skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metaphors are aids. The problem is to take metaphors literally. It is, ironically, over-fitting the meaning of words. But words only mean what we mean them to mean. In the language of ML, you can say that -- analogously or metaphorically -- language is kinda like a VAE. You encode your thoughts, put them into a compressed version that is then passed to another independent network which must decode this encoding and hope you got it all right. While far from accurate, it is useful and can help us remember that the goal is not to interpret the words, but what was attempted to be encoded in the first place.

That said, a computer is a very vague term. I think if you strictly mean the device we are typing to one another on or the thing that transmits the signals between our machines, you have overfit. Even with how the word itself has historically been used as well as even used today. A person can be called a computer as well as a physical slide ruler. It is simply a machine that can calculate, which is absolutely another vague term. In fact, if the universe is completely mechanistic, we could frame it as a computer (but do not confuse this with all that simulation stuff, that's a misunderstanding of what a universe as a simulation actually means).

FWIW, Roger Penrose for quite some time been making the connection of a brain to a quantum computer. The problem with that is we aren't exactly seeing quantum processes in the way we'd expect (though there are clearly some quantum processes). It gets nuanced, but it's a rabbit hole that sounds like you'll enjoy going down.
> That seems contradictory and unintuitive, that two observers moving away from each other both measure light moving c relative to themselves, but that’s reality.

Light is a wave. Photon is a complex thing (Hopfion?), but it's a wave, so it waves something, a medium. Speed of wave propagation in a medium is constant. IMHO, it's intuitive.
How do you release all the resources created? I could not find any instances of `free()` in the code (and there are two calls to `malloc()`). Are you supposed to call `free()` yourself directly on the executor / task pointers? If so, I would suggest exposing a documented API to dispose of resources.
Nah, that's easy to solve.

"spend 3 hours on investigating X, 3 on Y, 3 on Z"; and then have a planning session about what to do next.

You have 4 outcomes - the first one solves it, the second, the third or none.

If it is solvable with mild effort, you have a 50% chance of solving it by attempt 2/6 hours.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673589
What do you think a community is if not a group of people who decide on a common way to share resources and build harmony?
They don't disclose the embedding dimension for gpt-3.5, but based on table 4, comparing the Size and # Queries columns, gpt-3.5-turbo presumably has an embedding dimension of roughly 20,000? Interesting...
It's more of an advert highlighting the various use cases for knowledge graphs than an actually intellectually stimulating introduction
That's fine! Not everyone needs to be. I think it is just a shame we pretend. Makes research convoluted and messy. As I said the other day, we should just allow people to pursue whatever they want and lay a framework where the incentives drive the clearest explanations possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39665427
The basis is self evident: he is an affiliate marketer for an overpriced product with astronomical margins (investors piled in at north of a billion) making health claims without scientific basis, 3rd party testing, or transparent labeling.

Good on him for getting his bag, but the incentives are clear: he made his name before sponsorships with quality content, but now the demand for ad impressions has outpaced his supply of meaningful insights. He needs to keep churning out videos to earn sponsorship dollars, so it's a natural symbiotic choice to invite low quality guests.

They bring the content (and controversy / engagement / followers), he supplies the veneer of legitimacy, studio lighting and somber expression in the thumbnail. The advertisers benefit and all get their payday, as long as his adherents keep overpaying for processed powder with multivitamin.
Whistleblowers should be in no way influenced by current events. Information wants to be free and that will never change.
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Kind of surprised it wasn't WD-40, the universal fluid. ;)
"Training" appears once on the page, in the following paragraph:

Generative AI models such as large language models typically leverage huge amounts of unstructured data during their initial training and fine-tuning. Knowledge graphs can be leveraged to identify the structure of the underlying data which can then improve the amount of signal which is extracted from the data during the training.

Which is too vague to be of interest, generally uninformative, and furthermore to me reeks of LLM-generated babble instead of something a human wrote.
Good to see competition law working for a change. Now Apple should be forced to stop banning competing browsers proper.
I don't want to argue definitions. If you prefer to call a comment 'deleted' which anyone with 'showdead' turned on in their profile can read, that's fine. On HN, we've always used the word 'dead' for that class of comments.
Terry Pratchett advocated something called "lies-to-children" to communicate science. I saw that, and was ashamed of him. Richard Dawkins wanted "consciousness raising" about certain issues around atheism (in fact, around lying to children), and this activist attitude made me uneasy, because it seemed manipulative, with its inbuilt assumption of correctness and the expected outcome of changing minds in a specific way. Various politicians endorse "nudge theory" with greater or lesser degrees of openness about it. I can't approve of any of this coercion, or your apologetics on the grounds of "it does them good".

Having said that, I think all communication is inescapably slightly manipulative, starting from the mere fact of grabbing the audience's attention. But that doesn't mean we should double down on it.
I recently had to copy around 200gb of files over wifi. I used rsync to make sure a connection failure doesn't mean I have to start over and so that nothing is lost, but it took at least 6 hours. I wonder what could I have done better.

Btw, what kinds of guarantees do you get with the dd method? Do you have to compare md5s of the resulting block level devices after?
Cosine Similarity is very much about similarity, but it's quite fickle and indirect.

Given a function f(l, r) that measures, say, the logprobability of observing both l and r, and that the function takes the form f(l, r) = <L(l), R(r)>, i.e. the dot product between embeddings of l and r, then cosine similarity of x and y, i.e. normalized dot product of L(x) and L(y) is very closely related to the correlation of f(x, Z) and f(y, Z) when we let Z vary.
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> Bell Labs?

Too bad that's pretty much the only such example that has been touted since... The 1960s, is it? And that it was, IIRC, recently either shut down or announced to be shut down sometime soon.

Thus, using this as an example seems, if anything, to illustrate not that "there are too!" but "there are dwindingly few".
All the time, huh? Not the usual lawyer intimidation, pressure and PI surveillenace, but actual murder?

Ok, can you link to cases then? In the US or Europe or some place like this, not Africa or some developing country where western companies run amok at times. And also some recent ones, in the last 20 years or so?
If a study claimed that eating unlimited tacos every day was bad, as it found detrimental effects to 50% of the population, yes, I would be interested in knowing if being in the other 50% meant it wasn't bad you for.

If processed foods(, or alcohol, or meat, or carbs, or whatever) have 25% increased negative outcomes for overweight people, but only 2% increased negative outcomes for non-overweight people, that significantly changes the calculus.

I don't understand how you don't understand why you'd want to know that. It's practically equivalent to avoiding peanuts because other people have peanut allergies.
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That would imply a huge change to how big corporations work and also not clear that the reasons for forming large corporations remain valid in such a scenario.
Is this the one where corporate Tilda Swinton hires contract killers to get rid of the whistleblowers and George Clooney figures it out?

edit: Michael Clayton was the title
Which has its own set of challenges and yet another implementation of queue.
Doesn't even have to be someone important or with a lot of money on the line, just anyone with a lot on the line for them, and that doesn't require anything but a feeling.

A janitor who thinks they will lose their job which might be no money but critical (or feel critical) to them because of retirement or health care, maybe for a relative etc, or any rando that some nobody middle manager lizard pressured or even merely manipulated by just talking.
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Felt similarly back in the days when I bought my first house but had to buy another one (because reasons):

- Property owner: can house prices just go up and rise my equity

- Prospect house buyer: can house prices just stay sane until I buy again
"A self-inflicted head wound", uh? Like a strong blow on the back of the head maybe? Or two bullets in the brain? Has he been Epstein'ed?
Thank you. This series of videos is extremely helpful for understanding the concepts referred to in the article.
It also worked with Teams, the software itself is hot trash and not up to the competitors... but it's pushed in the enterprise offering so it worked. The enterprise side of Microsoft is a wonderful selling machine.
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Great job!

It took me 5 min to redo a animated logo that took me a few hours 3 years ago with Adobe. I will use it.
I really liked Bitwarden but the incredibly delayed Passkey support that hasn't even reached mobile yet left me worried about the future development of core Bitwarden.

Something else that I can't really understand but that does not affect only Bitwarden but most password managers: File attachments are handled incredibly badly. Even just the UI to manage & upload new files in Bitwarden is strange and unintuitive and that vault exports/backups do not include the files at all is really bad. I hope Bitwarden and the whole field for that matter improves a lot in this regard.
I think a lot of landlords are worried about letting anyone stay more than 30 days. That's usually when tenant's rights kick in and removing someone becomes a complicated process with housing court and potentially months without rent.
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Suicide in a car is a “popular” way of doing this because there is less cleaning afterwards. Crime scene cleaning of a room costs like $20k.
Bodily fluids go everywhere.
Nope, most of the stuff I want to do on my 2017 RX do NOT have videos on YouTube. Good luck changing the spark plugs yourself including with YouTube. The back 3 will be impossible
Reddit, r/savedyouaclick
As a sysadmin, I'd rather use NVMe TCP or Clonezilla to do a slow write rather than trying to go 5% faster with more moving parts and chance to corrupt my drive in the process.

Plus, a it'd be well deserved coffee break.

Considering I'd be going at GigE speeds at best, I'd add "oflag=direct" to bypass caching on the target. A bog standard NVMe can write >300MBps unhindered, so trying to cache is moot.

Lastly, parted can do partition resizing, but given the user is not a power user to begin with, it's just me nitpicking. Nice post otherwise.
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> Windows would panic, certainly (because so much drivers & other state is persisted & expected)

Nope.

7B is because back in WinNT days it made sense to disable the drivers for which there are no devices in the system. Because memory and because people can't write drivers.

Nowadays it's AHCI or NVMe, which are pretty vendor agnostic, so you have 95% chance of successful boot. And if you boot is successful then Windows is fine and yes, it can grab the remaining drivers from the WU.
> there are zero benefits in using NVMe/TCP, as he just ends up doing a serial block copy using dd(1) so he's not leveraging concurrent I/O

I guess most people don't have faster local network than an SSD can transfer.

I wonder though, for those people who do, does a concurrent I/O block device replicator tool exist?

Btw, you might want also use pv in the pipeline to see an ETA, although it might have a small impact on performance.
TL;DL: This is a discussion of a super comprehensive list to minimize onboarding time for new hires.

I've used variations of this list (adapted for remote-first, asynchronous teams) in the past 5 years. It has helped me a lot to not forget anything and prevent employees from feeling lost, especially during their first month.
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The third climbdown will be this "outside of the EU for a month" nonsense.

Has Apple not heard the expression "You can't fight City Hall"?
The quote is a bit misleading. Traditional WASM (wasm32) does have 64-bit numbers (both a 64-bit integer type, and 64-bit floats), but the address space is limited to 32-bits (and thus pointers are 32-bits too).

AFAIK the downside of wasm64 is that it cannot use some virtual memory tricks to get rid of software range checks, so if memory access performance matters and a large address space isn't needed it probably still makes sense to stick with wasm32 even when wasm64 is available.

PS: see discussion here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/issues/3
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Not the best in _any_ category? Really? Not in a single one? Do you have any evidence for this?
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I still prefer connecting with recruiters on Linkedin. I've heard fishbowl is pretty good too...!
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> Western elites is unapologetically happy to be able to bleed Russia

Do I get you right that russians murdering, raping, torturing Ukrainians is fine but helping Ukrainians survive is the problem for you?
Ooooooooh. TIL!
Doing this without systemd or directly from the netboot environment would be interesting.
Don't forget the US government was spying on the French to get Airbus commercial contract details for Boeing.
> Boeing doesn't want more attention

The US also doesn't want Boeing carried through the mud.
As of today, the first government report is also a doomsayer. Maybe change the term to "officially worried experts
> Comments moved thither. Thanks!

You are welcome. It would have been better if you would have respected the order of the comments.
> just doing statistics on a set of data can't tell you "the truth". If you don't understand the actual causal factors in play, your knowledge is very limited

I would argue that ultimately, all your knowledge and understanding comes from "doing statistics on data". Maybe the statistics is done by sloppy slurpy things in the brain instead of in R, and maybe it's actually mathematically unsound most of the time, but it's still some sort of statistics.
Yeah, it's not exactly a new idea. I'm actually a bit surprised it's this popular. :D

Thanks! Doing it in another language would be almost trivial, there's really not a lot of code involved. I've focused mostly on making a nice, easy to use API for the common cases. No more, no less.
At least when it comes to phones Samsung phones are actually better. Better screens, better camera. But Apple has the branding and other options are frowned upon. At least in the US, outside Android is the leader.
I must say, understanding how transformers work is arguably the most important research problem in history, assuming that AGI can be achieved by just scaling up current LLM models on text, video, audio, etc.
One thing that I found mind blowing initially was that unbricking my pixel 5 involved simply going to Google's install page for it in Chrome with the usb connected and it reflashed successfully.

Of course, there's nothing fundamentally new there, I'm sure Java applets could have done it on a serial port if somebody tried, but it was impressive given how gimped most os-level access is in a browser.

So I would imagine you could write just enough webusb code to get new instruments to work that you wouldn't need local apps as a manufacturer.
If you are calling it a hype I'm sure you are not using the models everyday in your work or otherwise. Then you would understand
The user didn't do it from systemd actually. Instead they booted GRML, which is not very different from a netboot environment, and hand-exported the device themselves.
>> Since the new laptop didn't have an Ethernet port, I had to rely only on WiFi, and it took about 7 and a half hours to copy the entire 512GB

That's because bs=40M and no status=progress.
I appreciate what you're saying here, but I think calling going to museums and reading essays "consuming" is disingenuous. Taking in information (and being in control of what we take in) is very important, but there is very little salvageable information in commercially oriented content venues.

Spending time with curated exhibits and texts written for the purpose of reflection is not 'consuming' in the context of criticizing modern consumerism and monetized media.
> I have been under the impression since university that sushi is a healthier option for a meal, and the most popular sushi option in North America is the California roll.

That seems misguided. Sushi is just, very loosely, "thing on vinegared rice". If you put unhealthy thing on rice, it's still an unhealthy thing. May as well say "sandwiches are a healthy food" or "salads are healthy food".
"intellectual property"
> I've said before that any sufficiently powerful corporation is indistinguishable from a government

Where do you think the "lobby money" comes from ? /s
As the expression goes, "the most interesting explanation is probably the best one".
Well, there are PQC (public key) signature schemes based on hash functions, but they all have large signatures (in the multi-kB range) and other drawbacks (eg being stateful).

Moving to a MAC is also not a crazy idea in a lot of deployments. You can horizontally scale an internal MAC validation service. I believe Facebook use MAC-based tokens internally (CATs).
I was about to write a snarky comment about calling a taxi cab by writing a letter instead of using a landline phone but then I remembered that we used to have public phones…
MS and Apple are fundamentally different companies. Apple is the king of consumer products, MS is the king of B2B. Consumer product companies need to fight for every scrap, B2B need relationships.
First "featured" link: a paid site builder product, with no trace of api. This site looks like a sponsored collection of freemium products, not sure why it's here (unless it's been ring-voted).
Someone who'd be facing criminal charges by his testimony.
The bee results are suss. Bees use pheromones to mark things so there may be no socially learned behavior beyond seeking food at a marked source which is built in. There's also the small sample size which the article mentions. It is still cool that they learned the blue/red trick in the first place either way.
That's easy: Because a company is not a person.

It is a hive of individual people with ambitious KPIs and personal goals, forming an echo chamber of self-confirmation.
Increasing commercial success moves the boundary of what's feasible/acceptable, increases the confirmation bias and feeling of entitlement.
This is great. I have actually written about how this is a great opportunity: an "excalidraw for animations".

Try to make the people land immediately on the editor instead of the landing page. And focus on the sharing aspects so it gets viralized.

Public you're aiming to?
If you directly connect devices over WiFi without an intermediate AP you should be able to double your transfer speed. In this scenario it might have been worth it.
So, you kill all the people investigating this death as well? Spund logic, really, sound logic...
Looks great and works well.

Some small suggestions:

- Please add some keyboard shortcuts for common actions, i.e., cmd/ctrl + z to undo (+ shift to redo), delete/backspace to delete, cmd/ctrl + d to duplicate, cmd/ctrl + a to select all.

- Increase rotate cursor affordance - it's currently relatively tiny.
Just what we need, more regulation! Great job guys!

In Germany this stuff is regulated to death already. Uber is just a bunch of companies ripping off their drivers. Theirs no agency for them anymore. Likewise, everything (food) delivery is certainly no gig-economy. These people are employees with contracts as far as I know. What more do you want to regulate? It already costs around 4-5€ to get shit delivered, you're gonna destroy those jobs with more regulations.
It's not even a distance metric, it doesn't obey the triangle inequality (hence the not-technically-meaningful name "similarity", like "collection" as opposed to "set").
Sorry, you're right, I didn't convey what I felt properly. It feels that the journalist is trying way too hard not to make it sound like it was suspicious. So he scatters the facts around the article as if people wouldn't connect the dots.
Did it ‘just work’?

Serious question since last time I tried a direct non-Ethernet connection was sometime in the 90s ;)
I don't see how you can consider the nvme over tcp version less moving parts.

dd is installed on every system, and if you don't have nc you can still use ssh and sacrifice a bit of performance.

dd if=/dev/foo | ssh dest@bar "cat > /dev/moo"
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(Musk might not be thrilled about this, but here goes nothing!)

I use Twitter Bookmarks a ton having bookmarked hundreds of tweets over the years ... all saved with the hope of revisiting them eventually.

Sound familiar?

It's fine if these were random tweets, but they're not. They're the cream of the crop, meticulously selected by me. Ironically, they just end up neglected in the bookmarks tab.

So that's why I built Twitter Bookmarks:
- Auto-categorizes your saved tweets
- Search tweets by any category you like (think Bootstrapping, Fundraising, and more)
- Export to CSV/JSON

Just launched, would love to hear what you think!
> Occam's razor

From my point of view Occam's razor here wouldn't be assassination. It's would be as mentioned above, mental health and overwhelmed by the sheer impact of your whistleblowing.

Maybe there is no Occam's razor here if there's no obvious answer.
Is audio possible, and if not, plans for it?
Those are pseudo-filesystems though, they aren't part of the install.
To be honest, I feel vastly indifferent towards the current whole DMA conflict on who is gonna get what profits from microtransactions out of addicting games (often targeting minors), and I think it is nothing alike the issues the monopolistic position of microsoft was causing in the 90s-00s.

But otherwise yeah, this is how any corporation this size behaves always.
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