skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can offer some unsolicited advice, try to seek out ML educational material with polished visualizations. If you're struggling with the math, trying to learn the concepts by reading libraries or textbooks or papers will be very hard - you might understood a specific thing if you look at it closely, but it will be hard to conceptually develop an intuition for why it works. A good visualization, or a strong educator explaining by way of analogy, can make a huge difference.

For example, gradient descent in conjunction with your learning rate can be visualized as calculating your error vector (your gradient), stretching it by your learning rate, applying it your parameters, computing the next error vector, and so on. If you think of what applying this vector might look like in 3d space, training your model is basically getting all your parameters to fall into a hole (an optimum). This kind of conceptualization helps you understand the purpose and impact of the learning rate: a way to stretch out the steps you make to descend into holes, so that you might hopefully "shoot over" local non-global optima while still being able to "fall into" other optima.

You could read papers and stare at code for a very very long time without developing that kind of intuition. I don't think I could ever come up with this myself just dabbling.

And as a side note, in mathematics at least for me, the most unexpectedly hugely important factor in understanding something is exposure-time. In college and grad school I found I didn't fully intuit most material until about 12mo after I had finished studying it - even if I hadn't actively studied it at all in the interim. I think it has something to do with the different ways our brains encode recent/medium/long term knowledge, or sleep, or something - not really sure, but I do know the earlier you started learning something and exposing yourself to the concepts, the sooner your subconscious builds that intuitive understanding. So you can do yourself a huge favor by just making an effort to dive into the math material even if it feels like a slog or that you're not getting it right this minute - you might make up one day in a few months and just "get it" somehow
Some are some aren't. The uber driver with 10k trips per year isn't, the student delivering food on saturday is.
Suckup software: How sycophancy threatens the future of AI
Have you considered ILGPU? https://ilgpu.net/
> What is the use case where you'd want to kill all of Chrome just because there are many tabs open? If there is a memory leak in Chrome, it will almost certainly affect a single tab process, and that can be killed. If you just need a bit more memory, killing one of Chrome's tabs may be a good choice.

They aren't saying they want to kill all of chrome. They're saying that in order to know that the problem is that chrome is using all of the memory in order to decide to kill a single chrome tab, the daemon needs to be able to identify that all of the processes belong to one program (chrome).
This actually depends on silicon quality. The mainboard manufacturers generally configure the OOB CPU voltages higher than they need to be in anticipation of handling crappy silicon.

If you have a higher binned CPU then you can reduce that voltage and still be stable at a given clock, the chip will then be able to boost higher because there will be more thermal headroom.
Hey Georg, thanks for posting. I've been working on building a thing with almost the same stack lately and the Dagster integration is my next large-ish step. In the last couple weeks I've kicked around Duck and Clickhouse for the backend. It's been a lot of fun. Ultimately I'd like something that can be run locally or easily installed and run on a PaaS.

The only trick with local is that data sets of any appreciable size take ages to pull down, at least here in the US with our terrible internet (in the average Italian mountain village this would probably work great).
Croydon just hasn't been the same since
It works on the web at threads.net, no health info required.
Sure. Just pushing back on the ‘you’re going to hit the database anyway’ argument. Having some kind of mechanism for eliminating obviously bogus requests is a good idea. Some sort of signed, expiring token is probably a good idea for that. Rolling your own expiry/signing mechanism is probably a bad idea. Correctly validated JWTs are an option (among many) for solving that problem.
The I would expect "It's an SGI, I know how to use it."

Familiarity with 4dwm doesn't really transfer to NeXTStep or SunView, which were two other Unix window managers of the time.

The people she interacted with would surely distinguish between different Unix vendors - Apollo, Ridge, SGI, Sun, etc. - we certainly did.
US regulators under the Biden administration have begun persecuting those on the other side of the political spectrum.
I don't think poor people benefit from clothes that last only a few washes are impossible to repair due to the materials used as much as you think.

I grew up in a lower middle class immigrant family and we bought many clothes second hand. A lot of the stuff coming out of Shein won't last long enough to make it to a second hand store.
> I dont see the economics of splitting servers for parts.

You can see that economy on ebay. Those parts extend the life of existing boxes by years.

I'm typing this on a machine powered by parts from 'split' servers.
Zuck is much worse than Musk.

Musk told advertisers to go fuck themselves.

Zuck told you you're a dumbfuck for giving him your data. (Look up the IM chat.)
What on earth?

You don’t have to actively shit on people building things in a tool that works for them just because you don’t like it. Do whatever you like in whatever language you like, but don’t define yourself by being anti-something else, define yourself by building things people find useful.
> Try explaining the steps to irc to someone who has never used irc before.

I mean, with modern web clients, it can be as easy as "open chat link, chat, close page".
Open source local AI assistant using LLM
For readers of this comment: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment/2019/06/the... https://earth.org/fast-fashions-detrimental-effect-on-the-en...

(I don't know if it's true either, but thought these links would be helpful for the readers like me who haven't been seeing articles about this.)
I guess this could have a hint about using Rails & Turbo Native in the title.

Nonetheless, great work!
> Kind of makes me wish GNU and Apple would do what Microsoft has done, integrate a Chromium-based WebView into the OS

It’s not Chromium based but Apple does have exactly this in the OS. Given both Chromium and WebKit target the same web standards there should be a solid crossover. The reality isn’t there but it wouldn’t take much (except for willingness on Apple’s part, which is hard to come by)
It does feel like it was lengthened with GPT. There's so many essay-style "now we propose to show that...", it's uncanny.

> we argue that we can rethink the current state of data transformation pipelines (intro)

> In the blog we will cover:

> We show a way how you can combine the best of both worlds

> We will tackle its impact and explain more in the following development section.

edit: yeah it's ChatGPT:

> Parts of this text were adeptly generated by ChatGPT but enhanced by real humans.

I guess it's the future, turn a tweet into a 5-page essay with your AI, so your readers can summarize it back to tweet-length with their AI.
Note that management's express approval could be verbal conversations that you cannot prove happened or not. With some work management can find some way to get a developer who has some other conflict of interest to do this: if your brother in law works for the maintenance yard situations then you have motive to ensure he has work.
I think that’s simply untrue. You’re not cutting the stone in kitchens, it’s cut at the warehouse and transported to the kitchen. In the US we’ve regulated this and while our record isn’t 100% safety due to non-compliance (which is always the case) we’ve got a much lower rate than Australia despite presumably selling a lot more of it.
If they ever get AGI going it will have come full circle. You can go there to pray to your very visible god. Prompt engineering will be the new praying, you read it on HN first...
Say, you get a super-human chess AI, and a super-human accountant AI, and a super-human medical doctor AI, and a super-human material design AI, and a super-human lawyer AI, and… How many of these do you need in a bunch when it's going to be better than, most people at most things? You say that people are great generalists but what if there going to be a specialised "conductor" AI that is super-human at establishing communication between specialised AIs and dividing tasks super-humanly efficiently between them?

So when to start worrying?
Seems like this is the thesis:

> As policymakers rushed to equip the police with cameras, they often failed to grapple with a fundamental question: Who would control the footage? Instead, they defaulted to leaving police departments, including New York’s, with the power to decide what is recorded, who can see it and when. In turn, departments across the country have routinely delayed releasing footage, released only partial or redacted video or refused to release it at all.

The impetus to avoid transparency is the strongest indication I can observe that the state will be deprecated in favor of the internet in the coming centuries.
fast.ai course (https://www.fast.ai/) gets a thumbs up from me as well
King Kong never played bongos or ate watermelons for health though.
I'm on Linux and elecron apps are always good news for me, because I know I won't be left out ;)
While I can’t speak to aluminium specifically, smelters in general have the problem that they’re pumping molten metal around. And the thing that keeps it molten inside the pipes is, usually, just inertia.

Pausing the plant doesn’t just mean pushing a button. Safely shutting it down is a long process of draining every single part of molten metal first, and might not even be doable; almost any other factory would have an easier time.
I wish they had a real IMAP/SMTP support and not some kind of unreliable service you have to run locally that does a bridge.

GPG key management is also a disaster. So they made it easy to communicate with others using proton fine, but communicating with non-proton users with GPG is a horrible experience.
They don't stop charging you because your account is over limit.
We know that General Relativity breaks at the singularity which means the maths are wrong there, but to replace GR you have to: 1) solve the BH thingy and 2) be compatible with GR in the other scenarios. GR is not a "hypothesis", it's well established fact and has been verified to death. While we wait a more general theoretical model comes out (string theory? quantum loop gravity? who knows), working with the imperfect tools we have is the most sensible approach.
Nah.

We find structures that are half a million years old:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598742

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/537-features/top10/11937-...

Wood structure! 476,000 years old!
"How to do nothing" by Jenny Odell is such a great book. Probably not for the usual reader of Hacker News, but I strongly recommend it to anyone who also starts to feel the fake "productivity" pressure imposed by the attention economy.

Also worth checking more about Jenny Odell's other projects, like The Bureau of Suspended Objects (https://www.jennyodell.com/bso-cjm.html)
Yes, if you don't have friends, it's a lot harder to be social and get invited to things
You realize you're actually not really saying anything here, right? After spending 1/4 of one's life going to school, then (if one is lucky) another 1/4 of one's life working, and another 1/4 of one's life in old age, there's not very much life left to live.

Putting it more concretely, the US ranks 27th on the Global Social Mobility Index. That's great, if you're cool with hanging out with Latvia, Spain, Poland, and Cyprus. But, why do that, when you can be Denmark? The benefits are clear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index#G...) But I guess that just doesn't make enough money for the shareholders or something.
In my experience with Copilot, the only good thing I can say about it is that it sometimes saves time spent typing.
It means I can't use Talon for voice commands, and subsequently, Cursorless to voice control VSCode.
Poland has a very strong technology and mathematics tradition that goes back decades. It's one of the reasons Poland has some strong feelings about their role in the breaking of the Enigma, for the longest time that was played down.
They need to show audits and that the code is obscure enough that it could be missed. I've seen IOCCC type things that do things I wouldn't catch in a code review. (IIRC there is a malicious code contest where the goal is to put backdoors in that others don't see in review, but I can't recall what it is)
I wonder what other intelligent things you believe. And it’s not “NK” it is DPRK.
You are putting forth some general rules that seem reasonable, but they don't really apply in this situation.

From what I've read, the train operator bid out the maintenance for these trains, and the manufacturer lost the bid to a third party. So your "opt-out" system should absolutely have been triggered here.

If there was some reason to believe that the low bidder would be incapable of safely performing the maintenance, the train manufacturer should have raised that issue publicly, not silently sabotaged the low bidder's ability to perform the maintenance.
I don’t work for Microsoft, and I don’t care whether people are using Microsoft’s technologies. As a consumer, I’m not happy with nVidia’s monopoly in the field. I find it disappointing that Microsoft chose to play along, instead of disrupting the landscape.

I think the only reason for that monopoly is the mental inertia of everyone involved. The complexity of these AI models is contained within the data in the models (gigabytes of numbers in these tensors), the GPU-running code is rather simple, most of that code is basic BLAS stuff. Unlike traditional GPGPU applications (FEM, numerical simulations, fluid dynamics), the compute kernels used in AI are easily portable across GPU APIs.

Maybe when I have some free time, I should port my library to Linux + Vulkan, just to prove the point.
I like your blog format. Kinda reminds me of Phrack.
> That didn't require exploiting the lumberjack or the miner. Jimmy did not steal value from either. He created value by inventing a new way for their raw materials to be useful to other people. Jimmy didn't need to "stand atop" anyone to do this.

This is absolutely not where most of billionaires' wealth comes from. You are being naive if you think this is how they make money.
I'd argue a function of scale as well as a function of criticality. Not all projects need the same level of care put into them as the blast radius of bugs is... negligible sometimes
Wow, very nice! Thank you, hadn't come across them in my search.

It looks like it doesn't recognize more than one line at once, but combined with another model or algorithm to detect text bounding boxes it'd be handy.
Clothing has been relatively cheap for at least 30 years, as far as I know.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-cpi-for-...

Not sure why the link doesn't show it, but this link came up on a Google Image search for clothing vs. everything else in CPI. Here's a link to the image itself:

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/clothing.jpg

And the Fed (since the image only goes out to 2013): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAPPSL (apparel) vs. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL (all items)

My only point is, clothing has been cheap for a long time, and hasn't risen with inflation. I can't tell if your comment is saying that fast fashion is responsible for clothing being cheap, or what time "now" specifically refers to, so I'm not going to assume anything about that. Maybe I'm just adding to what you're saying in pointing out that clothing has been cheap for quite a while, and fast fashion has little to do with it (if anything, fast fashion is probably just a product of how affordable clothing is).

Of course, it's affordable because clothes can be manufactured cheaply in quite a few countries. Seems a lot of it is made in Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, etc. I doubt the workers there are paid 'well' by our standards here in the US.
No, we can't. But, we can all at least aspire to be Danes[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
Right to repair for anything we buy is essential and customers need the right to access software they have purchased.
Do you think Instagram backs up their databases? Isn't that "multiple copies floating around"?

I don't think it's really that big of a waste..
The example is hypothetical, but complex machines can be complex to keep running, and often suffer catastrophically when shut down.

If the fab was barely profitable before shutting down, it doesn't take much to total it. Fabs are full of machines that cost tens of millions of dollars when they were new and there are simply no spare parts of vendor support for them now, and you can't just swap in a modern replacement. Fabs are full of extremely sensitive environments (no dust here, acid that will kill you if you touch it there, constant temperatures, no humidity, etc). If any of that is compromised, it's now just a toxic waste dump.

Again, I have no specific knowledge in this domain, but I imagine most of the time the owner's happy enough just to walk away from the headache.
Swapping (in the context of old Unix) is always replacing (copying) an entire process address space (or at least the non-shareable read-write segments such as .data), out to the swap device, or back, in one go.

Paging is more advanced as it allows to keep only a part of the memory required by a process in RAM and contents can be loaded or moved to secondary storage on the granularity of single pages (typically 4 kB, but larger pages are also common nowadays). So a typical exec(2) system call in Unix could set up a new page table which contains no single byte of the executable in the beginning and then jump to the executable's entry point. This, in turn, results in a page fault, in turn, the OS can then load the requested page into RAM.

Paging is more efficient since control/data flow analyses show that something similar to the Pareto rule (or 80/20 rule) also applies to programs which are executed - 80% of the time, only 20% of the address range (for instructions and/or data) is used. With paging, the OS won't need to load any code or data from disk that is never used (and can load it on demand later).

What's probably confusing is that the area reserved on disk for storing RAM contents (a partition or a file) is still called "swap partition/file". This is an old term that refuses to die, I guess...
The same thing happens for Goal.com, redirects to the same site.
Yeah, I mean that these orgs could have their own servers and set it up for federation.

Like you said, The Athletic already has a place of discussion which pales in comparison with the Fediverse. Imagine if they transformed their forums into a Lemmy-compatible system, and each of their journalists had their own @theathletic handle. They would be at the same time:

- keeping control of their social media presence

- stop contributing to someone else's platform

- creating opportunities for extra revenue based on their extended audience.
I am talking about what is a reasonable price for something vs its market price.

As far as I know a stock has three useful uses:

- you can sell it to someone

- you can collect dividends

- if the company is sold you get a fraction of the sale

- if it is a voting share you can influence the company

For a company like Tesla only the first one applies and a tiny bit of the last one (by selling it you influence the price).

I am not sure about this but there might be cases were because of financing/loans/internal politics someone might want to have X% of the shares regardless of other benefits.

What I am saying is that for almost every retail investor the only value of Tesla's stock is that probably in the future other might want to buy it for more as the only thing you can do it to exchange it back for the currency you bought it for[0]. So the only "rational"[1] price should be (close to) 0.

[0] There might also be fiscal benefits, but I do not think they matter here/

[1] The market if often "irrational" and that is not a bad thing per se. It just means that sometimes prices are more driven by hype.
Less tab clutter, enhanced ability to use OS app/window management facilities, no space eating browser chrome, works without a browser being open (yes that does happen on occasion).

It doesn’t apply to Proton’s desktop app specifically but generic email clients also allow management of multiple accounts in a single window without the messiness of forwarding.
Telegram Desktop is fortunately not an electron app. It's Qt.
As a critical theorist, Freud was rejected alongside many old white dudes in an understandable reactionary reflex for many decades. One had to turn to Fanon to access thinking about the unconscious. I would argue that currents in philosophy to us Lacan and Freud to read capitalist subjectivity alongside new interpretations of Hegel have shifted the field tremendously, starting with the 1989 work of Zizek Sublime Object of Ideology. Over the decades this work has increased in relevance as a way of understanding a way out of our current predicament.
> I think it’s hard to fall for a home because you saw it through virtual reality.

I think if you take this 1-2 steps further and combine this with halucinating already owned furniture, or furniture that matches the prospective buyers taste into the property, this will make it a lot easier to fall for a home.
To any single observer that crosses, I agree with your statement, but it changes the moment you have two observers. I also agree that at the North Pole, "all directions are south", but the difference is you are free to move back and forth.

If you picture us in an X-Y plane (which somehow represents all 3 spatial coords), and "up" is the time dimension, then a black hole would be the X-Y plane deformed into a 90-deg "pipe" facing straight down. Once you are in the pipe, your "X-Y" is our "up-down", this is probably the "artifact" you are referring to.
But do I have a local backup if my webmail provider deletes my account?
Nitpick: Only the x87 line snooped the bus and mimicked prefetch as it was a coprocessor that had its opcodes inside the x86's. Specifically, any opcode beginning with 0xD8 through 0xDF is an x87 opcode. The 8089 is different, and worked more like old IBM mainframes did with I/O channels; The 8089 had a dedicated opcode set (distinct from x86) that it would execute. "Jobs" (of sorts) were created on the 8086 CPU, then handed over to the 8089.

It's interesting that Intel decided to use two different methods for executing coprocessor instructions. Why not just have the 8087 work like the 8089 does and send "jobs" to execute? Embedding the instruction set inside the 8086's meant having to put in work to duplicate the prefetch queue.
it is a closed loop
In VW's case there was some reason to believe that at first. There are reasons to test an engine in the lab without emissions controls, and so it is believable that a lazy engineer could put in code for the lab that also triggered in real world conditions.

Note that the above is only believable before the rest of the investigation. Proper investigation proved the story wrong, but it is just possible enough to believe it could be true if the proper investigation hod come up differently.
Last I checked, you could only sign up via Instagram. You can browse online only.