skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we show that over-parameterization catalyzes global convergence by ensuring the feasibility of the SVM problem and by guaranteeing a benign optimization landscape devoid of stationary points

does this mean 'an over-parameterized transformer problem is a convex svm problem'?
2000: https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/cell.html

> I don't wear a wrist watch for a similar reason: if you wear a watch, it means that your life is structured such that you frequently need to know what time it is. And that means that your life has taken a wrong turn somewhere.
Laws pretty much always mean a loss of freedom, with the intent of promoting some other positive goal (often, some other freedom). That's why we make them.

Balancing these goals is not easy, but we don't get to avoid it just because we want "freedom" as an abstraction. It's an important consideration but only one when you put a lot of people with conflicting goals together.
>The replacement neurons were manufactured using powerful stem cells originally sourced from a human embryo created an in vitro fertilization procedure.

I’m not sure what “powerful” means here. Just a stupid use of the word. Is the ability to differentiate into a complete organism (totipotent) “powerful”? It’s powerful if you respect human life, which these people don’t. They do respect themselves, money, and charlatanism.

They used non-HLA matched embryonic stem cells instead of autologous iPSCs. I’m sure the handful of cells that manage to survive will be found and destroyed. They don’t even see a difference on the DAT scan.

Parkinson’s is such a grotesque disease to go after here with their silly unproven bullshit. How about go after something much more accessible - like cartilage. Can these braindeads induce cartilage regeneration with their stem cells? No they can’t. They can’t do anything so they go after a really desperate population. $$$
I mean, any smart TV is a dumb tv once you don’t connect it to the internet?
I have DotUltimate and use VSCode to program C# all day every day. It's getting there. Works really well for straight coding. The debugger performance has gotten way, way better and works really well with Asp.Net and tests.

My two biggest beefs right now are the lack of external source code fetching which makes inspecting all the Asp.Net extension magic hard, and then the test explorer experience kinda sucks compared to Rider. It's slow, doesn't watch, switches to the terminal output every time you run a test, and for some reason only only shows output if the test fails. Not a tight feedback loop.

It's getting better though even if it feels like they barely have any resources on it. Still no release notes on updates and every now and then the pre-release versions of C# Base/Devkit break something.
You misunderstood the intent. That’s exactly how to get a small dumb TV.

A large dumb TV is called a digital signage display. Those even come with remotes!
I think people care, to the extent they are familiar with the idioms. But what I think matters equally is that new idioms born outside of the natively spoken English should be seen as equally valuable, when they get a meaningful reach. I am thinking for example of "do the needful" which I understand being born in India. I don't hear it used except by Indian English-speakers but I think it should have equal status as your examples.
Because most people don't think about how systems can be abused and if you're interfacing with public agencies, you do it less. If it's not explicitly in the requirements, it's not worked on. It's wild how often simple things get overlooked because "nobody asked."
I can't believe I read this entire article. The topic matter was utterly banal but... I was completely enthralled!

Your writing (particularly the hidden notes) is fantastic. Loved it!
Still takes too long to boot to display.
> VS for mac just looked like a fork of the Xamarin IDE I used to use on Linux w Mono

I second that. And VS for Mac was painfully slow. (I tried it years ago, not sure how it is nowadays)
Clion still doesn’t support cmake

Cmake is the default build system used by Clion out of the box.
Driving Schools block-booking tests has been a problem for at least a decade - when I took my own test. I wrote a basic screen-scraper to alert me when there was a cancellation, and when I mentioned this to my instructor he explained that the problem, at least then, was that driving schools could book as many slots as they wanted and get a full refund for cancelled slots. So as long as they had the capital to pay up-front, they could then offer their students the best pick of test slots, which became a reason to use those driving schools.

At the time I'd half considered wrapping the script in a UI and letting my instructor use it with his pupils, but other things took priority. Reading "There are also apps that can be purchased, typically for between £10 and £20, that trawl the government website for cancellations" makes me wish I'd made the effort!
I was in a meeting recently with two guys who both had Rolex’s on, and all it told me is that they probably take bribes.
I don't know why this comment makes me wretch. Money people and their lines of thinking are so bizarre and foreign to my reality.
> you forgot PowerDNS

I didn't forget it, I know the name, however from the comments received thus-far I've not had the (genuine) pleasure of using it.

I will make an effort to ensure that changes. :)
>we're forgetting the basics of civilization, like, what are ownership rights?

Most people always had poor memories, George Orwell make that observation. It's unfortunately one of the human conditions.
You missed a bridge in your map! There’s another random pedestrian bridge over 394 near Louisiana. Connects some strip malls to a Burger King and car dealership. I finally used it when I went for a run to pick up my car from the dealer
This makes sense for people who don’t code, but I see plenty of developer oriented bloggers who use Substack, which is puzzling to me. I also don’t know why Substack doesn’t get with the program and just support MathJax and colored syntax highlighting already.
I said "if the government approves this device." And if it does, there are about 1300 transplant nephrologists in the US who make their money from doing transplants, not from dialysis.
There seems to be something peculiarly British about child abuse. Probably as a result of the enduring popularity of boarding schools, judging from media reports, the number of convicted pedophiles and sex offenders seems, to me, so much higher than in other countries. Does anyone have any stats confirming or disproving my gut feeling?
His older works, or some of his, ah, kinda-obviously-past-his-prime works?
You know what I don’t like about some IDEs?
Either they are too heavy, or does a lot of work under the hood that people take for granted.

I’m a bit scared that I will get so used to it that I’ll depend on it and forget whats happening in the background.

I’m not stating this is a fact but rather the reason why I choose to not use these full blown locked-in IDEs.
> their dnsdist project

Wow. Never heard of dnsdist, that looks cool. I will shortly be embarking on an infra-refresh that is due to include DNS, so will be sure to evaluate it !

Thanks for highlighting it.
"Colgate" sounds and it's spelled exactly like "hang yourself" in Uruguayan/Argentine Spanish, and I grew up there using that brand of toothpaste. There's even a very obvious children's joke based on the ambiguity.
That’s like calling it xenophobic to refuse to travel to Somalia, pointing to an article about some random violent incident in USA and saying there’s violence everywhere.

Chinese paper mills is on a completely different level, and heightened scepticism is absolutely warranted. Yeah, it’s a bit much to ignore all research from China but I totally understand where the reaction is coming from.
> Another similar item is fountain pens.

Can’t say anything about mechanical watches, but I’ll disagree with this: in my experience, fountain pens aren’t just toys. I was given a fountain pen a few years ago, and I immediately found it made my hand hurt less when writing, because I didn’t need to press nearly as hard. Since then I’ve found a few models of gel pens which are similar in this regard, but when it comes to handwriting, I still find fountain pens to be by far the most comfortable for me.
I didn't say that. I'm saying the hyperlink used to cite their sources is dynamic by design and therefore extremely sloppy.
I'm a PhD student and I use all their products. When I graduate this semester and I lose my student license I'm back to vim. I just need syntax highlighting. I hope I know enough about the languages I code with that I don't need extra help.
> How come you don't consider conditional branches to be terminating instructions of your basic blocks?

Initially I was doing that, but it was making tight loops too slow. And what I am referring to as a "block" was not a basic block, but a entire compilation unit.
>ctrl+f "abuse", ctrl+f "contact": no results

What are your thoughts on abuse? From experience, your gateway will be used by phishers and malware operators. You might want to stay "hands-off" and argue that you're just a proxy and not a real distributor, but your hosting and domain providers (and the victims) may disagree.

At least the link format makes it easy to protect the users from malicious (sub)domains with the usual DNS- and URL- based lists (like safebrowsing). But I recommend you to implement a contact/abuse form at minimum, to save you from legal trouble and headache in the future.
You may have missed this part further down in the economics section: Stallman’s Free Software Movement is more like a gift economy, or perhaps “distributism” (a 19th-century Christian economic system). Those are actually really good, but to pay for resource use in the ecosystem we need an accounting system, and that’s utility tokens.

I believe that decentralized movements need to be named properly. If Stallman named it “Liberating Software” instead of “Free Software”, his movement could have attracted a lot more devotees from the wider open source movement.

Similarly, I believe (my personal viewe) thay if BLM had simply called themselves BLAM (Black Lives Also Matter) their message would have been crystal clear and would have attracted far less controversy and much more support across the political spectrum, avoiding such rejoinders as “All Lives Matter.” In fact it rolls off the tongue better and stronger: BLAM!

When starting a decentralized movement, the naming is crucial as it affects positioning long after it has become bigger than those who began it.
I lived in Sweden for 6 months in 2018 and didn’t have any such problems.

My Dutch Maestro debit card worked in all shops and cafés I visited, and online I was usually able to use a MasterCard.

Personnummer was really only required for things like phone plans and store loyalty cards, which you don’t really need. I just used EU roaming on my Dutch SIM, but if you’re non-EU I believe you can get PAYG/prepaid SIMs without needing a personnummer.
I can't tell if it's speaking nonsense or not... care to elaborate on what's happening here?
This was quite the random article to stumble upon on a Sunday morning. I’ve always wondered about this bridge, it’s in a very inhospitable zone for pedestrians. Thanks!
I regret to inform you, I don’t think it’s the same set of people. Writing a cute “Transformers are SVMs” paper and “building chatGPT” are not the same skillset.
Of course the (non-)existence of a black hole is a coordinate-/observer-independent statement (unless we talk only about apparent horizons), but the full energy ("relativistic mass") of a moving object will still show up in the energy-momentum tensor as seen from an outside (non-moving) observer. For instance, if we take a hot gas, we absolutely have to account for its temperature & pressure (the kinetic energy & momentum of its constituents) in the energy-momentum tensor.

To see that this is a necessity, even for a single particle moving at relativistic speeds, consider energy conservation: If you accelerate a particle, you have to expend energy and that energy needs to come from somewhere (say nuclear fission). As a consequence, this energy will already show up in the energy-momentum tensor before acceleration (in the fission case: as rest mass of your isotopes) and, by local energy-momentum conservation (= 4-divergence of the tensor being zero), it then must also show up in the tensor afterwards.

Whether or not that energy can lead to a black hole is a different question. For a single massive object flying at relativistic speeds in an otherwise empty universe: Probably not, because one can simply transform that "relativistic mass" away by switching coordinates, as you say. For several objects moving relative to each other at high speeds, or even a single particle moving relative to the "rest of the universe", it's not so simple, though – you won't find a coordinate system in which all terms in the energy-momentum tensor are small (let alone zero) everywhere.
All communication is relative to it's cultural context. Refusal or inability to operate within cultural mores is very different than having a different baseline to begin with.
You got downvoted into the ground but I think it's true. Personally I don't think companies should be allowed to do this. Every technical term used in AI is now also the name of some AI company. Even words like Windows and Stripe and Square I mean come on.
This blew my mind as a younger person who took an interest in repairing tube radios from the 30's & 40's.

My Commodore64 had full motherboard schematics in the manual, and I had a 90s tube TV with schematics inside the back of the case.

This change, lack of docs/schematics has happened over a mere 20 years.
It's not so much "money people" as it is utility - someone who can provide you with a $1mm or $10mm business opportunity wears the same quality suit as someone who can provide you with a $100mm or $1B business opportunity. It's a practical method of signaling status within a group where everyone is wealthy.

Humans as well as many other mammals become anxious in groups where their position in the social status hierarchy is unclear. It's a tool for signaling information to strangers, same as a wedding ring.
Think of it as a way for Google coercing websites into implementing WEI.

Any site can be marked as insecure if it doesn't block non wei compliant devices.

You may ask why does that make a website insecure? They can give any number of reasons that can be silly, made up or outright lies as long as they are able to convince larger public.

For example, they can claim that a site that allows shady(read wei non-compliant) clients is more susceptible to hacking and can be a threat to your data and your devices as well. Therefore it is insecure.

This may come across as silly to techies, but it can sound reasonable to people who don't understand the web in general.
I almost skipped over this because I’m already familiar with how Bézier curves work. I’m glad I didn’t — this site is absolutely stunning!
The arrows in their diagram make no sense. Stability funds everything. All arrows should be coming out of Stability.
I can see a benefit here, if you attach your SIP doorbell to a trunk you can configure it to do a full video call to your cell phone over the normal mobile network.

I would personally try to hook into one of the many other apps I have in my phone that support video calling, but SIP shouldn't require an app if your carrier supports ViLTE.
Closed under D just means polynomial is the derivative of a polynomial etc. just like sinusoid of sinusoid and exponential of exponential
In 1957 the March of Dimes had just immunized most Americans for polio. Bowling alleys and swimming pools were reopened. Kids were all playing outside again (as they used to in ancient times). Life was notably back to normal.

It was a forgettable flu epidemic.
> "the rest of the planet" doesnt accept visa/Mastercard just anywhere

India does have the infrastructure and accepts credit cards but it's not available everywhere and UPI is more widespread in India. It can be found in street side sellers to massive retail stores. While the street side sellers won't have the methods to accept credit cards, massive stores probably will and there are always ATMs so cash is a thing. For travel we have Uber, and Uber accepts credit cards. so, You don't need UPI but it's a great convenience to have. On the other hand, Not having Internet access after you get out of the airport is definitely a problem.
> To my knowledge, you cannot scan the brain of someone with ADHD and point out an abnormality associated with the disorder. Yet we give 8 year old boys stimulant medication because they can't sit still in a classroom for hours a day.

I'm not well-versed in the risks of stimulants given to children so I'm not commenting on that specifically, but I want to push back on the insinuation (if I understood you correctly) that ADHD or its treatments are any less legitimate because we haven't yet figured out if we can use brain imaging to diagnose and measure treatment efficacy.

It would be great if all medical disorders could be externally measured and quantified objectively, but when they're not, we often rely on evaluating and diagnosing them based on the (often somewhat more subjective) impact of their symptoms. That's not ideal, but it seems better than nothing to me.

Full disclosure: I'm also diagnosed with ADHD and take daily stimulants. Apologies if I came off as combative, I'm relatively new to my ADHD journey and genuinely curious to learn more about the medical/scientific aspects.
Yeah no, it seems likethe best idea it's to not go to India at all and avoid all that trouble.
This hallucination is sobering and thought-provoking.

ChatGPT creates a bubble around your reasoning. If you discover hallucination it tries to correct itself, but most often it just creates different nonsense.

If you are not very well-versed and believe you understand it you could fall for it.

If you program you at least can try out and give feedback till it finds a solution that works. However this is not better than those programmers who introduce a lot of security issues.

ChatGPT is at best for finding ideas which are often bogus but could inspire you to useful ideas (a form of brainstorming) and at worst just useless or even dangerous.
> I don’t think it’s that bad

It is.

It doesn’t make Calibre less useful to say it. Calibre is a remarkable piece of software, which solves real issues and without real alternatives. But it’s UI happens to be bad.

I just try to use the CLI whenever I can, at least I don’t have to spend 10 minutes figuring out which button does what I want.
So glad I started using Linux years ago. Last time I logged into Windows 1 year ago, I found it completely unusable (as a developer). I also don't like Apple through it is more usable than Windows.
Trade secrets are not secret once in the wild, and are immediately invalidated as a result.

Schematics for things sold, are never trade secrets.
Business idea: provide an AI-powered personalized on-hold audio streams like this.
It's all about milking and rent-seeking: greed.

Every device/vehicle/system now needs to be connected to the internet and needs you to download an app.

Is that for the consumer? No. That's for the manufacturer.

For milking be reselling your data and/or spying on you and/or charging extra because they can and/or the capability to turn any device into literal trash by not providing updates or bug fixes to a half-baked alpha software that it shipped with.

Blame your government. There could and should be laws against that or at the very least incentives to prevent it.
It's Lua. Presumably they're using Neovim.
this is gpt or if it's not then it should have been
> Language is a unique capability of humans.

No it's not. Language is well documented in dolphins, for instance. Crows have also demonstrated self awareness and ability to do arithmetic. I think your 3-part breakdown of intelligence is out of date. There's no rigourous evidence that intelligence breaks down in this way, it's just a "folk theory" at this point.
The soft-margin SVM which can handle misclassifications is also convex and has a unique global optimum [0].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/12610455/992102
It was also very popular as an online MMO-lite on the PC, I remember playing it a lot during middle school.
We had a similar problem in Sweden when trying to renew passports. A black market developed as covid eased. Everyone was trying at the same time. Some one made a browser extension which repeatedly tried to book appointments. The government implemented a governement ID system before making any bookings. The problem disappeared!

We still have a similar problem trying to get a driving test time. The driving schools book every slot for months ahead. They are commonly referred to as a mafia. You basically cannot get your license without paying a driving school a ton of money.
I wouldn't consider those numbers small, though? That is nearly the size of the city I live in. Not saying you are wrong. Just acknowledging the numbers. This feels like calling Amazon a small business, because it isn't Walmart.
"Check wielding Americans"?

Haven't needed my checkbook in many years now, almost everywhere has tap-to-pay and the rare place which doesn't has a chip reader.
Datagrip is market-leading for UI/X of DB tooling AFAIAC.

Would you mind giving an example of a tool you regard as having a better UI?
One of the big Windows 10 S problems is back in Windows 11, though.

1. You buy a device with Windows 11

2. The out of box experience demands you add a Microsoft account to proceed past it. There are workarounds for this, but mostly they are getting shut down.

3. You can't even get into the UEFI to install another OS without signing up to a MS account, because the UEFI is accessed via an OS level advanced startup option rather than the "press delete at bios screen" of the past
The headline can be rewritten/generalized as : "The boiling frog of freedom"
Please don't be hard on yourself for a vacation not "fixing" whatever is ailing you. If you're depressed or have ADHD or similar, you should consider seeking professional help (e.g. therapy and/or medication, if appropriate), and "just take a vacation and turn off your phone" is about as helpful as telling a diabetic to "just produce more insulin".
Quake 2 port for Apple Watch
I can't even read scientific journal articles (on their journal sites) anymore because the big publishers are putting themselves behind cloudflare walls that just don't work in any browser I try. Pretty much my only access these days is waiting years for it to get on sci-hub or in some of the sciences, finding it on arxiv.
Only if everyone participates. You'll generally have a third group of "unknown behavior customers". Then it makes a difference what the default price is.
In theory, markets should regulate and competitors should be able to rise and provide products over never ending services and be successful. That doesn't seem to happen though. Is it because service designs expose real business costs of continued investment in R&D sort of deal, is it because such reliable products are bad for business (you provide something so good, reliable, and cheap you kill your own revenue stream) or what?

Similar to the concept in medicine that it's bad for business to cure vs good for business to treat something. From the consumer side, clearly you want cures but markets don't seem to function that way. Treating kidney disease is far less lucrative than providing a cure (if possible). Your only option as a business to find this appealing is to somehow look at the treatment option, roll all expected profit and revenue up, and tuck that into a "cure" option. If altruism in medicine isn't there, I don't know why we'd hope for it in something as artificial as electronics and software. I don't know what the solution is here if we want to continue to pretend markets self regulate in a healthy way for the general population and not for businesses.