skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn Oracle always get in on government work.

Does Oracle work well with Delphi, or are there better DB choices?
while reading this, my mind started trying to imagine dogs...

I didn't do it on purpose, it just did.

They were all barking, and had a collar...
That probably says something about me.
And it's more attractive cause with great risk comes great reward, thus men with breasts in leotards. (Forgive the marvel jib)

Male risk taking behavior is more attractive to other males.
Practicing rationality literally improves the quality of our thoughts. It’s a worthy dare I say noble?) goal.

“Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!” - Bertrand Russell
Basically the underlying principle of Prolog.
yeah, and while I have no experience with racist drivel, I am pretty sure that you don't need GPT4 to output text like : Fucking X they are comming to steal our jobs.
Write a bad headline for clicks. Fill the body with derivative writing of other news. Point and laugh at the subject you want to see taken down a notch.

Personally I’d prefer a dart board with someone’s face on it than reading this drivel but here I am writing about it lol.
Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 – Finals [video]
As for the IP around lego bricks, an instruction set would be copyrightable, the brick system is patentable (but the patents on most of the bricks would be expired now which is why there are generic brick sets available), and they can do a trademark that would provide limited protection, but mostly for the brand, not for the bricks themselves (I remember being at the Lakland workshop back in the 90s and they were talking about how the Fender lawyers came and told them how they needed to redesign their headstock as to not violate Fender’s trademarks/design patents on the headstock shape, and there would be some similar protection potentially available to Lego, but again, the existence of generic bricks tells me that it doesn’t apply to the bricks).

So the bottom line is that Lego cannot keep you from publishing plans and parts lists for your own Lego sets. Heck, you could even, if you were sufficiently funded, manufacture the set yourself. You just couldn’t use the Lego brandname at all.
> If a program has no IO it can be reduced

Thats a difference between the theory and practice. In practice you always have to consider physics. There are always inputs and outputs.
It's got nothing on medical billing. Seemingly random bills from entities you may never have heard of showing up months later even when you paid a shitload (thousands) up-front.

[EDIT] Oh and they may not put enough info on the bill to figure out WTF it's even for, without calling them. It'll have some uselessly-generic single-line item for what was probably multiple things, but you'll have to spend an hour on hold to find out what you're supposed to be paying for.
Interesting! I've used Linux Mint for the last 5+ years (and am using the Xanmod kernel, which is on 6.6), but have always been Pop OS curious. This increases my curiosity, I may have to give it a go on my laptop.

https://xanmod.org/
For anyone who's confused about where to find the images: Click "Figures" in the sidebar on the right.

For anyone who's confused about how this works: The objects aren't what they appear to be from any angle. In fact, they're weird mirror symmetric objects that bend backwards in ways you wouldn't expect. It's our shape recognition that makes them look flatter than they are. This also makes them look like asymmetric objects that are facing a certain direction depending on the viewing angle, and this is the actual illusion.

It's sad that we don't get a 360 degree view, or even a couple of rotations of one of these, because that would make it obvious that the object goes from "proper shape" to "unrecognizable shape" to "flipped shape" depending on angle.

Anyway, when viewed in the mirror from certain angles, first of all the object doesn't change (because it's mirror symmetric). But because you view the mirror image from a different angle, it looks as if it's facing the other direction.
English is NOT a Domain-Specific Language.
Why are Americans getting shorter?
Your link (Dec 14, 2023) says they E2E encrypt it and do not store escrow keys, but this link (May 13, 2022) says they store escrow keys for keychain:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-icloud-keych...

Did they announce this change? It's a pretty major UI departure. In particular, if you have one Apple device and loose it, the 2022 article implies you can recover your keychain, but the 2023 article says you're completely screwed.

A lot of people rely on iCloud backup. It seems like there should be a device-wide toggle that lets you choose between the two behaviors for things like passwords, health data, and all the other E2E apps.
Not Apple since they’re not a player in datacenter AI, only local laptop/desktop AI. But AMD yes, since AMD is developing similar architecture APU systems that will roll out in 2024. Intel is also developing them, but unclear if their NPU and GPU performance will be comparable.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct/mi300....

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/intel-launches-core-...

There is also some tech that lets you put some model layers on the Nvidia GPU’s local NVRAM and the rest in system RAM. It’s slower though. Some discussion of that here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18ire2a/best_mo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18io4lp/how_are...
Ptfe film and tape is common occurrence. Just wrap it around maybe?
I'm seeing that this one doesn't have the "Available on Firefox for Android™" tag on the top like Forget Me Not https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forget_me_not...

Maybe Cookie Auto-Delete is coming soon for Firefox Android.

Here is the repository of Add-ons for Firefox Android https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/
My favourite part about it is the "Manly McManface Edition" with masculine pronouns for double the price :D

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/manly/
For a software engineer I would rather recommend implementing from a reference software implementation. There are for example tons of "Model XX from scratch" in Python - which you can translate to Dotnet/Go.

Implementing code from a paper is almost its own skillset. Papers are often math heavy and they are information dense, with lots of references to exiting works. They are designed for communicating to other researchers in the same field/niche.
I was going to say, it's not uncommon to see pretty bad banding in dark gradients with WebM/VP9, so this makes some sense.
Epic also funds Godot development. https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-was-awarded-epi...
I'm looking at an LG UltraFine, which as far as I know, is not a bad screen, but I can't really tell.

I've read all the comments, and zoomed way in. I can see it on one of the pairs if I pay attention, but on most of them, I still am not sure how to even look for the difference.

Last time I had a vision check, I got a 20/15, which is supposed to be better than "normal". It may have declined since then.

I don't think it's a monitor or eyesight thing. I think I don't know "how" to look for the effect I'm supposed to be seeing.
The Last of Us Online Is Officially Canceled
Are acute and not universal dental operations like a root canal, crown, abscess op not adverse events for which there can be risk pooling?
Lots of people spend money on their hobbies, including art, including art that is meant for others to see and appreciate.

Also, promotion of culture (for example funded by taxes at national or city level) is a thing.

One example, I know of a few graffiti walls near where I live. I'm not sure if the city just allowed the graffitis and the artists paid for supplies themselves of if the city provided them too. I've even heard of cities hiring artists for that.

Sure, electronics are more expensive than spray paint, but definitely not to the point where none of these models could work. Have you ever been at a maker faire? It's amazing what people build (and are willing to spend) just for the heck of creating stuff.
Thanks for the laugh buddy.
> I would be wary about trusting current FDA oversight and governance implementations overseas, especially in India due to geopolitical concerns (prioritizing the relationship over robust testing).

I have family that work in the Pharma Manufacturing Industry in India. If you've ever taken a generic drug, it's likely manufactured in a factory within 20 miles of my ancestral village.

The US FDA does NOT compromise on testing in India and China. They will send US FDA inspectors to factories on random audits.

There is stuff to complain about w/ regards to the US, but the US FDA is pretty good at safety globally. The only better regulatory agencies I can think of is the EU's EMA and SK's KFDA.
iCloud isn't cross platform enough
ProtonDrive is going to pull down every file to every device and act in a dumb way
Sync might be a good choice actually. I have to investigate them further
This article made me laugh because it's synonymous to me trying to start a project and going down different rabbit holes.

The author at step 1. of a project trying to pick the tech stacks, decides to read a book on databases to help with choosing a DB

Then proceeds to segue to writing his own database.

Then writes a blog about said process

I wonder how that original project has come along? I'm looking forward to when the author gets to the stage of picking a frontend framework
I don't feel like there needs to be a discussion on 'why' they take more risks. Females expand way more energy in having and raising kids than males do (within the human species). In other species (like sea-horses) - the females actually compete for males since males are the ones that expand way more energy in raising / producing children... (i.e. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/seahorse.html).
This entire article reminds me of the ones a few decades about about the utter indignity of mp3's, and how us peasants that use it _AT ALL_ or at the very least with any bitrate under 320bps was just criminal.

Then proceed to play the flac's in their car. Ok.
I can't judge your personal position/responsibilities but normally I think of DBA and database developer as not being the same thing (except for at small database startups where there's more overlap). At medium+ -sized database companies I've talked to the database developers are on call but likely don't have access to production. They are on call for bug reports from production users. Whereas DBAs are folks directly responsible for the database in production.
It's because the author is linking to the wrong images.

See my post lower in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656046
Bird Flu Reaches Antarctic Region
hmm that's weird, you forgot that they're usually painted in stripes (red/white?)
They are, and that is not what Delta “insurance” covers.
I assumed some kind of CYA on the part of PromptArmor. Seems better to go the extra mile and disclose thoroughly rather than wind up on the wrong side of a computer fraud lawsuit. Embarassing for Writer.com that they handled it like this
if no one is storing it, they don't have it. If someone is storing it, it increases the likelihood that they can acquire it.

perfect is the enemy of good.
I really loved the Google UI/UX Certificate: https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-ux...
> Every time I've used webp, I've been disappointed.

In what way?
Neither propensity to high-risk behaviors, nor high intelligence, are reliably inherited. (Vs., say, blood types.)

Hence there are plenty of males who got the former, but not the latter.
>Aside from a few cases where nitrile works and others don't (some hydrocarbons, among others), there's usually something more protective.

Good luck finding something that protects your hand from the fairly occasional DCM/DMF/name any org solvent drops/spatters/spills
This is so odd to me as someone who grew up in what was perhaps peak Polaroid era. I remember house-shopping in the early 90s and taking a Polaroid camera with me to take pictures of the houses I saw. The other place it was really wonderful was when I traveled to Chiapas and Guatemala at about that same time with a Polaroid and was able to give family pictures to Guatemalan refugees on the spot as a way of providing some small joy for them.
So xstate implements state machines. This is quite a different concept from DAGs, though there may be a DAG underneath. This isn't mentionned anywhere though. The concepts you work with are state machine concepts.
In 2002? Probably something now-crazy like “how else will I process returns?”

It is not directly related, but as a hopefully funny semi-related anecdote, the federal government stopped states from putting social security numbers on drivers licenses in 2004. Renewals frequency depends on the state, but it is typically in the 4-8 year range, so plausibly until 2012 people were going around showing their SSN to anybody that needed to see ID.

I specifically remember this caused stressful situations as a teenager working retail, people justifiably didn’t want to show an ID when doing returns because it had their SSN. A credit card number is hardly anything comparably!

This all seems absurd nowadays, but the past is not really that long ago.
now that I think of it, in my dreams colors are not something I recall, but I definitely can say that I don't dream in greyscale..
I would guess the problem is that on a slow gradient, each individual block is very close to a constant. The tiny AC coefficients tend to be quantized away, resulting in a visible transition along block boundaries.

I thought the loop filter was supposed to help with this though.
> But even with this I am not sure that I understand what they want to say.

Look at the domain name of TFA. They are saying "neural neural PageRank look at meeee"
Why the USA needs visa workers?
Censorship is ALWAYS evil
Not USA, but we had a case where the discarded unshredded health files somehow ended up being used in a movie shoot for “special effects” and strewn all over a street somewhere.

https://decisions.ipc.on.ca/ipc-cipvp/phipa/en/item/135056/i...

Another where a manager lit a big bonfire at home but put in too much at a time and they asteroided around in burnt and unburnt manner.

Pre-tech breaches :)
Scary thing about this is that Delta Dental is multi-state entity, but Delta Dental of California is the entity that handles federal employee benefits, so it likely leaked sensitive details about many federal employees if it contained their entire subscriber base.
> I don't feel like there needs to be a discussion on 'why' they take more risks.

Why not? Do you think that this:

> Females expand way more energy in having and raising kids than males do (within the human species)

Is the only answer applicable to "Why to males take more risk than females?"
Someone should go check management didn't get stuck in the money box.. again.
The most important cognitive distortion to be aware of is that being aware of cognitive distortions will make you more rational. No matter how hard you practice rationality, you will exhibit these distortions at some point or the other. Various rationality movements over the years (the most popular recent one being new atheism) stand as evidence of this.
Optimizing Deep Learning Framework Performance: Autotuning GPU Kernels
When developing our WebGPU backend for the Burn deep learning framework, we faced numerous challenges in optimizing the execution speed. Autotune serves as our solution to the challenge of selecting the most efficient kernel for GPU operations, taking into account factors such as device specifications and input shapes. A kernel is an algorithm that accomplishes a task of relative simplicity, normally in the hot loop of an AI model.

In our most recent blog post, we explore two different operations commonly found in almost all deep learning models: Reduction and Matrix Multiplication (Matmul). The post highlights the difficulties of manually choosing the right kernel, given the uncertainties arising from the hardware and various input shapes and strides.

For instance, in some scenarios, our first reduction algorithm can be 3X as fast as our second one, but in other scenarios, it can be 19X slower, highlighting the importance of selecting the right kernel for the job. For Matmul, often we have the best kernel performing 3X as fast as the worse one, but the fastest one changes constantly across a spectrum of scenarios.

We hope the post highlights our flexible solution to this problem and how it can support our mission of creating the fastest framework on all hardware.
There's always the trust but verify concept, but nobody goes through the expensive of certifying the raw ingredients. It sounds like they don't even certify the product they produce. Seems to me that one item per batch would be a decent idea, but "you're cutting into my margins"!!
Take Leslie Lamport's TLA+ course. [1]

And learn TLA+. The core idea of TLA+ is that any problem, how ever complex can be represented as a state machine i.e a sequence of variables or states that change over time.

It can be used to describe software, hardware and theoretical concepts like consensus algorithms.

I suspect one low hanging fruit for TLA+ is to use it for describing physical phenomena gravity, magnetism, boiling etc. This I haven't seen work using it for that yet.

[1]: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html
My theory is that because of the sperm/egg relationship, survival of men is less critical to the survival of the species, so men are programmed to do more risky things, and the ones that survive are more fit.
You can't have statistics on a website without /s
IANAL

Many states and many companies are “at will” employment.

As long as the termination isn’t for protected reasons you may not have much in the way of a civil law suit.

Ask me about the time I was “fired” for taking a vacation that my boss approved.
Does he ask everyone, or do you just have the je ne sais quoi of an engineer?
You're describing a system in which the HR bot is worse than useless.

If a company intends an HR bot to be relied on by employees, then its words should be legally binding. If the company doesn't intend for employees to rely on the bot, then it shouldn't exist, because nobody can make any plans based on its responses.
What if those machines are designed to have no emotions and aspirations? Why would they care about something like rights for themselves when they are simply incapable of any desires, but exists only to help and guide us?

I know this sounds like I am advocating for AI slaves but my point is why are people treating AGI as if it cannot be a being without all the emotions and aspirations that a human has? Just a cold thinking machine that still aligns with our moral principles.
...and yet we worry about `npm` supply chain attacks...
Yup

There are hordes of people who want to be fooled by Active Measures and ordinary malcontents.

The research I've been able to find on belief in conspiracy theory followers seems to point to minds that are so disturbed by a world that contains random events that they'd rather believe in some evil cabal that makes bad things happen. (Maybe because it seems somehow possible to discover and overthrow a hidden evil cabal than to make a disorderly universe orderly?) There also seems to be a correlation with reilgiosity, which seems a bit unsurprising as most religions train you to believe things without good evidence, and to avoid good evidence in favor of faith.

It'd be fine if these were harmless chatter, but they are actively exploited to undermine trust in institutions and science, and that literally kills people.
One interesting thing to consider is the "draw a bicycle" test. When presented to a population of phantastics, many will produce severely flawed bikes that could never exist in real life, yet they will claim that it matches the "image" they have in their head of one. However in my own experience despite being aphantasic I can very easily draw a physically accurate bike, not by rendering to paper the "picture" in my head, but rather by working from first principles about how the components of a bike have to interact.
Maybe in this hypothetical we could reduce weight by making it the 2nd Death Star? A lot of that was skeletal superstructure.
One problem is that a change in a.js may trigger a new error in b.js.

ESLint could also cache things fairly trivially:

hash = hash_file_contents()
if previously_seen_hashes.contains(hash)
report_previous_results()
else
run_lint_and_cache_results()
end

maybe that already exists. But that has the same problem.

When you've got enough hardware to throw at it, then "just run it on the full code" is the safest.
University of Pennsylvania has some projects that include public providing help with genomic/epigenetic research related to given topic descripition[0]. (using l-systems & bnf[5][8][9] format as way to encode/handle dna sequences [1][2][3][4][6][7])

Example/demo of topic : [10]

[0] : https://genetics.med.upenn.edu/

[1] : automated dna motif discovery : https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0065

[2] : Improving CUDA DNA Analysis Software with Genetic Programming : https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2739480.2754652

[3] : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48304-7_21

[4] : https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/p/weimer-tse2017.pdf

[5] : https://github.com/shnewto/bnf

[6] : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194197/

[7] : https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/088930v1.full

[8] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTA_format

[9] : https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6120/3/4/42

[10] :
a) https://discoveringthegenome.org/

b) grape : https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6120/3/3/39

c) needs 3d printer extension for real world replication : https://bnfc.digitalgrammars.com/
My base iPhone 12 mini from years ago has OLED, so do a lot of cheaper Android phones. Gaming displays are far less common than these.
> The ancient descriptions of the Pythia sitting on a tripod over the ‘chasm’ in the temple’s innermost sanctum, enveloped in rising fumes

The alchemical interpretation of this would be that, given the oracles were female, the 'chasm' refers to their genitals. The 'fumes' are the chi (literally 'air', a surprisingly common cross-cultural term for internal energy) that's released as the sexual energy is heated or 'steamed' in the 'cauldron' (symbolised as a tripod structure) at the navel/sacral chakra depending on who you listen to. This is the innermost sanctum. This process can lead to a spiritual awakening with powers alleged to include seeing the future, but I can't confirm that part yet.
what dream world are you in? i doubt there are many executives of any type that are concerned. they'll just have someone write a check, and all will be forgiven/forgotten.
Those are reasonable doubts to have.
I would go further and say this is ideal for capital punishment.

Not because I think capital punishment deters such reprehensible behavior, but because it's ridiculous tax payers shelter and feed animals willing to do such horrible things. Those tax dollars are better spent on virtually anything else.
"A Good Road Lies Easy on the Land… : Water-harvesting from low standard rural roads" might be a helpful book for those interested in this: https://allaboutwatersheds.org/library/general-library-holdi...
How does the quality compare at the same file size? It seems like all the comparisons have fairly significant file size differences.