skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hollywood doesn't accept the bad movies just because they're preachy.

You speak of Hollywood as if it were a monolithic entity, but it's not. It's liberal, and conservative, socialist and libertarian, worships the rural life and the urban life, tells stories of heroes and villains.

Hollywood isn't even united by the desire for profit. While the major studios are driven by profit, a large portion of Hollywood makes movies to be "art" (which usually means serious character-driven movies that aren't about anything in particular.) The smallest portion of Hollywood makes movies to preach...which is the part you seem to be opposed to.
No, you aren't. As usual, things are relative. H&Ms business model has always been "fast fashion", but mostly in the original sense, which is taking a catwalk trend, replicate it and bring it to market while everyone still wants it.

Their clothing never lasted as long as clothing from "older" companies, but that's because most of them - especially in the early years of H&M - still were in the business of making things last a lifetime or at least 20+ years. H&M recognized that even if our cloth can be used longer, most of us switch our wardrobe every 5-10 years and made their clothing accordingly.

It's in no way comparable to Shein or kik (don't know if they exist outside of Germany), which make fast fashion in both senses: They quickly replicate the trends, but also make their clothing so cheap that you are lucky if you can wear them a year. And it seems even half a year is impossible with some of their newest things, from that I've read. These companies are in the business of producing garbage, which can be worn on the way between factory and landfill, nothing more.
This can be said about 99% of GitHub repositories.

When I first started using GitHub, I thought there must be some reason that no one ever included images in their README. Maybe it's not considered cool, I thought.
>crap

What do you suggest as a replacement to CF and Tanzu?
anyone really interested, i'm just rereading an earlyish (2010) paper by Sergeyev.. it's amazing

https://www.theinfinitycomputer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...
I don’t see any reason to continue a bloodline either; there’s no reason to any of this and your ancestors are long past caring. They are gone as we all will be one day and then we will be inevitably forgotten.

In theory, we each have 8 great great grandfathers (though these things are not always perfect). I can name 1 of mine because I dug the grave for his youngest daughter who was buried at his feet, but he is little more than a name on a stone to me. Can you name more?

I’d say fundamentally that is what I don’t want to have to tell a child. Global warming isn’t looking too good either, and I’m happy to avoid that one as well.
YouTube is getting into games, too
A tragic that people that are really paying for the content are blocked and have to deal with a subpar experience.

Or you pirate the show / buy a box.
https://archive.is/jmXe1
Yeah, it's just a term rich people use to be able to look down on other rich people. "Oh, his family hasn't even had money for 100 years ... so gaudy. No wonder he sometimes eats up his whole plate, probably didn't always have food"
Recently finished his FMT book. I thought he did a great job of showing the process of discovery in an accessible way, as well as all the interesting (and historical) characters who contributed.
To expand on my own experience a little, I refused to stop in a job that was extremely stressful and that I had become totally burned out in. I had the breakdown, not the sabbatical.

My latest job after returning to work eventually became a problem after about a year, partly because of rhe jo. Itself, partly because of residual burn out from not stopping when I knew I should have before.

This time I left before I had a breakdown and after 2 months I'm back in a better position now than I was 12 months after having a meltdown.

Do what you gotta do. Becoming unable to work because you tried to push through burn out will not help your career one iota, quite the opposite.
It's true that waves carry the energy. But shot noise is still determined by the amount of charge on an electron.
This is the kind of thing you learn in the first lecture of a discrete mathematics class that's required for every single CS program in the world.

It's very obvious if you think about it. If the encoding on the memory is n that doesn't mean it represents "n" data conceptually. It can be n+x for any value of x. For example, you can declare 0 represents $0, 1 represents $0.01, 2 represents $0.02 and so n represents n cents. This is pretty common in tax calculation applications. Then, you can also say n represents n+99^99 so that what GP said holds. They just provided a formal argument for it which proves it by induction, as we call it.
GPTs are apps. They are a prompt, files (up to 10 files, 200 MB each, automatically indexed into a vector DB) a Linux VM that can run code based on prompts or code you attach, can call any web API—-I made a gmail one for myself—and have access to GPT-4V, DALL-E, and Bing Search. You can mash all that up in really creative ways, then press one button to publish and get a link you can share.

The VM can easily do things like image and audio processing, ffmpeg, generate Office docs, etc.

You don’t have to run a server or pay any operating costs for them, just the $20/month ChatGPT Plus subscription.
The limit is it doesn't do filenames or other metadata — it's limited to contents.
> I don’t disagree with the zoning and permitting process needing reforms, but I have a tough time believing that it’s responsible for more than 10-20% of the price. Have you read any analysis anywhere to suggest otherwise?

Not really, but 10-20% of the price is not small.

> The first AC unit was installed in 1914. The first room AC was in 1931 for the “affordable” price of $10k-50k. There was not mass adoption of HVAC systems until much much later and homes weren’t design for central air until like the 50s or maybe even after that.

The air conditioning part of HVAC isn't a necessary part of housing construction even today. There are plenty of new homes sold in the colder parts of the country without central air.

Some kind of furnace or heating stove has been a common part of home construction since long before 1923.

> Freon came in the 1920s and fridges became more common place by the 1930s.

Does it really matter if it was 1923 or 1933 if the rise in construction costs wasn't until decades later than either of them?
> PostNord is a private business owned by Sweden and Denmark.

That would be a public business?
> Uh, yes. Elon does not follow the program

Doesn't follow which program? I can't believe this has to be said but billionaires are the elite.
Would you be willing to add those references to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Related_a... (creating a new section for UMR) and perhaps https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Related_a... if you're aware of any references that talk about "creating complex, non-trivial text starting from an abstract meaning representation"? That would be the best way of making this discussion useful for what Wikipedia is apparently trying to do.
first mover advantage, probably
WARC files (used by the Internet Archive to power the Wayback machine, among others) use this trick too to have a a compressed file format that is seek-able to individual HTTP request/response records
theres a vouch button ive never used / looked for / understood when it appears. this is just how the site is tuned, to favor tuning out things it considers controversial/flamewar-like using this heuristic
If your secret sauce is some text as a system prompt, i don't see GPTs being a long term offering. OAI probably launched this as a data gathering effort to see what to focus on next. Like Amazon Basics will see what's selling the most then launch an amzn basics brand of that thing.
Cute coin mascots at 8:40 mark https://youtu.be/WiRoSZqg1EE?t=520
There is no such EU law. Post is not delivered 5 days a week in Sweden.
A straightforward summary of Henry George's proposal for a land value tax
That's like arguing there's "no value" in a business that sells pizza.

I mean, anyone can just make their own pizza. Where's the value in someone else doing it for you?
> Shit was simply different for the Boomers. Almost every plausible life-path got downgraded a couple notches since then, in terms of quality of life and retirement outcomes. Except now everyone gets a shiny gee-whiz slate in their pocket. Hooray.

My father-in-law didn’t do quite as well but had the same kind of easy mode experience – working as a letter carrier for years was enough to support a stay-at-home wife, kids, house, pension, etc. He upgraded towards the end by moving into being a supervisor and then the IT group - by virtue of having bought a PC in the late 80s, the regional postmaster knew him as one of the most experienced - and retired at 60.

There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, but I feel it’s constantly hard for most people of that generation to understand how much different things are now.
"Currently, 3kg (6.6lb) [of carrots cost] 15 riyals ($4.12). We can sell 3kg [of 3D-printed carrots] for 10 riyals ($2.75), only for carrots."

Their misunderstanding of economics, physics, and biology cannot be underappreciated.
Count me here. I received a subscription to them and Popular Mechanics in 2010 for my birthday. I’m still subscribed to PopMech but the writing is on the wall with the bimonthly releases.
Yep, I really like the train from Vancouver to Seattle but you get two trains each direction each day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Because of how long the trip takes it doesn’t really work as a day trip sadly - you’d be spending as long on the train as you would at your destination.
That’s news to me and probably everyone who uses Svelte including its developers.
Learning Cryptography with JavaScript
Meant-for-learners Javascript implementations of threshold signatures, secret sharing, KZG polynomial commitments, blind signatures, ring signatures, merkle trees, poseidon helpers (without the circomlib dependency), verifiable random functions, and oblivious transfer among other things. DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION: this code is meant for learners. The idea is to have clean, well-organized code for learning.
There's an interesting part of this DMCA process that expects the claimant to issue a good faith report, under penalty of perjury. The thing is, with full access to the source code, they can't make any credible claim to Warner Bros. copyright being infringed.

The punishment for lying to the government about this appears to be perjury. I would level an accusation of perjury at Warner Bros Group for deliberately engaging in anti-competitive and anti-social behavior by attempting to curtail the efforts of an innocent third party.

IANAL but this looks illegal and the company should be forced to answer for its lying, at minimum.
Yeah. Not a standard abbreviation but thought it might be understood from context.
Why is everyone so unhappy at work
Will Livestreaming Be TikTok's Amazon-Killer?
Issuing a false DMCA should absolutely be lethal to whatever lawyers career signed it. It’s just perjury/fraud/bullshit and the system could be adapted to fix existing issues just by enforcing some of the legal professions typical standards.
Oh yes, I live directly next to a wild river valley, so just opening the window and hold them next to it would have (literally) cooled them. The wind, the sound of the water, the cool breeze.

And if this was not enough, carrying them with a manduca on the back or front and walking outside was always working. Also sometimes in the middle of the night, giving the mother a rest.

Now that they are bit older (and heavier) I only do this rarely. The trick is to have been outside enough with them in the first place. And if their head gets hot - literally cooling them with some water on the head helps very much.
It's not publicly listed. It's private.
https://archive.ph/8J0Ae
It has existed as a word for a very long time. I don't disagree to your meaning but don't think this is a new trend, the word has roots back in time. Vulgar displays of wealth have been a problem, which is why successive governments passed Sumptuary laws.

At times, specific colours were forbidden to the hoi polloi which is of course also a derogatory term.

From memory you'll find complaints about the gaudy new money in Edith Wharton's "the Buccaneers" amongst other novels.
Totally. There's something therapeutic about being able to exercise our engineering brain cells. Main stream software development simply doesn't do that for me anymore. Hardware/embedded work is the only way I can get this feeling.
That's not exactly useful. The ability to read a book without any electrical charge, however, is.
The neural network doesn't want to minimize its loss function any more than you want to maximize your inclusive genetic fitness.

The neural network training process wants to minimize the neural network's loss function. The neural network, if it "wants" anything, will have such wants as were embedded in its weights through the process of minimize its loss function, which will mostly be "wants" whose satisfactions correlate with reduced loss function. Of course this is using the term "want" in a behaviourally-descriptive sense, not a subjective-experience sense.

For example, AlphaGo's training routine wants to minimize AlphaGo's loss function. AlphaGo wants to beat you at Go.
> Most modern cars will be in the landfill while that 1969 MG is still running.

Most MGs have been in the landfill for decades. It wouldn't be a surprise if this car had been sitting on blocks in a garage for decades. It's disingenuous to imply this car is still running for any reason other than because it has an owner that both wants to restore it and has the ability to do so.

I suspect once its restored there's a fair chance that it'll park in a proper garage and be driven a couple of times a month on nice days during summer until the days start cooling off and it gets stored for winter.
I guess it doesn't actually do more passes but pretending that it did might still give more precise results.

There was an article recently that said something like adding urgency to a prompt gave better results. I hope it doesn't stress the model out :D

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760
From the article:

>It’s ridiculous that, with no evidence whatsoever, Google approves these types of suspensions on an app

> It’s absurd that Google seems to make no effort at all to verify the copyright claims being made

Unfortunately, the DMCA places no such requirements upon the hosting company to verify anything -- while simultaneously requiring they quickly remove the content lest they lose their safe harbor. They are required to take down the target, they are not required to validate the claims made in the request. That is why it seems they do nothing but take down the target -- that is all that is required of them.
Right, I don’t understand how this isn’t dealt with more harshly. It’s perjury.
you mean something.
https://www.aaa.com/autorepair/articles/don't-confuse-gasoli...
Line length with modern toolchains is too often stylistic bikeshedding with awkward limits stuck in 1975 cargo culted from the VT52. My external monitor can legibly display 637 x 81 while my laptop does 217 x 63. The largest barely legible terminals with tiny fonts are 3x the size.

Around 100 is a sane minimum while 160 is a sensible upper limit. There's no specific limit other than to prevent poor coding technique, illegible code, or inclusions of generated or minified atrocities.
who force you to fo that? We should sue that guy!
It does look like this is missing the West Coast Express in the Lower Mainland - but that’s strictly a commuter service with a number of trains into Vancouver in the morning, and out of Vancouver in the evening.
You seem to feel everyone else is being very tauted and convenient and air-quoted
Ventoy: Bootable USB Drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files
Thanks, this clarifies it a lot.
> Seems perfectly within the accepted laws of war to me

I don’t think you know the laws of war at all if you think the actions of Israel before or after October 7th fall within them.

Just a very small example:

> To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics. Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out their duties.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/middleeast/casualties-gazas-s...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/israels-army-a...
If loading the Warner Bros home page isn't allowed, Chrome might be on the chopping block next. I hope the Google Chrome team has some internal contacts at Google to prevent Chrome from being removed from the play store due to DMCA abuse.
> Usually the tantrum is not a great indicator of what the child needs. They say they need the iPad or fruit loops. What they actually need is layered under that, and they're likely unaware of it.

I have had success with "body scans" where I start at the top of their head and ask "how does your brain feel" and then proceed all the way to their toes (sometimes being sillily specific about, say, the tip of their left pinky finger or whatever). Usually this reveals something about their body that they were unaware of. Hungry, thirsty, headache, something else hurts, etc. Once we have some physical needs we can address them we can move forward, and if there aren't any then we move on to emotional needs.
Or, I can simply decline to watch (or even load) the ads, just like I decline to look at the ads in those tissue packs that are given to me on the street. I have no moral obligation to watch any ads on video that is freely shown in response to a normal HTTP GET request.
I took Via east to west a while back. It takes a few days, but just like Amtrak the regular seats are more spacious and comfortable than airplane seats so it's not too bad. No internet most of the way, so you better have some books or something to entertain yourself. The food is terrible because of course it is. Bring snacks. The train also stops for a couple hours in Winnipeg which has lots of places to get a good feed.

The scenery is pretty great, especially through northern Ontario where it feels like you are traveling through an alien planet where the only thing that exists are rocks, trees and eerie, pitch-black pools of liquid that you could imagine isn't water. You fall asleep at night then wake up the next morning and the view out the window is exactly the same. It's wild.

Crossing the Rockies isn't really worth it if you're only going for the views, imo. Lots of tourists get on the train at Jasper, but I imagine they'll be disappointed because the epic vistas are fleeting and most of the time your line of sight is blocked by trees, cliffs or tunnels. Unlike the route out of Denver on Amtrak, you don't get an awesome desert on the other side either.

Either way, the main point is that it's pretty much the only way to get from one side of Canada to the other if you don't want to use a plane or zig-zag through the US. Greyhound is gone, STC is gone, stringing together a bus route with a hodge podge of local operators is tough and in some places just leads you back up to Via anyway. If you're lucky enough to live along the CN line then Via is all there is, and it's better than nothing at all, which is the situation for a huge chunk of rural Canada.
Most professionals didn't think we were close to surpassing human capability in chess, go, or dota, until after it happened. I've seen little evidence of expert domain knowledge improving AI forecasting ability, if anything it seems the experts are often late to the party.

Besides expert consensus, is there any other actual argument against LLMs achieving generalizability?
Kagi is in the “this is fucking awesome” part of a tech company lifecycle.
How are they shipping to the US so cheaply? I can buy a product for $2 and its ships for free. They must be paying next to nothing for shipping. When i worked for an e-commerce company it was $8 to $10 per order incurred in shipping costs when our volume was millions of orders per month.
Chamath was a billionaire from Facebook IPO
So the only relevant plans are for a whole generation of people? Buddy I don't think everyone can be rich.
What makes you think Arizona and Florida are inexpensive?
It in fact does not require extreme violence. For instance: the Indian Boarding School programs of the early 20th century didn't involve extreme violence (ostensibly, they didn't involve any more coercive force than any other mandatory schooling program; of course, in reality, that wasn't at all true) and didn't have as an organizing goal the death of students/inmates. At the same time, the program was clearly genocidal, and would have fit the UN convention: it was a systemic program undertaken with a goal of destroying an ethnic group, using one of the explicit actions (e) of Article II of the charter.

At the same time: I don't think it's that straightforward to dismiss concerns about "decolonization", especially not with a simple link to Wikipedia. That decolonization could represent programs known to their authors as means of eradicating Jewish people (and, in particular, the plurality Mizrahim population of Israel) is not a fever dream. That doesn't make it true, but it's not a facially invalid concern.

That advocates of "decolonization" widely responded to the October 7th Hamas Al Aqsa Flood attacks with "decolonization is not a metaphor" does your "fever dream" arguments no favors; those attacks were overtly, expressly genocidal.
What are the actual performance characteristics of the vCPUs? I had a farily awful experience at my last job...

My 4 cpu virtual desktop was virtualbox emulating a xeon form 2010 w/16gb of RAM. Loaded with monitoring software. Barely useable.

No 3d accelleration. It choked whenever I tried to run high end software like, well, Figma.
Even 2 years ago, I got an iPhone 5 from somewhere and found that because it didn’t support VoLTE, no carriers would support a new connection. They would support you if you were already on board for a little while.
That is neat as hell!
Reminds me of GRACE, which consists of two spacecraft in the same orbit, one following the other. By measuring the separation distance between the two spacecraft (which I believe is done through interferometry), the gravity field of the Earth can be measured precisely. In turn, this allows us to measure mass transport in the world (mainly of water). Very cool experiment.

(Many of my coworkers at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany were working on this project. The focus at the institute was on optical interferometry for the detection of gravitational waves, i.e. LIGO and LISA. LISA would be a formationa-flying interferometer in heliocentric orbit.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRACE_and_GRACE-FO
I'd buy an IDEDA ENGINEEER t-shirt.
IPv6 with default-deny firewalls in most places would break P2P communication too. No application would be able to rely on both users having open listening ports. You ok with that?

I keep hearing this have your cake and eat it too kind of argument. "It supports P2P" and "just default-deny if you're worried about security" do not mix. We get one or the other as the assumed default. IPv4 + NAT is the default-deny. IPv6 seems to be about default-allow even if that's not inherent to it.
Starlink will only operate in the Gaza Strip with the approval of Israel