skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure, but let me guess. It looks like most browsers are using xorshift128+ https://johnkavanagh.co.uk/writing/javascripts-math-random/ that has a result of 64 bits, that is scaled to the interval 0 .. 1. By the birthday paradox you need the square root and almost an additional bit, so let's say 33 bits. That is like 8.000.000.000 tries to get a collision. Assuming the table uses 4 bytes per float, you need 32GB of ram to store it. It's probably too much for a normal computer, but not impossible.

Actually, the float point numbers use 1 bit for the sign, 11 for the exponent and 52 for the digits. Here you are not using the sign, and the exponent is between -1 and -64, so it's only 6 bits. Instead of a random number of 64 bits, you get only 52+6=58. Again, using the birthday paradox you need only 2^30 that is only 1.000.000.000 and 4GB of memory.

Actually, the distribution of representables floating point numbers is not uniform and half of the floats you will get are between .5 and 1. In that range, you only have 52 bits because the exponent is always fixed. Again, using the birthday paradox you need only 2^27.

But half of the time you will get a number between 0 and .5. The collisions in that range are harder, so let's ignore them. So you need 2^28, i.e, 2.500.000.000 tries and 1GB. If you don't ignore the small numbers, it should be slightly faster, perhaps like a 30% faster.

If you run the code, I'd love to see some results to know how good/bad is my approximation. In particular my guess is that 70% of the times you will get the first collision with a number between .5 an 1, and 30% of the time with a number between 0 and .5.
That seems to be the (uneditorialized) title: "Generative AI exists because of the transformer (This is how it works)". Maybe the context of 'it' was lost on the submitter.
chezmoi actually uses git to manage the dotfiles, see https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/setup/#use-a-hosted-repo-t....
What in particular needs to be upstreamed and to what projects?
I'm not going to do the work of coming up with arguments for you. Stop beating around the bush and write out what you meant.
> if anyone does find them, that'll be a pretty devastating blow to the theory that the NIST P-curves were maliciously generated

IDK, if I don't think that finding that a seed matches a hash of "Give Jerry a raise of $100000 dollars now!!!" is any evidence for that, because if I had a desire to generate malicious constants, and knew some unusual property that they must have to be weak, then nothing would prevent me from generating hashes of many, many variations of similar strings until one gives me constants with the properties I need.
I bought a new Brother HL-L8360CDWT color laser printer in September 2017 for $349.99 and it still works great after 6 years of heavy use. I am extremely impressed with this printer. I used to run it with cheap 3rd party cartridges, which worked fine, but this year I finally had to break down and buy official ones.

I also have a Canon MF6160dw black and white laser printer, scanner, copier, fax that is a bit older and it's had even more use. It's great, and I use it to scan to my Synology NAS all the time as well.

I'm very, very happy with these two printers.
It's a consequence of running search as a for profit system. When you're optimizing for revenue, the system priorities are different than if you were optimizing for user experience or true knowledge. Arguably that means that search should be a public utility but then you have to be able to trust your government with your searches and privacy.
I was glad to have the opportunity to try it, and I’ll probably try it again, but I only made it two minutes into my five minute singing bowls immersion before I got too annoyed with the experience and stopped. (I’m easily annoyed with meditation, too, fwiw.)
Is gLinux[1] still a thing?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...
MSFT / Bill Gates is famous for doing exactly this, except as "tiger teams" to make patents. This is the next round of that.
This is the kind of thing where you must grow your own tool.

Managing your donors and voters is your central competency. Outsourcing it is the height of folly.
> It is ridiculous that Google made the choice to make ChromeOS the "cheap" OS.

The original goal was to make a laptop performant enough for a wide swath of common web based tasks that was very affordable to purchase and administer. It succeeded at that very well, especially in primary/secondary education.

For many years now there have also been high performance Chromebooks available that can run a full Linux environment, drive multiple monitors at high resolution, and run heavy software like Figma.

The engineering investment has been there, but the storytelling about the capabilities of these devices hasn't taken place. Now that's starting to happen, and probably non-coincidentally when Adobe Photoshop for the web is available.
Not "just looking". In some museums, you'll see artists set up in front of paintings, practicing to duplicate them. It's like music practice.
That'd be more interesting a reference if it were actually possible to run without making your own conformamt special hardware.

Google built their own embedded controllers to power this platform, unlike anything else that came before. The source may be open, but no other machine anywhere will run this.

It has taken heroic efforts to port ChromoumOS to conventional x86 hardware platforms. Google then bought the people who spent years porting their proprietary impossible to run system on normal laptops. I don't know enought to say how actively Neverware's efforts have been continued, but so far it still seems like running Chromium OS elsewhere requires epic feats, that integration has not proceeded any further than before the acquisition. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/16/22179242/google-neverwar...
Honestly, I would love to see a LLM based plugin that would take a website, remove all the tracking garbage and filler, and just give me back a no-frills static html+CSS site that looks like it was made in 1995.

"Oh, you want a guide to writing your own loss function for Tensorflow? Here's an FAQ that could have existed on comp.lang.python3.tensorflow"
Could I make a legal bluetooth jammer that is actually a small microwave oven then?
DMCA is not available in every countries. About applications that are published to Appstore/Play Store, they may ask for users to manually enter a 'LRCAPI-compatible instance' URL to avoid issues.
In fact if something like it is already in the market, that's a very good sign. It validates that there is a market.
Ah, hacker news is out in force defending petroleum companies right to pollute the world.

As always to economics, if you can't measure it well, it doesn't exist!
I’ve only have two printers in the past 13 years, a Brother MFC-7840w, which worked perfectly and I only gave away because my family wanted a color printer. The upgrade was an HL-2170CDW. I have no complaints with either. I’ve even gone through my starter toners on the color laser and bought a knockoff set for 70$ which included two black toners with all the colors, and have been quite surprised at the quality. Both have had wireless support and print from phones without issues.
I have tested this with half a dozen Chrome extensions and none of them worked. “Allows install” is misleading. “Allows download” is more accurate.
Bing's AI enforces 4chan users creating racist propagandas
Owning an Amphicar is on the bucket list, for sure
Booking.com got bought by priceline.
It's not that they are dishonest, it's that they don't understand what they're talking about and errors slip in.
> The Beetle was chosen because it looks cool with the jet and it shows it off well.

Subjective, but I would argue that the Beetle is a terrible choice and makes the jet engine look like a pole sticking out of a ball. A flat sports car would probably fit the look much better and mimic the aerodynamics of an aircraft.
> So why don't we implement TCP separately in each application, the way it's done with QUIC?

Because library/dependency management sucked at the time, and OSes competed for developers by trying to offer more libraries; on the other side we were less worried about EEE because cross-platform codebases were rare and usually involved extensive per-OS code with #ifdefs or the like.

I don't think we would or should put TCP in the kernel if it was being made today.
So just grab a zero and stick it in a denominator!
If 50.1% of people had 2 legs and 49.9% of people had 0 legs, the median number of legs would be 2, not 1.

The median number of testicles in humans is 2. The mean is slightly over 1.
Hyundai’s future EVs will also have Tesla’s EV charging port
Suggesting that proving the universe is infinite isn't any different than proving anything else is infinite. And you shouldn't be surprised it's impossible.
People losing trust in and feeling ignored by politicians is what brought us Trump. Some people voted for him because they liked that he wasn't a typical "politician", other people voted for him out of protest.
Regardless of the reasons they spout I have 0 belief that the C suite of LM or any company for that manner would make any decision that would make them less money.

Whatever excuses they come up with at the root of it is the idea that they will make more money by doing it this way.
Humans got to America 7k years earlier than thought, new research confirms
I'd love to see the actual numbers for what AI is doing to jobs like these overall, or to art, music and to a few other industries in which it's taking over supposedly. For one thing, it's been over a year since much of the latest rolled out for wide use, so at least something should show up in such an analysis, and secondly, as others have mentioned, Jevon's paradox is a real thing, and has affected every major technological development I've seen so far in the modern world, though it can make wages change downward for certain things and push unemployment up along some specific margins.
I don't think this is a public health issue.
If anyone’s interested in seeing the leakage on a spectrum analyzer:

https://youtu.be/tToMYkO7Gkw
Multiple streams of income / selling your skills until you can work exclusively on what you want.

Lowering overhead helps too: Learning to love what you have and another thing i learned on HN: for everything you buy, you buy it twice.
> We must have open systems architecture, where the government decides how things interoperate, and acquired systems don't dictate down but provide upwards to the defenders.

>> They would be working with a common architecture on existing platforms

>> Taiclet added that in this “big tent” approach to Pentagon buying services for a specified time means the commercial side needs to move away from “vendor lock”

>> He added Lockheed Martin is working with Northrop Grumman to merge their data.

Sounds like they are advocating for something like what you are talking about, not sure how you are reading it as the opposite
V2 definitely makes it easier, but it's possible to identify files with V1 by iterating through metadata looking for files with the same length as a local file, then checking each piece against the local file. If they all match, then it's the same file. For boundary pieces where it consists of multiple files, I think it's safe enough to ignore if all of the remaining pieces match the local file, but you could do a more complex search looking for sets of files that all have the same length, and then compare the piece hash with the local files.
The SMS addition really ups the potential of the Dittofeed platform. Is SMS unsubscribe handles on the Twilio side or within the Dittofeed framework?
Everything is a spectrum, but you either class it as X or you don't. This is not X.

You don't have PTSD, you had a rational fear of something.

Take a trip to any at war country and you still may fear planes overhead. But it won't give you PTSD.
Ah, of course, just drop bits until it "happens" to work. You would suggest that, instead of the simple and obvious solution of using pi times e.
I can't remember who said it recently during the SAG strike - but they're fed up with being called a "creator"; the corporate-invented term is tiresome, non-descriptive, and feels devaluing - emphasizing their output, not their craft or them as a person.

https://theaggie.org/2020/10/23/for-the-love-of-god-stop-cal...

https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/14sqoig/t...

https://braindoggies.medium.com/i-hate-being-a-content-creat...
Yet they are all equally shitty and I'm sure would get up to the same shenanigans if given the opportunity.
In our industry, it's also very easy for the undisciplined person to succeed. You get a new job, it's exciting and the problems are new and motivating. After a few years the shine wears off, it becomes boring, you understand all the problems and they start to seem tedious. You find it difficult to really engage. But fortunately, the demand for software developers is so great that you can easily find a new job, and the cycle repeats.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782287.
> HL-2170CDW

I can vouch for the HL-2170DW (B&W only version) as well. Costco has been selling it for years.

The only downside is that it takes some trial and error to figure out which instructions actually reset the cartridge EEPROMs
I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics
Yeah but Jerry wouldn't have been incentived to do such a thing, would he?
Paul's Notes remains the absolute best textbook Calculus and intro to DiffEQ! Not sure if it's been updated since 2005, but I mean, it's not like they're discovering new Calc II methods! Being that it's not a $200 textbook rehashing the same stuff as the last 10 editions, it's easily one of my favorite websites
Good one. You could argue they are defined as infinite though because the proof that there are infinitely many is not hard.

If there are finite, multiply them all and add one. This number is prime. QED
Apple considered buying Bing from Microsoft in 2018
I've read those numbers, and my anecdotal experience more or less corresponds to them. I know plenty of people who acknowledge climate change and think it is serious.

They've all had their whole lives to make climate conscious lifestyle decisions, they could all stop eating meat tomorrow, but they ain't done squat. Not as individuals nor as a group. The few who have are weirdos who live at the margins.
Many people are using mobile/digital boarding passes these days.
Elon Musk calls for overhaul of SEC amid lawsuit
> while I have always enjoyed the fact that unlike other operating systems it is up and running before I even get the screen unfolded, from sleep.

Other devices, maybe; it's at least as much firmware as OS. To this day the fastest wake from sleep I've seen was a random midrange Lenovo laptop that I got used, which is slightly maddening.
The price range here is in the toss it if it breaks category
Don't forget how Google will now drop search terms if it thinks you mean something else, or add unrelated synonyms to your search (presumably to "help" folks who aren't good at writing queries)
Popular “AI Hub” Discord Taken Down Following Copyright Complaints
Reddit never had experts. Maybe for half a minute. It became an echo chamber fast: fake internet points to be gained for saying what got upvoted last week, or to be lost for saying anything different.
Gboard Hat Version
> Coding is basically management

Coding...is engineering. Put the world behind the wheel of a car and they can make it go places. This...does not make them an automotive mechanic.
Found you one!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225804338513

And here are a few more:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=amphicar&_sac...
it's a joke right
That's gold, well done and thanks for sharing!
> To quote Drew Devault, "no Nazis" is a better policy than "no politics".

I have a lot of respect for Drew, but I can't take absolutist opinions like this seriously from someone who reputedly blocks people over any minor disagreement or perceived sleight.

Regardless, "No Nazis" is a great policy until someone decides they don't like you and labels you as one. The most prevailing anti-Ukraine sentiment is based on the claim that they are Nazis.
I get your cynicism, but it doesn't really offer any ideas for improvement.

If both parties are happier with the arrangement, and it leads to more agility, what exactly is wrong with it. The military is projected to decrease (as % GDP)[1] over the next decade. If they spend more on software and less on overpriced hardware, that might be a good thing.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/217581/outlays-for-defen...

> Regardless of the reasons they spout

They are saying the same thing the military is. The US Military is actively trying out new ways of purchasing, because the old model is not working and not agile enough for today's environment.

I trust that the people leading the military know what they need and that Lockheed cannot force them into this. Everyone is ideating right now, the UA War seems to have woken the West up. No need to derail an idea just because it comes from Lockheed's CEO
Australia's just fine with adding jet engines to cars and designing|building one million round per minute guns.

It's the mixing up of such things with the general unconsenting public that raises an eyebrow.

Hoon's can hoon - just out of earshot of people that want a quiet life and off the community car parks and roadways - there's no shortage of private land and designated drag strips | raceways.

https://aussieinvader.com/the-people/rosco-mcglashan-oam/

https://thewest.com.au/lifestyle/motoring/wa-built-1600kmh-j...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm
As much sense as government shutdowns.

If Americans continue to accept non functional government shutdowns, why shouldn't government contractors get in on the grift.

Also, 100$ hammers are basically upfront subscriptions to the means of production so this may actually be more transparent payment type.
>you get the opposite result: You make racists look bad.

In general I find myself agreeing with your comments in this thread but here I disagree.

It's tempting to find the overall societal benefit from those actions but I don't think there is one. Or it's much more subtle than this.

I also think that it's mainly done to create chaos and get a reaction and not so much to spread x opinions. But just randomly throwing shit into the world *mostly* makes everyone get used to the smell of shit while they hate you for it. But in my experience it *usually* leads to more shit and not less shit.
At the point where we find an intelligible English string that generates the NIST P-curve seeds, nobody serious is going to take the seed provenance concerns seriously anymore. I think everybody sort of understands that people who don't work in cryptography are always going to have further layers of theory to add, the same way people waiting for the "Mother of All Short Squeezes" do with Direct Share Registration and share votes and stuff. If the bounty program is successful, that's going to end the NIST curve "debate", such as it is.

If you're convinced the P-curves must be backdoored, despite the computer science arguments that suggests they really couldn't have been, then you should comfort yourself in the knowledge that we're probably not going to find the seed strings any time soon; presumably Solinas tried pretty hard himself!
Dash - An offline documentation browser for MacOS. These days, I found that online searches is a bit wasteful–I never have time to configure specific site- search in Alfred. Kinda useful for languages like Go, Common Lisp and Clojure.

VMs - Specifically with Parallels Desktop. I'm a bit fed up with MacOS packagers. I prefer having a small VM, where things are at least consistent. And no risks of NPM contaminations.
These days you get loads of people without CS degrees that spend their days as python/js "coders" for things that don't really matter.
There's the button that replaced caps lock. I mean, yes, I'd still rather have another button, but it does work in my personal experience.
I think most of the time "maker" is a better word but it's a quibble.
I can see merit in such a system. I can also see that it makes it much easier for companies to act badly.

I also think that if you're bringing in temps there needs to be a mandated standard for providing the information they need--something that's always going to be the same in any facility.

And I think we need to get serious about creating/enforcing staffing ratios and put in place work hour limitations like transportation workers have.
Some people seem obsessively invested in the idea that these plausible sentence generators have general, human-like, intelligence. I have yet to see a claim about these systems that can't be attributed to some form of anthropomorphism, pareidolia, or the "ELIZA effect"[1].

Even here, where the researchers are looking at the inside of their model after having already determined that the output meant something it didn't. As Marcus notes, If you take a corpus of text, you'll find that you can generate plausible geographically-located output simply because, statistically, correct time/place tokens occur far more often than incorrect. The model isn't encoding time and space, it's encoding tokens.

1 https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-eliza-effect/
I can't seem to find what the original prompt was in the article? I'd hate injected ads, but if the prompt was literally "What are the best gaming laptops of 2023, how much do they cost and where do I buy them?" I don't think the screenshot response is that bad.
It hints that the people providing the distro are likely subject to different pressures than the people who operate 99% of the sites we normally see on HN. (Those other sites unfortunately also usually use corporate trackers, but different ones.)
This is true. But it’s not command and control the way the author indicated, either.

And the aspect of choice matters a great deal. The ability to say “no” to an engagement is very empowering.
I define this sophistry as capable of wasting infinite time.

We can accurately predict many things with these definitions of infinity. They are useful, unlike... whatever this is.
How do you know when the last n-state machine has finished, given that some will not halt?
Yeah, I actually think code is a wonderful tool. Writing in a formal syntax to express your ideas is a very old human activity - the only difference between cuneiform and code is that code has this magic ability to actually do something, by virtue of the fact that machines can also understand it.
Time it takes to reach the end of a closed loop.
she's gorgeous
4. Subscriptions can be better for aligning goals. If I charge you $20 upfront, then I just want to build whatever I need to build to make the sale. After that, I'm not really incentivized to improve things or fix bugs unless it's going to directly lead to more sales in the future. On the other hand, if I charge you $1/month upfront, you'll be paying more after a year and half, but if you aren't happy after 2/3 months, you can cancel and go elsewhere, and I'll likely lose money due to customer acquisition costs.

That said, I understand why people hate subscriptions. I'm not claiming there are no downsides. And also, yes, as you pointed out, this is the military/industrial complex, so who knows how this will play out.
I was surprised how easy it is to get going with Tailscale. UX is on point, plus very generous free tier. Can recommend.
This is really enticing. Any chance you've written more about your career path somewhere? Or any other reading you would suggest to get a better sense of the work you do and how to seek it out?
Who is their target audience for this? Places like Tesla and co already have more than enough real training data and their own simulators.
I might be suspicious of “Give Jerry a $3263958374 raise,” but that would launch an interesting hunt as to what property they were exactly mining for.
I wanna politely disagree on that. I've found it to frequently be a resource on par with Stackechange.