skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "center-left" would be defined by the belief that there are solutions to problems outside of far left ideologues; likewise center-right. So i'd expect center-left, center, center-right to all be people who'd deny both anarcho-cap and marxism, for example.

If you subscribe to marxism, you're on the far left.

Many intellectuals who are left wing are far-left. Being center-left (or center-right) is a sign of some contact with actual power and responsibility wherein ideological fairy stories fall apart (unless they end in mass murder; another option).

Much of far-left and far-right propaganda is passed around by people who have never studied any serious empirical works of modern science, nor ever imagined that they need to in order to understand anything.

Talking about "trickle down" effects strongly indicates this. Just as much as a far-right racist talking about "replacement theory". None of this appears in any serious research of anything. It's just ideological slurs passed around on blogs and newspapers.

It turns out if you haven't spent a long time studying economics, politics, statistics, policy, etc. -- then you're unlikely to have any accurate opinions in these matters. This
applies to everyone, including the right.

Everything passed around by newspapers is agitprop for their side; and the journalists repeating it are dumber than their readers.
Hell yeah, squeeze theorem! I was so enchanted when I first learned this one that everyone I knew also learned about the squeeze theorem.

Sorry, nothing substantial to add, I just got excited about it again
> The downside of this approach is that you will need to keep the Makefile updated with the new files you add to the project so that they are compiled and linked correctly.

Does it? IIRC something like

build/%.o: src/%.c include/*.h
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<

works well enough for small projects.
In fact, it seems that places like North Korea, where there are economic restrictions, are using crypto markets as a way of funding. As you said, they say that it will replace digital gold, or the dollar, but that sounds a bit tasteless to me.

On the other hand, when I keep seeing news about El Salvador getting out of a national financial crisis with bitcoin, or Sam Altman issuing a worldcoin, or what Optimism did with artificial intelligence, I wonder if it's really worthless.

Some say that various tokens will be in the spotlight at Ndivia's upcoming event, but what I'm most interested in is whether this crypto market really helps with AI distributed processing. In fact, when creating an LLM, the biggest concern is how to handle quantised data.
Thank you for the repo and write up. What tools (if any) did you use for performance tuning once you achieved the main goal of being able to finetune the model?
Who funds ai training again?
I think so, they get out of the plane when they get to New Zealand, right? This is more like flying over New Zealand.
This is an interesting case of critical mass. A few years ago Rust was a pretty suboptimal language to start JavaScript tooling in (or Python for that matter). Some crazy folks however did not care, and just went for it. As time went on, that base level of investment into tooling all the sudden meant that there was so much to leverage, that it went from an obscure language choice to a pretty reasonable one.
Morgan Stanley tech pay in 2024: What you'll earn from intern to director
Occasionally malware groups do patch vulnerabilities to maintain exclusive control over the victim machines. But that wouldn't be my default expectation, so relying on virus software to provide security does not seem like a great idea.
I think both models have some space in the open source community. You can still learn and get value from a commercial product even if they only share the source code.
How would Google have detected this before hiring him? It doesn't sound like he started working at the other companies until after he started at Google.
Link to the actual study: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/3/pgae069/76081...
An adversary (as in the A in GAN) situated outside of the generating process/company.
And yet this is your argument for not paying? Or just an observation because I am fine with just an observation.
OpenAI Had to Raise Funding Because Musk 'Reneged,' Khosla Says
Employers are willing to pay up to 44% more for AI-skilled workers in IT
What city? Striking any city on Russian soil will provoke a full on retaliation of the USA.

Equivalent retaliation would be targeting a city of some of the Russian allies, but it's not possible since Russia doesn't have allies ;)
> Sadly Kitty is very bare-bones.

Care to elaborate? I had an impression that it's a pretty complete piece of software. I've been driving it daily for more than 1½ years, and I'm pretty happy with it.
>A first-class programming language (not an LLM) to talk to the computer's OS along with a rich library is the most important missing component IMO.

That "programming language" might just be ability to have generative interfaces (LLM based).

>Humans communicate mainly with language and no OS provides this in a satisfactory way for the average user.
LLMs literally fix this.
If you didn't think we were in the end-stages of population growth and decline, just know that in your standard organic chemistry textbook given to students in university, it says that there are over 500,000 unregulated chemicals in industrial use. Exponential growth and technology with an evolutionary preference toward short-sighted and near-future decision making are going to cull the human race down by a large % as peoples systems are not evolved to tolerate the extensive environmental changes. The largest culprits are changes to food chemistry (prioritizing addiction mechanisms for profit over health), air pollution (prioritizing transportation and other means to maintain and grow economically), chemical exposures in the environment (multifactorial), and internet technology (prioritizing addiction mechanisms for profit over social health and function) [in my opinion]. People will get weaker, sicker, and dumber. Chronic diseases will start sooner, fertility will decrease, and population growth will reverse. The humans to survive out the other side will be children of health-conscious wealthy and those that live in less toxic environments globally.

It's really sad because it doesn't seem like there's anything any individual can do about it. I think these issues are honestly far more serious than global warming. They are causing serious problems RIGHT NOW everywhere. I think within the next 20 years even we're going to see many consequences related to these issues. I'd like to believe we can bioscience our way through this mess but I really think that won't be the case.

Fundamentally, I think proactive decision making takes a lot of time, energy, and work both on the individual and collective scales. I think it almost boils down to a physics problem where that just ends up being overtaken by the negative trend caused by exponential growth + the environmental equivalent of technical debt.
Solar Storm Rendering
I'm not Alan, but I'm pretty sure he isn't too happy about it.
How exactly do you mean?
If writing papers with ChatGPT is cheating, then grading papers with ChatGPT is cheating.

If you care about your students, write the homework in tha blackboard, grade them manually, and give some general feedback and personalized feedback for the special cases.

Otherwise, students smel that the homework is bulshit.
Exact mat-mat-mul is fine and all (congrats to the authors), but I'm much more interested in approximate mat-vec-mul. Specifically:

(1) Pre-process an nxn matrix m into f(m). Any transformation is allowed, but to work well on all matrices and input vectors it's not possible to rely solely on compression techniques (random sampling, low-rank+sparse approximation, ...).

(2) Compute an approximation of m@v via some computation g(f(m), v) in less than O(n^2) time (ideally being able to trade off accuracy for speed). Above a certain performance threshold, this necessarily means you only use a part of f(m) for any one vector v.

There's a zero-error O(n) solution that computes a hash table of all possible matrix-vector products, so I'll be picky and add the constraint that pre-processing time/space are "reasonable".
Research shows survey participants duped by AI-generated images 40% of the time
Can you explain how blockchain is saving us from AI shitting over the internet? I can think of ways how it might have, but I think that horse has long left the stable and while the crypto tools and infrastructure technically predate the LLM stuff they haven't been put to work in any meaningful way.

I think the current boom in bitcoin is rooted in plain greed, as it has been before. And outside of tokens no significant stuff is happening in cryptoland AFAIK.
I'd really like to get on the same page as you, let me ask you are you a manager? Are you technical? Do you work on technically challenging topics (which I define by needing people with rare specialist skillsets)?

Because if you do you know you can't do certain kinds of stuff. You can't bring in another guy who's a cryptography expert while also having your particular domain knowledge. You can't communicate effectively upwards that you have a teethy issue.

Management is a leaky abstraction. The idea is that a manager is the person for a team who upper management can treat as a proxy for the team itself.

As for how things should work, the difference between that and how things actually work is the existence of carrot-and-stick feedback mechanisms to enforce a desired reality.

In absence of that you get a regression to the mean. Management which shifts blame. Disgruntled engineers who shirk responsibility. Stupid idealist youngsters who maybe go above and beyond once or twice, then after being burned either join the disgruntled majority or quit the company.
Weird license. It looks like it's based on ComfyUI, so GPL 3.0 would be the (only?) correct license for this. But the same is also true for custom nodes, and many of them don't give a shit about GPL.
Widespread solar storm struck spacecraft near the sun, Earth and even Mars
Ask HN: Maths problem – shape and size for fondant covering a round cake
I'm making my son's birthday cake - a round sponge, about 20cm tall and 30cm in diameter. I need to lay fondant icing over the top. The recipe suggested cutting into a rough square of 40cm, laying it on top, cutting away the leftovers.

In the midst of this, I tried to work out what size and shape of fondant icing I would need to perfectly cover the cake with one piece of icing and no leftovers.

Would it be a perfect circle with a diameter of 50cm (i.e. 30cm diameter + 20cm height)?
> lower costs can reveal demand.

The markets for sub-orbital passenger service, or transporting bulk goods, are still 99.9% speculation. Otherwise - the total cost of a satellite or space station includes generally-very-high development and construction costs, then serious ongoing operational expenses. Neither dirt-cheap launch, nor a "Raspberry Pi, but for space" generic satellite bus could make useful satellites nearly as cheap as many folks seem eager to imagine. And Kessler Syndrome concerns give every A List nation in space ample reason to discourage anyone who wants to put cheap-but-less-reliable stuff into orbit. (Or abandon their stuff in orbit, after they get bored or go bankrupt.)

Lower costs can also reveal that you've blown billions on a 4-lane bridge to Lonely Island, when the 4-trips-daily old car ferry really was enough.
I work in a related field (cyber insurance response) - typically takes a few months to identify exfiltrated data and then analyse it to understand what is in it. This might seem simple but there are usually in the region of hundreds of thousands to millions of files, and that may contain spreadsheets with tens of thousands of rows. This all has to be analysed, filtered and reduced to the point you have a list of PII which has been impacted, and can decide on what to do.

Credit monitoring is usually offered as standard when a breach occurs, the UK is much less litigation friendly than the US so in the absence of any actual harm, that would discharge most of their obligations to protect you following an incident.
Extreme Value Statistical Process Control
Total solar eclipse could be the best eclipse for hundreds of years
I mean, it was a response to people saying it was ok to desecrate a corpse because they’re dead and won’t know about it. So where do these people draw the line? If it’s OK to desecrate a corpse but necrophilia is “too far” then what is their argument?

The corpse doesn’t know if it was desecrated nor does it know if it was subject to necrophilia. So if desecrating a corpse is “ok” according to the above commentators, why is necrophilia not ok too? And if necrophilia is not ok, then perhaps there’s a flaw in their argument.

That is, some things are morally wrong, even if there is no apparent “victim” as the victim is dead.
Interstellar signal linked to aliens was just a truck
It would be interesting to search for answers to questions, then to use an AI to test if the pages offered as search results answer the questions, and which ones do the best jobs. The AI might even be able to tell us how hard it is to find the answer on each page. Google could even change page ranks based in the results.

This could greatly improve search results.

I can imagine an AI help system that fixes itself by actually trying what it suggests and learning how to do so it knows when it is about to give bad advice. (There are AIs that claim to be able to use PCs right now.)
> I'm consistently surprised by how quick so many developers are to assume their personal usage habits, osmosis-gained knowledge from projects, and folk wisdom about design trumps the expertise of seasoned credentialed professionals in the field

Spot on. Devs have on average extreme levels of confidence in unrepresentative opinions (space bar heating) and think UI is beneath them.

> FOSS projects (that don't have foundation-funded UI teams like Blender or Mozilla) are used almost exclusively by other developers

Nobody is better at pissing away hard labor like devs. There are these amazing OSS projects with 10ks of man hours invested, that won’t let designers near their cluttered prototype ui, if any. Designers are meme-famous as working for free - harnessing their power in FOSS would be akin to convincing a child to eat ice cream. Yet they’re unable to.

Note this is not only UI, but general theory of mind skills. How many times have you read a README on GitHub where it’s written like the most over-cryptic nonsense, despite being quite general and straight forward projects under the hood? My working theory is UI skills and “explaining things” are fruits from the same tree. Most devs don’t practice it, so they get deep into curse of knowledge territory. Even the smart have blindspots, maybe especially them.
No, they should just note the issue in a parenthetical aside.
Economic Freedom and Gender Norms
> measured all of them and the ones within 0.5% get marked up and put
in the 0.5% bin, and the remaining ones within 1% tolerance get
marked up less and get put in the 1% bin. As a result, the
distribution is bimodal on either side of the "hole" in the middle.

That's a great explanation of how iterative tolerance filtering works
and why that happens!
> oh yeah, he used 5 rounds, pretty good evidence for having a semi-automatic like a 10mm.

Why would him shooting 5 rounds be good evidence for a 10mm handgun? The article explicitly says he shot a revolver (chambered in .357).
The problem is that people who have an internal drive to have their statements and suggestions grounded in reality will always lose to bullshitters who don't.
I could not see a difference in the image, even zommed im.
Strangely, there is no mention of the Graham Greene novel, Our Man in Havana.
That's a great rule of thumb, I'll remember that one!
> Pujol had a key role in the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing, location and scale of the invasion of Normandy in 1944

Maybe read the article before commenting? He was very much against nazis.
But this person would just lie and say no. The application isn't a lie detector.
xmllint, for parsing any XML/HTML file using XPaths all from the commandline
Is he on the corporate network on his work vpn? If so, this is recorded. You have to go via corporate proxies and use corporate dns. That’s easily trackable.

If he’s installed something like mullvad on his work laptop and he’s able to tunnel out from the corporate network, he’s probably safe from the content but has broken policy on unauthorized software, the intent of which can be malicious.

They won’t care in general. But if they want to get rid of him they’ll have the info ready.
Mia Hughes, who wrote the report of the leak that is mentioned in the article, is a left-wing gender-critical feminist.
Places you can find the Java version in Intellij
Isn’t it hubris to think that someone who flew across the world to try to help you isn’t worth listening to?

And afterall it’s the Mongolians who might starve. Any port in a storm.
Well, 0 isn't really possible, but assuming you're just asking "What would the impact be on the world if me made matrix multiplication trivial" in the same way that people ask what making a room temperature superconductor would do for us.

The answer is quite a lot in computing terms, matrix multiplication is used everywhere, most notably at the moment, neural networks use almost entirely matrix multiplication, so their power consumption would drop almost entirely, and correspondingly we could scale them up enormously, your phone could run GPT5 locally as long as it had the storage space, high fidelity computer vision everywhere would become trivial, Google Glass might even become useful.

Previously very limited engineering simulations like weather forecasting would improve by leaps and bounds.

Basically everything would change all at once because we'd have effectively made p = np, any problem you can turn into a matrix multiplication (so basically most maths problems) would become solvable.

At the moment we use hardware like GPU's and TPU's in the case of AI to make matrix multiplication much quicker and the companies that make them have recently become some of the biggest in the world because it's so important to everything we do now to be able to multiply matrices quickly.
These definitely all had a stable identity (ICQ number etc.)

What I mean is having an ad-hoc identifier per contact/group chat which doesn’t allow your various contacts to correlate that you are the same person.
IMO upvotes are due more to a "Yes, I agree, hate when that happens" than a "Thank you for this useful tool OP"
No, I mean it's evidence for the proposition that having a 10mm handgun is a good idea. The Glock 40 has 15+1 rounds, as a comparison.
There are a lot more EV brands with SUV models than Rivian and Tesla:

- Volvo XC40 recharge (now called EX40)

- Kia EV6, EV9 / Hyundai Ioniq 5

- VW ID4 (or Skoda Enyaq if you're in the EU)

- Mercedes EQx / BMW i series / Mini countryman
In addition, they will probably also still try to copy to clipboard first, since they probably don't use that interface often enough to remember its special rule.
Andreessen Horowitz nears $7B fundraise
What kind of resources would it take to make a search index / crawl the content of the books and papers in Anna's Archive? This would be the most important project for information technology of this decade. They have torrent files of a few hundred gigabytes. Could crawling be done piece by piece on these files?
> especially when existential risk is on the table for entities who
lose a competition.

This really just explains externalities. Competition creates apparent
short-range existential risk to a business. Real existential risk (to
people or things damaged by your defective product because of
"precarious perfection") land somewhere else - usually where their
impact is much larger.
Is this because they care less about their health overall, or do refined carbs make me ugly?
A "stack" of orbital ring systems (this is a train-on-ring) lets you build the functional equivalent of a space elevator out of plausible materials like fiber glass & superconductors. Every rung in the ladder has value.
>opting into which would be a requirement for any senior employee

According to the article, he was a junior employee.

>Edit: obviously, criminals don't mark the "yes I'm a criminal box" on forms. That's not the purpose it's there to serve.

What purpose would it serve? Would it have prevented this case?
I feel like UI has changed to aim purely at the new user, at the expense of long term users. Its only focus is to be understandable as soon as possible, but cuts out everything that allowed to do things better once you understood it more in depth, as the depth isn't there. All that remains accessible are the black boxes that can be easily understood by someone new.
The “Why Rolldown” section cites two reasons:

1) esbuild isn’t good at splitting
2) rollup is too slow

Why wasn’t it an option to improve esbuild’s splitting functionality or to improve rollup performance? Why is it the best option to introduce yet another tool?
See also: CSS transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier

https://cubic-bezier.com/
The Danger of the President's Nuclear Powers
This is fine but then don't complain about the adblocker randomly not working and Google implementing measures to prevent adblockers, or actively making you, a non-paying user's experience worse.

And arguably if it has been working just fine for them they wouldn't need to keep spending billions and implementing a paid tier.

Also your adblocker only prevents client side tracking, nothing is stopping Google (or any other services) from collecting "anonymous" usage data and storing it.

After all does it matter at all that user53728646288661442883 in the database was searching for a coffee machine on google and is now watching reviews on YouTube for coffee machines if there is no way to reference that user to who you are personally?

If your complaint is tracking then stop using google services, an adblocker just reduces the amount of tracking, it doesn't eliminate it.

Google offered a way out of watching ads for what is probably a quite reasonable amount of money for anyone browsing Hackernews and your reasonse is "I'm just going to keep using my adblocker and actively complain about it"
Self-control signals and affords power
The "store 2 bits of information" approach Apple was moving exploring would solve at least a lot of that case. You could effectively store 3 pieces of information: 00 = default state, 01 = used free trial, 10 = banned, 11 = something else the developer wants to store about the iOS profile. You don't need to be able to uniquely identify it to ban it.
I did not know that. Thanks for the share.

Linus' comments on that commit are interesting to note too. Because, in my opinion, they add weight to the comments made on here regarding the annoying non-standardised complexities to terminal scrollback.

I think that is the real problem here.
learned about this some years ago on tumblr of all places.

https://dumb-science-jokes.tumblr.com/post/172122916995/magp...
Social Interactions API early access