skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every comment in that thread, including the comment you referenced, is wrong.

Due to Poetry's architecture, it can't satisfy all three at the same time:

- the platonic ideal of build isolation and lockfiles

- installing the appropriate accelerator specific version of pytorch for the current platform non-interactively or one that the user selects

- dependencies for pytorch that are transitively compatible with the way dependencies for pytorch are expressed elsewhere

This is something you can achieve with setuptools and setup.py by forfeiting the platonic ideals of build isolation and lockfiles.

Poetry, on the other hand, does not let you choose which lamb to sacrifice. Everyone in the thread, for the last two years, who has reported that they have had some success are misunderstanding the state of their install, and have interacted with flaws in all three situations I'm describing. They have something that will not correctly install anything that is dependent itself on PyTorch, which is useless, since everything in the PyTorch ecosystem is is dependent on it, and the main workaround the community uses - installing torch first, followed by installing dependencies from a requirements.txt, followed by copying a dump of scripts - is not compatible with poetry.

Here's the facts of the matter:

- 1.2M requirements.txts https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2F%5Erequirements.txt%24...

- 664k setup.pys https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2F%5Esetup.py%24%2F&type...

- setup.pys that reference requirements.txts https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2F%5Esetup.py%24%2F+requ...
67.1k

- only 30k pyproject.toml specified with dependencies https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2F%5Epyproject.toml%24%2...

2/3rds of Python end users do not engage with packaging at all. pyproject.toml with dependencies is about 1.5% of the ecosystem. It provides only downsides compared to setup.py and pinning your package versions by commit in your setup.py dependencies aka doing what golang does, and this does not require any external tools in Python. In my opinion, the Poetry developers need to fix pytorch or they will not get adoption during Peak Python.
I am a 400 foot tall purple platypus-bear with pink horns and silver wings.

Describing yourself in a certain way doesn't make it true.
As a reference, 10K simultaneous hits was an achievable challenge back in ...

1999.
'legal' has no meaning here when it's against every single casino policy in the world.
High Performance Content Defined Chunking (2013)
To be fair, I said "how much tax I owe," not how much tax you (or others) owe.

I don't have any creative deductions. And I expect many others only have one or two "interesting" deductions to add. I haven't actually measured this but I honestly expect >95% of what I enter into my tax return is information they already have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oM7-Jsa168&t=111s
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Rapidly Strengthening Pacific Storm
If you don't happen to have the time to visit him, here is a playlist of videos Numberphile did on Klein Bottles, his basement warehouse, the intrinsic curvature of pizza, and a whole bunch of other interesting things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU&list=PLt5AfwLFPx...
Tax filings are still public under "freedom of information" type laws in several countries, like Sweden.
Via CarPlay, Apple can already own the interesting parts of every car, so why get wrapped up in all the messy bits? Seems like they could do just as well buying up someone else who already has the car bits figured out, especially supply chain and distribution.
In those earlier days was there a concept of “UX?” Or even “UI?” - the only thing I’ve come across is “human to machine design” but that’s a vague role/title. It seems that anyone working on software from my ignorant perspective was expected to also know what we call “information architecture / UI / ux” today, to some extent anyway? Any insight you can shed here on the history / context? When did software even start getting associated with “designers?”

Also what did you find most disappointing that isn’t around but was back then? What was a surprising failure / surprising success?

Thanks for taking the time.

From my “historical diving” and personal experience; I’m most surprised that almost all computer form factors and software used today was “engineered” at Parc, even down to the UI/ux. Then surprised Forth didn’t win out as a language but I guess it didn’t get popular for whatever reason. Then similarly to Parc it’s weird how much of the engineering powering the engineering is bell labs.
Got it, thanks for the detailed update. Clearly much more complex.
It's not an accident. Lobbyists in the US have spent decades working to hamper the operations of the IRS for a variety of reasons (including limiting their capacity to investigate tax evasion on the part of the people funding the lobbying), and to protect the interests of middlemen like tax services companies.
> <tinfoil hat> I wonder if the ransomware incident last year played a role in this decision?

This makes more sense to me than the other explanations. Probably coupled with an underinformed general manager or company president.
They certainly understand they're working in a high dimensional space. No question. What they deny is that this necessarily means the goal of interpretability is a futile one.

But the main thrust of what I'm saying is that we shouldn't be dismissing explanations a priori - answers to "how does a transformer work?" that go beyond descriptions of self-attention aren't necessarily nonsensical. You can think it's a waste of time (...frankly, I kind of think it's a waste of time too...), but just like any other field, it's not really fair to close our eyes and ears and dismiss proposals out of hand. I suppose
> Maybe I'll be eating my words in 10 years.
indicates you understand this though.
What are the politics? One of the richest and most profitable industries on Earth wants to have a conference where they show slide shows to each other. Really not much different than any other conference, and probably more ethical than most of them.
Video of the warehouse for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
Wish they had included UUIDv1. Likely better than UUIDv4, but I'm curious how close it gets to UUIDv7 since it's already available.
Exactly, then I should be able to see that my tax calculations include only my salary and I can fill in rest of the things to get additional deduction.
Infact everyone would be able to see what IRS knows and what it doesn't and deductions taken into account etc. How is it not better?
Piracy isn't difficult to compete against. You just need to provide a service at least as usable as piracy. I won't mind paying a couple of bucks, I just need a usable service which:

1. Doesn't restrict what content I can watch from which country and doesn't prevent me from using VPN. This is outright ridiculous and I deeply hate streaming services just for that.

2. Has all the content from multiple studios, not just from your "walled garden". Until you solve that, piracy is more usable. There are illegal Netflix-like services that stream all the content without a hassle — and some of them are even subscription-based! Hear me out — people FUCKING PAY pirates to watch content, because their services are more convenient to use than yours that are legal. So yeah, people don't mind paying. They just want a decent service.
You wouldn't download a car!
Ok but why didn’t Shannon get us gpt
Haha, would you want ESP32 hackers at your venue? Breaking into wifi and rooms to make tech points? Hosting this never made sense.
that's my thought. first customer: build anything they want. second customer: add everything they want, and pay attention to what they don't want. third customer: ok, now we are starting to see a pattern. see if we can satisfy them without any custom features. fourth: ok, this is our product, take it or leave it. new features only if more than half of all customers want it. fifth: by now the first customer may be the odd one out. need to find a strategy to deal with that.
I guess it's funny, but the attendees don't necessarily represent the organizers. The best hackers in the world may be in the building during Defcon but I don't think the Defcon organization itself necessarily employs them.
WebAssembly Playground
I mean, attendees of DEFCON can hack Caesars even if someone else owns the projectors used for the Powerpoint presentations.
As always with studies like these, there's the question of applicability of the measures to the hypothesis.

Is the measure of cognitive ability relevant to the claim made in the paper? That is to say, is the measure of cognitive ability ("g" in the paper[0]) actually a good measure of abilities and relevant to long-term financial optimism?

Are both these variables conditional on a third hidden variable? This isn't thoroughly addressed in the paper, the authors choose a series of variables "which are thought to be in principle unaffected by cognitive ability" but even there show that optimism is dependent on e.g. age (Measures -> Control Variables), and additionally mention that "g" is also dependent on age (Measures -> Cognitive Ability).

A high p-value doesn't necessarily indicate that the two variables are causally related, just correlated—and there are plenty of highly correlated datasets that are definitely not causal[1].

It's important to try to disentangle the claims from the data supporting them. The claim that people with lower cognitive ability are more (recklessly) optimistic about their futures seems like it would make sense at least from a
social-Darwinist perspective, but it's exactly those claims that seem reasonable that we should examine more closely. Confirmation bias is a powerful set of blinders.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672231209400
[1] https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I heard a joke a tech conference people in Vegas many years ago. It goes something like "people who go to tech conferences in Vegas bring one shirt and a $20 bill and never change either." So yea, programmers generally aren't gamblers because they know enough math to know the house always wins.
Not the op, but this gels with my story.

When I started out, computers were rare, and software was rare. We were in thd business of "computerizing" companies. We often supplied hardware with software. We found our space and grew as the space grew.

Contrast to 10 years ago where we saw a market with poor software, and entered that. Most businesses in the space had a product, albeit an inferior one. Progress capturing that market has been slow though, people don't like change.

If I was to do another product now, I'd focus a lot more on the willingness and ability, for the market to adopt new things. Being better (a fair bit better) is not enough. It's a lot harder now to get traction, to build trust, to convince people to change.
I wonder if Caesars' cybersecurity insurer had an opinion about writing a policy for a casino resort that hosts something like DEFCON, especially after the MGM hack.
Pilots chasing down V-1s who shot at them from directly behind would risk immediately flying at high speed into the wall of shrapnel created by blowing up essentially a large powered bomb, often destroying or damaging their own aircraft in the process, which was very dangerous.

To avoid this, some pilots developed the tactic of flying along side the V1 then using their wingtip against the V-1 wingtip they would then flip it over and off course disrupting the primitive autopilot system so it would then spiral out of the control and hit the ground and explode hopefully in relatively harmless field.
Very interesting read and a rather "obvious" one. I can't believe I didn't see this before. Obviously... A perceptron layer is a bunch of dot products followed by comparison. Every graphics programmer knows this is a check of which side of a plane you're on.

Of course, the relu unit is also a
passing on information when the result is on one side of the plane, making this a spline.

As others have said... Can we learn the separating planes without the backward gradient propagation? I don't know but seeing it in this new way may help.
The amount of robberies is going to skyrocket... I would suspect that Apple will have to implement some sort of "50% translucency requirement for on-screen windows" so that using the Vision Pro in public places will not prevent people from being aware of their central vision & surroundings.

I don't personally carry a cell phone with me in day-to-day life, so I am already well aware of how addictive technology is for young & old [and am myself about half way along the journey].

The first person to get injured because the VisionPro screens suddenly freeze/blank is going to make global news. RIP.
Apparently the mechanism is that Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist’s organization, grades politicians on how much they resist tax increases and other tax-related things, and they’re skeptical of public tax software. patio11 goes into it in an aside in one of his articles [1].

> Norquist considers a public filing option a tax increase by stealth and opposes it automatically.

[1] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/payroll-providers-pow...
> I personally think baseball, with the slow pace, is actually the best in social terms.

It's largely considered the most boring to go to because it's slow. In fact, it was recently so slow and uneventful, that added rule changes just to speed things up for fans...

I guess there's a case to be made it leaves more time to be "social" and talk to your friends at the game, but it's going to be hard to get them to go in the first place...
If you're building for multiple platforms, it doesn't make sense to lock your dependencies.

"Some platforms need newer versions" is the default case; don't make your tools fight it.

That said, package managers that do timestamp-based version filtering would be very useful.
RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem, one of the oldest widely used for secure data transmission.
The Increasing Importance of Coordination
Even before Fukushima Germany had decided to abandon nuclear power. Fukushima sped up the process by about two or three years.
Isn't that the case for a lot of game engines? Thinking of unity and unreal
"Impact" by Benjamin King and Timothy Hutton

"The answer to Pile's problems of directing the guns was the American S.C.R. 584 radar, the one used on the American 90mm anti aircraft gun, which had power elevation and traverse and an automatic fuse setter. The S.C.R. 584 was a gun-laying radar and "the most successful single application of the micro-wave ten-centimeter technique to ground fighting in World War IL It could automatically track an unseen target at night or in cloud or fog, supplying range,
azimuth and elevation data to a gun director." The S.C.R. 684 had a range of 90,000 yards for early warning, and as a target got within 32,000 yards the set acted as a gun layer. It had no blind spots and could detect low-flying targets like the Fi 103. Unlike the British radar sets, it was also immune to Window. However, it was a complex piece of electronic equipment and required a number of scarce materials like tantalum, molybdenum and tungsten, as well as 140 vacuum tubes
which were then in short supply in the United States. The fielded version weighed several tons and cost $100,000."

Impact, pg 174-175

"Aside from the redeployment, one of the reasons for the gunners' success was that new equipment had arrived. Anti-Aircraft Command received 135 of the long-awaited S.C.R. 584 radar sets and Pile was able to "borrow" an additional 165. Adapting these to the static British 3.7-inch gun required 200 modifications to the gun. Along with the radar sets came proximity fuses and 20 American batteries armed with the radar-controlled 90mm gun."

Impact, pg 207

"When controlled by the S.C.R. 584 radar set, the U.S. 90mm Ml Antiaircraft Gun was the finest antiaircraft gun of World War II. During the campaign they were operated 22 hours a day with two hours a day for maintenance."

Impact, pg 271
There's always the risk of more car manufacturers going the Tesla, Rivian, GM route
I was reading racketeering on Wikipedia last night and one thing that surprised me was "illegal taxis". Okay, what's that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxi_operation

Oh there's Uber mentioned at the bottom there, with no clear definition why it's not racketeering.

Another interesting situation was when I was reading up on bank runs. Basically the default behavior of a bank is to have a bank run when people pull out of it. People will pull out when deposits are not insured by the gov or other third party entity. 2008 crash happened because entities that were not banks were behaving like banks (e.g. construction companies giving out loans) but they were not insured like banks. When banks are insured, they are very tightly regulated to the point they make little profit.

Most of the time, when someone makes a ton of money in finance, they're not playing by the tight rules of banks but act like banks. Basically all the fintech stuff you see today.
The first version of USB should have used TRRS connectors. Then wouldn't have people complaining about inserting the cable incorrectly or having to deal with the plethora of USB connectors.
Those Who Can't Be Named
I feel more like what he is describing is Postgres is aggregating everything with extensions not that Postgres is disassembled.
> the IRS doesn't independently know most of the things that could cause you to get tax deductions

The vast majority of taxpayers take the standard deduction and do not itemize, so in real practical terms this is an extremely irrelevant straw man.

(https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-standard-....)

(https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/taxes/2023/02/15/itemiz...)
I think one way of getting values that are reasonable is that if you claim something is worth X, the government should have the prerogative to call your bluff and purchase it from you for X * (1 + c). If you're making a reasonable attempt to value stuff, you should be mildly pleased with that sale, if perhaps inconvenienced. If you're trying to pretend stuff is worth far less than it is, you're at risk.
My mom bought me a simple puzzle game subscription called "Finders Seekers". The puzzles are much, much simpler than this but still give you a great "that was clever" feeling.

I will be playing the next installment with her next weekend. If you like the escape room board games you should check it out. I also heard "Box One" is good and we'll pick that up in a couple months.
Uh, yes, it does?

There’s a huge difference between: “if you do X, you will be asked to leave” and “if you do X, the police will arrest you”

Like, when I invite someone over to a dinner party, it is against my policy to insult my dog. If you do that I will kick you out (not actually, he’s a dumb klutz, you can insult him all you want), but that doesn’t make it illegal to insult my dog.
that’s an awful situation. i hope your kid recovers soon
> Well, technically it does have datagrams but what I'm getting at is that with fragmentation (let's say you have broken PMTUD) an IP packet can be split up.

Of course, but in the happy usual case your network stack should be starting off with a TCP MSS <= MTU + overhead and the IP datagrams will not be fragmented.

I used the term "datagram" because to higher layers like TCP, it is formally specified this way. I'm not too concerned about pedantry (except to avoid confusion) but this is the literal RFC9293 text: "The application byte-stream is conveyed over the network via TCP segments, with each TCP segment sent as an Internet Protocol (IP) datagram. "
Next time I'm in the market, I'll consider this. I'll probably have to get a mixer then too, instead of using this half broken 30 year old one I have kicking around.
> That's still YIFY-quality video, which is a few steps below HBO/MAX, which happens to be among the lowest quality paid streams.

You don't necessarily have to pick YIFY.

Qxr's uploads are a much better comparison. x265 encoded 1080p (with 5 - 6.5Mbps bitrate) from the highest quality sources and they look very good even on 55" 4K panels.
Interfaces aren’t meant to have friction in as much carpets aren’t meant to give you rug burns. Friction is a by product of user experience that hasn’t successfully automated what the user needed. The ultimate form of software is one that functions on its own without user input, the second is “wish” based, as you say it does. Caveat emperor.
The thought process is that they want to abolish more taxes, so they want complying with taxes to be as complicated as possible so they can get more people pissed off at taxes more generally. Or at least that's the thought process of the Norquist wing of the party.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8134597
I super don't mean to be rude if you truly enjoy this game but this sounds a lot like a youtube-esque product placement
One of my first experiences with a vegan was a girl in my French class who upon having seen me eat steak at a school trip came up to me to complain and tell me she was sure I'd feel differently if I had to kill the animal myself.

I've never killed a large animal, so maybe she was right, but I have killed small ones, and being annoyed I told her I didn't see a problem with killing an animal myself if I had to.

She stared at me for a moment, her face getting paler, called me a demon, and walked off.

I'm sure it must be hard feeling like that about meat eating (her housemate was also on the trip, and they at one point debated what to do about an ant-infestation because they couldn't bear killing them - this was not a casual thing to her) and living around people like us.

Especially if they, like me, are the kind of meat eater who still takes pleasure from having been called a demon to my face almost 30 years later.
You're probably thinking of the 3rd gen version, which, had exactly zero buttons (the only way to control it was to press the button on the included Apple earbuds): https://apple-history.com/ipod_shuffle_3g
I think this one is just about context. If you know about HTTP then it becomes clear, if that isn't on your mind it isn't. I have been following through a book on TLS and HTTPS so it is very on my mind.
It’s not an equilibrium price, because the average cost is higher than the marginal cost (which is indeed close to zero). Free markets don’t work unless the marginal cost (and the price) is higher than the average cost, for obvious reasons.