skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mark begins our call by saying: "I've read your essay responses. You say you didn't go to high school. Generally I only want people who are in the top 5%. You obviously can't prove that applies to you. So tell me why I should believe you were the equivalent to the top 5% of your peers at 16."

What a silly take; generally brains aren't fully developed until the age of 25 or so and some people mature earlier than others. Whatever you were or weren't at 16 says very little about you if you're over 30, or even in your 20s. Never mind environmental factors which are often much harder to deal with at young ages, such as a less-than-ideal family situation, being bullied, and things like that.

But according to Mark a ~5-year window defines who you are for the rest of your life... Seems like a classic case of someone thinking their own experiences (or their perception of them, which may not necessarily align with reality) is the only possible path to be a good person.

I always assumed these questions about high school were mostly to writing capability more than anything else and that the content doesn't greatly matter. Well, guess it does :-/
https://grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/api.html#diskcache.Cac...

Decorator to wrap callable with memoizing function using cache. Repeated calls with the same arguments will lookup result in cache and avoid function evaluation.
The simplest solution is the best when it comes to backups (and almost everything). Since you don't need always online, we can eliminate cloud and NAS. Use a 8Tb portable Drives as your backup is enough. With more elimination and compression, you can likely get your storage needs down further. You can use another one for offsite backup. Keep it at a different location like your office or a friends. Use some software like Restic or Borg to encrypt and maintain snapshots of your backup. You can find systemd scripts that automate all of this. Lastly, Periodically test your backup works as expected.

This is what I do basically, but additionally I maintain the current year of photos on Google photos too and use Drive for personal document storage so that its like a live 24x7 cache of recent data. This has worked for ~10 years.
Application Processor, i.e. the main processor
Interesting that they wish to discourage key pinning. This is pretty commonly used by apps to make them harder to reverse engineer. It prevents you from installing your own cert in the system's trust store and then using that to man-in-the-middle the app's communication with its backend.
I bet my government is already salivating at the idea of replacing thousands of their own (unionized, pensioned) tax employees with AI. Then we'll be in the Kafkesque hell of "am I going to jail because my AI tax assistant is wrong, or the government's AI tax processor is wrong?"
Why does it take so long to detect a wrong password while logging in? (2020)
How do you know you are getting in the way, how do you know the guy just didn't go out to lunch? How long do you wait to hear back, do you just wait forever?

The scenario I have in my head is a conference, the person in the example has no video, no shared screen and no response.

The 5 minutes is just an example, maybe a bad one but the idea still holds.
Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2: Tiny Ultra HD Broadcast Camera
The article is from rxdb, which has various mechanisms to handle such considerations
imo rust debug builds are fast enough, but its nice to see things are going to get even faster! hopefully this will eventually make `rust-analyzer` faster and more efficient.
Prediction markets seem to think 2028. https://manifold.markets/plsdelete/when-will-humans-set-foot...
The Flambda2 Snippets, Episode 0
> Garnet being multi-threaded, `MSET` is not atomic. For an atomic version of `MSET`, you would need to express it as a transaction (stored procedure).

I am having trouble understanding this. Why wouldn't they wrap that in a transaction internally for you, and make the command atomic? What other atomicity "gotchas" are there.
One thing i still cant understand in modern homes is the open kitchen . I was hoping the expensive ones wouldnt also look like an extended kitchen
Good thing there's other ways to implement SSE - be it in Go or many other servers and languages...
I've been with AT&T forever, I've used a custom email address for AT&T since forever, and my email address is also not in the dump (I have a Premier account.)
Betelgeuse's mysterious spin could be a cosmic illusion
Also if we are not going to publish whatever we created on the internet what the hell is it for? What are we supposed to do?

Why the hell the only troubled thing someone sharing what they created for profit and for others to use?

But it is well-accepted that they can share shaking their ass on social media for promoting their OnlyFans account?
No problem. I've been a sci fi reader my entire life and was shocked I hadnt stumbled across Vinge earlier. The sequel/prequel to Fire Upon the Deep, called A Deepness in the Sky, is arguably even better and the same idea of tech/code being used and customized far after its written is even more central to the plot.

Two of my favorite reads of the last few years, so I highly recommend them.

Futher... After some digging it looks like there is an old slashdot discussion on the same topic: https://slashdot.org/story/06/11/04/0622246/no-more-coding-f...

Likely some spoilers for the books in there so may be worth holding off until after you've read them if you intend to.
Stephen King, Shakespeare, and Many Writers Agree: Eclipses Are Doom
Interesting to see the developments on the String Templates API using the STR and fmt template processors.
Greenpeace could be thrown out of UN deep-sea mining body
The Evolution of Digital Identity;
The first and still most common form of digital identity is the siloed shared-secret model that anyone who has ever used a username and password is familiar with. Service providers use a combination of online and offline processes to onboard users, then authenticate their identity for future interactions via secrets such as passwords, mothers’ maiden names, and confirmation emails. In this centralized model, user information is fragmented across a pool of service providers. This method is inconvenient for users, who must remember an ever-growing list of usernames and passwords, and makes it easier for hackers to commit identity theft.

For service providers, this solution is neither secure nor efficient. User passwords are often compromised (in part because users repeat passwords across services) or forgotten, leading to costly security breaches and password reset customer service calls. All of these drawbacks gave rise to the second solution, the federated model, where a single party in charge of both the onboarding and authentication of users offers identity solutions to different enterprises.

The most popular providers of federated identity services are social media sites, and their primary offering related to identity is portability. People can have the same username and password combination across multiple services, and online services don’t need to build their own identity management infrastructure.

This approach has several major drawbacks. It’s not very useful for high-touch services such as banking that have more stringent onboarding requirements. It also creates massive pools of user data that can be monetized by social media sites at best and serve as honeypots for hackers at worst.

Some of the more shocking online developments in recent years (Table 1), including the Cambridge Analytica scandal1 and the Equifax data breach, can be traced to the limitations of the centralized and federated approaches to digital identity. The economic and personal cost of such scandals and breaches have opened the door to a better solution.

Back to the future of with Decentralized Digital Identity

The next generation of digital identity uses a blend of the old and the new. As in the predigital era, it returns control to users by issuing them digital credentials that can be self-custodied and shared only with trusted parties. Unlike in the past, it provides infrastructure for such credentials to be issued, stored, and verified at scale and regardless of whether two parties are meeting in person or interacting online. Two innovations make this possible—the process innovation of verifiable credentials and the technological innovation of distributed ledger technology (DLT). The decentralized nature of the infrastructure moves digital identity from an application to an ecosystem.

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Interesting: Given an input x to a layer f(x)=Wσ(x), where σ is an activation function and W is a weight matrix, the authors define the layer's "neural feature matrix" (NFM) as WᵀW, and show that throughout training, it remains proportional to the average outer product of the layer's gradients, i.e., WᵀW ∝ mean(∇f(x)∇f(x)ᵀ), with the mean computed over all samples in the training data. The authors posit that layers learn to up-weight features strongly related to model output via the NFM.

The authors do interesting things with the NFM, including explaining why pruning should even be possible and why we see grokking during learning. They also train a kernel machine iteratively, at each step alternating between (1) fitting the model's kernel matrix to the data and (2) computing the average gradient outer product of the model and replacing the kernel matrix with it. The motivation is to induce the kernel machine to "learn to identify features." The approach seems to work well. The authors' kernel machine outperforms all previous approaches on a common tabular data benchmark.
Luckily that's just 1 of the 4 options, and those 4 options are just 4 of many options, so no need to focus on 1 of many and say you don't like it: you can just choose another! Or you can choose to create the islands. I don't see what's so terrible about that.

Did website operators think they could keep violating the rights of EU citizens indefinitely? I mean, based on enforcement capacity, chances are most operators can, but it'd be good to stop. IMO, A network for humanity should prioritize humans and their rights, over tracking and ads, and the lack of respect for those rights is what I find terrible.

Real talk: if you have questions about the GDPR, ask them, and I'm sure the smart folks at HN will be able to help you find answers and overcome obstacles. You can build and not break laws, whether GDPR or ITAR, we can help. Nobody's saying it'll be zero work, but nobody's entitled to run a business doing whatever it wants with zero work, either, and shouldn't expect to.
Why Nvidia's New Blackwell Chip Is Key to the Next Stage of AI
They're mainly trying to issue certs for public facing websites. If your service is in a position where someone can install an alternative root CA on your webserver, you're already pwned!
Dunno why the defaults for this stuff isn't the base performance, feel I always have to tweak the batch size down on all the base scripts even with 24gb cos everything assumes 48gb
This is quite pedantic at this point - A generous reading of my posts and OPs shouldn't trigger this kind of vitriol. I apologize if my statement came off as dismissive of others' misfortune. I maintain the spirit of my statement: There is nothing malign about being glad at avoiding misfortune that others could also avoid (not random things like shootings - jeez this is nuts to compare "choice of lab" to "random acts of violence").
There are two main catches with Backblaze:

1. They will delete all backups of your external hard drive if you do not plug them in and fully sync them for at least ~12 hours every 30 days. You can pay an extra fee each month to have your external drives stored longer to mitigate this problem [1]. The fee is per GB so it does materially change the Backblaze pricing if you have a lot of external data.

2. Their client is extremely extremely slow, even with performance settings set to their recommendations it just obliterates CPU (irrespective of the size of the actual changeset being backed up). I've always been able to feel my computers slow way down when the Backblaze client spins up. [This issue may be resolved on Apple Silicon, but it's been a nuisance on every Intel Mac I've ever had.]

There are some other weird quirks in their macOS client, like you can set your backup schedule to "Once Per Day" overnight and it will still, multiple times per day, just start running unexpectedly and then you have to deal with the slowness or hit "Pause Backup". Somehow this happens 2–3 times every single day. I've tweaked the settings, reinstalled the client, and all of the things, but this issue has persisted for 5+ years on every machine I've used their software on. Super annoying.

Sidebar: They have a native mobile app but it is really really bad. Slow, clunky, somehow always getting logged out. The mobile client sucks so bad that I usually just wait until I'm at my desktop to do a restore.

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-7-0-version-history....
This guy's basic social philosophy appears to be something like "I have a giant house, fuck you, go live somewhere else you poor piece of shit."

Example:

“I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton,” wrote Andreessen and his wife Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen in an email. “Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.” The comment, which was originally reported by The Atlantic’s Jerusalem Demsas, was also reviewed by Fortune. Andreessen did not respond to either outlet’s request for comment. The other executives who opposed the 58 housing units also did not respond to or declined Fortune’s request for comment. Andreessen’s opposition seems to represent a shift from his expressed views in an essay he publish on his venture capital firm’s website at the start of the pandemic, titled “It’s Time to Build.” “We can’t build nearly enough housing in our cities with surging economic potential—which results in crazily skyrocketing housing prices in places like San Francisco, making it nearly impossible for regular people to move in and take the jobs of the future,” he wrote. In the essay, Andreessen also noted that his perspective was probably an uncommon one for someone of his ilk: “I expect this essay to be the target of criticism.”

https://fortune.com/2022/08/13/atherton-california-housing-m...
Worst of Europe isn't better than the best of USA. I'm talking about averages here.

Oh and I'm born and raised in Bulgaria, poorest of EU and one of the poor ones in Europe and even the worst places of Bulgaria are quite safe and have good food available. Can you say the same for the worst places of the USA?

Life expectancy is worse though, according to the WHO that's because of prevalent smoking, frequent alcohol consumption and unhealthy diet and low physical activity. Completely avoidable, no one has to live off on cereal even in Bulgaria.
Mushrooms in mushroom books are not representative of mushrooms in the wild. They're typically very nice specimens where every important characteristic is visible. Well-photographed, too.

That there's an abundance of these sorts of apps is virtually a guarantee that most of them haven't understood how hard it actually is to train a classifier for this.
YC-backed digital bank Onyx Private tells customers it's closing their accounts
When Postgres is not enough: PostgreSQL vs. Distributed DBMSs
It's really interesting, that Postgres is extremely efficient, but same time can't scale vertically well enough, when there is synchronous replication. Unlike its distributed counterparts.
Why? It already decides if you get into a school, get a loan, get past the screening for a job and heck, if you're online dating, who your potential life partners are. You might as well eat the mushroom, bro. You trust it for everything else.
Day 2: Printing the HackerNoon Homepage [video]
we use PipeDrive to track deals (customers and investors) and keep team aligned. most important features for us are getting the team to BCC PipeDrive and automatic attribution of emails to the correct deal.
It's all really just basic calculus, with a couple nifty tricks layered on top:

1) Create a bunch of variables and initialize them to random values. We're going to add and multiply these variables. The specific way that they're added and multiplied doesn't matter so much, though it turns out in practice that certain "architectures" of addition and multiplication patterns are better than others. But the key point is that it's just addition and multiplication.

2) Take some input, or a bunch of numbers that convey properties of some object, say a house (think square feet, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, etc) and add/multiply them into the set of variables we created in step 1. Once we plug and chug through all the additions and multiplications, we get a number. This is the output. At first this number will be random, because we initialized all our variables to random numbers. Measure how far the output is from the expected value corresponding to the given inputs (say, purchase price of the house). This is the error or "loss". In the case of purchase price, we can just subtract the predicted price from the expected price (and then square it, to make the calculus easier).

3) Now, since all we're doing is adding and multiplying, it's very straight-forward to set up a calculus problem that minimizes the error of the output with respect to our variables. The number of multiplication/addition steps doesn't even matter, since we have the chain rule. It turns out this is very powerful: it gives us a procedure to minimize the error of our system of variables (i.e. model), by iteratively "nudging" the variables according to how they affect the "error" of the output. The iterative nudging is what we call "learning". At the end of the procedure, rather than producing random outputs, the model will produce predictions of house prices that correlate with the distribution input square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. we saw in the training set.

In a sense, ML and AI are really just the next logical step of calculus once we have big data and computational capacity.
i was under the impression its a security measure against people brute forcing, kinda like when you try to unlock an iphone with a pin and fail it increases the time before your next attempt exponentially.
SDXL+Controlnet and then feeding it just blocked out depth maps are probably more useful for that.
Confuse, conflate, insinuate, obfuscate. It's the way of psudoscience pushers and apologists.
I use borg backup, one copy goes to a local backup disk (the cheapest brand-name 4tb USB external drive I could find) for quick recoveries, another goes to amazon glacier for catastrophic situations. Cost is something like $3 a month for just shy of 4TB of data, photos and videos that I've taken myself being a large part of that.

I would love to know if anyone considers printed albums, whether of photos, textual data or some other elaborate system involving QR codes or what have you, to be part of their strategy.
Actual mansions will have multiple kitchens, one "open" and for the family who lives there (often unused) and a second commercial kitchen run by the staff.

Open kitchens look great in pictures and when touring, but are quite annoying when you have children running around, or just want to be able to separate the activity from the noise.
I predict knowing or caring about talking to a human via online anonymous chat is going to be a dated idea within five years.

Might seem crazy today, but I think it’ll boil down to the conceptual equivalent of “is this text spell checked?”
If a resolution change fixes the issue, consider a short term fix of using displayplacer. It's a cli tool for updating resolution or placement of displays.

I use it in combination with Stream Deck/Keyboard Maestro to toggle the resolution of second monitor during Teams screen sharing to provide a lower resolution for display challenged colleagues.
These Palestinian people never seem to get a rest.
Show HN: Identify unused columns in your database
As the creator of feedle (https://feedle.world), marking RSS's 25th anniversary hits close to home. RSS was among the first things I added to my arsenal when I first experienced the web, more than two decades ago. It is still one of the undoubted pillars of the decentralized web even to this day, and I've wanted to give my small contribution back, hoping that through sites like feedle, even more people will get to experience the magic that is RSS.

Cheers, RSS! Here is to another 25 years (and more)!
Then I would say there is some other game Mr Hirst is playing that isn't about judging the quality of art.

And then I might tell him to put up or shut up - I'll believe it when I see hundreds of millions for these scribbles.

I wonder if Bourdain ever returned to waffle house, despite his proclamations?
>> Your computer didn’t do what you expected it to. Hell, you’re very justified to go beyond that and say that it behaved in a way that it shouldn’t.

It did exactly what it was programmed to do. It was not a malfunction, it was intentional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM&t=57s
This assumes Tesla wants to enter the taxi business.

If they're just a supplier of robotaxis then a taxi company can choose to switch vendors.

Plus, if the robotaxi business follows the Uber model where "partners" supply their own cars, there isn't even a primary vendor in the first place.
Can someone explain to me why patents are more helpful than harmful to society?

With stuff like this, it seems the reverse is true, but I might just be ignorant of how things work.
Something even more puzzling about this idea is what does it mean to own something you can't sell? If only employees of a company can own stock I suppose they could trade the stock between themselves, but the stock's market cap is necessarily limited by the aggregate net worth of all employees plus the company's assets.
It's unfortunate that where I live, it doesn't get dark until well after bedtime in July.
If I recall correctly, you need to triangulate of bunch of data points to ID a mushroom with some confidence:

* How the mushroom grows in relation to siblings. E.g. solitary, or a sparse cluster, or a dense cluster

* Where the mushroom is growing. I recall stuff growing off dead wood to be particularly dangerous

* The color of the spore print (cut off the cap and put it on a piece of paper for a day and all the spores drop onto the paper and leave a colorful print)

* Characteristics of the mushroom fruit itself. Whether it had a veil, etc.

Often the mushroom you want to eat has all the same characteristics with some other inedible or poisonous other mushroom, except for one of these criteria

It's conceivable to have an app that walks you through all those steps. But yeah if it's just going off of a picture of a mushroom fruit, that's pretty sketchy
> How would you encourage investment in a non-inflationary currency?

Returns on actually profitable investments would be the motivation. Turn the question around for a minute. Do we want an economy that forces people to make unprofitable investments simply to hedge against inflation? Do we want people to have to gamble or lose their assets?
I understand, but I've had the reverse experience where having somewhere to go meant I was shut out of the things my friends were doing and I was stuck masking all day. I felt like an automaton who barely spoke.

I urge you to find a community outside of work. Work to live, don't live to work.
If you take the weight off the spring so it is limp, and you secure the door, this removes the danger.
Sounds like a classic case of "YIYBY" or "yes in your backyard".

It is nice to see that his letter was probably written by himself; you'd think he'd have laundered it through a lawyer or PR agency, even if the sentiment was the same.