skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By scaling the numbers first by taking the log, multiplication becomes addition and addition becomes x + log1p(exp(y - x)).

Isn't this the same approach as in GF(2^x), which has been in use for decades? The only limitation that comes to mind is the field size.
There are already class action lawsuit notices about this being sent out to anyone that has bought or sold a home in the last few years in some states. (I know, I received one.)
Well, for that to work, you’d have to get a court to rule that the land you committed your crime on was indeed indigenous land and not part of canada. Good luck with that.
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There are objective standards in other professions. The thing about research is, by definition, whatever you're doing is not part of an established profession yet.

Obviously that doesn't apply in setting like drug development where standards do exist, as defined by the best currently available treatments. But if someone is working on something like psychological studies where replicability is the exception rather than the rule, or on exotic tech where only one experimental facility might exist, or on substances or effects that exist only under weird conditions, it's not always that easy (or that safe) to accuse them of lying. Even when you're pretty sure they are.
Maybe at some point society will interact with goggles like people chatting at a masquerade ball.
To converse with somebody you need to improve your vocabulary. So make it a habit to daily read a good English newspaper (you can also read the BBC online daily at https://www.bbc.com). When you come across a word you do not know, use a dictionary to find out what it means. Write it down in a notebook. Also ask others who you meet that day what the word means. This will help you remember it better, and also give you a topic for conversation.

Move on to reading books - you can start with simple comic books like Tintin, Asterix, Archies etc. if you find reading "boring" at first. And later move on to kids / teens novels (I'd recommend British authors like Enid Blyton and JK Rowling). These will also give you an immersive experience to western culture.

Another enjoyable way to build up your vocabulary is to watch English TV series with English subtitles.

Finally, you do not need to be embarrassed about trying to talk with someone in broken english. You are trying to learn a new language and you should be proud of that. There are so many people in the world who can speak only one language, and they don't realise how much it limits the way they view the world. People are often unkind because of their narrow worldview. It has nothing to do with you because you are actually expanding your worldview, and it makes such people uncomfortable because they have never tried to do so. Just find somebody else to talk to - there are kind people everywhere.
What is the connection between those things? I'm not seeing how YT revenue is connected to location tracking.
I fully agree that new is very often worse than old.
I've had to return 3 new iPhones in a row for manufacturing defects and out of box software errors. A TV lasts me maybe 4 years before it's 'broken' and needs to be replaced.' Home appliance longevity is laughable now.. (especially Samsung, my gosh.) I've purchased 5 new cars over the past 15 years or so, only one of which didn't have serious problems from new that had to be dealt with.. or could not be resolved/etc. We're just hitting bottom here, the next 10 years are going to be pretty rough.
> The mean annual wage for plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters as of May 2022 was $65,190, the BLS says, which is higher than the national average of $61,900 for all occupations.

Yikes, no wonder. You can be beating that wage by a lot in a union factory job after a few years, and you can start that straight out of high school. TC, not wage, is probably crazy-higher. And that’s average for plumbers, not starting.
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In July in NYC: https://hope.net/
I do think these kinds of "virtual presence" apps are possible and exciting - and also I think there are huge new challenges that come with the Vision Pro's better spatial computing. If you are in a video game (like fortnight) you easily forgive a lot of jank - your brain isn't expecting it. On the flip side, people will not like someone jumping around "in space" right next to them. Same goes for reproducing movements in avatars.

You can always choose a lower fidelity co-presence, but again if you are doing that why are you wearing the heavy goggles? Just get a discord server and watch on there. I think there are very real technical challenges to combining all of the important aspects, but it is also the category of experience I am most excited by.
> I’m not sure why I still can’t have my full mailbox on my phone, but at least there are several local options.

We all started with POP email accounts, but even way back then, that was tedious if you used multiple computers. IMAP was the trail blazing cloud app before cloud was a thing. Also, I would absolutely not want all of that crap from the SPAM folders local to my device taking up space, potentially malicious to my device, or any of the myriad other reasons why email doesn't need to be local to my device.
> manipulating other people. [...] It's why psychology was founded in the first place.

What are you referring to here? Which specific founder(s) wanted to (or did) manipulate people?
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I think when they try to hedonically adjust for inflation - they do a terrible job.

The quality of everything is trash. And if you want something that has the type of quality you used to get 30 years ago - you're going to pay close to 4-10x as much.

Everyone is selling trash for cheap. We live in a mall of garbage.
I'd be very surprised if the "GPS chip" was actually RECCO.

RECCO has one pretty specific use case: Being hit by an avalanche while not carrying an active avalanche beacon.

This is pretty much only useful for recreational skiers straying off-slope: If you get hit by an avalance in the backcountry, chances are that anybody noticing the avalance and capable of digging you out in time, i.e. within minutes, will be your group members (hopefully you were following precautions, i.e. skiing with a lot of distance between each other on avalanche-prone slopes and are carrying shovels!)

In any case, there will most likely not be anybody carrying the heavy active searching device needed for RECCO. Active avalance beacons can be switched to homing mode by non-buried group memebers; that's why skiing and mountain guides I've spoken to heavily recommend carrying these when planning to go off-slope.

RECCO's range is 80 meters only in free-space (20 meters under packed snow), so it's not even remotely useful to locate lost hikers/climbers.
> always surprised at how European travelers wound up eating at McDconalds in Chinatown, surrounded by amazing food.

My kids were part of a group that recently hosted another school group from Europe. As they were leaving, we asked them about the experience. One of the kids said that it was comforting to find out that America also has McDonalds, and many other kids shook their head in agreement.
I gave up trying to reason with it when I attempted to upload a docker image. Turns out I had permissions to upload an image, but not individual layers.
What was the marginal expansion in capacity that California gained from last year's $29 billion?
America has no labor shortages, just a shortage of people willing to work for the pay and working arrangements on offer.

Anytime you read these pieces, it is a call for immigration or other mechanisms to keep wages suppressed (vs wages and working arrangements improving to draw more labor into the domain [1]). Bloomberg frequently pushes this narrative [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/iDSPgorO6hs

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-05/us-immigr... | https://archive.today/eDWSt
I’m deep down the Ben Eater rabbit hole and enjoying it thoroughly.

His “Hacking a weird TV censoring device” [0] video is an incredibly fun watch, and what made me an instant subscriber.

Currently working through his 8-bit series and planning to build one at home.

- [0] https://youtu.be/a6EWIh2D1NQ
But that doesn't mean it isn't a bad thing. Being a crackhead in a crack house feels like being a fish in water...
Why aren’t they naming the “telecommunications store”?

Does knowing the employee did it make the company liable for damages?
I have a similar view to you and not much to add to your comment, other than to reference a couple books that you might like if you enjoyed 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'.

'The Righteous Mind' by Jonathan Haidt. Here, Haidt describes a very similar 2-system model he describes as the Elephant-rider model.

'A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence' by Jeff Hawkins. Here Jeff describes his Thousand Brains theory, which has commonality with the 2-system model described by Kahneman.

I think these theories of intelligence help pave the way for future improvements on LLMs for sure, so just want to share.
So what? the iPhones have 4x the price of mid-tier Android phones the whole time.

The point is, for now the AVP is the only iPhone-tier (Pro Ultra Whatever) VR headset. Meta's crap (I have all of them) is analogous to the mid tier budget phones, in this metaphor. (Even the fantastically expensive Quest Pro is just like... an insult, even though it does have eye tracking which is now absolute minimum table stakes (and Quest 3 doesn't have it))

The current price it too high to go mainstream, yes, for sure. But let's see the next. AVP 3Gs could fuckin' destabilize the fuck out of this whole nascent ecosystem.
It's strange neither are on the first 20 pages of HN.

Many older Boeing articles with less points and less comments are on the first 10 pages.

It dropped to page 8 within seconds, I haven't seen that before.
> Pornography has well researched addictive and other negative properties

Has it actually? I know phrases like "porn addiction" are casually used, but the last time I looked there wasn't much study of it in terms of the science of addiction. Most of the people self-reporting porn addiction were experiencing distress because of the incompatibility of their porn use with their religious beliefs, but their use itself wasn't extreme or pathological per se.

Which doesn't mean there aren't problems with it, or that it can't cause extreme problems for some people. But in my exposure to addiction medicine, it's treated more as a psychosocial compulsion like shopping or video game addiction.
He was suing the company for defamation. He was not some witness in a proceeding against Boeing and the government or something.

This isn’t a criminal proceeding. With his death, it essentially goes away regardless.
Steve Pavlina? Is he still around... oh, it's from 2005.
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I think your comment depicts the current & past situation in Berlin quite well. Overall, rents & overall cost of living in Berlin have increased tremendously, and available resources (unused warehouses, apartments, …) have gone down. It just can't be as underground and "poor but sexy" anymore if your DJs and ravers, during the day, all need to work high-paying 9-to-5 job to make ends meet.

Sooner or later, the Berlin scene will just feel like the one in Brooklyn. Everything will be properly gentrified.
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The UK is the country that also said "you can't publish the bitcoin white paper because despite it being MIT licensed, this dude claims to have written it, and despite his track record of harassing anyone he gets the identity of we're not going to require he prove he's the author before issuing summary judgement in his favor if you don't open yourself to being harassed.

It's absurd that you can make a claim like this without your name on a document without providing substantial proof ahead of time that you are the person behind the pseudonym.
I managed to kill the game at the level 12 by creating an inifite loop lol.

> THREE.WebGLRenderer: Context Lost.
Something not often discussed when it comes to work in the trades is that it can really beat up your body after some years. Not uncommon to hear stories of guys getting hooked on painkillers.
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I've noticed the same, and I'm equally happy about it. I was also self-taught. I began teaching myself web dev around 2009 and have been doing it ever since. A few times here and there, I tried to learn the lower level stuff, but it's very daunting outside of an academic setting.

In the past year, however, I've really tried to change my attitude. My 2024 resolution is to gain a baseline level of competency down to the assembly layer at least.
You know it’s a solid business plan that shouldn’t be investigated when the employees were told not to ever say “ponzi” or “pyramid” lmao
I knew I had heard of this guy before! I enjoyed this project of his: https://filippo.io/behindthesofa/
Same. I used to enjoy reading his posts, and imagine I got some useful things from them (though I’m unable to recall anything specific). His writing got weirder and weirder over time to the point that none of it was relatable any more.
my course, "stop starting and start finishing", will apply to marathons too!
Some kind of humanoid or canoid robot? It’ll need dexterity. Doesn't even have to be symmetrical and have interchangeable tools at the extremities.
The author of this article is looking at it through the lens of wanting to get consumers to buy it. He spends a very large part of the post talking about consumer sentiment and willingness to pay for different use-cases, including why the current generation headsets (including Apple's) are not quite there yet for daily productivity.
I find that it is sadly getting socially acceptable to be worse than that: to talk straight out loud with someone over the phone over the airbuds while around other people, even making eye contact with other people.
When someone makes eye contact with you and speak, you can no longer expect that they intend to speak with you.

The people with the worst behaviour are pushing the norm.
That's for federal income tax. In BC the top provincial income tax bracket is 20.5%, so a total 53.5%. I assume the person is also including property tax, EI, MSP premiums or other vaguely government related payments, or rounding up pretty generously to get to 60%.
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That's the very definition of production in an LLM.

What does "has an ever changing definition" mean?

And why "everything would fulfill that definition"?

At any time whats the "good next word" is based on the state created by our inputs thus far (including chemical/physiological state, like decaying memories, and so on). And not only not "everything fullfil it", but it can be only a single specific word.

(Same as if we include the random seed among an LLM output: we get the same results given the same training and same prompt).
We don't want to lock folks in. You can export your data at any time.
I don't know how common it is nationwide, but around here, McDonald's and most Chipotles won't take orders at the register. McDonalds will direct you to the kiosk and at Chipotle, if you don't have a phone or tablet to order online, then you're SOL.

Been like that ever since COVID lockdown.
Perhaps to make it easier determine how to correct instruction.

- "Guidelines for keeping a laboratory notebook" (2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19123430#19126809
"Wag the Dead Cat?"

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog)
> You can be beating that wage by a lot in a union factory job after a few years

I'm skeptical - what kind of factory job are you talking about and what sort of data are you looking at?
This is a timely post. I was going to do an "ask HN" on the best way to prevent a sim swap. I had heard about locking the SIM but then I heard this does not give much protection. What are your thought on best protection methods??
Because they did, this comment chain is somewhat of an attempt at revisionist history to try and make a connection that other games had "revelations" about AI more than it's a statement trying to accurately portray the situation.

It's worth noting here that most of these comments are missing that another dimension of the game that's completely absent which heavily influences decision making of normal gameplay: communication and progression from other lanes in the game. It's almost kind of a long running joke in the game that you'd laugh if someone asked you to 1v1 mid because it usually meant you beat them technically and they're grasping for straws to show superiority, despite how segmented and different from normal gameplay it is and how useless of a skill beating someone in such a constrained environment is.

To this point, there were better manually crafted "AI" bots that could team with eachother effectively at a higher level than the average player since the original custom map in 2003-2005. The breakthrough here IMO wasn't that it was actually making any novel decisionmaking but that it was able to perform at a high level and improve by conventional ML training, which I think is a separate callout than most of the stargazing done in the comments here.

I wouldn't say profeciency 1v1 mid (specifically the even MORE watered down rules applied here that you automatically lose after only 3 deaths or the tower is taken) translates accurately to anything in the original way you play the game unless your 1v1 matchup has a similar expectation of sitting parked in the lane, and even then it translates poorly. Sacrificing a death to kill a tower and spending all your gold so your effective loss is minimized is a legitimate trade, but in this fake constructed scenario the win/loss condition is already met. You approach the two entirely differently and more importantly, more simplisticly. That doesn't even address that some hero matchups have intentional designs to be weaker earlier in the game and/or are meant to participate in fights with multiple heroes or doing secondary objects and can't assert the same posture which goes completely unaddressed by this narrow slice of gameplay.

All that buildup to say that healing potions and staying in the lane have been a tenant of normal gameplay since it's conception, and the expectation has shifted from patch to patch. What was "discovered" here is that if you don't optimize for longer term gameplay like you would for a normal game and do the most you can to optimize for a narrow slice of early skirmishes, potions have a higher cost value effectiveness. Not sure anyone beside laymen to the game thought that was a revelation.
> after the second world war.

I think you mean the cold war.
In my experience, 100% of all people who use the word "normie" unironically are shitty, shallow, superficial people.
You can just check after posting and fix the title yourself, if the autoedit messes something up.
Depends on your perspective.

People living in the 1920’s would say we are all crackheads.
> I'd love to pop into a friend's living room for a beer without worrying about them living in another country.

The way a large number of young people do this is just by seeing their friends in voice chat on discord and then joining on their phone.
Yes, the title is click-baity. Yes, Postgres isn't perfect and not the "best" choice for every possible use case in the universe.

But Postgres is a work of art, and compared to all the other relational database options, if it's ultimately crowned the king of them all, it'd be well deserved.

I'd also say that the PG protocol and the extensions ecosystem are as important as the database engine.
I started with 80-column punch cards. Things started changing, and now here we are with AI.
I have been interested in doing something similar for a while. I also think this has a lot of potential as the core of a virtual assistant.
Oh come on. The rendering shows plants growing on the balcony railings. That's it. Obviously it's way overdone to make the rendering more appealing but none of the other things you said are present. Number 4 is particularly off-base because Vancouver is literally in a rain forest.

>And skyscrapers are simply bad for individual living.

Also bad for individual living: homelessness. Besides, what alternative do you suggest in a city blocked on two sides by mountains while the third and fourth are blocked by an ocean and an international border respectively?

It sounds like your city has some major problems and that is colouring your opinion. Vancouver is widely regarded as one of the most livable cities in the world [0]. That's in large part due to the density afforded by apartment buildings in the downtown core.

As an aside, the city also has stunning views. I'm in a low rise right now, but I wake up to spectacular views of snow capped mountains every day. It's the primary reason I chose this apartment. The people on the other side of my building get to see the Pacific. While the people on the north side of the building get both!

I'll give you the traffic argument though. That needs to be planned for properly and that is one of my concerns with this particular development. It's located squarely at one of the city's major bridge bottlenecks.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/travel/worlds-most-liveable-cities-2023/...
Loooooong time
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I think you are right and I don't know why this other person attacked your comment this way. People in fact do use last online activity to build a timeline for crimes right now. Whereas, this AI nonsense will be eviscerated the first time it is ever used against someone with a good attorney.
> I don't know what the future holds, but I do know that Junior devs are cheaper than senior ones. I could envision many junior devs coding (with the help of AI) and a few senior devs doing mostly code reviews.

Honestly, that seems like a recipe for dysfunction. You have junior devs relying on a crutch and failing to develop their own skills, then you have seniors getting their skills dulled/stagnating because code reviews aren't how you do that either (it's just an limited application of existing skills). Also, code reviews are a drag, and I can't imagine someone staying motivated if that's literally their whole job.
How does this solution compare to platforms like https://kwatch.io or brand24 for hacker news monitoring?

Does it monitor hacker news in real time?
That isn't really surprising to anyone who has been following how GNOME approaches wayland.

GNOME is also the one holdout that doesn't support server-side rendering of window decorations (like the title bar with buttons to close and minimize).

GNOME has pushed back on several wayland protocol extensions that all the other compositors supported.
Agreed. Whenever I'm using new statistical software, I validate it against one I know.
True, but we can give it long arms and an endoscopic camera, so it might even be an improvement.
In the U.S. you can drop ~$5k on a Williams Sonoma et al sectional and get a cheaply made piece of junk. I've been happy with Maiden Home for around the same price. Wirecutter (now NY Times) has a couple good couch-buying articles.
Does a settlement increase the chances of the status quo continuing?
My point is that with the current VR implementation the problem is not about rudeness, but fundamentally hampering personal communication.

If I go and meet with someone in person, I generally do it because I want to see them up close, face to face. If we are both wearing VR headsets that hide our faces, the whole premise goes out the window.

Eventually, VR headsets might overcome this problem by accurately portraying the other person's face in some way, but we are nowhere there yet.
I never saw a [flagged] pop up but that's possible I suppose.

The other submission also wasn't flagged, even as of now, but it's gone on the pages.

There's much older and deader Boeing articles that are still on pages 3-10.
sure not a cyber-security issue