skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if my kids forget them all, I won't.

The first time we traveled internationally with our kids (a 5-year-old and nearly-2-year-old twins), my wife and I assumed the kids wouldn't really care, but we'd go anyway because we didn't want to give up international travel for a few decades just because we have kids.

They absolutely loved it. Now the 5-year-old is 15, they've been joined by a couple more siblings, and (Covid-execepted) we've gone on at least one international trip every year.

One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite books is in "A River Runs Through It" when the narrator says, "When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it."

I recently went through a decade of photos to see if I could unearth memories of the "more perfect" moments in my life. Nearly all of them were on those trips with my kids.

There's something uniquely "us against the world" about international travel as a family. Not that we approach the world antagonistically, but just in that traveling across borders, and making our way through airports, and figuring out unfamiliar mass transit systems, and navigating unfamiliar cities in languages we don't speak requires a level of coöperation we're not usually called upon to exhibit as a family.

I'm sure there are times it's brought out the worst in us, but they're far, far outweighed by the times it brings out the very best parts of being a family.
>Biological neurons and ANN neurons aren’t the same or even all that similar.

They're not the same but they're definitely similar.

>Brains don’t do backprop for example.

We've developed numerous different learning algorithms that are biologically plausible, but they all kinda work like backpropagation but worse, so we stuck with backpropagation. We've made more complicated neurons that better resemble biological neurons, but it is faster and works better if you just add extra simple neurons, so we do that instead. Spiking neural networks have connection patterns more similar to what you see in the brain, but they learn slower and are tougher to work with than regular layered neural networks, so we use layered neural networks instead.

The only reason modern NNs aren't closer to their biological counterparts is because they genuinely suffer for it.

The secret of bird flight was wings. Not feathers. Not flapping.
For example if a car refuses to work with ad blockers I'm going to be buying a different car instead.
And also, the cooking method can introduce many problematic elements. It often seems that meat is not the problem, but flavour.
> I'm nervous about inventing my own RNG.

You should be, but in this case you’re actually not inventing your own CSPRNG.

NIST SP 800-90A defines HASH_DRBG as hashing a seed (aka key) plus a counter and it is defined for basically any cryptographic hash function.
Right, the hardware value parted out isn't' really relevant.. Thin clients aren't the same as e.g. commodity laptops, it's mostly about the services they connect to and how easily. Nobody actually cares about the spec of a thin client if it is behaving well (no idea if the fire TV boxes are up for it or not, if they are, their BOM cost doesn't matter).
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here with living expenses under 50%...
NASA Sent a Laser Message Beamed over 10M Miles; Makes History
less than 10% of US sales
> I think that the decision is a good one

I'm incredibly happy to hear that
Well, at all but a finite number of points (specifically all but one point), there is a neighborhood of that point at which ReLU matches a linear function...

In one sense, that seems rather close to being linear. If you take a random point (according to a continuous probability distribution) , then with probability 1, if look in a small enough neighborhood of the selected point, it will be indistinguishable from linear within that neighborhood.

And, for a network made of ReLU gates and affine maps, still get that it looks indistinguishable from affine on any small enough region around any point outside of a set of measure zero.

So...
Depends what we mean by “almost linear” I think. I think one can make a reasonable case for saying that, in a sense it is “almost linear”.

But yes, of course I agree that in another important sense, it is far from linear. (E.g. it is not well approximated by any linear function)
So was the price advantage loop hole they exploited closed?
SF is a venture capital subsidy into real estate. It's not representative of the broader US.
It is not AI policy but generative AI policy, and thus I do wonder how ill-advised these are:

"Examines how the state could prioritize tools to expand program access, improve the speed of ongoing work, summarize and classify information, and utilize complex datasets, and highlights the importance of secure, controlled pilots in doing so;"

"Highlights potential uses for improving accessibility to government services, including identifying groups that – for language barriers or other reasons – are disproportionately not accessing services for which they are eligible;"
Hope you feel better!
You can do any combinational and sequential logic you want without having to use a forest of discrete 74xx ICs. If you've ever scratched an itch with redstone in minecraft or taken a digital logic course you might find it quite rewarding to interpret a problem into a binary problem then implement an optimal solution with k maps and implication tables.

Practically speaking they're useful for hobbyists who want to push beyond the capabilities of the I/O and crunching capabilities of microcontrollers. In many cases the 32-bit micros around today are good enough, but I think it's satisfying to work with bare logic elements.
As an aside, the winning project (Biome) is a fork (renaming?) of the Rome project, which was started by Sebastian McKenzie (creator of Babel) a few years ago.

Forked because sebmck seems to have gone AWOL over the last year or so and contributors were unable to update many of the project's resources as only he had access. Hope he is doing ok though and glad the Biome project seems to be going strong regardless.
I longed for the days of snipping programs from magazines, or reading how deep internals were implemented in some computer or technology. My whole life I felt like I was born to late to be part of a hacker movement.

Now I have GPT-4 and finally my curiosity can be satisfied quickly. The world got so small again. I feel like I can _build_ again.
On the other hand, if you want maximum realism, everything should fade continuously from when it is drawn.

The underlying technology being imitated here is a slowly decaying phosphor.
This stock will have a perpetual big short float just based on them losing that advantage
I never understood the aliens as harvesters as a threat movie plot / Hawking logic. There is SO much stuff in space. All of the stuff. Why care about our stuff? Intergalactic highway imminent domain? Just chart a different course. There’s no reason other than to mess with us for fun like dolphins jacking with a pufferfish. I guess maybe I’ve stumbled onto a sci-fi short story idea.
Ask HN: Was there a specific SaaS "clone" scandal for an open source project?
I'm working on a report which, among other things, talks about previously open-source projects that have relicensed under licenses like the Business Source License, which commonly forbid users from competing directly with the upstream developer's hosted services.

Many of the developers of projects that have relicensed this way have said that they don't want to allow someone to clone their business by charging for hosting a database-as-a-service or similar, especially without contributing back.

Was there a particular incident that made all of these people worry about this scenario? Have there been companies doing this that especially upset (e.g.) database developers? If you include other licenses with non-compete restrictions apart from BUSL, about 20 previously open-source projects have switched to include these. What's happened that most got them all concerned about this?
Was no one suspicious of just the hair? I'd kill to have hair like that. Maybe that's the root of his issue.
For the benefit of everyone else reading this discussion who doesn't speak Swedish... here's what I got from a good (paid) translation service:

"Force majeure typically refers to war, riots, fire, natural disasters (such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes), explosions, strikes, new laws prohibiting the fulfillment of the contract, and similar events."

The thing is though, Tesla isn't suing because their license plates aren't being delivered. They are suing because it was* literally impossible for them to access an essential government service.

(* was, because Tesla has won a preliminary decision forcing the state to allow Tesla to arange an alternative delivery method - probably Tesla sending someone around to the factory to pick up the plates)

In my opinion Force Majeure would only be a valid defence if it was the number plate factory workers who went on strike, but that's not what happened. The number plates are there, ready to go, and the state refused to allow Tesla to access them.

Force Majeure is not a blanket blanket right to do whatever you want. It only defends you in cases where you had no reasonable alternative available due to the strike.

I'm reminded of a time when flooding closed a railway line that I'd bought tickets for... the railway company didn't argue force majeure and cancel everyone's booking. They hired a dozen busses. You have an obligation to find a reasonable solution if the service you'd normally provide isn't possible.

In my case, the train service was 100% aware that they had a low bridge over a river that floods whenever there is heavy rain and therefore they couldn't argue that it was an unforeseen event. They would have been liable, not only for the cost of the train ticket, but also for any other damages/etc suffered by someone who was suddenly unable to get where they needed to go (booking a flight or regular bus wasn't possible, those don't have enough spare capacity for an entire train full of people). In this case, there is a perfectly reasonable and zero cost alternative to having license plates delivered by their usual method, and they can't refuse to use that alternative.
I tried something similar! Interestingly, picture 2 was what I wanted. After that... weirdness ensued
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For Logan airport in Boston, Revere Beach is one place with a pretty good view of airliners, and is short walk from the Blue Line.

You can also see a bunch of other places on a map that line up with runways: South Boston (including Castle Island), East Boston, and a bit further from Logan is the harborwalk around Long Wharf and the aquarium. (The aquarium might also be interesting to kids. There's some free viewing windows for a little of it, while walking past, to maybe gauge interest before paying admission. And there's various tourist things in that area, including various harbor boat rides.)

A camera/cameraphone with >1x lens will get them a closer look at planes. Or binoculars/monocular if you want to reduce screen time, or to encourage appreciating it in the moment rather than trying to capture it. (What kind of hearing protection works for kids?)
Do native German speakers confuse noun genders? (2023)
decade intervals can lose the details, like the Great Recession of late 2000s.

from Appendix Table 1 (Home ownership estimates) in https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio... - (extracted columns = Year, Homeowners, Percent of total Households):

2005. . . . . . . . 74,318,982 66.9
2006. . . . . . . . 75,086,485 67.3
2007. . . . . . . . 75,515,104 67.2
2008. . . . . . . . 75,342,138 66.6
2009. . . . . . . . 74,843,004 65.9
2010. . . . . . . . 74,873,372 65.4
2011. . . . . . . . 74,264,435 64.6
2012. . . . . . . . 74,119,256 63.9
2013. . . . . . . . 73,843,861 63.5
2014. . . . . . . . 73,991,995 63.1
2015. . . . . . . . 74,506,512 63.0
2016. . . . . . . . 75,022,569 63.1
2017. . . . . . . . 76,684,018 63.9
2018. . . . . . . . 77,708,394 63.9
2019. . . . . . . . 78,724,862 64.1

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_united_st..., homeownership also depends on your race. Caucasians have a much higher rate of homeownership (higher than the average rate - one guess as to the minority group with the lowest homeownership rate).
Yeah, if urbanism/centralization (of where people live and also the economy) increased over the same period, the raw figures may give a misleading picture of what things are really like. There are a lot or rural towns that have been shrinking over that time span, and cheap housing in those places doesn’t meaningfully offset rising prices in growing cities.
I don’t blame you, things are pretty diversified so I’m white knuckling it through my own subfield.

But as a simple example, convolution would be a little tedious to describe in the general notation you wrote above without getting into the image dimensions, stride, padding etc., not to mention residual layers or norm layers that are commonly used. Then there are things like stop gradient, dropout or even other training targets which are only used during training but not inference.
This is a really, really terrific explanation of an often-difficult concept. Thank you for being so clear!
Part of it is that the Americans are older nowadays, so they have longer to to save up for a home. The median age in 1990 was 33 compared to 39 today.
This is quite sad. I’m wondering if I should blame mobile phones for all of this…
From my perspective, both of those people are absolute clowns.

"Gaudy" is subjective and seems to roughly translate to "something that old money, for any arbitrary reason, thinks is beneath them".
Very cool, I'm rather curious how many iterations it would typically take for a feedback loop to converge on a stable fixed-point. I also wonder if the fixed points tend to be singular or elliptic.
If the money stops flowing tomorrow, then universities start cutting costs tomorrow. And tuition prices are much lower the day after tomorrow.
That's amazing, incredible programming and analysis skills on display there.
> which you can do in courts that do not have anti-SLAPP rules in place.

No, this is incorrect. I believe you're unintentionally conflating two things. Not having an anti-SLAPP law just means that Media Matters won't have the luxury of quickly striking the complaint before having to respond to it.

It does not mean that vexatious litigants are free to file a lawsuit without making actual legal claims recognized by the courts.

Media Matters can (and will) still file a motion for summary judgment to dismiss the complaint, and will almost certainly prevail based on the clear deficiency of the complaint which doesn't even bother to cite the legal elements of the three claims it lists.
Locally though there are areas that have grown quite a bit compared to others, the average misses nuance. LA has grown by a million people since 1970, while chicago has lost almost as much in that time. Are things more affordable than Chicago in Southern California? Certainly not, even if economically speaking the region is "more productive" by whatever measure.

Really what makes things cheap is a simple formulaic application of supply and demand to things like housing, which takes up the bulk of the American take home pay bar almost nothing else in comparison. Boomers had things cheap not because of riding off a population boom, but a home building boom, that zoning changes in the decades since have made impossible to replicate.
>The homeownership rate is the proportion of households that is owner-occupied.

The main cause for the increase since 1900 was the invention of the mortgage, which did not really exist until about 1950. Loans existed, but the exact mortgage structure is a modern invention. It increased home ownership rates but also housing costs due to higher demand.
I have to admit I'm swayed by your argument. It is diabolical but seems unsettling.
This is new to me, so I might be wrong, but I don't get why they share revenue with the creators of these GPTs. They are basically just prompts that consist of a few sentences. There's no value add, and the more ChatGPT improves the less prompting will be required. These GPTs feel closer to bookmarks than an actual program.
I am reading The Shallows, and I am not so sure. Having replaced my paper books with iPad Kindle versions years ago, I am seriously thinking of going back to paper.

https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/d...
Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a Software Engineer (London or San Francisco)
Global offline population steadily declines to 2.6B people in 2023
New versions of zstd allow you to produce patches using the trained dictionary feature
How is Brightline credible? It seems to be really expensive and has a high fatal accident rate.
That level of skepticism is the reality for any query to a human or a search engine. For example, maybe that first search result is correct, but for the wrong version of what you are looking for. Maybe your colleague didn't understand what you really wanted.

Where it is helpful is that it's way more convenient than asking a human, doing a web search, or looking it up in a book. Even if a followup question is required. In this particular case there is a lot of transferability between knowing programming languages, too, so one can filter most implausible answers even if they don't know the programming language they are asking about.
My Downloader app has again been removed due to frivolous claim by WBD
I think that’s the whole value of magazines right? You pay them to curate for you.

If the only thing they curate is print ads, then all the value is already gone.
Is there a market that would price in the kind of predictions/lag the poster is proposing?
I can't carry a library of 1000 physical books in my pocket and pull them out while on the toilet. I think you have it backward.
My feeling is that after you’ve compiled your kernel a few times, everything just works because you learned to debug it the hard way and it seems easy now.

What I understand as “just works” is having a webcam, bluetooth, audio, graphic acceleration, hibernation, wifi, media keys, etc, all working when you first boot after the install.
Yes. I think that the first incidence was mongo db and AWS, where AWS offered mongo db as a service.
Greek Ex-Minister Admits Being Under Predator Surveillance
A weird "by Predator" wording all over the place.
I've been watching all their videos. It's basically a modern 'how it's made' set in japan.
For a counterexample, see Cauldron in the above repo. It looks like a lot of work and refinement went into that.
Using anecdata as evidence is a textbook example of information bias. There are multiple layers of self-selection bias taking place when an anecdote is volunteered.

But I agree with your first point.
GPTs have:

1. Custom prompts
2. Knowledge
3. Actions

You are talking about only 1) here.
Yeah, try commissioning art with a single paragraph prompt and getting exactly what you want without iteration.
Air travel is 2% of global CO2 emissions. Making air travel carbon neutral (by capturing carbon) would increase ticket prices by around 20%. That would be much cheaper than switching from planes to high speed rail.

I'm not saying that countries with lots of rail are wrong. I'm saying that passenger high speed rail doesn't make sense in the US (at least, not outside of the northeast). We're too spread out.
Why is "LastPass" almost always followed up with "Breach"? Are they exceptionally insecure, or just exceptionally transparent?
If median age has increased and home ownership has remained relatively constant, doesn’t that imply that it _has_ become harder to buy (ie lower rate of first time buyers per year)?
We should look at this as an old long term relationship where you only remember the good times. The magazine we all grew up reading isn’t the same one it was today.
> but I still wanted to add that we humans do actually "want".

I would also like to add that the subject of conversation is artificial and natural neurons, which humans, though contain some, are not.

If a NN is trained to do something, it can be equally considered as "wanting" to do that thing within the autonomy it is afforded, as much as any human.
Even when the Simpsons first aired, I highly doubt that you could get a job as a nuclear safety inspector without a college degree or highly specialized training like in the military.
Most of the USA is VoLTE-only for a ~year already.
For other countries see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Phase-out
I remember excitedly reading their early articles on e-ink, but that only materialized in a very niche way decades later.
Agreed, but that's a different conversation because gofmt is a lot less opinionated than prettier. Prettier goes well beyond style issues, and messes with semantics - it will add or remove parentheses in math expressions, add or remove linebreaks within lines of code, etc.

If prettier worked more like gofmt I'd probably love it and have no complaints!
Pricing here: https://about.gitea.com/pricing/

Though I’d like more information on those CI/CD runners. Like I assume you don’t get unlimited minutes and what kind of macOS boxes are available?

The platform requires you join a waitlist to signup.
Babies younger than 9-12 months cannot regulate even their own body temperature. They absolutely cannot regulate their emotional state - being calm, present, and centered is exactly what top parenting looks like for that age.
It doesn’t take Facebook level engineering to architect a substitute for VMware in 2023. Mid market IT contractors are replacing ESX for their clients en mass with proxmox. It’s only a question for enterprise until open source gets good enough.
Not quite the same as your suggestion but SFO has a Sky Terrace pre-security that you can go and watch planes from.
I think this about property too.

The price of property in Australia has increased so much but the demographics aren’t there to support continued growth. Yes immigration is a thing but most immigrants don't move to Australia with $4 million(AUD) in the bank to continue fueling the boom.

What happens when demand falls ?
The purpose of an SPAC is solely to circumvent to regulations governing IPOs.

Specifically those rules and regulations preventing repeated fraud on investors.

The SPACs failure is by design, if an SPAC could succeed, they would IPO as they could raise more money because they'd have backing of real audits and reports.
The moderators have said before that, when YC or YC-backed companies are spoken about, they have the principle of moderating less than they would for other posts to reduce chance of bias. So I think your suggestion would go against one of their other principles.
Isnt Homet unionized at the plant? How can he be like low-paid doing anything nuclear? He's a nuclear safety inspector
A Pattern Language for Interfaces
Sports Illustrated reportedly published articles from fake AI authors
Thanks! Do you happen to know of other examples?
Where will I get my crank science ads on the H-bond angle of water?
I will give you data for other in demand housing markets then to demonstrate how variable this stat is. In LA county, the homeownership rate is 46%. The homeownership rate in Queens is 45%, the homeownership rate in Brooklyn is 30%, in Manhattan its 24%, and in the Bronx its 20%. In Boston its 34%. In Miami its about 31%.

Really, homeownership is quite low in most in demand markets, especially ones that have been in demand for some time now.
Everyone says this about H&M (and Uniqlo), am I the only one with H&M basics that have lasted 5+ years? I don't necessarily see how their fashion is "fast"
The fact that there is no Galois movie represents an abject failure on the part of all hollywood directors and producers