skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That paragraph twists the harm around though. NYT goes out of its way to highlight Gemini depicting PoC as Nazis, while omitting that it almost entirely refused to depict white people and/or males in any positive context.

Gemini was way worse in its treatment of those groups, and above all, it was disastrous in its lack of respect for truth and accuracy. That latter part is where the true harm lies IMO.
Yes, thank you.
I'm not Mao.
People should choose to have either no children
Or ideally one or two children
And not no children.

Ideally, we as a society should support people who choose to have one or two children,
prioritizing these families over people who have half a dozen or more children.
But that's because in my opinion people who have dozens of children have something wrong in their heads.
If you choose to have a dozen children, you better be able to afford to raise them all on your own dime.

That being said, I really dislike means testing of any kind so I'd be ok with a social safety net for the wackos and their unfortunate children.
Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?
Remote Job Roadmap
I wrote this a year ago, and it's one of the famous write-ups with millions of views now on the Internet. I didn't know Hacker News back then, so I thought of sharing now.

If you want to check it - Just google it "Remote Job Roadmap." It's FREE.
Shared append only, very slow database. It’s a very specific setup but maybe there’s some scenario for it.
Fine on Firefox, Intel GPU, Linux. about:performance shows it at 27MB and 14% CPU usage at peak.
Most major developing countries in Asia have p2p instant payments and bank accounts for free or with minimum balance requirement.

UPI (Indian market) launched cross border support with a couple countries starting this year. 118 billion transactions happen via UPI annually.

I do think there is some niche market where ethereum payments will shine but hard to beat free and instant systems already in place at far bigger scale.
If the employees feel that way, there's nothing stopping them from seeking other employment.
I'll rephrase a bit for the HN crowd: "The Ethereum currency (Ether) value proposition is that it is used to pay for decentralized apps on the Ethereum Blockchain. The more application and users are there, the more Ether is needed and hence it's value goes up". At least that's how I understand it.

OPs point is that most cryptocurrency advocates go for "but my token and hold, it is sure to grow 10x in a few months" and I (like probably OP) consider it misleading baseless hope at best, fraud usually.
Oh that's funny. The repo owner immediately locked the thread after posting incorrect bullshit about what "Open Source" means.

They have their own definition of it apparently, and it just so happens to mean what is convenient to their purposes. Amazing co-incidence! (yes, that's sarcasm)
> that you need 80GB of GPU memory to analyze less than 1 megabyte of data

80GB is compressed all human knowledge applied on that 1mb..
> noncompliance (and nonconformance, which is similar but not identical)

Anyone who can explain the difference?
More windmills
Why not a Markov chain generator?
> Funding by VC and funding by corps sponsors are 2 very different things

Ok, if you find corp which will give you funding for your project without any expectations, then it is a win. But I am not sure how often this happens.
To me it is an absurd comparison.

Someone stealing a billion dollars is committing a far worse crime than someone that murders me.

The problem I have with this is imagine what a statistical poll would be if you posed the question "would you spend 20 years in jail for 1 billion?"

There is a good percentage that absolutely would sign up for that, obviously a much different result than "would you spend life in prison to get a billion dollars".
Hello. Agreed that we need comprehensive privacy reform.

You should probably read the article, though. (-;

I have access to everything (on the tech side) at Matter, and if you put your social security number into the app, I wouldn't be able to access it to write it on a sticky note. That's the whole point.

PS I'm also old and jaded. (-;
You brought up something very interesting that I wish more people emphasized when discussing PARC. Alan Kay and his colleagues were not indifferent to business, far from it. In fact, they actively tried to get Xerox to commercialize their technologies. Many of them got frustrated and either joined other companies (Alan Kay went to Atari before going to Apple, Larry Tesler joined Apple before Alan Kay did, Charles Simonyi went to Microsoft and took Bravo with him, which helped lead to Microsoft Word) or started their own (Adele Goldberg started PARCPlace to commercialize Smalltalk).
Thanks for the explanation.

Since unicode has well over 64000 symbols, does that imply models, trained on a large corpus, must necessarily have at least 64000 ‘branches’ at the bottom layer?
Uh, I don't really think there is one. You have to read multiple. It just makes me laugh that NPR could complain about this when they are just absolutely the worst in their own way.
There was at least one talk where he clearly speculated that, spirituality aside, he thinks DNA plays a role in long term memory formation just because that's physiologically the only place memories could persist. Unfortunately the only record of this I knew about has been deleted from youtube.
> That's a good way to put it. In contrast, the right leaning mood would be to strengthen social cohesion, increase support that people have from families, neighbors, and so on, and decrease the impersonal, systemic "services" provided by some bureaucracy.

In the American right all of those things are often promoted with heavy doses of religion; IMO this is the core crisis of American politics on the right: how to promote fixing those things through non-governmental, pro-Evangelical religious measures while also preserving the freedom to not embrace that religion? Or even to follow the religion but choose a less fanatical strain?
> it's clear there's not a serious obstacle

However, building grid-level storage is a serious obstacle

> It's just a "nothing can be done for the first time" argument.

No. The "it's easy, just build a lot of storage" argument is magical thinking.
There's not many years difference between "late 20s" and 32. 3 years, if we set our benchmark at 29. As someone in their early 30s themself, do I consider myself much more mature or experienced than I was a few years ago? Not really; my life is in a better place, but that's because of factors that are kind of orthogonal to maturity.
Most people don't know what an auto injector is. Everybody knows what an EpiPen is though.
Hey, no need to cast aspersions on the infosec practices of Belorussian hackers, I bet they store their stolen credentials in an encrypted SQLite database as per industry best practice.
In my company ELT tries hard to move work to offshore site because it’s cheaper. In crossoffice team of ~40 people all promos were done in offshore site. This way they hope people in expensive site will quit.
> What happens when Matter gets acquired

That's a major point that's addressed in the blog post, did you read it?
> (e.g. restricting divorce)

I am so confused by the right. Aren't they usually in favor of things promoting freedoms, like freedom of association?
> FedNow is going to allow 24/7 real-time transactions.

Following in the steps of what EU and UK did few years ago. (1)

And which always made this cryptocurrency fast settlement stuff sound laughable - like they're describing just what a regular bank account does, and it's supposedly their special magic, so what?

People need to look outside of the USA to understand the state of the art.

You can even find these systems in Africa already (2)

1)
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/integration/retail/instant_pa...

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

2) https://www.mfw4a.org/news/instant-payment-transactions-afri...
Where can I read more about quality inertia , find other case studies, etc?
It's meant to compete with nvidia's DGX systems with 8 GPUs per node.
TLS handshake actually makes sense for average programmers who understand basic cryptography.

Ethereums problem is that it is a badly designed clusterfuck. The newer blockchains will likely take over.
You're being too generous. Boeing actively retaliated against people raising safety concerns. That's not the action of people who didn't know any better.
:*(

> Plugin compatibility between NN and N++ is not possible.

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/issues/422

Shame, since N++'s plugin ecosystem holds quite the treasure trove of functionality.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/blob/mast...
Congratulations. Is this similar to Trino/Starburst, Drill?
They understand saying no to remote work would mean a lot of people will start looking for new jobs. Playing with employees emotions attached with promotions to induce them rolling the dice by coming to office....Working from office also doesn't mean you would get promotion... Your skills and experience are what get you ahead truly, rest are a mirage which break with mass firings to save costs....
Stocks are not completely nondeterministic games of chance, which is why most people who hold properly diversified stock portfolios have seen long-term growth instead of loss. That's probably why people don't call it gambling.
I know some might chafe at me recommending a Youtube video about reading, but I came across this one a few years ago, and it's an interesting exploration of modern bookstores and the dynamics of reading as a pursuit in the age of social media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIW5jBrrsS0
Look at the area. 8261 km2 of land while NYC is 300.

We call both "city" but we might as well use 2 totally unrelated words given the differences.

As the other commenter said, NYC metropolitan area would be more comparable - 8936 km2, 19.5M people.
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The funny thing is that I see complaints most about individualism from the left. It might be something more obvious on a non-monoaxis model.
> It makes the culture warriors happy but it will only make things worse.

Needs an argument. One of our political problems at the moment is we can't accurately assess how people will respond to new hypothetical, we can't grade personalities by effectiveness because people keep changing their minds and we can't run controlled experiments where a single personality is put in charge of multiple different things at once.

It'd be awesome to have a biased chatbot that we could actually trial and see how it works on political topics. We'll eventually be able to build GovernBot 9000 that has a multi-century history of opinions that don't screw a country up. Being able to version and replicate personalities, even extreme ones, might be a huge positive. The great classical liberals of yesteryear that are responsible for so much of our culture were not moderates.
if you enjoy learning from video, finematics is a great resource: https://www.youtube.com/@Finematics/videos
A Pivot to China Saved Elon Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing
From what I’ve read, it’s not exactly clear that Madoff had a plan, it seems more like he lied to a few people about being able to make them a lot of money, and that snowballed into him taking a lot of “investments” that he didn’t know what to do with.

From what I’ve seen about SBF, it does seem like he has a very high risk tolerance, was betting big to win big, and thinking the reward was worth the risk.
It's more a story than a game isn't it?
I deposited some money with FTX and expected them not to steal it in the same way you expect a bank not to steal your deposits. I didn't gift to them or expect anything too good to be true. If a bank manager steals customer deposits to pay his gambling debts I put the blame 100% on the manager 0% on the customers.
Baltimore

Bridge

Battlestar Galactica
Let's be clear, "you are holding it wrong" was an ass-covering lie to carry Apple through an era of bad press for a device that was otherwise monumental, and when you look back at iPhone adoption history. 4 was the inflection point of growth that never stopped. 3, 3G, and 3GS were all fine, but 4 is when iPhone took over the world.

It was bold-faced, it was arrogant, it wasn't true, but it let them fix the issues and never look back.

The product was otherwise good save a frustrating flaw that was easy to fix, but probably wouldn't have ushered in the era of dominance if they had to do a total recall.

Would I have been happy if I was an iPhone user at the time? No, I would've been livid.
Agreed. But the game being played here is the inverse: assume someone hacked the Gibson, what effects do we see?
Could you write it for me as a one-liner? I’d like to learn more Perl and this would help.
People love shitting on NFTs, but there's still a really good art scene based on NFTs and smart contracts. And once you have digital objects that you actually care about, all the web3 infrastructure is surprisingly useful.
Finally! Every you are so I go online and look up if someone did it, and finally I won't have use vscode
You want US backing but not the military aid?

Israel without US backing seems a perilous place for Israel to go, and if accepting the aid keeps the alliance alive, surely that’s in Israel’s interest?

Thanks for the explanations - I haven’t come across these viewpoints before.
Looks pretty nice, but I do have two things that would be great to see: Being able to open an itinerary in a new tab, and being able to click off the pop-up to go back to the itinerary list.
These numbers truely are large. the best visualization I've seen for that is https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Notepad++ works well for me in wine.
That's so ironically sad coming from Jobs seeing where Apple got now (partly due to the direction he set).
I don't fully understand it, but the I5 Corridor in Washington hosts an exceptional number of used bookstores.

It seems like every tiny town has a decent one.

My favorite is Easton's Books in Mt. Vernon, WA. Massive selection of paperbacks, as well as great collectible books as well.
>They do say that reality has a left leaning bias

I am not even sure how to interpret that. In the US, at least, politically people leaning left and leaning right are about even. I would definitely say that during my time in academia it appeared to me that more were left-leaning than people I knew in my non-academic life (ie. work, etc.) The fact that they have to spend so much time "re-aligning" these models seems to indicate that maybe the general public does not have a left-leaning bias at all.
Probiotics in kombucha found to mimic fasting and reduce fat stores
> In contrast, the right leaning mood would be to strengthen social cohesion

Huh. Not the impression I get from what I see around me, not at all. What I see (from my bubble) is forced conformity and a systematic destruction of every form of support structure. Although, notably absent from my bubbles are religious support structures, so.
Counter-strike had a market for collectibles well before?
imo this is less of a technical issue and more of a regulatory one in 2024. Sending and receiving large amounts of btc/eth for instance might take a minute. For lower value point of sale transactions you don't really have to wait. And that's money in your pocket at that point not an IOU like a pending transaction at a US bank. Paying capital gains on transactions and constantly changing value dampens adoption quite a bit though
And you are probably aware that Saddam was alive and had just been deposed at that time. It wasn't the past, nor was it an artifact. It wasn't in a museum or a library's special collection. And the Marines didn't destroy it (though the Iraqis appear to have).
I used to do a semi-regular Saturday trip into Harvard Square to shop for books, music, and other things. Really just no need or interest to do that anymore. I don't need more stuff generally, don't buy physical music media for the most part, and while I may grab the occasional used book, I have a pretty large backlog and can have something on my Kindle in a minute. Mostly don't have a need or interest to browse in stores.
From TFA, it seems that it was someone else (still alive) who said that.
I am on JVM world since 1996.

Spring supports anything that can bring them support contracts.

Kotlin, popular outside Android?

Reality check over here,

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023
a good explainer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT9PHWloIiU
Highly unlikely after spending most of his adult life in federal prison.
Thats interesting and all, but your comment implied that it had something to do with the SCL lab fire so I was hoping for sources about that.
SpaceX Gen2 MSS Application Dismissed as Unacceptable for Filing
Ahh maps, where the borders and even the names of disputed regions are different depending on the legal whims of various totalitarian regimes.

Then of course, there's the countries wher accurately represented geographic features are verboten.
Follow up issue, as the repo owner is operating in bad faith:

https://github.com/caprover/caprover/issues/2036
The real fix is popularizing the notion that management is just as commoditizatable than those they seek to commoditize.

What's described here is exactly what happens when you have "generic" management. Generic management finds unneeded expenses and eliminates them. The only way a senior expert isn't a cost to be eliminated is if you have managers focused on and understanding the enterprise they are managing (and no promises with that, however).
She pled guilty and will be sentenced at some point.
This is an all-time HN comment
"So what's your point, we should glorify some sick mind who thought it was a good idea to take and use human remains to decorate his library?"

Impugning the motives of people you disagree with is a personal attack, and it's unacceptable behavior.
I sympathize a lot with the headline statement; it boggles my mind on a lot of the data residency/integrity/confidentiality measures taken around massive data silos (as well as the infra teams companies bring to bear to manage, scale and then inevitably publish gospel articles on the web about) when companies could just opt… NOT to collect that data? I really like the model of “It stays on your device, we never see it. At most we get bare-minimum location statistics.” Although I question the assertion that their metrics system won’t be turned against them; seems obvious that anything programmed can be reprogrammed or updated, especially in the modern update-focused age. I don’t think they addressed that beyond a general statement that they took pains to assure that their users won’t ever be spied on. Would be interested in a technical article on that.

Side note, we at Sentinel Devices are taking exactly this “we don’t hold your data” approach for industrial machinery. Think automated AI pipelines that are air-gapped. And we’re hiring! If you’re interested, reach out to hello@sentineldevices.com
I like the theory that RTO is driven for sake of the commercial real estate value. Sure enough: https://therealdeal.com/magazine/national-april-2023/dell-di...
The answer is... I don't know. But I can take an educated guess. The volume and margins calculations are likely different for Porsche
and VW (lower volume, higher margins for Porsche). This might affect their projected spend/gain balances.

They might also have _other_ projects in the pipeline that they would rather spend the resources on . Lose some income from existing lines but make it up with the others kind of deals.

And the third possible alternative is they got caught with their pants down. They might not have taken this UNECE thing seriously and not made contingency plans and simply... Not have enough time to execute before they are not able to sell any more cars of that kind untill they fix it.

If it's _that_ important for you, I can ask around at friends in the industry and let you know what I find out what is going on there. You can drop me an email at my contact I have in the profile.
It means being able to make travel itineraries public / shareable for other people to use for their own.
I've been fascinated by a small mention in the 1.58bit quantization article that mentioned 0.68 quantization , which I believe to mean 0,1 instead of 1.58's -1,0,1. When I read https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bpa6ol/unoffic... great experiment of making their own unofficial 1.58b quantization, I began to wonder if I could squeeze a vector down to 1 bit. And.. I can! (with some caveats in the discussion)

It was when I realized that XNOR and population count could basically score 32 dimensions at a time.

While this isn't ANYTHING like an actual quantized LLM, I thought it was a really nice proof-of-concept, and could be very useful for smaller machines running RAG applications.

My Code: https://github.com/bigattichouse/bitvector_research

My Write Up: https://bigattichouse.medium.com/dreamcoat-cosine-similarity...

NOTE: I'm not saying 30X faster than GPUs, but CPU implementations could be 30X faster. Good enough for little machines like Arduino at least.
Very cool! It reminds me of Microsoft Prose[1]. I guess they were way ahead of their time on that one.

[1]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/prose/
It adds no-hassle returns.
"Bitcoin but its anonymous" does not make Monero a real currency.

I guess it helps that its value is relatively stable.

But I still can't realistically use it. I can't walk in a store, buy something, then pay with Monero which is obviously disqualifying on it's own. But in addition to that, if I want to give a friend some Monero I would have to walk them through making a new account with some new app which they won't do because it's pointless anyways.
It's not like we know or will ever know the details of and the extend of the investigation, the note was actually reported as a "white piece of paper that closely resembled a note,", what was on the note? Were his fingerprints on the note? Was handwriting analysis done? Did the gun belong to him? That wasn't reported either. Was it registered to him/ when/where did he buy it? Was there gunpowder residue on his hand? Does the trajectory and blood splatter analysis all match? Was there surveillance footage of the car? What was his last cellphone usage?

Part of the reason why people jump to conclusions is because of a distinct lack of rationalist reporting by police and media. They don't tell us the empirical evidence because we are supposed to just believe them, and trust in their competent investigation, but that doesn't really work, at least not everyone is going to be satisfied by that demand.

That's not to say it wasn't a suicide, it just means we don't know either way and will likely never know. But it crucially also doesn't mean sufficient evidence couldn't be presented to convince a reasonable observer.