skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of polynomial time algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems can be interpreted as primal dual algorithms for the corresponding LPs, e.g. mst, matching(bipartite or general graph), network flow, matroid intersection, submodular flow. The extreme point solutions of some LPs also have interesting properties that you can exploit to design approximation algorithms for NP-complete problems. For example, you can prove that there is always a variable with value at least half in an extreme point solution of the steiner forest problem, so you can just iteratively round a variable and resolve the LP to get a 2-approximation. When I was in grad school that was the only 2-approximation algorithm for this problem. Another interesting thing is that you can solve LPs with exponentially many constraints as long as you have a polynomial time separation oracle.
Well, they need to act with integrity towards safety regulators, anyway. I wouldn’t say the auto industry, broadly, has the greatest reputation for integrity.
It's also very much illegal. First, there's no way to actually opt-out of tracking, which is a complete disregard of GDPR basics, since almost all tracking options, including highly invasive options, are marked as mandatory. Secondly, the law requires that opting-out is as easy as opt-ing in -- since you can opt-in with one click you are also legally required to be able to opt-out with one click.

Filing a report with the German data protection authority.
Indeed. The moral authority - indeed 'imperative' - that many use to justify the Wests' crimes around the world, simply dissolves in face of the fact that the USA is still very much a slaver state.

The rest of the world sees this, Americans don't. That needs to change, for the positive.
I don't have anything much to say to that, but I can't resist observing in passing as a comment chain we've escalated from quarterly shortermism to a management transformation process that played out over 24 years at remarkable speed.

If after a quarter-century Boeng have reduced their standards to still-better-than-road-safety, I don't think it is fair to say their management are doing anything that badly wrong.
Has anyone considered the potential of integrating the recent ILP breakthrough into transformer models? Given ILP's prowess in optimization, I'm curious about its application in enhancing transformer efficiency, especially in inference speed. Could this ILP method streamline computational resource allocation in transformers, leading to a significant leap in AI model optimization? Keen to hear thoughts on practical challenges and theoretical implications of merging these two fields.
Funny. A 60+ IPR jihadi trying to copy/claim dated pirate parlance.
As clown garage shop I already have access to the ECU, TCU and so on. And can change lots of internal settings. That's what we all did in the first auto-mechanics course.
Tethers already been fined for misleading people by saying their coins are 1-1 backed by USD. That’s evidence
> How does a constant factor (capitalism) explain a change?

You show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.
My wife has my passphrases in her password manager and I have her passphrase in my password manager.

This is maybe not the most secure way to do it, but this is good enough for our threat model.

These are offline password managers.
"Black or poor criminal"?

WTF, seriously?
> Interesting what others find appealing.

I love the Dracula color scheme; its appeal to me lies in the combination of a dark theme with a touch of playfulness without being childish.
this is known as backpressure in the biz. your queues eventually have to start returning errors as they get backed up, and those errors need to be reflected in the producers and ultimately fed up to the end user for feedback. no big deal
PSA: silicon is not silicone.

If it is plastic-like, it is silicone.

If it is glass-like, it is silicon.

Getting these details right gives your writing credibility. Getting it wrong takes it away.
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TL;DR fun math no impl
In practice, for quantum mechanical systems, you get astronomical durations once the systems get even slightly complicated. It's possible to estimate and bound the recurrence time using the distribution of energy levels.

Even the simplest chemical systems, like a single 10 atom molecule in vacuum, can have recurrences of years. A glass of water would eclipse the age of the universe, etc.
I think, you just killed a journalist or something :/

You see, tracking your every behavior for targeted advertisement is really important for producing articles from copy-pasted dpa releases, Reddit sourced reports, and AI written rage-bait - a valuable and vital force in your very democracy. In face of such great responsibility, bending the laws a bit to gain your consent regardless of willingness, is of course morally mandated.

XOXO
The Fourth Estate
I know a few people who have been unemployed since July and October due to being laid off. Some of them found jobs but not others. That's 6+ months of searching.

Given you're not in financial distress I would suggest spending a few weeks or a month learning without a bootcamp to see how you like it. For example https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/ is often referenced as a good intro to programming and web development course and it's free.

If you still like it after that then either continue self learning or try to find a bootcamp that has a good deal around employment like you only have to pay them after you land a job or they have a really strong system around helping you find employment.

I'm pretty sure the market for hiring junior / beginner developers right now is going to be brutal, bootcamp or not. Jobs are weird though, there's so much luck involved around being in the right place at the right time. If programming is something you really want to do, being prepared for that type of scenario is of course worth it.
Does fTPM not crash anymore? I had the same too, have it disabled since then, can it be enabled now? I also have AMD 5xxx series
They have a decent brand name and mindshare but I don’t think the hardware is compelling enough.

Loads of copy cats and the 5 generation feels like it’s at the edge of what the market can bear pricing wise.

Idk I just don’t see the IPO rationale
Not only that. I used to run an email server and despite the fact that I had all of that one day outlook decided to consider my IP address (on AWS EC2) as spam and thus reject emails.

To this day is too much effort running your email service. I moved to an account to Infomaniak that works good and I don't dove all my data to Microsoft or Google.
I like the very idea of applying this transformative AI technology to make values. I have been doing research and always been a member of research team ever since I started the ML journey. But, I've always valued applications that can solve problems and found myself inclined to building apps. I would love to work at Answer.AI. How can I apply?
>> "The unifying principle is that all males, regardless of how they identify or why, should respect women's boundaries and not demand or be granted access to such spaces."

Which is why we should respect the wish and right of women who happen to be trans to use the correct spaces. Glad we agree!

Anyway. Back to the topic at hand of China-based fediverse snoops.
Apple's Vision Pro is the most data-hungry gadget I've ever seen
To extend the argument, one of the original military motivations for the design of the internet was resilience of the network (relative to radio, IIRC, where relying on a central broadcaster would be prone to failure if the broadcaster was taken down). If one node goes down, even if it's bad news for that node's consumers, the network itself remains resilient.

If we shift that analogy back into the economic discussion, then instead of three places controlling bread production you break up large bakeries (or make running large bakeries untenable) and incentivize a plethora of small bakeries so that when some fail, others can organically fill the gaps. Both G.K. Chesterton and Tolkien were proponents of distributism back in their day, but it's not as well known today.
(as someone who has pitched orchestration vs choreography) why don’t you like the jargon?
Seems like the technical risk budget in startup. As a startup is an exercice in exploration vs risk management that has to be successful; it should make a big bet in one dimension, and be really conservative on the rest.
Disclaimer: These opinions are my own and may not reflect the thoughts of other people who dislike Electron.

I’ve been making command-line tools for a long time. At one point I had several ideas for non-commercial macOS apps to scratch my own itches. The ideas were simple and self-contained: One was a menubar app, another loaded a specific website and added stuff to it, and so on.

So I started looking into macOS development. I found Apple’s documentation atrocious, and while there are infinite third-party guides on iOS development, macOS apps has less than a handful and they’re all outdated. So I looked into Electron and was sold. The documentation was fantastic and I could build what I wanted. I built my apps and they were good. The file size was enormous but performance and resource consumption was better than any other Electron app I had used. Higher than native for sure, but due to the lack of resources to learn, the alternative would have been for those apps to not exist.

All was well, until time passed. Contrary to what I see people mentioning all the time, it is possible for software to be done. I have done it multiple times. I have several tools that work exactly as I want and no longer need to touch. Not so with Electron and NPM. There are so many dependencies for everything. I avoid third-party dependencies as much as I can, but with Electron and NPM that’s next to impossible. And every dependency depends on a ton of other different crap, their APIs are always changing, and new security holes are popping up all the time. Every time I wanted to make a new Electron app, or make a small feature addition, or even just update packages, I’d have to reread documentation and rewrite parts of my application.

Screw that. I don’t want to spend my life babysitting software. Especially when I know the alternative exists.

Then I started noticing a ton of other problems with the overwhelming majority of Electron apps. They are slow. You open them and there’s a moment when the interface is still loading; the controls never look quite right; they lack support for automation features like AppleScript; they consume more energy; they noticeably bog down the system when you have several of them open. You’re constantly being reminded the app is not native, it’s a bad experience.

Eventually I transitioned from scripting languages to Swift, and while I don’t typically make GUI apps and the experience can be frustrating at times, it is always rewarding when I finish a project and don’t have to touch it again unless I want to. Like any hard and interesting problem in life should be. The other day I was obsessing over how adding a feature to my command made it go from running in 6 milliseconds to 7. Good problem to have.

Look, I don’t like software wars. Use whatever the heck you want for yourself. But I for one avoid Electron because apps are always worse than they could be, and the reason I became a developer in the first place was to have the ability to make computers behave how I want. Thankfully this is a sentiment shared by the best indie developers. I’d rather be in that company.
It could be pretty much the Germany police, directly or indirectly, since Tether proposes non volatile "currency" easily convertible with Bitcoin.
What effective vram can they use?
I'd say this is a general issue with software, most generally how and what you do to establish trust, what expectations/responsibilities there are of a developer and user. The "many eyes make all bugs shallow" phrase does seem to be a little bit of a thought terminating cliché for some users, if it's open to scrutiny then it must be fine, conjuring an image of roaming packs of code auditors to inspect everything (I'd expect them more on the malicious side rather than benevolent)

Over for windows, there's been a constant presence of tweak utilities for decades that attract people trying to get everything out of their system on the assumption that 'big corp' developers don't have the motivation to do so and leave easy options on the table behind quick config or registry tweaks that are universally useful. One that comes to mind which I see occasionally is TronScript which if I had to bet on it passes the 'sniff test' with its history and participation I'd say it's good, but presents itself as automation, abstracting away the details and hoping they make good decisions on your behalf. While you could dig into it and research/educate yourself on what is happening and why, for many it might as well be a binary.

I think only saving grace for this is that most of these tools have a limited audience, so they're not worth compromising. When one brand does become used often enough you may get situations like CCleaner from piriform that was backdoored in 2017.
It seems that Waymo has a command center where a human is monitoring the cars and can immediately issue commands.

Having taken Waymo a number of times in SF now, I have experienced this once. The car stopped and an unsolicited call from customer support came into the car to check on things.

While subjective my experience in Waymo has been positive and feels surprisingly safe.

The car drives conservatively but naturally. It shows a great understanding of other cars and people and cones from LIDAR on its HUD. It takes safe routes and picks safe side streets and alleys for pick up and drop off. There is a real-time support team watching things.

I doubt it’s ready for every city — SF is well equipped for public transportation with lots of well mapped local taxi routes and loading zones in the city.

And there will be surprises and accidents.

But it’s absolutely wild that we’ve reached this level of self driving, and it will be transformative for human kind as it continues to improve.

“Rush” is subjective. Waymo have been driving around with human drivers for years before let loose and they are still highly restricted to city limits and local routes. And I was taking design courses in self driving control systems taught by General Motors back in uni in 2005.
Am too from Europe, and never heard about it until last year when visiting my colleagues in LA and was taken to a In-n-out. It was packed and I agree that it’s tastier than Mcdonald’s. My colleagues were very surprised that I didn’t hear about that company because “everyone knows it”.

What they don’t understand (until explained) is that what we get in a European countries are just a small selection of big franchises (McDonald’s, Burger King, Starbucks etc) and maybe a handful of other ones. In America there are dozens and dozens of restaurant franchises where you can eat for weeks each time in a different fast food restaurant in the same city without going to the same place twice. This is what always amazes me as a European, that huge amount of choice of everything you can have there.
Would AMD be able to produce a core design with unified memory like that of Apple’s M series such that a Ryzen core with integrated GPU cores _and_ unified memory?
If they do, it will open up a lot of interesting doors.

As good as Apple’s M series CPUs are, one cannot (reasonably) simply build server rigs with them and exploit all that power..
Right now it would be a pretty bad idea, the job market is quite Bad right now and if you're going to spend your one "New Bootcamp Grad" opportunity, wait until the market improves.
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As the saga of Pentagon Ticaret unfolds, the world watches in anticipation, unsure of the group's ultimate goals or the extent of their capabilities. One thing is certain – the emergence of this enigmatic hacking collective has forever changed the landscape of cybersecurity, prompting a global reevaluation of digital defenses in the face of an ever-evolving and increasingly sophisticated threat.
It’s iGPU. There’s no GPU memory.
How long ago did you teach and what school?
This is such a tired, vapid take tho. There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of BCI tech (and Neuralink in particular) but "they will just use it to serve us ads" completely overlooks the potential of this tech.
Why do economists know so much?
> it is not technically decentralized, it is Twitter (a centralized platform)

Community notes are generated by users and not the platform it's not perfect but better than having a mainstream media oligopoly deciding what is truth and what isn't.

> If it were truly fully decentralized, it would be vulnerable to such attacks even more, right?

The algorithm tries to prevent this kind of abuse. "the Community Notes rating algorithm explicitly attempts to prioritize notes that receive positive ratings from people across a diverse range of perspectives". See Vitalik analysis: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.h.... But from what you're telling it looks CCP found a way to game it.
> challenging to change the rewarding structure to something similar to salesman.

profit sharing.

This happens at the executive level, because it correctly aligns the incentives. But somehow, the run of the mill employee cannot be trusted to think for themselves and be incentivized?
Indeed. Ironically I had a porsche 928 which used an air actuator from Mercedes, and it was a fraction of the price from them. Parts guy at merc was a little sniffy, but it saved me £100!
Learn things that computers cannot do.
> people aren't worth enough to spend money on their safety.

this is a very nice way of saying that regulators are necessary to have a fair market. (but definitely not sufficient!)
In this specific case, it might be worth noting that, had the pedestrian not been dragged... They almost certainly would have died still, having been double-collided by multi-ton vehicles.

Human drivers are still, mile-for-mile, the most dangerous threat to all pedestrians, blind and sighted.
> it only takes one wizard to make reading code impossible by outsiders.

One Java architect can make the code unreadable, even for himself.

> canonical way to write a Lisp system is to define a DSL

It's popular, but not canonical. But even those DSL language patterns can be learned. In many non-Lisp projects, the DSL gets implemented in C/C++.
Go Developer Survey 2024
They haven’t gone public yet. Once that happens the inevitable enshittification is bound to happen.

Personally, love their products. One of the only products I will happily pay for. Had to unfortunately deep dive into the C# and .net world for a bit and Rider IDE made the process less painful than it would be with VS code or visual studio.
> I'm confident that once driverless cars are good enough, blind pedestrians will be far safer

I can’t reconcile the industry’s assertion that safety is the penultimate objective with our testing these things, uncontrolled, in densely populated urban areas.
Note that those pills fixes focus, not motivation. Even with pills you will fail if your motivation falters, just like regular people.

I think the main tell of ADHD is if you feel you lack motivation to complete simple but tedious tasks that has high rewards that you really care about. In that case you don't lack motivation, you really care about the reward, you don't lack confidence since the task is simple, you just lack the ability to focus on simple tasks.

Having a hard time doing tasks you don't care about or tasks you are afraid of failing isn't ADHD, that is just normal. That includes schoolwork if you don't care about grades or feel you will fail anyway, and so on.
None is correct.
In 99% of cases it's safe to say it's not in their best interest to join your startup :)

Of course, friend or not, all you have to be, to not be exploitive is to agree on a salary, and pay it.
Doesn't that only happen in certain dimensionality < 3 ? See also random walks in higher dimensions
Maybe it's not reliable enough as-is, but seems to me that this "something odd is going on, better slow down or stop" requirement might be entirely solvable with anomaly detection. When the data is not as it normally is, take extra care. It's not that complicated and AGI is hardly required.