skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll take a judge’s verdict on the topic over yours, if you don’t mind.

Trump is on record - in the 2016 presidential debates, no less - claiming that gaming the system (by not paying his fair share of taxes) makes him smart.

Not prosecuting him and holding his feet to the fire is a worse look for NYS/NYC. Not showing undue deference to a former president is actually something the state should be very proud of.

It’s the opposite of banana republic level corruption when you realise that they’re aiming for the (former) king and can’t afford to miss…which they aren’t.
It's probably still UK law unless it was specifically repealed. EU Directives were implemented in terms of national law, and EU Regulations were directly implemented and considered passed automatically if parliament didn't stop them.
> Japan company aims to reduce accidents by checking elderly for potential dementia

I don't think elderly drivers are nearly as big of a problem as drivers on their phones. Let's fix the big problem before worrying about a little one.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479334
I think you’re using DOM to refer to the entire browser, not just what’s standardized as the DOM. Things like creating or modifying elements will run at tens of millions per second on an old iPhone _but_ there are operations like the one you mentioned which force the browser to do other work like style calculation and layout, and if you inadvertently write code which is something like “DOM update, force recalc, DOM update” in a loop it’s very easy to mistakenly think that the DOM is the source of the performance problem rather than things like the standard web layout process having many ways for different elements to interact.

And, yes, I’m not unaware that different display models have different performance characteristics. Modern browsers can run into into the millions of objects range but fundamentally a web page is doing more work and there’s no way it’s going to match something which does less. This is why there have been various ways to turn off some of the expensive work (e.g. fixed table layout) and when APIs like canvas, WebGL, and WebGPU use different designs to allow people who need more control to avoid taking on costs their apps don’t need.
Office.com redirects you to login.microsoftonline.com which isn't horribly bad, but is starting to get there. Now you have microsoft365.com and friends, too.

At least when things were login.microsoft.com you could apply the "last part is definitive" now that heuristic is pretty useless. And if you watch the actual DNS requests during a login, whew.

CDNs make it even worse, here's a few VALID requests from my DNS cache:

store-images.s-microsoft.com-c.edgekey.net

www.msftconnecttest.com

123499-ipv4v6.farm.dprodmgd103.aa-rt.sharepoint.com

download.windowsupdate.com.edgesuite.net

At least some end in apparently legitimate domains, but sheesh, that last one looks like something straight out of 2000s era scams.
I think you're being a bit patronizing here. It's lazy thinking to just assume everyone else is stupid except you ;)

Transformers and diffusion models have already completely changed the game and the architectures are still very primitive. They will only get better from here.

The crazy part is that for the foreseeable future, the limiting factor for improvement is compute. Train the models for more epochs is all that is needed, for now. Moores law seems to be coming back for another round.
I meant the people's reaction look like a South Park episode, not china's actions. The way they get hysterical and claim that you could spend years in jails for stupid things like having a picture of Winnie the Pooh on your phone. And it never stops, every couple of months, there is a new made up and/or exagerated thing about china that Americans are ultra confident about even if they have never been to china or talked to a Chinese person. This week for exemple, politicians (not trump this time) on tv were talking about how most Chinese migrant are ccp spies/soldiers.
Spoiler alert: there's a decent argument to be made that the market has never been irrational either. It's just a matter of timing to allow the markets to adjust. A market in of itself is never perfect.
Wealth inequality, caused by worker exploitation (which drives cannabis/alcohol/television/etc up) is a lot worse for society.
I gotta be honest, I looked at chat gpt, thought just doing LLM inference is not that hard, someone will produce an ASIC that destroys nvidia's margins here.

You could honestly make a hedge fund by listening to me pontificate things and then betting opposite of me. I have been bearish on MS, twitter, dropbox, bitcoin, the list goes on. It's admirable how I am so consistently wrong.
If you are implying we are at the mercy of a few CUDA experts because we can't efficiently write it ourselves, you would be correct.

Triton does seem way more approachable as something I'd like to pick up.
For a start it means no bank can legally lend you money for your cannabis business or they would be subject to prosecution.
I mean -- I built a PC a few months ago and formatting the windows disk from a non windows env was not trivial.

So yes, Linux is still not on par with Windows in many ways, but boy oh boy was it weirder than it should have been to format a USB drive to install windows.

I lost a solid 6 hours to that try, yay it work, wait I'm getting a nonsensical error at a strange screen. Retry with different flags, with different hardware, etc etc etc.
Isn't there a huge risk that Google could most likely deprecate Gemini, Gemma and Gemma.cpp? Not really smart to build on anything with Google e.g. Google Cloud for AI.

Has this perception changed or pretty much the same?
Wall Street is a scam. We can't move on as a society while it is in control.
Common misconception. You generally want to grow cannabis in a "grow box" of some kind, because you need decent control over the light the plant receives (there's distinct vegetative/flowering phases for cannabis plants). In that case your enclosed box can ventilate through a carbon filter, which by most reports (see the countless threads on r/microgrowery for example) cuts the odors down to nothing, even late in the flowering phase.

Visual guide: https://www.supergreenlab.com/guide/how-to-build-a-ikea-eket...
> Why is that?

Anonymity. My neighbors, my parents, my wife's parents, the parents of children that visit my child, everybody passing our balcony on the street, and essentially every visitor to our apartment would assume that we consume drugs regularly. This is something I could not have cared less about when I was in my early twenties and living in a building full of students. But it is not something you want to be associated with if you have children in kindergarten or school and if you have to face other parents or teachers from your neighborhood on a daily basis. If I would start to consume cannabis, I would prefer to do it in private.
> i think much of this has to do with stuff like Q, and it makes you wonder how "grassroots" (astroturfing) that movement really was, because of how conveniently it has destroyed the reputation of anyone asking non state approved questions.

Am I understanding this correctly? Are you suggesting that there was a meta-conspiracy that started the Q conspiracy theory to destroy the reputation of politically undesirable people?
I can't stand Musk but this author lays the disdain on a little too thick IMO. Simply reporting the moronic stuff he does is good enough, there really isn't any need to be quite this snarky about it.
Supermicro is usually a good bet.
The fable of linking illegal migrants to rape and drug trafficking when number show no such thing at scale.

Also, how do you tell a illegal from a legal migrant? Did you go to your rapist drug den park and ask for papers?
That does seem to be the consensus unfortunately. Would have been better for everyone if google’s foray into open model a la FB made a splash
I was thinking more about timescale.

If someone smokes a joint near your window, that smell will probably be gone in half an hour. If there is a plant that's just sitting there, it'll be more subtle, but it's not going anywhere.

That said – many people like the smell of Hopfentee (Hop tea), which is pretty similar.
In the case of wayback machine reliance it isn't AI really; that's due to the decline of sectors of the tech industry meaning loads of places are cutting back on hosting old stuff for very slight profit gains.

There's an argument the way AI is getting so much focus has resulted in a neglect of this kind of stuff after years/decades of it sticking around at mostly fairly low cost.

I'd say a bigger source of harm has been the endless iteration in agile practices meaning old stuff is treated as low priority because the business focus is always on adding new stuff. It's a lot harder to argue up the management chain that making something more stable will have longer term gains than A/B testing several new designs. The amount of sites that repeatedly destroyed their old content with a redesign is a bit absurd.
A LOT of websites feel like they could benefit from improving their fundamental experiences and it's been so long since that was a priority that it's virtually an impossibility to untangle it at this point.
the market is forward looking - the sooner you understand that, the less money you will lose ;)
I am inclined to believe that the pressure for more melanin (cancer, sunburns) is a more rapid adaptation than decreasing it.

Human skin pigmentation, migration and disease susceptibility - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267121/

> Human skin pigmentation evolved as a compromise between the conflicting physiological demands of protection against the deleterious effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and photosynthesis of UVB-dependent vitamin D3. Living under high UVR near the equator, ancestral Homo sapiens had skin rich in protective eumelanin. Dispersals outside of the tropics were associated with positive selection for depigmentation to maximize cutaneous biosynthesis of pre-vitamin D3 under low and highly seasonal UVB conditions. In recent centuries, migrations and high-speed transportation have brought many people into UVR regimes different from those experienced by their ancestors and, accordingly, exposed them to new disease risks. These have been increased by urbanization and changes in diet and lifestyle. Three examples—nutritional rickets, multiple sclerosis (MS) and cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM)—are chosen to illustrate the serious health effects of mismatches between skin pigmentation and UVR.

Also of interest - The colours of humanity: the evolution of pigmentation in the human lineage https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2016.034...

The different pathways for depigmentation are different.

> The fact that depigmented skin evolved independently in the ancestors of modern Europeans and East Asians suggests that at least two (and probably more) distinct genetic mutation events occurred and that multiple loci underwent positive selection in these two regions receiving relatively low levels of UVB. The most likely reason for this was that it was associated with a loss of skin pigment that favoured vitamin D production under conditions of low UVB.
Thanks for the script Alex, it's a very usable site much more so than the topic one. The site navigation, and sane options instead of clicking 512mb, 64mb and 1mb ram was a welcome feature. What did you do to generate this site? I noticed the was another one yesterday with prices as well, is it a new scraper or framework?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39370799
> My password should be able to contain emojis.

It's probably better if it shouldn't. It's generally better to prevent passwords from containing characters that can't be entered on a decent proportion of devices you may encounter.

Emojis are particularly problematic because new ones keep being added which require OS upgrades, and you might find yourself needing to log in from another device that just doesn't support those emojis yet.

Also it's not like Unicode makes everything easy. For example, you have to remember to normalize the password before hashing. Otherwise something as simple as "ñ" may be a totally different byte sequence depending on which device you're using.
Convolution filters attend to a region around each pixel; not to every other pixel (or patch in the case of DiT). In that way, they are not good at establishing long range dependencies. The U-Net in Stable Diffusion does add self-attention layers but these operate only in the lower resolution parts of the model. The DiT model does away with convolutions altogether, going instead with a linear sequence of blocks containing self-attention layers. The dimensionality is constant throughout this sequence of blocks (i.e. there is no downscaling), so each block gets a chance to attend to all of the patch tokens in the image.

One of the neat things they do with the diffusion transformer is to enable creating smaller or larger models simply by changing the patch size. Smaller patches require more Gflops, but the attention is finer grained, so you would expect better output.

Another neat thing is how they apply conditioning and the time step embedding. Instead of adding these in a special way, they simply inject them as tokens, no different from the image patch tokens. The transformer model builds its own notion of what these things mean.

This implies that you could inject tokens representing anything you want. With the U-Net architecture in stable diffusion, for instance, we have to hook onto the side of the model to control it in various sort of hacky ways. With DiT, you would just add your control tokens and fine tune the model. That’s extremely powerful and flexible and I look forward to a whole lot more innovation happening simply because training in new concepts will be so straightforward.
This. They have been paid to ship an international package. Billing the recipient for delivery is just dishonest. I assume they do it, to make their price for the shipper look artificially low.

For this reason, whenever possible, I choose delivery through the post office.
As you point out, the use of ARC is correlated with languages used in high-performance code.

You think it's because ARC is a better way of managing memory, but that's false. Rust is not fast because it uses ARC, it uses ARC because Rust is fast. Rust is fast because it has a good ownership model for memory, because it encourages patterns that mostly get rid of the need to dynamically manage lots of heap objects. These qualities make it cache-friendly, among other things. What's left is generally small enough that even a poor GC strategy like ARC is good enough. A state-of-the-art GC wouldn't be worth the extra complexity in Rust. (And would probably conflict with other features.)

Go needs a state of the art GC, because it wants to hide "stack vs heap" from the programmer, and so it puts a lot of things on the heap. If it used ARC, it would be unusable.

To people who have worked on programming languages, saying "ARC is good, actually" is either a sign that you're about to present a very nuanced argument informed by decades of experience, or, more likely, that you have no idea what you're talking about.

If you're going to make a claim that lies this far outside the mainstream, I'd say the onus to present a good argument is on you, not me.

With age, I've found it good to moderate my fervor in proportion to how much I know about a subject. If people learn that you're someone who talks with confidence only about things you know, you'll have an easier time getting them to listen.
You don’t need to click the ads. You swipe them away. It’s based on attention not clicking. Not trying to be pedantic but it’s a difference.

You can also disable them. I did. Although when I had them on actually got some pretty good deals. Anyways, I just use safari these days and brave lives for YouTube for me to bypass ads and download for offline viewing.
I seriously doubt if it is worth pursuing a PhD if you want to end up in industry as a data scientist.
There's no battery behind that glass, so it's the processors or another component generating heat while stored.
On sprint training. Me and a friend figured out that if you moved your arms fast whilst not running a full sprint it gave the appearance that you were trying very hard and coach didn't give you a hard time. Like most slackers instead of using the trick once in a while we over did it and the coach soon figured it out. The result was even more sprints. Needless to say our team too wasn't too good.
not everyone wants to work every waking moment of their life, and that's ok.
There are times when you need to have a ton of money in cash or near-cash (e.g. saving for a down payment for a first home), and then it makes a lot of sense to optimize.

For a normal emergency savings fund, it does not make sense (unless you legitimately enjoy doing it!)
My opinion: The law is constructed such that the parties that promised it (and are now in the government) can keep face (especially in the light of the upcoming elections), but that it will not have any practical relevance.
Maybe no surprise to Apple, but it is certainly a surprise to the purchases who shelled out $3,500.
I've moved 22 times in my life. I've never moved from an area due to a single neighbor, but some areas you just feel different than everyone living around you. That causes you (or at least me) to think about moving.
Once you learn a few soft guidelines (not rules, nothing is perfect), you don't really even need to research.

Intel/AMD: probably fine. Realtek: works, one driver codebase for everything means weirdness is likely. Broadcom: don't even bother. Nvidia/mobile: what kernel/stack are you intending to use?

I haven't had to care about compatibility with desktop or server components in over a decade.

It's fingerprint readers and dual-GPU laptops that really bum a lot of people out.
Well, do you think that this is the end game for ChatGPT/other models?
Reminded me of the Intel Skylake bug found by the OCaml compiler developers: https://tech.ahrefs.com/skylake-bug-a-detective-story-ab1ad2...
Please at least document the 'why' of the code. Anyone can spend an eternity on a codebase and figure out 'what' it does, but its very difficult to figure out the 'why' without someone explicitly telling you.
Yeah, it is. I own two good old APC SmartUPS 1000 (one for desktop and second for server). They are absolutly reliable, quiet and output Sine when on battery.
Good old reliable tech, easly monitored using apcupsd for example.
> I find it interesting that they also wanted to offload meth and heroin into specifically the New York market. What's the connection between Iran and the drug trade?

This is starting to sound like a CIA budget balancing operation.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39475186
Soundstages are studios for movie production.

The word “sound” implies that it’s soundproof so you can record sound. This makes a soundstage generally much more expensive to build than the alternative, a silent stage.

$800M isn’t crazy if you’re building a dozen of these and all the supporting infrastructure.
I have my APC Back-UPS CS650 (BK650EI) plugged into my router (running OpenWrt) which works fine with Network-UPS Tools. The router shares the UPS status with the whole LAN, and the machines on the LAN that are powered by the UPS will shut down automatically when the UPS battery goes critical.
I don't partake either, but you'd have to offset the loss in tax revenue to the gains for people with PTSD or chronic pain who get better quality of life and may be able to work more and need less healthcare services.
Working at maximum stress levels all the time is also suboptimal. Moderation is the key.
> I suspect we're going to end up with a wildly different architecture before it's all over.

This is my naïveté showing but aren't GPUs (relatively) general purpose? Do "AI" workflows require that flexibility or would they be better served by special purpose hardware? To use the obvious analogy, what happened with cryptocurrency mining moving from GPU to ASIC.
Is it harder than learning how to program? I've played poker a bit and learned being tight aggressive (just some basic strategy, the most "advanced" concepts I learned were polarizing hand ranges, implied odds and having a poker tracker in your games and what all those things meant).
Gemini - maybe, though I find it pretty unlikely it’ll happen anytime soon.

Not sure what you mean about Gemma considering it’s not a service. You can download the model weights and the inference code is on GitHub. Everything is local!
Pretty sure tomatoes attract more pests. Also people grow these in the forest on small sunny patches and they do just fine. It's literally a "weed", it grows like crazy. But yes, it won't be premium quality, just some average weed.
The issue with cannabis as a social thing is that it tastes and smell bad, worse than cigs.
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Ask HN: What have you learnt from your mistakes?
A few years ago, I had unknowingly downloaded spyware that was bundled with some software I would use daily. It was well hidden.

Since knowing about it, I have improved security practices and keep myself updated on the latest threats.
I think it's poignantly obvious that there is a shift in making entertainment that is above all, inclusive and preaching, rather than entertaining. This is the most glaring in the context of historical dramas. No, I am sorry, but Victorian English Aristocracy did not consist of Africans, Indians, and Southeast Asians. There were no acceptable forums for the 'yaas queeen slaaayyy' attitudes of today. Queen Elizabeth wasn't black. Hannibal wasn't Sub-Saharan African. These productions don't even try to be historically accurate. They're just minority power fantasies. Poorly dressed up shows with scenarios in which the minorities prevail over the racist white people sensibilities of the day. It's genuinely pathetic.

>Notice the comment you’re replying to was written by a throwaway account.

And this brings up the next point: There has never been a time in media entertainment where both the industry and it's professional critics have been so openly hostile, so fervent, so downright dogmatic in insulting and hunting down their detractors to punish them for holding the wrong opinion. They encourage their audience and supporters to go out of their way to harass and silence anyone who disagrees with their content. The fact that people don't want to be associated with that toxicity doesn't make them cowards or racists. Terms like "dog whistle" have come to be dismissive phrases of any criticism. You are attacking the speaker rather than earnestly trying to address the argument. You are dismissing an opinion because it comes from a throwaway account. Nobody is terrified of your shitty entertainment. They're terrified about losing their jobs because people can't take an insult over the internet and have to make it personal when their favorite manufactured outrage garbage show gets criticized.
Companies show why the next AI wave won't revolve around chatbots
Ok, public and private school kids could get the same test prep for a relatively low cost, but does that mean public and private school kids are on a level playing field with regard to the test? In other words, do years of private prep school have no advantage with regard to performance on standardized tests?
You may want to improve the ui/ux for getting to your chat. It’s very hard to find on your homepage even when looking for it.