skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From TFA:

> Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother.

> Taking the call, he shut off the stove and stretched plastic wrap over the pot to keep the pudding fresh. By the time he returned, the cooling air in the pot had drawn the wrap into a concave shape, and in that warped plastic, he saw something – the magnified reflection of an overhead lightbulb – that gave him an idea that could revolutionize space-based sensing and communications.

I love genesis stories like this. Reminds me of Feynman's plate:
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FeynmansWobblingPlate/
> antidisestablishmentarianism

This is not actually a compound word, merely a word which stacks several layers of derivation on top of a single stem.

> What about single nouns with spaces in the middle like "remote control" or "mobile phone")?

These are compound words, identical in their nature to the stereotypical long German compound words, regardless of the fact that they're written with a space in the middle. The difference is merely orthographical.

> When I fist was interested in NLP, I thought "word" was easily defined as "sequence of letters bounded by non-letters".

There's an additional problem with this view which you didn't mention, which is that written language is merely one possible encoding of the actual underlying language, which is not merely a theoretical concern, but also a practical one. After all, even in English the encoding is far from 1-to-1, since you have multiple differing spellings for what would generally be considered to be the same word (e.g. "color" and "colour"), as well as identical sequences of letters which would generally be considered to be different words (e.g. "lead" and "lead").
We also see some people from banks passing by sometimes (critical realtime trading room apps). And medical, drones or satellites payload startups.

Alas FOSDEM has changed its room attribution scheme for 'smaller' communities and IIUC there was no Ada room this year. Hopefully there'll be a space next year.
There are many young people in IT - fast growth of the industry being one of the reasons. People prefer to work with people which are like themselves e. g. young prefer to work with young. When I was young I myself had a bias against older IT precessional which was foolish as I can see now. What puzzles me executives are rarely young but they allow ageism to thrive.
Israel doesn't have a constitution. There's the declaration of independence which does explicitly say the Jewish People. But the interpretation of that is varied. The closest thing Israel has to a founding father (who died before the country was formed) is Hertzel and he called it "state of the Jews". Many make a strong distinction between that and "Jewish state" as American TV anchors like to say (that's like nails on a blackboard for me).

Israel doesn't have civil unions. It only has religious marriage any religion is OK but the religions do discriminate. This is both problematic and a blessing. I'm not married to my spouse because I'm an atheist, but Israel has a "known in public" status which gives us the same rights (and some obligations) as married people. That means Gay and inter-religion couples can enjoy all the rights.

Another option some people take is to fly to nearby cypress to have a civil union which is recognized in Israeli courts.

About the broader question. Yes, there are religious elements in the government that have been pushing the secular envelope. This creates a lot of friction within Israeli society. E.g. there's a law against pastries in passover which is just the dumbest thing ever... Unenforceable and just stupid. There's also regulations prohibiting Jews from working on a Sabath (supposedly as a labor protection). Notice that both laws mostly affect people who are listed as "Jews" even if they are secular.
They managed to build something equally good (if not better) than GPT4, without losing 50% of their cap table to Microsoft. That alone is worth a lot.

The investments are absurdly large but if you believe LLMs will be fundamentally transformative then I can understand the logic.
I'm not disputing twitter is writing, though. I'm sure the "I only read the classics" types disdain twitter too. But I also think your comment is roughly akin to someone saying that there hasn't been anything new in theory of gravity research since the publication of GR in 1915. That might appear to be the case for lay people, but the field has made major advancements since then both in refining what is understood about GR and staking out territory on the frontier. Just because literature hasn't produce an archetype or story as durable as the the old standards (which arguably have nothing much going for them except familiarity and an appeal to the lowest common denominator) doesn't mean there hasn't been any "progress" or genuine novelty either.
This kind of comment is not helpful, nor curious, simply reductive. Many studies are fine with small sample sizes, which I can expand on if you'd like. As someone several years removed from academic literature, before I believe a curt dismissal of a neuroscience finding I would hope to read some characterization of both "falling standards" and which particular methodology is questionable. There's a lot of literature already summarizing the various flavors of failstates, even saying "resembles p-hacking" makes a more informative comment.
> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia.

Maybe I suffer onset dementia or something, but I enjoyed that game back then, but absolutely remember shit about it. Like, absolutely nothing. Maybe it would all come back 5 minutes after firing it up again, but I doubt it.
It solves the problem of cold-starts, isolation/security and portability. Basically, WASM-based cloud offerings will be able to offer more performant, cheaper and scalable compute that works everywhere regardless of the underlying architecture. Basically Docker 2.0
I mean, I’m not sure this is an _unpopular_ opinion; generally if you have to pay for attention, you’re not worth paying attention to.
Maybe it only does a certain amount of sub queries? Like a DOS protection?

To be fair. It says research yourself and provided data for most of the others saving the user enormous amount of time.

The genie is out of the bag.
I don't think this says much about Nix really. Packaging software is somewhere between trivial and impossible depending on the software in question. I'm sure people did seek out similar services for deb/rpm/whatever. Yes, including snaps if you want it done well.
This is it. He also asked me what the width of the line was and how could I say a line doesn't have a width.
It’s about as close as one can get to an acquisition, no?
Enabling browsers to drop the support of the monster that is JavaScript in favor of WASM. Thus, the winter or lack of JS.
At that age, isn't not knowing the default, and experienced many times every day? I wonder when we swap to assuming we know or can deduce everything.
I don't disagree per se. But it doesn't follow that therefor all the good literature is in the past.

In fact, rereading your post I'm not even sure where you get the idea that I'm a "neophile." I have no particular interest in the contemporary. My argument is just that the past cannot hope to comment comprehensively on the present or future, which I think the analogy with science makes pretty clear. Things genuinely do change. Our genes change, our technology changes, our philosophies, sciences and religions change. I agree that the past has much to say about the present and a really informed person could not possibly ignore it, but it simply doesn't follow that we don't need any more literature or new ways of telling stories or interrogating our lives.
People are not perfect. I know it's hard now but I urge you not to resent your mother. If she was otherwise kind then she was just overprotective and overly attached because she loves you.
On the topic of matrix multiplication there is an excellent interactive 3D visual explainer from the PyTorch team blog on how it applies to attention heads and weights for ML.

https://pytorch.org/blog/inside-the-matrix/
Does that mean that a point is also a line as a point has no breadth
Who said we should? You don’t need to lay tracks literally everywhere there is a road, just the main arteries like trams, trains and subways do. I meant ‘lay down some tracks’ as installing good public transport, not as a one to one replacement.
I assume they mean startup speed (cold-start). Since they're not using JIT (WASM doesn't support it) the runtime performance will be miles beyond V8 and JSC.
> The most pressing: if this is successful and useful, why wouldn't the LLMs that you're targeting just replicate your creation and transparently put it between users and their own LLM?

> In other words, what is your moat here?

He is using other people platforms to create a business, layers on top of LLMs won't have a moat, not even training the LLM is guaranteeing a moat. Why on earth everybody asks this on Show HN? The world doesn't need more big techs with moats, we need a healthy ecosystem where multiple players can work together without killing each other and become the only option. No moat, please.
Pay-to-win social media just seems like an extremely stupid idea. Yes, you can pay to have your nonsense boosted up to the top, next to the other marks! Who on earth does _that_ appeal to?
What’s so special about Android 14, compared to other versions?

I’m still on Android 8, with my Nexus 6P that happened to be lucky and have no bootloops. Curiously, it still covers everything I need, has a quick charge, nice stereo speakers, and is updated with everything (all the apps, including built-ins), but the OS. Even the camera is great for my use case. A have an old Pixel camera mod, back from those early days.

I want to upgrade to a Pixel, but I have nothing else to do with my Nexus, so I try to keep it as much as I can.
The implication of the OP is not that they are the same game, but that “if you think Uplink’s focus is more on ‘exploring emotions’ and less on ‘fun’, Papers Please will blow your mind (as that has very little fun in the traditional sense, and a much stronger focus on exploring deeper emotions)”.
Thanks for sharing. I love mermaid, and use it frequently. I’ll have to check out D2. I think declarative diagramming is a powerful tool to capture thoughts in a readable way that can be versioned like any other text.
>On pure research they invented the transformer in 2017 (Vaswani)

Transformers were invented in the early 90s: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/fast-weight-programmer-1991... Google were just the first with the compute to scale them up.
While in intensive care I had one for 2 weeks. It's very scary, especially when you realize the possible consequences.
Excelent game. Odd that no one mentioned Uplink OS, it's a graphic mod that makes it support higher resolution and has various qol improvements: https://www.moddb.com/mods/uplink-os
It does lose a bit of the 90s aestethics though
The article postulates that something changed from the Covid pandemic to cause the divergence. I think a more plausible alternate explanation is the cause is a concerted and successful effort to spread misinformation for political reasons.
I think it’s basically a crime against children and humanity for parents to put an iPad (flashing meaningless drivel) in front of their children while pushing them through a supermarket, or a park, or in a restaurant. It baffles me how frequently I see this done nowadays, like children need a constant flashing distraction to keep them from asking questions or being bored. I want to smash every iPad I see used like this. Let children be bored and have their own thoughts. It’s not painful for a child to have to sit in a trolley or a stroller while they’ve nothing to do. In a restaurant they might even learn language and ideas from the adult conversation no matter their age. In my eyes, if you’re a parent who does this, it’s a parenting fail particularly given you managed to get through your own childhood without the same.
Wish Google maps would work in malls. Singapore is full of them and the directions are kinda useless inside
Yeah, I’m guessing that after a year of layoffs and chaos, they’re pretty much out of competent product strategy people. Like, why would you _stay_?
Once you start claiming that the arts peaked at some point, millions of other informed, erudite people are going to disagree and set it at some other point or not at all. You say the end of the 19th century was the start of a decline? That was before jazz was a thing, and that’s a genre that plenty would defend as high art. It was before plenty of novelists, poets, painters and playwrights that have both popular appeal and have entered the serious canon. Hell, it was before writing fiction even began in some languages, because for whatever reason (such as censorship by a dominating power) speakers of those languages were unable to do so before the early 20th century.

Moreover, claiming such a peak followed by a decline, and drawing comparisons with Rome, is so often linked to a reactionary politics that even many conservatives feel is extremist, your interlocutors are going to be suspicious of your motives.
> You cannot tow thousands of pounds with a bike. And your whole existence depends on goods and services flown in, boated in, and trucked in to keep you breathing.

So, not cars then.
Took a preliminary look through and it feels pretty exciting. Thanks for sharing.

My own post basically covers the simplest possible case where gradient descent does something related to kernels. The problem is that the "tangent kernel" driving the evolution of the model over training is typically not constant. (In my case it is constant because my model is linear.)

Domingos' solution seems to be: in general, just integrate the tangent kernel over the path taken by your optimization and call it the path kernel. Then your resulting model can always be viewed as a kernel machine, with the subtlety that the kernel now depends on the trajectory you took during training. So in that sense, kernels are everywhere! I'll take another look on Monday :)
That sounds like it could be making people vulnerable :c did you ask if they had a vulnerable customer team?
There's an indian snack of sprouted lentils zapped in the microwave for a minute or so? followed by a light sprinkly of cumin, salt, and lime/lemon juice. It's quite awesome.
I think this is almost entirely due to the fact that there are many more modern works than past works and it is much more work to filter the wheat from chaff, especially without the benefit of time. But that doesn't mean dismissing contemporary art is the right perspective either. I don't buy the idea of cultural decline, at any rate. It think the article makes a pretty good case that commodification is the reason for the apparent decline in the average quality of literature.
It seems there are some CORS issue? Using firefox:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://apis.astadeus.com/autotext. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing)
I think it's worth revisiting elementary algebra, because the way most of us learned it in grade school doesn't really do it justice.

With that said, we abandoned `ab = ba` because it's not useful for e.g. linear algebra. Elementary algebra is a very specific (but very useful) mathematical "DSL" over the reals. It's also not necessarily going to help you learn to reason about the kinds of abstractions you have whilst programming, per se, because we can't reverse `a . b` to `b . a` when we code either.

Make no mistake, this is a knowledge for knowledge's sake endeavor. A liberal arts of the STEM fields, if you will.
> I hopefully didn't make mistakes in the several representations of twelve.

That depends! What is the numeric value of A?

And then: how can you answer that question without admitting that A is a number?
I believe it's either related to the new AI-specialized chips, or maybe to the factoring or neural network graphs.

Any specialized domain tend to have its own domain specific language, so obviously it would be true for AI, too.
It is always the time to read again the book "Only the Paranoid Survive" [1] where Andy Grove, CEO of Intel at the book time, has a specific chapter about RISC/CISC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove#Only_the_Paranoid...
Windows 11 does not think my ThreadRipper 1950x is good enough for it. I wonder which one I'll do without.
No, the merchants have spoken.

I'll say in the same spirit that Margaret Thatcher said "there's no
such thing as society" [0] that;

There's no such thing as markets.

[0] Please read the full quote (and for extra fun replace the word
society with markets). Thatcher was saying something far more subtle
than the sociopathy she is credited for. Markets have just replaced
"society" as the ideological symbol of those who need something to get
on their knees before, or blame.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/context-for-margaret-thatchers...
Feynman's Wobbling Plate
>Forced SMS based MFA should be used to protect logins

I have now closed three remote banking accounts (i.e. no nearby physical locations), after they began requiring 2FA via SMS [which I do not participate/allow/text].

My most-recent bank is literally down the street from me so I can walk over when 2FA becomes ubiquitous. Such an annoying "feature".
It's less ceremonial than you think:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/queens-consent

The king is exempted from racial discrimination laws, for instance, and well into the 1970s it was their official and open policy that black and brown people were unfit for any position more exalted than cleaning the toilets:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/02/buckingham-p...

Everything you think you know about the monarchy in the UK is a carefully crafted fiction by expensive PR consultants, paid by the taxpayers to lobby against their interests.
“Our results should assuage concerns that a vibecession today spells a recession tomorrow. The gap between sentiment and economic reality has finally stabilised after growing steadily from 2020-22. Bad vibes may be the new normal.”

The factors long correlated with high consumer sentiment still predict market outcomes (per the article) while not predicting consumer sentiment. The link between market conditions and reported confidence seems severed since 2020.

Wondering whether this is a disinformation/propaganda story in that rampant disinformation/propaganda are souring sentiment. Or, a polling error of some kind. Or, something related to a significantly divergent event (global pandemic in modernity) upending long associations.

Would be interesting to see a comparison between various things following the 1918 pandemic and this pandemic. Naively, I suspect market concentration and other factors against labor market equilibrium exist today that did not exist in 1918.
But eventually, it ends the same with a different interface and based on the creator's own choice and taste.
I'm calling BS on this list. Pretty much noone makes any of these assumptions. The thing with many of these (eg VoIP, Google Voice, VPN etc) is that the population who use these for legitimate purposes is too small for most devs to care about given the cost of fraud from people who are using these things nefariously. Both type I and type II errors are important but they mostly only care about type II errors because type I errors just piss off a small number of good people whereas type II errors cost them money and if they go unabated will get them shut down by payment processors, banks, regulators etc.
Airbnb turns to AI to help prevent house parties
How would you go about arguing that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_π

The method of using inscribed and circumscribed n-gons conceptually is the simplest (1), but converges very slowly. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07995.pdf.

(1) at least to non-mathematicians. Pure mathematicians will want to prove the claims that the circumference of a circle is larger than/smaller than that of its inscribed/circumscribed polygon and that both can get arbitrarily close to it if the number of sides gets large enough.
>Unfortunate perhaps for my counterpart 100y from now

Doesn't have to be. There are plenty of extremely well read literature lovers who have both the time and the taste to sample works both past and present; these will become the tastemakers of people in the far future.
Does anyone know a good resource at explaining what each of the components in the cpu diagrams does? For example what are the main functions and differences between rename/dispatch, reorder buffer, scheduler?
chipandcheese does a very good job comparing architectures but sometimes I struggle to really understand the meaning of their diagrams.
How does one enter "½" into a webform?
Workers will always outperform WASM-based alternatives, because Workers have JIT. No JIT = very slow JavaScript
My guess would be that I have to take another look at optimizing the javascript I use for drawing the interactive widgets. It's just bare-bones javascript and canvas, but a previous version managed to freeze some browsers for unknown reasons...
That’s why I simply rock two old smartphones (an Android, Nexus 6P, and an iPhone SE, 1st Gen.). And as I look around, I use them much effectively than everyone I know with much more modern phones, when they have just one device. My iPhone just works (and it does it very well), while my Nexus can do whatever it wants in terms of instability, I don’t care. I use it as a pocket computer, with F-droid and its wonderful apps. On top of that I have an old low-end Samsung smartphone (someone just gave it to me), I re-flashed it with Lineage OS and it has its use-case, slightly different from Nexus. I really cannot see any need in one extra phone, as those 3 cover all my use-cases at the moment.
“Because Euclid says so in the Elements”
8 is twice as round as 0.

Source: parent of 3.
>overprotective, and neglective parents have the same outcomes

I think that is what they were saying; I've seen the stat elsewhere, that extremely spoiling children produces just as bad outcomes on average as neglecting them.
OP said same amount of problems not the same problems or same outcome. As in, sheltered kids will fail as much, becoming alcoholics, criminals, depressed and frustrated with not accomplishing things their parents made easier for them.
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I would say the root cause of children's independent mobility (or lack thereof) is parents' perception of how dangerous it would be to give kids that freedom - a perception that may or may not be strongly correlated with the real risk profile. Of course there's also a social angle, if all other parents gawp at you or even threaten to report you to social services for giving your kids more freedom, then you're most likely going to give in.

Car-centric planning is definitely a contributing factor, but I can think of others such as crime (or fear of crime), legislation (if it's a crime to let kids under X years unsupervised in public). Suburban sprawl has mang negative effects but it can sometimes produce walkable areas and quiet residential roads that it's safe to play on too. You might need a car to get to any capital-p Places, but you can kick a football around the local cul-de-sac just fine.

You can also have places where there's safe and reliable public trnasport, and still have heated debates in the local parent-teacher association about when it's safe to let your kid ride on their own.
I especially enjoyed how relatively open Uplink was. Putting other hackers behind bars through International Crime Database, stealing millions of dollars from an account where a "trace a huge payment" contract ended up - things like these shaped up my love for open world games, and immersive sims alike.