skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but a bit too simple I think.

In the article the Dutch disease is mentioned. It has three effects:

1. It makes the other exports less competitive (why bother with abundant resources?)

2. Imports financed by natural resources revenues increase, appreciating the currency (a double whammy for exports)

3. This causes a shift away from manufacture and similar industries rendering the economy more dependent on natural resources

I also think natural resources can be grabbed by individuals more easily than the skilfulness of a people leading to higher income inequality.
Receiving stocks in the UK means paying a lot of tax that you have to pay immediately (45% of the fair value) on an asset that is an illiquid investment. It is a bad idea and you're much better off getting stock options, so that you only pay tax when you exercise, and you would only exercise when you can sell, so you have money to pay the tax.

Then the whole point of working for a startup is that you can have larger upside than in a more established firm, often 4x.

Finally even in established firms it is common for high compensation to be paid out in shares/stock options (be it in the company itself or a fund) and/or deferred, which is not any different anyway, except the value is a bit more battle-tested.
Glad I downloaded it today, knew it wouldn't last.
Regarding the refrigerator mother theory, autism as a diagnosis has expanded over 100x since that was first debunked and I have no idea why people have any confidence whatsoever that bad parenting cannot cause Autism. This was from a time before people as functional as "Rain Man" were the norm. Twin/Sibling studies were used to debunk this but twin studies don't totally control for shared environmental influences.

It seems more like a politically controversial thing than something which has been seriously scientifically examined either way. It can't be the smoking gun only cause but I see no actual evidence that it's impossible that parental neglect can't be a contributing cause. I will note that it is more politically convenient to simply blame a child's inherent defects instead of parental neglect, since the children relative to their parents lack political power.

I'll also point out that contemporary autism diagnosis relies on parent reports to establish a diagnosis, and people often only get diagnosed if a parent actively seeks out a diagnosis. Autism is also based on observation, if somebody was socially impaired due to neglect, how exactly would an examiner know the difference between that and somebody being socailly impaired due to say epigenetics? I would be rather surprised if who raised somebody doesn't have a rather large impact on if somebody will end up with an autism diagnosis. As in an especially well resourced and attentive parent might mean somebody who would be considered autistic might not be, and somebody who was overstretched and inattentive might have a child who would otherwise not be considered autistic be considered autistic.
I wish Neeva still existed.
"We are in the FAFO phase of escalation control, my friend."
- Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk)

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/17795628109236883...
A week later, but I have also found the interesting new DAW zrythm using GTK4:

https://www.zrythm.org/en/index.html
The woodckucks' guide says:

> “The splint treats snoring and sleep apnea by moving the lower jaw forward slightly, which tightens the soft tissue and muscles of the upper airway to prevent obstruction of the airway during sleep.”

And there are some references to snoring among the links at the end of the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular_advancement_splint
Not sure if you mean it as rhetorical question but I think it's an interesting question. I think there are at least three factors why most people are confused about Transformers:

1. The standard terminology is "meh" at most. The word "attention" itself is just barely intuitive, "self-attention" is worse, and don't get me started about "key" and "value".

2. The key papers (Attention is All You Need, the BERT paper, etc.) are badly written. This is probably an unpopular opinion. But note that I'm not diminishing their merits. It's perfectly compatible to write a hugely impactful, transformative paper describing an amazing breakthrough, but just don't explain it very well. And that's exactly what happened, IMO.

3. The way in which these architectures were discovered was largely by throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticked. There is no reflection process that ended on a prediction that such an architecture would work well, which was then empirically verified. It's empirical all the way through. This means that we don't have a full understanding of why it works so well, all explanations are post hoc rationalizations (in fact, lately there is some work implying that other architectures may work equally well if tweaked enough). It's hard to explain something that you don't even fully understand.

Everyone who is trying to explain transformers has to overcome these three disadvantages... so most explanations are confusing.
You know there are people who live in Glasgow that frequent these forums that tire of these stereotyped attitudes to their city.

I lived in Glasgow for >20 years and I never saw anyone as "strung out" as the people I saw wondering around Market St in San Francisco.
bytefield-svg is an npm package: https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/bytefield-svg
Venting the moisture also vents the heat. A modern dryer uses a heat pump for both heating the air and pulling the water out of the air. Although I guess with lifetimes of the devices and the relative cost of power (or gas even) between NA and EU they might be much more common around here. With an insulated house you also don't really want to have too many holes in the building, especially not ones intended to remove heat.
Exactly what happened to me too! Been using a Sway setup on NixOS for many many years, and I was just curious to try out Plasma 6. After a small config change, I had the desktop up and running, and I was impressed how it felt like. You can even use plasma-manager to store your KDE settings to a nix configuration, which make it easy to have a unified configuration across different computers.

https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
Just speculating but I think attention enables differentiation of semantic concepts for a word or sentence within a particular context. Like for any total set of training data you have a lesser number of semantic concepts (like let's say you have 10000 words, then it might contain 2000 semantic concepts, and those concepts are defined by the sentence structure and surrounding words, which is why they have a particular meaning), and then attention allows to differentiate those different contexts at different levels (words/etc).
Also the fact you can do this attention at runtime/inference means you can generate the context from the prompt, which enables the flexibility of variable prompt/variable output but you lose the precision of giving an exact prompt and getting an exact answer
People still buy BMWs even though a Ford Focus is available.
Yeah, this is excellent. Useful for multiple disciplines too.
That is lab equipment, of course it’s going to be horrendously expensively. Look how much a pack of bolts costs.
> active drag reduction

What the heck is active drag reduction?
Question, and please don't get mad at me if I'm fundamentally wrong.

Are there any projects trying to make a universal UNIX operating system with sel4?

I know of Genode, but is there anything more simple/traditional?

PS: Helios is also there but not based directly on seL4
Big Tech Is Faking AI [video]
If you want to play with ray tracing implementation, it's surprisingly easy to write one by yourself. There's a great free book (https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...) or, if you know a bit of Unity a very nice GPU-based tutorial (https://medium.com/@jcowles/gpu-ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-3...). The Unity version is easier to tinker with, because you have scene preview and other GUI that makes moving camera around so much easier. There are many implementations based of these sources if you don't want to write one from scratch, although doing so is definitely worth it.

I spent some great time playing with the base implementation. Making the rays act as particles* that bend their path to/away from objects, making them "remember" the last angle of bounce and use it in the next material hit etc. Most of them looked bad, but I still got some intuition what I was looking at. Moving the camera by a notch was also very helpful.

A lot of fun, great for a small recreational programming project.

* Unless there's an intersection with an object, then set the maximum length of the ray to some small amount, then shoot many rays from that point around and for each hit apply something similar to the gravity equation. Of course this is slow and just an approximation, but it's easy and you can implement a "black hole" type of object that will bend light in the scene.
Entitlements? What are you talking about?
That's weird. Intuitively, if there's enough air to float on, surely there's enough air to burn you by compression heating.

Would love to be proven wrong.
There was a time when many computer programmers cared less about making money, and more about principles. I don't mean that pejoratively.

It was a simple, arguably naive mindset, and we had somewhat utopian beliefs about the impact of Usenet, and later the Internet, on society. We programmers were often middle-class, students or staff at universities, or industrial scientists or engineers of some form or another. We were well-paid, with stable jobs, and the privilege of being able to share our software with others on terms that we would like to have their software shared with us.

The GPL was basically pushback against a piece of commercial software for which source code was withheld. Stallman never wanted to personally suffer that again, and his solution was to rewrite the world with a viral license that would ensure he needn't. And it was hugely controversial because of the constraints that imposed on people who wanted to use GPLed software.

Constraints on "fields of endeavor" were controversial too, but idealism won out in the Open Source Definition. It was a revolution, after all.

The decline in popularity of the GPL has been interesting to watch. People adopt the MIT/BSD-style licenses because they're easy to use, without really thinking through what they mean. For those who didn't experience the contest between Open Source and commercial software, choosing a license might even seem like an annoying triviality.

Until quite recently, the notion that a program might have 100+ million users was fanciful. Despite the utopian views of how computers and networking might evolve, very few (if any) FOSS people seriously considered what it might mean for billions of people to use computers, especially from an economic point of view.

The successive waves of commercialization from the Internet boom leading up to the "dot com crash", startup culture, cloud computing, and "social networking" (which has well-outgrown that name) have seen programmers' collective views change. In part, people shed their earlier idealism, but also demographics changed as more people became programmers, and the world changed too as well-paid stable jobs have largely disappeared.

Open Source (and Free Software) were products of their time. And in that time, no-one in the FOSS world conceived of their software being used as exploitation: we were displacing proprietary software! Some people maintain that idealism today. Others would like to see a different sort of fairness, and perhaps we'll see a new generation of licenses developed to address this new world.
> I would presume few VC run companies would give away shares that cheaply now?

You have to join early, before VCs get involved. After a funding round prices spike 1000x or more.

> options were a much more valuable part of your pay package

This sort of makes no sense. Options are not part of the pay package per se because they are worth nothing. In some far future they might be worth something (or rarely, a lot).
This is the first time I hear about this analogy and I think it's quite interesting. As with all business analogies, it probably doesn't fit all situations. Like at some point the monkey gets split into sub-monkeys, and suddenly you have monkeys all over the place. That said, it gives a good way to think about how to find a way out during those meetings where teams get stuck and everyone stares at each other while a big "ok, so what do we do now?" question is hovering the table.
One needs to be all but infallible to not match that definition, but normies are far from infallibility, they have difficulty with responsibility, technology, monopolies, network effect, propaganda, peer pressure, i.e. they can't interact quite well with either world or society.
Someone should show this interview to the "words can be violence" crowd.
While trying to consider why they might have selected 60 I started to wonder where the prime factors went, or rather might have come from; since it's already clear why they were useful for divisions.

Dividing a circle into quadrants consumes 2 and 2, and is similar to folding. Similarly 3 (like the thirds letter for envelope technique) could be the next granularity of folding. Finally the 5 is short enough that some straw or string bent enough times to divide it into fifths could approximate sufficiently useful precision.
Web Scraping Like a Pro: Unlocking the Power of Impersonation
I've been professionally scraping data for quite a while. In this post I show a technique that might be handy to those who are just getting started.
Cronex.nvim: A Neovim plugin to show inline human-readable cron expressions
Can you refute this?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/can-mouth-tap....
What kind of research goes into determining that the proof is a novel one, such that submitting it to a math journal becomes a promising prospect?
Mid-level Nvidia employee gets $62M in stock options; another lost it all
i only have 8 fingers - maybe i’m an alien
Sourcing the raw material of bank notes from Nepal? Seems a bit off from an environmental standpoint by hauling materials halfway across the globe from Himalaya.

How about plastic notes? They are durable, recyclable, and because they are money, not likely to end up in our oceans as wastes.
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I assume you are not aware of it, because of being asleep. Maybe it happens in deeper sleep?
Since we are at the brink of a world war clearly in the mid-term weapon, food etc will go up much, but tech is still a driver, so well... Surveillance capitalism is here stay, unfortunately, since most accept it even if some voices against stat to be enough to pops up here and there.
That is entirely dependent on the type of steroidal nosespray. There are types that don't cause dependence or stuffy nose when not used.
Most of this looks like falling apart trash to me. The lion is pretty good though.

Totally clickbait title though. Is that allowed here?
A closely related way to think about this is that with control comes liability for damages.

If the content provider wants to argue they deserve control over What calculations and things my computer does, then they ought be liable for any crashes or scams or exploits that come from that.

I find there's a lot of frustrating internet crap that boils down to someone demanding power without responsibility.
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Doesn't support lua at the moment. Some connectors to Redis like .NET IDistributedCache use lua.
Good ideas can take a lot of time, and if this very concept doesn't turn out to be useful, maybe they will learn things along the way that will have good applicability. I think it's absolutely amazing that they are persistently progressing on their idea.

But if they've been at it for 25 years, it raises an the question, how have they been funding their research for so long?
That's interesting point.

EDIT: but you removed your critique of "resonable" which lessens my
reply. All said, your right... its not a market.

But in a sense the truly-self respecting position is unashamedly
"unreasonable" by definition. It's "selfish" and often blinded by it.
It says, "reasonableness" is over-rated. :)

Indeed there's always a tension between self-regarding and
other-regarding values. Take markets, they do it to us too. A company
can be very confident and bullish about its value but the market says
otherwise can set it into downward spiral. And as you say governments,
taxes and legal impositions do the same.

And yet there's always the possibility for bloody mindedness, or
Churchillian "doggedness". Not to deny reality, but to resist it with
every fibre and see a longer term picture. From the outside what is
obstinate, unyielding looks ugly, even childish. But internally
perseverance, resoluteness and tenacity can feel amazing, and so often
triumph in the end.

I'd say many of the most successful business people are completely
"unreasonable", as are political figures like Nelson Mandela for whom
27 years in prison is just part of the journey.

It comes down to that George Bernard Shaw quote;

"" The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ""
And the people of Nepal supply the raw labor used by many of the Gulf states
That is a matter of opinion, and in all the comparison images, I think the AI upscaled one always looks better.
For the 2nd time, I can't use YouTube on Firefox because of a "bug"
The first time it happened it was many months ago, so it's surprising they haven't fixed it yet. Ad blockers are disabled while recording the gif.
Plastic doesn't seem like a good solution, considering that notes are moved, stretched, flexed a lot and endure a lot of friction. Seems like a needless source for more plastic particles shedding into the environment.
Good thing there are alternatives to Matrix that use a lot less resources. It’s not just UX… Matrix by design is wasteful by requiring replication of all messages & attachments of all users in all chats across every server. Most can’t afford to host a multiuser server with the storage bills for this.
Apple has other aspects that appeal to me. By and large, I like the OS, and by and large, I don't like any of the Android variants. This is what keeps me on the platform. But the unexciting upgrades is what keeps me from upgrading.
"Stuffy nose" tends to go away too once you start breathing through it all the time. This, of course, doesn't apply if you have allergies or are sick with a cold or something - those are legit reasons to have a "stuffy nose".
Shameless self-plug : https://sloonz.github.io/posts/sandboxing-1/

Which you can see it as the longer form documentation of bubblebox (explaining in excruciating details how to sandbox desktop applications with flatpak).

(not affiliated to the author, written prior to bubblebox — but I’m happy to see that someone took up the job of making a true solution of implementing the ideas I laid out in my blog posts series !)
Heya! Thanks for pointing this out. I've loaded these pages so often (and mostly from local) and lost sight of the terribly large images. I've compressed both of them for a smoother experience.
See also: The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation: https://medium.com/teamindus/rocket-science-101-the-tyranny-...
"the one thing i could verify from common knowledge was plain wrong, so i took all the rest as being correct"

don't forget to drink your electrolytes!
Sure, but I was talking from the perspective of someone who's budget is closer to a Focus than a BMW.

If you can't afford a BMW, a Focus will stil get you from A to B just as fast considering legal speed limits, so then the BMW is no longer a necessity for those who need a car but more of a "want".
US immigration is a nightmare. Even as a German with a Green Card, it was always extremely stressful.
My description is true of any statistical learning algorithm.

The thing that people are looking to for answers, the NN itself, does not have them. That's like looking to Newton's compass to understand his general law of gravitation.

The reason that LLMs trained on the internet and every ebook has the structure of human communication is because the dataset has that structure. Why does the data have that structure? this requires science, there is no explanation "in the compass".

NNs are statistical models trained on data -- drawing analogies to animals is a mystification that causes people's ability to think clearly he to jump out the window. No one compares stock price models to the human brain; no banking regulator says, "well your volatility estimates were off because your machines had the wrong thoughts". This is pseudoscience.

Animals are not statistical learning algorithms, so the reason that's uninformative is because it's false. Animals are in direct causal contact with the world and uncover its structure through interventional action and counterfactual reasoning. The structure of animal bodies, and the general learning strategies are well-known, and having nothing to do with LLMs/NNs.

The reason that I know "The cup is in my hand" is not because P("The cup is in my hand"|HistoricalTexts) > P(not "The cup is in my hand"|HistoricalTexts)
Start breathing exclusively through your nose during the day, and you will be able to do it at night too.
it's actually the only interesting part of the exploit code. everything else is just very lame obfuscation
Well, both Guix System and NixOS can do this, where they construct a containerised environment with FHS layout. IIRC neither uses overlayfs and they do the namespaces by themselves instead of relying on Bubblewrap, but inside the container you get exactly what you'd expect.

At least in Guix it's `guix shell -CF`, where `-C` is of course the `--container` flag, and `-F` for `--emulate-fhs`. I'd imagine that `nix-shell` works the same way, but I'm more familiar with guix than nix, so I can only speak for that.
On the one hand you have hn people that claim everything that is copywritten is ok for them to copy. Copyright shouldn't exist they exclaim!

On the other hand, you have hn people that claim GPT copied everything! It should be shut down for copyright infringement!!!!!!!

And it turns out those are the same people.
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I think an important distinction here might be the difference between consuming content versus re-publishing it.

1. If I buy a newspaper and I cut out all the ads, that's perfectly fine. (Except in a corporatist dystopia.)

2. If I make a business buying newspapers, cutting out their ads, and then reselling the results, then that could easily get me in trouble for copyright and trademark infringement.

3. If I sell a device people can operate on their own newspapers that automatically cuts out all the ads, that should be fine.

So when it comes to some of these paywall avoiding services, I think the question is they're doing number 2 or number 3.
Yes, it's really hard -- the innovation is aligning the really basic dot-product similarity mechanism to hardware. You can use basically any NN structure to do the same task, the issue is that they're untrainable because they arent parallizable.

There is no innovation here in the sense of a brand new algorithm for modelling conditional probabilities -- the innovation is in adapting the algorithm for GPU training on text/etc.