skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can one hope to raise awareness about the benefits in adopting open platforms if so many users either don't give a damn or can be convinced that security and privacy are a product and not a process?

this question can be read in two ways: raising awareness is hopeless because no one cares anyways, and: our attempts to raise awareness so far have not worked, so we need to ask how can we raise awareness in ways that people actually notice?

we need to focus on the latter and explore more effective methods to raise awareness.

today and in this world nobody would be insane enough to design, manufacture and distribute a fully open platform; there's just not enough incentive to do that.

this is simply not true. there is plenty of incentive, and the means to do so are becoming more and more approachable. see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165700
Glad to hear! I was thinking hard whether to write an intro to PyTorch for this book and am glad that this was useful!
> I'm tired of being told that it's my fault the world is screwed up.

It's not your fault specifically though, it's our fault.

I'm fortunate that I'm in Australia, so my parents now have a hybrid car, a heat pump hot water and solar panels.

I have an EV, electric hot water, solar and home battery but... it was only 2 years ago I was renting, I had no solar panels, gas hot water, petrol car, and no home battery.

I did my best to reduce my electricity usage + paying extra to use the 'green power' option, my car was the smallest/most efficient I could get, I got a motorcycle to reduce the amount of oil use for daily trips to work.

My point of view is that you can only do what is in your capacity to do, and so long as you can say that to yourself you're good, we need more people like you.
I had a multi split system air source heat pump installed for 7k. And indeed, government has a lot of blame for the high cost of living. I'd love to live in a nice, cheap bungalow court in San Diego close enough to things to not need a car, but it's de facto illegal to build them most places since too much parking is required.
The food prices suck though. If only corn subsidies could be applied more sensibly.
But you have partial control.

You can vote for candidates that take climate change seriously.

You can decide to buy or lease an EV instead of an ICE one.

You can raise the bar for when you book a flight.

And so on...
Ankidroid question here:

On Android systems, if you use the free Japanese dictionary Japanese Kanji Study (by Chase Colburn) it can generate Anki flash cards directly from the app, so everytime you look up a word you can also generate the card for Ankidroid/Anki.

Is there similar functionality in any Chinese dictionary app for Android?
FTA: “Canon’s nanoimprint lithography — a technology under development for more than 15 years but which the company says is only now commercially viable — stamps chip designs on to silicon wafers rather than etching them using light.”

It seems everything old is new again. https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/leaving-arizona:

“there was a reason the 6800 was expensive. It was made using ‘contact lithography’, where the photomask, containing the image that is to created on the silicon die, comes into direct contact with the silicon wafer. This inevitably led, over time, to damage to the photomask, reducing yields and eventually rendering the expensive photomask unusable. Making a low-cost version of the 6800 would be impossible without a more cost-effective manufacturing process.”

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_lithography and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography, that problem doesn’t seem to have been solved, but of course, it’s possible that the lower cost more than compensates for it.
> iOS has had round checkboxes since forever?

but iOS hasn't been around forever. In the spirit of TFA, iOS marks the start of the Vandals climbing over the gates and sacking what had been to melt it all down and make a soup of melty things.
As you've observed, averages can be misleading because they're not robust to outliers. However, this seems most relevant to something like income, where we're interested in "most people" and don't care so much about the one ultra-rich person in the sample.

This appears to be less true for something like emissions, where the overall total is most relevant -- unless you're arguing that it's masking an "unfair" situation where improvements are coming from one group and should be coming from the other?
Get your startup all over the internet
This. Immigrating to Finland isn’t as easy as just showing up and wading across a shallow river like in the US.
Google has supported ARM Chromebooks for years; if MS was shipping software for Darwin on Apple silicon or Linux on ARM then yeah that would be a weird look
Complete Cadastral Map of France Using PMtiles
Sorry I didn’t read your post correctly; I thought you said Safari.
Generating Electric Power with Wood Stove. Peltier Experiments [video]
How was my comment related to suicide? I was talking about the process that will take place - and since it will - then at THAT time it still shouldn't be painful.

Life might or might not go on, but I don't see any reason to make our lives more miserable just to make sure even more people can experience those miserable lives. That's why I don't care about preserving resources or living conditions for "future generations".
How much greenhouse emissions does wildlife produce?
True, it's a big concern. I don't love Geert Wilders' popularity either.

I said it's a hedge, not a sure thing!
Swedish study finds higher death rate in hypochondriacs
> ...all other species would get lost, reducing biodiversity and effectively meaning an extinction-level event.

Reducing biodiversity doesn't equate to an extension-level event though. It also doesn't mean all species who didn't thrive would be lost - many would be affected but not existentially so.

I'm reminded of George Carlin's joke about the planet being fine long-term, we're the ones who will be screwed.
The work involved is awe-inspiring but WHY — with this much effort something wholly new and original and most importantly.... SAFE from copyright lawyers could have been put into the universe.
nitter.cz and nitter.net are having issues and being rate limited.
You can do that with a userscript, no need for an entire new client.
Op is drunk or high or something…
Do you also buy phones with this mantra? Or anything for that matter? Because this is just a bit of electronics, nothing more.

Sometimes I just want to buy half a kilo of butter, and not caring much about the craftsmanship of Swiss diary producers and whole chain of experts and distributors and their skills and tricks a bit.
I think hn frontend is the only place safe from appraisal and delivery driven tech. Do something, deliver something.
Hi, my app which I've mentioned in my previous comment does that. Is there anything else that you're looking for in a flashcards language learning app that Anki misses?
HTML Living Standard
Lisa – Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
What's the biting truth?
That is a major contributing factor to TFA's observations. It's also a vicious cycle -- younger people get pulled into information ecosystems that encourage, or only support, short text and video content. They then get used to those formats and find longer forms off-putting. I see this happening with my kids, who won't read anything longer than a paragraph online.

I have found that buying them physical books and cajoling them to read eventually works. They tell me they're surprised they enjoyed reading a novel. Then they go back to Twitter and TikTok.

I wonder if and how schools are contributing to this.
> But again, why resort to personal attacks against someone who's simply bringing important context to the discussion?

Because that is an intentionally dishonest way to describe what he's doing? He's bringing context, and he's providing some low-quality opinions. What's being attacked are the opinions. They are not factual.
Slowly. I don’t think it happens all at once but over generations.
Literally the Ice Age, with cave-man era technology.
Bias in Tests Is Often Unpredictable
There is a decent chance the answer is in fact yes, but you'll spend the next 5 years on getting certification for what you wrote.
in Germany i think there is a general bias by medical professionals against using medicine at all for the treatment of symptoms, not only pain.
It’s also a pain to get working right with fractional scaling on non-GTK desktops.

I had been using GNOME on my little “study pod” ThinkPad X1 Nano (which has a screen that requires 1.5x UI scale) but Anki was a real pain under that and so started using KDE instead. Anki runs well there but KDE isn’t quite my cup of tea. Wish it were more DE-agnostic.
Snap Camera Server is an alternative self hosted solution for Snapcamera. It will let you continue to use Snapcamera with all Snapchat filters after the shutdown on January 25, 2023.
The attention mechanism we implement in this book* is specific to LLMs in terms of the text inputs, but it's fundamentally the same attention mechanism that is used in vision transformers. The only difference is that in LLMs, you turn text into tokens, and convert these tokens into vector embeddings that go into an LLM. In vision transformers, instead of regarding images as tokens, you use an image patch as a token and turn those into vector embeddings (a bit hard to explain without visuals here). In both text or vision context, it's the same attention mechanism, and it both cases it receives vector embeddings.

(*Chapter 3, already submitted last week and should be online in the MEAP soon, in the meantime the code along with the notes is also available here: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/blob/main/ch03/01...)
Don't use icons then, use words. Words like "video is muted" or "mute the video".

Long ago, Apple's HI group had a saying: "a word is worth a thousand pictures".
More importantly, they seem to release more starch and lead to nicer sauces.
Even though I don't like that approach, the best option (as some others mention) is to have a device installation flag that allows/denies all third party things. When you buy an iPhone it will be off, and no matter what you do you won't be able to turn it on so you can "give it to your grandpa without fear".

But for those that want, just allow reinstalling iOS (a full installation, deleting existing data) with the flag enabled. And just like that you can do whatever you want with your device, and "accepting the risks" of doing so.

What if your grandpa is tricked into enabling it? Well, all the data will be deleted so there will be nothing to steal.

Bought a used iPhone with the flag but still want the "security"? Just reinstall without it and done.
It’s there for disabled accessibility. The manual lock can be difficult from a wheelchair.
Embedded Elixir
Dude no. We know that the gasses we are releasing cause warming and we know the ratio of those gases naturally occurring vs human pollution.
This comment makes no sense.

I can't put out an album of my shitty music and market it as a new Michael Jackson album.

Putting "AI" in front of "Michael" doesn't change anything.
Good question! Surprisingly, very little:

Livestock make up 62% of the world’s mammal biomass; humans account for 34%; and wild mammals are just 4%.

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

And add to that the fact that cow flatulence is very rich in methane (much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) because of poor diet in industrial agriculture.
And what if Apple sells in S-mode by default?
love anki! i use it for japanese. although i wish i could donate to the devs at least, they dont take donations
No, some make “identity erasure” a culture crime.
I had a similar thought untill I read that actually for or people with motor/muscle issues issues, a push button or something like the lever in the above which doesnt require physical strength is much easier.

I think the original introduction of the button was due to accessiblity. my understanding is that on newer planes they are trying to move towards a similar system for the same reasons.
It's obvious with hindsight, but I had never realised that that is why they're called radio buttons!
Is there any way to undo hide? You can unflag and undown, but if you accidentally hit hide, that’s it.
Yes, if the recipient has an iPhone or another Mac device. Less so if the recipient only has an android phone and no always-on Mac devices.
> But if they're not economically viable, I'm not going to pay people to live there just so that small towns can continue to exist as a concept.

these things are not written in stone, or the laws of physics. Layers of policy and taxation choices have led to this. Nothing says that the current system is stable, either.
The planet will survive regardless, with or without a nuclear war. We won’t though and most current species will dissapear
The important point IMHO isn't about being skeptical, but having the ability to verify the claims, or if not, at least having a good heuristic to detect bullshit (eg. by checking whether it contradicts with something you already know).

Just being skeptical without some way to allow good information to flow through the filter makes one close-minded.
When someone queried Harley-Davidson bikers as to why they don't socialize with youngsters who are avid about the latest racing motorcycles, their response was, "Why should we bother? Every year, they have something new.

--

All jokes aside, check out these cool quotes about C++ from Linus Torvalds [0] and Ken Thompson [1] ;)

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
Honestly curious, why the focus on the QR-code menus? Is that the most important adverse effect of tech?
That could show that it’s endless, but it wouldn’t necessarily show that an end is possible.
I think these conventions come from actual players like VHS and walkmans. The play, pause, stop,… where actual buttons and mute was an icon on the status display. Buttons are actions while icons are state. The rare case where there was a mute button, it was toggleable (or have a led on it) and these always reflect the state.
Yes, every reason why we don't have universal healthcare comes down to voting in politicians that are against it, but what outsiders and party hardliners fail to appreciate is where the resistance comes. When the Democrats controlled the presidency and both houses, we failed to push out any reasonable form of universal healthcare and that is due to several specific interests that have a hold on the Democrat party then and today.

I would love a Medicare for all, because that's the most cost-effective system we can possibly get short of having no system at all. It'd also increase job mobility--nobody tied to their jobs for "benefits"--and put a sane check the price of basic-level care.

However not all countries with public healthcare are drug-free--Portugal just manages, not solves, its problem despite 50 years of public health--and that's because the incentives to both sell and use these powerful painkillers don't merely go away with a public system. Medical doctors were also complicit; or the more responsible ones, yanked-away the prescription out of caution but unintentionally drove their patients to the black market.

I'll concede that a streamlined system would have helped alert the powers that be sooner, but I'm not convinced that the powers-that-be would have done anything concrete until it became a crisis.
> What I like better is a simple knew/didnt know, while still using spaced-repetition.

Could you just click on the two ends, 1min Vs the scaled max time? I.e. ignore the two middle buttons.
WHO issues measles warning as yearly cases in Europe rise more than 30-fold
Maybe a Withings ScanWatch Nova is what you want? It does have a tiny digital screen though.
When you wrote pubsub, did you mean “the observer design pattern”? If so, please try to adopt a more formal lexicon and use terminology familiar to more developers. If not, please describe what a “pubsub” is.
There is some good work going into FreeCAD right now. They're putting more structure into the project and working on some much needed fixes that will be big QOL improvements. A fix to the topological naming problem is due in the next release, for example.

https://ondsel.com/blog/ondsel-365/
That's a sorted by time slushpile, not a sorted by time frontpage.
Dude. You rock at UX design. This is amazing…

Only trouble I have tbh is figuring out what I want to read in German! But I’ve signed up and will give this a spin, and send what feedback I can.
Is it some custom pricing plan? I only saw the IAP program with those fees but it’s still a waitlist. Very interested to find a 10% all-in fee on $1-$10 transactions for arbitrary credit card purchases.
Benzos are not pain meds. Might make you an addict, but if that’s what was prescribed, it wasn’t for pain. Dunk on the VA all you like, but they’re not that bad.
> Quest 2 and treadmill

At the same time? Running or walking? I am intrigued as it seems dangerous if running.
> I was curious what it is called when the growth rate itself is going up exponentially

The derivative of the exponential function is the exponential function.

d/dx eˣ = eˣ

So if it’s growing exponentially the rate of growth is exponential and the rate of that acceleration is also exponential.
Our friend Anna has borrowed me her cbz and cbr copies from her Archive, and MuPDF viewer[0] is great for reading those formats on my Android phone.

[0] there is also MuPDF mini, but I like the latter better.
He said this to get out of the Twitter deal. But his objection was denied. So this likely isn't the reason advertisers pulled out.
Counterpoint, I've been a very happy user of an Amazfit Bip for about 6 years now, wearing it 24/7 aside from showering and medical procedures. It does absolutely everything I need it to, and even after 6 years the battery gets me multiple weeks. My only complaint is that the UI is a bit sluggish, but it hasn't kept it from being a great device.
> Consumer prices are 35% lower in Finland, rent prices are 70% lower in Finland, when comparing to SF.

When comparing to SF, 90% of the planet is that much more affordable. Sheesh there’s more to the world than the plight of San Francisco.
The whole security question becomes irrelevant when MacOS is involved. So either MacOS is insecure (according to Apple's one reasoning) or Apple is just lying.
"Lena" isn't about uploading
Internet media types (previously known as “MIME types”) with “X-” prefixes are now discouraged.
Yeah, I've had the same thing every time I have tried Anki - it's fine for a while, but once you get enough cards added, or just have been memorising a deck for long enough, even missing one session generates a huge unsurmountable backlog.
It's bad and consistent enough for me that I just stopped trying to use Anki at all.
Where did you find a decent flash cards about knots?
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any other resource that delves into these topics. However, as others commented above, Karpathy has a 2h YouTube video that is probably worthwhile watching. Based on skimming the YT video, it has some overlap with chapters 3 & 4, but the book has a much larger scope.

I am not sure how to link to other comments on HN, so let me just copy & paste it here:

> How does this compare to the karpathy video [0]? I'm trying to get into LLMs and am trying to figure out what the best resource to get that level of understanding would be.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

> Haven't fully watched this but from a brief skimming, here are some differences that the book has:
- it implements a real word-level LLM instead of a character-level LLM
- after pretraining also shows how to load pretrained weights
- instruction-finetune that LLM after pretraining
- code the alignment process for the instruction-finetuned LLM
- also show how to finetune the LLM for classification tasks
- the book it overall has a lots of figures. For Chapter 3, there are 26 figures alone :)
The video looks awesome though. I think it's probably a great complementary resource to get a good solid intro because it's just 2 hours. I think reading the book will probably be more like 10 times that time investment.
I think the subreddit paradigm means that you can collect groups of niche users who are interested in something a particular niche author has to offer. On Twitter everything just sort of mashes together. I don't know about LinkedIn - I don't use it.
It's not really, it just spends a lot of time waffling on about bus networks and mobile IPs and then makes some weird claims about the IETF that don't seem to match reality.

v6 is designed the way it is precisely because it needs to run on the same networks that v4 does, and v6 is a better design than v4 in our world because our world has completely outgrown v4.
Another example: the HackRF SDR board was done in KiCAD

https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/hackrf
It's a bug/choice that is present in the original as well.
> between openness and safety for naïve users

Are you telling me that MacOS is insecure system?
Israelis on TikTok and Israeli leadership make the best case against Zionism. They’re openly racist and genocidal. As someone who’s not religious it’s clear the Palestinians have the moral high ground by a long shot.
I am not greatly familiar with the dangers of antidepressants. I do know that abruptly lowering the dose for some can cause thoughts of suicide. Some have side effects of sexual dysfunction. Some cause weight gain. That's about the limit of my knowledge.

What I know about the opioid class of drugs is that tolerance builds so the dosages commonly increase, too much stops the heart, and trying to stop causes violent withdrawal.

To me, opioids sound far more dangerous, enough to get its very own disorder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_use_disorder
Bill Gates Interviews Sam Altman about OpenAI's Speedy Rise
This all will absolutely disrupt agriculture and food chains. Also humans are political creatures which cannot easily migrate. These migrations usually end up with things, called wars.
Yep! This kid has a super power! I don't understand why this sort of learning to learn isn't taught in schools - I only discovered anki and even spaced repetition at age 35, and I could really have used it at school!

I think the workaround that I came up with myself was to work through a large amount of derivations (maths, physics and chemistry) and try to note the common stuff and prepared shorter and shorter versions of the notes from which I could rapidly reconstruct everything else.

In hindsight, I was training an autoencoder.
IPTV Lawsuit with 19TB of Data and One Ton of Print Discovery Heads for Trial
Thanks for the data. Fantastic reply.
It seems pretty good but your app is only targetting German right? I'm learning another language.

Right now I'm using this one : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flashcards.wor...

Which seems the only one I found supporting auto-TTS in lots of languages which you can toggle in the settings.

The UI is truly awful though and the space repetition algorithm is kind of borked.
sometimes yes, but not always, no
At least M3's cards are slightly tinted
Mesh's fragmentation protection is probabilistic (but highly effective) and as fragmentation grows, the likelihood of it being able to perform compaction also grows. Intuitively, if you have lots of sparsely allocated pages, Mesh is almost certainly going to be able to find many pairs of pages that it can "mesh" together into a single physical page. If the pages are too dense, then Mesh becomes ineffective, but that's exactly the point where there's little opportunity to squeeze out memory savings and the pages aren't really fragmented.