skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemini does that already. Here's the output when asked what is Keller's philosophy given that youtube interview:

According to the video, Keller’s philosophy emphasizes the importance of both theory and engineering in the field of computer science. He believes that theory provides a foundation for understanding how things work, while engineering is the practical application of that knowledge. He argues that both are essential for making progress in the field.

Keller also emphasizes the importance of craftsmanship and attention to detail. He believes that the best engineers are those who take pride in their work and are constantly striving to improve it. He believes that this is essential for building high-quality, reliable computer systems.

Finally, Keller believes that it is important to be open to new ideas and to be willing to experiment. He believes that this is the best way to make progress in the field of computer science.

Here are some specific examples from the podcast that support Keller's philosophy:

- Keller discusses the importance of theory in the development of branch prediction, a key technique for improving computer performance. He explains that while the basic idea behind branch prediction was known for many years, it was only through theoretical advances that it was possible to develop a practical implementation.

- Keller also discusses the importance of engineering in the development of the Alpha 21264 microprocessor. He explains that while the chip was a groundbreaking design, it also had some flaws that were only discovered after it was released. He says that these flaws could have been avoided if the engineers had paid more attention to detail.

- Finally, Keller discusses the importance of being open to new ideas. He talks about his work on the TenstorFlow chip, which is a new type of chip designed for machine learning applications. He says that he was initially skeptical of the idea, but that he eventually came to believe that it had the potential to be a major breakthrough.

Overall, Keller's philosophy is one of pragmatism and open-mindedness. He believes that the best way to make progress in computer science is to be willing to experiment and to learn from both successes and failures.

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Here are some timestamps related to Keller's philosophy in the YouTube video:

1:18:02 - Keller discusses the importance of both theory and engineering in good design.

1:23:22 - Keller gives the example of branch prediction as a breakthrough in engineering that was based on theory.

1:34:12 - Keller talks about the importance of craftsmanship in engineering.

1:42:15 - Keller discusses the limitations of human thinking and the importance of being open to new ideas.

2:12:22 - Keller talks about the responsibility of engineers to society.
I really love KDE. You can make it look and feel however you want and it's really powerful.
In the US? I assume ADA was the kicker. A lot of folks even in government don’t realize the ADA isn’t unthinking. If the activity or environment doesn’t lend itself to accessibility it’s not required. Cutting a wheel chair ramp into a mountain face is a good example where the ADA wouldn’t apply because it’s impractical given the environment to do so. Even national parks only offer a subset set of activities ADA complaint.
(US Dept of Commerce) NTIA Solicits Comments on Open-Weight AI Models
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A lot of these points are why I still enjoy programming as a hobby, but less so enjoy it as a profession. It is much easier to program something where you are the only customer. No project manager alternates between asking me increase and decrease the number of story points per task. No one comes with a last minute request to create a throw away demo for some executive who can only understand pointy-clicks things.

Directly addressing the title, one thing I still find difficult in programming is implementing an informal parser. Think calling read(2) and parsing an HTTP request. Making something work with partial reads and multiple buffers is tricky. I really should reach for a real parser sooner in these situations is the actual answer and stop trying to work at such a low level of abstraction.
Explain math, coding, and other logics from basic axioms and lots of examples, and see if it can connect all the axioms to do multi-step problems.
Windows Application Verifier has a feature to test the timer rolling over.
Reply to the poster below me, who was censored for some reason: AFAIK the money that people have in their bank accounts are used as reserves for all loans the banks give. I don't know of any separation of funds.
Of the ones I commonly use, I've only seen it read by text-generation-webui, in the GGML days it had a long hardcoded list of known models and which templates they use so they could be auto-selected (which was often wrong), but now it just grabs it from any model directly and sets it when it's loaded.
> The merchant decides what kind of card to accept and how to route. It's just that customers will choose not to visit your establishment if you only accept debit, even if you have lower prices. Because they like the perks of a credit card.

Some customers. But then this leads to the problem: If you accept credit cards in order to satisfy those customers, other customers will use them in order to get the cash back.

> KYC is hardly capricious.

It is. They often cut off lawful businesses because they have disfavorable PR associations or political views, and sometimes apparently random people for undisclosed reasons. If it was easy to switch to any number of competitors without customers having to know any difference or sign up for different cards etc. that would be irrelevant, but it isn't.

> The last few years saw the development of a whole new network in BNPLs. And guess what, it's not cheaper, at all. They charge 4% or more and they don't kick any of it back to customers.

This is a loan. Naturally the customer is then paying interest. A credit card is nominally a form of credit too, but the fees are still charged to the merchant even when the buyer immediately pays off the card in full.

> What I do see is a dearth of loyalty programs, which is a tradeoff you can choose to make.

And this is the tradeoff we should make, because getting charged 2% more and then getting 2% back is useless, but has negative consequences like inducing complexity and customer ire to provide cash discounts or credit card surcharges, and causing customers to prefer the incumbent system in favor of competitors even more than they do otherwise.

Notice that the cost of "insurance" from the credit cards has to be passed on too. You like that you can issue a chargeback, but so can a scammer in order to rip off the merchant, and then merchants have to cover the cost of getting ripped off. Any disincentives to not implicitly buying that insurance when you trust the merchant and don't need it will tend to raise prices.
> confirmed identity by asking knowledge based questions

I'm not sure I feel good about this either. Isn't your mother's maiden name, the street you grew up on, your first concert, or your pet's name all information that is pretty much well known by now. Primarily by you (royal) for taking those stupid social media quizzes.
Behind the Compute: Using the New AI Supercomputer
FTC Order Will Ban Avast from Selling Browsing Data
California has some strict laws about beach access for everyone and you still see beach-side homeowners trying to fence off the public's access to the beach or putting up illegal signs that say "Private Property, No Beach Access" or something like that
> For almost every trouble in the present, you can cite people loudly anticipating it when whatever new political event/initiative, technological innovation, etc first arrived on the scene. It doesn't mean critics should always be deferred to just because they're often right, but it does mean that you can do a lot of preparing for the future by reading what they warned was coming.

I feel the problem is that there is always somebody claiming <new thing> will fail, and there's also always someone else claiming <new thing> will succeed. You just end up looking back with hindsight to see those who were right.

There are always critics who are right. But there are also always critics who were wrong.
>VC

Funny how that is quickly becoming backronymned to Vampire Capitalism.
It is mind-blowing to me how incompetent the credit agencies are. I just tried to check my credit was frozen everywhere and I couldn't log into Experian. Tried "forgot my password"... oops, "can't find your username". Tried entering my email, "please verify with your phone number"... oops, "doesn't match our records". Tried "verify another way" and it asked for my phone number and last 4 of my SSN. Hey, that worked! That should not be an option...

And guess what, my account lists my username, email, and phone number exactly as I entered them. But I still can't change my password since that requires verifying my current password, which they've apparently forgotten. What an absolute joke.
Populism is not neccesarily protectionism. Its less about the specific policies as how they are made.

Also its not like populism is a new term or idea. It goes back to Roman times at least.
I love hooking up large lead acid batteries to old UPSes, there's no reason to be limited by the original battery capacity.

However...I discovered why some APC UPSes are sealed and the battery cannot be accessed. I was converting one such UPS which had no monitor interface. Having already opened it up to splice in an external battery, I noticed an empty header for a serial port. Cool. Plugged that into my PC and flash/bang/smoke. Fortunately my PC had a good path to ground and was not damaged. But the UPS had some pretty large burn marks at various points in the PCB and was certainly dead.

It took me a bit to figure out what I did wrong. The reason it went bang is directly related to why there's no user access to the battery, and why there's no external monitoring port. They went cheap on the electronics and did not include an isolation transformer. Any points within the UPS which are "ground", including the battery negative terminal, are actually referenced to the full bridge rectifier, which provides a direct path to live. Ahh...I'm just very glad I didn't touch any of the battery terminals while I had the thing plugged in.
I don’t think the right to roam is necessarily the same thing as you portray as the right to “hang out”. There are many places in the US where property lines make impenetrable barriers to public land. Your farm might have fences that share a side with your neighbors, and then theirs, and so on for miles even if there is a national park behind you. Americans have such a preoccupation with “muh property” that this is seen as totally normal and acceptable but it really shouldn’t be.
These limitations are difficult to understand.
I guess that lords and landowners hsd to repress the peasants in the uk with all possible means but.. this is silly.

Here,in Estonia, everyone can walk on anyones land unless it is someones private home or its surrounding yard (lawn, fields, etc).

You can walk, hike, collect berries and mushrooms for private use everywhere (unless it is on an industrial scale).

If your piece of land is on a sea or lake side or a river, then you must provide access to it, 5 metres from the waterline must be acessible for everyone and can't be fenced off.

I once saw a news item from the uk where someone from Latvia was collecting mushrooms, the land owner didn't like this and the mushroom gathrer had to pay a big fine. Even though nobody was stolen from since the people in the uk don't know anything about wild mushrooms and thry would just rot and go bad. Kind of absurd
How can he be that "shit" if:
- Is making drastic changes to react to market realities. (Probably before most other studios)
- Is a self-made billionaire
?
State backed actors in the West don't go on a hunt without orders. Who would be so interested to order his identity discovered? And for what purpose?

They found Bin Laden who didn't allow anyone of his associates to come within 50 km of him with an electronic device.

We will only find out what FBI/CIA is capable of when the Justice Department orders the identity of Satoshi to be discovered.
People have shown even CNNs can match up the peformance of the transformers.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=TKIFuQHHECj#

I believe there is a lot of herding going on due to the influence of people who had compute to play around with than deeply insightful or principled exploration of networks.
Why the Lambda Calculus is not equivalent to the Universal Computer
I'm glad they are holding their ground.

Also, I remember reading "the glucose revolution" and I found it interesting that blood glucose is only part of the picture. We currently don't measure fructose level, and that might have effects separate from blood glucose levels.

Hopefully folks will go back to the drawing board and either lower the cost of the other continuous measuring devices, or move current tech onwards to acceptable accuracy.
My dog occasionally forgets our house has an upstairs. He's still a good boy though.
If you tell a multi modal LLM to extract and structure the contents of a PDF it will absolutely be able to do that successfully. Further, they display a surprising ability at abductive “reasoning” (acknowledging of course they don’t reason at all), and are thus able to make pretty reasonable assumption given the semantic context of a request. Unlike traditional extraction tools that require very specific tuning and are very fragile to structural changes in layout, LLMs tend to be very resilient to such things.
Upvoting because I'm also the guy who understands that, similarly, GIMP will never be big as it should be.
> you keep all your posts

Yes, but there are some small caveats to how this works exactly, based on the architecture. I'll get to it.

> all your friends posts

Your friends weren't banned, you don't have their posts in the first place.

> all your DMS

AT is 100% public, there are no DMs.

> you can't send data to/through blusky (or receive?) any more and and new data ?

Okay so, we have to talk about the architecture of BlueSky here. There's a few moving parts:

* PDS: personal data server. This holds your posts and such. Before this announcement, BlueSky ran the only PDS. What's happened today is that new PDSes are able to federate with the BlueSky run PDS.

* Relay: this is a server that aggregates data from multiple PDSes. Relays replicate data from the PDSes, and present it as one firehose of information. In some sense, today's announcement is "BlueSky's Relay will now replicate data from PDSes other than theirs."

* App View: this is a service that takes the information from one or more Relays, combines it with whatever other things they care about, and presents the information to an end user. bsky.app is an App View.

I like to think about this like git and GitHub. Your PDS is like a git repository. BlueSky is like GitHub.

So, when BlueSky bans you, aka, when GitHub takes down your git repository on their site, what that means is that they have decided they no longer wish to host your PDS, and they don't let you use their App View. However, if you have a local copy of your PDS, you can simply host it elsewhere, and notify the relay of it, or join a PDS that's already federating with a known relay. Once you do that, you can resume posting. If you don't have a copy of the PDS, I believe you can reconstruct it from the copies that have been federated around the network, but this part is a bit fuzzy to me. Even then, saying "Hey my PDS lives over here now" means your new posts will still get pushed around the network, and the people following you will see them, but you may need to rebuild your following list.

It's also important to note that like, BlueSky's relay could say "never replicate posts from this PDS", but that's why there's multiple relays. If you don't like BlueSky's policies about their relay or app view, use one that implements the policies you care about.

> I'd like to test this, any way to get someone from blusky to ban an account to test this?

This is one step towards realizing this future; for now you have to manually tell BlueSky to federate with your new PDS. The truly federated network is sloooowly coming online. So things will get there.
Never made sense to me.

Bitcoin is open. Cash is private and anonymous.

If monero was the first currency to come out I would’ve considered that.
So use a different domain for corporate email. The only reason not to is if you are prioritizing the identifiability of your corporate email over the identifiability of your actual customer-facing operations.
From _Probability Theory: The Logic of Science_:

> Then the possibility seems open that, for different priors, different functions r(x1,..., xn) of the data may take on the role of sufficient statistics. This means that use of a particular prior may make certain particular aspects of the data irrelevant. Then a different prior may make different aspects of the data irrelevant. One who is not prepared for this may think that a contradiction or paradox has been found.

I think this explains one of the confusions many commenters have; for an experimenter who repeats observations until they reach their desired ratio r/(n-r), the ratio r/(n-r) is not a sufficient statistic! But when we have an experimenter who has a pre-registered n, then ratio r/(n-r) is a sufficient statistic. However, in either case,

> We did not include n in the conditioning statements in p(D|θ I) because, in the problem as defined, it is from the data D that we learn both n and r. But nothing prevents us from considering a different problem in which we decide in advance how many trials we shall make; then it is proper to add n to the prior information and write the sampling probability as p(D|nθ I). Or, we might decide in advance to continue the Bernoulli trials until we have achieved a certain number r of successes, or a certain log-odds u = log[r/(n − r)]; then it would be proper to write the sampling probability as p(D|rθ I) or p(D|uθ I), and so on.
Does this matter for our conclusions about θ?

> In deductive logic (Boolean algebra) it is a triviality that AA = A; if you say: ‘A is true’ twice, this is logically no different from saying it once. This property is retained in probability theory as logic, since it was one of our basic desiderata that, in the context of a given problem, propositions with the same truth value are always assigned the same probability. In practice this means that there is no need to ensure that the different pieces of information given to the robot are independent; our formalism has automatically the property that redundant information is not counted twice.
Moreover because most of Germany’s “forests” are man-made… are they not mostly “wooded lots”? The distinction maybe arises from green space preservation policies?
It's frankly closest to the over burdensome regulations OCP loaded RoboCop up with in RC2, that drove him insane
How timely. I keep ending up in cutting edge fields by accident.

I think there's a lot of untapped potential in 3D printing. People have been saying that for years, but it might be different now, thanks to resin printers.

I've been putting together my notes on how to get into this space, since I was bootstrapping myself from zero knowledge. But the cliff's notes are: bought a Form 3+ https://formlabs.com/3d-printers/form-3/ with 1 liter of clear resin. The price point for everything is around $5k, which is just beyond most hobby investments, but it's honestly not bad for what you get in return: repeatable, precise prints, with a variety of materials.

What surprised me was that the dental industry has already been using this tech for over a decade in a bio-safe way. Formlabs has an entire dental offering that caters to the industry. One funny picture was an office with ~40 printers stacked on shelves. Realistically a dental office only needs one, since you can make an entire tray of dental inserts in (I think) a few hours.

Materials are where things get interesting. As this article shows, there are an endless variety of materials that you can print. The reason people haven't gone beyond traditional 3D print projects is because normal 3D printer filament kind of sucks. It's not precise, it takes forever, and it jams. With resin printers, you can print out molds that you can fill with whatever material you want to use. (I'm not sure about putting questionable resin-type substances into your printer; Formlabs seems to want you to buy their official approved resins, but presuambly there must be some way to do what the article does. The difference between a resin printer and what MIT is doing doesn't seem huge.)

ZBrush is nice because it costs $20 for students and comes with a 3D Print Hub plugin that exports your model to Preform, the software for Form 3. https://i.imgur.com/wfcMP3s.png I also happen to have some ZBrush experience since my background is in gamedev. It's not too hard to pick up, but there's a learning curve; udemy courses are good.

My current problem is that I know nothing about electronics, and I'm interested in printing toys. So today I'll be learning about haptics, motors, and how to assemble everything. (If anyone has any tips on where to start, I'd appreciate it. It seems like I'll want a lightweight battery, some kind of motor, and some kind of Arduino-something to drive it. But whatever it is, I'll find out and write about it somewhere.)
> rising to a weirdly phallic nipple

You know, skyscrapers are always accused of being phallic in a Freudian way, and I think that's unfair. What other shape would you design for high-population density structures, in an urban environment, above ground? And here's an example of a building which is definitely not phallic looking, and it's still being called phallic while being compared to a body part that is not phallic at all, nor does the nipple-esque adornment itself look in any way phallic. And yet. So what does a building have to do to not be called phallic?

Mostly joking, I liked the article.
Your date and place of birth would not be helpful, but an analogous attack may be possible. The key factors are when and where you applied and that the SSN was issued before June 25, 2011.
It's also not clear to me how one would determine that an ML model-generated plan is indeed optimal, or how far from optimal it is. A*-based approaches give you these things.
> Blackstone was a property rights absolutist

For good reason, one can suppose. Wealth flows downstream from the concept of private property whose rights are strongly guarded by law. An "ideal" amount of property rights, if one exists at all, is likely much closer to absolute than zero.
Wei Dei is one of my suspects too, mostly because of Crypto++, but not only.

Why do you suspect is Wei Dei, was there any reveals regarding this in the lasts few years?
Side rant about Apple. I never understood why Apple took such a hardline on offering repairs and charging so much for them. They are one of the most valuable companies on the planet and they have always squabbled over repairs.

They went through such great lengths with their sensors about detecting water damage to iPhones that prevented people from getting legitimate repairs done that had nothing to do with water damage.

Come on Apple, do good faith repairs. You can afford it. People already love Apple products. Repair your stuff without treating everyone like a criminal.
Maybe, we are better off NOT knowing. Having closure could mean the end of BTC. It could mean the end of a lot of things. It could also be beginnings, no doubt. However, like Schrödinger’s cat, it’s best if it’s kept in a state of quantum entanglement.
> "The network operator takes a swipe fee, known as an ‘interchange fee,’ from the merchant"

For open-loop networks (Visa/Mastercard), this statement is not accurate.