skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the analogy gives people the impression that electrons are bumping against eachother to propogate energy.

If this is not approximately how electricity works, why does the current stop flowing when you disconnect the wires, or equivalently when you "connect" them via something that doesn't have free electrons (i.e. an insulator)?
Do you see a way to simplify this? Say you want to engineer useful bacteria or something, and avoid dealing with the large human genome and regulation?
According to the Bank of England's inflation calculator page [1] 50 GBP in 1875 would be worth around 4,766 in today's Sterling. Not sure how to calculate the true "worth" of the exchange from GBP to USD, though. 50 GBP in 1875 would be around 320 USD (according to the Wikipedia article), does this mean that the 4,766 Sterling should be represented as 21,663 USD (according to the 1875 exchange rate) OR as 6,015 USD (according to today's exchange rate)? Not sure.

[1]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
Mappers vs. Packers (2014)
What if you want to use a Windows or Linux machine?
Nobody’s complaining about Facebook’s use of ads as its primary income stream. Hell, the complaint isn’t even about targeted ads. The complaint is specifically around the pervasive tracking that goes hand in hand with this particular form of targeting.
Kinda makes you wonder why people don’t take global warming seriously…

This is what makes climate change a bigger problem - when the models are right and people take action it looks like a waste of time because the issues don't arise because they're mitigated (similar to Y2K really), and when the models are 20, or 30, or 50 years off, or flat out wrong, that means governments can ignore them with impunity. The only time climate science looks right is when the model is correct and no one takes action.

The result of this is that where there's a feedback loop that happens over decades or centuries (eg almost all environmental science) governments won't act when the problem is small, so humanity is setting itself up for a much bigger problem in the future. I'm in my late 40s and I don't have kids, so I'm not really sure I care, but if you do have kids and you don't want them to be drafted into wars over habitable land or have to live the second half of their lives on Mars, it might be worthwhile taking the climate seriously.

We don't really have a big problem to solve for ourselves. We have a problem to solve for future generations.
Ask HN: Need feedback on my idea of AI app that replaces ecommerce managers?
If you are running an e-commerce site or Amazon store then you know that filling out descriptions for 100's of products and their tags, meta tags, and slugs is a pain.

Right now people are creating this content based on keywords, and descriptions. Now with this AI app, you will be able to create all the content based on simple images.

You give images to our app and this returns you every field required to upload your product on your e-commerce site. Be it Shopify, woocommerce, or amazon.

Need your feedback. Will it work or not?
Good, so EU can go and ban Facebook operating in EU straight up, not dancing around privacy.

The EU protectionism around internet service is due to its lack of competitiveness in the whole internet economy. Or they might just outright start this trade war with US, and see how it goes.
Broadcast gives access to structuredClone and transferable objects. i.e. much reduced latency, which I would have thought desirable for this specific use-case (synchronising a 3d scene)
Yes, I’d consider this one of those religious beliefs (going onto eternal life in the sky) that I’m no longer capable of believing in. I’m sure it is helpful for those who are though.
It depends whether you think a 50 story tower in ocean beach is awesome or atrocious:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-hou...
Except for the rare cases where a chip can be decapped, turned into a netlist and painstakingly translated 1:1 into logic primitives (which itself is usually impossible without some fudging), all re-implementations are exactly that.

You can still do higher level stuff in an FPGA. Maybe you don't actually care how the sprite hardware really works, and you just make your own that mostly works the same. Maybe you don't even care that a PPU is split into 3 chips, you make yours without regard for the physical delineation of the original.
There are some cores out there like this - written off of software emulators with minimal original research. It is many times possible to get something that somehow plays games even while being "inaccurate", but yields little benefit over software emulation besides lower latency from controller inputs.

Higher-quality cores always involve original research. It is rare that documentation already exists at the detailed level you need. The best people in the field blackbox the original chips and, based on years of experience and knowledge of sussing out behavior by thinking like the original chips designers, can make a functionally and timing accurate model that can operate in lockstep with the real chip, cycle for cycle the same data on the bus. This is the sweet spot for FPGA implementations, but also requires a lot of skill and expertise.

At the extreme end is stuff like NukeMD and the visual 6502/68k projects. The logic is cloned at the gate level without any guessing. Still, some changes are necessary. For example, chips with internal tristate busses are impossible to do on FPGA fabric. Clocking in both sides of the clock. Using multiple phase clocks. Using dynamic logic. And so on. These implementations are usually much less space-efficient than the paragraph above, but offer the highest accuracy.
> An interesting alternative to consider, is money that intentionally depreciates value at a fixed rate ("demurrage" [1]).

This is exactly property of coins (gold, silver or copper). Even without debasement (like clippage) they were loosing value as they were worn out as a result normal usage. Money changers were exchanging worn out/damaged/clipped coins at current market value minus some comission.
Maybe the likening of superconductors and the cuprates resistance behavior is a clue.

Entirely speculative, but a larger scale analogy that I can relate to is a set of long pipes that fit together fairly well.

At low temperatures their entanglement (interaction with the rest of the universe) diminishes and they densify into a kind of crystalline arrangement that facilitates fairly unimpeded transfer of whatever energy flow really is; be it electrons, waves, or shifts of field energy in some form outside of my non-expert understanding.

At higher temperatures the material starts to jiggle, to expand, and to not quite align as well because everything's further apart and not quite right. This also causes more of the material to interact with energy that would have passed through at superconductive temperatures.

Maybe the packed pipes analogy is too far. A crystalline lattice where the interconnection between the components offers gaps could behave similarly in 3D space, or whatever N-dimension space might exist if that's something not just in science fiction.

Reflecting further, the densely packed (near absolute zero) conditions might also allow the 'strange material' to transition to a different sort of phase of matter. A state where individual components are packed together so tightly that they cease behaving as the groups we normally model and instead are interchangeable / intermingled with their neighbors. The electrons / waves could join the collective and dislodge a similar composition of material at a 'lower pressure'/'relief of potential' point.
Probably there is more: It is also useful to show ads to non-paying friends, valuable to sell to data brokers, and made available to 3-letter agencies.

For an analysis of the graph between users, does a link between two users break when one is paying or both? Don't they even track graphs beyond non-user, e.g., same non-user phone number in two user address books?
If these things are a good idea, they should be applied generally. Depending on individual sites to apply them, and individually at that, means that most sites will never get them, and that the “best practice” has an ever-increasing weight and burden over time.
One of the tasks that can be accomplished by running LLMs on a CPU is to execute long background tasks that do not require real-time response. llama.cpp seems like a suitable platform for this. It would be interesting to explore how to leverage the various acceleration techniques available on AWS.
You just described all buffet/AYCE restaurants in the world.
yet another browser. no, thank you. even worse that it is based in blink/chromium.

I would rather prefer they to lower their price than investing in this.
Revealing the love within: a framework for self-love
There are services which costs less and provides way more. Meta is just setting an unjustified exorbitant price to drive people off of paid option, that's all.

None of the services I pay costs that much yearly, and sum of top 5 most expensive services I use is still below that amount.

...or they're just an extremely inefficient company, I don't know.
>it’s through displaying ads;

One can display ads without tracking/profiling someone.
Sad to see all these comments pop up with all kinds of gotchas and disingenuous talking points. On HN of all places. It's not even the denial, but the low quality of it.
> Facebook/Instagram, are not fundamental rights

No, but privacy is. That should not be a hard concept to grasp but it seems many on HN, for whatever reason, are struggling.
yeah but in my example they dont make you pay beforehand: they want to know how much do you make, how much you spend, what places you spend on... is an example of being forced to comply with abusive clausules
99% of what? of ads not served? You are mixing ads and tracking and in the end, you can be tracked because you are still unique:

With my heavily, via plug-ins, privacy focused firefox I get 99%.

With https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint I get:

Yes! You are unique among the 2206539 fingerprints in our entire dataset.

PS: with my vanilla Chrome - I use several browsers, for banking and buying plane tickets I always recommend a vanilla one - I get 47% with many things blocked. Is this thing working correclty? I just checked my hosts file and it is vanilla too. I used to have a large hosts file but this is just inconvenient since it breaks sites. I don't understand why so many things may be blocked in my chrome browser.

PPS: I wanted to give it a try in https://browsershots.org/
Is this site defunct? Whata pity.
There's hardly a chance that one would both (a) read through all of TAoCP and (b) not extract any value from that. The attention required to wade through the books can't be sustained if you have no interest.
Tempreture rises higher than 7 F degrees were the pessimistic least conservative estimates of the time.

Lower tempreture rises were conservative estimates based on "preserving the current levels of CO2" emissions.

I am indeed one of the "another person"s that mentioned these are F units.
Looking at the examples, I'm underwhelmed.
The following should produce equivalent output:

pub fn popcnt(mut x: u32) -> u32 {
x.count_ones()
}

which gets compiled to:

example::popcnt:
popcnt eax, edi
ret

For large bit vectors, an AVX2 implementation can outperform POPCNT. See "Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions" at https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article/61/1/111/3852071

32 bits is not large enough, and the code Rust produces is indeed comically bad.
>Maybe if Reddit squeezes more, more users will go to Lemmy and similar alternative platforms?

oh, no worries. We have at least two looming controversies for that upcoming.

1. the contributor program (AKA, get paid to post on reddit) that replaces Reddit Gold that was datamined: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-y...

2. the looming hostility towards NSFW content that will likely in the mid term (1-2 years) lead to reddit trying to cut off NSFW material.

It's a matter of being prepared for the next drama instead of if it'll ever happen again.
from yesterday story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429370
> They want to come for the social, but they don’t want to go into their lessons.

Good diagnosis. Now they just need to select the right remedy.

Perhaps if you can come up with a compelling argument for the students and parents why what's being taught is certain to lead to success in life, you'll find their attitudes change.

You might find that tricky though, given you're teaching them all geography, history, calculus, and the like. In which case you'll know who has to change.
all buffets will know my salary if i eat there?
Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein : Introduction to Algorithms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms
Race-blind is like sex-blind. If you mix up she and he randomly in ordinary conversation, people would think you've suffered a stroke.

If a Japanese company wanted to make an image for an ad showing in Japan with Japanese people in it, they'd be surprised to see a random mix of Chinese, Latino, and black people no matter what.

I'm telling the computer: "A+A+A" and it's insisting "A+B+C" because I must be wrong and I'm not sufficiently inclusive of the rest of the alphabet.

That's insane.
1) Thank you for pointing the moment with 0 temp, I think we can make `agency.TextToTextParams{Temperature *int}` where nil gonna be passed down like `0` and 0 gonna be mapped to `math.SmallestNonzeroFloat32`. We also will add the ability to use seeds though

2) "I was hoping this would be a drop in replacement for langchain" - why don't use use langchaingo then? The thing is - we don't like langchain much. To is it looks too complex, we thing we can do better, simpler. The final goal is to make a library that can replace langchain and/or autogen but it's definitely not gonna be "drop-in" replacement
Like people living with a disability.

"Around 87 million people in the EU have some form of disability. Many persons with disabilities in Europe do not have the same chances in life as other people. Schools or workplaces, infrastructures, products, services and information are not all accessible to them. They may also be treated badly or unfairly." https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1137

---

Creating discrimination-free societies is a positive thing.
However, DEI initiatives have evolved over time to address more complex and nuanced issues.
The single most helpful thing for me is having a relatively consistent bedtime and wake-up time. The next important things are: Drinking plenty of water, and exercising every day (It doesn't have to be intense exercises like a full-blown gym session or a long-distance run or bike ride, but you're body is designed to move, so go for a walk... or do something).

For normal healthy individuals without other medical conditions, it really doesn't take anything special, it's just taking care of the base needs, and then from there everything else kind of flows.
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Show ads, just don't invade my privacy :hug:
I'll look into it, but my initial thought is that this is a bug in Dark Reader. Hopefully I can work around it.
If you are at all interested in computer science, read volume 1. If you want to go further after that look at the other volumes.

> he told me the book may be trying too hard

Knuth isn't trying to write a novel or something to learn from, rather a concise, comprehensive attempt to cover the field of Computer Science. It's a repository of knowledge. He marks some exercises at 50 which, from memory, means that if you can solve it fully you are in the running for a Turing award. One of the Python core developers was once asked what the developers did in their sparetime: We read Knuth so you don't have to [0].

[0] https://www.norvig.com/quotations.html
I turned a vague app idea into a fully functional software - no humans involved in the process, all thanks to ChatGPT Assistants. This wasn't coding; it was orchestrating AI to bring a concept to life.
>I think this is a disingenuous way of painting the healthcare situation in most developed countries, where the overwhelming population uses the good enough public default.

Not true! Having the public option be the "overwhelming default" is not the norm among developed countries. Neither is there being a public option at all!

Nor is anything else the norm, so great is the variety of approaches. What is true is that the Canadian/British approach of completely or almost completely free at delivery is not the norm.

The US's approach post-Obamacare is closest to the DACH countries, with a variety of nonprofit and profit plans. The US differs in a) having Medicare as the normal public option for the elderly (and having it be completely government run[1]), and b) not making getting a plan mandatory, while the DACH norm is for the government to pick one for you and send you the bill if you don't choose one first.

[1] Although I suppose Medicare Advantage is similar to the nonprofit plans available through the German GKV
What else is it then? Basically all statistical models are weighted averages. I'm not sure why deep learning would be any different.
Musicians are less gullible than “audiophiles” because they know how the sausage is made
The reason React uses a virtual DOM is because when React started, there were no (advanced) HTML templates yet. And it made it easy to setup listeners on elements, instead of manually adding it with `addEventListener()` and possibly remove them again with `removeEventListener()`. So the virtual DOM was really a game changer.

But Lit templates solve these problems in a more browser integrated way, without the need of a virtual DOM. How you manage the state is free to your choice, that is also not something exclusive to React and your favorite pattern can also be used with Lit. I wrote a tiny state management library (LitState [0]) which makes it very easy for multiple components to share the same state and stay in sync. I personally find it much more convenient and cleaner than any other state library I've used before. And it integrates very nicely with Lit.

[0]: https://github.com/gitaarik/lit-state
> We don't really have a big problem to solve for ourselves.

Well, actually we do, because climate change has accelerated to the point that we are threatened too. The 2022 heatwaves in Europe, for example, surpassed the height of the COVID pandemic in excess deaths [1], last year France and Switzerland had serious issues with power as their NPPs didn't have enough cooling water, and wildfires are growing stronger, more frequent and more devastating every year.

And that doesn't even take into account invisible threats like thawing permafrost in Russia releasing pathogens that have laid dormant for tens of thousands of years [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_European_heatwaves

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/0...
How do you measure the value? I treasure these books, they've brought me so much joy over the years. They've likely not affected my career trajectory much, but they've absolutely enriched my personal life.
Here are some tips:

- Use caffeine for a boost when you need it, but try to go without when possible.

- Try a light green tea instead of coffee for your caffeine boost.

- Take B Complex, strong enough for your needs. Others vitamins such as C, D3, Magnesium and Zinc are good too.

- Try disconnecting from all screens whenever you're not working, where possible.

- Consistently get enough sleep.
Check one out from a library and see how you feel after a few chapters.
We are worried that we don't understand LLMs - well, we also don't quite understand gravity and how electricity works, and we use them every day!
>And since philanthropic approaches to such aspirations demonstrably do not work, we need extremely high taxes on the ultra wealthy.

Here you're just shoehorning in a specifically ideological posture in the context of a complex situation that's completely irrelevant to your fixation. Government spending today is enormous in the developed countries and among intergovernmental organizations. In the context of existing health research spending there's vastly more than enough money at least available inside government budgets even as they are for increasing that health spending.
Just by reducing several gargantuan military budgets, many governments could easily increase health spending without some arbitrary new punitively huge tax on billionaires. The two things are literally unrelated in cause.

In any case, the revenue you'd generate from this billionaire tax you propose would be much less stable or bountiful than you think or is possible through much less antagonistic alternative means, and this revenue tax from basically forbidding billionaires would probably decrease too, because after all, billionaires, generally being protective of their assets in very sophisticated ways, would find ways to circumvent it. Thus just from a practical standpoint, stable funds for medical research would be much better obtained from reasoned, non-punitive incentives and tax schemes complemented by certain budget cuts for absurd outlays that governments often spend ridiculously wasteful amounts on as is.

>No one intelligent can/has yet looked me in the eye and told me earnestly: anyone with a billion + $ would have a single degree lower quality of life if their wealth was capped at 999 million

No, your hypothetical billioniare wouldn't live any less materially good a life by having just under a full billion dollars, but certain incentives that do also contribute to good things in the economic and developmental world could be destroyed by this prohibition. Also, simply, you might with this tax also badly and pointlessly disincentivize pharmaceutical companies when you could have just tolerated high profits and encouraged them to help with medical generosity in other ways. Remember after all that within health spending, a vast and very useful part of its percentage is sustained by a properly incentivized private sector that it would be stupid to burn just for the sake of cheap anti-capitalist ideological notions.

>If you want empirics google "highest marginal tax rate 1950- present" and "infrastructure spending 1950- present".

Seriously? you're comparing the speed of progress in medical infrastructure and related spending during the 50's with today?

You do realize that part of a reduction in gains could simply be because, oh I don't know, the easier problems and projects having been already handled with older, simpler methods and now the harder problems steadily dominating, requiring much more complex solutions with slower progress and higher cost...
They couldn't, and that's a good thing.

There are plenty of companies running non-targeted ads that are doing just fine, and don't cost millions of dollars to run a year. Facebook wants scale at any cost, and that is unacceptable.

The argument that we have to put up with something we never asked for, but has been carefully integrated into society to be utility-like is disingenuous. I don't want Facebook or WhatsApp, but in the Netherlands they are now used by schools, and even government agencies for communication.

You can't have it both ways: Either you're indispensable (something Facebook has worked very hard to become) and therefore treated as a utility, or you're a private company that can do as they please.
A kernel panic is, when your computer presses the panic button and stops to work.