skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't mean it this way, but your post reads like comedy. The juxtaposition of "very easy" with everything else you wrote is a striking image.
Only with v28, a year or two ago.
226 million paying subscribers versus free Yahoo users is maybe the biggest apples-to-oranges I've heard in my life.
I create content, heck i'm doing it right now, without being paid. Some is relatevly low value (but not none, I can see you like to spend time reading hn comments) but some ive made has touched thousands of people and been high effort stuff. Am I crazy? am I simply irrational?

No. People will create without incentive. put multiple humans in a box and wait, and culture will spontaneously be generated. Income is not, never will be, and has never, been a nessacary part of this equation.

In general ive observed a tragic cycle of vibrant communities blossoming into existence where everyone created because they want to, people have healthy engagement with it and get primarily positive vibes. Then over time, money invades, starts paying a select few of the creators and arbitrarily excluding others with no partiuclar pattern. Bad vibes ensue, and even those paid have to run in place and burn out. Content quality suffers, becoming less about creative expression and making audience happy, and more about extracting clicks, money, ads, buy, subscribe, like
This looks great. Thank you Gu and Dao!

For those who are unaware, previous "state-space models" (SSMs) took the classic state space model from control theory[a], parameterized its matrices, and applied it in discrete time to tokens in a sequence. Many people, including me, got excited by SSMs, given their linear cost... but they failed to live up to the hype.

The key difference now is that, instead of parameterizing the transformation matrices as before, the authors propose computing them from the data. In other words, instead of applying the same transformation at each step in time (which the authors call "linear time invariance"), they now dynamically compute and apply a different transformation at each step in time. Think of it as a new kind of nonlinear state-space model in which the linear maps are dynamically computed from the data at each step. The whole thing is very similar to RWKV[b], which, as the authors point out, can be formulated as a composition of these new "selective" SSMs. And RWKV itself is based on Linear Attention.[c] There's a lot to process in this paper.

More importantly, by establishing a connection between these linear-time DNNs and a well-understood model from control theory, the authors open the door to some exciting possibilities: Can these models be extended to the continuous-time setting? Which classic results from control theory apply to them? Can we draw from classic theory to improve our ability to reason about the behavior of these models? Other authors may have been the first to show these new linear RNNs can work well, but Gu, Dao, and others out of Chris Ré's lab deserve credit for making the connection to classic models.

I'm looking forward to diving in!

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-space_representation#Lin...

[b] https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM

[c] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236
I have an Redmi Note that had "Google Lens" installed on it twice without me warranting it[1].

And i remember that some years ago, a S3 Mini suddenly had the Zalando App installed after an "Firmware Upgrade".

Its easy to see because the new icons pop up at the end of the menu after the apps that you installed intentionally.

[1] Probably this https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/any-way-to-get-rid-of-go...
I used a fake name and a masked email address, and no issues so far. I've told close family members that if they get a sibling, child, or uncle show up called "James Brown" not to freak out too much
Ask HN: What would you do if you had 2 months free time to find startup ideas?
I've been accepted into a programme called Entrepreneur First [0], which is basically Love Island for co-founders. The programme is quite cool; the sum of the companies coming out of the programme are worth over 10 billion dollars.

At EF, they go against the Ycombinator advice of only seeking tostart a startup if you have an idea. You basically start pairing up with a random person in the programme and try generating ideas together.

I'm starting EF soon, and I have January and February free, where I'd like to *do something that will help me generate ideas* and prepare for the CEO role of starting a company. If you were in my situation, what would you do?

I'm mostly thinking of "infiltrating" an industry I don't know much of, but *I don't know which industry*. I don't know which macro trend I should follow. I don't really know what my passion is and if I should even follow my passion first of all. Which industry would you infiltrate?

I thought of things like

- working for free for an early stage startup where I get to know an industry and a good CEO
- working in warehouses, supermarkets, etc
- looking at some macro trends like Climate and getting involved with people who are actually on the ground working with infrastructure for this.

What would be your way of using this time to generate ideas?

[0] joinef.com
Not to be confused with mocha art..
This article could use some charts.

The idea that the phones are to blame for this too seems to be growing. It isn't mentioned here however.
Have you ever been at a gunpoint?
The sample code plus walkthrough sounds like "things people can run on their computers". :)
Genghis Khan got hacked?
Yeah, it’s almost as if a swarm of google investors and employees launch radical campaigns against critics.
Because there's not enough differences/advantages compared to Go.
> But that doesn't mean Eastern EU countries have bad infrastructure, otherwise nobody would build cars there.

But we still agree that they have worse infrastructure and that lower labor costs and no pesky unions didn’t seem to offset that in Tesla’s case.

> If we want EVs to get cheaper to rival those from China,

Higher tariffs would also be a perfectly reasonable solution.
Building deck = programming

Playing = executing
Swiss AI
But the bar is much higher than just network sniffing and reversing a dumb protocol?
That’s a heavy claim to drop with no proof.
TL;DR: not being desperately poor is unnatural for humans, and slowly kills us.
I'm a big lisp fan. I know about all of this, I used emacs for maybe a decade, and I still don't like elisp. I love the hackability of Emacs, but it's OK to dislike the language itself. Disliking semantic choices of the language doesn't mean I'm missing the point either!

And on "it's not just an extensibility language": in my experience this doesn't matter. I get that "well the editor itself is half written in elisp" and so vaguely that is superior, but it is only so in an academic sense.

Expose the primitives for the editor in some API in _any_ langauge and you can basically achieve the same thing anyway, so pick a language that doesn't make me want to poke my eyeballs out with a hot skewer.

Sorry, rant over.
Some folks here know about my Tumblr: https://moviecode.tumblr.com and the related site https://behind-the-screens.tv/ which talks about the source code that appears on computer screens in TV and film.
Decompiling (in a meaningful way) an optimized binary generated from C without debug symbols is much harder than what the author has shown in C#. It is not impossible, but probably very time consuming.

Versus just reading clean packages from a network.
You don't think if he hadn't bought twitter/x the unions would have been quite so uncooperative?
14000 accounts <-> 7M users? That ratio is a bit skewed.
I still don’t really understand. Are we still talking about Tesla building its factory in Germany instead of one of the CEE countries (with no/weak union and low labor costs)?
I stopped reading when he started talking set theory. there's a far simpler way to explain it and learn it. nice way to tie ourselves into knots. no thanks.
They are frank about also selling the data for research, it is not underhanded. It's even opt in...

For example, they talk about it on this page, which is linked from the about menu (so available with pretty small effort): https://www.23andme.com/research/

I expect lots of people also like that they get updates when information about new markers becomes available.
Danish union joins strike action against Tesla by Swedish workers
Nokia wasn't only about Symbian. They had Maemo, too. And at the time it was better than Android.
This is simply how C# decompiled from IL looks like - sometimes you can turn IL-level gotos back into control flow idioms and sometimes not.
I think Genghis Khan usually did the hacking…

With a sword.
Maybe we all shouldn’t be so QUIC to bad protocols.
13" e-paper transit information display with 3 years of battery life
According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates
Danish union to take action against Tesla in solidarity with Swedes
Novak Djokovic credits the TaoPatch for his success: What does the science says
I mean, a whole sea of WordPress developers still use JQuery. It's still out there and thriving.
I think it will be basically impossible to move away from von Neumann unless you control the entire stack, including OS and software. I don’t even think Apple could do it with Mac, because they are general purpose machines (for now at least). Maybe Apple could do it with iOS devices. Nintendo might be able to pull it off, though people trying port titles from other platforms may no longer try to do so. Because so many AAA titles go between XBox and PS, I don’t think Sony would try.
I had an iPhone returned to me because of a broken... screen protector.
Thieves are not always very smart.
Does what you wrote have something to do with Google? I don't see it.
Alaska Airlines Plans to Buy Hawaiian Airlines
https://archive.ph/C2Sjm
The Free-Market Fundamentalism of Argentina's Javier Milei
Mozilla pays executives highly while cutting programming jobs.
The halting problem does not forbid us from discerning if SOME programs will ever halt. It says that there are definitely programs for which we cannot know.

I suspect most of the MTG infinite loops are something like "A triggers B, B triggers C, and C triggers A". Asserting that the loop will never resolve is not a violation of the halting problem.
Bring code from other platforms into the browser
To CBDC or Not to CBDC, That Is the Question
I would disagree. Our form of classical liberalism requires those wielding the baton of power to do a better job. The state serves the individual.

Private enterprises anticipating the political needs of a central government was a tenet of Mussolini’s economic fascism and has no place in American political discourse.
I can help track down distant family members who have committed crimes? Sounds like a plus.

I think the angst about this comes from men who don't want their status as fathers of illegitimate children (or, rapists when they were younger) unmasked.
I'm not sure if it's a shift in language - it's more like a reaction/virtue signalling of some restaurants in the first weeks of invasion that briefly got viral, but - in the rare case of accuracy winning over memes - it died out as people soon after (re)learned that "ruskie" in "pierogi ruskie" refers to Ruś, not Russia. At least, that's my local experience (Kraków, Poland) - we went through the meme phase and came out of it a week or two later, and I haven't heard anyone mentioning "ukraińskie pierogi" ever since (until on HN, today).
What do you mean by “so much irrelevant signaling”? And why do you focus on the non science-y bits of a science article? Seems irrelevant, no?
Sounds like bs if you look at Russian numbers.
There’s no more proof than any other dish. It’s so popular that no one bothered to have a “protected origin” certificate.

Yet they predominantly are served in this region so having them being “ruskie” or “ruthenian” (a huge region) is much more fair than naming it Galician.
I use a separate email address with every site, so I can be confident that each the below is a wholly independent breach. I've had email addresses (and sometimes other data including name, password or password hash, etc) breached from:

Adobe.com
Bit.ly
Bytargentina.com
Cafepress.com
Chegg.com
Contentful.com (via Apollo)
Dailymotion.com
Disqus.com
Dropbox.com
Edmodo.com
Facebook.com (via Zynga)
Gawker.com
Invisionapp.com (via Apollo)
Kickstarter.com
Last.fm
Linkedin.com
Linux-mag.com (via QuinStreet)
LiveAuctioneers.com
Monster.com (via Apollo)
Myfitnesspal.com
Parkmobile.com
Streeteasy.com
Teespring.com
Ticketfly.com
Ticketmaster.com (via Ticketfly)
Tumblr.com
Xbmc.com (via Kodi)
This is not really true, my 100 year old house in the UK is one of hundreds in my suburb/village. Each house is slightly different though, in terms of the layout. The fireplace is hardwood and has some columns on it that are handmade on a lathe, each side is slightly different. The doors are clearly handmade as they have slightly different features on each. This obviously doesn't happen anymore unless you are paying a massive premium. This required a much higher element of skill obviously, analogous to the difference between writing low level code and wiring library code together with a modern web framework, or even a low code saas product.
We weren’t building them to be interactive dedicated mostly-idle personal computers with snappy response times, and that’s not why they were purchased.
Belarusians also call themselves a variation of "rus", obviously.

And "Little Russia" is an old name of a geographical region (which somewhat corresponds to the traditionally Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine).
I use uBlock or Tridactyl (vim bindings for Firefox) to zap things like that temporarily.
They'd populate the database by making participation compulsory.
Consistent with the precedent the British established with all of those Egyptian mummies?

I mean, I agree they need permission, but it’s at least a little ironic…
Plenty of evidence. Search keywords are "sentence", "reduced" and "cooperating".

Not sure about the veracity of this site, but it includes the law article number so you can verify it yourself: https://www.gordondefense.com/federal-crimes/federal-crimina...

> Federal Safety Valve
(Title 18 United States Code Section 3553(e), United States Sentencing Commission §§ 5C1.2 and §2D1.1(b)(17))

> A person may be able to cooperate in order to receive relief under the “Safety Valve” provision of 18 U.S.C. 3553(e), USSG sections 5C1.2 and §2D1.1(b)(17). The safety valve is a particular area of importance as it is a way to receive reductions below mandatory minimum sentences
* Docker engine and not Docker Desktop in a VM. WSL2 works well after some configuration: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6655#issuecomment-11...

* Rancher Desktop.

* Podman.
The illustrations looked like some sort of steampunk drawings from a fantasy book.
Well, it was a matter of time before something like that happened.
I'm no Java expert but they seem to be solving startup time with ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation.

https://medium.com/@subhajitc77/how-java-17-and-spring-boot-...
Can't speak for OP, but I've had more than a few similar experiences (from both sides of the fence FWIW).

I can think of one example in software deployment frequency. The observation (many years ago), was that it's painful and risky (therefore, expensive) to deploy software, so we should do it as infrequently as the market will allow.

Many companies used to be on annual release schedules, some even longer. Many organizations still resist deploying software more than every couple/few weeks.

~15 years ago, I was working alongside the other (obviously ignorant) people who believed that when something is painful, slow and repetitive, it should be automated. We believed that software deployment should happen continuously as a total non-event.

I've had to debate this subject with "experts" over and over and over again, and I've never met a single person who, once migrated, wanted to go back to the nightmare of slow, periodic software deployments.
Is it really artificial intelligence when there are so many human limits and rules placed on it?
You can design for that. For example, when building a persistent-memory native database engine, you probably need some sort of data versioning anyway - either Postgres style multi-version rows (or some other memory structures) that later need to be vacuumed or Oracle/InnoDB style rollback segments that hold previous values of some modified objects. Then you probably want WAL for efficient replication to other machines and point in time recovery (in case things go wrong or just DB snapshots for dev/test).

Transient & disposable memory structures like keeping track who's logged in or compiled SQL execution plans that facilitate access to the persistent "business data", much of that stuff will need to be in RAM/HBM/CPU cache anyway, for performance reasons and as these things do not necessarily need to persist across a crash/reboot. The data (and likely indexes, etc) need to. But you won't need a buffer cache manager that copies entire blocks around from storage to different places in memory and vice versa. Your giant index or graph could rely just on direct memory pointers instead of physical disk block addresses that need to get read to somewhere in memory and then are accessed via various hashtable lookups & indirect pointers. And you don't have to ship entire 512B-8kB blocks around just to access the next index/graph pointer, just access only the relevant cache line, etc.

With proper design, you'd still have layers of code that take care of coherency, consistency and recovery...
So, one could theoretically "embed" an older commit into their repository as a pointer (submodule folder)? And because Git knows what that commit ID means it will show it fine?
perhaps someone wants to put a script in their icloud directory on macOS: ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs
That is precisely my point. One has concurrency capped at 5, the other has no cap (because it uses an event loop).

The Puma process is likely 99% idle in that benchmark, you could crank up the thread count to 50 and get (not quite) 10x better results.

An event loop is definitely more efficient than a thread pool for such a work-load, I'm not denying that, but in this specific instance Rails+Puma is configured (granted it's just the defaults) with ball and chain.

I'm not saying the benchmark is dishonest, I'm saying it makes no sense.
> North Africans. Who were most likely more "white" back then than now

So .. easily confused with Swedes then?

Or as dark if not darker than (say) Greeks and therefore People Of Some Colour?

How rich was the Kingdom of Aksum and how much trade did they do with India and the Roman Empire, did they travel afar from their own land?

What of their successors, the Abyssinians, did they not once have "all the gold"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleb_of_Axum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_Abyssinia#/media/...

As I stated, travelling throughout Europe, through the territories of the Roman Empire, all manner of complexions could be seen, some less frequently than others - but there were certainly rich, powerful, and very dark traders from abroad along with no shortage of Mediterrian complexions.
At least for consumer devices, I think the 'primordial soup' spark of motivation was the original lean and mean netbooks (with the initial push to web apps over running full clients locally, before they became low spec windows laptops), with compact flash ATA adapters to displace HDDs. Power consumption was a factor as well IIRC
The deck shuffling is relevant due to other factors. There is a card in the combo deck that reshuffles the discard pile into the deck when it's put to discard, and the deck revolves around (as a shortcutted, freely undertaken combo) dealing one damage every time a certain creature goes to the discard pile. As you re-shuffle every time the 'engine' piece is hit, you can't predict how many times you need to activate the discard combo, so it cannot be shortcutted. Shortcutting in magic requires stating exactly as many iterations as will occur and the clear end state.

Slow play is the phrase explaining why indeterminate combos don't get shortcutted. "An indeterminate-loop combo may take anywhere from fifteen minutes to fifteen hundred years to actually succeed, and we really do not need to be waiting around to see which it's going to be."
Speaking of Windows Update, does anyone know why it's so terrible?

On your average Linux-distro:

Run "package-manager update"
wait for download (ususally pretty quick)
installs
might need to restart if there's a kernel upgrade or something
done.

But on Windows I dread every time there's an update because it's such a shitshow.

Download is slow - hobbyist running their own servers have better bandwidth than a trillion dollar company.

The install is slow.

The install doesn't even finish in the control panel dialog.

There's a second install step just before you restart.

There's a THIRD install step just before you login.

You go to Windows Update again to double check and guess what, it didn't install everything for some reason, repeat the above steps N fucking times.
Better Environment Variable Management
We had a dynamic configuration system for much of our configuration, but it didn't play well with environment variables.

And environment variables are a must, because that's the easiest way to get terraform created config (via a configmap).

We updated the dynamic configuration system so that a config value can now be "provided by" an environment variable. This is going a long way to helping us have a much more sane single place to look to understand all our configuration.
They can match me with my DNA if they already have complete knowledge of my family structure and all their DNA. So if all Kardashians but one send their DNA for tests providing their true identities and the last one sends anonymously, they can assume the identity of the last one.

So yes, there's a risk but its not much different from going outside and leave behind hair or saliva unaccounted for. That's Putin level of paranoia IMHO(he is known to have men collecting his poo etc. when outside).

Maybe can be useful for insurance companies to match you and price you according to your DNA but they are not allowed to do that and they can only exist within legal structure.
I live in central Arkansas, USA.

Good: Low cost of living, great people, good outdoor life, moderate winters, fantastic place to raise a family

Not so good: Hot summers, limited population means limited big-city activities, some areas underdeveloped

All things considered, I chose Arkansas to be my home after living in several other states, including some of the bigger ones.
A peculiar fish and an evolutionary mystery
The data has to be decrypted and read, so eventually you reverse engineer the client and figure out how to decrypt on the fly, then they wise up and introduce key based signing, which you eventually try to steal from the client and breaking the encryption again, then anti cheat is implemented... thus, the cat and mouse game is born, lol
U.S. students' math scores plunge in global education assessment
And yet, our tv stations and metro editions of newspapers go on and on about the spirit of Mumbai.

Still, there’s no city like Mumbai in the whole of India. It’s literally got something for everyone.
With Tesla having a blanket global ban on allowing unions coming straight from the top, I think IG Metall is just deluding themselves if they think they make progress.

Considering IF Metall started the current strike after trying to get deal signed for six years, I guess IG Metall will be still reporting "progress" out to 2030...
> It's an incredibly common well established convention within a group of pilots, controllers, airline workers, hostesses, etc.

In other words, it's _not_ an incredibly common well established convention. Thanks for clarifying my confusion.
This is wild. I don't know about "great man" theory in general, but that does sound extraordinary.