skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the point of asking the question, to clarify the difference. I’m sorry but adopting the attitude that the question itself isn’t allowed to be asked, or simply by asking the question somehow invalidates the person asking the question doesn’t get you to a clarification. You would continue to perpetuate the belief by being unwilling to have the public conversation.

>…within a few orders of magnitude required to change an election…

Bush was elected in 2000 by a margin of just over 500 votes in a state with a population at the time of 16M. So I really don’t buy into the argument that voter fraud isn’t a problem because where it has been discovered has not reached the level of actually changing an election. The right amount fraud in swing districts in a swing state could make a difference in a close election.
The underlying assumption Black-Scholes makes, that stock price movements can be modeled by a log-normal distribution, is known to be false. However not since the 1980s has this lead to the ability to make money of the model itself being imperfect.

The true distribution of the market beliefs in future stock prices can be understood by empirically studying the volatility smile [0]. That is, because investors know Black-Scholes is not a perfect mathematical model of real world stock behavior, every strike price has a different implied volatility. By looking at these different IVs you can get a sense of what the market believes are the true probabilities of "long tail" events.

In theory, the opportunities you have to make money should be cases where you believe the market has mispriced risk. In my amateur experience, I have found that virtually every time you think the market has mispriced some extreme event, when you look at the volatility smile, you realize you are mistaken.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility_smile
> The Amiga was dead the second they put all of those whiz-bang chips in them that allowed them to do things that the PC and Mac couldn't do.

Amiga wouldn't have existed, or mattered, in the first place without all of those whiz-bang chips in them, and wouldn't have survived the years it did without them even if some irrelevant version had happened without them. But that never would have happened to start with - Amiga, the company, was formed around the ideas of building a gaming system.

Looking at the history of Commodore, it's also not at all clear that this was the issue - Commodore was a deeply dysfunctional company, and had been for many years before they even bought Amiga, with extensive problems around underfunding R&D, but then randomly yanking projects and lacking product direction.

It became an issue certainly, because it meant that the dysfunction of Commodore was sufficient to kill the whole platform - a risk the PC hardware avoided thanks to clones, and the OS/hardware split of the PC platform avoided because even MS stumbling would've "just" have led to another OS winning out.

But without the features of the chipset, nobody would have cared. It was almost only in the US the Amiga was seen predominantly as a "professional" machine that sold as a competitor to PCs in the early years, and it wasn't in the US Amiga sold.

The bulk of the Amiga market was in Europe, especially the UK and Germany. Germany also did have a more professional market for the Amiga as well - with e.g. the A2000 being driven by demand from Commodore's Germany subsidiary, but not as the only thing.

To such an extent that after Commodore International failed, the Commodore UK management tried to finance a buyout of its own parent company, and kept operating for as long as they could still scrounge up stock.

[This US situation was created in large part because Tramiel, before he was fired and bought Atari, had seriously destroyed Commodore's US more 'serious' dealer market with price cuts without preparing the dealers followed by putting Commodore 64's in Kmart, and so when the Amiga was launched Commodore struggled to get sufficient distribution in outlets that could handle a much more expensive machine]

> Generally speaking, you stuck in a VGA card and CGA and EGA worked. When a faster card came out you stuck it in and loaded a TSR or drivers and things worked faster. Installed Windows? Get a card with Windows acceleration. 1280x1024@24-bits in 1992 while the Amiga was outputting TV resolutions.

This is very different from how I remember things. People were mocking the PC well after Commodore went bankrupt for how PC users had to muck around with drivers and weird command line settings while on the Amiga you just dropped driver in, and had cards that supported AutoConfig [1], which meant we would laugh at PC users whenever they mentioned IRQ's because all of that nonsense was automatic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoconfig
- wait you knew what would happen and still allowed it to happen?
This in a way reminds me of the Nikkor 13mm non distorting lens. If there's a lens I would like to see make a comeback today, that would be it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkor_13mm_f/5.6

It also reminds me of the Nikkor 8mm fisheye that was used to represent HAL 9000 in 2001.
I think the social norms are such that doing that while not specifically in a socializing event is low-class. Probably it's fine between peers in a blue-collar environment, or in high school.
DiCaprio's Gangs of New York came out in 2002. It covered the 1840s/50s/60s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York
Who knows what he did? There are opposite experiences cited in that same log:

19:03 <xypron> Concerning Pioneerbox vs Unmatched: My experience with building Ubuntu'g glibc was 7 h on Pioneer box vs 3.5 days on Unmatched.
The security personnel--and family--are provided for, so they cooperate in getting their customers to their vaults. Helicopter to private jet, I'm suspecting is the way to get to your New Zealand bunker.
Even the Roman Catholic Church that uses the Gregorian Calendar has moveable dates: Easter Sunday always falls on a Sunday and not on fixed day of a fixed month. On the other hand, Christmas day is always on December 25. Go figure.
> So customers can very easily move their money

For retail and SME customers this is true. But for any customer that deals with large sums of money it is not. If you’ve never heard of an MT730, then you probably have good reason to think that moving money around is easy.
Please don’t do that; this is a place for educated, civil people to discuss the nuances of our age, not a political flame war.
I would not choose it for two reasons:

1. The bad actor case: On my side of the equation there is no practical difference between licenses. Enforcing one or the other has the same legal costs…either I lawyer up and enforce whatever license I used or I don’t.

2. The good actor case: When users are unfamiliar with a license they are less likely to use it (or in a business context less likely to be allowed to use it).

By the way, CC-0 is an alternative to the public domain.
Nice zinger. What sorts of contradictions do you mean?
Eh, half honest. The training dataset at Google likely has a lot of bias towards leftist ideology given that is what Google’s leadership pushes. For example I’m sure left leaning news is in the training dataset whereas say the daily wire is not included. this leads to a model which surfaces those biases with ridiculousness of black Vikings.
It’s typical native tech thinking that legal issues can be solved by technology.

USA has a lot of experience how they can influence foreign providers by making it increasingly difficult for them to do business with any USA entities. It’s not bulletproof, but nothing is. As long as USA has dominant position in the world, their influence is huge.
> Non-atomic variables have no guarantee on cache consistency for different threads

Atomicity and cache coherence are different things. "Atomic" means that the access to the element will be done in a single access and can only show exactly the state resulting from any other atomic access to the same value. For C syntax variables, this pretty much is limited to multi-word access (you also sometimes talk about atomic compare-and-set instructions, but those don't appear as part of the language per se).

Cache coherence is actually guaranteed on almost all systems, you don't need to worry about it on anything big enough to be running Windows (in the embedded world we get to fight it though).

The other demon in this space is memory reordering, but atomics don't speak to that at all.
AML laws are just a compliance cost of actual money launderers. All they do is increase the number of intermediaries involved in a transaction (who each collect their fees).
Nice find! Yes, makes a lot of sense that HK is also going to be dense. And it’s islandic geography could explain why it drops off.
I feel like this statement is intellectually dishonest. Especially when Tay existed.
I think it's less about alcohol and more about how individual cultures and society evolve and create third places. Alcohol can be part of that (such as in pubs or even Romans having engaged in a bit of drinking at the bathhouse) but you also had examples like coffee houses in the 17th century. I think the problem arises when the amount of third places available narrows to strictly a culture around drinking, which increasingly becomes the focus rather than the social aspect.
Not really. With Tor, Protonmail, njal.la, Flokinet (or one of a hundred other competitors), and $100 in Bitcoin from an ATM that you convert to Monero, you have enough to host a website and domain that are completely disassociated from your real life identity for a year.
You're dealing with large sums of money and you want to remain anonymous.

Sounds like exactly the sort of entities that the government should be investigating.
"The Expanding Universe", Notes by Laurie Spiegel
100%. Was never able to get past the fact that it's slightly just not quite actual JS. Close enough to the base language that it seems they could have easily used JS, probably with some additional APIs for showing graphics.
Thomas Massie runs off-grid home using wrecked Tesla Model S battery
More generally, the OS is going to be doing some level of synchronization on its own, likely a spinlock, during the thread creation process. Those always include memory barriers, because otherwise the locks they define don't actually work on OO systems.
Maybe he means practicing what you preach? The party of “small government” is well known for not doing that.
You can't tell the difference between information and some sneakers? Concerning.
> No new banks have opened in the U.S. since 2009

From 2009 to 2013 only 7 new banks were formed, fewer than 2 per year.

Many industry observers have suggested that the decline is primarily due to regulatory burden, including new FDIC regulations and the 2010 Dodd‐Frank Act. But other influences could have played a role, in particular, the current weak economy.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2014/files/2...
It’s good enough for Linus. The most recent changes getting audio and video acceleration running make it viable IMO.
A popular one today is the pro-life movement only being pro-life until birth and then refusing to save children's lives (e.g. gun control or adopting unwanted children).
Overpromises and under delivers.

> Hebbian learning, can implement a transformer-like attention computation if the synaptic weight changes are large and rapidly induced

Well this has no analog in the brain either.

In any case. How is this transformer like attention? Not all attention mechanisms lead to a transformer. Certainly the two are not synonymous.

> While it is tempting to assume that cortical rhythms might play a role, we have found that match windows around 0.5—2 s are necessary for reducing noise in the spike train comparisons, a timescale much longer than the cycles of theta, beta or gamma rhythms found in the cortex.

Well that's totally the wrong timescale.

There's a glut of these "abuse some random feature of the brain that already serves a different purpose to implement something that clearly doesn't work but is vaguely reminiscent of something that happens in machine learning so we'll call the two the same". They contribute nothing.

The few somewhat worthwhile actually show a working network for a real task. The real breakthrough will be a paper that actually works for real, on real data, and can be implemented in the brain; we've got nothing like that. This isn't one of the good ones.
C++ std::mutex provided in Microsoft's STL uses SRWLocks underneath, same size as a pointer.

Sadly, SRWLocks have yet another bug, they are very unfair. Write a loop which locks std::mutex inside the body, and no other thread will be able to grab the mutex despite the loop repeatedly releases then re-acquires the mutex. Critical sections are way more fair.
would be great to see a bulk import type operation at some point. i dislike having these kinds of things in multiple places but i'd have to upload a couple of hundred files to get my idea bank into this space.
Natural usually looks better than obviously fake, so it is worth pointing it out if you want quality. It is like how fake round drawn breasts doesn't look as good as more realistically drawn ones, but it is much easier to draw round balls than the more nicer real shapes.

So for these butterfly images they would look a ton better just by not having perfectly angled T-pose wings. Just varying that a bit and never having perfect angles would get you almost the same pictures but looking much more natural.
So, I clicked through. And while this looks like a worthy charity, you're spinning the numbers pretty badly. It's not $10k to build a school ab initio. It's $10k to REbuild an existing school damaged by an earthquake. Not the same thing at all!
literally everything in the world

everything you have been taught is a lie

literally nothing is the way you think it is, because only extreme oversimplifications of reality fit in our heads
Related

Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39532980
I’ve never understood what everyone’s issue with PDF is.

It’s like digital, printed paper. Part of the reason is pretty much ubiquitous compatibility.

If it needs to be edited, just don’t print it on digital paper. Does the format have other issues?
I think the issue is that some people very much do get to demand that the entire world bends to their whims...
Maybe there are far more writings on human rights and empowering each other vs. individual liberty, extreme capitalism. It would be good to see what kind of writings from input data dictate this behavior. One could test by simply feeding textbooks in each category and see how it responds.
Internet Evanescence
Wall Street's DEI Retreat Has Officially Begun
Nothing should be "done" about the fact I don't know your name.
> Modern ships didn't pop into existence from nothing. Nothing does.

They didn't evolve from some minor capital investment. The problem is not one of ideas it is one of scale. In that sense, yes, they popped into existence from nothing.

The Panama canal is the result of centuries of technological development in the technology of canal construction generally, but fundamentally it is not the result of a startup or even a hundred startups building tiny canals until they had enough capital and expertise doing so to build a big canal.

It is a result of governments (plural, the first attempt failed), in a one-off immense expenditure of capital and manpower unable to be mustered by the entirety of the global shipping industry (for everyone with eyes and a map could see the potential), constructing something that was not there before. "From nothing".
I feel like the objectionable part is not that its unrealistic, its that its dead, which is kind of morbid.

> the heart symbol doesn't look like a real heart,

As a fun trivia fact, it might not look like the organ but it does look like an acient form of contraception (Silphium) which seems more symbolically correct anyways.
It not wrong though. A lot of right wing ideology requires being okay with cognitive dissonance from compartmentalizing opposing views meant for different scenarios. It’s a legitimate point.
This is not surprising considering the paper "Hopfield Networks is All You Need" https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02217. Hopfield networks learn via Hebbian learning.
No, definitely Syndicate! On an Amiga 500, it felt much too slow compared to the PC version. Compared to the 68000, a 1970s design, the higher clock speeds and much better architecture of the 386 and better really helped. (No, you don't have as many registers... it is still a lot more effective than the 68000!)

It also looked a lot nicer as it ran in 640xsomething mode (640x400 or 640x480 I assume).

Perhaps it was a lot better on an A1200. The 68020 is also a much better CPU than the 68000.
Google's institutional biases affect their products.

Hard to pretend that's not operative.
just have to browse /r/politics to see how much conservative views are frowned upon on internets. I'm sure google's decision to buy reddit's archive for 60M/yr won't help much with this.
yeah, but at the time of the interview Lattner had already left Google; it's very unlikely he would have been able give that interview while still working on TF at Google (which was my point about the Byte/Apple interview)
High sample rate isn't useful for playback, but 24-bit is great for nuance in low intensity sound.
The Creative Process as a Standalone Skill
Isn’t a happy hour a well established thing already? Just don’t call it surge pricing
That's one of the biggest features of Observable Framework compared to regular Observable: it's just vanilla JavaScript now.
Surely emphasizing concepts like diversity, equity, and being fair to all people regardless of situation or origin in the training data simply makes the results lean slightly left.

Essentially trying to make a “nice” AI will skew left due to the political positions of the right on topics like immigration or gender identity.
There’s additional because at least some faces can be rotated - 3 of spades has to have two spades ♠ up and one down or versa-vice.

And some face cards are not mirror images, but that depends on the deck.
Posts like this are great because once I know about it, I'll be seeing it everywhere. It'll drive me mildly nuts but it's also like I'm in on a big secret.
Epic Games Hackers Say They Faked the Whole Thing
Small government except when it’s things that oppose their views. Government staying out of people lives except when it opposes their views.
We both agree that price fixing does not need to be mentioned in a book for that book to be clearly obvious in its position on it, and also that any book that mentions anything tangential to price fixing can contain an immutable and unarguable truth about it that becomes apparent only to those with the intellectual capacity to glean its hidden meanings.

I’m not really sure why you would impugn my mind for economics but perhaps since “read a book” qualifies as an argument, I might recommend that you try out The Living Bible? It is written in a plain English for those that may struggle with the vocabulary of the King James Version. There is no shame in not being able to get the clear and obvious message here, but thankfully the Good Book has versions for every level of reader :)
>I think he’s being honest here.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/08/news/google-co-founder-sergey-...
> The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological.

My understanding is it depicts the leaves of the plant Silphium, which in the ancient world was used as birth control.
Where did I say anything about anonymous? I do some work with an AML consultancy, and I’ve never even heard of a customer who wanted to be anonymous.

But your reaction of “must be a criminal, let’s investigate you” to my complaints of banks abusing your power leads me to 100% believe your claim of having worked in banks before.
I doubt that they'd typically verify that the name and address are accurate. Unlike opening an account at a bank or getting a cell phone connection (at least where I live) which require ID in a form that the government approves of.
I remember when I signed up for hetzner, they had something like this?
I don't know much about observable, but it seems like they might be hijacking d3 a bit too much for my taste - it makes me a bit nervous about the future of d3.
> R46 is also approaching 50 and is still the standard trainset on [...] N

Which predates Glenn Curtiss Airfield of the 1930's (now LGA), which it still almost-but-not-quite reaches. Very not Shenzhen. Another 2 decades seniority would mean horses.
The hack was fake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39586495
There's a difference between left and far left hyper-egalitarians, just like there is a difference between right and far right Bible thumpers. Mainstream news is left because it is factually justifiable and reduces societal conflict. Daily Wire is far right because it makes money. Brin is complaining because he thinks the model is far left, which makes neither money nor sense.
I just purchased a book, “Rural White Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” [1] that talks about what keeps conservatives in power in America. Interestingly, it’s impossible for conservatives to win the popular vote (A Republican President candidate has won the popular vote once in the last 32 years) (page 71, excerpt from Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s press release [2]). It’s only possible with the Electoral College and Gerrymandering. Great book, highly factualized, footnotes and all.

Here’s Pew Research’s voter demographics breakdown, because it’s freely available where the book mentioned is not: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/demographic-...

> Seven-in-ten Republican voters were 50 and older in the most recent election, compared with 62% of Republican voters in 2020 and 68% in 2018. (My note: this is from the 2022 elections, and 1.8M voters over the age of 55 age out each year)

This is all to say, I’m unsure where these people and similar with conservative ideologies who aren’t a majority would post that would make its way into language models. Facebook perhaps? Therefore, liberal bias is simply a majority perspective.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734507/white-rural-...

[2] https://massie.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=Z5MPA3CVK5F... (7th paragraph)
US permanently deploys training mission in Taiwan
> it's custom weird stuff with hardware accelerators and all the FIPS 140 level 4 requirements

What kind of weird stuff are we talking?
If you do that, you can see the "1-ton" rating marked on the trolley. It's possible the original crane was rated higher, but when the trolley needed replacing they just bought the size trolley they needed, leaving the girder overrated.
I mean they already have it for public transport. They don't allow cash, so they can track your movements everywhere.
Let's be clear. This isn't a left or right thing. That's just a convenient argument to avoid the real problem. It's about moral relativism.

I am about as left wing as you can be and gemini is simply offensive. It didn't want to say if Hitler was worse than Elon or Trump. It didn't want to say if child abuse is bad, and if all child abusers should be prosecuted. It rendered WW2 soldiers as black.

This isn't left vs right. This is extreme moral relativism to the point of racism. The end point of a line of ethics ML research where people won't take a stand that might offend almost anyone.

I work in this area of ML. The goal of having a single model that makes everyone happy is mathematically impossible. If you avoid taking that problem on, you end up with a model like this.
Thank you -- I had always wondered what the optimization was behind that Algo!
People with capital spend time online much less than those without, and in different ways.
Libertarians have yet to formulate a coherent argument about how land can be property without injustice