skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The random floating-point numbers are not general-purpose, they are needed in applications whose input parameters are floating-point numbers.

For instance they are needed for testing the implementation of various functions of FP numbers, or for the so-called Monte-Carlo methods used for numerical integration, especially in multiple dimensions or for the solution of certain systems of equations with partial derivatives, or for the simulation of how some industrial product, e.g. an electronic integrated circuit, behaves when its components have random values of their characteristic parameters, within their accepted tolerances, as it always happens in any industrial production process, or the random numbers may be used in an optimization problem, to search through the possible solution space.

For random floating-point numbers it is frequent to need various other probability density distributions than uniform.

In most cases the best way to generate pseudo-random FP numbers is to derive them from uniform pseudo-random integers, using an appropriate method that will ensure the desired probability density distribution.
4 new spin-offs are coming. Millions, Trillions, Billions UK and a believe a Miami edition
'Insanity': petrostates planning expansion of fossil fuels, UN report
https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?exhibition=wiltshire-tha... which is the exhibition seems to have it, too.
This shows how woefully unprepared I am to have wealth. It is crazy that at some level of wealth, you will run into someone like Masa Son, who has the ability to talk his way out of destroying generational wealth. What do you even do to prepare for people with skills like that?
first, holy hell how can someone be so disgusting and heartless as to actually think to make and sell these images.

Second... will human suffering finally be enough to have a serious conversation about the harm of these tools. No... no probably not (See: first point) but I feel more and more concerned about the use of AI generated images and our complete inability to tell what is real or not very very soon.
They don't have to know it's Plato, and it doesn't depend on whether the rest of what he wrote is correct. Works for just about any case where someone thinks they've got a pat, simple definition of "justice" (often implicitly the case, if not explicitly) and have drawn some conclusions based on that. All it needs to demonstrate (and it does it rather successfully) is that simple "I've got the answer to this moral question!" solutions usually... aren't actually simple, and haven't solved much at all, once you start picking at them. They seem correct only as long as you avoid thinking about them too hard—and they don't fall apart in technical or fiddly ways, but in ways that make them clearly insufficient even to a layman or to someone who prefers to reject philosophy when it gets too up-its-own-ass. Most positions of this sort are just too bad and ill-considered to be interesting.
It's Vice, they're in the business of being sensationalist.
(Not the poster to whom you are replying) I didn't suggest there was a causal relationship, nor that the observed behaviour was due to some intrinsic properties of the respective genders, nor that gender controls behaviour. I just said that I suspected that women disliked inline replies more than men.
Even outside of FAANG the pay is still quite generous, at least from my experience in.... US/AU/UK/etc

You get paid so much for relatively so little. Housemate was a chef who's work was so much more demanding physically and worked stupid hours, and was paid a fraction compared to developers.
My family and I have to use WhatsApp because my parents are completely unable to send me an actual text message from their iPhone to my Android phone. I have completely unregistered my phone number from my iCloud account (which is actually only possible due to a lawsuit against Apple as you used to still have your iPhone to do this), and we've removed all traces of my contact information on their phone, but Apple is still somehow routing their text messages only to iMessage. Also, Apple seems to intentionally degrade images sent between Apple and Android phones.
Tell HN: €9.90 option to remove ads on Facebook in the EU now live
They can just install Linux and be free. It's not that difficult.
> The idea that Ayn Rand is a philosopher in any meaningful sense is very debatable.

Its not entirely unfair, though "polemicist" is more accurate than "philosopher"; moreso than to say that Ayn Rand is worth reading in any meaningful way, at least.

> She was an author of fiction, like Terry Pratchett.

In terms of the works that make this a reasonable statement, I would more say she was an author of religious (or, if you prefer, ideological) polemic packaged as long-form fiction, like Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
Right but then you have to buy a new remote, lather rinse repeat.

I can see why an AirBnB host wouldn't bother after 1st or 2nd time, is all I'm saying.

Agree the front door key is a bigger pain, but less likely to accidentally happen.

I mean, I would have a slight preference to have a functioning remote but it's not going to ruin a stay. In the same way that if I went to a place that didn't have an automatic opener at all I wouldn't find it odd.
Ummm… have you actually read any other philosophy? Ayn Rands ideas are mostly just watered down and simplified ripoffs of Nietzsche. His ideas were both deeper, and more useful and practical in real life, but, to be blunt, I don’t think she was intelligent enough to fully grasp them.

In terms of Ayn Rands own stated goals of affirming life, and taking responsibility, the ancient Stoics had more effective methods to actually achieve that goal in real life. The difference is obvious- many of the people I admire most were practicing stoics, I cannot think of anyone I deeply admire that followed Rand in real life.
Time restricted eating/feeding is just a special case of intermittent fasting, no?
The European Parliament does get an outright veto or rather the opposite, without explicit approval from the EP commissioners can‘t be appointed.

The catch, they can only approve (or not approve) them as a group. Usually the parliament will indicate which nominated members they find unacceptable and those respective countries nominate new candidates.

Reference: https://www.europeactive.eu/news/european-parliament-gearing...

Arguably this is more democratic than how we appoint government ministers in Germany. The chancellor gets elected by parliament and then appoints (and fires) ministers on their own authority without any check by parliament.
> the choice is to live 2 years behind...

That's one world - there is another where the time gap grows a lot more as the compute and training requirements continue to rise.

Microsoft will probably be willing to spend multiple billions in compute to help train GPT5, so it depends how much investment open source projects can get to compete. Seems like it's down to Meta, but it depends if they can continue to justify releasing future models as Open Source considering the investment required, or what licensing looks like.
Begin rant.

Call me crazy, but all the great music of today is being done in video games and cinema scoring. I'm sure this system is useful for some, but I can't help but feel the kinds of modern classical featured are just noise. The claim is often that music is cultural. I'm sure that's true, but then where is the great modern Western classical music? Why was it thrown away? There are reasonable explorations to be had. For example, modern composers could have chosen to integrate Jazz harmonies (which still sound concordant), but instead they chose to go off the deep end with atonality, aharmony, and arhythm. We gotta end the postmodernism and return to actually nice things.

And really, it's sad because the kinds of scores being produced with the rhythm changes every measure, etc. They really ultimately sound like the pretentious ramblings of some drunk/high guy at a MIDI controller instead of the carefully assembled score. It takes real talent to properly keep meter over the course of an entire song. Just banging some keys and then making other people attempt to replicate it... I mean props to the replicators (the players), but the scorer just threw some notes on a page.

In my opinion, this is a racist response by mainly European composers to the popularity of Jazz music which is associated mainly with African Americans, from whom the source originated. They were jealous of what they perceived as the novel rhythms and harmonies, but instead of building off that or inventing something new that still had rhythmic and harmonic value.. they did this
Sadly a lot of people "rather" have the former. Of course MS does everything in their power that these people don't know better or don't have the option to select the latter.

MS has always been about forcing subpar tech with shady tactics, and they are very good at it.
What did you start with? How did you decide?
What if? What do you mean what if? You are obviously to reality bud
It's certainly an unusual pricing style, but people grok it and appreciate it. Also, note that this is for the "quality managed" version - additional support and documents that I sign off for safety (so enter a liability) are more expensive.

But on the other side, there's so many that would buy if it were more accessible.
It's much more expensive to live in the center of a big city. And not just in Spain.
I've worked on plenty of legacy code over 37 years. It all depends on the management environment and how bad the code is. Sometimes legacy code is like being mired in quicksand.
"realist" philosopher?
Wow that's curious!! What prompted that decision?
Maybe? How many people are switching out their garage door specifically for Key? Every new home I've experienced has no choice for which brand of garage door opener they use, the builder has standardized to a specific brand and often only updates the model whenever forced to.
Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia
I can see this becoming the slowest road in Detroit..
That's a vert smart move actually: the value their customers are paying for is the certification/paperwork, so upstreaming doesn't cost them anything and it reduces their costs a lot since they don't have yo maintain their fork, which can be an extremely costly endeavor in the long run.
Outstanding—compelling presentation loaded with data.
Perhaps the conclusion should be that the world should move to efficient 75% or so apartment living. UK at 15% is a huge outlier for a top 10 economy.
> you just have to avoid complete garbage. As Michael Pollan says

That reminds me of something I saw a long time ago:

> Fuzzy Pink Niven's Law: Never waste calories. [...] Don't eat soggy potato chips. Or cheap candy. Or an inferior hot fudge sundae. Or a cold soggy pizza.
I was asking clarification, because it all depends what we mean about truth and lie here.

If we're saying that reduction in transmission is a lie, well that might be false, as data now seem to indicate it does cause reduced transmission.

But if we're saying people claimed that they ran a trial specifically to investigate the effect on transmission, when no such trial took place, than I agree, this would be a lie.

Now I never felt like "official" sources said there were trials about transmission conducted and that proved massive reduction in transmission. But I can believe maybe there was one somewhere.

I do agree though that policies were made with claims that had sometimes poor evidence or incomplete data and experimentation. And we should all wonder and discuss what could have been done policy wise that would have been better. Was acting fast on low confidence better than waiting for high confidence? Would more educating and less regulating have had better results? Etc.
Weird. It works for me.

It says:

Google has now called me more than 200 times, having scraped my business number from public filings, asking to verify it so that they can expose it in search results / verify my Google Local listing.

This is more than all other sources of calls. Combined.

It is by Patrick McKenzie, aka patio11. Advisor at Stripe, author of Bits About Money, etc. And not normally a person who gets too easily annoyed at institutional stupidity.
It’s complicated, the weight reduction redesign spurred by the B significantly improved the other 2 variants. So arguably the B was a major benefit to the project even if it drove up prices and added significant delays.

The only way to quantify if it was a success or is in comparison to having the B end up as a separate project. Which comes down to a cost benefit analysis, though we don’t actually know as much as that alternate because it didn’t happen.
It's too bad even the Financial Times is susceptible to click bait headlines. As professional writers, I'm sure they're aware of the misleading nature of the headline. Not just a mistake.
Sadly, this sort of thing isn't new. Governments around the world are trying to avoid any kind of public scrutiny for what they're doing.

I'm reminded of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP") from ~8 years ago. Very few people were even allowed to see the text of the treat [1] yet the people's represntatives had to ratify this when their own constituents weren't allowed to see it? Wikileaks and others leaked drafts and it was as bad as people thought it was going to be.

Defenders argue that trade negotiations need to happen in secret so as to not worsen our negotiating position. This really translates to "we don't want to afford the public the opportunity to oppose it". The EU now is finding some BS rationale for operating in the shadows.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/14/40667...
Generally (most non-profits are also corporations, though other forms are possible.)
> I've been to the store before. A lot. I've never hooked in new library X to the codebase and implemented that new functionality.

Which is why you'll get better at estimating as you get more years of experience under your belt, and why estimating is something that seniors are better at than juniors.

Even after 20 years you may never have hooked in new library X, but I'd be willing to bet you've done something kind-of similar, and your estimate will be more accurate than a person with 1 year of experience and has never done anything remotely similar.

> Estimating things you've done a lot is trivial, and pointless.

Keep in mind you are not providing the estimate for the person who has done the task many times, you're providing the estimate to people who have never done it before. So for them, it absolutely is not trivial.
they’re far worse than much larger sovereign wealth funds who also take moonshots

dont make excuses for these degenerates, we can appreciate their economic stimulus without the window dressing
HN isn't negative on "AI" in a vacuum. HN is negative on AI hype which is completely out of control.
(author here) Yes, I was surprised that AI didn't have more positive sentiment overall!

Subjectively, the two flavors of AI-negative sentiment I've seen most commonly on HN are (1) its potential to invade privacy, and (2) its potential to displace workers, including workers in tech.

I think that (1) was by far the most common concern up until around the ChatGPT release, at which point (2) became a major concern for many HN readers.
Email is terrible. With the amount of spam that flows through it, I have low expectations that my emails make it through spam filters, especially corporate and university ones.
>More importantly, this is because it doesn't understand the meaning of what it generates, just juggles weights.

Yeah that's not the reason at all.

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r

Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824
How far'd you make it in The Virtue of Selfishness before throwing it across the room for yet another dubious premise that's presented as fact without justification, used to build a giant sandcastle of reasoning upon, and never revisited with an eye to addressing the obvious objections to it?
Unless I missed it, I don't see anything here about the assets being created using Adobe's AI services. Unless that is a requirement of Adobe Stock?

It seems like there are 2 distinct problems going on here. The fact that this is on Adobe Stock in the first place, which is questionable even if it was a legit image.

The second being it generated by AI, which is unclear what services made it.
Phind for me has worked pretty bleh compared to just back and forth conversation with a python GPT4 bot I made lol.
> Benefits are too great, and worst that can happen is... going back to where one is now.

true only if there's no form of lock-in. OpenAI is partnered with people who have decades of tech + business experience now: if they're not actively increasing that lock-in as we speak then frankly, they suck at their jobs (and i don't think they suck at their jobs).
Quite often there will be games I love, but life gets in the way. Then when you try to go back, especially at higher levels, it's very difficult to get in the pacing/difficulty level so you just don't pick it back up. Even though it's a great game and you enjoy it.
it's not a lazy hack, but a useful indication to the user that his action has an effect. Besides double submit there is also an issue of a single sumbit - have I actually clicked on the button or somewhere nearby or never properly clicked or has something else, pardon the pun, not clicked?
Speak for yourself.

There are few things more practical than a good theoretical grounding when your job is to:

1. design and implement a database

2. design and implement a p2p consensus protocol

3. design and implement a programming language

4. train and validate an artificial neural network

5. reason about concurrency

etc.

At some point, we really need to start distinguishing the kind of programmer who writes REST endpoints all day from the one who engineers the systems other programmers treat as an abstraction. Both are respectable jobs, but the former is closer to plumbing than engineering. The former is also less well-paid, has less job security, more on-call duty, less intellectual substance, less technological innovation (but arguably more commercial innovation), more grunt-work and a lower barrier-to-entry.
> Ayn Rands ideas are mostly just watered down and simplified ripoffs of Nietzsche.

Name one epistemological idea she ripped off from Nietzche.
NYPD will take you down violently if you show them any lip. No silly regulations will get in their way of running your ID if you catch their gaze.
I think this might be a skewed misinterpretation of the idea that you should not let the threat of suffering subvert your moral principles. I would be happy to look for a precise reference from the discourses of Epictetus if you are interested.
Exactly this, the complexity of a production compiler project is its sheer vastness. Hundreds to thousands of language features need to work together in a performant and correct manner.

Plus, the language itself is probably less than 15% of the work. You'll need a build system, a standard library, a code formatter, a syntax highlighter, support for incremental and cached builds, helpful error messages, bindings for a systems language like C, among other things.
I just discovered the white noise generator in iOS/macOS. It's in Accessibility settings under Audio Visual. It's been a gamechanger for me.
> Urban areas have high maintenance costs as well, precisely because of the higher density.

Urban areas cost more in total, but less per capita. If you don't take that per capita measurement into account, it's pointless to claim things like this.

Here's a good infographic on this: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/05/sprawl-costs-the-publ...

See specifically the massive (4-10x) increase in costs for things like roads, sidewalks, water, sewers, transportation, etc. when we talk about suburban environments.

> Cities destroy the environment just by existing, and they hardly have enough green areas to sustain wild life.

Do you have a source for this? Living closer to the things you need in life such as energy, food, water, friends, family obviously leads to less waste of energy in getting to those things or having them come to you. Around wildlife, guess where they could and used to live before suburban sprawl? Right where the suburbs popped up. Your solution to increasing wildlife is continuing suburban sprawl? I highly recommend you research and provide sources before making claims like that.
Seems to work fine in Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari for me. What's broken for you?
But is generated by Adobe? The picture is being sold for $100 which seems weird when you could just generate the same on the same website for free
In Spain my home internet provider (Movistar) blocks access to LibGen and the like. My university, however, does not. It realizes that de facto these sources serve as the library for its professors. So I wind up having to connect through the university VPN anyway ...
Sure, let's take an example. Nvidia might be a real company with real products but that has little bearing on your investment value if if you sold it all in 2019. Even less if you invested with a different fund than you sold it as part of so it looks more successful than it was. ("Successful" being an awful word, since they lost 400 million.)
While reading the article, I came across the following:
> WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman told DailyMail.com ...

The article never mentions "WCW" or Mr. Goodman anywhere else in the article. The sentence literally comes out of nowhere. I googled "WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman" and found this page: https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/justin-goodman/ The page has a large logo stating: "Stop Taxpayer Funded Animal Experiments"

To be clear, I am an animal lover and tend to lean in favor of stopping experiments on animals. That isn't the point I'm making. Rather, my take on this article - and it's one sentence reference to "WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman" - is that it is suspiciously evident that the article itself was initiated by Mr. Goodman without any attempt by the DailyMail.com to reveal this connection (or anything at all about WCW or Mr. Goodman or why they are relevant to the story).

I find it to be outrageous and despicable "journalism".
"I can't even customise the home screen as much ( Literally cannot remove a link to Chrome and other google apps )."
I was simply clarifying the point the OP brought up. You literally cannot remove that search bar from the homescreen
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/133065648/is-th...
And my point stands, with the Pixel launcher you cant change either of the features mentioned.
And an aside: Interesting how you made me and the OP sound deranged because we don't want to install a 3rd party service to customize the use of our phones. Great Convo
Wikipedia switches between mobile & non-mobile site automagically.

I'm assuming the mobile flavour is a resource-lighter version that should load quicker. If you are using a mobile device (and/or on cellular data), it's nice to not take any detours - however small. And I'd expect a good % of users to be on a mobile device.

From a desktop/PC/whatever, it's probably a don't care.

TLDR; an attempt to feed WP link followers a 'lite' version first.
Which book was it?