skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that there's a good case to be made that, when these kinds of companies turn out to be unprofitable, they should be spun into a semi-public service like USPS (as its own thing, not under any existing institution). Much like mail delivery, there's not much room for innovation on the basic service of, "Provide interface and space to upload music, provide interface to enjoy music." If whoever buys SC has to change it substantially in order to justify the costs of purchasing it + maintaining it + profiting, that would be a massive loss culturally and economically. What is the government for if not to protect foundational cultural and economic entities?
I'm surprised by this, regarding sqrt. The standard stipulates correct rounding for simple arithmetic, including sqrt ever since 754 1985.

Unless of course we are talking about the 80 bit format.

If that's not the case, would be interested to know where they differ.

Unfortunately for the transcendental function the accuracy still hasn't been pinned down, especially since that's still an ongoing research problem.

There's been some great strides in figuring out the worst cases for binary floating point up to doubles so hopefully an upcoming standard will stipulate 0.5 ULP for transcendentals. But decimal floating point still has a long way to go.
bill burr has a funny bit on this.
Generative models are just a tool. Artists are mad because this tool empowers other people, who they view as less talented, to make art too.

The camera and 1-hour film developing didn’t destroy oil paintings, it just enabled more people to have control over what was on their walls.
I believe that UC writes are indeed slow, but are not actually fully synchronous. PCI "write posting" is a thing:

> Writes to MMIO space allow the CPU to continue before the transaction reaches the PCI device. HW weenies call this “Write Posting” because the write completion is “posted” to the CPU before the transaction has reached its destination.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.6/PCI/pci.html
Weird. Inflation pushing high prices higher, away from folks than can afford them
App Store and Play Store.
Nope, but it’s ok for you to read their recipe if they place it on the internet (research paper), and use it to make your own drug.
OpenAi it's an unreliable provider. Even if their model don't change as they say, there's a current issue where they blanked added a guardian tool to enforce content policies that are obscure and the tool is over eager, causing quite a stir across startups where this manifests on the surface like an outage.

It will get better as they fix it and tune it, but their entire release pipeline is absolutely bonkers, like no forewarning, no test environment, no opt out. It's scary amateurish for a billion dollar company.
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What's wrong with mswin.vim that's shipped with every vim and neovim that you need to reinvent the wheel?
The risk is high that SoundCloud will follow the Flickr fate in some "creative" fashion.

Flickr became the main host for very different kind of niche photography, especially analog photography or photography with vintage gear and remained like this for some time even after sold to Yahoo.

But at one moment they came up with an idea that a free account could have only less than 1000 photos if it had more photos then it got taken offline. A lot of good content got destroyed by this. For example there was an account that had taken 10s of photos with 100s of different kind of vintage lenses, had perhaps 2000-3000 photos - all gone.
When a lens is designed, typically an optimiser is used to try to find a combination of lens elements that focuses light of all wavelengths to the same spot across the whole image. If all the same type of glass is used, then it's hard for the optimiser to find a solution that corrects for the chromatic aberration across all the spectrum, because if it adjusts (for instance) something to fix the green aberration then it'll mess up the blue and vice-versa. But if a different type of glass is used such as fluorite, which has a different pattern of chromatic dispersion, then that gives the optimiser an extra degree of freedom, so it is more able to independently control the aberration in the different colours and make a lens that performs well.
> will probably get you new acquaintances soon ... 33 is hardly even "getting middle aged".

Ha, yes, saying "old" is definitely being melodramatic. I suppose I am concerned that, given my current bland state, I will have a hard time creating and sustaining connections with the ample time I have left.
CTRL+S saves each page even if you lose FTP access. Markup is great. Websites don't need to be 100MB applications to display some photos and four paragraphs.

[edit] wow that signature made me do a double take
The fact that it seems to be battle tested already (by Notion AI with "tens of millions of users worldwide") is really appealing
Sure, but then you need an additional line of rationale and logic to cover those other cases.
> Also pretty much every supplement I've ever bought has text on the label like "These statements have not been reviewed/approved by the FDA,"

And this is exactly what was meant when it was said supplements are essentially exempt from truth in advertising laws. They can and do regularly make health claims with little to no evidence to back them up.
No, and I don't think anyone is arguing that LLMs should be illegal either.

I personally am not against LLMs training on things the operator has rights to, and even training on copyrighted things, but I am against it laundering those things back out and claiming it's legal.
> It's just a coincidence that only works in base-10.

What? Not at all. In fact, trying it in other bases, as well as with other numbers of digits (in both base 10 and other bases), is a useful way to get some insights into why it happens.
I remember when Soundcloud first launched and it was specifically aimed at musicians to encourage collaboration, so its nice that it still occupies that niche pretty well.

“We both came from backgrounds connected to music,” co-founder Alex Ljung said in a recent interview with wired.com. “And it was just really, really annoying for us to collaborate with people on music — I mean simple collaboration, just sending tracks to other people in a private setting, getting some feedback from them, and having a conversation about that piece of music. In the same way that we’d be using Flickr for our photos, and Vimeo for our videos, we didn’t have that kind of platform for our music.”

From: Wired, 2009: SoundCloud Threatens MySpace as Music Destination for Twitter Era

https://archive.is/3uFk9
There isn't. It's just another excuse to justify spending lots of money on things that make no sense.
One thing that makes it less surprising is that there are lots of numbers which map to the same result - for example all permutation of a bag of digits. I checked, and there are only 55 distinct results (54 excluding 0000) from applying the process to all 4-digit numbers, which leaves less space for lots of cycles.
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So it does. That was not an option in GPs post though.
Yes, it's very interesting that a concept that is now so widely used in general statistics was first used in a brewery. It helps that Guinness is still the best globally available macro beer (imo).

One of those quirky little intersections between mathematics and practical business outcomes.
Well done on putting this far more succinctly than I could have. You’ve absolutely nailed the top three issues with Google search in a nutshell.
I wish there was claude instant in there is a damn fine model often overlooked
I guess you mean Apple and Nintendo right? I'm not sure if Switch is really so comparable to an iPhone though.
A major cause of the problem is that when a user sits at a computer or terminal or even a cellphone to do a certain task, software (and hardware) from a large number of producers is often involved between between entry and the awaited response, and so there is no way for any single software (or hardware) producer to possibly improve their particular product(s) so as to produce a time saving to the user amounting to a significant percentage of the total time. Thus, any significant incentive for the producer to do a little better is well hidden. Not to mention that if you speed up the toll booths, you may get so many vehicles bumper-to-bumper on the bridge that it collapses.
This is totally anecdotal, but I suspect this is a skill that varies across the population. A buddy in high school was uncannily accurate when guessing the time without access to a watch or clock. His error bar would increase with the amount of time past between "experiments", but was never more than ~5 minutes out, at a three or four hour interval. Inside an hour he was always +/- 1 minute. He thought it was unremarkable, and that we were weirdos for always quizzing him about the time.

Feinman writes somewhere about training himself to accurately perceive a minute, with some success.

I'm curious whether there are any human studies about this.
your point that you raised seems irrelevant to the specific question at hand.

"Regarding the "governing" status of Hamas, I would observe that the overwhelming majority of Gazans are too young to have ever voted, and that Hamas seized and maintains power coercively, so we should be careful attributing ideas like rightful governing status to Hamas"

I agree, but I did not attribute "rightful" status to Hamas. It's just a factual observation that Hamas had de-facto governing control of the Gaza strip. Elections are not a pre-condition to control

Given that it had control of the Gaza strip, Hamas, as the controlling authority, has responsibility for civilians under its control, not Israel, at least legally

if you want to argue that regardless of legal responsibilites, Israel is still responsible for those civilians, despite Hamas control, that's a separate line of reasoning that leads to its own implications
"Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans
You are correct, unfortunately.
We could make the argument that forcing someone to travel to obtain a unique experience isn’t better than depriving the traveler of their wish to experience something unfamiliar.
I had the very fortunate experience of being aggressively sought out by a good recruiter for a shoe-in role at a small company. I wish I had some tips to share but I think my experience is non-replicable.
So that means it pretty meaningless, right? The procedure has to yield cycles, and in some bases with some numbers of digit lengths you always get the same cycle of length one, and in others you don't.
The whaling station is fascinating. It makes me wonder what would be the blend of smells in the air.
This is a much better leaderboard: https://evalplus.github.io/leaderboard.html

I've seen the CanAiCode leaderboard several times (and used many of the models listed), but I wouldn't use it to pick a model. It's not a bad list, but the benchmark is too limited. The results are not accurately ranked from best to worst.

For example the deepseek 33b model is ranked 5 spots lower than the 6.7b model, but the 33b model is definitely better. WizardCoder 15b is near the top while WizardCoder 33b is ranked 26 spots lower, which is a wildly inaccurate ranking.

It's worth noting that those 33b models score in the 70s for HumanEval and HumanEval+ while the 15b model scores in the 50s.
> They paid lawmakers...if we were talking about some other country it would be called bribery

No, they did not and no we would not.

If you have evidence of Apple or Google cutting a cheque to any lawmaker, personally, I'll commit here and now to paying you six figures for it, because it's worth ten times that much in the open.
I’m all for turning a blind eye to bootleg so long as it’s not just the original with a minor edit, but how do Soundcloud circumvent any dmca type behaviour that would prevent YouTube effectively offering the same service?

I have noticed with YouTube that DJ sets often have muted gaps - I assume they’re legally allowed to play the muted music but the channels don’t want to deal with combatting copywrite for their content - it’s a damn shame seeing as I cannot find unmuted versions of some sets I’d like in full.
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Ah, insults in reply to polite conversation? Time for me to bow out of this trainwreck of an "argument".
Apple randomly guessing how many users would have bought the app through the store and charging that amount to another company sounds like an easy anti-competitive lawsuit.
> But you have to be really careful to not confuse the 'value' of healthcare with the cost of healthcare.

Do you? Regardless of the price in other countries or what processes are currently “required”, there’s the price you have to pay.
If you are going to buy a car, you either “value” it at or above the price you pay, or you don’t buy it. Why is healthcare different?
If you make a space for community, and give it what it needs, it'll flourish. But distain it in search of cash and it'll die.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can find a business next to the community, to keep money coming in. But it has to be something more than advertising, or you'll be chasing your tail til it falls off.

There's still a future for a music business combined with community. There's many problems for both fans and artists that haven't been solved. Just takes somebody to solve it, without focusing on the profit. If they're very lucky it'll last.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-announces-breakth...

The only reason Caltech is doing this is that a really rich person with delusions gave them 100 million dollars to research space based solar power. They know as well as anyone with a bit of RF experience that what they're doing isn't really increasing the TRL of space based solar power transmission. It's just humoring the donor for the money.

The best that can be said is that it's the first flex pcb RF system in orbit. That's kind of cool but as a person looking to be inspired and improve things it seems like a significant waste of money. It's not like high power RF transmitters haven't been tested in vacuum in LEO before. There have been many, many radar satellites.

They should've been spending they $100 million attempting to make coherent kilometer scale transmitting apertures on Earth and actually demo something that'd prove the feasibility of space based solar power transmission.
> There's a big human element in the law that I think engineers, especially "code as law" blockchain people, often overlook or misunderstand.

The point with the XORing is that you can't blame one person for the infringement.

Imagine twin brothers. One of them steals a painting and is caught on camera. The judge knows that one of the twins is guilty. However, he can't convict either of them exactly because of the human element in the law.
There's also Lego trains: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/express-passenger-train-6...

The sensors and engine can be controlled via Bluetooth Low Energy: https://github.com/topics/poweredup
At least for me, a lot of people don't really care about my hobbies, other than the people you share them with.

I play a sport in a club. When I hang out with those people... yea it's all we talk about almost. Nobody in my family or friends play this sport, nor do they care to talk about it.

So I just would not expect whatever it is you pick up to be broadly interesting to other people either.
I'm not from the US so I am admitting to being somewhat ignorant here but my understanding is that Banking Consumer Protection laws (and attitudes) are very different in the US at least when compared to where I live (Australia).

Here there is a huge amount of public pressure to regulate behavior of banking sector targeting things like deceptive practices, predatory lending etc. See for example the 2017 Royal Commission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_Miscondu...). The conservative government fought tooth and nail against and were heavily pressured into it due to massive public support for it.

I am unsure what the US equivalent of a Royal Commission is (it is essentially a Public Enquiry with the power to compel witnesses to give evidence under oath and investigative powers to gather evidence etc.) I don't think the same kind of attitude exists for a targeted investigation into the US banking sector, at least the messaging we get over here is US is very against stricter regulations.
Wouldn't that mess with RNGs?
Bro you and I had the same origin story. Remember Rampage Toolz!?? I ended up learning a lot from that author. Winsock.

For me my first programmed action was adding a button to a form, coloring it yellow, and having it exit program. I was absolutely shocked and geeked out.

Still just a hobby for me, but I have something in the works. I hope to share it with you all here soon.
how do you check that ?
This underestimates the freedom you get with such a phone by a lot. It's not just about tracking but also about being able to run what you want how you want it and having full access to your device like with a desktop: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-daily-driven-in-profession...
For game development we had them off as well because of performance issues. Most stuff calculates around 0 so it was pretty common to trigger denorms.

The slowing down on Intel platforms has always frustrated me because denorms provide nice smoothing around 0.

At the same time it was nice only having to consider normal floating point when trying to get more accuracy out of calculations, etc.
If paid, can't you use chatgpt ? I believe khanmigo is based on openai GPT4
This is easy for me to say in hindsight, but a graph of queries per user, for the top 100 accounts would have lit up the issue like a Christmas tree. But it's the kind of chart you stuff on the full page of charts that are usually not interesting. So many problems have been avoided by "huh, that looks weird" on a dashboard.

In a more targeted search, asking Splunk to show out where the traffic is coming from on a map, and a pie chart of the top 10 accounts they're coming from would also be illuminating.

But again, this is easy for me to say in hindsight, after the issue has been helpfully explained to me in a blog post. I don't claim could have done any better if I were there, my point is that you need to see inside the system to be operate it well.
What you describe is certainly ideal.

But we don't have the ideal. We have employers calling the shots about what "we close at 5pm" means, and employees who would love to explicitly, in very clear language, explain why coming in within minutes of closing ruins their day. But if they did that, they'd lose their jobs.

I'm not saying we shouldn't fix what's broken. I'm saying because it's broken and that while it's broken, don't be an asshole to people stuck in the broken system.
I will only say there are two important legal issues to keep in mind in cases like this:

1. Every company is, in some respect or another, technically a monopolist with regard to its own products. Indeed if this were not true most would go out of business rather quickly.

2. Different legal standards apply to a company selling a finished product to customers vs a company licensing/selling a partial solution to other manufacturers who then sell a finished product to customers.

If you are interested these two principles are a decent starting point for investigation.
This and social media and almost always the worst possible representation of an artwork. Crunched, cropped and compressed into an inferior version of itself.

We’ve forgotten how to appreciate digital artworks.
I could try, but I live in a small midwestern town which is mostly blue-collar (living here to be close to family, also LCOL). The odds of overlapping interests nearby are pretty low.

There is a major metro ~1 hr away but the commute would be killer.
Curious to hear your experience. I built a simple RAG using GPT4-Turbo some weeks ago. Only used it for a few hours but was mostly satisfied. I did notice if I sent it too many documents, it would not find the (one) doc I was looking for.
Because without a car you walk, take the bus, train, bicycle. Without healthcare you get sicker or die.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says global consensus on AI is emerging
I patched the update error in production tonight and there is a feature to delete existing ones, thanks for helping out!
Dont be interesting. Just do for yourself and your own enjoyment.
You must be kidding. This thread is full of comments about remapping ESC to Caps Lock and other amenities like that.
Sorry, I forgot the URL of the official UK government website where I can type in names of people, jobs and newspapers and be told if they are upper class or not. I guess you will just have to make up your own mind the way I have.
10 years ago, students needed to spend like $300 to $600 of their own money each time they designed something like I described above.

Today, it's like $30 a try.

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Yes, I'm pretty confident that anyone will get it within... 20 tries or so. Or do you think that students 10 years ago got it right on their first try as well?

Like seriously: if you screw up just try try again. It's so much cheaper to get PCBs done today that it's ridiculous. And KiCAD is now a good free solution with calculators and all sorts of crap that Eagle never gave us.

I wish I learned in this easy and cheap environment y'all kids are in today.

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As long as you aren't like, selling this stuff to the public but are instead just doing hobby level tinkering.... You are probably fine.
Does it work for different base systems? As someone who failed high school calculus (i.e., a moron), I would imagine that it's an artifact of base-10.
I built a Rust TinyML compiler for my master thesis project: https://github.com/matteocarnelos/microflow-rs

It uses Rust procedural macros to evaluate the model at compile time and create a predict() function that performs inference on the given model. By doing so, I was able to strip down the binary way more than TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers and other engines. I even managed to run a speech command recognizer (TinyConv) on an 8-bit ATmega328 (Arduino Uno).
4) A seat heater typically uses about 50-100W, so yah, big difference.

6) Yah, it's pretty magical, which can be annoying all right. It's the "I want to leave at time X" function on ours.

7) Interesting; not my experience. I'm comparing a Tesla & a Mazda. Top spec winter tires on both. 510 N-m of torque so it'll easily spin if you push too hard on the accelerator, but I find it responds much better to the standard winter driving technique of not too much accelerator...
A beginner tutorial is also not used frequently by users, but that doesn't make it a bad investment. I an LLM can help a lot with getting familiar with the tool it could be pretty valuable, especially after a UI rework etc.
I'm so used to self checkout, last time I used a manned checkout I started bagging my stuff by habit.

(Only used it because I bought an electronic with a security hockey puck that had to be unlocked.)
If that was true, why would any business subject themselves to California’s usually more stringent regulations?

> U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in 2021 rejected Epic's antitrust claims against Apple. But the judge found that Apple violated California's unfair competition law by barring developers from "steering" users to make digital purchases that bypass Apple's in-app system, which Epic contends could save them money with lower commissions.