skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert, but my immediate thoughts are that evaluating a gaussian blob is very simple, it's just an exponential of a distance. The edge of a sphere makes it more complicated to compute, hence slower.

For backpropagation, the differentials of a gaussian is smooth while it's not for a sphere, again because of the edge.

Now, if you want to use a sphere you probably will do something like using an opacity falloff similar to ReLU[1], making it transparent at the edge.

This should make smooth enough as such I guess, but I imagine you still have the more complicated rendering. Though I may be mistaken.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier_(neural_networks)
Published almost a decade ago! Yikes.
Is it a hard problem? Sure.

Isn't increasing productivity by solving hard problems why we get paid? My biggest question is, why isn't it even talked about and/or have aspirational goals set up?
Is it really baseless? I'd say it depends on your theory of mind and is a serious question which generates interesting discussion.

Myself I don't consider "think" an appropriate term, since the super-Markov-chain types of LLM right now seem to miss out on important aspects of cognition, particularly synthesis of two disparate ideas. It's hard to test this since you need to ask it about things which aren't already discussed in its corpus, but even GPT-4 tends to disappoint me when I ask it weird questions that have straightforward answers but probably aren't written about much.

As an example, I asked how I could go about obtaining a large quantity of animal skulls cheaply. It directed me to taxidermists and specialists dealing in bones of exotic animals, whereas it could be much easier to go to an abbatoir, or even buy whole animals (since the exotic ones are so expensive).
Google doesn't 'think' and neither does ChatGPT. I will give you a hard limit on what a machine can't compute -- it will never figure out given a programming script and an input when that program will stop. A human can do it by thinking through the problem -- whatever that process/phenomena of thought actually is it can think outside of itself and that fundamentally seperates it from a program even one as sophisticated as ChatGPT.
Do they have a choice? I mean, can you work jn the industry and not be member of the union and not strike? Would you have trouble getting hired if you chose not to be a member?
Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
shrooms love rye, too!
The problem is, once again, not with being taxed in general, but with being forced to choose between staying in a country or being bankrupted by taxes.

Yes, other countries do have Exit Taxes, but Germany is pretty unique in the way it calculates how much and when you should be taxed for your private holdings, basically trapping you, mostly without your knowledge, in the country.
I have not been able to use Bandcamp to discover music. Even for music in niches that are so tiny that they're not on Spotify, I didn't find them on Bandcamp (I found them on YouTube). Bandcamp's recommendations for me are lousy.
Another useful resource might be this blog : https://depth-first.com/ Richard Apodaca has some very clear explanations of topics in the field.
1 in 6 people in Nokia are/were managers so the ratio sounds about right.
I can speak in my own language with chat gpt without much issue
if anyone is nostalgic about dungeon keeper, note that's it's actively being worked on by a group of passionate fans: https://keeperfx.net
Your complete lack of mention of nsswitch.conf makes me believe that you're not implenting anything correctly in this instance.
Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause Children's Mental Well-Being
Information about the coming Volvo EM90 minivan seems to have come out today:

https://electrek.co/2023/10/16/volvo-em90-images-leaked-reve...
"Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults."
You can't make the current system better, its designed to be as wasteful as possible. If I somehow managed to implement something that made the hashing use half as much electricity, it wouldn't result in any reduction of power usage, instead it would just double the number of hashes and then the difficulty increases to account for that.

This isn't difficult to understand if you had thought about it for more than 5 minutes.
This table is unreadable on a narrow screen.
On the other hand, we have seen how perverse incentive amongst experts work too. Academia is rife with fraud (e.g. publishing 500 paper a year), because certain incentives make it possible. I agree expert are important and should be judged by peers, but incentives around budget allocation and prestige should not be attached to performance, especially in science. However I understand it's a complex topic so I probably miss a lot of information, just my 2 c.
Ah, that's an excellent idea!!

I hadn't considered walking on the mesh directly like that, but now that you say it that makes a ton of sense. I will have to try that out
I mean you could make up the same handwavey platitudes from anything really. Fruit Pickers. A Hospital Ward. Ant Colonies.
> Alas, "Defund the Police" is a much catchier headline than "Redistribute funding to better provide for necessary social services"

Catchier but also misleading. It's allowed certain media to push the narrative that everyone supporting "Defund the Police" wants to eliminate police entirely and that lie resonates very strongly with the fearful people being manipulated.

As a slogan, it's probably done more harm than good to its cause.
It is a concern because presumably most people in office jobs are going to need to be able to use these tools, but I am somewhat comforted to know one language that AI systems do not understand well yet because of lack of texts. However, I think that will be short lived.
I’ve just found out pylyzer https://github.com/mtshiba/pylyzer

Not sure how good it is.
You can chain MP4 containers without re-rendering anything. It's extremely quick and computationally inexpensive. Of course at such a scale it might still cost a lot in the absolute sense, but I'm pretty sure it would be balanced by the increased revenue
This is about a different man, Noah Petersen, who was reading a statement mentioning the linked encounter at a council meeting.
ha yes sorry
1.) Be good at what you do.

2.) Be even better at leetcode.

3.) Interview during a downturn, when everybody's stock is in the toilet and all the companies that are about to go bankrupt aren't hiring.

4.) Get multiple competing offers.

5.) Play them off against each other. Turn them down if you have to.

6.) Get as much stock as you can in the counteroffer.

7.) Wait for the upturn, where the company's stock goes parabolic.

8.) Profit.

#3 and #7 are the most important. Timing and luck are better than skill. But you usually need #1 and #2 to accomplish #4 during #3, and you need #4/5 to get #6, which is what really makes you the big bucks in #7.
Without internal Twitter context, but having seen companies with marketing teams... there's a lot of people involved in doing close work with partners, whether advertisement ones or others. On the tech side it's kind of like AWS support - sure, everyone had access to the support portal, but once you start spending $$$, you'll get dedicated people sitting in your company's slack channel, providing support, advice and planning if you need it. (Sure, it doesn't always work great, but the idea holds) I'm sure that whoever was the big ad spender with Twitter has a dedicated contact reachable more directly. (And possibly negotiating better deals than advertised to everyone)
I’m definitely not an expert, but my thinking was that perhaps a “sort by new” would be much faster if there were only a handful of potential values which could be indexed, rather than every single datetime value being unique.
Tell HN: Press these 5 keys together to visit LinkedIn
I consider myself an expert in Windows but only today I learnt that pressing Alt+Win+Ctrl+Shift+L together launches https://www.linkedin.com/feed in the default browser. Do you know of any other shortcuts of this kind?
I've watched a bit of that and it made me choke up early on, why would you do this to me? xD
Gaussian distributions form a monoid (2012)
Yeah, with pre-commit, it basically only takes <startup cost> seconds for me.
And developer B inherits code from developer A who typed "import x", developer B curses and spends a few days implementing Y, which developer A should have done in the first place if he had listend to SO (and provided the context why he wanted to do X, which of course he didn't when asking the question).
You are probably right, eg Losslesscut in Linux does exactly that: no transcoding, no overlays nor any editing other than cutting and moving around sequences from the same video. Editing and exporting such videos is blazingly fast.

Adding a bit technical context (for readers) to your comment on inserting ads at "random places": many codecs use the concept of an initial frame [1] which would place technical restrictions on where the ad could be inserted. If Youtube believes that ad timing is too important, they might not accept technical restrictions on the timing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression_picture_type...
You obviously don't travel. Lose your phone while abroad. Good luck!
"What does it mean to be a good human being" is more general, so a probably a little less easy to answer. With "How to be a good man" you can cater to a smaller group. Women and men have different needs.
While I can speak in Portuguese without much issues (except being hard for them to stick to European Portuguese), I've nooticed that sometimes it uses a clear translation of an English expression that does not feel natural in Portuguese at all.
> Seems like kinda a nothingburger?

Yep, it's a nothingburger (which also explains why it's not filed through a security disclosure and getting a CVE).

Just declaring draw over apps permission will also kick you into a much more rigorous Play Store review if you try to publish the app.
That's largely a distinction without a difference while Epic still owned (owns? seem deal isn't closed yet) them. If Epic is in peril, Bandcamp is in peril since they owned Bandcamp up until recently, and we know Epic is in financial trouble because of the Epic Games Store.

Their entire minimum revenue guarantee scheme to lure over indies and publishers is apparently extremely expensive for Epic and the store has yet to turn a profit on the whole. Before, they could run it off of Fortnite profits alone. That said, Sweeney has admitted that well is basically running dry and it's why they've been doing layoffs and the like everywhere.

If a company is in trouble, the first thing on the line are the subsidiaries and Bandcamp is a questionable acquisition on the Epic rep sheet, being a music store for a company whose main business is making videogames and selling a gaming engine to people. That means it either goes under or is sold off because it's seen as an irrelevant "aside" subsidiary.
My friend and I have a theory that a significant chunk of the problems mentioned in the article could be solved if every guy had a genuine platonic friend who is a girl. No data point other than every guy that I know who has close friend girls, never had problems with masculinity or something. And the opposite is true as well.

I might be in a very limited bubble as well, as my very close bubble of decade+ friend group is almost 50/50 guys and girls. We’ve also discussed this exact topic numerous times among ourselves.
What is "reasoning"? Wikipedia surprised me with this opening paragraph:

> Reason is the capacity of applying logic consciously by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth, with more than 10 or more than 3 evidence, 99.9% reliability or 87.5% reliability.

Apart from the words "consciously" (which has 100 or so different definitions, some of which do and some of which do not apply to AI), and "aim" which can be contentious depending upon if you feel that requires consciousness or can include training rewards… I think the best of them is at the lower of those two mysterious percentages I've never seen discussed before.

And that's despite LLMs being wildly bad at, specifically, logic. Though even this specific weakness in general seems like a very easy thing to get around by hybridising it with the computer it has to run on e.g. by telling it how to use a compiler, as logic is the foundation of the arithmetic that the transformers use to do natural language comprehension in the first place.
There can be different kinds of downsides. Not getting union pension plan is one kind of downside, not being able to get hired because union contract mandates preference to union members - another. Which kind are we dealing with here? If the second one then membership is practically a requirement to non-marginal employment, unless you're a superstar that can choose their own projects and doesn't need any security or continued employment.
This is about a council rule that forbids “derogatory statements or comments about any individual.”
> ambiguous

But it's not ambiguous. It has a literal meaning, which is zero funding for police. That the activists using it are trying to act smart with Humpty Dumpty wordplay [1] doesn't change its well-established meaning. Especially when related activists get NY Times opinion columns doubling down on that meaning [2].

See how many other movements you can think of, that can make such outrageous claims, only for the journalist class to massage their words and bend the rules of language past their breaking point, to make the movement palatable to the masses.

[1] ’When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

[2] Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
Which is why the officers involved should pay, with their jobs. The department should fire them to demonstrate to the public that the officer's actions were unacceptable and won't be tolerated. I'm sure they won't, but if they care about about improving how they're viewed by the public they're going to have to start holding their own responsible for abuses of power.

It shouldn't end with the police either. That mayor needs to be voted out next election if not sooner.
I was an AWS employee too and found that people building services basically lived in a completely different world, hardly ever actuallyusing AWS - so I'm not surprised.
I won’t be surprised if this comment gets flagged but… I couldn’t help but wonder while reading this, if swallowing sperm would have the same effect and then this quote:

> “The risk also seems lower among couples who have a lot of penetrative or oral sex before they get pregnant”

And I thought, so many men have just had their prayers answered.
I think this might be different. I've seen those mini games too and have been seeing those since after their interactive content started when Bandersnatch released.
They had reason to suspect glyphosate due to previous studies. Ex: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/6/3278
I think the auto-built playlists are bad. Not only because they slip in something jarring, but even the "This is..." playlists can't be trusted. They often mix artists with the same name who have nothing to do with each other.

No, I think it's for active discovery Spotify is good. I have never enjoyed everything on the Discover weekly playlist, quite often it contains stuff that makes me ask "why did you even think I would like that crap, Spotify". But when it hits, it hits amazingly well.
An expensive distraction. The real interesting stuff is on Area 72.
Wonderful. Now don’t make the same mistake we made with all the other ones… sharing the recipes with every health department in the world who allow them to given to people for every cough and sniffle (there’s got to be some way to make certified doctor prescriptions a prerequisite for distribution worldwide…). Antibiotic resistance is getting scarier and scarier, just because of how carelessly the ones we have had been distributed
A free expense manager for digital nomads living in countries with an outdoor dining culture and cash transactions. Written in my free time with a friend in Elixir and React (PWA).
Features:
- voice commands to add expenses
- budgets
- smart category search
- multiple currencies

https://gougou.cash/
Once you have users, it can be very hard for a competitor to dislodge them. There used to be a ton of social media startups, and large company efforts like Google+. They mostly just flopped.
Very much applicable to South Asian languages too, but the problem remains same. Not enough content being available to train. And unlike Finland, Government or private funding is a distant dream for many states in India.
There is just no alternative.

If you want to self host a site your ISP won't let you. If you want to self host email, none of your messages will get through.

15 years ago I could host a site at home. Today, it can't be done.

Want to regulate something... Make ISP's allow for self hosting. My 5 year old android phone has the power to host a small personal site, but my ISP won't let it happen.
The fiat system is used by the entire global economy, bitcoin uses more Energy than my country (Ireland) and probably couldn't serve the needs of a country 5% its size.
Half a million of us want to donate our data to science, it's languishing unused
What is Android or Windows? What happens at Apple, stays at Apple! :>
Even if the universe is infinite, you can't use its infiniteness because you can't communicate partial results across infinite distances.

It is natural to think that the more time you have, the further you can travel to, potentially. But when it comes to the universe, the opposite is actually true. The more time passes, the less of the universe you can reach. A lot of universe you can see today is actually not at all reachable, meaning even if you shine the light back it will never reach the destination.
AI-Generated Images of Women Laughing Alone with Salad Are Pretty Scary
Rama Clojure API
Something to also ask yourself - what would it look like to be successful? After 5 years of no revenue, you’re probably comfortable at that step, and the trap is to always find things that need doing pre-launch because that’s what you’re used to. So it might be worth reframing it in your mind.
It will accomplish that next time someone talk in the public comment period of their city council, they are less likely to use police force to shut up people they don't agree with.

But maybe they'll just stop having a public comment period...
> to be able to travel somewhere(s) else in the world so they can see how similar we all are.

"One Travel for Life", a new sci-fi serie soon on Netflix \o/
There are also plenty of successful Disney shows that never get a disc release. I'm still waiting for a Star vs. The Forces of Evil DVD or Blu-ray.
No. You're wrong. It's important and we need to stomp on random use of language like this, which has consequences.

It's not thinking and you are dangerously wrong if you don't understand why. The danger isn't AGI it's misplaced belief in the state of AI. Call this thinking and you skew perceptions.
Know more about Emmanuel Katto at his Eurosport Profile.
I understand Youtube uses a variety of codecs and encoding parameters to serve videos to a multitude of platforms and clients. Maybe there are restrictions on some clients that force Youtube to pick a codec for them which makes ad embedding unprofitable. Circumventing embedded videos would then be as trivial as faking a particular client signature.
I used to have a trackball back in '98 that had some software that allowed you to interact with things in a radial (pie) menu. I could customize the menu to a certain degree, and it was very very handy. I loved it, but newer version of Windows didn't support it and I never saw anything else like it. I don't remember the trackball or the software's name.
You guys are too sensitive.
In that both are "microblogging" social networks, yes. The official app feels much like the Twitter app. And all the important user facing concepts are the same. Posts, reposts, quote posts and replies all work the same.

Then you also have custom feeds in addition to the built in feeds. So people will make things like language specific feeds, feeds to follow a group of people (e.g. politicians), etc.

Then there is a whole federated protocol, ATProto [1], underneath that has some interesting properties that also solves some of the issue faced with scalability and portability in the Fediverse protocol.

[1] https://atproto.com/
I guess the difference is in the severity of the persons mental health issues.

If you're otherwise healthy, but never learned or have been discouraged from doing "the basics" like talk about how you are feeling with your loved ones then you really just need someone to teach you how or perhaps just give you permission to do so. Maybe this is easier if you dress it up in a specific kind of setting, depends on the individual.

If you have some potentially diagnosable serious mental health issue, then of course you should see an actual trained clinical psycologist.

Sometimes you may not know which one you are, perhaps you go to the former and figure you actually needed the latter. Maybe you're happy with what you've done, or maybe not? At the end of the day you just have to try figure it out.
Also a solved problem with keychain managers. Example:

With iCloud Keychain, you can keep your passwords (and other secure information) updated across your devices and shared with the people that you trust.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204085
No, I assume it because of the way they phrased their answer
Same for Spacelift (co-founder here).
> For example, if I am "child free" I will now oppose the building of schools and playgrounds on the basis that they make my LVT go up with no benefit to me.

It would raise the value of your land.
MP= machine-pistole = German word for submachine gun (SMG).
Not sure if I am super-hyped about a sky full of autonomous robots (presumably) working on military and intelligence stuff.
I wish they would do that here. Our nearest city has tons of derelict and decaying buildings that sit on the books of faceless organisations far away staffed by people who've never set eyes on them, and don't have to live in the resulting s** hole next to them.
Carl Cox virtual performance experiment: Intermundium. Between Worlds
We could easily reduce the risks but we're collectively too lazy to do it. Stop feeding antibiotics to animals, stop giving out strong antibiotics without supervision, sanction third world countries who do not put restrictions on access to antibiotics.
If work opportunities dry up, how the union would help? Unions don't create work opportunities, they only can redistribute who gets the ones that are still there - e.g. by excluding nonmembers or by mandating that less senior members will be fired first, etc. Given that, why "these people" would be sure they aren't ones who'd get the short straw?
ChatGPT does not think.
We wouldn't have any new dams, or do significant work on them, maybe.

However there's one approved for Scotland (Coire Glas) to do 30GWh of storage, generating 1.5GW. UK wide total storage capacity currently 24GWh apparently, so it absolutely competes.

Maybe this one just wasn't cost effective to modernise/repair, the geography would never allow much, or cheaper to start from scratch, or something.
I think this is just being around people with good emotional literacy. This is the core skill, and one that we don't teach. In fact society promotes toxic, reactive and non-reflective emotional handling.

We need better emotional literacy and self regulation. Women tend to be better at this than men on average due to western culture.