skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been my whole career a great team fit, I’ve had bosses inviting me for Christmas at their home when I couldn’t travel to my home town, I’ve had coworkers inviting me to their child baptism and their wedding, I only don’t pass the bar for social interaction when its enforced by clowns out of context

Ah I had party at my place, and friends of coworkers invited wanted to have me at their home for weeks before I left the country because thanks to me improved the amount of friends they had despite being born there

I can't tell you all the things where I have had a confirmation that I am great with almost all kind of people.

Except landlords and hiring managers.

Why are you even in a technical interview process?

Even if someone is not capable of having a beer or social interaction, what's the issue?

You're there to punish people who have different personalities, have a different background? Your company is so shallow that it can't digest dealing with someone different? Are you so soft skinned? Is the system now punishing introverts?

Ah as working part of a team, my last manager in NL said they were glad to have me because I was the only one non introvert that would ask questions during meetings. They let me go because I wouldn't go to social events anymore. You know what were the social events? People mimicking italian gestures, talking about cappuccino and pizza with pineapples (I am italian).
Maths is typically written fast, so subtle spacing is too weak a signal to distinguish meanings. Where I studied maths, we even crossed our zeds horizontally to make it easier to distinguish from carelessly written 2s. Similarly, even though the country uses commas, the uni uses periods, for the benefit of clarity. Almost noone uses semicolons in function application in writing.
You mean judges. They all obtain perks, the ones you like as well as the ones you disagree with.
Even a landline could have emergency calls disrupted if a line was cut somewhere. unless every device was behaves as a router with more than one signal in/out, there will always be a potential for loss of signal and interruption of service.
> Do you think it should just make up whatever it wants when asked a question like "why does it rain?"

Always doing that would be preferable to the status quo, where it does it just often enough to do damage while retaining a veneer of credibility.
Sure, the example with their image AI is funny because of how blatant it is, but why do you think they are not doing the exact same thing with search?
Telephone Line Voltage is anywhere between 48 to 90V DC, depending on where in the world you are and which standards apply.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465517 (3 hours ago, 52+ comments)

Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users (cnbc.com)

NOTE: CNBC has updated their article title to AT&T cellular outage in United States disrupts vital services

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467031 (1 hour ago, 47+ comments)

AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. (nbcnews.com)
Is it a matter of being depicted in the training data, or is it a matter of understanding the grammatical relationships in the prompt?
Actually one of the absolute best things about having kids, that is not reproducible for no-child lifestyles, is seeing everything for the first time through their eyes.

All the other stuff people say about parenting can be reproduced via service or volunteering or something else. But that experience absolutely is unique.

Magic is real. The world is wild and exciting, and it's all there for that kid. It's amazing to watch and be a part of.

So, while you can never go back to being at 10 year old boy, you absolutely can get a taste of what that's like via adoption or having your own. In my opinion, that is.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465517 (3 hours ago)

Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users (cnbc.com)
Downdetector's front page[0] seems to indicate issues with other carriers as well - Verizon and TMobile. There are are several other providers showing on the front page, but I think a lot of them are MVNOs on the big three networks.

[0] https://downdetector.com/
This would let you implement the UNIX "everything is a file" philosophy on windows.

Although I feel guilty because that's probably more the Plan 9 philosophy. On Linux you get a lot of nice things by having /procfs for example but lots of things aren't files that might be. I've often wondered if a file based interface to dbus wouldn't be very liberating from the scripting point of view for example.

Plan 9 even does sockets via a file based interface and to my eyes it's no more clunky than BSD sockets - but presto, any bash script would be able to open a socket without netcat.
Do you want AI to follow the blasphemy laws of every country that has them?
Yeah but database migrations are the kind of grunt work I'd classify as a good usecase for it, provided you review them carefully. I think OP was saying for actual problem solving it's fairly limited.
Not even legal porn, unfortunately. Or even the display of a single female nipple…
To summarize the article: using backpropagation to train a small LSTM to accept strings of the form (a^n b^n), regularization with both L1 and L2 losses result in loss spaces where the loss-optimal solution is not the generally-correct one. The resulting networks fail out-of-sample.

The LSTM architecture does permit a correct, 'general' solution to exist, and the authors show that the general solution is an optimum when using a minimum-description-length error function. The MDL error function is effectively entropy(weights) + relative entropy(training data | model).

The researcher's problem is that entropy(weights) is not well-defined. To prevent the network from "smuggling" information through highly precise but otherwise random-looking weights, they define an entropy (coding length) that rewards simple rational fractions (1/2, 3/4, 7/11) and penalizes complex ones (715/937). With this loss function, their hand-crafted optimal solution also lies at a loss-optimum.

Unfortunately, the resulting loss space is non-differentiable, making it useless for any gradient-descent-like training.

To muse about this, the authors' problem of weight entropy here is similar to the problem faced by autoencoders, whereby they want to have a minimally-structured latent space to avoid the same information-smuggling problem. Perhaps we could evolve a differentiable version of the model-entropy loss function by treating the model weights as random variables, drawn from a distribution of learned mean and variance with the same 'reparameterization trick' that makes variational autoencoders work. The model entropy loss term is then the same as the latent-space regularization term in VAE training.
Three of the four aforementioned distros all offer first class KDE variants. Fedora KDE is considered one of the best KDE distros. Or you can recommend OpenSuse, Kubuntu, etc for an even simpler out of box experience.

Jumping to Manjaro/Arch as a first is a terrible idea, and more likely to frustrate new users away from Linux.
911 is regulated. I’m unsure on anything else (I simply don’t know).

People/companies that actually care already have a second line and are taking very good note of this.
I think saying "this organization built this craft that went to space" is a bit different than "buy shit from this other company"
Gah, now I see. Yes, it does include messages in iCloud backup by default. The "Messages for iCloud" option is exposed at the "Apps using iCloud" menu but iMessage backups are in the iCloud Backup for the specific device.

TIL.
My earliest computers were amazingly capable and powerful devices, I could do anything I could think of and spend hours and hours on them.

Now my computer is insanely more powerful but without an Internet connection it feels dead and useless.
What I mean by robust and targeted improvements is not about the concept as such, but about any choices specifically with respect to how you build the tokenization layer - if you're making a particular system, making better targeted choices for tokenization, character filter/preprocessing or vocabulary can give you some improvements in efficiency, but they rarely are a dealbraker and tokenization never is a key enabler. Like, if some tokenization or filtering destroys data your specific task happens to need, that's a problem, but you don't need advanced future research to fix it, going back to simpler tokenization and removing features is sufficient for that, at the extreme you could always use a naive character-level tokenizer, it's trivial but simply is less computationally efficient.

If you don't care about tokenization and use any of the reasonable default options without caring about them, and if you're doing a proper pre-training on non-tiny quantities of data, then the next few layers of whatever neural architecture you have on top of these tokens will generally be able to learn to compensate for any drawbacks in your tokenization, perhaps at some computation overhead - e.g. perhaps you could have had one less layer or smaller layers if you had the best tokenization possible, and edging out that computation cost improvement is pretty much the only thing you can hope to get out of having a better tokenizer.
If FirstNet is down that would mean a lot more is down than should be. FirstNet can operate on lower range radio, no?
> because it's my free time

This is exactly my frustration
Oh.

cargo add crossbeam-channel
Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission
I enjoy that “ma” has ambiguous meaning above. Does it mean mandarin question mark word or does possibly mean mother?
Are they the statistically likely example? Or are they what is in a data set collected by companies whose sources of data are inherently biased.

Whether they are statistically even plausible depends on where you are, whether they are the statistically likely example depends on from what population and whether the population the person expects to draw from is the same as yours.

The problem becomes to assume that the person wants your idea of the statistically likely example.
Portland, is that you?

This happened to us with the recent storms a month or two back, some places didn't have power restored for 2 weeks+
And since Oct 7th we've seen those people's masks come completely off.
I mean, the model would be making wise guesses based on the statistics.
I wish they put out the report already. Has anyone else published a preprint combining ideas similar to diffusion transformers and flow matching?
Outrage is feedback that Google sorely needs.
http://archive.today/9Q6Z1
They need to release model first. Then it's will be fine-tuned.
MMU-Less Systems and Fdpic
On the latest iPhones, SOS mode is the emergency fallback to satellite service. It's really meant to be used in situations where you're well outside of any sort of service area but you have a clear, unobstructed view of the sky.

Your iPhone will instruct you on where to point and help you track an emergency satellite that is manned by live humans who will take your emergency request and relay it to the proper people.

More specific info here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/104992
It's about self-identification not advertisement. And NASA isn't a privately-owned for-profit corporation. It's like putting "US NAVY" on a battleship, except instead it's a vehicle furthering mankind's technological development.
I also once had to pick up around the house and it was oh so terrible.
> DebtDeflation: Verizon and T-Mo both issued statements that they have no outages and the issue is just their customers being unable to call AT&T customers. Looks like most of the AT&T network in the US is down though.
Discussion already active in previous thread, this breaks discussion apart. Source link could go in comments.
America is divided on race, sure, but other divisions exist in other countries just as strongly. South Korea is in a little bit of a gender war at the moment, and I'm not talking trans people, I mean literally demanding the removal of women from public life who are outed as "feminist".
how does a landline become relevant when one is not at home? right up to the start of work from home, I was spending very little time at home. a landline made no sense at that point.
You can do each variable on its own line with stuff like "defvar" and "setf", but that will add them to the current package namespace - and convention is to avoid polluting namespaces with names that will be unused later. So, if the variables are only used within a given scope, the scope is explicitly delineated with a "let" block. It's not a general requirement.

I'm not sure what you mean about the difference between LET and LET* (the latter simply lets subsequent variable declarations refer to previously declared variables in the same block), and LETREC is not a builtin part of Common Lisp.
Check out civitai.com for finetuned models for a wide range of uses
Well it's pretty daft to call anyone American if they're not American
@tobeagram Have now filed Issue #1. :-) Thanks for the suggestion and additional info.
Ameria AG – Welcome to the Future of Touchfree Interaction
I'd settle for them fixing text selection in the existing terminal: basic stuff like double-click to select words, triple-click for lines, shift-click to extend selection ... lacking the last one really irks me when I need to select a lot of output. And I'm hearing this new one hijacks ^r, which has long been wired into my muscle memory. I have a lot of reasons to love Jetbrains IDEs, but the terminal is not one of them.
Probably NV and most likely Qualcomm + hyper scalers who want custom chips (Microsoft/Amazon). I can even seen Apple outsourcing some small chips in few years (big NPU outside main board or maybe 5/6G custom chips etc.)
Eh, a professional human could easily lockpick the majority of front doors out there. Nevertheless I don't think we're going to give up on locking our doors any time soon.
I'm half convinced everyone complaining about Windows has not used Windows since ME or XP. Windows is perfectly good. It sucks that dev tools cater to people who want to spend thousands of dollars for a laptop and monitor stand but otherwise it's great.
I'm talking about something a little different. When you get into the level of method names and so on then yes you're definitely right.

But I have had incredibly useful conversations on broad strokes stuff. A question like "what are some of the various options for scoring the similarity between news stories for the purpose of showing similar content to a user" or something can be really really useful, much more so than trying to find that perfect blog post about it, because you can ask follow up questions and sort of evaluate the various key words and concepts you'll want to eventually learn.

Stuff like that.
Yes I've felt the same way. I feel like we have an instinctual need for social connection that we've filled with internet. Luckily, we do still have meat-space friends and family.
Maybe star (and moon/earth) tracking and radio signals to earth?
This feels unnecessary cynical. I could understand if the spacecraft said "Drink Ovaltine" or something else just advertising with paid placement, but the brand marks on it are just highlighting the organizations the actually built the thing. I was originally confused/skeptical about Columbia, but they did actually contribute to the design and construction of the lander, even if this press release is a little puffed up: https://investor.columbia.com/news-events/press-releases/det....

Also, you say "It's all just egos and entertainment now." What do you think it was in 1969? Is "beat the Russians" somehow a more noble goal than "sell a product"?
911 support is required of companies, it's monitored and fixed when not working.

But in this case, it's redundancy from the various providers - all providers must let you make a 911 call, no matter your phone or contract or provider.

So if AT&T's towers go down, your phone can still make 911 calls via Verizon or whomever else has a tower in your area, anything that can hear your phone will respond to a 911 call request.
I assume no one will read this, but good places to look for super-clever ways to reduce transistor count while maintaining good performance:

- Early mainframes / room-sized computers (era of vacuum tubes and discrete transistors), especially at the upper-end , where there was enough budget to have modern pipelined and scalar architectures.

- Cray X-MP and successors

- DEC Alpha / StrongARM (referenced SA-110)

Bad places to look are all the microcode architectures. These optimized transistor count, often sacrificing massive amounts of performance in order to save on cost. Ditto for some of the minicomputers, where the goal was to make an "affordable" computer. Something like the PDP was super-clever in cost-cutting, which made sense at the time, does much less to maintain performance.

There's a ton of long-forgotten cleverness.
Note, this is all from a US perspective.

FWIW, YouTube TV, the paid subscription package, has what you're looking for. If you wanted to watch an episode of some cable or local news broadcast, you can do that. Pick your flavor: Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, HLN, PBS News, local affiliates, etc. It is practically just cable TV on the internet. Want to watch Game Show Network and watch endless shows like Jeopardy and Deal or No Deal or whatever, it is there. Lots of sports-centric TV channels as well, but not all regional sports networks are available (at least last time I checked).

Some news channels do offer more traditional news segments on regular YT. NBC News and ABC News offer a 24/7 live stream and often makes entire episodes available.

https://www.youtube.com/@NBCNews

https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNews

PBS NewsHour offers full episodes on traditional YT as well and are usually live during notable events and during their broadcast times.

https://www.youtube.com/@PBSNewsHour
In life it’s a two way, else it burns out. People will tire of “gimme”.
This is incredible! Nice work!
> This is the world we live in.

Great talk about slavery and religious-persecution, Jim! Wait, what were we talking about? Fucking American fascists trying to control our thoughts and actions, right right.
Lexington, KY. Not a massive city but the second largest in KY. I left after 2 days of no power and it didn't come back on for another 3-5 days more after that depending on where you lived.
> It seems perfectly reasonable to say that generated imagery should attempt to not lean into stereotypes and show a diverse set of people

No, it's not reasonable. It goes against actual history, facts, and collected statistics. It's so ham-fisted and over the top, it reveals something about how ineptly and irresponsibly these decisions were made internally.

An unfair use of a stereotype would be placing someone of a certain ethnicity in a demeaning context (eg, if you asked for a picture of an Irish person and it rendered a drunken fool).

The Google wokeness committee bolted on something absurdly crude, seems like "when showing people, always include a black, an asian and an native american person" which rightfully results in a pushback from people who have brains.
I looked it up again and you can actually do it with the split option since apparently 2020, great!

So I stand corrected.

Although it's not restored at launch (unlike the split in the editor).
The latent bigotry in this comment is astounding
AI is not an engineered system; it's emergent behavior from a system we can vaguely direct but do not fundamentally understand. So it's natural that the boundaries of system behavior would be a topic of conversation pretty much all the time.

EDIT: Boring and shallow are, unfortunately, the Internet's fault. Don't know what to do about those.
Due to the gross incompetence these companies operate at, it's too hard to tell the difference.
Cellular Outage Caused by Cyber Attack? Speculations on Social Media
My wife and I were riding in the car next to each other. Took mine about 5 to 10 minutes longer to jump to SOS mode.
They are getting more expensive and less reliable:

https://www.ooma.com/blog/home-phone/landline-home-phone-is-...
It's the Social Media Problem (e.g. Twitter) - at global scale, someone will ALWAYS be unhappy with the results.
fwiw I turned off history and all the recommendations settings, and now they hide the shorts and frontpage recs
You can buy it for 35$ on https://www.tindie.com/products/theoldnet/rs232-serial-wifi-...
Same in Providence RI.
> "Modern appliances are rarely built to last. They could learn something from the KitchenAid stand mixer...My dad bought the white-enameled machine 35 years ago"

There were good appliances 35years ago (except maybe GE). Our garage fridge is 20yo. We found a Maytag washer dryer set from 88 (but still using the 90s Whirlpool washer).

We bought a new (entry model) KA mixer about 15 years ago. It had too many issues and went away. We eventually found one from about 35 years old and it's been great. Son #3 replaced something on it recently(& cheaply, & easily), a bearing I think.
Scunthorpe problem; I thought an AI should be smart enough to know the difference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Ahh yes, empathy can give us experiences we are unable to get ourselves.
Criminals? We dont care about those.

Think of childern! We must stop people from generating porn!
Optimize some low-level numeric algorithms, CPU or GPU, it brings back that feeling.
Is Microsoft really better? Remember this[1] bizarre intro during Microsoft Ignite?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBRtucXGeNQ
> If you ask generative AI for a picture of a "nurse", it will produce a picture of a white woman 100% of the time, without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else.

> If you ask a generative AI for a picture of a "software engineer", it will produce a picture of a white guy 100% of the time, without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else.

Neither of these statements is true, and you can verify it by prompting any of the major generative AI platforms more than a couple times.

I think your comment is representative of the root problem: The imagined severity of the problem has been exaggerated to such extremes that companies are blindly going to the opposite extreme in order to cancel out what they imagine to be the problem. The result is the kind of absurdity we’re seeing in these generated images.
Why does google dislike white people? What does this have to do with corporate greed? (which you could always assume when a company does something bad)
Using disparaging labeling shows lack of arguments and usually used by those who are scared.
TBH if I were at Google and they asked all employees to dogfood this product and give feedback, I would not say anything about this. With recent firings why risk your neck?
Won't that only activate if it can't see or communicate with any towers at all?
What if there's a voting system where one needs 43% or more to win? (explained)
In my previous post, I made a pseudo random number generator (licensed under the Public Domain) where every bit is 42.5% random in 10 lines of code and it outputs a byte every clock cycle. Thoughts on this?

Basically, it's a filter against my simple pseudorandom number generator so it keeps narrowly losing and winning for it is an extreme rarity.

To win, one idea gets 43% or more of the votes. If two ideas get 43% or more of the votes, restart. Or it could not restart but something else, am open to changing my mind about the restarting idea.
Yep, it bugs me too.

Actually you're wrong because <argument on semantics> when in reality the truth is <minor technicality>.
SD 1.5 (using RealisticVision 5.1, 20 steps, Euler A) spit out something technically correct (but hilarious) in just a few generations.

"a woman chasing a bear, pursuit"

https://i.imgur.com/RqCXVYC.png
Sales people, and company owners, have a vested interest in pushing the narrative that the illusion is actually magic.