skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opting-out isn't an option when capital becomes capable of deploying (robotic or human) cops and soldiers to any point on earth in 30 minutes. At that point, the real power rests with whoever (or whatever) decides how to allocate capital and those who've opted out live and die only at their whim. Note that legal and political frameworks only need to be neutralized, not eliminated, for this to be effective. One can neutralize the legal system by injecting complexity and pricing out ordinary people from using it, and share small amounts of capital with legal leadership. One can neutralize the political framework by spending considerable capital on manufacturing consent, and improving return on that investment with technology.

Of course, such a solution isn't impossible. It may be that such a village, if left alone by circumstance and/or because it has an insider champion, may create such psychologically healthy and intellectually talented people that they may eventually challenge the greater status quo. Sounds like the premise of a YA mild dystopia novel!
How is fragmenting and reassembling a better option than just communicating what the real MTU is so higher-layer protocols can adjust to it? What is the extra mechanism buying you?
how is it for productivity?
> In 2016 I resigned from the Foundation en masse.

"En masse":

All together and at the same time, in large numbers

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en-masse
Most people don't do roadtrip. They just charge at home.

If you drive a tesla, a supercharger stall is usually available. No other kind of chargers I found either work, or are compatible with my tesla.
I thought their goal was to stay on top of everyone margin wise. Margin is better than volume in every dimension.
i agree that you can't make friends with everyone, and it's not always a solution. it can help in some cases though, and i think it can especially help in school if the teachers are aware of it and create situations that allow the kids to work together and become friends.

there is also making friends with others to have as allies against the bullies.

the problem is that teachers do not get trained for this. that teacher that forced you to stay outside of the class should have been fired.

i disagree with fighting back though unless it is simply self-defense.

and for the rest, well, yes, walking away, that's what i usually end up doing. but it's not always an option. especially not when you have kids. so then it's good to have alternative strategies to try instead.
This is a bit of a misleading title. Why not use the original?

"Improving LoRA: Implementing Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation (DoRA) from Scratch"

(If it's too long, just drop the "Improving LoRA: " part)
Have you actually tried it? There’s already over 1,000 apps and Apple Arcade has a very good immersive beat Sabre-alike in the store. There’s quite a few options for a device that’s only out for a few weeks.
Why is that? There are users with heavier flags than others. Effectively making them moderators.
It is not this simple and you missed my point (I can't blame you).

It is about personal traits after all. The question is, what personal trait remains constant under the change?

As you can see from the above: Chinese and American students reacted very differently to a change (a difficult study exercise).

In principle this contradicts your claim that Americans embrace any change - not at all.

Why different groups of people react differently to the change applied to them? It can be that they have different cultural memory about what is the outcome of a personal stand.
Is that the mouse that had a charging port right underneath so you couldn’t possibly charge while using?
It was mentioned in another comment thread that Meta has sold 20 million Quests so far, so clearly there is a market beyond just paid influencers.
I want to research a topic, so I do a google search about it. If 100% of the search results are readable to google, so that they are indexed, but unreadable to me, due to paywalls, the google search is useless.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but paywalled articles in search results are bad. If they want to be indexed they should have to offer that same indexed content to anyone browsing the index.
Love it. I'd appreciate an endless mode that's not clock gated.
There are some things that should require KYC. Like accepting DMCA claims. The claimaint should have to be a real verified person before the host should be required to act on a DMCA complaint.
For perspective:

Last quarter, Apple had ~$120,000,000,000 in revenue. Or about $1,300,000,000 revenue per day. As I write this, the story has a '6 hours ago' HN timestamp. And Apple's revenue has almost equaled the fine since the story was posted.

OK, but what about profit? Apple had $93,000,000,000 net revenue in 2023. Or about $250,000,000 per day. So the fine is about two days profit. Or around 0.5% of annual profit.
As someone who owns the original iPad and the original BlackBerry (lol) tablet.. as you'd expect, neither are worth as much as they retailed for.

I think that covers both possible product outcomes.
It feels like the 'influencer economy' has money plus goods/services changing hands in return for reviews all over the place, and the bar for disclosing things like affiliate links exists, but adherence to that bar is mixed with influencers, and enforcement of that bar also seems rare (at least in the US).

Is it possible to believe that a travel influencer with 700,000 subscribers (plus whatever other channel statistics matter to doing these deals with Marketing departments; number of views, watch times, number of click throughs?) would expect a free flight, some accommodation, a food allowance, and some money in return for the time and effort to do the flight, edit a video, post it? Likely yes.

Does that make it okay to post his personal details? No.

But this does seem like the definition of "Fsck around; find out", given the influencer in question has posted lots of stuff *slamming* other businesses, and they've now done it in a country where the airline's response isn't illegal, and the airline isn't covered by IATA's code of conduct, so they have no recourse.
What are you missing from neovim?

There are plenty of out of the box configs that do most of the work for the user in terms of configuration that begs the question: why demand vim in other code editors?

https://neovimcraft.com/c
Agreed. : should be standard Vim commands. Command pallete should be a separate keybind.
Considering it's predicted shape is that of obelisk ("rod") one is left to imagine that this finding has only metagenomics behind it.
Soviet luxury cars for big bosses were called that also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ_Chaika

I guess when you don't live near the coast, seagulls have this romantic, sea faring, travel vibe.
Well, you can create a non-linear model by piece-wise combining multiple linear models.

The famous ReLU non-linearity is just that - two linear functions joined.
Nanite can actually do trees now, and Fortnite is using it in production, with fully modelled leaves rather than cutout textures because that turned out to be more efficient under Nanite. They talk about it here: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/bringing-nanite...

That's still ultimately triangle meshes though, not some other weird representation like NERF, or distance fields, or voxels, or any of the other supposed triangle-killers that didn't stick. Triangles are proving very difficult to kill.
It’s the small latencies that add up for me. I usually use a tmux + nvim setup, but for codebases that require a bit more language server support (eg. C++20 and sometimes Rust), I have a VS Code setup with the nvim plugin that I’ve spent way too many hours tweaking hot keys and things.

Despite all my tweaking, VSCode sometimes just feels like it’s a beat behind, and keyboard commands get dropped in the transition between panes and such. Even just scrolling with nvim keybinds feels a bit off. My key repeat rate is fairly high, and I’ll hold down ^D to skim through a source file. VSCode’s renderer struggles to keep up smoothly sometimes.

This is all nitpicky stuff, not enough for me to swear off VSCode or anything. But it’s just annoying enough that every once in a while I end up in some rabbit hole of VSCode internals and css tweaks, instead of doing actual work. Most coding does not require a ton of bouncing around, but it does feel very liberating to have confidence in my inputs as I navigate around.
Yep. It’s nearly a perfect product, but it’s a complete nonstarter for me because it’s not open source. I’ll happily stick with GIMP because of that.
Another fun stats X is really Y:

estimating the Area Under the Curve metric (AUC) is equivalent to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test!

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1256/003590...
They did the same accidentally to the co-founder

https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1754610843361362360

Once I'd seen that, I doubled down on my self hosted GitLab and never looked back. GitHub can be a mirror for public good, but it's no castle I want to be a prisoner of.
Norway is (I believe?) the flagship country for Tesla, so it may be more difficult to pierce.

I remember EV's penetration is super high there.

Very cool link to see the imports!

I was questioning availability of the cars, because I think this is the key issue for BYD.

I wouldn't want to buy a car where you cannot get support.

In Estonia for example, Tesla's are not very popular for that reason, because for a long time, you couldn't even buy them from the official website (so you had to go through gray imports and drive to Finland for the routine maintenance), it's somewhat better now.

But BYD is simply unreasonably difficult to purchase, and if you do, then just doing a routine maintenance (or if you have an accident) sounds much more difficult than Tesla.

Once they solve that distribution problem (and don't get under political sanctions), I think they can be really great cars.
I heard on the grapevine that 60% of a US "Tesla gigafactory" is actually a Panasonic battery factory. The battery vertical is definitely a critical part of this story.
“All the features of vs code but ‘fast’” even though as you’ll read in this thread, people are highly questioning that assertion.
"have gotten food poisoning on board."

This is highly unlikely. Think about what would happen, if XX% of the passengers get food poisoning. Airplane food is probably one of the safest in the world from this perspective.

I indeed got food poisoning once on a plane. I assume (!) it was caused by food from the lounge in the airport in Addis Ababa. But not from food served in the plane.

But for sure would make a funny scene for a movie. 200 people shitting their guts out and competing for 4 toilets.
Vscode is nearly unuseable when my 5 year old thinkpad isn't plugged in. So yeah.
I think you'd want to weld the two half spheres together to give a more consistent mechanical fit to help with your implosion efficiency.
Theme Hospital (c $4) and CorsixTH is an amazing combo - they brought back all my childhood memories, highly recommended
There's no 180, you've drawn the wrong conclusion. He saying be aware of where you place your self-worth on others opinions. It might be some areas and not others.
Frustration often comes with extensibility: adding extensions on top of VSCode that need to run at file save time (eg: formatters) can lead to pretty significant performance drops.

This extensibility is probably what made VSCode popular though, especially for web devs since the extension mechanism is JavaScript-based.

Makes me wonder if those Rust-based tools (Lapce, Zed) will have as much success with Rust-based extensions authoring.
My perspective is of someone in the educational software business at the time. The idea of replacing teachers wasn’t really a thing there.

We saw teachers as the co-primary users of the software. The other users were the kids, of course. So there was a lot of consideration, e.g., to how teachers would use the software, what they needed it to do, etc. Actually, the product leads were typically former teachers.

It wasn’t just us either. It wasn’t a thing at the conferences I went to either. I think it would have come across as a silly/unserious idea.

You could really only entertain it if you had no idea what teachers actually do.
Human languages with higher information density have more speed but less breadth
The two biggest complaints are:

* The headset is too heavy, or too uncomfortable to use for extended periods of time.

* The software was lacking. Lack of video content, lack of apps, lack of 'shared experiences'.

I think that as soon as a headset is good enough for software engineers to 'live in' we will see software explode for it.
Sand molds have to be compacted.
Not always - volume is often better than margin if you are in a competitive market and have enough access to capital (other things being equal).

Particularly if you are taking market share from your (higher margin) competitor. If you can sell two cars at half the margin, that can be better than one car at double the margin if your competitor got the other sale, assuming your strategy is to take the market (i.e. wipe out your competitor).

High margins tend to be hard to defend in the long run (without building a moat).
I think you should watch the teardown [1].

The aluminium is about 2mm thick and also helps to dissipate heat.

Replacing it with plastic would save you a few grams for a hotter unit.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Apple_Vision_Pro
It's not a problem that it's unusable when the battery is flat? Do you mean "I'm willing to inconvenience myself in order to use this product"?
It's the same reason that for 80 years after the invention of the commercial icemaker in 1842, the American ice-harvesting industry produced more frozen water than manufacturing plants. And the ice trade did not exist until 1806.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade

It was more economical to send people out to cut ice from a lake in Maine and ship it by rail to Chicago than it was to just freeze water from a local supply. It was also more reliable since the technology was mature, versus ice plants that often broke down when meatpackers needed a consistent supply.

There's no reason why this won't be the case for AI unless semiconductor manufacturing continues its exponential performance/cost growth. The demand for technologically obsolete goods and services do not instantly disappear when a superior product enters the market.

Human software engineers right now are more reliable than AIs for most price-points. This is true for most industries in which machine learning is present.
I don’t care about your opinion about what I should base my self worth on.
Pico+: Premium Pico Services
I’ve heard that the situation is better on KDE, but for better or worse I’m a GNOME user. I probably should have specified that!
Applying basic syllogism, Eigenfunction is securities fraud.
Because anonymous banking facilities have never been used to launder vast amounts of cash...
I went on a tour of the USGS in Palo Alto in 2012. They used to keep all the Bay Area Topo maps there. The curator of the museum had a burning hatred for Google (which was basically across the street).

He told us that Google is 100% to blame for the cancellation of the USGS topographic maps program. Their management told him "Google is capturing it all now, so we don't need to do it anymore". He hated them with a burning passion because he was told to turn over all of his maps to Google for digitization into Google Maps because they would be shutting down the paper archives that he was in charge of.

He wasn't mad because his job was going away (they were going to reassign him anyway) -- he was mad because he felt that it wasn't right for Google to be in charge of archiving and controlling access to what was public information. He was also mad because Google's maps weren't nearly as good as his.

I hope that guy is still around and happy to see that the topographic maps live on and are freely available now.
Making a fast editor is such a common hobby, everybody seems to be working on one these days apparently, yet memory safety and speed has never been a real problem in editors.

It would be much more impressive to explore a novel approach for editors more extensible than Emacs, or with a more innovative editing model than vim's.

If we are reinventing the wheel, why not at least try to make a better wheel that's never been done before?
the KYC regime operates under the idea that its working because fraudulent identities work.

nobody here would ever know if a bank account currently exists in their name at a different institution, if it was properly used to simply accept payments for legal services and not leave an account in overdraft.

the entire concept of whitelisting transactions is a fools errand
I appreciate your response but I don't really agree. They say that likelihood can be multiplied by any scale factor or that it's only the comparative difference that matters, or we can make a little plot, but they don't actually explain why.

I can try to make an explanation from the bayesian framework(but as I mentioned it's not the only relevant one)

Likelihood is P(measurement=measurement'|parameter=parameter'). This is a small value. Given a prior we can P(parameter=parameter'|measurement=measurement'). This is also small. But when we compute P(parameter'-k<parameter<parameter'+k|measurement=measurement') then all the smallness cancels see the formulation of bayes that reads

P(X_i|Y) = (P(X_i)P(Y|X_i)/(sum_j P(X_j)P(Y|X_j))

I'm obviously skipping a lot of steps here because I'm sketching an explanation rather than giving one.
Bad Apple but it's played on a spinning torus [video]
The question I’ve been thinking about: what’s a better time to quit —- in a downturn or when things are going up?

If you can hold on to a job in a downturn, it’s a good opportunity to invest when the market is lower (which interestingly is not exactly the case now) so that you can benefit from it later.

But I guess the best time to quit is when you’re ready. Regardless of where in the cycle it is.
It is also reasonable to serve the same content to regular visitors as you do to Google?

Is ok to serve a full article to Google and put visitors behind wall?
Should have bought a Tesla - they had the foresight to actually build their supercharger network which makes longer trips feasible, if not necessarily as convenient. But I go on long roadtrips (by which I mean longer than 200-250 miles) maybe once a year, if that. What you’ve described is not an issue to the vast majority of Tesla owners.
I hate that we could have $8000[0] EVs in the EU, but Volkswagen+Germany will push the EU to add so many tariffs because they can’t match the price-quality ratio. Generally I love the EU, but occasionally.. sigh.

[0] Probably $12500 with transportation, purchase tax etc
I feel like 95 is more difficult now than 2 or 4 years ago.
The actual probability is 0, but the probability density is not 0. Same reason why the probability that I pick 0.5 from a uniform distribution from 0 to 1 is 0, but the value of the probability density function of the distribution at 0.5 is 1.
Helix is a very good and well-managed project, but it's quite hostile towards its own community. There are no plugins, and they won't be in Wasm like users want, but in Scheme dialect named Steel, that nobody want... if at all. Missing features like copilot or file browser expected by the community are essentially never merged into the master. This might be a better path than total dispersion and destruction of what works, but my expectations do not align with what the creators offer, so I give them the freedom to choose. I keep my fingers crossed for its development, but I personally use something else.
People don't want to tip their Uber and Lyft drivers
> Realistically, KYC might deter a small fraction – let's say about 1% – of these malefactors.

You may as well say, "KYC might deter a large fraction - let's say about 99% of these malefactors"

There's no evidence provided for these numbers. It's one thing to make an assumption which is counter to your argument - "Even if 99% of criminals are deterred, it creates an unconscionable burden upon those whose identities are stolen" or etc.

It's quite another just to assume your own argument. Let's assume cops prevent 99% of crime - it's worth their brutality or whatever. Let's assume cops prevent 1% of crime - we would be better off with 1% more crime and no cops or whatever.

It's absolutely pointless.

The article goes on to immediately compare KYC with widespread facial recognition. Why are these equivalent?

They could at least try to engage with arguments for KYC - that large financial institutions should not be making life easier for criminals. Historically, a bank obviously knew their customers - they had to open the accounts in person, talk with the bank manager, etc.
Don’t look at recent recessions which happened under almost zero rate regime. Look at the Carter era recession. Consider as well the cost of “printing money” if the rate reaches double digits, and the cost of refinancing the existing debt load.
Interoception: How We Understand Our Body's Inner Sensations (2019)
cody.dev can do that and it's pretty good. Running it on some late night coding sessions and I like the output around 90% of the time
Western companies have been basically shut out of the Chinese market since the beginning-even more is now. A huge trade imbalance should have naturally balanced itself out in a true free market. The fact it’s been so distorted for decades shows how bad it is. A rebalancing must occur and will be good for everyone in the long run

Chinese policy making has been hugely protectionist and interventions lost for decades.
Because of the surcharges going to Uber and Lyft. It feels like you are already paying extra. It's not rocket science.
That's why most Mac users use Logitech mice?
Yeah esri sucks and it’s software is worse than open source but it’s the only thing they teach because contracts
Yeah, LLMs seem exceptionally good at summarizing large amounts of structured data with a prompt at the end, like that YT demonstrates.

If you have a back-and-forth conversation, with the previous conversation chunks prepended as context to the next interaction, it will rapidly lose track of where you instructed it to spend its attention.

The manner in which the context is used seems to make a huge difference.
BBarn, how far along are the circularity tools, can I turn clean used plastic jugs back into feedstock worth using to make 3D stuff?
The weirdest “likelihood” conversation I ever had, the putative team lead didn’t want to change priorities to fix a bug because, “how often does that happen?”

My reply was, “it happens to every user, the first time they use the app.” And then something about how frequency has nothing to do with it. Every single user was going to encounter this bug. Even if they only used the app once.

I already had a toolbox full of conversations about how bad we are at statistics, but that one opened up a whole new avenue of things to worry about. One that was reinforced by later articles about the uselessness of p95 stats - particularly where 3% of your users are experiencing 100% outage.

But the one that is more apropos to the linked question, vs HN in general, is how people are bad at calculating the probability that “nothing bad happens” when there are fifty low probability things that can go wrong. Especially as the number of opportunities go up.

And the way that, if we do something risky and nothing bad happens, we estimate down the probability of future calamity instead of counting ourselves lucky and backing away.
Let's go all back to trade school. I hear that plumbers and electricians are making a killing nowadays.