skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm not a theoretical physicist).

20 years ago, I read "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene, as an introduction to string theory. I was initially impressed by the brilliance of the theories it presented. What really threw me for a loop, though, was realizing (as far as I understood or remember) that string theory isn't one neatly packaged theory. Instead, it's this colossal family of theories, with so many parameters that it's hard to make predictions, and to justify "why this one and not the other ones?".

Then, over the last 20 years, I read the 3 following books, which confirmed my initial impression.

- "Not Even Wrong" by Peter Woit, a deep-dive critique of string theory for the mathematically inclined. Woit's basically saying, "If we can't test it, can we even call it science?"

- "The Trouble With Physics" by Lee Smolin, which zooms out a bit. Smolin's beef with string theory isn't just about the science; it's about how this obsession is hogging resources and blocking other potentially groundbreaking ideas (including, but not limited to, his own). Think of it as a mix of a science critique and an insider's look at the politics and sociology of physics.

- "Lost in Math" by Sabine Hossenfelder, which asks if physicists' quest for beauty in equations and theories is leading them astray. This one's the most accessible, mixing in history, interviews, personal stories, and a bit of philosophy.

All three books are good, so if you have to chose one:

- Woit's book is for the math geeks.

- Smolin's is for those who like a side of sociology with their science.

- Hossenfelder's is for folks intrigued by the blend of science, philosophy, and human bias.

Also worthwhile, IMHO, is Sabine's most recent take on string theory, as a youtube video: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/03/whatever-happened-t... / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRzQDyw5C3M
It was more like Microsoft had the anti-trust stuff going on, and Apple was on the verge of going bankrupt.
ah. I thought it'd be more in the vein of safetynet, but guess not.
so if I used Blender it's banned? it's very tough to draw that line in the sand
Although if one already uses ansible for configuring the VMs, ansible would probably be my first choice for deployment as well.
This doesnt seem to be true. They have been running Geforce Now for a long time and its one of the best gaming streaming services. It seems they are doing it in partnership with other regional companies but nobody says they cant use same partners. Running games with small latency seems more complicated than llms on cuda.
Alright, I'll try that next time and see what happens!
What is maximal working temperature range?
Yes, sure. Thanks, Captain Obvious. I’m asking WHERE is the country where a single dev costs $1m per year.
On the flip side I always enjoyed seeing all these ideas get successfully applied in condensed matter such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_insulator
but you're not lonely and thus aren't having the problem the article describes. I'm not lonely and sad and angry either,
though I can see how my previous comment could make it seem that way.

Outside of your happy circle of friends and family is this epidemic of loneliness that the article is reporting on, so it's not surprising that you can't relate if you're not having that problem. I'm trying to describe why we're apparently falling into this hole of loneliness and how to fight it.

The other thing is to look at your relationships. The game Diplomacy has caused the end of many relationships because it exposes the true person inside, who will lie and cheat and steal to win a board game. You should try it with your friends and family sometime. Are your friends complete human beings, or do they only have a good side? Some people live in a happy world where they don't and are friends with them, and other people have relationships to whole human beings that suck sometimes. They're also awesome sometimes, which is why we're friends, but I'd rather see the whole picture than think they're perfect, just like me.

I love my friends, and would love for them to all live down the street from me, (teleportation when?) but my other comment is coming from a place where they're also human, same as me.
>Why do you need the VIN and why can’t I just enter the make and model?

>By asking for the VIN upfront we can both deliver better quality information and make it easier for you to act on it. There is a reason why you can’t get an insurance quote, a vehicle valuation, or a vehicle history report without entering a VIN. Similarly, we decode that VIN beyond its make, model, and year: the VIN helps us understand what features and technologies may be present in your vehicle (increasing the accuracy of our Vehicle Privacy Labels) and being off by just one digit would provide wrong results in our Vehicle Privacy History.

>Many visitors of our website also choose to take advantage of the many free protections we offer (e.g. requesting that your auto insurance and auto finance companies protect the data in your car in various scenarios). None of those companies would be able to do anything to improve your data privacy and security if they could not confirm your VIN.
Yeah, but those were boring jobs. Programming is fun.

I'm only half joking.
I would rather bet Microsoft doing that, given their cozy relationship for .NET and main WSL distribution.

At least I would finally get to buy MS Ubuntu PCs at the shopping mall.
Before I read this, is this yet another paper where physicists believe that modern NN are trained by gradient descent and consist of only linear FNN (or another simplification) and can therefore be explained by <insert random grad level physics method here>? Because we already had hundreds of those.

Or is this more substantial?
You would be right about selling naked options. But call/put credit spreads have bounded downside, just like buying options.

Selling cash secured puts or selling covered calls would be less risky than just holding stock.
What would be the requirements in order for most researchers to agree that a “conclusive” answer has been established to the question “How do neural networks work?”

I ask not because this paper isn’t insightful research, but rather because if you search Google Scholar or arXiv for papers purporting to describe how neural networks “actually work”, you get thousands upon thousands of results all claiming to answer the question, and yet you never really come away with the sense that the question has truly been resolved in a satisfactory way (see also: the measurement problem).

I’ve noticed that each paper uses a totally different approach to addressing the matter that just happens to correspond to the researchers’ existing line of work (It’s topology! No, group theory has the answer! Actually, it’s compressed sensing... computational complexity theory... rebranded old-school quantum chemistry techniques... and so on.)

I suppose my question is more about human psychology than neural networks, since neural networks seem to be working just fine regardless of how well we understand them. But I think it could be useful to organize a multi-disciplinary conference where some open questions regarding machine learning are drafted (similar to Hilbert’s problems), that upon their successful resolution would mean neural networks are no longer widely considered “black boxes”.
Yes it's true. At Ably we support websockets, SSE and comet fallbacks (simple long-polling and streamed long-polling). It's less and less common but there are firewalls that fail to handle websockets correctly, or simply block them. I can't name specific companies/examples, but call centers are one example - the network and desktop environments are fully locked down.

We also see in these cases that streamed HTTP can also be broken by the firewall - for example a chunked response can be held back by the firewall and only forwarded to the client when the request ends, as a fixed-length response. Obviously that breaks SSE and means you can't just use streamed comet as a fallback when websockets don't work.
The 2013 Zeiler and Fergus paper also explains this based on activations during training of the network resulting in feature detection across layers.

Paper : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.2901.pdf
If government isn’t protecting the people it represents, why have one?
A Real Social Security Office Gave Me a Flyer with Scam Phone Number on It
I'm sure he is expressing a valid principle. By funding one area excessively, you can soon build up reams of scientific literature and interest, but this area needs have nothing or little to do with genuine scientific interest. Funding determines the interest. It's all about money unfortunately, even science.
Could you please expand a little on the setup of a hub/gateway in your project? I found the Arduino sketches for three sensors but it was not clear to me how one would go about the gateway those sensors would connect to.
Ask HN: How to provide feedback to developers as a Product Manager
As a non-technical product manager having direct developer reports, how do I help them grow in their career? We don't have engineering managers in our org and hence the product managers have to double up as engg. managers as well. And most of my team developers are very young and recent graduates and I want them to get the right mentorship to grow. I do have regular one-on-one chats with them in a casual setting and discuss about non-work things.
In the realm of artificial intelligence, the landscape is shifting as Character AI embraces the demand for Not Safe For Work (NSFW) features. This article delves into the multifaceted aspects of this evolution, from user preferences to ethical considerations, societal impacts, and the implications for developers and users alike.
It's yet another.. just more adds..
Q1: Is Character AI safe?

Q2: Is Character AI shutting down?

Q3: What are the best Character AI alternatives to try in 2024?

Q4: What do you do in your Character AI chats?

Q5: How can I make money by character Al?
One time I came across a git repo that let me download a gigabyte of prime numbers and I thought to myself, is that more or less efficient than me running a program locally to generate a gigabyte of prime numbers?

The compute for a direct answer like that is fractions of a penny, it might be better to create answers on the fly than store an index of every question anyone has asked (well, that's essentially what the weights are after all)
Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years
> I am really super surprised that basic survival needs are NOT on the table when we are all arguing about religion, abortion, guns, etc. Like really?

Most people in the world struggle to feed themselves and their families. This is the basic survival need. Do you think they fucking care what happens to humantiy in 100k years? Stop drinking that transhumanism kool-aid, give your windows a good cleaning and look at what's happening in the real world, every day.
> Enshittification strikes again.

But not how you think…
Worth mentioning another nice initiative https://www.echopen.com/ it’s from Paris and it has been incubated by the hospitals of Paris themselves, first as an open-source project.
Disclaimer: I was among the early contributors to the open-source project.
what the hell is wrong with specifically the 5th Circuit Court? they're in the news now too because the SC is fed up with their right leaning rules
I love that "we installed a working python environment for you" is a front-page value-add
> keep holding ourselves back

Not everyone works in ML.

> with poorly written legislation

This is a company policy, not legislation.

> designed to garner votes

Represent the will of the people?

> while rival companies take strides

Towards?

> in the technology at rapid rates

YouTube's "Trending" page isn't a research lab.

Even if it was, why would honesty slow it down?
Agree in principle with remote diagnostics in this way. But, the number of acute illnesses that can be diagnosed with US and can/should be treated at home is fairly small. Pneumonia cannot be detected by US unless it is up against the chest wall (or perhaps if it causes excess fluid in the pleural space). An otitis media diagnosis would not be possible with US. Appendicitis can be seen with US but it is very operator-dependent and asking parents to fish around for the appendix would be a big ask (even with some rather advanced AI assistance). You can certainly find enlarged lymph nodes but fingers are often just as good.
The number of waves and the granulation of waves isn't set in stone as such; there's a pretty decent broad view from afar regarding early human, and a great deal of finer detail still up for debate.

Reading through

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations

top to bottom will give a good enough first overview and an idea of where uncertainly lies and references to chase for further debate.

Eg: Currently there's some hot debate on whether parts of the "coastal migration" to Australasia took place over inland routes within South East Asia - that's a matter of old coast lines at the time, inland cave shelters with datable bones, and a sparse game of chronological joind the estimated dots in space and time - it gets technical.
SQL is syntactic sugar for relational algebra
What's the point of academia if not to publish?

Do you want to publicly fund researchers only for the industrial research partner's benefit?
And this isn't even limited to Biden. The Trump presidency enacted a variety of protectionist measures.
I think the real benefit for this is that probably that it establishes trust as the default, and acts as a discriminator for good-faith uses of "AI". If most non-malicious uses of ML are transparently disclosed, and that's normalized, then it should be easier to identify and focus on bad-faith uses.
Given how many SQL features are RDMS specific, I doubt the claim of being able to convert any SQL into PostgreSQL dialect.
Nvidia Unveils Successor to Its All-Conquering AI Processor
MO| BPF Development: Starting with Hello World
Honestly I bought freezer food bags recently and even they had a bloody app. Each one is stamped with a QR code and you can use the app to record what's in each one. Absolutely bizarre. I continue to use a Sharpie.
What would you recommend as an easy upgrade from the default DI?
Yeesh! It needs a toggle for a dark theme. Was not expecting so much blinding white.
It's the main reason I never liked .NET and I feel like a lot of .NET proponents suffer from Stockholm syndrome.
The argument that having few options would actually be a good thing is so absurd.
There is a distillery in Cambridge UK that makes a gin flavoured with formic acid from ants: https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/products/anty-gin

It's expensive, but the taste isn't really distinctive (unlike their truffle gin, which is very unusual).
By that rationale, all witness testimony and written evidence should already be inadmissible.

This website focuses too much on the technical with little regard for the social a bit too often. Though in general, videos being easily fakable is still scary.
I'd wager the majority inside the US knows that it's behind in many fields but don't know exactly which ones. We learn to disregard people speaking blanket praise but don't learn enough about other countries from our media and schooling to argue against them. From the outside then this looks like most of our population thinks we're the best in every respect, but on the inside there's a very large and growing sentiment of dissatisfaction and pessimism.
It is dose dependent. Use of low powered US for a short period is safe. If you increase power, you can cause damage - either to to break kidney stones as you say, or, when focussed properly, burn bits of the brain to treat tremors.
Vcswatch and Git –Filter
Is it really that hard to type the word "accessibility" that we need to come up with a silly shorthand version of it?
The only change needed is to let people default to no.

After all, Google and Facebook still show ads if a user doesn't consent right?

I bet they'd add that option in a heartbeat if people would leave them otherwise.

The scale of this kind of thing is ridiculous. Opening a basic news site and I'm asked to consent to my data being taken and used by 750 companies.
Because they didn't go to uni when hardware-software-codesign was being taught.
I knew someone named Siobahn, they started while I was away from the office and I never met them in person, had no clue how to say the name and said it phonetically when I first met them....
Get your virtual co-founder now!
Getting this working might be worth a trillion $ to AMD - they should be doing more than just waiting for a bootstrapped startup to debug their drivers for them.
>in the future we’ll look at enforcement measures for creators who consistently choose not to disclose this information.

Nothing of use here. As per the usual MO of tech companies they throw the responsibility back on the user. Sounds like yet another bullshit clause that they can invoke when they want to cancel you.
You have to remember that this only applies to cheap consumer GPUs, they tend to support their datacenter GPUs better. When you consider that Ryzen AI already eats the AI inference lunch, having better GPUs with better software only threatens to cannibalize their data center GPU offering. Given enough time nobody will care about using AMD GPUs for AI.
- "...and is promoted with public money despite its failures..."

The amusing thing for me* is this is just coffee budgets for pen-and-paper theorists. What they say about academic disputes: the lower the stakes, the more intense the politics.

*(Observing from a safe distance!)
I think where people will disagree is how much productivity those steps brought.

For instance I think the step from machine code to macro assembler is bigger than the step from a macro assembler to C (although still substantial), but the step from C to anything higher level is essentially negligible compared to the massive jump from machine code to a 'low level high level' language like C.
lowering the barrier to entry as to no overtax curiosity seems sensible in this crowd
Now commenting beyond my expertise, I understand both ecosystems have developed orthogonally, C#/Java assumes code to be higher level and "dumb" and optimization are in library/CLR/JVM. While C/C++ are developed with code at lower level and developer making sure code is optimized.

Now, I could be talking out of ass, haven't done enough C/C++ coding in over a decade.
> I wonder if this will make all forms of surveillance, video or otherwise, inadmissible in court in the near future.

No, it won't. Just as it does now, video evidence (like any other evidence that isn't testimony) will need to be supported by associated evidence (including, ultimately, testimony) as to its provenance.

> It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for a lawyer to make an argument for reasonable doubt,

“Beyond a reasonable doubt” is only the standard for criminal convictions, and even then is based on the totality of evidence tending support or refute guilt, its not a standard each individual piece of evidence must clear for admissibility.
DigiKam 8.3.0
The 1.58b approach is good for everyone including for quantization. It means that current quantization schemes have room for improvement.
Is a dual-screen portable monitor a good idea?
For a main-sequence star, yes.

For a neutron star, at ~12 -- 30 km diameter, light-speed timescales are on the order of 40--100 microseconds, which would be the lower bound on whole-star cataclysmic events.

(Time dilation might extend this somewhat, perhaps by a factor of two or so.)

For a white dwarf, ~10,000 km, lightspeed events would be about 30 milliseconds (~300 times longer than on the neutron star). That's about 1/10 of an eyeblink.
Each token is represented by a vector of 4096 floats. Of course there is redundancy.
> And this is why Mastodon will never become mainstream.

If mainstream means being exposed to targeted ads unfiltered AI spam, then the above is a feature, not a bug. You say this as if "becoming mainstream" is a compliment, with which I completely disagree.
Shows how flexible C# is.

You can trade high-level expressiveness for low-level control where needed and you don't have to deal with any FFI to do it.
Also first thing I see is this.

> Most websites, including this one, detect your IP address from which
we infer your possible ZIP code,

It choked because I don't run js and route through Tor

Site is a just another data harvesting scam with "privacy" in
the name to lure in suckers.
Pytorch has been supporting rocm for all last 2 years
Microsoft gonna Microsoft.

And people who have gone all-in on the Microsoft ecosystem are... a special bunch. I sat in on a meetup with some of them once and it soon became clear that I was in a room full of Morts on Microsoft's own Mort-Elvis-Einstein scale. The concept of using variables in PowerShell scripts seemed to mystify them. No surprise then that that sort of person would be terrified to use anything not blessed by the Holy See-Sharp in Redmond.

It's kind of a shame because open-source .NET is really kinda nice. No real C# language support in Emacs, though, and barely any in VS Code without going for the proprietary stuff.
As I've seen this point made in the past, it's that travelling at a constant 1g acceleration the subjective time for an astronaut would be about 45 years in traversing the observable Universe (~14 billion light years).

That is, a comfortable and familiar acceleration gives a human-lifetime-equivalent journey (subjective time).

If you're planning a round-trip, you'll find rather more time has transpired on what used to be Earth.

<https://www.universetoday.com/129086/far-can-travel/>
> They are as much of zombies as the apple fanboys are. It doesn't matter what the company do, they will buy it and lick it up like they were a cat licking cream from a platter.

My cat is much pickier about his cream than tech fanbois are about their stack choices.
Important note: Right-wing propaganda usually is built upon a small (sometimes tiny) piece of truth.

Examples?

January 6th was no bloodbath in the literal sense. There simply wasn't that much blood. It was a deeply undemocratic, treacherous act of insurrection, but compared to other events in history, the term "bloodbath" is indeed inaccurate.

Google definitely has a woke, left-wing bias: Case in point, their latest AI model generating the dark-skinned Wehrmacht soldiers. Does it mean the search results are biased, too, though? We simply won't know.

And of course, there is an anti-Trump bias in "the media" (which at this point means anything that's not pushing out non-stop right-wing propaganda). A well-deserved one at that.
It's in line with internationalization, shortened as 'I18n', while doing a cute play on world 'ally', not sure what the fuss is about.
>Nobody is going to repeat that bonehead move.

Maybe not that exact one, but curious humans continue to do boneheaded stuff.
Sadly people didn't see the sarcasm in this comment
It doesn't render quote-tweets correctly for some reason. The original tweet's text is replaced with the quoting one's.
I don't know if cross-platform applications are very popular anymore. Most of the good software I use is either single platform using native code, or it's Qt or it's electron. Only rare cases use something else.

Sublime has their own cross-platform native widget system

Jetbrains/minecraft use Java

Spotify is chromium, discord is chromium, thunderbird is firefoxium, Obsidian is chromium, steam is (probably?) chromium.

Most software that I know is cross-platform uses Qt otherwise; qbittorrent (duh), Transmission, KeepassXC, VLC (mostly, but also uses other GUI frameworks sometimes), Calibre, Krita, OBS
because they can learn from our movements