skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook literally takes your data from their apps and internet, tracks your behavior on the internet, and feeds this data into models of you. These models are so accurate they can sometimes basically predict what you're thinking. Hence the layman jumping to the conclusion that they must be spying though the mic.

and all of this just to show me shitty ads for online games that I will never, ever, EVER play, college-themed dating services I'm not going to use, yoga shit, and money remittance services. I live near a big university, so I'm guessing it's simply by IP.

occasionally get ads for Lexus or Jags tho. that's nice.
Let Code Speak for Itself
> The promise of 3D-printers haven't really played out

I don't know what you think the "promise of 3D-printers" was but if you think it hasn't played out then probably you had unreasonable expectations.

> Why aren't we building "products" from lego rather than seeing them as toys?

Would you buy such a product? They would be much larger than the same thing not made out of lego. They would shatter in your bag during transportation. They would be more awkward to use because of the rectangular shape of the bricks. They would collect dirt in all the crevices/studs.

Look around your home or recent purchase history, which products would be improved by making them out of lego?
I was also looking for server-side analytics, created my own, and now it's a product! The idea is that tracking can be done from both, a JS snippet (for easy integration) and an API. Both rely on fingerprinting and almost provide the same set of features. The API just lacks screen resolution. The method is GDPR (and CCPA and whatnot) compliant [0].

Original article: https://marvinblum.de/blog/server-side-tracking-without-cook...

Product: https://pirsch.io

[0] Before this comes up again: Yes, we checked professionally with an external DPO and it was checked by some companies you've probably heard of externally.
LINE absolutely dominates the Japanese market in instant messaging and beyond (it's a super app like WeChat or KakaoTalk).
Yeah, I think the best way to think about the frames is "do we already have a mold for this piece / have we done the engineering for it" if so then it's not new, just a new colorway.
STC by the SWC author should be coming along, I hear. It still will take a while though.
It's usually fine, but could it be better?

I feel like this entire discussion, and the linked article, are overflowing with answers to your question.
> I just tell people, first install rust, then just `cargo install`

local compilation may work for you and other individuals, but "just cargo install" can immediately run into issues if you're trying to deploy something to things that aren't dev workstations

> npm and cargo are absolutely the same category of tool

as a dev tool? absolutely. as a production distribution solution? definitely not
In spanish it is interchangeably called castellano or spanish. Outside Spain it is always called spanish.

The same way valencian is decidedly called valencian in Valencia, but people from Catalonia insist on calling it "simply a dialect of catalonian".

The same way hispanics in America are called "latinos", while americans with italian and french heritage are not.

The same way americans with english heritage aren't called "anglos" but simply "americans".

Once you begin actually looking at the language used you understand that it is NEVER unintentional
TL;DR -

In underdeveloped countries with high discrepancies, it's usually because of war and/or terrible labor conditions.

In developed countries with low discrepancies, it's usually because of less proactive healthcare, more high-risk behavior, and natural factors.
Fpr what it's worth my grandfather recorded his memoirs recently and I am very grateful. He's led a very interesting life (much more so than my own!) which is the key component, really.
And of course, everyone should go to Edinburgh....

But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream

Fitful and dark,

Unseizable in Leith

And wildered by the Forth,

But irresistibly at last

Cleaving to sombre heights

Of passionate imagining

Till stonily,

From soaring battlements,

Earth eyes Eternity
? It's the one toy that does have a substantial long term resale market. Not everything needs to be ephemeral. It's just ABS, it's not asbestos.
> sds.total_pwr is the sum of the power of all CPUs in the scheduling domain. This sum ends up being zero and that’s what causing the crash – division by zero.

> The “CPU power” is used to take into account how much calculating capabilities a CPU has compared to the other CPUs and the main factors for calculating it are:

> 1. Whether the CPU is shared, for example by using multithreading.

> 2. How many real-time tasks the CPU is processing.

> 3. In newer kernels, how much time the CPU had spent processing IRQs.

> The current suggested fix for this bug is relying on the theory that while taking into account the real-time tasks (#2 above), scale_rt_power() could return negative value, and thus the sum of all CPU powers may end up being zero.

The author doesn't really describe how this panic is related to uptime. Do long running kernels collect a lot of real-time tasks, is it a leak of some kind?

The suggested fix link doesn't provide any extra context as to why its uptime related either.
I immediately got an image of my uncle touching two mains wires together with his bare hands to see if they were still hot. They were not
PFAS are only used on outside (shell) layers in outdoor gear. It would do nothing on a wool t-shirt like that, you need a solid nylon barrier shell, which is then coated to make the surface hydrophobic so the water beads off.

Most consumer merino wool nowadays contains nylon because it makes it more durable- ultra soft merino wears out and develops holes rapidly without adding a small amount of nylon “scaffolding” which adds strength and chafe resistance. When merino socks first hit the market, for example, they would sometimes only last a few days of hiking… nowadays a nylon wool blend sock will last years and years of hard use.

These layers are not designed to be waterproof or hydrophobic- the opposite actually, they are designed to absorb moisture so they are “moisture wicking” keeping the skin dry.
they know its dogshit... but still keep using Insta and WhatsApp
I listen to Fridman interviews but I wouldn't say he's amazing or anything. Fine is about how I'd describe him.

That said my view is that interviewers should be like music or lighting in a movie. It's critical but if you ever find yourself really noticing it then something's gone wrong.
For example:

"The Oxc AST differs slightly from the estree AST by removing ambiguous nodes and introducing distinct types. For example, instead of using a generic estree Identifier, the Oxc AST provides specific types such as BindingIdentifier, IdentifierReference, and IdentifierName."

Already this is getting into matters of style! It is one style, yes, but Javascript's shorthand syntax `({ foo })` already breaks the mental model: the identifier `foo` is technically doing the work of both an IdentifierName and an IdentifierReference. OXC chooses IdentifierReference so any system built on top of it would need to contain additional logic in order to be able to identify all sites in code that are used as identifier names.
Make Cruise more reliable?
England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters
does that apply for ada-002 embeddings, if you don't use GloVe? I would think it only applies if you create embeddings using a linear model?
Like any tool, it can be used for good and for evil and the perspective of which is which depends on who you ask.

You can use device attestation to combat spam by making sure only authentic devices connect to your service.

You can use it to facilitate contact key verification together with a hardware key to ensure contacts know who they’re talking to.

I’ve used it to make sure that introductory promotions are only offered once per device.

On the other end of the spectrum you can use it as a DRM of sorts to make sure ads on your website aren’t blocked.
My granddaughter and I build a ton of 'boring adult sets' together, and then she gets to take them home, tear them apart, and make anything she wants with the pieces. But she also loves Minecraft (she's 8) and we buy the Minecraft specific sets as well. It is quite possible to do all the things, it's not necessarily an either/or scenario like many people like to present as their argument against something.
Practically speaking, it's a history-dependent definition. Some set of things are considered "neural", somebody makes an innovation that's based on the existing set of "neural" tools, and now the set of "neural" things is expanded to include the new innovation.

For this post, they have more traditional neural networks embedded in the pipeline (search TFA for "decoder"), and they're thus calling the composite technique a "neural" technique.

As to the CNN/Transformer/... question, those are still very similar to a perceptron. A multi-layer perceptron has a sequence of alternating matmuls and activations. The CCN has a particular choice of sparse matmul and activation (and a couple choices of fast implementations to operate on that sparse matmul). A Transformer is one way to wire up many such MLP predictions (recurrent networks being another) to work with long/uneven inputs. There's more going on, but most of it is fluff to make the thing numerically stable and do something interesting. The core structure is still a dressed-up perceptron.
I don't do JS/TS, but I have no idea why all this hasn't converged on editorconfig rules.

I write C# and do "linting" via editorconfig + ReSharper file layout formatting at dev time and via precommit hook with their CLI tool

I'm surely missing something crucial in that ecosystem that editorconfig can't handle...
TFA: >I will use a recording that was done back in 30 December 2015 with the Green Bank Telescope in the context of the Breakthrough Listen project.

That recording was made in 2015 on a modern radio telescope, it is not from a tape.

The GP has the details wrong though: when the Voyager design was finalized in the early 70s with the Viterbi encoder, there wasn’t enough computational power to decode the signal. By the time it launched in ‘77, there was enough and it launched with the Viterbi encoder enabled.
I have been wondering recently about a good test for checking whether LLMs can only parrot stochastically or do they manage to indeed learn some higher order concepts inside their weights.

What if we would take a bare LLM, train it only on the information (in Maths, physics, etc) that was available to, say, Newton and then try to prompt it to solve the problems that Newton solved? Will it be able to derive the calculus basics and stuff having never seen it before, maybe even with little bit of help from the prompts? Maybe it will be able to come up with something completely different, yet also useful? Or nothing at all...
I agree that it's great to define the acronym for the community. But with all respect, one of the primary AI debates over the last year has focused on how to push more (potentially non-public) information into foundation LLMs like GPT-4.
RAG has been pretty central to that discussion. hn.algolia.com shows 248 results for "RAG" over all time and 89.9% of those are from the last year.
Yeah, my kids visited their great-grandmother in Australia a few years back, and out came the 1960s legos. Great fun was had.
Pan works well for me when I'm on a desktop with a GUI. Otherwise, I still use tin.

http://pan.rebelbase.com/
http://www.tin.org/
The fast feedback loop is why I programmed in Pharo for a while
I think the only real quibble I’d have here is:

It is clearly possible to have a space-faring civilization, we’ve seen one. But the density could be extremely low. Fine, in infinite space we’ll get an infinite number of spacefaring civilizations whatever the odds. They exist, we just might never interact if the density is low enough.

But, I’m not sure, maybe it is a philosophical question or maybe it is a physics one (I only had an engineering education so at the extremes these get hard to distinguish sometimes). Does the universe outside of our light cone “exist” in some sense? If not, then I guess the universe is not quite so big.

Further, you might suppose that the planet needs to be in some reasonable band, in terms of power being absorbed from the star, to be amenable to life. And that, in order to hit spaceflight, you’ll need to have accumulated a certain amount of energy (for rocket fuel). This could bound the beginning of space-flight-viable planets to those which have already had a good amount of life for a couple hundred million years.

So this would seem, to me at least, to limit our universe of possible planets to those that are more than a couple hundred million years old, at least, in our frame of reference, right? (and this is assuming most of the Precambrian was a waste of time that could be skipped through lucky evolution).
Maybe Pirsch is an option for your use case?

https://docs.pirsch.io/get-started/backend-integration
Why only the files edited by a human? What about edge cases where changes made by a program, such as a linter or auto-formatter? Those aren't guaranteed to be integrated into an IDE.
thank you for creating this
Not really sure on the whole boys being more vulnerable to diseases thing, but most if not all of these factors come down to men having a higher tolerance for risk. Considering that the average life expectancy for men is 5 fewer years, and that said average is still in the elderly category, that cost seems extraordinarily beneficial.
I mean if you ask HR (bot) how many weeks of paternity leave you have and it says 20 and so you disappear for 20 weeks and get fired after 8 because it actually ran out are you really in the wrong?

While there are laws about minimum time in some states; the state is probably happy to enforce whatever extra time you grant. So if you tell your employees 20 they're probably going to be happy to hold you to 20.
I’m only comparing CPU stats. This isn’t about device prices.

Apple made Intel look bad, Intel needs to respond. If they can’t do that by now it’s going to be a real big tell of how they’re doing.

Noting I wrote said people had to buy $2000 laptops or $1200 phones.
Queer People with Paws and Claws and Their Kweer Kapers (1888)
Surprisingly, no Wikipedia page for this notable figure.
They (like any communication) can be entered into evidence. The judge will decide how much bearing they have. Legal is just saying you can't blanket assume it is none.
>> I think you are missing the point here.

No, the point is to select one or more existing text editors to add to Windows:

"The goal would be to install the selected editor(s) by default such that their commands work out-of-the-box. Example editors include but are not limited to:

• Edit

• Pico

• Nano

• Vim

• Emacs

• etc.

Installing one or more of these editors by default will offer immediate CLI text editor capabilities on all Windows machines, preventing the need for additional installs or workarounds when operating on local machines, remote connections, or Windows containers."

Microsoft is not trying to create a new text editor.

If anyone wants to write their own new advanced text editor or whatever, they can, but that is not what the GitHub issue is about.
i found some docker images here: https://github.com/themattman/mongodb-raspberrypi-docker
Does QML even have any system theme support? AFAIK its more of a replacement of web technologies than of QtWidgets.
Which should be music to your ears right?
Collection. I just loved having a physical library of good-condition boxed games from the era of my childhood.
Yeah, I was familiar with LINE and Kakao, and I like how similar the setup is for SK and Japan.

Thanks to your point, this way we can easily see that despite SK being android-dominant and Japan being iPhone-dominant, both are not heavily into iMessage and prefer their native super apps instead.

Which provides a solid data point in favor of those claiming that the iMessage proliferation and dominance don’t necessarily have a direct causation stemming from iOS/Android dominance in a given market.
I doubt it's all. Taller people generally don't live as long and men are taller on average, for one. Also quite sad US male life expectancy is 74.3. But that's primarily because of red southern states having even worse around ~70.
im going to add to this, long time ago my macbook was stolen when i was on holiday, i did all the things you mentioned, once i got back home i called Apple Support and they said "your warranty with us is over (it was 2 days lapsing from my travel) and to help you, you're going to need to buy apple care again" disgusting.
JS seems to be like a great language for discovering what's worth to be written. I think rewriting stuff in some compiled language is a sweet spot of "build first one to throw away".
If you want to make it racist buy your own array of a100s and start training.

Microsoft and others don’t want to facilitate that. I think it’s a reasonable concern. From a public policy perspective having millions of people who can instantly produce reams of racist abuse to swamp online fora is a problem, even if you believe in free speech. It potentially changes the power dynamic in favour of a racist minority to dominate public discourse.

Social proof and social learning have powerful effects on behaviour. LLMs are great, but used at scale they will have downsides too.
MTOR is once possible reason
I was the type that played a lot of competitive games when growing up - mostly League of Legends and some CS GO. I got quite good at at LoL and over the years have noticed that feeling of being good at something is so surreal. In LoL I developed game sense and just knew stuff before it happened - I could forsee something that would happen in a game where theoretically every game is different.

After I learned to program I noticed that feeling of "game" sense can be developed for programming as well. When I am debugging something or looking at some code, I just "feel" stuff about the code, like the feeling of being reading through a function that is obviously doing that X thing. You just know without reading it whole. And you know where and how it is used without seeing it before hand. This is really enchanced for code that is written in a style that you are used to.

I believe all skills develop such an extra sense and the satisfaction from using it is really high. I think a lot of people refer to this as intuition but to me particularly it feels like something that is part of the sensations of my body.
The short explanation of the DFT that I like the most is that it projects the signal vector on to the vector room with the exponential functions as basis vectors. Then you can see how much of the signal that each basis vector, corresponding to a frequency, can explain.

It's intuitive to see if you start with a 2D vector space (the regular euclidian plane) and a 2D vector, and then you can expand the definition of vector spaces to include orthogonal functions as bases.
It's now a trillion dollar market (as measured by market cap). This has only been true for a few months.
Sure, but if you don't know what all the ways are you'll be prone to "just follow instructions" and you may not notice that a few years apart your followed instructions regarding different ways of installing or uninstalling things and now your system is a mess
Because they never neglect going to the doctor.
Gardening in a War Zone – A Floret Original Film [video]
It's a fraud because if guards were pressured or knew the experimenters expectation then it's just yet another Milgram's experiment that is apparently enough to explain banality of evil as a result of few bad apples in various places of power with complacent masses willing to do amoral things when ordered. Nothing that should make Zimbardo world famous.
It's not based on nothing. It was just an ethical decision not to show rape.

I hope that's enough proof for you:https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/06/middleeast/rape-sexual-vi...
oh I love this!
NASA Study Finds Life-Sparking Energy Source and Molecule at Enceladus
> It was generally a competition between QA & L2 support as to who actually understood the app best.

So true!
At this point I'm willing to bet that every single American -- including the Amish -- have been part of at least one major data breach. And for everyone on HN... probably at least ten.
Just give me a good ol' jpg. Or a png. Not everything is compatible with webp yet, but when I want to feed in an image from google images, it doesn't work.
When 900 years old you are, look as tall, you will not.
This comment [1] did a much better job at summarizing the article (that already has a very short Conlusion section).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38654818
Python? We don't need no stinkin' Python.

while sleep 0.1; do printf "%-$(( ( RANDOM % `tput cols` ) - 1))s\e[0;$(( 30 + ($RANDOM % 8) ))m*\n" ; done
It doesn't claim to track the most important recent papers. It's very clear and upfront that it aims to track the most trending recent papers. It's even in the title of the website. There's no claim of permanent importance.
Voting how appallingly obvious the banding is to me. Couple of questions over images being mixed up aside, this stuff is important.

Perception is psychological. And image formats are political.

Perhaps some truly do experience zero banding or artifacts.

But to the rest of us... "There are four lights"

https://www.startrek.com/en-un/news/the-four-lights
Many libraries have the excellent “master teacher series “ or “the teaching company” lectures which tend to be of excellent quality.

In my self pursuit of knowledge I have found several specific areas of interest for which I infill my understanding.

Architectural engineering (calculating beam loads for instance) and fast Fourier transformations (lots of things) are among my favorites.

Pick a specific end goal (like maxwells equations) and study everything necessary up to that. Doing so a few times in different directions (over years) will cover an impressive range of relevant materials.

As for how? You must be persistent and playful about it or you won’t follow through.
DebConf24 to be held in Busan, South Korea
haha this is so much fun i wish i had a mouse and not a trackpad though.
The challenge and danger with widespread use of these tools is that they, with some frequency, continue to just confidently state answers that contain completely wrong information. These algorithms are still terrible at just saying I don’t know or here’s a possible answer but I have low confidence this is correct. They give every answer with a tone of authority despite being completely wrong with non-trivial frequency.

A basic search engine search, while much more labor intensive, at least quickly reveals when there’s some inconsistency around a potential topic that allows an inquisitive individual to probe further. These new tools could be super dangerous in that they just spread false information and many folks don’t know or care enough to check if the answers are even right.

We’re going to see a lot more train-wrecks like that lawyer that used ChatGPT to do research on his brief and ended up citing a bunch of cases that were made up and didn’t exist.
Today's AI is simply a great way of indexing already-known information and making it readily accessible via a prompt or an API. That's extremely useful and will yield new levels of productivity, but it's not what we generally think of as being "AI."
Ah good catch! Thanks, I didn't know there was a fork.
can you explain this a bit deeper?
HBM is designed for the wire lengths that you're talking about. The core protocol isn't so terribly different from good old DDR4.

The die-to-die links, on the other hand, have extremely short wire length limits (less than a centimeter iirc for UCIe). At the physical layer, you just waste a bunch of power and area driving a high voltage to make the signal go further. Do that enough and you basically wind up with a PCIe PHY.
PagerDuty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758653