skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most models have a purely fixed architecture: i.e. if you train three layers of six feed-forward neurons a piece, your model and the training data it learns from will just fit within that architecture to the extent that gradient descent can force it to fit. There is no mechanism to say "oh these neurons will never activate, let's prune them", or "we'd have much better loss if we added a layer here".

In the dark times before PyTorch there was an idea called NEAT: "neuroevolution of augmenting topologies", which tried to use a genetic algorithm (i.e. testing a bunch of slightly modified solutions for loss) to discover both optimal weights and optimal network structure. I don't think this gets used all that often, if at all.

I hear stories every few years about how many models have unused neurons that can be pruned or how hyperparameter selection is a pain in the ass, but nothing about automating the pruning and parameter selection in such a way as to efficiently use the whole model. I'm not sure it's necessary anyway.
What is to be done about the strong individualistic element - some might say liability - among doctors in Western medical systems?
I ordered some s-video conversion PCBs from Parker Dillman back in 2010. Worked great.
Cheap food stabilizes the entire system. Expensive food is how you get riots.
JWST’s first triple-image supernova could save the Universe
Can't wait to see some numbers!
> 99.99999% of times it goes great.

I'll disagree with you on that. I've seen and used enough 2-way binding in various projects to know that even the best of devs can create tangles of effects everywhere. At some point, you gotta blame the tool for having footguns, which is why Rust was created over C and C++, to solve such footguns. In the same vein, something like that should be made for frontend frameworks too.
It's not so long ago that a gang of Turkish government thugs beat the crap out of protesters on US soil and pretty much nothing of consequence came of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clashes_at_the_Turkish_Ambassa...

I think our (British) border staff capitulating to these abusive international policing requests is pretty humiliating. But as you say, it's not new to anyone that this is happening.
Thanks! I do this all the time too :) . Makes for a more pleasant / less cluttered experience on sites I use a lot.

I'll add that another thing that is pretty easy to do is to add a Dark Mode to websites that don't have one. All you need is a userContent.css/uBlock rule like

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body {
background-color: #111 !important;
color: #eee !important;
}
/* etc, more stuff here depending on site */
}

, and ta-da! Dark mode respecting your OS dark/light setting based on pref or time of day :)
Signal started keeping sensitive user data in the cloud a while ago. All the information they brag about previously not being able to turn over because they don't collect it in the first place, well they collect it now. Name, photo, phone number, and worst of all a list of all your contacts is stored forever.

It's not stored very securely either. I wouldn't doubt that three letter agencies have an attack that lets them access the data, but even if they didn't they can just brute force a pin to get whatever they need.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...
it may have been true in the Knockout days, however signals in Solid is very very similar in feel and reasoning to React hooks.

It makes it straightforward to reason about, because you aren't dealing with globals, undeclared deps etc. like in the Knockout days
Gnome.org – Some systems are experiencing issues
MNIST is pretty good as a proof of concept. While I agree it's trivial, I see MNIST as being more like how when you're making a toy programming language, the first thing you do with it is writing a recursive Fibonacci function.
Yeah sure, second largest NATO military, battle-hardened in recent wars, not to mention rising military power in the Middle East, not needed in a defensive alliance, heh.

Not to mention control of the Bosphorus, as well as a tendency to have dalliances with Russia when ignored by the US (a tendency that, I must remind you, predates Erdoğan).

Start paying up 2% of your GDP (assuming you're European), on defence and military, or don't talk. Turkey is certainly paying their share, and paid their share way before Sultan Erdoğan took the throne.
I'm not blowing off steam I'm sharing my lives experience with a previous versions on older hardware. I was about 10 seconds from buying the initial prototype kick start. I'm very aware of the proposed specs which they currently are not shipping due to supply and find constraints.

I don't have anything against immersed. I chatted with them several times and gave feedback every time. They're nice folks. I'm not sure they're gonna ship. And after that experience I'm also pessimistic on vr for desktop for several years at minimum.

And travel monitors are just gonna get better. My m2pro is already light, the externals I can see getting half the weight, 4k and possibly wireless. That'd be more compute in a smaller space and lighter weight than that Dell desktop replacement I plugged around in 2003, and smaller but heavier than the simula. I haven't had a chance to try foveated text on 8k but my math says it's lower density than 4k at arms length on a 17 or 27 monitor so but let's call that a win.

So equivalent experience.
"They" will just spray the machines with liquid nitrogen, pull them out of the rack, put the DRAM in a thermos w/ LN2 and read the data at their leisure.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8388826
Logging is essential for security. I think tracing is wonderful and so are metrics. I see these as more of a triad for observability.
>I provided all of this information to Google via their "business redressal form." Nothing. It's been months. I keep reporting the listings. Nothing.

You don't go to Google if you want a Google problem fixed. You go to social media and yell about it.
> Some of the best classic games for new people are Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars, and Monster Bash.

Those first 2 are what got me into pinball, many many years ago. The last original Medieval Madness table I saw was $15k at the Chicago Pinball Expo -- it's probably the most beloved table, with the possible exception of Addams Family.

Virtual pinball is the future. If you're interested, the easiest way to start is with an AtGames Legends Pinball machine. It's the most easily moddable... for mine I went with these upgrades which made all the difference.

https://www.buystuffarcades.com/products/deluxe-backbox-2-0-...

https://www.clevelandsoftwaredesign.com/pinball-parts/p/styl...

https://www.atgames.us/products/arcade-control-panel-for-leg...

Yes, getting it all together takes quite a bit of time and money, but everyone who has seen it has been delighted, even if they knew nothing about pinball beforehand.
I appreciate that you recognize this and are not just rationalizing to protect yourself. Still, survival is a natural drive. It also feels natural to seek work that fits one's values and gives enough of a sense of meaning to life.

I found this in K-12 education and now in parenting, which will have a long tail since our child has extra needs due to disabilities. I have the freedom to pick up some extra work now that school started (my spouse has a full-time job she feels good about), and this work aligns with my values but is not particularly lucrative. I use the public library for most of my entertainment and education (thank you, taxpayers of the USA; this is one of our best investments for the future), and I feel rich in non-monetary ways.

All that to say- make the jump to something you feel good about doing!

Edit to add:
Easily-consumed media (phone games, video shorts, social media posts, etc):books and movies from the public library::highly-processed food:homemade food from your garden or local farm; these wholesome things can be difficult to get in the habit of, but they feel more than momentarily good.
This set of changes makes things more explicit. That's the opposite of a black magic box as far as I can see
i learned that these things typically are grounding issues. it usually came down to a single source of ground being a loose connection which is why it was intermittent. as a personal anecdote to this, as a first car as a teenager, i drove a GM/Chevy S-10 that one day started to have issues where all of the gauges on the dash would just go crazy and the lights would go on and off, and then suddenly just start working again. after taking it to the shop my dad recommended, a mechanic walked out to greet me. after i told him the symptoms, he stepped back to look at the truck model, asked me to confirm the year model. he promptly opened the driver side door, reached under the dash, located a specific screw, hand tightened it as a test, and everything worked. he came back with a screw driver to properly tighten in before sending me on my way free of charge. he told me that specific model was notorious for the screw holding the ground wire to come loose. it would cost him more in time to write up a sales slip to charge me.
>> But the pair said it was too early to say whether those scientific results mean a better prognosis for Professor Scolyer.

He had surgery and they are not sure if the immunotherapy drug will work. Best of luck to him.
PSA: Some annoyances lists can be zealous about removing from websites any visual cue indicating the availability of an RSS feed.
Is there anything notable about the terrain at that point? A sharp turn, bumpy road, etc.
There's https://github.com/httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow.
I made https://doublefault.mhasbini.com/ before I knew about it. On the plus side it keep default aesthetics.
Where Artemis III Might Land
Definitely not. I still am logged into my ex girlfriend wifi so if I wanted to harm her I could easily go stand outside her home at night and download malicious files. That would not make her guilty. They may investigate but that is not proof she did something unlawful.
Blaming it on criminal ties simply because the ethnicity of the victim? Are you serious? When is that okay?

And for your information, I live in Vancouver. I'm aware of the organized crime issue here. But not every Sikh is a terrorist or criminal (I can't believe I have to say that).

Suggesting they are criminally involved just because of their race is textbook racism.
It sounds like tech folks want to do like your grandpa wanted, even though they're paying to sustain it
> "they asked why I was interested in human rights"

presumably because he is, you know, human.
Spacecraft Could Be Equipped with Tiny Thrusters That Use Water for Propellant
It's not convergence, it's the cycle of development patterns. Patterns come and go leaving bad memories that become anecdotes. Anecdotes become "misunderstanding the paradigm" and even the misunderstandings are long forgotten when the pattern that made them comes into vogue again.
Undocumented people can't legitimately enter a country other than their country of origin, which works in both directions. In order to ship people "back" you have to do so directly, including the cooperation of their government to verify that they are in fact their nationals.
I've written so many of these. Any reason you chose uBlock over something like userstyles?

I'd like to open source/release my styles but I'm not sure which is the best choice.

uBlock is great for blocking things from loading (like images) but for visual updates I prefer CSS.
I have a 2009 Mercedes SLK that had the same symptom. It was absolutely fine 99.9% of the time, but one time in a thousand it wouldn't even try to start. No clicks, no indication that it even knew I was in there turning the key. Just dead. And then seven or eight hours later... it would start fine, as if nothing ever happened. Couldn't correlate it to anything.

Had it towed to a service center a few times when this happened. Every time, by the time they got around to trying it (a few hours later)... it would start fine, with nothing to diagnose.

Then, it was 99% of the time it was fine. I was with a group of folks car-camping off road to fly a human powered airplane for a couple days, and... no start. Finally started -- with no sign of any problems -- around noon the next day, and I high-tailed it out of there a day before the rest of the group, because getting stuck there /after/ the rest of the group would have started pushing my comfort level. So at this point it's actually interfering with my life.

I've tried all the usual stochastic troubleshooting (swapping out fuses, light to moderate percussive maintenance, alternate keys) and nothing. Finally it fails to start in my driveway, and I get it towed to an independent mechanic. It's short tow, and it fails to start when it gets there! So now he's seen the problem, and is as puzzled as I am. Of course, when he tries again the next morning, it starts fine.

He proposes two possible fixes: replacing some ECU module, or replacing the fuse box itself (under the theory that it's the connector or connection into the bottom of the fuse box that is having some moisture ingress or intermittent connection). Of course whatever we choose, I won't know if it was right or not until the next time I'm stuck. The ECU is multiple thousands of dollars, and the fuse box is < $200 with labor, so I make the easy choice.

This was six or seven years ago, and that car is still my main and only car. Hasn't had a single mechanical issue since swapping out that fuse box. A good independent mechanic and a good guess!
It's pretty cool to see the direction this framework is taking.
It was already easy enough to work on Svelte, but now it's even easier.
Especially if you're familiar with a framework like Vue or React.
Performance seems to have improved quite a bit too.

GG
That blog page is not showing state-of-the-art results, it's just taking relatively naive SVM implementations and comparing them.

The original research paper that introduced the MNIST data set was getting around 98% accuracy, and today neural nets are getting 99.87% accuracy.

https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-mnis...
Can you delve a bit deeper into how WASM works? Specifically, how heavy is the WASM module? Also, is there a specific use-case you've seen where this shines particularly brightly?
I would love to drive a Chevy Potoooooooo
What I mean by 'implementation detail' is that you _literally can't get a reference to a signal_ in Svelte 5. This alone prevents people from mutating things in unexpected ways.
Building a DIY Steam Deck from recycled Framework laptop parts [video]
Do you know ravendb? Document db almost entirely written in c#. It's incredible how fast it can get, but as you said it does not look like typical lob code at all
I'd say not, mathematical constants are usually irrational (often transcendental) numbers which tend to crop-up consistently in different contexts, so they're culturally (and so ill-) defined. Such concepts are not uncommon in mathematics, "canonical" springs to mind.
Show HN: Monte Carlo Tree Search for Poetry Using GPT
I've been working on enact, a framework that simplifies the implementation of complex generative software flows at https://github.com/agentic-ai/enact.

Enact's core features include the ability to rewind and replay executions of python functions that are annotated in the framework. The linked notebook shows how this can be used to implement a generic Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm that can be deployed over any annotated python program and directly searches the space of program executions.

MCTS (used, e.g., in the AlphaZero family of algorithms) searches a tree of generative possibilities using a scoring function in order to find high-scoring branches. The notebook deploys MCTS over a line-by-line poetry generator, allowing the algorithm to backtrack and search different completions for the same starting lines.

Baseline (no MCTS):

> While shadows stir and breathe beneath the moon's licentious glow.

> Nightly whispers wind through trees, long lost in their verdurous flow.

> In the echoing silence, secrets lie dormant, awaiting the raven's crow.

> A path unfolds beneath the thorns, where memories and shadows grow.

MCTS Example 1:

>Under the hush of leaves, ancient secrets pass as whispers.

>Shadows dance as the daylight fades, echoing the rhythm of heartbeats.

>In hallowed silence roots entwine, sharing stories with the undergrowth.

>A shiver of twilight laces through, the phantom pulse of a forest's breath.

MCTS Example 2:

> Under the neon hum, craft recedes into shadow,

> Where artistry and mechanics clash, souls are traded for steam and gas.

> Echoes of creation's heart, usurped by iron’s brazen art.

> Infernal gears grind dreams, artists' tears oiling their ceaseless horseplay.

MCTS Example 3:

> Spun by silent looms of determination ragged from use.

> Eyes search the horizon, fingers till the marrow of invention.

> Under quiet cover of the moon, the night was sown with ceaseless creation.

> Mastering chaos, coaxing stars from a coal-darkened hand.
There's not going to be much of a world left to better if we don't get a handle on climate change.
Qt was always right.
My thoughts too. I would often induce a quick g-force to get the last few drops out of the same fluid tank. I could see the same triggering a sensor under similar circumstances.
This is the point where I would tell the story of how I once got lost in Porto, while in a group of 25 geographers
Could be an incline is making the fluid level low at the sensor point at that location. Does it have an unusual incline in any axis?
Tell me you only use memory managed languages without telling me...
Show HN: MemoraVultus, Never forget names again with with face-matching games
Please someone do shareable Twitter users ABP-based user KILL LIST, like in Usenet had!
> altering her Social Security/Medicare FICA deductions in order to increase her biweekly take-home pay by a few hundred dollars.

There are no employee-end deductions you can change here. The W-4 only allows income tax deduction, not SS/Medicare. But the responsibility for ensuring it's done is on the employer, and they're responsible for ensuring the right amount, to a certain level of fidelity is withheld. And the amount she changed the total withholding is likely not enough to have triggered any IRS look into the details, and therefore criminal charges. Your restaurant owner likely was doing games enough to materially change the value withheld, which gets the IRS interested.
It is, certainly would have been at the time anyone would be driving a Pontiac. But it is dubious that the store would have a separate case for it. And making a trip for it every night after you've had dinner? And an engineer spent days working on the problem in person? THe story is weird.

Also, vanilla is good.
Reactivity is faster now: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1688581184018583558

And the output from the compiler is much smaller. You can compare the output on the Svelte 4 REPL to the output on the Svelte 4 REPL. The runtime has grown a bit, but the output overall is still much smaller even when factoring that in
Because it was a slap on the wrist. Pretty sure big tech companies have their own people in power positions in the states they operate from. Especially California. You don't build a trillion-dollar empire and leave it to chance.
Program generation is all you need? For math, symbolic, natural language, etc.
The paper introduces improved performance by prompting LLMs with "natural language embedded programs (NLEP)". No task-specific prompt is needed.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10814
An automatic NLEP generation toolkit is opensourced: https://github.com/luohongyin/langcode

Example Colab notebook is included in the Github repo.

This work introduces the following features of NLEP

1. NLEP is a full python program that prints the target response of LLMs.
2. Task-general NLEP prompting outperforms task-specific chain-of-thought prompting on math, symbolic, and natural language.
3. Enable the chain-of-thought reasoning ability of small models (RoBERTa) on text classification
4. Hierarchical instructing via program completion.
Python uses some kind of hash, so worst case O(n) would be very unlikely. And rereading what I wrote, I don't know why I said dict -- an array would be just fine.

For most languages, a dense case statement is implemented via a jump table, a fast, constant time operation.
Oh fascinating - great find. Thank you! I like in particular the phrase "intellectual used-car-salesman voice" (LOL).

ps - for those who are not subscribers: https://archive.ph/wkiWt
I want to be able to have a Postgres database as the central source of truth for all data and user accounts, but then have each users private content to be siloed and synced to their own SQLite database which they alone have access to (maybe even they’re have one SQLite file on server and one SQLite file on phone or etc.). Is this possible with electricSQL? I remember looking at it a year ago or so and was excited but not sure if worked for my use case. Great work tho looks really good and very much in line with what I’d like to be able to do.

Also is there a way to transition an existing Postgres data base into using electicsql?
It's more complicated than that. Misdiagnosis comes with a high cost. What we emphatically do not have is a way to reliably confirm or stage without additional risky interventions, and that's before we even start discussing the mental health implications of misdiagnosis. So as a doctor, it's not about withholding information for the benefit of the patient, it's being aware that for many cancers, in aggregate, they may very well end up doing more harm than good if they screen for it.
Thanks for sharing!

I've been doing this for the last year with YouTube. YouTube is just a search bar now which prevents mindless browsing and distractions.

If I find myself using a site mindlessly I add it to my /etc/hosts file to block them.
> implying react codebases aren't spaghetti mess
I tried growing basil in my windowsill. The problem was that I don't use basil at a constant rate; I use it in big bursts or not at all.

Which just doesn't work. I needed to use a bunch of basil, and it was either cut off all the leaves or buy it at the store. So I cut off all the leaves and that was the end of it...
maybe it's due to the Gravitram at OMSI? I loved watching that thing as a kid and love pinball to the point where I'm tempted to DIY my own machine.
Off topic and I'm obviously not the target audience, but based on the headline and the domain name, I was not expecting a discussion around the Rust language!
These are the kinds of stories that made Car Talk so much fun. It was so much more than just hearing about mechanics repairing cars. It was the fact that the situations were so odd and unusual that the stories were interesting. It was also fun hearing how these mechanics had been around so long and seen so many of these unusual situations that they became normal to them. It didn't hurt that they were good story tellers
In college the grocer near me had NY strip steaks for like $2/lb one day. Tons of it. I thought I hit the jackpot, and decided to throw a big grill out party with a lot of friends. I probably had a dozen people waiting for some awesome steaks. They were all absolutely terrible, some of the worst cuts of meat I think I ever had. Quite a disaster. Fun times though.
You got me. What's that format / magic number? At first I thought it was the zlib header for incompressible data, but that's not right. Is that just the MAC address of some NIC you own?
Spider-Man 2: hands-on report
Did you try setting the `key` property in React?
My Subaru warns me about the wiper fluid on highway exits exclusively because of the speed and inclination changes