skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Runaway sophomoric anthropomorphism, paranoia, and reductionism. It would be clearer to identify the legal, moral, and ethical responsibilities of those who are responsible than to blame technology. The technology is amoral, but its operator are not. Abdication of ascribing blame by diffusion of responsibility is the greater "evil".
I'd say leopards are probably the best tree climbers. Or squirrels.

Not a thumb between them.
There won't be any invasion. No one has any appetite for that.

If a conflict with Iran comes it will be something like Operation Praying Mantis again plus strikes against key economic targets such as oil refineries. The Iranian navy and air force are largely defenseless against stand-off strikes. They would still be able to cause trouble by sponsoring terrorist groups, but all of their forces capable of projecting regional conventional power could be wrecked in a few weeks of sustained strikes.

(I am not suggesting that this should be done. Obviously everyone should look for ways to deescalate the situation.)
Is this purely an American thing or am I just unusually lucky? I’ve never ever had a case where the machine was down in Canada.
Actually that's what their section 6.3 is all about, how if you sent an observer inside the event horizon measurements could influence the outside.

It just admits that the feasibility of this is ridiculous with my favorite line of the paper:

> Physically this seems absurd, as it allows a measurement inside a black hole to produce
a record which stays outside, but we are not claiming that any effective-description
observer could actually implement this unitary.

But I agree that there's a big difference between the plausibility of measuring the 'stuff' vs it's spacetime configuration - that was a great point.
A Hurricane-Proof Town?
And yet emulators of Nintendo platforms are widespread.
While this might be a special case, in my experience anything which sends customizable notifications or messages of any type will end up being attacked with attempts to use it for spamming, and that ends up being a constant battle.
you can be non-cooperative without meeting the bar for resisting arrest though, for instance if you refuse to incriminate yourself
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38649293
I understand your point now, but the horrible thing is such laws turn normal objects into dangerous object: it increase the risks as "less dirty than usual" bad actors can cause the same potential amount of damage!
While I don't know how many interactions there has been, according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20... for example New York has had over 10000 officers involved in cases where they settled ("46% by officers named in multiple payments" "more than 5,000 officers were named in two or more claims") across 10 years. They seem to currently have 36000 officers, I don't know how long they stay on the job on average or how the numbers have fluctuated over the years, but even if it's just 1 year and their size hasn't changed that would mean about 2.8% of police force in NYC was involved in misconduct that resulted in settlement.

These don't include number of cases where legal action wasn't taken or which got thrown out due to qualified immunity (these are somewhat related, if case is unlikely to get past qualified immunity it's quite unlikely legal action will be taken). And probably cases which actually went to trial as it seems to focus on settlements.

Additionally there is for example https://www.nyclu.org/en/publications/cop-out-analyzing-20-y... which covers 2000-2020 misconduct complaints. According to it disciplinary actions were taken 4283 times, meaning that even if conduct was enough to reach settlement it doesn't necessarily mean it results in any actions taken against the officer.
I now hope more people understand why I am pushing for JPEG XL, practically before anyone else on HN ( apart from its authors ).

One thing I want to state is that nothing presented here about WebP are new. They have been there since the beginning ( 2010s ). The real problem is, quote:

>>So there is a real issue with the design priorities of image algos from tech guys who clearly lack historical and artistic background, and don’t talk to artists

And their marketing.
The desktop environment plays a major role in application defaults. Can you imagine installing GNOME and getting Kate as the text editor, bundled with all of its KF5 libraries? Or installing KDE and getting GNOME Text Editor bundled with libadwaita and GNOME libraries? That's what you're asking us to do with COSMIC. Which is insane because it's not that difficult to make a text editor when you have a mature platform toolkit.
Any one tried train attention model on stock time series data?
since the attention model does so good job on natural language modeling , I think it should do good on other time series related task, like stock time series data. but I didn't see such things , any one can give some tips on this ?
You wrote “equality of schooling between genders”. I wrote a separate reply under your thread explaining it’s far from equal.
It's a nutty idea, but it wouldn't start a world war. The US attacked Iran in 1988 and that didn't start a world war. All of the other regional powers hate Iran. Russia, China, and India aren't going to defend Iran and have very limited capabilities to project power into the Persian Gulf region anyway.
I think you're right, but generally speaking the 5th amendment gives wide rights, so in any interaction with the police in America one should always keep their mouth shut, and if pressed say that you won't speak without a lawyer. They literally say: "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." That is not an exaggeration.

It is very difficult to prosecute someone for a crime if they stay silent during the legal process, it's why the police are hyper-aggressive, they are trying to catch any idiot who will say anything that will get them arrested and charged, so they can report to the municipality, county (or state or whatever) that they have achieved x, y, z rates of charges, solved crimes etc., in order to secure better funding (meaning better salaries, benefits, pensions, and toys to terrorize you with).
Lol, I believe the general population believes this is a healthy alternative. I assume some pooched apple sauces are relatively healthy.
I think because software UIs have essentially binary actions. You either click, or you don't. You are hovering or not. You save, or you don't.

Even a trumpet with only three keys, has all sorts of shades of gray depending on far you press they key down, and your air pressure, how still you hold the instrument, etc.

I can imagine an UI that uses proximity to guide you with UI hints, but it wouldn't change the binary nature of the action being taken.

Some of this info is considered in analytics, like rage clicks, mad mouse movements, etc, but that doesn't change the result of the software.
U+FB06 (LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST) does display the same as the obnoxious ligature in the article if you have the right font. I actually used that for the "st" in the word "still" in my comment above.

In the HN comment editor it is the same as in the article, with that stupid curve connecting the s and t.

In the rendered comment in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on my Mac it is using for regular comment text some font where the s and t are joined much less obtrusively. In fact at first I thought HN was replacing the U+FB06 on output with separate s and t. E.g., these two look very similar for me: ﬆill still.

For rendered code blocks on Safari and Chrome it is using the font that has the curve. On Firefox it does not have the curves. Here is a code block example:

ﬆill
still
At least they canceled the project when it became apparent things weren't going to work out as expected.

I've seen massive projects that have been train wrecks since day one pushed through until the bitter end because management can't admit failure.
> Everything you listed required a base of energy dense fuels for the process in some fashion

What about wood, or more "advanced" biofuels (idk, some kind of highly productive grass or a refined algae product), prevents us from developing wind and hydro power? Those were both developed before fossil fuels were widely used anyway. They produced mechanical power instead of electrical, but only because electricity was not understood yet.

The more energy you have, the easier it is to scale energy production up, but you have the resources required to initiate that process with just biofuels. And once you have a base of wind and hydro energy, that allows you to begin the feedback loop of using that energy to assist in constructing more power generation in a virtuous cycle.

edit: I'll also add that the industrial revolution came about after there had already been notable advances in mechanization and manufacturing - the introduction of fossil fuels quite literally threw gas on the fire, but people had started developing increasingly sophisticated machinery like the cotton gin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin) and mechanically-powered loom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_Loom) before fossil fuels started being widely used. And indeed, many of these were hydro-powered.
Maybe this is not a pamphlet against superficial simplicity so much so that it is a criticism of implicit knowledge being used to declutter interfaces.

The problem being then discoverability.
Hilarious that the first turn is to get infinite mana and then draw the entire library into your hand
Anecdotal, obviously, but I have 20/10 vision and aphantasia.
> Are you using Zulip exclusively for paid team members in a first-world country? It's hard to imagine this pricing being a significant expensive if you are.

The problem is not that it’s expensive, it’s that it was sold as free, and that was a major component in getting the go ahead to use it. As soon as money becomes part of the equation the process of me ‘just using tulip’ becomes 100x more involved, and the balance swings heavily towards ‘just dealing with Teams’.

Of course that doesn’t really mean anything from a business perspective since we weren’t –and won’t be– paying either way. Just wanted to make it clear.
I love this, I had this idea back in 2020, a lisp that compiles to WASM, and then can compile itself to WASM at run-time in the browser, or any WASM run-time, dogfeed itself. I'm not a compiler guru by any means, so its just one of many things on my bucket list.
Have you tried barkeeper's friend with a nylon scrubbie or steel wool? I've found that to be excellent, if labor-intensive, at returning stainless steel to like-new condition, even when dealing with oily residue that's been baked at 500 degrees.
They are not dupe as long as they dont reach front page.
True, but all the small communities went does due to a single point of failure.
> As a photographer, I care about robustness of the visual output. Which means, as a designer, designing for the worst possible image and taking numerical metrics with a grain of salt.

I think it's kind of silly how the author pooh-poohs averages and demands that whoever is working compression algorithms should focus on the worst possible image. If you know anything about information theory, you know that is literally mathematically impossible to make a compression algorithm that always performs well in the worst possible case.
> healthy selection of diverse and well argumented videos

That’s what left-wing extremism is.
For criminal organizations, it's common to "decipher" coded language to juries. And it's really not that difficult when drug dealers are talking about "kings" in conversations that have nothing to do with royalty or poker. (a "king" generally means a kilogram of cocaine.)
Changing R&D expensing rules so software development must be capitalized rather than expensed is disastrous for the SaaS industry.

Seriously? Playing by the rules that every business has to play by will be “disastrous” for the SaaS industry? Then so be it. Maybe this will cull some crappy unicorns that do nothing but lose money for years on end. It might be healthy for companies to buckle down and create value again.
Love that idea! And not just forms, there's other actions where users might want to have the opportunity to confirm like making payments.
Are you arguing against the ruling? Is this not a good move away from what you've described?
Will just leave work dissatisfied every day like that.
Why Should You (OR Anyone) Become an Engineering Manager?
You're taking the bare definition of "worst". He was not talking about compressing random noise
Metal shaders with PyTorch from end to end
Learn how to speed up PyTorch code with custom Metal shaders to take advantage of MPS support on Apple silicon. We will write from scratch a Python library that compiles a Metal shader using C++/Objective-C and lets you call the method from Python using pybind11.
I really liked this reply :D

I was probably already dealing with the quirky subtle delirium I get with onset head colds/flus when I wrote that yesterday (I'm now past it and at the sniffle stage lol). That's my excuse for the "u ok?" word salad there :P

Some clarifications following this feedback:

- ballmer peak: yep, pretty much - the latter interpretation is new to me

- liminality: the defocused focus referred to in the above, but specifically referring to the need to drink to make it work

- NP-hard: I was trying to make a joke about it being impossible to achieve the effects of the ballmer peak without drinking lol
Elon Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal
Becoming aware of different ways to do things costs time (to read about it and form opinions on things like which ones are/might be useful to you) and space (in your brain to remember these options and opinions). It's not necessarily bad, but it's a cost.
This is great feedback. I really appreciate it. I'd love to give you the short of what we're doing. If you're interested, my email is in my HN desc. Not sure what I could offer in exchange for your time but willing to figure something out.
There is no silver bullet - it's a grind. Some broad thoughts:

First, identify the exact buyer persona for the product. Get to this level of clarity: Person X at company type Y making Z revenue has A problem and our product solves that with a clear B ROI and we have a list of C people to vouch for us.

Without that clarity, you'll be shooting in the dark. You can make as much noise as you want but unless your existing customers are rave about you to their peers the engine won't start....

Next, figure out where these people hang out. Are there conferences they go to? Groups they participate in? Twitter handles they follow? Do they have any influencial customers or organizations they look up to?

You can get a sense for this by talking to your existing buyers and doing research.

Then, try all niche marketing channels to get to them. Examples: conference emails or booths, influencer marketing, Twitter ads, etc.

In parallel, A/B test the heck out of your landing page. Hash out the exact words and visuals and make it easy for them to request a demo.

Keep experimenting until you find something that works. Then double down on it and scale.
Delaying AI Regulation Won't Help Anything
I used to tutor MSc-level students and they would use this tool all the time for their essays; copy-paste a paragraph from Wikipedia, run through the tool, copy-paste. Just absolute bottom laziness. (The students all got their degrees; welcome to the age of the-student-is-the-customer)
But you may want to call an ambulance to be on the safe side.
+1 to this. I am one of those "folks in a similar boat". I have spent the last month planning a migration of our team to self-hosted Zulip. I've utilized the great documentation and never once reached out to support for assistance. We are a team of 11, which means we now have to pay over $1k/year to use a fully-functional version of Zulip. We would have been happy to pay for notifications, but this is too much of a jump. I spent a portion of the afternoon researching Matrix Element as a possible alternative for our chat needs.
Yeah, right. Because the Al-Qaeda and ISIS affilated Taliban are more Liberal and Democratic that US signed an agreement with them and handed over Afghanistan to them.
Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS
While I imagine it's no priority, nor a solution for everyone, I wish more apps would support UnifiedPush[1]. The notification limitation is purely an Apple/Google one, and there's no "hub" setup you can easily configure with either.

This would solve the notification problem for many self-hosted applications, also allow for non-Apple/non-Google deployments if you want to avoid sending PII or other sensitive data through those servers (though Android apps could use UnifiedPush/fcm-distributor to combine the advantages of FCM with the advantages of UP).

I get that there's not a lot of business interest in this solution but when it comes to open source stuff, I really wish this would pick up more steam.

[1]: https://unifiedpush.org/
I remember the original IBM "think pad":

https://www.wired.com/2009/10/the-original-ibm-thinkpad-was-...

Before there even were computers, they gave out these small paper pads for jotting things down, with "THINK" on the cover.
I'm afraid Feynman's already spoiled the answer for me.

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Do you expect a model which was overtrained (relative to the Chinchilla law) to be no more affected by pruning than a model of the same size that wasn't overtrained?
I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicians makes it unacceptably dangerous to continue to provide the service.
Because it’s the (outdated) law due to earthquakes. Building and materials have gotten much better since the original laws were passed.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45866

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg0001...

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-12-01

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214036

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214035
No need for grouping, search directly! A open source offline Chrome extension
Hey, I'm Guage, a sysadmin and command-line enthusiast. I usually have a ton of Chrome tabs and windows open. switching back and forth and searching all the time really frustrates me. I tried a few grouping extensions, but I wasn't satisfied with them. That's when the idea hit me: "Wouldn't it be awesome if I could search for everything I want in my own unique way?"
So, last weekend, I spent some time researching and learning about Chrome extensions, and open source it, It made me quite excited. And it's my first time to open source, hope it will be helpful to someone.

Below are the open-source repository link and a demo video:

https://github.com/jokimina/cbox-chrome-extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHfkT2OMwtc
Of course expressions of anger can be necessary and correct. (I don't think I'd use the word "correct" for this—I don't think of feelings as correct or incorrect, because if a feeling exists, it's always for a good reason—but I suppose that's a tangent.) It's not clear to me why you'd ask this, since the answer is obvious and I don't think I implied otherwise. Perhaps it is the frequency with which I ask people not to engage in flamewar on HN? But internet flamewar is something different from expression of anger in general.

As for your other questions: I do not view myself as being "more devoted to order than justice", and no I don't understand it that way—not at all. Does that answer your questions?

These things can look totally different from different positions and it's easy to arrive at inaccurate perceptions when all we have to go on are tiny blobs of text online. I'm happy to try to clarify my perspective as best I can, as long as I can feel that the questions are coming in good faith and not as a cross-examination. I confess to wavering a bit on that latter point when I read your comment.
Yeah, instead we have a system where we get tyranny of the minority, which is clearly superior.

There are multiple states that combined have lower populations than individual cities in numerous successful states. Identical senator counts only (loosely) make sense when there's at least some similarity in state populations. Once you have multiple states which even combined have lower population than single cities in multiple other states it breaks down. Currently ~60% of the senate is determined by 25% of the population. This is ignoring the abuse of prisons to get even more over-representation (The inability of prisoners to vote actively encourage criminalization of groups that vote against you by targeting their activities, and the fact that representation in the house of representative is based on population of an area regardless of voting population means you can both stop a group from voting at all, and then simultaneously use that group to bolster your own representation is immoral, but so is voter suppression, so it's not remotely surprising)

I think it would be reasonable, and in the spirit of the founder's demand for "no taxation without representation" that states owe federal taxes proportional to their federal representation. That way CA residents aren't having to pay more taxes per vote than those of Wyoming.
Would recommend reading a background on how they made Tron 1, then rewatching.

If nothing else, it's fascinating from a special effects technical standpoint, for when it was made.
It’s because the UK is very new at it compared to say the US and Canada. IMO it’s still likely better than losing your adult working population though. We’ll see how the UK fares compared to Germany in the coming years
Plus, dang does a good job.

Not a perfect job -- everyone screws up once in a while -- but this forum works better than most.
> what would be the point for someone to add ROCm support to various pieces of software which currently require CUDA

It isn't just old cards though, CUDA is a point of centralization on a single provider during a time when access to that providers higher end cards isn't even available and that is causing people to look elsewhere.

ROCm supports CUDA through the included HIP projects...

https://github.com/ROCm/HIP

https://github.com/ROCm/HIPCC

https://github.com/ROCm/HIPIFY

The later will regex replace your CUDA methods with HIP methods. If it is as easy as running hipify on your codebase (or just coding to HIP apis), it certainly makes sense to do so.
Yeah fair, my comment was a terrible comment.

What I really meant was total production cost + reasonable amortization cost for the development/tape out, which is of course is huge even if this chip was mass produced.

The point kinda stands though, this thing is collectively way too hard to fab + assemble to sell to consumers at any reasonable cost, especially on top of the massive R&D AMD, TSMC and everyone along the huge chain put into it.

Its not like a 4090 or Apple Silicon where the production is reasonably cheap, but margins are super high because they can be super high.
Signal publishing detailed finances is part of their brand. It's not advantageous for most companies to do that because if there's signs of trouble, everyone takes it as a sign to get the hell out of there and makes a troubled situation confirmed death.
Why even assume multicelluarity as some kind of inevitability?

Hell, it took 2 billion years to get to single celled eukaryotes on earth. But the earth was teaming with prokaryotes the whole time, two entire separate branches of them, too, and they seem to have sprung into existence almost as soon as the earth cooled enough.

There's still a lot more of them in terms of total weight than animals and protists. A lot.
Sincere question - does this mean it will be elsewhere, or is also elsewhere?