skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German here. German middle class considers the current political situation (across all federal layers) the least trustworthy in at least 30-50 years. The majority of the people is frustrated AF because of government paralysis for no real reasons but political gambling.

It's that bad that >90% of my friends and acquaintances chose to not read the news anymore and go with ignorance and escapism. Germany seems to be going through some kind of identity crisis right now (we lack most competencies for 21st century and used to cover all problems with money and arrogance) and chances are not that low we'll end up with far right leadership.

(The only good thing is that the German army is that much underfunded and bureaucratic that a military coup is impossible. /s)
Ask HN: How to use ML in information retrieval
In the information retrieval space I am aware of software such as the following: lucene, solr, elasticsearch, sphinx, manticore, etc. As far as I am aware these are based on inverted indices with a bunch of stuff like custom stemmers for the particular language being used. Now this is rather annoying because to make improvements requires handcrafting various customizations for each language.

Is there a way to apply ML to such a problem? I am envisioning the following

* the smallish dataset to be queried on

* a much bigger corpus for teaching the system about the language so we don't need to handcraft customizations for the language such as a stemmer

* queries and labeled best results from the dataset to learn a ranking from

Is any of that possible with neural networks and if so where would one start to learn about what works? Ideally we want something where we can train on ever bigger data without needing to think about stuff like handcrafting feature vectors.
I'm surprised it doesn't support POWER - old Macs have to be more available than SGI kit.

(Though I'll also agree with sibling comment - if the goal was "test BE support on readily available hardware" I'd 100% use Raspberry Pis, since ARM has a BE mode. NetBSD supports it, for instance.)
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If you’re on iOS, add the Japanese keyboard and hit the lower left most key, then expand autocorrect to get a big array of such emoticons.
I suppose the score limit is infinite if you never die to the ghost so that seems like a good strategy.
I've seen this list before. It's useful to think about, sometimes. But falsehoods lists really need counterexamples to be useful in practice.
A person in the back who appears to be a crew is standing with her seatbelt unbuckled, so the aircraft is probably stopped. The behavior of the passengers also indicates that it was after landing.
> And write and entire novel research paper and open source the code and put it on GitHub? No you wouldn't. Don't be ridiculous.

You are moving the goalposts, why?

Regardless, generating a plausible sounding paper with source code is trivial with gpt4. Obviously it wouldn’t withstand scrutiny, but neither would my coinminer.
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Could even be 'multi player' with someone else controlling the ghosts
Should just be using memcpy and not strcpy, or strncpy (which is definitely the worst option of the three). The code already knows the size of the source buffer and has checked if it will fit in the destination buffer, there is no reason to call strcpy and have it strlen the string unnecessarily.

Genuinely the LLM recommendation is something I would actively discourage. If you don't know the size, and don't care about silent truncation, and don't care about performance (strncpy will unnecessarily zero the rest of the buffer), just use snprintf. Unless you're dealing with some UI or something, you probably SHOULD care about truncation and in that case strncpy won't save you.
Don't forget that he indirectly and in hindsight contributed to the independence of Peru as well. Most of the fighting of course did not happen on the seas, but just as air superiority matters a great deal, naval superiority in the 1820s mattered as well, and the upper hand he gave to the expedition from Chile/Argentina made it a war that was effectively centered on the land war aspect and led to in part and a few years down the line, Peru's independence from Spain as well.

Somewhat ironically, the Irish diaspora (the Flight of the Wild Geese, which happened in 1691 and scattered the Irish Catholic military aristoracy across Catholic Europe and their descendants, just Europe in general, likely had a larger cumulative role in effectuating much of the independence movements. After all, O'Higgins is not exactly a native Spanish surname. Informally the scions of Irish Catholic families of importance, with their paths of advancing in Britain blocked, filtered out across the continent for the next hundred years or so and ended up having certainly an outsized influence on the makeup of military administration and colonial administration by way of the makeup of the officer corps of the nations where they ended up settling, stretching from Spain to France to Austria to Russia. They were not exactly mercenaries but really a true diaspora before the concept really solidified in today's terms. One can argue that it was certainly an early and self-inflicted 'brain-drain' through policies instituted by the post-Williamite British state that may have had longer term consequences (the loss of Minorca and the loss of America came in fairly rapid succession, for example) to the British and the distinct and separate traditions allowing them to be less attached to a sovereign but a cause. Much more on this needs studying, but what is certain is that policies made out of fear undermined the British and aided continental powers for generations. Look at the names etched on the Arc de Triomphe and you'll notice how many of the names are distinctly not French, including that of Dillion (Arthur Dillion, related to the Viscount Dillion, who also fought for the American side during the revolution), Clarke (whose father served in the Dillion Regiment), MacDonald (whose ties to Flora Macdonald during the Jacobite Rising precipitated his family's exile, but nevertheless served as officers first under Dillon before later siding with Napoleon and taking independent command, primarily in Switzerland) are just some of the prominent names inscribed. Sectarianism's long tail etched in stone right there.
> How do you have any self respect at that point.

Usually looking at their last paycheck.

I don't personally agree with it, but, to some degree, this comment seems tone-deaf.

People keep paying them to be so-so.
> This population-based study, using data collected by the United Nations and its agencies, tests the hypothesis that, worldwide, populations with more meat consumption have greater life expectancies.

With the caveat that I'm not familiar with the data sources and methods used in this study, it sounds to me like what it shows is not so much "eating meat is good for you" as "living in a country where people eat more meat is good for you". Which I think is a pretty significant distinction when the potential confounders include virtually everything that affects the price and availability of meat relative to vegetarian foods (infrastructure capacity and robustness to support CAFOs and regulation/monitoring of such to avoid disease/contamination, access to international markets, political stability, monetary policy, agriculture subsidies, etc.).

I'm not saying that there can't be a nutritional effect. I suppose it's entirely plausible that, as the authors suggest, some of the correlation is explained by trace mineral and B12 intake. I just don't see how this particular study does much to establish support for such an explanation.

(Disclosure: I find myself pretty biased against this study because some of the wording is burying the needle on my personal paleo-woo-bullshit meter. For instance, the authors refer to "unique nutrients from meat" in what I read as a non-hypothetical way, and I'm reasonably sure such nutrients have not been shown to actually exist unless the definition of "meat" is expanded to include dairy and egg products.)
People interpret the constitution in different ways, but this is commonly interpreted as a requirement not just a power. Critically, this stuff is interpreted by the Supreme Court not simply anyone so someone could bring a case should congress fail to provide any protection.

Thus congress could specify that copyright only lasts for 1 month, but they can’t just ignore it or set it to 1 second without the courts getting involved.
I have the same feeling. As usual everything is a bit less volatile here.
The null hypothesis is 50/50 for butterfly, as well. From our conscious perception, it’s two copies of the same picture of a vase.
I'm sorry strangulation is not safer than psychedelics... they have virtually no physical harm potential and have an extremely strong tolerance build up that is virtually instant which resists dependency.
> Rewind is a personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard

Terrifying.
That doesn't justify inflicting mass slaughter, starvation, and now preventable disease on an entire population, which is what's happening. We can argue about whether it's genocide, but unquestionably it's collective punishment, and that's a war crime: https://opiniojuris.org/2023/10/24/a-short-history-of-the-wa...

I'm sorry to bring this up, but did you know that children are now having limbs amputated without anesthetic there? How is it possible to know that and not want it to stop?
yes, this was objectively an L for me and in hindsight I should not have negotiated a single aspect of the position, so take notes everyone

California, by the way.
I find it difficult to watch any sports these days because you are just constantly bombarded with sports betting ads and tie-ins. I have absolutely no interest in throwing my money away on sports bets and yet even I find myself wondering if I should try it out or maybe I could just open a trial account. It's dangerous and disappointing that this is the direction that all the major sports leagues are heading.
Oh, I'm sorry. I took "total energy consumed" too literally. You've been right and my comment doesn't make that much sense for electricity.
I didn't see any claims of it being a cure, but I think it still has the ability to be "world changing" for all those who are in need, much the same as a tourniquet doesn't fix loss of limb but can easily save a life when time is the deciding factor.

I found more information about the active ingredient (cited in the article) on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varespladib
This is a funny case where I want there to be a business modal. The app probably is great, but without some kind of financial backing part of me just expects this will atrophy, or be sold to an ad company in a couple years. I can't think of a successful open-source app that is free, given the amount of work required to sustain an app on Android.
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Better than the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man.
Yep, it's a line-of-sight transmission, so in a way the aircraft has the advantage of being a really, really tall antenna.

The volunteers running the feeds around YYZ are at the airport, IIRC. I'm in Halifax now, and the (single) YHZ feeder has had a really hard time finding a new place to set up after he lost his previous location.

There's a "feed setups" thread (or a whole forum) in the LiveATC forums, it's interesting to see how big or small the feeders' setups are!
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If you can’t see the value in an attestation, you’re not familiar with the topic.

And I’m not “defending” anything other than the basic idea that when one has not proven something, one cannot claim it as true. Nobody has been able to prove Tether is a scam, so it isn’t.
> “You can be gambling away your house on your mobile phone sitting at the dinner table, and not a single person will know until the devastation of your whole family is complete”

That sounds like a reasonable means of control then. These services could be locked to networks at locations with some kind of gaming license (something like a Keno license).
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> That's fine, though; this subthread has not all that much to do with Claudine Gay.

Why on earth do you think we're even discussing claudine gay then?
Again, you whine about me bringing it up without bothering to explain why I'm wrong.

Even if you give murderers the Anders Breivek treatment with a cushy apartment style prison cell complete with gaming consoles and arts and crafts sessions, that's still a prison cell. You can dress it up to make it pretty, but he's still locked up, taken out of society, which is what both he and society deserves. If that is what is meant by the abolition of prisons, then it should be called prison reform instead. Prison reform I can get behind, but that's not what is actually being proposed. That's the motte the prison abolition radicals fall back on when challenged, not what they're actually calling for.
She resigned after a fresh batch of plagiarism evidence was uncovered.
They didn't actually find a unicorn ; they found other tikz animals. It still generalized to the unicorn.

This was the package: https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings?lang=en
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I think it is about forcing people to live by their own rules. If you believe hate speech is not free speech then according to your own rules you should be punished if you say or protect hate speech.
My understanding is Trusted Language Extensions refer to extensions written in PL/Rust - a Postgres extension mechanism to write user defined functions and use them in SQL queries.

PL/Rust is a more performant and more feature-rich alternative to PL/pgSQL, which is the traditional UDF scripting language for Postgres.

Building a vector index (or any index for that matter) inside Postgres is a more involved process and can not be done via the UDF interface, be it Rust, C or PL/pgSQL.

So, I think even if Lantern was written in Rust, it would not be a Trusted Language Extension under this definition.
Not that dissimilar from unfettered options trading on mass-market brokerage apps like Robinhood...
Amazing to see the progression lately, and GameScout is up there with Summoning Salt as one of the best gaming story tellers out there right now.

Here is another great introduction to the Tetris community by John Green from 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twS0SrDg-fc
I'm collecting some pictures of Dillo on different computers, with the idea of adding them to a gallery. Here are some on the web:

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_HandBook#/media/File:H...

[2]:http://damnsmalllinux.org/dmesg-screen-1.jpg

It would be nice to see it running in some remote location :-)

I also had it running at some point in my old Android phone (running Xorg directly on the framebuffer), but I don't know where I saved the picture.
>It wasn't about the amount of the tax on tea but rather the fact we didn't vote for it

I didn't vote for the US Congress...
It does! See the effect strength plot near the bottom of the blog post, or Figures 2b and 3d in the paper.

The effect strength on humans ranges from a few percent deviation of human judgements from chance for subtle adversarial perturbations (epsilon=2), to ~15% deviations of human judgement from chance for large magnitude perturbations in the largest magnitude experimental condition.
Caption on the first image :

>when perturbed by a seemingly random pattern across the entire picture (middle), with the intensity magnified for illustrative purposes

I don't understand? The pattern is not "seemingly random", it is "seemingly chosen to have subtle cat-features". One sees the ears at the top of them image and face-like features below.

So, is it "we perturbed images to overlay cat-like features on a visual level that humans don't generally perceive but ML models were able to perceive; and then ML models perceived them"?

Can someone précis the results and why they're interesting because on the face of it this seems like a very obvious outcome?

Do I need to make a new year resolution to actually read the articles?
For more comprehensive history/theory of Varespladib for snakebites, check out "Varespladib in the Treatment of Snakebite Envenoming: Development History and Preclinical Evidence Supporting Advancement to Clinical Trials in Patients Bitten by Venomous Snakes" (2022)[0] by the same Dr. Lewin this article is about. There's some interesting discussion of prior research in pigs where oral Varespladib is lifesaving for much longer time spans than injected antivenom, and a ton of somewhat-comprehensible cited sources.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9695340/
I learned to fly at St Hubert Airport (CYHU) outside of Montreal, where ATC spoke English to English-speaking pilots and French to French-speaking pilots. I lived in Montreal so I knew enough French to get by, but I could never make out more than a few words at the pace and quality of ATC transmissions plus C152 engine noise -- even in a controlled airspace, not overhearing other planes' instructions is a strange feeling.

But those French-speaking pilots probably heard their own instructions clearer than if they'd been in English.
>this rolling technique allows clicking buttons much more quickly than you normally can but they're still a long way from the 30Hz strobe the hardware itself will accept

This is actually false! Top players can actually roll faster than 30hz if they want; however, the game won't recognize this as all distinct inputs, so it really is the hardware that's limiting us. Check out this video to see how precise some players can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K81CjNo4B_Q

(incidentally, i made a romhack of nes tetris that supports polling multiple times per frame, effectively removing this limit. i talk about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9vKMNu5JWo)
I'd agree if only we had more time to solve the upcoming challenges. But currently it looks like no one's going to be strong enough to do the right things. Four years are a lot of (wasted) time in the short period we have left.
We need a real life adblock.
Now that's what I call a one-liner.
Two other issues are that it is commercial/proprietary and only available on MacOS.
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That's not correct: many people who said All Lives Matter meant it in good faith and not to nullify BLM. Claiming otherwise is .... not a realistic assessment of their intent. And in fact, in saying so,m you're basically trying to shut down discussion by calling people racist.
Note that that section applies to FAR 139.319 (h)(1)(ii) which is “When requested by the Administrator, demonstrate compliance with the response requirements specified in this section.”

I read that to mean “in a planned test, must have a 3 minute alarm to application time”. That means it’s the intended performance target but a 3m30s response to an actual crash will maximally get a request from the Administrator to demonstrate a 3:00 time, rather than a revocation or lowering of ARFF Index of the airport.
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Seems like it'd be pretty useful if it turned out to be cheap enough to stock in first aid kits and medicine cabinets around the world.
Yeah, sorry (as I said in the below comment the site is super incomplete, showing screenshots of visual diffs is actually not that easy and I am yet to upload a demo video). Probably can’t give a great pitch here but the whole thing is based around building diffable plugins (which are really just html documents that are run in an iframe). Most of the documentation at this point is based on teaching version control to mortals rather than demoing the 4 diffable applications I made to launch with. But it really is built for mortals and is generalized so anyone can build applications that can meaningfully diff.

There’s some snippets of a visual diff in the docs here https://floro.io/docs/product/product-and-terms. If you do want to give feedback or see a demo I’d love to chat. Again, my email is in my bio.
Why is the Silicon Valley Bank sign still on the rotunda on Market Street ? btw
There's a huge difference between being "canceled" for one's opinions and/or unsubstantiated allegations, and being canceled for actual misconduct. I'm not even sure how you'd defend the latter. Suppose someone lied about their credentials to get a position, and he got found out a few years later thanks to angry partisans, are we supposed to let him off the hook because "cancel culture"?