skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How I understand it:

Entropy (according to Boltzmann) is proportional to the number of microstates that can give rise to a particular macrostate of a system. The macrostate with the highest number of possible microstates is the uniform one, where all the accessible microstates are equally likely. So if by the 2nd law entropy must increase, the system will tend towards the uniform configuration.

In other words, if a force is pushing water, the configuration with the highest number of states is that where all the particles of water are also moving i.e. indistinguishable microstates, doesn't matter how you rearrange the moleculles, it will look the same as they are all moving uniformly. It would be extremely unlikely that there were a pocket of water that is mysteriously still in the middle of the stream no? Clearly there are not a lot of rearrangements of the mollecules that will keep the macrostate the same, so low entropy, which tends not to be the case.

(Edit) How this connects to the "desire to dissipate energy efficiently":

Essentially, when we talk about "energy" we really mean "free energy". This is the amount of work that we can extract from a system. This is nothing but a measure of how far a current system is to it's maximum entropy state. So dissipating energy = increasing entropy.

The mindblowing part for me is the connection that the process of extracting free energy is the same process that moves a system to its most likely state, uniformity, high entropy. So somehow, the ability to _accelerate_ an already inevitable process lets us reconfigure other systems _away_ from their most likely state!! So if we imagine the arrow of time to progress at the average rate of entropic decay, we are essentially reversing it for some systems by accelerating it for others!!!

Man...
this only works for publicly released model weights, right?

can it work for closed models, like midjourney?
Partial reply: I think getting distracted by the menu is a good thing. It really helps you get up to speed with a program. On programs like Total Commander, I know where most things are and I don't spend much time searching for them. On programs like Win11 Paint or even some games (Men of War 2 springs into my mind but others probably qualify too) I just become disorientated. Monochrome stylised white icons aren't really distinct from each other, I constantly get confused between which one is which. So I never actually "learn" the interface or get any faster at using it.
I would hazard a guess that it's probably because BitLocker predates TPM by at least two years, and Microsoft wants to avoid bricking old BitLocker secured data because most users just aren't going to be on top of this stuff.
As someone who personally has been rate-limited, it's a little annoying but justified in basically every occasion I've seen someone complain about it. It's also not hard to figure out what's happening if you're the kind of person willing to put in enough effort to be a good member of the hacker community.

Avoid getting into flame wars, and send an email to dang saying you'll do so in the future, and you're fine. If you can't do that, or can't be bothered to use Google to figure that out, there's a good reason for your account to be rate limited.
"Hallucination isn't a real problem, people will always scrutinize the generated code!"

Sigh...
Dollar Tree is the latest retailer to say shoplifting is squeezing margins
I think difficulty also kind-of scales per-user, due to the queue mechanism.
My 2 cents.

I was part of my subreddit for a city/country between 2012-2016 and we started doing meetups a couple of times a year, and with a group of those people we meet almost every Saturday to play soccer.

It felt like a group chat with a bunch of friends, then the subreddit became one of the "default" communities for new people that registered in reddit and it grew really fast and the community dissapeared.
Assuming you're using source control properly and read the diff before running it, I guess this is one way to make sure that a comment matches the code? If the bot changes it, maybe your comment wasn't clear enough?
There are PoW algorithms specifically developed to resist GPU and ASIC. Typically they do this by being memory intensive instead of (or in addition to) being compute intensive.
Really like how the whataboutism adds useful thoughts.

That guy claimed his cloud VM was compromised. Few would consider that to be a secure way to keep a secret, and it could be a boating accident story. Boating accidents do happen.
Many modern humans would travel for no good reason on a moment's notice.

Ofcourse here are talking about our greater family tree and its entirely possible that more confined lifestyles (like e.g. the great apes of today) where more typical earlier on.

I would think though bipetalism did not get selected just to increase the daily range from the home base. At some point some hominid species started roaming and reasons to do so would be abundand (overpopulation, drought, following animal migrations etc).

The trouble is (starting already with archeology) that the stuff that survives the aeons to be found today is always "special" in some way. Like being burried in certain conditions, being in a collapsed cave etc.

Nature is a great recycler and doesnt leave many traces of its pathways.
> There's no way an "enterprise grade" cloud vendor like AWS would allow co-tenancy of containers (...)

I don't think your beliefs are well founded. AWS's EC2 by default only supoprts shared tenancy, and dedicated instances are a premium service.
Serious question: is the crate that fakes it with box dyn future really not performant enough for you?
Do any allow ejecting?

I would assume exposing their spaghetti that comes with such a platform is a big concern.

Let alone managing bringing things back in after someone gets creative.
Probably, but I suspect like all captured regulators, they'd impose a penalty of a sternly-worded letter and a wag of the finger, and a "firm request" that they stop lying no later than 2033.
How is this better than actual Jupiter?
Gate Tower Building – Japan
Can you elaborate more on this?

> E.g. Haskell has an awesome concurrent GC that’d work like crap for Java, because it assumes tons of really short-lived, really small garbage and almost no mutation. The other way around is also bound to be problematic—I don’t know how the Scala people do it

I don't know a ton about Haskell's GC, but at surface level it seems very similar to several of the JVM GC implementations - a generational GC with a concept of a nursery. Java GC is very heavily designed around the weak generational hypothesis (ie, most objects don't live long) and very much optimizes for short-lived object lifecycles, so most GC implementations have at least a few nursery-type areas before anything gets to the main heap where GC is incredibly cheap, plus some stuff ends up getting allocated on the stack in some cases.

The only big difference is that in Haskell there are probably some optimizations you can do if most of your structures are immutable since nothing in an older generation can refer to something in the nursery. But it isn't super clear to me that alone makes a big enough difference?
> we changed the language so it didn't seem like they were providing medical services at all

You are providing medical services, trying to claim you aren't is absurd. Changing the wording to claim you aren't to avoid legal liability is exactly the kind of deception people are calling you out on.
When I use HF to get some base model I always make sure I have local copy and then load from the local copy. I push said copy into (remote, obviously) git for the eventuality of HF going down/model being removed.
> Stacked shrinking boxes

I think that one is meant to be a ship.
Yes you should absolutely talk to your doctor or an expert before doing it. But that doesn't make it "DIY". I was just pointing out that you don't have to buy a startup's expensive device to get the same functionality.
No-code platforms are really DSLs wrapped in a nice UI. No-code platforms that are more open and developer focused typically let you actually dump out the app as a big bundle of config/DSL (e.g. a custom JSON format).

Maybe using LLMs to generate DSL code will produce better (and more maintainable) results than fully-fledged languages?
> It's not like the matter has some goal of dissipating the energy

Doesn't it, though? Everything is thought to be tending towards higher entropy, and the dissipation of heat helps accomplish that.
I'm sorry to hear that happened and that it's been so stressful for you.
Vivek Ramaswamy and the limits of ‘God talk’
> - When you recorded off the radio, you usually had someone talking over the beginning, end, or both (and this was by design, because the radio station knew that if you had a good copy you wouldn't listen to the radio anymore)

If such adulteration was sufficient to prevent my listening to the recording, than I wouldn't listen to the radio in the first place. Radio is at least no better than my recording if it always contains such effects.

> With videos on YouTube you can:

> - Which you can easily redistribute to millions

Which platform might I use to perform this redistribution? And how am I to compete with the copy retrievable from the bands own youtube page?
Spacy hosts them too, of course.

python -m spacy download en-core-web-lg

etc
So you want WebDAV support?
I take them to mean shared kernels.
> Gradle is declarative

Gradles own docs say "Well-designed build scripts consist mostly of declarative configuration rather than imperative logic".

When it's up to the programmer to make a script declarative, it's not a declarative language.
Does this include typing in code to play games on graphing calculators?
> However I hear buzz words like Lambda and Firecracker and and really have no idea where the usage is.

Sometimes you just want to slap some lines pf code together and run them from time to time, and don’t need a whole server (physical or virtual) for that.

Sometimes you have no idea if you’ll have to run a piece of code 100 times a day or 10’000’000 times a day.

Sometimes you don’t feel like paying a whole month for and maintaining a whole instance for a cronjob that lasts 20 seconds, and maybe it runs once a week.
clang compiles all three of these functions to use max instructions (https://godbolt.org/z/9z7hGfdhq).

#include <algorithm>

using std::max;

int max_array_func(int values[], size_t values_count)
{
int max_value = values[0];
for (size_t j = 0; j < values_count; j++)
{
max_value = max(max_value, values[j]);
}
return max_value;
}

int max_array_bittwiddling(int values[], size_t values_count)
{
int max_value = values[0];
for (size_t j = 0; j < values_count; j++)
{
int x = max_value;
int y = values[j];
// http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerMinOrMax
max_value = x ^ ((x ^ y) & -(x < y));
}
return max_value;
}

int max_array_branch(int values[], size_t values_count)
{
int max_value = values[0];
for (size_t j = 0; j < values_count; j++)
{
if (max_value > values[j])
{
max_value = values[j];
}
}
return max_value;
}
It varies. A good overview of this particular issue is at:

https://skepticalscience.com/surface-temperature-measurement...
> Support tells me "they're part of onboarding" so you can't unsub.

So stupid.

I work on email systems all day. EVEN IF you have a valid reason to send someone an email, they can still file a spam complaint and that's much worse than just an unsubscribe.
Safely only means you're above a threshold value that is safe enough, but you can always be safer with sufficient further expense. Presumably your budget allows you to go beyond the absolute bare minimum, but it obviously won't get you to infinity either, so you optimize for the best option within your constraints.
This basically goes into "I don't need this shit" territory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm4BOVagU_8
What protocol is used for the file transfer?
If the doctors say "the cord wrap will stop breathing" and I say "that doesn't make sense" am I denying science or is it just.a normal disagreement?
Nice.

Middle/Second row result is

8 flagfall "Flagfall, or flag fall, is a common Australian expression for a fixed start fee, especially in the taxi, haulage, railway, and toll road industries."

8 galagala "A name in the Philippine Islands of Dammara Philippinensis, a coniferous tree yielding dammar-resin."

Lower/Third Row:
- None

There are no vowels on the bottom row. So no words. I've been typing at ~ 50wpm for 30 years, and I don't think I'd ever actually consciously recognized this fact about the bottom row.

(standard US keyboard layout)
In the US, see here: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov
One could argue if that actually makes it a less effective icon.

And it's not the only case where something similar happens:

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/90445/mail-icon-is-th...
That's easy: rock stars strutting around on stage have infinitely more charisma than nerds slaving in an artificially-lit cubicle farm.
Llama2-70B with MosaicML Inference
They are talking about the March 31st ruling. Scroll up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...
I mean this in the kindest way possible: you need to mix up your sources of information, as you have become blinded by lies from marketers and a cult of personality. Machines have been using redundant sensors since machines and sensors have existed, with great success.
If only 27% of ADHD sufferers have experienced childhood trauma then we can be certain that such trauma is not its cause.
SICP is almost like a religious book to me.
You do know that lidar has resolution and a vacuum doesn't need high resolution for its needs vs a car?
Someone should turn this into a product! You highlight the code you want to optimize, and it posts it to hn as a semi-contextually-appropriate comment to invite code golfing, and the highest rated reply gets posted back to your repo as a PR.
Icons are hard once you get past very ordinary operations. Here's someone powering up an electric locomotive. Large physical buttons with very specialized icons.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/IQKDtw0llNE?t=217
After 1hr+ of intense biking, I am in the same boat - body is so heated from the ride (often in the morning when it's cold so my extremities are quite cold) that hot water feels scalding, cold water feels really nice.
I was thinking about using the fuselage as a corridor because that was the most charitable.
Yep. All the no-code systems I've ever investigated are essentially expert systems, and if there's one constant over the history of AI boom and bust cycles, it's "statistical models absolutely demolish expert systems every time".
A number of years ago I solved a minor but repetitive QoL problem I had, and created a password I could type with just my left hand. It started as 8 characters, but I now have variants with as many as 15 characters. Not a word, or even words strung together, but it is so nice being able to just type it with one hand.
Do you have a title for the specific resource you're linking to? That link isn't working for me.
Is uber still a thing? Every driver i speak to on the rare occasion i use it tells me they dread uber, and prefer bolt. Also my experience with uber has been abysmal.
I wouldn't find that shocking and it wouldn't devalue the product. Pastries are a sometimes snack food. They aren't healthy, and that doesn't matter if you consume within moderation.

Glad to see the Zoom CEO can be honest about the product. It's good for a lot of things, but it isn't a complete replacement of human interaction.
> Jenny went on to continue with the rest of her story, explaining that on one birthday, she received free drinks 'all night' for showing her unusual addition to a member of staff who had a fear of belly buttons.

> "I showed them to her and she completely freaked out and started crying and left and they high-fived me and gave me free [drinks] for the rest of the night," Jenny explained.

I've never felt cheated by the circumstances of my birth before this moment.
But if the opposite was true, why do I have to specify it at all? Why can’t it free on scope exit like any other language, with “let”?
Clickhouse isn’t the same level of compatibility as Postgres/Hydra. So the comparison ain’t really fair bur yes clickhouse is kind of the gold standard for this
Coming from C# I made it a habit to always check when I don't know a class.
Bitwarden releases free and open-source E2EE Secrets Manager
Thanks! That helps a lot. It was not what I meant but re-reading it I can see how you got that impression. I find the orbital entry/landing phases of exploratory missions to be the most interesting technically as they always have bunch of technical challenges with engineers making trade-offs. The "sky crane" idea NASA came up with blew me away (as an example). I think the ISRO team really did a fabulous job on the landing here. Watching the numbers touch down was so delicate.
Currently attacking is nearly free, and you can't access the site at all anyway.
Do we see the DA actually taking over from the ANC next year though?
I think its due to the format.

In a normal meeting your eye is not forced to look solely at a matrix of faces.

Your can focus on someones face if you wish but otherwise you are looking at the person normally from the waist up.

Looking at someones face forces you to make eye contact which has an emotional effect on the parties involved. Extended periods of eye contact is used in couples therapy to increase empathy and intimacy.
Does anyone know how the `make verify-source` works?
> Little do they know that all software devs within the company are using co-pilot and the company is even paying for it.

Just like annual sexual harassment training - it's mostly corporate CYA on liability. If it ever goes to court, they'll plead ignorance and blame the employees who should have known better as they were trained/informed on what they ought not to do.

Paying for co-pilot could bite them though, so I suspect it's a case were the one part of the organization isn't aware of what the other is doing
Certainly gives another meaning to the word 'no-code'!
I think the rationale for the policy is something like "if we didn't encourage this, we'd get a lot of low-quality comments that boil down to 'I disagree'".
I think that's bad reasoning. Disagreeing without saying why should be banned, but disagreeing why explaining why be useful. If the point of upvoting/downvoting is make the more interesting and useful comments bubble up to the top, having comments sink to the bottom because people disagree is clearly counterproductive.
Ironic it bids us not to be Bible salesmen :p
Part of it I think is discord users wear headphones more. If you are using a mic and your laptop loud speaker, the app will kill your mic every time someone else is talking, otherwise you get a feedback loop.
I'd be curious to understand why the they think the technology would work in fog. The article suggests it does, but the science behind how that worked wasn't explained (or I didn't get it).

Does anyone understand this? The problem with fog as I understand it is that it defuses light, washing out vision. My understanding is that Lidar does not bounce off fog, or at least to the same degree.

Is my understanding there correct?
The article itself lacks details on what proof of work actually is - based on your answer I’m assuming compute rather than captcha. Is there any example algorithms that are easy to understand? I’m curious to see an algo that’s expensive for the client but cheap for the server to verify, I assume it involves reversing an equation or similar?
This was an excerpt of a longer message; we did not claim all our coaches are licensed or certified mental health professionals.

Original wording:
All of our Shimmer ADHD Coaches are licensed or certified mental health professionals* or have extensive experience with ADHD & undergo our Shimmer Coach Training program
Interesting. I read this whole thing. And there wasn't one picture/example/icon in it. Just words. If ever there was a case for a "few pictures might have been worth a lot of words", this was it.
I decided to try postpaid for the first time in a while, signed up with T-Mobile and traded them a year-old phone for about $800 in bill credits.

They didn't send me a label for my phone for a couple weeks, so I reached out to them and a rep sent me a UPS label, which I used. (Apparently their ecommerce website had simply eaten the part of my order where I declared a trade-in.)

The bill credits never showed up, so I started reaching out to social media customer service on Twitter or Facebook Messenger. This is the only competent arm of their whole CS org. And they're actually empowered to follow up independently so you don't have to keep calling them.

Anyway as far as I can piece together my phone was sent to their returns center instead of their trade-ins place, and after being signed for, it was never seen again. (I assume somebody recognized it didn't belong there and made sure it fell off a truck).

Eventually the reps got a supervisor to okay a solution, which happened to be in my favor -- they just credited the full amount they owed me against my installment plan immediately, so I only owed like another $150 on the new phone at that point, paid it off, and had it unlocked.

I think I stayed about a year. I got lucky with my issue, but they are definitely not great overall at their one job of providing wireless service.

AT&T's prepaid service runs on an account/billing platform and website that is straight out of 2003, but the plans themselves are great and the service works well in my part of the country (T-Mobile sucks in most of the West by comparison).
Kill the newsletter + RSS
> Is this a better price than a licensed therapist? Yes

Good luck finding a licensed therapist who has bookings or availability. In Seattle I have had almost 0 luck over multiple years, and I have talked to many other people who have had the exact same amount of luck. The very few therapists around here who do specialize in ADHD either specialize in children, or they are so booked up they don't even bother with a wait list.

Mind you this is for cash payments, if you want insurance to cover care you are completely out of luck no matter how good your insurance is.
With those letters, not surprised!
The problem isn't the single digit days. We were totally fine with this and we just put it down to "the baby will come out when they're ready"

I'm saying that you need to tell that to the doctors, who raised all manner of forcible induction on the mother at N+1 days.

Why is a week within margin, but the day after due date isn't?
Amazon rightly is very careful about closing accounts. This is why you have had a hard time thus far. When you say “invalid email accounts”, what do you mean? Are they perhaps addresses on a domain that you control? If so, it’s a very simple fix. You just re-create those addresses, then go through the “forgot password” process to regain access to those accounts.

If the addresses are on a domain that you do not control, well, that’s a lesson learned for you I think. In this case, you’ll need to continue working with support to explore what can be done.
I don’t know if it’s true, but read that “stewardesses” is the longest for the left hand
Fair enough. Those are some good points!
Has anyone had an experience of a worker deterring people playing on the piano? (I don't mean obnoxious kids pounding on the keys and damaging the piano, I mean actually skilled people playing tasteful music)
Same technique described in 2021:
https://dolosgroup.io/blog/2021/7/9/from-stolen-laptop-to-in...
Odd that the first example looks buggy:

while i > size
result += a [i++]
}

Could be correct, but "while i < size" seems more likely...
FAQ here: https://archive.is/KBpyh / https://honeycodecommunity.aws/t/honeycode-ending-soon-faq/2...

Shutting down on Feb 29, 2024
The website linked here (an advertiser) just requested to run a custom URL handler (launch something outside of chrome). Most sus thing I've come across in a while