiosity here.

The non-religious/non-sectarian meditators are a rapidly growing group, and this is encouraging because the religious part was never necessary, and the perception that it is kept people like me from exploring this sooner.
Just checked. My articles are still fully open.
I wonder how many people an organizations would be interested in starting some kind of initiative to compel OEM providers to stop adding features that clearly are designed to take control away from the consumers? or are there any out there already?
The settings provided do indicate that Firefox has picked a different default subpixel layout than what the monitor has.

This can be because of a bug in autodetection but it can also happen when you orient your monitor vertically, which many people do with secondary monitors.

Assuming the author has set up ClearType right on their computer, I believe this may be a Firefox bug. ClearType on Windows should take care of this stuff already.
Not disagreeing, but it's also correct on some levels.
The CIA and, by extension, the US government as a whole have never altered the outcome of elections anywhere for regime change, and have never instigated color revolutions for regime change.
Agreed. "Q: What is the difference between a million and a billion. A: About a billion" (don't remember the source). Space travel carbon costs are as close to 0% as makes no difference. There are about 8,000 commercial planes in the air right now.
Amusing except that the baby would not be upset, it WANTS that device that mommy and daddy play with all the time.
Book-burning specifically, no, but the Nazis destroyed a lot of research from a German institute that studied gender issues. Knowledge of the place and some of its research still exists, but a lot of the research was simply gone once the Nazis rose to power. That seems like way less of a liability these days with the internet, but even that is prone to government meddling, and when the people that agree with book burnings run the government, well, there's a very famous prescient book on the topic.
yeah, that is what finally made sense but i suppose for most people, word processors are good enough
Most masks that I see now are N95 or KN95 style. Definitely no cloth ones.
> Why we should assume Hitler or Putin, of all monsters, are some of the more delusional ones who actually believe their propaganda is beyond me.

I don't see why we shouldn't. They clearly stated their beliefs. Hitler stated them in private letters. It wasn't propaganda, it was honest beliefs. Just like it's honest beliefs that made Mao accidentally kill millions of his own people, or that made islamists hijack planes and fly them into buildings.

The idea that are real motives like money is so silly. It infantilizes everyone, by not believing what they say plainly and clearly. And it doesn't even pass logical muster in the end. There's no way you can claim the 9/11 hijackers were really out to score a buck or something for example. They knew they were going to die.
Apple has enjoyed, and seems set to enjoy for awhile longer, a full process node advantage over everyone.

People whiff that (cough RDNA3), and people overcome it kinda (Raptor Lake), but ceteris paribus, their shit is just from the future.

Having a bone to pick with Apple is a very reasonable thing, I’ve got a few gripes myself, but that’s why you buy something 2-3 years behind the cutting edge. It’s not because it’s better.
Surprisingly there has not been a rush to go back and update multiple decades' worth of games to use newer rendering APIs.
I'm thinking just like Zuck decided to personally hunt and kill every animal he ate, I shall build from source and install every package I use.
That ship sailed (and sank) with the OPM hack. Beijing knows everything about everyone who matters in national security.
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Are you using macOS, Windows or Linux? There are (mostly subtle) differences between these platforms which may expose more differences between fonts. I get it that it doesn't look different on your system, but I'm not discounting the possibility that the OS platform can also affect rendering.
I know some folks that do this and indeed I do hate it. But not because I'm a slave to my device. I hate the buzzing because you should just put it on silent if you don't care about the notifications. It's pretty annoying to have to hear a buzz or ringer in an otherwise quiet room, and it gets to the hate level when you clearly don't even need it on.