skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd argue the trans and gnederfluid movement is counterculture in that it is a major shift in social norms

Maybe twenty years ago, it’s hit a significant low single digits and had a chunk of prime shelf space to display mass produced merchandise at Target.

I think the change is that things are marketed as if they are cool and novel and rate, because that sells more. But it’s obviously not rare and counterculture if Walmart is ordering a million “Yas queen” t-shirts and selling them in 25k population cities.

Controversial doesn’t mean counter-culture. There’s just different preferences in the mainstream.

Some people liked Michael Jackson, some liked Garth Brooks. Neither were counter-culture. They were both very mainstream.
The practice used to be prevalent throughout the Sinosphere but felt out of favour a bit in recent years.
It would be interesting if US or any other country supplied a crap load of such drone ammunitions to Ukraine, while publicly arguing and dragging feet about the commonly known supplies like F-16s... A well cordinated such move might just overwhelm the defenses that Russia might have put up at this stage. If we anticpate Russsians have anti-drone protections that cost $50 per piece and are prepared for 1 million of them, could we send 2 million of them at once? or spread them out geographically at the same time?

I'm sure my arm chair thoughts are too naive than the folks on the ground and people whose job it is to think about this, but it sure is interesting - new age of war.
Which is sometimes unavoidable, but to be precise, the same even on hot days without direct sun exposure, lets stop pea counting. You will easily find studies that stuff from PET production like acetaldehyde goes into the beverage and impacts taste.

But certainly also kind of what you are used to, always surprising for some folks to learn that for others chlorine water is associated with freshness, while clean water is a bit foul.
> Interpreted languages are not compiled, so this sentence doesn't make sense.

Usually it's a moot point, but in the context of the post it isn't. Python, Lua and JavaScript are compiled to bytecode / intermediate representations. That's compilation, but usually not mentioned, as it's so fast. However, in this context, that speed is the exact point. Use interpreted languages if compilation times (or lack thereof) are a concern!

The lines are blurry though. C# and Java are also interpreted languages (compiled to intermediate representation, then executed on the language runtime aka VM; possibly JITed to native machine code), but no one calls them that.
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It has been incredibly hard for me to quit as the consumption of caffeine feels directly tied with work performance and mood for me. It also doesn’t help that I love the taste of coffee and the routine.
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in the mood of asian fetishisation, are we? i can't, in good conscience read it in any other way. why should you read programming from the lens of this side? is, say, seneca's stoicism not cool enough for you? how about you talk about the phenomenon of if (err!=nil) return err; repetition from the perspective of lovecraftian lore?

this kind of thing reminds me of mcmeditation and jack of twitter.
> driving narratives

lolwut. Japanese anime almost always reinforces traditional Japanese social and cultural norms. It's practically a teaching tool for kids there on how to behave in Japanese society.
The version described here and used most frequently in backpropagation implementations, "autodiff", is reverse-mode AD, but forward-mode exists, as does a spectrum of strategies between the two extremes. Sure, it all comes down to the chain rule, but at an algorithmic level the choice is not at all a trivial one.

In fact, if asked to use the chain rule to propagate gradients through a computation graph, I suspect most people would intuitively default to the forward mode. (I would!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation#Beyo...

Given this, it seems useful to use the term to denote a particular method of accumulating the gradients as one traverses the expressions provided by the chain rule.
Only if it came with code to justify the Go in the title.
> From now on, we are stopping the embargo on the expansion content, and we will be publishing Friday Facts every week about all the different aspects of the expansion until release!

Yay !

EDIT : Why this is quite HN-relevant news :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27446910
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My introduction to cyberpunk culture came from Mondo 2000. Aside from reading about William Gibson, they also had articles on music and movies and smart drugs!

The 90's are 30 years ago(??). I've often wondered if the people taking piracetam or whatever it was back then have had any long term effects, good or bad. It felt like dialing up your IQ and awareness was possible. You just had to figure out the right combination of substances to take.

I just spent 20 minutes looking over google results for nootropics and seems like little has changed.

Edit: Thought archive.org might have this magazine and, of course, they do!

It's a lot harder to read than I remember and the ads are better than I remember. There's also more nudity than I recall... so maybe don't open this at work.

https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.14.1995
I have a PhD in math pure math, and I am fairly well-versed in algebraic topology and I've studied topological data analysis.

The idea is that you take your data points and expand them in space by putting circles around them. If there are features that are persistent over large variations of the sizes of the circles (or balls in higher-dimensional space), then those persistent features are said to be important reflections of the structure of your data.

The persistent features are characterized by homology, which is a tool that measures the basic topological shape of your data. Homology is actually extremely easy to calculate and doesn't require much advanced math. In fact, for data analysis purposes, you can focus purely on combinatorial aspects, in which case no advanced math is required.

In my opinion, it's a pretty idea and seems logical, but in practice it really seems to be limited in a few ways in terms of practical applications. For one, it often is weaker than more direct methods such as good experimental design and other cluster data methods that can be more directly used to tease out causal relationships.

For another, it seems most useful in the domain of comparing data changing over time or some other variable where the fundamental topological structure change in high-dimensional space in tidy ways. This isn't the case with a lot of real-world data.

In practial terms, you can think of this in the following way... there is only so much you can get out of data. And often, what you do need is not coarse topological features, which rarely have intrinsic meaning.

So my overall opinion of it is that while it might have some limited applications in highly specific fields, it will never become a general method that could be used in 99.9% of data science applications. (To be FAIR though, I also believe that a LARGE proportion of data science is also kind of useless too...data science has its fair share of snake oil.)
Plastic bottles are more environmentally friendly.

Glass requires massively more energy to manufacture, even using 100% recycled glass. Glass is heavy, so it's more expensive to transport. Collecting and washing bottles for re-use consumes a substantial amount of energy, which greatly increases the number of trips required to break even on the higher manufacturing impacts. The lifespan of a re-usable glass bottle is relatively very short, because glass is fragile. Glass compares poorly to HDPE when we factor in a realistic lifespan for glass and a realistic recycling rate for HDPE.
This is a good point; English alone is an awful specification language. Everyone knows what you mean by "print the first ten prime numbers" but only by idiom and cultural context. This is why LLM is a good fit here, because -- when it works -- it includes all three aspects.
Huh, narration matters. Thanks.
Missing out on all that existentialism and stoic development methodologies though.
There have been many comments that have pointed out the poverty of real ML applications that ride on algebraic topology.

The problem is this -- topological spaces on their own have a lot less structure than say a vector space or a metric space. Most of the real world data that ML applications deal with today have more structure and are thus handled using vector space methods or metric space methods or manifold methods. It is also the right thing to do. When you have structure you shoukd use it.

TDA would be useful for data sets where the members have no clear analogue of a distance, or the distances cannot be trusted, or where vector embeddings do not make sense.
you can read Carl M. Johnson's paper about Dao and computation. http://www.carlsensei.com/docs/essays/dao-and-computation.pd...
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Why are people obsessed with anything? If the wallpaper was related to Rock or Heavy Metal would you be asking the same question? Or maybe a reference to Start Wars or LOTR. They are just pieces of art/media and people are fans of it
Interesting here and in some of the other comments in this thread is that 1 is not a prime number ¹)!

Now granted, that's more or less by definition and I don't doubt there's communities and fields where it is considered one, but still shows some of the subtleties at play when using language models.

¹) https://www.google.com/search?q=is+1+a+prime+number
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Here's a tabs controller I threw together while building RailsNotes UI (https://railsnotesui.xyz). Hope some of you find it useful!
everyone studies chain rule in school, so it's definitely more clear, especially if you look at the amount of unnecessary complexity and convolutedness in many autodiff explanations (an substantial amount for such a simple subject)
>Young people have become a scarce resource and it's painfully visible already.

Yep, it leads to there being even less young people that want to live in the sticks and small towns that need them. But meanwhile they continue to try and build large factories in said locations for tax savings.
See, it's not <insert some bad take about left>!
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Daoism and Computation [pdf]
Timothy Snyder's lectures on Ukrainian history in 2022 are very enlightening in this regard. He also stresses the need to discuss German imperialism in WWII, a topic that went out of focus after the invention (of the concept, for lack of a better word) of the Shoah and the coming to public awareness of all the horrors we know.

The "clean Wehrmacht" myth has also a history of its own, which I sometimes see as having to do with the political weight of veterans and their immediate families and Germany's progressive acceptance of democracy, in a cold war context.
A display probably costs Apple about $100 when they buy it. Now you have to keep it in a warehouse in sufficient quantities and send it to a customer or repair shop when they need it. Add taxes to this and suddenly you are awfully close to that $300.

New devices are just too cheap, because it's much more efficient to build a new device. Labour and logistics are much cheaper when manufacturing millions of the same device.

I believe the cost for repairing electronic devices in the next 5 - 10 years should partially be paid upfront. Making new devices slightly more expensive for everyone and making the repairs considerably cheaper for those who need them.
My interpretation of the parent post is not that LLMs' output should be checked by humans, or that they are used in domains where physical verification is expensive; no, what they're suggesting is using a secondary non-stochastic AI system/verification solution to check the LLM's results and act as a source of truth.

An example that exists today would be the combination of ChatGPT and Wolfram [1], in which ChatGPT can provide the method and Wolfram can provide the execution. This approach can be used with other systems for other domains, and we've only just started scratching the surface.

[1] https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-plugin-chatgpt/
Anime is just a medium, not a genre. There are good and bad anime, just like there are good and bad movies, books, and TV shows. I don't think it's fair to judge an entire medium based on a few bad examples. I'm not a huge anime fan, but I've seen some good ones.
I think characterizing it as a "conversational" dataset could be seen as misleading in this area. Without reading about it, I'd expect it to be based on transcripts of therapy or intake sessions. I don't think wiki or FAQ websites are quite the same.
Good. The Dutch government has committed itself to cutting the Russian cancer out of Europe. Putin failed with it's LNG blackmail. He tried with grain but causing famine in third world countries has never made European politicans blink.

I think companies are betting on things getting back to normal but if the Russian middle class can be successfully reduced to USSR levels it's best to cut losses now.
> Most of my researcher colleagues seem to have similar distaste for wanting to make money. The work is the goal.

You sure give the profit motive a lot of due for someone who claims to be above it.

Hard work and perseverance is a human instinct that is undermined by antisocial institutions like copyright, which has no precedent absent the barbaric mode of relations we call capitalism.
Wouldn't that be evidence at most that its reasoning was flawed, or could contain errors?
>"This is the right solution"

...may not be the correct decision.
Yep, factory techs just need a brain and can be trained up to it.

Actual semiconductor design work doesn't happen at said factories. There's also not that much shortage in that space because colleges pump out plenty of EEs with semiconductor focus with Masters and PhDs. They can also struggle to find jobs because well, it's such a niche industry that anyone doing semiconductor design isn't going to leave their job for a non-semiconductor job easily and there's been a lot of industry consolidation in the semiconductor space. The electrical space is quite mature compared to decades ago.
Pretty much this.

I worked at a HW company and we did our board design, bring-up etc all in Taiwan,
board production/population, enclosure, power, final assembly etc all in Shenzhen and firmware/software as global remote but US centric.

It wasn't just that it was cheaper, it was faster, more accurate and more flexible. With collocation of everything you need to build HW (i.e all the inputs, parts etc being made in the same place) it was just so much faster not only to do initial product dev but also to spin revisions/iterate.

It's going to take a long time for similar density to build up somewhere else to enable to same sort of super rapid HW development cycle.
> a rational person will blame the repairer

Why would someone selling a used device disclose that it was repaired for $15 at a flea market?

Apple wants their devices to either work great, or not work at all.

Sounds like it’s not a brand for you, which is fine. Plenty of other people are happy with the value prop, which is also fine.
After I scrolled through the article looking for something concrete, I clicked on "Best Go books for 2023", and found that 5 of 6 books in the list were by the same person - which, unsurprisingly, is also the owner of the website. I think this site needs a bit less self-promotion and a bit more actually helpful content...
Examples like these do little to help the idea that AI is just a tool for beginners - especially in a language like C++, where the code it generates it clearly junior-level code.
Maybe it's some mass illusion, but most people say that drinking from glass bottles tastes significantly better. Personally cans taste bad, plastic somewhat better.
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You can actually see videos of many sessions at Davos and judge by yourself
Spaniard here. I think you are the one with prejudices, not the OP.

Thinking that of Spaniards when we were behind the first steps of CRISPR, having an astronomical observatory in Tenerife, making crazy revolutionary surgery on transplants in Valencia (and so on), that's a non-issue for actual scientific environments where they are more than aware on our skills.

HN it's mainly a US site, OFC it adds information to the news by pointing that an Spaniard did it. By just putting the surname of the author of the discovery, he might seem to be from any point at the US Southern to the Patagonia in Argentina or the Iberian peninsula.
Suggesting even more it has little to nothing to do with man made climate change. There was a multi-sigma gain in ice shortly before after decades of steady but slow growth. Certainly man made climate change would have impacted that. A single event isn’t an indicator. Trends are. And the trend is more ice.

There are many variables. And when a few things come together there are rare but large variations. Articles like this are just climate hysteria for climate doomers. So much of this has been politicized that people don’t even realize they’re reading propaganda.

Yes the climate was warmed a bit over the last 40 years after decades of cooling which was preceded by a warming period. The 1930s were the warmest of the 20th century and then we saw decades of cooling.

And yes carbon likely plays a role as we can model an atmosphere and see this. But it’s probably not as significant as the hundreds of other natural variables. Besides for every degree of warming in a lab you need exponentially more carbon. So it’s difficult to accelerate.

Slowly move towards non-carbon energy over the next 50 years. We’ll be fine.
Those numbers don't seem right, looking at Wikipedia[0]. I'm sure console pricing can skew that a bit, but xbox is basically dead outside the US in terms of marketshare.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_co...
Agreed. Not very useful IMHO.
Maybe OP is thinking of https://paste.sh/Uwyu3Clb#MSWkjF81G0RvLYtrU6wic6LZ ?
> a rational person will blame the repairer, not Apple

Assumes facts not in evidence. My experience has been people tend to blame the platform supplier first and foremost.

1990s OEM computer maker loads a bunch of crapware on your PC? You're likely to blame Microsoft Windows.

SimCity doesn't run on Windows 95 because of a bug in SimCity? You're likely to blame Windows 95. Microsoft at least understood that dynamic.

iPhone acting weird? Apple's fault, obviously, no questions asked. It's the default position of consumers.

I agree with your assertion that this is a knock on the Apple brand for a certain subset of their audience. I don't think it matters to the lay user as much as it does to the power user.
You understood nothing and gave your opinion. Congratulations, tell us more about how offtopic you are?

This proof of work doesn't mean crypto currency, it doesn't mean coins, it doesn't mean buying or selling tokens. It means proof of work. More exactly, having to put your computer at work in order to solve an equation. If you do that, the server lets you in. If you don't, you can't enter.

This is the original proof of work. It's also proof of work when you solve a captcha, it's just a different proof of work, a human, mental one. Here, it's a computer one, meaning in order to access a website a thousand times, you would have to run the proof of work a thousand times, so a thousand times more ressource.

I really wished you gave the article a read, before saying Torproject is a shame. Maybe you are?
It's a start but eventually I'd be great to add some sort of payment layer much like bitcoin lightening. If running a node pays much more people would be willing to do so.
You do realize that a twitter thread is about as useful to many people as posting an internal Facebook link these days? To my surprise I can see the post and not a login window as most days, but there are no replies.
Pretty much. Analytical aggregates are where they shine.
Maybe it should be, but your assertion is incorrect. It is not currently a crime to create spaces where people using motor vehicles have a statutory right-of-way over people not using motor vehicles.

Cars themselves have very few rights. Property has its own rights only in very esoteric court cases like United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins[0]

Personally I'd rather live in a society in which most common roads reserve default right-of-way for pedestrians and bicycles, but also in which some spaces are reserved for motor vehicles, particularly limited-access highways away from city centers. I'd also like plenty of public transportation both locally and inter-regionally, to eliminate the "need" to own personal motor vehicles.

I just keep separate what I want from what is reality.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately...
I mean, it's one thing to upload and use absurd amounts of cloud storage, but how do you get it out of there?!

If Dropbox has no egress fees like most cloud providers, then they're a bargain, but how long you gonna wait for 35TiB to come down your pipe? Maybe okay on an enterprise fiber connection, but wow.

Also, we recently saw Google Drive clamp down on people with absurd file object counts. Surely beyond 15TiB, people will have tons of individual files and folders too.
Starting this with Apple is probably much easier PR wise than with Microsoft or Sony since their customers like Apple and Sony. Because most gamers don't care about Apple or don't like Apple (which is fair since Apple doesn't seem to care about them).

And the more important reason is that Epic probably already has deals in place with Microsoft and Sony. We have seen that they exist for Activision thanks, to the merger, so why shouldn't Epic have similar arrangements?
I seem to recall V4L2 has a similar backstory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video4Linux#History
Try this instead (which probably was the inspiration of this article): https://the-zen-of-go.netlify.app/
I remember when I was just out of college looking at jobs.

I forget which H1B consulting farm it was that emailed me(a citizen), but they were advertising a "Full-time salary job" doing software engineering in NYC, $39k/year.

Yea...no shit they won't get any takers and will use that as evidence to hire H1Bs.
No. Discord defaults to using only a phone number for verification.
Microsoft SQL Server ColumnStore and SAP HANA both support indexes, point updates, etc...

You can convert a table in SQL Server to "Clustered ColumnStore" storage, it'll become compressed, but everything will mostly work the same.

The implementation in SQL Server uses a row "delta store" to keep recent changes. Once a certain threshold is reached, the delta store is converted to columnar format and merged with the underlying table.
> But with a good web search and up to date APIs, it can do it.

How do you do that?
That's >1300 US Gallons, which is a little more than what we use in a week as a family of 5.
*can hear something spinning fast, damn mobile keyboard
I think it will solve itself as people move to steel pipes which are generally less labor intensive to drill. They also eliminate the danger of falling into the well.
It's the TLD for Mali, a country in Africa, sadly not the Mali GPU.
I’ve been using Octal for multiple years and really like it. I am primarily a reader, rarely a poster, and it seems to do the job well enough.