skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh this is such a hard path to tread, and again the same time hard to know without hindsight what the right path is.

I come across lots of situations, with legitimately bright developers, who have replaced a standard subsystem either a home-grown one, usually for performance reasons.

In that moment in time, in that context, the general solution was less performant or had an ugly bug, or whatever, so they replaced it with something designed for the one specific context.

But then the context changed, and now heres this bastard-child that's been narrowly designed, and optimised for performance (so hard to maintain or change. ). And the developer is somwhere else.

But equally I've spent a career writing the "new standard solution", which of course started out as an alternative to "the standard solution". And in our context that -has- made a huge difference. So it eould by hypocritical if me to say "stay inside the box".

If you do need to get outside the box, I would give some advice though.

A) documentation. Nobody likes doing this, but this is the most important part. If it's not documented properly, it doesn't exist. And just the act of documentation will show you where the design is deficient.

B) write your code as clean as you can. Make it easy to follow. Make it easy to read. Try not yo be clever and where you are clever don't skimp on the comments. You'll thank yourself for this later.

C) as much as possible try and build for the general case, not the one in front of you. The more useful this vote is the more it'll be used. The more it's used, the easier it is to identify flaws.

In summary - stay on the main road. But if you do need to forge your own path, make sure it's done properly, not some single lane gravel dirt thing.
Ubuntu Looking at Applying Low-Latency Optimizations to Its Generic Kernel
I mean, they laid the groundwork 20 years ago if you look around for it. They made a huge emphasis (and still do to some extent) to show how Pokemon are intelligent beings and humanity is in a utopic state where they work alongside nature and pokemon to achieve goals. The anime emphasizes how a pokemon can defy a pokeball even after capture and can ignore a trainer's orders if inclined to. Pokemon have been shown to prefer or not prefer battling and have their own personal aspirations. some supplemental works detail how a pokeball is extremely comfortable and adapts to provide an environment that is suitable for each mon.

It's a razor-thin line but The Pokemon Company put a lot of advertising money into painting that clean image. Which is why it's survived years, decades of narrative against them, even from other million dollar corporations trying to argue animal abuse.
The last time NASA sent a spacecraft to the surface was technically 2009.
We have urgent problems and theoretical, future problems. CO2 levels are an urgent problem. NE can help here. Nuclear waste is not an urgent problem today and likely will never be as urgent as climate change.
Unless you're baking, in which case a scale really makes a world of difference!

When was the last time you really looked and said, geez, thank the lord I can divide 1lb 14oz into eights really easily in my head?
Fiscal rectitude is a good thing. Floating on dreams and sucking in money is a bad thing.

Sure, hurts when you have to hit the ground. You prefer a fantasy?

I totally get how actualized losses are going to burn, and burn bad. A bunch of people will be seeing outcomes they did not wish for, when they agreed to have international listed property and construction in their investment profile.

But, I am struggling to see how this is a bad outcome, and I am struggling to see why we should demonise the Chinese government and financial regulators for making it happen.
The Chinese government isn’t as powerful as you think it is, nor as centralized. All of these ghost cities (more like ghost districts) are local government driven, so the central government doesn’t care much to fill them. The local governments can push state activity there, like as happened in Ordos (city) and kangbashi (ghost district of city), but they can’t really control the rest of the economic activity needed to make it a thriving place. In Ordos’s case, the downfall of coal is going to depress the city no matter what, the central government won’t bother to save them.
I work on a product for building user interfaces for hardware devices. All the state management is done via incrementally updated, differential DataFlow systems. The interface is defined in code instead of graphically, but I think that's a feature, so that code can be version controlled.

I think there has been evolution in the underlying data computation side of things, but there are still unsolved questions about 'visibility' of graphical node based approaches. A node based editor is easy to write with, hard to read with.
Recently learned about “mega” atmospheric rivers, apparently what caused the Great Flood of 1862[0].

I’m curious if changes in the jet stream are correlated/could be used to predict the next “mega” atmospheric river event.

Any meteorologists around who could chime in?

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
I've always thought the Heaviside notation is a bit bizarre... is there any advantage to them at all?
I have an older Android (Samsung S5) with a physical hover feature - you literally hover your finger close to the screen and it triggers hover actions like previewing a message or opening a magnifier over text. It is called "Air View"[1] in Samsung lingo, and was coupled with other features ("Air Gesture"[2]) involving moving your hand over your phone to do things like scrolling or waking the screen.

It's finicky on occasion, but when you are used to it, it's surprisingly intuitive practical! It wasn't super popular though, and I imagine it could be annoying to users who didn't want it. It appears they only did it for a few models, ending in the S5.

That phone was pretty interesting, sensor-wise. I kind of miss using it, and I wonder if it would be practical nowadays.

[1] Air View: https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/mobile-devices/what-is...

[2] Air Gesture: https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/mobile-devices/what-is...
> We could have prevented at least a million Russian/Ukrainian deaths when the peace accord in Istanbul was nearly ratified.

On February 24, 2022 only 1 country could have postponed the war
How is it not under user's control? I use the free one from f-droid,
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.messages/
RWKV does not have context size, or in other way do look at it, it does have infinite one.

As far as I understand this, there is internal state that holds new information while reading input, later information can overwrite previous ones with is arguably human like behaviour.
Are there any advantages to this besides being the convention? Always wondered that.
GPS also often gets confused and suddenly thinks the car is on a frontage road instead of the freeway. Under this proposal, would the car suddenly brake to 25 mph when that happens?
Very problematic. How does the vehicle know which pole to talk to? How does it know it’s not incorrectly communicating with a pole on a parallel or perpendicular road, for example? Or indeed a road that is below another road, as sometimes occurs in urban environments. So so so many issues. How does the vehicle reliably know which road it’s on? How is the system kept invulnerable to bad actors? Etc etc
Sounds really interesting, and I'd also love a Firefox version :)
I’ve always really disliked the sharp knives metaphor. A chef’s choice of knife doesn’t impact their coworkers, nor does it end up on the plate to a customer.

If we were chefs a knife would be your laptop, your editor, your cli tools. Not your programming language.

A better metaphor would be the lumber in a building or the soil in a garden. I don’t know what I’d call ruby in this metaphor, maybe “lightweight wood that splinters”…
Technology changed the scale so many more people can do this, spread it around the globe in the blink of an eye and the fidelity is so much better that it is far less obvious that something is faked.

Fakes have always been 'socially unacceptable', it's a - one would hope - minority that engages in these things. But at scale the social norms get overwhelmed and then you won't be able to easily deal with the consequences. For instance: the legal system would be a venue to seek redress but if it happens millions of times then the legal system breaks down. So 'at scale' is a substantial modifier for any process.
No, Andrew Left. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Left#:~:text=In%202016%... and https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/andrew-left-...

Basically, the Hong Kong stock exchange is increasingly a scam as well.
Aha, but a "wins above replacement" is a metric that can be calculated in the world of baseball where

1. Every player is guaranteed to bat. Baseball players are largely fungible, except the pitcher maybe. Soccer is not like that since different players play completely different roles. In fact, there are players in soccer whose entire mandate is to not attack (and thus not score goals)

2. Even if you find such a metric in soccer, both these games have the advantage that engineering doesn't have - a bounded set of rules. Engineering is too creative, too experimental, and relies on innovation and agility.
You need to mark that card with lowest recall for leeches to happen. If you mark it with second lowest one, it won't become leech.

If it becomes leech, it will be ignored entirely by anki.

All of that is too much expertise about how to mark cards instead of allowing you to do it intuitively.
As the other reply said, in QCD you have "3 things that combine to nothing." If I had to guess why they are not so common I would say that the more variables you add in a theory the more complicated you make it. So by Occam's razor we try to go for the simpler models/structures.
Get involved with your local Republican party and work to kick out the loons. This kind of legislation flourishes when the party that proposes it has no fear of competition.
LineageOS followes the Android versions. There's a LineageOS 20 for Android X, but you can use LineageOS 19 if you want to stay on X-1. It usually takes a few months after Android release for LineageOS to catch up.
If this was in CA, since 2022 non disclosure agreements that restrict employees from disclosing mistreatment in the workplace are illegal. This applies retroactively.
Problem is when you get owned during that window and get slammed for not blocking sooner.

Then you block sooner and get slammed for blocking too soon.

Repeat for 1000 web services.
On a public road, not in most countries. But racetracks are a thing, and regular people do go there, in regular cars.

Most cars do have electronic speed limiters today, which are often set to values that reflect the mechanical limitations of the vehicle (e.g. the designed speed rating on the factory equipped tires, etc)
In my experience, that click also acted as power off.
It's interesting how 'any use of the tool' gets mixed up with 'responsible use of the tool' and that people who engage in responsible uses of the tool somehow feel addressed when it is very clear that you didn't have them in mind when you wrote that.
Do you exercise?

I forced myself to do workout classes like it was important non negotiable work
Tell HN: Subreddit with Millions of Users Bullied me for no reason
I have always been a guest user of Reddit, but I signed up a few days ago for the first time to be able to write comments (this comment actually [1])

I wrote a comment [2], and apparently, I was told my comment violated their subreddit rules, resulting in a ban. When I politely asked which community guideline I violated, they silenced me. What is wrong with Reddit?

How is it possible for a community on Reddit with millions of users to bully a person for politely expressing their views and asking a question? I am not a political person, far from it actually, but they are being bullies.

Screenshot of comment and their response:
https://ibb.co/D53xmhv

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10hxrol/comment/kjh9b7v/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1adbahp/comment/kk19iu5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Another post in this thread mentions 1.8 million disposable vapes being sold per week in Australia. So that corresponds to 131 EV batteries per week. Or roughly 48000 EV batteries per year. 87000 EVs were registered in Australia in 2023.

Make of that what you want, but disposable electronics to administer nicotine seem to be a major waste.
Or, they asked ATC if they had any idea what might be a smoother ride, and that's what ended up being suggested.

If you listen to ATC radio at all, it's a lot more anecdotal than you'd otherwise suspect, with private planes that fly higher sometimes reporting smoother air at higher flight levels.
This is absolutely delightful! The Ruby community seems to punch above its weight when it comes to producing fun, joyful documentation.
I'm not sure why you're continuing down your argumentative line. Do you really not see the forest through the trees? You have even rebuttalled against the other person, you just keep saying "nuh uh what about X"
I think the have a pci-e card on the computer playing the game. The card sends hardware level debugging information (memory dma) to another computer.

This second computer is connected to the first computer by usb, to spoof a HID (mouse, keyboard, controller etc). It reads the data from the pci card on the first computer and sends inputs via usb.

Done right, and it can’t be detected via software. Behaviour analysis still works for aim hacks.

Now days I think there are even devices that will tap the hdmi stream and use the video data to calculate inputs and the send the input via usb/hid/controller.
This works on console I think!
This caught my attention (heh) because it is research done on a commodity desktop computer.
I would like to know whose stands to benefit from this the most. Is it about improving quality of life for patients? Or to save costs for health insurers who won't have to pay for treatment of the side effects of the more aggressive options?
Sometimes I go over 100 on I-70 in rural Colorado/Utah after Grand Junction when there's a huge straight road and you can see for 20 miles and there's no one around
I was preparing to quit my previous job and begin working full time (I'd already started part-time), and just before I'd planned to do so, he changed his mind and let me and a bunch of others go. At least I got paid for the time I'd already worked.
As a German, I have to fiercely object here (:

More seriously: Almost all cars in Germany are limited to 250km/h (155 mph). Higher limits for more powerful cars are also found in the 280-290 km/h (173-180 mph) range.

So, de facto, even in Germany speed limiters have been a thing for decades. The discussion should thus be more about the limit, rather than the device itself.

Obviously this is different than imposing a „+10 mph“ limit, since the car would have to know the speed limit of the current road.
Likely difference between international and U.S. numbers.
These models don't have a fixed context size and are progressively fine-tuned for longer and longer contexts. The context length also doesn't impact inference cost.

Another aspect of performance is not just how well does the trained model perform, but is it data efficient (performance per token trained)? The comparison with Pythia (an open GPT) is shown in the article.

The rwkv4 paper is quite detailed and has examples of prompt and responses on the last few pages

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048

And iirc rwkv5 is very similar to retnet which is detailed here

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08621

Edit now that I thought more about, the data efficiency seems like a highly important aspect given their noble goal to be fully multi lingual. This is fairly interesting theoretically as well and for other applications where abundance of data is not a given
Well where in a state there's no word in a language to differentiate between a citizen and someone of a title ethnicity, i can call it an ethnostate. Say Armenian or Polish: there's no 2nd word in their languages for that. Because there are so few citizens who aren't of title ethnicity, and they are so marginalised and subject to such a quick assimilation, there isn't even a need to bother inventing a word.

If there is such a word say, "Kazakh" vs "Kazakhstani" or "Russkiye" vs "Rossiyane", existence of such a word shows that this state is an empire.

Sometimes the "ethnic" word simply doesn't exist, say in "Canadian" or "American" for U.S.: it's only citizenship, there's no ethnicity at all - neither the word nor substance - showing a "melting pot" country.
I'm rather sorry because this is performative bullshit by Wiener which if anything might cause his party to lose a few races outside of California.
You have either been very lucky or have a very optimistic viewpoint :-)

These things are never overt (they get weeded out early) but subtle and one has to read between the lines (and take into consideration one's own biases) to correctly gauge someone else's depth. Enthusiasm should not be mistaken for Capability. The key for proper Management is to read Engineers correctly and provide Training (introductory or more) where they might be deficient/needed/based-on-company-domain without anybody asking for it explicitly. AFAIK nobody does this; you are supposed to be magically "productive" from day 1 and are expected to continue at a "high-level of productivity" independent of the stage of the project/product/your life problems/etc. which is an impossibility.
The associated paper abstract claims to have broken sudo by rowhammering register values. It stands to reason that these mitigations thwart the found attacks - the commit message points to the paper as the reason for these mitigations, after all.

Preventing known attacks is not pointless at all.
Main issue is we can never argue what's "better" 99% of the time, especially while in the heat of the conversation. And in this case Palword isn't necessarily "better" unless you utterly hate the core loop of Pokemon as a turned based monster raising battler.

Which apparently many people do. But we're now arguing against game genres, not competitors. Comparing Pokemon to Palworld makes about as much sense as comparing Skyrim to Breath of the Wild. They are superfically open world adventure games with a large area to explore and basic combat, but the lore, battle loop, aesthetic, narrative feel, and a dozen other factors make them night and day. You will very likely not like BOTW at all if you go in expecting Skyrim and vice versa.
Some cars already have completely offline systems that read traffic signs. They’re pretty simple to design computers to read because they’re in a standardized format. They do have less than perfect accuracy, however.
Maybe sound is an illustrative example. The air pressure is a positive scalar quantity. We are interested in the deviations from the mean. Deviations can be both positive and negative. A positive and a negative deviation cancel (in absolute terms: a larger than normal pressure and lesser than normal pressure will average to something more typical)
The harm here isn't AI, or if it is the harm is minimal. Media companies have routinely organised vicious smear campaigns since forever. If you spend time really watching politics, there are some grave injustices peddled by insensitive mobs. I expect we can date that sort of activity back to Roman times.

AI is going to make life pretty miserable for good looking women in the public eye. Maybe. I think we can probably social-out the interest as this becomes widespread, it isn't like this actually reflects badly on Taylor Swift. But that has always been a serious hazard of public life.

We've had this sort of thing happen before [0]; IMO this could be argued as harm reduction. I'm not sure the argument would be carried, but there is a case to be made. The important thing is to acknowledge this is easy to do and everyone agrees that nudes should be ignored.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak
In a tangential but related topic, you can improve floating point arithmetic precision by varying bases :)
Well I am going to bluntly disagree, sorry. I am dismissive. But in the end, I will be right and you will be wrong. That's the pattern in technology.

1. Some technology is invented
2. It changes the status quo, directly or indirectly, on society.
3. There is some degree of backlash, regulations, and outrage.
4. Everyone accepts the new reality and forgets what it was even like before. Step 3 is often forgotten and considered quaint.

The reality is this is an unsolveable situation. Porn deep-fakes are here. There is nothing that will change that. 20 years from now, celebrities will just accept that they are going to exist.

I'm not even arguing that the technology is good (im not sure it is) or that I support it.

I am arguing that it's inevitable.

You think I am going to be irrelevant, but I think it's the opposite.

In the last century we have invented number technologies responsible for megadeaths (cars, air pollution, carpet bombing). If those couldn't be stopped after killing thousands every year, then neither will this.
Frontage roads are more of a southern USA thing than a west coast thing.

You could just speed limit the car to the highest speed limit in the state/county/within 100 meters and still do some good.
Yeah, I switched to wildcard certs at some point for this reason.
"Pounds of fuel" are used when, after declaring an inflight emergency, ATC requests information for on ground fire rescue along with number of souls on board.
That's what they want you to think. He's probably been replaced by a Chinese AI.
I don't like this idea any more than anyone else, but I think that this is inevitable. The American public in general (IDK about CA specifically) not only has no problem with a nanny state, they welcome it. The idea that freedom is valuable even though people will do bad things with it is very much a minority view nowadays, in my experience.
I think the essay is not about Maxwell's theory being hard for college students to understand, but rather, for other 19th century physicists to understand. And that's mainly because Maxwell himself didn't do a very good job of communicating his theory at the time, so it took other talented physicists to rework, explain, and popularize his ideas.
I haven't started a single thread. People just beat me to everything, but that's OK with me. I share the links on another platform where people don't read HN. ;-)

But I try to make comments that are helpful to others, based on my long experience, a lifetime of reading, and interesting hobbies. Sharing is caring, though I'll now and then go off on a rant about some vile behavior.

You'd be surprised what registers with people. I got a lot of follow-ups when I commented on optics and photography. Nice.

But I am not in it for the points. I don't even know what to do with them. Just to be in good company, find a wealth of information (I hit the "new" link ) and maybe contact some neat people.