skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in high school and college, I had bad insomnia. I watched a lot of late night TV as a consequence. I understood demographics and targeted advertising, and I found it insulting how asinine late night TV ads were. This is who they think I am?

Took me a while to realize that very few of those ads were really targeted, it’s just when the cheap ad slots were. If you spend a lot on ads it’s valuable to spend a bit more to make sure they’re connecting. But if you’re going cheap the shotgun effect isn’t a terrible strategy.

I think X is quickly going to find that Billy Mays was a paragon of cheap ad placements and half of what they get will be worse.
I had a 486DX - if I wanted to play an MP3, I had to exit out of everything and run only the DOS player.
I would reach out to some wedding planners/wedding venues and see if it would be useful for them.
I think that would probably be your biggest market, if you nailed it. Could be pretty cool as a venue to provide the tool to your clients to plan the seating (I don't know what is out there already)

I definitely think you need to work on the UX if you want want to make on it
Amazing game!

Is it possible to get a higher score than 29?
Don't worry, it's going great! 99,99% of Tweet impressions are healthy! No single user saw these Nazis next to your ads! These metrics are as trustworthy as our leadership!
The guy is raving, if he had imported it, he was going to get ripped off by private corporations not by the government.

There are no duties on importing US agricultural equipment parts into Canada, HST is max 15% so $1.50 extra. At $10 it would fit under the de minimis tax/duty value which is CAD$20, so he wouldn't even have to pay tax on it and no broker is necessary.

What did him in was the shipping cost plus UPS and a few other carriers charging totally unnecessary $20+ brokerage fees for low value shipments.
Don't be fooled by the "open banking" propaganda, we've had it in the EU for years and we're still scraping web apps like in the old days.

<Rant> I tried to get API access to my bank account and was told by my bank that Open Banking is not for physical persons. I tried to the same for my nonprofit and was told that only licensed PSD2 TPPs ("third-party providers") can use it. The national bank issues those licenses, but provides no information on what the process for obtaining one is. I called some friends and got in touch with someone at a major payment services provider, who explained that to get their license, the national bank insisted on them having essentially unlimited-coverege insurance - something no insusrer in the country was even willing to sell at any price. They managed to get the insurance from elsewhere in the EU and whole process cost them "six figures". Even after that, you still don't get full access to their own accounts, because the whole API is built on the idea of connecting customers with fintech apps, so there are a bunch of limitations intended for privacy and security that don't make any sense in a "I want full access to my own account" scenario. All the advice I got was "just keep scraping".
How the fuck do they dare call that "open" banking?!? </Rant>
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main...

Consider a finetune - they're faster and relatively cheap (like, under $30 rented compute time). The link above lists them, but the steps are to gather a dataset, do the training, and evaluate your results. LLMs are about instruction/evaluation, so it's easy to show results, measure perplexity, and compare against the base model.

If you're interested in a building a limited dataset, fun ideas might be quotes or conversations from your classmates, lessons or syllabi from your program, or other specific, local, testable information. Datasets aren't plug and play, and they're the most important part of a model.

However, even using the same dataset can yield different results based on training parameters. I'd keep it simple and either make the test about the impact of differences in training parameters using a single dataset, or pick two already created datasets and train using the same parameters for comparison.

Good luck in IB! I was in it until I moved cities, and it was a blast.
i guess the solution in the comment i described as anticompetitive is solving a problem that really isn't a problem ... you have the ability to turn off notifications (or notification channels in the case of Android) if they seem spammy. why is the mothership turning off notifications for an app due to heuristics of a broad set of users.

if i don't want the notification i'll disable/silence/mute/lower the priority of it either on installation of the app or when it starts to offend.
What's the security story like for 9front?

For years, Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS and ChromeOS has used a verified boot process that prevents any malware from surviving a reboot in any of the system software, i.e., anywhere except for the user's home directory and maybe other directories created by the user that the user is responsible for maintaining. I don't suppose 9front has that?

Also when I used drawterm (as part of Plan 9 from Userspace on a Mac) the drawterm windows had no anti-aliasing, which I might have been able to get used to, except that the native-Mac windows used anti-aliasing and switching back and forth I found a jarring experience (and I was never able to figure out how to configure the Mac (and my browser) not to do the anti-aliasing).

(Technically, my browser was doing its own low-level drawing, but it had been carefully tuned by the maintainers of the browser to visually resemble the results of the native Mac drawing systems.)
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Sorry for that! This is the link I wanted to post:

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Yep, I got 30 EDIT: 450 :)
but why always communism? Let's agree today's system is bad. What system are we in? Certainly not capitalist. ~ 50% of GDP goes to the government. That's closer to socialist.

Why love communism so much? We're practically communist already. Why not blame that?
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I said off, not on
I'm surprised how meh Twitter remained despite Musk's bragging about transforming Twitter into an American WeChat. Like even the recommendation algo for the For You feed is so low quality that it displays the same stuff I just watched in the Following feed. At least try to excel at the engineering parts damnit.
I can give Copilot instructions in plain English to not only generate working code, but modify a file any arbitrary way, and someone hooked up Unity3D a while ago to put commands through ChatGPT and it responded correctly to instructions like "put ten cubes in the scene and make half of them red" - all far beyond a glorified phone tree like Siri, this was science fiction a few years ago. We're seeing the birth of the Star Trek bridge computer, and this is only a small subset of current AI. The best-faith end game of crypto is decentralized and free-as-in-freedom money and digital asset ownership, which is nice, but not nearly as game changing as what AI has already done and shows promise to do.
It's pretty common for embedded languages to not include big batteries included standard libraries. And at its core, JS is designed and optimized as an embedded language (to extend the functionality of a browser). That's why on the frontend the "standard library" are the DOM and window APIs provided by the browser.

The idea that it needs a better standard library is deeply tied to the idea that it should be used as an applications language, but that's actually kind of a recent idea with the advent of runtimes like Node and later Deno and Bun. And all of these do include bigger standard libraries.

I think part of the reason JS has become so popular as both an embedded and application language is that it doesn't have a standard library that needs to be shipped to all embedders/implementations. That's what Java does. And Java lost a lot of ground to JS over the years.
The endless email spam by LinkedIn is impressive too.
I used an unfolded Christmas tree ornament hook to do the same.
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Your generalization leaves a lot of wiggle room for how society ought to support cumulative gains.

Because we have accumulated less need for data entry and content jobs thanks to AI office workers could do more of the real work to provide for their real needs to afford manual labor class time to focus on the abstract.

The god father of capitalism, Adam Smith, is said to have written that division of labor taken to the extreme will result in humans dumber than the lowest animal.

Kind of feels as if, while we ride career escalators, externalization of all our other work, is fostering a prisoners dilemma society finds itself in as the number of have nots rapidly outpaces the haves. The majority are all “this is all I know, I can’t get off the debt service tread mill.”

Put some of the real work of keeping themselves alive on billionaires and they’re too busy to spend all their time propagating their Ponzi schemes.
My partner's ecommerce business spends millions a year on marketing and is typical of the type of SME that represents the bulk of total advertising spend.

Twitter/X has always been a far distant third to Meta and Google. It's targeting performance is poor, return on ad spend poor and the capabilities of the ad platform poor. Maybe for some niches e.g. AI startup it was useful but for most SME it was useless and their percentage of overall ad spend reflects this.

For large brands what it was good for was brand awareness. Nothing makes you appear relevant than being alongside the latest trends or news which Twitter excelled it. Which is why when their ads appeared alongside hate speech they were so quick to move. Because they didn't have any real money being generated with them anyway.
Yes, trivially.
Are you saying you can't see the reason why institutes of higher learning should be neutral - to a fault?
Is there a definitive definition of "glitch"? To me, it's just a bug...
IMO Make it work, make it right, make it fast is a bit off.

Often the "fast" part is very intertwined with the "right/work" part. You can make it work/right and then realize you designed the core data structures completely wrong for performance. I know, I've made that mistake terribly before where I avoided performance until a year after a project was in flight, only to realize the fundamental API design actually made it impossible to fix. Had to basically start from scratch.

Of course it depends on if performance matters much, but it often does.
This is amazing, wish I found it several months ago before I bought replacements. Two of my Levolor blinds broke in the same exact way, the cord wore down the small piece of plastic that handles the locking mechanism. Clearly not designed to last and an obvious scam.
How much JS is being shipped in that case though, and if it’s loaded async and not being used would it ever even impact page paint time?
A CompuServe client whose name I forget.
Scheme is around today, and there are some pretty good implementations. But few people use it. Sometimes I suspect there are more Scheme implementations than Scheme users.

Lisp-style programming with s-expressions is just not very popular. Pure (or "pure-ish") functional programming in general just isn't.

I know some people really like functional programming and/or scheme, but the reality of the matter is that this never has been (and I suspect never will be) a mainstream opinion.

Functional programming is the Black Metal of programming. It's great and all, but will always be for a relatively small and niche audience.

And that's okay. Not everything needs to be large.
I use LinkedIn as in have an account, but I basically never log in except once every few months to accept invitations and maybe to update something on my profile. So from an ad selling perspective I might as well not have one.
The parser uses enclosures for images only. If you wish you can give me more details so I can see why (url ...)
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Loodio (https://loodio.com) is an automatic music player that provides bathroom privacy for people living in small homes or work in small offices.

Many commented on HN said there was no market it but I managed to sell a hundred units last year with no marketing. It’s not much but it’s my first year in business.

I find not having something to cover your bathroom noises is a mad paradigm we have just accepted as modern people.

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I think I could have sold more but my efforts have gone to developing next version.

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Is there a best of breed piece of hardware for Chrultrabook?

Say, one where Firefox's webrender runs for GPU-accelerated browsing, standard fare like Youtube videos is also GPU-accelerated, WIFI chip runs flawlessly by default, and the touchpad also works flawlessly?
This is one city in California (a large one, but still just one) with one small new pilot program. I'm not sure why you'd expect this to be reflected in state-wide statistics from 2019-2021.
Well I would imagine many of those who acting this way have always had sympathies for the underlying ideologies of China and the USSR. Liberals are a small minority after all.
I got 533; There's a bonus multiplier that builds the more times you eat the ghost (I think?)
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It is possible that they assumed all due diligence had been done by the committees that gave her tenure and elevated her to her prior positions, and therefore didn't really do much looking at her academics at that juncture. Apparently she was tenured at Stanford just 5 years after arriving, which means she was put up for tenure after 4 years. That is amazingly fast, especially given her publication record. I guess the articles she published were incredibly impactful, since it is typically very difficult to get tenure at Stanford without at least one book.
Ooo, FX seems nice. I definitely like a lot of its interface concepts.
I wonder if another system can use lasers/light beams to detect obstructions on the runway? Rather than relying on vehicles actively reporting their positions (which can malfunction, and as far as I know only aircraft are equipped - cars/trucks/snow clearing vehicles don't have it), it would instead just check whether there's anything on the runway and alert the controller (and ideally any approaching planes via the ILS antennas) that the runway is obstructed?
Based on the other comments, they are correct in that when doing annealing you usually want to accept some moves that do lead to regression that might not improve the regression to escape early local minimums in your objective.

I abused the definition of annealing a lot in the post but I briefly touched on the idea:

"At first, you might want to make moves or swaps over large distances or you might want to accept some percent of moves that don't improve the objective, but as time goes on, you want to make smaller moves and be less likely to select moves that don't improve the objective. This is the "annealing" part of simulated annealing in the context of FPGA placement."

I think I might have made the writing confusing because I mixed the original definition of the annealing approach (of accepting moves that don't improve the objective) with the use of "annealing" for other things like action parameters (ex. swap distance between two nodes). Something I should edit to clarify better.

Note that, yes, the thing I implemented doesn't do any annealing but rather just pick actions that only improve the objective. I am working on some extensions to add real annealing but that turned out to have a lot of more in-depth technical work that is not obvious.
My version of this:

1. Make it possible (even if it's ugly and expensive to do) - Blackberry

2. Make it pleasant/probable (aka improve the UX to customer maximum) - iPhone

3. Make it profitable/cheap (optimize efficiency/cost to deliver) - Android
their fault i'm muting all the relevant notifications including the spam ones. leading to poor UX. leading to the uninstallation of said app
I've always taken this the same as "Linus wrote Linux over a few weeks as a hobby during university".

Yeah, sure, the kernel was functional. But just about everything we think of as Linux came later from thousands of contributors.
"There are two levels of operating software in the system: the Monitor (in EPROM) and the Operating System. The monitor is a simple, single user system that is in effect when the system is powered on. The Monitor uses terminal 0 and provides extensive diagnostic and management functions. The Operating System, IX™ (IX is a trademark of NCUBE Corporation), is automatically invoked if the system is in Normal mode and passes the diagnostic tests. IX™ is a fully protected multiuser, multitasking operating system with complete resource management including memory, main array, graphics and file system. The file system has a hierarchical structure and is distributed across all the disk drives in the system. Thus, a user can access his files regardless of which terminal (or Peripheral Controller) he uses.

In may ways the Operating System is similar to UNIX™ (UNIX is a Bell Laboratories trademark), and therefore will not be described in detail herein. The IX™ System does, however, have additional facilities including:

system temperature sensing
distributed file system
array management
uniform file protection"[0]

I believe the plan9 based OS was called Transit.

[0] https://ncube.systems/software.html
Particles pop in and out of existence everywhere in space don't they though? At least according to a space documentary I watched last night. Not trying to be pedantic over if a gas particle present for a fraction of an instant counts as "thin air," just excited that something I learned last night came up.
Anyone could implement this. The User-Agent of the feed request should include a subscriber count for each service that is downloading your feed to provide to its users. Examples: https://www.jefftk.com/p/looking-at-rss-user-agents
I am guessing it is a demo for this lib: https://github.com/abagames/crisp-game-lib
16 FPS video and audio on a Commodore 64 demo. Very, very highly compressed and optimized data and algorithm:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=12m55s&v=yW5v93P-gBw&feature=y...

EDIT: and some details on the audio encoding method, might as well start here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=11m55s&v=yW5v93P-gBw&feature=y...
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Thanks for this comment. Duty? Customs? On a 10 dollar part? Especially for agricultural purposes - this guy is a little off his rocker. It seems like he tried to buy a part, found out shipping was expensive and the seller wanted to use a broker (probably $20), neither of which have anything to do with regulations.
How do you create a new event, click or double click on the empty squares does nothing for me.
You can look at the charts themselves to determine whether they're different. And then if you determine they are, then talking about the slopes (or coefficients) of variables doesn't seem like plagiarism to me.

More generally, "the large numbers of incidents" here is exactly what I'd expect if someone ran a text detector, but didn't do any quality control to see if the result actually represented theft of original research.
You are comparing different definitions of homelessness.

The US figure is more like the UK's definition of "rough sleeper" which was around 2-3000 in 2020.
> Is there a non-shitty version of LinkedIn somewhere

Sure - it's the version you get if you stop connecting with people who post 'grind' rants and whatever else you don't want to see (or at least unfollow them, if you can't avoid connecting with them).
My timing was perfect, saw the site, saw the noise bug, read the comments, checked again and it’s fixed (on iPhone at least)
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Americans are canceling more of their streaming services
D has something called "Better C" [1], that's why I mentioned it.

[1]: https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
Just like they jailed Al Capone for income tax evasion, eh?
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Wow, practicing for 3-4 hours per day! I feel like they’re gonna be regretful for spending that much time on this later in life. I spent way too much time playing battlefield 1942, had fun but way too much time wasted.