skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all of a sudden it was the 4th century CE (i.e. about 1600-1700 years ago)

This, at least, narrows it down a bit.
That entire report was very weird as they compared some uploaded videos with specific hashtags on TikTok vs Instagram. I just don’t understand how that methodology can fly when TikTok is banned in some places, while IG is banned in different ones. So obviously you’ll get stuff anout Hong Kong protests on IG, but not on TikTok since it’s not available in Hong Kong.

There’s also no reliable way of finding where the data is being uploaded from, so huge bot-farms in India wouldn’t push much in TikTok either, cause again, it’s banned there. As much as I hate TT/IG, we shouldn’t try to prove our point with extremely unreliable studies.
Flexbox support in QML[1].

Plus, there are some wrappers that make seamless transition between desktop and mobile view like MauiKit[2] and Kirigami[3]. I don't think they're perfect or that they are doing it correctly even, but they're onto something with their main idea.

[1] https://github.com/tripolskypetr/qml-flexbox

[2] https://mauikit.org/

[3] https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami//
Israeli intelligence is likely spending virtually no resources at all on influencing narratives. And if they are, they are failing spectacularly.

More likely, the ministry of the exterior, the IDF spokesperson office, and civilian operations are trying to influence narratives.

From what I can tell these other efforts are not doing so well either.
Well, family is more than just daycare for one thing. But the larger point is that I don’t see my reasons as issues that need to be addressed. Silicon Valley is not the center of my universe.
Thanks - it sounds from https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci... (via your first link) that they have a rating system whereby community members get to vote on which notes they think are true (a.k.a. which ones they like), and some sort of reputation system to compensate for the weaknesses of relying solely on votes. Did they publish the details of these systems?

Edit: this, from https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti... (via your third link) is interesting:

Community Notes doesn't work by majority rules. To identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people, notes require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings.

Then they link to https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/contributing/div..., which expands on that. It seems they're basically trying to control for ideological perspective, i.e. to identify signal that doesn't just boil down to "I like / agree with this". I've often wondered if something like that could work.
Humans are EXTREMELY more energy efficient than computers; an adult human operates at something like 100 Watts on average (much less for children, of course), and that covers not only all of our mental processing, but also all of our physical movement, digestion, tissue regeneration/repair, etc.

At no point in our evolutionary history have we had the leisure to absorb the vast quantities of energy that AI supercomputers can. I think this probably has a lot to do with why we are so effective at learning on little data; even when large quantities of data are available, it seems we may not have the energy to take it on board. We ignore and forget most of it.

Maybe if we made a real effort to develop energy efficient AI, that design limitation would help us develop AI that requires far less training data.
> It feels so incredibly unsafe to have to look at the screen to turn heated seats on.

You can always wait until a stop at intersection or highways while on autopilot or use auto or use voice command.

People use touchscreens all the time to scroll media, yet climate controls are somehow sacred.
The report button is rather useless unless it's a delicate issue that Facebook wants to distance themselves from. I find it hard to believe that nobody reports such comments. Probably many people do, but they get the stock reply "this comment does not violate our community standards".
True, but I feel a certain pushback recently. Several of my peers decided to not party ("have fun") on new years eve and just recharge, without posting about it online
This is the only thing that has me curious if that's how the progress curve feels like in the opening act of the Singularity.
I’m sorry, are you trolling? I told you it had a positive effect on the whole ecosystem and that human hunters can’t replicate that (I won’t waste time describing this here just for you to ignore it, you can read it up)
That's not Python; it's just a hard link to a generic shim for every program in /usr/bin that ships with the developer tools,

$ find /usr/bin -inum $(stat -f %i /usr/bin/python3) | wc -l
76
$ cp /usr/bin/python3 /tmp/IEFBR14
$ /tmp/IEFBR14
IEFBR14: error: sh -c '⋯/Xcode.app/⋯/xcodebuild -sdk
⋯/Xcode.app/⋯/MacOSX.sdk -find IEFBR14 2> /dev/null' failed with exit
code 17664: (null) (errno=No such file or directory) xcode-select:
Failed to locate 'IEFBR14', requesting installation of command line
developer tools.
$

and then if you're in a GUI session it pops up a dialog box[1] offering to download and install the developer tools (even if they're already installed; the example above is from a Sonoma box with both Xcode 15.1 and the latest command line developer tools installed).

[1] https://jasomill.at/IEFBR14.png
Predicted risk of heart failure pandemic due to persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection
Add builders and contractors to that
I think most people commenting in this thread are reading the headline and/or reading the article as outside the context of mathematics. This is Terry Tao's blog and not a VC's microblog. The very first block of text is a quote from "I want to be a mathematician". He is purely talking about how to approach mathematics at a level sufficiently close to the frontier. What he is saying is that when you are taught something like optimization theory, the definition of convexity is presented to you in the first lecture. A "stupid" question to ask is what makes convex functions special. After thinking a lot about this question, I've come to the conclusion that convex functions are functions that are trivial to optimize but the converse is not true. Not all function that are trivial to optimize are convex functions. There are then plenty of questions like which other classes are easy to optimize. In Terry's words, "the answers to these questions will occasionally lead to a surprising conclusion, but more often will simply tell you why the conventional wisdom is there in the first place, which is well worth knowing.". Another example I ran into was the notion of metric spaces and completeness. It is "stupid" to ask what happens if you get rid of completeness. Stupid because you were just taught completeness for a reason. Trying to understand gives you a whole new appreciation than being presented the formal definition refined over many years.
I find this line of reasoning very fascinating. Is your only issue that one side has a lot more weapons? If they were roughly equal would what’s happening in Gaza be ok?
Then the test is wrong? Regardless of what your strong points are, when you succeed at the test you are a pilot.
In this case it's not tricks like those done in BLAS kernels. However, there are some intricacies about the algorithms that are chosen as noted in the paper. That said, most the difference here is simply from the difference in the high level details of how the parallelism is designed, not necessarily low level bit hacking optimizations. We leave those for another day.
A lot of humanity hasn't achieved intelligence very well. Chance and neurodivergence causes enough intelligence for the rest of humanity to reap the benefits, but a lot of people are sort of dumb.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, and those people still deserve to live happy lives, of course!
> But it definitely needed to be VR to be helpful

Head tracking (like TrackIR) is another option, perhaps even better than VR for flight sims because you can see your hand and your controllers.
Stopping the JavaScript Framework Madness
I dread using HTML and CSS to write my web UI so I wanted to write my UI in a way similar to the way Droidscript Framework does. I thought about using react but I don't want to see any HTML tags. I want to do something that will stop the film with madness and be the best way to build web UI. Please advise me if this is actually worth to build and to use my time on.
https://github.com/oarabiledev/squidBase
50% of Consumers Will Significantly Limit Social Media Use by 2025
You can do it if you have enough altitude, speed, and go all the way around.

Kind wonder if you could pull that off with a passenger airliner though.
> To sum up, the key takeaway is to prefer sequential access wherever we can.

For spinning disks, this is obvious. But why is sequential access faster on SSDs?
Feels like me with Bitcoin. I discovered it “early” but got out off as it sounded too complex for what it did. That wisdom probably cost me millions lol! Actually probably I would have lost the drive as so many did!
I'd never thought of "tall" as a behavior.
The main problem is this: the undefined status of one construct A in the program changes the behavior of a different, independent construct B in the program, even in cases when, say, B executes first and is correct. Everything is jumbled together in the optimizer, which establishes logical ties between the pieces that are unrelated to the network of intent.

If the undefined behavior of construct A causes just A to misbehave, we are still in sane waters.
Netanyahu’s governments coalition agreement explicitly states that the Jewish people have an exclusive right on all the land” between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

How would you interpret that?

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/29/israel-netanyahu-far-right-...
Text Processing Practice Experiment: 20 SERP Types to SQLite yy084
/*
make sqlite from s.e.r.p.

ddg 001,
google 002,
qwant 003, SNI
startpage 004,
github 005,
google news 006, pub date as date
mojeek 007,
f-droid 010,
bing 011, SNI
yandex 013,
tailsx 014,
google scholar 015,
ecosia 016,
wiby.me 017,
marginalia 018,
yahoo 019, cache url as desc
youtube 020,
wikipedia 021,
pubmed 022, SNI
brave 023 SNI?
*/

int fileno (FILE *);
#define jmp (yy_start) = 1 + 2 *
int w,x,y,z;
int utf8,tag;
int datelen,querylen,urllen,desclen;
int bing,bing_url,bing_desc;
int ddg_url,ddg_desc,ddg_info;
int google_url,google_desc,google_desc2;
int mojeek_url,mojeek_desc,mojeek_info;
int yandex,yandex_url,yandex_desc;
int tailsx,tailsx_url,tailsx_desc,tailsx_info;
int google_news;
int startpage;
int yahoo,yahoo_url,yahoo_bingj;
int google_scholar_url;
int ecosia,ecosia_desc;
int wikipedia_url;
int pubmed_url;
int youtube1,youtube2,youtube_itag,youtube_url,youtube_desc;
int brave;
int qwant,qwant_json;
int f_droid;
int github;
int setenv (const char *, const char *, int);
char desc[255];
char url[255];
int puts(const char *);
int printf(const char *__restrict, ...);
int dprintf(int, const char *__restrict, ...);
int CDp8iULPuCinsert(int xyz)
{
fwrite("INSERT or IGNORE INTO t1 VALUES(",1,32,stdout);
printf("%03d,'",xyz);
fwrite(getenv("query"),1,querylen,stdout);
fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
fwrite(getenv("date"),1,datelen,yyout);
fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
return 0;
}
%s YANDEX_DESC BING_URL BING_DESC1 BING_DESC2
%s QWANT_DESC GITHUB_DESC GOOGLE_DESC
%option nounput noinput noyywrap
%%

"class=\"startpage-html startpage-html--" startpage++;
"<title>Yandex</title>" yandex++;
"policyref=\"https://policies.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml\"" yahoo++;
^[Ss]erver:[ ]Qwant\r qwant++;

TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"[^\"]+ {
y=0;for(x=26;x<yyleng;x++){if(yytext[x])yytext[y]=yytext[x];
if(yytext[yyleng])yytext[yyleng]=0;y++;};
setenv("date",yytext,1);
datelen=y;
}
TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\"[^\"]+ {
y=0;for(x=27;x<yyleng;x++){if(yytext[x])yytext[y]=yytext[x];
if(yytext[yyleng])yytext[yyleng]=0;y++;};
setenv("query",yytext,1);
querylen=y;
}
^HTTP\/1.[01][ ]200[ ]O[Kk]\r {
bing_desc=0;
ddg_info=0;
tag=0;
tailsx_info=0;
yahoo=0;
yahoo_bingj=0;
bing=0;
bing_url=0;
brave=0;
ddg_url=0;
desclen=0;
ecosia=0;
ecosia_desc=0;
google_scholar_url=0;
mojeek_desc=0;
mojeek_info=0;
mojeek_url=0;
pubmed_url=0;
qwant=0;
startpage=0;
tailsx=0;
tailsx_desc=0;
tailsx_url=0;
w=0;
wikipedia_url=0;
x=0;
yahoo=0;
yahoo_url=0;
youtube_itag=0;
z=0;
}

/* ````````````insert search engines below```````````````*/

.|\n
%%
int main(){
fwrite("PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;\n",1,25,stdout);
fwrite("BEGIN TRANSACTION;\n",1,19,stdout);
fwrite("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS t1(site INTEGER,query TEXT,gmt TEXT,url TEXT PRIMARY KEY,desc TEXT);\n",1,96,stdout);
yylex();
fwrite("COMMIT;\n",1,8,stdout);
exit(0);
}
Normally, a uuid is orderable.

However uuid4 create a lot of work during updates, and tend to result in relatively low fill trees so querying is less efficient than it could be.

They also don’t really benefit from btrees as range or prefix queries are extremely rare.
I’m fairly certain most of the cost there is in the machinery. The software should be more or less comparable (there’s no reason for it not to be anyway).
> the ecosystem of people who have farmed, hunted and herded there for millenia.

Not it’s not. They have already disappeared. Modern industrial farming has little to do with what people have been doing there for millennia. You can blame tractors, fertilizers, pesticides etc. for destroying traditional farming communities.

Anyway, not that relevant because saying that wolves pose a existential threat to farmers is silly. The insignificant damage they case can be mitigated by using fencing, guards dogs etc. in combination with compensations provides by the state.
My Hacker News morning ritual
A morning habit I've acquired is to browse through HN posts first thing, often with that first cup of coffee. I don't look at the most read or top ranked or most popular. I go straight to the NEW. Here I often find little gems that people overlook and that often vanish into obscurity, as no doubt this post will. Enjoy the holiday period.
The last one is golden "Working with great people is one of the best parts of life".

It's unthinkable nowadays to work in the old AT&T/Bell lab environment during the invention and early works of transistor, Unix/C, fiber/laser, CCD, DSP, etc. For the glimpse of the wonderful environment working there check out Richard Hamming's book "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" since he was working there when most of the inventions happened.
/*```````````duckduckgo```````````*/

"Zero-click info: " ddg_info++;
"<!-- Web results are present -->" ddg_info=0;
[ ]{8}"<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\""[^\n\r"]+ if(!ddg_info){
ddg_url++;
CDp8iULPuCinsert(1);
for(x=32;x<yyleng;x++){putc(yytext[x],yyout);if(yytext[x]==39)putc(39,stdout);};
fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
}
"class='result-link'><span class=\"result__type\">"[^<]+"</span>"[^<]+ if(ddg_url){
for(x=57;x<yyleng;x++)putc(yytext[x],yyout);
fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);
}
"class='result-link'>"[^<]+ if(ddg_url){
for(x=20;x<yyleng;x++)putc(yytext[x],yyout);
fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);
}

To test:

$!/bin/sh
read x;
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\""$x"\"
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"$(epoch)\"
curl -si0A "" -d "q=$x&p=&s=${1-0}&dc=$(($1+1))&api=%2Fd.js&o=json&kl=wt-wt" https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/

echo this is a test|001.sh > 1.htm
yy084 < 1.htm|sqlite3 test.db

# epoch prints UNIX timestamp

epoch.c:

int puts(const char *);
unsigned int time(unsigned int *tloc);
char *itoa(int x){
static char buf[21];
char *s=buf+20;
if(x>=0){do{*--s='0'+(x%10);x/=10;}while(x!=0);return s;}
else{do{*--s='0'-(x%10);x/=10;}while(x!=0);*--s='-';};
return s;}

int main(){
puts(itoa(time(0)));
}
Meta is as rigged and rotten as it gets.
I live in Iran and whenever I have posted something political (not just rants, something serious) or any serious about the gov, it always got taken down. During the Woman,Life,Freedom movement everybody reported how instagram would take down important rebel news and posts and journalisms. you would think meta would work against something like the Islamic republic but it seems like it love all corrupt dictator governments. Let it be Islamic republic or Israel.

Thank god I have left all meta platforms for about 3 years now. But anyone who claims Meta is not pure evil is either evil themself or really really stupid.
Quantum winter? Maybe OpenQuantum will do some amazing stuff off a Google paper in 20 years time?
I’m far ahead of the pack: 5 minutes on Twitter almost every day and 5 minutes on LinkedIn 2-3 times a week.
Nice attempt at deflection, but it applies directly to YOU.
Ok, I changed to that from https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming on the grounds that accuracy and completeness are more important than (somewhat) degraded readability. Thanks!

Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127130734/http://pu.inf.uni... has an HTML version - thanks to o11c (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746206).
A clustered index means the entire table data is included. It’s the same issue, just to an even higher degree.
I agree that AMD could have done a proprietary intermediate instruction format and with good execution it would have made their users lives easier.

But the actual big opportunity which could make the whole GPU programming field far more dev friendly and could make the gpu vendor competition work in favour of users would be doing the GPU-IL in a cross-vendor way, driven by someone else than a single GPU vendor who is playing in the proprietary lock-in game (or certain to do it after gaining sufficient market position).
Here's the process. Your company can't do shit and is losing market share everywhere.

So, you buy another company that can do shit, transfer the brand to the same people who can't do shit, and then fire all the people from the new company.

For a brief period, while you've got the new brand, your company can start to regain a bit of market share.

But that period never lasts, and you go back to the status quo.

Rinse and repeat.
> using flagging to suppress contrary opinions is rampant and has a huge negative impact toward discussion

I've had showdead turned on for years and have rarely seen contrary opinions flagged, if ever.

The main things I see flagged are personal attacks, open bigotry, flaming, etc. Occasionally I used to see anti-CCP comments flagged, but I haven't seen that in a while. I'd be interested to see some examples where you think something was unjustly flagged.
Or else we’ll choose Bing as the default search engine for iOS.
Thanks! I added that last link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38751846, and the year to the title.
At scale the marginal cost would be the platform losing users to smaller platforms with less compelled garbage

And at another scale another cost would be that you're compelled to say something you find objectionable
Task Management for Tech Startup
We're a research heavy startup with a consumer facing product scaling up to a few employees.... I really want to keep tasks, ideas, research etc all in the same place and taskade looks like an idea solution for this, but it doesn't have great github integration. It feels wrong to have a stark separation between my issue tracker and task tracker, does that track?
In this context “literally” is being used to draw attention to the perceived obviousness of the information. Essentially saying “how could you not see this?”
If I have a boot on my throat, it better be privately owned.
So you’re certain that a wolf would easily kill an Caucasian Shepherd or a Great Pyrenees? Because I’m not and a wolf would have to be extremely desperate to try.

Anyway if wolves were starving there are other issues in the ecosystem that need to be addressed.
OT: I was hoping for a html version in light of:

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv...

I guess this wasn't uploaded in LaTeX?

Ed: Oh, this may be a date of submission thing:

> as long as papers were submitted on or after December 1st, 2023 and HTML conversion is successful
> instead of helping me understand their research (y'know, the entire reason journals got started??)

ML is crazy right now and people don't see papers as means of researchers communicating to other researchers. You write papers to reviewers. But your reviewers are stochastic so it's hard to write to them because they may or may not be in your niche.

I'll add though that this isn't why journals were created and that CS/ML doesn't typically use journals ({T,J}MLR, PAMI, and a few exist, sure) and instead write to conferences. Fixed dates, zero sum, 1.5 shot setting (1 rebuttal, zero revisions). Journals were created for dissemination of papers, indirectly about communicating to one another, but you know... now we got Arxiv and blogs and websites are sometimes way better just like how papers got better with pictures with computer graphics.
Another submission with the same title (and spirit) had a good discussion here 13 years ago [0].

It's nice (?) to see that people never change.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962008
At the very least it wont be that much more of a shit-show than the present.
I'm not Chinese so I can't speak to it, though I found Flushings to be solid.

I can speak as someone of South and Central Asian descent though. There are options for that in NYC, but I'd need to commute over an hour to New Jersey, Midwood, or Brighton Beach. Meanwhile I can get Aush or Charsi Kebab within at most a 40 minute BART ride from SF, and have 4-5 different options.

If I want to get HK Cha Chaan Teng style Yu Char Kway I have like 8-9 options within 3 miles of me within SF, or if I want to try some cool Thai Chinese style crepes there are 4 options in SF alone.

If I ever want to find a specific Asian sub-ethnic group's food - I will always find 3-4 options for that in the Bay Area, but it's difficult even in NYC

Furthermore, Asian and Latino culture is extremely normalized in California compared to NY. The same way a New Yorker is a fanatic for an Italian sub is the same way a Californian is for their Banh Mi

And finally, it's hard to discount the representation all over California. In the east coast you will feel like the other - people absolutely do look at you weird if you ain't white or black - but in the West no one bats an eye.

Basically, imagine if you were an Italian New Yorker. Italians have been well represented politically, culturally, and socially. You're basically the top dog. In NYC you can try every single type of ethnic Italian cuisine at every single price point. For Asian ethnic groups, that's most of California (and the West in general).
What I will sometimes do in this situation is a free look at the requirements, throw some rough time estimates against it. Maybe even offer to try and manage it for them a bit via some cheaper Upwork developers if they don't like my rates. Of course emphasising that you generally get what you pay for in terms of quality.

That's the favour. Generally though I totally agree, i got over working for free after starting a (basically) clone of Uber for a friend who 'just needed something throwing together' when I was 19!
For the presidential ballot this is true.

For the local school board or mayor, this is less true, because nearly all third parties do not field separate candidates in these races. It’s possible to win these races since the margin of victory is measured in the hundreds or single-digit thousands, but none of the third parties build up a base and instead shoot for the moon and inevitably lose.
Perhaps. You’re certainly not describing the behavior of 99% of internet users who don’t really care that much about these things

> Google is a major lead for destroying the planet.

Depends on how you define “major”. It’s still relatively insignificant
Could even believe it, if it assumes already existing home ownership.
No, you will have much larger index bloat as you add rows as page splits happen to accommodate the new rows.
HeLa
Not really. Test could be close, bit never replace practical exam.

Not related to aviation, bit to everything: to learn something to use and to learn something to pass exams - are two different paths.