skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I wonder the same thing and think it's not as obvious as others suggest. e.g. if you have an autoencoder for a one-hot encoding, you're essentially learning a pair of nonlinear maps that approximately invert each other, and that map some high dimensional space to a low one. You could imagine that it could instead learn something like a dense bit packing with a QAM gray code[0]. In a one-hot encoding the dot product for similar tokens is zero, so your transformations can't be learning to preserve it.

Somewhat naively, I might speculate that for e.g. sequence prediction, even if you had some efficient packing of space like that to try to maximally separate individual tokens, it's still advantageous to learn an encoding so that synonyms are clustered so that if there is an error, it doesn't cause mispredictions for the rest of the sequence.

I suppose then the point is that the structure exists in the latent space of language itself, and your coordinate maps pull it back to your naive encoding rather than preserving a structure that exists a priori on the naive encoding. i.e. you can't do dot products on the two spaces and expect them to be related. You need to map forward into latent space and do the dot product there, and that defines a (nonlinear) measure of similarity on your original space. Then the question is why latent space has geometry, and there I guess the point is it's not maximally information dense, so the geometry exists in the redundancy. So perhaps it is obvious after all!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:16QAM_Gray_Coded.svg
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because it's microsoft's browser and they should never ever be rewarded for what they did to netscape. ever.

how about because I said "no", because I can, that's why.
Because a) they're available and b) people think it's a black art.
How did you get into that role? Was it an internal transfer or did you just apply for a position?
In other words, Microsoft nags you use their user tracking adware instead of Google's user tracking adware...

I am indifferent to this.

For what its worth, it doesn't seem to recognize Chromium derivatives like Cromite or Firefox derivatives like Mercury.
Try deleting Google cookies on every session, like I do, and you'll see how often Google nags you.
The only reason web components are alive is because Google is pouring literally millions into them.

A technology that cannot submit forms without Javascript, still can't create a submit button and whose proponents agree that it still needs 20 more standards to be generally working [1] would be dead within a year. And yet we're here in year 12 of this dumpster fire.

[1] Instead of producing a report every year, Web Component Group seems to just update the same document in place, so now it inly lists "4 standards we agreed need to be done ASAP"
Yeah this is as much the business of creating an illusion as it is ferrying you to a good location. A few iterations and I could see it being not much different from a trip booked from a resort (minus the actual survival part).
On the other hand $15 is a lot of money to some people.
It is a compiled language. The first time I tried Go (~10 years ago now), the core dump is even more cryptic.

It is a OK language if you don't want to worry every memory allocations and wants a simpler / effective language to work with. From the other path (scripting language and expect to see performance improvements by moving to compiled language), you will be disappointed. Honestly, bun.js / deno with TypeScript is much more pleasant.
News Media Scan app for detecting internet news censorship
$6 million in personal wealth is middle class? Woof!
Glad you were able to overcome it!

Agreed. People are not thinking of us nearly as much as we think
The tragically millennial vocabulary of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
Closer to the equator makes it easier to achieve an equatorial orbit and some slight benefits from the initial speed of the Earth's rotation but Super Heavy is so ridiculously over sized it doesn't need it. Things like the ISS are highly inclined so they're easier to reach from Russia's launch site as your latitude is essentially the default inclination you're be in when you hit orbit without spending the fuel to change it.
I feel like people outside universities just don't care (because why should they?), and people within universities, at least the one's I've been in, are very, very, aware of this toxic culture, but pretty much powerless to do anything about it.
> Bonus: I add another link to each toot that opens it in the instance of its author, where I have access to the full reply chain, of which my own instance often captures only a subset. A very simple solution to one of Mastodon’s unfortunate limitations that are due to federation.

I ... would not have expected this to be the case.

However, as per https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/22608#discu..., I can see how it ended up that way and while it'd be nice if something triggered an on-demand fetch as discussed by other people later on, that can be added Later(tm).
> I'll be honest, I don't have a problem with this while Google is and was allowed to insert their own on pages such as Google.com

I think that there's a big difference between a company putting ads on a page they own, and a company hijacking an app that they own. For better or worse, the expectation on the web is that wherever you browse to might try to pull all kinds of shady tricks on you, and we more or less learn to tune it out (and hopefully also to run some sort of appropriate protection). I think that the expectation, especially from a reputable software maker, is that the browser itself will not get in your way. Maybe things are moving in the direction that that's not the expectation, either, but, if so, then I think it's good to make that process as high-friction as possible.

Also, even if there's not a difference, "I'm OK with Microsoft pulling user-hostile tricks because Google does" may be a decent rebuttal of "Microsoft is worse than Google", which is not a claim I saw here, but it is not much of a rebuttal of "Microsoft is doing some shady tricks."
HTML imports is a good one.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-imports/

The v0 spec is also vastly different than how it was implemented, though I don't think it ever shipped out from behind a flag:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130608123733/http://www.w3.org...
I think in terms of the implementation keeping them separate and composable is very useful. I think the marketing around it could have emphasized it a little more but that's water under the bridge really.
because they have a shitty API
Record-breaking quantum computer has more than 1000 qubits
What's the underlying technology that allows this to happen? Is it Pyodide-based? And does this support GPU-based models?
I was under the impression that regular use of rocket fuel made a lot of land extremely toxic.
Here is a little shell script to print out what is easily seen in /proc/*/cmdline.

This requires a GNU xargs that supports NULL termination (or something compatible); as I understand it, this cannot be done with POSIX tools.

$ cat shps
#!/bin/dash

for path in /proc/*/cmdline
do p=${path#*/} p=${p#*/} p=${p%/*}
case "$p" in *[!0-9]*) continue;; esac
c="$(xargs -0 echo < "$path")"
[ -n "$c" ] && printf %6d\ %s\\n "$p" "$c"
done*
> I'll be honest, I don't have a problem with this while Google is and was allowed to insert their own on pages such as Google.com

You're going to get DV'd to hell but you're absolutely right. At the end of the day, Microsoft injecting ads for Edge when it detects you're downloading another popular browser is literally no different than Google advertising Chrome on damn near every website they run.

Google has somehow managed to maintain this image as this scrappy underdog entity and it's absolutely ridiculous the mental gymnastics some people will engage in to excuse all their anti-competitive behaviors.

Edit: I suppose it's technically different because they are injecting content into a website that wouldn't otherwise be there, and one can make the argument that a web browser should only render what is served. But also I have literally a dozen extensions that all alter content in the browser (many of which are for Google owned websites!) not the least of which is an adblocker. I have a hard time saying Microsoft adding a blurb about Edge being good to search results for Chrome or Firefox is the end of the free internet.
I dont know about that.
The very first project I worked on after graduating is still very much alive last I checked, and I was actually promised that it should only have a lifetime of a few years as it was an incredible fast developed prototype - the feature set and scope considering.
I actually left the company because we were two devs and the owner of the company constantly wanted us to work on new features instead of improving the foundation of the obviosuly rushed prototype, but here we are almost 15 years later and the core of it is pretty much still the same thing as when I left (SaaS).
I feel this is a variant of victim blaming, shouldn't we put more blame on the ones who freely exploit loyal workers?

Exploiting loyal people seems to be accepted in society and we simply blame those individuals for being gullible. Whereas the exploiters get rewarded for their successful exploitation and learn that exploiting others is the best way to get ahead in life.
Monks are just an example that very plainly demonstrates that a person's "worth" is a cultural determination, not an objective fact of human existence.

Do you need me to go and list all of the ways every culture on the planet has different views on the value of an individual?

I don't have that kind of time.
This whole "shut up about your intellectual property rights and your ability to make a living being a creator, you greedy self-centered idiot, because your livelihood is getting in the way of my vision of the future" is not convincing to me. Especially when your vision of the future is literally based on science fiction and may never actually come to pass. More likely gen AI will be like every technology, whose inventors and fans promise a post-scarcity world, but in reality it just either makes the rich already richer or swaps out one ruling class for another. We were promised the holodeck and the replicator, and what we got was Amazon drivers having to pee in bottles.
Sort of but I think you're too limiting on the scope of what theory can do. Usually in engineering you can't just design anything in your imagination. You have a limited set. A domain. Which to continue the theme of the example, I have a set of points. I rarely have all the points on the face of the earth.

How do I pick the point such that it minimizes a specification constraint? Let's say that constraint is the shortest distance. This is design by calculation.

Then design is out of the equation. But if the specification constrains is "The two points most pleasing to the user" Then you can "design" those points.

If I had access to every neuron and had a exact fully realized mathematical model of the general human brain, even this constraint of "pleasing" and "usability", in theory could be met with a calculation.

Largely anything that leans more towards "design" means we don't know shit about what's going on so we hire philosophers and artists to make wild guesses. That is essentially what design is: a wild guess.

The more of software we can model in a theory, the less wild guesses we need.
Isn't that what the paper is fighting for though, or or off ?
My heart jumped with joy when I saw this post. Fossil is such an ingenious system, and, if you are not aware, has been created by the very D. Richard Hipp who created Sqlite. Here is a technical overview: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/tip/www/tech_overview.wiki

Fossil may never become the VCS that rules the world. But, for note taking, it has some very attractive features:

- it is a single executable, written in C with very litte resource requirements

- the file format (an Sqlite database) is designed as an "enduring file format"

- it has an integrated scripting language

For a very long time now I have been considering to port my own note taking system, knowfox, to Fossil. Inspired by this post I might finally come around doing it.
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Eh, I used to think this, and even used Edge in linux a little.

But Edge is super junky now. Its turning into Internet Explorer all over again, as if Microsoft just can't help themselves.

Chrome is secretly junky, but at least it keeps the user facing UIs clean.
> The visceral reactions to OOP here are interesting.

You could say it's a pattern.
Any launch site needs to be in the CONUS, as far South as possible, and not subject to complaining neighbors.

Boca Chica is perfect.
The title is probably correct, but not sure it matters. Most applications will not live that long. I recently tried using Web Components, and something that is very simple in any framework like using a <slot> was, um, eh, incredibly confusing and complicated to setup. This maybe doesn't matter if your component is just a <pixelart-demo>, but if you're building an application in JS then using slots is for me a critical feature because it allows me to have composable components. Debugging with "shadow dom" was also really confusing in dev tools.
Not propotionally, no. The US comes 77th out of 150 or so countries in number of active military personnel per capita. Small countries with an existential threat looming over them like the two Koreas and Cuba have unusually large militaries compared to their size.

The US is the third most populous country so its military is still exceptionally big in absolute terms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
Not surprising at all. It was also taught at B-School that loyal customers are the ones you should hike prices on. They're loyal after all.
Converted oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico:

https://spaceexplored.com/2021/07/07/update-on-spacexs-gulf-...
My thoughts on starting an online business as someone who's never done it before
I think it would be a fun and rewarding hobby to build something online that people pay for. I’m talking in the ranges of $100 to $xxxx per month. I feel like if you are persistent enough and lucky enough, you might be able to hit those numbers for a few months before the churn catches up. Still, it would be a cool experience!

So I thought about how I would do it. I’ve heard of people like Pieter Levels and Jon Yongfook launching a series of web apps until something gets traction.
I’ve also heard of Amy Hoy’s method where you create value right away via small and tiny blog posts until you get better and better at delivering bigger value in the form of info products or even a web app that you can charge money for.
I’ve also heard of Daniel Vassallo’s “portfolio of small bets”, where you just do what it takes to make a bit of money any way possible, and try out different things without investing too much, until you hit something that seems promising. Daniel’s method is a bit hard to explain and I don’t think I’ve done it justice.

Anyway, I think I’ve already lost the game by thinking and researching too much and not taking action. Maybe that’s the sauce. Launching a series of apps, blog posts, or random ideas whenever the inspiration strikes. And being persistent and not over investing in one thing.
Maybe it’s best to just pick a lane and try it out and try many things until something clicks.
As for me, I’m not sure if I should go for making something that I think would make money right away, or just get in the groove of creating things for the internet first. Anyway, just rambling.
I would argue that dithering is fake resolution, so you're not exceeding the limit in the information theoretic sense. Perhaps a better analogy would be compressed sensing on a sparse, structured signal where you can seemingly violate Nyquist but only because you have additional information about the sampled signal.
That's funny because I just canceled my subscription over their treatment of Jon Stewart.
full playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8HZ0pojM34Xkz7Yh7JxoSRyt...
https://www.revportcardiol.org/pt-electrocardiographic-evalu....
I guess the difference here is that I see this as a set of potentially useful tools for someone who already knows what they're doing, and not educational tools for beginners. It certainly doesn't seem to be advertised as such.
Fabulously written.
I would like to love web components but they are still quite sucky to use (stringy attributes, bleh), especially if it's not your team who produces them.

And some super basic stuff like buttons in forms is still an unsolved problem:

> Form-associated custom elements: being a submit button

https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/814

opened 4 years ago and representatives of major browsers still don't have an answer
To be fair, I'm sure most of us have read Paul Graham's essays, including some of the early ones where he kind of breezily talks about "solving the money problem". That's what that guy wanted to do too. Maybe he was even inspired by PG.
The main reason why the Wagner Act was passed into US federal law as part of FDR's New Deal was because FDR believed the Great Depression had been caused by low wages. Specifically, lack of purchasing power on the part of working people due to low wages was and is widely considered a major cause of the Depression. Allowing unions rather than suppressing them by state force or allowing corporations to suppress them by private force was seen as a way to stabilize the economy and increase the profitability of corporations by driving up wages which would actually help business because consumers would actually be able to afford their products.
No it's greed.
Looks like a fork of OONI from the Tor Project
In the US, you can just go camping on islands if you want to get away.

Where I live, there's islands which are not owned by anyone in the rivers. (Check your county's GIS map for which ones) You can just go camp on those, no problem.

In the Great lakes, there's islands which offer ferries to go camping backcountry-style. I highly recommend visiting North Manitou Island, which is an abandoned farming/logging/vacation community where you can see the ruins of old houses and homesteads. There's also a south island which I haven't visited, which is a little less wild. Ferry runs from Leland, MI. Probably one of the best camping trips I've ever taken, beautiful.

My advice: Download Google Earth Pro (now free!) and just scroll around until you find something. Then search for info about said island, and see if anyone owns it (if not, you can probably just find a way to get there and camp).

As always: Leave the place cleaner than you found it!
In order to retain lean muscle mass while losing weight you also have to maintain a high protein intake, something like 2 grams per kilogram of lean body weight. This can be challenging while eating at a calorie deficit: after you consume the necessary protein you might not have much room in your diet for other macronutrients.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama40/
I'm glad my employer lets me install any system I want on my work machine. I really can't stand dealing with windows outside of a VM.
Boca Chica is possibly the best launch location in the entire USA. Not many people realize that it is at the same latitude as Miami!

The major issue with Boca Chica was the (literal) handful of residents who lived there, some of which refused to move when SpaceX first came around with offers to buy their land. I don't know what is the current status of them.
"Thirstily"?
I'm pretty sure ITAR prevents US companies from exporting orbital rocket technology, as it's dual-use. Any government with access to a SpaceX rocket could learn a lot about how to develop long range missiles.
> IMO it was a bit aggressive for Cruise to have seen this woman jaywalking and still crossed the crosswalk after detecting that the woman had just passed the car but still in the middle of the crosswalk.

Wat? (Most) pedestrians aren't squirrels that hang out in the road running back and forth. You've put forth an unreasonable standard that basically nobody uses. Except for maybe those "special" types of drivers that will slam on their brakes and wave at you when your intended path was clearly behind their car after it had passed, as if you're supposed to be thankful for their putting themselves in your way to indulge in a simulation of altruism.

A good human driver may have slowed down from perceiving the emerging exceptional situation of the oncoming car not reacting to the pedestrian, but I'd say that's a much different framing than what you asserted.