skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article, but I feel that it misses an important property of diffusion models that they model the score function (derivative of log prob) [1] and that diffusion sampling is akin to Langevin dynamics [2]. IMO these explain why it's easier to train these models than GANs, because of an easier modeling objective.

[1] https://yang-song.net/blog/2021/score/

[2] https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-07-11-diffusion-mode...
I agree that a proper ruggedized industrial PC would fit better (and cost only a few hundyed more). If their software could work on it, or could be adapted / ported, that would be a great choice.
But I suspect that what they have now is mostly married to Pi.
'I lost my ability to fly the plane'
Can't wait for the perfect candidate. Vote with your wallet.
I'm daily driving the PinePhone. It is listed as beta. It has bugs. That's OK.
From [1]:

> We implemented the algorithm on IBM quantum processors using only 5 qubits

Last December, a team based out of Harvard demonstrated the ability to scale up to 48 logical qubits: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03982

It has been shown that, to factor an integer with n bits, Shor's algorithm requires ~2n logical qubits: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0205095.pdf
This is my go-to method (combined with a pressure cooker). It's rather stunning just how gelled the results are when degreased and cooled.
One after the other, can we all assume now that a data breach for any company is not an "if" anymore, just a "when"?
I've always struggled with fish stock, it comes out somehow bland. I've read different methods - removing all the meat and leaving only bones vs using skin/head etc. Do you have any tips? (also any tips for avoiding the whole house smelling of fish?)
Seems like everything was already sorted in the first place.

This is in the works...
I feel this is not as good as I would like to, but I struggle to continue writing at this moment and still want this 'off my chest'.

Sorry for some of the memes,
Appreciate your time.
I'm so glad "the infinite universe" as an idea is finally falling off. It works great in the Hitchhikers Guide, I love the floopy mattresses and planets that grow screwdrivers but nothing real is infinite.

I didn't even realize how many people held that belief til that article about how the universe isn't as big as we thought
Fish stock? Ah, add some white wine, mushrooms, and shallots and use it to poach some scallops. Reduce the stock, thicken with a flour-butter roux and add heavy cream. Combine with the scallops, heat through, broil to get a little browning on the top.

Used to do that a lot, and now that a local store has a lot of good looking scallops may again!
Even though the title is copied from the article, we should change the title to "New data indicates the Webb and Hubble telescopes agree on the universe's expansion rate, but not with the cosmic microwave background measurement based expansion rate"
I haven't read Brave New World, but this immediately reminded me of The Gods Themselves with Rationals, Emotionals and Patentals.
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Considering Buying TikTok
But he's correct. The original paper demonstrated an effect that has been widely miscommunicated and misinterpreted.

The exact percentage of people getting it wrong was plucked out of the air, but that's not the important part of his comment.
This is your regular reminder to audit your password manager for accounts you no longer need, and then go and have those accounts deleted.

Of course you can't guarantee that your data will actually be purged, or that it hasn't already been compromised from these places - but less exposure is better than more exposure, right?
Is the political safety of the United States on the same level as that of Russia?
search/google "steps alan kay" or watch https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/video/lecture-putt...
Actually that parking sign may come from an old German parking sign, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666622 .
You can also "splurge" and make a veggie stock using whole ingredients; for example, I use whole fresh celery, carrots, peppers, onions, and garlic. It's like $5 of ingredients.
Typically once you get access you just try to dump everything and figure it out later. Splitting into separate stores is just convoluting your day to day for minimal inconvenience to a possibly non-existent an adversary.

The only real protection is encryption.
Are the bikes at both stores the same SKU and/or effectively the same style+model just with lower quality materials?

What’s this practice called?
I remember while hiring for a new team member commenting about the first candidate that we interviewed that if we had seen him later in the sequence we likely would have hired him but coming first, he just seemed “ok.”
No, not they are not. The military and intelligence apparatus does not care if Boeing has to pay a fine. They will not carry out an execution at Boeing’s behest just to save them from a lawsuit.

Conspiracy theorists love conspiracy theories because they allow them to feel smarter than the “sheeple” that believe the official story. They don’t care if the actual conspiracy theory is wildly implausible and stupid, it’s just too psychological seductive for them.

Sorry but couldn’t be me, I am not dumb enough to fall for that cognitive hazard.
> My understanding is that tasers are AC, thus involuntary movements will be back and forth rather than just in one direction.

Tasers AC output is at low frequency but still significantly faster than human muscles can move, if you watch any video of a tase you'll see it causes the victim's muscles to seize up and not oscillate.
As in it's working well for you to vent to? If so, thank you very much for letting me know!

It makes my day knowing that this little web app can improve someone else's day, even just a little bit.
Do you have your Windows power plan on Performance? Maybe thats the difference?

Definitely would be a bummer if web audio didn't work reliably on the default power plan (which is Balanced iirc)
I don't think this is entirely true.

Most heavy-tailed distributions make CLT convergence slow, and heavy-tailedness is relatively common.

Many methods in finance and pharmacology, just to give two examples, have had spectacular failures because they ignored that point.
I know I think in parallel often enough that two threads end up disagreeing with each other and a 3rd one has to sort it out. I can’t begin to describe the internal fork() sensation that happens in my noggin constantly.
The whole point of having a quick, online opt-in and an elaborate "mail us a notarized letter" opt-out is to make it very easy to opt in. Why would they want to make it harder? They're already on dodgy legal ground, and the "enter your PIN" wouldn't make it much firmer.

You're thinking like an engineer given the problem of "get people's consent" instead of like a businessman with the goal of "altering the deal."
It should be a global (OS or desktop environment) level option. I know that isn't possible for various reasons, and it's a shame.

I never want to copy formatting, ever.
Of course it'll be cheaper to make most meals yourself. Especially since the imagined price doesn't tend to include rent, kitchen labor, service staff labor, or depreciating costs of kitchen appliances, which all go into the price of restaurant meals.
It sure would be nice to know what was exposed in the hack.
Given they are an advertisement company.
I'd like to think my response here is not catalogued adequately in his taxonomy of responses -- if you are strongly against pasting with formatting you probably are the sort of person who really should be using plain text formats such as markdown.

Virtually always when I'm using something which does WHYSIWYG formatting I almost always want the _convenience_ of pasting with formatting. I'm also entirely not in the mood, in that moment, to care that everything about the editing experience is tailored for the convenience and not detailed correctness (even though I'm grossed out by such tools).
It’s all about values.

I have been on teams where Python based approaches were discounted due to “speed” and “industry best practice” and then had the very same engineers create programs that are slow by design in a “fast” language and introduce needless complexity (and bugs) through “faster” database processes.

Like you said, it’s the thoughtless criticism. The meme. I am happy for Python to lose in a design analysis because it’s too slow for what we are building; I am loathe to let it lose because whoever is doing the analysis with me has heard it’s slow.

Which is to say, I get what you’re saying. I think people have been a little ungenerous with your comment.
Someone else pointed out that they can’t even prove it wasnt a dog who agreed by chewing on the remote. Yet somehow these clicks are still considered to legally bind the owner.
When I was young, I worked in restaurant kitchens. One dish we made, Coquilles Saint-Jacques, was essentially this. Of late, I've only seared scallops or wrapped bacon around them, but it was delicious and you may get me to go back to my old ways, at least once.
Section 6.5: "Changes to all system components are managed securely."

6.5.1 is probably where the CRF form came from.
Could it be that nearby galaxies are akin to small angle approximations in spacetime trajectory, but as you get really far away (e.g. CMB) the perspective distortion increases hyperbolically? I notice that if you normalize the Hubble data by their Lorentz factor you get back a constant expansion rate: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/llhnja1ocb
That's the one, thanks, I've been looking for it for ages
ArCHer: Training Language Model Agents
To quote from Eric Raymond's article about python, ages ago:

"My second [surprise] came a couple of hours into the project, when I noticed (allowing for pauses needed to look up new features in Programming Python) I was generating working code nearly as fast as I could type.

When you're writing working code nearly as fast as you can type and your misstep rate is near zero, it generally means you've achieved mastery of the language. But that didn't make sense, because it was still day one and I was regularly pausing to look up new language and library features!"

Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

It doesn't go for large code bases, but if you need quick results using existing well tested libraries, like in machine learning and data science, I think those statements are still valid.

Obviously not when you're multiprocessing, that is going to bite you in any language.
A few years ago a big complaint against kdenlive was that it would crash all of a sudden, randomly and general instability and generally buggy.

Is that the case with say 24.02 or has that thing been improved?
I bought a pinephone but I couldn't get it working (I could get calls, no internet) despite a fair amount of playing around. Would have loved to switch but ended going back to android.
I think you posted this a few times, maybe you want to elaborate on this point?

I have trouble seeing reinforcement learning as convolution, for example.
Firefox doesn't support WebUSB. You can also use ADB to install.
There is a difference between shutting down a plant and decommissioning. I’m solely focusing on the company cleaning up the mess that politics caused.
Fair point. For me, the broth is the final product -- it's chicken soup!
He literally lies nearly every time he speaks and doesn’t care if something will be “uncovered”, like any other US president before him. Bush lied about Afghanistan and Iraq. Zero consequences. Obama lied about Syria and Libya - zero consequences.
Gotcha.

Otoh, a gas pump install is in that range. I know that the non-profit that manages my local airport had to pay around $50k CAD to get a new cardlock system, and that didn't even include the pumps.
> Qualitatively, Python feels about the same speed as interpreted Lisp, but very noticably slower than compiled Lisp

Did you try mypyc?
I have had the same thought that primordial reality had the same timestream as us but it was much longer, like the first "year" of reality was far longer than one year today, just the thinking "could time have been shorter or longer, why not"
I think theres actually a huge industry around buying and using the information stolen in these breaches? Identity theft is a pretty big problem no? This seems like a really weird take.
There's a 'fringe' theory that the CMB is not the echo of the big bang but rather the redshifted black body radiation of intergalactic dust (apparently the numbers are about right). Although the primary proponent of this theory is trying to justify some sort of cyclic universe model with it, if my understanding is correct it would still be compatible with a 'standard' big bang that has the "longer" (aka galactic expansion) timeframe.

And in any case physics still needs to explain what happened to that blackbody radiation.
Ask HN: Experiences with Claude 3 and future of LLMs?
Just curious, now that it's been a mo.. Uh, 8 days?

Mine have been glowing, I feel it's still underhyped, I've been able to achieve things preciously impossible, in part thanks to the huge context length - granted I haven't tested and don't have access to GPT-4-128k, but even in the small it often find I prefer Claude.

Unfortunately the message limit is still too small, and inference can get very slow, but if the trend continues and somehow we have a model of this level that's as fast as Groq, and with practically unlimited use, it seems pretty revolutionary. At this point I think that anyone working with code that doesn't see how this will change the craft is willfully blind, LLMs as they are today are already amazing mental prosthetics, and I couldn't see myself going without.
Even if I worked with 100% novel code that somehow couldn't benefit from LLM assistance, I still remain a computer user and I use LLMs to write scripts, to figure out how-tos constantly.

But I see this as moment where programmers got their first Photoshop. Sure, you still need to understand design, but the friction of production is greatly, greatly reduced.
Why does this notification say passwords were compromised and not password hashes? Certainly Roku engineers were better than that?
I think only some are underrated, such as PiperTTS, Immich, HeidiSQL, and ShotCut. Also small tools like rsync are widely used, but their maintainers often don't receive much appreciation, as these tools are as common as hammers and screwdrivers.
They need some love, thats why i have this list.
Assumed attackers owning quantum computers probably have much better “Address DB” than yours.

As for regular assessment of your secure infrastructure, you can read latest “Algorithms, Key Size and Protocols Report”:

https://www.ecrypt.eu.org/csa/documents/D5.4-FinalAlgKeySize...

and practical part of ENISA report:

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/post-quantum-crypto...
> Yes, perhaps if the CLI tool is being invoked many many times in succession.

Each execution will be a fresh VM though. A CLI tool isn't a long-running daemon. There is also the whole lack of parallelism without forking in this ecosystem.
It's related as in they are both things about Roku but it's too early to tell if these two events are actually related in some more meaningful way.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231201123626.h...
Mmm.. you could rotate both text and bars, right? Like, horizontal bars.
> You can't seriously expect them (or anyone) to always grandfather in old free accounts after starting to charge money, can you? Bandwidth and storage is not unlimited.

Never once asked for that. Although, let me remind you that he does in fact make money off driving traffic to my public images (and everyone else's as well). If he wants to give away that service for free, it is his business choice to do that.

> The fact that he even engaged with you at all, and to the degree he did, was incredibly kind and he showed much restraint, kudos to him for that.

Agreed. Kudos to him!

> But you continued to double-down on your opinions and think you're more important and worthy of his time than everyone else. Why is that?

I guess it is my fault for sticking to my opinions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Note that this actually works in ancient, dynamically scoped dialects of Lisp, and will work with dynamically scoped variables.

(progv '(a) '(10) (eval '(+ a 1))) ;; Common Lisp, TXR Lisp

With lexical scope, what you're looking for is a closure. lambda is your "first class quote".

[1]> (defmacro fcquote (expr) `(lambda () ,expr))
FCQUOTE
[2]> (defun fceval (fcq) (funcall fcq))
FCEVAL
[3]> (fceval (let ((a 10)) (fcquote (+ a 10))))
20

> Hygienic macros are just a band aid ...

Sure, whatever; what I intended to bring up was the specific way of implementing hygienic macros using syntactic closures. Syntactic closures are a way of quoting code, with context. Hygienic macros don't have to be implemented with syntactic closures.

That author you cited seems to be working on something very similar to syntactic closure. The paper has a lot of references, but very few of them are anything Lisp or Scheme related. Looks like the author is working entirely on his own.

In a work like this, I'd expect syntactic closures to be acknowledged, with a discussion of how the work being presented is different.
sad to hear it probably won't be visible during the eclipse... the other day APoD made it sound like there was a chance
Popular conspiracy theory.
Carp! It's still experimental and I'd argue the affordances provided by a gc are a part of what makes lisp lisp, but it fits your criteria.
You do know that professional hitmen actually exist, right? You can straight up pay a guy to kill someone for you.

It would be utter insanity to ask someone who legally works for you to kill someone. Which is why that doesn't happen. What actually happens is someone tells someone to deal with the guy and a paper bag full of cash appears in front of Joe's Killin Place in the middle of the night.
The kind of math problems that are hard for quantum computers to break tend to produce kilobyte+ outputs at our target security levels.
A narrow interface handling a large number of concerns... makes the UNIX file API a "deep" module."

Seems self-explanatory to me. "Deep module" [0][1] is a well-defined term.

[0]: https://dev.to/gosukiwi/software-design-deep-modules-2on9

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ouste...
I guess that's true if you end up with a lot of trimmings. I was thinking of storebought, which... actually, could be made from scraps and other things that wouldn't otherwise be used.

In my own situation, I just wouldn't have enough vegetable trimmings to make stock -- I use the whole vegetable when I cook! For example, I never cut carrot tips off, and I only cut off the black part of the top, which is tiny and wouldn't really go in stock anyhow. Same kind of situation for celery, onions, peppers...
When I make stock I usually follow the traditional route, but rather than discard the vegetables I stick my Bamix into the pot and let it run until the contents are silky smooth. (Think of the Bamix as a poor man’s Pacojet if you run it long enough :-)). This results in what can best be described as a runny purée.

If I’m making something that will be thickened there is no need to run the result through a fine meshed sieve. And most of the time when I cook that is the case. Which means no unnecessary waste.

If you want a broth then I suppose I could let it sit until the solids have settled and scoop off the liquid. What I usually do is go easy on the Bamix so the more of the solids are taken out by the sieve.

What would be more interesting would be to do both: juice first, the sautee and then cook the pulp and finally combine the two.
I don't want to bash too much on this idea, but at the very least the UI could use some work.

You need some more whitespace padding on your "features" section. Having a single review which is you is going to garner no confidence. The get started section just asks for my name. I'm not giving that to you without having a clue how your product works.
cc @dvdhsu mystery solved!
As a researcher, there's a lot of diffusion blogs that I do not like. But I actually really do like this one! It does a great job at getting to the meat of things, showing some of the complexities (often missing) but without getting lost or distracted. I especially like the discussion of trajectories as this is motivating to many things I think a lot of people struggle with (e.g. with schedulers). That can be hard to write. Albeit not as complete, I think this is far more approachable than the Song or Lilian's blogs (great resources too, but wrong audience). Great job! I'm actually going to recommend this to others.

FWIW, a friend of mine (and not "a friend of mine") wrote this minimal diffusion awhile back that I've found useful that's a bit more "full" w.r.t DDPM. More dropping here since I saw others excited to see code and it could provide good synergy here: https://github.com/VSehwag/minimal-diffusion/
Nobody said anything about the CEO. Not sure exactly what you are arguing here. You seem hellbent on proving everyone who wants to listen that it's absolutely impossible for someone to act as an agent of a corporation in killing or ordering someone to be killed in the interest of the corporation. I understand 'movies aren't real, brah' but you seem to have some sort of superior understanding that the rest of us is lacking in order to be so determined.
In an infinite universe, the unlikeliest of events has happened an infinite number of times.
And we can split hairs and conclude that for "the last two billion years, on this planet, in this galaxy, the physics affecting nuclear decay have not changed"

It's great to know that say dating using carbon-14 decay is still useful over those time ranges on planet earth (I don't know if that is something we care about given that fossils don't tend to contain much carbon, but coal and oil deposits are around 400 million years old).

I don't want to imply that this is too small of a sample size, but I will imply that nuclear decay, and the movement of galaxies across the universe might be unrelated. Don't know. Not sure how we'd measure that. Supernova observations would tell us about nuclear fusion and it's limits. Does it tell us about nuclear fission? I don't know.
This only applies if you have to make a hire/skip decision immediately after each interview and can't go back later. (The formulation I usually see is a princess choosing a suitor — for pride/face reasons, she can't pass on a suitor and then go back if it turns out he was the best of the bunch.) That's not typically how job interviews work, though.

I think the magic number is 1/e of the applicant pool (e = Napier's constant, 2.7...)
Looks like Ars Technica called it:

Roku is also taking heat for using forced arbitration at all, which some argue can have one-sided benefits. In a similar move in December, for example, 23andMe said users had 30 days to opt out of its new dispute resolution terms, which included mass arbitration rules (the genetics firm let customers opt out via email, though). The changes came after 23andMe user data was stolen in a cyberattack. Forced arbitration clauses are frequently used by large companies to avoid being sued by fed-up customers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/disgraceful-messy-to...
> Sorry but couldn’t be me, I am not dumb enough to fall for that cognitive hazard.

Good for you, we all strive to reach your level of enlightenment. Leave the rest of us stupid plebs alone and move along, then.
There's nothing more permanent in this universe than a quick hacky proof of concept that was never intended for production use.
Wrapping scallops in bacon!? Sacrilege! :-)