skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nakba, you mean when all neighboring Arab countries said "hey Palestinians, step out of the way, we'll kill the Jews real quick and then you can have all the land"?

And then lost the war they've started?

Yes, that's a catastrophe for Arabs, just like losing WW2 was a catastrophe for certain Germans. And also for those in Germany who were exiled from their (sometimes extensive) land, no matter what they thought of the war and its outcome.

Eastern Prussian didn't then go and tried to kill the Western German president when the FRG took them in, though. Besides some whining by a few select bunch, that chapter is closed.

Not so for the Arabs for whom the "Nakba" was and is that the military campaign failed and not that Palestinians now live in misery.
Zoom does all sorts of audio processing on the client that does wonders for participants in noisy environments.

Teams only just recently got to that level (like, in the last half of last year)
IANAL, but I don't see how. If you're just an ordinary person, you're trading based on an event you witnessed in the course of going about your life. No different I would think than if you witnessed a plane crash. You might be investigated though if the amounts were large enough.

It gets much more complicated I would think if you were an air traffic controller or otherwise learned about it in a professional capacity.
Did you really watch all videos in the playlist? I am at video 4 and had no background in PyTorch or numpy.

In my opinion he covers everything needed to understand his lectures. Even broadcasting and multidimensional indexing with numpy.

Also in the first lecture you will implement your own python class for building expressions including backprop with an API modeled after PyTorch.

IMHO it is the second lecture I can recommend without hesitation. The other is Gilbert Strang on linear algebra.
Making things in prototype form: easy. Making things production grade: hard. Making things economically production grade: super hard.
We are reaping the costs of our previous bad decisions. We should have been targetting a surplus of doctors the last 40 years instead of cutting the number of doctor training positions in the 90s like we did. We should also be restricting immigration, except for applicable spots of vital need until we can get our healthcare (and housing) situation under control.
Garmin is a little bit closed off, that's the main downside.

And as far as I can tell their app needs internet to sync data from the watch even though it's connected via bluetooth, I assume it's uploading to their servers for processing before viewing in app.

Other than that it works great, I have no complaints about my Venu 2.
Using just basic large dense square matrix multiplication on a modern CPU as an example, not caring about numerical stability, embarrassingly parallel implementations have high bandwidth to compute ratios, bottlenecking your results 10x - 1000x. Embarrassingly parallelizing cache friendlier solutions is prone to stragglers and other scheduling issues. If you're operating on asymptotically faster solutions like Strassen's it's at least a little nontrivial to keep the few largest recursive layers from dominating the computation and not really being much faster than other parallel algorithms.

As soon as you start mixing numerical stability (data-dependant operation reordering) concerns into linear algebra routines -- arguably one of the main points of LAPACK -- parallelization necessarily gets trickier because you either need a good enough heuristic to ignore those reorderings or you also need data-dependant scheduling without too many pathologies.
If these numbers are not inflation adjusted, then $309 (the increase) is just about 22% higher than the pre-pandemic number, which almost exactly tracks inflation since then.

Seems like a non-news article to me then.
There is only one reason for any company to exist, and that is making profit.
> Of course, you should always be in the right lanes except for passing.

First, I should note that I 100% agree.

However, as the highways have become more crowded, it has become less practical to actually adhere to this.

If I'm going 70MPH (the prevailing speed on the NYS highways where the legal speed limit is 65MPH tends to be somewhere between 70 and 78MPH), and there are a half-dozen cars going 60MPH in the right lane, with just barely enough room between them to safely get in (ie, there's sufficient stopping room between the rear car and me, and between me and the front car), then technically I could pass the first car, pull back into the right lane, pull almost immediately back into the left lane to pass the next car, and repeat several more times. But that's not merely tedious, it's dangerous.

It's even worse when instead of a half-dozen regular cars going 60MPH, it's three tractor-trailers. Particularly since "safe distance" for them is much longer due to visibility issues.

...And, of course, sometimes when I'm doing this, some yahoo going 80MPH will zip up behind me, pass me on the right (completely ignoring the aforementioned safe distances) and then zip back into the left lane to careen onwards.
Ok it’s time. Goodbye apple.
Every "Perception for VR" class I give focuses on understanding proprioception. Designers ignore it until they experience spatial planning just with proprioception:

• Start by closing your eyes and touching your nose. Why can you do that?

• Continue by trying to touch two fingers on opposite hands behind your head. Why can't you do that? (because your proprioceptors are saturated).

• Now, you can build an environment with post-it notes and a blindfold: https://omershapira.com/blog/2016/04/the-painful-introductio...
And an even better book! If you thought it was impossible for an author to write hundreds of riveting pages about kids playing Hearts (the card game) in college, you are in for a surprise!
Stop burning stuff. Tell other people to stop burning stuff. Tell your representatives to work on alternatives to burning stuff. Don't invest in companies that burn a lot of stuff. Avoid waterfront property.
Yes, but this discussion goes deeper though.

Their attitude of non-compliance with pro-consumer regulations starts to be seen as selfish.

Right now Apple has a positive brand image.

These actions have the ability to tarnish their reputation .. especially if long time developers break out of their enchantment with the ecosystem.
I certainly don't mean to deny your experience and I understand how it would be frustrating. In fact I know someone who has personally described something similar. But I do think you most likely misread the GP (probably precisely because you've been having these experiences; that would make sense).

They weren't recommending randomly accosting anybody. If the comment had been limited to its first 10 words, I could imagine understanding it that way, but the more important part was what they said right after that: "not HN. The response you'll get here obviously won't answer this question" — in other words, a question like that can't be answered by people who have no experience with it. It doesn't follow that one should indiscriminately harass everyone who does. I know some people are jumping to that, but it's not the strongest plausible interpretation of the GP.

If you had begun your reply with "Unfortunately some people are using this line of thinking to" instead of "Please don't tell people to", it would have been fine; and still more so if you had added some of the information that you included in your reply to me.
If one is against depopulation, it might help to have stronger arguments than the author being "dispirited". The silver lining of the Black Death for europe were the (admittedly forced) productivity increases.

(it might also be more effective to follow the example of the Haredi, who address their fears of depopulation in a more direct way than writing about them?)
Sorry, in that case I would rather recommend a dedicated RL book. The RL part in LLMs will be very specific to LLMs, and I will only cover what's absolutely relevant in terms of background info. I do have a longish intro chapter on RL in my other general ML/DL book (https://github.com/rasbt/machine-learning-book/tree/main/ch1...) but like others said, I would recommend a dedicated RL book in your case.
Interesting, but not very practical, if I need to cut metal I'll use an appropriate tool. But on the persistence level high marks for that effort!
The MQTT spec is actually quite straightforward and not at all tiring, so if you do end up having a reason to read it, don't hesitate to dig in! (I'm not saying you need to though)

I understand the rationale for multiple topics. I went down this road when I was trying to design the layout for my own MQTT-controlled device. I would have really liked taking advantage of topics as something closer to an in-system semantic model, rather than only using MQTT for a bare minimum stream and then stuffing more layers on top.

FWIW It's not merely losing atomic state changes that's the problem, but rather that updates can end up out of order. For example sending the commands [/light/brightness = 30, /light/state = on] can end up turning the light on with the previous (perhaps full) brightness before dimming it. And mitigating this by creating an additional topic with the entire state undoes most of the advantages of splitting it out in the first place, leaving more complexity and resource usage for little gain.
I use it and it's nice, but as long as it points to web teams, it will inherit all the instability issues I have had with Teams, just without anyway to easily back out of it, unlike a regular browser.
out of something like 20 year IT career, i only worked in office for 2 out of those 20. early in the career i definitely traded income for wfh option, but it was my choice, i also had to structure my life significantly around the requirements of wfh: i've never documented my home setup, but if you've read accounts of elaborate remote work setups, that people like stephen wolfram have, mine's pretty much the same. i have _lights_ for my conference calls.
i never advocated for wfh though, and the last few years have convinced me that it is not an option that should be available to everyone: i have data to support the argument that for a certain type of worker productivity dropped somewhere between 20 and 40%. i've extracted that data out of repositories of the various companies i'm contracting for, so this is all obviously non publishable, but that's a research that anyone can do. my experience is with small to medium size business, 9-90 developers, where COVID essentially forced wfh, that was never corrected. and the productivity drop correlates with the overall initial productivity of the respective person. type-A developers, remote developer specialists had almost no perceptable drop. but the space fillers, the 9 to 5-ers, entire teams of them, who also account for the bulk of contributors, that is the main body of the company's workforce drop by 20-40%. there are also interesting outliers, people whose productivity dropped by something like 80-90%, i guess that's the silent quitter types. (i tried to control for as many things as possible, but of course you can't account for, for example, stylistic changes.)
That's a good thing to know, I had not yet come across this information anywhere.
I transitioned off iOS development this year. I had been doing macOS and iOS development close to 10 years. Apple’s behavior has really put me off their platform as both a developer and user.
Would this device actually work out to be cheaper than a cnc machine milling out a solid alloy block?
U.S. will soon stop Chinese companies from using American clouds for AI training
SSDs idle at like 0.2W IIRC, so 6 of those shouldn't have much impact on overall power.

Not sure on 8 SATA ports as most only have 3-4, but I'd be using NVMe SSDs if I could these days anyways, main boot drive in the motherboard and some more on a PCIe addon adapter.
How do you restrict an app from internet on iOS? I know how to turn off cellular access but didn’t think it was possible to cut off all access (other than going into airplane mode before opening it, and turning off background refresh).
I'm still not sure what solution you are suggesting. How would secrecy be managed?
Astronomy Simulations and Animations
I think it was both, because I think it also worked even when it wasn't a search domain. Can anyone still at Google check?
That’s certainly what happened to me. I can’t recall ever believing in Santa whole-heartedly and the knowledge of it’s falseness was a foot in the door to question everything else.

Strangely my brother was far, far older when my mother and I had to convince him that Santa was not actually real. She was afraid that kids at school would make fun of him if we didn’t pop his bubble first. I’m not sure what to make of that difference in belief between my brother and I.
You may want to look into what I said about contributory negligence instead of strawmanning in this comment thread. It seems this is a pattern with you as you strawmanned in another thread here too.
What if I could now tilt the platform - on which the HoloTiles are mounted - in all directions?
If you have trouble engraving tumblers, I've found a trick that works really well. The tool ensures that the laser maintains consistent focus at both edges of the tumbler resulting in a more uniform engraving. I call it The Tumbler Trick™ and I've posted instructions on how to make your own at the URL below.

https://www.tumblertrick.com/how-to-make-the-tumbler-trick-d...
Let me say that I'm of the opinion that async/await just became popular because js didn't have any better way of doing concurrent programming

Having one thread per worker sounds better. Or the actor model

Sure async/await is "easy" but also turns every code into a mess
Original post from 16 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38948827
I don't think that has any significant cost to Meta.
Automatic differentiation is why we are able to have complex models like transformers, it's arguably the key reason (in addition to large amounts of data and massive compute resources) that we have the revolution in AI that we have.

Nobody working in this space is hand calculating derivatives for these models. Thinking in terms of differentiable programming is a given and I think certainly counts as "from scratch" in this case.

Any time I see someone post a comment like this, I suspect the don't really understand what's happening under the hood or how contemporary machine learning works.
They are increasing speeds and increasing rates alongside. This would be less objectionable in my mind if they maintained the lower tier offerings. Instead they are selling us up our indifference curves, as an economist would say.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature".
This way we know you are really serious of keeping the thing going, by making sure that every 11 hours you are THERE by "turning it off and on again" (to quote the the IT Crowd)
http://rewind.ai is working on something like this as a product.
I just touched two fingers behind my head with eyes closed (although does that really matter, hands being out of sight?). So I still don’t get the point about proprioception
Is this a joke?

"...The billionaire founder of Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad, had long maintained that he and his family no longer controlled the global furniture giant. But a Swedish documentary claimed on Thursday that he has used a previously unknown foundation to run the company in secret and avoid taxes.

"In total secrecy, he has created a foundation in one of the world's most infamous tax havens - Liechtenstein," the documentary, aired on Swedish public network SVT, alleged..." - https://www.dw.com/en/swedish-documentary-alleges-tax-fraud-...

"IKEA’s Founder Paid Tax for the First Time in 42 Years" -
https://nomoretax.eu/ikeas-founder-paid-tax-for-the-first-ti...
On my end, I view finding meaning in modern tech work completely misguided. I work because I have to. I'm nice and fun at work because it makes the time pass gently, not because I like being there. I'm an American and there's a million more personally rewarding and productive things I'd rapidly occupy my time with if healthcare was detached from full-time employment.
This post is pure clickbait. I'm flagging it as inappropriate for HN.
I've recently been studying up on it with a view to unleash the bots soon. I can recommend a couple of Udemy courses, details below.

There's a guy here explaining how to make trading bots in Python https://youtu.be/sUQmuL95_oY He has free code available on github to try out. He also explains how to backtest. There are a couple of popular packages like backtesting.py out there.

ccxt is a handy python package if you want to trade crypto. There are various free tutorials for it.

I also recommend playing around with Tradingview. It draws graphs and you can make your own indicators with their language Pinescript and even trade off that although Python probably gives you more flexibility.

Udemy courses https://www.udemy.com/course/algorithmic-trading-strategies-... and https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-algorthmic-forex-tradi... I paid about £14 each - they keep chopping and changing with the discounts

The details vary a bit depending what you want to trade - crypto, stocks fx or whatever.

One tip - chatgpt4 is surprisingly helpful and can almost code a whole bot for you if you know what you want. One slight pain for me has been finding brokers with the what I want. I'm the wrong nationality or they don't have futures or there isn't enough liquidity or they are sketchy or such like.
Very nice! Will it be updated periodically I assume?
now do climate change
There were a few days back in the 90s where all the tech sites would run a campaign where everybody was supposed to send emails full of red flag words: "bomb" and "assassinate" and "terrorism" and what have you. It was specifically to mess with NSA surveillance operations.
> I don't care how much Apple hand holds grandma. Mobile is a hellscape for developers and other companies.

As a developer and founder, grandma before developers. Every time. iOS is the first platform my family can just run with safely.
Charging My Phone with a Steam Engine
Quin finishes her DC generator and charges her phone with her self built steam engine.
See: https://altstore.io/

2 apps, re-sign weekly maximum. 3 if you do it without AltStore. Unlimited with a $99/yr developer account.
That's what I am still confused on how these discs look like wheels to people because lots of comments are saying that. All I see is discs changing angles and can't see them rotating like rotating wheels.
How do you suggest they make config errors “impossible”?
There are multiple tree-sitter based major modes that are usable right now!

I use python-ts-mode, rust-ts-mode, c++-ts-mode, bash-ts-mode and a few more right now and they work well.

You can write your own modes with it also, but I have not yet looked too deeply into this.

It's definitely usable today in emacs-29, but not every language has a tree-sitter mode yet.

Whoops my tab was outdated and I didn't see that others already replied.
I don't think there is a problem per-se, it's just that G-code tends to be rather static so if you're doing things like nesting and engraving of variable text going through and extra G-code conversion step can get a bit tedious.

I'm old school enough that I can program G-codes by hand (and by heart), compared to normal programming it is super simple, you can pick it up in an afternoon. But for complex graphical work the automatic conversion to G-code from a drawing tool is a real time saver. CAD/CAM software tends to export in some 2D format for laser cutting, usually either a 2D DXF file or SVG. You then convert on the fly to G-code in the laser driver software.
I have to admit I only skimmed a lot of this extremely long winded rant and didn't get to the end, but AFAICT they're claiming the only "benefit" is a "little verified tick" and that one of the cons is accepting responsibility for previous commits.

I don't think either of those is a fair or accurate assessment.

A signed commit tells you exactly one thing: the person who made the commit is who they say they are, according to the signing key used.

That's it. It's essentially a defence against the nature of git where commits are decoupled from centralised authentication, and thus anyone can make a commit with anyone's name on it.

Signing doesn't prevent you making the commit in the name of someone else (unless you reject unsigned commits) but it stands out as being unsigned.
I'm surprised you draw the line at cameras but not at GPS enforced speed, which of course includes location data for jurisdiction purposes at least.
Genuine question. How ?

A train is something you can see coming from a mile away. It doesn't blindside you. 'Deer in headlights' events occur, but it not like the person couldn't have foreseen it coming. It's like blaming parkour deaths on walls.

A pedestrian crossing a street can be 'struck' by a car, because a car can actually come out of nowhere. There is a reason that most car deaths in cities occur on a 'unchecked turn right on red'. It is an accident that occurs because of occlusion.

Trams have a risk profile that borrows some of the risks of cars. But, grade separated rail requires active fault form the pedestrian/cyclist to be in fatal accident.
The "dour, guilt-ridden, or militantly proselytizing" are what make Christianity compelling for you? The first 2 I could see as personal choice but isn't "militantly" anything sorta anti-christian? (I'm an agnostic, so what do I know...)

Just seems to be an odd thing to find compelling?
Wow that's ugly, and yes, that's covered. And without that I consider a laser cutter to be both utterly unsafe and unusable.

Edit: I thought that was familiar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13507734

Edit2: it turned out to be CO2 poisoning after all.
Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in 'Real Bodies' exhibition (2021)
Isn't the practical answer: "it depends on which way the wind is blowing when the regulators or courts make their decisions"? If they want to get you for something, they will find a way.
This sort of anecdote is exhausting. Growing up, I was skeptical of "global warming" and heard endless admonishments about how "weather is not climate" any time anyone around me made a comment about a particularly cold day proving anything about climate.

But now, it's acceptable to make this kind of anecdote on an unseasonably warm day.. and on unseasonably cold days! Now you're an idiot if you don't see that weather is climate, and no matter what the weather does, it's further proof of anthropogenic warming.

Now, I think it's quite possible that the climate crisis is real, but if every observation leads to the same conclusion it's not science, is it? Anecdotes about a warm day in January push me away from the alarmist side, because it tells me that the people promoting the crisis see evidence in everything, both real and imagined.

Weather isn't climate.
If you don't spend money at all, then you've removed yourself from participating in modern society, so that's not a reasonable suggestion.

I spent more money to replace my aging furnace with a heat pump to reduce my emissions, so the mere exchange of money doesn't cause pollution. I could have spent a lot less money to repair or replace it with an equivalent 80% efficient furnace.

My point is that it's not as simple as "money exchange causes more pollution" since I could stop sending money to my waste management company while not doing anything at all to reduce my personal pollution. Yes there are ways you can reduce your pollution impact (i.e. by buying less unnecessary goods, traveling less, etc), but there are also ways you can spend less money (i.e. by buying cheaper produce imported from another country 1000 miles away than paying a bit more for more local produce) while increasing your environmental impact.
It does seem unethical to remove them unless they are obviously super old.