skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but to me it makes as much sense as measuring everything in 3/4 of an apple.

How many per grouping(/bar) is what is important, not conformance to some symoblic notation in which 4/4 is much more popular and recognisable and forcing it into other less easily divisible circumstances.

I agree with those carrying on about rhythmic importance over time signature notational importance. da-da-da-da-da-da. Everything is relative to everything else, and not to some explicit concept of an 'eigth note'.
Technically, you're right. Practically however, it does make sense to implicitly dereference the branch you're talking about to the commit it points to. Asking "is this commit on that branch?" is semantically equivalent to "is this commit reachable from the commit that branch points to?".

That said, it only makes sense to make such implicit mental shortcuts once you're already comfortable with git's data model. If you're not and you're still learning it, it's only going to confuse you.
At least near me, HD repair is usually based on the area of the blinds; I have this unholy-huge 6.5' x 6' blind that the local HD shop wants $1000 to fix ... what I think is the clutch? (Just going off the troubleshooting section.) If I can fix it, myself, for $30, I'll be pretty stoked.
Am I the only one who finds this to be a sort of wasteful experiment for one of the supposed top research labs in the country to be publishing in such a (supposedly) prestigious journal? The findings aren't super shocking although they would be interesting enough if they had managed to collect a large enough sample.

Instead they barely grasp at straws and come to an obviously inflated conclusion that neural nets and human brains are similar in some way because of this (which _certainly_ isn't something they arrive at or even experiment for, in my opinion).
Natural Experiment
If this means that job postings make for poor wage research data, as the abstract claims, then researchers should use The Work Number! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
It will never happen. Tax law is complex by design, partially because it seeks to do things that are simply impossible, and partially because anybody with enough power to influence changing it benefits from the complex quagmire of ambiguous laws. The complexity allows the IRS to run roughshod over most people and businesses, but the truly powerful can do almost anything they want if they pay for enough advisors and lawyers. The system is in a perfect equilibrium in that respect.

I personally think that if a government fails to enforce a law to a reasonable standard, then the law should be invalidated. Which is probably quite similar to your idea, and addresses the problems created by discretionary enforcement. But that will never happen either.
Funny enough, I actually think it’s a bad idea to go after either: both of those institutions, ultimately, are checks on the State — and historically, when a state turns to fascism, universities and religious organizations (save the “favored/officially sanctioned religion”) are the first thing to go.

I think the State should stay out of religion’s business entirely (that also means no “religious freedom” exemptions to treat others like second-class citizens that the evangelical right has been winning recently), along with universities too.

Leave both organizations tax-exempt, but they should not receive any public funds for any reason, nor get any other special protections from the government, lest there’s an explicit agreement to pay it back in the form of bonds or loans. Publicly-funded research at private institutions could remain the same as it is, with the caveat that results by-default should be public to all, rather than locked behind institutional paywalls.

(State universities are a valid edge case, but I’m specifically talking about private non-government organizations here)
> And I strongly doubt that agencies that are known to routinely violate the law, the constitution, and human rights care about "contractually mandated" 40-hour workweeks.

lol they 100% do.. because they're all contractors bidding for the work.. so if one company bid X man hours for a cost plus contract and won as the lowest bidder and then put in 3x the time, either the winner would sue for being underpaid or, if they were paid, the loserss would sue because of impropriety.
The Ai generated art piece used with the article is so dumb. The probability that the health firm's IT staff aren't a bunch of Windows-minded pointy clicky Windows guys is near zero.
This reads like a marketing piece, not an honest technical blogpost.

I agree that Usearch is fast, but it feels pretty dishonest to take credit for someone else's work. Like maybe at least honestly profile what's going on with USearch vs pgvector (..and which settings for pgvector??), and write something interesting about it?

The last time I tried Lantern, it'd segfault when I tried to do anything non-trivial with it, and was incredibly unsafe with how it handled memory. Hopefully that's at least fixed.. but lantern has so many red flags.
It would almost certainly result in a massive spoiler effect, handing the Democrats a landslide victory, unless the Republicans managed to completely and utterly drop the ball in putting forward a candidate that could beat Trump in at least a few states. That latter scenario would mark the death knell of the Republican party as an institution, leaving a power vacuum that Trump-aligned fascists would fill with an even further right party.

First-past-the-post voting makes the 2 party system inevitable.
How well does Meson handle complex cross-platform projects nowadays with multiple compilers? My team tried Meson about ~3yrs ago for an embedded system. We ended up moving to CMake instead after struggling to use it for armclang.
Are you, yorwba, actually Matt Lakeman, the author of these "notes"?
> If you have to pay $X for AI inference, then it proves that the work is worth at least $X to you... Which suggests the obvious marketplace scheme: Compute providers are paid (or credited) $X/k to contribute their nodes to the network, and users pay $X for inference.

Yes, and that seems good

> (inevitably, someone will implement this with o.g. bitcoin and we can all cry.)

Why should we cry?

If the person providing the GPU in the distributed inference system can be "credited" on a ledger with some unit that will let them use other people's GPU to do their own inference in the future (and proportionally to what they themselves provided in the past), I see that as a way to arbitrate between present and future wants for GPU capacity.

You may have little use for your GPU 24/7, so you could let it chew numbers to fulfil other people AI needs, but tou may not want to do that if you're left with the electricity bill! Yet if in return you would be provided with some credit that lets you use other people GPU when you need it, you may be more willing to be cooperative instead of keeping your computer turned off ur using your GPU just for yourself.

There's also a mutual interest in cooperation: I wouldn't cry if I need in 1 second more than my GPU could do in 1 hour, and if this scheme existed, as it'd mean I wouldn't have to wait.

You shouldn't cry either: if you have contributed to the network for say 2 days in the past, you can "redeem" the equivalent of these computations immediately in 2 seconds, which is better than waiting or paying to use a company API.

The accounting may seem futile, but I think it ensures you can't waste more resources that what you provide: this is the proportionality between past/present/future wants for GPU (no leeching)

Can you explain me what you mean by "cry", or why you imply it would be a bad thing?
I often use it to read Wikipedia articles. The layout is all jambled up, but the article content itself is fine. If a web site is low on layout, heavy on text, it usually works okay-ish. A lot of web sites these days, however, are an empty skeleton with a bit of Javascript code to load the content - these do not work in dillo, it has no Javascript engine; to a degree, I consider this a feature, but it makes large parts of the world wide web inaccessible.
My colleague has been doing some stonking work with it, he claims its about 70% as fast, I was rounding up for safety!
> Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)

I'm surprised they didn't put `Machine Learning (cs.LG)` and `Machine Learning (stat.ML)`.
I've had good instant coffee before, but I don't think it's appropriate to say "perfect cup" and "water soluble" in the same breath. Maybe I just haven't tried your Skunkworks black-project freeze-tried roast yet, though :p

Once you factor espresso into the mix, I don't think even the most expensive instant coffee stands a chance. It's closer fight between a Keurig pod or a pour-over coffee, but a cheap espresso machine will get you closer to the "90% mark" than higher-quality insta-joe does, in my experience.

I won't hate on you, but I'll definitely remark that your palate is interesting
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How would that be decentralized by definition? Swedish labor unions are not tied to specific employers, but they are usually a member of LO, the main union of unions, which I would consider centralized.
You could try importing some changes from DilloNG:

https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG
The selling point isn't being "technical". It's the 20x reduction in syllables.
These are the new allegations from yesterday if anyone is curious: https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Complaint2....
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No, you’re avoiding the answer. No one proposes everyone quits working today; the problems there are obvious.

People propose we start thinking about what a world where AI can do the drudgery looks like.
It's true, but a current version of a native app has minimum OS version requirements that make running on an old phone impossible. If you're just willing to have the same hardware requirements for mobile web, you've got hardware that can render text and images and buttons just fine.
I was a Nielsen household. The way it works is that you tell it which members of the household are watching at a given time, so it can do demographic attribution. You also periodically push a button on a remote to confirm you haven't left the room or stopped watching.
Because some apps unfortunately are a necessity and we can't vote by removing them from our devices, but that doesn't mean we also decide to accept getting promotional notifications every hour on the hour from them because they take advantage of the fact that they're a necessity on our devices.

And why must Apple or Google do something? Well because I can't make the iPhone or Android so I cannot change the underlining code to make sure that the notifications I need (delivery notifications) aren't drowned out or not received because I don't want the "We used a bunch of machine learning to determine this thing that you don't want is something you may want, you should add it to your cart!" notifications.

"Eh just wholesale disable notifications" isn't always the best solution and the device manufacturer should be aware of that.
That is a real problem. But if that problem manifests in web and native software alike, then neither the web nor the app stores directly cause it, right?
For standard situations, text clearances might really be safer: Pilots usually just acknowledge, and augmentation systems could help warn them if they don't conform with a certain clearance.

But having a broadcast channel accessible (for listening and talking) to all aircraft and ATC can increase situational awareness for everybody. Just look at the near-miss of Air Canada 759 [1] for an example of where it might have contributed to saving hundreds of lives:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759

While ATC controllers might be able to issue urgency text messages quickly enough on a keyboard, pilots literally have their hands full flying the airplane. Voice is their only feedback channel, and if it falls out of use, outages might go unnoticed for critical seconds.
It's OK to call the LMC "large", because it is. But calling the SMC "small" is decidedly not. And, they're not clouds, either.

This is a unique opportunity to give these two lesser galaxies better names. The nearer one could be the "Lesser Magellanic Nebula". The far one could be the "Cryptic Magellanic Nebula". Then the LMC gets "Greater Magellanic Nebula". Andromeda may stay Andromeda, unless the San people in Botswana have a name for it that we could pronounce.

People living in the southern hemisphere for lo so many millennia knew they were there all along, before Magellan drifted past. Just "Greater Southern Nebula" etc. instead? Maybe ask the San about those too. Or the Yaghan in Tierra Del Fuego. Or Australian aboriginals. All deserve reparations.
> so I wonder if there's something holding back Python + WASM

Yes. The problem is that may python libraries involve compilation of c, rust or other native languages that themselves need a WASM toolchain configured to cross compile to WASM correctly, and potentially patches to support the platform.

This toolchain support is coming though. See pyodide.org for one example.

But if you just want to grab python.wasm from somewhere and run it on the cli, take a look at something like https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes...
> There's no need for app stores on the web. We already have discovery (Hacker News)

Yikes. What about the other 99.9% of phone users? Google is a terrible choice for finding PC apps today, let alone phone apps.
Optics, social desirability bias, omertà, etc
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Just use the spacebar, or really any key other than arrows.
This is one of the most nonsensical things I've read for a long time.
Merge doesn't pollute the repository. Just like rebase, it's a valid tool to use when what you want to do with your repo structure calls for it. It's the fact that most people use git blindly and end up doing things that don't make sense that pollutes their histories.

There are tons of merge commits in the Linux repository, but no useless ones. Note how in its nature Linux process also does implicit rebasing of applied patches when they land in subtrees.
The GP mentioned cost, but I read it as a philosophical objection to the state forcing its insertion into the activity:

> My problem with the current push for this type of therapy is the requirment that it be done by professionals charging hundreds or thousands of dollars. […] I remain resistant to this insertion of the state into what should be my right to use my own mind the way I see fit.

I read this as, "I should not be required to use these in a set and setting sanctioned by The State, especially when that set and setting costs thousands of dollars that my needs don't require."

You were the one that moved the goalposts, claiming that the lack of universal healthcare is "the problem at stake here."

And then when the person helpfully rebutted that point—no, it's not costs, but the fact that universal healthcare isn't a panacea, citing their individual experience—you complain that _they_ are moving the goalposts.

At the end of the day, psychedelics sit at the intersection of personal responsibility, medicine, and social order. We can argue whether and how they should be allowed, whether they have medicinal value, and what the impact on society is, at large. But those discussions are orthogonal to the questions about the optimal configuration of medical care and health systems.

If you want to wave the banner of universal healthcare, feel free. You might even get some of us to agree with you. But don't come into a political discussion about personal sovereignty and tell people "you don't actually need sovereignty, you just need more state."

That's just insulting.
Ask HN: Can you help a developer understand the business language?
Hi HN,

I was wondering: whenever I (a developer) have had meetings with "business people" in my company, it seemed like they were speaking a completely different language. Yes it was English, but words like "business proposition", "value add", etc. always made it hard to follow.

Although I've managed to follow along and participate in these discussions I often feel like the alien in the room.

I'm curious. Why is this? Who teaches the secret language of business. All kidding aside: are there any books, youtube videos, etc. that I can read to get better at this?

Many thanks!
If you think President Gay’s plagiarism is bad, wait until you see Mr.GPT’s.
11,800 with a multiplier of 40 ;D
It's really all about the endgame knowing when how to manipulate the ghost's position. Sometimes it's worth it to wiggle back and forth until the ghost gets close to you in the middle to be able to get the dots on the edge. But yes once you pick up the power-up you need to pick up the middle dots.
I do think it is weird that there is an advertising boycott of Twitter but nothing is hitting Tesla yet. People seem ok with Elon's antics when it comes to the poplar car.
Fair enough, apologies for the confusion!
Continental US (United States) refers to the 48 United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
>I'm confused, The Verge has several articles about this hubbub of anti-trust this, Epic v Apple lawsuit that, and now Epic v Google and the recent win

right but none of those articles talk about how the -browser- could disrupt this duopoly

>There has been tons of discussion about web apps, new app stores, etc

that's what the article is about. these articles tend to talk about new app stores, but not much else. anecdotally I agree with the author's observation about this. the only time I've heard about PWAs it was from other nerds, not the news media.
I had to let go of all my contractors. Aside from that, we're still hiring for many FTE's. (40~ next fiscal).

I suppose contractors are a "make hay while the sun shines" situation and it can turn...
They know they are vulnerable there too.
Failure is just feedback valued as bad. Who we dare to be to value a reaction (inner or extern)?
Most of "make it fast" in modern software is fundamentally architectural in nature. If your architecture is not designed for performance or efficiency then no amount of module swapping will make it fast in any kind of absolute sense. And swapping architectures is tantamount to a rewrite.

Most performance has to be intentionally designed in from the beginning if it matters.
Adversarial examples depend strongly on the classifier used because the researchers are directly analyzing the responses of the network. You would need to use the same model.

This is also why the “anti-facial recognition” shirts are silly. If they had adversarial noise at all, you likely won’t know about or have access to the model you’re trying to fool.
Could be neat to have communal space in the middle. Apartments around the windows, a small Amazon Go grocery in the middle. Maybe different things on different floors. Put hallways so that you're not just walking out of an apartment into a mall.
One part worth noting: this gets dark-mode right by making it a three-way toggle, not a binary toggle - it's automatic/system, prefers-dark, prefers-light. It's not 'opposite whatever'.
She didn't say it's okay. She said that whether it's against Harvard's CoC is dependent on the context, which is obviously true.
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Thanks, looks interesting for sure, I hope to be proven wrong!
Also interesting is his Notes On The Gambia, which for some reason is the premier destination for female sex tourism:

https://mattlakeman.org/2023/07/10/notes-on-the-gambia/
"In our example, we may see a vase of flowers, but some activity in the brain informs us there’s a hint of cat about it."

IMHO this is not the same as computer vision thinking a rolled over school bus is a snow plow.

This is asking if someone sees an elephant or a unicorn in a cloud.

Asking if a picture of a stop light at an intersection is "cat like" seems to be pretty suspectable to over fitting.

Rorschach inkblot test is pretty much pseudoscience, can someone please explain how this is not similar?
Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023
I was honestly surprised to see that her CV is nowhere the caliber I would expect from the president of Harvard.