skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I feel like there should be a daily rating index of how different recommendation or search systems are doing, a sort of "sentiment index" for recommendation and search system efficacy.

I was just thinking about this last night, that YouTube has seemed really off lately for me. I wish I knew if this was all coincidences or what.

It reminds me a little of TikTok. I don't mean that to bash TikTok; it's obviously working for a lot of people, but for whatever reason I could never get it to be recommending anything I like. YouTube historically has been pretty good for me but the last month or so has seemed different. It's almost too narrowly focused or something.
It's available on linux from the x/sys/unix package. You have to use the syscall.Syscall6
You don’t think rendering thousands of widgets per second is a lot?

Regarding your other question, I don’t know.
I was hoping this would include infinite _nesting_!
So it sounds like this startup is explicitly not using foundation models?

Is there any evidence that such a probabilistic model can run better than a state of the art model?

Or alternatively what would it take to convert an existing model (let's say, an easy one like llama2-7b) into an extropic model?
He should have done like Snowden. Got out of the country before exposing material. Shouldn't a witness in a high profile case like him been granted some sort of police escort by the court?

Guy paid the ultimate price for freedom of speech and informing the public. Wonder if someone will sustain there is no threat to freedom of speech because the lawsuit involved the company where he was employed, not the government.

I'm also reminded of Aaron Schartz, as well as the ordeal Steven Donzinger went through against Chevron. Fortunately survived, but had to serve some prison time[1].

[1]. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/steven-don...
> In general, Apple is trying to market itself as[...]

And I haven't heard any argument suggesting that the marketing is deceptive. Apple implemented numerous fingerprinting protections and nobody has demonstrated any of them to be "theatre" or mere "marketing", only that a security researcher was able to defeat one protection among many (and then published their work so Apple can solve for it in the next release). In reality, ALL such work is an ongoing battle between developers and security researchers.

In each subsequent reply you are shifting your stance in order to deflect away from this original claim, essentially by holding Apple to an impossible standard where anything less than perfection on the first try is equivalent to scamming the public with lies. Do you want to defend your original claim that "a lot of Apple's privacy features nowadays are marketing" and "privacy theater"?
How do we know <anything>? Observations we can make plus models that relate those to the things we can't observe directly.
> You’re just as qualified and just as talented as those who went before you.

there is no such thing as people with identical profiles
It's amazing that barely a 100 years ago The Great Debate in astronomy was weather the Milky Way was the extent of the universe or things like Andromeda were their own 'island universes'. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble showed that Andromeda was far outside the Milky Way by measuring Cepheid variable stars. These are the same stars that we are measuring today in this debate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)
This sounds like a job for a centrifuge so I wonder whether the sort of people who home engineered their way to dishwasher sous vide have come up with washing machine stock straining.
> Because a statistical point without context can be very easily racist, sexist etc.

By the do you mean a person could use the stat in a racist way, or that the stat itself could be racist?
Sorry if I was vague. My question was why you would want your meat stock to have a thickener. I mean I don’t premix all my cornstarch with spices and salt since I want to be able to pick the right amount of aromas and taste separately from how thick I make my soup.
It's understandable, but they shouldn't be taking credit for being open source when they are not.
Except that Nix literally solves that problem by abstracting over the underlying config.

Y'all don't know what you're talking about and once again the Ansible comparison belies in.

>reinstall once every five years then it’s largely an exercise in futility.

You are as wrong as you think your are right, I'd know I've been using NixOS for 8 years. You're just wrong.
> Having the compiler not complain that the types match is not effing "testing".

It absolutely is - it's just testing at a _very_ low level of correctness, and is not sufficient for testing actual high-level functionality.
Oh wow, hello!

Seems like it was quite a time to be online. I mostly know of it through this version of events. Not sure how accurate you'd find it:

https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...

The word "extropy" itself seems to go back several decades before the mailing list, if I'm reading correctly here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extropianism. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if many/most of the original mailing list members found this usage a corruption.
The easiest thing would be to use supervised finetuning on the LLMs you're trying to control (most open-source LLMs have some sort of off-the-shelf system for finetuning), combined with this system to control the output. I suppose there's nothing stopping you from writing an RL training system to alter the model weights other than needing to write a bunch of code, though... Maybe LlamaGym (https://github.com/KhoomeiK/LlamaGym/tree/main) could reduce the amount of code you need?
Agree that serious review too late is very annoying for all involved. Reviewers are unhappy they have to reject, implementers are unhappy to have their work rejected, and product folk are unhappy that their feature is delayed.

There’s a happy medium, when necessary, where building a light proof of concept before engaging in design review unearths unknowns or other such things that you can’t get from a purely theoretical design session.

Just trying to complement what you said, not refute it :)
Absolutely! It's all about finding the right balance between granting users complete control over the layout and restricting it to ensure specific use cases through templates. As for scaling, indeed, horizontal scaling is an option, but there's a limit to its practicality. It would be interesting to conduct a resource/time analysis over the various solutions available on the market in different situations/use cases
All the expert software engineers agree this is the most likely explanation. Have physicists looked into this?
Well there are general studies and cases to support this -- example: Blackwell, L. S., Trzesniewski, K. H., & Dweck, C. S. (2007). Implicit theories of intelligence predict achievement across an adolescent transition: A longitudinal study and an intervention.

Though I anticipate this is not really what you are drawing at here.

While I can definitely agree that inherent talents or traits may put an individual ahead of others. I just dont see the scenario where talent beats hard work. Now dont get me wrong Im not trying to imply that a turtle can train to outrun a cheetah, but rather that in the realm of intellectual pursuit, I believe the landscape is significantly more malleable. To me, asserting that talent or intelligence is fixed would imply that knowledge and understanding are also static. Yet our capacity to think, interpret, understand and extrapolate is ever evolving. So I still feel the growth mindset is more closer to the "truth" in the sense that novel thinking and innovation can expand intelligence. Im not looking to deny the existence of innate capabilities but rather draw some emphasis to the potential of persistence and effort in learning.
If this is what your Product Managers are doing, your company should probably remove the Product Management function.
1MT will take out the infrastructure to make the data not Available.
However the data is still in the 3rd datacenter, making it still accessible therefore no compromising on Durable
but yes we don't need the cat pictures when that is close to home :)
> those Mexican factories are owned by Chinese firms

Not really.

The bulk of FDI in Mexico comes from the US, EU, Canada, UK, and Japan [0]

The China factor plays well in the news but German (Siemens, Schneider) and Spanish (SEAT/Volkswagen) have a massive historical presence in Mexican industry, and at the end of the day, NAFTA/USMCA makes it very easy for American companies to operate within Mexico (and vice versa).

[0] - https://www.proyectosmexico.gob.mx/en/why_mexican_infrastruc...
Thanks for the tip, I will take a look at it asap
A similar effect for vegetarian dishes would be to add agar - changed the mouth feel.

Typically you’d do this while making the dish, not add it to the stock ahead of time .
My reply comment to "confidantlake" is meant to address this statement as well.
Reminds me of the old trope, "We wouldn't want to hire someone with bad luck."
buddy you are mixing availability and durability
I'm really excited for LLMs in gaming, like an Ender's Game / Homeworld type game where you can shout orders and the units scramble around or Stellaris where you have actual discussions with the other factions. Local and reliable output enables that sort of stuff, though the perf tradeoff of LLM vs game rendering might be hard to deal with.
“Hold my beer.”
- Steve Huffman
Super interesting!

Immediately reminded of Iterative alpha-(de)Blending [1] which also sets out to set up a conceptually simpler diffusion model, and also arrives at formulating it as an approximate iterative projection process - I think this approach allows for more interesting experiments like the denoiser error analysis, though.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.03486.pdf
Can check out https://signalgtm.com and https://simplyput.ai, two players in the space
Your `get_sigma_embeds(batches, sigma)` seems to not use its first input?
Did you mean to broadcast sigma to shape (batches, 1)?
This has not been my experience with Kagi. I used DDG full time for years, but, got increasingly disappointed with the results. Paid for Kagi and, omg, I couldn't be happier. It's fast, it just works, it returns more useful results than either Google or DDG.
Yes these functions exist. Both theoretically and practically. These are the supply and demand curves and it can be measured. You can then derive functions from the measurements, with the shape of that function defining different types of market behavior. The inputs of that function are in principal simple and answers the question how does price change as the supply and demand of a good changes? (or the inverse - how does demand change as the price changes?)
Android Auto support has been added recently and it seems to work well.
Open Source = Free Software
Simply put, Free Software is software that you can use, modify, and share with virtually no restrictions. Although it's often distributed free of charge—occasionally referred to as “free as in beer”—Free Software is not to be confused with “freeware.”

↑ 2010, Jason van Gumster, Robert Shimonski, GIMP Bible, John Wiley & Sons, page 4.
No, we measure the frequency of vibrations of _light_, not of a type of atom. Specifically, it is light emitted by cesium atoms that are transitioning from one specific energy state to another specific energy state. Although this is arbitrary, it is highly reproducible and would give precisely the same measured lengths of time at any point since the big bang.
US consumers didn’t just vote for Mexit, though
They were pointing out that with meat stocks it depends what went into the pot - a good home made (or restaurant) one typically already has enough to make it “gel” in the fridge. The box types you mostly get in a store didn’t have this, so might want to add if your recipe assumes it.
This, together with the endless philosophising around dark energy, dark matter and whatnot paints a pretty strong arrow towards our models having some flaws when it comes to their large-scale application. I hope to live long enough to see where we made our mistake and get a better model.
I'm confused why does this mean no one can Carplay-ify the plotter/charting world for boats?
> Where exactly was I rude?

You're throwing around your ego and responding with alleged claims of personal expertise when this discussion has nothing to do with that. You're deflecting with puffery; which is irrelevant with respect to your original claim which I questioned. I don't care that you have a list and I don't care how long it is. You accused Apple of engaging in privacy theatre, and that "many" privacy features where mere "marketing". Defend that claim or move on.
Yeah, doing something so drastic in this situation doesn’t make sense. It’s possible that reality is somewhere in the middle. I have a very difficult time believing they would actually off the guy, but it’s not so difficult to believe they might hire some investigators to look for skeletons in his closet. Perhaps they found some. Obviously this is wild speculation and not intended to be a theory—just an example of something short of full-on Tom Clancy.
How do you update the dots when the image changes?
It feels like serious people would have said something more like "we are going to improve the performance (measured in s), of the algorithms/models such X, Y, Z which are used in a, b, c."

Can anyone name a company which used such absurd language to describe themselves and then actually delivered something valuable? There must be one.
I just accepted an offer last week. I was told I was the first to interview and they cancelled the others because I was a perfect fit. Interviewed Friday morning, offer came Friday afternoon, I accepted that evening. /anecdata
This is exactly the sort of popular-psychology thing that fails to replicate, isn't it? I'm pattern-matching it against "ego depletion" and the hungry-judge theory, both of which failed to replicate.
>he can have his opinion

he or she (or they), sorry.
I mean its just superior to Amazon in every way?
So you're saying the scientific media is where the "dumb people" are, not the scientists themselves. While I agree, it doesn't really change the point that these sorts of headlines/articles are heliocentric in nature and mischaracterize our understanding of the universe.

IE. I'm criticizing pop-science, not science.
Interesting, this seems to be something that a lot of people tried to implement, it’s the first time I see this many “I did something similar” under a project!

Cool project! Would love to implement something similar in another language and maybe compare performances, even though I guess they would be very similar since there’s gonna be SQLite under the hood.
* Open Source != Free Software
Why not an animated waveform?
Someone keeps running gparted on our partition
Back in the day, there was a saying that went something like: Steve Jobs was really good at what he did, and also an asshole to people. The former is really hard to replicate, so instead you'll find a lot of people going around and imitating the latter.

Today, it's a very different situation. Now we have Elon Musk, who is really good at what he does, and also tweets a lot...
Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks
This "announcement" is basically a no-op. It's very likely not a new device but taking something like an Artix and just re-branding it and then limiting access to device features via software(Vivado). The same was done for 'Spartan-7' -- it was NOT a new device, just an existing design where they removed the SERDES block.

What made Spartan-6 unique was in addition to having transcievers was the hardened DDR memory controller.

If you read this announcement, DDR support is done via 'soft' memory controller, which chews up a lot of resources and makes meeting timing frustrating, forcing use of Xilinx's MIG IP.
I'll give them a spin, thanks for the links!
Pretty much a dupe of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666561
SVG is great and you are the first person I have ever seen who would (and did) imply that SVG might be or would be better than JSON for this kind of thing.

SVG really stretches the “human readable” thing to its limit, and I personally would not adopt an SVG-like format for anything that isn’t SVG.
There is no difference between them with regards to licensing. The company distributing open source could change license anytime they wish, but they can't change license for the user who have accepted previous license when downloading the code.
Article from 2022 - I am not sure how far it is along in development?
That is clear, but people's perception of a problem does not influence its actual seriousness.

The person I replied to seemed to imply that low fertility is a problem worth solving, but not with migration, which is why I was asking about other solutions. But if you think that it is not a problem I'm also curious to know your reasons.
Which websites do you use for the tool to scan?
I remember reading about the Lycurgus cup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_Cup) years ago in college. Pretty cool we can now control the phenomena.

Highly, highly doubt this will result in a commercial competitor to OLED one day, but who knows?
Perhaps there will be a path here towards translucent displays...
Cmon. Hook is a pirate trying to kill a child.
The job link doesn't work; and coming from careers page in BI website also leads to a 404 page for the position. I am definitely interested but how to contact? - maybe post an email address here. Thanks.
All machine learning models are convolutions, mark my words.
Meta pretend it's models are open source but of course retains the right to control how they are used.

That's true of a lot of open source licences too. For example, the GPL states that you need to share the source including any changes you make else your license to use the original code will be revoked.
> I have always wondered why, in the world of millionaires and billionaires and yachts, why plotters like these have such ancient ugly 80s graphics.

First because on a billionaire's yacht, there is a crew of 20 doing various jobs, 3 of whom do shifts on the bridge. So if you want to know where you are, you just pick up the phone to the bridge and bark at whatever poor sucker is on duty (or you bark at the person serving you drinks who then relays it up the ranks).

Second, on a billionaires yacht they already have large fancy displays with less ugly graphics.

Finally I would hazard a guess that (at least some of) the software "languishes in mediocrity" due to the safety certifications.
Bolsa Família is not UBI, because it’s not universal.

It has resulted in an alarming number of cities where more than half of the population does not work. There are people who have been living on benefits for more than a decade. They would be unable to get a job now, even if they wanted to, because they’ve been out of the job market for so long. The result is a large amount of people who are forever dependent on the State to live.
Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected
I love their terminology of 'postquantum.'

There's a certain irony that a hundred years ago Physics was divided between bitterly divided camps declaring light as continuous or as quantized until finally they found it was a duality of both, specifically converting around the inflection point of interactions with persistence (i.e. no quantum eraser).

So it's a bit bizarre to watch modern physics repeating the process with spacetime and the commitment to finding a 'solution' to quantum gravity, particularly when including notions of quantized particles like gravitons or dark matter that can't be directly interacted with in persistent ways (in which case, why are they expected to be quantized and not continuous?).

I know most physicists proudly state that they only concern themselves with 'how' and not 'why' - but it's refreshing to see work that clearly had the wherewithal to ask themselves 'why' regarding a number of broad assumptions about the fundimentality of quantization as a default mode and I look forward to more 'postquantum' work in the future.
Apple used child slave labour. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...

What's your point? As the great philosophy show house of cards suggested: when the tits that big, everybody gets in line.

So all companies will use slave labour if it makes them more money. There is no moral high ground anywhere.
First, note that Airbnb shows it "built into the rates" when you put in the number of days you are staying when making a reservation. See this article from 2022:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23444561/airbnb-total-pri...

But to answer your question - because it is a fixed cost per stay.

If you stay two nights @ $250/night, you'll pay an additional $200 cleaning fee (so that would be $350 night if I were to "build cleaning in")
If you stay 6 nights @ $250/night, you'll still only pay an additional $200 cleaning fee (so it would be $283/night if were to "build cleaning in").

Airbnb doesn't allow me to charge a different $ based on the number of nights stayed. But they are showing an all-inclusive cost to the user when the user is browsing with their # of days, so there is nothing hidden...

and to your "give it time" statement, it's been over 5 years...
> Still, think 1M+ speed and luxury boats, etc

Even in that class of boat the owner will typically have a coxswain on his beck and call whenever he fancies going on a jolly.

Some people have chauffeurs, others have a boat and coxswain ... sometimes the coxswain doubles up as chauffeur if the owner isn't quite rich enough to employ more than one person.
Fun fact: the Oklo reactor, a naturally occurring nuclear reactor that was active more than a billion years ago, was used to test if physical constants were the same in ancient times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Maybe they just shut down to prevent further scraping and didn't communicate that well.
Just spent my Sunday creating my invoice template in typst as well.
I enjoyed it, and I could do what I wanted quickly!
> It would be bit futile given such a large audience has seen their employees state they won't fly in the aircraft they build.

Perhaps not in this particular case. But it would be a strong deterrent against future would be whistleblowers.
Scheme has pioneered a lot of stuff over the last 30-40 years that is still fresh for most of the PL world, hygienic macros (like Rust is trying to implement), delimited continuations (which underlies Java's new virtual threads, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vupFNsND6o), efficient closure representations (used all over the place since everybody got lambda fever). Into formal verification? Scheme was there in 1995 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/VLISP%3A-A-verified-im...

And there is at least half a dozen things in Racket that I wish mainstream languages could get their ass in gear and copy, but no such luck.
Ah, yes, to go off on a tangent – this bit:

> ...and a few weird contenders for being older (Konrad Zuse’s Plankalkül, 1942-ish.)

...reminded me of something I've been idly curious about for decades now: Am I really the only one who think the name _“Kaiser Söze”_ must have been inspired by Konrad Zuse?
> Why would Harari's -- a historian's -- hot take be preferable to the consemsus ofof gender researchers and sociologists who actually study gender in experiments and statistical studies?

Everyone can decide for themselves. Speaking for myself, sociologists are notorious for downplaying the importance of genes to individual/group outcomes (something that, IMO, should be consensus) and I imagine they will try to push a blank slate agenda whenever they can. So I adjust my trust in them accordingly.
There's a certain irony to a paywall on an article talking about the move by foreign intelligence into providing biased alternative news sources to Americans.