skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Magnus effect is super confusing to think about. Basically, to provide lift, the brick or ball or whatever would need to be "rolling" backards, like a wheel. In baseball, e.g. fastballs are usually thrown in such a way as to "roll" backwards, which causes them to climb. Curveballs are accomplished via topspin. Sinkers roll forward. You can even tune this behavior by making the surface of inconsistently "sticky" to the air, so flow of air is more or less affected by the objects rotation. This is why licking the baseball is against the rules.

Curiously, the rotation can also lend the ball's path greater stability against changing air currents/densities and crosswinds. Knuckleballs are famously hard to throw because they have very little spin, but they are also notoriously hard to hit because the trajectory is so subject to the vagaries of airflow between pitcher and batter.

This is to say nothing about when the axis of rotation is predominantly parallel to the direction of travel (e.g. rifle bullets and American footballs), where the Magnus effect effects the rotating objects ability to continue to rotate parallel to the direction of travel. Get it right and the spin makes the path more stable, but get it wrong, it becomes less stable. The hows and whys of that are beyond my understanding of fluid dynamics, but its fun to think about how complicated it can get.

edit: got my spin directions confused
Back in the day, in my rural county, people would drive with a spotlight, find a large deer, and run it over.

Result? Food for months and months for the family, and the insurance company produced a replacement car. And yes, people would do this when their car was in poor shape, eg transmission going or some such. Car rusting out, etc.

They eventually changed the laws so that deer were no longer given to people in car accidents, for obvious reasons. I imagine the light law mentioned here, is due to this too.
how many people are doing bitcoin today because of decentralized aspect vs everything else (speculation, get rich quick, make money etc).
Sounds great in theory (writing MCU-agnostic libraries for peripherals), but I've found it unusable in practice due to the clunky API and incompatibility with DMA, interrupt-based-flow, least-common-denominator functionality etc.

The new direction that library and related is Async with Embassy, which... is also not something I want to use.
OpenCollective Shutting Down
It was included because it was hilarious. The mental image of a worker ducking under a nozzle and their stomach bloating like some sort of ice cream mosquito justifies itself. (Watch out for the ice cream headache. That may not be covered under the health plan.)

However, I bet it's also a question he gets asked a lot by people: "do you ever just snack on some of the ice cream yourself?" And the reality squashing the dream would be no, that would be unsanitary, often infeasible given the mechanism and scale, and so on and so forth.
Minimalistic App suite to cover all the basic day to day tasks
X Corp vs. Media Matters First Amended Complaint [pdf]
Does this mean we can compile LLMs to run on FPGAs directly?
60 years this month. Started on a Standard Elektric Lorenz ER-56. 3,000 words of memory each holding 7 decimal digits. Programming was in machine language - we didn't even have an assembler. That made hair grow in your chest (female programmers being an unfathomable concept)
Every time I used a train in the UK on a weekend I had to ride in a diesel bus for part of the journey. I doubt if that is less co2 emitting than driving my electric car.
The article mentions this person runs a "drone services" company. While it's not explicitly mentioned that he's licensed, I also didn't see any explicit mention that he wasn't and it's safe to assume that, if he runs a drone service company, he is probably licensed (to fly commercially).

As far as I understand, flying at night is legal for most licensed drone pilots. Flying out of line of sight is still illegal.
Around 55~
It is obviously pretty common to represent matrices with lots of zeros in a sparse format, like csr or something. I wonder if they could get away with 1-bit representation using a sparse matrix. Of course, it would be a little different from a typical sparse matrix because there’s no problem normally having a zero-value in a structurally non-zero location.
Exactly a good reason why I love HN comments so much. The off-topic reply is frowned upon.

Thanks so much for this, let's see if copy paste works on this unix derived os. 𓀝𓀞𓀟𓀠𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥
Where I live, it's lawful to collect your own road kill (as in this scenario), you're supposed to call law enforcement first. Back in the day, nobody had a cell phone, so it might have been okay.
Self-referential perception in GAI
Can GAI learn from human activity on it? It lacks a self-referential perception. But can this be presumably learned by virtue of our individual activity on it?
Indeed. A common question people have is "is being dead healthier than being alive but sick?"

I suspect we may never know the answer to this. Science cannot find this truth.
And yet it is the top comment in a thread about the study, not a thread about the schools track record.
It is not at all clear to me why the harmonics makes it any more worth searching for aliens than any other solar system. a) Why would aliens expend the enormous energy required to engineer this? b) Isn't it vastly more likely to occur naturally as some sort of resonance effect?
I'd wager that spotlight's stress out crepuscular animals, even if you aren't about to shoot them.

I'm sure the many other things humans do stress out animals even more though, so I'm not offering an opinion on this case, just what I think the justification (if any) might be.
Using lnav to solve the CyberDefenders Hammered Challenge
Competition would be nice, but just the appearance of credible competition was enough to induce the incumbents to do better.

Google Fiber deployed to the Kansas Cities, making themselves credible competition. Then, they announced 20 cities they would deploy to. Suddenly, incumbents in 20 cities had deployment plans and deployed before Google Fiber got anywhere, and then Google Fiber decided not to do any new deployments.

Would the incumbents have deployed without Google Fiber's credible competitive announcements? Maybe? We'd need inside information to know for sure. It sure doesn't feel like they would have though.
But if I understand it correctly, they already need to use 2 bits, one for the sign and another one for the value, so there is already one wasted state, which could be used for -0.
fyi, if you're uncertain in the single-digits place, you have no precision in the tenths place. for experimental uncertainty, it's always one sigfig
Hence the name 'operational' amplifier
Genetic study suggests a Stone Age strategy for avoiding inbreeding
Manage access to your projects and secrets
This was my thought reading this. The deer population here in PA is out of control and needs quelled. Each year we have less and less people out hunting because it kind of sucks to wake up at 6am and go sit in frigid weather (that's why I stopped at least).

We need to be encouraging people to help knock down the deer population not trapping people who are using tools to recover bodies, that will otherwise rot, into crimes/fines on weird technicalities.
> C/C++ can be made memory safe

Famous last words.
It would be nice to see some numbers but this seems to suggest that GitHub sponsors on a project that is part of a larger project (nuxt is part of Vue?), that the sponsorship generates enough money to sustain both this developer and the founder of the nuxt github site.

Maybe … maybe … there is a solution. Tidelift might become quite important in years to come
The size of https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/oddindices.Blc is 84 bytes.
Or, you can use Thanos, the de-facto standard with the biggest OSS community.
Intuitively I've always been a bit skeptical of quantization. Wouldn't there be a tiny loss in precision by doing this type of quantization? I could imagine the error function increasing by utilizing these types of techniques.
From [2]:

> We would definitely be happy to open-source the models for future research. Please stay tuned!
Yeah, this is advice I give to parents of toddlers.
It makes sense that you don't see the value of Rust if you spend most of your time developing solo.

The value of these checks is not just to reduce bugs in production code. It's nice that that happens, but that's not even the primary value of the borrow checker. The primary value is that having these checks (lifetimes, bounds checks, -- everything that makes Rust annoying to write) makes refactoring on a shared codebase significantly easier. This means that you are not introducing bugs in a refactor, so you can refactor faster, which means you can ditch bad architectures sooner, which compounds and saves enormous amounts of developer time and $$. And it's a knock-on effect that increases in value as the team grows larger.

Keeping track of lifetimes and bounds for a solo dev is quite easy as you say. Keeping track of lifetimes and bounds for the other dozen devs on my team? In all external dependencies? Extremely difficult. Impossible in a large codebase, actually, given the number of mem safety bugs that appear even in mature C codebases. It's collaboration that is the source of these bugs, that these checks work to mitigate.

I sort of wondered why C did not have a package management system, until I started working on a large C codebase. There is a reason Rust has cargo and C does not; it has nothing to do with whether or not someone decided to write cargo and everything to do with Rust's language features.
Next Up: Quantum AI
I think the bigger problem is that “show more diversity” is a poorly specified mandate. “Diversity” is a narrow concept that arose in the context of college admissions and employment to ensure that people were not being discriminated against on the basis of race. If you say “show me pictures of Harvard students” it’s fair to expect racial diversity in the result. (But you’d probably get that just from the training data.)

But it’s not a concept that makes sense when you generalize it outside the narrow context in which it originates. Especially when your notion of “diversity” is particular to the racial politics of a former slaveholding country that has recently experienced mass immigration from Latin America and Asia. What does “show more diversity” mean in the context of China or Japan? Or even Spanish Harlem? What does it mean in the context of families? Most of the world isn’t diverse, and most of history isn’t diverse, for reasons that are wholly innocuous.
Are these algorithms efficient even given GPUs? I have the vague impression that GPUs are well-tuned for matrix work. Are those advantages lost when using Geometric Algebra formulations, so you actually dont come out ahead?

This is uninformed speculation, go ahead and correct me!
Trains aren't streets. Yes, they could work lots and lots on their groping culture. But the point is women in Japan feel safe walking at night on the streets, unlike many, many places in the US.
It's all relative to scale. This is why I included the expense numbers as well.

No, these are not particularly "healthy" businesses. They are getting by, no more. A small misstep or exogenous event could be a catastrophe.
I think it's a mix of:

1) True believers who think anything that can be done to get us further to AGI should be done.

2) Business types who think this could be the next internet and don't want to miss the train and who are willing to lose some money to get in early.
Quite interesting neurologically wise..
Upvoted, then started reading the article.

Now wishing I had more upvotes.
TinyBox – 6 Radeon 7900 XTX for $15K
Huckster Behind Willy Wonka Event Also Sells AI-Written Vaccine Conspiracy Books
Search engines link back to the original sources, making them discoverable which is the “payment” for allowing it. That’s a very different use than an AI that doesn’t even know where the original content came from and provides nothing back to the original creator.
I can promise you most ChatGPT users don't even know what a GPT is. That's like saying if you own an Apple Silicon Macbook then you must know what ARM architecture is.
> Do you think that prohibiting the government from collecting data about utilities will help them regulate them more effectively?

no

> The reason that some want to limit the data that is collected is exactly the regulatory capture problem you're referring to.

no, there is not a single reason.. it is a role-based system of systems, and players have incentives, abilities and weakness, each, that are different

> Private industry doesn't want data being captured which sheds light on any issues they're causing.

mostly yes, but there are odd layer effects where "resolving liability" is preferred, or "legal obligations" that are not going away, leads to negotiation.

I do not know the answer. Regulatory capture is real and I give examples of it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, in both government and utility management. Things are going badly.
Well I guess it's the “blowing up parameter count to make up for it” that confuses me, but maybe it's just ignorance.

Like what would be the expected factor of this blow up to make up the difference between ternary and whatever 16 bits encoding they were using?

I mean intuitively I'd expect to need ~10× the symbols to encode the same information? Are they using an order of magnitude more parameters, or is that not how it works?
even more than that - it's quite possible the one who did it too fast have just recalled most of it from his memory, but the other is likely to have found solution for himself from scratch, which is usually much more valuable. Even the perseverance to find the solution is something worthy by itself...
(obviously, "mileage may vary", but still)
Vespa Long-ColBERT V2 is coming: infinite context
But these exchanges don't do gold do they? I thought that was only real money besides bitcoin?
Looks like the general shape of the complaint is the same. I think it has more information about the stuff the motion to dismiss pointed out were lacking (e.g., jurisdiction, venue, failing to meet elements of claimed torts), but after a quick skim I'm not entirely convinced it'll be sufficient.
Eh............................. maybe? :)
Facebook once demanded my driver's license to verify my account. A couple months later they suddenly didn't need it anymore.
I think "consent" is not the right word for this, because it's never simply "consent" it's always boundaries and expectations. Consent implies there's always one yes/no answer for a process. In practice the process is always so complicated that it would require countless yes/no questions, to the point nobody sane would want to deal with it.

Just look at cookie banners and imagine if we had a consent popup for every single thing that needs to be download to show a page: do you consent to download the HTML? Do you consent to download the CSS? Do you consent to download the Javascript? Do you consent to download the images? The user just wants the see the page. You have to make assumptions about how far that consent goes, so it's absolutely transitive, the problem is at what point it crosses the line.
> most of that sharpness comes from either having a few pre-known responses to ideas or anxiously revising situations in my head ahead of time

That's not that cause for me. I just grasp things quickly.

> Avoid using the word "slow", use "deliberate" instead.

That sounds inclusive but isn't what Kahneman meant. Slow thinking is when you leave it to your subconscious, so the only deliberate thing would be to give it time and put your conscious mind elsewhere. So in that way the two terms wouldn't be interchangeable in a 'Thinking fast and slow' sense.
It's weird your comment was gray/getting downvotes. God forbid someone with personal experience speak out on a topic, I guess. You're right. In more rural PA, it's as bad if not worse. People from around the world judging us have no idea what we live with here.

Sometimes during dead-deer season I wish it was possible to hold my breath on my entire commute because it's just smelly rotting flesh after smelly rotting flesh.
>Working with Grindr data, Yeagley began drawing geofences—creating virtual boundaries in geographical data sets—around buildings belonging to government agencies that do national security work.

Are you seriously telling me that government phones of national security employees allow for the installation of apps that track your location and/or these employees are allowed to bring personal cell phones into these buildings?
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_(unit) (make sure to read the footnotes, too)

Edit:
See also also, on the radix economy of balanced ternary (called "tristate") vs base 3:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090312094241/http://abhijit.in... + a wild Marvin Minsky appears: https://archive.fo/gL2Bv

That page also brings up the whole "but division" problem with balanced ternary, however, I personally suspect that http://degiorgi.math.hr/aaa_sem/Div_Krishna/887-889.pdf ("A Division Algorithm for Signed-Digit Arithmetic" by Chin Tung, from 1968 !) might offer an overlooked path to a solution to that problem

And see also also², this quote from TAOCP:

"Cauchy pointed out that negative digits make it unneccesary for a person to memorize the multiplication table past 5x5."

The—INCREDIBLY ANNOYING TO LOCATE—source for which is "105. Calculs numériques. sur les moyens d'éviter les erreurs dans les calculs numériques." on Pdf page 445/document page 431 here:

https://www.e-rara.ch/download/pdf/5702285?name=Tome%2520V%4...

See also also³:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5f77/b1cf105024b41b6824ba91... (Vince, Andrew - Radix Representation and Rep-Tiling)

( +a vaguely related paper here on quantum mechanics & radix economy, BUT it makes the mistake of using an overly specific formula applicable only to unsigned-digit representations thus drawing the wrong conclusions: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir_Garcia-Morales... )
> It's ironic that Steve Jobs called the computer the bicycle of the mind. I doubt he would have called the iPad that.

FWIW, Jobs specifically said he would never give his kids an iPad because it's bad for their developing brains.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-...
HTTP/3 is on the roadmap!
This is exciting news, if the 8B numbers are true, we can already use model like Mixtral 8x7, even with a single GPU?

But further into the development, we need comparison to large model sizes. 70B might be too much to ask, but 13B should be there at least.
Curious critter is a worm like no other: The pigbutt worm [video]
An AI should be helpful to the user, unless it's a horrible question, in which case just don't answer.

Bring in whatever values you want along the way. If you ask your aunt or uncle a question, they will answer helpfully and maybe spread their values in the process. If they aren't helpful, their values don't matter because nobody will hear them.
That's a good question. My bet is no.
I just recently switched off stable to 0.12 and I honestly didn’t run in to too much in the way of changes. It is a bit unusual for zig projects currently BUT zig changes are slowing.

Additionally, Andrew himself has stated he wants 0.12 to be a version where zig devs should feel comfortable pinning to stable. I know stable now is 0.11, but the changes are not egregious at the moment. Not sure if that’s still the deal.
It was made clear to me when I worked in a food factory that if I ate anything, I'd be fired immediately.

The exception was when a low pressure hose popped open, and squirted food all over my face. The line manager, who has been fiddling with it, said "please swallow that!" as spitting it out would be been much worse. (Having to clean and discard a lot of stuff.)

Once a week or so there would be leftovers in the canteen.
Neither of them is wrong. Languages (like python) which only return a positive number are returning the least positive residue of division under the modulus. That is the most common interpretation of it in number theory at least far as I know.

C generally does return negative numbers when you use the % operator.
On 1... No hunter I know would ever abandon a wounded animal to go find a bigger one.
Americans call their ICBM “peacekeeper”, while renaming Russian ICBM to “Satan”
Can anyone post a timestamp?
When everyone is 5000$ richer than no one is richer
Yes, you can set the source to any local file instead of a huggingface model. Here is a example: https://gist.github.com/ealmloff/3398d172180fa783f043b4a2696...
The Yak Shave
> How many times have you pushed to production skipping the final review because all tests passed anyway only for it to fail?

Never. Because like the gate guard in "Zero Dark Thirty" I understand that process only works if you do it all the time.
Agreed! I’ve similarly had good experiences with Rust on the rp2040, using embassy which builds on the rust HALs.
I literally just posted on my blog about my adventures writing an OLED driver in MicroZig, it was a really fun little project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39540761
What you may be describing is the virtue of prudence [0]. For that, you need humility, and yes, practice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence
> Why does it matter?

Because accommodating every kid's needs is expensive, and society is not willing to pay for it.
It would be nice to have at least 3 differently owned grocers within reasonable distance for competition.
Why do we need for an Undefined Behavior Annex to C++
Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion
What stops them from just abandoning small racks as it is? Just the inconvenience of having to find and kill another deer instead?
But you can't fully detect the changes without the front-end. When an API changes, so does the official front-end that is interacting with the API. We need to track changes to the HTTP API requests coming from the front-end. You can't detect those changes just by hitting the APIs directly. If the official front-end changes how it sends data to the back-end, we need to change to match it.

We also need to detect and react to UI layout changes, and the headless browser is the only real way to do that.
Thanks, the source seemed questionable.

I'm afraid I can't edit it, but thanks for correcting.
Sudo on Windows – A Quick Rundown
Yes I agree with you. Actually, good-quality dubbed animated movies (= disney) is what I often use to help learn a new language.
On our underfunded government socialized healthcare systems? No way.

Those who are minted go to the US or Switzerland for best cutting edge treatments and prosthetics.
I was confused about that too. Let me just wander around the woods at night with no light, I'm sure that'll go well.
> I also paid for the BOSCH drill I use, my 4K monitor, ergonomic chair and other such work tools, so why not pay for SW tools as well?

None of these are a useful comparison, since they're physical objects which cannot be infinitely copied, so the reasons to pay for them do not necessary apply to software.

> Why NOT pay for software you use?

Each person probably has a different answer, and the same person might have different answers in different situations. In my case, nearly all of the software I use is free software, which is offered free of charge (and any payment I make is actually a donation to the developer, not paying for the software).
Sometimes you can tell that someone is not listening and thinking about what you said, but has their own statement ready and is simply waiting until they have a chance to say it.