skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They won't, because federation doesn't actually solve any of the problems the average social media user has, while introducing its own, (sometimes very hard/impossible) problems.

The main driver behind current social media's shittiness is the user-hostile business model that means the incentives of the user and the platform are opposed.

Federation doesn't actually address any of this, and currently the federated social media world "runs" on effectively charity. "Runs" in quotes because we've already seen instance shutdowns which caused a fair bit of trouble. It only currently "runs" because the scale is small enough that it can indeed be sustained by charitable efforts, and hasn't devolved into a unusable spam-fest because it's too small to actually be worth spamming.

If your "solution" to social media shittiness is effectively turn it into something ran by charities, that's fine but you can achieve this much easier (and more efficiently) by just having one charity run one centralized service with an open API (since the business incentives around lock-in are no longer applicable).
First, paying child support is a moral obligation.

Second, DRS is stupid (it harms the enforcer of the policy, society, and the person who is not making payments). It removes the ability of the person who is supposed to pay child support from having money to make the payment. The article points out the potential economic fallout of DRS - and there is a connection to tech: Intel is building a huge facility that will employ many Ohioans there and will have a workforce constantly at risk of having their license suspended over unpaid medical bills. The only word that even begins to describe DRS is stupid.

Third, child support is only one reason someone may have a DRS. Any payment resulting from a judgment (even administrative) can result in a DRS -- so routine collections often result in suspensions. Child support is only one of many ways someone can find themselves with a suspended license.

DRS makes about as much sense as debtor's prisons.
It is imo even more cringe to be so overtly gushy about a corporation.
Algae grows ridiculously easily - If there was a market for this (likely one driven by mandates to eliminate methane), you could have thousands of tons of algae within months and millions of tons within years.
"Fixed-Function Matrix Accelerator" just doesn't have the same buzzy ring to it.
Moirai: A time series foundation model for universal forecasting
It looks like the answer is "it depends." Particularly, on how categories are compared.

There does seem to be a big gap with young people, but overall, the gap is four percentage points. The gap is also much bigger among LGB men vs LBG women which as an aside is interesting in and of itself.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/08/for-valen...
Me, I'm just waiting for the Great Bovine Rebellion of 2026.
I almost never print, but when I do I don't want to struggle with an inkjet printer that has dried up nozzles. A $140 Brother laser printer will pretty much work for the rest of your life.
Yes, I agree that theoretically it kind of makes sense, but I've gathered a lot of data over the years and the best predictor of quality that I've found is the wine maker. We've had it happen a number of times now that a wine that we really liked suddenly started tasting different, and it turned out that the wine maker had changed. So this is a confounding factor. I really like California reds, but mostly from Napa, Sonoma and Paso Robles. Is that because of the terroir? Or the climate? Or the varietals? Or because there's a community of wine makers that all copy each other? It's really hard to tease these apart.
No they’re pretty good but I don’t print much anymore. Dell laser printer is eight years old and still using original toner cartridge.
Wolfgang's optimization is very nice, I also found interesting his signal of a non-async function that returns a promise as an "atomic". I don't particularly like typed JS, so it would be less visible to me.

Absolutely agree on the observability of such things. One area I think shows some promise, though the tooling lags a bit, is in async context[0] flow analysis.

One area I have actually used it so far is in tracking down code that is starving the event loop with too much sync work, but I think some visualization/diagnostics around this data would be awesome.

If we view Promises/Futures as just ends of a string of a continued computation, whos resumption is gated by some piece of information, the points between where you can weave these ends together is where the async context tracking happens and lets you follow a whole "thread" of state machines that make up the flow.

Thinking of it this way, I think, also makes it more obvious how data between these flows is partitioned in a way that it can be manipulated without locking.

As for the node dev's lax attitude, I would probably be more agressive and say it's an overall lack of formal knowledge on how computing and data flow works. As an SE in DevOps a lot of my job is to make software work for people that don't know how computers, let alone platforms, work.

[0]: https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html
Conspiratorialism and the Epistemological Crisis
Direct URL to the new fork's website: https://redict.io
False. As soon as a medical debtor has a judgment against them, they can be subject to DRS.
Tensor is from mathematics and was popularized over a century ago.
The Meta Quest 2 and its accessories are cheaper than ever
Those old hammer printers were loud. Commercial printers were often housed in cases with sound-deadening materials, even though they usually occupied a room dedicated to computers (with the offices having terminals). Workers in smaller offices and personal computer users often had to put up with the relatively loud high-pitched drone of dot-matrix printers, though some would get enclosures to deaden the sound.

Even if open offices somehow manage to be louder, it is an entirely different quality of noise.
Yup. I was on the laser printer is the best printer train until I actually had to buy a printer for my home (until then I was printing from the college lab or office). I quickly realized that a laser printer made no sense for the reasons you outlined.
CSV is so simple that if someone forgets to send you escaped CSV, you can and should simply smack them with a shoe.
The Dust of God
A way to handle this pragmatically is give board advisory shares to a person who straddles the following abilities (and listen to them), until you have enough funds to hire a sec eng:

- is technical enough to know what needs to get done and why

- has enough startup sec experience to know what pragmatic advice is in light of tight funding for startups

If you’re YC-backed this should be easy to source.

Why this thread matters and I’ll close it is dev-speak (“awesome, delightful, obsessed”) doesn’t matter at all for selling to a sec team, which is who is going to pay and vet this. That language just tells me it’s going to be a slog through VC sales-speak to answer the concerns I listed. It’s all about the above I mentioned, plus the tech setup which I think you have done with the right mindset (just plug into everything, parse it, ship it to the usual sources. Don’t try to reinvent Jira or Slack please).

The other reason you have to think about this is what market SOARs sell into. They aren’t needed until a lot of other due diligence is done - EDR deployments, enterprise sec, email sec, etc etc. So, that’s a decently established company, and if they’re paying for SOAR, it means they are either the lucky program with healthy budget support, or have a threat environment just justifying it all. A lot of places just get a bad MSSP and call it a day. So, if you are a company justifying SOAR (bc of implied budget and program maturity), you deal with threat actors who know their stuff well enough. And, as a fair number of exploits indicate this part 2-3 years, they know to evaluate SaaS vendors as the way in. Looking at the stack, they could try Okta, CrowdStike, MSFT, GSuite and all the difficulty there… or the two data engineers and their startup. Gotta take it seriously, a lot of sec is abstract risk but this is happening in the wild now.
> pursue normal collection methods designed to collect n dollars

There is no such thing, at least not one that can effectively recoup any money. To a first approximation, unsecured debts are never collected in the US. Collectors purchase debt for pennies on the dollar because only 1-5% by value of such debts are ever paid.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-c...

Turning over child support debt to the private unsecured debt collection industry means that children won’t be supported.

Debt collection is an entirely different matter when the creditor has something to hold over the debtor’s head, which is what is happening here and it’s a good thing. Child support payments are determined in large part by ability to pay. The state absolutely should use the leverage at its disposal to ensure children are provided for.
Deficits, Inflation, and Conflict
Thanks for the background! I still don’t think it’s appropriate to call a batch of matrices a tensor.
It's a staple of coastal people's diets the world over. There's half an aisle of it at the local Seattle-area groceries.

Also, I don't think algae and seaweed is the same thing?
Do they have any IP they could sell to a company like GM that is struggling to hit production/quality goals? Or is Fiskar a scam?
Curious if you’re both right. Could it be because of the orgs involved? Which teams are using it? What products?
Sigh...learning about TPUs a decade ago made me invest heavily in $GOOG for the coming AI revolution...got that one 100% wrong. +400% over 10 years isn't bad but I can't help but feel shortchanged seeing nvidia/etc
Archimedean Dynasty
Are there unicode characters specifically for delimiters?

If Excel had a standardised "Save as USV" option it would solve so many issues for me.

I get so many broken CSVs from third-parties
What's really fun is when you use a custom time protocol over TLS, but the host's clock is so far gone that the TLS cert is not valid. D'oh!
> It could be as simple as patching some adipose stem cells with a bit of extra code, onto the ends of our tech.

Is that simple? Genuinely curious, do you have any links to research about this? That sounds very not-simple to me but I don't actually know anything about this field.
https://silodrome.com/columbia-military-pneumatic-safety-bic...

For when you need to deliver a really, really important message.
They were already donated to the University of Colorado Boulder

https://archives.colorado.edu/repositories/2/resources/1887
Discussed a couple of weeks ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39640190
It’s less IQ and more that they’re neither the ones writing the rules nor are they empowered to fix the situation.
I know what a tensor is mathematically. However, as far as I can see, ML isn’t based on tensor calculus as such.
You'd hate particle physics then. "Spin" and "action" and so on are terrible names, but scientists live with them, because convention.

Convention dominates most of what we do. I'm not sure there's a good way around this. Most conventions suck, but they were established back before there was a clear idea of what the best long-term convention should be.
No kids I assume?
Who do you think writes the regulations in the US? The lobbyists. They are written mostly with the intent of creating regulatory capture and making life difficult for smaller players.
An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow disease through Dutch bulb fields
This is first in the series of articles where I document my learnings on the history & state of IoT.
Sanada Hiroyuki? That's just brilliant! I knew he was fairly well-accomplished (singer, martial artist, theatre, and film), but had no idea that he was an amateur historian too.
It's a lot more like... abstractions and associations become more malleable. This can inform perception even if you don't visualize, which can parse as visual distortions even in your "actual" vision, but might not. I think probably the biggest difference is going to be whether you experience "closed-eye visuals", which a lot of people report being pretty interesting on adequate doses of psychadelics, but they're far from the only interesting way in which that sort of altered state can manifest
Seems archive.is is down right now :(

Much appreciated though
WeWork 2: Electric Boogaloo
Genewars
If only a totally separate data field separator character had been invented early on and been given its own key on the keyboard, coloured: "only use for field delimiting". You know as well as I do that it would have been co-opted into another rôle within weeks, probably as a currency indicator.

You should probably use PSV - Point Separated Variable! Obviously we would need to adjust PSV to account for correct French word order (and actually use French correctly). Britain and USA would use something called PVS2 instead as a data interchange format with France which involves variable @@@ symbols as delimiters, unless it is a Friday which is undefined. The rest of the world would roll its eyes and use PSV with varying success. A few years later France would announce VSP on the back page of Le Monde, enshrine its use in law (in Aquitaine, during the fifteenth century) but not actually release the standard for fifteen years.

The world is odd. We have to work within an odd world.

Interestingly enough, you and I could look at a CSV encoded data set with commas as decimal separators and work out what is going on. You'll need a better parser!
The flavor dimensions I can distinguish are:

1. Acid

2. Sugar

3. Tanins (in reds)

4. Malo-lactic acid (the buttery flavor in some chardonnays)

5. Oak

6. An aroma that I call "barnyard" that is present in many old-world wines. I think this is what others refer to as "earthy". Some people seem to like it but I find it very disagreeable.

7. Everything else. Many of my favorite wines have a certain je-ne-sais-quois that I can recognize but not quite put my finger on.

I like low acid, tannic, oaky, and just the tiniest hint of residual sugar. I think this is what most people call "jammy".
just because an image is 2-D doesn’t mean that the model can’t use higher dimensional representations in subsequent layers.

For an image, you could imagine a network learning to push the image through a filter bank that does oriented local frequency decomposition and turns it into 4D {height}x{width}x{spatial freq}X{orientation} before dealing with color channels or image batches
A problem is that we can't measure how efficient a computing architecture really is, we can only compare them, and not to a hypothetical machine yet to be devised.

When AWS can run their datacenter operations 20x more efficiently, which sounds "reasonable to me", they obviously will. Are you criticizing their customers? Or their customers' customers, the ones who like autocomplete? Literally the computer engineers, by whose work these applications have been enabled?

I think this is why you were perceived as calling for central planning. Ironically because you took aim at every level but the investors.

Growth is aggressive because of the huge investment in the sector currently. Literally because investors want a return. For better or worse there is nobody in the chain who interprets "worthwhile?" in the same sense, and the applications are not essentially relevant to the people in command.
If you soak the entire sheet, I don't think you can be certain how much active product a single blotter absorbed
I don't know many humans that have actually moved to it, but I know there's a tonne of influencers that have.

Instagram shows a snippet of sensationalist posts from X within the app. You used to be able to open the post and see it in the browser, now you must download the app.
For whatever reason, I have held a mental image of a Tensor as a Tesseract/HyperCube where the connections are like the Elastic workout bands where they have differing tensile resistances, and they pull on one another to create their encapsulated info-cluster - but I have no clue if thats truly an accurate depiction, but it works in my head....

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Or...
No, it's not an insult. I live in North Dakota and it would be extremely difficult to get around on a bicycle for half the year.

I could move close enough to my job that walking or biking, even throughout most of the winter, would be ok. Going to the nearest grocery store would be fine for half the year or so. Going most anywhere else around town, I'd have to rely on our crappy bus service.
The other option is to file a small claims lawsuit if it's a small enough value in your municipality (some areas do allow claims to $10k, some even a little more). Or just have a lawyer send a legal threat with documentation.
It's not a property of the company. It's a property of the funding mechanism. Anything getting its funds from VC or hedge-funds will eventually succumb to this - it's the capital speaking.
To add a different, independent study for more context on the same topic, Pew Research Center ran a survey conducted in 2022 and reported in 2023 about online dating in the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findi...

In contrast to Rosenfeld et al.'s research, Pew reported that 53% of people aged 18–29 "have ever used a dating site or app," but only 20% of partnered people aged 18–29 met their current partner "on a dating site or app," though this statistic does not include "those who did not give an answer."
Another atheist with a deep appreciation and love for churches/cathedrals/etc checking in. I have wanted to visit Sagrada Familia for a long time.
You don't even need to file a lawsuit, a legal demand letter written by an attorney is cheap, they can attach the documentation and send it to Meta's legal. That will probably get their attention to get someone to clobber heads.
I have pre-ordered this book:
Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)
https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-f...
> Well, export or domestic, the "no food" part still stands.

More & more I tend to regard Dutch farmland as a factory: one that happens to 'manufacture' agricultural products (mostly grass & maize to feed cows), using land as part of the machinery.

The "feed own population" is 2nd tier consideration. And as an industry, it uses a big % of the surface area in our densely populated country, while adding relatively little to our economy (~2% or so, iirc).

Now if land were plentiful that wouldn't be a (big) problem. But with agriculture taking the space of almost non-existant 'nature', all the environmental problems resulting from its intensity, animal welfare issues etc, this is a problem.

Dutch population is a bit 50/50 on this I'd say. Much sympathy for farmers but yes the problems are real. But farmers have a strong lobby here so probably not much will change. More automation, faster-growing crops, bigger farms, lower prices for what's produced, middlemen (like supermarket chains) squeeze them like crazy while raking in profits for their owners or shareholders.

Not a great time to be a farmer in the NL.

Edit: the high-tech agri & research stuff (as described in article), that is good stuff though.
Introverted is likely the real problem. You have to be able to comfortably talk to a complete stranger in sometimes pretty uncomfortable circumstances. There are tons of people out there for whom a low sex drive isn't an issue.
+400% over 10 years isn't bad.
Yeah I meant hardware switch. I know there’s software controls. I am saying if I could build mu own phone then it would have hardware level switch off.
Bet you don't live on Long Island.

We eat bicyclists for breakfast. The most dangerous roads in the US for bikes, are on Long Island.

Cycling to work, hereabouts, is worth your life. A lot of undocumented workers do that (can't get licenses), and they get hit, fairly often. I'm starting to see a lot of electric scooters.

But I really wish it weren't so. I moved here from the DC suburbs (MD), where they had really good support for bicyclists.
Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave (he’s buried at the Pasteur Institute)
>One reasonable guess is that the third dimension is time. Actually not. It turns out that time is pretty rare in ML, and it's only (relatively) recently that it's been introduced into e.g. video models.

WRT to ML - may time be better thought of where a thing lives in relation to other things that occurred within the same temporal window?

so "all the shit that happened in 1999 also has an expression within this cluster of events from 1999" - but the same information appears in any location where it is relationally contextual to the other neighbors, such as the SUBJECT of the information? Is this accurate to say why its 'quantum' because the information will show up depending on where the Observation (query) for it is occurring?

(sorry for my kindergarten understanding of this)
April's total solar eclipse promises to be the best yet for experiments
Waste of time imo if you use a framework like fastapi which generates the spec for you
Is the alternative "child support is now paid entirely on-time as a result of working"? (It seems not, as there is a judgment in place to show otherwise.)

The more likely alternative seems to be "Too poor or bad with money management to pay your child support? Just don't pay it and there are no consequences that puts money towards the support of your child."
Something similar happens on Wikipedia, where topics that use math inevitably get explained in the highest level math possible. It makes topics harder to understand than they need to be.
Playback Theatre
Reminds me of the "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" series.

It has some interesting insights.

https://aosabook.org/en/
These success of these avian flus are a direct result of mega factory farms ("concentrated animal feeding operations", or CAFOs) [0]. These massive operations are actually a relatively new thing since the 1990's [1].

We need to stop concentrating large numbers of animals at single sites.

[0] https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/vbz.2006.6.338
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/31/us-dairy...
Noted. There's a way, however, of voicing your opinions without using foul language. Thanks for your feedback
Even if almost no one disables Javascript because the web is unfortunately hardly usable without it, it show that absolutely no fucks are given.

There is no reason for Javascript to be required on that page, it is static and should be nothing more than a simple HTML file with a few images, the font and a style sheet. It is slow on a decent desktop PC with a fiber connection, I can't imagine on an old smartphone. Recently featured on HN: https://danluu.com/slow-device/

But maybe we shouldn't blame the author too much, she is using Squarespace, that's the kind of service people use when they don't want to deal with these technical details. But Squarespace should know better and be ashamed of delivering such crap to their customers.
Well, in the transformer forward pass there are a bunch of 4-dimensional arrays being used.
Industrial farming has largely destroyed the effectiveness of our old antibiotics, and every new one that is developed, they get their hands on and start destroying the effectiveness of them, too. It's already biting us.
I don't think anybody in 2014 believed that the performance of GPT-4/Claude Opus/... was 10 years away. 25 years maybe, 50 years probably, but not 10.
Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and ... hackers? see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797608
So it's like me beating some platinum rated player in an FPS match (me being gold rated), which I wouldn't expect to happen consistently?
Y Combinator Is Raising Billions in New Funding
If I had to explain the bar-and-restaurant figure, I would guess that all the methods that are growing (the bar scene and then Internet dating scene) privilege physical attraction over other factors.