skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we're not disagreeing. Your first paragraph is basically just a summation of my point while the second paragraph reiterates it. Assembler is not necessarily difficult, it's tedious; which includes parsing and keeping it in mind. Most modern assemblers offer some sort of Macro system to even help with some of the aforementioned niggles.
You are correct. We don't really know what's going on. Every claim can be met with an equally emphatic opposite claim with equally compelling evidence by someone cherry picking the "correct" studies and listening to the "correct" people. What we call neuroscience is still in a pre-Newtonian era.
Bill Burr had a fantastic Conan O'Brian interview about this. Made that point. Our doped up guy, beat your doped up guys.
They don't get to be renewed with zero pollution.
Everyone has expenses that must get paid in order to live in this world.
Proton, extending the historical data, storage, and computing of ClickHouse
> That got me interested: since the wiring is so long (from limbs to cerebellum), what kinds of motor learning?

I'd imagine it's things like training a dominant hand. The skills required for precise motor control, to produce the right movements for e.g. handwriting. Since the wiring is so long, and feedback is delayed, you need to be able to precalculate these movements.

Also imagine how e.g. an intent to move somewhere actually gets implemented. You don't always have to think about each individual step of walking, or pay explicit attention to things like your sense of balance. You probably don't even have to choose that you're going to walk, or think about how to get up. When you want to go somewhere, you just do it, and somehow it's all calculated for you and happens.

When you try to move a specific limb, how do you know which muscles correspond to that limb? In fact, how many of those muscles can you even individually address? You can learn to individually address them, but I bet you don't come with that ability by default.

Then of course there's the question of what even causes your limbs to move once you will them to move.
I’d pay more than premium if I could have anonymity too. I don’t want to have to use Adguard/vpn, I’d pay.

Charge $20 month, give them $14.

Would also pay for a less touch/context sensitive experience on ipad. I can’t scroll vids or touch anywhere in safari w/o selection being activated. Maddening UX.
By the way, the original Atari models, the 400 and 800, did not have BASIC built in. (They may have been bundled with the BASIC cart, I don’t know.) Subsequent models had it built in.
Are AU drivers licenses issued by the national government, or by states? The thing that makes DLs wonky in the US is that while you can basically use a DL as a national ID, it is issued, managed, and operated by the state. So no two state's DLs look the same or have the same info. This makes them amazingly easy vectors for fraud.

As two amusing anecdotes:

A while back, I went to buy some beer in a state other than where I lived. I was asked for my ID, and provided my drivers license. The employee pulled out this comically thick three ring binder, flipped to the page for my state, and had to read through a list of compiled identifying factors for a legitimate ID from my state.

Even further back, I worked at a company where a small slice of my job was verifying ID for new signups flagged as high-risk. Except... we were an online business. Our users were global. So if somebody happened to upload a passport or US DL, I could at least eyeball it. But if somebody uploaded an ID issued by basically any other country on Earth... I guess that's what IDs from The Confederacy of Independent Systems look like? The only surefire way to get rejected was either not uploading anything, or the many, many bots that uploaded random pictures of flowers or trains or random nonsense.
You are absolutely right. I am in the minority, no doubt. My POV is that standard corporate realtime collaboration is generally a waste of time, personally. Or at the very least, the results always reek of design-by-committee - inconsistencies and compromises. This is independent of tech, and I would say the same about the 2000s white boarding and mindmapping. Sometimes, there are cases where it works, like an 1:1 session with someone you can really vibe with. But even in those cases, it’s usually better with single-control (ie only one person editing at a time).

I’m perfectly fine talking about work on a high level, but when it gets too gritty it’s usually better to sit down in quiet and solve the problem or improve the design on your own. (Needless to say, I did not exactly thrive in a corporate environment.)

So to me realtime collab can be very neat, but it’s not a common enough use-case to be a dealbreaker. That said, there’s tremendous value in being able to easily view, comment, duplicate, copy the latest version that others publish, in read-only mode. Perhaps the success of Figma etc is partly also because of that?
In fact, the US miltary doesn't have any liquid-fueled rocket engines of any type unless perhaps you count the very small engines that refine the trajectory of a MIRV bus after the end of the boost phase of an ICBM or SLBM.

And liquid-fueled rockets are all SpaceX knows.
My understanding is that they do need to follow the treaty requirements if they launch from a country that has signed it or, maybe, are incorporated in such a country.
It's my understanding that most clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure) have hardware RNGs available to the VM through something like virtio-rng for exactly this reason. Even if it's not universal (I have no idea), it's certainly something that's available.
It's fun to see quasi-Monte Carlo turn up on Hacker News again. I work in this area. I suspect that there are more applications of it to be found. If you're interested in a deep dive, I've posted some material at the link below.

https://artowen.su.domains/mc/practicalqmc.pdf
Is it weird if I carry a phone with this and a solar charger around at all times, in case I suddenly get hurled back in time?
Oops, I mean't I DON'T understand the benfits of Flatpacks. Why do I need multiple ways to do the same thing? Do I have to worry about conflicts between Flatpaks and distro packages?
Hedge funds have their problems as investments, and what they do varies wildly, so I suspect Buffett is generally right, but he got really lucky with the timing of this bet. He made it right before a regime change with low interest rates that pretty much lifted all boats, especially large cap ones.
I wonder if each iteration gets closer as we go
I think it's a valid criticism.

Even with a lot of stuff built in, it's not very accessible and it's a chore to setup some things that could be just a checkbox or something.
But not cheaper than a dumb phone.
Is it open source? What is MK1?
According to [1,2], MI210 Memory Bandwidth is 1,638 GB/s, vs RTX A6000 of 768.0 GB/s, that HBM2e at 4096 bits really beats GDDR6 at 384bits on bandwidth anyway. So I would expect the MI210 to have better utilization for bandwidth-heavy workloads.

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-instinct-mi210....
[2] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/rtx-a6000.c3686
> I'd rather see van der Poel do inhuman things. Cadel Evans era was boring

How does doping make cycling a more interesting sport? I'm a mediocre fan, but Armstrong winning every year was boring. I would think that most fans like to see battles on climbs, attacks, etc... Doping makes you fastre, but whether it takes 45 or 42 minutes to do a certain climbs doesn't matter.
Though it's not like we're flitting from one bad analogy to another. Hydraulics are a great metaphor for understanding how computers work, for example.
> I’m not sure it was considered common sense when the bet was made.

the academic research even back then was pretty evident that a market cap weighted index fund has been outperforming hedge funds (over long periods like 10 yrs).

It's just that index funds way back, prior to vanguard, was not as easily accessible as it is today.
Most Popular Games on Steam: 735 Out of 1000 Working on Linux-Based Steam Deck
No, I meant that the "temporary" files themselves got deleted!!

There were different bugs, some deleted session.xml and some the files themselves.

I had actually found the reasons and prepared bug reports, but then had some life messes and lost the reports themselves.

Maybe I'll try to see if I can find the code again (it was plain calls to "deletefile" or something like that ended up being called by an error handler, if I'm not mistaken - it was so reckless code that I moved away from Notepad++)
So running some IBM COBOL batch job even faster.
> In the next five years, approximately 75% of leaders will adopt the Internet of Things and connected devices, as well as AI. 80% more will incorporate big-data analytics.

That must come from a buzzword generator.

> Arto Vahvanen is Head of Digital Offerings and Customer Experience at Framery

This post is a puff piece to sell office furniture.
That was the hopeful speculation flying around when Russia surprised to the downside in Ukraine, but the counterpoint is that the nuclear forces are the best funded part of the Russian military [1] and, due to arms reduction treaties and inspections, possibly one of the most inspected / least corruption rotted.

That Perun video also talks about tritium [2] and estimates that they probably have enough.

[1] https://youtu.be/xBZceqiKHrI?t=2162

[2] https://youtu.be/xBZceqiKHrI?t=2504
I think GP is talking about solutions like https://turbo.hotwired.dev/, which just paste server-generated HTML into the page instead of passing JSON into a client-side UI framework.
There are two types of developers:

Those who have tried Tailwind in a substantial app and loved it, and those who haven't tried it and think it's the worst thing ever.
Except when it runs my robot vacuum or deposits my checks or pays for bus fare or orders my lunch or balances my budget or shows me a video of how to fix something in my house or gets me into a concert without waiting at will call or prevents me from needing to develop film ever again or finds my wallet and keys when I lose them somewhere in the house or allows me to talk to my relatives on video without going on a plane or…

I swear the everyone acts like the only thing you can do with a smartphone is be hopelessly addicted to it. It’s the most useful single tool of all time.
You can say the test was imperfectly designed, but pointless? No.

The point of the test was to provide an objective measuring stick by which we might define the moment of arrival of machine thinking. As Turing observed, a question like “Can machines think” is painfully subjective and thus is a poor measuring stick. Hence the need for the test.
Can we get 1940s football? I'd love to see the return of leather helmets and no facemasks.
I came across this when setting up my new config, thanks for sharing!
12:50 has the picture of the plane in question with the mounting parts intact.
It does; and if it's LLaMa 2 7B Chat stock from Facebook, that was a little rushed imho, doesn't seem as baked in.

(GPTs matters but it's _very_ bizarre who it thinks it's coming from)
Argument by oracle
You could at least bother to read the titles; "Ovulation in a cytogenetically proved phenotypically male fertile hermaphrodite" is pretty clear.

> Histology of his removed ovary suggested that ovulation had, at some time, occurred. He had also fathered a child and this is believed to be the first case of a cytogenetically proved true hermaphrodite who is fertile as a male.

That's a single human body that produced both forms of gamete.
Because most people who used windows prior to windows XP used one of the 9x line (95, 98, 98se, Me), which were shal we say sub par to say the least, windows 2000 was part of the NT line which the masses didn't really get to use until XP.

then after XP came Vista which suffered from security pop up fatigue. and bad drivers. 7 was stable but microsoft had learned their lesson had tried to cut its life cycle short (not releasing service packs pushing os updates etc...) rather than let it it go one for decades like XP costing them licenses revenue. Ever since we have instead we have starting with widows 8 been given an unending pile of shitty os's that get worse with each forced update.
I've seen this type of writing a lot, and I agree with you: It's an excuse to draw attention to the writer.

Anecdotes aren't bad if they lead into something more substantive. E.g., "My experience with my kids in Greece got me interested in [concept], and here is the data that I collected; my conclusion is that..."

But no, it's usually like: Check out this experience I had or quirky thing I do. Now let's talk about something tangentially related.

It's really a need to vent being displayed most prominently. Maybe covid/social media/WFM/inflation/whatever you want to blame has made people lonely to the point of trying to add water cooler talk into their publications.
It’s identifying the camera, not the photographer. Of course there’s going to be metadata that could tie a camera to an owner, and some organizations may have checkin/checkout procedures that tie the camera to a specific person that is supposed to be in possession of it.

So… This camera owned by the New York Times, who only keeps track of the fact that an employee has a camera from the pool, not which camera in the pool. And if you’re not from some news organization, then I guess you’re in the burner camera category?
The Chernobyl exclusion zone is large because it was predominantly rural wilderness to begin with and no one cares to demand that more of it be opened up or cleaned up or otherwise have anything done with it.

The Fukushima exclusion zone is currently 143 sq miles, and half of the original Fukushima exclusion zone (a radius around a plant situated on the coast) wasn't on land. Based on the difference in capacity factor between nuclear and solar, a solar farm with the generation capacity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant would require approximately the same amount of land as the height of the Fukushima exclusion zone (including the parts over the sea), and about twice as much as the current exclusion zone.

Needless to say there are several hundred other nuclear power plants that have operated for decades and have no exclusion zone, even before you consider newer designs that reduce or eliminate the possibility of that failure mode.
(three) Books I loved in 2023
More famously, Joey Ramone didn't have one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWZJQyykeM
Are these LLMs you can run locally giving answers deterministically just as with, say, StableDiffusion? In StableDiffusion if you reuse the exact same version of SD / model and same query and seed, you always get the same result (at least I think so).
A moment that changed me: I stopped speaking at 19 – and found my artistic voice
would love for you to give cnvrs a shot!

- save characters (system prompt + temperature, and a name & cosmetic color)
- download & experiment with models from 1b, 3b, & 7b, and quant options q2k, q4km, q6k
- save, search, continue, & export past chats

along with smaller touches:
- custom theme colors
- haptics

and more coming soon!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/ERFxInZg
Every now and then I dust off Xcode to try and build myself some (pretty simple) native macOS app – just for funsies.

For reference I am a backend dev at a SaaS company dealing primarily in Python & Go, doing HTTP/gRPC services and talking to databases.

Last night I attempted to make a program that would display an image and allow the user to click the image and then display the hex value of the colour under the cursor.

I wanted my application to use a crosshair cursor and after an hour of looking at the docs for NSCursor[1] and stackoverflow I just gave up.

I don't know how someone gets started in this ecosystem but I am sure once you know it this stuff is easy.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nscursor
The bet was made in 2007. A Random Walk Down Wall Street [0], considered the book that makes the case for index funds over a hand-picked portfolio, was published nearly 25 years earlier (1973) and was sufficiently well-known to qualify as common sense. Though there are still plenty of investment managers that are motivated to claim otherwise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
I wouldn’t worry about it, most people won’t bat at an eye as long as you stayed a year and don’t have a streak of short positions.
I don't think anyone should buy any story that any cyclist was clean anywhere near a professional circuit.

My uncle was president of a national road cycling federation. He had been involved with cycling teams, professional and amateur, since the 50s. He never raced himself, but many people wanted to be his friends: My grandmother owned a pharmacy, and he had access to get anything he wanted out of said pharmacy. So I'd hear the stories over dinner, or as we were following the peloton on stages that were nearby. He'd provide "pharmacological support" not just to racers alone, but team managers. He was more important in the 60s and 70s, when testing was really bad, and the substances racers would need were almost entirely things you'd get at the pharmacy counter. As doping became more professionalized, there was more use for specialized doctors, and things you couldn't just get straight from the pharmacy supplies, but contact higher up in the drug supply chain would still be helpful getting more exotic things.

Eventually he got caught: He was in the news as the police detained him and a few lower-tier racers. But since this wasn't, say, Movistar or Visma-Lease getting caught, it wasn't in every news feed, but it's someone that had been helping doping for decades.

It might be too much to say that everyone riding the Vuelta or the Tour for the last 50 years was definitely doping, but I'd expect that it's far more than 50-50. People don't keep up with top talent that is doing EPO and blood transfusions by just eating a lot of pasta for breakfast.
And what will the damages be? Tort claims require a showing of harm.
“Eric Michelman wired a joystick to the zoom setting in Excel to make it easier to navigate large spreadsheets. He called it the ZoomLever. He demoed it at one of our team meetings and asked if anyone had any ideas for what we could use instead of the joystick. I had just bought a new VCR that had a remote with a wheel on it, and I brought it in the next day to show him. Eric asked if he could borrow it, showed it to the hardware guys, and soon we were playing with IntelliMouse prototypes with wheels on them.”

So this is how the mouse wheel came about.
Any-Point Trajectory Modeling for Policy Learning
Yeah, I've seen this twice in person.

A friend (he was experiencing psychosis, so that played a big part) fell prey to some bog-standard love scam when some bot added him on facebook. He ended up sending his life savings to the scammers. Everyone around him were warning him, trying to intervene - but to no avail. In the end he got mad at everyone trying to show the warning signs. Started ranting about people trying to ruin his love life.

Older family acquaintance that suddenly started to purchase gift cards. Gets all fired up when someone say that this is a scam. (The scam was crypto investments, and scammers would only take gift cards, yeah...)
The person was convinced it was legit, and got frustrated and pissed off that people were trying to hinder investments.
See also: 99% of institutions that get security vulnerability reports.
MLC Chat supports Mistral 0.2 (7B, q3f16_1, it seems)
Excerpts from "Inside Out, Microsoft–In Our Own Words" (2000)
A machine that tells you that the Golden State Warriors won the 2012 Stanley Cup by bowling a perfect 300 would be invaluable in 1602
Or you're running code compiled by the trusted compiler that generates some intermediate bytecode to run on your Boroughs or IBM System 38 and you're locked out of writing to the "True" underlying hardware by "the man" on some locked down mainframe.
Mistral Instruct does use a system prompt.

You can see the raw format here: https://www.promptingguide.ai/models/mistral-7b#chat-templat... and you can see how LllamaIndex uses it here (as an example): https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/blob/1d861a9440cdc9...
Nice! I have been using maplibre with django and htmx. I should try and put an example up there to share with others.
you can absolutely access and continue all your past chats in cnvrs!

would love to hear what you think:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/ERFxInZg
From my personal experience, all of the people who say they can't get a job actually have terrible work ethics and a fatal lack of self-awareness. Also, people who type like in your post, with all caps, emojis, poor punctuation even more so. Lack of professionalism and lack of good work ethic are strongly correlated.
> But who cares about the internals if the display, the thing via which users operates and consume content on their phones, is absolute garbage on the SE3 for 2024 standards?

I use an SE because I care more about having a home button, touch ID, and no notch than a faster and brighter screen. Not having to worry about burn-in is also nice. Different people put higher priorities on different things.
I think it would be far better to just store a bunch of epubs on your phone in case you get hurled back.

Textbooks on physics, chem, etc.
Even after 10 years, SourceTree is still my goto when I need UI click-and-drag.
> The immediate victims of the con would rather act as if the con never happened. Instead, they’re mad at the outsiders who showed them that they were being fooled.

In the USA, is this not the current state of the sociopolitical system? Let's take Philadelphia for example. Known to be long-time loyal to Party L. Yet, chronic poverty, plenty of gun violence, Etc. Yet in the most recent election, Party L replaced Party L. And the former Party L mayor had high praise for the new mayor (also Party L).

That is, the mayor who did little for me / us / them is a critic of others? How is that disconnect going to help anyone?
ANY is definitely a trap for the overconfident, as it is a qtype without a corresponding rdtype. Is there a wildcard for class? You got me there, I'd have to go look it up and I'm up to my armpits in something else at the moment.
While I can only speak for myself, I kindly disagree with the reasoning.

The main reason that made me stop using RSS/Atom in my private life was that most sites stopped providing full feeds and instead opted for only showing the headlines or headlines with a short snippet. Even those sites without any ads started doing that for some reason. If I have to use a browser to read the articles anyway I might as well simply check once a day my usual sites, because that will just work for the foreseeable future in contrast to any RSS/Atom alternative which is doomed to have the same fate.

The main reason that made me stop using RSS/Atom in my professional life was compliance and the only available RSS reader being Microsoft Outlook which is IMHO an awful RSS reader. Also I had ever so often a clash with our internal IT-Department because they assumed my frequent pulling of some job-related feeds were due to a computer virus and it just became a hassle to convince them again (and again) that it was not. So instead I made a daily reminder with a time slot of 15min to look manually at the few job related sites and use mostly the link-highlighting of the browser to identify if I already read something.

To sum it all up. As soon as RSS/Atom did not work anymore for me I opted to adapt in a way that would not force me to adapt again. Given that any 3rd party service is bound to be broken at some point I'd rather accept my fate than fighting the inevitable.
TIL about Intermediate Representation. Makes it easier to understand.
If anyone is interested, this is over a period of 15 years: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/research-insights/spiva/